Chapter 48: Zhongnan Mountain

Since then, Tang Liu has lived a stable life in Zhongnan Mountain, Wuji Ridge, Tongtianguan.

Taoist Tang Tianshi still ignores Tang Liu, who has a name, and Tang Liu is also very self-aware, haha, you are too lazy to take care of me, I am too lazy to pay attention to you, what should I do every day, collect firewood, carry water, cook, laundry, sweep the yard, dry the bedding, and take all the work into account, pick up and eat late when it is time to eat, and fall asleep on the bed when it is time to sleep.

When he was idle, he lay on the edge of the window and watched the Taoist Tang Tianshi alchemy and cure medicine, draw talismans and chant mantras, meditate and absorb qi, practice boxing and playing with knives, and after watching for three or five days, Tang Liu saw the doorway, and he found that he had to look at it himself, and Tang Tianshi's practice speed would slow down, and he was also practicing while muttering to himself muttering the mantra, Tang Liu suddenly realized that this was someone Tang Tianshi was teaching him skills.

So I dived in, redoubled my efforts to study seriously, and practiced hard day and night.

In fact, this move was deliberately done by Tang Tianshi,

The reason why Tang Tianshi was reluctant to accept Tang Liu as an apprentice directly was because he felt that although Tang Liu was young, after all, he was his savior, and he couldn't let his savior kneel in front of him and call him a master. That's why I came up with this one.

Tang Tianshi is indeed not an ordinary person of the general generation, he is not only a variety of spells of the channel, but also strong martial arts, the Taoist priests walking on the rivers and lakes generally use dust, swords as a talisman weapon, but the Tang Tianshi people take the Pu knife as a crutch as a weapon, a Pu knife to his hand, flying up and down, winding left and right, playing like splashing water, no real kung fu who dares to live here, here can be called Zhongnan Mountain Wuji Ridge Tongtianguan, Wuji and Tongtian, that ability can go to the sky.

Regarding Tang Tianshi's spells of calling the wind and rain, scattering beans into soldiers, catching monsters and catching monsters, and drawing the ground as a prison, Tang Liu thought that they were all evil and crooked, and he disdained to learn them, and he was unwilling to practice them. Dudu is deeply attached to the knife technique, studying diligently day and night, practicing hard in the morning and evening, and gaining the essence. Moreover, out of the curiosity of young people, he has a deep grasp of Tang Tianshi's tricks of pretending to be a god and a ghost, and he can also play three tricks and five styles according to the cat and the tiger.

There are no years in the mountains,

Several degrees of mountain flowers, several degrees of wind blowing leaves;

A few degrees of wild fruits are fragrant, and several degrees of snow are white;

In a flash, Tang Liu has been coming to Zhongnan Mountain Wuji Ridge Tongtianguan for eight years, and Xiao Shangzhi has become Tang Liu, and in eight years, a twelve-year-old boy has grown into a twenty-year-old youth.

In eight years, Tang Liu has grown up, and in eight years, Tang Tianshi has grown old.

Tang Liu has grown up, and Tang Tianshi is old

Tang Tianshi was old, and he was so old that he sat on a big stone on the top of Wujiling Mountain and died in the early morning of the morning sunrise, and according to Taoism, he was feathered.

Tang Liu had never seen any way of dying, but he saw that Tang Tianshi's originally tall body sitting on the boulder had shrunk to the general of a five- or six-year-old baby.

Tang Liu according to Tang Tiansheng's instructions, found a bluestone jar that Tang Tiansheng had personally chiseled before his death, hugged the baby-like Tang Tianshi into it, and then placed the stone jar in a cave, blocked the entrance of the cave with a big stone, and knelt there with a bang and snorted nine times in a row, although he and Tang Tianshi did not have the name of master and apprentice, but he could not forget the Taoist priest of Zhongnan Mountain who gave him a place for Tang Liu, although there was not much language communication between him and Tang Tian, but he could not forget this Wujiling Heavenly Master who taught him Tang Liu's skills.

Farewell, Heavenly Master, farewell to the Taoist priest of Zhongnan Mountain.

Tang Liu did everything he should have done well, took the Pu knife left by Tang Tianshi, went down to Wuji Ridge, walked along the mountain path, and walked out of Zhongnan Mountain.

One can call the world home,

But Tang Liu, who walked out of Zhongnan Mountain, no longer wants the four seas to be his home, and Tang Liu wants to return to his hometown.

A person can be at peace with what happens,

Tang Liu, who can come down from Wuji Ridge, is even more unwilling to be at peace with what happens, and Tang Liu wants to return to his hometown.

After trekking all the way through the mountains and rivers, Tang Liu returned to his original hometown in the hinterland of Shanxi Province from Zhongnan Mountain in Shaanxi Province, but when he found the once prominent Shang family compound with his memory, what was presented in front of him was a desolate, desolate broken wall, desolate weeds and miserable.

The scene of busy traffic in the past has long been gone.

The scene of the former crowd is gone.

Is this the home that once appeared in my Tang Liu's sleep!

Is this the homeland I once searched for in my mind?

Seeing all this, Tang Liu not only looked up to the sky and laughed, but the laughter was like a wolf's howl, which was terrifying.

In the midst of this creepy laughter, Tang Liu strode away with a feeling of loss.

gone, walked without worry,

Gone, aimlessly along the mountain road, dazed forward.

The front is east or west, I don't know, and I don't need to ask.

Whether it is north or south in front, I don't know, and there is no need to look for it.

Tang Liu kept walking forward,

From morning to evening,

I don't know hunger and thirst, I don't know tiredness,

Walk, walk, walk, keep moving forward,

The moon crept up to the top of the mountain, sprinkling a piece of light in the empty mountain field,

Tang Liu still didn't stop, he kept moving forward,

Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves on the silent mountain road, there were four horses under the moonlight, carrying four people, running head-on, running to Tang Liu's approach, the four people reined in the horses, looking Tang Liu up and down, one of the yellow-faced men said to the other three: "Brothers, I think the Pu knife in this kid's hand is good, and the burden on his back is not light, it seems that he has a lot of goods, it is a fat sheep." ”

Another black-faced man said: "Fourth brother, since your yellow-faced little Erlang has taken a fancy to this kid's things, it is his blessing, what else do you say, just take it." ”

The yellow-faced little Erlang stepped forward and said: "Did the stupid big man hear it, hurry up and put down the things in your hand and run away, otherwise the brothers will chop you up, chop the dumplings." ”

At this time, Tang Liu was holding a fire in his belly, and when he heard this, he added fuel to the fire, took off the burden on his back and threw it on the ground, raised the knife in his hand and said: "The knife and the burden are here, get off the horse and get it yourself." ”

The yellow-faced Xiao Erlang turned his head to the black-faced face and said: "Yo, I said third brother, strange things happen every year, only this year, I have seen people who are not afraid of death, and I have never seen such a bold one." ”

The black face said: "Fourth brother, it's not early, what is there to be with him here, hurry up and take your things and leave." ”

The yellow-faced Xiao Erlang said: "Okay." As he spoke, he immediately stretched out the three-pointed two-edged eight-ring knife in his hand to pick up the burden on the ground.

Tang Liu stretched out his big hand and grabbed the knife shaft of the yellow-faced Xiao Erlang, snatched the knife over, and threw it to the ground with a thud and said, "Who do you think you are, just take other people's things." ”

The outer brother looked at it, and when he met a person who was not angry, the three of them jumped off the horseback, each showed his weapon, and surrounded him in the middle in a T-shaped shape. The yellow-faced Xiao Erlang also jumped off the horse, crossed his hands and said, "Three brothers, this stupid big man has a lot of strength, it seems to be a hard stubble." ”

The black face said: "What kind of hard stubble, soft eggs, what kind of people have never been met by the four of us who have traveled south and north, and they still care about this stupid and coarse guy." ”

The other two guys said, "Yes, first knock him down, and then let him kneel on the ground and call grandpa." ”

Tang Liu said: "Lao Tzu is holding a belly of fire and has nowhere to go, I will teach you grandsons a lesson tonight." ”

When the three guys heard this, they said: "Okay, we haven't met anyone who dares to prick their hair for a long time, let's stretch our hands and feet in this moonlight tonight, and play a three-British battle against Lu Bu with your brother." If you win, we are your grandsons, and if you lose, we will be your grandfather. ”

Tang Liudao: "Okay, come on!" ”

The black-faced man was holding a water-milled eight-flute iron hammer, and the two of them were holding the three-strand Tuotian fork, the other was holding the Xuanhua axe, and the yellow-faced little Erlang with two empty hands shouted idly: "Big brother, second brother, third brother, don't spend so much money with this stupid big man, give me a beating." ”

These guys are horse thieves rampant in this area, the four of them are two pairs of brothers, the eldest is the one who holds the three-strand Tiancha called Zhao Dalong, the second is the one who holds the Xuanhua axe called Sai Jin Zhao Da Niu, the third is the black-faced tiger Yang Gang, and the fourth is called the yellow-faced Xiaoerlang Yang Tie.

Zhao Dalong, Zhao Daniu, Yang Gang, holding weapons, rushed up, steel fork picking, big axe splitting, iron shovel smashing, for a time the silent mountain road jingled, the sound hit the mountain wall caused a buzzing echo, the night birds in the mountains and forests, frightened everywhere flying around, frightened foxes in the grass, hare jumping around, panicked and fled.

These three guys on weekdays, holding weapons, showing off their martial arts scared the officers and soldiers did not dare to face each other, the common people fled when they heard the wind, thinking that they were invincible in the world, but they met the nemesis tonight, and the three of them together were not Tang Liu's opponents, without three moves and five styles, the steel fork in the hand of the boss Zhao Dalong came out of his hand, and slammed into a big tree, the second Zhao Daniu The Xuanhua big axe in the hand of the axe blade was facing the sky, the back of the axe was down, and it fell to his feet and face, and Zhao Daniu grinned, Moo roared like a cow, the iron shovel in the hands of the black-faced tiger Yang Gang didn't know how to collapse into his head, and smashed his head out of a green bag as big as an egg, the guy who hurt also lost his masculinity, squatted on the ground with his head covered with his hands and screamed, the yellow-faced Xiao Erlang looked like three defeated and a half, and he went up in vain, and hurriedly clasped his fists with both hands and said: "Heroes stop, heroes stop, brothers have eyes without beads, offensive tiger might, don't be merciful." ”

The brothers didn't care about the headache, swollen feet, and cramps in their hands, so they knelt on the ground together and begged for mercy: "Hero, hero, we lost, you won, from tonight onwards you will be the grandfather of our four brothers, and the four of us will be your old third grandson." If you always want to fight, you can scold, and if you want to ride us, we will always be a donkey and a horse for you, otherwise you can be a mule. ”