Zheng Yunming nodded and said: "In the current situation, neither side should take measures to exacerbate the contradictions, and the release of the captives shows that there is nothing wrong with good judgment." ”

"But since I named Zheng's name, I can't help but go to Baijiazhai in person."

Lu Xunzhi twisted his beard and muttered: "The first two defeats have already dampened the morale of the army, and this time we can't deal with it carelessly."

"What else is there to say!" Hu Yanyu shouted: "This time, we must do our best to destroy this local army of Wudang Mountain with the momentum of Mount Tai!" to show our army's thunderbolt means! ”

Ge Huai patted him on the back to show his approval, and added loudly: "Tell the brothers to bring all the big and small firearms, and let General Mu go and blast Baijiazhai to pieces!" ”

"That's what it's really like a fuss." Zheng Yunming said with an unquestionable tone: "This time, Ge Lao and Hu Yanyu are not allowed to go!" ”

Ge Huai was discouraged by the manager's words, and muttered in a low voice: "You wait to fight, but you don't take me there, wouldn't staying in Xiangyang suffocate Lao Ge?"

"It's not just Ge Lao, no one is allowed to go." Zheng Yunming said: "This time, I will go alone. ”

His remark clearly meant that the use of force was excluded from the option. A few guys who usually screamed for war immediately fell silent. They were obviously not satisfied with this decision of the generals.

Lu Xunzhi said: "Then we can't let the chief manager go alone, we have already taken a Yang Luo, and we can't send a master general to the opponent who can't see his face clearly now." ”

Zheng Yunming smiled and waved his hand: "Just like Yang Yu said, as long as there are enough people, it is a burden to bring one more." ”

"I don't think the other party will go down to detain the guests who come to visit." Wang Deng said: "Let me go with the manager, if the other party dares to have any small calculations, I will open his stockade first." ”

The cold of Wudang Mountain in winter was thick, and the sun showed a little face in the clouds, so he lazily hid back. Although the gentle southwest wind blowing on the face is not as sharp as a knife, it slowly seeps into the winter clothes, eroding the muscles and bones, and the pedestrians are all wrapped tightly in their clothes, speeding up their pace, looking forward to rushing back to the warm home as soon as possible.

At this time, on the bank of the Manan River, a small group of knights was far away from Xiangyang City and was heading to the foothills of Wudang Mountain, which might be dangerous.

Zheng Yunming looked at the mountains in the distance, under the lead-gray sky, the dark blue peaks were hidden in the clouds and mist, looking lofty and mysterious.

"No wonder people call it the Cave Heaven Blessed Land," he said to Wang Deng beside him, "Now even I can't tell if there are immortals living in it." ”

Wang Deng is already coming to Wudang for the second time, and his understanding of the scenery here is far deeper than that of Zheng Yunming, who only knows Wudang from a vague memory of later generations.

"This is just a corner of Wudang, and then go up a few miles, there is the Tianzhu Peak, the highest peak of Wudang, where the Tianzhu Peak is located, climb this peak, it will be the top of the mountain, and the surrounding seventy-two peaks are all bowed down to the distant respect, and it can be called the real cave heaven blessed land."

While the two were talking, a boat rowed over from a distance, and the boatman shouted, "Is it a distinguished guest from Xiangyang?" ”

Zheng Yunming was slightly surprised, he put his hand on the saddle and smiled: "How do you know that I am from Xiangyang?" ”

"I don't know what to say," the boatman spoke in the dialect of Wudang Mountain, and his accent was sonorous: "Mr. said, if it is a guest from Xiangyang who looks at his honorable status, he will ask me to charge him ten times the money to cross the river." He won't refuse to give. ”

Zheng Yunming laughed loudly and said, "Then let's get on the boat." ”

"Slow down, slow down." The boatman knocked on the boat gang with an oar: "You also see that I am just a small boat, and I can only cross one person and one horse at a time, and I can't afford it." ”

Zheng Yunming turned over and dismounted, led his mount to board the boat, and said, "Don't be verbose, just cross the river one by one, and the fare won't be less than a penny." ”

The boatman laughed and pushed his oars into the water, and the boat left the river bank and headed north.

The boatman sang loudly while shaking the oars: "On the lonely boat on the river, I know that I am obedient, and those who are obedient are fighting, and those who are obedient are in a hurry." The obedient is not worry-free, the contrarian is indefinite, the water is urgent and the reverse is reversed, and the trend is slow. The way of heaven is unpredictable, why do you need to operate the oars? There is a grass house in the lonely peak, and you can learn to do Wolongqi. ”

Zheng Yunming asked, "Who wrote this song?" ”

The boatman smiled: "It was made by the gentleman, and the boat relies on it to make a number every day." ”

The river was not very wide, and the boatman shuttled back and forth, and crossed more than a dozen horsemen.

Zheng Yunming waved his hand to ask Zheng Xian to pay, and then asked, "Where is the gentleman you said you said now?" ”

The boatman pointed to the mountain road not far away and said, "Go a few miles from here, and someone will naturally come to tell your guests." ”

A group of people on the horse to go forward for several miles, the mountain gradually steep, in the mountains and mountains, a piece of terraced fields as if it is an exquisite puzzle piece embedded on the hillside, at this time it is not yet the spring equinox, there are no farmers in the field, but from time to time there are wild fox badgers running quickly across the field, burrowing into the low bushes.

Zheng Yunming looked at a few wisps of cooking smoke rising from the thatched hut in the mountains, and suddenly there was a little more vitality in the desolation and coldness, as if he was in a living Mi Fu landscape painting.

As he was looking from afar, a farmer on the road led a ploughing ox and walked slowly. When he was about to meet Zheng Yunming and others, the farmer led the ploughing oxen to the side of the road, and he himself bowed to the ground on the side of the road, saying "Wanfu!" ”。

Zheng Yunming turned over and dismounted, helped each other with his hands, and asked with a smile: "This is also what Mr. taught you?" ”

The farmer grinned and said, "Sir has taught, shouting ten thousand blessings will give you a reward." ”

"This guy cheated me a lot of money before we met." Zheng Yunming beckoned Zheng Xian to take the reward, and asked, "Where is Mr., can you say it now?" ”

The farmer held the heavy five-run copper coin in his hand, smiled from ear to ear, pointed to the towering mountain in the northwest and said, "'Under the Zixiao Peak, the green becomes a cliff', and that is the residence of the gentleman." ”

Wang Deng laughed: "'Under the Zixiao Peak, the green becomes a cliff', this person is such a big shelf." ”

"Talented people usually have shelves." Zheng Yunming said: "It's a pity that most of the people in this world have no real talent. ”

He urged his mount and said, "Let's go, let's see if this scared man with a big frame is a strange man who turns things around." ”

Everyone came all the way to the foot of the mountain peak, and sure enough, the high mountain looked up, and the top of the mountain was covered with clouds and mist, and there was a faint appearance of a fairy cave.

There is a cliff on the mountainside, and the cliff wall is covered with vines and moss for many years, and from a distance, it looks like a huge jade wall standing among the mountains. Not far in front of the cliff is a small river, a green bamboo forest runs along the river, and a huge waterwheel squeaks and turns on the bank in front of the bamboo forest.

In the deep valley, suddenly two white cranes rose into the air and disappeared between the vast mountain walls, and the whistling sound of apes was heard in the air.

Zheng Yunming sighed in his heart, it is really a blessed land for Qing cultivation.

In front of the waterwheel is a delicate and smooth bamboo bridge, when Zheng Yunming led everyone to cross the bamboo bridge, he saw three people waiting on the bridge at a glance.

Two of them are two old men, one fat and one thin, and the other is wearing a helmet and armor with anger on his face, who is it not Yang Luo?

Zheng Yunming jumped off the horse, hugged Yang Yu with his arms, and said happily: "Pure father, it's good that there is nothing wrong!" ”

Later, Wang Deng also stepped forward to greet Yang Yu.

Yang Luo waved his hand to the fat and thin two elders and said, "This is Bai Zengshou and Bai Tianshou, the two fathers-in-law of Baijiazhai. ”

The fat old man pointed at himself first and said, "I am my younger brother Bai Tianshou." ”

The thin old man glared at him, and arched his hand and said, "I am the eldest brother Bai Zengshou, and I am the person in charge of the Bai family village within a radius of dozens of miles. ”

He bowed deeply to Zheng Yunming and apologized: "The previous time the chief manager sent military horses to come, everyone in the village was terrified, and they had to retreat from the army of the chief manager, and there were many offended places, and I asked the chief manager to forgive." ”

Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said: "It's my subordinates who are not good at learning, no wonder others." His words suddenly changed: "But if someone wants to throw himself into the Tartar to betray his ancestors, even if the court spares him, I, Zheng Yunming, can't spare him!" ”

The fat old man grinned and said, "Which turtle grandson will turn his back on his ancestors, that Sari Bojin is still holding in the Martial God Temple in the back mountain." ”

Zheng Yunming nodded, and said with a straight face: "If you still think that you are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, I have the responsibility to protect your safety." I know that the people of Wudang Mountain have always suffered from the chaotic army, but you can rest assured, our Tulong Army will never station a single soldier in the village, but only send people to set up checkpoints to defend several passes in the north of the mountain. I hope that the two of you will see the importance of state affairs and provide assistance to the officers and soldiers. ”

The two Bai brothers glanced at each other and bowed together in agreement.

Zheng Yunming smiled: "That's right. He pointed his horsewhip at the green bamboo forest and said, "Do the two masters who defeated our army live in this bamboo forest?" ”

Bai Tianshou said: "Exactly, that Yijie's nephew's grass house is in this green bamboo forest. ”

Yang Yan slapped his forehead and said, "Is it Bai Yijie?" ”

Zheng Yunming quickly searched for the name in his mind, and it seemed that he had heard of it, but he couldn't remember where it was.

Wang Deng looked at the confused appearance of the manager, and said slowly: "That Bai Yijie is the weirdo who ranked first in the provincial examination the year before last, which made the Jinghu students excited, and then resigned from the palace examination and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. ”

Zheng Yunming then remembered that there had been such a rumor among his classmates before the exam, but at that time, he was urgently supervised by his father, and he had to take care of his various chores, so he didn't have the leisure to listen to these exam room gossip. However, some people are willing to give up their bright future and return to their families to farm, and this kind of courage is not something that few people can have in the field.

"It turned out to be him!" As soon as Wang Deng reminded him, Zheng Yunming's impression of Bai Yijie gradually became clear: "I didn't expect that in addition to not admiring fame, he also had such a means of using soldiers like gods." ”