"Ask, how many characters are there in the Thousand-Character Classic?"
"Thousand-Character Essay, of course it means a thousand... No, if the version is different..."
"Stupid, the answer is three words!"
"Ha! Why is it like this again..."
"Ask, which one hurts more, an apple or a stone hitting your head?"
"Of course it's a stone. The stone is so hard... It's an apple! The stone is the kind of sand or mud, right?"
"...It's my head that hurts even more!"
"Heads count too!"
"You have already studied physics in junior high school. Don't you know that the effects of forces are mutual?"
"What does that have to do with this question?"
"That is to say, you can say that you hit your head with a stone, or you can say that you hit your head against a stone."
"It's always like this... you are the master anyway, you always have a point!"
Back at Tiandao Mountain, Ye Linglong became interested and asked her apprentice a few serious questions.
The result was no surprise. No matter how many years Shen Ming had been a disciple, she still couldn't answer the questions raised by her master, Ye Linglong.
Although Ye Linglong did not ask those questions all the time, the number of brain teasers she had asked over the years was probably in the tens of thousands.
And the little kid is so serious, have you learned anything
In fact, it cannot be said that nothing has been gained.
At the very least, the little kid's brain, after undergoing so many brain teasers, is much more flexible than the one before.
It's just that when it comes to brain teasers, you can't answer many questions correctly just by listening and watching and learning.
Many so-called brain teasers require twists and turns, but the correct answer still depends on how you reason.
When it comes to sophistry, little kids can't learn it. Even if they answer ten reasonable answers at once, they still won't be able to stop others from deciding that the eleventh answer is the correct one.
"How about it, Xiao Ming, do you want to continue guessing?" Ye Linglong asked with a smile.
"... Humph!" The little kid turned his face to the other side.
Soon, Shi Lin and his group strolled up Tiandao Mountain chatting and laughing, and arrived at the place where Ye Zan lived in Tiandao Mountain.
It's not that Shi Lin and others were deliberately neglectful, the main reason was that when Ye Zan notified them before, he didn't urge them to come back without delay.
Therefore, Shi Lin and others hurried on as normal, not so anxious that they had to run as fast as they could after walking a few steps up the mountain.
On a hilltop of Tiandao Mountain is the residence of Ye Zan, the protector of the Tao. It was also the residence of the Taoist Lord Linghua and Taoist Qinghong.
At this time, in the courtyard of this residence, Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings were chatting, or it could be said to be discussing Taoism.
After all, Ye Zan and the Lin brothers and sisters have different "Tao". They both say that "stones from other mountains can attack jade." Naturally, there are many benefits to communicating with each other.
This is probably the meaning of being a Taoist couple.
Then, Shi Lin and his party walked in from outside the open courtyard door.
When Ye Linglong saw Lin Miaomiao there, her eyes suddenly shone like "little stars", and she immediately jumped off the back of the giant panda.
"Aunt Miaomiao!" Ye Linglong shouted happily, opened her arms like a bird, and swooped towards Lin Miaomiao.
Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings are both in the Dharma Realm, so naturally they already knew that Shi Lin and his party had returned to Tiandao Mountain.
Therefore, Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings were not surprised at all when they saw Shi Lin's group coming in.
Ye Linglong swooped towards Lin Miaomiao, and was about to fall heavily into Lin Miaomiao's arms, but her body suddenly settled in front of Lin Miaomiao.
It turned out that it was Ye Zan who grabbed Ye Linglong's back collar from behind and lifted her in the air like a kitten.
Ye Linglong didn't struggle, her arms and legs immediately dropped, and she only swayed slightly from side to side.
With a twist of his wrist, Ye Zan turned his daughter to face him and said angrily: "What are you doing? When we went out to play, we even forgot about our father. I only have eyes for your Aunt Miaomiao!"
"Hmm!" Ye Linglong rolled her eyes, put on a cute expression on her little || face, and said coquettishly: "No, I miss daddy the most! I've always wanted to, but I can't even think about it!"
"Hey, if you don't learn well at a young age, you will learn to lie and flatter others!" Lin Mumu said jokingly from the side.
Ye Linglong looked like she had just discovered Lin Mumu and exclaimed softly: "Ah, Brother Mumu!"
"I want to call you uncle... No, I want to call you uncle!" Lin Mumu corrected him immediately.
"Okay, Brother Ye, put Linglong down quickly." Lin Miaomiao smiled, reached out to pick up Ye Linglong, and teased: "I am a big girl now. I heard that I have already accepted a disciple, so I have to Let her save some face in front of her apprentice."
"Yes, yes, dad, I have accepted a disciple. How stupid!" Ye Linglong said as if he was offering a treasure.
"You!" Ye Zan shook his head helplessly, stretched out his fingers and flicked Ye Linglong's smooth forehead before placing it on the ground and handing it to Lin Miaomiao.
Ye Linglong fell to the ground, rubbed her forehead that didn't hurt much with both hands, and ran to Lin Miaomiao's side with a silly smile.
At this time, the drama of meeting master and junior sister, father and daughter, was over, and Shi Lin and Wu Liao quickly stepped forward.
"Disciple pays homage to the master, and pays homage to the two senior uncles!" Shi Lin and Wu Liao respectfully paid homage to Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings as disciples.
Although, Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings all call each other "Brother Ye" and "Brother Ye".
But when it comes to starting to practice Taoism, Ye Zan is obviously later than the Lin family siblings.
Moreover, the terms "Brother Ye" and "Brother Ye" actually don't mean elder brother, they are just a term of endearment.
Therefore, Shi Lin and Wu Liao, as Ye Zan's apprentices, wanted to call the Lin family siblings "master uncle".
"Well, get up!" Ye Zan nodded with dignity as a teacher, raised his hand to let the two of them stand up and excuse themselves, and then said to Shi Lin: "Shi Lin, there is something that I need you to do for my teacher. Do."
Then, before Shi Lin could say anything like "a mountain of swords and a sea of fire" and "the liver and brains were wiped out".
"Next, I will go to the Underworld and I don't know how long it will take. During this period, I will leave the war fortress in the Yuqing Sect to guard Tongtian Peak. However, in order to avoid the appearance of the distracting incarnation If there is an accident, I still need you to be on the war fortress just in case.”
After talking about his arrangement, Ye Zan turned to Wu Liao and said, "Wu Liao, you should also go with your senior brother."
"Disciple, you obey!" Shi Lin, who had no mother-in-law or mother, simply bowed and accepted the order.
"Yes, disciple, I obey!" Wu Liao also said quickly.
This is how the two apprentices made arrangements.
Shi Lin and Wu Liao stood aside after receiving the order, seriously exposing Wen Tongji and Little Kid who were following behind.
"... Disciple, I am serious and pay my respects to Master!"
The little kid with a bun on his head, wearing a red bellyband and a pair of emerald green bloomers, bowed to Ye Zan respectfully.
"Haha, okay!" Ye Zan was a little funny, but it was already a fact that the little kid in front of him became his disciple, so he could only say: "Since my daughter has accepted you as her disciple, you should bear in mind that "A day is a teacher, a life is a father." Don't live up to your master's teachings and teachings."
"Yes, this disciple must remember this!" The little kid quickly bowed down and prostrated again. There was no trace of the little devil star from back then.
When the little kid was done, he stood behind the two uncles like Shi Lin and Wu Liao.
However, unlike Shi and Wu who were standing around doing nothing, the little kid was not idle just standing there.
I knew that this was not the right time to talk about something from a thousand miles away, but the kid obviously had a lot of questions in his mind, and he quickly became engrossed in the sea of questions while standing there.
I saw the little kid, looking ahead blankly, muttering something in his mouth, and still pinching his fingers with his hands hanging down.
It was almost like he was chanting a mantra.
"Wen Tongji, a small Taoist cultivator, pays homage to Taoist Wuji and pays homage to the two senior Taoists!"
Finally it was Wen Tongji's turn.
Wen Tongji felt nervous, scared and excited at the same time.
This Dharma-Xiang Daojun is not easy to see, let alone three of them at once.
Of course, this is talking about low-level casual cultivators like Wen Tongji.
In short, Wen Tongji came straight to his knees and bowed to Ye Zan first, and then saluted the Lin siblings respectively.
With Wen Tongji's level of cultivation, it is of course impossible to see the level of cultivation of the Lin siblings.
However, as a low-level casual cultivator, observing words and emotions is a basic survival skill.
Through the previous names of Shi Lin and Wu Liao, as well as the information he usually read online through Qianli Chuanshen, it was not difficult for Wen Tongji to guess the identities of the Lin siblings.
"Get up!" Ye Zan said lightly.
"Yes, Xiaodao obeys!" Wen Tongji stood up with a smile on his face.
Still relying on observation, Wen Tongji knew that Ye Zan was not a person who liked nonsense, so he did not insist on this aspect.
Some people, he gets you up.
If you really get up, or if you get up too happily, he may be angry with you for not being sincere.
Also, he asked you to sit.
Not only do you have to show that you are sitting, but you also need to let the other person know that you are not actually sitting yet.
For example, why sit with half of your butt ||
Also, the ass and chair will be attached but not attached.
etc…
However, Ye Zan is obviously not that kind of person.
"Before, my distraction incarnation asked you to follow Shi Lin and others to prevent them from being deceived by people like you again. You have done quite well in these years, which is enough to offset your sin of plotting against them. "
When Ye Zan said this, he glanced at Shi Lin and Wu Liao next to him, making the two apprentices shrink slightly in fright.
Then, his eyes turned back to Wen Tongji.
Ye Zan pondered for a moment. In fact, he was not thinking about anything temporarily. In fact, some things had been planned for a long time. He just stretched Wen Tongji.
After a while, Ye Zan finally spoke and said: "Wen Tongji..."
"The trail is here!" Wen Tongji responded quickly with a smile on his face.
"Since you have redeemed yourself and settled the cause and effect with me, I should just let you go. However, considering your hard work over the years, I will give you two ways to go. It all depends on your choice. ”
Having said this, Ye Zan waved his hand, and bubbles appeared in the air, each bubble containing something.
"First of all, I have magic weapons, elixirs, heavenly materials and earthly treasures here. You can choose one from them, which can be regarded as your reward for these years. After taking the things, this period of cause and effect is over. In the future, whether you do good or evil will also depend on it. It all depends on your own destiny.”
When Wen Tongji heard this, he immediately withdrew his gaze from the bubbles, knelt down on the ground with a pop, leaned over and said, "Tao Lord, you have mercy on me. Although I am a casual cultivator on the trail, I did make mistakes in the past. But. During these years of following Daojun's disciples, I have been inspired and taught by Daojun's disciples, and I have already changed my life and decided to do good and never do evil in the future."
Ye Zan had no reaction to Wen Tongji's expression of determination and only glanced at him lightly.
"Secondly, you have a family that teaches Taoism and inheritance. If I accept you into the Yuqing Sect, you won't be happy. However, since I am now in charge of Tiandao Mountain, I can include you among the protectors of Tiandao Mountain. Of course, as a protector of Tiandao Mountain, you must abide by the laws of Tiandao Mountain, and you will never be as comfortable as before..."
Before Ye Zan could finish his words, Wen Tongji, who was kneeling on the ground, was already kowtowing like he was pounding garlic. While kowtowing, he said: "Tao Lord has mercy on me. I am willing to choose the second path. I am willing to be the protector of Tiandao Mountain and for me." Let’s do our best to preach the truth!”
In fact, if possible, Wen Tongji would prefer to join the Yuqing Sect.
After all, the Wuji Taoist in front of him is the Supreme Elder of Yuqing Sect, or it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the Supreme Patriarch.
If he could become a member of the Yuqing Sect, he, Wen Tongji, and the Wuji Taoist Lord would be his own, and he, Shi Lin, and Wu Liao would become the same sect.
Jade Qingzong! There is so much momentum in the Shenhua domain now.
It is said that there are various benefits in Yuqing Sect, the elixirs are of the highest quality, there is a special spiritual gathering quiet room for cultivation, and you can eat spiritual rice every day!
With so many benefits, who wouldn’t be happy to be a part of it
It's a pity that people say "you are not happy", but in fact it often means that they are not happy.
Although he cannot join the Yuqing Sect, becoming the protector of Tiandao Mountain is still a better choice than the first choice.
You must know that the job of protector of Tiandao Mountain is regarded as a good job by the disciples of the great sects.
And Wen Tongji, a casual cultivator with no roots but a duckweed, had the opportunity to become the protector of Tiandao Mountain, just like a homeless man who suddenly got a job in a state-owned enterprise.
Working in a state-owned enterprise is not a way to make a fortune, but compared to a wandering life of being hungry and well-fed, at least stability is better.
"Well, in that case, take this and go down!" Ye Zan nodded, then waved and threw a jade token, and continued: "After that, someone will teach you how to be this protector."
Wen Tongji raised his head, reached out and took off the jade plaque floating in front of him, and looked at the words "Protect the Way" on it, feeling quite like a dream in his heart.
However, after all, Wen Tongji was also a figure who had been around for many years. Knowing that now was not the time to express his emotions, he forcibly came to his senses and knelt down again, saying repeatedly: "Disciple, thank you Lord Dao! Disciple, thank you Lord Dao!"