Chapter 039: The Golden Fingers With Wisdom Eyes, Zhongli's First Test of Xiaochunyang
This may be a typical psychological rebound phenomenon after the time-travel adaptation period. Just like when a person has arrived in a new environment, he will feel inexplicably irritable for a period of time. Moreover, Mei Zhenyi knew that Sun Simiao would leave soon, and he would say goodbye to the most important life mentor in the world, and felt a little lost in his heart.
Mei Yi advised after hearing this: "Young master followed Sun Zhenren to learn the way of practice, and such a state of mind is not a good thing."
Mei Zhenyi nodded: "You are right, I understand, it will be fine."
Zhang Guo smiled and explained: "Mei Yi, don't be too surprised. The eldest young master wants to borrow money from his slaves. It would be strange if he is not depressed."
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The construction of the Imperial Doctor Shi and the Green Snow Temple have started. They have purchased materials and asked the craftsmen to help them, so naturally they don’t have to worry anymore. Mei Zhenyi is feeling a little uncomfortable recently and often goes out to stroll in the mountains and fields. Now he has achieved a little success in martial arts practice, and in his own territory, he is not hurt by ghosts and gods, so Zhang Guo also lets the young master go.
"Money, what a good thing! With it, you can make a stone doctor, but unfortunately it is not my own. Alas, what is there in this world that really belongs to me? Name and identity? Who am I like this?" In Miaomen Mountain, Mei Zhenyi practiced sword alone, then found a hot spring to take a shower, lay on the grass and looked at the sky and sighed to herself.
At this time, a gust of wind blew, and the sound of chanting poetry came from the wind-
Don’t be chasing and laughing frequently, thinking about separation and chaos is so heartbreaking.
When I was free, I counted around and saw how many people there were in Qingping.
Mei Zhenyi's voice sounded very familiar, exactly the same as the song he heard when he met a Taoist priest on the road on the Peach Blossom Road that day. He stepped up and bounced from the ground, clasped his fists in the direction of the sound, and said, "He is here, why not show up and see him."
With a cough, a gray-clothed Taoist appeared on the hillside in the distance, with a simple and elegant appearance, and a wine gourd hung around his waist. It was the Taoist priest I met on the Peach Blossom Road that day. He was floating like walking with the wind, but his speed was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he stood in front of Mei Zhenyi, twisted his beard and said, "You kid, you are young, how could you feel that way?"
Mei Zhenyi was slightly surprised when she saw him appear, but was not too surprised. She shook her head and said, "Master, everyone has their own situation, you don't understand."
The Taoist looked at him with interest and asked, "When ordinary people see me coming with the wind, they are either panicked or worship the earth. Why do you shook your head and sigh at me?"
Mei Zhenyi said, "The Taoist priest is not a monster, why am I panic? You are not my father, why should I bow down? When I meet, say hello and call me senior. I also know the rules of practice."
The Taoist: "It's interesting, it's interesting. The more I look at you, the more interesting it becomes. I heard that you are Sun Simiao's disciple, and he trained you very well."
Mei Zhenyi said oh, "So you know me?"
Taoist: "Yes, I know you, the eldest young master of Jingwu Villa. Don't you know me too?"
Mei Zhenyi: "I'm sorry, I don't know the Taoist priest, and I haven't asked for my name yet."
The Taoist smiled faintly: "Don't you really know me? My surname is Zhongli, and I call myself Mr. Donghua. Some ordinary people call me the Immortal of Donghua. Haven't you already told Manager Ji my name at Wanjia Hotel?"
The more surname is Zhongli? Damn, it's not Zhongli Quan, one of the Eight Immortals. The legendary master Lu Dongbin! The Taoist priest Lu Dongbin has been taken away by himself and his name has been driven away. But looking at the Taoist priest in front of him, he is definitely not an ordinary person. Even his master Sun Simiao said that this person has great supernatural powers.
Mei Zhenyi was really surprised and bowed, "I just said it casually, but I didn't expect it to be a master. What's the point of being here for seniors?" At the same time, she sighed in her heart. It was not entirely nonsense that Ming Chongyan pretended to be the name of Donghua's Supreme Immortal to deceive Lu Chunyang. There is really a man named Donghua in the world.
Mr. Donghua smiled and said, "You casually told me my real name, and you and I met here again. It seems that I am really destined to be! I came to collect herbs, but I happened to see you sighing in the mountains at a young age. I heard that this mountain is your property. I wonder if I can collect herbs in the mountains?"
Mei Zhenyi waved her hand: "The mountains and fields are natural, and my family occupies an industry, and it should be convenient for others. If you collect herbs and use them for your own use or save people, instead of plundering the mountain products, then pick them."
Mr. Donghua narrowed his eyes and nodded, "Okay, okay, since a person like me receives your kindness, I will repay you. What do you want me to do for you?"
Mei Zhenyi: "I dare not, you have repayed the Ji family's mother and son, but they are troubled. Since I have seen it with my own eyes, I dare not ask you to repay you again. You should just take the medicine."
He didn't deal with the Donghua Immortal. On the one hand, he didn't have a good impression of this Taoist. In addition, he already had a master of cultivation, Sun Simiao, and knew what the way of practice was. On the other hand, he was in a bad mood now and felt that nothing was interesting and could not be interested in anything. At this time, he was not interested in dealing with this master too much.
His attitude aroused Mr. Donghua's interest. He looked at Mei Zhenyi and laughed. The laughter alarmed the birds in the nearby forests flapped their wings and flew away one after another. Mei Zhenyi asked strangely: "Senior, why is it so funny?"
Mr. Donghua: "I passed by Wanjia Hotel yesterday and saw two peach talismans hanging on the left and right sides of the door, and wrote four sentences, "The mountain tastes here, and the immortals are wandering. Good wines go with the immortals, and the wine is brought by themselves." Many people stopped in front of the door to comment, and some friends are introducing the allusions here. Is this your idea?"
Mei Zhenyi: "It's indeed my idea. The Ji family is an honest businessman and has never done anything bad. Their family is in trouble. Since I have encountered it, I can do my best to do my best."
Mr. Donghua smiled and said, "Isn't that all. You helped the Ji family and even put my name on me. It means that I didn't harm them. You and I are in this fate. Why blame me in your tone? Because of this, I come to you and must repay you. Think carefully, what you want, don't miss the opportunity."
Mei Zhenyi shook her head: "I am in a bad mood now. I really can't remember what I want in this world. When I remember that I have the opportunity to meet the Taoist priest, let's talk about it then. I won't delay your collection of herbs today."
Mr. Donghua frowned: "How come you kid, why do you say this? You look old-fashioned at such a young age! No, right? I just heard you sigh that the world is good, are you short of money? It doesn't matter, I'll give you this." As he said that, he bent over and picked up a stone the size of a fist, and pointed his right index finger. The desolate stone turned golden in the blink of an eye. He handed the "gold" to Mei Zhenyi.
Damn, it's a stone to turn into gold! The legendary method of the fire gate in the eight major gates of the Jianghu Lake was seen today. Seeing that the Taoist priest's technique was not a trick, but a trick that used a fool. Mei Zhenyi weighed the gold, thumped it, and threw it into the hot spring next to her.
This time Mr. Donghua was surprised: "Boy, if you don't want it, why throw this piece of gold into the water?"
Mei Zhenyi asked back, "Does Taoist priest want it? The mountain is full of stones, I will pick one more piece and return it to you. If I want that piece, will I go into the water and fish it up?"
Mr. Donghua looked at him with his expression as if he saw something very strange, and nodded and said, "Okay, you can grab it for me."
Mei Zhenyi jumped into the water without saying a word, and picked up the stone that he had just thrown. How could he find the stone just now so easily in the pool? This is also related to his practice. Although Mei Zhenyi's body had not yet recovered from the realm of the Five Qis, she had already cultivated into the "spiritual consciousness" that sensed external objects unique to practitioners. The stone was thrown into the water and could not be seen, but was always in his sense of consciousness, so she caught it back after the water.
He jumped ashore from the water and handed the "gold" back to Mr. Donghua. Mr. Donghua was stunned and didn't say anything for a long time. The thing that was shining just now turned into an ordinary stone that was not lost.
"How could you break my magic spell without even moving a little magic power? Boy, how did you do it?" Mr. Donghua asked after a long time.
Mei Zhenyi shrugged and replied, "I don't know what spell the senior used. It's probably charming, but what I understand is very much that is stone. If you hold it in your hand, you can weigh it that is not gold at all, it's much lighter than iron."
The ancients usually used three methods to test gold, either burn it with fire, or bite it with teeth to measure the hardness, or measure the density. The density of gold is much larger than that of a stone, and an ordinary person can hardly hold a piece of gold the size of a fist with one hand. Although the stone became golden and looked like gold, it was still the weight of the stone when it was weighed by hand. As a person with common sense in modern physics, Mei Zhenyi certainly understood that this was a trick.
Mr. Donghua narrowed his eyes and said, "What you said is simple, but what you see in your eyes has been fascinated by my magic, and your spiritual sense is clear but not lost. This is not simple. How many people in the world can still be as indifferent as you in this situation and throw it away? I just heard you sigh about money, so I used a trick to lead you into the realm of whatever you want, but I didn't expect it to be broken by you in a blink of an eye. Boy, I can't understand you anymore."
Mei Zhenyi sighed, as if to himself, "What is a stone? The world in front of me is a huge false realm, and I can't even understand who I am." He was telling the truth. Before Mr. Donghua appeared, he was worried about it, and he couldn't understand what the relationship between "I" and the inexplicable identity of "Mei Zhenyi"?
Mr. Donghua narrowed his eyes even thinner, and he shook his head and said, "No, right, it's not like that. You must have noticed it long ago. Otherwise, even if your cultivation level is not fooled, you will not be able to break my magic at all."
Speaking of this, who is this Mr. Donghua? This man's surname is Zhongli, his name is Quan, and he calls himself Mr. Donghua. He was enlightened during the Eastern Han Dynasty, so people also call him Zhongli of Han. He said that Mei Zhenyi had noticed it and had seen through it, and he guessed it right! Before traveling through time, Mei Zhenyi had heard many legends about Lu Dongbin, and even performed in rural operas during festivals, such as Lu Dongbin's three plays of Bai Mudan, Lu Dongbin's plays of Guanyin, etc. Among them, there was one "Zhongli ten tests of Lu Dongbin".
It is said that before Han Zhongli accepted Lu Dongbin as his disciple, in order to test his nature, he tried him ten times in a row in various ways. One of them was to demonstrate the technique of turning stones into gold in person. Seeing that Lu Dongbin was always moved by those golds? These are legends that Mei Zhenyi had heard of a long time ago. When he met today, the Taoist reported his surname and picked up a stone and gestured with his fingers. He instinctively remembered this episode. Mr. Donghua saw through before he cast a spell.
Mei Zhenyi was also a little confused. Isn’t folk legend not Zhongli’s ten tests Lu Dongbin? Now that Lu Dongbin has been driven away by him, why did Mr. Donghua come here to try himself? Has his actions traveled to the Tang Dynasty changed some directions of history? His mind was changing, but he didn’t think it was very clear. He heard the question and thought, "Thank you, senior, you made me understand a problem."
"Oh, what did you understand?" Mr. Donghua asked back, his tone getting more and more interested.
Mei Zhenyi: "The spells cast by the senior at Wanjia Hotel, the fine wine from the well may not be real fine wine. It is nothing more than changing the color and taste confusing the mouth. The well water is still the well water."
Mr. Donghua laughed: "You boy is so sensible! It's true, that's the fact. The pot of wine I poured into the well three years ago was a spiritual guide for casting spells. But people here went to Wanjia Hotel to drink old cyanine, which was nothing more than a desire for color, taste, and taste, and I'm not a lie... Since you are so smart, then I'll ask you again, if I just ordered real gold, would you want it or not?"
Mei Zhenyi shook her head: "No, why should I take something that you don't even want yourself?"
Mr. Donghua: "How do you say this?"
Mei Zhenyi: "If you have that ability, why do you have to ask Wanjia Hotel for three years for fine wine? Just buy it with gold? Why do I need something you don't use yourself?" He was not very happy today, and he saw through the Taoist in front of him that was deliberately trying, and he simply did not take the trap.
Mr. Donghua glared at him and asked with some displeasure: "I am a true immortal after all. Why do you talk to me like this? What I just said was a hypothesis. If the stone turns into real gold, do you want it?"
Mei Zhenyi thought for a while: "If I were asked to choose, would I want your finger?"
His answer also comes from a classic legend. It is said that an old farmer accidentally helped the god. The god turned a stone into gold and gave it to him. The old farmer didn't want it. The god asked him what he wanted? The old farmer said that he wanted the god's finger. As a result, the god left and said something before leaving, exactly the same as what Mr. Donghua once said to the old mother of the Ji family, which is "The desires of the world are endless!"
Mei Zhenyi did it on purpose, just to see if the "Donghua Supreme Immortal" in front of him would say to him, "The desires of the world are endless!" and then he left. If this is the case, then this person is not a god, because he let him play with this mortal. Unexpectedly, Mr. Donghua was not only not angry, but laughed happily, twisting his beard and laughed: "Hahaha, you want to learn my immortal skills, but your understanding is good, but it is not that simple to worship me."
Why did he laugh so happily? The same thing depends on who said it and who listened to it. Zhongli Quan came to Mei Zhenyi today, and had been secretly observing him for more than three months. In fact, Zhongli Quan came to Wuzhou in October last year, and was also alarmed by the changes in the clouds in Wuzhou when Mei Zhenyi woke up. He found out who was born here? But he didn't look for it.
Not long ago, Zhongli Quan went to Wanjia Hotel to settle the cause and effect for three years. He made a joke, but did not leave immediately. He still stayed in the forest on the other side of Jingting Lake. Mei Zhenyi went to Wanjia Hotel to drink and heard about this. He treated Ji's mother and also guided Ji Shancheng how to face the predicament in front of him. The idea came up with a very clever idea. What's more coincidental is that Mei Zhenyi casually called out the name "Donghua". Zhongli Quan noticed all this and was very interested in this young child.
Later, when Mei Zhenyi left, Zhongli Quan watched the Peach Blossom Road in the Ten Mile, and at a glance he found that the child was strange. Mei Zhenyi was once very weak, but after careful care by Sun Simiao, the world's number one miracle doctor, has now returned to normal. Moreover, he was equivalent to rebuilding the most perfect foundation in the worst case. At present, it cannot be said that he is strong, but he cannot find any flaws. Zhongli Quan became even more interested and sang a poem to test it out, and found that this kid had a foundation in his practice.
After that, Zhongli Quan investigated Mei Zhenyi's situation. Today, he saw him sighing alone in the mountains, so he appeared and tried it in person. After a try, he found that the child not only had good qualifications, but also had the best choices in the world, so he told him not to be moved. Like Sun Simiao, he also had the idea of accepting disciples when he saw Mei Zhenyi. A good seedling is a good seedling in the eyes of different masters.
In fact, this is somewhat a misunderstanding, because Mei Zhenyi took advantage of the pre-modern experience and had seen through Mr. Donghua's tentative intention and what he wanted to do, so he naturally seemed to be more advanced in temperament and understanding. He and Sun Simiao had some such misunderstandings. But is all this really just a misunderstanding? It is hard to say!
People like Zhongli Quan act profoundly and are moody in the eyes of mortals, but they are not without traces. They just follow the law of fate. Mei Zhenyi accidentally told Donghua’s name in Wanjia Hotel, claiming that he was entrusted by the immortal Donghua, and that he had already had the law of fate, so don’t blame the real Mr. Donghua for coming to the door. Whether it is a disaster or a blessing depends on who he is. Mei Zhenyi said that he wanted Zhongli Quan’s finger that could "turn stones into gold" means learning the law. How was he unhappy when he said that Zhongli Quan was?
Seeing Mr. Donghua laughing, Mei Zhenyi shook her head and said, "Senior misunderstood. I mean, if you compare the fake gold with your finger, I would rather choose a finger. But I don't really want that finger. As you said, it's just an example... I already have Master Sun Simiao and Sun Zhenren. The master's knowledge is as vast as a sea of afar. What I have learned is far from being too far away. At this time, there is no need to be too much or dare to enter other schools without authorization. So the gentleman was worried too much... Don't you want to collect herbs? You won't waste your time at the senior. Go and collect herbs quickly."
Mr. Donghua was choked back halfway through laughter. He was so depressed, so he was really depressed! He had already spoken out what he wanted to accept a disciple. Not only did the other party not bow to him to ask him for a test, but instead made such a lukewarm sentence. Although he was depressed but could not get angry, Mei Zhenyi was not very enthusiastic, but she always showed respect and had no place to offend her at all.
Alas! Things in the world are so wonderful. How many people are willing to bow to him and ask for a relationship? Unfortunately, Zhongli Quan doesn’t like it. When he meets someone he can like, the other party is not very proactive.
After hearing Mei Zhenyi say this, Zhongli Quan stopped leaving, and his face darkened, "Are you smart or stupid? You are Sun Simiao's disciple. If you want to respect your teacher, I can't say anything about you. But today you sigh that you don't know who you are. Did your master not pass on your mental methods to solve your doubts?...Boy, I know why you are upset. Is there a Mr. Cheng, who specializes in finding you to trouble you? Come on, I will help you settle this matter, and it can be considered as a reward for you."
After saying that, he didn't ask whether Mei Zhenyi would agree or not. He waved the sleeves of the Taoist robe. Mei Zhenyi felt that there was invisible power wrapped around all directions, and his body floated up. This force was so oppressed that he couldn't speak, and the light and shadow in front of him were distorted and could not see clearly. Zhongli Quan took Mei Zhenyi out of Miaomen Mountain with his incarnation and captured him all the way to the north of Wuzhou City.
Chapter completed!