Chapter nine hundred and fifty first see the unicorn
In the backyard of Yang's drug store, Sudian, nicknamed Rouge, this female martial artist was alone, guarding the empty backyard of the drug store.
Junior brother Shi Lingshan returned to his home in Taoye Lane.
Su Dian doesn't feel lonely or depressed, he has been used to it since he was a child, and he feels uncomfortable when there are many people.
The medicine shop is in the style of a front shop and a back shop. Decoction and drying of medicinal materials are all in the backyard. Beyond the main house is the residence of Old Man Yang.
The door to the east wing was closed. Usually only when Li Huai returned to his hometown and came to hang out, Old Yang would open the door. Only the west wing was vacated early and given to Su Dian.
There is also a utility room in the corner of the yard. There are all kinds of old objects and bottles in it. The key to the room was left with Su Dian. Master once told her that when Li Huai returns to his hometown next time, he will fight with Li Huai.
He said hello and told the guy in the room that a lot of old things had been left to him, and he could sell them or give them away as he pleased.
There was a bench placed under the eaves on the south side opposite to the main house on the north side. Su Dian never sat on it, and his junior disciples were not allowed to sit there casually.
She is like guarding an old shop and helping Master to keep some old rules.
Su Dian is a martial arts fanatic, but tonight she was rare. She just sat on the chair in a daze, with her feet on the edge of the brazier, thinking about some past events.
Finally coming back to his senses, Su Dian lowered his head, stretched out his fingers, and twisted his trouser legs that were slightly hot from the fire.
The door of the drug store was ajar. Someone pushed the door open, walked through the front store, lifted the curtain, and the young man called out, "Sister."
Su Dian on the side room responded, it was his junior brother Shi Lingshan who came to visit.
Shi Lingshan entered the house, moved a bench, and sat next to the brazier. Su Dian said with a smile: "It's not unlucky for you to ask about the medicine shop when you ask for dinner."
Shi Lingshan stretched out his hand to warm himself by the fire, deliberately pretending to be stupid, "Is there such a thing?"
The family is more lively, with four generations living under one roof, and the ancestral home is in Taoye Lane, so they are not that poor. However, Shi Lingshan is still worried that the senior sister will be alone and the drug store will be too deserted.
He knew that the senior sister had no relatives or relatives in the small town since the uncle she depended on passed away. It seemed that she didn't even have a poor relative who could say a few words of greetings on weekdays.
Shi Lingshan took out a pack of pastries from the New Year's shop from his sleeve and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Shi gave it to me over at Qilong Lane."
Su Dian hesitated for a moment, then reached out and took the pastry wrapped in oil paper, "Did you really ask about dinner?"
During the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve, people from Fulu Street and Taoye Lane, as well as people outside these two streets and alleys, generally do not move around each other.
In the old town, there were four surnames and ten clans on Fulu Street and Taoye Lane. In the early days of the town, the big families, the four major surnames, Lu, Li, Zhao, Song, were always headed by the Lu family, because the Lu family dynasty was in the process of collapse.
Previously, it was the suzerain of the Song family in Dali, and the founding emperor of the Lu family had inextricable connections with the Lu family in Fulu Street. In addition, the ten clans like Yuan, Cao, and Xie all had important figures in their ancestors.
, they all became famous after leaving Li Zhudongtian. For example, Cao Hang and Yuan Xing, who were regarded as ministers of the Great Li Zhongxing, created the two major Shangzhu surnames in the Great Li court today, in addition to Nan Posuo.
Cao Xi, the swordsman from Luzhou, and Xie Shi, the heavenly king from Luzhou in Beiju, etc.
Just talking about the Mud Bottle Lane, there are Chen Ping'an, the hermit official, Song Jixin, the king of the Great Li vassal, and Gu Can, the direct disciple of Zheng Juzhong.
Over there is the Zhenhai Tower in Nan Posu Island, where the ancestral residence of Cao Xi, the swordsman stationed, is located.
As for Su Dian, apart from her relationship with the drug store, the only person she knew in her hometown town was Hu Feng, who was a few years older than her. Hu Feng's family used to own a grocery store.
He would often work as a part-time laborer with his grandfather, doing brick and carpentry work, or going from house to house to help sharpen knives. However, Hu Feng also left his hometown, but even if Hu Feng stayed here, Su Dian and him
There's nothing to talk about either.
Shi Lingshan smiled and said, "Guess who I saw just now over there in Qilong Lane?"
Su Dian kept silent and chewed the cake carefully. Anyway, no one he saw was worth making a fuss about.
Many years ago, there would often be an unkempt, sallow and skinny little girl on the Qilong Lane. She would pretend to pass by the Qilong Lane accidentally, walking very slowly, sniffing gently and smelling the fragrance of the cakes.
Grumbling with hunger.
The delicious pastries that I had only dreamed of when I was young, as well as the colorful fabrics in the cloth shop, once made that hungry and cold girl feel that they were the most unattainable good things in the world. However, when she grew up, she had everything on hand.
Now that I have money, I don’t know why, but I don’t seem to think about it at all.
Shi Lingshan said: "When I looked at her from a distance, she seemed to be Wang Zhu from Qilong Lane."
He used to be a fellow villager in a small town just a stone's throw away, but now he is a big shot far away.
Su Dian just hummed. She was not from the same place anyway, and she was not interested in the wealth and fortune of these fellow villagers.
Today's Old Longzhou and Xinchuzhou are recognized as a land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, where strange people and strangers gather. But from Sudian's point of view, they are incomparable to those in the past.
The first group of outsiders bought the fairy house on the top of the mountain in the western mountains. As long as they didn't resell it at a low price, it can now be regarded as a cornucopia of wealth.
Later, some well-informed monks who came after hearing the news, together with the local people, bought the ancestral houses in the town, or bought the snake gallstones picked up from the Longxu River at a "high price", and embedded them in the walls.
The bronze mirror, ancient coins, porcelain and other old objects seemed to have become extremely valuable overnight. The only things that became worthless were those that our ancestors had worked hard to save for generations.
Broken silver, or gold and silver jewelry that every household brings to the bottom of the box.
Nowadays, many Qi practitioners who live anonymously in this small town live in seclusion all year round, using those dilapidated houses as dojos for their practice.
Their household registrations and mountain genealogy records are secretly managed by the Longquan County Kiln Supervision and Construction Office. As for the Huaihuang County Government, they still don’t know the identities and backgrounds of these mountain gods. Anyway, no one is causing trouble. Compared with ordinary counties, they are simply
It's a place where roads are not lost, so that the county government's government affairs are extremely clear and clear. In the city, the exams are excellent every year. After all, there are not even any thieves jumping over the wall to steal, let alone trivial disputes between parents.
Already.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the luck of mountains and rivers, magical weapons and spiritual weapons, these foreign monks with sharp eyes and quick hands have indeed earned them all. Everyone has gained something, and almost no one has lost anything.
Let me just say one thing, someone once went to Tianmu to exchange fists with the ancient gods who crossed the border and violated the ban, and brought several golden rains to Aquarius Continent. Although almost all of them were captured by Wei Shanjun of Beiyue, even though they seemed to belong to the Piyunshan family
But Wei Bo is a tiger after all, and the entire territory of Beiyue will rise with the tide. The luck of the mountains and rivers will become stronger, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will become more abundant. The Taoist monks who live in seclusion in Huaihuang County and the mountains to the west will be able to eat.
Xia drinks dew and eats to fullness. Over the past twenty years, monks have quietly broken through from time to time.
Shi Lingshan asked casually: "Senior sister, how many people do you think there are in our sect?"
According to the seniority division of their lineage, the genealogy couldn't be simpler. Anyway, there is only one master who teaches boxing. On the surface, Su Dian and Shi Lingshan, there are two senior brothers above, but Li Er and Zheng Dafeng are the only ones who take care of the family.
One of them went to Luzhou, Beiju, and the other went to Wucai Tianxia. As for whether there are other senior brothers and sisters, it has always been a mystery. Old man Yang didn't like to mention this. Shi Lingshan once asked, but he was scolded.
, Old Man Yang has always been like this, either he won't speak at all, otherwise he will say something ugly when he opens his mouth, scolding this disciple of Shi Lingshan. If you think of going out to recognize your senior brother, are you trying to flatter yourself, or will the Shi family in Taoye Lane starve you?
Now, you have to go to another house to beg for a hot piece of shit to eat?
After that, Shi Lingshan didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Su Dian thought for a while and said: "I don't know how many people there are specifically, how many people are listed in the family tree, and how many people are alive today, but apart from the two senior brothers Li and Zheng, there are indeed others.
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Shi Lingshan raised his head, full of curiosity.
Su Dian shook his head and said: "I know the names of the two senior brothers and sisters, but the master has not said whether their identities can be revealed, so don't ask any more questions."
The two brothers and sisters in the room have very different temperaments. From Shi Lingshan's point of view, the master didn't say it's not possible, it's just okay.
But when it comes to Senior Sister Su Dian, Master didn't say it was okay, it just wasn't okay.
Su Dian suddenly said: "I plan to follow Master's instructions and spend this new year. When Li Huai comes back and tells him some things, I will go on a long trip."
Shi Lingshan asked: "Where are you going, senior sister? How far is the journey? Is it an ancient battlefield site in another continent?"
He and his senior sister have not left Aquarius Continent yet.
Among the younger generation in the town, one seems to like to travel far more than the other.
Su Dian knew that this junior brother had misunderstood, and explained: "I plan to practice alone this time, and I won't take you with me."
Shi Lingshan was greatly disappointed, but he didn't bother with it because he knew that his senior sister had a very stubborn temper and she would never change her mind.
It was rare for Su Dian to have a smiling face and said, "Next time we meet, I'll treat you to a drink."
Shi Lingshan only cared about being happy and smiling stupidly.
It would be better to invite others to the wedding banquet.
The young man didn't notice that the senior sister's face, whose head was lowered, was illuminated by the charcoal fire, and there was some sadness in her eyebrows.
One is optimistic and the other is pessimistic.
In the eyes of the former, all long journeys are for the day of reunion.
From the latter's perspective, all encounters are the preparation for parting.
After going out to experience this, when Su Dian reaches the far-traveling realm in Haoran Tianxia, she will find a senior brother named Xie Xinen.
The other party is far away in Qingming world.
According to Master, this senior brother Xie is doing well now, but he has changed his name and is no longer called Xie Xin'en.
Just by listening to Master's tone, Su Dian could guess that Senior Brother Xie had already accumulated quite a fortune in that world.
Every time the master talks about these disciples, he usually has a bad look on his face. Even when he mentions his senior brother Li Er who is already a martial artist, he doesn't even smile.
Master left a few messages to Senior Brother Xie, who had never been masked before, and asked Su Dian to help deliver the message.
The general idea is that after Xie Xin'en meets his junior sister Su Dian, he will teach her boxing and swordsmanship in a similar way to acting as a teacher. Then, when Su Dian reaches the top of the mountain, he will help his junior sister establish a sect there, take root and become independent.
The door is open, and after that, both parties go their separate ways, and their relationship as members of the same sect should not be revealed to the outside world.
As for how Su Dian goes to Qingming Tianxia and where to find Senior Brother Xie, Master has already arranged it.
Shi Lingshan asked curiously: "Senior sister, who is that Li Huai?"
It is said that the young hermit official once gave Li Huai a nickname, which made Li Huai very popular.
So in this small town, Li Huaizhen is the only one who can be a quarrel.
Su Dian shook his head and said: "According to what is said on the mountain, Li Huai himself has no background, he is just an ordinary human being."
But their master really treated Li Huai as his own grandson.
It's just that I can't envy this kind of thing.
Shi Lingshan sat in the room for about half an hour, then said goodbye and left. Su Dian walked to the door of the drug store. When her junior brother's figure disappeared around the corner of the street, she closed the door and returned to the backyard, staring blankly.
The bench under the eaves.
I heard my senior brother Zheng Dafeng say that this long bench has been here for many, many years, and no one is older than it.
The last time I saw Master, the old man was still sitting on the steps outside the main house, holding a tobacco stick and puffing away smoke.
Master said something that Su Dian couldn't understand.
The old man knocked the tobacco pole lightly on the steps, then lifted the tobacco pole, pointed to the bench, and said that the wooden bench was us.
Seeing that Su Dian was hesitant to speak, the old man said that if there is a chance to meet in Qingming Tianxia in the future, you can ask that person, he will definitely know the answer.
What does a wooden bench have to do with "us"?
Sudian was puzzled.
A woman with young appearance, green hair on the temples, graceful figure, like a fish swimming in the dragon's beard river.
As the local river god, she was patrolling her own territory. She was accompanied by a few servants of the river god Shui Mansion who looked like children. Among the children with immature faces, there were both boys and girls. In fact, apart from their pale faces, look at them.
His appearance is quite eye-catching. In addition, his attire, expression, and childish voice are no different from those of ordinary children on the shore.
Wandering and playing with the River Goddess, although they are all water ghosts, they have long been accustomed to the water, but occasionally they appear to be choking on the water, their hands and feet move wildly, and they flutter a few times, just like children in the world who are not good at swimming in water.
Normally, it would just return to normal soon, and then everyone around me would make faces at each other, as if they all thought it was an interesting thing.
Because tonight is New Year's Eve, according to custom, the River Goddess gave these young followers a red envelope. The coins in the red paper envelope were all rusty copper coins left in the stream in the early years.
There is nothing I can do, my River Goddess is famous for being frugal in housekeeping, to put it simply, she is stingy.
Malanhua, the orthodox water god of the Longxu River in the Da Li court, still stopped at the mouth of the waterfall at the junction of the Longxu River and the Tiefu River, and then went upstream, passing by the blacksmith shop on the bank of the Longxu River.
, taking advantage of the fact that no one was in the shop, she stuck her head out of the water and took a few glances.
It has had three sets of owners. The first one was Master Ruan, an ordinary blacksmith who turned out to be the last military sage who commanded Lizhu Cave Heaven. He was born in Fengxue Temple.
Later, Xu Xiaoqiao, Ruan Qiong’s apprentice,
A female swordsman who was missing her thumb on her right hand, and then Liu Xianyang, and a foreigner girl who looked like she was not very bright, Yu Qianyue.
Now, the Longquan Sword Sect and the Tiger King Wei Bo personally helped move several mountains including the Ancestral Mountain Shenxiu Mountain to the north. It was regarded as a complete land transfer with the Lizhu Cave Sky of the past.
Every time she swam across the stone arch bridge, which had been demolished by the Da Li Song family and no old sword bars were hung, she would feel particularly frightened.
I quickly swam across the stone arch bridge and came to a deep pool with a blue stone cliff. Malanhua stopped and hung in the water.
A few children who didn't have time to stop bumped into each other lightly. After chirping and complaining, there was another burst of laughter.
The old woman in Xinghua Lane was once visited by a female immortal master seeking revenge. Granny Ma, who was already old, died accidentally, but she was a blessing in disguise. Old man Yang gathered her ghost and became the river granny.
It gradually regained its appearance, as if "the more you live, the more you go back", and your appearance becomes younger and younger. This Longxu River was originally a stream. After the Tiefu River rose from the river, the Longxu River, as the upstream and source, became
Following the trend, it was upgraded to a river.
And she also became a river god from a river woman, and was promoted inexplicably. However, nearly thirty years have passed, and finally there is a temple with a place of refuge by the river, but there is still no statue of the god in the temple, not even a statue.
There is no incense burner either.
How could there be such a shabby and embarrassed River Goddess?
However, Malanhua did not dare to have any dissatisfaction. Year after year, she counted her fingers and said that her days were like years. It was not an exaggeration. She asked a familiar land official to help find out what was going on in Zhoucheng.
There are only a few old immortals left who know the name "Ma Lanhua" and recognize her appearance when she was young. It is said that there are only two old people from the same hometown who are about the same generation and age as her. The more this is the case, the more Ma Lanhua feels towards that person.
The old man Yang in the drug store was more in awe, because if there were no accidents, the two old people in the city would die as soon as the thirty-year period expired?
The third aunt and the sixth grandmother accounted for half of the total. They were the masters who played tricks, the matchmakers, the stable mothers who delivered babies, and the Malanhua from Xinghua Lane.
As a result, another river woman appeared later...
Malanhua sighed quietly, and appeared in the deep green pool. Stepping on the water, the river spread to the stone cliff on its own. She just walked up, sat on the blue stone cliff, and took out a handful of white jade from her sleeve.
Use a comb to comb your black hair. I’m going to change my hair into a bun today.
The little guys also followed the Water Goddess, jumped out of the water, gathered on the cliff, ran around the stone cliff, and started to have fun. Under normal circumstances, Malanhua would never allow them to go ashore, not to mention the day and the sunshine.
Like fire, any exposure to the sun will make ghosts fly away, even at night.
What's more, they themselves don't dare to cross the border without permission. Otherwise, if they collide with people from the Yang world, the Yin Qi and Yang Qi will interact with each other, and if they can't fight, they will die.
Malanhua looked at these carefree children and sighed. She put on a smile, spoke in a soft voice, and told them a few words: don't get separated, be honest, and don't go to the shore, otherwise you'll have to go home.
The waiter is in trouble.
In fact, their "Yangshou" on the shore is not very long. After becoming ghosts, it is like falling into a weird false age. They grow slowly. To be precise, it is difficult to grow up, unlike the children in the market.
, the growth rate is so fast, it seems that in a few blinks of an eye, you will change from a child to a teenager, and soon you will reach the age where you can talk about marriage, start a family, and have children of your own, and then you will become a very light sleeper.
An old man who is used to getting up early, fell asleep one day without opening his eyes...
Malanhua raised her head and looked into the distance. Late at night, just looking at Piyun Mountain from a distance would make her eyes burn.
The Dali court was the first to establish three mountain temples. Piyun Mountain is the largest temple of the tiger, which is unattainable.
In the southernmost Luolu Mountain, there used to be a mountain god who was ridiculed by his colleagues as the Golden-headed Mountain God. He used to be on duty there. There was also a mountain god temple of high standard on the top of the mountain. It was a pity that he was miserable in those years.
The mountain god temple has almost become the "family temple" of the orphan in Mu Ping Lane. What kind of incense can it have? Malanhua knows that the golden-headed mountain god Song Yuzhang has a long history. He served as a kiln supervisor for many years during his lifetime.
In those years when there was no county government in the town, he was the only official. Cao Gengxin, the governor of Song Dynasty, was young and became a minister of Da Li after he left office. On the other hand, the governor of Song Dynasty, Master Song, was not a good person.
Good luck, I didn't catch up with the good time.
As for the mountain temple built on Fengliang Mountain, because the mountain top is strategically located at the northernmost part of the mountains, it is closest to the prosperous area of the same city as the prefecture and county offices. The temple has always been very popular, with devoted men and women, and pilgrims.
Yun, there is an endless stream of people going up the mountain to burn incense. On every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the temple fairs on the mountainside and the top of the mountain are even more lively, which makes colleagues in the Shanshui officialdom envious. The main road up the mountain for the incense-burning shrine is as wide and smooth as an official road.
Daoyi Road is lined with teahouses, restaurants, inns and shops.
A landowner from the Fengliang Mountain Territory was familiar with Malanhua. He was an old and dishonest person, but he didn't dare to do anything to her. Every time they met, the old man would always find a way to say a few naughty words, just like his mouth.
If you don't take advantage, you will die.
The immediate boss of this earthly master was the mountain god of Fengliang Mountain. Based on the face of the statue, Malanhua vaguely recognized him as the man who used to run a shop in a small town. Look at his current magnificence.
Look at the situation of your own temple, it's so irritating to people.
To be honest, when the mountain god was young, he even asked someone to marry him.
It's just that for some reason, when she was He Po, the other party would come near Longxu River from time to time and meet each other, but it didn't take long before they became estranged.
Ma Lanhua is so angry. I just asked you to inquire about your grandson. Are you not willing to help with such a trivial matter?
In the Longxu River, the immediate boss is Yang Hua, the water god of the Tiefu River downstream. It is said that he is close to the Empress Dowager Dali. His face is so cold that Malanhua does not dare to get close. She occasionally participates in the water affairs of the Tiefu River.
, she was also trepidatious. When she met those subordinates of the Shuifu who always put their eyes on the top, Ma Lanhua only dared to smile, never dared to put on any airs, for fear of saying something inappropriate or doing something wrong.
He would lose his official status. Therefore, Malanhua could only speculate on what happened outside the state through the official reports from the city god's temple in the state.
According to the promise made by Old Man Yang, when thirty years have passed and the old man in the town who knows her young appearance and identity is almost gone, she can erect a statue, enjoy incense, and temper her golden body.
But Malanhua is both looking forward to this, but also worried about it. The Tiefu River and Yuye Jiangshui temples are very effective in seeking marriage, and the Mantou Mountain Earth Temple is also very famous in seeking children, as well as Song Du Zaoping Tiao
I went to Qidun Mountain and Fengliang Mountain. These two mountain temples are like scholars asking for signatures and making wishes, hoping that the imperial examination will go smoothly and the literary fortune will be protected. The results are quite good, so until now Malanhua has not thought of a way.
Even if statues of gods are erected in the future, where will the incense come from in their own temples? When it comes to suppressing water transportation, who is her turn? There is no shortage of river gods in every state.
Malanhua combed her hair and sighed.
On this bumpy blue stone cliff, children from small towns used to come here to fish in the water, and they had their own "seats" of their choice.
After becoming a god of mountains and rivers, the vision is completely different from that of ordinary masters in the world.
Located at the border between the mountains and the town in the west, the inconspicuous Pearl Mountain is actually the location of a Li Pearl.
The Dragon Beard River at the foot of Malanhua is a veritable "Dragon Beard", which is why so many priceless snake gallstones appeared in the water. As for the other Dragon Beard, it is the main street of the town.
The crab houses, iron lock wells, and old locust trees lined up one after another spread all the way to the east, stopping at the east fence gate. There once was a young bachelor who was not stingy, the gatekeeper Zheng Dafeng, and now I don’t know where he died.
It was gone, leaving only a yellow mud house that no one lived in.
There is a literary saying that the tiger sits on the dragon's plate, just like the mouth of the dragon kiln, which is built on the body of this dragon.
In fact, over the years, Malanhua was afraid that the thin and frail girl from Mud Bottle Lane would come to settle old scores with her.
After all, when she used to fetch water from the iron lock well, every time she saw the lowly maid next to "the illegitimate son created by Governor Song", Ma Lanhua was often the one who started the conversation. She did say some unpleasant things back then. After all,
The widow of Mud Bottle Lane and the orphan, no matter how poor they are, they are not from humble backgrounds, and no matter how poor they are, they still have an innocent identity, but this little girl with a weird name, on the other hand, lives a comfortable and luxurious life...
The small-town women of those days, let alone criticizing Zhigui, as long as they quarreled and cursed, no matter who you were, you could always find a lot of faults and say some words that were heart-wrenching and spine-tingling in person.
, for example, what if you have a few bad money in your family? Do you have a son with a handle now? If you are careful to cut off the incense of your ancestors, who will get the money in the future is not a matter of two opinions... This kind of mutual exposure is really
It's too common to wait until one party can't say anything anymore, and then scratch the hair and face.
Just talking about bickering, not talking about action, then Granny Ma in Xinghua Lane, the widow of the Gu family in Mud Bottle Lane, the woman from the Li family in the far west of the town, the wine seller Huang Erniang, etc., are all top-notch masters.
This simple folk custom, Ruan Blacksmith, Lu Chen who runs a fortune-telling stall, Cao Duzao who is drunk every day... these outsiders have all experienced it personally, and it is not enough to refuse to give up.
In fact, everyone who has come into contact with the younger generation in small towns will have similar feelings, regardless of their status or level.
Just talking about the meeting at the Confucian Temple, someone's words gave two famous new nicknames to Fei Ran, the co-leader of the Wilderness, and Zhou Zhou, the closed disciple of Wenhai. One of them became the co-leader of a world in just a few seconds.
"The saint lying on Tuoyue Mountain", and the "lost saint in Jiashen tent" who has never won a victory. The young official also threatened to give these two great heroes in the world a private seal carved by his own hand, "A hundred deaths."
"No regrets", "Heart to Haoran"...
This made the great wild demons who were qualified to participate in the discussions at Tuoyue Mountain increasingly feel that the young hidden official was not one of their own. It was a pity, it was such a pity.
Malanhua rubbed her cheek.
I was once slapped hard by that sharp-tongued little woman.
She took out several old Shanshui Di newspapers from her sleeves. The only similarity was that there was news about her grandson in the Di newspapers. In fact, she had long been familiar with the contents and knew them by heart. These years of idleness have been idle. Then, the River Goddess began to learn a few more words in different ways.
This type of official landscape newspaper is issued from the city god's temple in the state. Basically, there will be two or three letters every quarter. The city god Zhang Ping will ask the Yin Mingxu officials to send them to the county gods and landscape gods at all levels. This made Ma Lanhua particularly proud. When she was the River Goddess, she could only get a few official residence papers throughout the year. After being promoted to the River God, her official status was equivalent to entering the officialdom of Dali Mountains and Rivers, and she received many official residence papers every year. The number suddenly doubled.
More than what is lacking is more than what is lacking.
To live life, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. Look up and look at those who are doing well. This is called living with hope. Then look down and look at those who are not as good as yourself, and your heart will be at peace.
The woman forgot who said the words.
People live hard and deceive themselves, which is hope.
Lu Yan took Xiao Mo and Qing Tong along the corridor to somewhere else, intending to let the two scholars, who were very different in age, talk about "common matters".
The Holy Master smiled and asked: "Chen Ping'an, how did you come up with the idea of eating books?"
Chen Ping'an was stunned for a moment, but he soon figured out that the so-called "eating books" meant practicing calligraphy.
Chen Ping'an explained: "Before, there was really nothing to do at the top of the city. It happened that Li Zhen, who was at the top of the city next door, gave me this landscape travelogue, so I came in handy."
The Holy Master smiled and said: "It's a coincidence, it's just right."
Chen Pingan raised his head and glanced at the sky.
The Holy Master obviously meant something.
If Chen Pingan had not refined all the words in the landscape travelogue and some chance, even if Chen Pingan had stayed at the top of the city for ten thousand years, he would not have thought of what his senior brother Cui Chan would do.
Probably as Li Zhen later slandered, only those with sick brains can talk to fellow-minded people with sick brains, and some can make sense and understand each other.
The Most Holy Master's mind wandered far away, and he remembered faces one after another. They were all in the camp of ancient sword cultivators.
The former swordsman Guanzhao was not the talkative Li Zhen he was later, but a notoriously boring gourd who hardly talked to anyone. Every time he had secret discussions, he would hide in a corner or stand next to Chen Qingdu. , without saying a word from beginning to end.
But as long as you observe and do not take action, once you decide to challenge someone with a sword, you cannot say that you will win completely, but at least you can ensure that you are in an invincible position.
It can even be said to a certain extent that Kuan Zhao spends his whole life as if he has been living for others, practicing and passing swords for the overall situation, so Kuan Zhao has the least easy life among all sword cultivators.
On the other hand, Long Jun, a swordsman of the same generation, just likes to talk to others about swordsmanship, as if winning or losing doesn't matter. Every time he encounters a war, he doesn't care about life and death. He is far more unrestrained than the "don't dare to die casually" Kuan Zhao.
The three prisoner sword cultivator leaders, Chen Qingdu, Guanzhao, and Long Jun, are the founders of the Great Wall of Sword Qi.
Not long after they had just established a foothold, under the leadership of Chen Qingdu, three sword cultivators went on a journey together.
The far-reaching sword-asking Tuo Yue Shan succeeded in blocking the Tuo Yue Shan Great Patriarch who was only half a step away. As the first co-owner of the barbaric world, the latter failed to refine a world with the right time, place, and people, and became the leader of the world. Fifteen realms.
The three of them, Chen Qingdu, also paid a very heavy price. Chen Qingdu’s natal flying sword "Duckweed"
, was completely broken, and had to join the Great Wall of Sword Qi. As a result, Chen Qingdu lost the hope of reaching the fifteenth realm.
Otherwise, according to Daozu's calculation, as long as Chen Qingdu is given another two to three thousand years of sword-making time, he will have a chance to become the fifteenth-level pure swordsman who is "unprecedented and unprecedented".
It was unprecedented because those sword cultivators who were expected to reach this level all died on the way due to the suppression of the ancient gods.
There is no one who will come after him, but once Chen Qingdu reaches this state, he will be like one person monopolizing the entire sword path, standing on a single-plank bridge, with no way to give way.
The Most Holy Master once took the Li Sheng to the Great Wall of Sword Qi to persuade Chen Qingdu, but the dissuasion was to no avail.
Chen Qingdu blocked the two "scholars" back with just two sentences.
"We sword cultivators may not necessarily do the right thing."
"You scholars, remember to keep your promises."
Lord Long was originally extremely dissatisfied with the sword cultivator being reduced to a prisoner, so during that long trip, Lord Long never thought of returning to the Great Wall of Sword Qi alive.
He was planning to end his life as a pure swordsman, not a prisoner or refugee on the Sword Qi Great Wall. Long Jun wanted to end his life in a vigorous way.
Therefore, after his "death", Lord Long no longer owed anything to the Great Wall of Sword Qi or to Chen Qingdu, an old friend who had fought alongside him.
The Dragon Lord's natal flying sword is called "Daxu Immortal Tomb". During the mountain climbing battle, and before the mountain climbing, countless senior swordsmen on the earth died without a burial place. The Dragon Lord was able to use his natal flying sword.
It is a blessing to have a sword as a tomb.
And Guanzhao possesses a more special natal flying sword.
In the two or three thousand years ago, the sword cultivator who was targeted the most by the ancient gods was none other than Kuanshou, who had a natal flying sword called "The Long River of Time".
Therefore, the journey of cultivating the path of observance is the most bumpy and dangerous. There is an endless stream of sword cultivators who are dedicated to guarding the path. The number of ancient "earth immortal" sword cultivators who have died can be counted on both hands.
The Holy Master put away his thoughts and asked: "What if we trace back to the origin? Mountains have their origins, dragons and water have their origins."
Chen Ping'an said: "Mr. Li had a talk with Xiao Nuanshu back then. Although he was just a listener, I have always remembered it since then."
Li Xisheng from Fulu Street once went to Mu Ping Alley to look for Chen Pingan.
At that time, Chen Ping'an was returning from his first trip, and there were a boy in Tsing Yi and a girl in pink skirt around him.
At that time, Li Xisheng taught the kid in Tsing Yi who was accustomed to "talking without restraint" a truth, saying that all words in the world are powerful. Words are composed of words, words are connected in series to form sentences, sentences are connected to form sentences, and the great road lies among them.
Chen Ling did not take this sentence seriously, and it went in one ear and out the other. However, Chen Ping'an remembered it deeply. Although it was not engraved on the later bamboo slips, he always kept it in his heart.
After that, Xiao Nuanshu plucked up the courage to ask the reader a question that had puzzled her for a long time: why when she was reading, she suddenly seemed not to recognize a certain word and felt strange.
Li Xisheng smiled and gave the answer, saying that it was because at a certain moment, the words in the book were secretly borrowed by some saints.
At that time, Xiao Nuanshu obviously didn't believe this kind of godly statement, so she directly refuted Mr. Li. In the eyes of some onlookers, she was "teaching" Mr. Li a lesson.
This is a rare and rare scene.
After that, Cao Jun, a swordsman from Nanposuzhou whose ancestral home was in Niping Lane, casually used the excuse of "making trouble on Tai Sui's head" to cause trouble for Chen Ping'an.
As a result, the current low-ranking priest in Xiandu Mountain met Li Xisheng, who took the initiative to take action, in an alley. They didn't want to give way, so they had a fight.
One is just a qi practitioner in the sea-viewing realm, and the other is a swordsman who claims that his realm is between "eighth and nine". The reason why Cao Jun made this weird statement is because at that time, he was in the golden elixir realm, which was not worthy of the name, because the sword heart was broken.
, a Taoist heart was shattered, and the mental image was reduced to a pond full of dry lotus. You must know that before the sword heart collapsed, Cao Jun had excellent sword training qualifications in Nan Posuo Continent, and he was the leading sword immortal embryo.
It's just a sword cultivator who is still in the Golden Core Realm no matter how half-assed he is, no matter how good he is with paper and bamboo strips, but he is on the side of a Sixth Realm monk. No matter how hard he tries to use his sword, he still ends up with nothing.
As for that martial arts competition, Chen Ping'an only had a rough look at it back then. As his horizons broadened, especially after he became a swordsman, he felt more and more unusual about it.
A Qi practitioner who is not a sword cultivator, facing a sword cultivator who is at a lower level than the opponent, can actually win with certainty?
Back then, Li Xisheng was calm and calm, and he seemed to be able to take the sword with ease, just like handing it over to the future swordsman Chen Ping'an, a silent truth.
Since sword cultivation can break all kinds of magic with one sword.
The method to crack it is "very simple". You only need to accumulate ten thousand and one methods.
In the years to come, Chen Ping'an feels that the two fights are closest to Li Xisheng's "realm".
Once near the hut at the head of the Jianqi Great Wall, and once on the battlefield outside the city.
Cao Ci’s boxing skills.
Excellent swordsmanship.
Not only was their ability to predict the enemy's opportunity beforehand very similar to Li Xisheng's technique back then, but there was also an aura and state of mind that emanated from Cao Ci and Feiran.
It does not require formations, magical powers, flying swords, or the blessing of any external objects at all to create its own small world.
Besides the fight, there were two people who would give Chen Pingan this feeling.
Senior Cui was teaching him boxing on the second floor of Luo Luoshan Zhulou.
And Cui Dongshan sitting in front of the chessboard preparing to make a move.
People who practice Taoism all say that the human body is a small world.
But these few people seem to be the world themselves.
The Most Holy Master remembered the serious boy in green clothes in the small town and kindly advised Daozu that the name "Taozu" was too big and it was best to change the name. The Most Holy Master couldn't help laughing and joked with a smile: "
Your Taoist friend Jingqing is quite good at Taoism."
Chen Pingan felt helpless and laughed at himself: "It's like inviting a little ancestor home."
But when he said this, the young mountain master's eyes were gentle.
In Luopo Mountain, even if Chen Pingan is used to being a hands-off shopkeeper, as long as he returns home every time, there is no gossip that the young mountain owner does not know.
On the surface, all the credit goes to Xiaomi Li, but in fact, Chen Lingjun is also a behind-the-scenes hero who cannot be underestimated. One is diligent in patrolling the mountains, and the other likes to wander. He can't hold back what he sees and hears.
The Most Holy Master said: "When Chen Lingjun went to Dadu, Luzhou, Beiju, he felt that he had made a mistake. It seemed that he was not trying to hide anything, but was thinking of returning home early. The worst he could do was to get scolded by you.
A big stone is settled. You must know that most people make mistakes, no matter how big or small, they always hope that God does not know about it, and it is best that God does not know about it. This is human nature. "
Chen Ping'an was puzzled. He didn't know why the Holy Master would talk about Chen Lingjun.
The Most Holy Master asked: "Chen Lingjun wants to save face, but on your side, he seems to be completely indifferent about face or not. Do you know why?"
Chen Ping'an really hadn't thought about this. After thinking about it for a while, he tentatively replied: "Because I walked through Shujian Lake."
All the people in Luolu Mountain, whether monks or martial artists, have a tacit understanding and seem to deliberately avoid the lake of letters and never touch this topic.
The more flawless a person is, the greater the invisible pressure will be when others get along with him.
Especially for people like Chen Ping'an, who has a delicate mind, and since he was young, the orphan of Mu Ping Alley has been tirelessly pursuing the word "no mistakes" his whole life.
A person who drinks frequently but never gets drunk once is very scary.
It is precisely because of the regrets and mistakes in his life, and those unknown consciences, that Chen Ping'an has become a good drinker who rarely gets drunk, but will eventually get drunk.
The Holy Master said: "In addition, there is another intention. Cui Chan knew that the situation was urgent and it was too late to use a relatively gentle method. He simply helped you create a bottomless pit in your heart first, and then forced
Let you use other things to fill this huge hole, whether you use conscience, guilt, or some kind of more harmonious knowledge, in short, no matter what it is, it has a place to go."
The Holy Master intended to be a bit reserved. In fact, Cui Chan seems to have used a method that is the opposite of "checking for leaks and filling in gaps". It is not appropriate to say that he is digging a well. He is basically directly removing Chen
In the peaceful state of mind, a waterless heart lake is carved out. As for the repair, it is up to you, Chen Pingan. Is it hard to endure? Suffer it!
Otherwise, Chen Pingan's original Taoist heart would not be able to bear that divinity. To be precise, Chen Pingan, whose two lines of good and evil are very close to each other in his heart, would be too in line with divinity. The more he practices, the higher he climbs, and his human nature
The closer we get to divinity, this is an involuntary general trend. Just like when the Holy Master used a whisk to draw a circle to discuss the Tao, he deliberately asked Chen Pingan how many possibilities he had in the end, but Chen Pingan couldn't answer. In the Holy Spirit,
In my opinion, if I am not careful, there is most likely to be only one outcome: to go to the sky and occupy the old heavenly ruins. Instead, I will lose to Chen Ping'an who seems to have stayed in the world and lost to the first mover. Because of the latter's
Divinity becomes more pure.
Isn't that old man Yang in the drug store gambling? And he won't lose. Regardless of Chen Pingan, who has pocketed all the divinities on the gambling table, regardless of whether Chen Pingan loses or wins in this tug-of-war between humanity and divinity.
In the eyes of old man Yang, everything that goes in with the left hand and goes out with the right hand is still the same thing. In the past, the ancestor of the man's earthly immortals, one of the twelve high-ranking gods, the Qingtong Tianjun who held an ascension platform in his hand, had been waiting for ten thousand years.
It's not a waste of time.
That's why Cui Chan took action early. Then one day, Chen Ping'an will really become that one queen, and successfully gather the divinity of all the people who are fighting for it in the entire Dewdrop Cave, and become the last person left on the gambling table. Most of the pure divinity
, even if it is originally uncontrollable, the worst thing is that divinity is like a waterfall, falling from the sky, pouring into the lake of the heart. When discussing things, it saves worry and effort, and when discussing people, it can also benefit practice.
The Most Holy Master suddenly asked again: "Have you ever thought about why Cui Dongshan is afraid of Li Baoping? When you went to Sui Academy to study, Cui Dongshan never fought back when he was with the little girl in the red cotton jacket, or even scolded her back. ?”
Chen Pingan was stunned on the spot, another question he seemed to have never thought about deeply.
Then Chen Pingan's expression soon became complicated.
The second time I visited the Great Wall of Sword Qi, I reunited with my senior brothers there. In fact, at first, none of them recognized the younger junior brother, and no one thought that he was their senior senior brother.
But it was Chen Ping'an who had the most complicated feelings towards his elder brother Cui Chan who "bullied his master and destroyed his ancestors".
"Because Li Baoping and Baopingzhou share weal and woe, and are dependent on each other for good and misfortune. Who do you think is the author of the 'Peach Generation Li Jang' incident?"
The most holy master revealed the secret of heaven with his words, "Bai Yujing's great leader Kou Ming has lofty ambitions to transform the three qing dynasties in one breath. He must use three identities to finally truly integrate the cultural roots of the three teachings. Shen Gaozong Zhou Li is a Taoist priest, and Fu Li Xisheng in Lujie is a Confucian scholar. Cui Zhang is right. Li Xisheng knows the truth and will still protect the safety of his sister Li Baoping. Li Xisheng makes such a choice. What about Bai Yujing, or even Qingming Tianxia? Do you believe it or not? The war in Aoping Continent was unfavorable, and Dadu and the capital could not be defended. The Great Li cavalry had to retreat to the northern capital. If Li Baoping had any good luck, Li Xisheng would directly break through the border all the way, return to the Fourteenth Realm in one day, and choose to face it head-on. Zhou Mi? What choice will Junior Brother Yu Dou and Lu Chen make at that time? Is it even possible for Dao Ancestor to make an exception for this first disciple who has the highest hopes?"
"uncertain."
The Holy Master said slowly: "But Cui Chan only needs to have this 'not necessarily', that's enough."
"So when Qi Jingchun said that 'a gentleman can deceive others,' he was speaking not only to you, my junior brother, but also to my senior brother Cui Chan. He hoped that the latter's work and knowledge would not go too extreme. It's a pity that Cui Chan didn't listen. If he said it was "nearly human", I really can't blame him. No one leaves any way for himself to escape. How can we ask Cui Chan for more? what to do."
The Holy Master clasped his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky.
The awe-inspiring Jia Sheng of yesteryear, who was once wild and careful, is now the new master of heaven.
With his own strength, he can force the three patriarchs to join forces to deal with it.
Chen Pingan was silent for a long time and asked: "Can't it count? Even Daozu can't do it?"
The Holy Master shook his head and said: "It really can't be counted. Some things are extremely complicated. If the deduction of the great road only evolves into hundreds or thousands of roads, and goes to the end one by one, no matter how many there are, it is not difficult, so casual A monk in the upper five realms can run to become a Yin Yang family. The difficulty is that the heart of heaven can change when the human heart is moved. For example, if we only talk about Feng Yuanxiao in the colorful world, Daozu can certainly count her appearance. Let’s go on Suppose Dao Ancestor Xiaojia gets angry and must target her, then Dao Ancestor is competing against the great avenues of the entire colorful world. He is doomed to be thankless and will only press the gourd and float the ladle."
"After all, he is not the same person as the ancestor of the military strategist back then."
"But if there are just a few of us, each of us trying to conquer the world, and we only talk about it in our own territory, then of course it will be considered as exhaustive."
"I don't think it's interesting. The Taoist ancestor believed that knowing and stopping the world will rectify itself. The Buddha believed that it is his own business for all sentient beings to become Buddhas. Anyway, the few of us, as the earliest 'Taoist priests' in the world, all feel that the Tao is in the world."
Chen Pingan's eyes suddenly flashed with flowers, the vision flashed away, and then his Taoist heart was shaken.
When I looked again intently, there was no trace of him.
Just now, I seemed to have seen a legendary... Qilin, passing by from my field of vision.
The Most Holy Master looked calm and said with a carefree smile: "Three cups lead to the road, and one fight leads to nature. What are you doing in a daze? Bring another pot of wine."