Wen Lingjiao thought for a moment and said, "Since we have this opportunity, it would be a good idea for us to go and meet him for a while." After saying that, she actually touched two large gold ingots and placed them in Qiu Yi's hands.
Qiu Yizhi nodded silently, took the ingot, put it into Fei Lian's hand, and said: "Senior Brother Fei, my wife wanted to give birth to a son for me and also wanted to meet the altar master's golden face, so she went out of her way to give birth to a son. A portion of gold is dedicated to the Holy Religion, I wonder if senior brother can fulfill it?"
Fei Lian took the two gold ingots and weighed them. They weighed ten taels, which equaled one hundred taels of silver. He immediately beamed and said, "Since my dear wife has such a heart, then I can't let him down. Just in case." If the Altar Master takes the blame, then Senior Brother will bear the responsibility alone!"
So Qiu Yizhi and Wen Lingjiao followed Fei Lian, walked all the way around the main hall of Baoqing Temple, and stopped in front of the door of a Zen room in the northeast corner near the sea.
I saw Fei Lian tidying up his clothes, showing a very respectful expression, reaching out and knocking on the door a few times, and said in a quiet voice: "Altar Master, I am Fei Lian. There are two believers who want to have a meeting." Seeing the altar master’s golden face, I also ask the altar master to fulfill my wish.”
Fei Lian finished speaking for a long time before he heard a lazy voice coming from the room: "Are these two sincere?"
Fei Lian understood the words and said: "Fifty taels of sincerity is enough!" In a few words, he had swallowed up half of his filial piety.
"Well, it's better if you know what's going on and bring them in!" said the person inside.
Qiu Yizhi glanced at Wen Lingjiao, then pursed her lips in the direction of the meditation room, signaling for the two of them to go in together, but she was thinking in her heart: Your worth as a altar leader is far worse than Mr. Lin's confidante Wu Ruofei. These five taels of gold were not only for talking to Wu Ruofei for a few words alone, but I was afraid that even looking at her face from a few hundred steps away would be impossible!
While Qiu Yizhi was thinking wildly, she opened the door and walked into the Zen room - only to see that the Zen room looked dilapidated from the outside, but it was decorated very carefully inside, not to mention that the furnishings inside were luxurious, and the bare walls on all sides were painted with dark colors. The silk curtains covered the place, giving it a strange atmosphere.
Qiu Yizhi was looking for where the so-called "Yu Altar Master" was among the layers of curtains when he heard someone say loudly: "Hey, isn't this Xu Jia, Junior Brother Xu?" There was something in his tone. Surprised and delighted.
This voice seemed familiar to Qiu Yizhi, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it. While he was deep in thought, he suddenly saw Fei Lian in front of him kneeling on the ground and shouting: "The Altar Master is really powerful, disciple." I have never mentioned Junior Brother Xu’s common name in front of the altar master, but the altar master can guess it before even meeting him. He really has the ability to predict the unknown!”
Qiu Yizhi never believed in this so-called "prediction technique". He just thought that Fei Lian had colluded with the altar owner in advance and deliberately showed his magical powers to deceive himself. However, this trick was too crude... He Then he turned to look at Fei Lian, who was kneeling on the ground, and saw that he had a pious expression on his face, without any pretense, and he didn't seem to be acting...
Just when Qiu Yizhi was having doubts, he saw a man walking out quickly from behind the heavy curtains. He didn't stop until he was in front of him, looking at him up and down with a smile on his face.
Fei Lian, who was standing by, saw this and hurriedly greeted him: "Junior Brother Xu, this is the Master of the Altar. Why don't you kneel down and pay homage!"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" This time you managed to lure Brother Xu Xian into the religion, which is a great achievement, I know it well."
After hearing this, Fei Lian hurriedly kowtowed two more times, looked at Qiu Yizhi pretending to be "Xu Jia" with puzzled eyes, and then left.
Qiu Yizhi was also puzzled, but the lights in the room were very dim. Even though the altar owner was standing across from him, he still couldn't see his face clearly.
It wasn't until a breeze blew by that the silk curtains of the window were lifted, allowing the light of the full moon to shine into the room and shine on the face of the altar owner. Only then did Qiu Yizhi see the man's face clearly and couldn't help but exclaim: "How could you do that?" Here? Aren't you Yu Mei... Oh, aren't you the Lord Yu?"
Yu Mei nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Xu Xian finally remembered that I am here! It has been more than a year since we said goodbye to Yu Huang. Today, dynasties are changing and people are changing. How dare you and I meet in this remote small temple in Mingzhou?" Don’t you think it’s Tianzun who has other plans?”
Even for a thoughtful person like Qiu Yizhi, he was speechless and speechless, but he was constantly figuring out the whole story in his mind.
Seeing this, Yu Mei smiled again and said, "No wonder Brother Xian is surprised. Things have changed in the world these days. Even Brother Yu couldn't imagine. Come on, come on, you and I sit down and talk slowly." He saw Qiu Yizhi following him again. Wen Lingjiao asked again, "Is this woman Xu Xiandi's wife?"
Qiu Yizheng was confused. After hearing this question, he only replied: "She is my unmarried wife." But he did not want to say more for fear of exposing his flaws.
However, Yu Mei didn't seem to have so much scheming, and said with a smile: "My sister and I are so beautiful, I am really a blessing to my virtuous brother. Come on, let's talk together."
With that said, Yu Mei led Qiu Yizhi and Wen Lingjiao to a small round table, gave up their seats, and ordered someone to come over and pour tea.
After some pleasantries, Qiu Yizhi finally cleared his mind -
During the initial campaign against rebellion, Qiu Yizhi and others, under the orders of the emperor who was still King Youyan at the time, went south to Henan Province to fight against the Tianzun Sect's rebellion. Although the Tianzun Sect's rebels were large in number, their combat effectiveness was not strong. They were immediately defeated under the attack of Lao Youyan's army, which was known as the strongest army in the world. However, it happened that the Tianzun Sect's Yuhuangding General Altar relied on the difficult terrain and was besieged for a long time and was difficult to capture.
Under such circumstances, Youyan's army happened to catch a spy who came down from the mountain to inquire about the situation. This spy was none other than Yu Mei, who is now known as the altar leader. So Qiu Yi used the Yu Mei as a bait and used a counter-intentional trick. The internal and external flowers bloomed and finally attacked the Yuhuangding General Altar.
However, at that time, Qiu Yizhi thought that if he could keep Yu Mei's brain, it would not be easy for him to be in the Tianzun Sect, and it might be useful in the future, so he let him go. Unexpectedly, the surveillance of him was lost among the rebels, and he unexpectedly met Yu Mei again in Mingzhou.
(For details, see Volume 1 of my work.)
- After thinking about the whole situation, Qiu Yizhi felt confident in her heart. She put on a happy expression on her face and said thoughtfully: "It turns out to be Senior Brother Yu. I have heard that he is 'Yu Tan Master' and 'Yu Tan Master'. But I didn't expect that this 'Yu', not that 'Yu', actually met my senior brother here, which really made me overjoyed. "
Yu Mei also had a happy face: "It's all because of Fei Lian's confusion. He only said that he didn't find Miaozhen, but he found a rich boy who believed in the holy religion, and he didn't mention the name of the wise brother... Alas! I didn't expect the expiration date. No, my dear brother has become so rich."
Qiu Yizhi rolled her eyes and said: "Don't mention it. I'm ashamed to say it - when the Yuhuangding General Altar fell, I saw that something was not going well, and my faith was shaken for a while, so I took off the clothes of a dead officer and put them on, and returned to the official post in civilian clothes. The soldier managed to save his life. Later, I secretly hid a few treasures at the Yuhuangding General Altar and sold them on the market. I actually exchanged them for one hundred thousand taels of silver, so I decided not to be a soldier. If you just take the banknote and go out to buy land and collect rent, you can live a good life. "
Yu Mei heard what "Xu Jia" said was reasonable, nodded and asked again: "How come the wise brother got in touch with Fei Lian?"
Qiu Yizhi replied: "Although I am outside the religion, I still belong to the Holy Religion at heart and often ask for clues about the Holy Religion. Later I heard that there was a man named Miaozhen in Shanyin County who claimed to be a follower of Tianzun, so I wanted to go They got to know each other. However, the younger brother was deaf and blind. When he arrived in Shanyin County, he heard that Miao Zhen had been killed. When he was disappointed, he saw this man named Fei sneaking around. I asked a few servants to catch him. He didn't say anything, and I asked him the details in just a few words. Then he rushed to participate in the ceremony, but I didn't expect to meet Senior Brother Yu. "
While listening and thinking carefully, Yu Mei always felt that there were some flaws in it. However, with his knowledge and resourcefulness, he could not guess the flaws, so he could only say: "My dear brother, this experience is incredible."
Qiu Yizhi seized the words and immediately pretended to be angry: "It turns out that senior brother Yu is doubting me! Okay! Since senior brother has forgotten the friendship between you and me that we lived together and died together, then okay, I will just leave, so as not to worry about senior brother. It's an eyesore in front of me!" He really did it, and before he finished speaking, there were already tears in his eyes.
This Yu Mei was originally a person without ideas. Hearing what Qiu Yizhi said, he immediately panicked and said hurriedly: "Where, where, brother Xian, what are you talking about? Brother Yu, how can you mean this? It's just a casual sigh. ”
Qiu Yizhi pretended to be "Xu Jia" but still refused to give in. Pretending to be angry, he stood up and left.
Yu Mei immediately grabbed his sleeve and said apologetically: "Brother, please don't be like this. If I doubt a life-and-death brother like you, then who else can I trust in this world?"
Qiu Yizhi listened to Yu Mei's tone and said sincerely: "I also believe that Senior Brother Yu is not an ungrateful person, but what he said just now is too sad..." After saying that, he wiped the tears from his eyes again, "Don't talk about me anymore. It's Senior Brother Yu." Why did he become the altar master? Was he appointed by the Holy Cult leader or the saint?"
Wen Lingjiao sat behind Qiu Yi, watching him act as if it were real. She was secretly amused in her heart. Suddenly she heard him mention her name, and felt a chill in her heart. She listened quietly to how Yu Mei responded in front of her.
But seeing that Yu Mei was not in a hurry to speak, he said to the two maids standing beside him: "I am about to preach to you, Junior Brother Xu, a secret. You can't pry in here, so please stay away for a while."
Wen Lingjiao saw that the maids were very handsome, but they were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and they were also extremely obedient. She obeyed Yu Mei's instructions and immediately left the room.
Then Yu Mei asked Qiu Yi again: "I don't know, dear brother, this lady of yours..."
Qiu Yizhi said hurriedly: "Oh, it doesn't matter. She is also a follower of my Holy Religion, and she is more familiar with the teachings of the Holy Religion than I am. Or I can ask her to recite a few paragraphs to my senior brother... If it is really not appropriate, then I will call you It’s okay for her to wait outside.”
Yu Mei thought for a moment and said: "Since Brother Xian can trust it, Brother Yu can also trust it. However, these words cannot be spread out for the time being. Brother Xian, and my younger siblings, are you all clear?"
Seeing Qiu Yizhi and Wen Lingjiao both nodding, he continued: "To be honest with you two, Brother Yu's position as 'Altar Master' was not conferred by the leader or the saint, but by himself. ”
As soon as these words came out, Qiu Yizhi was immediately startled. He looked at Wen Lingjiao out of the corner of his eye and saw that she had the same expression of surprise on her face. She didn't know whether it was true or not, so she hurriedly asked Yu Mei: "Brother, where did this come from?" How to start?" (To be continued)