Going north along the coast, passing Jiyu Mountain, Jiangdu, Langya, and Penglai County, Lu Liangsheng did not intend to enter Penglai County this time. He looked at the outline of the city from afar and turned to the sea to the east. The mermaid seemed to know that she was going home. She excitedly swung the fish tail on the donkey's back, and chirping all the way, saying Honglian, the toad Taoist who couldn't understand.

"Jiji...Jijiji..."

When they arrived at the coast, the mermaid sitting on the donkey's back could not sit still. She flipped down and crawled on the ground, rubbing and arching towards the sand. She almost reached the shallow water. The fish jumped up and plunged into the sea, and her head appeared, swimming around excitedly. From time to time, people on the shore waved their hands with films.

The sea breeze mixed with a faint fishy smell came. The toad Taoist turned over the donkey's back and walked to the old donkey's head, and hugged the webbed. Lu Liangsheng next to him made footprints. He went over there, and the pushed sea water was divided into two sides along the steps, without getting wet.

"You should leave, go there, and you should be able to find your home and your relatives."

Lu Liangsheng squatted down, touched the little mermaid with his head stretched out, and pointed to the farther direction of the sea: "Just go there, thank you for your company these days."

"Oh, I'm leaving, but I'm a little reluctant to let it go." Taoist Toad sighed slightly. After more than ten years of life, I have long lost the ferociousness that I used to be. At this time, I look like a sentimental old man.

Hong Lian, who was standing beside him, nodded in agreement, then raised his hand to say goodbye to the mermaid. The mermaid swam a few feet away, turned around reluctantly, looked at Lu Liangsheng standing not far away, and the woman who was waving her hand, Toad Taoist, who beat a wave, turned around and swam back, jumped out of the water and threw herself into Lu Liangsheng's arms.

"grumble....."

He buried his head in his warm chest and rubbed his arms twice before he let go of his arms, fell back into the sea, and swam away quickly. Lu Liangsheng pursed his lips, smiled, turned around and took the reins, shouted that Hong Lian and his master were still waving, and walked up the gentle slope. Looking back, on the sea in the distance, the mermaid was sitting on the reef, and seemed to be holding something in his hand, waving at them.

Lu Liangsheng reached out to wipe off his waist, and the jade he was wearing disappeared. The red rope was replaced with a light blue fish scale, which was hanging there with the Xuanyuan sword sheath next to him, swaying slightly.

"hehe....."

With a chuckle, Lu Liangsheng took the fish scales and spread them in his palm. The light green and cold touched it looked like jade. "Although I don't know your name, I have exchanged the jade pendant. Then I will give you another name. Haiyu. If you are destined to be together in the future, you will see you again, so let's leave!"

He said with a smile, held the fish scale tightly, bowed to the mermaid on the rocks in the distance. The other party seemed to hear Lu Liangsheng's words, responded to the long sound of "Ji!" from afar, turned around and jumped into the sea, rolled up waves, and disappeared.

"Master, Hong Lian, let's go too."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the calm sea, retracted his gaze, and asked the toad Taoist to sit down. Hong Lian went back to the bookshelf, pulled the old donkey and shook the ringing ringing sound, and walked westward.

Walking onto the official road, there were more and more traders coming and going in the Qingzhou area. When he saw an old man with gray robe and white hair pulling an old donkey, he couldn't help but be curious about it. He came over to inquire and asked Lu Liangsheng if he had encountered trouble and why he was alone, but Lu Liangsheng was all evaded and said that he had come out to relax.

At this time, in mid-April, the fields outside the city were green and green. I turned around the official road and took the path. In the shaking bookshelf, Hong Lian was singing opera in the scroll. The toad sitting by the small door was wearing a cigarette pole, and hummed for a few paragraphs, blew out a breath of smoke, remembering the serious matter.

He stopped humming and asked, "By the way, what should I have for supper?"

Lu Liangsheng has long been accustomed to what his master said. Nowadays, it is a painting that can be seen in his mind. In fact, as long as the picture you can think of in your mind, you can draw it by yourself. Along the way, the toad doesn't even have to cook rice, and they all take it out of the painting. It not only tastes but also fills your stomach in essence, which is nothing like eating on weekdays.

"What does the master want to eat, as long as I can remember."

Under a tree in the forest, an old donkey was placed while eating grass. Lu Liangsheng took out a blank scroll and as the food he had eaten rose, the roasted lamb legs, salt-roasted goose, pickled egg porridge appeared on it in an instant... One by one, it was taken out from the square table inside, placed in front of the toad Taoist, and the color of the dishes should have appeared, and the fragrance wafted.

Lu Liangsheng took a bite and stopped eating it. He shook his head and took the book and read it. It was not drawn by himself, and it had no soul.

The toad Taoist next to him was not that particular, and he had a bigger body. He picked up the fat goose and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it. His cheeks bulged and closed, and he looked at the picture album in his apprentice's hand.

"Don't you go back to Chang'an directly?"

"From the west of Qingzhou, go directly to Xindu and Zhaojun. We just happened to go to see how Qihe Canal was built. We should go to Taiyuan by the way. Yuanfeng should still be under Li Yuan's command."

After talking for a while, seeing that the master had almost finished eating, he put the scroll on the bookshelf, greeted the donkey, and continued to move forward, climbed up the toad on the small door along the rope, lying on the small shop while touching his stomach, shaking his legs and shaking them comfortably.

"Since it was the past, what would you delay? Your cultivation level is now reduced to a tiny inch, but now it is different. If it were a master, it would be in the blink of an eye. You should know how powerful he was in the past. The elites of several major sects were all trapped as a master. It was so crowded with people and magic weapons blocked the sun..."

In the easel, Hong Lian chuckled, "Master Toad is bragging again, but in fact everyone is calling and beating."

"Can you little girl talk?"

"But I was right."

......

Listening to the two of them being in a row, Lu Liangsheng took out his ears and was too lazy to pay attention. He walked out of the forest path, his vision was green and flat, and occasionally there were rolling mountains rising and slow smoke from cooking. The farmers in the fields carried kettles and hoes and walked up the ridge of the fields with familiar villagers.

On the way, Lu Liangsheng stopped the farmers who returned home and inquired about the direction to Xindu and Taiyuan. He realized that it was only a hundred miles away. He rode an old donkey, crossed mountains and ridges to the Qi River. The river reflected in his eyes was more than several feet wider than before. Hundreds of men were wearing short jackets, or shouting trumpets with bare shirts, constantly waving hoes, smashing pieces of soil and stones, and letting the porter take off.

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey and walked along the river bank for a while, and sat on a large bluestone. He looked at the fortifications that were busy and stretched for thousands of miles, and felt moved.

'Your Majesty, you really have the courage.'

The sun gradually sets westward, and the workman gradually stops his work, and runs to the supervisor in groups to collect today's money by wiping his rough hands. Lu Liangsheng roughly calculates that there are tens of thousands of people in just one section of Qihe Canal, and the daily wage is probably astronomy. He is a little worried about whether the court can bear it.

"This old gentleman, you have been here for a long time but are you waiting for someone?"

The supervisor who had paid the last batch of wages in the distance and brought the soldiers over. He had noticed that the old man in gray had been sitting here for a long time, thinking that he was just coming to see the river and canal repairs, but it was getting dark and he had not left yet, so he came over to ask.

"It's getting late, so the old man should go back soon. It's hard to walk on the road at night. If he accidentally falls into the river, he will die."

Lu Liangsheng nodded, and did not make things difficult for the supervisor. He thanked him. This section of Qihe Canal alone probably understood the fortification expectations, so there was nothing good to look at.

"Thank you, sir, for reminding me, I'll leave now."

He led the old donkey and took advantage of the night to gradually disappear from the eyes of the people behind him. He took the old donkey directly across the wide Qi River and came to the other side, and he wanted to go straight to Taiyuan County.

There was no other thing on the way. He hurried over the thick walls. Lu Liangsheng walked into the city. Lanterns hung high among the streets to illuminate the street market. At this time, the night was bustling with people. Lu Liangsheng looked at the various playful things sold at the stalls on both sides, took a mask and put it on his face and raised it to the bookshelf behind, attracting a nice woman laughing inside.

"Young Master, don't cover it like this. I think you're pretty good even if you're old."

While talking, noise came from the streets, and the pedestrians and people passing by were in chaos. Several men in blue robes looked around in panic, squeezed through the crowd and ran forward.

"I don't know where the young master has gone again."

"...Stop talking, look for it quickly."
Chapter completed!