Sword comes

An accidental encounter in the river of life, often after each spin, they will part.

The blind old Taoist whose dao name was Xuan Guzi was silent all the way, which made the little girl Jiu'er a little unaccustomed to it.

Although the lame boy was unwilling to hand over the snake gallstone, after hesitating and struggling, he still took the initiative to hand it to the bad-tempered master.

The old Taoist took the fine-textured stone, held it in the palm of his hand and rubbed it carefully for a moment, and returned it to the young man for the first time, "Take it for yourself."

The lame boy took the stone in a daze, looked at Xiao Jiu'er, who also shook his head quietly, expressing that he couldn't figure out what Master was thinking.

The old man said softly: "Little cripple, this is your fate. Master can't take it away. If you really take it, it's not a good thing. Why do you think that young man named Chen Pingan sent a letter back to Longquan County through the post station? Poor Dao guessed If you come to Tai Sui and Caotou shops, if you take out the stones for the teacher instead of you, our life there will be difficult, and we may not be made things difficult, but don't try to gain a firm foothold smoothly, let alone Don't mention finding a mountain and going to practice under the fence."

The lame boy snorted. He is not a person with a bent intestine, and he is not good at thinking about these problems.

The blind old Taoist rubbed the little girl's head, "You two are really lucky."

Xiao Jiu'er was more thoughtful than his elder brother, and asked: "Master, Miss Sister and the others, are their backgrounds unusual?"

The old Taoist nodded and said: "That Longquan County was originally the Lizhu Cave Sky above the Dali Dynasty. It was broken and then took root. Before that, there was a Confucian sage, Qi Jingchun, who was in charge. Now these children are carrying bookcases, and they are smarter than each other. It is said that they are traveling to Tai Sui Academy, so who do you think they are students?"

The little girl was a little envious, "Students of Confucian sages, really amazing."

The blind old Taoist sneered and said, "Otherwise, the first thing that Fengxue Temple Sword Immortal Wei Jin did when he broke through the level was to come to rescue him? Besides, these children have a Yin God as their follower, who can actually threaten that The root of the mountain and the water source of the vicious female ghost, none of these children are fuel-efficient lamps."

The old man said with emotion: "The future is limitless, limitless."

The little girl felt a little belatedly, and asked curiously: "Since the master knows that they are protected by masters, why bother to tell them the situation of the Sanzhishan ghosts, they don't have to worry at all."

The old Taoist habitually reached out and pinched the little girl's cheek, and said with a smile: "Stupid girl, this is called benefit without cost. You can be a good person without spending a copper coin. Why don't you do it?"

The little girl timidly said: "But if someone sees through Master's intentions, isn't Master just adding to the liking?"

The old Taoist was dumb, shook his head and sighed, and finally patted the little girl on the head, "Master will treat you two better in the future. For so many years, Master has always thought that one day he will pick up a big leak, and he can pick it up on the side of the road. Talented disciples often dislike the two of you for your bad backgrounds and wrong backgrounds, but unexpectedly looking back, it's Master who's under the lights."

The little girl was a little scared, such an old Taoist was too unfamiliar, her face turned pale, "Master, are you a ghost, Jiuer doesn't even know you anymore."

The old Taoist laughed loudly, and suddenly said in a low voice: "Jiu'er, before the master promised not to accept Fuquan within a year, now I am discussing with you, changing from one year to half a year, how about it? Think about it, master this time Subduing demons and eliminating demons is really one foot tall and the devil is ten feet tall. I gave the female ghost a hard beating, and not only did I miss four words on the streamer, but I also sent out a piece of "Searching" handed down by the master's ancestors. "Shan Tu", as disciples, don't you know how to feel sorry for the master and show filial piety?"

The little girl was relieved, this was the master she was familiar with, so she simply said: "Half a year, half a year!"

The lame boy carefully put away the stone, and said sullenly, "The stone is already mine."

The blind old Taoist was so angry that he yelled, "Dogs can't change eating shit!"

The little girl covered her mouth with one hand and smiled secretly.

The little cripple laughed too.

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In an inaccessible place, the Yin God showed his true body, but his face was still blurred, his body was surrounded by black smoke, and he was full of gloom. He said hoarsely: "I failed to protect you, and caused you to be taken captive to the mansion of the female ghost. I'm sorry." gone."

Chen Pingan really didn't know how to comfort others, so he held back for a long time before finally saying, "Just do your best."

Yinshen smiled bleakly, "Anyway, I can't absolve myself of the blame this time. Especially because I was greedy for personal cultivation, and caused you to fall into such a field, I really have a bad conscience. If something happens to you, I will It doesn't make any sense to destroy the mountain roots and water sources here afterwards, and die together with that female ghost."

Li Baoping smiled and said: "When I was young, my elder brother liked to tell me some weird things. One time, he told a story about a city god, saying that the way of considering Yin and virtue was different. I remember it very clearly. If you don’t reward, you don’t get punished for doing evil unintentionally. When manpower is exhausted, if you try your best and do your best, you don’t have to feel too guilty. Otherwise, being a human being is tiring and being a ghost is also tiring.”

Yinshen was speechless, and being taught the truth by a little girl, even though she had shown a gentleman before, was always a bit awkward.

The little girl fell into her own world again, a little annoyed, and beat her palms with her fists, "Brother always talks about these weird things, at that time he only listened to them as interesting stories, I should have paid more attention if I knew earlier."

Chen Pingan hesitated.

Yinshen looked at Chen Ping'an and said with a smile, "Can we talk alone?"

Chen Pingan nodded and let Lin Shouyi and the others go first.

Yinshen waited until Lin Shouyi and the others went forward for about half a mile, and said, "I was arranged by old man Yang from the pharmacy to protect Li Huai."

Chen Pingan scratched his head, "I thought you were here to protect Aquarius or Lin Shouyi."

The yin god smiled and said: "Li Huai's father, Li Er, almost killed the vassal king Song Changjing. He was very powerful. Once, Li Er found old man Yang and said that his wife was being bullied by others. He wanted to go out to find the family. The family's ancestors had to settle accounts and must leave Lizhu Cave. Old man Yang couldn't resist, so he had to agree. After hearing that there was a fairy family gate with a good foundation in Aquarius Island, Li Er forcibly tore it down with his fists. Patriarch Hall, and it’s still going all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.”

Chen Ping opened his mouth wide.

Don't they all say that Li Er is the most unpromising man in the west of the town?Even his son Li Huai always thought so.

Chen Ping asked suspiciously, "Why didn't Li Er tell Li Huai?"

Yinshen seemed to feel much better after mentioning Li Er, "Li Er has a very temper, otherwise he wouldn't have married Li Huai's mother as his wife."

Chen Pingan said with a hearty smile: "After that, Li Huai will be overjoyed when he finds out the truth."

Yinshen asked: "Aren't you going to tell Li Huai this? At the pillow station, you just told Aquarius the truth, even if Ah Liang advised you not to tell her in a hurry."

Chen Ping walked forward slowly, "I think things about myself are right, and of course I can make my own decisions. But since Li Huai's father is unwilling to tell his son, I am an outsider, why should I tell Li Huai the truth?" ? Is it because I think Li Huai will be happier? This is not good."

Yinshen nodded, thinking it's no wonder Li Er didn't like those heaven's favored ones back then, but valued this young man from Niping Lane more, and even broke the rules because of this, wanting to give the golden carp along with the Dragon King basket to him. Chen Pingan.

Chen Pingan suddenly stopped and asked: "Because I have good eyesight, I was worried that you were a bad person at the time, so I remember very clearly that when you first appeared, Senior Yinshen, it was me who first saw you, and then I went to see Li Huai, why is this? Is it just an unintentional act? If you don’t want to answer, Senior Yin God can pretend that I didn’t ask.”

If Yinshen is still a living person, his mouth must be parched and he would be on pins and needles.

Where did he think that Chen Ping'an would be so careful at the beginning? At that time, his sight disappeared in a flash, and he couldn't hide it too shallowly.

But thinking of Chen Pingan's performance along the way, Yinshen felt relieved again, probably this is why Chen Pingan was able to convince the public.

Even if Lin Shouyi has now entered the fifth stage of middle school and became a real mountain god, Li Baoping still won't listen to him, and neither does Li Huai. As for Yinshen himself, I'm afraid there is no exception. After all, he was just an extremely smart and well-qualified teenager.

It feels weird.

It seems that the young man in Mud Ping Lane has an aura that makes people feel "at ease" and "justified".

If the boy said it was wrong, the rest of the team would think it was wrong.

The boy said that this matter is feasible, so it can be done.

But what's even more strange is that the boy never deliberately showed off any of his strengths.

On the contrary, he will humbly ask the little girl who calls him "little uncle" about literacy and reading.He never even regarded Li Huai as an ignorant child, and he was willing to stay and chat with Lin Shouyi, listening to him talk about the outside world.

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p;Yin God finally smiled and said: "I won't answer this question yet, anyway, don't worry, I won't harm you."

Chen Pingan trotted forward, turned his head and said with a smile, "If I didn't trust Senior, I wouldn't have asked this question."

Yinshen slowly disappeared, sighed, and traveled far away with these children, feeling really tired.

In fact, that bad-natured maidservant Zhu Lu was considered a genius who should not be underestimated in the general clan of the Yamashita Dynasty. It's a pity that in this team, from the beginning to the end, she was directly thrown away by a hundred and eight thousand miles. In all aspects, none of them can compare.

Going further south, it seems that there are Longxu River and Tiefu River first, and then Xiuhua River, Okinawa River and Hebei River. There are more water than mountains, but in the next day and a half, it seems that the "water transport" has been used up. It's hard to find even a mountain stream. In fact, there is water, but it's just undrinkable stagnant puddles. Most of them are sickly willow seedlings. They are neither tall nor luxuriant, and they are too crooked. Flying insects are everywhere along the way. Makes you feel uncomfortable all the time.

Li Huai was a little scared, because the blind old Taoist with a crow's mouth said that they would soon pass through a ghostly place called Sanzhi Mountain, where there were fierce ghosts, and what kind of ghosts would be the ghosts' minions.

Thinking of this, Li Huai felt depressed. His painted puppets and clay figurines were too small. Even if they survived, they might still be capable of fighting.What's more, the five clay figurines presented by the sword fairy in white, he couldn't survive no matter how hot he was, he couldn't be a liar, he didn't want to give himself good things in his heart, and he couldn't let go of the sword fairy's airs, so he deliberately Draw a big cake for yourself?

At dusk, Chen Pingan stopped to set up a stove to cook, and Li Huai ran to pick up a large handful of dry branches, and then squatted aside, complaining to Chen Pingan: "Chen Pingan, I think Fengxue Temple Wei Jin Not good."

Chen Pingan ignored him.

Li Huai went to his bookcase and took out a painted puppet and a clay figurine, and used the puppet to bully the little clay figurine holding a sword, and then made the latter kneel down and beg for mercy, shouting, "Master female ghost, spare me, spare my life!" , I, Wei Jin, knew I was wrong..."

Chen Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to explain: "Wei Jin is a very good person."

Li Huai rolled his eyes, moved his hands wildly, and continued to let the painted puppets ravage the clay figurines.

Lin Shouyi was sitting on a rock not far away, flipping through the "Mountain Search Map", looked up and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the Wei and Jin Dynasties seem to look down on you, or in other words, the least optimistic about you."

Li Baoping, who was silently packing the small bookcase, was furious, "Is there such a thing?"

Lie on the ground with his ass pouted, and after slowly lighting the firewood, Chen Pingan squatted down and prepared to cook, "Looking down on me, what does it have to do with whether he is a good person or not?"

Li Huai looked shocked, "Chen Pingan, what do you think, people who look down on me can still be good people? They must be not so good people!"

Chen Pingan got busy in an orderly manner, and said to himself: "The powerful people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties are also known as the Land Sword Immortal, but when they talk to us, they are still kind and willing to explain the facts to us children. Do you think that all the gods on the mountain are like this? No. Before I left the town, I met a god who killed people only based on their own mood and only spoke their own reasons, and there was more than one."

The young man downplayed those murderous past events, and he didn't want to say more, and continued: "If you want to be respected by others, you have to rely on yourself. Doing crops well, firing porcelain and pulling billets well, and going into the mountains to cut firewood and burn charcoal You are the strongest, fighting for water in alleys, you are not afraid of being beaten, and you dare to rush ahead, so you will naturally be respected by others."

Chen Ping glanced at them, "This is in our hometown. In the future, when Aquarius arrives at the Sui Academy, if you are good at reading, and Lin Shouyi, who became a Qi practitioner at a young age, of course he can be respected. If you, Li Huai..., wait until you are older, don't worry about it now.

Li Huai was anxious, "Chen Pingan, you are not in a hurry, but I am in a hurry!"

Chen Pingan asked: "Get up early every day and practice boxing with me, can you get up?"

Li Huai said without hesitation, "Of course I can't get up!"

Chen Pingan asked again: "Then teach you how to set up a sword stove?"

Li Huai looked disgusted, "What do you want to learn from that, I'm so young."

Chen Ping said helplessly: "Now you know that you are young? Then why were you so anxious with me in the first place?"

Li Huai was dumbfounded and thought for a long time, but still had no answer.Finally, when everyone was sitting around eating together, Li Huai picked up a piece of pickled vegetables, and after a big mouthful of rice, he asked, "Do you think there is any shortcut in the world that can be achieved overnight, such as practicing today and tomorrow?" The ability to become a fairy? A Liang said no, I should have asked him before Wei Jin left. What if A Liang didn’t have him? Then I would have developed. This time I went to Da Sui to study , I just stepped on a flying sword, whizzing, swishing, back and forth, faster than Chen Ping’s walking pile, like the wind! You just follow my ass and eat dust!"

Li Baoping asked with a straight face: "Who eats dust?"

Li Huai swallowed, looked at Lin Shouyi, then silently turned his head to look at Chen Ping'an. In the end, Li Huai was a little sad, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. He quickly picked up the painted puppet from the ground, "It eats! She now But I have a No. [-] general under my command! No way, he is the biggest, the most beautiful, and the oldest meritorious service. He spent the longest time fighting with me, Li Huai. After that, those five dirty little clay figurines, It can only be ranked in B, B, D, Wu Ji."

Lin Shou asked with a smile: "What about the little thing in the book "The Great Cliff of Broken Water"?"

Li Huai shook his head and said, "They? I don't like them very much."

Li Baoping told the truth, "It's because you don't like reading books, and you don't like to read them at random, because you need to turn the pages first."

Li Huai looked like I didn't hear what you said clearly.

Chen Pingan looked up at the slightly higher Sanzhi Mountain in the distance, and asked, "After passing Sanzhi Mountain, I arrived at the market in the town. Do you want to buy anything?"

Li Baoping said happily: "Uncle, I want to buy some miscellaneous books. Mr. Qi said that all schools of thought other than Confucianism have their own classics. You might as well read more. Mr. said that the stones of other mountains can be used to attack Jade."

"Chen Pingan, if possible, I would like to buy a chess set, the cheapest one will do."

"How about you, Li Huai?"

"Give me money, don't buy anything, okay? I want to save it, my mother taught me, don't panic if you have money in your pocket!"

Chen Ping asked back, "What do you think?"

Li Huai laughed and said, "Isn't it a fluke, what if you, Chen Ping'an, find out with your conscience?"

Chen Pingan laughed.

Li Huai's smile froze immediately, and he quickly changed the subject, "Didn't the old Taoist want us not to go to Sanzhi Mountain as long as it was dark?"

Lin Shouyi shook his head and said: "I have discussed with Chen Pingan and Senior Yinshen. If we drive at night, and the ghosts come out to hurt people, we will suppress them. At first, Senior Yinshen will stand by and let me do it first. Repelling the enemy with talismans and lightning methods is mainly for me to practice a little bit, if the ghosts can't hide, forget it, let's continue on our way."

As night fell, a group of people climbed the mountain slowly. Sanzhi Mountain is not high, but the mountain is gentle and the slope is very large. Chen Pingan deliberately took a detour. There are large mass graves on the mountain without descendants. The tomb where the sacrifice was held was cleaned up, a stele was erected on the top of the grave, there were words on the stele, and some paper money that had not been completely burned was scattered in front of the stele.

They crossed Sanzhi Mountain in less than an hour. Except for the slightly cold night wind, there was nothing strange about it.

Lin Shouyi felt a little regretful, but he wouldn't force anything.

After that, the trip to Yefu Pass on the border of Dali became smoother.

After passing a market in a small town, Li Baoping bought five or six miscellaneous books, including landscape travel notes, Buddhist and Taoist classics, and literati notes.

Lin Shouyi bought a chess set, and after teaching Chen Pingan the rules, he often played chess whenever he was free, because Li Baoping couldn't sit still, and he wanted to drop seven or eight pieces on the chessboard in one go, and he always disliked Lin Shou for a while. Chess is too slow.As for Li Huai, he was just too lazy to use his brain.But the one who played chess with Lin Shou the most was the Yin God.

Li Huai probably bought a broken book for nearly ten taels of silver in Hongzhu Town, but he didn't buy anything this time.

Although Chen Pingan wanted to practice swords a little bit, he didn't really start to practice swords except occasionally taking out the locust tree sword in his back basket.

In Chen Pingan's view, the most urgent thing is to practice boxing well first!Wait until when you feel that you can be distracted and do things, and then come to practice swords.Chen Pingan had only practiced the luck method taught by Ah Liang for a little while, and he couldn't go on at the sixth stop.

Although I can't practice swords for the time being, Ah Liang said that the Eighteen Stops is something that many sword masters have gone through a lot of hard work and figured out. Practicing the Eighteen Stops diligently is to lay a good foundation for future sword practice.When Chen Ping thought about it, he felt full of energy and strength.

Whenever there is free time, either on the branches of the big trees on the top of the mountain, or on the edge of the big cliff near the water.

There is a young man who makes a formula with both hands, stands up a pile alone, and practices silently facing the mountains and rivers.Look at the mountains when there are mountains, and listen to the water when there are waters.