Chapter 14, Shumen

Between the leafy trees, a white figure was constantly shuttling up and down, as if looking for something, and the whole tree was shaking uncontrollably.

Xingyuan, who looked nervous when he saw this scene, slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That Boss Kang, what are you doing all the time in the morning, you are always walking around the trees, it's scary." ”

I saw another movement on the tree, a few pieces of green leaves fell from the air leisurely, after a while, there was a sound of landing behind him, and a big man with a length of two meters stood in front of Xingyuan, and the tall figure made Xingyuan stunned.

"Little brother, why are you here?"

Wang Tiankang squinted and said, looking at Xingyuan in front of him with a smile.

"The fifth child of your family asked me to come to you to get some water to make tea? I'm also doing something good when I'm idle, and I'm helping her. ”

"Little brother, you're talking about morning dew, come and take it, I just picked this from the tree? You hurry up and send it to the fifth child, if the hour passes, its fresh breath will be dispersed for fear of death. Wang Tiankang took out a small crystal vessel containing water from behind him and quickly stuffed it into Xingyuan's hand.

"What? You just walked around the trees just to find this? Xingyuan looked very surprised, holding the bottle and looking at it from time to time.

"Okay, little brother, hurry up and go to the fifth place, if it's really late, I'm afraid the tea thrown by the morning dew will turn sour." Wang Tiankang patted Xingyuan's shoulder and urged.

"Don't worry, I was on the track and field team when I was in high school, so I won't be able to delay much, so I'll see you later." Xingyuan said very casually, greeted Wang Tiankang who was leaving, and began to walk towards the tea garden that Li Fei just said.

"This world is not ordinary, drinking tea is so particular, the water should be morning dew, and the tea should be picked in the morning, so it is not a fart to put it in the morning?" Thinking like a joke in his heart, Xingyuan's steps also stepped out of the gate of the tea garden.

"It's quite timely, you can rest on the side for a while, and after the tea is ready, you will go with me to meet the master in the morning." Li Fei took the morning dew that Xingyuan had taken from Wang Tiankang, and slowly poured it into a teapot that looked a little old. I picked up the tea leaves I had just picked on the side, and after washing them several times, I picked out more than a dozen pieces and put them into the boiling morning dew.

"I said, it's really weird for you to make tea, it's more comfortable to make tea with early morning dew than ordinary water, and you're doing it right, but you don't moisten the tea, nor brew it, but directly put the freshly picked and unprocessed tea leaves directly into the teapot to boil what? And the tea set is not complete. How do you drink this? ”

Xingyuan is very puzzled, he also took a semester of tea art open class in college, although he basically didn't listen to the class, but he still knows a little about the basic tea facilities, but looking at the way of making tea in front of him, it is really extremely weird.

Closing the teapot tightly, Li Fei turned around and looked at the kid in front of him who had been chattering was very eye-catching, and it was not good to get angry directly, so he asked casually: "Do you usually like to make tea and drink tea?"

Xingyuan, who smiled shyly at this question, scratched the back of his head, an unnatural flush rose on his fair face, and after thinking about it, he replied: "I don't make much tea, but when I drink tea, I almost always have to drink a cup every day?"

"It seems that you are also half a tea lover, this point is the same as Master, Senior Brother Yang Chen, by the way, what kind of tea do you like to drink?" Li Fei seemed to be so interested, and couldn't help but answer again.

"Wait a minute." Xingyuan said, walked to the small stove where the tea was boiling, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth and slowly stretched his head over, waiting for a burst of smoke to come out of his mouth. After talking about the cigarette ash in his hand, he replied with a smile; "Milk tea, iced tea, jasmine honey tea, and ......"

He was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted, and Li Fei in front of him said very gloomily; "Get out, stay on which side it's cool!"

"Hey, that's boring." Xingyuan took a cigarette in his mouth and walked out of the tea garden with a disgraced face.

Finally arrived at the time of the morning meeting that everyone said, Xingyuan followed Li Fei to a hall in this mysterious place, where Wang Tiankang, Yang Chen, Chen Jianhong, and Jin Hui were already standing.

It's strange to say, Xingyuan has also watched a lot of TV series in ancient costumes, no matter which sect it is, the discussion meeting will be in the most solemn hall, and the worship is either the tablet of the previous heads, or the statue of the martial saint Guan Yu, and it is safely placed in the center of the house, that is, the morning meeting here, just put a long offering table in front of a three-story ancient test building, and there is no tribute on it, only an old incense burner is placed on it alone.

"I'm just waiting for you to come." Wang Tiankang, who was standing on the side of the hall, still had his honest smile in his mouth, and said: "Let's put incense on the ancestor first, little brother in a while, my master and his old man have something to say to you."

Xingyuan, who was holding three sticks of incense, walked to the offering table, pretended to bow down, and at the moment when the incense was inserted, an amiable laugh came out of the house.

"Kid, how are you recovering lately?" The old man walked out of the house with steady steps and asked with a smile.

At this moment, Xingyuan, who was hanging on to his son, instantly put away his temperament, and replied respectfully: "Thanks to the old man's wonderful medical skills for rejuvenation, coupled with everyone's careful care, it is twice as good as before the injury."

As soon as these words came out, the smile on the old man's face became even better, and he muttered: "Child, you go into the room and sit down for a while, wait for me to explain some things to the disciples, and then come and negotiate with you."

Walking into the three-storey ancient test building, Xingyuan's eyes lit up, and the two portraits on the wall in front of him had the same momentum as the old man outside the door. On the top of the portrait, on a mahogany plaque rubbing the moon, there are two large block letters "Shumen" inlaid with gold powder of unknown style, and the other two places in the house are placed on two tall bookshelves, on which many old books are neatly placed.

Xingyuan walked under a bookshelf, picked up a copy and flipped through it.

"Record of Clearing Grievances", "Taiping Technique", "Tao Te Ching", "Degree of People", "Earth Symbol", "Zhou Yi", "Seven Star Tips"

Dazzling for a while, although I can't understand it very well, but the district envoy who is curious still looks at it from time to time.

"This old gentleman, there are a lot of ancient books in the collection, and those who can read these books must be living immortals, and I will have to ask him to give me some guidance and confusion, in case the conversation is good, if I show me a clear way, then I am not developed!"

"Son, how does it feel to be in my house?" The sudden voice behind him frightened Xingyuan, who was holding a copy of "Zhou Yi" and was in reverie, and couldn't help but tremble all over.

Hurriedly put the books in his hand on the bookshelf, and said apologetically with his eyes full of apologies: "Old man, don't mind, I moved your things without your consent, I was just curious, so I took a look at it casually."

The old man also smiled inadvertently, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, the child sits." Pulled out a chair next to him and sat down.

"Kid, do you like my books?" The old man continued to ask with a smile

"I like it, I like it, but I just can't understand it." Xingyuan scratched his head and said

Then he looked at the old man again and asked, "Old man, forgive me for my short-sightedness, and take the liberty of asking, what kind of sect you are sending in Shumen, can you tell me about it?"

The old man's smile was still so amiable, and the corners of his mouth raised a comfortable smile: "Child, have you ever heard of the Shushan faction?"

"Of course, the Shushan faction, the full name of the Shushan Sword Immortal School, formerly known as the Immortal Sword School, the Shushan League, was founded in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the main teacher of the creation was the Taiqing Zhenren, but it was formally established during the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang, believing in Taoism, the Three Emperors, and the Five Spirits. The representative martial arts are: swordsmanship, formation, and talisman. Sir, what am I talking about, isn't it very powerful? ”

Xingyuan said that the head was the Tao, and a burst of spittle stars flew in all directions. The old man asked with a laugh

"Son, who told you all this?"

"Du Niang, do you know each other? He has gathered the knowledge of our whole country! The old man's bright smile flickered, and Xingyuan couldn't help but be complacent, but the old man's words behind him surprised Xingyuan.

"Du Niang, just like a double-edged sword, can help people, how can it hurt people. Any nonsense can also be said to be the Shushan faction, which is processed and fabricated by the world in order to arouse the interest of others, and touch some wild histories handed down by the people. ”

"No, old man, although the research of wild history is not strong, it cannot be said that it must be fake, everything is possible without definite confirmation." Xingyuan continued.

"Child, Shushan does exist, just like you just said, during the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, but it is a faction in the orthodox Taoist sect in the world and the same as what it believes in, and there is no so-called sword immortal, those are made up by the people hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Shushan's martial arts, formations and runes exist, but Edgeworth said that it was just a myth that had been handed down. The old man deliberately took off the end of the last sentence and sighed incessantly.

"Sir, what I know is from Du Niang, so what I said to you must have been learned from some ancient books, right?"

Facing Xingyuan's inquiry, the old man's face leaked the vicissitudes of life in the blink of an eye, "Ancient books... Hey, think how strong my huge Shu Mountain was thousands of years ago, after that catastrophe, there is only the remaining vein in front of my Shumen! ”

Hearing such words, Xingyuan was even more impressed by the old man in front of him, thinking that he was just an otherworldly master, but he didn't expect him to be a descendant of the legendary Shushan faction.

"Child, did that Du Niang tell you? Is the purpose of my Shushan sect? ”

Faced with the old man's question, he couldn't help but laugh dryly, "This... This one... I only saw those netizens, what they said was quite mysterious, what kind of sword to eliminate demons, cultivating immortals and ascending, I have a headache when I hear it. ”

The old man sitting on the chair also laughed heartily after hearing this, but his face reflected the trace of sorrow just now. said: "Cultivating immortals and ascending? It is precisely because of that illusory desire that my Shushan faction has fallen to the end of only my Shumen lineage. The purpose of our door is to have good thoughts in the heart, right and wrong are clear, people are not for me, I am people-oriented, I have practiced, self-cultivation, self-cultivation is supplemented, all by the will of heaven to follow the nature, so as to achieve the right result of cultivation. I don't want to be turned upside down by those self-centered greedy people, and the miasma is smoky. O human heart! ”

After a long time, the old man's expression eased slightly, and he looked at Xingyuan who was at a loss on the side, and said: "Child, see that you are kind-hearted, and you want to come to my Shumen is also fateful, it is better to stay, be the last disciple of my life, the old man will definitely teach you what he has learned in his life." ”

"Okay, just report the old gentleman's life-saving grace to me, I don't look like a liar, besides, I haven't had anything to do lately anyway, learn some life principles from you, and if you go out in the future, maybe it will be smoother."