When you live in a high temple, you worry about the people; when you live in a far away world, you worry about your king. If you advance, you worry about your progress and retreat, you worry about when you are happy? If you worry about the world before you worry about the world, you will be happy about the world after you are happy.-------Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty

The temple and the rivers and lakes are two seemingly unrelated places. However, for thousands of years, these two have been closely related.

Since ancient times, the world has become stable, so the court will be stable; when the court is turbulent, so the world will be turbulent.

The Ming Dynasty was the last Han dynasty in Chinese history. It was once glorious and all nations came to worship.

But no dynasty can escape the rise and fall of changes.

In the Ming Dynasty, since the founding of Hongwu and Yongle Dingji, after the eight emperors and queens of Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, Chenghua, Hongzhi, Zhengde and Jiajing, this once prosperous dynasty has also come to the brink of internal and external troubles.

The king and his ministers were in opposition to each other. Emperor Jiajing did not attend court for more than 20 years, and Yan Song and his son controlled the government. Outside, Japanese pirates and Tatars invaded the border one after another, and the northern border and the southeast coast were slaughtered by thieves.

But fortunately, the strong wind knows the strong grass, and the slander shows loyal ministers. In times of crisis in the country, there are always some people who will stand up.

In the late Jiajing year, there was a straight minister Hai Rui's best memorial in the world, and he bluntly talked about the mistakes of Jiajing; outside, there were famous generals such as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Hu Zongxian who swept the Japanese and resisted the Tatars to defend the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After Jiajing's death, his son Longqing took office and even valued the powerful ministers such as Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Hai Rui to vigorously implement the new policy. For a time, the Ming Dynasty gradually developed a trend of revival.

But good things have gone through. With this year, in the summer of the tenth year of Wanli, the sad death of a generation of Ming supporter Zhang Juzheng once again put a question mark on the entire Ming Dynasty's journey to rejuvenation.

The rivers and lakes and courts also surged again.

And all of this has nothing to do with a seemingly remote Guanzhong town.

Qixia Town, located in Guanzhong, is an inconspicuous town among the forty-six counties in Guanzhong.

And just today, two people were welcomed at the gate of the town.

Both of them are men, one middle-aged and one teenager.

The middle-aged man, with a national face, wearing a blue black robe, an official hat, and a knife in his hand. At first glance, he looked a bit majestic.

It is obvious that this is an official constable, or more accurately, a captain.

But at this time, our captain seemed a little nervous.

I saw him walking on the official road, but he still looked around from time to time, and looked around and looked around as if he was Sun Wukong on the road to the West.

It’s just that Sun Wukong is unscrupulous and is looking for monsters everywhere to fight. But our captain seems a little cowardly, obviously afraid of something.

The boy beside him asked in confusion when he saw the middle-aged man's nervous appearance.

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

Since they walked into this place, his master has begun to become a little abnormal.

"Shh, whisper, we are not peaceful recently." The middle-aged man said in a little scared manner.

"Master, what's wrong? Is it a bandit?" the young man asked in a low voice.

Looking at the boy's curious eyes, the middle-aged man looked up and down, left and right. After confirming that there was no one, he pulled the boy to the side of the road and said in a low voice.

"Sixth, in fact, I didn't plan to take you as a constable now. But if something happened to your family, I had no choice but to take you out with me. I hope you don't blame me for being a teacher." The middle-aged man said a little hesitantly.

"What's wrong with the master? Tell me quickly?" Seeing his master's appearance, Liu's curiosity was also suffocated.

"Master, don't worry. Being a constable is my own choice. I will not blame your master no matter what happens in the future." Xiaoliu patted his chest and promised.

The master looked at Xiao Liu like this and was about to say it, but when he was about to speak, he wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was still afraid of something.

Seeing the master like this, Xiaoliu was also helpless. He knew that his master was timid, but he didn't expect that he was so young.

But he was still very curious about what could scare his master like this.

You should know that although his master is timid, he is not a person who has never seen big scenes. Ji Wuming, the thief god who once killed people, was captured alive by his master.

Although he knew that there were all kinds of coincidences in this, and that his master had just picked up his head, was he even more terrifying than Ji Wuming?

"Master, you are not even afraid of the legendary thief god. What else can make you afraid of being like this?" Xiao Liu asked in confusion.

"I..." The master wanted to speak but stopped. He looked around carefully again, and then said in a low voice after confirming that there was no one.

"This time it's different. Although Ji Wuming said he was killing people, he went for money, but this time..."

The master stopped halfway and looked around.

Seeing the master's fearful look, Xiao Liu was speechless. He had been watching Wulin Waichuan for so long, but he didn't know what role he could make people so afraid of.

"Do you know the male and female evil spirits?" the master whispered in Xiaoliu's ear.

"Ah, the male and female evil spirits." Xiao Liu couldn't help but be a little surprised. That's it?

"Shh, let's just say a little bit!" The middle-aged man looked around in fear.

"This male and female evil spirit is the number one evil person today. It has been less than half a year since his debut. The good people in the world have been beating each other, and there is no reason for them to be!

Like the peddlers in Balizhuang, the hunters in Heifengling, the locksmiths in Baishiqiao, and the woodcutters in Weigong Village, they are all very good people! They don’t argue with others and have no money, but when they encounter this male and female evil spirit, they will be beaten up without saying a word."

The middle-aged man said in fear, and that fearful look was like he saw the male and female demons hitting someone with his own eyes.

"Master, have you ever seen the male and female evil spirits beat people with your own eyes?"

Xiaoliu asked curiously, "This beating is not a murder." As for fear of being so scared? How cruel is this beating!

Listening to Xiaoliu's words, the master glared at him.

"What do you know? These male and female evil spirits are extremely cruel. Even those who have seen him cannot escape."

It seemed that he felt that his apprentice had underestimated him, and the master suddenly changed his tone and said.

"If you want to say that this is more cruel than the male and female evil spirits, you have never seen it. After all, you have never heard of the male and female evil spirits killing people. But if you want to say that this is more evil than the male and female evil spirits, you have never heard of it."

"You said, there are no such people who specialize in fighting well in this world. In the past, those thieves didn't hit people casually. They either made money or wanted names, and they all had their own purposes. But what do you think is the male and female evil spirit? Even the woodcutter and the locksmith were not spared. What's even more ridiculous is that they were fighting while shouting to act on behalf of the heavens. Do you think this is still human? " Old Xing said depressedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly covered his mouth and looked around carefully.

Seeing his master's fearful look, Xiao Liu was speechless.

These male and female evil spirits are really notorious!

As a time traveler, he naturally knew that the so-called male and female evil spirits were just a group of Guo Furong and her maid Xiaoqing.

It was originally called a male and female hero, and the original intention was to be a hero and righteous person, to eliminate evil and to suppress evil.

But who knew that because of Guo Furong's impatient attitude, she did not investigate clearly before taking action and made arbitrary judgments, so she always beat a good person by mistake, and gradually became the badly famous male and female evil spirit today.

Since I have known about this so-called male and female evil spirit, the young man will naturally not be afraid.

Seeing his master still scared, the young man smiled.

"Master, I think we should hurry up and hurry up, otherwise it will be troublesome if we encounter these male and female evil spirits."

"Yes, yes, yes! Let's go quickly. I heard that the male and female evil spirits have recently wandered into our area. We must not stay in the wild for too long."

As he said that, the middle-aged man took the boy quickly across the boundary marker and walked towards the town.

The boy couldn't help but smile when he looked at the boundary monument with the three big words Qixia Town behind him.

"I have been dreaming of happiness for ten years, and I wake up and become a dreamer."

The boy didn't expect that when he woke up, he actually traveled through time, and he also traveled through time and became a classic character in the martial arts legend, Yan Xiaoliu.

However, when the boy thought of the name Yan Xiaoliu, he couldn't help but feel a little sad. A big fire and two lives were caused. I don't know if it was because of his arrival.

‘Oh, no matter that much. From today on, I will be Yan Xiaoliu. I will live well for you in the next life.’

The boy held his heart with one hand and said silently in his heart, not knowing whether the long-dead soul could hear it.

"Liu, what are you doing? Hurry up!" The master looked at Xiao Liu standing on the spot and shouted in a hurry.

"Hey, Master!" The young man responded happily, one master and one disciple walked towards the town, but he didn't know that their fate had already changed quietly.

Shortly after the two left, the two handsome young men also walked towards the town with their bags and swords on their backs.

Judging from the two of them, they are obviously from the world.

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"Business is prosperous and spreads all over the world, wealth reaches Sanjiang, Tongfu Inn!"

Xiao Liu couldn't help but recite the familiar and unfamiliar building in front of him.

"Oh, Xiaoliu, do you still know the words?" The master couldn't help but feel curious when he saw Xiaoliu read the couplet at the door of the store.

‘Oh no, I forgot that Xiao Liu was illiterate.’ The young man muttered to himself and explained with a smile.

"It's such a master. When I was welcoming the bride, I saw a couplet exactly like this. At that time, a kind-hearted gentleman read it to me, so I accidentally wrote it down."

"Oh, so that's how it is. I thought you kid..."

After hearing Xiaoliu's explanation, the master understood. After all, are couplets? They are basically copied from each other, especially those inns. Who would write them by themselves?

Although there was a scholar Lu in the inn, it was okay to ask the scholar to write two sour poems. If he asked him to write such vulgar couplets, he probably just found two couplets written by his predecessors to deal with it.

However, before the master finished speaking, the door that had been closed in the inn suddenly opened.

"Old Xing, you are finally back. Do you know that our hearts are about to be broken if we miss you."

I saw a woman in red clothes pushing the door quickly and grabbing Lao Xing's hand and crying.

Xiao Liu looked at this scene and couldn't help but think that his master was so lucky.

But after a closer look, I realized that the woman with a charm was actually Zhanggui Tong.
To be continued...