When Li Xiuyuan returned to his house, he did not go into his room to sleep. Instead, he sat in the pavilion and meditated to practice his Qi.
Although the Renshan Dao has not been very effective, if you practice it on a daily basis, if nothing else, it will at least make you energetic and you won't have to sleep all night like ordinary people.
This sitting lasted two hours.
The night faded quickly, and now the early morning sun was shining down.
Li Xiuyuan opened his eyes slightly after regaining his energy.
"Others say that practicing Taoism is good and can lead to immortality, but who can understand how boring it is? I just meditated for two hours and couldn't continue to enter samadhi. I really don't know how those so-called Taoist masters can sit still for a whole day.
, or even ten days and a half month.”
He thought secretly in his heart.
After stretching and moving his muscles, he still planned to go back to his room to review the Four Books and Five Classics, lest he fail the exam and become a joke.
"That scholar who practices qi, are you the owner of this mansion?"
Suddenly, just as Li Xiuyuan was preparing to go to the study, a voice came.
"Who?" Li Xiuyuan immediately looked around.
But he saw a tall and sturdy man standing on the wall of his courtyard, with a swallow's chin and a tiger's beard, and a leopard's head and eyes. Although this man was not ugly in appearance, he looked fierce, like Zhang Fei in ancient times. Ordinary.
If people take a look at it, they will be frightened and go away.
"I'm just a passerby. I saw some bad wine outside your house and wanted to ask the owner if he sells it." said the burly man.
"There is no wine at the door of my house. I'm afraid this friend may have made a mistake." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Since you are the master of this house, it will be easy to handle."
After speaking, the burly man jumped down from the courtyard wall again, and then after a while, he jumped onto the courtyard wall again holding a large wine jar with one hand. He shook the wine jar in his hand: "This is a release."
Why is the wine at your door not yours?"
"Good skills." Li Xiuyuan didn't care about the wine, but he cared about this big man's skills.
The courtyard wall of my house is at least a foot high, and since this big man can jump up with a jar of wine weighing dozens of kilograms, this is not something ordinary people can do.
"Your skills are not bad either. There are many scholars in the world, but none of them are like you. You are so young and have such outstanding martial arts skills."
The sturdy man said: "Looking at the way you meditated and practiced qi before, I know that you are taking the path of qi training. You can cultivate martial arts through the path of qi training. You, a scholar, have a very high talent in martial arts. I think you
It's a waste to continue studying. Just practice martial arts. In less than twenty years, you will be the martial arts master in the world."
"It's a pity that I don't have the ambition to practice martial arts." Li Xiuyuan said with a smile.
The sturdy man nodded and said, "I understand that everything is of inferior quality, but reading is the only thing that is high. Reading is indeed an elegant thing, but have you ever thought about scholars, how many scholars have there been in the past and present? The only ones who are promising are officials in the imperial court, or becoming a local official.
The mediocre county magistrate is just wasting his life as a teacher, and there is no way he can enjoy the joy of being a chivalrous man with his martial arts skills."
"Everyone has his own way, and some things cannot be forced." Li Xiuyuan said, of course he knew how satisfying it was.
But now the Li family needs to become a family of officials, otherwise what happened to County Magistrate Liu that day will happen again.
"You're right, everyone has his own way. So let's not talk about this. Are you really not selling this wine?" The sturdy man shook the wine jar in his hand and said, "I will buy you a jar for one hundred taels of silver."
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"How can I sell you this wine if it's not mine?" Li Xiuyuan said.
At this time, the sturdy man seemed to smell the smell of wine in the wine jar, and he chuckled: "Since it's not yours, I can't care less about it. Let's drink first. If the owner comes to find it, I'll pay him some money at worst."
As he spoke, he opened the mud seal, lifted the wine jar and poured it into his mouth.
The strong aroma of wine spread out, and even Li Xiuyuan in the yard could smell it.
It is indeed a rare and good wine.
But the smell of this wine is very familiar!
Li Xiuyuan looked at the wine poured out of the wine jar. It was as scarlet as blood and sparkling like the wine from the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty that he drank in the City God's Temple last night.
Immediately, he understood something.
This wine appeared at his door. I am afraid that the city god sent some ghost messengers to him at night.
But then he frowned again: "This city god will not give me wine for no reason. I am afraid that this wine is sent to me to make amends."
"I remembered that this was an apology wine given to me by someone. I didn't want it originally. It seems that the person didn't notify me in advance, so he put the wine down and left. Now that you drank it, I can't return it.
gone back."
The burly man put down the wine jar, wiped his beard and said with a smile: "I told you it was your wine, but you don't admit it, but I also drank this wine, and you can't make me spit it out. I'll pay you one hundred taels."
Silver bar, it would be a pity not to drink such a fine wine here."
"I'm not short of money." Li Xiuyuan said.
"You don't want money, then what do you want? I'll tell you the truth, I won't pay you back even if you don't want money or wine." said the sturdy man.
Li Xiuyuan said: "I don't want you to change. Just now I saw that your martial arts are very high. How about giving me some advice on my martial arts?"
"Guide you?"
The sturdy man looked at Li Xiuyuan with a pair of leopard eyes, grinned and said: "You still need my advice, as long as you continue to practice like this, you will become a martial arts master in less than a year. As long as you are determined, you can even defeat demons and monsters."
You can't help it."
After saying that, he looked at the golden gun standing in the yard.
"And what you use is a big gun. The weapons on the battlefield are only powerful when you ride a horse. What I use is a sword, a weapon for fighting with people. I don't follow the same path. It's useless for you to learn my martial arts."
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"What are you using, but I didn't see your sword?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
"My sword must see blood when it comes out, otherwise it won't come back." said the sturdy man.
Li Xiuyuan said, "Then wait."
After saying that, he turned around and went to the kitchen, took out a live chicken, and threw it into the yard.
"Then can this chicken try your sword? This can be regarded as seeing blood." Li Xiuyuan said, he was still quite interested in this big man's sword.
"Haha, yes, since I drank your wine and you won't charge me, I will show you my sword." The sturdy man laughed, then opened his mouth and spat out, and a white rainbow flew out.
This white rainbow was so fast and fierce that it went straight to the hen and quickly circled around the hen's neck. The hen's body was still running forward, but its head had already fallen silently.
It fell down, and chicken blood spattered out from the neck.
"How about my sword?"
The burly man opened his mouth and sucked in again. Bai Hong flew over and turned into a pill, which he swallowed in his stomach.
Li Xiuyuan immediately narrowed his eyes slightly, not expecting that this big man's sword was actually a flying sword.
According to the legend, the flying sword can become a pill by practicing the sword, and the flying sword can kill people by exhaling its breath.
"Okay, what a flying sword. It's as fast as lightning and extremely sharp. It can kill people's heads from thousands of miles away. This is the method of the Sword Immortal. I didn't expect that you, my hero, are actually a Sword Immortal." Li Xiuyuan said.
"What kind of swordsman am I? I just got a little fortune and earned a sword pill. Don't envy me. This sword pill will see blood when it comes out, but it can't kill people. If you kill someone, the sword will be stained by someone's blood. You need to
Wash it with thunder and fire, otherwise it will lose its spirituality and be unable to fly. I haven't killed anyone since I got this sword, and today I killed a chicken."
The sturdy man took another sip of wine and said: "Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I am a policeman from the Six Gates. I have to catch another thief today. Scholar, you are different from other common people. I think
It’s pleasing to the eye, see you later when you have time.”
After saying that, he jumped off the courtyard wall and left.
"Since we are destined, I will give you two jars of wine to take away." Li Xiuyuan shouted again.
"Okay, then I'll take it." The big man's voice came from outside the courtyard wall, and he was not polite.
When Li Xiuyuan walked outside the house and took a look, he found that there were only seven jars of wine left outside. As for the big man, there was no trace of him. He didn't know where he had gone.
Look at this, the city god gave me a total of ten jars of wine.
"Ten jars of wine are just an apology. The city god really treated me like a child and sent me away."
Li Xiuyuan looked in the direction of the City God with a calm expression: "If I hadn't been drunk by this man without reacting for a moment, I would have returned the wine to the City God."
But now there is no need to go back.
Ten jars of wine were given away, but three jars were given away. Where can I return them?
However, using three jars of wine to befriend a man who can spit flying swords is still worth it. If you meet him in the future, you can have some friendship with him.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan turned around and went back to the house, and then ordered the two guards who stayed at the house to bring in the seven jars of wine.
Since the things can no longer be returned, just keep them.
"Ten jars of wine will help you understand the grudges between the City God and me. This City God has made a lot of money."
Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, and then he stopped thinking about these silly things.
After returning to the house, he returned to his study and began to study hard.
For several days in a row, he rarely left the house and stayed alone in his study. If he felt sleepy, he would go outside and meditate for a while. If he was hungry, Xiaodie and Du Chunhua would naturally take care of him.
Although Xiaodie is the maid next to Qingmei, she is also somewhat proficient in pen and ink. She reads by her side on weekdays. Writing ink does not make her feel lonely, but rather makes her feel more fragrant.
Although Du Chunhua is a girl from a mountain village, she is diligent and proficient in doing laundry, cooking and housework.
Having two people waiting by his side made Li Xiuyuan extra worry-free.
As for making friends and attending literati gatherings like an ordinary scholar, he was not very interested, lest he meet that ordinary-looking scholar again and that young man from Hedong, Ye Huaian, and he would be ruined by that time.
Mood.
Let’s talk about everything after taking the scholar exam.
But the peaceful days were not over for many days.
About five days later.
Li Xiuyuan played with the big gun in the yard as usual in the morning and shot a bow to ensure that his muscles and bones were not lazy, and then went into the study to practice calligraphy.
"Tranquility reaches far."
He wrote these four characters on the rice paper.
"Xiaodie, look, how does my strength compare with the past few days?"
Xiaodie was grinding ink aside, her bright eyes moved at this moment, and she said with a smile: "Young master's writing skills are amazing, no matter what he writes, it looks good, and it is much better than the past few days."
"Haha, you know how to flatter me. This calligraphy has to be taken to the examination room. It's not okay if you don't write it well." Li Xiuyuan shook his head and smiled, but continued to practice calligraphy.
But then again, he did feel that his handwriting was much better than the previous few days.
I don’t know if it’s because I have the Qiqiao Exquisite Heart.