Chapter 49: Guarding the Mountain

It was bright day. When Shi Zelan woke up, she looked around. She was a little confused at first, but then she became fully awake.

In the main hall, Master Feng Yuan looked at Master Fang Cheng and the other two and said, "Sister Lan has woken up. After I see her, I can go into seclusion with peace of mind."

Shi Zelan entered the hall and happened to hear what Master Feng Yuan said. She walked over and saluted Master Feng Yuan: "Lan'er is unfilial and made Master worry and tired."

Feng Yuan Zhenjun reached out and stroked her head: "If you are well, that is the greatest filial piety to me."

Master Fang Cheng and his two brothers, along with Shi Zelan, stood at the gate of Zizai Peak, looking at the empty sky.

Master Fang Cheng sighed and said to his two fellow apprentices, "I informed the headmaster yesterday and will open the formation at the waterfall in a while."

Shanzheng Zhenren said, "I will take Lan Jie'er down the mountain."

Master Pingyang looked at Shi Zelan, who still had a confused look on her face, and said, "Sister Lan, if you get lost from your master after we get down the mountain, remember to go to the various locations in our sect to ask for help."

Shi Zelan nodded: "I'll remember that, Junior Master."

After looking at Shi Zelan for a while, Master Fang Cheng smiled and said, "Sister Lan, your grandmaster and uncles are waiting for you and your master to return safely at the sect."

The farewell atmosphere made Master Shanzheng directly pick up Shi Zelan and take a flying boat to the medicine pavilion.

At the entrance of the medicine pavilion, Master Decheng and Shi Xiaoliu both breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Master Shanzheng and his disciple. Master Decheng directly carried Shi Xiaoliu onto the flying boat.

"Shanzheng, after we leave the sect, we need to rearrange our identities."

Shanzheng Zhenren glanced at him and said, "You are the elder brother, I am the younger brother, Xiaoliu is the eldest nephew, and Lan Jie'er is your younger niece. That's our relationship."

"Alright. We can't have one of us dress up as a woman just for the sake of the two little ones."

"Brother Decheng, you are the elder, if you want to dress up, you should dress up as a woman."

"Since I am your elder brother, you naturally cannot call me by my name when you are outside.

But Shanzheng, you have to change your name so that people don't notice the four of us. ”

Master Decheng glanced at Master Shanzheng and decided to give him the right to decide the name.

Shanzheng Zhenren glanced at him and said: "You are Dacheng, so I will be Youshan. Xiaoliu's name is okay, but Lan Jie'er needs to change her name.

Sister Lan, what do you want to be called? ”

"Uncle, Master, what are our last names?"

Decheng Juren and Shanzheng Zhenren saw each other and said: "Shi, we are herbalists from the mountains."

Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan looked at each other, and Shi Zelan smiled and said, "Then I am the girl of the Shi family."

“Okay, in the secular world, many women only have surnames but no given names.

Niu'er is a good name. From now on, we must remember our last name and given name. ”

When they were almost at the foot of the mountain, the four of them got off the flying boat. Master Decheng waved his hand and changed into a coarse cloth short shirt.

He waved his hand towards Shi Xiaoshou. Shi Xiaoliu looked down at the coarse cloth clothes on her body and laughed: "My mother once made me clothes like this."

Master Shanzheng had already changed into a blue coarse cloth shirt, but he was reluctant to let Shi Zelan down like this, so he changed her into a pink pleated skirt.

Shi Zelan raised his hand and said to Master Shanzheng, "Father, Niu'er wants to wear the same clothes as you."

Master Decheng reached out and tapped Shi Zelan. She looked down at her coarse clothes and smiled, "We are a family now."

The mountain road was very narrow, only suitable for one person to walk on. Standing on the mountain, they could already see the smoke rising from the village below.

Master Decheng and his group walked down the mountain on foot.

At 3 p.m., they came down the mountain and met the people who had come up the mountain. They were surprised and asked them, “Where are you from?”

Master Decheng pointed behind him and said with a simple and honest look on his face: "On the mountain, we haven't come down for many years.

The two children didn’t know that people could live at the foot of the mountain, so my brothers and I took them down the mountain to broaden their horizons. ”

Taoist Master Shanzheng was carrying a bamboo basket on his back and holding a large bundle in his hands. He stood behind Taoist Master Decheng. Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan did not even raise their heads.

After seeing this, the villagers looked at Master Decheng with sympathy and said, "Brother, you must take good care of your brother and two children at the foot of the mountain."

"We'll just take a look at the foot of the mountain and will be back up soon. It's getting cold, and it snows early on our mountain."

"Brother, you are lucky to have met me today. It is getting late now. You can stay at my house for one night."

Master Decheng looked at Shanzheng's expression and said with a smile, "Brother, when we go down the mountain, the elders told us that we can stay at the temple."

"Temple, let me think about it. After you go down the mountain and walk a few miles to the left, you will see Shoushan Temple.

Shoushan Temple is now unattended as the original monks have gone travelling around.

You can pick up some firewood from the mountain and burn it at night to scare away the wolves. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you, big brother. I'll follow you a few steps and pick up some branches from behind."

The enthusiastic villager was in a hurry to go home. After telling Master Decheng his village and his name, he quickly walked down the mountain carrying a load of firewood.

Master Decheng exhaled: "Big brother is too talkative, it seems like he knows everything."

Shanzheng Zhenren looked at him and said, "Brother, you are quite responsive."

Master Decheng said with a certain amount of satisfaction: "How did I perform just now?"

"No, he doesn't look like someone who has lived in the mountains for a long time. Instead, he looks like a mountain dweller who often walks down the mountain."

"Alas, what a mistake. It turns out that I didn't go down the mountain often, so there are loopholes everywhere.

The older brother must have noticed something was wrong, and he almost slipped when he was going down the mountain. ”

"Uncle, doesn't he know that our Yun Yan Sect is on the mountain?"

“Ordinary people don’t know that there is the Yun Yan Sect on the mountain.

And after we go down the mountain, we will not mention our origins to people in the secular world.

Girl, there is a difference between immortals and mortals. ”

Shi Zelan thought of Shi Family Manor. She said to Shi Xiaoliu, "When I was in the manor, it seemed that everyone in our Shi family knew about Yun Yanzong."

“Everyone in Shi Family Village knows Yun Yanzong.

The younger generation of the Shi family in other places probably don’t know the relationship between Yun Yanzong and the Shi family. ”

The four of them had already walked down the mountain. Shi Xiaoliu and Shi Zelan followed behind Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng with obedient and timid looks on their faces.

They passed by villages where children were crying out to return home and saw wary looks on women's faces.

Instead of stopping, they kept walking to the left until they saw the Shuzan Temple which had only three walls.

"This temple is in ruins. When I came here before, the walls had just been built and there were three or four monks guarding the temple."

"Brother, that was decades ago, right?"