Finally free.

Today, Du Qunfang is as happy as a pond fish swimming into a big river, his grandfather Guo Wuyuan and mother Guo Kunhua's biggest opinion is that he is not allowed to return to the Du clan to participate in the war several times, and he is not allowed to participate in the war in the Guo clan, when the news of Fan Yuntong and others are famous for their fledgling achievements, it is as sad as digging his ancestral grave.

However, he had no reason to blame his mother, who had asked him to choose two of the three women of the Guo clan and the Du clan for him, at least one, and get married and have children as soon as possible, but he himself refused.

Ask people for directions, meet birds to talk, thirst to drink mountain springs, tired of grass and stones, and walk freely. Du Qunfang walked for a long time unconsciously.

At noon, the sun was shining, the thirst was getting heavier, Du Qunfang had a large amount of food, and rushed away, the hungry insects in the stomach followed, and saw several tall duck foot fruit trees in front, and there was a Zhuangzi behind the tree, Du Qunfang said secretly: "Is it the wrong way, turn to Dongting Village." ”

Arrived at the entrance of the village, sure enough, it was the place where I had come once, I saw that the wall of the head of the gate was inlaid with the horns of wild goats, wild deer and other things, and on both sides of the gate there was a tiger-shaped decoration woven with dry mugwort leaves, they called it "Ai Hu", which had the effect of warding off evil spirits and driving away miasma; there was a calamus leaf inserted upside down on the lintel, which was like a sword, and it was also to ward off evil spirits and repel insects.

Du Qunfang stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door twice.

With a "squeak", a white-haired old man opened the door.

Du Qunfang gave a salute and lied: "Passing by the treasure land, I didn't have time to use the morning food, so I begged for some food." ”

The old man beckoned him into the house and called out to the inner room again.

After a while, an old woman brought a small plate of pine nuts and said, "Little guest, eat some dried fruits to pad the belly first." ”

The guest and the host sat down briefly, and the old man asked Du Qunfang where he came from, Du Qunfang answered, and the old man said: "From Wanfeng Village to the grassland, there is no need to cross my village, you have taken a detour." Du Qunfang nodded in acknowledgement.

The old man looked at the scabbard on Du Qunfang's body and said with a smile: "You didn't tell me the truth. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"I recognize you. Besides, the flower engraved on the scabbard of yours is a peony pattern, and I only know one sword with such a pattern. At that time, the mother of the father of the Wuyuan village owner of Wanfeng Zhaiguo, after giving birth to the old old village owner, got a strange disease, groggy, unable to argue people, the witch doctor did all kinds of magic things, all to no avail, and later someone said: Only peony can be cured. Sure enough, with peony, he was cured. Therefore, when the old village owner grew up, he remembered that the peony had the grace to save his mother, so he specially asked the master to cast a sword, and there was a peony about the dark flower. Therefore, you must be the little master Guo Kunhua's hairy dog. ”

It turns out that this is Dongting Village, because there is a big hole behind the village and the name is taken, there are many duck foot fruit trees (white fruit trees) here, so it is also called Duck Foot Ping, it is the sub-tribe of Wanfeng Zhai Guo clan, this old man is the elder of Dongting Zhuang Mu Zisan.

Du Qunfang smiled: "It's not far away. ”

Mu Zisan smiled and said, "You must have run out secretly." ”

"This time it's definitely not, it's on the orders of my grandfather, I went to the grassland. ”

"Understood, let you go to be a tiger ben, a tall one, you should have gone a long time ago. ”

Du Qunfang's intention was not to be a tiger ben, and he didn't want to argue with him, hehe.

After a short time of empty talk, the old woman came out with some hot food.

The woman said: "I didn't expect that it was a rare guest coming, and I still had to eat at noon, so it was simple." You don't set up a dragon gate array, I really didn't remember that you came with the master of Wuyuan Village once. ”

Mu Zisan said: "I was still a child at that time, where can I remember." ”

Du Qunfang thanked him, and he finished eating it without much effort.

Mu Zisan watched him gobble up, and then said, "It seems that you don't know the way, I'll let a kid show you the way." ”

"Don't bother. ”

"I have a boy on the farm who has been to the grassland. Not only can he lead the way, but he is also a helper. ”

Du Qunfang said disdainfully: "I don't need a helper. ”

"As the saying goes: the girder should also be braced. No matter how good you are, it's not a bad thing to have multiple helpers. Although he is a fool, he has some martial arts. If they follow you, they will keep your heart and heart. ”

Du Qunfang heard that he was a fool, and his interest was gone, so he was about to leave, and Muzi Sanqiang stayed: "If you insist on staying overnight, you will have to leave, and you will see you in Wanfeng Village in the future, and my face will be dull." ”

The host guest came to work, and it was difficult to excuse himself, so Du Qunfang had to agree to stay first.

Mu Zisan said happily: "You wait a minute, I'll come when I go." He went into the back room to arrange for the old woman to "entertain her", and the woman smiled and said, "No wonder the magpie is chirping in the morning, and a noble person is coming." Rest assured, rest assured, it will be squeezed for you. Mu Zisan confessed a few words and went out.

Du Qunfang looked inside and outside the house, and saw that this Zhuangzi was a courtyard building, all wooden structure, and the building technology and design were not bad. The main rest building is more than 40 steps long and about 20 or 30 steps wide.

Passing through Zhuangzi and going out of the back door, there is a large earth dam on both sides of the dam, and there are several neat rows of large white fruit trees. Behind the ginkgo trees, there is a higher mountain.

Du Qunfang came here once, but he still felt that the family's backyard dam was too big, about the size of a modern football field.

Between the white fruit trees on the left side of the dam, there is a hole with a wide mouth and a big belly, Du Qunfang has gone to see the hole, it is warm in winter and cool in winter, and it can accommodate hundreds of people.

There are also several rows of tall white fruit trees outside the entrance of the cave, and then there are some flowers and plants outside, and the outside of the flowers and trees is the cliff of Wanzhang, and below is the Longshui Gorge, which is the second of the five dangerous places of the Hu'an Mountain tribe.

Du Qunfang passed through the gap of the white fruit tree, only ten steps, and stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down, unable to see the bottom.

Back in the dam, Du Qunfang saw that on the right side of the dam, in front of the white fruit tree, there was a stand for a weapon with a plagio wood cover, and there were various weapons on it, Du Qunfang knew that the weapon placed in broad daylight must not be a good thing, so he was not interested in looking at it.

On the outside of the weapon rack, there are livestock and poultry pens, and chickens are looking for food everywhere.

Excitedly, he saw several wild goats in a tall and thick wooden cage, and the wounds on the goat's feet or body were probably caught under a trap; on top of the cage were long bamboo poles between two tall pine trees, on which were hung seven or eight small bamboo cages, and in the three bamboo cages, more than ten turtledoves were fed, and the rest were empty.

Du Qunfang teased the turtledove for a while, but the wild goats below were angry and bumped into the circle.

Du Qunfang grimaced at the goat, turned around, and was looking up at the decoration on the roof of the building, when Mu Zisan led a person to meet Du Qunfang.

Du Qunfang saw that he was about sixteen or seventeen years old, estimated to be not much younger than himself, with a delicate appearance, a well-proportioned figure, a ruddy and clean face, mixed with other boys, with a wild and earthy smell on his body, like a beautiful shy girl, wearing a short-sleeved linen coat with a head in primary color, ** feet.

It is as normal and common for Pakistani men to be barefoot as people now wear shoes, so there are historical records of "left-handed, exposed-haired, and bare-footed".

Sweeping down his face, Qunfang saw a rather beautiful ivory neck ornament hanging from his neck, on which was an eagle with its wings spread. The eagle is a well-known totem in Hu'an Mountain, and Du Qunfang has also seen a lot of ornaments based on eagles, but he has never seen such a delicate one, and more importantly, this eagle looks different from ordinary eagles.

Du Qunfang wanted to ask him what the origin of his neck ornament was, but he felt that the first meeting was a little abrupt, so he just looked at it twice. I secretly thought: "People can't look good, look at him, don't look like a fool, let alone a warrior with strong martial arts." ”

Mu Zi said: "Mu Mangzi, I saw the little master of Wanfeng Village, don't you hurry up and see you!"

The kid said, "Which one is he?"

Mu Zisan said: "The grandson of the owner of Wuyuan Village, a large hairy dog." ”

The kid bowed and said, "I have heard the name for a long time!"

Du Qunfang was taken aback, thinking that this sentence was quite decent, and said with a smile: "You are really a fool?"

"I'm papaya. ”

Du Qunfang smiled.

Mu Zi Sanling Du Qunfang returned to the inside from the back door of Zhuangzi, Mu Mangzi followed behind, entered a guest room, Mu Zi San said: "I have to go to the closet myself today." The two of you talk. ”

After that, I went to the kitchen.

Du Qunfang and Mu Mangzi sat on the ground.

The two are the same age, and this Du Qunfang is a person who can't stop talking when he opens his eyes, he is not restrained for a while, and he talks nonsense for a long time, and Du Qunfang speaks, and the kid says the last sentence from time to time.

Du Qunfang felt that talking to a fool about knowledge was like surrendering his identity, so he said: "I heard that you can do martial arts, do you dare to compete?"

"Bet on what?"

Du Qunfang didn't expect a stupid person to like gambling, and said with a smile: "What did you say to gamble?"

Mu Mangzi said: "Seeing that you have a sword on you, you will bet on the sword." ”

"I can't bet on my sword. ”

"If you don't dare, forget it!"

Du Qunfang thought that the victory was in his hands, and said angrily: "Why don't you dare!" and said with bad intentions: "Bet on the ornament on your neck." ”

"I don't want to kill this!"

"And what do you bet on?"

"I also have a sword. ”

Du Qunfang thought to himself that his sword was a relic of his father, and he must not be used as gambling money, and said: "There is no need to gamble anything, try your hand, within twenty times, if you can't win against you, I will worship you as a brother." Mu Mangzi agreed.

The two went to the earthen dam of the village again, Mu Mangzi took down a bronze sword from the wooden frame of the weapon, Du Qunfang thought that he didn't need to use a sword to deal with a fool, put down the sword, and also took a sword at will.

No need to go through the motions, the killing will be up.

Du Qunfang thought while receiving the move: "This stupid baby, I don't need three tricks to teach you to be obedient." Seeing that his sword path was softer, he was even more contemptuous, and after eight or nine rounds, he couldn't win, Du Qunfang secretly said in his heart: "It's really still the sea water that can't be measured, and people can't look good." Then I used five distractions.

began to work hard, Du Qunfang felt that he couldn't understand the other party's path, and he didn't seem to stab him hard, but he had a power that could not be careless, and in the past, there were only less than ten tricks.

After the fourteenth and fifteenth years, Du Qunfang shouted impatiently: "Can you change a few tricks?"

"That's all I can do. ”

Du Qunfang was taken aback, retreated two steps, and said, "Stop!"

Mu Mangzi smiled: "You can't afford to come?"

Du Qunfang snorted and said, "Who did you learn from in this swordsmanship?"

"Saying it scares you to death!" Qunfang was even more shocked, and said, "I'm not scared!

Mu Mangzi smiled: "I don't have a master. ”

Du Qunfang was even more surprised: "Who are you?"

"I told you, I'm papaya. ”

Du Qunfang wondered, thought for a while, and said, "Go get some water to drink first." Again, go and fetch your sword, and I will see it. ”

The more Du Qunfang thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out, and when he was thinking, Mu Mangzi brought a wooden bucket of water, and the two of them drank a large wooden scoop from the sea.

Du Qunfang took the sword that Mangzi said, observed it carefully, and knew that this sword had been around for a long time from the color of the sword and the degree of wear and tear of the hilt, and there was a tiger-shaped pattern on it, but he couldn't determine what kind of sword it was and what specific tribe it belonged to the White Tiger Clan, and said, "What is this sword called?"

"Sword. ”

Qunfang wanted to be angry and laugh, and said, "Where did you get it?"

"Chosen. ”

Du Qunfang sneered: "Are you going to grab the expenses again?"

What can be asked from the mouth of a fool, Du Qunfang didn't want to ask any more, and secretly thought: "His sword is from the White Tiger people, and his neck ornament should be from Hu'an Mountain, so he may be a person from the Hu An Mountain Clan." How did you get here?"

During the break, the two got up and tried again. This time, Du Qunfang didn't want to rush to subdue his opponent, but deliberately observed Mu Mangzi's sword path, and the more he looked, the more he understood: he really only had a few moves back and forth, and he felt a little soft.

The more Du Qunfang looked at it, the more he didn't understand: although his tricks were usually simple, he was extremely familiar, and the sword and his body were integrated, and there was no leakage. Du Qunfang thought to himself: "I only use a few tricks, but I can't take advantage, I don't know if he has any other tricks? ”

Du Qunfang used eight full distractions and secretly intensified.

Look at the almost thirty moves, still can't take it, Du Qunfang has rarely encountered an opponent, although he has never been to the battlefield to really do it, and he thinks he is a master, today he actually didn't take advantage of more than thirty moves, and his heart became anxious.

At this moment, someone panicked and shouted, "Stop!"

Mu Zisan came to eat with the two of them, and stopped the two, Du Qunfang was secretly ashamed in his heart, and the words were full, but fortunately Mu Zisan came in time for the rain, and then laughed: "People are going to be unlucky, the eggs hit the legs, you almost ruined my reputation!"

Mu Mangzi hehehehe

Mu Zisan complained that Mu Mangzi didn't know the height of the sky, and he didn't know how to send his life if he gave his life in vain.

ended, before stepping into the threshold, a smell of mutton came to the face, which made people's mouths water. Mu Mang lowered his head and was anxious to enter the house, and slammed his head on the door on the left, Du Qunfang couldn't stop laughing.

Entered a side room. Du Qunfang saw a stone brazier set up in the room, the fire rose in the pot, and there were several stone shelves, on which was a triangular pockmarked pottery kettle, and the meat fragrance came out of the kettle.

The three of them sat around the brazier, and the hostess brought spoons, scoops, and other things.

Du Qunfang took out a piece of meat from the pottery kettle and put it in his mouth, it was very fragrant and tender, and he even shouted "delicious!" But seeing Mu Mangzi suddenly covering his stomach and crying out in pain, Qunfang sneered: "Is the sheep not dead?

Mu Zisan glared at Mu Mangzi and said, "Don't care about the head and don't care about the tail!

Mu Mangzi finally swallowed the meat with a red face and swollen neck, and said, "Don't drink again?"

When Du Qunfang's heart went up, Mu Zisan smiled and said, "Big dung still needs dog shit to drench!" took out a clay wine pot from behind him.

After eating a few mouthfuls of wine and meat, Du Qunfang said, "There are only two people in the elder's family?"

Mu Zisan smiled: "No. I have a son and grandchildren, and my in-laws have something to do these days, and they went to help. There are also two daughters, one married into the Zheng family many years ago, and the other married into the Longshui Dam Cun family. The ancestors of the Cun family were mostly exiled to Longba in the early years, and they were willing to return to the Guo family, and the Guo family was regarded as the same surname, so they also belonged to Wanfeng Village.

"My Muzi clan also belongs to the Guo clan like this, so some people call me Guozi three, and some people in my village call papaya Guomangzi. I have three brothers, and I am the third. The eldest is a cook in Jiangzhou Ba Palace, the second is a chef in Hu'an Palace, and I stay at home as an elder. ”

When the meat was full, he began to drink wine. Du Qun said: "Mu Mangzi, tell me, where does your martial arts come from?"

Mu Mangzi felt that he wanted to talk about business, so he had to be liberated first, and said, "I'm going to a mouth." "That's it.

Mu Zisan smiled and said, "It's a little bit of a swelling again." You just tried his martial arts, how is it? Can you take him with you?"

Du Qunfang felt uncomfortable that he didn't understand Mu Mangzi's sword path, and wanted to find another opportunity to find out, so he said: "The elder has spoken, I don't dare to push back." ”

Mu Zisan thanked him and told a lie: "Last time Menglong Gongzi came, I tried his martial arts, nodded and praised, I wanted to ask him to take it away, but I was afraid that he would blame." It's just right today. ”

Du Qunfang said: "I haven't heard of this person before?"

Mu Zisan was telling the origin of Mu Mangzi, Mu Mangzi came back, he had forgotten his business, and he wanted to eat again, Mu Zisan said: "You eat less and talk more." ”

The old woman said, "Let him eat enough, and when he goes tomorrow, he will have less." ”

Mu Zisan said: "If you eat diaphragm, you have to eat croton." ”

Mu Mangzi said: "As long as you eat it in your mouth, you can pull it if you want to." ”

All three laughed.

Eat and drink well, and the old woman arranged to make a mat.