At twilight, Xu Buling returned to Xujia Village in an ox cart.

There is a cloth pocket on his back, which contains jewelry, clothes, rice wine, etc., daily household items, purchased from the market.

Taught Qingxu the art of looking at the face with one hand, looking at the disease and finding the disease, not counting the Tao but very practical, lest this country road harm mortals with runes.

On the bank of the Xiangshui River, the naughty children in the village are playing by the river, it is cold in the late autumn, but they are not afraid of the cold water of the river, and several boys swim in it.

The half-grown girl was wearing a cloth skirt and blushing, reprimanding her disobedient brother by the river, and other girls squatting in front of her and laughing.

Xu Buling glanced at it, they were all children from Xujia Village, and a few of them were distant relatives, looking at their faces, there were two or three who had spiritual roots to practice.

Xu Buling jumped down from the ox cart, took out the hairpin from the cloth pocket, and handed it to the older girl:

"Xiaoyun, I remember that you wanted Aunt Li'er's hairpin, and I bought one for you today. ”

Xu Xiaoyun is fourteen years old, she is the daughter of Xu Lao's family, she is very tall, her face is red at this time, and she looks at the brand-new hairpin suspiciously, and....

Twelve-year-old boy.

Xujiacun is also an outstanding person, and the good-looking men and women are well-known, and Xu Buling is naturally not bad.

The fourteen-year-old girl, who is already old enough to marry, saw the hairpin that she had been talking about for a long time, her face turned even redder, and she asked cautiously: "Xu Buling, you... What do you want to do?"

Xu Buling pondered for a while, and knew that this little baby wanted to be crooked, so he raised his hand and rubbed it on the top of her head:

"Xiaoyun, you are still young, you shouldn't be exposed to red dust and mundane things too early..."

"Xu Buling... You're not going to like me, are you? I'm your cousin, and I'm going to... I'm going to break my dad's leg..."

Xu Xiaoyun looked at her cousin who stood on tiptoe and touched her, wanting to hide but reluctant to let the hairpin go, so she lowered her head slightly and asked him to touch it more easily: "Just let you touch it, you... Don't mess around, there's a lot of people here..."

"Uh... Hehehe..."

Xu Buling's face was red, but it was not good to talk to a group of children, so he married some small objects from his pocket, gave them to a group of half-grown naughty boys, and turned to leave.

Walk slowly along the road, about half a cup of tea, and return to the small courtyard in the village.

His mother, Chen, was sitting under the eaves to collect the soles of her shoes, and when she saw him come back, she smiled and asked, "No, have you had enough fun?" Why are you still carrying things, given by the second uncle?"

Xu Buling put down his pockets, sat under the eaves and watched his mother take the soles of his shoes, and thought for a while: "Mother, today in the county seat, I met an old Taoist priest, and the Taoism is profound. I want to go to the city to be a Taoist priest, and these things were given by the old Taoist priest. ”

Chen bit off the silk thread with his teeth, looked at some objects in the cloth pocket, and was quite surprised: "The old man is swaggering and deceiving everywhere, but this time he is generous..... But my family can't be an old liar, Ming'er's mother discussed with your father, let you go to the county town to study in a private school, and then you can be admitted to the show in the future. As for being a Taoist, if you want to learn, follow Qingxu for a few days. ”

Xu Buling nodded. If you want to find out the foundation of the Xue family, you have to stay in Luli County for a period of time, and there is not much difference between going to a private school or being a Taoist priest.

A few days later, Xu Buling put on a small bookcase made of bamboo, and went to the county seat to go to a private school under the envious eyes of children of the same age.

It is more than ten miles away from the county seat, and Father Xu wanted to pick him up and go back and forth, but Xu Buling refused on the grounds that he was already twelve years old and knew the road.

Every morning, I went to Lukasa County alone, and I could only return on the branches of the moon.

Practicing a hard kung fu is a dripping water through stones, and sword immortals are all sharpened by a sword.

On the way to the private school, Xu Buling pinned a branch to his waist, and walked to the city step by step with ten steps of sword skills to kill immortals.

After counting, it was exactly 12,000 steps outside the county seat, and he could only take three steps out of ten steps, and one round trip was 8,000 times. The three-layer physique of condensation qi is not out of the sword and only practiced, but it is also easy to use.

He didn't care about the eyes of outsiders, but the villagers and farmers on the road were a little dazed. Every day, you can see a twelve-year-old boy with a small bamboo box on his back, holding a branch and chopping it all the way, and he is still running fast, and it is gone in the blink of an eye.

Every day, after the old master of the private school finishes work, Xu Buling will go to the Xue Mansion and the vicinity of Cuifeng Mountain to observe and investigate.

Plan before you act.

How long it is to practice, even if it is just in case, as long as it is possible, it will inevitably happen.

Xu Buling went around and around, and there were no longer a few losses he had suffered, so he was extremely cautious and would never act rashly without 100% certainty.

The environment around Cuifeng Mountain, how many people there are, and even what they buy on weekdays are all recorded one by one, and the real situation of the Xue family can be deduced from these clues.

Every evening when I go back to the village, I occasionally bring firewood, rice, oil, salt and other items to reduce the burden on my parents.

As for the few children of the same generation in Xujia Village who can practice, Xu Buling is also secretly observing the mind.

Cultivating a mind is more important than understanding, and it is not uncommon to teach an unfilial descendant to lead to the extinction of the family.

Xu Buling is not a master of the Tao can not observe the number of people's lives, can only slowly observe on the side, as long as the heart 'does not fight, do not envy and do not resent', basically can not go the crooked road, but this kind of heart is not easy to come by, can get one of them, for it to lead the way is also possible, future achievements have to depend on themselves.

In this way, step by step, time came to the end of the year in the blink of an eye.

In three months, he walked nearly 700,000 times in ten steps, and did not produce a sword.

The realm unconsciously broke into four, and entered the middle stage of condensation.

The fourth layer of condensation, Xu Buling has worked hard all his life, and he has almost failed to reach it.

Now it is easy to come, but there is no ecstasy when the condensation cyclone is gone, only the wind and clouds that go with the flow are left.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the people of the Xue family would hold a family banquet in the Zhuangzi of Cuifeng Mountain.

Xu Buling inquired for a long time, and knew that the opportunity had come, so he left Xujia Village three days ahead of schedule on the grounds of going out with Qingxu Lao Dao.

Dig out a long sword at the waterfall of Queming Mountain, wrap it in a strip of cloth and carry it on his back, and go to Cuifeng Mountain alone.

Cuifeng Mountain is on the west side outside Luli County, Xu Buling has been seriously exploring for three months, and has searched the surroundings of Cuifeng Mountain almost inch by inch to ensure that there are no hidden mechanism formations.

The twelve-year-old's physique is very useful, and no one cares about a peasant boy wandering around.

The entire Cuifeng Mountain, including the fields at the foot of the mountain, is the property of the Xue family, and the head of the family is named Xue Huairen, who is the mid-stage condensation monk he met in front of the Xue Mansion.

The magistrate of Luli County is Xue Huairen's younger brother, Xue Taigong is over 100 years old, has not appeared for many years, and it is rumored that outsiders have passed away.

However, Xu Buling observed the surrounding spiritual qi and deduced that there was still a monk with advanced cultivation hidden on the mountain, and it was thought to be that Xue Taigong.

Judging from the observation of these three months, the Xue family has a total of four monks, two in the early stage, one in the middle stage, and one in the late stage.

As for whether the massacre in Xujia Village four years later was committed by the Xue family, I haven't seen any clues, and I have to ask to find out....