After the Battle of Rome, Lin Qingxuan was drifting in the sea, and Hou Tonghai was still in Sicily. Thousands of miles away in China, Mongolia and the Song Dynasty were fighting each other with swords in the Central Plains, and they were killing each other within a few months.
, blood flowed into a river.
Since a few years ago, Mongolia and the Song Dynasty attacked from the north and south, destroyed the Jin Kingdom, and divided up the Jin Kingdom's land, the relationship between the two countries was no longer as close as brothers before, but began to have small frictions.
It's just that Tuo Lei and Zhao Zhiyan are both disciples of the Quanzhen Sect Qingxuan Zhenjun. For the sake of their old mentor, even though the Mongolian nobles and the generals of the Song Dynasty are clamoring for a southward and northern expedition, one wants to dominate the world, and the other wants to regain the lost territory.
, but still managed to suppress it.
When the news of Genghis Khan's death reached China last year, the fourth prince Tuo Lei immediately succeeded to the throne. However, Tuo Lei suffered some arrow wounds during the southern expedition to Jin Dynasty. Later, the arrow wounds lingered and were difficult to heal. Despite the efforts of Quanzhen Taoist Master
Although he received medical treatment, his injuries were still serious, and he passed away a few months later before Genghis Khan and Ogedei's golden coffins returned to the desert.
A few months later, Meng Ge and Guyu, who had escorted the Great Khan's body, returned to the desert and held the Khlitai Conference. Then in the winter of the 29th year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty, Meng Ge officially became the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
After burying Genghis Khan and Ogedai, Guyuk returned to the Western Regions. In the eastern lands, there were only Dali and the Song Dynasty, and the three regions of Goryeo were not unified.
Brother Meng is young and vigorous, and is not yet interested in the art of immortality. He strongly agrees with the idea of dominating Mongolia and enjoying the colorful world in the south. However, after all, he has followed his grandfather in the Western Expeditions for many years, and has also seen the Qingxuan Zhenjun with his own eyes.
He knew that this living god would not allow Mongolia and the Song Dynasty to fight against each other. His grandfather and father had promised that the true monarch would not go south. Although he did not promise that it would be okay to raise troops south in time, the true monarch Qingxuan was Han after all.
, because he was afraid of this peerless master, Brother Meng did not dare to act rashly at first.
However, a few months later, in the first year of Zhaoguang of the Song Dynasty, news came from the Western Regions that after a year of seclusion, Qingxuan Zhenjun went to Rome in the West to compete with the masters of the Tianfang Sect. As a result, there was no news from the westward party and no one knew about it.
Dead or alive, all we know is that the Holy See of Rome was in dire straits. It is said that none of the experts who participated in the grand war were spared.
Although the True Lord Qingxuan may not die, Brother Meng was very happy that he had not heard from him for a long time. He guessed that the True Lord had either ascended during the day or was seriously injured and was hiding to heal.
Now Mongolia has had two great Khans, and the Jiading Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty also passed away. The king of Runan, Zhao Xiyan, changed his name to Zhao Xi to inherit the throne as the emperor's younger brother, and changed his name to Zhaoguang.
Since then, the two major countries in East Asia, the north and the south, have changed their heads of state. Mongolia has no taboos and worries, and wants to conquer the south and unify the world. The Song Dynasty has accumulated more than ten years of training elite troops, opened up maritime trade, and thought about the Northern Expedition to restore the Central Plains. Finally, after the Spring Festival, the two countries
Then the vigorous Central Plains War began.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuo, the Jiading Emperor, was originally scheduled to have a lifespan of seventeen years before he died in Jiading. Then the Prime Minister Shi Miyuan issued an imperial edict to establish Zhao Guicheng, the eldest son of the emperor, as the new emperor. Zhao Guicheng changed his name to Zhao Yun after he came to the throne, and later became the treacherous prime minister.
Jia Sidao's Song Lizong.
However, because of the appearance of Lin Qingxuan, Zhao Kuo relied on the method of prolonging life and longevity to live more than 10 years longer than in history. However, after all, life is limited, and he finally died in the spring of the 28th year of Jiading.
Because Zhao Kuo has been practicing Taoism without caring about worldly affairs for nearly ten years, and Zhao Xiyan, the king of Runan County, has been in charge of the central government for nearly ten years. The two brothers have a very good relationship, so the successor designated in the will of Emperor Jiading before his death was
It's the emperor's younger brother Zhao Xiyan.
After Zhao Xiyan came to the throne, he changed his name to Zhao Xian and Yuan Zhaoguang. At the same time, he also began to take advantage of the opportunity that only part of the Mongolian Western Expedition army had returned to launch the Northern Expedition, preparing to recapture the Central Plains and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
So destiny is sometimes strange. In the same year, NMG replaced Meng Ge as the new Great Khan, and the Song Dynasty also changed to a new emperor, Zhao Xiyan. The situation with the new people was completely different from a few years ago.
It has been more than ten years since the resurgence of Jiading. The Song Dynasty worked hard to govern, train elite soldiers, open up shipping, rely on silk, porcelain, and tea to communicate with Japan, Goryeo, Balni, Champa, Khmer and other small countries in the East and South China Sea as well as Tianzhu.
Arabs and Persians trade with each other, and their annual shipping income is very high.
There is also the Quanzhen Religion, which relies on the reputation and status of the Mongolian state religion to do business on the land Silk Road from Xi'an to the west via Samarkand, Tabriz, etc., and it also makes millions of taels of silver every year.
, more than half of this money was allocated to Lin'an Qingniu Palace to supply Qingniu Palace to train the five-way guard army. This army is now the new army under the personal control of Zhao Guang Emperor Zhao Xian.
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During the Mid-Autumn Festival in August of the first year of Zhaoguang in the Song Dynasty, the South Lake in Jiaxing was filled with light smoke, and the blue waves shone like colored glass. A small boat rowed across the lake, with five girls sitting on the boat picking lotuses and singing.
"The Yue girl is picking lotuses by the autumn water, her narrow sleeves are light and her sleeves are light, revealing her double gold necklace.
Picking flowers according to the shadow looks like the face, and the hearts are only in turmoil.
It was a stormy night at the head of Jichi Creek, the fog was heavy and the smoke was light, and the companion who came when he came was nowhere to be seen.
The faint sound of singing returns far away, and the sorrow of leaving leads me to look at the south bank of the river."
A burst of soft and melodious singing floated on the misty lake. Five girls in the boat were singing and laughing, rowing and picking lotus flowers.
As the boat goes away, there is still a song faintly heard - "Loveless lovers secretly change, old travels are like dreams and the heart is broken..."
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lotus leaves are gradually dying, the lotus flesh is full, and the weeping willows on the shore are moving with the wind. An old man in a green robe and long beard has been standing quietly under the tree.
When those two words came to him, he let out a very light sigh.
The boat glides across the turquoise lake. Three of the five girls in the boat are around fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other two are only nine years old. The two younger girls are cousins. The cousin's surname is Cheng, and her last name is an English character.
, the cousin’s surname is Lu and her first name is Wushuang, they are half a year apart.
Three older girls sang songs and swung the boat out from the lotus leaves.
Cheng Ying said: "Cousin, look, this old uncle is still here," he said, pointing to a person under the weeping willow.
The man has wild hair and a beard as fluffy as a hedgehog. The beard is shiny and black. He is not old, but his face is full of deep wrinkles, but he looks like an old man in his seventies or eighties. He is wearing a blue cloth with a straight robe on his neck.
There is a brocade bib used by babies hanging on it. The bib is embroidered with a picture of a cat fluttering with a butterfly. It is old and tattered.
Lu Wushuang said: "This weirdo has been sitting here for a long time, not moving at all?" Cheng Ying said: "Don't call him a weirdo, call him 'old uncle'. If you call him a weirdo, he will be angry." Lu Wushuang said.
He smiled and said, "Isn't he weird? He is so old, but he has a bib hanging around his neck. When he is angry, it would look better if his beard stood up." He picked up a lotus pod from the boat and put it on
Throw it over the man's head.
I saw the lotus pod flying straight towards the stranger's face. The stranger raised his head and bit the lotus pod without reaching out to take it. He curled his tongue, bit the lotus pod and started chewing it.
When the five girls saw that he didn't peel the lotus seeds out and weren't afraid of the bitter taste, they just ate them whole. They looked at each other for a few times and couldn't help but giggle. They rowed a boat and walked ashore.
Cheng Ying walked up to the man, tugged on his clothes and said, "Old uncle, this is not delicious."
Take out a lotus pod from the bag, split the lotus chamber, peel out a dozen lotus seeds, then tear open the green skin outside the lotus seeds, take out the bitter core of the lotus seeds, and hand it to the stranger.
The stranger chewed a few mouthfuls, but found that the taste was fragrant and delicious, which was very different from what he had just eaten. He grinned at Cheng Ying, nodded, looked up to the sky and said, "Follow me?" After saying that, he hugged the two of them and flew quickly.
No trace left.
A few hours later, there was a manor with a large area on the west side of Jiaxing City, but strangely there was no plaque on the gate. It was dark at this time, Lu Wushuang and Cheng Ying rushed into Zhuangzi hand in hand.
There was a look of horror on the girl's face.
Lu Wushuang opened his mouth and shouted: "It's not good, it's not good! Come on, Dad, Mom, that lunatic is digging the graves of uncle and aunt!" He ran into the hall and saw his father, Lu Liding, standing up and shouting: "Nonsense.
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Cheng Ying said: "Uncle, it's true." Lu Liding knew that his daughter was cunning, naughty and weird, but Cheng Ying never lied, so she asked: "What's the matter?" Lu Wushuang said what happened just now.
once.
Lu Liding knew something was wrong, so before she could finish her words, he took off his single sword from the wall and hurried towards his brother and sister-in-law's grave.
Rushing to the grave, he saw that not only the graves of his brother and sister-in-law had been dug, but their coffins had also been opened. When he heard his daughter talking about someone digging their graves, he had expected this, but seeing it with his own eyes
, still couldn't help but feel my heart pounding wildly. But there was no trace of the body in the coffin, and the lime, paper tendons, cotton pads, etc. in the coffin were in a mess.
He calmed down and saw many iron marks on the lids of the two coffins. He couldn't help but feel sad and angry, surprised and suspicious. He hadn't asked his daughter in detail just now, wondering what the relationship between this evil corpse thief and his brother and sister-in-law was.
They had a deep hatred and resentment, and they destroyed their bodies to vent their anger even after they died? They immediately chased them with a knife.
All his martial arts skills were passed down from his elder brother Lu Zhanyuan. He is indifferent by nature and comes from a well-off family. He has had a good life and has never traveled in the rivers and lakes. It can be said that he has no experience and lacks the ability to adapt to changes. He does not know how to look for corpse thieves.
After walking around in circles, he returned to the grave. Without any idea, he stayed there for a long time and had no choice but to go home.
As soon as Lu Liding entered the door, he heard a loud laugh that made his heart skip a beat.
"What a little thief, my dear Ayuan was deceived by you and died within a few years. It's really abominable!"
Lu Liding's heart sank, knowing that his brother's enemy had arrived.
On the day that my brother and sister-in-law got married ten years ago, the senior master wanted to make things difficult for them. Fortunately, a senior monk from Tianlong Temple in Dali was at the wedding banquet to calm the two of them and keep the brother and sister-in-law safe for ten years. The man was forced to
He promised not to embarrass his brother and sister-in-law within ten years, so it will be ten years in the near future.
Lu Liding had been worried for a long time, but before his brother died, he said that he would suffer a little at most, and that person would definitely not kill him. But now, this enemy stole the body of his brother and sister-in-law and came to visit him again. I really don't know what his evil plans are.
Before he finished speaking, he saw an old man in blue cloth breaking through the door and stepping in. His eyes flashed fiercely, he glared at Lu Liding in the hall and cursed: "You Jiangnan people are so cunning and hateful. You deceived Ayuan, you little thief."
You can just die, but let her die for your love. It is really hateful. I will destroy your Lujiazhuang today so that you can know that I, the Dali people, are not easy to bully!"
Lu Liding knew that his old enemy was coming, so he immediately stepped forward with his sword drawn. However, after a short fight, he was hit in the shoulder by a strange man. He took four or five steps back and still felt the sharp pain.
The weirdo stepped forward and kicked Lu Liding down again, then went straight to the hall to get a lamp, and then lit the doors and windows. Watching the flames in the hall gradually ignite, the weird look on his face gradually calmed down.
Guxi
"Ayuan, Daddy didn't protect you well, and you were deceived and killed by the thieves from Jiangnan. After Lujiazhuang was burned down, Daddy took your bones back to Dali, and we will never be separated again..."
When Lujiazhuang was lit and the fire became more and more intense, it suddenly alarmed a middle-aged Taoist priest in his mid-thirties who was walking north along the river in the distance.
The Taoist priest carried a sword behind his back and led a handsome young man around thirteen years old. The two of them were slightly startled when they saw the fireworks in the distance in the dark night.
The young man said: "Master, there is water there."
The Taoist priest was extremely well-groomed, with a neatly trimmed short mustache. He frowned and said, "I don't know why he is so careless."
A peasant woman walked down the path not far away. Behind her were two boys of fourteen or fifteen years old. The two children were quite handsome, but they were much inferior to the boys around the Taoist priest.
The middle-aged Taoist frowned immediately when he saw the woman walking with flying steps and the two children who seemed to have Qinggong skills.
When the woman came closer, she heard the Taoist talking to the young man. She had gone far away but suddenly came back and asked, "Is the Taoist a disciple of Quanzhen? Isn't that your title and surname?"
The middle-aged Taoist had long seen that the woman was from the world of martial arts, so he raised his hand and said, "Young Taoist Yin Zhiping, I don't know my aunt's surname."
"It turns out to be Taoist Master Yin, the third generation chief of Chongyang Palace. That's disrespectful."
The woman was quite surprised when she heard this, and bowed and said: "My official is Wu Santong. I would like to ask the Taoist priest to go with me to Lujiazhuang to stop my crazy official, so as not to make a big mistake..."
"It turns out that Mrs. Wu is in front of you. Daxia Wu is a disciple of Master Yideng. In terms of seniority, you are the senior. How can you be so polite and impotent?"
Yin Zhiping hurriedly bowed and returned the salute, wondering: "Wu Daxia has been in Dali for a long time, how come he has become enemies with the disciples of Taohua Island?"
Wu Sanniang shook her head and said, "It's not Taihu Lujiazhuang."
Yin Zhiping immediately understood: "Jiaxing Lujiazhuang, before His Majesty ascended to the throne, Pindao once heard him say that he went to Dali with Lu Zhanyuan, the owner of Lujiazhuang, and had some contacts with Tianlong Temple in his early years. It is said that the wife of Lujiazhuang is the
People from Dali.”
"Master Lu's wife is He Yuanjun, the adopted daughter of Third Master and I..."
When Wu Sanniang said that she saw that the flames in front seemed to be much brighter, she immediately said urgently: "The one on fire is Lujiazhuang. The matter is urgent. Please follow me, Taoist Priest."
Yin Zhiping nodded and said to the young man beside him: "Tomorrow, you and these two brothers should stay here and don't move around. I'll go and come back."
"Dunru, the literary scholars are here with the little brothers and must not move around randomly."
After saying that, Yin Zhiping and Wu Sanniang used light kung fu and disappeared without a trace.
Brothers Dawu and Xiaowu saw that this neatly dressed young man looked good-looking, and they felt close to him. One young man said: "My name is Wu Dunru."
Another said: "My name is Wu Xiuwen, what is your name?"
"My name is Yang Ming. The Taoist priest just now is my master. He came to my house to accept me as his disciple. He wants to take me back to Chongyang Palace to kowtow to my ancestor."
Wu Xiuwen grinned and said: "The Quanzhen Sect is very famous. Where are you from? We are both from Dali. We have heard that the Song Dynasty was prosperous and wealthy since we were young. When we came here recently, it seems to be similar to Dali."
Yang Ming has been supported by his parents and grandparents since he was a child. Although he has also learned the Four Books and Five Classics, he is the happiest when going out with his master this time. He smiled and said: "Where is Dali? My home is in Hetang Village, not far from here.
Far."
The three children chatted and laughed, and discussed the order of their teeth. Yang Ming was slightly younger than Wu Dunju, and not much different from Wu Xiuwen. After waiting for a while, they heard a few crows, and the three of them were a little scared when they saw the flames in the distance.
It seemed to have become smaller, and the three of them couldn't help but feel curious.
Yang Ming whispered: "Let's go over and take a look."
Wu Dunru was more honest, shook his head and said, "Mom won't let you move around."
Wu Xiuwen rolled his eyes, very moved. Yang Ming was about to speak when he suddenly heard several eagle cries and saw two huge white eagles circling and soaring in the sky in the distance, with their wings spread horizontally.
For a long time, he had never seen such a big eagle. After staring for a moment, he saw the big eagle flying not far away.
With a whistle, two big eagles fell to the ground, and a little girl came out.
I saw that she was wearing a light green robe, with a string of pearls hanging around her neck. Her face was as white and tender as butter, as if water was dripping out of her eyes, her eyes were flowing, and her eyebrows were long and slender. Neither Xiao Wu nor Yang Ming had ever seen her look like this.
Although she is a child, she is still close to her, but she looks arrogant and it is hard to come up and talk to her.
There was a clang sound, and a lame old man holding an iron crutch turned out from behind the tree. Under the moonlight, he could see that his temples were like frost, his appearance was haggard, and his eyes were white. He was blind.
The old blind man approached and said, "Fu'er, it's getting dark. Your mother and your other father-in-laws should be back. I don't know if they have found your grandfather. Let's go back."
The little girl deliberately looked at Yang Ming and said loudly: "Eunuch, you see three people standing by the river at night and you don't know what bad things they are going to do."
The old blind man is a native of Jiaxing. He became famous in the world many years ago. Although he has not been involved in the world for more than ten years, his martial arts is not bad. He has heard the breathing of three people for a long time, but he realized that they were just ordinary teenagers.
Don't care.
"We are not doing bad things. We are waiting for our parents. Brother Yang is waiting for his master."
The girl curled her lips and said, "Then it's your master and your parents who have done bad things. Otherwise, why would you stay here so late at night?"
Wu Xiuwen and Wu Dunru were furious, but seeing that the girl was richly dressed and beautiful, they did not dare to say anything more. They just said: "You are talking nonsense."
Yang Ming was also a young master who had been pampered since he was a child. He immediately snorted and said, "Aren't you also taking an old blind man around outside at night? Is it possible that your parents, mother and master also did bad things?"
The little girl frowned, turned around and said, "Eunuch, he scolded you."
Although the old blind man usually couldn't listen to people's blind words, he didn't want to get angry with a child, so he pulled the little girl and turned around to leave.
The little girl was not relieved, and suddenly whistled softly, and the two big white eagles flew to Yang Ming's head and grabbed him. If Yang Ming couldn't dodge this catch, a piece of his scalp would be torn off.
But Yang Ming twisted his waist to dodge the grasp, then raised his right hand and threw out an iron caltrop with a cold light.
When it comes to playing with caltrops, this old blind man is an expert. He has already reached the pinnacle of listening to the wind. He suddenly threw a caltrop and knocked it down by Yang Ming. Then he jumped onto Yang Ming with a push of the iron crutch.
He stepped forward and grabbed Yang Ming's right arm with a flick of his wrist. Yang Ming hit the old blind man in the lower abdomen with one stroke of his left hand.
The old blind man let out a sigh, and Yang Ming felt a sharp pain in his heart with just a little force on his palm, and his left hand lost all strength.
"This is Xiaoyaoyou Boxing. Boy, are you a member of the Beggar Clan?"
The old blind man snorted and pushed away three feet.
Yang Ming raised his hand and looked at his arm in the moonlight. He saw several blood-red fingerprints on it, which stung like fire. He knew it was the old man's strong grasping skills, so he narrowed his eyes and said, "I'm not from the Beggar Clan. My master is a member of the Beggar Clan."
Zhenjiao Taoist Master Yin Zhiping."
"It turns out he is a disciple of the Quanzhen Sect."
The old blind man nodded and said with a look of admiration: "Old blind man Ke has the good fortune to associate with Master Ma and Master Qiu of the Quanzhen Sect. He admires Master Ma and Master Qingxuan the most. Even Taoist Master Yin Zhiping has met him several times.
noodle.
The Quanzhen sect’s martial arts are authentic in the world, so why did Taoist Master Yin leave you brothers and sisters here? Could it be that you encountered some evil person?”
"They are not Quanzhen Cult disciples, they are the two young masters of Dali Wu Santong..."