At the beginning of the week, he met with his father and Zhang Xiaodao in the rice shop.

The three of them rented a few cars from the rice shop to pull down the 2,000 catties of rice grain down the granary, Xiaodao is over fourteen years old, I don't know why I didn't plan to pay taxes this time, but I guessed some at the beginning of the week.

"Senior brother, are you going to leave?"

"I'm almost breaking through. ”

"How long?"

"There are about two months left, and when I break through, I'll go find Yueyue. ”

“...... Daddy's health is almost better, you wait a little longer and I'll go with you. ”

Knife shook his head and didn't speak.

At the beginning of the week, he asked: "If you don't pay taxes, aren't you afraid that those tax collectors will find you?"

"They won't come to me until next spring, when I'm gone. ”

“......”

At the beginning of the week, I saw my father calling the tax collector to weigh the scales, the one I saw in the village last time, and the tax collector was still on the side.

When the scales were passed, the father only weighed 1,600 catties, and then quietly stuffed a few rabbit skins on the car to the tax collector.

The tax collector glanced at it a few times, and then glanced at the tax collector on the side.

The tax collector wrote a few lines in the notebook and said loudly: "Qianshan Village will pay 1,000 catties of grain at the beginning of Zhou, and Qianshan Village will pay 1,000 catties of grain at the beginning of Zhou." ”

On the way back, Zhou Chuchu asked his father: "Dad, a few rabbit skins are worth a few dollars, can this be done?"

"No matter how much grain is paid, it is also from the court, and no matter how little I give, it is their own, they are greedy. ”

"Don't you care about the tax?"

"Taxes make adults more greedy, and in Qishan Castle, the castle guard, the tax envoy, and the county commander are the three biggest, but the most greedy is the tax envoy. ”

Zhou was a little angry at the beginning.

After returning to the village, my father was in a happy mood, and there were 400 catties of extra grain at home, all of which were white rice, which could be eaten there in the past. "It's all my son's work. He said.

That night, Zhou Zhichu ate eight bowls of rice, and his father asked him, "Is it delicious?"

"Hmm...... Well, that's fragrant. ”

The knife also ate three bowls, only Daddy ate the least, and ate one bowl.

"Senior brother, you are so thin, where has all this food gone?" Xiaodao laughed at the beginning of Zhou.

Father Zhou defended his son: "Of course, it is long strength, and my son can eat it." ”

"Hehe, it's so fragrant. "At the beginning of the week, there was another bowl of rice.

This night, under the action of Yunjiquan and Yi Qi Sutra, all the rice was transformed into full energy and distributed throughout the body, when the Yi Qi Sutra was over, the three qi sources trembled suddenly, and a true qi converged on the right waist at each branch, and another rotating qi source was born, and the beginning of the week broke through to the second layer of the empty mountain realm.

Zhou Zhizhi picked up the cold iron bow, and without using true qi, he pulled the bowstring to four-fifths of the level, almost a full bow, but he quickly ran out, and it seemed that if he wanted to easily pull the full bow, he would have to reach at least four layers.

After that, he used the true qi to pull it again, and before he used the true qi to pull the full bow, at most once a day, but now he can pull it three times, it seems that when he reaches the second layer of the empty mountain realm, not only the amount of true qi has increased, but the quality is also more refined.

Since he had the Yi Qi Sutra, Zhou Zhichu found that the use of true qi was extremely smooth, as natural as breathing, and he really did it at will, and the use of true qi was no different from the use of muscle power, as if it was born like this, and now on the second layer of the empty mountain realm, the four qi sources are continuously providing power, which undoubtedly makes his strength go to the next level.

In general, the second layer of the empty mountain realm is more obvious than the first layer, and the improvement of true qi is more obvious than the strength, which proves what Zhou Chuchu thought, cultivation is the sublimation of the self, the more you get to the back, the stronger the physique will be, and the increase in strength is just incidental, but this is already very powerful, after all, his current strength has reached more than two thousand catties, which has long exceeded the limit of people, and he even doubts that there is no one in the world who has greater strength than him.

At the beginning of the week, he used a short dagger to make a cut on his hand, and when the short dagger was crossed, there was an obvious sense of astringency.

Almost at the same time as the slash, the wound froze, leaving only a thin red thread, which I believe will heal in a few hours.

However, the boy also found that a very slight True Qi was coiling around the wound, and it seemed that it would be fine if he encountered a small injury, but a serious injury would still be too consuming True Qi.

Maybe when the empty mountain realm is completed, it will really become a body of steel, Zhou Zhichu thought wildly.

Since paying taxes, Xiaodao has rarely gone up the mountain, but he has been practicing hard at home, and he should be in retreat, so he didn't bother him at the beginning of the week.

On the Flying Phoenix Flying Dragon Slope, Zhou Zhizhi set up a target, and he would practice archery here if he had nothing to do, starting with fifty steps, and after breaking through to the second floor, he moved the target to a position of one hundred steps, and most of the arrows he shot missed the target, but he was not in a hurry, just shot one arrow after another.

He doesn't need to become an archer, he just needs to hit with arrows, and with the huge power of the cold iron bow, the prey will definitely not be able to escape.

Xiaohua only came to the slope this day, and she also had a bow in her hand, which was a knife.

"Senior brother, why did the knife give me the bow, didn't he hunt?"

Zhou Zhichu was a little surprised, he didn't know before: "He sent you?"

"I went to him this morning and he gave it to me. ”

“...... He's in retreat right now, and he may not need it for a while. ”

Xiaohua looked at the arrow target a hundred steps away and said, "Senior brother, have you broken through again?" ”

Zhou Zhichu retracted his bow, walked to the target, and said, "Yes, how long will it take for you to break through?"

"The knife is about to break through, I'm still early, I don't feel it at all, senior brother, do you say I'm too stupid. ”

"It's because you have cultivated too little, your father and mother probably didn't give you any time, speaking of which, now the knife has the most cultivation time, and it is also appropriate to break through. ”

"What about you, I see that you are either hunting or chopping wood every day, and you don't have time to cultivate at all, so you have broken through. ”

"I practice at night, and I hardly sleep now, only sleeping for a short time after the meditation is over. ”

"Aren't you tired?" asked Xiaohua.

"I'm not tired, I'm very energetic now, haha. At the beginning of the week, the arrows on the target were pulled out one by one.

"You're a monster. ”

"It's been a year since I arrived in the village, and it's not too fast to cultivate to the second layer. ”

Xiaohua was stunned, "It's been a year, it's really fast." ”

At the beginning of the week, he returned to the position of a hundred paces and continued to shoot arrow by arrow at the target.

He didn't say anything about the fact that the knife might leave after the breakthrough, probably thinking that it would be better for the knife to get better on his own.

"I'll practice too!" After another round of shooting at the beginning of the week, Xiaohua also stood in front of the target and began to shoot arrows.

After the shooting, looking at the empty target, Zhou Chuchu covered his face and said, "You need to start practicing from a closer place, and do you really want to be a female hunter?"

"No, I'm going to be a chivalrous woman. ”

"When you killed the wolf that day, you were already a heroine. ”

"It's not enough. The corners of Xiaohua's mouth tightened, her brows furrowed, and her face was resolute.

Zhou Zhizhi sat on the hillside, looked at the village in the distance, and asked, "Xiaodao said that you met a woman in the military camp four years ago, and it was because of her that you wanted to be a woman." What kind of person is she?"

Xiaohua was quiet for a while, and said: "Her name is Zhao Ying, she always likes to tie red tassels on her head, and the soldiers call her Red Cherry Girl; ”

"Looks like she really likes you. ”

"She is a disciple of Tianxuanmen, although I still don't know what Tianxuanmen is, but her mission in the barracks is to protect the young general. We talked about everything, but the most talked about was the young general, her eyes were shining every time, although she didn't say it, but I knew that she liked the young general, she told me that the general was a hero of the world, the hope of the court, no matter what, we must protect him, even if it is at the expense of ourselves.

...... In the end, she did, and she protected the general until her death. ”

Xiaohua seemed to be crying, but she didn't let Zhou Chuchu see it, she just turned her head and continued: "She originally wanted to take me to Tianxuanmen, but before going to the front line, she gave me this,"

As she spoke, Xiaohua took out a small sign, white, boxy with a "tassel" engraved on the front and the words "Tianxuanmen" on the reverse.

"I have always put this sign on my body, and she said that if she dies or does not come back, let me go to Tianxuanmen to hand over the sign to her master, and then the Taoist will accept me as an apprentice. ”

"Why didn't she let the general take you, but handed it over to you?" asked Zhou Chuchu.

"Probably because I am afraid that the general will also die on the battlefield. But she didn't tell me where Tianxuanmen was, and later my father didn't allow me to go when he found out, saying that everything was a lie, but I knew she didn't lie to me. ”

"So you don't want to get married, you just want to go to Tianxuanmen to be a woman like Zhao Hongying. ”

Xiaohua blushed, but still nodded and said: "It was originally like this, but you are here, since I have entered the Tianshu Gate now, I will naturally not worship the Void Silent Daoist as a teacher, but I still have to return this brand to him." ”

"And when are you going to go?"

"I don't know. ”

"Are you going to run away on the day you get married?"

Xiaohua rolled her eyes, "I'm not so stupid, I'll run before I get married." ”

"......" Zhou Chuchu rolled his eyes, "This is different, aren't you worried about your father and mother?"

"They forced it!" Xiaohua was obviously angry, but she thought of something, and asked the young man: "Senior brother asked this, do you want to run too?!"

Zhou Zhichu shrugged, "What else do I run if you run, you know my father is not in good health." ”

"What if I don't run!"

"Hehe," Zhou Chuchu touched his nose and said, "Do you still need to ask, I will naturally marry you!"

Xiaohua blushed at the time, and the freckles on her round face were red.

She turned her head, got up and walked down the slope, "Senior brother is getting bored, I'm going home." ”

"Your bow. Zhou Zhichu pointed to the ground and shouted.

Xiaohua paused, and immediately turned back to take the bow, her eyes didn't look at the young man, but the red ears still betrayed her mood.

When Xiaohua walked away, Zhou Zhichu got up and started another round of archery practice.