The fourth morning burn pine smoke ink

Ever since Qin Ying had tested her sister's attitude, she began to sigh for a long time.

After eating morning tea, Qin Xi sat in front of the stove and burned ink blocks.

Rao is distracted, and the non-stop noise is also disturbing. When he heard the sixteenth sound, Qin Xi turned his head and said, "What are you sighing like an old man?"

Qin Ying looked at the past with innocent eyes, and said to her sister, "Your sword is rusty. I can't wipe it clean, so I sigh. As he spoke, he raised his sword.

Sister frowned her smoky eyebrows, stretched out her arm and took the soft sword back: "... Who allowed you to touch it? Fingers rubbed lightly over its no longer sharp blade, and lowered its eyes for a few moments before closing it in the cowhide scabbard.

"If you don't deal with the rust, your baby will be scrap copper." Qin Ying explained.

It's a pity that the other party ignored Qin Ying.

Stubbornly putting away the bronze sword, Qin Xi said, "This sword is unknown. I used to make irreparable mistakes with it. So I'd love it to stay like this forever. ”

Qin Xi poked the firewood in the stove, and his thoughts drifted away with the curling smoke.

It is said to be "ominous" because it is engraved with the word "death" in Lishu on its sword. Few of those who encounter it survive survive.

Such a murderous sword has an extremely elegant name - Trace.

More than 200 years ago, there were eight words in the boundary of Shushan: the geese passed without a trace, and the sword left a trace. This sentence is a pair of famous swords in the Shangqing Palace, "No Trace" and "Trace".

"No trace" is a heavy iron sword, and the sword body is sealed with the word "life"; "Trace" is a bronze sword with the word "death" engraved on the body of the sword. The attributes are mutually reinforcing, and at the same time, the yin and yang of Tai Chi are allude to each other.

What's more coincidental is that two hundred and ten years ago, Mingli got "no trace", and she held the "trace".

A wise man asserted: "The two swords are incompatible, and those who hold the swords are destined not to be compatible."

At first, she didn't believe in prophecy; A lot happened later that she had to admit it... What the wise man said is true.

“… Sister, the ink block is going to be pasted. A crisp voice interrupted her train of thought.

In a hurry, the sisters finally rescued the ink block from danger.

Qin Ying rubbed her fingertips that were burned red, and said, "How did Sister get that sword in the first place?"

Unaware that she was playing her own words, Qin Xi replied: "More than two hundred years ago, I practiced in the Qing Palace on Zhangren Mountain. Once I made a great achievement, the old palace master gave me the 'Trace' sword. ”

“… Tell me from the beginning. She waited earnestly for Qin Xi to take the initiative to disclose the past.

As a result, I got a roll of the other party's eyes and three words: "Think beautiful."

Qin Ying made a nasal voice and played tricks. My sister quickly disarmed and surrendered. My sister is the same as in her previous life, and she can't stand this kind of method the most.

I only saw that Qin Xi cleared his throat and began to tell his story:

"Two hundred and twenty years ago, I heard that there were immortals in Zhangren Mountain in Shudi, so I wanted to visit the Tao. It took a few months to stop and go, and I went from Taibai Mountain in Qinling to Zhangren Mountain in Shudi. ”

Qin Ying frowned sensitively: Sister, she didn't mention the details of walking with Mingli at all.

"Climbed the mountain, hey... It was found that it was all Taoist temples. Where are the gods? Qin Xi waved his hand and laughed at himself, "But I've gone all the way, and I can't come back immediately in disgrace." ”

Qin Ying took advantage of the gap in her sister's saliva and interjected: "So you entered the Shangqing Palace and became a disciple there."

"It's not so smooth to get started. I worshiped the Shangqing Palace three times, and almost all of them failed. In the end, the old palace master was entangled by me and couldn't help it, and he saw that I was pitiful, so he recorded me in his name. ”

"In the first month of living in the mountain, Shizun personally enlightened me..."Qin Xi, who looked empty, had already fallen into memory.

The old palace master in an ink-colored robe sat on the top and said with a smile: "What the Shangqing Palace inherits is the Five Bucket Rice Dao created by Master Zhang Tian. It is divided into three branches: swordsmanship, danbait, and talisman [Note]. Little girl, which subject do you want to study? ”

Qin Xi, who still looked like a child, blinked his round eyes and said, "Which subject is the easiest to understand, and you can live forever if you learn it?"

When the old palace master heard this, he almost blew his white and gray beard. He finally stabilized his feelings, and replied: "Those who learn swordsmanship practice swords every day, those who learn Danbait practice alchemy every day, and those who learn talismans must draw talismans every day."

"- Master, I learn talismans." Qin Xi is a person who is extremely afraid of trouble, so he chose the simplest one among them.

The old palace master snorted and said to her again: "Hey, the more afraid you are of trouble, the more you can't hide."

"Master, you see that I have come to the door to cultivate so devoutly, why didn't I live in the mountain for the first two times?"

He looked deeply at the girl who didn't understand anything, and said earnestly: "What are we cultivating in the Shangqing Palace?" Five buckets of rice road. The meaning of this 'five buckets of rice' is that only after handing over five buckets of rice can you learn from the teacher. ”

Qin Xi got the answer and obediently retreated. The joy of love spread in her heart: she finally came in without handing over rice, and she is still eating and living here for nothing.

Two years later, the Shangqing Palace held a triennial disciple assessment. At the end of the first month of the test, Zhongchun released the list in one subject.

On the day of the Fu Bang, Qin Xi didn't go to see it. Because he knew that he had failed in the exam, the talisman he drew was useless, and his name would definitely fall off the list.

After a while, the Danbait family was also released.

In the end, the swordsmanship department released the list, but she still didn't watch it. One day, I happened to hear someone say that Ming Li had passed the swordsmanship test, and his name was in the third place on the swordsmanship list. In front of Ming Li are the two senior brothers who have been practicing swordsmanship for nearly ten years.

Ming Li walked over and handed Qin Xi a wooden sword: "This road doesn't work, why don't you try another way?"

She shook her head and said, "Swordsmanship is the most difficult test, I can't do it."

"As long as you put your mind to it, it won't be particularly difficult. I'm going to have a sword lesson tomorrow. I'll open a small stove for you after the evening class. Three years later, if you don't pass the exam, you can blame me. ”

Qin Xi took the wooden sword and silently accepted his suggestion.

The swordsmanship class is in the southeast corner of the Shangqing Palace, which is a very open field.

The one who teaches swordsmanship is an elder with a strong spirit. He was loosely draped in a single garment, holding a bamboo branch in his right hand.

"Today is a new student, so I'll talk about it again. Ahem, the purpose of practicing martial arts and practicing swords is not to kill, but to achieve enlightenment. What is particular about using the sword to punish evil and protect the world...", he talked about it himself, and then let them practice the basic skills.

A class is an hour. After class, Qin Xi was so tired that he didn't want to move. Mingli took the initiative to pull her up like mud.

"That's not going to work? There is also a small stove to be served at night. ”

"I can't hold it anymore. I really can't hold it. Qin Xi waved his hand with difficulty, and there was a little crying in his words.

"Hold on. You can't be left off forever. "Mingli is very heart-wrenching.

She gritted her teeth and threw away her weak and cowardly thoughts: "Where to open a small stove at night?"

At that time, she got out of the evening class and hurried to the agreed side hall. There was only one lamp burning in the dimly lit side hall.

Qin Xi stared at Mingli in surprise, and the lights illuminated his face dimly.

"Take a sword and split the incense core." He said.

Although she didn't understand it, she practiced it honestly.

More than three months later, she was able to reach a high accuracy rate. Mingli knew he was right... Qin Xi did have some talent for swordsmanship.

In the blink of an eye, Qin Xi ushered in the third sword test. She went through all the hard work to enter the swordsmanship list, and she was ranked seventh.

On the night of the unveiling, she asked Mingli, "Why did you help me?"

Ming Li said: "This is my reward." If I hadn't met you ten years ago, I would have died on Taibai Mountain. ”

That year coincided with changes in the imperial court, and the old palace master sent the top ten of the swordsmanship list down the mountain to do things for His Majesty.

After finishing the work more than half a year later, the others were left by His Majesty's side, and Mingli and her insisted on retiring and returned to the Shangqing Palace.

Seeing that they were not confused by the glitz and glamour of the world, the old palace master gave them the treasures of the town palace, the Traceless Sword and the Traceless Sword.

“… This is the cause and effect of the 'Trace' sword. ”

Qin Ying hadn't heard of it yet, she tilted her head sideways and asked, "Since it is the treasure of the Shangqing Palace, how can it be in our house now?"

"When I was expelled from the division, I took it away. Its anger is too heavy to be placed in the door of the world. ”

Sister was really courageous back then, and when this came to her mouth, it turned into another sentence: "Is the traceless sword you said still in the Shangqing Palace?"

Qin Xi thought for a moment and replied, "Traces and Traceless are a pair. The person who holds one of them can sense where the other is. ”

Qin Ying knew in his heart: no wonder Mingli was able to find his sister, it turned out that they each held a sword, and the two swords were mutually induced.

Thinking so, she suddenly heard her sister's words and exclaimed: "-I can't find it." Worst! If the Traceless Sword is lost, the inheritance of the Shangqing Palace will be broken! ”

[Note] Actually, there is a room in the five buckets of rice in the road, but I can't write it.