Chapter 44: Horizons and Perspectives

In the afternoon of this day, Zheng Yan was explaining the music score and the three seven-tone scales and the twelve rhythms to Jingshu Xingwei, as well as the recognition of the tune, I have to say that these two people are definitely good students, if Xingwei can converge the charm and charm a little more, it would be better, the mastery of skills, especially after the complete production of a pipa, there is really a feeling of being all the way, Zheng Yan will naturally not be stingy with praise, and finally can set off in advance, I thought that I would stay for more than ten or twenty days, although there are beauties here and the hidden worries and worries over there can not be erased, and they are getting heavier and heavier。

After eating early in the morning, Shuangyun was dragged by Xiaoluo to Xuanming Valley to call people, because two days ago I received news that the officials from the monitoring station sent by the imperial court would arrive today, and Xingwei, who knew the worldly human feelings, wanted to pull them over to leave a good impression on the Qincha first, in fact, now the demon cultivators especially live in the sphere of influence of the human race, and they are somewhat dependent on people's breath, especially under the rule of a behemoth like the Great Zhou, although the supervision is not too strict now, but after all, for the demon cultivators, it is still necessary to learn from some of the cultivation methods and exercise secrets of the human race, and most of the demon cultivators themselves do not have a complete and systematic inheritance, and there are very few people like Mrs. Li who open mountains and accept disciples。

Xuanming Valley is more than ten miles away from here, with their cultivation is also a matter of lifting legs, so far they haven't come over or maybe people are unwilling, I heard Xingwei say that Yang Yujing is a toad spirit who has practiced for thousands of years, Wu Huang is a centipede spirit who has practiced for thousands of years, Wufu is the most powerful, and the practice is the same as Xiaoluo for more than 3,000 years, bat essence, naturally more mature than Xiaoluo, who is a vine spirit, and his cultivation is also more profound, and the spirits within a radius of hundreds of miles have received his favor, in Xingwei's words, he is a loyal elder, but his temper is also stubborn, and he still adheres to the creed of freedom as a spirit。

Suddenly, a frivolous male voice came from outside, it seemed to be teasing Shuangyun, followed by chaotic footsteps, and soon several people entered the house, the first one was a thin old man in black linen, the old man seemed to be very unhappy, and his qi was not stopped, Chong Xingwei nodded and glanced at Zheng Yan again, sat on a chair in the corner and began to close his eyes and recuperate, Zheng Yan was shocked by the strength of the old man's overflowing qi; a short and fat middle-aged man smiled innocently, and said hello to Xingwei Jingshu and sat aside,

A slender and slightly evil young man stared at Zheng Yan, and was about to say something when he was swept out of the window by Shuangyun's whip leg, whether it was Shuangyun's leg or the trajectory of the young man's slide, Xiaoluo giggled very happily, stretched out a rattan in his hand and rolled the young man back, looking at Shuangyun, probably meaning to do it again,

The young man said with a bitter face, "Can outsiders give face?", looked at Zheng Yan and immediately changed his expression, and said viciously, "Is this kid going to marry Shuangyun?

The short and fat middle-aged man on the side was very aggrieved, and the young man waved his hand and said, "I didn't say you, yes, that is, I said that you have been stalking for so many years, and the yellow fairy has promised you?

The middle-aged man must be Yang Yujing, who seemed to have been poked in the sore spot, and the whole person collapsed, shrunk back in the chair and sighed.

Wu Huang looked at Zheng Yan again, looked at him very seriously, and then turned to look at Shuangyun aggrievedly, "Where is this kid good? Who is better than me? How could you fall in love with him? If it weren't for Ning Yi's face, I would have killed him now, do you believe it or not?"

Shuangyun had already sat next to Zheng Yan, casually flipping through a book of books and asking how to read this and what it means, it was very glue-like, Wu Huang on the side was full of grief and indignation, and shouted to the sky and squatted on the side to sulk.

Wu Fu suddenly opened his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Say it in advance, I won't help them do things, they'd better not bother me, if you mess with me, I'll go to the wilderness",

"How can I mess with you?" a cold voice came in,

The old man snorted coldly and was very rebellious, Zheng Yan was trembling, Shuangyun on the side was a little puzzled, and the other people all looked at the door, either getting up or still sitting upright.

Four people walked in at the door, and in front of them was Shen Ningyi, who was leading the way, who was a little embarrassed at the moment, and explained to a graceful and dignified middle-aged woman next to her, and the middle-aged woman walked straight to Zheng Yan and saluted respectfully, "Slave maid to meet Your Highness",

Zheng Yan hurriedly got up, and said helplessly, "Aunt Ji, don't be so polite, I didn't expect you to come, it's no problem now",

Aunt Ji was the personal maid of the eldest grandmother in her early years, and later entered the Sedum Prison, and she was half of the grandfather's apprentice, so the relationship with Zheng Yan was naturally not said.

No one noticed that Wu Fu on the side was already full of embarrassment and discomfort, and everyone basically looked at the woman who had just entered the door and the young woman behind her, who was heroic and beautiful.

The woman stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Yan and said with a light smile, "I thought you would eat and sleep in the open and suffer a lot, but I didn't expect that Hong Yicui would be so unhappy, and she is still staying here", she said and looked around, and several women were a little unnatural under her gaze,

Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed, looking at Shen Ningyi on the side, Shen Ningyi reacted and introduced several people one by one, Zheng Yan naturally knew that it was impossible for Jingfeng to be stationed here, she belonged to the Criminal Department, and the reason why she appeared was probably to escort Aunt Ji, so he pulled her back and gave them the living room.

"Xiangxiang", a gentle and seemingly mournful voice remembered, the originally warm living room suddenly quieted down, and for a while everyone looked around the corner, and it seemed that the person who spoke out in disbelief was actually this old man,

Ji Xiang turned around and looked at the old man expressionlessly, and said indifferently, "Don't you want to leave?"

The old man sighed and sat back in his chair, lowering his head and twisting his hands together as if he had a pitiful feeling, everyone looked at this and that, and the atmosphere was very strange for a while,

Zheng Yan reacted, reminded Jingshu to prepare some refreshments, and smiled and helped Aunt Ji who was shouting to sit down, Ji Xiang refused to sit down in front of Zheng Yan, and it was not easy for others to sit for a while, Zheng Yan had to retreat back and pull Jingfeng outside, and the next thing was to discuss the establishment of a monitoring station.

When she got outside, Qiu Jingfeng looked at Zheng Yan with a smile, Zheng Yan was a little helpless, so she had to roughly tell her how she got to this Ten Thousand Buddha Immortal Cave, and she didn't mention anything else, and Qiu Jingfeng didn't ask.

After that, the two of them were a little silent, Zheng Yan intuitively felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Jingfeng, which seemed to make her a little sad and a little confused, but it was not real, this was a situation that she had never seen before, she really couldn't imagine that Jingfeng, who had always been heroic and decisive far beyond almost all men in the world, would have such a situation, what was the matter!? Zheng Yan couldn't help but be a little worried, so he asked,

Qiu Jingfeng's face was full of surprise, and she said strangely, "Is there one?

Zheng Yan didn't waver, just looked at the person in front of him helplessly, "Jingfeng, I admit that it's just a feeling, I rarely believe in my feelings, but I just know that you must have something, can't you really tell me?"

Qiu Jingfeng was stunned for a moment and smiled gently, grabbed Zheng Yan's hand and looked at the already faint calluses, and suddenly said in surprise, "It turns out that I have reached the Five Realms, congratulations, when did I arrive in the Five Realms? Let me think about it, twelve or thirteen?"

Zheng Yan continued to be unmoved, Qiu Jingfeng chuckled, leaned her back against a plane tree and looked up at the branches and leaves above her head, her expression seemed to be a little relaxed, Zheng Yan could see her white and slender jade neck, in fact, it was said that Jingfeng was really a big beauty, her body and appearance could be said to be perfect, and her natural charm added some grace, provided that she could ignore her temperament and acting style on weekdays, at this moment the whole person looked so virtuous and beautiful, absolutely something,

"Xiao Yan, remember how old I am this year?",

Zheng Yan nodded and said, "Of course I remember, the birthday on the sixth day of the first lunar month, you are twelve years older than me, you are twenty-seven this year, and you will be twenty-eight after the New Year in more than three months."

The woman on the other side retracted her gaze and said softly, "Can you not say it so directly!",

Zheng Yan was puzzled, the woman smiled and asked again, "How old is Zhuo Pingyang this year?"

The corners of Zheng Yan's mouth twitched, but he still said, "Thirty-two,

"Ha, haha", the woman smiled all of a sudden, and Zheng Yan knew that it would be like this,

"You should have called her aunt, I heard that Chun Niangniang took her as a sister back then, hmph, I have to let you call her sister, shameless",

Speaking of which, Pingyang never asked Zheng Yan to call her sister, but Hong Mu Ruhui asked for this, Zheng Yan couldn't call Pingyang, who was younger than them, aunt. Although he couldn't feel the weirdness he had before, Zheng Yan was still a little uneasy, and after thinking about it, he asked tentatively, "Is someone forcing you to marry?" No, no one should dare to do this, urging marriage? Remember that you seem to have a family affair, and that family wants to regret marriage?",

Qiu Jingfeng sneered twice, and Zheng Yan immediately calmed down, "I came to investigate the courtyard on behalf of the Criminal Department this time, and by the way, I will send something to Ning Yi for Lord Ruan and Ning Zhao, this time Ning Yi has entered the Guanqiu Division, and the Ruan family is very satisfied with her performance, when are you leaving?"

Zheng Yan nodded and said, "I planned to leave when you came today."

"Oh, do you want to help a few beauties dredge up the relationship with the court?

It happened that Shuangyun walked out, and said with a smile, "In order to thank Your Highness for your kindness these days, we have agreed to give me to Your Highness",

Qiu Jingfeng nodded and said, "Look at this figure, I just want it, this is what a woman should look like, okay, I mentioned him to be the master",

So the two chatted about their future lives, and even thought about the child's name, and finally said that Shuangyun promised to pull several other people in, Zheng Yan naturally knew that it was a joke, but the appearance of Jingfeng was warm and charming that he had never seen, and it seemed that he really knew too little about her.

Under the pretext that they couldn't stand that they were always joking with themselves, Zheng Yan finally set foot on the road to the north in the afternoon, and everyone came out to see them off when they were about to leave, which made Zheng Yan feel very weird, the originally unruly Wufu stood beside Ji Xiang, like a kind and gentle husband,

It turned out that when Ji Xiang first entered the Sedum Prison, he met Wu Fu, who was still young, and the two of them were fighting and making trouble, and their feelings gradually became deeper and deeper, just thinking about practicing freely, and one wanted to serve the imperial court to reach the top of the martial arts, after all, they were separated because of the different ways.

Qiu Jingfeng tightened her bags to Zheng Yan, hesitated for a moment and said, "They have appropriated the karma guard and Yunlong Wei who should have been assigned to you for other purposes."

Zheng Yan didn't care, and said with a smile, "So you look like you're holding grievances for me, and you've been worried about me for a long time."

Qiu Jingfeng raised her eyes and stared at him, and finally sighed lightly, "Fighting alone in this world will never go well and not far, you will definitely be a superior person in the future, don't do the idea of an ordinary Jianghu monk, you can't escape many things, you have to bear it if you can't escape",

Zheng Yan responded with a smile, "I know, I know, don't let the world urge you to grow up in the most cruel way, Sister Pingyang said the same."

After saying goodbye to a few people and was about to leave, suddenly Jingshu shouted "sir", and several people laughed for a while, Jingshu was a little puzzled, but still handed a gold-skinned gourd to Zheng Yan, saying that it was knotted on the oldest stone statue of the Buddha in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Immortal Cave, and the gourd vine had been cultivated to develop spiritual wisdom, so the gourd Jingshu felt that there was aura, and the holder of the gourd would be blessed by the Buddha.

Zheng Yan looked at it and felt that it was not ordinary, and the gourd was often played with, how could it win people's love, so he postponed it, and Shuangyun on the side smiled and said that there were still a lot of Jingshu in the house, Jingshu couldn't hold it on her face, and whispered that it was the gourd she used to practice, which was different from others, and the tea that Zheng Yan drank these days was made through this gourd, and in the end, Xingwei came forward to help Zheng Yan hang it on his waist.

After saying some parting words, Zheng Yan was finally able to get out, he didn't expect his womanhood to be so good one day, this is not normal, even Xi Lan, who has rarely crossed paths these days, said a few words of peace all the way. This is not normal, Zheng Yan has gone far away and is still a little unacceptable, but he doesn't know, people's hearts are fickle, the world is colorful, and the feelings generated when meeting a person will always be eroded by other disturbing feelings, especially Zheng Yan, a person who can't and doesn't take the initiative to impress people, so if the relationship is not maintained from time to time, it will eventually be shallow, and the spirit is different.

Ten Thousand Buddha Immortal Cave in the southwest direction of Daqinggou, Zheng Yan out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Immortal Cave attached to the west boundary of Daqinggou to the north, saw the endless and misty Daqinggou, before the doubts in the heart were even stronger, originally thought that Wufu knew something, but only after inquiring to know that he also did not know much, but said some ambiguous legends, what Ten Thousand Buddhas Immortal Cave Buddha stone statue appeared before the spread of Buddhism to the east; there is a unicorn under the town of Daqinggou; there is a country established here by the ancient Wu clan and so on.

Daqinggou is the central location, the southwest is the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves, the south is the Xuanming Valley, all of which are places with strong yin energy, and the north is the remaining vein of Hengli Mountain, Dunyang Mountain, and the tiger service enclosure of the Xuanwu Army, according to Yuezhao, these two places are the places where the yang energy is at its peak, Dunyang Mountain is the territory of the bull monster who was pulled out of the horns by Yuezhao, and there are several human scattered cultivators who also opened up caves there, as for the tiger enclosure Zheng Yan knows too well, one of the military horse farms of the Xuanwu Army, which is most famous for producing explosive and fierce Feiyun horses.

Looking at it this way, Daqinggou is the place where yin and yang meet, and it makes sense that there are some strange scenes, but why is it such a terrain? There are indeed many places of Xuanyin and Mingyang in the world, but they are so close that they really haven't heard of it, that is, it looks like one or two hundred miles, Zheng Yan couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he sighed at the wonder of creation, why was it not marked on the map like the ghost Fang Xiaodang who passed by before?

The ghost fang is wandering in order to hide the four major families with witchcraft inheritance, some hermits and that Liuhe Town, so what about here? I heard Yuezhao say that there are not many spirits here, and there are only fifteen or sixteen people who can transform within a radius of three or four hundred miles, and there is no such thing as a forbidden place, after all, there are people who have gone to Daqinggou to build such a large courtyard, and they only know it until the nearest nearby monitoring station, and they are still informed by the imprisoned Qin Tianjian people.

Zheng Yan couldn't help but have some realizations when he watched the sunset fall, he followed his grandfather out before, and what he saw and heard was the silent wind and sunshine, but now it was his turn to go alone, but the surroundings were full of wind and rain, which could not be said to be illusory and real, but only to be said to be the angle and position, this time the grandfather did not send someone to accompany him, probably in order to gain his vision and pattern.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yan couldn't help but feel a little open-minded, looking at these beautiful mountains and rivers, he also felt a little emotional, and really should come out to take a look, but even if he looked down in that city, he couldn't see so many vivid scenes, it turned out that the old man who sacrificed wine said "past, future, present; heaven and earth are six together; pitch, up, flat, all kinds of minds" is a problem of explaining cognition and thinking.

Seeing that the time was not early, Zheng Yan put aside his mind and was comfortable, the atmosphere was broad and metaphysical, and finally remembered that he should find a place to spend the night, this wilderness where there is no village and no shop in the past, in addition to the hills and forests are the grass and water, listening to the sound, the tigers, leopards and wolves should also come out to forage, and sure enough, food and clothing are the basics.

Until midnight, I finally saw a lonely beacon standing there in the wilderness, during which I scared off a black panther and a tiger, and beat away a tiger with my bare hands, and scared away seven or eight wild wolves with a sword.

Zheng Yan remembered that there had been no war for seven or eight hundred years, and it must have been even earlier, because it was completely built and watered by ashlar barriers, so it was preserved.

First cleaned up the feces inside, then found some dry grass, dead leaves and branches, roughly sealed the door with stones, lit a fire and ate the dry food prepared by Xingwei and finally relaxed, the night was not only uneasy is safe, it was very strange.

A slender figure slowly walked in the distance, and seemed to smile when he saw the light from the beacon tower.