Sword comes

There is a well in Xinghua Lane, called Iron Lock Well. An iron chain as thick as a green arm hangs in the well mouth year after year. When did this well have this iron lock, and who did it for boredom? It's a strange thing, no one knows the truth for a long time, even the oldest old man in the town can't tell how ugly he is.

It is rumored that there was a good person in the town who tried to test how long the chain was. Ignoring the dissuasion of the old people, for "those who pull the chain out of the well, every foot out of the well will lose one year of life", this word of mouth old rule , the man didn't take it seriously at all, and after pulling a stick of incense hard, he pulled out a lot of iron chains, but there was still no sign of the end. The iron chain at the head of the well was twisted beside the reel of the well, saying that he would come back tomorrow, so he didn't believe in this evil.After the man returned home, he was bleeding from seven orifices that day, and died violently on the bed, and he couldn't rest his eyes. No matter how hard the family struggled, the corpse could not close his eyes. Finally, an old man who lived near the well for generations had the family carry it. He took the corpse to the side of the well, and watched the old man put the chains back into the well. When the whole chain sank straight into the deep water at the well, the corpse finally closed its eyes.

The old and the young slowly walked towards the iron-locked well, the little guy is a child with two slugs hanging around, but when he talks about this story, his articulation is clear and methodical. Baby, the child is raising his head at this time, his big eyes, like two black grapes, sniffed his nose lightly, and the two snot snakes retracted. The child looked at the storyteller with a big white bowl in one hand, Nunuzui , said: "I'm done, you should show me what's in your bowl too, right?"

The old man smiled and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, wait until you sit down by the well, and I'll show you enough."

The child reminded "kindly": "Don't go back, otherwise you will die, and you will fall into the iron lock well as soon as you get there. I won't pick up the body for you at that time, or you will suddenly hit a thunder, just in time. I'll split you into a piece of coke, and then I'll take a stone and smash it into pieces..."

The old man had a headache when he listened to the child pouring beans into the bamboo tube, a series of vicious and unfavorable words without repetition, and quickly said, "I'll show you for sure. By the way, who did you learn these words from?"

The child said decisively: "I'll follow my mother!"

The old man sighed: "As expected of an outstanding person, Zhong Ling is Yuxiu."

The child suddenly stopped and frowned: "Aren't you swearing? I know some people like to say good things backwards, such as Song Jixin!"

The old man hurriedly denied it, then changed the subject and asked, "Does something weird happen often in this town?"

The child nodded.

The old man asked, "Tell me about it."

The child pointed to the old man and said solemnly: "For example, you carry a big white bowl, and you refuse to let people put copper coins in it. Before you finished the story, my mother said that you didn't tell a bad story. , at first glance, you are used to cheating, so let me give you a few pennies, you don't want to live or die, what's in the bowl?"

The old man could not laugh or cry.

It turned out that it was the storyteller who had finished telling the story under the old locust tree earlier, and asked the child to lead him to Xinghua Lane to see the well. The child was not happy at first, but the old man said that his big white bowl was very particular, and it was filled with extraordinary. Rare stuff.That child was naturally lively and active. When his parents said he was reincarnated, he forgot to have a long butt. He liked to follow Liu Xianyang's gang of prostitutes around when he was very young, but in order to catch an eel or loach, this little fart The child can also be exposed to the sun for half an hour without moving, with amazing patience.

So when the old man said what was in the white bowl, the child immediately took the bait.

Even if the old man made a strange request at the beginning, saying that he would try to mention him to see how heavy he was, and wanted to know if he weighed [-] pounds, the child nodded and agreed without hesitation. Drop pieces of meat.

But something happened that made the child roll his eyes again and again. The old man holding the bowl in his left palm lifted him five or six times with his right hand, but failed to lift him once, and the child finally glanced at the old man sideways. With thin arms and thin legs, he shook his head, thinking that he is also a thin pole, Chen Ping'an's strength is greater than that of this old man.Just thinking that I haven't seen the scene in the white bowl yet, like a child born early, I can't bear to say some words that will make the old man unable to come down from the stage, you know, in the area of ​​Xinghua Lane, Ni Ping Alley, talk about quarrels and curses. , especially the yin and yang strange words, this child can be ranked third, the second is scholar Song Jixin, and the first is this child's mother.

The old man came to the well, but did not go to sit on the well.

The ancient well is made of blue bricks,

Invisibly, the old man's breathing became heavy.

The child walked to the well, turned his back to the well, and jumped back, his butt just sitting on the well.

This scene made the old man sweat in cold sweat. If he was not careful, that bastard would fall straight down. Given the historical origin of this ancient well, it would be difficult to collect the corpse.

The old man took a few steps forward slowly, narrowed his eyes, and leaned over to examine the iron lock, one end of which was tied to the bottom of the well reel.

"Fengshui resort, Jia in one continent."

The old man looked around, with mixed feelings, and thought to himself, "I don't know who this heavy weapon will end up with in the end?"

The old man stretched out his free left hand and stared at the palm of his hand.

Palm texture, mottled complex.

But a brand new pattern appeared, which was slowly extending, like a crack from cracked porcelain.

The gods look at the palms, like looking at the mountains and rivers.

It's just that this old man is just looking at himself at the moment.

The old man frowned and exclaimed: "In just half a day, it's already such a bleak situation, isn't it?"

The child was already standing on the wellhead, with one hand on his hip and the other pointing at the old man, and urged loudly, "Will you show me a white bowl?!"

The old man said helplessly: "You hurry down, hurry down, I will show you the big white bowl."

The child was skeptical, and finally jumped down the well.

The old man hesitated for a moment, his face solemn, "Little baby, you and I are destined to show you the mystery of this bowl, but after reading it, you are not allowed to mention it to outsiders, even your mother. , If you can do it, I will let you see and see, if you can't do it, you will be stabbed in the spine by your little baby, and I will not show you half a glance."

The child blinked, "Let's start."

The old man solemnly walked forward to the wellhead, bowed his head, and found that this time the bastard was sitting on the wellhead with his feet apart. The old man regretted provoking this lawless little boy.

The old man restrained his distracting thoughts and faced the well. He grabbed the bottom of the big white bowl with his five fingers, and the palm of his hand began to tilt slightly, the magnitude of which was almost undetectable.

The child felt that he had waited for a long time, but he didn't see any movement in the white bowl above his head, and the old man always kept that posture.

Just before the child's two slugs were about to hang on his lips and his patience was exhausted.

I saw a stream of water as thick as a finger pouring out of the white bowl and falling into the depths of the well without sound.If the child bared his teeth, he would yell.

He suddenly closed his mouth, a little surprised. After a while, the child's face changed from shock to dazed. Then, the child became frightened, suddenly recovered, jumped down the well and ran to his house.

It turned out that the amount that the old man poured into the well with the white bowl was more than a big water tank.

But water kept pouring out from the white bowl.

The child felt that he must have seen a ghost during the day.

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Liu Xianyang casually folded a freshly sprouted branch from the roadside and started practicing swordsmanship. His whole body was like a rolling wheel, spinning frantically. He didn't feel sorry for the new pair of boots on his feet at all. Countless dust was raised on the path.

The tall boy walked out of the town and went all the way from north to south. As long as he walked across the covered bridge built at the expense of Mr. Song, and walked three or four miles, he arrived at the blacksmith shop opened by the Ruan family and his daughter. Liu Xianyang had always had a high heart Arrogant, but with just one sentence, Master Ruan made the young man fall in admiration, "We are here to make swords."

It's good to cast a sword. When Liu Xianyang thought that he would have a real sword in the future, he couldn't help but get excited.

Liu Xianyang thought about the few boxing styles that Master Ruan taught in private, and began to practice.

The boy and the covered bridge are getting closer.

On the steps at the north end of the covered bridge, there were four people sitting, a plump and beautiful woman with a graceful posture, holding a boy in a big red robe in his arms. He raised his chin high, like a general who had just won a great victory. Beside a tall old man with frost and snow, the old man is comforting a little girl who is puffed up. So that you can clearly see the veins under the skin.

The two children had just finished arguing, the little girl was about to cry, and the little boy became more and more complacent.

The old man was burly, like a hill, and the woman next to him cast an apologetic look, but the majestic old man turned a blind eye.

At the bottom of the steps, there was a young man named Lu, who was the eldest grandson of the family head of the Lu family, called Lu Zhengchun. Maybe it was a real person who could raise a person. People born and raised in a small town had to have skin and appearance. Better than men and women elsewhere.It's just that Lu Zhengchun has long been hollowed out by the color of wine, and in the eyes of the four people sitting on the steps, it is even more unsightly.The dragon kiln owned by the Lu family is the largest in the town in both number and size, and it is also the surname that the children of the clan have the most branches and leaves outside the town.But in the past, Lu Zhengchun, who used to be majestic in the small town, looked restrained, his face was pale, and his whole person was tense, as if he would be raided and punished for the slightest mistake.

The boy said something the people of the town couldn't understand, "Mother, this little bug surnamed Liu, the ancestor is really the one..."

When he was about to say his name, the woman immediately covered the child's mouth, "How many times did your father and you tell you before going out, you shouldn't name anyone here easily."

The boy broke off the woman's hand, his eyes were hot, and he asked in a low voice, "Does his family really inherit the treasure armor and sword scriptures from generation to generation?"

The woman fondly patted the young son's head and said softly, "The Lu family guarantees that the two things are still hidden in the boy's house."

The boy suddenly coquettishly said: "Mother, can we exchange treasures with Xiaobai's family, the treasure armor we planned is really ugly, mother, think about it, if you replace it with that sword scripture, then To be able to fly a sword and take a head in a dream is really unknowing, isn't it much more powerful than a turtle shell?"

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sp; Before the woman could explain the origin, the girl next door said angrily, "Just because you want to get your hands on our long-lost Zhenshan treasure? This time we are here, it is justifiable to return to the original." Lord, it's not like some shameless guys who are robbers, thieves, or even beggars!"

The boy turned his head and made a face, and then sneered: "You stinky girl, you said it yourself, it is the treasure of the town's 'mountain', and it's just a mountain gate. It's amazing, isn't it?"

The boy suddenly changed his playful expression, stood up from the woman's arms, and looked down at the little girl with pity, like a school teacher scolding an immature child, "The way is long, you act against the sky, and you are only arguing for words. You don't even have this I don’t understand the reason, how to inherit the family business in the future, and how to abide by the precepts of the ancestors? You descendants of Zhengyang Mountain, the descendants of all generations must raise Zhengyang Mountain by at least 30 feet every [-] years. When it comes to your father, it's easy, isn't it?"

The little girl lost a bit of momentum, her expression was sluggish, her head drooped, and she did not dare to face the boy.

The burly old man covered in frost and snow said solemnly, "Madam, although it is a child's speech, but if it makes my family's young master's heart become dusty, you will weigh the consequences yourself."

The woman smiled charmingly, and pulled the gloomy young son back into her arms again, and said with a needle in the cotton: "The children are just quarreling and bickering.

I never thought that the old man's temper was extremely strong, so he directly replied, "I am Zhengyang Mountain, which has been in existence for 600 years. I will repay kindness for my kindness. Although I will never forget it for a thousand years, I will never forget my grievances. I have never revenged overnight!"

The woman smiled and didn't do a battle of willpower.

In this small town trip, everyone has a heavy responsibility, especially her, who has put all three of her life, her son's future, and her family's background into a desperate gamble.

This woman, although simple in clothes, has a graceful air, but the people of the small town have never seen the world, so they don't know the secret.

From beginning to end, Lu Zhengchun always had his back to the steps of the covered bridge.

It was the first time I saw these distinguished guests at the Lu family's mansion before, my own younger brother, but he was young and vigorous and lacked in determination, so he temporarily forgot his grandfather's warning and couldn't help but glanced at the beautiful woman's chest. He was dragged down by his trembling grandfather, and he was killed in the courtyard with a living stick, as if his mouth was stuffed with cotton cloth during the execution, so Lu Zhengchun, who continued to accompany his grandfather to discuss affairs in the lobby, could not hear the misery of his younger brother. Mourning, but also can not see the bloody picture.After the discussion was over, they went out together to find the boy named Liu. Lu Zhengchun stepped over the threshold of the lobby and found that the blood in the courtyard had already been cleaned up.The four guests who came from afar, even the little children like the golden boy and the jade girl, were no different to this, as if this was a matter of course.

At that moment, Lu Zhengchun was a little dazed.

How can it be worse than the death of a dog when a person dies?

What's more, that person is still surnamed Lu. When he was drinking with his brother in the middle of the night before, he was very excited, saying that he would definitely rise to the top and shine on the lintel. The two brothers would no longer be frogs at the bottom of the well, and would join forces to create a world outside. .

Until he walked out of the Lu family's mansion, Lu Zhengchun's mind was still blank.

After that, Lu Zhengchun began to feel fear in his heart. When strangers and nobles asked questions, his voice would tremble. When leading the way, his walking pace would be erratic. The family was ashamed, but the young man couldn't control his fear, as if his whole body was oozing cold air from his bones.

At the end of last year, my grandfather took their brothers into a secret room and told them the news that the Lu family will soon be serving some noble people, which is a great blessing. Turning the reward into a stepping stone to cultivate the two brothers, as long as the nobles are willing to nod their heads, then in the future, there will be a road of Yangguan under the feet of their brothers, and they will rise to the sky, and finally gain unimaginable prosperity and wealth.At that time, he understood why he and his younger brother needed to learn so many strange dialects since childhood.

Lu Zhengchun looked at Liu Yangxian who was getting closer and closer to the covered bridge, he suddenly began to hate this person extremely, this pauper who was once blocked in the alley by himself, lying on the ground like a dead dog, if it wasn't for some small The bastard ran to the entrance of the alley and called the dead. He and a few buddies had already followed the agreement and were about to take off their pants and rain rain on the young man on the ground who didn't know how to flatter him.Until now, Lu Zhengchun still didn't understand why these high-ranking nobles would look at Liu Xianyang with admiration. As for their so-called precious armor, sword scriptures, Zhengyang Mountain, the Great Way of Longevity, and their scrambling for luck, etc. Lu Zhengchun seemed to understand everything, but actually he couldn't understand either.

But Lu Zhengchun can be sure of one thing, that is, he hopes that Liu Xianyang will die here.

As for the real reason, Lu Zhengchun did not dare to admit it, nor did he want to think deeply.

Deep down in his heart, Lu Zhengchun definitely didn't want Liu Xianyang, who was as humble as a dog, to be reduced to a bird with his surname Liu when he saw himself, the eldest young master of the Lu family, who was dressed in fine clothes and jade.

Shame and shame, nothing more than this.

The beautiful woman looked at the man and murmured, "Come on."

The tall boy punched all the way, and then he punched so fast, the faster he punched, that the boy's body was wrapped around by the punch, and he stumbled a little.

In the eyes of connoisseurs, there is already a hint of a masterful demeanor that combines rigidity and softness in the rudimentary boxing meaning.

There is an introductory formula in the way of martial arts and boxing: If you don't know the true meaning of boxing, you will be a layman for a hundred years.Once he realized the true meaning of boxing, he fought ghosts and gods for ten years.

The beautiful woman was relieved. Sure enough, this young man surnamed Liu was the person they were looking for. He was indeed talented. Even in those immortal mansions, his aptitude should not be underestimated.

Of course, in the vast world of beautiful women and burly white-haired old men, it is this kind of person who is the most numerous.

The beautiful woman stood up and instructed Lu Zhengchun at the bottom of the steps, "Go tell the boy and ask him what he wants before he is willing to take out the two family heirlooms, armor and books."

When Lu Zhengchun turned around, he had already bowed his head and bowed, and also replied in a certain dialect that the people of the small town absolutely listened to, "Yes, ma'am."

The woman said indifferently: "Remember, when you talk to that young man, you have to be pleasant and pay attention to your sense of proportion."

The boy stretched out his fingers, looked down, and said sternly, "If something goes wrong, this young master will peel you and make it into a wick. Before the light goes out, it's better to die at all times!"

Lu Zhengchun was so frightened that he shuddered, bent down more, and said in a panic, "The villain will never make a mistake!"

The little girl finally felt that she had regained a city, and sneered: "In front of these ordinary people, she is very majestic. I don't know who is on the way. I was scolded by my fellows as a wild seed in person, and I didn't dare to fight back."

The burly old man actually had a very bad impression of the snobbish mother and son at the beginning, so he added, "Miss is wrong, where did you dare not fight back, obviously she did not dare to fight back."

The boy in the bright red robe, gritted his teeth and stared at the girl, his face was gloomy, but he didn't say anything harsh, and in the end he smiled brightly.

The woman's eyes were always on the road ahead, and her face was light and calm. As for whether she had a grudge in her heart, God knows.

The little girl snorted coldly, ran down the steps, squatted by the stream, and looked down at the swimming fish in the water.

Occasionally, groups of carp swam past her line of sight, the number varied, both red and blue.

Some elderly people in small towns, when chatting under the old locust tree, often say that in thunderstorms, when they pass the covered bridge, they have seen a golden carp coming out from the bottom of the bridge.

It's just that some old people said that the golden-scaled carp was no more than the size of the palm of your hand, and some people said that the strange carp was very big, at least half the length of a human being, and it was about to become a sperm.

There are different opinions, and the old people are fighting to and fro, so that none of the children who listen to the story are willing to take it seriously.

At this moment, the little girl stared at the crystal clear stream, holding her cheeks in her hands, her eyes fixed.

The white-haired old man squatted beside her and laughed softly: "Miss, if the Lu family hadn't lied, this great opportunity would have already fallen into someone else's pocket."

The little girl turned her head and grinned, "Grandpa Ape, maybe there are two!"

So she showed the comical appearance of missing a front tooth.

The little girl quickly realized this and quickly reached out to cover her mouth.

The old man held back his smile and explained: "The genus of Jiaolong, who has not yet gone to the river, pays the most attention to dividing the territory and does not allow the same kind to approach. So..."

The little girl snorted, turned her head again, put her cheeks in her hands in a daze, and murmured, "What if there is."

On the little girl's side, the old man has always been kind and kind-hearted. For the first time, he showed the look of a majestic elder. He stretched out his hand and gently pressed the girl's head, and said solemnly: "Miss, remember, the word 'in case' is really my generation. The number one mortal enemy, you must not take chances! Miss, although you are golden branches and jade leaves..."

The little girl took out a hand and waved it vigorously, and complained Jiaohan: "I know, I know, Grandpa Ape, my ears are going to get calluses."

The old man said: "Miss, I'm going to keep an eye on the movement over there. Although the other party is our ally on the Zhengyang Mountain platform, the character and conduct of the family, oh, let's not mention it, so as not to get the young lady's ears dirty. ."

She just waved away.

He had no choice but to leave.

This burly old man, who was like a slave, had his hands down on his knees, and when he walked, his back was slightly hunched, as if he was walking under a heavy load.

The girl on the shore suddenly rubbed her eyes hard.

She found that the water level in the creek had clearly begun to rise slowly, visible to the naked eye!

If it is outside the town, such as in Zhengyang Mountain, or anywhere in her hometown, even if the entire stream dries up in an instant, she will not be surprised at all.

The little girl wondered: "Don't you mean that all mysteries, supernatural powers, and Taoism are naturally banned here? And the more profound the cultivation, the more powerful the backlash? Grandpa Ape once said, even if it is the legendary person, in I’ve been here for a long time, and now it’s almost a difficult situation for a mud bodhisattva to cross the river, and it’s hard to really stop anyone from fighting for it…”

She finally shook her head, too lazy to think about the puzzle any more.

The little girl turned her head and looked at the tall figure of Grandpa Ape.

She thought happily that after the ban was completely lifted here, she asked Grandpa Ape to move the mountain called Piyun Mountain away.

After taking it back to her hometown, it will be used as her small flowerbed.