Chapter 39: See and hear on the way

Large flowers of snowflakes fell on the roads, trees, rivers, and fields, and the wind blew away, and a dense cloud of ice pounced on people's faces, making pedestrians unable to see the situation more than ten meters away.
Fortunately, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, most of the people who have been busy for a year are nestled in warm and warm homes, happily preparing all kinds of things needed for the New Year, so few people are still on the road at this time. Walking, there is a thick layer of snow on the road. If in November, when there are many people going from north to south, the snow would have been trampled on, leaving only a muddy road.
An exquisite carriage stopped in the middle of the road. One of the wheels was skewed because it was stuck in the snow. The coachman in decent cotton-clothes was there to whip the horse, but he still couldn't pull the carriage, cursing in a low voice: "So The big snow has to go out, the master doesn't know what to think, I think 80% of this is a quack doctor."
I tried to push the body of the cart again, and found that I couldn't push it by myself, and I wanted to call the guests in the cart to come down, and I was afraid of offending this one. If I said so much in front of the master, my would not bloom. Wait, a passerby walked out in the wind and snow in the rear, with a medium and slightly tall figure, with white snow on his body and hair.
The coachman immediately greeted him: "This good-hearted man who is passing by, please do me a favor." Learning the gentle language of the master's servant, it was a bit nondescript.
The passerby stopped when he heard the words. Only then did the coachman discover that he was a young offspring wearing a Taoist gown, holding a long black flag in his hand. Although his appearance was only mediocre, there was something the master often said, what is it? , Grace!
Shi Xuan has been walking north from Tongxuan Mountain for several days. The first two days were okay. He passed through the city without encountering any obstacles. Unexpectedly, after passing Caihe, it started to snow for several days and the road changed. It's very difficult to walk, but Shi Xuan doesn't have to rush for time, and he likes snow very much, so walking in the heavy snow every day can be considered a special interest.
Regarding the coachman's words, Shi Xuan only glanced at it and said with a smile: "If you call the person in the car down, you can drive it by yourself, and you need help from the poor."
The coachman smirked, and lowered his voice: "How dare I, the car is a distinguished guest of the old man of my family, and the young master will help me. Later in Kaiyang City, I Li San Li Ji still has some famous people. I."
"Haha, okay, if Pindao goes to Fengcheng, I will be appointed to look for you." Shi Xuan was a little funny when he saw the coachman, but he would help if it went smoothly.
"Oh, Lord Xiaodao, don't believe me." Li Jiwang looked at the carriage behind him, and said in a low voice: "My master has been transferred from Liangzhou to the governor of Fengzhou. Yamen is in Kaiyang City. I Li Er I can still say something in front of the master."
Shi Xuan didn't pay attention to this, smiled and didn't speak, and walked to the carriage with the coachman. The distinguished guest in the carriage didn't know what he was doing, and there was no movement anyway.
He stretched out his hand and tried it, and with a violent force, the horse wheel rose in from the depression, and then the whole carriage moved a few feet to the side, and then stopped steadily.
After doing this, Shi Xuan was satisfied with his current strength, and the effect of body forging and internal Qi was indeed good. He gestured to the coachman, and then went forward.
The coachman's mouth opened slightly, unable to close it, until Shi Xuan's back disappeared in the wind and snow, he felt that his mouth was full of coldness. He turned back to the side and kept babbling, then rubbing his eyes: "Mother Yes, this little Taoist priest doesn't seem to have much meat. This strength is so great that it is not a strange thing, bah bah bah! Don't scare yourself!"
He hurried back to the carriage, raised his whip, and continued the journey in the snow.
Shi Xuan walked until dusk, only to see a small town. The street facing the entrance of the town was full of children frolicking outside, running around in twos and threes.
The children saw Shi Xuan shaking off the white snow at the entrance of the street. It might be because of heavy snow that blocked the road. They hadn't seen any outsiders for several days, so they immediately gathered around, watching around with joking, some pointing at Shi Xuan. If Shi Xuan looked back, he would immediately hide on both sides. As soon as he glanced at it, he immediately surrounded him.
Seeing these happy children, Shi Xuan's mood was also infected. He wanted to go up and amuse the little ghosts. Firecrackers sounded on the other end of the street. The children became excited when they heard it: "Let's watch the firecrackers!"
"Don't grab firecrackers from me!"
"Brother...Brother, wait for Xiaoya."
Then rushed over. Shi Xuan smiled and shook his head, and asked some aunts who were chatting on the side of the road: "Miss, where is the inn in the town?"
Several aunts have been paying attention to Shixuan a long time ago. After all, they are the first foreigner to enter the town today. One of them, a round-faced, big-eyed and very kind aunt, pointed to the end of the street: "No, you can see when you reach the end of the street. Arrived."
Shi Xuan expressed his gratitude. As soon as he was about to leave, he was stopped by the round-faced aunt, who was somewhat mysterious: "Lady, my auntie sees that you are still driving outside in such a heavy snow. There must be something urgent. My auntie told you, go to the street Worship at the Chixia God Temple in Xitou will surely come true."
Shi Xuan thought about this, and said to the aunt: "Auntie, look at me, this flag, I am an authentic Taoist priest, this Chixia God Temple is not our Taoist temple, right?"
The aunts’ faces were a bit ugly, and another savvy aunt said first: "Oh, little Taoist priests, you Taoists are useless, I went to the Taoist temple for several years, and my wife didn’t have a child. Come out, this Chixia God Temple was only repaired a few months ago. I only worshipped for a few days, and my wife was pregnant. Little Taoist priest, don’t be a Taoist priest. It’s great to believe in Chixia God.

"Yes, yes."
"You Taoists who believe in crooked ways and evil ways will go to after death! Only after you believe in Chixia, you can go to heaven to enjoy!"
The aunts babbled, Shi Xuan was not interested in these beliefs, and walked to the end of the street deafly.
"This little Taoist priest will go to after death and be fried by Chixia God!"
"I think he must have done too many bad things!"
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Shi Xuan suddenly remembered that he had heard of this Chixia God in Xia'an City before, and he heard it from the gossip of the neighborhood. Can't he expect that this God has so many followers now? There are temples in such small towns. This is said to be very clever in asking for a child. Could it be that Guanyin, the child-sending man in this world, is not successful.
When they reached the end of the street, the children gathered in front of a large family house and watched the family members set off firecrackers there. When they heard the sound of firecrackers, a group of children rushed up, trying to pick up the firecrackers to play, but Stopped by the ferocious family members, a strange man dressed in red clothes that looked like a robe and dress walked out of the door, and he let out a long shout: "Please God~!"
Then there stood a team of ten men in the same clothes as him, but in light red, just behind the leading man in red holding a wooden sign, and walked into the door.
Shi Xuan didn't see why, so he bypassed the crowd and walked to the inn on the other corner. When passing by the crowd, I heard the children complaining: "Really, just picking up firecrackers will not work."
"These people in red clothes are so fierce. They come to my house to get money. My father said that he won't eat meat during the New Year, and he must donate the money to some temple!" I cried, "I want to eat meat."
"My family also gave a lot of things!"
"My home is too, my home is too!"
"Hey, kids, don't talk nonsense." A middle-aged man onlookers heard these words and taught them, "This is to show his sincerity to the gods. The gods will bless your harvest in the coming year. Only after death It will go to heaven! You dare to talk nonsense, and you will go to in the future! Being eaten by evil spirits will eat your hands and feet..."
The children were a little scared when they heard it. Qi Qi made a face and went home.
"Don't look at these mischievous kids. Didn't this big family not believe in the gods before? It's all right now. There are several illnesses in the family. Hey, I don't know how much money was spent to invite the gods in." The young man showed off to the people around him.
"Yes, yes." Everyone nodded in unison.
Shi Xuan became curious when he heard it. Luck Wang Qishu looked at Zhang Mansion, and saw a white column of air mixed with a little black, and then a red column of air rose in the mansion. The surface was solemn and holy, but there were some black spots inside. , At the same time, the entire Qi Pillar gave Shi Xuan the feeling of extreme and stubbornness, but the essence was not strong, at least not as good as Shi Xuan himself. After being charged by the red air column, the black in the white air column disappeared completely.
Judging from the results of Wang Qi, the Chixia God Lord did have some cultivation skills, but he didn't know what the black spots inside were. After all, a "god", with such a situation, Shi Xuan had no experience and no knowledge, so he couldn't judge.
Seeing that it was not an evil god, Shi Xuan turned and walked into the inn.
On the New Year's Day, in addition to the owner's family, even Xiao Er went home for the New Year in the inn, but this is fine, clean and peaceful, and convenient for Shi Xuan's practice.
There was no words for a night, Shi Xuan woke up early in the morning, and the fluttering snow for several days finally stopped, and the warm sunshine shone on him.
Shi Xuan didn’t plan to stay in this small town for long. He prepared to check out and leave after breakfast. At this moment, he heard cries from outside the inn, and after looking for it, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a white-washed cotton coat. The young man, holding a big package in his hand, was struggling hard there. His left leg was held by a woman in his thirties who was equally plainly dressed, and he dragged him forward.
"The child, his father, can't give it all to the gods, we have to live a life, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The woman cried loudly as she hugged. There was a little girl standing next to the woman, crying too much.
"You it, this is the time to show our sincerity! It's not a sign of worshipping at home every day!" The middle-aged man pulled his leg vigorously.
"All of them are offered, we are going to starve our family to death!" "Daddy, Er Niu is hungry, woo."
"It's good to starve to death like this! How sincere! God must let us go to heaven! Then it will be fine!" The middle-aged man's face was full of enthusiasm.