Seekers should regard good and evil as grass and mustard, sweet and bitter as white water, and living beings as earth and stones.

Zheng Yan has never understood the meaning of this sentence very well, but it is often seen in the notes of some ancestors. The practice of monks, whether it is refining the physical body or nourishing the soul and condensing the spirit, is to enhance their perception and make it easier for them to perceive the "Tao".

The continuous rain lasted for three days, and the wind blew again the next day, seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, this was really bleak and cold, although Zheng Yan's cultivation realm was not high, but in terms of physical refining and other senses, it was much more sensitive than the monks of the same realm, therefore, in such weather, it became more and more difficult to travel, and now it has not reached the level of the release of the true yuan, so it is impossible to protect the skin of the body from the cold rain, and can only run the true yuan in the body while riding a horse to barely offset some,

In fact, ordinary monks, even those who can already release their true yuan, will not spend their true yuan to offset the discomfort caused by this change in time.

In this way, he drove for three days in a row, and every night he only rested in the middle of the night and set off again, to a post station to change a horse, Zheng Yan was not worried that someone would track the imperial treasure, it was too public, and it was easy to be discovered by the imperial court in the local supervision of the imperial history. Listening to the meaning of the old man who sacrificed wine, some of the people who were worried about themselves along the way, some were for double cultivation of the furnace, some were kidnapping tickets for extortion, and some were hired to ruin their reputation, thinking about it, it seemed that he was really a "fat sheep", and finally it was Deng Nan and his subordinates, those believers.

I really felt that someone was following me before, but I couldn't determine the identity and purpose of these people, so I rushed day and night, and I didn't feel like being stared at in the last two days, so Zheng Yan relaxed a little.

In the past three days, I have almost walked seven or eight hundred miles, and I actually admire my resilience a little, I think I have already thrown those people away, is it not that I deviated from the post road and came to a soldier who does not get tired of deceit? Forget it, you can't leave the post road casually, although there are no mountains and mountains around, but there are also a lot of dense forests and hills, who knows what will happen, and the villages and towns have become less and less in the past two days, you can see a few in four or five miles before, and now you can see one in four or five miles, and the scale is also much smaller, and it is almost half of the way out these days, and it should be almost to Bianbei City.

Within a radius of 300 miles from Bianbei City, there are military registrations, and it is the location of the Xuanwu Army, one of the eight field regiments of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The reason why this 300-mile radius is demarcated is because this area produces many kinds of natural pure gold, as long as a little refining can get extremely high-quality pure gold or even Taiyi pure gold, it is one of the main areas of ordnance manufacturing in the Great Zhou Dynasty. There are numerous furnaces, the scale of the ironwork workshop is very large, the division of labor is very efficient, the land is not only self-sufficient in cultivation, but all the rest is planted with various kinds of high-fat trees for smelting, and the population is sparse, mostly concentrated on both sides of the three main roads, and in the mines and places with abundant water.

Zheng Yan thought that Bianbei City had a headache, remembering that the head of the Xuanwu Army in Bianbei City was Long Xiang General Bu Yanwu, and among the deputy generals was Li Taijie, these three guys were firmly opposed to the Zheng clan's participation in politics, or they would not have been arranged here, when they passed by with the grandfather before, these three guys also ignored them, that is, for the sake of the grandfather's face, if he was alone, he didn't know how to make it difficult, in order to avoid trouble, Zheng Yan felt that it was better not to alarm these guys, it would definitely be troublesome to see.

Now it is close to evening, the west side of the sky finally appeared a long time not seen sunset, the rain has become sparse and falling, the wind has stopped, there is a small post station in front, go in to inquire, and learn that it is only more than two hundred miles away from Bianbei City, it turns out that the confusion has entered the boundary of Bianbei, looked at the clothes on the body, and felt that there is no problem, Yingyue prepared the casual clothes of the general Jianghu rangers, all of which are coarse fabrics, very inconspicuous, and when they came out of Anxing City, they tidied up their faces a little, and they couldn't recognize themselves when they thought about it.

As usual, he returned the horse first, mainly because he was afraid of losing money in an accident, and it was difficult for a penny to be a hero when he went out, Zheng Yan listened to the people in the house when he was very young, and if he lost the horse of the post station, he estimated that he would have to sleep in the open to Baoyue City.

I went to the next door to eat and stay and booked a room, listened to the discussion of the merchants in the lobby a little, there was no special news, and I didn't find any suspicious people, and then I went back to the room, the clothes were damp early, I took it off and threw it into the basin and rubbed it, and found that there was a hot tub, and I had to take a bath for a while, and I couldn't stay in Bianbei City tomorrow, at least I had to go to the next post station, and I recuperated today.

Changed into a clean underwear, the guy just sent in a pot of tea first, and after a while, he brought in two dishes, a plate of steamed buns and a roast chicken, this meal cost eighty yuan, Wu Xiu spent a lot of money on eating, Zheng Yan was at home in the past few years, and the cost was not comparable to going out, he tore off a chicken leg and was about to gnaw it, when he was suddenly stopped by a plain hand, crystal like jade and perfect soft fragrance, strange, shouldn't he be surprised by the hand that suddenly appeared? How did you think of this? Zheng Yan couldn't help but think, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the person who came.

"Xingshuang!Why are you here?haven't you eaten?give?", Zheng Yan was very happy, and handed the chicken leg to the girl who suddenly appeared,

The girl sat down with a slight smile, put the chicken leg on the plate and complained a little helplessly, "You are still so arrogant, don't you know that this meal has been drugged?"

Zheng Yan picked it up and sniffed it, with a worried face, "No, I can't smell it, I thought I dumped those people, hey! Xingben Sword! When did you get it?"

Smelling the chicken leg and seeing the long sword with the light blue scabbard that Xingshuang placed on the table, he put down the drugging matter,

Xingshuang looked at Zheng Yan's appearance with a smile, there was no surprise, "I went out to borrow it this time, how could I get it, let's eat, only the roast chicken was drugged, and eating it means sleeping for a while, why didn't Yingyue Xinluo come?"

Zheng Yan handed a pair of chopsticks to Xingshuang, gnawed on the chicken leg and said, "I don't want to come, I don't want to go out and suffer, and I don't insist",

Xingshuang ate the food, hesitated for a moment and said softly, "It's okay if you don't come, you know what will happen this time, right?"

Zheng Yan nodded, and said calmly, "It's Shu Wei and Xiaowu, right? They must not be happy, are they replaced? Is there any room? You said that I can hide directly in Yiwang Mountain for a while?"

Xingshuang looked at Zheng Yan and smiled, "Don't you like both of them? If you can't hide from them, who do you want to be? Yujing or Xuelai?or Zheng Lu and Zheng Lin?",

Zheng Yan gnawed on the chicken leg and lowered his eyebrows and said, "Why can't it be you?" Haha, just kidding, don't be angry, you know I don't have a door, but it's been a lot better over the years, and I can definitely change it in the future,... I don't really care, I think you know, anyone can do it, as long as people are not strongly opposed, every day the eyebrows are cold and don't look up and look down to think about it, of course, it is best to avoid it."

Xingshuang looked at Zheng Yan's eyes a little serious, Zheng Yan thought about it and looked surprised, "It can't really be you, right?" You know",

Xingshuang picked up another steamed bun and took a bite lightly, Zheng Yan was stunned for a moment and hurriedly removed his eyes, every time he would be attracted by her lips, he just thought it looked good,

"When you went back for the first time when you were eight years old, the elders of the clan began to look for a partner for you, and finally determined Shu Wei and Xiaowu, they were still young at the time, and the parents said that they would make a decision when they grew up, you know that the clan will not be forced, but it will also exert pressure, and in the past two years, the two of them have entered the top 20 one after another, and they have made it clear that they don't want to follow you, and the elders will not say anything more, so, the candidate has not been decided, I just said to pick you up, probably they misunderstood, Sister Lan was also coming, and it is estimated that she will be locked up at this time." ，

Every year, the clan will rank the young children in the clan based on the examination and scoring of cultivation and reading, as well as daily performance, and generally only rank the top fifty, and these fifty are divided into three levels, the top ten are one level, the eleven to twenty are one level, and the last thirty people are one level, and each level has some special rewards, such as magic weapons, special instructors, experience opportunities, and nothing else, but there are still some potential things, such as room for fulfilling the clan arrangement.

Zheng Yan eats the whole chicken and then stops eating, it doesn't seem appropriate to watch people eat, speaking of which he has been able to see her once every two years since he was eight years old, living for more than a month, but in fact, there is no intersection, and there is usually no correspondence, the older he is, the more alienated he becomes, but for some reason, he always feels different from other children in the clan, and he wants to be close to her, probably with a similar temper.

"You eat first, I'll take a shower, I haven't washed it when I go out, or I'm going to be disgusted by you again, it's true, I still remember the first time I saw you when I was a child, I didn't dislike you at that time, but now I'm disgusted by you",

Zheng Yan said and turned to the back of the screen, there was hot water in the water tower next to the post house, and the pipe was connected to the top of the bath barrel in the room, as long as the plug was pulled, there was still a shower.

Xingshuang froze for a moment when she heard this, looked at the figure behind the screen and whispered to herself, "It's not because of you, you were counted down by them back then, and somehow you have a problem with cleanliness."

Zheng Yan sat in the bathtub and looked at the hot water that kept flowing down in a daze, the mist began to fill, today is August 12, and it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days, I don't know what Yingyue and Xinluo are doing at home, Xinluo must be practicing, Yingyue is probably reading, or playing the piano, doing needlework? Maybe she is also practicing, Chunmei and Xia Xue have already married, Cheng Feng said that he was going out to do errands, I don't know when I will go back, Uncle Xu has been gone for more than three years and there is no news, and the mountain sect does not communicate?

When he was thinking about something, Zheng Yan suddenly felt that his body was completely immersed in the water, boundless water, no bottom, no top, his eyes were full of transparent light blue, illusion? The first thing that came to mind was this, what the skin of his body felt was indeed real water, and he really couldn't breathe, this illusion had some doorways, and if he couldn't understand it for a long time, he might really suffocate to death, how long did he stay underwater in the summer practice class? an hour or two quarters of an hour? Xingshuang is fine, right? Wait, wait, no matter what, people don't seem to have to worry about themselves, is this being attacked?

"Are you used to putting life and death aside or do you simply trust me, why aren't you in a hurry at all?", the girl looked at Zheng Yan who was calm in the bathtub and asked softly with a calm face,

Zheng Yan silently took a towel and covered it on the bath bucket, and said with a red face, "Of course I trust you, and no one killed me, I was just doing something strange when I was caught, what happened just now?"

Xingshuang looked at Zheng Yan seriously, and after a while, she frowned and said, "Do you want to evade responsibility?

Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed and a little ashamed under the girl's calm gaze, and reluctantly smiled and said softly, "I just think about it, I haven't really done it",

"Someone probed here just now, I forgot to help you cover up your breath, it's my lack of experience, fortunately I did other things, last time Xinluo taught me a concealment technique, the first time I used it on others, it seems to have been overused", Xingshuang didn't relent, and walked out after speaking,

The lights were turned off and the two of them lay on the bed together, but one head was facing the other and the head was up.

"I have something to tell you, in the past two days, I have dealt with three batches of people who are ready to fight your idea, six days ago, Limenyi was the Guxin Venerable Liu Xin and his double monk Hu Hu, Liu Xin wanted to get your body by taking the house, probably still thinking about getting through the fool, this person's means of taking the house are very clever; three days ago, outside Anxing City, there were Meixi Huagu and her four heads, this woman was probably tricked; yesterday Liujiayi Zhao Nanji and her good friend Oatmeal Wang, you should have met in Anxing County, and the others don't know what the situation is",

Listening to Xingshuang's narration, Zheng Yan didn't feel anything, the cultivation techniques and techniques were all in the hands of the big forces, and it was difficult for people at the bottom of the cultivation world to see the hope of coming out in their lives, which made it easy to have the idea of fighting for their lives, Sedum Tianjian often received reports of attacks and thefts from forces attached to the imperial court, and the same was true for the six divisions of the Zongren Mansion where Xinluo was located.

Zheng Yan didn't like this kind of ambiguous thing, he was a little irritable, he turned over and saw Xingshuang's pair of jade feet, the fair-skinned jade was a little dazzling, so he had to turn it over again,

"Does it smell?", Starfrost's soft voice came from the other end,

Zheng Yan said helplessly, "Have you ever seen that monk with athlete's foot?

Xingshuang sat up and looked at Zheng Yan who was lying in the room, thought about it and said, "I know, how did you scratch my feet when I was a child?"

Zheng Yan also sat up, looked at the girl in the dim and said seriously, "I'm responsible,

Xingshuang suddenly chuckled, lay down again and said with a smile, "I also figured it out later, why didn't Yingyue let us sleep together at that time, and also blocked back those girls who went to play with you, she was afraid that you would be sandwiched between several parties in the future, and she was afraid that the person next to your pillow would one day share a bed with you and even part ways, if... The clan really sent me to you, what should I do?"

Zheng Yan was a little helpless, and after lying down, he thought about it and said softly, "I heard that you haven't been in the top fifty, is that what does aunt mean? What does uncle and aunt mean? I think it may be that we think too much, in fact, as long as we stand there and don't need to do anything, we can achieve the purpose of the clan, and if you take the initiative to do it, it is not good."

"My aunt didn't say let me follow you, she only said that you are very good, if I am willing to let her be the matchmaker, your grandfather and grandfather will definitely agree, and you will not object, will you object?", Xingshuang said softly,

Zheng Yan sighed quietly and said softly, "I'm definitely not going against their wishes, but if you don't want me, you can."

Xingshuang seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and kicked Zheng Yan's pillow with her foot, "You always give the choice to others, can't you take the initiative?",

Zheng Yan said angrily, "Let's talk about each other, don't talk about the second",

Suddenly there was silence around them,

"Starfrost...",

"Don't Talk",

"Alas",

"Didn't you hear anyone approaching? stupid", Starfrost explained in a low voice,

Zheng Yan sat up cautiously, but was protected by the girl, and whispered helplessly, "Are you learning something wrong with Ying Yue? Shouldn't I be protecting you at this time?"

"Senior brother, I have searched the entire post house, and I have found no trace of that person, Senior Brother Jia found the rental record of the stagecoach on the post house, it was an hour ago, and he has chased it over", a young man's voice came from outside, very soft, but the two people in the room were enough to hear clearly,

"Hmph, your senior brother Jia Qin is really meritorious, I don't know how to die, let's sleep here all night, do you have to rush to find death!", a voice full of sarcasm sounded outside,

"No, senior brother, Senior Brother Jia said that the senior sisters of Xiandumen are coming, he wants to see the demeanor of the senior sisters, are those senior sisters very powerful?",

"Stupid, don't go yet, remember to call the fairy, you say!",

There was no sound outside, Zheng Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a deep voice, "Those two guys just now must be from the Five Thunder Gate, I didn't expect the Xiandu Gate to come too, shouldn't it? When did I become so valuable? Even the Xiandu Gate, whose eyes are above the top, came to join in the fun."

Xingshuang was puzzled, "I've heard of the Five Thunder Gate, both good and evil, I was liquidated by the imperial court once in my early years, and I haven't come out for thirty years, what's going on with the Xiandu Gate?"

Zheng Yan lay down again, thought for a while and said, "I don't know very well, I just heard that they are all women, during the Millennium War, the practice of the Five Thunder Sect was too radical and rude, which made many disciples grumpy and go mad Eight hundred years ago, a woman in Xiandu was successful in practice, and she didn't want to do what the Five Thunder Gate did, so she split out and established Xiandu Gate, just three or four hundred years of double cultivation, and many exercises of the two sects are related, well, it is that the lotus root is broken, and there are major events that often advance and retreat together, and it was the same thirty years ago. Oh, Xiandumen is divided into five parts, each of which has a representative colorful clothes magic weapon, and in addition to the qualifications and talents, the main thing to look at is the body and appearance, and I don't know anything else."