Chapter 72 The Taoist priest is here
Taoist Qingya smiled slightly and did not answer Mu Qiuhuang's question. Instead, he said with some disappointment: "Xiaodao thought that this sword was made entirely of gold and had gems embedded in the hilt. How could it be sold for ten thousand taels? Unexpectedly.
It’s only worth a few thousand taels?”
Mu Qiuhuang smiled and said: "Originally, it was only worth a few thousand taels, but if you add in that his former owner was Canjian, who ranked second among the top ten masters in the world, let alone ten thousand taels, even a few thousand taels
Wan Liang should be able to be auctioned off."
Taoist Qingya just took a chopstick and put the tripe into his mouth. After hearing what Mu Qiuhuang said, he quickly swallowed the tripe, looked at Mu Qiuhuang with an embarrassed look, and whispered: "Since this handle of gold
If the sword is so valuable? Then can His Royal Highness lend Xiaodao another ten thousand taels."
"I won't borrow it." Mu Qiuhuang replied simply.
"Oh." Taoist Qingya heard that he didn't want to borrow it, so he didn't say anything more and started eating hot pot again.
Seeing this, Mu Qiuhuang burst into laughter, took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and handed them to Taoist Qingya.
Qingya Taoist turned it over and saw that there were more than 20,000 taels. He looked at Mu Qiuhuang in confusion.
Mu Qiuhuang said with a smile: "I definitely won't lend it to you, but it's totally fine to give it to you. Who said we were friends? What's more, just to give me a gift, you didn't even hesitate to start talking to the world.
The second-ranked Canjian moved his hand, which really touched me. You must know that your senior brother Qingmu Taoist is only ranked seventh among the top ten masters in the world? Could it be that..."
Qingya Taoist said very calmly: "Senior Brother's strength is not weaker than Xiaodao."
"As expected." Mu Qiuhuang saw that his previous suspicions had been confirmed, so he didn't say anything more. He glanced at Taoist Qingya and said, "What? You think there are too many banknotes, so you don't want to accept them.
?”
Upon hearing this, Taoist Qingya quickly grabbed the banknotes on the table and stuffed them into his arms. Then he patted his chest and said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Highness."
Mu Qiuhuang was shocked by Taoist Qingya's behavior which was totally different from before. She pretended to regret and said: "What a loss, what a loss. If I had known that you, the donkey breeder, have such a face now, I would definitely
You won’t be so generous.”
Taoist Qingya smiled and said: "Next time Xiaodao uses these banknotes, he will definitely use them in the name of Prince Beiyu."
When Mu Qiuhuang heard this, she waved her hand and said with a smile: "Just kidding, this is your kindness. I will not take advantage of this..."
Mu Qiuhuang picked up the golden sword and played with it for a while, then said with regret: "This sword is good-looking, but unfortunately it is a broken sword, and some of it is not suitable for me to use."
Taoist Qingya, who was concentrating on eating hot pot, listened to Mu Qiuhuang's words and replied without raising his head: "If it is not suitable for His Royal Highness to use? Wouldn't it be better for His Highness to sell it?"
"Sold?" Mu Qiuhuang glanced at Taoist Qingya and said, "Didn't you just say you couldn't sell it?"
After hearing this, Qingya Taoist raised his head and looked at Mu Qiuhuang in confusion. After swallowing the hot chives in his mouth, he said inexplicably: "Xiaodao means that Xiaodao cannot sell it, but now Xiaodao gives it to
Your Highness, the Crown Prince! The trail has not been sold. Now it belongs to His Highness the Crown Prince.
Now, His Highness the Crown Prince can do whatever he wants with it, even selling it off is not a bad idea."
"Ah?" Mu Qiuhuang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said leisurely: "Donkey breeder, you have really changed. In the past, you would never have been able to tell such nonsense..."
Taoist Qingya took out another meat bone from the pot, glanced at Mu Qiuhuang, and said, "Your Highness, if you don't eat it anymore, Xiaodao will eat all the bones."
"Eat... just eat as much as you want. If it's not enough, I'll ask the kitchen to prepare a pot." Mu Qiuhuang said.
Taoist Qingya laughed when he heard this and said, "Then let's have another pot of meat bones! After eating hot pot for nearly a year, Xiaodao prefers these big bones."
After Mu Qiuhuang called the shopkeeper and asked him to prepare a pot of big bones, he also took a piece of bone from the pot and started to eat it. However, compared with Taoist Qingya who was eating with concentration, Mu Qiuhuang was a little absent-minded.
He really couldn't associate the Qingya Taoist in front of him with the Qingya Taoist in Wudang Mountain. Back then, the Qingya Taoist in Wudang Mountain acted and spoke in a serious and well-founded way.
Following Master Xun's order, he annotated the forbidden scriptures... But now? Although as a friend, he is also happy to hear about these changes in Taoist Qingya, but he always feels a little weird. It is like seeing a bird that was originally only
Sheep who know how to eat grass suddenly one day start to eat meat. Although the metaphor is not very appropriate, the meaning is the same.
"What? His Royal Highness has not yet decided what to do with this sword." Taoist Qingya looked at Mu Qiuhuang and asked.
"Use...I definitely can't use it, but I can sell it...or maybe I definitely can't sell it. After all, this is your intention. I can't live up to your intention, right?" Mu Qiuhuang took a mouthful of meat and bones.
He opened his mouth and said.
Hearing this, Taoist Qingya took a bite of the meat and bones in his hand and said to Mu Qiuhuang: "Your Highness, your Majesty is serious. As you just said, what you value is my intention to give you the sword, not far from it.
The sword itself and the intention are the main thing, while the sword is an external object and does not matter at all. Moreover, when Xiaodao prepared this sword, he thought that His Highness the Crown Prince was unwilling to use it and exchanged it for money.
Silver...actually, for Xiaodao, being able to make the best use of everything is the true meaning of its existence."
"Oh my God?" Mu Qiuhuang couldn't help but asked curiously: "Donkey breeder, what have you learned in this year? Why do I feel like you..."
Taoist Qingya smiled and said: "Actually, Xiaodao didn't take the initiative to learn any major, but just stopped and walked, stop and go. Xiaodao has basically been on the road this year... and it's only now that Xiaodao finally finally
Do you understand the purpose of Master forcing me to travel down the mountain for three years?"
"Oh?" Mu Qiuhuang asked suspiciously, "Then why do you think your master asked you to travel down the mountain for the purpose?"
Taoist Qingya said with a sacred look on his face: "See all sentient beings."
"Seeing all living beings?" Mu Qiuhuang asked in confusion.
Taoist Qingya looked at Mu Qiuhuang and slowly explained: "That's right, it means seeing all living beings and experiencing all kinds of things in the world. Xiaodao has been practicing on Wudang Mountain since he was a child. What he saw before was just a grass on Wudang Mountain.
Mu, even when he was on Wudang Mountain, Xiaodao thought that Wudang could represent the entire world.
, imagining women in the world as pink skulls... There are too many shallow insights like this. Only after Xiaodao actually walked in time for such a period of time, did Xiaodao understand how naive his original idea was. Xiaodao was like
Like a frog in a well, you actually dared to think that Wudang represents the whole world? Women in this world are not just pink skulls. How serious is Xiaodao's shallow thinking before that he can say such a fallacy? As a human being, everyone is unique...
But along the way, Xiaodao has seen all kinds of people in the world, and he has learned that those who are rich are not necessarily unkind; those who are extremely evil also have a kind side; and those who have a kind face may not necessarily be a kind person...
The skin is the appearance, the heart is the bone appearance, the appearance changes thousands of times, but the bone appearance is the only true self..."
Mu Qiuhuang nodded, raised the wine jar and said with a smile: "Donkey breeder, come here, let me toast you."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Taoist Qingya thanked him and picked up the wine jar.
While drinking, Mu Qiuhuang secretly looked at Taoist Qingya. He couldn't help but find it very interesting. He actually didn't understand what Taoist Qingya just said. What is skin appearance? Bone appearance? Such words, Mu Qiuhuang remembered it unintentionally.
The words that the monk liked to use before, but despite this, Wuxin was not fooled by herself and Zhang Fuling at first... In fact, Mu Qiuhuang always believed that the more intelligent people like Wuxin and Qingya Taoist, the more alive they would be.
Tired. Because they are very good at "associating". Maybe sometimes if a word you accidentally say or even utter nonsense falls into their ears? They will associate it with a deeper and more mysterious realm. It's over...
They will also subconsciously think of you as a person with a great realm.
"By the way, Donkey Breeder, now that you have understood your master's intentions and have put his intentions into action... then, what are your plans next? Are you going to continue traveling around the world, or are you planning to
Return to Wudang Mountain?"
"Xiaodao can't go back to Wudang Mountain yet," Qingya Taoist said with regret.
"Why?" Mu Qiuhuang began to joke: "Is it possible that you are now fascinated by this colorful world and can't bear to leave this mortal world? But I don't blame you. Since ancient times, it has been easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
, if I were you, I'm afraid I wouldn't want to go back..."
Taoist Qingya looked at Mu Qiuhuang with a depressed expression, and said helplessly: "It's not that Xiaodao doesn't want to go back to Wudang Mountain, but... the master's stipulated three years have not come yet."
"Haha..." Mu Qiuhuang couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He never thought that this was the reason why Qingya Taoist did not return to Wudang? But this would be more in line with his wishes. Mu Qiuhuang said to Qingya
The Taoist said: "Donkey breeder, I asked you to travel with me a year ago. You said you wanted to travel alone. I didn't let you stay at first, but what about now? If I said I would go to Miao territory in the near future, I would like to invite you.
If you go with me..."
"Okay!" Taoist Qingya agreed casually.
"What? Donkey breeder, you really agreed?" Mu Qiuhuang didn't expect that Taoist Qingya would agree so happily.
Qingya Taoist said to himself: "But I have one more condition. From now on, you have to treat me to a hot pot meal every three days..."
"How big of a deal do I think it is? It turns out to be this. Don't worry, as long as you are willing to go to Miao territory with me, I will promise you even if it is three meals a day, not to mention one hot pot meal every three days." Mu Qiuhuang
Chapter completed!