Chapter 284 A Gift for You
On the contrary, Taoist Yuanyi was not surprised at all. He casually lifted the spider web on the incense burner with his hand, picked up the dusty incense on the table, lit it on the candle, and inserted it into the incense burner.
He didn't say a word during the whole process.
After he bowed, he straightened up and said:
"It occurred to me in the evening that I had seen the magnetic field in you when I was a child, right here."
"..." Ye Xiaomei's mind went blank, and she suddenly came to her senses. She frowned and looked up at the eight-foot-tall statue, speechless for a moment.
Taoist Yuan Yi stared at Ye Xiaomei as if he was unwilling to give up:
"You have no feelings about this statue?"
Ye Xiaomei shook her head.
Taoist Yuanyi picked up the half-weathered cushion, flicked it a few times and blew on it, then threw it on the ground and sat down:
"Originally, this Taoist temple was called Zizhu Taoist Temple because there was a magnetic white snake practicing here. More than a hundred years ago, the country of Ba invaded, and my master went down the mountain to resist the invasion. He asked me to stay and look after the house. If he is not dead, he will come back. If he does not come back, then he is dead.
Later, during the "Four Olds" movement, the Taoist temple was burned down. The master said that this place must be preserved because it was our root, so it was locked up. Later, it was discovered and the statues were smashed. In a flash, sixty or seventy years had passed."
Ye Xiaomei frowned when she heard this: "What do you mean by bringing me here to see these?"
"I see the same magnetic field in you as in this statue."
Taoist Yuan Yi looked at Ye Xiaomei seriously.
In this place where there was only candlelight and a little moonlight coming in from the window, Ye Xiaomei suddenly felt that his face had become a little more strange.
"This... how is it possible?" Ye Xiaomei was frightened, especially when the candlelight cast a three-dimensional shadow on his serious face from the side and forward, and it swayed with the flickering of the candlelight.
Thinking to herself, this can't be such a coincidence, Ye Xiaomei recalled the strange changes that had happened to her body. Could it be that they were really related? But it always felt eerie here.
"What are you afraid of?" Taoist Yuanyi couldn't help but frown and stood up:
"Take a closer look."
Ye Xiaomei took a closer look subconsciously, and it was still the same as before.
"What are you looking at?"
When Ye Xiaomei said this, disappointment flashed across Master Yuanyi's eyes. He looked up at the statue of a man with a snake's tail, sighed, and murmured:
"Am I wrong?"
Ye Xiaomei stood aside and didn't dare to say a word, but she felt uneasy in her heart. If she wanted to know if there was any special relationship, she would have to look through the ancient books carefully after going down the mountain.
"Maybe you're not the one I'm looking for."
"Okay!" Ye Xiaomei, who was about to run away, agreed very straightforwardly and ran out. As soon as she walked out the door, she was dumbfounded.
At this moment, the clouds obscured the moon, and the road down the mountain was already covered with dry grass, so that it was almost invisible. Now, it was even darker.
Ye Xiaomei swallowed hard and had no choice but to wait for Master Yuanyi at the door to accompany her.
From inside came the mumbling of Master Yuanyi:
"Master, where is the person you asked me to wait for? I have tried my best to maintain my yang life, but I can't let go of this matter. I dare not try to survive and ascend to heaven in broad daylight."
“……” Ascending into the sky in broad daylight, Ye Xiaomei was so frightened that she dared not breathe. Is she really going to become a god?
"Master, please enlighten me, my disciple."
Ye Xiaomei hugged her knees and sat down on the grass-covered steps at the door. She knew he would definitely come down the mountain when he was done, so she just had to wait.
Anyway, sitting on the top of this mountain and looking down, you can still see the lights in the Taoist temple and the lights of the people's homes nestled in the mountains in the distance.
If you stand up, you can see farther. The road is full of street lights. It must be the highway we took when we came here.
A squeak.
The door was closed, and Ye Xiaomei withdrew her gaze and looked back.
The old man went down the stairs silently. Ye Xiaomei would be a fool if she didn't follow him. There was someone in front of her wading through the grass that covered the stairs, so she had to follow him closely.
"Girl, although I recognized the wrong person, I want to ask you, have you ever seen someone with a white snake-shaped birthmark?"
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat. Although she also had a spot on her chest, it was not obvious. If you were to say who had a really obvious spot, there might be someone else.
"Yes, Master Yuanyi, please slow down. I can't keep up. I have actually seen that person before. He is Tang Buci from the Tang Family Residence in Chaocheng."
Ye Xiaomei just followed him. She said this out of sympathy. If the old man went to investigate Tang Bushi, she would also be able to find out some uncertain information.
As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Yi's long steps came to an abrupt stop.
Unexpectedly, Ye Xiaomei bumped into Taoist Yuan Yi's back without warning.
The stairs going down the mountain were already very steep.
All I could hear were screams echoing in the valley.
The sky was slightly brighter when Ye Xiaomei limped into the breakfast cafeteria with a big lump on her head.
"Let's go home after eating. We still have to go to school." Ye Xiaomei looked at Mrs. Xue and said.
Mrs. Xue was in good spirits today. She smiled and said, "I'll ask the driver to take you back. I've made up my mind. I'll stay here with my daughter."
“…”
“…”
Ye Xiaomei and Shang Zhen looked at each other.
The young Taoist priests were suddenly silent and looked over.
At this moment, Taoist Yuanyi walked over with his hands behind his back and his head held high.
Shang Zhen looked at Ye Xiaomei and then at Taoist Yuan Yi: "Did you... fight?"
"Ahem!" Taoist Yuanyi lifted up his dirty gown and sat down. He pulled out the bloody cloth that was stuffed into his nose and said arrogantly:
"Go and boil some eggs. I researched a new way to improve my luck yesterday, and I accidentally lost my meridians. I need to energize my blood." As he spoke, Taoist Yuanyi picked up the steamed bun and took a bite, then slowly picked up a piece of pickled radish with his chopsticks.
"Okay, Grandmaster."
Ye Xiaomei sighed: "Master, are you okay?" The fall was quite heavy, and he rolled down a long flight of stairs. In the end, Ye Xiaomei used him as a back cushion, otherwise she would have had more than just a bump on her head.
Unfortunately, the old man was very concerned about his reputation. The first thing he did after getting up was not to care about his own injuries, but to ask Ye Xiaomei to keep it a secret for him.
Faced with Shang Zhen's questioning, Ye Xiaomei did not dare to tell the truth and only said that she fell while taking a shower last night.
On her way back, Mrs. Xue tried hard not to shed tears.
Taoist Priest Yuanyi said that accepting Nannan was already an exception. There were only a few people in the Taoist temple, and it would be inconvenient for the elder masters to take care of them.
At the foot of the mountain, the driver was waiting in a farmyard. After the group got on the highway, Mrs. Xue spoke:
"Do you know how the old immortal treats diseases?"
Ye Xiaomei did not hide it either: "Although he did not explain it in detail, the general idea is to use the internal Taoist exercises to regulate the five elements of the body first, and then learn the mental method after the physical condition improves. But Mrs. Xue, you don't have to worry too much. The old man is over 130 years old, and his hair has turned black. This shows that the person recommended by Teacher Xie is very reliable."
Mrs. Xue nodded and took a deep breath. Perhaps she felt that there was suddenly no one around her, and she felt lost.
"I'll give you a big gift when we get back, as a token of my gratitude for your concern for our daughter's illness."
"..." Ye Xiaomei was stunned. What a great gift?
Shang Zhen's pupils shrank. Seeing this silly girl standing there in a daze, he quickly poked Ye Xiaomei with his elbow and whispered in her ear:
"You haven't received it yet. She is Xue Wenhao's principal wife. If it is a big gift, it must be something great."
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