The baby monkey is very easy to feed, and after eating and drinking, it is to sleep. Nine times out of ten in the day, I am sleeping, and the rest is to play with Jiang Hai, and then fall asleep again in the play. So Jiang Hai's legs, arms, hands, and shoulders are its nests. Didn't he just look for lice on Jiang Hai's head to play, and the next moment he fell asleep on Jiang Hai's head. The little hand grasped it tightly, and the helpless Jiang Hai could only wear a small hat.

Jiang Hai's grandfather's house is actually not too far away, but it is also dozens of miles away. I heard my mother say that the Xia family has a big surname in the neighborhood, and my grandfather's family is the best here. Because the Xia family is planting medicinal materials for the Golden Sword Gate, their status is naturally higher than that of the common people, and the family can often see the strong people of the Golden Sword Gate.

It was already afternoon when I came to my grandfather's house. Far away, you can see the two big characters of Xia Mansion hanging above the gate, the lanterns are colorful, an old man is directing a few gray-clothed people to hang a red paper and gold lacquer longevity character up, large and small ribbons eighty, eighty birthdays.

"A little to the left, yes, yes, too much! A little to the right, I said move to the right, what are your hands shaking? low!" commanded the old man.

"Uncle Yun, where's my father?" Xia Rong shouted.

"Didn't you see that I'm busy, wait a minute!" Xia Yun obviously didn't react. The next moment, how could this voice be so familiar? Turning around, "Miss" Xia Yun looked a little excited.

Jiang Tao on the side also greeted "Hello Uncle Yun"

"Hello uncle", "Come on, come on, you guys are smart! This is the eldest lady." Xia Yun introduced a few subordinates.

A few busy subordinates hurriedly said hello, "I've seen the eldest lady"

"You're busy, Xiaoba, come and see" Xia Yun called someone, but he pulled Xia Rong and the three of them to the side.

"Xiaohai, this is your Grandpa Yun, you often hugged you when you were a child." Xia Rong pulled Jiang Hai and said.

"Hello Grandpa Yun,"

"Hehe, I've grown so big, I'll never pee on your Grandpa Yun again, right?" Xia Yun said with a smile as he held his beard.

It was when Jiang Hai was a few months old, and once Xia Yun hugged Jiang Hai. Jiang Hai always pulls Xia Yun's beard. Xia Yun pretended to be angry, "Play your little finch again" may be in response to Xia Yun. Jiang Hai soaked urine and shot straight on Xia Yun's body.

Jiang Hai was extremely embarrassed, scratched his head, and smiled bitterly

"Grown up? I know I'm shy. Huh"

"By the way, Grandpa Yun, I brought you a small gift. Hurriedly changed the topic, and as he spoke, he took out a small gourd from his waist and handed it over.

"Oh, I'll take a look at what it is?" Xia Yun pulled the stopper and sniffed, and then his eyes widened, "Well, good thing, thank you, Young Master."

"By the way, what about Xia Zhi?" Xia Rong didn't see her younger brother at such an important moment.

Xia Yun looked around and whispered, "In the medicine field." Someone from the Golden Sword Gate is coming at night"!

"What about my father?"

"He's in the study. You've been gone for a day, and I'll take you in. He led the three of them inside.

Along the way, there were people who saluted a few people, and they went to work. An old man in the study was writing something one by one. Flowing water, not in a hurry or slow, as if blended into paper. Take a closer look at the longevity words. There are more than 100 of them, but they are completely different. Baishou word!

Dangdang knocks on the door. The old man put down the pen and placed it on the stone inkstone. "Come in"

Xia Yun entered the house, "Miss is back." ”

"Oh, Xiao Rong is back?"

"Let's go! By the way, frame this Baishou character and go back to my study. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

After a while, Xia Song walked to the guest room. Father!" Xia Rong cried out, with tears in her eyes.

"Are you back? still crying when you are a mother, what is it like?" Xia Song hugged Xia Rong and stroked her long hair.

"Father-sama". Jiang Tao called.

"It's good to be back. ”

"Grandpa", Jiang Hai also called

"My baby grandson has grown so big, come to my grandfather to hug him, so heavy?"

"Grandpa, I'm not heavy but strong!" Jiang Hai said with a pout.

"Hehe, it's my grandfather who said it wrong, our family Xiaohai is in shape. Smiled and hugged Jiang Hai. There was a smile on his face.

"Father, this is the earth beast meat that was just hit," Jiang Tao took out a large piece of beast meat in his own salute.

"Earth beasts. I knew you kid wasn't an ordinary person. It seems that I read that right".

Jiang Tao didn't speak, just smiled.

"Look, what you said about your son-in-law is promising, isn't it your face?" said Xia Rong on the side.

"I knew that my elbow was turned out, and I followed him so desperately. Xia Song said with memories.

"I'm doing well now, father."

"It's good to be doing well. Xia Song was full of relief.

"Grandpa, my father's gift is nothing! Jiang Hai answered

"Oh, what kind of gift did our Xiaohai give to my grandfather. Xia Song looked at Jiang Hai with a smile.

Jiang Hai took out a gourd from his arms, and looked carefully at the little fluffy guy in his arms.

"This is?" Xia Song took the gourd and pulled the stopper, a smell of wine filled his nose. "This is monkey wine? No, this is monkey king wine. It seems that our Xiaohai's gift is more valuable. ”

"That is, I will be a stronger man than my father in the future, and I want to write my legend on this river and lake!" Jiang Hai patted his chest and reassured.

The three of them just looked at Jiang Hai with a smile, didn't they say this when they were young?

"All right, you're tired too, and we'll have a party in the evening. ”

Before it gets dark, people come to celebrate the birthday one after another, and the guests arrive in twos and threes. Most of them are villagers from their own village.

Xia San came to give a gift of ten catties of boar meat, and the housekeeper called to table ten

Xia Wenlai, gifted silver 228 table

In the summer, the gift calligraphy and painting a pair of table 11

Inside, please lead the guests to the corresponding table

The summer breeze came, and gave a gift of jasper, table six

Xia Xinlai, a gift pendant fell on the No. 12 table. ......

Because it was all gifts from the villagers, it was also random, but it was the best they could come up with. The butler memorized them all so that he could return them later. Etiquette is not about love, thousands of miles to send goose feathers, how light are the goose feathers, how heavy is friendship?

In a short time, the hall was filled with fifteen tables. The conversation was endless. It's just that the host seems to be waiting for the mysterious person! The banquet has not been announced, and everyone can't say anything, so they can only look at the table of food and wine but can't move the chopsticks, but they can't suppress it after a long time.

"Why don't you start yet?"

"That's it?, didn't you starve to death at first?" The villagers are used to foul language on weekdays, and they are not hypocritical at the moment.

"If I don't start again, I'll go home and eat. Someone yelled

Seeing that the scene was a little uncontrollable, Xia Zhi in the back hall walked towards his father, "Father, are the people from the Golden Sword Gate still coming?"

Xia Song listened to the noise outside and frowned, "The people from the Golden Sword Gate should be coming, they haven't taken the Earth Spirit Grass this season, it's only a matter of time." Let's wait a little longer, you go out and make arrangements. ”

Xia Zhi walked out of the back hall and came to the hall.

"Everyone be quiet for a while, today is my father's 80th birthday, first of all, I have to thank everyone for coming to celebrate his birthday. Xia Zhi bowed to the fathers and villagers present. As he spoke, he bowed deeply to everyone, "I know how hard it is for everyone to wait." However, there is a delay, and I apologize to everyone here. Please be patient for a while. I invited Hong Manjiang from the Drunken Immortal Song to sing a little song for everyone, and after a song, we will have a banquet. ”

As soon as the words fell, a young woman in a red robe walked onto the stage with an erhu. An old man walked behind her with a stool, put it down, and the woman sat down. Opening

"Today is the day of Xiafu's birthday, and the little woman sent a little song to hope that Xia Laofu is like Donghai Shoubi Nanshan, and I also hope that everyone will be happy to listen to it, and the rivers and lakes will laugh and send it to everyone. ”

The hand began to pull the erhu, and a euphemistic and continuous opening overture was followed by a woman's high tone

Jianghu laughed and complained

People laugh and hide knives

Hongchen smiled and smiled

The heart is too high to be true

The bright moon shines on the road

People will never grow old

If you can't love it, you can't let it go

I can't forget your good ..........

The rivers and lakes laugh and love to be free

Jean or Xiao wine to pour

Wangtian smiled and forgot it all

Chic as the wind fluttering

"What a laugh in the rivers and lakes! The hearts of the people who sing are surging in the rivers and lakes, how many children in the rivers and lakes are long, how many heroes dream girls sing well, and there are rewards." A voice came from the gate. Then I saw a silver ingot and five taels of silver fly in front of the woman, and the woman picked it up and bowed.

"I'm sorry Xia Lao, I'm really sorry to be a step late. A middle-aged man appeared in front of people's eyes, followed by a fair-faced teenager, about 14.5 years old, slightly childish, but his eyes revealed a trace of evil from time to time, and he couldn't put it away freely.

Hearing this voice, Xia Song walked out of the back hall to greet the two in person. "The elder personally came to give the humble house a glow, how can there be any reason to apologize. "Where, the Xia family is the guest of honor of my Golden Sword Sect, and it would be rude if I didn't come in person. By the way, this little congratulatory gift is not a tribute. As he spoke, the young man next to him handed over a hardcover gift box. Open the gift box, and a ginseng lies in it. The roots are the length of an adult's fingers, apparently some years.

"This is a 100-year-old wild ginseng. The boy said disdainfully.

Xia Song didn't see the gift box at all. "Two inside, please, table number one. ”

"Okay, the banquet begins, everyone eats and drinks happily, and the red girl will trouble you to sing a few more songs to cheer everyone up. ”

The girl on the stage nodded in understanding.

There were already a few people sitting at the No. 1 table, Jiang Tao and his son, Xia Zhi's wife and son. Wait for the two to sit down. Xia Song said, "Let me introduce you, this is my daughter," he said, pointing at Xia Rong

"Oh, it turned out to be Ling Qianjin. ”

"The little woman has seen the immortals," Xia Rong bowed slightly to Li Yang

"This is my son-in-law Jiang Tao's grandson Jiang Hai"

"I've seen the immortals," the two said in unison

"Have you seen a few others, by the way, who is this one next to you?" Xia Song asked Li Yang

"He is my apprentice who has just been accepted, and Janssen is a talented child. Then motioned to Janssen

I saw that he was calm, and his true qi was shrouded in an earthy yellow aura

"Junior Swordsman!" cheered. A 14.5-year-old swordsman is already very rare, obviously this is a very talented child, but it is said that the talent is okay, showing off?

"Congratulations to Elder Li for accepting a good apprentice. "Congratulations to the immortals"

"Come and eat vegetables, this is the meat of the earth beast! You may not be able to eat it if you have money, this is what my son-in-law got it." Xia said

"Earth beast?" Li Yang sandwiched a piece, "The meat is delicious and tender, it is really the meat of the earth beast, can you hunt the earth beast?" Seeing Jiang Tao dressed as a hunter, he asked suspiciously.

"Haha, I also happened to know that my father-in-law had a birthday, I think what my village husband can give, only to give some game to my father-in-law's tooth sacrifice. Maybe it's providence, the day I entered the mountain, I saw the corpses of many wild beasts along the way, and I thought, "What's going on today, could it be that the beasts of the Tianxuan Forest committed suicide en masse?" or did they fight each other?"

Li Yang looked at Jiang Tao with a simple face, and he didn't know if this person was really stupid, or really stupid, or really stupid! Shaking his head slightly, he listened to him continue.

"When I saw this, I was curious, so I kept chasing after it, and I didn't see it........."

"What did you say?" Li Yang was a little impatient

"I saw a peerless powerhouse slash this earth beast with a sword, and then took an egg from its belly!"

"Eggs, it's supposed to be a demon core!"

"I guess I haven't seen it anyway. When I saw him leave, I didn't take the meat of the earth beast, so I carried it away. But I still wonder how I can have this kind of luck, when I saw the immortal today, I realized that God wanted me to borrow flowers to offer the Buddha to the immortal!"

"That's Jiang Xiaoyou's blessing, I'm just stained. Li Lao said with a smile, but he muttered in his heart, your life is so good. This fourth-level earth beast meat was actually picked up by you. "I don't know what that peerless powerhouse looks like?" Li Yang asked seemingly unintentionally

"I really didn't see this clearly, it should be a man, I just wondered how I couldn't see through his face. Jiang Tao looked puzzled

"It's no wonder that the demeanor of the peerless powerhouse is not something we can peep into. Li Yang said

Who the hell is it? People can't see their faces, and they slashed the fourth-level earth beast with one sword, although it is only a defensive beast, but after all, it is an earth beast, and it is famous for its beast skin as thick as armor, how can ordinary people cut it? This person is at least a sword sect powerhouse, and it may be higher. This made Li Yang worry for a while, generally the strong people of the Sword Sect are the masters of the sect, and my Golden Sword Sect master is also a mid-level Sword Sect powerhouse. Is it friend or foe to such a strong man on the territory of my Golden Sword Gate? What is the purpose of coming here? Is it simply to hunt for the demon core or is there some other purpose? No matter what, such a person appears under his eyelids. I need to get the news back to the door quickly, and I'll go back tomorrow when I get the Earth Spirit Grass.

"Elder Li has a glass of wine, this is monkey wine, it is specially prepared for Elder Li," Xia Song said on the side. He didn't say that Jiang Hai got it. Some secrets can't be known. And it is this kind of ally that only has interests, Xia Song knows this very well.

"Oh, why is Old Xia so polite, so it seems to be out-of-the-box......... Know that we are important friends. ”

"Naturally, I was a good treat for my friends. ”

"It seems that Xia Lao is planning to get drunk under Luo. Then I can only sacrifice my life to accompany Junziluo. ”

"It's okay to get drunk, I have a lot of first-class rooms in this summer mansion, and you can stay for a few days if you want. Xia Song said heroically, and the wine glass in his hand was raised again.

In the toast and persuasion. After a long dinner, the hall has long been dispersed, the farming has to go on, and life will not change because of certain things. The hall was a mess, cups and saucers were littered with leftovers, and the air smelled of alcohol. A few of the men were cleaning up the mess.

"By the way, the old summer season has arrived, I don't know if this season's harvest is good?" Li Yang's face was as red as a riverside fire, obviously drinking a lot, and asked

"I can't afford to work anymore when I'm old, and the dog is in charge of this. "Xia Zhi on the side" Shangxian rest assured, this extreme harvest is good, it can be picked in a few days, and Shangxian can take it at any time. ”

"Then I'm relieved. There are some things in the sect that can't be delayed, I don't know if they can be picked for me tomorrow morning? I have to go back to the sect at noon. ”

"Elder Li is in such a hurry, I plan to stay a few more days to entertain you. ”

"If you can't delay things, you will be annoyed by the son. ”

"Don't dare! I'll pick it for the immortals tomorrow morning. ”

"That's good. So, it's getting late at night, and the old man is not strong enough to drink, so let's stop today?"

"Okay. Xiao Liu took the two immortals to the upper room to rest. The man outside the door led the two of them out. Li Yang was supported by Yang Sen, staggering, looking drowsy.

Walking to the guest room, after Xiao Liu left, Li Yang, who was originally sleepy and drunk, suddenly became sober and said to his apprentice Yang Sen, "I think you have something to say."

"Master, I don't understand why you are kind to such a mountain villager, give him a few colors, and give him a hundred years of ginseng. ”

"You don't have the temperament to be hot. Not to mention that I haven't seen you give them a good color since you entered the house, I'm sure nine times out of ten the people at that table are aware of it. You must know how to control yourself and be able to put it away freely. ”

"So what, a group of villagers are worth befriending?"

"Forget it, with your qualifications and the cultivation of the sect, these people will not have any intersection with you in the future. Besides, ginseng is not a hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, but it is cultivated in medicinal fields, and the year is not only forty or fifty years. ”

"Then I won't be whispering to them. ”

"Child, you are really too young, you must know that there is something called profit in this world, so some people have the meaning of their existence."

"Interests, the meaning of existence? I don't know what the master said. ”

I'll tell you a story

Five hundred years ago, the master of the Five Elements Sect, one of the giants of the Tianxuan Continent, suddenly disappeared and there was no news, the sect was leaderless, and the five elders who cultivated the Five Elements had been in charge of government affairs for more than ten years.

The sect master disappeared and the sect lost the strongest man with the number one combat power, and the yin and yang holy method that the sect master specialized in was also lost. The five elders tried their best to explore the art of yin and yang, because this was the proof and guarantee that the sect had stood at the top of the continent for thousands of years. But how could the Holy Law be the Holy Law so easily to be discovered? The original mountain collapsed step by step, and under the suppression of many sects, coupled with the struggle within the sect, it was finally divided into five.

"Could it be that my Golden Sword Gate is ........"

Yes, it is one of them, the one who founded the mountain is the elder who majored in the golden element, that is, our ancestor. Time has passed, at first, my Golden Sword Sect was also one of the best on this continent, but now we can only be regarded as third-rate even in the Qin State. Why is that?

The defects of the exercises and the loss of skills are not as good as the generation, and countless sages and predecessors painstakingly find solutions to improve the exercises step by step, so that he tends to be perfect, but the effect is not obvious. Thinking that my Golden Sword Sect is huge, since the master of a sect is only a strong person of the Sword Sect, it is enough to explain the problem.

But what's the problem? After all, the efforts of generation after generation will not be able to break this nightmare. Until a hundred years ago, an elder accidentally ingested a herb and broke through.

"A hundred-year-old problem solved?"

"There is no such herb as a relief for the side effects of the exercises. With the possibility of a breakthrough, this is a hope. ”

Do you know that kind of despair? It's a mountain that I, the people of the Golden Sword Sect, will never be able to climb, and it's been a nightmare that has haunted me for hundreds of years. Countless people struggled in despair, only to find that it was futile, and the ropes that bound them would only tighten tighter. Many people do not get out of the bottleneck of life until they die. Like a curse tormenting us.

"I can't step into it the day after tomorrow, in this strong rivers and lakes, have you ever wondered how my predecessors of the Golden Sword Sect survived? But now the problem has been alleviated" Li Yang breathed a sigh of relief from his excitement. "Next is this herb, it's called Earth Spirit."

The five elements of yin and yang, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are mutually reinforcing, yin and yang complement each other, and aquatic wood and wood are born of fire, and earth is born, and gold and gold are born. We majored in the gold element, and the native gold earth spirit grass was a hope, a lifesaver for us

"We need a lot of Earth Spirit Grass, but after decades of research, we found that it can't be multiplied in large quantities. The growing conditions are too harsh, and it can only be wild, but how many wild ones can there be?

"Is there no replacement?" asked Janssen

"The substitution doesn't work so well. Until I saw Xia Song by chance, he was peddling Earth Spirit Grass, and I bought all of his Earth Spirit Grass for a very small price. A few months later, he was still selling in the same place, and I bought them all. It wasn't until the third time that I knew that this person could cultivate a large amount of Earth Spirit Grass, and he must have a way. But I can't get it anyway. I had to make an agreement with him, and my Golden Sword Gate would collect all his Earth Spirit Grass. Now you know why you did this to him?"

"Can't he bribe someone to steal it?"

"I've tried an ordinary and ordinary medicine field, and I've studied the water of the mountain spring and even the soil, but I can't cultivate it at all. ”

"The old guy is hiding it very deeply, there must be some other way. Can't he get a secret out of his family's mouth?"

"Kid, you're so young. If you are not sure of it, do not do something with serious consequences, the cost is too great, and the odds of victory are too small. It's not worth it at all. ”

"But it's always like this?" Janssen was a little unwilling

"If you can't change it, keep the status quo. That will soon change, though. Okay, you can go back to sleep too, we will get the Earth Spirit Grass tomorrow and go back to the sect."

After Yang Sen left, Li Yang did not fall asleep immediately. Sit cross-legged for a while. Am I obscured by something? I do have such a feeling, but when I think back to what I have done and seen in the day, there is nothing out of the ordinary. Is it a delusion? It's just that what is going on with this nameless powerhouse? It is not a good thing to put such a person on his own turf after all. Whatever the purpose, you have to investigate it quickly. The feeling of a sword approaching his throat was not very pleasant. It has almost become an instinct to climb around the rivers and lakes for half a life, and it has almost become an instinct to avoid evil, and you have to hurry back to the door.