Sword comes

The current situation of the town is like a sand table built by General Da Li. The war has come to an end, and he decided to abandon it and cover it with a black cloth.

Chen Pingan lit an oil lamp in his house and began to count his belongings, three bags of gold and copper coins, one bag each of support money, spring welcome money, and winning money, one bag was given by the prince of the Great Sui Dynasty, saying that he was grateful He bumped into the golden carp, and the two bags Gu Can left behind were the money to buy the loach.

As for the two bags of money that Chen Dui originally thanked him, Chen Ping'an begged Chen Dui to transfer it to Liu Xianyang on his way out of the mountain. Although Chen Dui was puzzled, he did not refuse. Maybe he was surprised by the choice of the young man in the rough alley. Afterwards, she was in a good mood. Chen showed an unprecedented smile, and said some sincere words in a soft voice, so that Chen Ping'an could rest assured and frankly confessed that her promise, a direct descendant of the Yingyin Chen family, was definitely worth more than two bags of gold and copper coins.In fact, Chen Ping'an was skeptical about this and did not dare to believe it completely, but Ning Yao privately let Chen Ping'an relax after hearing that "the direct descendants of the Chen family in Yingyin".

Mr. Qi presented the seal twice successively, totaling four parties.The earliest two seals, "Jingxin proud" and "Chen Shiyi", were the snake gallstones that Mr. Qi kept privately, and the later two seals were the snake gallstones presented by Mr. Qi according to Chen Ping'an. Official script, it is a coincidence that the seals of the two sides can be closed together to form a picture of green mountains and green waters, one is thick and the other is delicate. Mr. Qi engraved the words "mountain" and "water" respectively. According to Ning Yao, it can probably be called one. On the "landscape".

Chen Pingan put the two prescriptions and three sheets of paper from Daochang Lu on the table.

Ning Yao once disliked Daochang Lu's blandness of words, his popularity, fireworks, immortals, Buddha, and nothing. He was like a scholar of a secular dynasty, who catered to the pavilion style pursued for the sake of imperial examinations.

Chen Ping'an naturally couldn't see the depth of flavor and the level of attainment in the handwriting of the young Taoist priest, nor would he despise these three pieces of paper because Ning Yao's evaluation was not high.Moreover, Daoist Lu personally said before his departure that buying books and literacy in small towns is not easy. If Chen Pingan wants to learn Chinese characters, he can start from his prescription

At this time, Chen Ping'an carefully picked up the last piece of paper. He had read the words "Lu Chen's decree" written in vermilion at the end before, but he didn't think about it, but now that he has as many seals as four squares, he felt that those small words were extraordinarily special. Cute and lovable.Chen Ping'an thought that he had spare money in his pocket in the future, bought a book one day, put it in the private collection at home, and then lightly stamped "Chen Shiyi" on the title page or the last page. , couldn't help but grin.

It's just that Chen Ping'an soon became a little embarrassed. With a seal, he needed ink pad.The New Year's shop specializing in cakes in Qilong Lane, there is a shop next to it that sells all kinds of sundries, with a signboard with the word "Grass Head". Song Jixin and his maid Zhigui often visit this shop. The so-called The Four Treasures of the Study, and the Clearance of Books and Cases were all bought there.

Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment, thinking that when he became literate in the future, he would buy a box of ink pads when he met a book that fell in love at first sight.

In addition, there was the sack of carefully selected snake gallstones, seven or eight, of different colors, but even if the water was out for so long, the color would not fade.The mouth of the sack on the table was opened, and the pebbles were as big as the palm of a young and strong palm, as small as a child's fist, and as small as a pigeon's egg.

Chen Ping'an originally wanted to give it to Liu Xianyang. Although Song Jixin is a mean-spirited reading seed, there is a sentence that makes sense. It probably means that the same small thing is placed in the hands of the vendors outside the mud bottle alley. It takes a lot of effort to make money, but if it is placed in the cabinet of the Caotou shop, it will cost three or four taels to start. If customers like to buy it or not, if they have no money, get out.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and Chen Ping'an felt that Song Jixin's remarks made sense, so the snake gallstone was placed on his side and left in the town. If you want to go to the big place where the Yingyin Chen family is located, even if you cheat and bargain, you will definitely get more money than Chen Ping'an.

As for whether to own a thatched hut or let a friend win a mountain of gold and silver, which is better or worse, for Chen Ping'an, there is no need to consider it at all.

Otherwise, why do you want to be friends with Liu Xianyang?

Therefore, even if Liu Baqiao from Fenglei Garden, Chen Ping'an thinks that this person is not bad, no matter how Liu Baqiao calls himself a brother, Chen Ping'an will not take it seriously from beginning to end, and will never agree.

Chen Pingan finally picked up the hosta. Mr. Qi said that it was a gift from his husband in the early years. It was an ordinary thing, not a rare treasure.

There are eight small characters engraved on the jasper hairpin.

Ning Yao once explained the phrase "If you read a gentleman's words, you should warm yourselves like jade".

gentleman.

Although Chen Pingan hadn't read the book, he still felt that this word must be a very important title.

Ning Yao's voice came from the door, "Why don't you put this hairpin on? Since people are willing to give it to you, they naturally want you to make the most of it."

Chen Ping'an looked up in a daze, and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?"

Ning Yao sat opposite Chen Ping'an's table and glanced at the hairpin in Chen Ping'an's hand, "I checked it carefully, and it is indeed an ordinary hairpin. There is no hidden mystery. At first, I thought it was a small cave."

Chen Pingan was confused, "What?"

Ning Yao looked at the table of Chen Pingan's "Family Heirloom at the Bottom of the Press Box" and explained: "There is something wrong with it, have you heard of this statement? The common people only regard it as a scholar's rhetoric, but they don't take it seriously. In fact, it is very particular. There are two kinds of caves in the world. One is the Lizhu cave that we are in. It belongs to the top ten caves and one of the 36 small caves. Legend has it that Taoist ancestors owned a lotus cave, although it is one of the 36 small caves, but one of the lotus leaves is bigger than the capital of your Great Li Dynasty."

Chen Ping'an was taken aback and doubted, "Is it impossible?"

Ning Yao smiled and stretched out his thumb, raised it to himself, and said confidently, "I don't believe it either, so I will come back and tell you the truth after I see it with my own eyes in the future!"

Chen Ping'an said softly, "Not everyone can enter such a strange place, right?"

Ning Yao laughed and said, "Who do you think I am?"

Chen Ping'an quickly changed the topic, "Miss Ning, you continue to talk about Dongtian."

Ning Yao casually picked up a small and exquisite snake gallstone, the color of peach blossoms, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and said: "Any big cave, which can penetrate the sky and the earth, and is full of spiritual energy, is a veritable fairy mansion, where Qi practitioners can practice , get twice the result with half the effort, the owner of the cave is not allowed to occupy unless he is a person with great luck. The woman is still holding the pipa half-hidden, among them, the Taoyuan Cave is the most pleasant, the Gangfeng Cave is the most mysterious and dangerous, and the Lizhu Cave..."

Chen Pingan asked curiously, "What happened to us here?"

Ning Yao raised his mouth, stretched out two fingers, twisted gently, and said, "The smallest, it's just so big, it's small, it's not worth mentioning."

Chen Ping'an simply sat cross-legged, lazily, lying on the table, then raised a fist, raised his fingers one by one, and smiled softly: "But here I met Mr. Qi, old man Yang, Liu Xianyang, Gu Can, and of course you, Miss Ning."

Ning Yao also laughed, "There is also a kind of small cave, which is a place to store items. Buddhists have a saying of Xumi mustard seeds, Taoism has a universe in its sleeves, and the rest of the hundreds of schools have their own views, and their purpose is ' A square inch of land can accommodate heaven and earth', in short, it means that a little bit big object can put down a lot of things, but compared to the real cave, this kind of treasure with the title of 'dongtian' can't put living things, I One of my mother's most valuable dowries in the past was a jade bracelet." The size of the cave inside is almost the size of this house. "

The boy with straw sandals, who didn't know the sky and the ground outside, was a little disappointed, "It's so small, if you look at a lotus leaf of the Taoist ancestor, it's as big as a city."

Ning Yao became angry and leaned forward. He reached out and wanted to slap Chen Ping'an on the head. Chen Ping'an quickly leaned back and dodged left and right.

Ning Yao made several attempts but failed, and with a move, the hand holding the peach-colored snake gallstone gestured to throw the stone.

Chen Pingan hurriedly said in a panic, "Don't throw it, don't throw it away, if the edges and corners are broken, you will definitely earn a lot of less money!"

Ning Yao pouted and put down the snake gallstone, only to raise his hand suddenly and violently.

Chen Ping'an was so frightened that he quickly closed his eyes and couldn't bear to see it.

With a snap, he slapped the stone on the table, and Ning Yao burst into laughter.

After Chen Ping'an opened his eyes, he said helplessly, "Miss Ning, can you not be so naive?"

Ning Yao raised his long and narrow eyebrows, swept his elbow, and the stone was swept off the table.

Chen Ping'an scratched his head with both hands, and his face was bitter.

It doesn't make sense to reason with Miss Ning.

Ning Yao laughed and stretched out another hand from under the table. The stone that should have fallen to the ground was lying on her white palm.

Chen Pingan still held his head in his hands, pitiful.

Ning Yao stopped teasing Chen Ping'an, and asked earnestly, "What will you do in the future?"

Chen Pingan thought for a while, and answered honestly: "Help Master Ruan to do all the hard work, I think in the future, I will go into the mountains to burn charcoal, and I can also collect medicines and sell them to the Yang family shop."

Ning Yao hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then apart from the mountain ape from Zhengyang Mountain, there are also women from the Xu family in Qingfeng City, Liu Zhimao, the True Lord of Jiejiang, and Yunxia Mountain and Laolongcheng behind Cai Jinjian and Fu Nanhua. What do you do? If someone wants to trouble you, where will you run away?"

Ning Yao didn't wait for Chen Ping'an to speak, and said solemnly, "That's why Daoist Lu told you to stay in the blacksmith's shop shamelessly, no matter what, that's the right way."

Chen Ping'an said worriedly: "Then what if you cause a lot of trouble for Master Ruan?"

Ning Yao sneered: "A saint who presides over the operation of Xiaodongtian is still afraid of these troubles?"

Chen Pingan nodded, "Then I'll go back and ask Master Ruan, and tell him all the facts first, to see if he is willing to accept me as a long-term apprentice."

Ning Yao supported his cheeks with one hand, and rummaged through the snake gallstones with the other, saying, "In this town, there is nothing that a bag of gold and copper coins can't solve. If there are, then two bags."

Chen Ping'an said with a sad face: "I feel bad."

Ning Yao squinted and said, "When you planned to give Liu Xianyang all of your brains, why didn't you feel bad?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "The two things cannot be compared."

Ning Yao rolled his eyes and said, "Which woman will unfortunately become your daughter-in-law in the future, I guess she would like to slap you to death every day."

Chen Ping'an said solemnly: "If you really have a daughter-in-law, it's another thing. I'm not stupid. I'll make my daughter-in-law feel wronged."

Ning Yao's face was full of disbelief, full of sarcasm.

The charcoal-like young man crossed his chest with his arms and sat cross-legged, with a rare arrogant expression, and hummed: "If my daughter-in-law suffers grievances, let alone the old ape of Zhengyang Mountain, it is the Taoist ancestor you said, I will also Hack him to death, let’s not say if he can’t be hacked to death, anyway, chop him first and then talk about it!”

Ning Yao was very surprised and stunned.

She has always felt that Chen Ping'an is not a hard-tempered person, except for killing Cai Jinjian and Douban Shanyuan. Usually, Chen Ping'an never seems to be angry, nor paranoid in temperament, and has a good temperament.

If Fu Nanhua and Song Jixin said this kind of words, Ning Yao would think it should be no surprise, but from Chen Ping'an's mouth, Ning Yao couldn't believe it, so she couldn't bear it. She asked, "Why?"

Chen Pingan grinned and said, "My father has only fought with people once in his life, just because of my mother, because someone scolded my mother in Qilongxiang, my father was not angry, so he went to fight fiercely. When he came back I have been complained by my mother for a long time, but my father told me privately that it is one thing to fight or not to fight, and it is another thing to fight or not to fight. If a man does not protect his daughter-in-law, what does he do when he gets married?!”

Ning Yao was a little strange, "Huh?"

Chen Ping'an scratched his head, and said with a face: "My father burns porcelain very well, and it is very difficult to fight. When he came home, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was beaten badly."

Ning Yao stretched out his hand to hold his forehead, not wanting to speak.

She was silent for a moment, then got up and said, "Let's go, go back to the shop."

Chen Ping'an asked, "I'll take you to the mouth of Mud Bottle Alley?"

Ning Yao said angrily, "No need."

Chen Ping'an did not force it, but just sent Ning Yao to the gate of the hospital.

Ning Yao didn't turn his head, and knew that the boy had been standing at the door.

Good people who are not pedantic, their hearts will be extraordinarily warm and brilliant, like flowers and trees in the sun.

That in itself is a beautiful thing.

The helpless boy in Mud Bottle Alley was killed by the muddy legs of those foreigners, and the ants digging soil and eating in the rough alleys of the market.

But the young man has his own life to live after all. He also wants to live a good life, not just for enjoyment. In fact, the young man has been a hard-working child since he was a child. You can rest assured that although Chen Ping'an is the only one in the Chen family, he can still live a good life by himself, which means that the family passed down from his parents is not bad, even if there is only one person left in this family.

Even if he had the money to buy the Spring Festival couplets, the young man needed to post them by himself, and no one would tell Chen Ping'an whether he was crooked or straight.

People live forever, they are conceited in life and death, and do not want to ask God for anything.

So this kind of person seems to have a good temper, but in fact, his bones are extraordinarily hard.Life will be especially hard.

The girl who walked out of Mud Bottle Alley suddenly felt a little lost and a little guilty.

Say goodbye for your own sake.

After Chen Ping'an returned to the house, he stared at the oil lamp in a daze.

In a daze, Chen Ping'an seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping, like a dream but not a dream.

He seemed to have walked to the south end of the covered bridge for no apparent reason, and only vaguely remembered that it was dark all the way, and even he could not see the scene a few feet away.

But when he stepped up the steps, the sky and the earth suddenly became bright.

Chen Ping'an was walking in the corridor of the covered bridge, when suddenly in the middle of the corridor, an extremely dazzling white light bloomed, as if it was more dazzling than the previous world, and the meaning of the Tao was more noble. Why, but can see the strange scenery there more clearly.

There was a tall man with a blurred face, standing among the covered bridges.

Somewhat similar to Chen Ping'an's first meeting with Mr. Qi in the alley, his sleeves were swaying, and his body was white, like a fairy.

But in the chaotic subconscious like a wild horse, Chen Ping'an was extremely sure of the person in front of him, more illusory than Mr. Qi, just as he or she was farther away from the world.

Chen Ping'an walked forward slowly, and there seemed to be a fox charm woman whispering in his ear, bewitching people, "Kneel down, you will have good luck."

Afterwards, someone shouted majestically, shocking people's hearts: "Ordinary people, don't kneel down quickly!"

Another Zhongzheng and peaceful voice said indifferently: "Like a worldly person, you need to kneel down to the masters and teachers of heaven and earth, so why not kneel, in exchange for a road to the top."

There was also a hoarse voice from the vicissitudes of life, "This kneeling is equivalent to crossing the Longevity Bridge, climbing the Qingyun Ladder, and crossing the moat, don't hesitate, kneel quickly, God does not take it, but accepts it. blame!"

A familiar voice sounded with all his might, "Chen Pingan, stop quickly! Don't move forward, don't turn around, and don't kneel. Just stick to a stick of incense on the spot, how many catties can you carry on a mortal body? The will of the air? Don't act against the sky..."

It's a bit like old man Yang's reprimand and admonition.

It's just that the old man's voice got lower and lower as he went to the back.

At the same time, someone else smiled warmly: "Chen Pingan, why don't you stand up straight and take a few steps forward to try?"

This is like Mr. Qi.

Chen Pingan instinctively straightened his waist, stopped, and looked around blankly.

He only knew that he had a lot of questions and wanted to ask Mr. Qi.

Many noisy voices came one after another, "This is Ma Kuxuan's deserved opportunity! Get out of here, you kid!"

"Even if Ma Kuxuan can't get it, it should fall into the hands of Ning Yao, who is the immortal embryo of that day. What kind of thing are you!"

"Your Chen family is just a puddle of mud that can't be helped, the incense should have been cut off long ago, and you dare to covet fetishes, brazen little bastard!"

"Chen Pingan, don't you care about Ning Yao and Liu Xianyang very much, turn around and go back to the town and leave the chance to your friends, wouldn't it be better? Qi Jingchun has already used his death in exchange for the stability of you mortals. Isn't it good for a rich man to marry a wife, have children, and have an afterlife?"

"If you dare to take another step forward, you will be smashed to ashes!"

Chen Pingan stepped out.

The covered bridge shook.

The world was silent, and the noise disappeared.

There was sighing, fear, panic, awe, sigh, and a mess.

After Chen Ping'an took one step, he naturally took the second step forward. Only at this time did he realize that Mr. Qi was walking side by side with him.

The entire covered bridge and beyond the covered bridge suddenly became invisible again.

When the boy stopped before, he was no longer stabbed to tears by the light. At this moment, he choked up for no reason, and he asked, "Mr. Qi, are you leaving?"

"Well, I'm leaving. There are too many people out there who want me to die, so I can't make my own choice."

"Mr. Qi, then who are we going to see?"

"It's not 'us', it's you. It's an... old man you want to see?"

A loud bang.

Mr. Qi seemed to be knocked flying, but Mr. Qi laughed heartily, and finally said solemnly: "Chen Pingan, the avenue is at your feet, let's go!"

Chen Pingan took a deep breath and raised his feet to take the third step.

There was a voice that sounded very far and extremely high, and instantly penetrated the layers of heaven and earth, and said with a smile: "There are no more than three things, and it will stop when you click."

In the middle of the covered bridge, someone snorted coldly.

Chen Ping'an suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the table, the oil lamp was still burning, the teenager turned his head subconsciously and looked out the window.

Its daybreak.