The Taoist priest invited by Ning Caichen was an old Taoist with gray hair and beard, heroic eyebrows, a gray robe inside, a black gauze robes on the outside, and a hat tied at the back of his neck.
When Maitreya and Yan Chixia approached to see him, this old Dao did not reveal his name, and only said that he lived in a grassy cottage on the hills of southern Zhejiang. Therefore, he called himself a grassy layman. He was accompanied by a dangling, named Xiaoguidaodao. child.
Speaking of it, Caolu’s masters and apprentices can meet Ning Caichen, which is also a way to change the fate. After Ning Caichen left Lanruo Temple, he wanted to return to Jibaozhai to pay the bill, but on the way he couldn’t rest assured Maitreya and Yan Chi. Xia, however, was too helpless to return to Lanruo Temple to help.
In the entanglement, Ning Caichen went farther and farther. On the road, he ran into the Caolu layman and apprentice who was robbed by a group of strong men. This old believer grabbed a straw rope and threw it out, turning it into a poisonous snake and bluffing the group. The strongman screamed and panicked, and after he walked away, the viper turned back into a straw rope, not hurting anyone.
Seeing that the laymen of Caolu used straw ropes to change snakes and play people, they did not take human lives, they had different skills and compassion, so Ning Caichen courageously stepped forward to ask for help.
At the beginning, the Caolu layman didn’t intend to help, but in Ning Caichen, he was pleading with each other and saw that the southern sky was overcast and the stars were obscured, so he took Dao Tong Xiaogui and Ning Caichen to Guobei. The county arranged for help outside the county. At the last moment, he helped Maitreya and Yan Chixia. The god of fortune went to the sky, and he used the treasure mirror to draw the sun and burn the old Black Mountain demon to death.
After talking to each other, Maitreya felt fortunate again. Not only was Ning Choichen’s benevolent and chivalrous, but also fortunate that he was able to turn a good fortune and meet Caolu’s master and apprentice, otherwise he and Yan Chixia might really want it. Planted in Lanruo Temple, this ruined plot was momentary, and it was almost impossible to go to the crematorium.
While I was extremely grateful, Maitreya and Yan Chixia repeatedly thanked Ning Caichen and Caolu Jie and their apprentices, while Caolu Jie had a light expression, and after only a few words of courtesy, he left unrestrainedly, making Maitreya a little bit unhappy Sorry, but Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen are used to it.
"This is a strange man! It's a pity that he doesn't delight in things, or sorrow with himself. It's a pity that, depending on his expression, he is unwilling to communicate with Taoism." Yan Chixia looked admired, and at the same time it was a pity. Indifferent, it is not good to come forward to communicate.
"This is indeed a pity, but it's good to be alive. There is hope in alive. If there is hope, everything is possible!" Maitreya was also a pity, but then was full of hope. As long as there is life, no Taoism can be found.
"That is, now everyone has hope, the world is full of love, and my task has been completed, and I am going home." Ning Caichen laughed at the two of them.
"Let's go now?" Maitreya couldn't recover, how could she leave the scene in such a hurry.
"Let's send you off along the road! It just so happens that we are going to do something, this Lanruo Temple will come back later." Yan Chixia followed.
"This is just right. It looks like a book reader has no hands. I really want a bodyguard." Maitreya was taken aback for a moment, but then realized that Yan Chixia said it was about collecting money and making swords.
"You two!" Ning Caichen saw that Maitreya and Yan Chixia were going to give her away, thinking that they were really going to escort them along the road, and couldn't help but smile and shook their heads.
Without further ado, Maitreya and Yan Chixia didn't have much to pack. The things they should bring were all on them. Maitreya spent some savings and bought three horses at the market. Then the three left Guobei County all the way.
Ning Caichen was originally from Zhejiang, and he was a fellow villager with the Caolu layman, but Jibaozhai was not in Zhejiang. In Jiangning area, Maitreya followed Yan Chixia and sent him to the place. After declining his intention to enter the country as a guest, he went on his own. Don't go to the horse, go straight to Jinling.
Yan Chixia has been the chief arrester of six doors. Although she has lived in seclusion for many years, her contacts are still there. She led Maitreya straight to Jinling's old brokerage friend, obtained hundreds of wanted orders and customs clearance guides, and then began to act. .
Jinling is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Although there is no Jingnan battle in this world, he has lost his original status as a capital city, but it is also an important transportation road in the south and a cultural center. People traveling by boat and land will pass by here regardless of whether they are traveling from the north to the south. .
Yan Chixia took a special experience from the bandits and ran to Niushou Mountain, where the merchants from the north and the south must pass, and used a pair of gods to search for the wanted bandit, first determine the target, and then take the person. Go to the first level.
Maitreya followed Yan Chixia, so naturally he couldn't follow the show. He took off the monk costume, put down the meditation stick, took up the sword, and covered the short hair that grew out of his head with a soft hat, and then rescued.
At present, Daning is in the peaceful and prosperous season. A large amount of gold and silver poured in from the sea, making the market price low. Maitreya followed Yan Chixia, and in half a month, he collected more than a dozen thieves, a few bandit leaders, and Jinling. After the public security brushed a new one, he was paid more than eight thousand taels of silver.
While making money, Yan Chixia was also in Jinling City, looking for people to buy the materials needed for sword making. The sword making was nothing more than hardware and eight stones.
The so-called hardware is gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, while the eight stones are cinnabar, realgar, mica, empty blue, sulfur, salt, saltpeter and orpiment.
The Eight Stones are the raw materials for alchemy. It is not difficult to find here, but the raw materials required for the sword are fine. For example, the gold in this hardware must be gold mother, that is, horseshoe gold or placer gold. It cannot be smelted the day after tomorrow. The real gold of this kind is extremely difficult to find in the Central Plains, which is short of precious metals, but Yan Chixia has a way.
The things that were not easy to buy on the Ming market were bought on the black market. After more than two months of turnover, Yan Chixia and Maitreya purchased the required gold mother and some of the eight stone materials, and they still had more than 4,000 taels of silver left in their hands. , Used to buy the main materials needed for sword making at the Guobei County Market, including copper, iron, tin, lead, and cinnabar.
After all the items were purchased and shipped back to Lanruo Temple, Maitreya followed Yan Chixia and began to make swords. The two hired people to cut the pine wood from the mountains to burn charcoal, and used mud to burn the sword stand behind the temple.
The pot is made of painted daishi, copper, tin, lead, mercury and eight stones are poured into it, squeezed into juice with charcoal fire, and then poured into the prepared Fantu sword mold, burned to worship, after cooling, carefully grind the handle To become a sword, this is the fetus of the sword. You must put the sword into the treasure box, burn the talisman day and night, and sacrifice until it is psychic, so that it can be called a flying sword.
Maitreya helped Yan Chixia make forty-nine swords, a total of seven or seven, which can form a sword formation, but unfortunately there are not so many sword cases in full bloom, and she is preparing to cast a sword ding, but she does not want Yan Chixia to practice. With the great advancement of Vajrayana Zen, the sword qi of these forty-nine swords was refined, and they were all shrunk into small swords, and they were blooming in the new sword box.
The sword in the box was refined, Maitreya stepped forward to congratulate, but this beard was not happy, saying that the old black mountain demon and the thousand-year-old tree demon were already under attack. Moreover, this swordsmanship is a way outside of the body. It is hard to practice for a lifetime, but it is no more than a corpse to become a Dao. He would rather turn into loess a hundred years later than a fake sword.
(End of this chapter)