It's dull, depressing, and it seems like I can't exert any energy.
Is this the legendary ghost on the bed?
How could it be possible that he had never been confused by ghosts before, so how could he be pressed into bed by a ghost? Li Xiuyuan suddenly woke up from his sleep.
"Master, you're awake." Du Chunhua seemed to have woken up a long time ago, with a shy and lazy intimacy in her voice.
"The beauty is really powerful, I feel like my whole body has been hollowed out..." Li Xiuyuan looked at the roof and murmured.
It turns out that I was not held down by a ghost, but by Du Chunhua who held me down all night.
"By the way, Chunhua, what time is it now?"
Du Chunhua said shyly: "It's already time."
It was probably nine to eleven o'clock. In ancient times, anyone who got up at this time would be scolded.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her pretty face and said, "We fell asleep together last night. Why didn't I wake up until now, but you woke up long ago?"
"How could this slave know?" Du Chunhua said softly.
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "No wonder the master wants me to complete my martial arts practice before we can consummate the marriage. Before that, I can't be close to women. Now it seems that the master's words are indeed very reasonable. If I do this every night when I practice martial arts, I will only
I’m afraid it will be useless long ago.”
"Master, are you blaming me for being too dissolute?" Du Chunhua looked aggrieved and sad.
"I love you too much. How can I blame you?" Li Xiuyuan said, "Forget it, let's not talk about it. It's getting late. Go back, or my father will send people to look for me again."
"This slave will serve the young master to change his clothes."
When Li Xiuyuan took Du Chunhua out of the room, summoned the guards and prepared to leave.
When they met Liu Laogen, a passing villager, he and several other villagers seemed to have returned from doing farm work. They secretly gave Li Xiuyuan a thumbs up, with admiration in their eyes that all men knew.
Hey, hey, I don't quite understand what you mean by raising your thumbs up.
Li Xiuyuan wanted to ask more questions, but Du Chunhua behind him blushed and tugged at the corner of his clothes, and said quietly: "Master, let's go back quickly."
"What are you doing if you are shy? This is not a shameful thing." Li Xiuyuan said.
Du Chunhua just hummed slightly and lowered her blushing head.
"Okay, okay, look at you like this, blushing all day long, how come I haven't seen you so shy before." Li Xiuyuan smiled.
At this time, the guards also prepared horses and came over with other matters.
"Young Master, we are ready to go." Xing Shan, the leader, said in a deep voice.
"Let's go." Li Xiuyuan said.
When the group of people walked out of the village, the people in Xiahe Village kept saying hello to him.
"Master, are you going back to the county? It's a good journey."
"Young master, it's easy to go. Come here often when you have time."
"I wish the eldest young master to have a son soon, and may he be blessed with long life. Sister Chunhua, you must serve the eldest young master well and give birth to more babies for him."
The group of people left Xiahe Village amid farewell sounds. After leaving, I am afraid they will rarely come back again.
After all, the practice here has ended.
But to be honest, Li Xiuyuan still felt a little emotional. He spent a lot of time here. Every day he was on the Taoist mountain looking at the small village at the foot of the mountain. There was nothing about the people and things in the village that he didn't know.
Birth, old age, illness and death, weddings and funerals, spring sowing and autumn harvest.
Unknowingly, it has been more than ten years.
When the group returned to the county town and prepared to return to the mansion, they saw a skinny old man sitting outside the mansion.
The old man was not tall, slightly hunched over, carrying a cane, and had a long beard that hung down to his chest. He looked to be at least eighty or ninety years old.
He was originally a respected old man, but at this moment, the old man had a bruised nose and a swollen face, his hair was messy, and a section of his long beard was missing, as if he had been severely punished.
Butler Li at the house was trying to persuade the old man to leave.
"Old man, it's not an option for you to sit in front of my Li Mansion all the time. Please raise your hand and move it. Can you sit somewhere else?"
But the old man waved his hand with great enthusiasm: "I won't go, I won't go, I won't go anywhere, I will just sit here."
"How can you do this? There are so many people coming in and out of my Li Mansion. What if I accidentally bump into your old man?" Butler Li asked again.
The old man said very forcefully: "If you kill me, it's my fate. I don't blame you, but I have to sit here and not go anywhere."
Butler Li suddenly looked embarrassed.
At this time, Li Xiuyuan and the guards came up with their horses. Seeing this scene, they couldn't help but ask: "Steward Li, what happened?"
"The eldest young master is back. I have met the eldest young master." Butler Li hurriedly ran over, gave a salute, and then said: "I am afraid that the eldest young master has been to Xiahe Village in the past two days without knowing it. Just last night, our house
An old man came here. Young Master, look, it’s this old man. As soon as he came here, he sat on the ground and refused to leave."
"Maybe he's just tired and wants to take a rest, so let him sit down." Li Xiuyuan said.
Butler Li sighed: "Young master, that's not the problem. This old man simply refuses to leave."
"Did someone in the house bump into someone else?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
"No, the younger one also asked the guards to help the old man up, but it's strange that the two strong men couldn't help the old man." Butler Li said in a low voice: "I'm afraid he is not an ordinary old man, maybe he is like Tao
A strange person of ordinary appearance."
"Oh, if there is such a thing, I'll go take a look." Li Xiuyuan said in surprise.
"Young master, why do you need to bother about this matter? I don't believe that this old man really can't help him. I will wait for him to go and try him. There are so many strange people in the world. I think most of them are charlatans and liars."
It's our Li family's head." A strong guard patted his chest and said, and then volunteered.
Li Xiuyuan pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "You might as well give it a try. Even if you are a liar, you should be polite to the old man."
"I understand, little one."
The guard immediately strode over and stared at the old man with a bruised nose and swollen face, who looked like he had been beaten violently.
"Old man, the ground is cold here. How can you sit on the ground at such an old age? Let the next generation help you up." The guard grinned and reached out to help the old man.
Li Xiuyuan, however, was watching seriously.
From his eyes, if this old man is a Taoist, he will definitely show his Taoist skills. If he is an ordinary old man, then he should send this old man away as politely as possible. After all, he cannot sit at the door of the mansion all the time.
"I don't need help, let's go." The old man knocked on the ground with his crutch and scolded.
"How can this be done? Old man, I will help you today." The guard grinned, but he grabbed the old man's arm and tried to help him up.
Originally, a skinny, hunchbacked old man could only weigh a few dozen kilograms at most, but when he exerted force on his arms, he found that the old man was surprisingly heavy. It was as if a huge stone had fallen to the ground, and he could not hold it up at all.
.
Not only that, the old man's body didn't even move.
"Okay, it's so heavy." The guard blushed and added another hand. Both hands worked together and squatted down, as if lifting a heavy object.
The old man knocked on the ground again and said: "I don't want you to help me, but you insist on helping me. What's the point? I'm just sitting here today, and I don't want to cause trouble to your house. You can't leave me alone."
Do you want to stay here quietly for a while? Please get out of the way."
After saying that, he shook his arm slightly and shook the guard away. The guard was temporarily unstable and fell to the ground.
"Haha, do you have this much strength? You can't even lift one of my arms." The old man laughed when he saw the guard falling to the ground.
The guard's expression changed unsteadily, and he was so ashamed that he had no choice but to retreat angrily.
"Young Master, this old man is really a master. Even though I tried my best, I couldn't shake him even a little bit. It would be great if that Wu Xiang was here. But it's a pity that he finished the banquet yesterday and took the Young Master's place.
The armor, weapons and silver given to him left, otherwise he would have been able to move the old man," the guard said.
"Wu Xiang is very strong, but we can't even lift an old man up. Let the two younger ones try." Two more guards stood up, eager to try.
He seemed to be dissatisfied with the old man's arrogant look.
When the old man saw the two of them, he chuckled and shook his head and said: "You two combined strength can't help me, so don't waste this time and leave quickly."
"How strong you can be as an old man, but we don't believe that two people can't help you up." The two guards strode over, grabbing the old man's arms one on the left and the other on the right.
"Work hard together."
"good."
Because they had learned from the past, the two guards used their full strength as soon as they came up.
But as soon as the two guards exerted force, they suddenly heard two cracking sounds, as if the bones were broken. Then they saw the originally confident and calm old man suddenly screamed, and then
Lie down on the ground and roll around.
"Ah, my arm, my arm, you are so cruel, you broke my arm."
The old man looked like he was in agony and screamed.
The two guards next to him were immediately startled: "I, we didn't do it on purpose."
"What, what can we do? Break this old man's arm off." Butler Li also said in shock.
"If your arm is broken, it's useless. Just cut it off."
Li Xiuyuan pulled out the guard's waist knife, then strode over, preparing to kill the old man.
When he just walked over with the knife, the old man who was rolling on the ground suddenly sat up, and then sat upright and said: "Why are you so rude, young man? I was just joking with you, but you took it seriously, not at all."
Not funny."
"Don't be afraid, old man. Being born late is also a joke for the old man. But the old man is not very funny. I just don't know what spell the old man just used, but it is so magical." Li Xiuyuan smiled, but dropped the sword in his hand.
"What kind of magic is not magic? That's just the old man's ventriloquism." After the old man finished speaking, his abdomen moved and made a clicking sound, like the sound of breaking bones.
"Okay, the old man is very capable."
The onlookers passing by suddenly applauded.
The old man smiled a little and cupped his hands and said: "Ashamed, ashamed, it's just a small skill, not worthy of praise. Those who are rich can do it for money, and those who have no money can do it for themselves."
"It's okay if you want to pay me. Let's perform another one." Someone shouted.
"Old man, are you doing showmanship or blackmail? If you don't tell the truth, I won't accompany you to fool around." Li Xiuyuan said.
The old man said: "You are really not funny, but I have a few questions to ask you. If you can answer them to my satisfaction, I won't sit here anymore."
"Oh, what's the problem?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
"If an old man in his seventies or eighty was severely beaten by a group of people, what should he do?" the old man said.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the bruises on his face and asked, "Isn't it you who is responsible for that old man?"
"Of course." The old man stroked his beard and smiled, raising his chin slightly.
"..."
Li Xiuyuan twitched the corner of his mouth. It's okay. Do you need to be so proud after being beaten?
He calmed down and then said: "If the old man was beaten by a group of people, then he should report it to the government and ask for compensation, or let the government arrest the perpetrator and beat him twenty times."
"What if the government can't control it?" the old man asked.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while: "Then this matter will be troublesome. If it were me, I would definitely find someone to fight back. After all, this matter cannot be settled like this. Confucius said, why retaliate, retaliate directly. If he hits me, it is reasonable for me to hit him.
No matter where I go, I feel confident."
"That makes sense, son-in-law. Now that my father-in-law has been brutally beaten, what are you waiting for? Go and beat him back quickly." The old man grabbed Li Xiuyuan's hand and said with excitement in his eyes.
The pleasure of revenge flashed in his eyes.
"Son-in-law? I don't know what the old man is..." Li Xiuyuan was stunned, and then asked.
He has not yet married a wife. If he is truly married, Qingmei is.
But Qingmei is already a female ghost, and she is also a poor woman born in a brothel. Without her parents, siblings, how can she have a father-in-law.
The old man said: "My surname is Hu Minghan, and my name is Hu Han. He is Qing'e's biological father. If you want to marry Qing'e, what are you if you are not my son-in-law?"
"Qing'e's father?" Li Xiuyuan immediately opened his eyes wide with shock.
Qing'e is a green fox who has been practicing for six hundred years. Her father must also be a fox spirit, but why...why, Hu Han looks like a human being without any trace of fox spirit.
No fox tail showing?
He looked around and found that he couldn't see any trace of the fox demon.
Hu Han said with a smile: "Don't look at it. I have been practicing for more than a thousand years. I have cultivated the human body long ago. The fox body has faded away long ago. Now the true body is the human body, and the human body is the true body."
That’s it~!
Li Xiuyuan suddenly felt something in his heart. He remembered that his master had said before that once the spiritual practice has completely cultivated the human body, there are two ways to go.
One is to shed the demonic body, completely transform into a human being, and then practice as a human being to become an immortal.
The second natural thing is to keep the demon body, continue to practice, and become an immortal as a spirit.
The former has a long road to becoming an immortal, but it is better because of its high achievements. After all, those who are aliens who have attained enlightenment are still aliens.
The latter has a high level of Taoism. Because he retains his demon body, he retains his Taoism and magic power. His natural strength is stronger, and his path to immortality is also faster.
However, no matter how you look at it, the latter has more benefits, but when Li Xiuyuan's master talked about it, he directly pointed out that the former is the right way, and the latter is just a heretical way and is not favored.