After listening to the old butcher's scolding, Uncle Wang understood what was going on: "This is a good thing, Zhang Zhao, this kid has good talents, what is it if a cultivator can eat a little? ”

Seeing the old butcher's blank face, Uncle Wang shook his head and walked away: "Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the children of mice will make holes." Old butcher, if you really think that Zhang Zhao is a rice bucket, then you can't blame me. ”

"Okay, you Wang Shun, you actually scolded me for being a rice bucket. It took the old butcher a long time to understand the meaning of these words, and looked at Uncle Wang's back and shouted hatefully.

Uncle Wang smiled from afar: "It's not what I said, it's none of my business what you think." ”

The next day, Zhang Zhao got up in the morning, worked in the backyard for a while, and then shouted, "Dad, come quickly." ”

The old butcher responded to the backyard, and Zhang Zhao hoisted the two slaughtered pigs, and instead of using the machete he was used to, he took out the strange knife. "Dad, you watch. ”

Zhang Zhao held a strange knife and stepped forward to cut it. With a soft "snort", the hanging pig gently and skillfully separated the two pieces. Then Zhang Zhao stood in front of another pig and did the same, and cut it with a knife.

Zhang Zhao successfully cut the pigskin the night before, and yesterday he had already cut two pigs with a strange knife, and today he specially called the old butcher to show off.

Zhang Zhao looked at the old butcher expectantly, but only heard him say: "You kid eats so much food every day, it's not right to work hard." ”

Although Zhang Zhao was a little disappointed, he thought about it and thought that he had indeed eaten a lot recently. "Dad, I don't know what's wrong lately, but I really want to eat meat. ”

The old butcher looked at him and replied, "Boy, if you continue to eat like this, you won't even be able to find your daughter-in-law." ”

Zhang Zhao asked curiously, "Can't you find your daughter-in-law if you can eat?"

The old butcher sighed: "In the whole town, our family kills pigs." Unlike Cui Bao's group of hunters, more than a dozen families can still get married. Don't look at the few families in our town who don't eat meat, but I really can't find your father who can marry his daughter to our family. ”

Zhang Zhao smiled and said, "Dad, then how can you marry my mother?"

"That's my fate, your mother was born in a place where she was bullied since she was a child, and then she was rescued, but she got lost by mistake and fainted in front of our house. The old butcher's face showed tenderness like never before. "Otherwise, your father and I may have to fight for the rest of my life. Of course, even more so without you. ”

"Who saved my mother?" asked Zhang Zhao curiously.

The old butcher looked up and recalled, "Your mother said that he was a red-eyed man with a big gray bird, and he burned all those bad people to death at once. Then he looked at Zhang Zhao: "I guess it's the same as the people you said a while ago who were smashing holes with fire and light, and they are also powerful people." ”

Zhang Zhao had a smile on his face: "It turns out that my mother, like me, has also encountered this kind of thing, so why don't you believe what I said." ”

The old butcher turned around and walked out of the backyard: "It's not that I don't believe you, I'm afraid that your kid will be fascinated, but you still fall for Wang Shun's old boy." ”

Zhang Zhao chased out with a smile: "Dad, Uncle Wang taught me very good knife skills, how fast I kill pigs now." ”

Winter went to spring, and another year passed in a blink of an eye. "Dad, I'm selling meat today, you can rest. "Zhang Zhao is now a head taller than the old butcher. He lifted a large wooden bowl full of fresh meat with one hand, and grabbed strips of grilled pork belly with the other hand and walked out the door.

Facing the early spring sun, the old butcher sat comfortably on his big chair, looking at Zhang Zhao's back and was very pleased. "My son has grown up, his mother, it's a pity that you didn't watch this day. He rubbed his eyes and rested his head gently on the back of his chair.

In the wine shop in the town, six or seven blue-shirted people entered, all with their hair tied and armed with weapons. Most of them look like they're in their twenties. The shopkeeper of the wine store knew at a glance that these were not ordinary merchants, and whispered to Xiao Er to wait well.

"Senior Brother Tang, this place is too remote. The group of young people complained to a middle-aged man sitting in the center. "I guess we won't be here in the next life, so let's go back. ”

Senior Brother Tang looked at them helplessly: "You boys, you usually clamoring to go down the mountain, leading you around and talking about near and far. There is a port ahead of here, and it is a necessary place to go to sea by boat. ”

A thin-faced young man smiled and said, "Senior Brother Tang, have you ever been to sea?"

Senior Brother Tang smiled: "Don't talk about some useless things there, if you don't like to go, forget it, let's eat something and go back." ”

At this time, Xiao Er brought a few dishes and poured wine for everyone. Senior Brother Tang picked up his wine glass and said: "Now it's different from the past, our people who came out of Lingxiao have been ambushed one after another, and even a few of you little cubs have come out to recognize the way, and I have to go there myself." ”

A handsome white-faced young man next to Senior Brother Tang frowned: "Senior Brother Tang, who is the person who is against our Lingxiao?"

Senior Brother Tang looked at them: "I can't tell, which sect doesn't have some new and old grudges." Several young people raised their glasses to salute Senior Brother Tang. Everyone raised their glasses and drank them all.

After eating for a while, Senior Brother Tang praised: "This plate of meat tastes good." A few young people followed his chopsticks and saw that it was a plate of ordinary pork belly slices. I don't know if it's baked or baked, the color is black and inconspicuous. After tasting it, they nodded again and again. The meat is fresh but not greasy, full of flavor, and has a bouncy tenacity. Each of them grabbed a few pieces and swept them away, all of which were still full of meaning.

Senior Brother Tang raised his voice and said, "Little Er, cut that pork belly another plate." Xiao Er answered, but when he entered the back kitchen, he came out immediately.

"Guest, the meat is gone, I'll buy you some later. The butcher's shop was a little far away, on the great north side. Wait a minute. ”

When Senior Brother Tang heard this, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, when you come back, we should finish eating." Xiao Er apologized again and again. At this time, one of the young people shouted and said, "Little second brother, why isn't this meat made by you yourself?"

Xiao Er replied: "This barbecue is delivered by the butcher family of the butcher shop in the north every morning, if it is sold out, we will buy some more." ”

Then the man asked, "Can you see it when you go out to the north?"

Xiao Er nodded and said, "Exactly, he is the only one in the town who sells meat." It is very conspicuous, and the red platform can be seen from afar. ”

The questioner stood up, not tall, with thin eyebrows and round eyes, and said, "Senior brother, wait a minute, I'll go and go back." ”

With a "whoosh", the figure of him was gone. Xiao Erleng stopped: "Does this master know how to fly?" ”

The young man who went out was named Lian Mufeng, who was known for his light and strong body in Lingxiao, and he was well-behaved. In order to please my brother, I was willing to go on this trip.

Lian Mufeng sped up his pace when he went out, and after a few ups and downs, he arrived in the north of the town, and saw a big red table case from a distance, with strips of meat hanging on it.

Zhang Zhao was a little sleepy sitting behind the meat case, and there was a flower in front of him, and there was a person standing in front of the case. Zhang Zhao thought he had taken a nap. I didn't even notice when this person came, and I didn't even notice that this person was very raw, not a regular customer in the town.

Lian Mufeng opened his mouth and asked, "Do you still have the meat you send to the wine shop every day?"

Zhang Zhaogang nodded and said, "There are more." A piece of silver was thrown out and fell in front of him: "Look at it and wrap it up for me." ”

Zhang Zhao saw that the ingot of silver weighed more than ten taels, and knew that there was a high roller, so he hurriedly agreed to accept the silver. Quickly tied the remaining pieces of barbecue with a straw rope and handed it over.

Lian Mufeng stretched out his hand to take it, and went like a light smoke. Only then did Zhang Zhao know that it was not that he was sleeping too deeply, but that this person's body was too fast.

Even Mu Feng came and went, and he couldn't even use half a cup of tea. Xiao Er went into the back kitchen and turned around and came out, the curtain was lifted, he had already walked into the room with the meat, and said with a smile on his face: "Xiao Er, I bother you to cut a plate." Wrap the rest and bring it back to the mountain for my brother to eat. ”

Xiao Er's eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief: "It's such a long way back and forth, why do you come back as if you went out to take a look." ”

Senior Brother Tang was also quite appreciative: "Even the junior brother has made progress, and Uncle Yue has to wake up laughing when he dreams." ”

The senior brother Yue in his mouth is Lian Mufeng's father, Lian Zonghai, more than 20 years ago, Xianyanmen was invited to visit Lingxiao. At that time, the spirit was weak, and there were no shocking characters for hundreds of years.

Xianyanmen are all female disciples, very famous in the five Xuan, and almost all sects have marriages, the head of Wu Qiao'er was invited to lead the disciples to come because it is recorded that there was a fellow marriage Lingxiao.

Lingxiao Mountain Road has twists and turns, and after dozens of generations of cultivation, it can be called a ghostly workmanship, and the disciples of Xianyanmen slowly ascended. When I arrived at the most strange cliff of Lingxiao, there were clouds and mist everywhere. And not far from the Amazing God Cliff, it is another wonder of Lingxiao, the sea of red flame flowers. On the hillside within a radius of dozens of miles, a fiery red color stretched up like a burning flame, but it was not so dazzling.

The first-time visitors were all shocked by the strange flowers and wonders they saw just out of the sea of clouds, and Wu Qiao'er and his party were not outside, and the young female disciples shouted and shouted, and jumped up with the stone railing on the side of the road to praise.

Under the crowding, the first few female disciples were squeezed too close to the cliff, although they were all cultivators, but Xianyanmen was located in the plain, and they had never seen the bottomless and flowing deep valley in front of them. In a panic, several brocade boxes used for gifts in their hands fell down and rolled down the steep wall, and the silver bracelet of one of the female disciples also flew out of her hand.

Wu Qiao'er was about to scold her disciple when she saw that her disciple was making a fool of herself, and in a louder shout, a Lingxiao Qingyi disciple actually fell into the deep valley, and the Xianyanmen disciples thought that they had caused a big disaster, and they were all so frightened that they lost their faces.

The disciple in Tsing Yi shot straight down like an arrow, head, front and back, grabbed in front of several brocade boxes, his hands linked, and the brocade boxes that were rolling down flew up one after another, and then a somersault turned over, and the brocade boxes were connected to his hands and stacked high like acrobatics.

He stepped on the steep wall with both feet but walked on the ground, and after a few ups and downs, he reached the top of the mountain road. Said politely: "The Lingxiao Mountain Road is narrow, which makes the senior sisters frightened. After speaking, the brocade boxes were returned one by one. At the end, the female disciple who dropped the bracelet turned over the palm of her hand, and between her two fingers was the silver bracelet that the female disciple had taken off.

Even the popular technique of walking on the cliff like a flat ground with the hand of Zonghai really made everyone in Xianyanmen realize the essence of Lingxiao. Wu Qiao'er thought about it carefully, and deliberately stayed in Lingxiao for a while longer, and later several female disciples in the door had someone they liked, and the Xianyan disciple who lost the jade bracelet was named Jiang Ruyue, and now she is Lian Mufeng's mother.

Lian Zonghai's leap has made many Lingxiao disciples marry. In Lingxiaomen, Lian Zonghai has been called Lian Yue Lao since then.

Even Mu Feng was not happy when he heard Senior Brother Tang's praise, he leaned into Senior Brother Tang's ear and whispered a few words, and Senior Brother Tang was also surprised after hearing it.

Zhang Zhao sent Lian Mufeng away, sat down for a while, and saw a figure flickering in front of him, six or seven blue-shirted people quickly approached and surrounded him, staring straight at him, Zhang Zhao stared at them blankly.

Zhang Zhao saw that one of them was a young man who had just come to buy meat. "Is the barbecue not tasty?" he asked.

Senior Brother Tang pointed at Zhang Zhao: "Boy, where did you get that thing?"

Around Zhang Zhao's neck, a white jade plaque was tied to the end of a silk thread. This jade plaque and the book "King Kong Practice" were both collected from the young man in the white robe. In Aoki City, Zhang Zhao saw that the people in the jade shops were wearing shiny things around their necks. He saw that this jade plate was crystal clear and had a beautiful pattern, so he tied it with a thread and hung it around his neck.

Zhang Zhao didn't know what this group of people were doing, and he couldn't say that this jade plate was picked up by him and Uncle Wang after killing someone. He had an idea, and remembered that this jade plaque was originally owned by that Elder Chen.

"This jade plaque turned out to belong to Elder Chen, and then he was killed, so I picked it up. This sentence was a little vague, but it was not a panic, so Zhang Zhao's face was very calm.

Senior Brother Tang thought back to his mind for a moment, remembering who Elder Chen was. "Oh, you were there when Elder Chen was killed?"

Zhang Zhao nodded, and told him about the day when Elder Chen helped him speak and bought a donkey treasure. "Later, Elder Chen was killed by those men in front of our carriage, and I saw it with my own eyes. Zhang Zhao remembered the tragic situation, and his face showed unbearable expression.

Senior Brother Tang listened to Zhang Zhao's words, observed his words and felt that the matter was credible, and asked again: "Little brother, do you still know those people who did it?"

Zhang Zhao said with certainty: "Of course I recognize, but those people are dead." Then he talked about the fact that the boy in red showed his might and killed those gray-clothed people. ”

"Could it be the Fire Boy?" Senior Brother Tang's experience is certainly not as good as Zhang Zhao's, he is an absolute elite in Lingxiao, and he broke through the three realms when he was over forty years old, if it weren't for the fact that these young people were all juniors of the elders in the sect, they really couldn't let him accompany him down the mountain.

Over the years, there has been a strange person in the Xuanmu Domain, who looks like a child, and his one-handed fire technique is superb, but he hasn't revealed his identity yet, and he won't attack on the spot when he gets angry. Those people were inexplicably reduced to ashes. Even a cultivator from the Spirit Shade Pavilion of Chibai City who had gone to the Third Realm was not spared. The elders of the various sects speculated that the person who looked like a child was at least forty or fifty years old, and his cultivation was close to the Yin and Yang realm.

Senior Brother Tang confirmed it in his heart, and he believed more and more that what Zhang Zhao said was true, and his face was a lot softer. "I see. Elder Chen is a miscellaneous elder in my Lingxiao Sect, and I can't imagine that he and my little brother still know each other. ”

Zhang Zhao took the jade plaque from his neck and handed it over. "Then I'll give this back to you. ”

Senior Brother Tang raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Zhao, and saw that this young man was majestic and strong. There is also a righteous spirit between the eyebrows. He didn't stretch out his hand to pick up the jade plate, but asked, "This little brother, are you willing to go back to Lingxiao with us?"

"What is Lingxiao, what are you asking him to do with you?" Before Zhang Zhao could answer, the old butcher in the courtyard heard the movement and walked out.

Senior Brother Tang smiled and said, "Now that Lingxiao is not a well-known sect in the Xuanmu Domain, I see that this little brother is pleasing to the eye, and I want him to go to the mountain with us, and there will be some development in the future." ”

Zhang Zhao looked back at the old butcher with a look of anticipation. "What can he do when he goes? I've heard you're weird in these places. The old butcher asked very seriously.

Senior Brother Tang smiled: "The disciples recruited from outside all start from miscellaneous servants, and after three years, they can teach martial arts and spells. When the time comes, it will be up to each person's cultivation and creation. He looked at the old butcher's puzzled face and added: "Everyone doesn't work in vain, even if they are miscellaneous disciples, one low-grade immortal crystal every year." ”

Zhang Zhao was even more happy when he heard it: "Okay, I'll go." After speaking, he looked back at the old butcher: "Dad, let me go, you don't think I eat too much every day." ”

The old butcher ignored him and asked Senior Brother Tang, "Do you care about the rice?"

Senior Brother Tang laughed: "Not only do you manage the food, but you also manage the fullness, you can eat as much as you want." It doesn't cost anything. ”

The old butcher looked at Zhang Zhao and nodded heavily: "That's okay, you can go." ”

Zhang Zhao cheered, hugged the old butcher and jumped and laughed.

The matter was settled, and Lingxiao and these people didn't want to stay in this town for long. Zhang Zhao went back to the house and simply cleaned up. I didn't have time to say goodbye to the people I knew well in the town one by one, and followed the Lingxiao disciples away.

There were several tall horses tied to the outside of the wine shop, all of which were ridden by these Lingxiao disciples. Senior Brother Tang asked Zhang Zhao, "Little brother, do you know how to ride a horse?"

In the spare time when Zhang Zhao and Uncle Wang practiced knives, they sometimes rode the two old horses around the yard a few times, and these days he became stronger and stronger, and Uncle Wang was afraid that the horse would be crushed, so he would not let him ride again.

Looking at the two tall horses in front of him that were half a body taller than Uncle Wang's cart, Zhang Zhao nodded again and again: "It will be a little." ”

Senior Brother Tang and all the disciples got on their horses, pointed to the two extra horses, and said, "You can choose any one." ”

Zhang Zhao chose a jujube red horse and flew on, his feet were slightly forced, and the jujube red horse jumped out like an arrow. Zhang Zhao felt the wind in his ears, and shouted in his mouth, "Dad, I'm leaving." ”

Senior Brother Tang and the others followed, leaving only the old butcher alone in front of the wine shop. The old butcher looked at his son's distant back and sighed: "After raising such a big one, he said he would leave." ”

Senior Brother Tang and the others caught up with Zhang Zhao, and the group quickly whipped up, and arrived at the fork in the road in a short time, and then galloped towards the inland of the Xuanmu Domain in the southeast.

Zhang Zhao's riding skills were a little jerky at the beginning, but then he became more and more relaxed, the first time he rode a high-headed horse, he was extremely happy, and he tossed the red horse slowly for a while.

Lingxiao was thousands of miles away from the town, and he just found a random place to eat something at night, and everyone hurried overnight.

As the sky grew brighter, the peaks ahead grew taller. As the sun gradually rose, Zhang Zhao found himself in the middle of the lofty mountains, with two strange peaks, one high and one low, in front of him. Senior Brother Tang pointed to the tall one and shouted, "That's our Lingxiao." ”

The young disciples who came down the mountain for the first time also cheered and urged their horses forward. Zhang Zhao followed behind, looking up from time to time.

Lingxiao Peak stands tall, thick at the top and thin like a spindle. Halfway up the mountain, the clouds were misty, and it was impossible to see where the top of the mountain was. At the foot of the mountain, Zhang Zhao looked up and saw that there were four big characters on the stone wall in mid-air: "Lingyi and Junxiao." ”

Handed over the horses to the disciples at the foot of Lingxiao Mountain, and began to climb the mountain road, winding around thousands of steps before arriving at a flat land, Zhang Zhao thought that when he arrived at the place, who knew that it was only the first place where Lingxiao was hospitalized.

After climbing nearly a thousand stone steps, Zhang Zhao saw that there were clouds and mist all around, and he couldn't see where he was. can only honestly stick to the stone wall, and follow Senior Brother Tang in front.

After a while, the clouds and mist in front of him dissipated, and a tender red suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Zhao's eyes. There is a red carpet on the entire hillside opposite, which is particularly conspicuous. Zhang Zhao was pleasantly surprised, and Lian Mufeng behind him looked at him and smiled: "It's not red enough now, in autumn, it's really like a fire here." ”

After passing through the land of clouds and mist and the sea of flowers, I walked hundreds of steps, and finally came to a flat place. At this time, the sun was on the three poles, the heads on the martial arts training ground were shaking, and countless Lingxiao disciples were practicing separately.

Zhang Zhaozheng was dazzled. Senior Brother Tang pointed to a hall at the back of the martial arts training ground: "Little brother, you go there to find Elder Meng, just say that Tang Lin led you up the mountain, show the jade card, and he will assign you work." ”

Zhang Zhao walked all the way, his chest was full of novelty and encouragement, and he answered and walked quickly towards the hall.

As soon as I entered the hall, I saw three people talking loudly in the empty hall.

"Senior Brother Meng, you have dragged me for a few days, and now the disciples in my hands can't be allocated, and I can't help but go to Yangxian Hall. Tell me when I'll have a new person. A short, thin, black-bearded, middle-aged man in gray who looked shrewd and capable, shouted. He said as he walked up and down the hall. Seems to be in a hurry.

"Senior Brother Zhu, I also want to assign you manpower, but you have also seen it, now this miscellaneous hall is very busy up and down, don't you see Senior Brother Fang also sitting there, his back kitchen is a place for me to eat up and down the mountain, and now I don't even have anyone to give him, where can I find someone for you?" Elder Meng, who was sitting in the center, was also helpless.

Elder Zhu, who was black-bearded, sped up at his feet, and seemed to be very impatient: "Senior brother in charge is very urgent, you have to send me personally to raise the idle hall." It's been empty for almost half a month, and there isn't even a disciple waiting for food to deliver. ”

The fat man, who had been sitting on the chair behind him and looked like a kitchen master, persuaded: "Senior Brother Zhu, don't complain. Where's the food, it's not made in my back kitchen. These days, I haven't asked someone to deliver the food for you. ”

Elder Zhu turned around and made a gesture at him: "I was about to thank Senior Brother Fang." ”

Elder Meng raised his eyes and saw Zhang Zhao entering the hall door, and he asked aloud, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Zhao held the jade plaque in his hand high: "Senior Brother Tang Lin Tang led me up the mountain and asked me to come to Elder Meng to assign work." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the fat master in the chair jumped up and rushed to Elder Meng: "Give this person to me." ”

Elder Zhu's movements slowed down by half a beat, and then he also stepped forward: "Senior Brother Meng, you must give me this person." ”

Elder Meng looked at the two fellow disciples who were polite just now, and tried to say, "Let's ask him what he knows." ”

As soon as his words fell, Zhang Zhao saw a flower in front of him, a fat and a thin two people stood in front of him. Elder Zhu shouted in a sharp voice:

"Will it sweep the floor?"

"Will you serve tea and pour water?"

"Will you make a bed and fold the quilt?"

He asked, and Zhang Zhao nodded. Fat Master Elder Fang was preempted by him this time. couldn't help but step forward and grab Zhang Zhao's left arm. "Will you kill pigs and slaughter cows?"

Zhang Zhao looked at his chubby round face and nodded heavily: "Yes, I kill pigs at home." ”

The fat master laughed proudly: "Senior Brother Meng, this kid belongs to me." ”

The thin Elder Zhu grabbed Zhang Zhao's right arm: "You don't have to get up early every day, deliver food twice, sweep the floor once, and don't do anything the rest of the time." A fairy crystal arrives on time every year. ”

The fat master hurriedly also made conditions: "Get up early to work in the back kitchen, and after killing the livestock, you will leave, and a fairy crystal will never be in arrears for a year." ”

The two elders, one fat and one thin, asked in unison, "Say, who are you with?"