Nanjian Mountain is high and unusual.

Li Shouyi took Chu Xuan through winding mountain roads, crossed streams with melting ice and snow, and finally arrived at the front gate of Nanjian Gate.

Chu Xuan was already tired and sweaty at this time, panting. But when he raised his head and looked ahead, the sight suddenly made him despair.

Looking up from the mountain gate, you will see countless stone steps that are ankle-high, and the stone steps are cloudy and misty, and the depths are not the top.

"Grandpa, are we going to walk up step by step?" Chu Xuan swallowed and asked tentatively.

Li Shouyi turned his head to look at him and said, "It's up to you, forget it, I'm afraid you won't be able to climb up for three or four days." ”

As soon as Li Shou said that, he suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed Chu Xuan's back collar and held him in his hand.

Chu Xuan's feet left the ground, and the sound of the wind in his ears was dazzling.

It turned out that Li Shouyi was carrying him quickly.

In just a few moments, the two of them had completed millions of stone steps.

"Wow!"

Reaching the top of the mountain, Chu Xuan couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

In front of him are thousands of huge palaces, pavilions, vermilion walls and tiles, which are not inferior to the imperial palaces of the Zhou State at all. What's even more rare is that these palaces are built on the top of high mountains, and the momentum is magnificent, like a fairyland.

In front of the palace, on a square about 100 zhang wide, thousands of disciples of the Southern Sword Sect gathered together to practice martial arts, and the sound of shouting and cheering resounded in the sky.

"Don't look at it, these people are silver-like pewter heads, useless. Let's go, the old man will take you to the backyard. Chu Xuandao, who had always stayed on the sidelines and watched, said.

Chu Xuan didn't look at it anymore, and obediently followed Li Shouyi. The two of them walked around thousands of palaces for two hours before they reached Li Shouyi's residence.

Li Shouyi lives in a courtyard that looks very ordinary. This courtyard is very different from the high pavilions and huge halls in front of it.

Outside the courtyard is a row of low fences, bordered by several unknown trees. Pushing open the courtyard door, there are several clean thatched huts. On either side of the thatched hut are fields of medicine planted with elixirs. If it weren't for what I saw on this Nanjian Mountain, ordinary people would not be able to see it, this would be the dojo of a sect elder.

Under the medicine field, a little girl about eight or nine years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, holding a leaky pot in her hand, was squatting on the ground, seriously watering those elixirs.

"Seventh Grandpa, you're back. I've been helping you take care of these herbs all these days when you're away, how can you thank me?"

The little girl looked up and saw Li Shouyi walking into the courtyard with Chu Xuan, and said happily.

A rare smile appeared on Li Shouyi's face, and he said happily: "Xiao Xuan'er is so good, come, Seventh Grandpa wants one." ”

The little girl's name is Liu Xuan, and she is the granddaughter of Liu Qinghui, the master of Nanjianmen, and the pearl of the entire Nanjianmen.

As soon as Liu Xuan heard that Li Shouyi wanted to kiss her, she immediately shook her head and refused: "Don't, don't, Seventh Grandpa's beard pierces his face." ”

She suddenly noticed Chu Xuan behind Li Shouyi, and asked curiously, "Huh, who is he? Why haven't I seen him?" ”

Li Shouyi: "His name is Chu Xuan, he is a poor homeless worm, grandpa left him here to help take care of the medicine field, and when I am not there in the future, you don't have to work so hard." ”

Liu Xuan nodded, and then asked Chu Xuan, "Can you tell me how old you are?"

Chu Xuan was a little shy, and whispered: "I, I'm eleven years old this year. ”

"Ah, then I'll call you Brother Chu Xuan in the future. Liu Xuan said happily.

"Well, it's not good. Chu Xuan felt that he was a wasted person, and he felt inferior in his heart.

Liu Xuan said: "What's wrong, as long as it's bigger than me, I'll call it that." Brother Chu Xuan, I'll go back first, and I'll have time to play with you later. ”

With that, she pushed open the courtyard door and left the courtyard in a hurry.

Chu Xuan stood in place, looking at her distant figure, a little stunned in his heart.

After Liu Xuan left, Li Shouyi led Chu Xuan into the hut and arranged a place for him to live.

"Chu Xuan, you will live here for the next three years. After three years, you want to leave or stay, whatever you want. From today onwards, your main task is to help the old man take care of these elixirs. ”

Subsequently, Li Shouyi explained to Chu Xuan in detail:

"Remember, Sanpin's Linglong grass cannot be watered directly, it can only be nourished with early morning dewdrops. There is also the four-grade red flame leaf, this elixir has the worst temper, and it must be watered every three hours, otherwise its medicinal properties will decline. ”

After a pause, Li Shouyi suddenly said: "By the way, when the old man is not there, you have to pay attention to an old madman, be careful that he steals my treasure in the yard." The old man has set up a formation around this medicine field, and if you find that someone is stealing the medicine, you will immediately send a message to the old man, so that the old man can start a large formation and trap him. ”

Chu Xuan nodded and asked, "Old man, how do you summon the message?"

Li Shouyi took out a cyan stone from his arms, handed it to him, and instructed: "When the time comes, if you break this spirit stone, no matter where the old man is, he will be able to rush back immediately after receiving the news." ”

Chu Xuan accepted the spirit stone, and Li Shouyi explained some affairs to him one after another.

In the evening, Li Shou took Chu Xuan to all parts of Nanjianmen to familiarize himself with the environment. The two unconsciously walked to the dining hall of Nanjianmen.

The dining hall was very large, and all the disciples in the sect had a meal here after the cultivation was over, so it was noisy and noisy.

"Chu Xuan, you can eat here in the future. There is a jade plaque in the room in the old man's courtyard, and you can eat here with the jade plaque, and you don't have to pay the bill. Li Shouyi.

Chu Xuan nodded and wrote down his words.

With the help of Li Shouyi, Chu Xuan had a general understanding of the basic situation of Nanjianmen.

There is a total of one sect master and six elders in the South Sword Gate.

Liu Qinghui, the master of the sect, is the general leader of the affairs of the sect, and is usually mainly responsible for distributing resources to the disciples and arranging for the disciples to go out of the mountain to complete the task.

Of the six elders, only four were responsible for teaching disciples and training monks. The other two elders were very idle, wandering around all day long, either looking for elixirs or collecting spirit stones, and Li Shouyi was one of them.

There are two main ways for Nanjianmen to make a living.

The first is to lease land to the people in the vicinity. Although Nanjianmen was built on a high mountain, the surrounding land for hundreds of miles belonged to it. The people in the vicinity cultivated the fields and had to pay taxes to Nanjianmen every year. In return, Nanjianmen is responsible for keeping them safe.

The second is to operate a dart game. Nanjianmen has its own dart bureau in several nearby countries, and the monks in the gate are often sent to various places to escort goods for those wealthy merchants, and every time the guard ends, Nanjianmen will be richly paid. ”

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Under Li Shouyi's arrangement, Chu Xuan gradually settled down in Nanjianmen.