Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the first month of the fourth year of orthodoxy.

The sky was dark, Zhu Qiming came to the martial arts field early, looking for Jiang Yi to practice swords, and after ten moves, he ushered in a critical moment.

Zhu Qiming's expression did not show half of the childishness. His face was cold, his eyes were like electricity, a wooden sword stabbed towards Jiang Yi's waist and abdomen, Jiang Yi sideways to avoid the blade of the sword, but the wooden sword seemed to have spirituality, and it was tilted towards his waist, the distance was only two inches, Jiang Yi suddenly became confused, fell to the ground and rolled in a hurry, picked up a wooden stick, set aside the wooden sword that followed him like a shadow, and resolved Zhu Qiming's offensive with great difficulty, and then got up in embarrassment, brushing away a few rotten leaves on his face.

It's another donkey rolling, it's guy again, it's an obvious violation, you pig's head! Niu San, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, almost scolded.

Over there, Xu Gong nodded frequently, and Liang Gang showed a somewhat smug look.

Zhu Qiming stared at the sidelines, moved his sword and pointed at Niu San, "You go." ”

Jiang Yi exited in embarrassment, and Niu San entered the arena and stood far away from Zhu Qimingzhang, with his arms around his chest, his chin slightly upturned, and put on a posture of what you can do.

Zhu Qiming condensed slightly, flashed his sword and pointed at him, looked at Niu San for a moment, and suddenly retracted his steps and rotated sideways, his body was like mercury pouring to the ground, and he floated to Niu San's side very smoothly, and after only a blink of an eye, the distance between the two was shortened by sixty percent. Niu San's heart froze, and he hurriedly retreated.

Zhu Qiming jumped up, and the blade of the sword pointed directly at Niu San's chin with a fierce gaze. Niu San repeated his old trick, first drifted to the side of the tree, and then his body suddenly slammed and slid a few feet to the right. This time, Zhu Qiming's moves did not make him old, and after his feet landed, he swayed, and then demonstrated the magical body technique of Jiuhua Three Illusions to the point of dazzling. The distance between the two was narrowed again, and in an instant, the blade of the sword had reached Niu San's chin, less than three inches away.

Niu San's heart was shocked, and he made a move of the iron plate bridge to avoid the wooden sword, and the sword blade lifted a strand of whiskers and covered Niu San's nose.

Zhu Qiming made his light body and elegant sword style quite skillful, and the integration of his body and sword style also reached a good realm, which made Niu San overwhelmed, and in the game of avoiding swords with his bare hands, Niu San's thick body became his shortcoming.

Niu San was already in a hurry, seeing that it was only a matter of time before his jaw was injured, and the unarmed sword was both illegal and too risky, in desperation, he had to retreat to the tree to dodge around the tree, hoping to use the obstacle to slow down Zhu Qiming's attack. However, the wooden sword was too dexterous! No, it's Zhu Qiming's style that is too weird! Niu San's jaw couldn't avoid the threat of the sword blade, and every time the other party took out the sword, the distance between the sword blade and the chin would be shortened by a few points, and it was so short that it was terrifying at the moment.

I can't play anymore! Niu San didn't have time to think about it, he shook to the side of the tree, hugged the trunk and climbed for a while, and after a while, his thick body hung on the waist of the tree, which was more than a foot high.

Liang Gang let out a shrill laugh.

Niu Sanwu on the tree was unconvinced, "I can clearly grasp the wooden sword with my bare hands!" ”

Liang Gang pouted and said, "The reason why I use a wooden sword is because I am afraid of hurting people." It's a wooden sword, but you have to think of it as a real sword. If it's a real sword, do you dare to catch it? Even if it's a wooden sword, if you grab the blade, you can definitely guarantee that the tip of the sword won't hurt your chin? ”

Niu San glared at Liang Gang fiercely, "This doesn't count, His Highness's swordsmanship has no tricks, it is different from your swordsmanship, and it can't be regarded as a master inherited from you!" ”

Hey, this is obviously a swordsmanship taught by this martial artist, how can you open your eyes and talk nonsense! Liang Gang was about to open his mouth to argue, but he heard Xu Gong open his mouth.

"His Royal Highness's swordsmanship is concise and practical, it seems that His Highness has carefully pondered it, simplified the original sword style, and improved it, which can also be called a new set of swordsmanship."

Jiang Yi was happy again, "Hey, hey, Your Highness is smart." ”

Xu Gong spoke, and Liang Gang couldn't tell anything anymore, so he had to turn his head and feel depressed secretly. After teaching the apprentice, the identity of the master was immediately denied, where to reason!

Niu San's face widened, jumped down the tree, and after landing on the ground, he pouted at Liang Gang, and then laughed, "Niu San admits defeat." Your Highness, if you continue like this, you will die! No, I'll have to use a wooden knife next time I practice! ”

"Yes, with a wooden knife, just defend and not attack." Jiang Yi echoed.

Xu Gong said with a smile: "Your Highness's swordsmanship has made rapid progress, congratulations!" If you continue like this, in less than half a year, you will be able to fight against people with real swords and real swords. ”

Zhu Qiming didn't show half a bit of smugness when he heard this, and immediately bowed his hand to Niu and Jiang: "Accept it." Then he turned to Liang Gang and Xu Gong and said, "Thank you." ”

At this time, the sound of Ni Niang's meal came over at the right time, and everyone dispersed.

Zhu Qiming was sweating all over, so he went back to the inner room to wash up first, and then went to the dining room to eat. When I entered the dining room, I took a glance and saw that the meal was already on the table, and the pattern was different from yesterday.

A cup of milk was fermented, which was quite a luxury food at the time, and even for concubines in the Forbidden City, women below the concubine rank were not blessed to enjoy it. A bowl of egg custard, a bowl of white rice porridge, a plate of green onion rolls, plus several dishes with meat and vegetables such as roasted mutton and grilled quail, it looks quite hearty.

After Zhu Qiming took his seat, Ni Niang sent the tea cup to Zhu Qiming, and then sat down on the low stool opposite him. "Use dzi tea first."

Zhu Qiming raised his cup and drank half of it, raised his head and said, "Just hire a cook, so that you don't have to work hard every day." ”

Ni Niang smiled, "That's not good." It's okay to do it, anyway, Ni Niang herself has to fill her stomach, and by the way, it doesn't take care of His Royal Highness's diet. Those four people, there is all the food in the storage room, let them do it themselves, and they can't starve them. ”

Zhu Qiming thought a little when he heard this, thinking that the four big men could make any delicious food, so he decided to leave the roasted mutton and roasted quail for them, and went to see how their cooking skills were.

He drank all the dzi tea, and smiled at Ni Niang: "You go to dinner, I'll come by myself." ”

Ni Niang shook her head, "There's no hurry." His Royal Highness only needs to eat, Ni Niang said that you can just listen. Ni Niang found the three scriptures of "Heart Sutra", "King Kong" and "Ranga", His Royal Highness took the time to take a look, but there is no need to worry, take your time. ”

Do you really want to read Buddhist scriptures? Zhu Qiming had already been mentally prepared, and he didn't make a mistake, so he nodded without thinking.

"Lamaism in the Yuan Dynasty was very popular, and after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Hongwu wanted to restore Chinese orthodoxy and instead supported various Buddhist sects with Han traditions, such as Chan, Jing, Tiantai, Xianshou, etc." Ni Niang paused and said in a low voice: "What is worshiped in the Forbidden City should be Zen Buddhism. ”

"Zen?" Zhu Qiming's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered the Queen Mother again.

"Yes, Zen. His Highness may have read Taoist books, which is of great help in understanding the interests of Zen Buddhism. After speaking, Ni Niang resigned, and recited on the way: "That is, the heart is a Buddha." ”

That is, the mind is a Buddha? This phrase is quite mysterious and intriguing.

Ni Niang dropped a Zen sentence and disappeared, Zhu Qiming calmed down and focused on eating, anyway, Ni Niang said, there is no need to be in a hurry to read Buddhist scriptures, there will be time in the future, and now Xu Gong and how they are doing, this is the right thing to worry about, and we must go over as soon as possible to see what is going on.

With a strike, gargle, Zhu Qiming personally served mutton and quail, trotted all the way to the small dining room in the east courtyard, and saw Xu Gong and the other four people sitting in front of a big case, with a large basin on the table, the food in the basin was obviously a pot of stew, greasy, and black.

As soon as Niu San and Jiang Yi saw what Zhu Qiming was doing, their eyes immediately straightened, and they swallowed their saliva together.

Zhu Qiming put the two dishes on the table, and he smelled a strange smell emanating from the basin, and couldn't help frowning. "Just four quails, one for each person."

Niu San and Jiang Yi heard that there was one quail each, so they immediately left the quail, dragged the roasted mutton, and snatched it after a while. Niu San swallowed the food in his mouth in one bite, and said bitterly: "Your Highness is good, I want Ni Niang to cook a few more meals." Raising his hand to Liang Gang, "This person is extremely stupid, he can only make pig food, what kind of life are we living?" Just eat the vegetables and swallow the bran! "When he stopped, he took a quail by the way.

"No way!" Xu Gong said in a deep voice: "An unmarried woman cooks for four big men every day, what kind of system!" ”

Liang Gang looked at Niu San coldly, and muttered in a low voice: "If it weren't for the two of you encouraging His Highness to drink that day, Ni Niang wouldn't be angry and stop our food!" ”

Niu San raised his neck as if to argue, Xu felt that he was at a loss, and quickly devoted his mind to sweeping away the quails.

Zhu Qiming was a little unbearable, "The amount of food in this seat is gradually increasing, so I will ask her to make more in the future and leave a copy for you." ”

Niu San and Jiang Yi nodded vigorously, almost rolling down a few tears.

"In the past, it was just in the army, but now in this deep courtyard you have to be measured. Although she can be regarded as a woman in the rivers and lakes, there is a difference between men and women, so she must not ruin her reputation! If she doesn't show up, let's not hang out in front of her. ”

Now it was Liang Gang's turn to nod vigorously, "This is very true!" The same is true for her sister. ”