Striving for Science

Chapter 30: Yuelao Temple (catching insects)

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Humans can't hear this voice, but the two demon cultivators of the Kong family can hear it clearly.

"who is it?"

"It turns out that the idiot knew that I was scolding the idiot."

Kong Yang and Kong Yue looked around and finally set their sights on the big elm tree in the yard, Kong Yue sneered: "It turns out to be a tree demon who has spiritual consciousness but can't change shape, our bird clan is nearly 20 years old. Although there has been no bird transformation in the past few years, it is still stronger than your tree clan, do you have a share of words here?"

"Haha." The tree demon shook its leaves, "I'm scolding idiots, you have to put this title on your own head, do you blame me?"

Kong Yue has lived in the clan since she was a child, and she has always looked down on the unknown tree clan, so she immediately wanted to teach this ignorant tree a lesson.

"Two young people, what do you need help with??" Du Zhonghai, who was feeling his fat belly and wearing an old coat, walked downstairs slowly, saw Kong Yang and Kong Yue, and quickly said, "We are off work now. Now, if you are not in a hurry, you can come back in the afternoon, I… "

"Humph!" Kong Yue withdrew her hand and glared at the big elm tree: "You are lucky today." Now the world has changed, unless it is a last resort, the demon cultivator cannot reveal his identity in front of humans.

"Let's go." Kong Yue turned around and left without looking at Du Zhonghai.

"Little young man now, he has a good temper." Du Zhonghai held his teacup and walked out slowly, completely unaware that he passed by with the two goblins.

Because they were ridiculed by humans, and they were also seen by Liu Mao to trouble Shen Changan, Kong Yang and Kong Yue, who loved face and were afraid of punishment from their elders, didn't say anything after returning, and hid in the room and sulked.

But before they could get angry for too long, a demon from the clan came to invite them, saying that it was the oldest big demon of the tree clan, and the mulberry tree demon wanted to talk to them.

The two demons were at a loss, what did the mulberry demon want them to do

They rushed to the hall and saw the elders of the Peacock tribe sitting upright, and the mulberry tree demon sitting in the honored guest seat with a gloomy expression. Seeing this scene, Kong Yang and Kong Yue were a little scared, so they walked up to the elders and gave a big gift.

"It's the two of you who bullied my clan's juniors?" The mulberry tree demon hung out of the corner of his eyes and turned to look at the elder Peacock, "Old Kong, what do you mean by the bird clan? Do you think we have few tree clan demons, so you can bully them casually? ?"

"Two evil obstacles, why don't you apologize to the elder tree?!" Elder Peacock couldn't help but hold his forehead, because it is not easy for plant-based demon repairs to take shape, so plant-based demon repairs are especially short. They not only protect shortness, but also don't want to Face. A thousand years ago, there was something in the Shui clan who had no brains. Relying on the large number of people in the Shui clan, they bullied a tree demon who had just transformed into a less than 100 years old. Since that day, the big demons of the tree demon clan went to the Dragon Palace every day to complain. , All kinds of tricks were exhausted, so that the demon cultivator of the water tribe had a psychological shadow when he saw the plant-type demon cultivator.

Thinking of what happened to the Shuizu, the elder Peacock felt dizzy for a while. These two children are still too young to know how annoying the tree demon is.

As long as there are plants in the world, their chatter can be heard. If they are hated by them, don't even think about practicing. First, think about how not to drive yourself crazy.

At this moment, Kong Yue and Kong Yang deeply felt the sense of powerlessness. Kong Yue said aggrieved: "Elder, we have not done anything to the demon of the tree clan. It is obviously that he scolded my brother and me."

"The bullied junior in my family can't even change his form, so how dare he scold the two of you?" Mulberry Demon said with a cold face, "If the bird clan doesn't want to give me an explanation today, I can only go to Lord Dao to judge. "

Elder Peacock's expression stiffened. A few days ago, Kong Ying ran to the adults to make trouble. They were already very afraid that the adults would be dissatisfied. Now the tree clan went to complain, how would the adults think of their bird clan, especially their peacock clan

"Old Sang, we have been friends for thousands of years, how can I trouble the adults with such a trivial matter?" Elder Peacock laughed, "I will let these two ignorant juniors apologize in person, you How do you feel about that?"

"The junior in my family is timid..."

"I just got a bottle of elixir recently, and I also asked them to bring it over to make amends."

"Alas." The anger on the face of the mulberry tree demon dissipated a lot, and he said to Elder Peacock earnestly: "Old Kong, I know that your Peacock family is blessed by nature. Thinking back to how beautiful the Phoenix clan was in those days, now there are only a few of the same clan left, if you blindly coddle these juniors, it will not be love, but harm."

"Haha." Elder Peacock sneered in his heart, and the old man mulberry tree couldn't say a good word.

"Okay, for the sake of our friendship for many years, I don't care too much about such trivial matters." Sangshu Yao stood up and glanced at Kongyue and Kongyang brother and sister, "If this happens again next time. If it happens, I can only help Elder Kong educate the younger generation."

To be able to say that the old bullies the young in such a beautiful and refined way, apart from the tree demon clan, no demon can do it.

When the arrogant meets the shameless, they will become scum with a negative combat power.

"Dao Year."

Daonian sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, heard Shen Changan's shout, turned his head to look at the door, and the sound of hurried footsteps came in from the outside, and the sound came first before anyone arrived.

A few seconds later, Shen Changan strode in, and the two looked at each other. Without a moment's hesitation, Shen Changan walked directly to Daonian's side and smiled brightly at him: "Daonian, good noon."

This smile was so bright, so bright that it was a bit dazzling, Dao Nian closed his eyes: "wash your hands, eat."

"Okay, wait for me for a while." Shen Changan slipped out of the kitchen, saw Uncle Zhao making sweet and sour fish, washed his hands and asked, "Uncle Zhao, do you need my help?"

"No, it's already done." Uncle Zhao took out a plate of cut fruit from the cabinet and put it in Shen Chang'an's hand, "Eat the fruit first, and I'll let someone bring the dish to the table."

"Thank you." Shen Changan went out holding the fruit, walked to Daonian and sat down, "Eat some fruit to fill your stomach."

Daonian glanced at the things on the plate. They were all good things for human beings. It seemed that Lao Zhao specially prepared them for Shen Changan.

After dinner, Daonian remembered that Shen Changan had to go to work, so he asked Liu Mao to send him there.

"It's still an hour before going to work, don't worry." Shen Changan pushed Dao Nian into the flower room outside, felt a little embarrassed in his pocket, and took out a keychain.

"You gave me the keys to the gate and house, I have nothing to give you, this is the key to my house." Put the key in Daonian's palm, "I have no relatives since I was very young, so the key to the house is the key to my house. There are several, but no one else uses them except me."

"This..." Shen Changan blushed, "Although my home is very small, with this key, you won't have to knock on the door when you come to my home in the future."

"This is your key?" Daonian finally understood what this key represented. He looked at Shen Changan with a complicated expression, slowly closed his palms, and the emotions in his eyes returned to calm, "I accept your wishes."

Shen Changan breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that the annual meeting would reject the key, but he did not regret this move.

"Accept your key, I will be responsible for you." Daonian reached out and touched the top of Shen Changan's head, "There are too many fish at home, we can't finish it, so come over at night?"

Shen Changan scratched the top of his head, and the place touched by Dao Nian was a little itchy: "Then... I'll come directly at night?"

"Well." Daonian put the key in the pocket close to his chest and closed his eyes lazily: "Go to work, I want to rest for a while."

"Okay, then I'll go to work." Shen Changan pulled up the blanket on Daonian's knees and left the flower room briskly.

After a long time, Daonian opened his eyes and looked at the twin brothers who were guarding outside the flower room: "Shen Tu."

"Sir?" Shen Tu walked into the flower room and looked at Dao Nian respectfully.

"I took his keys."

"Sir?!" Shen Tu looked at Daonian in shock, "You, what did you say?"

Daonian glanced at him and said nothing. He just gave Changan a key to his temporary residence, but Changan returned him a key to his house.

"But Mr. Shen is only a human being. Human life spans are short, and birth, old age, illness, and death are inevitable. You..." Shen Tu saw Daonian unmoved, and bowed his hands, "As long as you are happy."

The key is a very private thing. If the gods and demons hand over the keys to the mansion to another person, it means to invite the other party to double cultivation. But Mr. is different from ordinary gods and demon cultivators. He has represented supremacy since he was born. He has no feelings, no bias, and naturally he does not dare to give him keys.

But today there was a human who gave the key to the house to the adult, and he accepted it.

At this moment, Shen Tu even thought about it, maybe Shen Changan didn't even know what the key he gave out represented.

But whether he knew it or not, the moment Mr. took the key, the question didn't matter.

"Sir." Liu Mao walked in hastily, "The patriarch of the Bird Clan and the Beast Clan brought the younger generation to visit."

"Why are you here again?" Daonian lay down on the wheelchair, closing his eyes and pretending that he didn't hear anything.

"The elders of the two clans saw that Mr. had been in the human world for a long time, and worried that you would be inconvenient in the human world, so they sent a few juniors who have been in the human world since childhood to help." Liu Mao said, "If you don't see me, I will let them go back. "

"What can they do?" Daonian opened his eyes, "Call me to see."

After a while, the elders of the two clans came in, followed by two men and two women, both of whom had lovable looks, and when they laughed, they were the type that the old human beings liked.

Daonian raised his finger and motioned for Liu Mao to ask questions.

"I don't know what the juniors of the two fellow Taoists are good at?"

Good at what

The two elders were a bit at a loss. They were looking for a junior in the clan according to the human standard favored by the adults. They said that they came to serve the adults, but they were just looking for an opportunity to approach, but I never thought that the adults would really take this. Several juniors are called as servants.

"Sir, the younger generation is the best at planting." A cute rabbit demon in a white dress said, and she smiled, revealing beautiful dimples, and she couldn't pick out the slightest flaw on her face.

"I didn't accept disciples, so you can't call yourself a junior in front of me." Daonian asked blankly, "How does it compare with the descendants of Ji's family?"

"The little demon's cultivation base is still shallow, how dare you compare it with the descendants of Shennong." The rabbit demon blushed and dared not look up at Daonian.

Daonian waved his hand.

Liu Mao began to ask the fox demon standing beside the rabbit demon: "What about you, what do you know?"

Fox Demon: "..." He is a fox spirit, what else can he be best at, of course, bewildering people. But in front of Daonian, he didn't dare to tell the truth, and racked his brains to say: "Little Yao is good at soothing the mind and meditation. If the adults are willing to keep the little monster, the little monster is willing to sing misunderstandings for the adults."

Daonian wanted to wave him back, but suddenly remembered that Shen Changan would sometimes lose sleep, so he nodded to Liu Mao: "Let him sing to Changan at night."

Fox Demon: "..."

He came to seduce adults, not to be slaves and maids for adults.

"You don't want to?" Daonian saw that the fox demon didn't speak, "Then then..."

"The luck of the little demon." The fox demon gritted his teeth and responded. In this world, there are only shovels that don't work hard, and there is no corner that can't be pryed.

The elder of the bird clan saw that there was a junior in the beast clan left behind, so he was a little anxious: "Sir, in terms of singing, who can compare to our bird clan, this is the lark bird demon of our clan, he can sing the best in the world. pleasant music."

What is the purpose of singing the most beautiful music, to attract Chang'an's attention under his nose

Now that he has received the key to Chang'an, he doesn't plan to let other demons or people attack Chang'an. Daonian lowered his eyelids and didn't speak, with a gesture of "I'm already very tired, I have something to say as soon as possible".

Bird clan elder: "This is the parrot demon of our clan. It is the best at making people happy and can relieve your boredom."

Dao Nian thought that Chang'an always worked overtime. I heard that some people committed suicide by jumping off the building because of work pressure. It would be good to leave a parrot to relieve boredom. He stretched out his hand a little, and the parrot demon instantly turned into its original form, nodding with satisfaction: "That's it."

How can you confuse the Lord by becoming the original form

The eyes of the elders of the bird clan were darkened. I didn’t expect that the calamity and water sent by humans were so powerful that the adults could only focus on him.

The little demon who turned into a parrot flapped her wings, and cowardly retracted her head under the wings. Her ideal was to blend in with the crowd, to be a cross talk actor, and to charm Mingjun. Such a difficult operation is not suitable for her. It was only because the order of the elders of the clan was difficult to disobey, so she rushed the parrot to come here.

I don't know what the elders in the clan thought, but they even wanted to use the beauty trick against the ruthless adults. He didn't even think about it. The adults saw that all things were born, and when he watched the spring and autumn come, what difference could there be in his eyes

However, the elders seemed to be dizzy. They said that what humans can do, they can do even better. The human race has flourished for so many years, and the spacecraft created by its own ability can go to the moon. What can't it do

The great road is fifty, the sky is four and nine, and people are one of them. The luck of the human race is when it is prosperous, and even adults can't fully control the vitality of human beings. Their monster luck is the same as that of the stepmother. What are they going to compare and fight with humans

Alas, born as a demon, the most fearful thing is that it is difficult to calm down.

Thinking of going to Daonian's house to eat delicious food in the evening, Shen Changan's work enthusiasm was very high for the whole afternoon, and he couldn't wait to leave when he got off work.

"Everyone, wait." Du Zhonghai stopped Shen Changan, who was about to slip out, "Tomorrow our Yuelao Temple will hold a temple fair, and the traffic will be very large. You four young people will work hard tomorrow and go to the scene to maintain order. ."

After speaking, Du Zhonghai glanced at Shen Changan and others: "It just so happens that the four of you haven't found a partner. Find a spare time tomorrow to say goodbye, maybe you will find a partner."

"Director, we are the civil service department, so we can't be superstitious." Chen Panpan said, "It used to be that the Yuelao Temple Fair was held in December, so why is it so early this year?"

"Maybe it's because the Double Eleven is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many elders are looking forward to their children to be eloquent and let their children get rid of the single before Double Eleven?" Du Zhonghai held a teacup and said with a smile, "It's better to be early, I really have to wait until In December, wouldn't it be colder for you to go on patrol?"

"Don't worry, Director Du, I will be there on time tomorrow." Shen Changan dropped this sentence, turned around and ran downstairs.

It is rare to see Shen Changan so active after get off work, Du Zhonghai waved to the others, "Get off work, get off work harder tomorrow, get up early."

On the road, he met an old man who was pushing a car to sell fried chestnuts. Shen Changan bought a pack and drove back to the community where Daonian lived while covering a cigarette with his coat.

"Dao Nian." Shen Changan strode into the door, put the jacket in his arms into Dao Nian's hand, "Quickly, eat while it's hot."

Spreading out his coat and looking at the chestnuts in the paper bag, Daonian raised his hand in front of Shen Changan: "My hand hurts."

"Why is the thumb still red?" Shen Changan took Dao Nian's hand and looked at it carefully. There was no wound on it, and no spikes were poking into the flesh. Why hasn't it healed after so many days

Peeled a fried chestnut and put it in Daonian's mouth: "Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold."

In the corner, the fox demon, who was bending over and mopping the floor, thought bitterly, a treacherous human being to use this method to please adults, it's just fried chestnuts, what's so rare

"Hey?" Shen Changan noticed that there was a bird stand in the corner, and a parrot stood on the stand. It had tufts of red hair on its chest and looked very beautiful, "Why are there more parrots in the house?"

"It was given by others, if you like it, keep it, and if you don't like it, send it back." Daonian pointed at the chestnuts and motioned Shen Changan to continue peeling.

Shen Changan didn't notice his movements, got up and walked in front of the parrot, and asked Liu Mao, who was standing not far away, "Does this parrot have a name?"

Liu Mao smiled and said, "Mr. Shen, get one for it."

"Feiying, Feiying." The parrot flapped his wings and took the initiative to say his name.

"So you can talk." Shen Changan had heard about parrots speaking human words since he was a child, but he had never seen a parrot alive and able to speak, and when he finally saw it, he felt novel, "The name is very nice. "

"Thank you for the compliment." The parrot flexed one wing, as if curtseying.

"Dao Nian, this parrot is so smart." Shen Changan took some bird food from Liu Mao and put it in the parrot's trough.

"Thank you, thank you." The parrot jumped a few times on the bird stand, performed a "dance", and then began to bow his head to eat the food fed by Chang'an.

The fox demon who mopped the floor sneered, as expected of a bird clan with hair and no brains, to be so humble in front of a human being, it really lost the face of the demon clan.

Uncle Zhao called out from the kitchen, "Hu Ming, come in and wash the dishes."

Fox Demon: "..."

As the face of the younger generation of the fox clan, why did he degrade to the point of washing dishes and mopping the floor

"It's noon on the day of hoeing, lamb and pig."

"It's sweat dripping down the soil." Shen Changan was amused by this silly and cute parrot, and he turned around and said to Daonian, who raised his eyebrows, "Daonian, this parrot is too fun."

"It's fun to eat." Dao Nian looked at the empty bowl in front of him. Humans really don't cherish it when they get it. Just after receiving the key sent by Shen Changan, his status is not comparable to that of a parrot.

Seeing Daonian's drooping eyelids and an unhappy look, Shen Changan quickly picked fish bones for him: "I have never seen a talking parrot before, don't be angry with me, come and eat fish."

Dao Nian still doesn't speak, human beings just like to push their feet, and it's useless to act like a spoiled child.

"Do you want shrimp?" Shen Changan winked at him, "I'll peel it for you."

"Yes." Forget it, he is young and playful, so let him be.

After eating, Shen Changan didn't want Daonian to continue to be unhappy, so he didn't go to play with the parrot, and watched TV with him for a while, remembering that he would get up early tomorrow, so he had to lie in bed early.

He thought that he would not be able to fall asleep lying in bed so early, but a beautiful song came from somewhere, and in this kind of singing, he fell asleep unconsciously.

Hu Ming was lying on the grass outside. He was so tired that he became the real thing. He stayed here for a long time, mopping the floor, washing the vegetables, washing the dishes, and even coaxing people to sleep. Without looking at him, this is simply a shame to be a vixen.

The next morning, Shen Changan was too sleepy to open his eyes, so Liu Mao drove him to the outside of Yuelao Temple. Wrapping his jacket tightly, he stepped out of the car in a daze. Hearing someone calling him, he was about to respond when Liu Mao tapped him on the shoulder, "Mr. Shen, I'll come pick you up at night."

"Oh, okay." Shen Changan nodded, "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Liu."

Since last night, his address to Liu Mao has changed from polite Mr. Liu to Brother Liu.

He turned his head and looked around, except for some merchants who had already started to prepare their stalls, no one seemed to call him. After a while, Ding Yang and the others rushed over. Seeing that Shen Changan had arrived so early, he sighed: "Changan, it's getting colder these two days, how did you get up in the morning?"

"I put on my clothes and was sent here." Shen Changan yawned, "It's still not dawn, so no one should come to join in the fun, right?"

"Young people still have too little knowledge." Ding Yang pointed to the Yuelao Temple in front, "Let's go, I'll show you."

The four of them came to the Yuelao Temple, only to find that there were already a lot of people inside. The uncles and aunts held incense candles in their hands, knelt and worshipped the Yuelao statue, and the whole temple was shrouded in mist.

"These are all for the sake of marriage for their children." Ding Yang was choked by the smell of incense candles and coughed. "They felt that the earlier they came to burn incense, the easier their wishes would come true. Some people came to offer incense after the early morning last night."

Chen Panpan walked into the door: "I'm going to say goodbye too, do you want to come?"

She did not buy incense candles, but stood outside the hall and bowed a few times to the statue of Yue Lao.

"Panpan, do you still believe this?" Ding Yang dragged Shen Changan and Xu Ze in, "Come on, let's say goodbye together."

"Believe it or not, there's nothing wrong with worshipping the gods." Chen Panpan stepped aside and gave the three of them his place. "Today is a temple fair, and we call it a life close to the masses."

Shen Changan stood still and looked up at the slightly smiling Moon Old God statue. He didn't know if it was because he woke up too early and didn't sleep well enough. He felt inexplicably that the smile on the statue's face suddenly became a little more fearful and flustered.

As if... as if afraid that he would bow down.

The author has something to say: Moon Laoxiang: Someone who has an object comes to me for marriage, that is called cheating.

Note: "The Great Dao is fifty, the sky is four and nine, and the human is one of them" is from the "Book of Changes", not the author's original.