No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 153 Cucumber Master
Next door, Xu Shun saw a man in green Taoist robes, using a tile knife to remove plaster.

Xu Shun had seen that person in the portrait before. He was his own grandmaster, Lan Daoren's master.

Cucumber.

"Master!" Xu Shun walked over and bowed respectfully.

“Ah? You are…” Taoist Cucumber held the tile knife, a little confused.

He really didn't recognize his disciple, because he had been busy since he came back, and Lan Ran had never brought his disciple to meet him.

Taoist Qinghua soon realized that who else could call him his master?

"Are you the disciple of that bearded fellow Lan Ran?" He tilted his head and looked at his apprentice.

Xu Shun looked at the Cucumber Taoist in front of him and felt that the Cucumber Taoist was a little out of touch.

Who would call his apprentice "that guy"?

The Taoist Cucumber looked to be about forty or fifty years old, with a face as white as jade and a few strands of long beard. He truly looked like an immortal, a god-like being.

No, he is actually a god.

However, the green Taoist robe he was wearing was a little worn and wrinkled, and it was obvious that he had not used any magic to maintain it. His hair was casually tied up with a dead branch that he had picked up from somewhere, and a few strands of black hair fell playfully on his shoulders.

Appears unkempt.

"That's right!" said Xu Shun.

“Oh, oh, oh, I heard that Blue Beard guy talk about you! Zishu, Ziran, Zicai, Zisu…” He counted and looked at Xu Shun’s cultivation level, and said, “You are Zicai, right?”

Xu Shun nodded and said, "Master, I am Zicai."

"Ahaha~" Taoist Qinggua was quite satisfied when he saw the well-behaved Xu Shun. He put down the tile knife in his hand, took out his jade token from his arms, handed it to Xu Shun and said:

"This is the first time we two meet, so I don't have anything prepared. You can take my jade token and buy whatever you see."

The casual manner in which you two swipe away, you are worthy of being master and disciple.

Xu Shun waved his hand and refused: "No, I don't need anything for the time being."

"Hey~ We are all family, why should we be so polite?" Taoist Qinggua forced the green jade token to Xu Shun.

The jade token was pure green in color, with the word "瓜" (melon) on it.

"In that case, thank you very much, Master!" Xu Shun could not refuse, so he had to bow again and said.

"Why are you being polite? You look much better than that guy with blue beard!" Taoist Qinggua stroked his beard and smiled.

Lan Ran was stubborn and eccentric back then, which made him worry a lot.

"Well... Actually, Master is still very good!" Xu Shun emphasized: "Really!"

"Oh. What's good about him? When he was unhappy, did he ever take you to Xiangzhu Tower?" asked Taoist Qinggua.

"No."

"When you were being teased, did he take you to Tianfulou?" Taoist Qinggua asked again.

“No more.”

"You don't have this, and you don't have that, so what do you think is good?" Taoist Qinggua asked again.

Xu Shun replied, "But Master has taken me thousands of miles, taught me with his words and deeds, and told me what cultivation is."

Taoist Qinggua paused for a moment and said, "Is this his way? That's fine, right?"

"Could it be that the Grand Master has ever taken Master to Xiangzhu Tower and Tianfulou?" Xu Shun suddenly asked curiously.

The master took his apprentice to Xiangzhulou for prostitution, this... is so abstract!
"Of course not!" Taoist Qinggua said, "Among my disciples, the one with the blue beard is the most depressed!"

"He either practices or reads books all day long, with a dead look on his face! It makes me feel like I owe him money."

"I asked him to stop being so stubborn and play with the other brothers, but he didn't want to and was always excluded."

"I just wanted to take him out for some fun!" "But when we got to Xiangzhu Tower, he sat face to face with two female practitioners for the entire night without saying a word. When we got to Tianfulou, he just ate a bowl of fried rice."

"It's so boring!" Taoist Cucumber sighed and said, "It doesn't look like me at all!"

His tone was quite like that of an old father taking his son out to play, except that the games were not what his son liked.

"..."

Xu Shun was also speechless.

No wonder Taoist Lan always calls Taoist Qinggua an old man...

It would be strange not to call him an old bastard.

This master and disciple pair!
"Grandmaster, where are those uncles?" Xu Shun asked.

Taoist Cucumber has more than one disciple, Lan Ran.

With a sigh, Taoist Qinggua said, "They are all dead. It's a pity that I am the old man sending off the young one!"

"I thought the blue-bearded fellow was the first one to be sent away, but it turns out that he has achieved great success in his cultivation."

"Everything in the world is unpredictable!"

Xu Shun couldn't help but say a few good words for his master, saying: "I heard from my master that he has been gifted since he started practicing..."

"He has no special talent!" Taoist Qinggua took the tile knife in his hand and started to rub the wall with plaster, saying: "Among the few useless disciples, he is the slowest in cultivation."

The originally bumpy wall became as white as jade after he used a tile knife to brush it with white-gray mud.

It turns out that this is how walls are painted in the world of immortal cultivation.

"Master, I'll help you too!" Xu Shun found it interesting, so he picked up the tile knife and mud basket and started working enthusiastically.

He changed the subject. If they continued talking, all of Lan Daoist's secrets would be revealed by Qinggua Daoist.

These two masters and apprentices have completely different personalities, it's amazing that they can be together!

"Let me tell you, this plastering is also a technical job..." Taoist Qinggua was about to give some pointers when he saw that Xu Shun was a little unfamiliar at first, but then he became proficient.

The ash was applied flat and neatly, and the efficiency was very high.

Taoist Qinggua asked, "Could it be that your disciple has done this job before?"

"I used to do a lot of odd jobs!" Xu Shun nodded and said, "Plastering is just one of them."

Before he traveled through time, he had a job that really involved making dust.

"Then do you know how to do carpentry?"

"Know a thing or two!"

"Good, good, good!" Taoist Cucumber laughed. He felt that this disciple was more and more good.

He is neither stubborn nor dull, and he has some skills.

The two of them were working on the plastering in full swing. With their help, the other decorators worked very quickly. At this rate, the work would be completed within three days.

"By the way, my disciple, why did you call me here today?" Taoist Qinggua suddenly thought that his disciple definitely did not come to him by chance.

"Oh! Yes!" Xu Shun was working hard at plastering. He hadn't done this job for a long time. Now he suddenly started to work, and he seemed to be getting more and more excited as he worked.

"I'm here to report!" Xu Shun said, "I heard from Uncle Lan Xing that our master was ordered to form a locust-sweeping team. I'm here to join the team!"

"Crack down on pornography? We won't crack down on pornography!" Taoist Cucumber muttered to himself.

"It's the locust ..." Xu Shun explained the locust.

Taoist Qinggua sighed and said, "They are respectable and prestigious people in the fairy world. They have no choice but to become locusts!"

"They had no choice, but do we, the monks who were killed and robbed by them, have no choice?" Xu Shun said dimly.

(End of this chapter)