"Sure enough, you've had a lot of leisure, haven't you?" Under the two green plum trees at the back of the Qingmei Temple, Mo He lay very leisurely on a recliner, and sighed to himself.
It has been ten days since the opening ceremony of the Temple of the Five Elements. Mo He has returned to Wangyue Mountain. Until now, no one has gone up to the mountain to look for him. The concept of the Five Elements has already solved these problems before these villagers went up the mountain to find Mohe.
The establishment of the Five Elements Temple here is a big event for the local people. The local villagers are also a little curious about whether the Taoist priests of the Five Elements Temple are reliable. As for the Five Elements Temple, they also need to improve their local reputation. , for the difficulties encountered by these villagers, they are all done with all their heart, and the things encountered by these villagers are nothing more than trivial matters that can be solved easily. Compared to where their original sect was, there were far fewer demons and ghosts. This is related to the incompleteness of Qiongzhou's land veins, but with the restoration of Qiongzhou's land veins, such things may continue to increase in the future.
Mo He, who has been at leisure, has felt an unspeakable tranquility these days. It seems that he has nothing to do except practice. He can lie leisurely under two green plum trees and quietly look at the sky.
"I don't know how Master is doing in Netherland, when will he be able to return?" Mo He looked through the leaves and looked at the blue sky, but he thought of Daoist Qingmei in his heart, and wondered how he was doing in Netherland.
And thinking of Daoist Qingmei, Mo He realized another thing. He is fourteen years old this year. In this world, he is already considered an adult. In Xiahegou Village, there were quite a few children of the same age as him. They have already married and established businesses, and some even have children of their own.
When I was ten years old, it was the one hundred and ninety-first year of the founding of the dynasty, and now four years have passed, and it has been one hundred and ninety-five years since the founding of the dynasty, which means that there is only five years at most. The 100-year limit is approaching, and I am afraid no one can tell what kind of turmoil will arise at that time.
Five years is not a short time for ordinary people, but for practitioners, it is relatively short.
In such a short period of time, Mo He doesn't know how much his cultivation can be improved, and whether he can cope with the upcoming turmoil
"It is still necessary to arrange the two little guys to enter the Baijia school as soon as possible, so that they can learn something, so that they can have their own self-protection power in the future, but I don't know where the Baijia school that came to Yuhe Mansion is now. One family, no definite news?" Thinking of this, Mo He immediately sat up and decided to go down the mountain to find Su Bai to inquire.
Walking all the way down Moon Moon Mountain, he soon came to Zi'an County, but as soon as he entered Zi'an County, Mo He found that the whole Zi'an County was empty, no one knew where he went, and most of the shops on both sides of the street were closed , Even the hawkers who hawked along the street in the past are gone now.
His spiritual sense swept the entire county and found no trace of these people, but seeing a few shops open occasionally, and the shopkeepers inside looked listless, Mo He knew that there should be no accidents with these people.
Arriving at the county government office, Mo He hadn't walked in yet, just in time to see Su Bai coming out of the county government office.
"Brother Mo, you came just in time, follow me to the Yuhe Wharf!" Su Bai immediately said to Mo He as soon as he saw Mo He.
"What happened, where did all the people in Zi'an County go?" Mo He asked after hearing the words.
"Let's talk while walking!" Su Bai replied, then turned around and walked towards the Yuhe Wharf.
Mo He followed Su Bai, and heard Su Bai explaining as he walked: "Today, the Five Elements Temple is accepting disciples at the Yuhe Wharf, and is going to recruit a group of Taoist boys for training, aged five to ten years old. If you enter Taoism before the age of 1, you can be officially included in the gate wall, and many people in Zi'an County sent their children away, and the rest of the people also went to watch the fun!"
Hearing this, Mo He suddenly thought of himself. He was also brought by Daoist Qingmei as a Taoist boy when he was a child, and then he embarked on the road of cultivation.
Hearing that a group of children from Zi'an County were about to enter the Five Elements Temple and become Taoist boys, Mo He suddenly had the illusion that he was already a senior.
"Five Elements Monastery accepts disciples, you don't have to rush over there in such a hurry, how can you say that you are also the honor of a county, did something happen over there?" Seeing Su Bai's hurried appearance, Mo He asked again .
"The government sent a message just now, saying that there are people from hundreds of schools who want to come to Zi'an County to experience the local folk customs. They came by boat from Yuhe, and they will arrive today. I have to go to meet them!" Su Bai nodded, If it’s just the Five Elements Monastery accepting disciples, there’s no need for Su Bai to go there. He just needs to send some people to maintain law and order and prevent the common people from having accidents in the crowd. .
Su Bai is an official of the dynasty, and he also studied the knowledge of a hundred schools of thought. It can be said that almost all officials in the entire dynasty are from a hundred schools of thought. Only a few individual people are cultivators. Taoist system.
The hundred schools, no matter which one it is, has its own outstanding disciples standing in the court, it can be said that the hundred schools are the reserve of the officials of the dynasty, which makes Su Bai, an official of the dynasty, have to pay attention to the past. Go to greet him, even if he is the son of Jinhou Su's family, he can't put on airs at this time.
All the way to the Yuhe Wharf, Mohe saw a scene of a sea of people. The Yuhe Wharf, which has gradually become more and more lively, is almost completely packed today. Countless parents lead their children, and there are The spectators almost blocked the place, but fortunately, there were officials from the county government to maintain order, so that the scene did not become chaotic.
Several disciples of the Five Elements Concept stood in the center of the crowd, checking each of the children. Beside them, there were already more than a dozen parents of children, holding their children, standing there with joyful faces. Obviously, these All are chosen.
Looking at these parents, Mo He suddenly shook his head lightly. These parents look happy now, but in the future, among their children, those who can really enter the road of cultivation are only some of them. Part of it, definitely not all of it.
The Five Elements Temple recruits so many Taoist boys, but it is just to select those with good qualifications and cultivate them on a large scale. With the advantage of the number of people, there will always be some who successfully enter the Tao in the end.
As for those children who did not succeed in entering the Tao after the age of sixteen, they can choose to go down the mountain and live an ordinary life from then on. I believe that with the knowledge they have learned in the Five Elements Concept, they can also get a livelihood after they go down the mountain.
If someone is lucky enough to enter the Tao after they go down the mountain, if they are still relatively young at this time, then they may be reintroduced into the gate wall, but if they are older, they may become a casual cultivator in the future. This is also how casual cultivators come about.
Seeing Su Bai's arrival, the yamen servants who maintained order immediately opened a way for Su Bai, and the audience members of the Five Elements who were accepting apprentices also stopped their work and came up to salute.
"I have met the county lord!" The five-element temple was in charge of accepting disciples, a middle-aged Taoist, and bowed to Su Bai.
"You don't have to be polite, the Taoist priest. It's my official who came suddenly and disturbed the Taoist priest." Su Bai still had a polite look, and he smiled back and said.
"Your Majesty's words are serious!" The middle-aged Taoist turned his head to look at the children behind him, his thoughts suddenly changed, and he guessed Su Bai's intention for coming here.
Regarding Su Bai's identity, everyone in the Temple of the Five Elements knew it well. The elders of the division had already warned them that when they set foot in Zi'an County, the local county lord was the son of Jinhou Su's family, so they must be polite to Su Bai.
"I'm here because I have other things to do, so I won't bother the Taoist priest, please continue!" Su Bai didn't know what the other party was thinking, but after a brief exchange, he smiled and nodded at the other party, and stood up straight. Arrived at the pier where the ship is parked.
"Here we come!" Su Bai stood there, and after a while, he suddenly said.
Mo He followed Su Bai, glanced at the calm water surface, and sent out his spiritual thoughts to search upstream, but did not find any ships approaching.
Mo He leaned down slightly, and his palms touched the water surface. For a moment, Mo He felt that his perception seemed to be integrated with the river water, and finally found that a white shadow was walking through the water at a very high speed at a place far upstream. fast.
Mo He raised his head again, and he could already see a white shadow coming from upstream.
"It's so fast!" Mo He narrowed his eyes lightly. The speed of this white shadow was so fast, but the surface of the water it passed didn't even make a single ripple.
In just a few breaths, Bai Ying had already stopped at Yuhe Wharf, and it was only then that Mohe discovered its true face on Mount Lu.
"Paper boat?" Mo He uttered in surprise, the very fast white shadow he saw just now turned out to be a paper boat.
Su Bai glanced at Mo He, nodded lightly, and then said in a low voice: "This should be the imperial technique of the Li family, and the seniors of the Li family are here, be careful not to make rude moves!"
After finishing speaking, Su Bai bowed slightly, bowed to the paper boat, and said at the same time: "Student Su Bai, come to greet you sir!"
As soon as Su Bai finished speaking, he saw the paper boat in front of him turn into a ray of white light, which disappeared in an instant, and then two figures appeared on the pier, both dressed as scribes, their faces looked fifty or sixty years old, but their whole bodies were She is very well dressed, and her beard and hair are meticulously groomed, so that no one can find any faults.
"Zhuzhou and Li Ji of the School of Etiquette have met the county lord!" After the two scribes appeared, they first accepted Su Bai's salute, and then returned Su Bai's salute.
In the first salute, Su Bai saluted them as a student, and as members of hundreds of schools, they were qualified to receive this salute, and in the latter salute, they saluted to Su Bai as a county official.
"As expected of a family of rites, they really value etiquette!" Seeing this scene, Mo He immediately had a very clear first impression of these two scribes.