The road back to Wuyuan Village from Qianfu Town is sandwiched by a forest. Although autumn has just begun, the uneven dirt road is already covered with withered yellow leaves.
On this dirt road, there was an ox cart carrying several people moving forward slowly and awkwardly. The cart was full of people, everyone was holding large and small bags, and there were many groceries hung on both sides of the cart.
Wang Li and his mother were on this bullock cart. He leaned against Wang with his back and sat on the wooden board at the back of the cart with his eyes closed. His chest and abdomen were rising and falling slightly, as if he was asleep.
But upon closer inspection, his eyelids were twitching from time to time.
The ox cart has been traveling for almost an hour. After Wang Li set off, he began to try to practice the Xiao Qingxu Song Jue.
This Xiao Qingxu Song Jue is an introductory method for building the foundation of the mind. After practicing this technique in silence, he will feel that his mind is clear and his mind is clear.
Da da da~
The sudden sound of horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded, and Wang Li immediately opened his eyes. He saw two tall white horses pulling a carriage from far away on the road. The rapidly rotating wheels rolled up the leaves on the dirt road and swirled in chaos.
fly.
"It's the frame of those two young men!"
"Uncle Fifth, please get out of the way, the young master from the county is coming!"
"Don't block their way!"
Uncle Wu, who was driving the cart, didn't say anything. He just waved his whip and drove the cart little by little toward the grassland beside the dirt road.
The people in the village were a little anxious. They all knew this frame. They all raised their necks and looked around, with a faint look of envy and awe in their eyes.
The carriage was getting closer and closer, but the cow pulling the carriage couldn't move its legs for a long time, and just mooed there, so everyone got off the carriage and walked to the grass.
"U~uh!"
The bullock cart finally blocked the carriage. The driver of the carriage was a tall and powerful man. He glanced at the bullock cart and the people on the grass, turned his head and whispered to the carriage behind the curtain.
Then Wang Li saw the window curtain of the carriage being opened, and Qin Hong's fat face greeted him with a smile.
"What a coincidence, brother Li."
Wang Li hugged the wooden box and smiled back: "I came to the town with my mother and fellow villagers to join in the fun."
"join in the fun?"
Qin Hong thought of today's trip to the small town, and a strange look flashed in his eyes. Just when he was about to continue talking, a small hand suddenly slapped his fat face.
Wang Li saw a look of helplessness clearly flashing across Qin Hong's face. He turned his eyes to the little hand and found that there was an extraordinary jasper bracelet on the wrist. Then he saw a pretty girl.
"Are you Wang Li?"
The girl opened her mouth and called out Wang Li's name. She looked at Wang Li carefully. She suddenly opened her eyes wide and said in surprise, "Hey! You are actually one!"
Wang Li looked puzzled. Was there anything about him that surprised him? He looked at the pretty girl and asked, "What did the girl say?"
"nothing."
The little girl rolled her eyes and pulled down the curtains after saying this. Her tone was obviously wrong.
Just at this time, Uncle Wu had driven the ox cart to the grassland. The big man driving the cart tightened the reins. The two white horses immediately kicked up their hooves, and the cart started to move.
After the carriage went far away, the ox-cart returned to the road again.
The villagers didn't think much about what happened just now. They were surprised when Wang Li, a mud boy who had not entered the thatched cottage, was able to tutor the children in the village. The little girl just said something anticlimactic, and they just regarded it as a child making trouble.
Playing.
Wang was a little concerned, and the little girl was very pretty and lovely. She didn't know what she thought of, so she quietly touched Wang Li's arm, lowered her head and asked in a low voice: "Brother Li, who is that little girl?"
Children at home?”
Wang Li smiled bitterly in his heart. This tone was very familiar to him. His mother in the previous life would ask like this whenever she saw him talking to a female colleague.
You know, he is only twelve years old now.
Wang Li shook his head and said, "Mom, I don't know her, and he and Mr. Qin are riding in the same carriage."
Wang's face was startled, she nodded slightly and stopped talking.
Sitting at the back of the car, Wang Li repeatedly thought about the girl's expression before contacting Mr. Wu mentioned in Uncle Zhang's letter, and gradually began to make some guesses in his mind.
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On the speeding carriage, Qin Hong sat in the carriage without saying a word. Wu Yu sat opposite him and winked at him vigorously, but he turned a blind eye and just looked straight ahead with a calm expression.
Next to the two brothers, the girl whom Qin Hong called Bao'er was holding a white jade plaque and turning it over and over in her hand. The jade plaque was just the size of her palm, and crystal light appeared from time to time.
"Wu Yu, are your eyes cramped?"
Miss Bao'er said something and put the jade medal directly into a pouch on her waist.
Wu Yu's expression was stunned, and he said with a cry: "Sister Bao'er, that is my jade sign..."
"Look at how stingy you are!"
Miss Bao'er looked at him with a smile and said: "Don't worry, I'll pay you back after two days of playing. Anyway, you won't be able to use it here for the time being. Besides, Brother Hong must have other good things in him. You and he will be inseparable every day."
No problem."
Wu Yu looked bitter and murmured in a low voice, "I lent you my other treasures before and said I would return them after two days of play, but..."
"snort!"
Miss Bao'er reached out and touched the brocade bag, and the jade token she just put in was directly held in her hand. She didn't know how.
She casually threw the jade token into Wu Yu's arms and said, "Don't expect me, Lin Bao'er, to speak for you when you get to Uncle Wu!"
"Ah! Stop!"
Wu Yu trembled and picked up the jade token, carefully handed it to her, forced a smile, and said: "My good sister, you can play with this thing as long as you want. Good sister, my uncle loves you the most. You can
You must say a nice word to Brother Hong for me."
Having said this, he gritted his teeth, glanced at the jade plaque reluctantly, and said, "I will give you this jade plaque!"
"You're smart!"
Lin Baoer proudly took the jade medal and put it back into the bag.
Seeing his cousin like this, Qin Hong sighed in his heart and said, "Please, Miss Bao'er, please don't speak for me in front of Uncle Wu."
Wu Yu was anxious: "Cousin!"
"oh?"
Lin Baoer looked at Qin Hong with interest and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to ignore the opportunity in front of you?"
Qin Hong looked solemn: "Sure! Uncle Wu said that you are not my guide!"
"Interesting, really interesting."
Lin Baoer looked at Qin Hong and said with deep meaning: "Did you know that someone has already got the opportunity before you two?"
"What!"
Wu Yu, who was anxious, became even more anxious when he heard this sentence, and his butt jumped up as if it was on fire, but he forgot that he was still in the carriage, and hit his head with a "bang!"
But he stared at Lin Baoer closely and asked, "Sister Baoer, who is that person?"
Qin Hong's expression changed, and he suddenly remembered Lin Baoer's strange reaction when he saw Wang Li on the roadside just now, and then blurted out: "It's him!"
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When it was getting dark, the ox cart that Wang Li and his mother rode returned to the entrance of the village. After saying goodbye to the villagers, the mother and son hurried toward their home. They never expected to be stopped by Qin Hong at the intersection near their home.
"Aunt Wang, I have something to ask Brother Li for help."
At the fork in the road, Qin Hong saluted Mr. Wang solemnly and said.
Ms. Wang was frightened. She didn't expect that the young master of the county government would actually salute a country woman. She was stunned for a moment and quickly stepped aside and said, "Okay, I'll go back to cook first. You guys have something to do."
Speak slowly."
After saying that, she turned her back to Qin Hong, patted Wang Li on the shoulder, and said with a serious face: "Mother, go back first. You must help Mr. Qin with his matter!"
Wang Li smiled and nodded, he understood what his mother meant.
Wang then pulled away and left. After she walked away, Wang Li looked at Qin Hong thoughtfully and asked, "Master Qin, do you want to ask about the mountain gate?"
"It's really you."
Qin Hong nodded with a complex expression, and made a "please" gesture sideways, "Can I take a step to speak?"
Wang Li's eyes twitched. Qin Hong's tone and this set of actions made him feel very awkward. Holding the wooden box, he stepped aside Qin Hong and walked side by side with him.
After turning several paths, the two of them soon came to a stop in front of a hillside. Behind the hillside was Mr. Wu's thatched cottage.
Qin Hong looked towards the direction of the thatched cottage, with infinite hope in his eyes, and said, "Brother Li, do you know what the mountain gate is?"
"I don't know, I only found out about the existence of the mountain gate today."
Wang Li replied calmly.
"I just found out today? So that's it..."
Qin Hong's eyes were stunned, and then he spoke in a sleepy tone: "You have already half-stepped into the mountain gate, but I am helpless at the opportunity in front of me."
"Then who is your guide? Since Uncle Wu came out of Wuyuan Village, there shouldn't be anyone else who can be your guide~"
Wang Li immediately explained to him: "It's Uncle Zhang from the village."
Qin Hong looked confused: "Which Uncle Zhang is it?"
Wang Li glanced at the direction of the hillside and replied: "The people in the village call him Zhang Butcher."
"Is that so?"
Qin Hong looked at Wang Li with an expression of disbelief. Looking into Wang Li's eyes, he shook his head. As expected, opportunity is such an elusive thing.
Wang Li thought for a while and asked, "Master Qin, can you tell me about the mountain gate?"
"What's the meaning?"
Qin Hong was stunned again when he heard this, then he reacted and said in surprise: "Didn't your guide tell you?"
Wang Li slowly shook his head.
"This...okay..."
Qin Hong couldn't help being speechless. He sighed in his heart and said in a jealous tone: "But I can't say more. After all, I don't even have a guide now. Besides, I know very little, and what I say may not necessarily be right.
No one knows what it really looks like until you enter the mountain gate."
Wang Li looked grateful: "Thank you very much."
Qin Hong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hey, if my opportunity comes, maybe we can become brothers in the same sect."
"Listen carefully, the entire Yuan Qi Kingdom is just an insignificant existence in the secular country controlled by Shanmen. My father once practiced in the sect, but unfortunately he missed the path in the end and returned to the secular world in frustration and became a county magistrate.
make......"
"The mountain gate is called Qiongxiao, and the gate is divided into seven channels. Each of the seven channels has its own way of practice, so the path of seeking Tao for each channel is different..."