Chapter 33: Xuancheng
For three consecutive days, Liu Tong got up early in the morning and took Long Duan'er to tour the mountains and rivers, and after returning in the evening, he talked about poetry with Xuanqing. The days passed quickly, and Liu Tong didn't see Sun Quan these days, but he also fell clean. Liu Tong saw that Taiqing's view of the treasure was solemn, and it was not easy to move around at will, and Lushan was almost having fun, so he resigned to Xuanqing early in the morning of the fourth day and went down to Kuanglu Mountain.
After Liu Tong went down the mountain, he inquired and learned that Sun Ce's troops were in the area of Moling and Dantu, that is, the area of Nanjing and Zhenjiang in later generations. At this time, Sun Ce had basically unified Jiangdong and was preparing to attack Yuan Shu with ambition, and then attack Luoyang to welcome Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to become a hegemon. Liu Tong then went to Moling and Dantu.
However, he said that after Mingkong accepted the apprentices, he did not personally teach the red carp martial arts, and went to the deep valley of the five old peaks in the southeast of Kuanglu all day long, and returned in the evening. The red carp is diligent and polite, and in addition to serving Mingkong every day, he also takes good care of Mingyin, Mingzhen and other uncles. Deeply loved by the elderly.
Mingyin Zhangjiao saw that Mingkong was conscious but went out every day after accepting apprentices, and had no time to teach red carp, so he instructed Xuancheng to teach red carp martial arts, Xuancheng was the first person in martial arts among the descendants of Taiqing Sect, proficient in the internal skills of the sect and the weapon three-pointed knife.
Xuancheng taught the red carp internal skills every day, and for more than two months, the red carp was faced with learning the use of weapons. Xuancheng is tall, more than one meter and eight, weighs more than 200 catties, a hundred-pound iron three-pointed knife is flexible and light in his hands, dancing to open the stone and break the wood, Xuancheng practiced, handed the three-pointed knife to the red carp, the red carp took it, suddenly sank in his hand, his body immediately staggered, and quickly let go of the three-pointed knife, let it fall to the ground.
Xuan Cheng has always been serious and not good at words, and he smiled when he saw this.
Red Carp blushed, "Senior brother, you are necrotic." Xuan Cheng picked up the three-pointed knife of iron, took out a three-pointed knife with a wooden handle from the weapon rack and handed it to the red carp, and the red carp practiced according to the gourd painting. Xuancheng's three-pointed knife method is extremely strong, and the red carp has never been able to do it, and after many days, the progress has been slow.
After Mingkong accepted the apprentices, Mingyin Zhenren was very pleased, first, Mingkong had made great contributions to Taiqing, and the red carp was its first apprentice; Second, because of the care of the red carp, Mingkong was conscious after accepting the apprentices, and the red carp was also deeply loved by all teachers.
There are nine brothers in the Ming Yin Division, and six are still alive. Mingyin Lao Qi, now in charge, Ming Zhen Lao Jiu, withdrawn personality, proficient in alchemy and medicine, soaked in the Dan room all day long, red carp three meals a day to send him food, chatting with him, Ming Zhen Lao Huai was relieved, after a long time, the feelings were deep, Ming Zhen saw that the red carp practiced a little later, unlike other disciples who began to practice when they were young, knowing that their internal strength progress was difficult and slow, so they used spiritual objects to make pills and let them take it, in order to enhance their internal strength.
Seeing that Mingkong went out every day, the red carp was not familiar with the environment because he had not been in Taiqing for a long time, and he did not dare to ask. After a long time, after slowly becoming familiar with everything in Taiqing, I felt at home and dared to move around.
In the early hours of the morning, the red carp practiced the three-pointed knife behind the mountain, and was never able to complete the nine consecutive stabs that Xuan Cheng asked her to practice, and the nine consecutive stabs required three stabs in the upper, middle and lower three ways, which was the more domineering road in the offensive moves, requiring fast and swift, the red carp could barely stab out three knives in a row, not fast at all, discouraged for a while, he put down the three-pointed knife, came to the edge of the cliff, only to see the huge red sun in the east slowly rising, in the mist, faint red Kuanglu halfway up the mountain, beautiful.
Under the sunrise, ten thousand red lights sprinkled all over the valley, the valley woods are like wearing colorful clothes, there is no wind in the early morning, the woods are quiet, the birds seem to be unable to disturb this tranquility, there are a few big birds soaring in the forest, it seems to be bathing in this red light, enjoying this freshness. Looking at this beautiful scenery, the red carp can't help but open their arms and breathe deeply into this refreshing everything.
Suddenly, a flock of small birds broke the silence in the valley, and the red carp looked out and saw Mingkong alone from a distance, heading east from a sheep's intestine path in the valley. The red carp was curious about what the master was doing every day at the five old peaks in the southeast, so he went down the stone cliff and chased after him quickly.
Mingkong seemed to be walking in the mountains, unhurried, and the red carp did not dare to get too close, so they followed all the way far away. After more than half an hour, came to a deep valley, the red carp did not pay attention to the environment all the way because of the fear of losing Mingkong, after arriving at the valley, carefully looked, found that this is a hidden place that is rarely visited, the trees in the valley are tall, the bushes are thick, some boulders lie down irregularly, Mingkong tiptoes, walks slowly along the side of the boulder to the depths of the valley, the movement is gentle, and he is afraid of disturbing something.
The red carp followed Naruku all the way to the depths of the valley and walked slowly, Naruku stopped after a few steps to listen to something, listened for a while and then slowly walked inside. Seeing that the deep valley was getting narrower and narrower, the red carp suddenly stopped, squatted behind a boulder, looked inside from the edge of the boulder, and stretched out his right hand to wave behind him.
The red carp knew that Mingkong was calling himself over, and thought to himself that the master had already known that he was coming. He tiptoed over and leaned over to lie on Mingkong's back, and was about to call Master, but Mingkong turned around, covered the mouth of the red carp with the palm of his left hand, and shook his head.
The red carp hurriedly silenced and looked at Mingkong strangely, who pointed ahead and continued to shake his head. The red carp didn't know why, but still nodded, and after Mingkong withdrew his hand, the red carp covered his mouth with his hand. Mingkong smiled, waved his hand, and continued to walk forward.
The two came to the edge of the deep valley, Mingkong pointed to an open place in the mountain, the red carp saw an open place is particularly conspicuous, the mountain peak is steep, the hillside is densely wooded, only this open place, not a single inch of grass grows, there is a stone cave, a huge stone below the opening of the stone cave, the entrance of the cave is surrounded by stone walls, and there are no vines, it is very rare.
"Carp, this guy sleeps in the forest at night, only comes to this cave during the day, there must be a god in the cave, and he has been looking for it for many years."
Mingkong was like a proud child, and said softly, "This little guy is very weird, in the civil engineering, teleportation, for the teacher to catch it dozens of times in vain, the strange thing is that there is no civil engineering in the cave, but it goes to the cave every day regardless of the danger, for the teacher to be puzzled, recently finally figured out, there must be a god in the cave!" You'll be stuck in the hole, so be sure to hold on to it. ”
The red carp saw that Mingkong said solemnly, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to nod.
Mingkong took the red carp and continued to walk forward for a while, and came to the bottom of the stone cave, Mingkong suddenly stopped and hugged the red carp, ran a few steps in stride, and jumped into the air, the red carp felt weightless, as if in the clouds, the red carp quickly closed his eyes, and instantly the red carp felt that he had landed, so he opened his eyes and saw that he was already standing on a stone platform, facing a hole.
"Carp, guard the entrance of the cave, don't let it escape!" As he spoke, he rushed into the cave quickly. The red carp hurriedly stepped forward and stood at the entrance of the cave with open hands.
The red carp saw Mingkong rushing in, only to see that this cave is not deep, the entrance of the cave is two meters square, the hole is two zhang deep, the width is less than two zhang, the sun just shines in, and the cave is bright. When the red carp saw Mingkong entering the hole, he didn't dare to look carefully, so he stared at the entrance of the cave.
Just when Mingkong entered the cave, the red carp saw that the entrance of the cave was along the left stone wall, slowly walked out of a small object, trembling, the red carp looked carefully, and found that it was a green and white thing in the shape of a carriage and horse, it slowly walked out along the cave wall, like a plant, but also like a pulp, the red carp didn't have time to think, lay down, and held it down with both hands.
"Master, I caught it!" The red carp felt that the things in their hands did not feel meaty, but like the feel of vegetables and fruits, and they clung to it tightly, not daring to move, so they crawled on the ground and did not move.
After Naruku entered the cave, he was looking everywhere, and he was wondering, the hole was not big, why didn't he see it. Listening to the call of the red carp, I realized that this thing had found that someone was coming, and it had already hidden behind the stone wall at the entrance of the cave, and as soon as he entered the cave, he slipped out.
Mingkong laughed, came to the entrance of the cave, and helped the red carp up. The thing in the shape of a chariot and horse, listening to Mingkong's laughter, trembled even more in fright, and after a few struggles, it stopped moving.
"The little thing is not small, so this is out of breath?" Mingkong stretched out his hand to take this thing, opened his palm, and looked carefully, the red carp saw that this thing had no feet and no eyes, and thought, how can it walk, how can it see people? "Master, what is this?"
Mingkong was very proud, and said: "This is Che Mazhi, it is a divine object formed thousands of years ago!" When he was young, he got lost and came to this valley, and occasionally found this thing, and often came to look for it in the following decades. I have encountered it many times, but I can't catch it, as long as there is soil, where there are trees, grass and shrubs, it moves as fast as lightning, and later found that it encounters a stone, it moves slowly, it turns out that it can't move quickly in the stone, hahaha! ”
"Master, what kind of fetish is it?" Red Carp asked. "It's amazing!" Mingkong looked at Che Mazhi proudly and said.