Under the dusk curtain, several birds flew over Baiyun Mountain, and countless trickling water flowed down from the rocks in the mountain, merging into a small stream halfway up the mountainside, and then flowing along the artificially developed ditch throughout the town, and finally flowing straight down towards a cliff, I don't know where to fall.

At the edge of the cliff, a thin figure was carrying two barrels to the end of the stream.

Du Ah Fu exhaled deeply, put down the tip of his tongue against heaven, and then put the two wooden barrels on the ground as well, took out two herbs from his arms, crumpled them in two, and stuffed them into his nostrils.

Looking down at the vast and bottomless cliffs, Ah Fu was not afraid, he had poured night incense here for a few years, and he had long been accustomed to it.

"Whoa—"

Watching the yellow thing fall off the cliff with the clear water, Ah Fu took out another piece of rope from his pocket, tied it to the handle of the barrel, and threw the barrel into the water.

"Tsk!"

Du Afu fell backwards, gritting his teeth and pulling the rope.

The turbulent water hit the wooden barrel, splashing a full two meters high, and Ah Fu looked at the high splash, and for some reason he felt a little happy in his heart.

After about a quarter of an hour, Ah Fu pulled the barrel back, and the remaining barrel did the same, and in a short time it was clean.

"Whew!"

Ah Fu wiped the fine sweat from his head, and finally put the rope on a large rock on the edge of the cliff and tied it.

After finishing all the processes, Du Ah Fu looked up at the sun that had already set half of the mountain in the west, and then he picked up the two wooden barrels and walked in the direction from which he came.

It is estimated that after a quarter of an hour, the creek can be seen again, and Ah Fu walked back to the gate of the academy, and saw the old Liu Tou who was packing up his things and preparing to go home, so the corners of his mouth bent and walked towards the small noodle stall:

"Master Liu, business is good today!"

The old Liu Tou, who was wiping the table, seemed to be preoccupied, but as soon as he heard the greeting of Dumb Afu, he couldn't help but stretch his brows, and scolded Dumb Afu with a smile:

"You kid made a lot of money again today! My good man! You really dare to open your mouth! Take Lu Xingyu ......."

"Shhh

Without waiting for Lao Liu Tou to finish speaking, Du Afu nervously made a boo gesture to Lao Liu Tou, and then looked around vigilantly, and only after confirming that there was no one did he run to Lao Liu Tou angrily.

"How many times have I said it, old Liu! This is a trade secret, you can't talk nonsense! Do you still want to make money!"

Before he finished speaking, he smelled a fragrance, he put his brain next to the boiled noodle soup, turned back to the smiling old Liu Tou and said:

"You know I'm coming back to get it for me?"

Old Liu Tou scolded with a smile:

"You're just dreaming! I've got some cinders left over and burned together, and I've left you with something!

"Yo! Who brought the burnt cinders back to warm the bottom of the basin? ”

Du Afu raised his eyebrows, and looked at Lao Liu with an expression of "Who is with us?"

"Okay, okay! Old rules! It's still a bowl of Wenqu noodles, and more oil chili peppers!"

Du Afu waved his hand, and after speaking, he ran in the other direction of the town.

"Eh, why are you going! The water is boiling, and you won't be able to eat the noodles later!"

Old Liu Tou looked at the figure of Afu and shouted, holding a handful of new noodles in his hand.

"Higashi!"

Ah Fu didn't look back, just answered.

The thought of being able to eat the colorful and flavorful Wenqu noodles in a while warmed the young man's heart.

The sun on the horizon has completely lost its head, only a few rays of light remain, and the temperature on the mountain is gradually dropping.

A young man in thin clothes ran to the East Market, which had already closed.

As soon as he walked into the street lined with shops, he saw the "endorser" who was putting the book in the cage.

"Endorsed! endorsed!"

Ah Fu raised his hand and shouted at the man.

When the man heard the voice and looked up, it was the scholar who had just spent ten taels of silver to buy the word "Yong" in the hands of Du Afu!

Du Ah Fu ran to the scholar panting, panting with his head down.

The scholar looked at Afu with a smile and said:

"Brother Tai, don't worry, since I'm already here, naturally I won't run!"

As he spoke, the scholar put down the bookcase made of green bamboo on his back, took out a few books and handed them to Du Afu.

"This is the book that Brother Tai wanted, I bought it for you, and in addition, the Beiwu Sutra agreed with Brother Tai. ”

The scholar said, carefully taking out a book of very simple material from his bosom.

As soon as he saw that book, he could no longer hide the heat in his eyes, although the "Northern Martial Arts Sutra" is not a strange book, on the contrary, it is still circulated all over the world, and almost every practitioner has a copy, as an enlightenment reading for practice.

However, this Hokubu Sutra is different from other Hokubu Sutras in that it is an "old version", that is, a version that has been eliminated by historical selection.

"The book that Brother Tai wanted is really hard to find, I traveled all over the two countries and Kyushu to collect it in an extremely remote village, but the pay is rich, and it is not in vain that I have walked so many roads, haha. ”

Du Ah Fu took the ancient book into his arms and saluted to the endorser in front of him:

"Thank you, brother!"

The scholar looked at Afu, nodded without moving, and then picked up the bookcase and prepared to leave.

"It's getting late, and Brother Tai is going down the mountain?"

Du Afu asked with some doubts, the endorser in front of him would stay here for a few days in previous years before going down the mountain, and by the way, he would sell some strange things from other states.

The scholar smiled and said:

"I came for money, I have already obtained it, but I will not return?"

So saying, the scholar sang a lyric, shook his shoulders, and went down the mountain.

Life is a young man who doesn't know how long he is

The road ahead is full of wind and frost

Looking back in spring and autumn along the way

White green silk and white moonlight

Ah Fu looked at the scholar who gradually disappeared into the sunset, and was a little envious of the other party's heart and life.

Carrying a bookcase all over the world, seeing people all over the world, knowing the affairs of the world, going up the mountain for wealth when there is a lack of money, and going down the mountain when you get money.

It's really free-spirited!

But Ah Fu doesn't have time to think about it so much now, he only has that Northern Martial Arts Book in his eyes!

After looking left and right, he quickly ran out of the East Market and into a small alley by a small stream, from which there were fewer people and a lot of time was saved.

Suddenly, Ah Fu's eyes jumped, and a familiar figure appeared in front of him blocking his way, he stopped suddenly, and ran behind without thinking, and then turned his head to see that the other three had blocked their way.

The fingers holding the book in his hand tightened, knowing that he couldn't run, he simply stopped, looked at the person in front of him, and said in an indifferent tone:

"Fang Qiuyi, what do you want to do?"

The person in front of him is the Fang family who has a grudge against him for taking his wife-Fang Qiuyi!

Since that snowy night six years ago, this Fang family has been thinking about himself, always thinking about Fang looking for his own trouble.

"Nerd, I heard you're selling Mr. today?"

An unkind voice sounded from behind Du Ah Fu, and the young man in the purple brocade cotton jacket slowly shook the folding fan in his hand and shook it in front of Du Ah Fu, and his eyes inadvertently glanced at the book in his hand.

"Oh?

The purple-clothed young man stared at Du Afu with some curiosity and asked:

"You idiot can't even finish reading the three-character scripture, and you can still understand this kind of novel ambition?"

Afu snorted coldly, looked at the young man in front of him and said coldly:

"You're pretty wide. ”

"Okay, let's put this matter aside for a moment, what do you say about selling Mr.'s handwriting? When did Mr. teach you to write?"

The purple-clothed young man stared at Afu, making him feel weak for a while.

"My husband once asked me if I would like to go to school, but I refused, and everyone knows about it. ”

Ah Fu said without blushing and without a beat.

"Well, I know about it, and then what?"

Chen Qiusheng opened the fan lightly and pointed it on the shoulder of Du Afu.

Then my husband said that even if I didn't go to school, I should be able to write my own name, so he taught me how to write. ”

Afu said, and then spread his hands.

"Anything else? I'll go back first. ”

The young man smiled, put away the folding fan, and said:

"Something, of course! I'm here to see if you've stolen chickens and dogs and ruined the reputation of our academy today! Sure enough, this is the word of the gentleman?"

The purple-clothed young man took out a piece of rice paper with "Stay" written on it from his arms, which was one of the pieces sold by Fang Stay Afu!

"You dare to fool people with other people's words? I know very well who Mr. is, if I want him to write this "stupid" word for you, I think it is only more difficult than that to ascend to the sky! This word is always difficult to bring a little hook in the closing trend, although the font style is similar to Mr., but it is not at all! If it is anyone! I'm afraid it is your pig friend and dog friend Lu Xingyu!"

"Don't insult Lu Xingyu!"

Du Ah Fu rushed forward, trying to grab the collar of the purple-clothed young man, but the two slaves who followed behind the purple-clothed young man stepped forward and grabbed Du Ah Fu's arm, and then hooked his legs, and Du Ah Fu fell to the ground with a "bang!", and his head was pressed to the ground.

"Chen Qiusheng! Are you full of food and have nothing to do in the day! Did I sell my words, did I dig up your ancestral grave, or did I fuck your wife! I ....... it."

Ah Fu wanted to scold again, but unfortunately before he finished speaking, the fists of the two servants fell like raindrops.

What follows is the picture of Ah Fu being unilaterally blocked in the corner and beaten.

"Heh! Waste is waste!"

Fang Qiu snorted coldly, and then stepped forward and asked Chen Qiusheng, who was pale:

"Are you alright?"

Chen Qiusheng was obviously stunned by Ah Fu's words, and his chest rose and fell violently, but he still held back.

"I've opened the fourteenth martial scripture, do you want me to make a move?"

Fang Qiuyi asked lightly on the side.

Chen Qiusheng shook his head and said:

"Brother-in-law, if you make a move, I'm afraid that this Ye Xianglang will die directly, after all, it is a person from our academy, and I will pick the night fragrance of our academy in the future! ”

"Damn, brother-in-law, your sister hasn't passed the door yet!"

As soon as Ah Fu, who was beaten and screamed, heard this, he poked out his head from the two strong men and argued, but the next second he was pulled back and continued to beat him.

"Hmph, after the dragon raises its head this year, my brother-in-law will marry my sister, you toad, don't you still want to eat swan meat, right?"

Chen Qiusheng knew how to fight Du Afu, and he said this in a fit of anger.

After hearing this, Ah Fu was stunned, his face was gray, and he struggled violently, but he was held down by the two servants:

"What do you say??? you say it again!!"

Chen Qiusheng looked down at the dumb Afu at his feet with cold eyes, squatted in front of him, and said word by word:

"My sister is going to marry my brother-in-law after the dragon raises her head this year! My brother-in-law is going to Qingwu Mountain to cultivate after he gets married, and he will be an immortal in the future! Do you know Qingwu Mountain? That is the number one faction in my country! It is a place where you can't go in your life! People like you are not even qualified to pick night incense there!"

Ah Fu was stunned, and he was in a trance for a while.

Chen Qiusheng snorted coldly, stood up and kicked Du Afu's head, kicking him unconscious.

And in the end, when Afu fainted, he was still thinking about one thing.

Chen Zihan is getting married?

"Son, wake up, child, wake up, stay up, stay up, Mr. He, look at what is wrong with this child? I just saw that he was fine! Why! Why did he suddenly become stunned?"

The old Liu Tou, who was wearing a cloth robe, pulled the dull-eyed Du Afu with one hand, and asked the middle-aged man in gray Confucian clothes with a righteous face behind him in an anxious tone.

The middle-aged man with a mustache squatted unhurriedly next to Du Afu, pulled out Du Afu's hand and began to take his pulse.

"It must be Chen Qiusheng's guy! I have seen him take his two slaves to bully Brother Afu more than once! Sir, you see that Brother Afu's clothes are all messy! They must have beaten Brother Afu stupidly!"

An eight- or nine-year-old little scholar stood aside with a small bamboo box on his back and said angrily, complaining to the middle-aged man in front of him:

"Sir! This kind of gentleman staying in the academy is simply a black sheep! Please sir expel Chen Qiusheng from the academy! Give the "Hanling Academy" a clean and peaceful place!"

"What nonsense, you kid!"

Lao Liu Tou gave the little scholar a burst of chestnuts, and said to the middle-aged man:

"Don't blame sir! I keep saying that this kid is stupid to read, and he doesn't know the world, don't blame him, don't blame him!"

Even if Chen Qiusheng is a gentleman, it is also a gentleman that they can't afford to provoke.

The middle-aged man's expression remained unchanged, and he just said to Lao Liu:

"Brother Liu is worried, Liu Liuniu is talented, intelligent, and diligent, and he is a good seedling for studying. ”

Old Liu Tou was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't raise his eyebrows, and just saluted the middle-aged man:

"It's still the gentleman who teaches well!

While speaking, He Hanling had already pinched the stunned Ah Fu in his hand, and Ah Fu was in pain and made a "hmm" sound.

"Eh, Brother Afu is awake! Grandpa, Brother Afu is awake!"

Seeing this, the little scholar happily took Lao Liu's hand and said.

"Got it! Got it! You kid! I'm going to shake this old bone to pieces!"

Lao Liu Tou was quite helpless about his grandson's perverse behavior, but his tone was full of doting.

"Grandpa is forever young in his grandson's heart!"

Liu Liuniu said with a smile, seeing that Ah Fu woke up, he hurriedly leaned in and asked:

"Brother Afu, are you alright?"

"Calf Cow ?....... Why are you here?"

Du Afu looked at the fat little fat man in front of him, and gradually came back to his senses.

"Son, you've been sitting here for two quarters of an hour! You don't answer you, I think you've hit an evil spirit!"

Old Liu Tou said and stretched out his hand to pull Du Afu up from the ground, and patted the dust on his body.

"I'm fine, I'm just missing the hour, sir! ”

Du Afu respectfully saluted to the gray-clothed middle-aged man.

He Hanling nodded and said:

"It's just spring this year, and you put on a spring shirt, you must know that winter goes to spring, and it is still cold. ”

Du Afu hurriedly nodded and agreed:

"Got it, sir. ”

He Hanling nodded again, and said to Du Afu with satisfaction:

"Since you're fine, let's go with Brother Liu!"

When Ah Fu heard this, he hurriedly confessed his mistake and said:

"I was wrong, sir, begging him to give me a chance to correct my mistake!"

He Hanling raised his eyebrows, a little surprised:

"Hmm, what's wrong with you?"

"It's my fault that I missed the time to pour the night incense, but it would be too harsh for Mr. to expel me from the academy because of this......."

"Who said I'm going to expel you from the academy?"

Ah Fu was stunned for a moment, raised his head and said in confusion:

"Don't you drive me out of the academy? really? Then why let me go with Lao Lao and Lao Liu?"

Only then did He Hanling understand that Ah Fu would be wrong, and laughed heartily a few times, explaining:

"Brother Liu is going to leave Baiyun Mountain with Liu Liuniu, and he specially came to me to explain, saying that he invited you to have a meal tonight, why don't you want to go?"

Ah Fu was a little stunned, turned his head to look at the smiling old Liu Tou on the side, and asked:

"Where to leave Baiyun Mountain?"

"Hmph, boy, I'm afraid I'll scare you when I say it!"

Old Liu Tou said to Ah Fu in an old-fashioned manner, and he almost didn't give himself a thumbs up.

"Huo! Are you still going to the capital? Where are you going to sell small noodles? Come on! The people there are all rich people, and they can't get used to eating the tuotuo noodles cooked by you, a countryman!"

Afu said with a look of disbelief, but as soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it, turned his head and looked at He Hanling's face, and sure enough, it was already dark.

Ah Fu slapped his mouth and fell silent.

Old Liu Tou just smirked, looked at the dilemma of being dumbfounded, and stepped forward to say haha:

"Alright, alright! Let's talk about it later, or the food will be cold!"

Saying that, Lao Liu Tou looked at He Hanling and asked with a smile:

"Mr. He, go and have a drink of two too?"

He Hanling shook his head, there was no contempt on his face, and smiled at Lao Liu:

"The students have just finished school, and many of the assignments have not been corrected, so they don't bother. ”

Old Liu Tou didn't care, nodded and said:

"Then tomorrow morning, I will send the noodles to the academy for Mr., and by the way, I will take this kid's homework!"

Saying that, Lao Liu patted the little brain case holding his hand beside him, and muttered in his mouth:

"You! You're so old that you can't do without your grandfather! I'm afraid that when you become an adult in the future, you'll still have to hold your grandfather's hand! Hmph! With a girl's family!

"Cut! I'll be very good in the future! Grandpa, just wait and see!"

The little scholar slapped Lao Liu's palm like an old tree twice, and said with a pout.

"Then Brother Liu, I'll take the first step. ”

He Hanling saluted Lao Liu Tou and said, flattering Lao Liu Tou, and hurriedly shouted, "I can't help it."

He Hanling glanced at Du Ah Fu before leaving, and saw that Du Ah Fu nodded at him, and then disappeared at the end of the long street with confidence.

"Let's go, boy, you're in for a treat!"

Old Liu Tou patted Ah Fu's shoulder, and led Liu Liuniu to walk in the direction of the academy.

Du Afu looked at the old Liu Tou, who was different from the past, and followed with a puzzled expression.

Lao Liu Tou's home is not far from the academy, just across the street, for which the old Liu Tou boasted to himself for a long time, saying that the only money left in the family was given to his useless son to go to Beijing to catch the exam, if it wasn't for his own discernment, he sold the old house he built when he was young, and bought this murderous house close to the academy but no one dared to buy it at a low price, how could he just save Afu on that snowy day, and how could he let his grandson enter the academy to study?

Drinking Lao Liutou's home-brewed coarse grain wine, sandwiching two chopsticks of fragrant and crispy pig ears, Du Afu nodded with a smile, and continued to listen to Lao Liutou ridiculing the past there.

"Back then, the town was far less prosperous than it is now, but my old man thought it was good at that time! There weren't so many bad things! People are rich now! What's wrong with being rich? Even my elders from childhood to adulthood don't respect my parents, and even my parents are not filial, so what is the use of that money? Do you say that you are begging? Just say that the day of the Tan Luo dog is really not a thing.......

As soon as Ah Fu heard the name of the Fang family, the wine glass in his hand stopped, paused slightly, and continued to pour a cup into his throat.

"I despise you when I have no money, and when I have money, you are an uncle, haha, it's really a dog's eye. ”

Old Liu Tou was already red and red-faced, but his eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and the whole person seemed to be getting younger.

"It's not that the town was not prosperous before, it was not like this, people will always be like this, but now these people are given a legitimate reason to become so, because the people around them are like this, so now talents have become so rampant and blatant!"

Du Afu poured down a glass of wine suddenly, burped, patted the wine table and pointed at Lao Liu Tou and said:

"Let's just say that in the past, who in the town could afford to look down on me, a little night fragrance? Let me tell you! Even the people who pick up night incense in the north and west of the town all looked down on me fucking down, just... Just because I've been a night carrot since I was a child? I deserve to be discriminated against, her grandmother!"

"I... I didn't look down on Brother Afu....... Brother Afu will always be my brother....... Hiccup!"

A childish voice sounded in the corner of the table, and the little scholar was dazed, his face flushed, and he was obviously drunk.

"Huh! Hahahaha......."

Du Ah Fu's eyes were already red, and he rubbed Liu Liuniu's head, but the little scholar actually fell asleep with a very happy look and leaned on the palm of Du Ah Fu.

"This kid is still my grandson! This amount of wine has not been inherited from me at all!

As soon as Lao Liu Tou saw Liu Liuniu's embarrassment, he patted Liu Liuniu's head with his hand and called:

"Wake up, wake up, go to bed and fall asleep!"

"Eh!

Du Afu waved his hand at Lao Liu, picked up the little scholar who was muttering, and then put it on the bed in good condition, took off his clothes, shoes and socks, and then covered the quilt and returned to the lame wine table.

"Really not coming with us?"

Lao Liu Tou looked at Afu, took a chopstick crispy peanut, and asked this question for the second time.

Du Afu shook his head and said with disdain:

"The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own grass nests, besides, the emperors and courtiers of all dynasties can share weal and woe, but not wealth and prosperity, are you not afraid that I will take away your family's property like in that popular book?"

Lao Liu Tou laughed when he heard this, pointed at Ah Fu and scolded:

"You kid has his tail cocked, I know what kind of fart you want to fart, and you still take the family property on a dog day? You can't let go of the little lover in the academy, right? ha!"

Ah Fu's face turned red when he heard this, but it didn't look obvious after drinking, and he replied with obvious lack of confidence:

"Who's a little lover? What are you talking nonsense old man? Go, go, go! Go, go! I can't talk to you!"

"Yes, yes, yes, if you want Lu Xingyu to be your loyal listener, I'm old, and my ears are naturally not good, haha!"

As he spoke, he put away all the remaining pickled vegetables, and by the way, he also carried the pot of rice lees wine with half a tael in his arms.

After doing this, Ah Fu really walked towards the door.

"Huh, did you really leave like that?"

Old Liu Tou stood up and looked at Ah Fu with some surprise.

"Master Liu!"

As soon as Ah Fu spoke, the momentum of the whole person changed, and his figure paused at the door, but he didn't look back.

Old Liu Tou was frightened by him like this, and stood there looking at him puzzled.

"Sir said that there is no banquet in the world that will not be dispersed, but! Sir also said! Life is full of encounters! Next time I will see you in a sedan chair, please go to the best restaurant in the capital to eat the most expensive dishes!

Du Ah Fu seemed to shout out this sentence with all his strength, and then pushed open the door and walked towards the academy.

"Wait!"

Lao Liu Tou called to stay in Ah Fu, and Ah Fu was stunned for a moment, and then he heard the old man behind him say:

"Child, I really can't get along in the future, remember to come to the capital to find us. ”

After listening to this, the corners of his mouth curved, and then he puffed up his chest and said loudly:

"Then I've thanked Liu Ye here! Then I also wish Liu Ye a smooth journey! Shou is better than Nanshan, and his body bones are tougher than the white clouds and iron bamboos!

Du Afu strode out of the alley, and only after making sure that Lao Liu couldn't see him at the corner did he stretch out his sleeve and wipe the corners of his eyes.

The long street is dark and bright, and there is spring snow in the sky.

Walking step by step on the familiar street, the scene of six years ago came to mind.