Xunzi once said: "Where does the etiquette come from? If there is no measurement and demarcation, we cannot fight without fighting, fighting for chaos, and chaos and poverty. The first king hated his chaos, so he divided the etiquette and righteousness into them, so as to raise people's desires and give people what they wanted. so that desires are not exhausted by things, and things must not yield to desires. The two grow together, and it is the beginning of the ceremony......"

A voice reciting the classics of the sages came from a dark place, although this voice was immature, but there seemed to be a sense of consolation in the words, and for a while people were a little concerned.

Suddenly, another voice said in annoyance: "Stinky boy, don't read it, can you save some effort? You have been reading this passage over and over for an hour!"

"Senior Xie, it is said that I should call you a senior, but now I am really a little confused!"

Xie Donglai was puzzled, so he had to ask: "Returning to the dust! Although you and I have only met for the first time, we are very deedful, but I don't know what you are confused about?"

Guichen took a deep breath, looked at him and asked, "What kind of person is my father?"

"Huh?" Xie Donglai felt very strange when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you Cui Zhen's child? You can't be his illegitimate son, right?"

Perhaps because he was accustomed to the darkness, although Guichen was in the dark, he also saw the teasing look on his face, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "No! My father has only been with my mother in this life, and I am naturally their child." It's just that he has saved many people in his life, but he couldn't save his daughter in a moment of crisis, and when we were in the first disaster, he only woke me up, and now I only remember that he slapped me, and I don't remember anything else!"

Xie Donglai saw the confused expression on his face, and knew in his heart that there must be something strange in it, so he couldn't help but think about it, and said to him: "I don't know much about the paragraph you read just now, but I think it's very good when it mentions the words etiquette and righteousness. He was puzzled when he saw Guichen, and said: "I have read little since I was a child, and I don't know much, but after I walked out of the southwest, I found that whether I was in the officialdom or at ease in the rivers and lakes, I couldn't do without these two words." ”

Guichen stared at him blankly, and Xie Donglai said again: "Well! Since I'm bored now, I'll tell you a secret! In fact, your father was willing to come forward to the Northern Expedition back then, all for one person!"

"Who? Could it be my mother?"

Xie Donglai smiled and shook his head, and said: "No, that person's name is Li Qi, he is Zhu Yuanzhang's chosen concubine, at that time we all called him Master Concubine, when your father first entered the barracks, he was a stunned boy, just like you!hahahaha!"

When Guichen saw him talk about this, he was very happy, and he couldn't help but want to listen to it, so he also asked: "No wonder they said that my father's martial arts had a decisive momentum of killing and decisiveness, so how did my father enter the barracks?"

"What's going on!" Xie Dong came to sell a pass before he said: "Actually, your father was forced to enter the barracks, he was originally a scholar who was going to enter Beijing to take the exam, but on the way he met bandits, and those bandits may have asked them for some money! But he was a poor scholar at that time! Where could he go to find money to dredge up relations? Maybe it was also his hard temper, he actually quarreled with the bandits, and as a result, all of them were killed by the bandits, and even your father only had a faint breath. ”

"And what happened later......?" Guichen hurriedly asked, "How is he?"

Xie Donglai saw his eagerness, and said with a smile: "At this time, the master of the horse saved your father, and buried for him those students who came to take the exam, your father was seriously injured, so he was placed in the army by the master of the horse, so he went to the Northern Expedition with us all the way, but I don't know where he learned martial arts." ”

"I know. The corners of Guichen's mouth lifted lightly, and when he saw Xie Donglai's puzzled face, he couldn't help but smile: "That's not important, what about later?"

Xie Donglai glanced at him suspiciously, and said: "Later, when we arrived in Beiping, I don't know why King Yan valued your father very much, and gave him his mount." ”

Guichen said happily: "Could it be Xiaobai? is it the jade lion that shines on the night?"

"Huh?" Xie Donglai said with a smile: "You kid, haven't you ridden it?"

"No, I have been restricted from moving since I was a child, when I was at home, my grandfather loved me very much, and I couldn't read for more than half an hour every day, if I did a little bit on weekdays, the maids and guards in the house would be punished, not to mention the matter of traveling on horseback!" Guichen's expression suddenly declined, and he said: "On weekdays, only Aunt Mo is by my side, in addition to treating me, she will also cook me all kinds of food, and teach me to read and write......"

Xie Donglai saw that he was talking energetically just now, but his expression fell again in the blink ......of an eye, and he couldn't help asking: "Who is this Aunt Mo? Could it be you?" He paused and asked, "How old is she?"

Guichen listened to what he said more and more outrageous, and he was already angry in his heart, and couldn't help but snort angrily: "She is only in her twenties, and she is far worse than you, but her rank is higher than mine." Besides, she looks more beautiful than a fairy, just like you, don't think about it!"

"Yo!yo!yo!" Xie Donglai teased: "What are you anxious about? I've already married a wife, you don't have to worry, um! You like her?"

When Guichen heard him say this, his face suddenly turned red for a while, and he said hesitantly: "That me...... Actually, I ...... too."

Xie Donglai had a slight disdain on his face, waved his hand, and only asked, "Are you a blood relative to her?"

"Huh?" Guichen was obviously stunned, then came back to his senses and said, "No, I have no blood relationship with her, she is just the sister of my father's brother's wife!"

Xie Donglai sneered and said, "Look at you, you are in a hurry, and you have said such a lot." He waved his hand and said domineeringly: "In this case, you just marry her, then it doesn't matter, you don't have to care about the eyes of the world, or does she have another good relationship?"

When Guichen heard this, he shook his head slowly, and said loudly: "Naturally not, she has only been with me for many years, and it has also hurt her, it seems that Shui Nianhua is only with one child, I am really sorry for her!"

Xie Donglai covered his mouth and smiled: "No! No, don't you see that she has raised a husband for herself?"

Guichen snorted heavily, and said angrily: "Senior Xie, if you want to do this again, then we won't talk about it!"

"Okay! Okay!" Xie Donglai said three good words in a row before he said, "Then I'll tell you about the rest of the story!"

"If you don't say anything more, I'll sleep!" Guichen climbed onto the stone bed, lay down straight, and said, "I'm a little sleepy!"

Xie Donglai smiled helplessly: "You kid! The appearance of a scoundrel is exactly the same as your father! Although your father accompanied the army on the Northern Expedition back then, in fact, it was only to repay the grace of saving his life. After the first battle of Tongzhou, your father met your mother again, and since then he has lived in seclusion, until we went on another northern expedition, and the horse master invited him out of the mountain, which led to the battle of fishing in the sea. ”

Guichen almost didn't come up in one breath, and asked strangely: "You mean that the first battle of the fishing sea that shocked the world back then was just done by my father to repay his kindness?"

Xie Donglai waved his hand and said: "Of course it's not all like this, it's also because of fate, your father made a military order with Lan Yu for the sake of the horse master, swore to break the remnants of Mengyuan and capture Emperor Tianyuan alive, which happened later." ”

"These things" Guichen suddenly sat down against the wall and said, "No one has ever mentioned it to me. ”

"Alas!" Xie Donglai sighed: "In order to repay the grace of saving his life, your father made a strange plan to lead the elite soldiers, and beat the old department of Mengyuan to flee for thousands of miles. ”

He took a break before he said: "Actually, your father and your mother disappeared after the first battle in the fishing sea, and we have searched for them many times, but then we only heard that they went to sea, and there has been no news since then!"

Guichen shook his head and said: "I heard my mother mention this, when my father went wrong because of his practice, he went to sea to find the "wind god" to seek a way to save his life, but on the way he met the Japanese and pirates, in order to save people, he fell into the sea in the process of saving people, and his whereabouts are unknown. ”

"Oops!" Xie Donglai suddenly realized: "Could it be that he didn't come out to confront Lan Yu back then, but it was because of this incident?"

The two looked at each other for a while, but it turned out that the two of them were shocked from the conversation that there was an inexplicable coincidence.

Xie Donglai came to his senses and said, "No wonder he suddenly saved the three children of the master of the horse two years later, and even created the Guiwang City because of this! ”

"It seems that you already know!" I saw Xue Qingbi take one person to the bottom of the stone steps of the two, looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Back then, Feng Linyuan went to sea because our boss asked Zhu Biao to do it, and then everything was not expected, but it was not much different, but I didn't expect him to come back alive." ”

Guichen's eyes widened, and he asked resentfully: "So, all this is all your arrangement?" Xue Qingbi smiled, and nodded with a smile, as if she was not ashamed, but said with a smile: "Back then, your father's reputation for advice was too loud, and he refused to help us, so we had to think of this way, we knew that your father made the most important promise, so we asked the eldest princess and the concubine to ask for help, and your father couldn't shirk it, so he obediently fell for it." ”

"Shameless!" Xie Donglai roared loudly: "I can't imagine that you will use this method to harm him, do you know how many brothers in the Northern Expedition died because of this incident!"

Xue Qingbi smiled coldly and said, "If this is not the case, how can you sergeants who pretend to defend the country be able to deviate from morality, and when will you be able to weaken Zhu Yuanzhang's troops? Besides, you still have the face to talk about us? You yourself said that you have been to Wangcheng in private a few times? Do you still want me to explain what you are going to do?"

When Guichen heard that Xie Donglai had actually been to Guiwang City, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised, but listening to Xue Qingbi's meaning, it was not a good thing for Xie Donglai to go to Guiwang City, and he was a little dazed for a while, and muttered, "What do you mean by this?"

Xie Donglai heard him ask about this, and immediately sat down on the stone bed, only bowing his head and not saying a word, looking as if he was hiding something from him.

Xue Qingbi snorted coldly: "Hmph! I'll tell you, he went to Wangcheng several times back then, do you think he was in contact with your father? That was to kill him, this surnamed Xie's martial arts can be regarded as the best, especially the assassination kung fu is a must in the world, once the fetal breath technique is practiced, you can not breathe for a few hours, and you can turn into grass and trees as soon as you are invisible, who can prevent this kind of kung fu?"

Guichen was shocked for a while, only to feel that the two of them were not credible. Xie Donglai saw that he was silent, so he said to himself: "I went there five times back then, and the first two times were easily defeated by him, and I was unwilling, so I went back to practice hard for a while, and I felt that I had grown a lot, and I had the strength to fight with him." But twice in a row, he avoided him, but the people who returned to the city of Hope entertained me with delicious food and drink, but said that they would not let me see him, and then I felt bored, and left!"

"What?" Guichen hurriedly asked, "Didn't you say you went five times?"

Xie Donglai was suddenly a little silent, and only after a while did he say, "This last time is the weirdest one. Guichen frowned and asked, "How do you say this?" Xie Donglai said in a low voice: "That time, I persecuted the people in Guiwang City, saying that he didn't come out, so I killed all the people inside, and finally forced him out. I told him to let him come forward to clear the grievances of his brothers and seek revenge on Lan Yu, but he never agreed, saying that the deceased had passed away, and he did not want to add any more sins to them! Hmph! Where would I do what he wanted, he immediately refuted, and then the two of us said stiffly, so I asked him to compete with me to decide, although he was unwilling, he nodded and agreed!"

"Did you two really do it?" asked Guichen.

Xie Donglai nodded silently, but then shook his head again, and said with a wry smile: "It's not so much that it's better to say that I'm fighting alone!" At that time, I saw that he was not guarded, so I took the lead and attacked him ten times in a row, but he was unmoved, just dodged lightly, I thought he was afraid when he saw my attack, and for a while there was an endless stream of foul language in his mouth, but when I used the fifteenth move, he suddenly attacked me. ”

Xie Donglai's head was dripping with cold sweat, and he said for a while before he said: "One move, he only used one move, and he beat me to a serious injury! Then he told me that I should go back to my hometown to recuperate and not appear in the Central Plains again." ”

He paused for a moment before saying, "I don't know what's going on! I didn't even block his move, and now I think about it, I still feel weird." ”

"When you do it, can others peep, as if you are being monitored?" Guichen heard what he said strangely, so he asked: "Even what martial arts do you use, you feel like the opponent knows?" Xie Donglai nodded again and again, and said happily: "At that time, I thought I was poisoned, but I tried again and again, and there was no sign of poisoning, so I don't know what's going on." ”

Guichen took a deep breath and said word by word: "No wonder you don't know, the martial arts he uses are called "Heart Mirror"! He is like a mirror in front of you, and his martial arts and flaws are clear, so even the top masters can't take advantage of him in the slightest. ”

Xie Donglai nodded again and again when he heard this, but then he shook his head and sighed: "Alas, I only know now how ignorant I was at that time, and your father repeatedly tolerated me, but it was just because he didn't care about me in the past!"

Guichen waited for him to calm down before asking, "Then how did you get here?"

"Well!" Xue Qingbi said with a smile: "Of course it's me, every time he goes to Guiwang City, he will definitely go out of the pass, our people have been secretly staring, when I wait for him to come back for the fifth time, I see that he has no spirit and looks thoughtful, so I secretly capture him so that I can get the secret book of fetal breath technique!"

Xie Donglai smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "Speaking of which, I am ashamed of the righteousness of my brother back then, and I have failed to live up to the love of the robe, and now only me and your father are left!

Xue Qingbi smiled coldly and said, "In that case, if you give me the cheats, I can give you a good time right away." ”

Guichen saw that Xie Donglai seemed to have a will for life and death, his eyes rolled for a while, and he didn't know what he was thinking, he saw that the two of them were talking stiffly, and he was slightly anxious in his heart.

Suddenly, he smiled and said, "Mr. Xue, don't you want the secret book of the Taiyi Heart Sutra?"

Xue Qingbi looked him up and down for a while, and said with a smile: "Are you willing to memorize the scriptures?"

Guichen shook his head and said, "I'll tell you the truth, in fact, I haven't read the scriptures at all!"

"What are you talking about?" Xue Qingbi saw him repeatedly joking, her heart was already angry, and she said in a deep voice: "Boy, are you impatient? You dare to play tricks on me again and again!"

"Don't dare! Don't dare!" Guichen smiled and said, "What I said is true!"

Xue Qingbi was already impatient, turned his head and said to the person who brought him, "Drag him out!"

The man bowed and nodded, came to Guichen's side, and dragged him out, as rude as he was pulling an animal, without looking at what he was pulling.

Xue Qingbi suddenly showed a cruel smile and said, "Boy, this is the last time I will persuade you! If you don't tell you honestly, I can let him do it, you may not know who he is, but his methods are no worse than those of the Criminal Department." ”

"Be careful, stinking boy. Xie Donglai suddenly said urgently: "What this surnamed Xue said is true, this person's name is Qian Biao, he used to be the head of the Dongchang factory, and he has always been known for his torture methods, and my scars are due to him." Xie Dong said as he ripped the shirt off his chest.

Guichen looked up, and suddenly saw the scars on his chest, and his heart was already shocked, and then he saw that the various scars were thick and long, intertwined and entrenched like loaches on him, which was even more terrifying than what he saw at the beginning.

That Qian Biao suddenly smiled weirdly: "Thanks to Your Excellency Miao Zan, Qian is very honored." "Seeing that this man is not ashamed, and when he hears others praise his cruelty, he is still proud.

Xue Qingbi only said: "Boy, there is already an example in front of you, at this moment you are highly poisoned and injured, I am afraid that you will not survive an hour, you can think about it carefully!"

Guichen frowned, and after a while, he smiled and said, "I really haven't read the scriptures. ”

"Hmph!" Xue Qingbi flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "Since you don't know what to do, then don't blame me for not thinking about getting along for many days!" He turned to Qian Biao and said, "I'll leave it to you! I only need the scriptures, and live or die as you like." ”

Qian Biao was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Then thank you, sir." ”

Xue Qingbi glanced at Guichen, there seemed to be a sense of unbearability in her eyes, but then she flicked her sleeves and left!