Chapter 94 Meeting old friends again
"What does the Taoist priest have?"
"Ask me?"
"Naturally." Lin Jue looked calm, "It is difficult to distinguish between high and low treasures, and there is no money to measure them. It is best if everyone can get what they need and enjoy themselves."
"Huh?"
The middle-aged Taoist was a little surprised that this sentence could come from a young man. He couldn't help but look at him again, then smiled and fell into deep thought again.
He looked at them from the corner of his eye.
He was obviously thinking about what he should produce that would not only make him feel worthwhile but also satisfy them.
Finally, his eyes stopped on the sword beside the two of them.
"Aren't you Taoists from Fuqiu Peak practicing magic? When did you learn swordsmanship like Taoists from Fulu Sect?" the middle-aged Taoist asked.
"We don't practice swordsmanship. We only use swords for self-defense." Lin Jue replied, "Sometimes when facing monsters and people, a long sword may not be as useful as magic."
"It is true. Poor Taoists also practice swordsmanship. Since it is used for self-defense when traveling in rivers and lakes, in addition to long swords, it is also necessary to have appropriate swordsmanship." The middle-aged Taoist said, "I have a book of Qingdan Swordsmanship, which was originally from Fengshan in the capital.
What the Taoist learned is considered a good swordsmanship in the martial arts world. It not only focuses on swordsmanship with people, but also can fight monsters. Can I get these leaves in exchange?"
"fencing?"
Lin Jue glanced at his junior sister.
As expected, the little junior sister's eyes flashed with restrained movement, and she glanced at him quietly again.
"Can I take a look?"
Lin Jue had no choice but to help her.
"Can."
The middle-aged Taoist took out a sword manual from his arms, with simple patterns drawn on it and many words written on it.
Lin Jue held it in his hand and looked through it.
The younger junior sister came over.
The third senior brother also glanced this way.
Seeing them like this, the fox put his head close to them even though he couldn't understand anything.
I remember the sword manual in detail.
If you look through it casually, it can be roughly divided into three parts. One part is basic skills and body techniques, one part is sword moves and routines, and the other part uses a lot of text to explain the precautions for sword competition with others and the way to win.
"It's a serious sword manual." The third senior brother said from the side, "It's pretty good."
The younger junior sister became more and more excited.
Lin Jue glanced at her and said, "Junior sister, if you are willing, you can make your own decision."
"I do!"
Junior sister is also a decisive person.
"My little junior sister wants to learn swordsmanship and is willing to exchange it with you." Lin Jue paused, "But even as the Taoist priest said, this swordsmanship is considered good in the world under the mountain, but after all, it is a mortal thing, no matter how rare it is.
You can ask for them, but you cannot ask for spiritual things. So I can only exchange them for the pile in front of my junior sister."
"A bunch?" The middle-aged Taoist raised his eyebrows, "Young fellow Taoist, you are too greedy!"
"I've never been a greedy person."
Lin Jue handed the sword manual back to him.
"Isn't this greedy?"
"Not greedy."
"Just a few leaves."
"Not greedy." Lin Jue looked at him calmly, "I was also involved in the growth of this tree, so I know how rare it is."
"You little Taoist priest..."
The middle-aged Taoist priest was a little angry and wanted to leave, but seeing Lin Jue's calm demeanor, he felt that such a counteroffer was useless, so he stopped, holding the sword manual and fell into deep thought, his eyes shining with luster.
"..."
The middle-aged Taoist's face changed several times. He looked at Lin Jue for a long time and seemed to have finally made up his mind: "I have nothing else, so I will give it to you in exchange for money. How about it?"
"We don't accept cash."
"Where's the lot of silver?"
The middle-aged Taoist put his hand into his shoulder bag and suddenly took out a large handful of silver. They were all large pieces of silver, so heavy that they felt heavy even in his hand.
"The poor Taoist was refining elixirs in the mountains and looking for gold, stone and red sand. He accidentally found a silver mine and refined a lot of silver. Such yellow and white things are of no use to us practitioners. If you are willing, feel free to take them."
The silver fell on the bamboo mat, making a heavy sound.
The strange people and strangers in the surrounding rivers and lakes, as well as the hermits and Taoists in the mountains, were all attracted for a while.
"It won't take much on the mountain..."
Before Lin Jue finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned when he saw these two handfuls of silver.
Even the fox's eyes widened.
The younger junior sister was almost stunned.
These two handfuls of silver were a lot, at least hundreds of taels. If Lin Jue hadn't dug out the silver from the rat demon's hole before, he might have never seen so much silver in his life. But what attracted him was not the amount of silver, but the amount of silver.
These pieces of silver are large and irregular in shape.
Generally speaking, irregular silver is very finely divided, and large pieces of silver, even if they are not complete official silver, are official silver cut into two halves.
Such a large and irregular piece of silver really looks like it was refined by himself as he said.
But why does it look like stone?
Lin Jue frowned and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to take a piece.
"Um?"
Lin Jue was surprised.
The silver is very heavy in the hand, it is completely the weight of silver. You can press it with the guard of the sword hilt to make a dent. In addition, no matter how you look at it, you can't see anything unusual.
If it hadn't been for a strange feeling flashing through my heart the moment I took the silver, I really wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.
This should be a magic spell?
This old man wants to lie to him!
But it gave me something else.
"how?"
The middle-aged Taoist looked at him and was satisfied with his performance. As long as Taoists in this world join the world, how can they not use money?
But Lin Jue raised his head with a strange expression.
"how?"
The middle-aged Taoist didn't know why.
Then Lin Jue reached out and picked up a leaf.
"The Taoist Master has great skills, so I gave this leaf to the Taoist Master as if he had watched a trick and ended today's fate!"
"What ability?"
The middle-aged Taoist was immediately stunned.
Has it been seen through?
"These coins." Lin Jue pushed the coins back to him, "Give them back to the Taoist Priest."
The little junior sister next to me had also taken a piece of silver and imitated him to look at it carefully. Her brain was buzzing from the sudden impact of the pile of white silver. When she heard his words, although her face was full of doubts, she immediately
Throwing the money back in your hand, it felt like your hands were hot.
The third senior brother also took the silver and turned it over and over. Although he felt that it was not true, he did not see any flaws. When he was thinking about whether what the middle-aged Taoist said was true or false, he heard the younger brother make a judgment first.
I don't know what's right or wrong, but he just threw away the money anyway.
"What else can you do for me?"
"Why bother explaining?"
"How can you explain it clearly? This is serious silver. Anyone can inspect it. You little Taoist priest, don't talk nonsense."
"It's almost..."
Lin Jue just sat cross-legged and looked at him calmly.
"Huh?"
The middle-aged Taoist was even more surprised.
Have you really been seen through?
But if you are seen through, shouldn't you be very angry?
Why give yourself a piece?
The middle-aged Taoist was unsure for a moment.
However, when he looked at the little Taoist priest and saw that there was no wavering in his eyes, the middle-aged Taoist quickly confirmed that he had indeed been seen through.
"Haha! As expected of a Taoist from Fuqiu Peak, I am just joking with you!" The middle-aged Taoist put all the silver back into his bag and continued to ask, "How can we exchange these two piles?"
"If the Taoist Master is willing to teach us this magic, we can give these two piles to the Taoist Master."
"You little Taoist priest are quite smart." The middle-aged Taoist said without thinking, "But the magic is so rare and profound, not to mention that I can't explain it clearly to you here today. Even if I can explain it clearly, how can it be possible to use one
Can I exchange this magic spell for these two piles of dango leaves? If I learn this spell, I will have enough food and clothing for the rest of my life!"
"Then take this piece and go."
"Huh! You little Taoist!" The middle-aged Taoist smiled, but still stopped where he was and asked, "Can you curse?"
"Only one kind."
"What curse?"
"The Revealing Spell."
"I will teach you a sword-enchanting spell. You can use the spell to make the sword in your hand more powerful against fairies and ghosts. It is used by the curse master to eliminate monsters. Any weapon will do. But I want to take away all the spiritual leaves.
"
"Attached Sword Curse..."
Lin Jue felt that it was useful to him.
It just so happens that this person is cunning, and the method of cursing and banning is relatively simple. Whether it is true or false can be distinguished in an afternoon.
Then he turned to look at the third senior brother.
Third Senior Brother has no doubts.
"Okay." Lin Jue agreed, but also added, "The Taoist has already deceived me once. If he deceives me a second time, it will be inconsistent with the original intention of the feast."
The implication is that we will meet at the foot of the mountain.
"Hahaha, it's just a joke. Pindao and Fuqiu Temple are half old acquaintances."
The middle-aged Taoist became serious:
"Listen to the spell first——
"The mantra reaches the heaven and the earth, the divine thunder gathers at the tip of the sword, the decree points to the yin and yang, and the true fire reflects on the edge of the blade! The three realms and five elements work together to make my sword show its magic!"
"Remember."
"Your business is doing well. You sell leaves once and three people learn magic." The middle-aged Taoist shook his head and said, "I will tell you the key points again, but I will only tell you once."
"good!"
The middle-aged Taoist man sat down unceremoniously, lowered his voice, and told him in detail.
This cannot be deceived.
Lin Jue concentrated his attention and listened to his story.
I even forgot that the sun was setting in the west.
…
When he finally left, the middle-aged Taoist asked him how he saw through his illusion and why he saw through his illusion and gave him a leaf. Lin Jue just shook his head and said nothing.
When I came back to my senses, the sun was just setting in the west.
The treetops of the bamboo forest in the mountain were turned golden by the light, and they all bowed sincerely. Many Taoists and Jianghu people walked down the mountain along the path.
Lin Jue and others also walked back.
At this time, the three piles of leaves were gone, replaced by a book of swordsmanship, a forbidden spell, and probably a spell that could turn ordinary stones into silver.
The Taoist had no intention of giving it to him, but it ended up in Lin Jue's hands. This could not be changed, so Lin Jue accepted that it was a half-deal.
The Taoist had a bad heart, so he gave him a piece of cake.
Although this spell is somewhat disgraceful, it depends on how it is used. In this regard, its nature is similar to that of the green clam spell. It can be used to defraud money, do evil, perform, or protect one's true self.
Money is not stolen and can be used to cure evil.
After all, it's just a spell.
"Look, most of the casual people who come to this big ceremony are these kinds of people." The third senior brother always spoke casually, "There are also some insidious ones."
"yes."
"Fortunately, junior brother, you are smart."
"yes."
"But junior brother, how did you find out? I looked at the silver for a long time, but I couldn't tell whether it was genuine or fake."
"I'm smart."
Lin Jue said this calmly and casually.
The third senior brother suddenly seemed to have eaten a fly, his expression felt uncomfortable, and he shut up.
Only the junior sister nodded in agreement with a very serious expression.
Suddenly, I saw fire again in the open space ahead.
Someone is performing a show.
There were also some people gathered outside, but not many.
Before Lin Jue got closer, he only saw the flames spitting out from the heads of the onlookers and knew it was the fire-repelling technique.
There was still some nostalgia in my heart for a while.
It just so happened that they were heading that way.
But after getting closer, Lin Jue suddenly showed a look of surprise. He stopped immediately, straightened his eyes, looked at the few tricksters in the open space, and kept silent.
It was the same group of tricksters from my hometown last spring.
I can actually meet them here.
At this time, this group of magicians did not play any more tricks of "pretending to be a dispute between two families", nor did they ask for money. They just simply performed tricks, performed for a while, then stopped and saluted the onlookers. They knew they were here.
In addition to the warriors in the martial arts world, my colleagues and other strange people in the martial arts world are serious ascetics of the eight classics, so they are here to communicate.
"It's a shame. If you have any suggestions in your mind, please tell me. I will be very grateful."
The voices from that side kept coming.
The old man also kept bending over.
I just want to ask for some advice, how can it be so simple?
Besides, it was already dusk.
At dusk, many people walked down the mountain, so there were a lot more pedestrians on the roadside. There were also some nearby people who simply went up the mountain to watch the excitement. The dignitaries stopped to watch, but they could only look twice before they had to follow the crowd down the mountain.
.
Gradually, there were only two Taoist priests and a fox left, standing on the bluestone steps next to the bamboo forest, looking over there.
The third senior brother is also missing.
"Senior brother..."
The little junior sister followed the senior brother and looked at him quietly.
"Nothing." Lin Jue turned to smile at her, "I met some old friends."
After saying that, he took steps and headed in that direction.
The old man led a group of jugglers. His body was full of vicissitudes accumulated from many years of wandering in the world, but he also had the calm and firmness after weathering the storm. Even if no one paid attention to him, he still held his hand and asked a few times. When he saw the audience just now, they all left.
It was almost done. Seeing that it wasn't completely dark yet, I thought of giving another performance, which might attract another wave of people.
The fire is only visible when it is dark.
Maybe this time there will be someone willing to give advice.
It is difficult to seek the way, but how easy is it to seek the art?
Unexpectedly, when he was about to turn around and signal the gongs and drums to start again, he saw a young man suddenly coming in front of him. This young man was wearing a Taoist robe and holding a long sword. He looked handsome but unfamiliar.
It should be a judge, right?
With this thought in mind, the old man raised his hand. Before he could salute, unexpectedly, this man came face to face with him and saluted him solemnly first.
The old man didn't understand why for a while.
"Does my husband still recognize me?"
The Taoist raised his head and asked him.
Chapter completed!