Sword comes

After Chen Ping'an carried the basket and went ashore, he walked towards Qingniu's back. I don't know if it was an illusion. The young man felt that the water level of the creek had dropped a little.

When he approached the blue stone cliff, he suddenly stopped, because he clearly saw many people standing there, and each person's face was almost fully revealed. The reason for this was not because of the bright stars, but the back of the green cow On the top, stood a snow-white elk, the whole body was crystal clear, glowing with strands of white light, like the water plants swaying with the water in the creek.

The white deer lowered its head, and a little girl in a big red padded jacket stood on tiptoe and stroked its antlers.

There are two young men and women in Taoist robes. I don’t know if it is because of the light from the white deer. , then these two foreign Taoists are exquisite porcelain made by firing, and there is a world of difference.

The style of the Taoist robes of men and women is somewhat similar to that of Lu Daochang who set up a fortune-telling booth, but there are many differences in details. The Taoist crown is the most different. Lu Taochang is a lotus crown.

The straw-shoe boy stared blankly, only to feel that the men and women standing beside the white deer were like the characters walking out of a statue of a fairy, as if they would fly away in the next moment, picking the stars and taking the moon at their fingertips.

The other two stood a little further away. One of them, Chen Ping'an knew, was the daughter of Master Ruan, the swordsmith. The girl in Tsing Yi did not carry a package full of food this time. She held a small embroidered handkerchief in one hand and only a few exquisite and lovely pieces. The cakes, the girl lowered her head and looked hesitant, not knowing where to start.The person beside her was in her thirties, carrying a long sword and a strange ornament hanging from her waist.

When Chen Ping'an saw them, almost everyone noticed the sudden appearance of the straw-shoe boy. The young Taoist nun was a little surprised, so he bent down and rubbed the head of the little girl in the red cotton jacket, pointing in the direction of Chen Ping'an, while whispering. , the little girl pricked up her ears to listen to the question of the fairy sister, opened her eyes hard, and stared at it. After vaguely recognizing Chen Ping'an's appearance, she began to pour beans in the bamboo tube. It should be for the owner of Bailu. A fairy sister explained the origin of Chen Ping'an's identity.

At this moment, Chen Ping'an also recognized the eight or nine-year-old girl. The first time he met was when he met a little girl with horns and braids in the mud bottle alley before he went to the dragon kiln to burn porcelain. She was very old. He was small, but ran fast, holding a paper kite in his hand, and two slender legs like thin bamboo poles, but he ran like the wind, which made Chen Ping'an especially memorable.Later, I saw it on and off a few times. Once the little girl was lying on the wellhead of the iron lock well and secretly threw stones into it. Chen Ping'an accidentally caught her naughty behavior. Bucai remembered that the candied gourd fell on the wellhead, but he couldn't stand his cravings, so he ran back to the iron lock well. This time, he went too hastily. As a result, he slammed and fell to the ground. He stood up and grabbed it. Tanghulu stopped abruptly, opened her mouth, reached out and pulled out the crumbling tooth and put it in her pocket. She didn't cry or make trouble, and continued running without saying a word.

In that scene, Chen Ping'an was in a cold sweat.The last time I saw her was in the ruined place where the statue was overgrown with grass. It was one evening last fall. Chen Ping'an left the Longyao and returned to the small town. He was wandering around, but he saw her busy catching crickets, in the grass. Rolling around, jumping, and flying around, she saw Chen Ping'an, and she obviously recognized Chen Ping'an, and another gust of breeze fled away.

Later, Chen Ping'an heard from Gu Can that this young lady who was dirty all day, although she looked like a wild girl without control, was actually from the Li family on Fulu Street, and not like a servant girl.It's just that I don't know why, she just likes to wander around alone, and her family doesn't care. When Gu Can finally talked about her, she was full of pride and contempt, saying that she doesn't care how fast she runs, she is stupid. The two of them happened to be catching fish in the stream together. The idiot was busy all afternoon before catching a crab, but not a single slate fish, and the reason why she was able to catch the big crab was because of the crab's Crab claws gripped her fingers fiercely.Gu Can said this in Chen Ping'an's house at the time, laughing so hard that she rolled over on the small wooden bed covering her stomach, saying she was really stupid, she even raised her hand on purpose to show him off, as if catching a crab was amazing. , the key is that at that time, she had obviously been caught by crab claws and was about to cry.

The handsome young Taoist glanced at Bailu, and smiled at the young female crown Taoist: "Senior Sister He, please be careful, don't spoil it too much, it's just less than ten days, and it's just a trick, It doesn't interfere with its freedom, but you don't listen. This time I bumped into a mortal man, what should I do?"

After listening to the little girl's introduction, the Taoist nun with a charming appearance smiled and said, "Let's go with the flow."

The young Taoist frowned and looked up again. After one glance, he looked at it carefully for a while, but he couldn't see anything special about the boy with straw sandals on his back. They were in the sect. Although his ability is not the best in a continent, he is quite good at it. Since this Taoist priest can replace the sect to come here to retrieve the overwhelmed thing, he is also responsible for bringing the treasure of the town back safely. In the future, he has to submit it to the Shang Zong. Of course, he is definitely not a thing in the pool, so when he did not see that the young man was too strange, he had no intention of attracting him to the mountain gate. The young Taoist is good at seeing things. I don't think I'm going to see the wrong person.

The division where the two belonged was one of the three Taoist sects in East Treasure Pingzhou, and it was the first sect of the Taoist lineage in Yizhou, and it was extremely honorable.This time, he and Senior Sister He went out together. As a reward, each of them had a valuable place to recruit a true disciple for the sect, and this disciple would be accepted as an apprentice by them.So he didn't want to spend it at will, and he had to be careful.

Everyone in the sect knows that Senior Sister He is re-cultivating her heart, so the understatement of letting things go is very likely to move the idea of ​​accepting apprentices.

He and He Xiaoliang, known as the golden boy and jade girl of East Treasure Pingzhou, the arrogant daughter of the Taoist school in Yizhou, are the kings of the world. When encountering them, they should also treat each other with courtesy, and the importance of etiquette is completely irrelevant. Lose the real king of the big country.

Because they are within one continent, the most promising cultivation geniuses in the five realms.

When the young Taoist nun took the little girl's hand and walked down the back of the green ox, the psychic white deer followed, not only the young Taoist fellow disciples felt incredible, but the military giant with a tiger talisman and a long sword on his waist, Also showing surprise.

When he saw the young Taoist nun approaching slowly, Chen Ping'an had a big head, and the young man was really reluctant to deal with these immortals from other places.

Because Chen Ping'an knew that their simple love and hatred, joy and anger, would decide their own life and death, honor and disgrace.

Moreover, Chen Ping'an knew that his luck had never been very good, so he was even more afraid to provoke them.

It's just that Chen Ping'an didn't run away because of this. On the contrary, he also walked a certain distance symbolically. In this way, it was decent in the eyes of others.

Bai Lu slightly quickened his pace, trotted over, walked around the straw-shoe boy, and finally lowered his head and took the initiative to rub against the poor boy.

The white deer returned to its owner, she gently stroked its back, and the next moment it turned into the shape of a horse.

Refers to a deer as a horse.

The young Taoist nun looked at Chen Ping'an, sighed slightly, said a word with a smile, and then looked down at the little girl in the red cotton jacket.

The little girl interpreted it as a small town dialect, and said timidly: "Sister He said, 'You are a person who cherishes fortune, but unfortunately you and I have a weak relationship and cannot be a Taoist friend.'"

The young man was speechless because he didn't know what to say to be rude.

Carrying a basket on his back, wearing straw sandals, and rolling up his trousers, the appearance of a teenager is extraordinarily funny.

The Taoist aunt smiled and asked, "You also know the magical effect of these stones? Chen Ping'an, don't worry, I just asked casually."

The little girl copied the explanation, speaking fast and clear.

Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "A Taoist priest reminded me that I can often come to the stream to pick up stones and catch fish or something."

Even though Chen Ping'an had a good impression on this young female Guan, he was careful not to reveal the surname of Chief Lu Daoist.And the person who really revealed the secret, and the person who broke the snake gallstone with great value, was Ning Yao.

Taoist nun smiled and said, "You also know our little uncle Lu?"

Chen Pingan was stunned.

The Taoist aunt smiled knowingly, and explained roughly: "Uncle Lu, strictly speaking, it is not the same clan as us, but Daochang Lu visited our sect many years ago and met one of our uncles. He is familiar with each other, and naturally he is used to being called 'little uncle'."

Chen Pingan grinned, completely losing his guard.

The straw-shoe boy is grateful to that Daoist Lu, and he will never forget it in this life.

He remembered something, bent down and put down the basket, picked up one of the stones that he fell in love with at first sight, as big as an egg, green and bright like ice, different from other snake gallstones, and handed it to the young Taoist nun who had a temperament of serene orchid, and asked: "Daoist, if I see Daoist Lu in the future, can you help me give this stone to him?"

After listening to the little girl's explanation, she thought for a while, took the stone, and said slowly, "Before I came here, I happened to meet the little uncle who was leaving, and he was going to Nanjian to attend an important ceremony of the Taoist sect. It's hard to say when we'll meet next time, but as long as I see Uncle Lu, I'll help you pass it on to him."

Chen Ping'an listened to the little girl's words, smiled brightly, and bowed down to thank the young Taoist nun who looked very good.

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Just like to Fu Nanhua Cai Jinjian, and to Daochang Lu and Miss Ning.

Chen Pingan took out another snake gallstone and handed it to her again.

Among the younger generation of East Treasure Pingzhou, the Taoist female crown, who is known as "the first chance", did not refuse, accepted it with a smile, and did not forget to thank.

The little girl in the red cotton jacket twisted the corners of her clothes with both hands and whispered, "I want one too."

Chen Ping'an turned around with a smile, and went to pick stones from the basket for the little girl.

The little girl ran to him and said cautiously, "I want a bigger piece, okay?"

Chen Ping'an smiled and said, "As long as you can move it, I'll give you the largest piece. But it's not close to the town and then to the home. And I think the big ones in the basket are not as good as the small ones."

She thought for a while, and laid her hands on the edge of the basket, "Okay, then I'll pick a small one that looks good."

Chen Ping'an chose a small pink stone for her, which was moist and cute. The little girl held it in her hand and was very satisfied.

She tilted her head suddenly, grinned, pointed to her teeth, and then smiled at Chen Ping'an with a proud face.

It is estimated that she is showing off that her teeth are growing again.

Chen Pingan said happily: "Next time, let's go catch crickets together."

The little girl's eyes lit up, but she soon became sad, and nodded with a forced smile.

Chen Pingan picked up the basket, said goodbye to the young Taoist nun and left, waved to the little girl, and trot back to the town alone.

It is also a fairy. The gold content of this young woman's crown is far from what Cai Jinjian of Yunxia Mountain can match. It is almost the same as the gold essence of the fairy family.

She brought the little girl and Bailu back to Qingniu's back, and the young Taoist looked away from the back of the straw-shoe boy, and concluded, "Yuanqian is a blessing, and naturally it shouldn't be used."

There are so many Taoist sects in Dongbaopingzhou, and a pair of "golden boy and jade girl" will be selected every 30 years. He and his senior sister He Xiaoliang are the natural Taoist couples of this year, but something surprising happened. The aptitude of the golden boy is not inferior to that of the past, but the opportunity of the jade girl is so good that it is so good that it is outrageous. When she was born, there was one of the auspicious white deer, who took the initiative to walk out of the mountains and rivers, and came to her side to recognize the Lord , and then set foot in the avenue of practice, it seems that there has never been any ups and downs, and the journey has been smooth and smooth. Some people even threatened that she would not encounter the first bottleneck until she reached the upper five realms.

She was noncommittal about her junior brother's contempt for the straw-shoe boy, and laughed it off.

At this time, a short boy walked from the deep pool under the covered bridge to the puddle under the back of Qingniu. He only held a snake gallstone in his hand. It was like a white deer before, shining brightly in the night.

The dumb boy held a stone and stood on a stone out of the water, like an immortal immortal, holding a pocket full moon.

The two big green and red fish raised by the young Taoist do not enter the water, but only swim slowly above the stream.

If Chen Pingan saw this young man, he would know that he was the grandson of Granny Ma in Xinghua Lane.

The teenager had dementia since childhood, and was disliked by his parents when he was very young. Granny Ma took her grandson by herself. The teenager was very unsocial, and often climbed up on the roof alone to watch the clouds.

From childhood to adulthood, the young man surnamed Ma who followed Granny Ma was bullied until the end. He felt that stepping on his foot would make his shoes dirty. This poor child seemed to have only laughed at Zhigui, the maid in Mud Ping Lane.

That's why Granny Ma especially hated that maid, thinking she was a shameless fox, and she must have taken the initiative to seduce her precious grandson.

The young female crown walked to the man with the long sword and asked, "About Ma Kuxuan, is there really no room for manoeuvre?"

The man said indifferently: "Your little uncle, if you really want to accept this child as a pioneering disciple, why don't you do it yourself? What if his name is louder? He has never called me, so why should you let him? If he is not convinced, he will come to Zhenwu Mountain to find me, and if he wins, let him take the child away."

The young Taoist smiled and said: "It's nothing more than asking our little uncle to run more, why bother?"

Needle hidden in cotton.

The man with the sword and the talisman narrowed his eyes, "Oh?"

The young female crown was a little annoyed. She glanced at her junior and junior brothers, and the young Taoist laughed, and did not confront that person. She raised her head and said, "Today's moonlight is really good."

She was a little helpless.

As long as it involves the little uncle of his own sect, not to mention her and the younger brother, I am afraid that all the young Taoist priests within a continent are all honored.

On the other side of the covered bridge, under the steps, stood a barefoot monk with a square face and an expression of tenacity and determination.

The ascetic monk did not look up at the golden plaque, but looked at the ground where Song Jixin had put incense before, put his hands together, bowed his head and said sympathetically, "Amitabha."

The little boy went ashore, came to Qingniubei, looked at the two fluttering young Taoists, and then looked at the unsmiling man with the sword on his back, and finally he stared at the latter who was about to wear the tiger talisman, gritted his teeth and said: " I don't want to learn the avenue of longevity, can you teach me to kill?!"

The man smiled proudly and said, "My military swordsman has been the most deadly in the world since ancient times!"

The young Taoist replied with a smile, "Oh?"

The young female crown shook her head, knowing that the overall situation had been decided, she felt that she had failed the entrustment of the little uncle, and felt guilty.

For a while, the back of Qing Niu by the river was tense, and the atmosphere was dignified.

The little girl in the red jacket of the Li family hid behind the fairy sister.

The girl in Tsing Yi had just finished eating the last piece of cake, and she was in a very bad mood, so she said, "If you have the ability, you can call my father!"

The man who was closely related to the girl and her father no longer had a serious face and said with a smile, "How to fight?"

The young Taoist joked: "Ruan Xiu, this is a bit bullying. Your father is the next saint to succeed Mr. Qi, like the master of this world."

The girl in Tsing Yi pouted and said nothing.

The monk came slowly and climbed onto the back of the green ox.

The young female crown said: "Your Buddhist Leiyin Pagoda, our Taoist Heavenly Master Seal, plus a small sword mound of the military family, and of course the Confucian mountain jade tablet. The four earliest pieces left by the four saints are the best I don’t talk about how they are intrigued by the Confucianists themselves, but only for the three of us. This time, we will take it back separately. Although it is justifiable, but if you really say hello to Mr. Qi and don’t fight, isn’t it inappropriate?”

The monk said nothing.

The young Taoist said worriedly: "It's a bit unreasonable, but the will above is hard to violate, senior sister, don't make things superfluous."

The soldier from the military sneered: "I'm not here to get close to anyone."

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On the other side of the town, Chen Ping'an returned to the alley where Liu Xianyang's house was, and found Mr. Qi standing at the door.

The young man ran quickly, without waiting for him to ask questions, Qi Jingchun gave him two private seals and smiled: "Chen Ping'an, I didn't give it to you for nothing, I asked for something. If Shanya Academy is in trouble in the future, I hope you Help as much as you can. Of course, you don't have to deliberately inquire about the academy."

The boy only said one word, "Okay!"

Qi Jingchun nodded and said earnestly: "Remember what I told you before, 'a gentleman can't save you', that's what I said from the bottom of my heart, not to test people's hearts."

The teenager grinned, "Sir, this is not guaranteed."

Qi Jingchun hesitated, but in the end she didn't say anything and was about to leave.

He originally wanted to say that if there is a big dilemma for Shanya Academy in the future, Chen Ping'an, if you feel remorse, you don't need to feel guilty, just pretend that you haven't seen it or heard of it, don't do it deliberately.

But Qi Jingchun didn't know why, deep in his heart, he was partial to a fluke, and even he himself couldn't understand it.

After thinking about it, the mountain master of the Mountain Cliff Academy could only come up with one answer.It turned out to be just because of the young man in front of him, whose surname was Chen and Ping'an.He doesn't seem like anyone else.

It is extremely difficult for you to entrust him with something, even if you know that you will not be able to do it with all your strength until you are young, but you can really be sure of one thing, as long as he promises, he will definitely do it. If not, I am willing to grit my teeth and exert [-] points of effort.

That's a reassuring thing.

This was something that Qi Jingchun had been trying to achieve for many years. The scholar who took the initiative to ask to be relegated to this point, originally only felt that the world was a foreign land.

When Qi Jingchun was about to turn around, the young man who was still carrying a basket on his back hurriedly bowed and saluted with great difficulty.

In the alley, the Confucian sage paid the young man a salute.