The locust wood sword that Qi Jingchun had moved with Li Baoping secretly cut out and placed quietly in the basket on Chen Ping'an's back was inhabited by a golden incense villain of unknown origin.
After two brief appearances at Qiulu Inn and Cao's Zhilan Mansion, the shy incense villain never appeared again. Chen Pingan let it happen naturally and did not force anything.
It was dark at night, in the Yang's shop, the old man was smoking a dry cigarette, frowning, and stretched out his hand to grab the incense stick, and the little incense man fell to the ground from the void.
Old Man Yang said coldly: "Qi Jingchun worked so hard to hide you. What do you want to do?"
She stood timidly on the ground, as if she was very afraid of this old man, her hands tightly grasped the corners of her clothes, and her lips moved slightly.
Old Man Yang frowned more and more as he listened, and thought for a long time, "I agreed."
He knocked the cigarette pole on the ground, rolled out of a small temple, and stood in front of the incense figurine.
The incense man was full of joy and was about to walk in when he suddenly raised his head and stopped talking.
Old Man Yang said with an indifferent expression: "Of course it's best to know everything, but if you can't do that, just don't know anything at all. Only in this way can you live a good life."
The incense man still seemed a little hesitant and wanted to go back to Mud Bottle Alley to say goodbye to the young man.
Old Man Yang lifted up the cigarette stick again and blew out thick smoke, "You are really smart when you put all your wisdom in your belly. Do you really think that kid doesn't want to do anything but practice boxing, and he knows how to be charitable all day long and be a philanthropic boy? It's a shame for you.
You are really stupid for following him, but he is not stupid."
The little incense man pouted, a little discouraged, but when she walked into the small temple, she was stunned.
She is like an extremely small grain of rice in a big vat.
On the tall walls inside the small temple, each name shines brightly, emitting different colors of brilliance.
Above the head of the incense man, the stars are shining brightly.
The old man put away his cigarette rod, clasped his hands behind his back, and walked out of the drug store with a stooped posture. He walked out of the town. When he passed the stone arch bridge, he sighed, full of regret and confusion, and slowly walked down the stone bridge and walked along the Longxu River to the blacksmith.
Outside the shop, instead of walking into it, he came to the river and lightly stamped his feet. The river god woman immediately flew all the way from the bottom of the river. Her soul was shaken and she was a little dizzy. When she found out that it was Old Man Yang, she immediately smiled flatteringly.
: "Why does the Immortal need to use his supreme magical power? Just give him a shout."
Old Man Yang said expressionlessly: "Go to the source of Longxu River immediately, take the initiative to disperse half of your golden body, blend into the river water, and help Ruan Qiong increase the gloomy weight of the water."
The young woman was stunned.
Cutting off half of the golden body, the old man said it lightly, but the pain suffered during this period and the damage to the road are immeasurable.
The woman wished she could escape thousands of miles away.
It's a pity that she can't escape.
Old Man Yang added: "It's done. If Ruan Qiong succeeds in making the sword, I'll help you get a river temple. In fifty or sixty years at most, you will be able to restore your complete golden body. After that, the incense will continue for hundreds of thousands of years.
, this is a steady stream of income, you will definitely make it.”
The woman was submissive and inaudible, "It would be too painful to break up half of the golden body. I'm afraid of the pain..."
The old man didn't speak, just looked at the sparkling Longxu River.
The woman asked cautiously: "Great Immortal, can I refuse?"
Old Man Yang nodded and said, "Okay."
The woman was secretly happy and surprised. When did this great immortal become so reasonable?
Old Man Yang sneered and said: "It will be better if I smash your entire golden body. Don't worry, after your soul disappears tonight, I will make compensation to your descendants in the future."
The woman was a little desperate, and after some consideration, she asked in a trembling voice: "Great Immortal, the blessing will only fall on my grandson, is that okay?"
Her heart was full of luck, because she knew that no matter how fair the great immortal acted, it was actually different when it came to her grandson Ma Kuxuan.
But Old Man Yang still refused on the spot, "No."
The woman's face was ashen and she said sadly: "Then I'd better go to the source of Longxu River."
Old Man Yang was noncommittal.
The River Goddess gritted her teeth and began to swim upstream along the river, crossing the stone arch bridge that looked nothing out of the ordinary, and headed straight into the mountains.
Ruan Qiong came to the shore, stood beside the old man, and asked: "I am not in a hurry to help that girl forge a sword, whether it will succeed or not, and I have no intention of doing business with you."
"Forging a sword is not a business."
Old Man Yang shook his head and said: "However, I can help cover up your daughter's true identity for thirty years, but you must ensure that you build that sword as soon as possible. This is the deal I want to make."
Ruan Qiong looked as usual and said with a smile: "True identity?"
The old man said calmly: "Ruan Qiong just needs to nod or shake his head."
Ruan Qiong was a little aggrieved, but still nodded.
The old man smiled and said, "Looking back, it's worth it."
Ruan Qiong asked a strange question, "Then what is considered 'not worth it'?"
The old man smiled and said: "Ruan Qiong, it's not a good habit to eavesdrop on other people's conversations."
Ruan Qiong confessed openly: "You, the eldest grandson of the Li family, Wei Bo, you three, I must keep an eye on."
The old man nodded, then shook his head and said, "It might be better if Li Xisheng and I are reversed."
Ruan Qiong asked with a smile: "A thousand years or ten thousand years from now?"
The old man stopped talking.
Once we enter the troubled times when a hundred schools of thought contend, heroes and heretics will spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain, crazily breaking out of the ground, and overnight, a new scene will change the world.
The old man had seen that magnificent scene more than once.
After all, Ruan Qiong is only a saint from the military family, not a saint like the Yin Yang family. Although he has seen very far, such as the growth of his daughter Ruan Xiu, it is still not far enough.
The old man suddenly said, "Of course it's not worth it. What's the use of two ordinary people gathering their souls? The price they need to pay for it is not small. If it were Ma Kuxuan, of course it would be different."
Ruan Qiong asked with a smile: "Senior, didn't you think highly of Chen Pingan from the beginning?"
Old Man Yang said expressionlessly: "It's enough if someone takes good care of him."
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The reopening of Beishangyi Road has made the already lively Hongzhu Town even more prosperous.
At night, a painting boat with green bamboo curtains leisurely sailed out of the inlet and headed towards the town. Just as it entered the river that bisected the town, there was business. It was a rich man wearing brocade.
The old man and a middle-aged strong man in coarse linen clothes, who looked like a rich man and his nursing home attendant, went out to drink wine.
The painting boat is of medium size. There are five boatwomen, two of them are rowing the boat, two are playing the piano and making wine. The remaining one is the most beautiful and beautiful lady, sitting next to the old man and serving her carefully, like a little bird clinging to him. This makes
The old man in Jinyi laughed heartily and pointed at the rough man opposite him, "How about it, Lao Xie, people rely on their clothes to dress up, and they rely on their gold clothing. Isn't the old saying true?"
The man didn't know whether he was angry out of embarrassment or because he was an upright man. He took a glass of wine from the wine-making woman, thanked her, and said to the old man: "Don't thank me all the time. I'm not familiar with you."
The old man was a thick-skinned man. When he took the drink, he took the opportunity to touch the back of the boat girl's hand. He also winked at the graceful woman and raised his eyebrows. The boat girl was so disgusted that she had to force a smile. The old man
He didn't care about this and took a sip of wine. "You're not familiar with me, but I'm familiar with you. Your name, Lao Xie, has spread from the northeast to our south. Every time I tell my old friend
Speaking of you, after they learned that you and I were from the same hometown, they all asked me to help introduce you, saying that it was a pity that we could not meet such a great hero."
The man just frowned and said nothing, lowered his head and drank.
The old man has two beards. He is sitting cross-legged with his head tilted, looking at the feasting lights on the shore. He is spinning the wine glass with one hand and stroking his beard with the fingers of the other hand. This kind of dignity seems to others to be despicable, not to mention that the old man is sitting cross-legged.
He sat with his knees deliberately pressed against the plump buttocks of the woman next to him. Even the woman who was used to seeing women regretted not sitting next to the taciturn man.
When the old man raised his arm to stroke his beard, a length of sleeve was exposed. The boatmen's ladies in the boat who were good at observing words and expressions were a little disappointed. It turned out that the old man had a long green rope tied around his wrist. If it were worn on the hand of a child, it would still look good.
It's slender and cute, but it looks really out of place on an old man's hand.
The old man suddenly looked away and asked the beautiful woman next to him, "You ladies, do you believe in the oath of eternal love?"
Not only did she not know how to answer, but the other boatwomen also looked at each other a little confused, wondering what kind of medicine the old man was selling in his gourd.
The old man laughed loudly and pointed to the man opposite, "It's really useful to find him. He is a mountain king. He is in charge of many mountains. Mountain alliances, mountain alliances, and mountain alliances, the mountain alliance here..."
The man frowned and said nothing, drinking slowly and absent-mindedly.
The old man pointed at himself and said, "Actually, it's useful to look for me. There is a very tall building under the sky. It's called Zhenhai Tower. It's on the seaside. My home is near Zhenhai Tower."
The man finally couldn't help it, his face was full of displeasure, "Cao, what are you doing showing off to them?"
The old man took a sip of wine, picked up a pair of chopsticks to eat with the food, and squinted at the man, "It's interesting to talk to them who don't understand anything. It's boring to show off to people in the mountains."
The man's brows were full of gloom, and he was drinking heavily.
To be continued...