This flying sword no longer looks like a vulgar silver ingot. Except for being extremely small, it is no different from a sword. However, it is between illusion and reality, crystal clear and full of fairy spirit.
Under the morning glow, the small and exquisite flying sword shone with layers of halo, making it dazzling.
Chen Ping'an was stunned for a long time, and finally said: "Why, it's New Year, you want to run out and take a breath? Why, you Feijian also pay attention to celebrating the New Year?"
The tip of its sword moved slightly and slowly rotated.
Chen Pingan's heartstrings were tense and he was ready to run away at any time.
After it turned once, the tip of the sword was slightly raised and the hilt dropped, as if it was getting to know this somewhat strange world.
The sound of a child in Tsing Yi getting up and yawning came from inside the house. The flying sword swung past Chen Ping'an's eyebrows. The speed was so fast that its afterimage was still there, dragging out a line as thin as a long rope in the air.
The brilliance was far beyond Chen Pingan's imagination. There was no way to hide. The next moment, Chen Pingan felt a chill in his eyebrows. He stretched out his hand to touch it. Not only did the flying sword not make a hole, there was not even the slightest mark.
It is easy to slip into the body and return to the acupoints.
It's like a land swordsman wielding his sword to clear the way on the battlefield, as if he's entering an uninhabited land.
Chen Pingan planned to go back and ask Miss Ruan whether all flying swords in the world were so mysterious.
Over there at the door, an eager kid in Tsing Yi, holding a large bundle of bamboo tubes that he had prepared in his arms, stepped out of the threshold together with the sleepy girl in pink skirt. He kicked her lightly, and the girl in pink skirt quickly patted her.
These are new clothes that the master bought for her, and then she glared at him, "What are you doing?"
The boy in green clothes stood in the yard and sighed: "Are you stupid? As a fire python, you are innately proficient in fire magic, so you quickly light up the firecrackers?"
The girl in pink skirt blinked her eyes, so it turns out that fire magic can be used in this way?
During this trip, the master always made the fire by himself when cooking rice and soup, even on rainy or snowy nights, so she never thought about this.
Chen Ping'an never mentioned it, she never thought of it. The boy in Tsing Yi probably was too lazy to say it.
With the partnership of two little guys, they lit firecrackers and bid farewell to the old year.
Soon the sound of firecrackers was heard elsewhere in Mud Bottle Alley, echoing from afar.
The kid in green was having fun playing, and the girl in pink skirt waited until the last bamboo knot was burned, then went to the house to get a broom and prepared to sweep the floor. Chen Pingan took the broom with a smile, put it against the wall, and stood the broom upright. It turned out that
According to the custom of Longquan Town, on the first day of the first lunar month, every household stands on its broomstick, indicating that they will not do anything today but rest.
Chen Ping'an stood by the wall, looking at the deserted yard next door, with mixed emotions. He hesitated for a moment, then went to get an extra Spring Festival couplet and two blessing characters from his home and pasted them next door.
The boy in green clothes smiled and asked, "Are you a very close friend of the master?"
Chen Ping'an said softly: "I hope it's not an enemy."
Going back to his yard, Chen Pingan stood in the alley at the door and looked at the two painted door gods on the door, one civil and one military, holding a jade tablet and an iron mace. Chen Pingan thought it was strange. In the past, small towns sold goods at the New Year's Eve.
There are all kinds of paper door gods. In addition to civil and military door gods, there are also many "gods" including the god of wealth and door gods. But this year, all the door gods in the town follow this rule. I heard from the shopkeeper that it is the rule set by the government office, and in the future
The newly built Confucian Temple and Wu Temple in the town, the golden masters enshrined in it are the two people painted on the paper.
Chen Ping'an thought of what Old Man Yang had said, and his feelings became deeper and deeper.
Chen Pingan swept away the gloom in his mind and sat in the yard to bask in the sun without thinking about anything.
The girl in pink skirt continued to sit on the small bench and ate melon seeds. The boy in green clothes clasped his hands behind his back and walked in circles in the yard. He was full of ambitions and shouted that he would practice more diligently this year and must impress the master and silly girl. Then at the end of the year, he
You can walk sideways in the town without fear of any bullshit swordsman in the eighth or ninth level.
At the end of the sentence, the boy in Tsing Yi said with a flattering smile: "Master, as long as you give me a few better snake gallstones, let alone the end of the year, tomorrow I will be able to defeat all the invincible enemies in the town. Then, master, you can take me to the streets."
Go bully men and dominate women, be like the lawless local tyrants and evil gentry, drag them to Mud Bottle Lane whenever you see a pretty girl, hahahahahaha, sir, don’t you feel happy just thinking about it?!"
Chen Pingan grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the girl in pink skirt, nodded and said, "As long as you are happy."
The longing smile of the boy in green suddenly collapsed, and he sat next to Chen Pingan with a long sigh. He and the girl in pink skirt were on the left and right, like two little door gods. But he felt that the first day of the New Year this year did not get off to a good start.
, a little unlucky, so he took out an ordinary snake gallstone, bit it and ate it, so he could only get a good fortune for himself.
At this moment, Chen Ping'an suddenly took out two exquisite small bags from his sleeves, which were among the New Year's goods sold at his Qilong Lane New Year's shop. He handed them to both of them and joked: "Take these, the master gave them to you."
Lucky money."
The boy in green didn't think there would be any surprise, but when he opened it, his eyes couldn't be more round. It turned out to be a snake gallstone of excellent quality, as colorful as the sunset.
The one on the hand of the girl in the pink skirt is also an excellent snake gallstone.
The boy in green saw clearly at that time that apart from the eighty or ninety ordinary stones, after Chen Pingan returned to the ancestral house, there were still eleven priceless snake gallstones left in the package, and he gave them to each of them at once.
Two pills, that means four pills are gone. Now that I took out two more pills, wouldn’t it mean that half of them were gone in a flash?
Chen Ping'an, do you really think you are a gifting boy who has made many good connections?
Although he tightly held the snake gallstone in his hand, the boy in green couldn't help but remind him: "Master, if you give away things like this, you won't be able to save a rich family. What will you do if you get a wife in the future?"
The girl in the pink skirt held the "New Year's money" in both hands, lowered her head and remained silent, with tears falling down her pink and white face.
The kid in green clothes was squirming and couldn't help but ask: "Master, aren't you afraid that if I eat these three snake gallstones, my cultivation will skyrocket, and as a result, master, you will never be able to catch up with me in this life?"
Chen Pingan asked back: "If you had a friend and he lived well, would you be happy?"
The kid in green clothes nodded and said: "Of course I'm happy. The friends and brothers I make in this life are not the kind that I just talk about."
Chen Pingan asked again: "Would you be happy if your friend lived a much better life than you?"
The boy in Tsing Yi hesitated.
Chen Pingan ate melon seeds and said with a smile: "I will be happier."
At this moment, the boy in Tsing Yi felt a little dazed. He suddenly felt that the world he had been involved in for hundreds of years was not the same as Chen Pingan at all. Was his world too deep? Or was Chen Pingan's world too shallow?
After Chen Pingan said it, he didn't think much about it. It was just a casual chat.
On the other hand, the boy in green clothes was always depressed, and the girl in pink skirt also became a little silent after receiving the stone.
Chen Ping'an felt a little regretful. Could it be that he had given the new year's money to the wrong person? Or should he have given it later?
Sad.
Just in this Mud Bottle Lane, Song Ji Xin Zhigui, Gu Can and his mother left, but a new family appeared. Years ago, they took the initiative to take out a copy of the ancestral house deed and ran to give it to Long Quan.
The county government and the government office want to do a careful inspection, because land in the town is very expensive nowadays, and there are countless people from outside who want to squeeze in. Even if they can't buy a house, they are willing to rent a house here, so
The county government office wanted to be cautious and not let cunning people take advantage of the situation.
But soon, Wu Yuan, who was promoted from the first magistrate of Longquan County to the first prefect of Longquan County, committed suicide and went to the county government office to take over the entire matter.
Soon there was a young man named Cao Jun in Mu Ping Alley. His ancestors moved away from here, and now he has returned to his hometown to work hard.
Cao Jun lived in seclusion and almost never showed up. The neighbors were quite curious about this. Because of the establishment of the mountain and the establishment of the mansion, many local people in the small town were involved, and they came from the county government. Regulations were announced one after another by the county government, which really revealed something in the world.
The people of Longquan had no choice but to believe in immortals. At first, they speculated that Cao Jun, who was handsome and different from ordinary people, could be one of the immortals. But looking back, he thought, the immortals living in Mud Bottle Lane were too worthless.
Then today two strangers came to Mud Bottle Alley.
A rich old man with a green silk rope in his hand and a young man with a long sword behind him walked towards the Mud Bottle Alley and walked in from the Gu Can family's house, so they passed by Song Jixin and Chen Ping'an's family.
The courtyard had low walls. The old man glanced at the boy in green and the girl in pink skirt with a playful smile.
The girl in the pink skirt was a little confused and didn't take it seriously. The kid in Tsing Yi seemed careless, but in fact he was praying silently in his heart. He couldn't be some old god or monster, right?
The young swordsman smiled and extended his hand to say hello: "Chen Pingan, we meet again."
Chen Ping'an stood up, opened the courtyard door, and asked with a smile: "Are you coming to our place to pay New Year greetings?"
The young swordsman shook his head and said: "There are some things to deal with, but it's okay to say New Year's greetings by the way."
The old man smiled and said: "I heard that it was you who caused the roof of my ancestral house to be trampled by a mountain ape, and then you helped pay for the repairs?"
The family elder of sword cultivator Cao Jun?
Chen Pingan's heart tightened and he apologized: "Old sir, I'm sorry, this is really my fault."
The old man waved his hand and said, "I know well that it is such a dilapidated house. If it is not repaired, it will definitely collapse on its own. What kind of apology should you make? It should be our Cao family's gratitude to you. That guy Cao Jun wanted to steal your things before.
Right? Don’t worry, I’ll teach him a lesson right away...Haha, I forgot to say, happy new year, happy new year.”
At the end of the speech, the amiable old man actually took the initiative to clasp his fists and cup his hands, shaking them slightly as a New Year greeting.
Chen Pingan quickly returned the gift.
The young swordsman frowned, took a step forward calmly, stood between the old man and Chen Pingan, put his arm around the latter's shoulders, walked towards the courtyard door with a smile, turned to the old man and said: "Mr. Cao, you go back first
Home, I’ll visit you later.”
The old man squinted his eyes and nodded, not caring about this, and slowly left alone. After a few hundred years, he finally returned to his old place.
The two painted door gods on the courtyard gate, after Chen Pingan and the young swordsman crossed the threshold, the little aura that could not be seen by the naked eye had disappeared.
After entering the door, the young swordsman said softly: "From now on, when walking around the world, clasp your fists and salute. Remember that a man needs to hold his left hand with his right hand. This is called auspiciousness. Otherwise, it is a taboo and it is easy for the other party to get into trouble."
Chen Pingan suddenly looked at the young swordsman, and he seemed to say casually: "Just keep these details in mind."
There were only three small benches in the house, so the girl in pink skirt quickly gave them up. The young swordsman didn't sit down in a hurry, and said with a smile: "It's the first day of the new year. It's shameless to be empty-handed, so I'll just give you two small trinkets."
He stretched out his hand, and there were two wordless jade plaques stacked on top of each other, but the four corners of the jade plaques were engraved with the unique cloud pattern of the Song Dynasty.
It will be of some use to settle here in the future. If you travel far away, it will be more convenient to travel in the territory of Dali."
The boy in green was a little greedy because he knew how precious this thing was.
The girl in the pink skirt didn't know what was going on. She just looked at Chen Ping'an. Whether she would accept it or not would depend on her master's wishes.
Chen Pingan hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Take it."
After the girl in pink skirt and the boy in green took over, they both bowed to the young swordsman to thank him.
The young swordsman gave the meeting gift and immediately left.
Chen Ping'an didn't know how to retain her, so she had no choice but to send him to the gate of the hospital.
Over there in the Cao family's old house, the rich man stood next to the pool in the house. On the opening of the roof patio, sat a red fox. Cao Jun was sitting on the chair with his arms crossed, looking askance at his ancestor, and said hello.
Too lazy to fight.
After the young swordsman walked in, the old man smiled and asked, "You have a good relationship with that boy?"
The young swordsman smiled and said: "With Mr. Cao's cultivation and status, he would actually attack a young man from a back alley?"
Cao Xi laughed and said: "It's just a small punishment. At most, it's just a year of bad luck haunting the family. It's nothing. Even ordinary people with a little more ancestral shadow and a little stronger yang energy can withstand it. Besides, you
Why don't you try to get in the way and help the young man get rid of that disaster?"
The young swordsman shook his head and stopped talking.
The world is so absurd. Xie Shi is also a big man who came out of Lizhu Cave. He has a loyal character and his reputation has spread to several continents. He is recognized as a master. He can stand out in Juluzhou, where swordsmen are everywhere and Taoism is in decline. He is expected to become one.
This powerful heavenly king would be admired even by Xie Shi's rival monks. On the other hand, Cao Xi has an eccentric personality and a bad reputation. He is said to be mean and ungrateful. It is only because of the good opportunities that he has climbed up the ranks and is unstoppable.
.
But it happened that Cao Xi, a swordsman born in Yeluzi, now chose to stand in the same camp as Da Li, and Xie Shi was about to do something disgraceful.
Cao Jun stood up and said with a smile: "I know you are Xu Ruo of the Moh family. You have traveled around the world for many years in the Middle Earth Divine Continent, and you are very famous. You are known as the dragon in the world. I think the reason why the Wei and Jin Dynasties in Aquarius Continent are so perennial
I live in the world and don’t like to stay in the mountains. Maybe I’m learning from you when you were young.”
The swordsman thought of the high-spirited young swordsman from Fengxue Temple, shook his head and said with a smile: "He didn't learn from me."
Cao Xi suddenly remembered something, jumped into the dry pool, and turned over a bluestone slab. There was a rusty ordinary copper coin hidden inside. The world-famous land swordsman laughed heartily and put the copper coin into his sleeve.
, tutted: "Good sign, good sign."
Cao Xi raised his head and looked at the young swordsman, "Let me see, the broken natal porcelain was the fault of you, Dali and Longquan, which led to the mistake, but Dali made compensation at the beginning.
, the other party also accepted it. Logically speaking, this matter should be settled and settled, but now the buyer went behind the scenes step by step, and finally moved out the big Bodhisattva Xie Shi to scare people, and the matter was not done well.
Authentic, quite unsophisticated. In fact, it is easy to solve. Beat Xie Shi to death in one go. With me here, you here, and the saint Ruan Qiong, the three of us join forces. Not only will Xie Shi lose, but he will not be able to escape even if he wants to. Thanks
If you are seeking death yourself, you cannot blame others."
The young swordsman asked: "Even if Xie Shi is killed, the broken and falling Li Zhudongtian will be completely destroyed. What will we do in Dali?"
Cao Xi stood talking without pain in his back, "The effect of killing a Xie Shi and knocking on the mountain to shake the tiger is so good, it is no less than building a white jade capital."
The young swordsman said nothing.
Cao Xi continued to confuse people, "Aren't you Li people going south soon? After killing Xie Shi, look at the old bastards in the ten realms and the upper five realms in Sui Dynasty. How many will be left by then? I dare you.
The bet will never exceed one hand. If I, Cao Xi, lose, leave all the extra bastards to me to deal with, how about that?"
The young swordsman asked doubtfully: "You and Xie Shi have a deep hatred?"
Cao Xi shook his head and said, "No, I'm just a fellow countryman. I'm not of the same generation as him. We've never met each other. There's no dispute between our ancestors. I just can't stand Xie Shi bullying Dali based on his cultivation.
, I have forgotten my origins so much. I am from Da Li after all, so I don’t care about the kindness of raising him. I still go against Da Li. I, Cao Xi, don’t like this kind of person.”
"Fuck your mother's stinky fart!"
The flaming red fox on the roof revealed the secret and sneered: "The mellow Chen family of Nanbosu Continent was one of the branches of the Central Earth Divine Continent in those days. The real Chen family has never dealt with the Taoists. I beat a Xie to death."
In fact, it is the biggest betrothal gift in the world, not to mention marrying a pure-blooded daughter of the Chen family to Cao Jun, or even marrying another woman from the Zhongtu family to Cao Xi."
"You're such a talkative mother-in-law." Cao Xi laughed and cursed, raising her hands and waving her sleeves.
The flaming red fox exploded and turned into powder.
The time it took for it to return to its complete original appearance was obviously much longer than before when it was dismembered by Cao Jun's flying sword.
It lifted up a tile and threw it at Cao Xi as fast as thunder, then turned around and ran away.
Cao Xi gently caught the tile, threw it up, and threw it back to its original position.
In fact, the tile was already in pieces.
A Mohist hero named Xu Ruo rejected Cao Xi's suggestion, "This kind of thing is not something I can decide on my own."
Cao Xi rolled his eyes and said: "Then who among you Dali can make the decision?"
Xu Ruo smiled and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the vassal king Song Changjing, and the state counselor Cui Chan, these are the three."
Cao Xi said angrily: "Well, here comes one. What's the point of you Xu Ruo just watching the show and not taking action? Since Xie Shi dares to come alone this time, he must have something to rely on. Just in case, the three of us join forces.
We will let him run away, and when the time comes, let him achieve his goal and let him run back to Juluzhou. By then, the three of us wretches, plus your Da Li Song family, will all be finished!"
Xu weakly nodded and said, "It will come."
Cao Xi fell silent for a moment.
Because he always likes to judge a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart, he is very afraid that Da Li will deal with Xie Shi and then deal with him.
What's more, the Song family of Dali is not a gentleman.
A true gentleman, a guy who was more powerful than Cao Xi and Xie Shi, was already dead.
Just die here.
Of course, it is no wonder that the Dali Dynasty was not upright in this matter, and it is no wonder that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty acted like a coward.
But Cao Xi just felt it was too unlucky and unlucky.
On the way here, he received intelligence from Da Li about Li Zhu Cave, which mentioned the collapse of his ancestral home for repairs, which made Cao Xi even more unhappy.
If Mr. Chen, a pure scholar, had not opened his mouth, he would not have been willing to be a dragon crossing the river at all.
Especially since Cao Xi still hasn't figured out where Qi Jingchun's fatal match lies, which makes him feel uncomfortable as soon as he enters Longquan County.
Therefore, he hopes that Xie Shi's death can seduce him. Even if the worst outcome is guessed, there will still be the Song family of Dali, the saint Ruan Qiong and the Fengxue Temple behind him, as well as the Chen family behind him.
Chen, a native of China, let’s share the risks together.
Wealth and wealth are found in danger.
It's the same up and down the mountain.
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The old residence of the Xie family is in Taoye Lane, and the descendants of the family are not prosperous. By this generation, the family has actually fallen into decline. If the long-browed boy had not become Ruan Qiong's registered disciple, it would have been long ago that he had to sell his ancestral home to make ends meet.
Dismal situation.
A middle-aged man started knocking on the door.
A girl opened the door and asked: "Who are you?"
Hanzi Zhengerba Jing replied: "It's your ancestor."
The girl with pretty features seemed graceful, but in fact she had a fierce temper. She immediately said angrily: "You are on the first day of the new year, why do you curse people when you open your mouth? Believe it or not, I will whip you with a broom?"
The man's expression was as usual, "Go and look through the genealogy and find the Jiaxu version. There will be a person named Xie Shi in it. That's me. The word 'Shi' is missing a little."
After burning incense, everyone in the Xie family knelt on the ground outside the family ancestral hall.
Xie Shi ignored the frightened younger members of the family, pushed open the door of the ancestral hall without saying a word, went in and burned three sticks of incense.
Then he said in a deep voice: "The one with longer eyebrows than ordinary people can come in and burn incense. Everyone else should go back. Anyway, the ancestors will get angry when they see you and don't need you to burn incense."
A woman outside the ancestral hall was full of surprise and burst into tears with excitement. She grabbed the arm of her son beside her and covered her mouth with one hand to prevent herself from crying.
The long-browed boy took a deep breath. After his mother let go of her hand, he stood up, crossed the threshold of the ancestral hall with trepidation, and walked towards the back figure step by step.
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On the post road outside the town, a carriage was driving slowly.
The coachman was Liu Yu, who had stopped a certain swordsman at Qidun Mountain. Sitting in the carriage was an elegant old man who looked like an old master, and a girl with naturally cold and sharp eyebrows.
Cui Zhan, the national preceptor, and Zhigui, the palace maid.
Or should we say Lao Cui Chan and Wang Zhu?
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In the small courtyard, the child in green clothes started holding his head and wailing again.
Why is this small town at the bottom of the mountain so annoying? It’s only the first day of the new year, and here are two powerful characters who can’t tell the difference. I think with my knees and butt, I know they are the kind who can kill me with one punch.
A scary person. The kid in Tsing Yi always felt that he had seen big winds and waves before, but now that he is here, he realizes that the winds and waves before were nothing compared to the small puddle in Mud Bottle Alley outside his door.
He began to sincerely admire Chen Ping'an. It was not easy to live to this day! Sure enough, being able to become his master would not be a simple person. No wonder he had such a cruel disciple by his side.
So the boy in Tsing Yi grabbed Chen Ping'an's hand with tears in his eyes and said from the bottom of his heart: "Master, I will definitely treat you better in the future."
Chen Ping'an pushed his head away and said with a smile: "You are the most afraid of trouble. Do you want to be embarrassed?"
The boy in Tsing Yi looked at the heartless silly girl out of the corner of his eye. He felt that he was quite embarrassed, so he silently sat back on the bench and sulked.
The girl in the pink skirt was indeed more generous than him. She couldn't put it down while holding the delicate and gentle piece of Tai Ping Wu Shi.
Of course, the one with the biggest heart is their master Chen Pingan.
He moved out pieces of bamboo slips with words engraved on them and placed them on the low yellow mud wall between the two courtyards, so as to display the slips.