The old man's hand rested on the hilt of his sword, and his eyes were full of scrutiny.

"Are you a Hu man?"

The old man's voice became a little cold, as if as long as Li Qing's answer did not satisfy him, the old man would immediately take action against Li Qing.

Li Qing hurriedly waved his hand and said: "How can I be a Hu person, Mr. misunderstood, what I mean by China...... Zhongshan, yes, I am from Zhongshan. ”

The old man's hand holding the sword stopped, and he muttered, "Zhongshan countrymen? That Zhongshan Kingdom that was destroyed by the Zhao State? I didn't think you were a remnant of that country. ”

Zhongshan Kingdom, the founder of Zhongshan Wugong, is a country founded by Bai Di, named Zhongshan Country because of the mountains in the city. The land is embedded between Yan and Zhao. After three stages of development, Rongdi, Xianyu and Zhongshan, he had been at war with the Jin State and other Central Plains countries for a long time, and later died at the hands of the Zhao State.

Zhongshan is not a Central Plains country, although it also promotes the Central Plains culture, but has always been regarded as a barbarian country by the Central Plains countries, which is similar to the Chu State, although the Chu State became one of the overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period because of the defeat of the Jin State, but because the culture is very different from the Central Plains countries, so in the eyes of the Central Plains countries, the Chu people are also some barbarians.

Perhaps because of the fact that he was also despised by the Central Plains countries, after learning that Li Qing was from Zhongshan, the old man's hostility disappeared.

The old man looked at his sword and said: "Chu died in Qin, the old man is incompetent, he can only live in seclusion here, live in the world, but he is old, and he can't bear to be buried in the loess of what he has learned all his life, when I first saw you, you were past the best age to practice martial arts, so I had no intention of teaching the arts, and I could only teach you indiscriminately by the little mengzi, but then I saw that you practiced hard and had great perseverance, so I moved my heart to love talent, so I pointed at you a few times." ”

Speaking of this, the old man stopped and glanced at Li Qing intentionally or unintentionally.

Li Qing's heart was pounding, and looking at the old man, Li Qing's face showed excitement.

"Plop"

Li Qing immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in a row, and called Master.

The old man showed a look of satisfaction on his face, got up and helped Li Qing up, looking at Li Qing with a handsome face, the old man nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Okay, I didn't expect that I, Zhu Ying, would be able to accept another apprentice in my later years." ”

Zhu Ying, this is the first time that the old man has said his name, and now Li Qing doesn't know what the word Zhu Ying means, let alone what kind of glory this seemingly ordinary name once had.

Zhu Ying, a native of Chu and a disciple of a doctor, once moved Chu Yue with his medical skills, and was invited into the mansion by Chunshenjun Huang Xie and was invited as a guest.

In addition to Zhu Ying's medical skills, one-handed swordsmanship is even more unpredictable, Huang Xie's mansion three thousand guests, none of them can confront Zhu Ying's sword head-on, Zhu Ying's swordsmanship is strong, attracting many children of Chu nobles to go to apprentice, therefore, Zhu Ying has the title of Chu swordsman.

Zhu Ying is not only good at martial arts and medical skills, but also proficient in Tao strategy, which can be described as a genius in the world, Huang Xie also attaches great importance to Zhu Ying, it can be said that Huang Xie can have a great reputation, and Zhu Ying's assistance is inseparable.

In his later years, Huang Xie gradually became a little arrogant, and he no longer obeyed Zhu Ying, Zhu Ying saw that Li Yuan was too ambitious, and advised Huang Xie to be careful about the embankment, but Huang Xie was confused by Li Yuan's superficial humility, and did not believe that Li Yuan dared to harm himself, Zhu Ying had no choice but to leave Huang Xie's mansion.

Sure enough, not long after Zhu Ying left, Li Yuan secretly trained assassins to assassinate Huang Xie and destroyed Huang Xie's full door, leaving only Huang Meng alone.

Huang Meng, who escaped, was chased and killed by the assassins sent by Li Yuan, and happened to be bumped into by Zhu Ying, so Zhu Ying rescued Huang Meng.

Zhu Ying and Huang Meng's father had a lot of friendship, Huang Meng often asked Zhu Ying for martial arts when he was a child, after saving Huang Meng, Zhu Ying carefully taught Huang Meng martial arts, Huang Meng was able to assassinate Li Yuan several times and retreated, which was inseparable from Zhu Ying's teaching and the help of Zhu Ying's disciples.

After the Qin army destroyed Chu, most of Zhu Ying's disciples were unwilling to surrender to Qin because they were all born in the Chu nobles, and almost all of them were martyred in the end, including Zhu Ying's favorite disciple, Xiong Xu, a son of the Chu royal family.

Zhu Ying lost all his disciples in his later years, and went to Mangdang Mountain in frustration, and since then the green mountains and green waters have been his companion, and the only contact with the outside world is Huang Meng.

After seeing Huang Meng's broken arm, although Zhu Ying didn't show too much concern on the surface, he was actually extremely desperate in his heart, because it meant that Zhu Ying's last inheritance was also broken.

When he saw Huang Meng teaching Li Qing swordsmanship, Zhu Ying was very disappointed with Li Qing's performance, firstly, Li Qing's age had passed the opportunity to be created, and secondly, although Li Qing's kendo talent was not bad, it was still far from the genius of the former Chu State, and Zhu Ying, who had trained too many geniuses, was really difficult to be interested in Li Qing.

But Li Qing's persistence moved Zhu Ying, diligence can make up for clumsiness, a person's talent may be difficult to change, but a person's achievements do not only depend on talent, sometimes acquired efforts are more important.

But Li Qing didn't take the initiative to apprentice, and with Zhu Wu's arrogant personality, he naturally didn't take the initiative to ask for apprentices, but seeing that Li Qing was practicing more and more under Huang Meng's teaching, Zhu Ying, who couldn't bear it, had to pretend to be a mysterious person and secretly guide Li Qing.

Although Zhu Ying didn't say it explicitly, Li Qing couldn't see Zhu Ying's hard work, so Li Qing, who saw through Zhu Ying's identity, immediately made a decision and decisively apprenticed.

With the status of master and apprentice, Zhu Ying is naturally much more convenient to guide.

Zhu Ying looked at Li Qing and said, "Xiao Mengzi's swordsmanship, although it is also considered superior, it belongs to him and may not be suitable for you." ”

When Li Qing heard this, he said suspiciously: "Master, then what swordsmanship should I practice?" ”

Zhu Wu laughed and said, "What is the swordsmanship? It's just the skill of using the sword, the sword move is dead, the person is alive, you haven't even practiced the most basic sword moves, but you are bent on pursuing superior swordsmanship, isn't it putting the cart before the horse? ”

When Li Qing heard this, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, that's right, Huang Meng regarded Li Qing as his own brother, so he taught Li Qing his best swordsmanship without reservation, but Huang Meng forgot that Li Qing was just a newcomer to the way of the sword who didn't know anything about swords.

The superior swordsmanship is good, but for Li Qing, it is not suitable, the superior swordsmanship in Li Qing's hands will inevitably reveal a lot of flaws, and these flaws, for people like Huang Meng who have practiced martial arts for many years, can naturally be easily covered up, but Li Qing, he doesn't even know where his flaws are.

The next day, Huang Meng got up and found Li Qing standing with a sword in his hand, and a stone was still hanging from the tip of the sword.

Li Qing's face was covered in cold sweat, obviously, he had been maintaining this action for a long time.

"Brother, what are you doing here?"

Huang Meng frowned and looked at Li Qing with a puzzled expression.

"Don't bother him."

Zhu Ying's voice sounded not far away, and at this time, Zhu Ying was refining herbs, and a strong smell of medicine made Huang Meng can't help coughing.