"Water Tune Song Tou • The Rivers and Mountains Are Beautiful": The rivers and mountains are majestic, the wind and dew and the cold. Sister Yue, borrow my jade to see this. The fish and dragons in the gully roar sadly, the reflected stars shake, and the sea air is long at night. The silver gate is surging, and it is in danger of the Purple Mountain. The table is independent, Feixia Pei, cut the cloud crown. Rinse the ice and snow, and look at the end of thousands of miles. Looking back at where the three mountains are, I heard that the immortals laughed at me and wanted me to return. Waving his hand from now on, the phoenix is even more proud. This is a poem written by Zhang Xiaoxiang in the Song Dynasty, describing the night view of Nanjing. Yan Qing arrived in Nanjing, it was already evening, go to the pawnshop owner, only tomorrow, take advantage of the night, take a walk, look at the night scene of Nanjing today, maybe the above lyrics are also Yan Qing's feelings here and now.

Early the next morning, Yan Qing came to the pawnshop owner's residence, which is far away from the downtown area of Nanjing, very quiet, the residence is a large manor, the manor door, a stone lion on one side, the black lacquer gate, there is a plaque above the door, there are three big characters "Dulong Fort", the words are vigorous and powerful, the outer wall of the manor is gray and white, it has been covered by the leaves of the plants that crawled out inside, those leaves that climbed out, green and fresh, look very comfortable, the tip of the leaf is facing down, paving the ground on the wall, so even, there is no overlap, and there is no gap left. A gust of wind blows, and the leaves on a wall ripple, setting off the gate of the manor, which is simple, generous, and vivid.

Yan Qing retracted his gaze, stepped forward and stepped on the steps of the manor, grabbed the copper knocker on the door, and gently buckled it twice, after a while, the door slowly opened, and there was a person dressed as a housekeeper, leaning out and asking: "Who are you looking for", "Looking for your owner, I am from Hangzhou, and I am a friend of Hongshan," Yan Qing's voice just fell, and another family came out of the door, opened the door completely, and glanced at Yan Qing, "Childe, you come with me," and then turned around, Yan Qing followed, thinking in his heart, Hangzhou pawnshop shopkeeper, It must have sent Hongshan to him, otherwise he wouldn't be so happy, so he let himself in.

In the manor, a low hedge separates the meadow from the garden. Deep in the meadows, there are rows of thorny bushes, strong and knotty, and beyond are hills. The style of the manor is mainly green. It seems to be very similar to the pastoral scenery, natural, fresh, simple, wild, all kinds of trees and shrubs, rich and green; lawn, green carpet picturesque; The pond is rippling with blue waves, and the soul of Huai, the pine wind, the bamboo stream, and even the hills are green, and what you can see is green. It seems that the owner of the manor has a soft spot for green.

Between the words, in front of the lobby door, there was a plaque above the lobby door, and the word "council hall" Yan Qing looked at the plaque, and everything she saw after entering the door always felt indecent.

The maid stepped forward and knocked on the door, the door opened, and a maid came out of it, with a green skirt, very attractive, "The person the master is waiting for has arrived," the housekeeper said, "Wait a minute, I'll go to report", the maid turned around and left after speaking, and then turned back after a while, "The lord is invited," the maid opened the door, and then turned around and walked forward.

Yan Qing followed the maid and walked into the lobby, the faint sandalwood fragrance diverged in the room, and the hollow carved windows shone into the speckled sunlight.

The walls of the whole room are hung with all kinds of weapons, and the room furnishings are very simple, in the middle of the lobby, there is a red sandalwood eight immortal table, and a red sandalwood Taishi chair on each side. Yan Qing saw that on the chair on the right, there was a person sitting in black brocade, flat and stable.

"I'm the housekeeper here, my name is Zhang Hai, my friend's surname?"

"My surname is Li, my name is Qing"

"You are a friend of Hongshan, come here to redeem people?"

"Yes"

"Do you know the conditions?"

"I don't know"

"Hong Shan, I injured the pawnshop guy, and now he is still lying on the bed, it is okay to redeem people, and I want a hundred taels of silver,"

"This is no problem, and the jade pendant must also be redeemed, because it is the thing entrusted by Hongshan" Yan Qing got straight to the point and went straight to the point.

"Ransom jade pendant? This needs to be discussed with the owner," Zhang Hai looked at Yan Qing in surprise,

"Okay, you go and discuss, I'll wait here," the housekeeper glanced at Yan Qing again, got up and walked towards the back hall.

The maid came over with a cup of tea, "Li Gongzi, drink some herbal tea", the maid said while handing the tea to Yan Qing, Yan Qing took the tea and took a big sip, "Thank you, little sister," said, put the teacup on the table, "No thanks," the maid, with a shy face, replied and left, and waited for a while, the housekeeper came out of the back hall and redid it on the Taishi's chair, "The owner said that if you want to redeem the jade pendant, you need a thousand taels", Yan Qing was stunned after hearing this, looked at the housekeeper and said: "At the time, there were only one hundred taels, how to redeem it into one thousand taels?" The housekeeper smiled and said: "It was a bet at the beginning, but now the charge period has passed, my friend wants a jade pendant, which belongs to buying, and I originally wanted not to sell it, but this jade pendant is related to the bet after all, so the owner is sold at a price of one thousand taels, Yan Qing has not seen the jade pendant, I don't know if the other party is slandering himself, or the jade pendant, it is really worth a thousand taels, Yan Qing paused for a while and said: "Can I see the jade pendant," "Yes" After the housekeeper answered, he ordered someone to take the jade pendant up, and after a while, a maid walked out with a delicate brocade box and walked to the table of the eight immortals, Handed over to the housekeeper, the housekeeper opened the brocade box and handed it to Yan Qing, Yan Qing took the brocade box and looked at it, and found that this jade pendant was a little familiar, so he hurriedly put the brocade box on the table, carefully, took out the jade pendant from the brocade box, and looked at it carefully a few times, while thinking, where have I seen this jade pendant? , suddenly remembered that many years ago, Yan Qing entered the scene of Song Huizong, Song Huizong sat on the soft couch, cranked a brocade fan, and a fan pendant was tied to the fan, which was a turquoise warm jade butterfly, Yan Qing also deliberately looked at it a few more times at that time, because of the place where the silk was tied, the green on the upper mouth was slightly heavy, and the green on the lower mouth was slightly lighter, so the memory was deeper, and after seeing the jade pendant, Yan Qing looked at the housekeeper and said with a smile, "Can a thousand taels be less" The housekeeper replied with a smile: "No", "You can call the shots," "Yes," Yan Qing looked at the housekeeper again, from the duffel bag, took out a brocade box, opened the brocade box, took out two silver tickets, one was two hundred taels, the other was one thousand taels, put them on the table, and said with a smile: "Then bring the people, I will also take the jade pendant away, this is a silver ticket of one thousand two hundred taels, there is no need to look for it, it can be regarded as making a friend in Nanjing," the housekeeper looked at Yan Qing's actions. was stunned, the housekeeper originally used a thousand taels to scare Yan Qing away, and the matter was over, but Yan Qing really took out the silver ticket, and the housekeeper looked at Yan Qing again, Yan Qing still looked at him with a smile, and the housekeeper stood up and said; "I want to talk to the owner," after speaking, he hurriedly walked towards the inner hall, a cup of tea, two people came out of it, one in front was the housekeeper, and one in the back, with a broad face and square cheeks, big eyes and ears, ugly appearance, wearing a brown shirt with a collar, wearing a scarf, and a pair of oiled boots under a white silk arm. "Duchen" Yan Qing secretly screamed, and the visitor shouted in surprise when he saw Yan Qing standing up; "Brother Xiao Yi," Yan Qing also exclaimed: "Brother Du Xing," the two walked forward at the same time, and then hugged each other, Du Xing, Yan Qing's eyes, tears fell at the same time, and finally Du Xing spoke: "Brother Xiao Yi, let's sit down and say," After speaking, the two sat down, the maid stepped back after serving tea, and Du Xing instructed the housekeeper to prepare wine and food.

Then asked Yan Qing: "Why did you get here," Yan Qing recounted the Hongshan incident, the ins and outs, Du Xing said with a smile after listening: "We are really a big flood to wash the Dragon King Temple," after speaking, he stood up, pulled Yan Qing and said: This matter is not a matter, let's go, let's go to the back, meet the eldest brother, Yan Qing asked in surprise: "Brother Li Ying is also there?" "Yes, it's not easy for our brothers to meet again, we must have a good drink today and not get drunk."

While speaking, he entered the back hall, and before he entered the room, Du Xing shouted: "Big brother, look who is coming," Du Xing's voice fell, and the purple curtain was raised, and a person walked out, with eagle eyes and eagle eyes, swallow jaw ape arms and wolf waist, and wearing a crimson robe. It's not who Li Ying is, Yan Qing took two steps closely, bowed his head and bowed, it was Li Ying who came, and hurriedly helped Yan Qing up and said, "Brother Xiaoyi, don't come unharmed," Yan Qing hugged Li Ying with tears in her eyes: Big brother, "You're okay", "Okay!" Good! Li Ying even said two good, there was also a layer of tears in his eyes, Li Ying turned around and asked Du Xing: "Have you prepared wine and dinner?" Du Xing wiped his tears and replied: "Ready, ready" The three of them helped each other and walked into the room.

Li Ying's room is very simple, the four corners of the room, there are white marble pillars, the walls around are all carved of white stone bricks, orchids carved from gold, bewitching bloom between the white stones, cyan gauze curtains, rippling with the wind, there is a sword hanging on the wall, the handle is inlaid with a dazzling gemstone, on the red sandalwood bed, there is a cyan silk tent, next to the silk tent, there is a carved coffee table, there are four red sandalwood hanging velvet stools next to the table, and three people sit. The three brothers met again, and they didn't know where to start, and in the end, Li Ying opened his mouth first.

"Let me first talk about the relationship with Duchenne, our two families are in-laws, this should start more than ten years ago."

Before Liangshan moved in, Li Ying was a businessman, one year, Li Ying went to Bianliang to do goods, purchased a large number of goods at a time, loaded a few carriages, Li Ying's friend, afraid of accidents on the road, but also sent someone to escort, the carriage and horses to the junction of Henan and Shandong, escort the leader said: "After crossing this river, the front is the Shandong boundary, in the Shandong boundary, we are not familiar with the underworld, we can only send it here," Li Ying hurriedly dismounted: Thank you, and then instructed the housekeeper, take out a few silver tickets, and hand them to the leader of the team, the leader resigned for a while, took the silver ticket, thanked Li Ying, and led people away.

The carriage and horse entered the boundary of Shandong, walked for a day, safe and sound, at ten o'clock in the evening, a group of carriages and horses, came to a boundary called Heifengling. The carriage stopped, and the housekeeper said: "Master, this Black Wind Ridge has never been very quiet, and there have been too many road robberies, so let's find an inn to live in first, and it's not too late to leave tomorrow morning," Li Ying looked up at the sky, it was hot, there was no trace of wind, and then looked ahead, and then walked a few steps, and entered the woods, and here is less than a day's journey from home, taking advantage of the night, the weather is cool, and he will arrive home tomorrow morning, after thinking about it, he said to the housekeeper: "Inform the front team, rest on the spot for a while, eat a little dry food, and then, take advantage of the cool night to hurry," The housekeeper saw that the old man was determined, so he didn't say anything.

The convoy stopped, just took out the dry food, and was about to eat, when he heard the first order of whistles, in the woods at dusk, it was particularly brittle, the whistle fell, and in the woods, ran out of a dozen horses of different colors, on the mounts, sat masked men, holding swords, immediately surrounded a line of carriages and horses in the middle. A masked man with a mace in his hand, shaking the reins and riding his horse, walked to the front of this group of people, perhaps, Li Ying rode a white horse, wearing a crimson coat, especially obvious, the person who came out of the column walked directly to Li Ying.

"Li Ying quickly left the vehicle and goods, you can spare you from dying, if you say no, today next year will be your sacrifice day!"

Li Ying heard the robber call out his name and felt very strange, "You know me?" Li Ying asked in surprise, the masked man holding the mace, laughed: "I've heard of it, but I'm not familiar with it," Li Ying hugged his fists and said, since we know that we are here, we have no grievances in the near future, and there is no enmity in the near future, why are friends robbing here? The masked man laughed again, "I have no grievances with you, but I said that there is a person, you should know, this person's name is Sun Xing, how is it, remember?" When Li Ying heard this name, his heart was shocked, and he suddenly remembered that five years ago, he was by the Qinhuai River, a jewelry shop, and he saw a jade pendant, and the store price was eighty taels of silver, and there was a man named Sun Xing, who seemed to take a female dependent, and also wanted this jade pendant, bidding one hundred taels, Li Ying was angry at the time, and directly bid two hundred taels, Sun Xing listened to Li Ying's offer, glanced at Li Ying angrily, pulled the female dependent, and threw his sleeves out of the jewelry Zhai. He wants your money, and he wants your life, we are collecting money to do things," Li Ying thought secretly, just a piece of jade pendant, worth it? But now, the deadly person is already in front of him, Li Ying said helplessly: "Friend, can you flash the road, let us go, how many silver taels do you want, just mention it," the masked man shook his head and said: "Li Ying, you accept your fate, today, not only your life, but also your goods, people and money are collected," Li Ying listened, knowing that today's pass, it is impossible to pass happily, and then look at the coachman's entourage, one by one, they have already been frightened and trembled, only a few family members, holding steel knives to protect the car.

In the face of more than a dozen robbers, if in normal times, Li Ying is not afraid, but now, with these many people, he is really uneasy in his heart, what should he do? Could it be that these truckloads of goods are cheaper for these robbers? Li Ying knows that the cost of these goods is most of his family business! And he also wanted to ask Sun Xing clearly, ask what he wanted his life, think about it, Li Ying had no choice but to let go, Li Ying stopped talking, rode his horse and raised his gun, and rushed towards the masked man, the masked man looked at it and shouted, "Let's go together,"

The masked man danced a pair of maces and took the lead in rushing towards Li Ying.

The masked man was very powerful, and he stubbornly entangled the gun in Li Ying's hand. It seems to know that Li Ying will make the flying knife, a pair of maces make the wind and rain impenetrable, do not let Li Ying free his hand, take the steel knife behind him, Li Ying peeked at his own people, has already been captured by other robbers, at this time, there are several robbers, has outflanked Li Ying, Li Ying is already the enemy. Although he is moving in a flash, no matter what, the robbers are pressing step by step, Li Ying's situation is very bad!

Li Ying knew that he could only fish and die today, and when the robbers were a little inattentive, he fought the masked man with a gun in one hand, and pulled out a flying knife with the other, "whoosh", threw two knives in a row, and knocked down two. At this time, the robbers were even more angry, and the remaining robbers gave up guarding Li Ying's entourage, shouted loudly, and surrounded Li Ying. Li Ying is in great danger!

Just when Li Ying was tired of parrying and was about to die at the hands of the robbers, there was a cloud of dust on the road, and a black fast horse came running. Immediately, a big man, holding an eyebrow stick, shouted: "Stop!" A few people fight one, what kind of heroes are they!"

When the masked man was excited, seeing that Li Ying was already powerless to parry, he did suddenly kill someone, the masked man glanced at the person, and there was a large red mark on his face, which was particularly scary, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

Li Ying, who was at a disadvantage, was overjoyed when he saw someone coming to help him, and hurriedly said: "Hero, come and save me!" Then while fighting to the people closer, the situation and threw two more knives, the robbers again stood down two people, the people also danced the eyebrow stick, swept towards the robbers, two more robbers fell, masked people, a look at the general trend has gone, a whistle, the remaining robbers, rushed away.

Li Ying watched the robbers go away, didn't chase after them, hurriedly dismounted, bent one leg, and knelt down to the person who saved him, "Strongman, dare to ask the honorable name?" If it weren't for the righteous rescue this time, my life would be suspended, please accept my Li Ying's worship!"

The person hurriedly helped Li Ying up and said: "Don't be like this, the road is uneven, it is the true character of a warrior," Li Ying listened to the words of the visitor, his eyes were a little moist, and he was grateful, Du Xing then replied: "My surname is Du, the list is a Xing, the person is ugly, there is a nickname "Grimace", this year is forty-two years old, the family lives in front of Dujiazhuang, there is a daughter at home, the wife died early due to illness, and the father and daughter depend on each other", between saying this, Li Ying's family has packed up the goods and horses, Li Ying ordered to set off, a line of cars and horses, Follow Duchen to Dujiazhuang.

Duchenne's home was very simple, with three broken grass houses and four walls. Because there is a daughter in the family, inside and outside the house, the cleaning is quite clean, Du Xing's daughter, named Meihua, was eighteen years old, born with clear eyebrows, slender and dignified, and Du Xingchang, there is a world of difference.

Seeing that her father had brought so many people, Meihua said hello and hurriedly went to boil water for the guests, Li Ying looked at Du Xing's home, had an idea, and then asked Du Xing: "Benefactor, I am 48 years old this year, and I intend to marry you as Jin Lan, do you agree, Du Xing admires Li Ying's martial arts, especially the amazing flying knife skills, so he answered happily; "The younger brother is a rough man, the eldest brother does not dislike it, of course I am willing," Li Ying heard that Du Xing agreed, very happy, the two poked the grass and bowed, after bowing, the two stood up, Li Ying said: "I am six years older than you, is your eldest brother, in the future I will be called a brother, I don't know what my brother is doing now," Du Xing replied: "Working as a part-time worker, I know some fists and feet, and sometimes I will escort the rich," Li Ying listened, and asked tentatively: Is the brother interested, go back to Lijiazhuang with the eldest brother, I am in business, often go out to purchase, and there is a lack of people at home to take care of, I see that my niece is also very diligent, when she arrives in Lijiazhuang, she is much more stable than your part-time job, besides, you offended the robbers today, and the robbers will definitely come to retaliate when they find your residence, and when they arrive in Lijiazhuang, you and my brothers still have a care,", Du Xing listened to Li Ying's analysis, felt that it was very reasonable, and also thought that his daughter was older, and she had suffered for many years, and she should have a good home, slowly raised her head, and looked at Meihua, Meihua saw her father looking at herself, knowing that she was asking for her own opinion, and she also felt sorry for her father, Every day for the father and daughter to make a living, very hard, said: "The daughter listens to her father, Du Xing saw that the daughter did not object, so he said to Li Ying: "Then listen to the eldest brother, go to Lijiazhuang with the eldest brother, and then pack the luggage, because there is nothing valuable, it will be over in a while, Li Ying called a small sedan chair for the plum blossoms, and went on the road."

Li Ying's family is also more clear, the husband and wife have a son and a daughter, there is an old mother, a family of five, the son is nineteen years old, in addition to learning martial arts from his father, since the age of sixteen, he has gone out with his father to practice, learn to do business, the little girl has reached the age of 14, studying in the school.

As soon as Li Ying entered Lijiazhuang, the family immediately greeted him, Li Ying's wife Ye came out to see, in a line of carriages and horses, there was a strange man, and a plainly dressed girl came down from the sedan chair, Ye looked at her husband with doubtful eyes, Li Ying saw his wife's eyes, smiled and pulled Du Xing over, pointed to Ye and said: "This is your sister-in-law," and then pointed to Du Xing and said: "This is a brother I met outside, called Du Xing", and then, pointed to the girl who had just gotten off the sedan chair and said: "This is Du Xing's daughter Meihua," After listening to Li Ying's introduction, Du Xing hurriedly stepped forward to beat: "Sister-in-law, the little brother will give you a greeting" Ye hurriedly returned the salute slightly, the plum blossom stepped forward to kneel, to Ye Shi, Ye quickly stopped, helped the plum blossom to see, secretly thought, this father and daughter looks, it is really a world of difference, one is like a fairy, the other is like a ghost, Li Ying said to his wife at this time: "Let's go to the village first, there are some things, I will go inside and talk about it later, after saying that, I told the housekeeper, arranged the carriage and horses, and led people into the lobby, the host and guest sat down respectively, Li Ying recounted the passage on the road, After listening to Li Ying's narration, Ye stood up from his sitting, told the maid to call the son and the princess, and then walked to Du Xing, Du Xing didn't know the reason, hurriedly stood up, looked at Ye, Ye said: "Engong, please sit, I have something to say", Du Xing sat down again, Ye suddenly knelt on his knees, Du Xing was startled, and he didn't dare to help, and hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing," "Brother, you sit down, I kneel, it is Xie Engong who saved my husband's life, and also for the old lady, thank you Engong for saving Li Ying's life," At this time, Li Ying's son and princess happened to push the door in, and when they saw their mother kneeling on the ground, the two shouted together: "Mother? Ye Shi saw his children come in, stood up, and said to his children: "This is your father's life-saving benefactor, you two knelt down and kowtowed to the benefactor, after the two heard this, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed three heads, and Du Xing hurriedly helped him up; "Sister-in-law, it's embarrassing for my brother," Li Ying stood up and laughed, "Don't thank you, from now on, we will be a family, as long as there is my Li Ying's, there will be brothers," After speaking, the father and daughter met the old lady, and the old lady was naturally very happy.

After Du Xing's father and daughter lived, Du Xing was busy, his daughter Meihua, ingenious, unique eyesight, and Li Ying's son often learned martial arts with Meihua, and his daughter often pestered this sister, which was deeply loved by the whole family. Li Ying and his wife discussed, to marry Du Xing as a family of children, as soon as this matter was said, Du Xing was very happy, knowing that Li Yingzhen did not regard himself as an outsider, he told his daughter about it, and the daughter also readily agreed, the son of the Li family and Mei Xiang married Qin Jin, and the two families became one family and became the sons and daughters, and Du Xing became the head of the Li family. Due to the war with the Jin State, the north has been unstable, so we moved to Nanjing, and the scale of the business is larger than before.

After Li Ying finished speaking, Yan Qing hurriedly stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Congratulations to the two elder brothers for marrying Qin Jin," Li Ying smiled and said, "Brother Xiaoyi, why are you so polite?" ，

Sit down and talk about yourself," Yan Qing sat down again and began to tell about her experience over the years.