Chapter 355?
My surname is Zhang.
The Taoist priest took a wine gourd from his waist and said, “My surname is Zhang and my given name is Chengxuan. It’s been more than 20 years since you’ve called me by this name.”
He tilted his head back and took a sip of wine, which spilled from the corner of his mouth and rolled over his Adam's apple.
Song Chunxue subconsciously looked away and gazed at the opposite mountain, but her pupils contracted the next moment.
Just ten meters away, under the apricot tree, three pairs of bright green eyes were looking this way.
It's a wolf.
The mountains here are high and large, and the people are concentrated on the mountainside. The mountaintop is wide and deserted, and the river is deep and has caves, making it a good place for wolves.
The three wolves were clearly a family, with the middle one being slightly smaller. They were standing at a distance, observing their attitude.
"Don't be afraid. Wolves are very intelligent. Fear will excite them. Besides, they should have eaten their fill tonight and won't eat people."
The Taoist priest's voice came from beside me, "Wolf meat doesn't taste good, it's best not to provoke them."
Song Chunxue quickly calmed down, thinking that she could kill a wolf with a shovel even before she had cultivated much, so kicking it away now should be a piece of cake.
"That little wolf in the middle is quite cute. Do you think we could catch it and raise it to be tame?"
The Taoist priest looked at her and said, "He will bring a pack of wolves to attack you."
"What if we take it to Zhuanglang County?" Song Chunxue asked seriously. "If I catch one that's just over a month old, like a dog, can I keep it as a pet?"
"You've got some nerve, trying to snatch wolf cubs from the wolf den. But if you insist on trying, we'll go check out the ditch tonight."
Song Chunxue immediately shook her head, "I was just saying it offhand."
In that short while, the three-headed wolf leisurely left, its enormous tail gleaming in the deep darkness as if bathed in moonlight.
However, the moon appears during the day at the beginning of the month, a crescent moon hanging in the azure sky, shining alongside the sun.
Where did the moonlight come from at night?
This interruption meant that Song Chunxue could no longer ask about her senior brother's whereabouts.
The Taoist priest held a sword in his hand. "Come, try it. I'll teach you how to fly with a sword tonight."
Song Chunxue quickly stood up and took the longsword with both hands; it was quite heavy.
"First, you need to learn the incantation to make the sword fly, and then you need to learn how to use your mental power. Once you learn to control the sword, you will be the most powerful sorceress in the entire Zhuanglang County. You have mastered the first two of the skills of mountain medicine, fate, divination, and fortune telling, while most people learn the latter three in order to earn money to support their families."
“Junior brother is not short of money. You don’t need to learn the last three things. Just master the first two, and that will be the time to take you up the mountain to pay respects to our master.”
Song Chunxue was completely confused, with only one thought in her mind: "Senior brother, please teach me the incantation quickly."
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Before dawn, Song Chunxue returned to her fourth sister's house quietly.
After sleeping for an hour, Fourth Sister got up, dressed, and went outside to add hay for the livestock.
Song Chunxue got up and sat in meditation, hoping it would help her recover her energy more quickly.
She felt somewhat discouraged, realizing that she had spent an hour learning the incantation but the sword hadn't moved an inch.
While combing my hair, I couldn't help but recite a mantra to the silver hairpin, and unexpectedly, the hairpin floated in the air.
"It's done!"
"Auntie has also learned the art of manipulating objects. I heard that Auntie has also started studying medicine. She is so studious at such a young age. Auntie is amazing."
Ah Lai came in through the door and happened to see the floating hairpin. He spoke casually.
"But my mother doesn't know these things, so it's better if my aunt doesn't let her know, otherwise she'll be scared."
Song Chunxue was very curious, "When did you start learning how to control objects? Can you fly on a sword now?"
"I learned it last year. It doesn't allow me to fly on a sword, but it does allow me to control objects. I'll use it secretly when my mother isn't looking."
"So what else did you learn?"
Since my senior brother mentioned mountain medicine, physiognomy, and divination, someone as talented as Alai must have specially taught him other things.
I don't know what Alai is good at.
“I can communicate with the dead and do divination, but I don’t want to learn fortune telling. The Taoist priest said he wouldn’t force me to learn it.”
Song Chunxue was shocked; she never expected Alai to have such thoughts.
"Then why don't you want to learn fortune telling?"
"I don't want to know the fate of the people around me, nor do I want all of this to be an illusion, a fleeting moment, or a test set by God... I want to live an ordinary life."
Ah Lai said sadly, sitting down in a chair with his head down, "I want to stay with my mother forever."
Song Chunxue nodded. People called a special child like Alai stupid, but in his senior brother's eyes, he was incredibly intelligent.
Ah Lai is sure to learn things quickly. If he learns them early on, he definitely won't be able to stay here peacefully in the future.
He meant that he would only go up the mountain with the Taoist priest after his fourth sister grew old.
The Taoist priest must have felt quite helpless; worldly ties are too heavy, and he can only move forward alone.
No wonder he suddenly changed his mind and taught her how to fly on a sword.
She didn't dare ask any more questions, and she didn't know when her senior brother would set off.
He probably won't just quietly leave again.
That's true. My senior brother doesn't like seeing people off; he prefers to leave quietly.
"Is Fifth Aunt going to Third Aunt's house? She's become quite fierce these days, always making Third Uncle eat pig swill." A-Lai washed his face. "If Aunt wants to go, we'll go together."
"Okay, shall we go today?"
"Yes, my mother said you must be worried about Sanwa and don't want to stay outside for too long, so let's go before noon."
Ah Lai wiped his face, applied some ointment, and then went to the kitchen.
Song Chunxue took the water to the kitchen, poured it into the dirty water bucket so it could be used to feed the pigs, and then poured some water for herself to wash her face.
While having breakfast, Song Chunxue mentioned that she had gone to Liangzhou City and brought back Hongying's family of five.
"What?" Song Chunlian's eyes widened. "You're really amazing!"
"If the eldest son and his wife found out, wouldn't they rebel?"
Song Chunxue explained, "It's alright, it's alright. The eldest brother, Chen Feng, and their child came over a couple of days ago. I scolded them, but they didn't cause much trouble."
"That's true. Chen Feng can't stand up straight anymore. Her father is paralyzed on the bed and needs to be taken care of in his excrement and urine. Her brother has also gotten married and built a courtyard in front of the house. Now they live their own lives because his wife is afraid that his father will use some kind of harmful talisman again."
"Oh?" Song Chunxue said calmly, "He brought this upon himself. His difficulty in dying is God's punishment for him."
It would be a good thing for him to die.
"Why don't you go visit your in-laws?"
Song Chunxue sneered, "It's pointless to kick someone when they're down. I feel disgusted just looking at that kind of person. It's better not to look at them at all."
“Then let’s go see Third Sister. Ever since the Taoist priest enlightened her and you gave her money, she’s been like a tigress. Zhao Qian is now completely subdued by her.” Song Chunlian couldn’t help but laugh. “Ten years east of the river, ten years west of the river, that’s a perfect description of the two of them.”
After hearing what the mother and daughter had to say, Song Chunxue couldn't wait to go to her third sister's house.
When he left, A-Lai was carrying a bag of chicken bones.
Song Chunxue asked curiously, "Are you going to take the bone to your second uncle's dog?"
Song Chunlian casually said, "He brought it to the wolf. There's a wolf cub in a hole on the riverbank. The mother wolf ate our sheep before, and Alai let it escape. Later, the mother wolf was killed by other wolves. Alai was afraid it would starve to death, so he often secretly fed it."
"ah?"
"I don't know what the Taoist priest taught Alai, but now he gets along with wolves better than people do."
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