Taiping Inn

The little Taoist boy had just left, and another young Taoist came here.

The young Taoist wearing a lotus crown, white feathered clothes, and cloud shoes. His endless elegance and fairy style are similar to Yan Feiqing. If he looks alone, he will be like the Taoist boy who has just left. Somewhat similar.

Li Xuan was a little surprised and said, "Didn't ask for advice?"

The young Taoist waved his hand slightly and smiled, "I, Zhang Jingxiu."

Li Xuan was shocked and was about to speak, but the young man seemed to see through people's hearts and said, "The person who left just now is Zhang Jingxiu."

Li Xuan frowned: "How do you say this?"

The young Taoist smiled and said, "I am Zhang Jingxiu, he is Zhang Jingxiu, but Zhang Jingxiu is not us, and I am not him."

Li Xuan became more and more confused and couldn't understand the meaning of it.

The young Taoist stroking his palm and laughed, "The Supreme Taoist Ancestor has the wonderful method of 'one Qi transforming into three purities'. One Transformation of Three is to spread three friends for one Dao. The Three Pure One Divine Ancestor is the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, not the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, and the Supreme Taoist Ancestor is the Three Pure One The ancestor is not the ancestor of the Three Pure Ones. I am not talented, and I have learned by chance the wonderful method of "one energy transforms the Three Pure Ones", so there are three more Zhang Jingxiu in this world, one is the great master Zhang Jingxiu, who is busy with various civil affairs all day long, and The fighting spirit of man is the person you have just seen. The cultivation level is about the realm of heaven and man. One is Zhang Jingxiu, a scattered man in the world, who has changed his appearance, wandered around the world, and was stalking with swordsmanship, reading some interesting stories about the world, increasing his experience in the world, the most important thing is It is leisurely, and the realm is about the realm of Returning to the True Realm. There is another Zhang Jingxiu, who is the messenger of the deity. He is just doing some miscellaneous things, and he probably has the cultivation of the free and easy realm of the heavenly being. As for the deity Zhang Jingxiu, he is now in a certain cave, blessed place. Xuan Xiu, who ignores ordinary things and has the highest realm, is the long-lasting realm."

Li Xuan was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses, but he didn't know what to say.

Zhang Jingxiu, who claimed to be a messenger, said: "I have different responsibilities from that great heavenly master. The great heavenly master is only responsible for civil affairs. He doesn't care about anything that has nothing to do with civil affairs, but I am different. I do everything Some chores are not meaningful or not, the key is to be interesting."

"Interesting?" Li Xuan repeated it gently.

He understood these words. The great master taught the "Taishang Alchemy Sutra" just a matter of official business, which is the so-called civil affairs. After doing these things, he would no longer have any interaction with Li Xuan, but in front of him, This young Taoist is different. He does not seem to stick to this, but is more flexible and flexible.

The young Taoist nodded and said, "Yes, it's interesting."

Li Xuandu said, "I am a boring person."

The young Taoist shook his head and said, "That may not be possible. In the secular world, some people are as big as a fight when they see books, and regard reading as the best boring thing in the world, but for others, reading is the biggest in the world. The pleasure of your self-confidence is just the fun in my eyes.”

Li Xuan thought about it and thought about his words. He did not use the title of "Great Heavenly Master", but used the title of "Yuanyang Miaoyi Zhenren": "Just ask the real person to go inside the house to talk about it, how about it?"

The young Taoist nodded.

The two of them came to Li Xuandu's residence together. The young Taoist did not sit down, but asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

Li Xuandu took out a bag from the "Eighteenth Floor" and said, "I was in a hurry to go, and I had no supplies, only a few cakes left."

I didn't see how the young Taoist acted, as if a pair of invisible hands gently untied the bag, revealing the few breads inside.

The young Taoist reached out and picked up a bread and said, "There are talents in the country and the country have emerged, and they have been leading the way for hundreds of years. I am lucky to meet Mr. Li today, so let's have a chance to compete today, how about it?"

Li Xuandu said in a little panic: "How can I be the opponent of the real person? How can I dare to be the real person's 'sir'?"

"Whether you are a sir or a real person, it's just a title. What should I do?" Zhang Jingxiu and the little Taoist boy have different temperaments. He is quite easy-going and free, and said, "As for you who say you are not my opponent, then Too humble, who doesn't know the reputation of the Zifu Sword Immortal. Although it is only the cultivation level of the True Realm, it is not at all inferior to the ordinary Heavenly Realm. I am not the original deity, but only the cultivation level of the Heavenly Realm. That's it, how can Mr. Li not win? "

Li Xuandu smiled bitterly. Having said that, the other party had the knowledge and pattern of the immortal realm. Li Xuandu's Return to the Truth Realm can be different from ordinary people. Could it be that Zhang Jingxiu's Heavenly Freedom Realm cannot be superior to others? If both are different from ordinary people's realms, then Li Xuan is still one level lower.

Zhang Jingxiu did not force it and raised the bread in his hand: "At that time, I was not a great master. I left Jiangnan alone and traveled to the north and south of the Yangtze River. After traveling to the states in Jiangbei, I finally came to the Imperial Capital. There, I met a man who came to Beijing. Juren who took the exam."

Speaking of this, Zhang Jingxiu seemed to remember something interesting, showed a little smile, and turned to the topic: "Do you know how many juren there are?"

Li Xuan was stunned and shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zhang Jingxiu said: "The Jin Dynasty in the previous dynasty was able to enjoy the national reign of 270 years, and a total of 110,000 juren were admitted, which was about 400 per year. If we counted as the juren at the age of 30 and the death of illness at the age of 60, the most At that time, there were more than 10,000 Juren. Looking at the world, there were 1,500 counties. If Juren wanted to become an official, it would not be difficult to be a teacher of the eighth rank. Moreover, Juren could also shelter others from duty and labor service, and one Juren could be exempted from hundreds of people. The land tax of acres of fertile land or 200 mu of thin land, and the labor service of twenty households, even if a juren does nothing, just release these quotas and sell them for money, it is enough to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth, so the juren who can go to Beijing to take the exam. , there is no poverty. The poor scholar in the novel went to Beijing to take the exam and slept in the dilapidated temple. When he met a fox fairy ghost, he was just a rasp of a poor literati. "

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "In the local area, the people call Juren the Master."

Zhang Jingxiu continued: "The juren I met is very interesting. He is from a scholarly family. You should know that a scholarly family may not be rich, but it must be endless. If you have little wealth, you will be fame and fortune. , he should be inferior to everything, but he is very good at studying and only cares about articles and romantic affairs, but he is different and always pays attention to the daily life of the people. I asked him why, and he said that since he had been admitted to the imperial examination, he wanted to become an official and wanted to do it. A good official is not based on the saints in the book.”

"I think it makes sense. I talked with him for a long time, and there was no intersection in the following decades. Until the second year of Tianbao, I was invited by Empress Dowager Xie and King Jin to the capital, and then in the imperial capital. When I saw him, he was already the chief minister of the cabinet of a very powerful minister, but at that time I and I were each the leader and had become rivals. There was a poem from ancient people, saying, "It is the beautiful scenery in Jiangnan, and the fallen flowers." I met you again in the season. 'This time I met, I and him were speechless."

"This person's surname is Zhang, and he is an old friend of Zi Mansion."

Li Xuandu let out a long breath of turbid air and said, "I didn't expect that the real person and Zhang Xiang would have such a past."

Zhang Jingxiu handed the bread in his hand to Li Xuandu: "The world is big and small, especially when I reach such a position as I am, I can't be as small as I am. My friends and enemies are all in the same small There are only a handful of people in the circle. If you regard this cake as the world, it is a matter of self-confidence to be regarded as the same thing as a complacent person. Zhang Suqing is a papermaker who repairs and repairs. In my opinion, the so-called great success is as short as it is, and it is established after it is broken. It is better to re-fire one piece of broken porcelain when you are stuck again, are you right?”

Li Xuandu hesitated for a moment and said, "But in the process of breaking and establishing, I don't know how many people are suffering. How innocent are those dead people? The reason why Mr. Zhang wants to be sympathetic to the suffering of the people is not just because he wants to be sympathetic to the suffering of the people."

Zhang Jingxiu did not refute, but asked, "Mr. Li, the competition I said is not necessary for a fight between martial arts, but also for a fight between literature. Now that this cake is placed in front of you, do you want to hold on to the incompleteness? Or do you stand up after breaking it and establish yourself. ? ”

Li Xuan hesitated and stretched out his hand and placed it on the other end of the dough, but he was reluctant to make up his mind.

Zhang Jingxiu didn't urge him, but just waited quietly for the answer given by Li Xuandu.

Li Xuan shrank his hands several times, and then put his hands on the dough cake several times. Finally, he sighed and exerted a gentle force on his hand to break a corner of the dough cake.

Zhang Jingxiu looked at the broken bread in her hand and smiled and said, "It's great success."