"...Sweet buns in sugar heart, sticky almond cakes. Passing guests won't come and have a look, can you try it?!"

"Cooking cakes, big and round cooking cakes!"

"Canised haws..."

"A chamber pot, a beautiful lace chamber pot, you can plant flowers and plants if you don't use it, which makes it look unique!"

…

It was early summer, after the last rain in late spring, the guests were traveling with teapots. When the windows were opened, the streets were bustling. The bustling pedestrians walked past the wet ground. Occasionally, there were people who were busy in the morning. They stopped and looked at the steaming steamer. They bought a piece of fragrant almond cake with two or three cents, wrapped in oil cloth paper, and shared it with their families.

The child holding a windmill chased and played, and ran under a banner with the words "Cheeru and Painting Changdao".

"Hehe, is it good to play with the windmill?"

"If you don't give it, you won't give it!!"

He bumped into the crowd, laughed and stuck out his tongue, and ran away elsewhere.

In the bustling long street, this stall has surrounded many literati and elegant guests. I was amazed at the painting of a beautiful woman hanging in the most conspicuous position, and some of them pointed at the handwriting of the hanging racks around them, and commented.

"Molong hook roll, iron tree and pear blossom... This word is written in a very short time."

"The painting is so beautiful. When did such a scholar come to Ning'an City?"

"It's a pity to set up a stall to sell calligraphy and paintings."

A man close to the stall folded a paper fan and arched his hand at the scholar who was waving his pen and ink at the long table opposite. The other party was also a scholar. He seemed to be selling calligraphy and paintings for a living, but he would not show a domineering attitude.

"Brother, have I painted the painting I want?"

Behind the long table, the scholar's pen and ink were just stopped. On the scroll was a green ink landscape, with forests in patches, and above the river, a lonely boat was moving towards the rising sun. If you look carefully, the boatman's pole was on the boat, and there was a pleasant look on his face. In the distant mountains and forests, you could see monkey shadows climbing.

“Miaomiaomiao…”

The man looked down and looked carefully, and blew the undried ink.

Lu Liangsheng smiled and wiped his hands, put the brush off one side of the water dish to clean: "Are you still satisfied?"

"Satisfied! Satisfied!"

The scholar rolled up the picture with a precious look, took out his purse, counted hundreds and twenty papers, and put them on the table.

"Brother, I'll put the money here and I'll use it to frame it first!"

"Twenty more people."

Lu Liangsheng took exactly twenty copper coins and handed them back to the scholar. When he saw that the other party was surprised, he smiled.

"What I said before is what price, and the extra ones will not be charged."

Since Shunyuan County, Lu Liangsheng still felt that it would be better to have less trouble. He has arrived in Chaoningzhou now and is not far from Qishan. He has set up a stall to mix some wine and food, so he can hurry up.

After putting away the 100 articles today, I arched my hands at the onlooker: "I will no longer paint today, so I will leave you here."

After saying this, he ignored the customers who wanted to buy calligraphy and paintings, removed the banner poles, tables, chairs, and hangers, and placed them behind the donkey cart. He led the old donkey away from the street and went to the streets with few people. While there was no one around, the donkey carts and tables and chairs turned into stars and dissipated.

"Master, what do you want to eat later?"

After cleaning up again, Lu Liangsheng pulled the reins and led the old donkey out again, and looked back at the small compartment on the bookshelf.

"Steamed carp or braised donkey meat?"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The old donkey stared at his big eyes and hummed a long sound in panic, which made the passers-by curiously look like he thought it was a crazy scholar talking to the donkey.

In the small compartment, Taoist Toad put away the small map, rolled it up and put it back on his back, took a new booklet, flipped it over, and the round head and small webbed crossed the lines, pondering for a moment.

"I just ate it yesterday. Today I will change my taste and buy some goose meat."

"good."

As he walked, he responded, and turned around the street, there were many people selling food on the roadside. Lu Liangsheng went over and asked two geese, killed them and roasted them, and asked the vendor to wrap them with lotus leaves, and tied a rope in his hand.

"It's time to go to Qishan."

The surroundings are still bustling and noisy, with all kinds of hawking and bargaining sounds filled with bargaining.

"Why did the six articles have changed their minds?"

"If you don't buy it, don't put your hands on it and touch it!"

"Look, take a look, the best fabric."

The scholar's green gauze robe, led an old donkey and squeezed the crowds coming and going, passing through this market.

....

After leaving Ning'an City, he walked along the direction of Qishan where he was inquiring about the city and walked onto the mountain road. Nie Honglian took a brisk step and walked in front of him, occasionally jumping happily.

Under the bookshelf where the donkey's buttocks were placed, the compartment was open. The Toad Taoist stretched out his two short legs and hung it outside. He leaned against the stack of books behind him, held a goose wing, and looked at the mountain scenery outside the forest with great pleasure.

"It's so familiar..."

The undulating mountains couldn't help but sigh, then lowered his head and continued to chew on his wings.

The scholar who walked slowly in front of the donkey head looked back and didn't say anything. He was almost at the Qishan Mountains mentioned by the master, but the closer he got, the more careful he became. From time to time, he compared whether the surrounding mountains matched the map, so that he could not know if he had passed again.

Soon, I walked westward and walked for another day. The surrounding mountains became steeper and the green foothills became less green. I was used to seeing the mountains and rivers in the south. When I saw the land in the northwest of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, I couldn't help but feel desolate.

"Master, this place should be in Qishan, right? Why is your cave in such a desolate corner?"

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to the ridge, and the stretchy brown and yellow were placed in front of him, like a brown and yellow earth dragon stretching at the end of the world. The occasional mountain edges appeared only look like a big grave from a distance.

"You old man really remembered the wrong position?"

Taoist Toad jumped off the bookshelf, stepped on the frog web, walked to the front of his apprentice with his hands behind his back, stood under a small tree, and his toad eyes swept across the surroundings seriously.

"How could you forget where your cave is?"

Hong Lian floated over, sat on a nearby branch, covered her mouth and chuckled: "How could we get to Shunyuan and carry a long way to go?"

“...”

The toad glanced at her, hummed, turned around and left with his hands behind his back... As long as I return to the cave and restore my cultivation, I see, you, a little girl, dare to be so presumptuous!

Climb back into the cubicle and waved his webbing: "It's not here, go forward and take a look."

Qishan is very large, and it is normal not to find it for a while. Lu Liangsheng would not complain. He took a break and put the second book "Shan Hai Tu Zhi" back to the bookshelf and continued on his way. He didn't want to worry too much about whether there was any later in the book. Anyway, if he was destined to meet it, it would be unbeautiful to force it.

In the afternoon, the sky tilted to the top of the mountain. Looking around, the rolling ridges around were covered with a layer of rosy clothes.

"If the mountain is higher and greener, it will be a bit like Qixia Mountain."

Lu Liangsheng muttered as he looked at the broken red, standing on the donkey's head, with a webbed on his forehead, looking at the toad Taoist, his expression was stunned for a moment, his mouth widened and he burst into laughter.

"I saw it! I saw it!"

Lu Liangsheng followed the round web head and pointed to the direction. In the middle of the two "earth dragons" crossed and merged, there was a single peak. From a distance, it looked like a dead tree standing on a brown and yellow hillside.

"Go over! Go over!"

As the toad Taoist excitedly urged him, Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to avoid the sharp earth and rocks, went down to the foot of the mountain, and passed along the direction of the single front. A withered old forest was strangely twisted, and several large rock mottled sand particles stood quietly. The towering mountain in front became majestic as it approached, and there were also many green embellishments on it.

When he walked to the foot of the mountain, the Toad Taoist jumped off the donkey's head excitedly, and his flippers stomped across the ground and ran towards a place where he could go up the mountain.

"Haha...I'm back..."

Bang!

He tripped by a stone under his feet and fell to the ground with his long tongue ejected out and put it on his mouth. When Lu Liangsheng hurried over, the Toad Taoist got up indifferently, dragged his long tongue to the back and continued to run forward.

"Hahaha!!"

"I'm back"

After a moment, the short figure disappeared at the entrance of the mountain road.

Lu Liangsheng laughed and withdrew his hand, held the old donkey and followed the master, winding up along the weedy mountain path, listening to the excited laughter of the toad Taoist echoing among the mountains from afar.

After a moment, the laughter suddenly stopped.

The scholar frowned and accelerated his speed. He pushed aside a branch hidden by a mountain wall. The mountain road above became wide open, like a small high platform.

"Master?"

In that area of ​​view, the toad stood there with his back facing away from him, his long tongue was tilted to the ground, and he looked at the opposite side with a dull face.

Several clusters of weeds grew on the flat ground, extending past the mountain walls, and the tall stone doors climbed up the moss, tilted on one side, revealing the dark hole.

"Sure enough... it was stolen."
Chapter completed!