A chance encounter in the river of life often ends in separation.
The blind old Taoist named Xuan Guzi was silent all the way, which made the little girl feel a little unaccustomed to drinking.
Although the lame boy was unwilling to hand over the snake gallstone, after hesitation and entanglement, he still took the initiative to hand it over to the ill-tempered master.
The old Taoist took the fine-textured stone, held it in his hand and rubbed it carefully for a moment, then for the first time handed it back to the young man, "Keep it for yourself."
The lame boy took the stone in confusion and looked at Xiao Jiu'er, who also shook his head quietly, indicating that he could not guess the master's thoughts.
The old man said softly: "Little cripple, this is your fate. Master can't take it away. If you really take it, it will not be a good thing. Why do you think that young man named Chen Ping'an used the inn to send a letter back to Longquan County? I guess
If we get to Tai Sui and work in a grass-roots shop as a teacher instead of taking out the stones with our own hands, our life there will not be easy. We may not be made things difficult for us, but don’t expect to gain a foothold smoothly, let alone
Forget about finding a mountain top and living under someone else's roof to practice cultivation."
The lame boy said oh, he is not a person with a crooked heart and is not good at thinking about these problems.
The blind old Taoist rubbed the little girl's head and said, "You two are so lucky."
Xiao Jiuer was more thoughtful than his brother and asked: "Master, are the life experiences of young lady and the others unusual?"
The old Taoist nodded and said: "That Longquan County was originally the Lizhu Cave Sky above the Great Li Dynasty. It was broken and then took root on the ground. Before, there was the Confucian saint Qi Jingchun who was in charge for a period of time. Now these children are carrying book boxes, each one smarter than the other.
They say they are going on a long trip to Sui Academy, so who do you think they are students from?"
The little girl was a little envious, "Students of Confucian saints are really amazing."
The blind old Taoist sneered: "Otherwise, the first thing that the Fengxue Temple Sword Immortal Wei Jin did when he broke through the barrier was to come to rescue him? Besides, these children have a Yin God as a retinue, and they can actually threaten that child.
As fierce as a ghost, none of these children can save money."
The old man sighed: "The future is limitless, limitless."
The little girl was a bit belated and asked curiously: "Since Master knows that they are protected by experts, why bother to tell them about the situation of the ghosts in Sanzhi Mountain? They don't have to worry at all."
The old Taoist habitually reached out and pinched the little girl's cheek, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, this is called favor without cost. You can become a good person without spending a copper coin. Why don't you do it?"
The little girl said timidly: "But if people see through Master's thoughts, wouldn't Master just add superfluity?"
The old Taoist was speechless, shook his head and sighed, and finally patted the little girl on the head, "Master, I will treat you two better in the future. For so many years, Master has always thought about picking up a huge leak one day, and he can just pick it up on the roadside.
Disciples with extraordinary talents, I often despise you two because they have bad backgrounds and bad backgrounds, but looking back, it turns out that Master has been in trouble."
The little girl was a little scared. Such an old Taoist was so unfamiliar. Her face turned pale and she said, "Master, are you possessed by a ghost? You don't even recognize him after drinking."
The old Taoist laughed loudly and suddenly said in a low voice: "Jiu'er, master promised not to collect the talisman spring within one year. Now I will discuss with you and change it from one year to half a year. What do you think? Master's trip
When it comes to subduing demons and slaying demons, it’s true that the Tao is as high as the demon. Not only did I give the female ghost a good beating, but not only were there missing four words on the banner, but I also sent out a copy of the "Search" passed down by the master's ancestors.
"Mountain Pictures", you disciples, don't you know how to feel sorry for your master and show your filial piety?"
The little girl was relieved, this was the master she was familiar with, so she said simply: "Half a year, half a year!"
The lame boy carefully collected the stone and said dullly: "The stone is already mine."
The blind old Taoist was so angry that he yelled: "A dog can't change its habit of eating shit!"
The little girl covered her mouth with her hand and smiled.
The little cripple also started laughing.
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In a deserted place, the Yin God revealed his true form, but his face was still blurry, black smoke shrouded his body, and the Yin Qi was strong. He spoke hoarsely: "I couldn't protect you, and I even caused you to be kidnapped to the female ghost's mansion. I'm sorry.
Already."
Chen Ping'an really didn't know how to comfort people, so he held it in for a long time before finally saying, "Just do your best."
Yin Shen smiled bleakly, "Anyway, I can't escape the blame this time. Especially because I was greedy for personal cultivation, which brought you to such a situation. I really have a bad conscience. If something happens to you, I will even
Afterwards, there is no point in destroying the mountain roots and water sources here and dying together with the female ghost."
Li Baoping said with a smile: "When I was a child, my elder brother liked to tell me some weird things. Once he told a story about a city god, saying that the way to measure moral virtue is different. I remember it very clearly, it is called doing good with intention but doing good.
If you don’t reward, you will not be punished even if you do evil unintentionally. When your manpower is exhausted, if you try your best and do your best, you don’t have to feel too guilty. Otherwise, being a human being is tiring and being a ghost is tiring.”
Yin Shen was speechless, being taught the truth by a little girl. Even though she had shown a gentlemanly attitude before, it was still a bit awkward.
The little girl fell into her own world again. She was a little annoyed and pounded her palms with her fists. "My elder brother always said these weird things. At that time, I only listened to them as interesting stories. I should have known better."
Chen Pingan was about to speak but stopped.
Yin Shen looked at Chen Ping'an and smiled: "Can we talk alone?"
Chen Pingan nodded and asked Lin Shouyi and the others to go first.
Yin Shen waited until Lin Shouyi and the others were about half a mile away and said, "I was arranged by old man Yang from the drug store to protect Li Huai."
Chen Pingan scratched his head, "I thought you were here to protect Baoping or Lin Shouyi."
The Yin God smiled and said: "Li Huai's father, Li Er, almost killed the vassal king Song Changjing. He was very powerful. Once, Li Er came to Old Man Yang and said that his wife was being bullied, and he wanted to go out to find that family.
The ancestors had to leave Lizhu Cave to settle accounts. Old Yang was stubborn and had no choice but to agree. Later, I heard that there was a famous Xianjia Mountain Gate in Aquarius Continent, and Li Er demolished it with his fists.
The Patriarch Hall, and it was all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain."
Chen Pingan opened his mouth wide.
Don't they all say that Li Er is the most unpromising man in the west of the town? Even his son Li Huai has always thought so.
Chen Pingan asked in confusion: "Why didn't Li Er tell Li Huai?"
Yin Shen seemed to be in a much better mood after mentioning Li Er, "Li Er has a very bad temper, otherwise he wouldn't have married Li Huai's mother as his wife."
Chen Ping'an laughed heartily and said: "Li Huai will be very happy when he knows the truth."
Yin Shen asked: "You don't plan to tell Li Huai this? Over at Pillow Station, you just told Baoping the truth directly, even if A Liang advised you not to tell her in a hurry."
Chen Pingan walked forward slowly, "I think it is right about my own affairs. Of course I can make my own decision. But since Li Huai's father is unwilling to tell his son, why should I, an outsider, tell Li Huai the truth?
?Is it because I think Li Huai will be happier like this? This is not good."
Yin Shen nodded, thinking that it was no wonder that Li Er didn't think highly of those proud men back then, but he valued this boy from Mud Bottle Lane more. He even broke the rules and wanted to give the golden carp together with the Dragon King basket.
Chen Pingan.
Chen Ping'an suddenly stopped and asked: "Because I have very good eyesight and was worried that you were a bad person at the time, so I remember clearly that when you first appeared, Senior Yin Shen, the first thing you saw was me.
I went to see Li Huai, why? Is it just an unintentional act? If you don’t want to answer, Senior Yinshen can pretend that I didn’t ask.”
If the Yin Shen were still alive, his mouth would be dry and he would be on pins and needles.
He had never imagined that Chen Ping'an would be so attentive. At that time, his sight flashed away and he was no longer well hidden.
However, when he thought of Chen Pingan's performance along the way, Yin Shen felt relieved again. This is probably why Chen Pingan was able to convince the public.
Even if Lin Shouyi has now reached the fifth level and become a real mountain god, Li Baoping still won't listen to him, and the same goes for Li Huai. As for the Yin Shen himself, I'm afraid there will be no exception. In his eyes, Lin Shouyi,
After all, he is just an extremely smart, well-qualified young man.
This feeling is very strange.
It seems that the boy from Mud Bottle Alley has a kind of temperament that makes people feel "at ease" and "naturally justified".
If the young man says this is wrong, other people in the team will think that it is wrong.
If the young man says this is feasible, then he can do it.
But what's even more strange is that the boy has never deliberately shown off any of his strengths.
On the contrary, he would humbly ask for advice on literacy and reading from the little girl who called him Junior Uncle. He never even regarded Li Huai as an ignorant child, and was willing to stay with Lin Shouyi to chat and listen to what the latter said about the outside world.
Things of heaven and earth.
Yin Shen finally smiled and said: "I won't answer this question yet, but you don't have to worry, I won't harm you."
Chen Pingan trotted forward, turned around and said with a smile: "If I didn't believe senior, I wouldn't have asked this question."
Yin Shen slowly disappeared and sighed, traveling far away with these children, I felt really tired.
In fact, Zhu Lu, the maid with a bad temperament, is considered a genius who cannot be underestimated among ordinary members of the Yamashita Dynasty. It is a pity that in this team, she has been thrown away by thousands of miles from beginning to end.
In every aspect, none of them can compare.
Going further south, it seems that first the Longxu River and the Tiefu River, then the Xiuhua River, the Chongdan River, and the Chongdan River have more water than the mountains. But in the next day and a half, it seems that all the "water transport" has been used up.
It's hard to find even mountain streams. In fact, there is water, but it's all stagnant water pits that are undrinkable. Most of them are sickly willow seedlings, neither tall nor lush, and often crooked. Flying insects are everywhere along the way.
It always makes people feel uncomfortable.
Li Huai was a little scared, because the blind old Taoist with a crow's mouth said that they would soon pass by a ghost place called Sanzhi Mountain, where there were evil ghosts, and there were some infernal corpses that could serve as the evil ghost's minions.
When he thought of this, Li Huai felt depressed. His painted puppets and clay figurines were too small. Even if he survived, he would still be strong enough in fighting. What's more, the five small clay figurines presented by the sword fairy in white, he
No matter how hard you try, you can't survive. Could it be that he's a liar? He doesn't want to give himself good things, and he can't let go of his airs as a swordsman, so he deliberately created a big cake for himself?
In the dusk, Chen Pingan stopped to set up a stove to cook. Li Huai ran to pick up a large handful of dry branches, then squatted aside and complained to Chen Pingan: "Chen Pingan, I think the Fengxue Temple in the Wei and Jin Dynasties
Not good."
Chen Pingan ignored him.
Li Huai went to his bookcase and took out a painted puppet and a clay figurine. He used the puppet to bully the little clay figurine holding a sword, and then made the latter kneel down and beg for mercy, shouting "Ms. Ghost, please spare my life."
, I, Wei Jin, know I was wrong..."
Chen Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to explain: "Wei Jin is a very good person."
Li Huai rolled his eyes, moved his hands wildly, and continued to let the painted puppet ravage the clay figurine.
Lin Shouyi was sitting on a rock not far away, looking through the "Soushan Picture". He raised his head and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Wei and Jin seem to look down on you, or in other words, they think least of you."
Li Baoping, who was silently packing the small book box, was furious, "Is there such a thing?"
After lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, and slowly lighting the firewood pile, Chen Ping'an squatted down and prepared to cook, "Looking down on me, what does it have to do with whether he is a good person or not?"
Li Huai looked shocked, "Chen Pingan, how do you think that people who look down on me can still be good people? They must not be that good people!"
Chen Ping'an got busy in an orderly manner and said to himself: "People as powerful as Wei and Jin are still called land swordsmen, but when they talk to us, they are still kind and willing to tell us children the facts and reason.
Do you think all the gods on the mountain are like this? No. Before I left the town, I encountered gods who killed people only based on their own mood and their own reasons, and there was more than one."
The young man talked about those murderous past events in an understatement, and did not want to say more. He continued: "If you want to be respected, you have to rely on yourself. Do good crops, pull porcelain well, and go into the mountains to chop wood and burn charcoal."
If you are the strongest and fight for water in alleys, if you are not afraid of getting beaten and if you dare to rush ahead, you will naturally be respected by others."
Chen Pingan glanced at them and said, "This is in our hometown. In the future, when Baoping arrives at Sui Academy, if he is very good at studying, and Lin Shouyi, who has become a Qi practitioner at a young age, he will certainly be able to be respected.
As for you, Li Huai..., wait until you are older. There is no need to rush now.
Li Huai became anxious, "Chen Pingan, you are not in a hurry, but I am!"
Chen Ping'an asked: "Get up early every morning to practice walking and boxing with me. Can you get up?"
Li Huai did not hesitate: "Of course I can't get up!"
Chen Ping'an asked again: "How about teaching you how to set up a sword furnace?"
Li Huai looked disgusted, "Why should I learn that? I'm so young."
Chen Pingan said helplessly: "Now that I know that I am young? Then why were you anxious with me in the first place?"
Li Huai was dumbfounded and thought for a long time, but still had no answer. Finally, when everyone was sitting around eating, Li Huai took a piece of pickled vegetables and after a big mouthful of rice, he asked: "Do you think there is anything that can be accomplished overnight in the world?"
A shortcut method, for example, if you practice it today, you will become a god tomorrow? A Liang said no, if I had known before Wei Jin left, I should have asked him if he had it. What if A Liang didn't have it?
I have become rich. This time I went to Sui Dynasty to study, I stepped on a flying sword, swishing, swishing, back and forth, faster than Chen Pingan walking, like the wind! Just follow me and eat
Dust it off!”
Li Baoping asked with a straight face: "Who eats dust?"
Li Huai swallowed, looked at Lin Shouyi, and then silently turned to look at Chen Ping'an. Finally, Li Huai felt a little sad, and suddenly an idea came to him. He quickly picked up the painted puppet from the ground, "It eats! She is now
But the A-level general under my command! No way, he is the tallest, the most beautiful, and the oldest with meritorious deeds. He has been fighting in all directions with me, Li Huai, for the longest time. After that, those five dirty little clay figurines,
We can only wait until Yi, Bing, Ding and Wuji.”
Lin Shou smiled and asked: "What about the little thing in the book "Broken Water Cliff"?"
Li Huai shook his head and said, "Them? I don't like them very much."
Li Baoping revealed the secret in one sentence, "Maybe it's because you don't like reading. You just don't want to see them because you need to turn the pages first."
Li Huai had an expression on his face that said I didn't hear clearly what you said.
Chen Ping'an looked up at the slightly higher Sanzhi Mountain in the distance and asked, "After passing Sanzhi Mountain, we arrived at the town market. Do you want to buy anything?"
Li Baoping said excitedly: "Uncle Master, I want to buy some miscellaneous books. Mr. Qi said that hundreds of schools of thought besides Confucianism have their own classics. You might as well read more. Mr. Qi said that stones from other mountains can be used to attack
Jade."
"Chen Pingan, if possible, I would like to buy a chess set. The cheapest one will be fine."
"Where are you, Li Huai?"
"Give me money and don't buy anything, okay? I want to save it. My mother taught me that if you have money in your pocket, you won't panic!"
Chen Pingan asked back: "What do you think?"
Li Huai chuckled and said, "Isn't this just a fluke? What if you, Chen Ping'an, find out with conscience?"
Chen Pingan chuckled.
Li Huai's smile suddenly froze and he quickly changed the subject, "Didn't the old Taoist tell us not to go to Sanzhi Mountain as long as it gets dark?"
Lin Shou shook his head and said: "I have discussed it with Chen Pingan and Senior Yin Shen. If we are traveling at night and the evil ghost comes out to hurt people, we will suppress it. At first, Senior Yin Shen will stand by and let me take action first.
Using talismans and lightning techniques to repel the enemy is mainly for me to practice. If the evil ghost can't hide, forget it and we will continue on our way."
As night fell, the group slowly climbed the mountain. Sanzhi Mountain was not high, but the mountain was gentle and the slopes were large. Chen Ping'an even deliberately took a detour. There were large mass graves on the mountain that had no descendants to add soil. Of course, there were still more descendants.
The memorial tomb was neatly tidied, and a monument was erected on the grave. There were words on the monument, and some paper money that had not been burned was scattered in front of the monument.
We crossed Sanzhi Mountain in less than an hour, and there was nothing strange except for the slightly cold night breeze.
Lin Shouyi felt a little regretful, but he wouldn't force anything.
After that, the trip to Yefu Pass on the Dali border went more smoothly.
After passing a small town market, Li Baoping bought five or six miscellaneous books, including landscape travel notes, Buddhist and Taoist classics, and literati's notes.
Lin Shouyi bought a chess set and taught Chen Ping'an the rules. He often played chess whenever he had time, because Li Baoping couldn't sit still and wanted to drop seven or eight chess pieces on the chessboard in one go. He always disliked Lin Shou.
The chess game was too slow. As for Li Huai, he was simply too lazy to use his brain. However, the one who played chess with Lin Shou the most was the Yin God.
Li Huai probably spent nearly ten taels of silver on a shabby book in Hongzhu Town, but he didn't buy anything this time.
Although Chen Pingan wanted to practice swordsmanship a little bit, except for occasionally taking out the locust wood sword in his backpack, he never really started practicing swordsmanship.
In Chen Pingan's view, the top priority is to practice boxing well first! Wait until you feel you can distract yourself from work, and then practice swordplay. Chen Pingan has only practiced half of the luck method taught by A Liang, and he has only practiced it at the sixth stop.
I really can't go any further.
Although I can't practice swordsmanship for the time being, A Liang said that the Eighteen Stops are something that many swordsmen have worked hard to figure out. Practicing the Eighteen Stops diligently can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for future sword practice. Chen
When Ping An thought about it, he felt very motivated and full of strength.
Whenever I have some free time, I might find myself on a large tree branch on a mountaintop or on the edge of a large cliff near the water.
There is a young man who makes secrets with his hands, sets up a pile alone, and practices silently facing the mountains and rivers. When there are mountains, he looks at the mountains, and when there is water, he listens to the water.