An old man in a green Taoist robe ran out of the inner room and knelt down in front of Lu Qing.
"Master, after six years, I have finally seen you again!"
Lu Qing looked at the old man in front of him; he seemed somewhat familiar, but she couldn't quite place him.
"Who are you……"
“Master, you’ve forgotten, I am Sand Sculpture, and you were the one who gave me this Taoist name!”
Upon hearing this peculiar Taoist name, Lu Qing immediately remembered it.
This person's real name should be Yuan Sha, and he once studied under the Shenxiao Sect.
Later, he traveled all over the world and came to Yutai Mountain and Qingyun Temple. Seeing that Lu Qing was young, he wanted to take advantage of his age, but he was taught a lesson by Lu Qing instead.
He was so impressed by the beating that he begged Lu Qing to become his disciple.
Lu Qing was twelve years old at the time, a time when she was quite arrogant. When someone asked her to be their apprentice, she agreed.
Yuan Sha asked her to bestow a Taoist name upon her. She remembered a senior brother whose Taoist name was Sha Peng, so she changed Peng to Diao, and named him Sha Diao.
Looking back now, it's really hard to say that Taoist name.
"It's you!"
Upon seeing that Lu Qing recognized him, Yuan Sha couldn't help but burst into tears of joy:
"Master, I've finally seen you again! Master!"
Yuan Sha hugged Lu Qing's ankle and wailed, crying so hard that she felt completely overwhelmed.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't cry yet. There's a half-dead patient lying here. If I don't save him, he'll die."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Sha immediately got up:
"Master is going to save someone? May I watch from the sidelines?"
"Anyone else is fine, but him! He's not allowed here!"
Lu Qing pointed at Ma Yunfeng and said angrily.
Ma Yunfeng was stunned when Yuan Sha kowtowed to Lu Qing. Now, hearing that Lu Qing wanted to send him away, he hurriedly begged Yuan Sha for mercy:
"Master, please don't send me away!"
Without uttering a single word, Yuan Sha kicked Ma Yunfeng away.
"You scoundrel, how dare you anger Master! I'll kick him out of the temple!"
Yuan Sha turned his head, his smile now obsequious:
"Master, please!"
Lu Qing laid Ji Ziyao flat on the ground, then lit an incense stick for the ancestral master.
"Disciple Lu Qing has disturbed Grandmaster Grandmaster today only to save someone. Please forgive me, Grandmaster Grandmaster!"
After finishing his prayers, Lu Qing grabbed a handful of ash from the incense burner and sprinkled it on Ji Ziyao's body. Then, he used the still-burning incense to light the talisman.
Before the talisman had even burned out, she stuffed it into Ji Ziyao's mouth.
Upon seeing this, Ji Xian's wife rushed forward in alarm:
"Won't this burn my son's mouth?!"
Lu Qing was focused on saving lives and did not answer.
Ji Xian quickly pulled his wife back: "Trust her, our son's mouth is fine, isn't it!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Xian's wife glanced at Ji Ziyao's mouth and, seeing that he was indeed alright, remained silent.
Lu Qing sat cross-legged next to Ji Ziyao's head, his hands forming a mudra, and he was chanting incantations.
Before long, Ji Ziyao's body suddenly trembled, and black smoke billowed from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth.
The smoke had a foul odor, causing everyone present to instinctively cover their noses.
"Yuan Sha, go burn some peach wood ash, soak it in water, and sprinkle it on him!"
Lu Qing gave the order, and Yuan Sha immediately went to handle it personally.
When the peach wood ash water was sprinkled on my body, the black smoke gradually dissipated.
After a while, Ji Ziyao coughed softly and slowly woke up.
Looking at the unfamiliar place before him, he asked in a hoarse voice:
Where is this?
Ji Xian's wife quickly went over and helped him up:
"Son, you're finally awake! You scared me to death!"
Ji Xian was overjoyed and wept, bowing repeatedly to Lu Qing in gratitude.
"Thank you! Thank you so much, Master, for saving my son!"
Lu Qing wiped the sweat from his brow and smiled:
"Chief Instructor, you don't need to be so polite. If you really want to thank me, please treat me to a meal. I'm starving!"
She had been busy for so long that she hadn't eaten lunch and was starving.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Sha quickly stepped forward and said:
"Since Master is hungry, why don't you have some food at the temple? I'll have someone prepare a vegetarian meal right away!"
"Vegetarian food??"
Lu Qing shook his head repeatedly:
"I don't want to eat vegetables, I want to eat meat, big chunks of meat!"
Yuan Sha: "Oh... We're not allowed to eat meat in the temple, Master, vegetarian food is quite delicious too!"
"Go eat it yourself, I'm still growing, I want to eat meat!"
Lu Qing blinked her big eyes and looked at Ji Xian:
"Chief Instructor."
Ji Xianlian readily agreed, "Okay, okay! Let's eat meat, I'll take you to eat meat right now!"
Ji Xiangang was about to help Ji Ziyao up when Lu Qing stopped him:
"Wait! Don't leave him yet. The sun is shining brightly outside. Let's move him out to get some sun; he'll recover faster!"
"Yuan Sha, go find a bed for him, and also get him some of your vegetarian food."
"Yes, I'll go right away!" Yuan Sha happily went to prepare.
Ji Xian's wife stayed behind to keep Ji Ziyao company while he sunbathed, while Ji Xian took Lu Qing out for meat.
As they were leaving the Sanqing Hall, Chu Panshan and his wife Han Ziyuan called out to them:
"Old Ji, wait a minute!"
Ji Xian finally had the mind to catch up with him.
"Old Chu, it's been so many years. I didn't expect to run into you here."
"Yes, it's been a long time!"
After shaking hands with Ji Xian, Chu Panshan looked at Lu Qing:
"Young master, they just said you're a purple-robed celestial master, so can you tell fortunes?"
Lu Qing nodded: "Yes! Do you want me to calculate it?"
Chu Panshan and Han Ziyuan suddenly became excited.
"Young master, we'd like to ask you to tell our fortune and find out where our daughter is. Is that alright?"
“Sure! But I’ll have to charge you!” Lu Qing said.
“Sure! I’m willing to pay any amount, no matter how much it is. If you’re worried, I can write you a check right now. You can fill in any amount you like.”
Chu Panshan quickly took out a blank check.
Lu Qing waved his hands repeatedly: "I don't want money. Money can't stay with me anyway."
"What do you want? As long as I can do it, I will never refuse!" Chu Panshan asked.
Lu Qing smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just want to have a few more big meals."
"Just a meal? Nothing else?" Han Ziyuan asked in surprise.
"Nothing much! It's just a fortune telling, nothing serious."
As he spoke, Lu Qing took out a tortoise shell and copper coins, and spread them out on the spot to form the Eight Trigrams:
"Tell me your daughter's birth date, time, and name."
At this point, both Chu Panshan and Han Ziyuan couldn't help but tear up.
"Our daughter was born on the summer solstice, May 16th. If she were still alive, she would be nineteen years old this year."
"She was stolen shortly after she was born and has not been found since. We didn't even have time to name her."
Lu Qing frowned slightly:
"Stolen right after birth, how pitiful!"
"Don't cry, let me figure it out!"
Lu Qing gently shook the tortoise shell, and soon the copper coins fell, but they rolled directly to her feet, none of them landing on the Bagua diagram.
"Strange! Why can't I calculate it?"
Lu Qing cast another divination, deliberately getting closer to the Bagua diagram, but the copper coins still couldn't land on it.
"It's fate that won't let me calculate!"
"This is truly strange! I have no idea who your daughter is!"
Lu Qing was so anxious that he scratched his head and cheeks.
Disappointment flashed in Chu Panshan's and Han Ziyuan's eyes.
"Enough! We've consulted the gods and divined for so many years, but we still haven't been able to find her. Why make things difficult for a child like her!"
"Old Ji, we'll treat you to lunch, but I'm sorry, we're not in the mood to eat."
Just as Chu Panshan and Han Ziyuan were about to leave, Lu Qing hurriedly stopped them:
"Don't go yet, I'll go ask the ancestral master for you!"
"You must wait for me!"
With that, Lu Qing ran back to the Sanqing Hall.
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