The wind and snow were dangerous, and the three rode all the way to the hinterland of Shihao country.

Many of the tall cities where the soldiers must fight are already in a devastated state, but they are rural areas, and most of them are lucky enough to escape the military disaster. However, the displaced people fled to all directions and left their hometowns, but they encountered three heavy snowfalls in a row after the beginning of winter this year.

Ma Duyi is kind-hearted, Zeng Ye is simple, no matter people or ghosts, he doesn't look like a real Shujianhu monk, so when Chen Ping'an passed through a county town and said that he would pay for the locals to help open a porridge shop and a medicine shop, after doing this, they continued to leave, which made Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye particularly happy.

Chen Ping'an took out the Qingxia Island enshrinement jade plaque, hung it on the waist on the other side of the sword, and went to the local government.

Before this, they had already traveled through many counties, the closer they were to the middle of Shihao Country, the further north they went, the more dead people there were, and they could already see more soldiers and horses, some of them were stragglers of Shihao Country who had retreated south, and some of the warriors had new and bright armor, and at a glance, they looked like them. Zeng Ye would feel that those soldiers of the Shihao Kingdom who rushed to the northern battlefield might be able to fight with the Great Li Iron Cavalry.

But Chen Ping'an knows very well that once there is a war, these soldiers who have been wearing new armor from the arsenals of various places and holding weapons that have been sealed in the dust for many years will die quickly, and only a few lucky people will have the opportunity to change from "not knowing how to die" to "know how to live" pawns step by step.

In the long time of the lotus blessed land, Chen Ping'an witnessed many tragic battles that determined the national fortunes of the four countries.

In the vast world, Chen Ping'an has also seen with his own eyes the military appearance of the scouts of the border army in the south of Dali, and if he knows the slightest thing, he will understand why the border army of Dali has the title of "Warrior on the Ridge", all of them are on the hills in the pile of bones, and the last surviving veteran of a hundred battles, Xu Dali In the past 100 years, a twenty-year-old young border soldier has fought battles and seen more dead people than the forty or fifty-year-old real power generals on the side of Shihao Kingdom.

Chen Ping'an actually thought further, Shi Haoguo, as one of the vassals of the Zhu Ying Dynasty, did not mention the Yellow Crane Han Jingling and others, only said that the vast majority of this vassal country, just like the prince Han Jingxin who died in his own hands, dared to personally fight and kill the Da Li scout with two accompanying monks, and the northern border army from General Yin Wei was directly defeated, and the emperor of Shi Hao State was still trying his best to draw troops and horses from various border passes, and was stuck on the road to the south of Da Li.

Why is Shi Haoguo willing to act like this? He did not hesitate to use so many lives as a roadblock, and he also wanted to slightly block Su Gaoshan's Dali Iron Cavalry?

The literati said in the book that the winter should be dense with snow, and there is the sound of jade breaking.

Chen Ping'an raised his eyes and looked into the distance, the road was also snowy, and the mountains were snowy, just like God had pressed a heavy burden on the world.

Chen Ping'an sighed, but he was slightly relieved when he thought of the sound of iron armor in the Lingguan Temple that night.

This way to the north, Ma Duyi is okay, he has been a spectrum immortal master, and he has also been a scholar of the Eight Classics, and he is naturally sad, but he is not too shocked, but he has seen a lot of purgatory-like scenes in the world, day after day, even Zeng Ye, who would often cry silently at the beginning, was a little numb.

During this period, Zeng Ye was possessed by men's femininity again and again, some fulfilled their last wishes, and some only regretted that their hometown had long been a matter of fact.

And the femininity of the woman who lives in the beauty of the fox skin talisman paper has left the world one by one, such as Su Xinzhai. There will be new women's femininities constantly relying on rune paper, walking in the world, each rune paper is like an inn, a ferry, coming and going, there are joys and sorrows of reunions, there are yin and yang separated farewells, according to their own choices, between words, there is truth, there is concealment.

On this day, Chen Ping'an took Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye to visit the county guard's mansion together, unimpeded.

The local county guard is an obese old man who can barely see his eyes, and in the officialdom, he likes to laugh when he sees people, and when he laughs, he can't see his eyes even more.

In addition to the nearest immortal cave to the county town, he hired an immortal master to go down the mountain to guard, and he was in a hurry to go to the hospital, and he also attracted two cultivators from unknown sources, saying that it was ugly, that is, he didn't look down on the lower five realms of the mountains and fields before, and the immortal master who was also the lower five realms, in a fit of anger, almost returned directly to the mountain, the county guard said that he added three snowflakes to the monthly Yulu, so that it was not easy to keep the mountain immortal who did not want to be with the wild cultivator, the county guard was painful and distressed, fortunately, Chen Ping'an came to the door, immediately felt that the extra cost of three snowflakes per month was worth it, because the spectrum immortal master was worthy of being a real immortal that Ye Xiu could not compare, as soon as he got started, he knew that it was a "very open" treasure object, and it was definitely the so-called eye goods of the connoisseur, anyway, he recognized the first-class worship jade plate of Qingxia Island, which was bigger than the sky, and trembled, and almost didn't kneel and kowtow to the young immortal from Shujian Lake.

Then things are easy to do, the self-proclaimed surname Chen worships the old man, said that he will open a porridge shop and a medicine shop in the county town to relieve the people, and he will pay for the money, but it is troublesome for the government to contribute to it, and the money still has to be calculated. It should be unbelievable, the immortal master next to the old county guard is not much better, a good man from Shujian Lake, isn't it almost the same as the big demon opening up the mansion and calling himself an immortal master?

However, the two seemingly respectful and cowardly Yamasawa Ye Xiu glanced at each other and did not speak.

After that, it made everyone feel even more strange, the young worship surnamed Chen made the old county guard invite a group of officials in the official office who are good at household registration and taxation, business and arithmetic, and everyone sat down together and began to discuss the details carefully. How many idle manpower will not delay official business, and so on, each link has been carefully scrutinized, so that the old oilmen of the government office are like facing the enemy.

After the deliberations were over, the county guard office started work that night, and the officials and officials scattered one after another.

Chen Ping'an and the three lived in the backyard of the government office, but in the middle of the night, the two Shan Ze Ye Xiu secretly came to the door, not afraid of the "Qingxia Island first-class worship" surnamed Chen, and the obedience and prudence during the day, diametrically opposite, one of the Ye Xiu, rubbing his fingers and thumbs, smiled and asked Chen Ping'an if he should give some hush money, as for what "Chen worship" is plotting against this county town, whether it is money or magic weapons, the two of them will not care.

At that time, Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye were still in Chen Ping'an's house, and it was rare to chat.

Because he is as dull as Zeng Ye, he can't figure it out, Mr. Chen is clearly doing what he wants to do step by step, although there will be such and such ups and downs and unsatisfactory, and there will be futility again and again, even if it is some small wishes, it can not be achieved, but after all, there are still many yin ghosts and ghosts who appear in Shihao Kingdom, and like Miss Su, they are not so regretful.

It stands to reason that Mr. Chen's state of mind should be getting more and more relaxed.

But that's not the case.

So Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye will sit with each other without disturbing Mr. Chen's thoughts, mostly she and Zeng Ye are chatting nonsense, Mr. Chen never gets bored, but he doesn't like to talk very much, but occasionally I hear the two of them arguing about things the size of sesame mung beans, or pure nonsense about the glow of yin, Mr. Chen will laugh, Ma Duyi Zeng Ye is often inexplicable, feeling that they have said funny words, Mr. Chen has no reaction, why are some of the slightest unfunny words, but laughing?

At this time, the one person and one ghost who stepped on the small stove under the table and ate melon seeds felt very interesting after seeing the self-made cleverness of those two Shan Zeye Xiu.

Ma Duyi's eyes narrowed, and he was very curious about Mr. Bookkeeper's response.

Chen Ping'an smiled and asked, "Then how many snowflakes do you think is more fair?"

A Ye Xiu has already had a draft, "The little brother can imitate a piece of Qingxia Island's worship jade plate, and even in front of a spectrum immortal master, he can be blinded to pass the test, it can be seen that it is a big deal, tonight just opened a porridge shop and medicine shop, and smashed a lot of real money, so this hush money, how should there be a ...... Forty or fifty snowflakes? I don't know what the little brother wants? Are you willing to give up this little money so that you can make a lot of money in peace?"

Chen Ping'an stretched out his hands and pressed the shoulders of the two Ye Xiu, "Since I have been seen through by the two seniors, then I am going to kill people, why bother to pay for the hush money, in case you take the money, go back and add a total, but you have to get an inch, come and go, don't say the trouble, maybe it will hurt me a big thing, it's better to do something simple, I don't know the two of you, what do you think?"

The two mountain cultivators were horrified in their hearts, this was pressed on their shoulders, which actually caused the qi to shake and the aura to stagnate.

Without waiting for the two of them to plead, Chen Ping'an said with a straight face: "I have a big plan, you two, maybe you can help a little, but if you want to leave this county alive, first take out a sum of money to buy your life, although you are only monks of the lower five realms, you should have a ...... Forty-five snowflakes?"

The two Shan Zeye Xiu, who were not wealthy, were like mourning and took up thirty-two snowflakes, which was really gone.

Chen Ping'an took the fairy money and waved his hand, "After you go back, stop a little, wait for my news, as long as you are interested, when the time comes, divide a little bit of your leftovers, dare to move your mind, the real value of your life is directly stripped from the key qi mansion, and when the time comes, you should not call the earth and the earth to be spiritual, and you will regret going to the county guard's mansion." ”

The two Ye Xiu, who finally did not give their peers the "gold belt of robbing the house", were glad to have survived, but also felt unexpectedly happy, could it be that they could still be blessed by misfortune? When the two Ye Xiu went back together, they always felt that there was still a little hanging, but they did not dare to sneak away, and they also felt sorry for the more than 30 hard-earned money they had worked so hard to accumulate.

Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye laughed happily.

Chen Ping'an sat at the table, "When we leave the county town, we will return the snowflake money to them." ”

Then Chen Ping'an turned his head to look at Zeng Ye, "In the future, when I go to the state and county cities further north, there may be things to do to open a porridge shop and a medicine shop, but do one everywhere, it depends on the timing and occasion, don't mention these first, I have my own plans, you don't have to think about this." However, if there is a porridge shop pharmacy matter, Zeng Ye, it will be handled by you, dealing with all aspects of the government, in the process, you don't have to worry about making mistakes, or afraid of spending more money, it is not a major matter worth paying attention to, and although I will not interfere specifically, I will help you watch it on the side. ”

Zeng Ye nodded vigorously at first, and then stopped talking.

Chen Ping'an said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, but you have to start with it." ”

Zeng Ye didn't say anything more, both apprehensive and excited.

It seems that it is more comfortable for this young man than the matter of cultivating.

Chen Ping'an said again: "When you feel tired or bored, remember not to be embarrassed to speak, just tell me directly, after all, you are cultivating now, and you are still focusing on cultivation." ”

Zeng Ye nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "Mr. Chen, don't worry, I will definitely not delay my cultivation." ”

Chen Ping'an smiled.

In fact, the teenager should only be more diligent and attentive.

Since then, the porridge shop and medicine shop in the county town have been carried out in an orderly and rapid manner, which is not only familiar with this kind of thing on the Yamen side, but of course it is the relationship between the county keeper and the personal supervision, as for the identity of the young man in the cotton robe, the old county guard said it in a fog, and he didn't understand anyone, which made people a little awe-inspired.

Three days later, Chen Ping'an asked Ma Duyi to quietly put the thirty-two snowflakes in the room of the two Shan Zeye Xiu.

Then the three horsemen came to a porridge shop near the city gate, stopped their horses far away, and after turning over and dismounting, Chen Ping'an bothered the immortal master who had sent him all the way to help take care of him for a while.

When he arrived at the porridge shop, Ma Duyi was reluctant to be a "beggar", Zeng Ye didn't feel that he needed to drink a bowl of rice porridge that was as light as water, so Chen Ping'an went to queue patiently by himself and asked for a bowl that was still "thick" A little bit of rice porridge, as well as two steamed buns, squatting on the side of the road outside the team, eating steamed buns with rice porridge, from time to time there will be the shouts of the officials in the ears, the officials will talk to the local poor people and the refugees who have been displaced here, loudly tell the rules, not to be greedy, can only be divided according to the head, when drinking porridge and eating steamed buns, you should not be greedy, eat and drink in a hurry, but make a mistake.

Chen Ping'an looked at the long queue, among which there were many local young men who were dressed quite thickly, and some were holding their own children and eating sugar gourds in their hands.

Not far from Chen Ping'an's side, there was a handful of local men gathered together, with no yellow face and thin muscles, eating and drinking, while complaining that pig food was not good.

Chen Ping'an just chewed silently and swallowed slowly, his mood was not wavering, because he knew that the world was like this, and it was difficult to cherish the things that didn't cost money in the world.

After returning the porridge bowl, Chen Ping'an walked to Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye and said, "Let's go." ”

Three rode out of town.

Ma Duyi was thoughtful, and in the past few days, he has accompanied Zeng Ye to often visit the porridge shop and pharmacy, and found some clues, and after leaving the city, he finally couldn't help but start complaining, "Mr. Chen, at least thirty percent of the silver we smashed down, and put it into my own pocket for the officialdom oilers in the government office, I can see it really, Mr. Chen, why can't you see it, why don't you scold the old county guard?"

Chen Ping'an just said, "That's it." ”

Ma Duyi was about to die of anger.

Zeng Ye was even more shocked.

The young man really didn't know, where could he see through the twists and turns of these officialdoms.

Ma Duyi saw that the bookkeeper was gone, and he was really more and more indignant, "Mr. Chen! If you do this again, I won't help next time! Let Zeng Ye, this stupid boy, do his own work, and see if he will help you!"

Chen Ping'an thought about it, and gave Ma Duyi an explanation that was not an explanation, and said slowly: "Since it is a good deed, the thing is roughly done, and it is not satisfactory, so don't be too demanding, I am psychologically prepared for the greed of thirty percent of the silver, in fact, my bottom line is even lower, and the officials who handle this matter can accept it if they fill their pockets and steal forty percent." Thirty percent or forty percent is regarded as a reward for their really good deeds. ”

Ma Duyi didn't expect such an answer, he wanted to be angry, but he couldn't get angry, so he simply didn't speak.

Chen Ping'an smiled: "If you feel unhappy, as long as you are willing to help Zeng Ye, my bottom line can change from forty percent to two percent, how about it?"

Ma Duyi was satisfied, and began to ride the horse a little closer to Zengye's side, and she and the young man with elm pimples patiently explained the experience and tricks.

Chen Ping'an suddenly slowed down the horse's hooves slightly, and took out a long small wooden box from his sleeve, the seal text is simple, it is a small object given by Tan Yuanyi of Lisu Island, it is regarded as a heart of the alliance of the three people, it is quite rare, it is a small sword mound of good quality, only one finger length, extremely small and compact, easy to carry, used to load the communication flying sword, but it is not as flexible as the large sword room, the rules are rigid, and only one messenger flying sword can be sent and received at a time, and the aura loss of the warm and nourishing flying sword is far beyond the sword room, but even so, as long as Chen Ping'an is willing, he can definitely easily sell a Gu Yu money, so of course Chen Ping'an would not refuse Tan Yuanyi's kindness.

Opening the small wooden box that had been trembling slightly, Chen Ping'an received a teleportation flying sword from Qingxia Island, and the secret letter said that after Liu Laocheng of Gongliu Island learned that he was already in Shihao Country, he gave a message to Qingxia Island, just one sentence, "Come back to my palace Liudao to discuss the price."

Chen Ping'an clenched a snowflake money, and the aura was like a drop of water dripping into one of the sword dregs in the wooden box, and then pressed an ingenious mechanism on the wooden box, and the flying sword of Qingxia Island swept out of the wooden box sword dregs, disappeared in a flash, and returned to Shujian Lake.

Zeng Ye couldn't take his eyes off it.

Back then, in the humble sword room on Maoyue Island, he had also done miscellaneous work, but this kind of small sword mound that he had only heard of and had not seen was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes, which was really wonderful.

Ma Dui Yi is no better.

Chen Ping'an put away the wooden box into his sleeve and exhaled with his hands, which was great news.

As he himself said to Zeng Ye, everything in the world is difficult, and everything has a difficult beginning.

Chen Ping'an and Liu Zhimao, who should have been enemies, and Tan Yuanyi, the spy of Lisu Island for no reason, formed an alliance with the three.

ran to Gongliu Island again, personally involved in danger, and dealt with Liu Laocheng.

And take the opportunity to come to various parts of Shihao Country and "make up for mistakes one by one" to learn more about the national situation of Shihao Country.

Naturally, there is something to ask for.

Chen Ping'an had a conversation with Gu Can's mother in the house near the mountain gate of Qingxia Island, but the woman may not be able to listen to it at that time, many of Chen Ping'an's seemingly understated words, she probably won't think deeply, maybe she won't take it seriously, her heart is actually not complicated, for her and Gu Can, in the suddenly changed Shujian Lake, I hope Chen Ping'an can keep them safe, I hope that the bookkeeper can remember the old love, don't live up to the name "Ping'an".

There are a few sentences in it, which involve "the future of Shujian Lake, may be different".

The woman may not have delved into it.

Chen Ping'an was already doing it.

Chen Ping'an wanted to take it step by step, and responded to the two half-truths and half-truths that Liu Laocheng said on the ferry, "Do everything." "It's so ambitious. ”

Because Liu Laocheng had already sensed the clue and guessed that Chen Ping'an wanted to really change the rules of Shujian Lake from the root.

Fake things take advantage of the situation and do their best.

Chen Ping'an didn't talk about the good and evil of people first, that is, he was doing one thing, treating everyone as a chess piece, and drawing a larger piece of chess shape of his own as much as possible, from chess pieces to chess shapes, and then to chess postures.

He hopes that in the future Shujian Lake's rules, at least he can participate in it and make rules

So Liu Laocheng asked Chen Ping'an at that time if he learned chess from Mr. Qi of Lizhu Dongtian.

That's it.

Between the words of the two sides, in fact, there has always been a tug-of-war.

Among them, the undercurrents are surging, intrigues, on the chessboard, looking for each other's spoons, unreasonable hands, and fairy hands, all of which are their own exquisiteness.

In the face of Liu Laocheng, a monk of the Five Realms on Gongliu Island, or even in the face of Yuanying Liu Zhimao, Chen Ping'an actually relied on his fists to speak, once he crossed the line, strayed into the battle of the avenue, and blocked the path of any of them, it was tantamount to seeking his own death. Temperament and rules.

If possible, Han Jingling, the prince of Jianhu, who fled to Shujian Lake, Huang He, the son of the general of the border army, and even Su Gaoshan, the general of the great army, Chen Ping'an will try to make a deal with them.

The difficulty is that compared to making up for all kinds of mistakes in order to seek a peace of mind, for those yin ghosts and ghosts to complete their wishes, Chen Ping'an's other game of chess secretly planned at the moment is more difficult, this is the first time Chen Ping'an tried to build a chessboard as a chess player, the key is not to make a mistake, and if you accidentally lose the whole game, this is equivalent to Chen Ping'an making the biggest spoon.

As for the former, let Gu Can, who doesn't want to know his mistakes, stop his mistakes, and then make up for his mistakes, Chen Ping'an will not lose more in addition to spending energy and money, but he is not so walking on thin ice.

But the reason why Chen Ping'an, who is extremely good at hiding his emotions, was that even Zeng Ye noticed the subtle ups and downs of Chen Ping'an's mood before?

It was because after Chen Ping'an saw off Su Xinzhai and them, there was a bigger and seemingly inexplicable disappointment, lingering in his heart, and he couldn't linger at all.

That feeling is not in the slightly gloomy Qingxia Island house before, when all the ghosts have not been invited, just look at the Helling Yama Hall on the table, Chen Ping'an closed his eyes and rested for a while or went to bed before falling asleep, it was like the kind of ghosts crying wolf outside the door of the heart, knocking on the door vigorously, shouting and cursing.

After seeing him off one by one, Chen Ping'an's disappointment came from the fact that he suddenly discovered one thing, among the names of those who died in vain in the ledger, the ones that made him really feel the most guilty, such as Su Xinzhai, who had always been obsessed with Huang Lishan and his teacher, but he let go of his obsession and chose to leave the world completely. On the contrary, many of Chen Ping'an's feelings of guilt at the beginning were not as good as some of Su Xinzhai's names and some of the feminine objects, and they had more demands, there would be the lion's last wish to open his mouth, there would be the greed of people and ghosts, and there were many, many yin things that were still resentful after death, and they all temporarily lived in that Yama Hall and imitated the glazed pavilion.

In fact, after Chen Ping'an made up his mind before, he didn't feel too much guilt, but Su Xinzhai and them made Chen Ping'an feel guilty again, even more and heavier than at the beginning.

That feeling lingered outside the door of the heart, but outside the door, they had decided to leave the world, they did not complain, did not have the slightest abuse, but it was like after knocking on the door gently, the movement was extremely light, and even seemed to be worried about disturbing the people inside, and then they just said the same parting words, "Mr. Chen, I'm leaving." ”

At this moment.

Chen Ping'an suddenly grabbed the horse's belly, accelerated forward, got out of the muddy official road, and made a detour to a small hill.

Drive the horse to the hills, the high and low roads are uneven.

Chen Ping'an reined in and stopped at the top of the hill.

Zeng Ye wanted to pat the horse to follow, but was stopped by Ma Duyi.

Chen Ping'an looked around blankly.

There are sword raisers and swords on the waist, and you can also ride the horses in the wind and snow.

Actually.

Alone, with nothing to rely on.

Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye stopped their horses at the foot of the hill for a long time, and they couldn't see any signs of Chen Ping'an turning the horse's head.

Ma Duyi, who had previously blocked Zeng Ye, was a little anxious, but Zeng Ye was still patient and not impatient.

Ma Duyi couldn't see this kind of "stupid people have stupid blessings" and "I don't know how to be blessed in the blessings", and laughed angrily: "You have no heart and no lungs, you will not worry about everything if you are full of food and drink." ”

Zeng Ye was just a timid and stupid wooden boy, so he didn't dare to fight back, and the key thing was that he didn't think that Miss Ma was wrong.

Ma Duyi was about to speak.

Chen Ping'an rode down the hill and fell into the eyes of Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye, as if this Mr. Chen's expression was different.

No longer preoccupied, but the haze has dissipated, and some are still a little happy?

Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye looked at each other.

Chen Ping'an took off his sword cultivation gourd, took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "Continue on your way." ”

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The three riders meander all the way north.

The snow on the road is heavy, the snow melts very slowly, and there is hardly any greenery in the mountains and rivers, but finally there is some warm sun.

I have seen and heard a lot along the way, and I have seen the legendary Dali border pass scouts, bows and knives and old armor, and there is no arrogant look on the faces of the horsemen, and there is no murderous spirit on their bodies, like a river under ice, slowly silent. The big scout only looked at the three of them slightly, and then roared past, making the tall boy who dared to raise his throat wait until the scout was dozens of steps away before he dared to breathe normally.

I also saw groups of wealthy convoys heading south in a hurry, endlessly. From the servant to the coachman, and occasionally open the curtain to peek at the faces of the three riders on the side of the road, everyone is in danger.

Zeng Ye saw Mr. Chen parked on the side of the road, waited until the convoy was far away, and then continued to hurry, and then saw a small box that rolled to the ground and the owner had no time to take care of it, Chen Ping'an turned over and dismounted, opened the box and saw that it contained ancient books, and opened one of them casually, with several book seals, different dynasties, different fonts, and different readers. Chen Ping'an hugged the box, looked back, thought about it, did not return the abandoned bookbox, temporarily put it in the close reach, and continued to get on the horse and hurry.

Ma Duyi had nothing to say, and quipped: "Yo, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person, so you take it for yourself?"

Zeng Ye rarely had the courage to say something uneven, "The things that others don't want, or books, are they just left in the mud and trampled?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said: "They are on the way to escape, even if you delay others for a while, there will be unpredictable results." ”

Zeng Ye glanced at Ma Duyi.

Ma Duyi rolled his eyes.

After that, a woman who was parasitic in the fox skin beauty rune paper, in a small county city that did not suffer from military disasters, she used a slightly unfamiliar local pronunciation, inquired all the way with people, and finally found a high-door mansion, and then a group of four found an inn to settle down, that night Chen Ping'an first put away the rune paper, quietly sneaked into the mansion, and then took it out, let her appear, and finally met the handsome scholar who left his hometown to go to Beijing to catch the exam, the scholar is now nearly half a hundred years old Confucian scholar, holding a slightly sleepy young son-in-law, is pushing the cup with several officialdom friends, eyebrows and eyes flying, friends congratulated again and again, celebrating this person is a blessing in disguise, and got acquainted with a Dali captain, was promoted to the third place in this county town, and friends joked that they would not forget their old friends after being rich, and the old Confucian who was not wearing a new official uniform laughed.

The fox-skinned woman's feminine expression was gloomy, and she seemed to be a little unable to recognize the scholar who was her childhood sweetheart in the past, probably because she was no longer young.

After leaving the mansion, the fox-fur beauty walked down the silent street with Mr. Chen.

Chen Ping'an said suddenly: "That kid is more like his father, what do you think?"

The woman snorted and suddenly became happy, "It seems to be alas!"

After that, leaving the small county town that the big iron cavalry couldn't look down on at all, the three horsemen continued north.

In a small county town where he needed to stop his horse to buy sundries, when Chen Ping'an passed by a large gold and silver shop, he had already walked by, hesitated, but still turned around and walked into it.

Among them are two old men and two teenagers, both of whom are shop mates, and they are busy.

Chen Ping'an took out a gold ingot with the official seal of Shihao and converted it into official silver and a bunch of copper coins.

The master in the two shops did not intervene, let the young apprentices they brought out busy, the master led the door to practice in the individual, the market, the adopted son will also be able to support the elderly in the future, the master with the apprentice, of course, should bring the disciples who are clever and can help. Two teenagers of about the same age, one with a clumsy mouth, similar to Zeng Ye, and the other with eyebrows and eyes, as soon as Chen Ping'an stepped into the threshold, the smart young man looked at the guest from head to toe, back and forth twice.

Chen Ping'an gave the gold ingot, according to the current Shihao country market, took a slightly premium official silver and copper coins, when talking, first said the official language of the Zhu Ying Dynasty, the two teenagers were a little confused, Chen Ping'an spoke in the same unfamiliar Shihao official language, so that the transaction was smooth, and Chen Ping'an left the shop.

Inside the shop, after the cotton-robed man left the shop.

The wooden boy was still immersed in the joy of making a sum of money for the store, and then kicked his good friend who grew up together, and following the latter's sight, the wooden boy found that the two respective masters who were arguing almost all the time sat together and discussed things seriously.

After Chen Ping'an returned to Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye, Ma Duyi asked with a smile: "A small county town, such a big shop, and there are two qi practitioners?"

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "It should be a selection of disciples, and each of them has taken a fancy to a young man." ”

Ma Duyi pouted and said, "Two old monks who have died in the realm of the cave mansion, what a good seedling can they find." ”

Chen Ping'an smiled: "I'm about the same for this kind of thing, right?"

Ma Duyi snorted coldly.

Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the two old men, one should be a Sea View Realm monk, and the other may even be a Dragon Gate Realm monk. It's just that the two old men noticed you early, so they quickly hid their qi and deliberately made you mistakenly think that it was the Dongfu Realm, as for why they didn't simply pretend to be the old men of the market, they should think that in this kind of remote and small place where the aura is thin, the two Dongfu Realm monks are enough to deter us who cross the river, and they are not too shocking, so they are all old rivers and lakes. ”

Ma Duyi's eyes lit up and said, "Mr. Chen, what if people think that we are going for them? For example, if you want to dig their corners? Mr. Chen, I think it is inappropriate for you to enter the store." ”

Chen Ping'an said with a smile: "So we, the outsiders, immediately set off after buying the sundries, and, as we said in advance, when we leave the county gate, remember that no one should look left and right, just bury their heads in the road, so as to save them from being suspicious." ”

Ma Duyi was a little puzzled, because she still didn't understand why Chen Ping'an wanted to walk into that shop, which was not the usual style of this bookkeeper.

Chen Ping'an asked Zeng Ye to go to a shop to buy things alone, and Ma Duyi led the horse to stop on the street outside, and explained softly: "What if the two old men are not here to collect disciples? Not only are they not immortal masters, but they are even crooked cultivators in the mountains and fields? ”

Ma Duyi sighed, with a smile in his eyes, and complained: "Mr. Chen, thinking about so many things every day, you are not annoyed by yourself, but I feel annoyed when I listen to it." ”

Chen Ping'an smiled: "Thinking about this, it won't be annoying." But when I think of your dead face and refusing to return to the rune paper every day, I have to break my fingers every day, and I will be annoyed to spend a few more snowflakes. ”

Ma Duyi said in shame: "It's really boring!"

Chen Ping'an clasped his hands in his sleeves and smiled without saying a word.

It wasn't until Zeng Ye finished buying the odds and ends that Chen Ping'an told them a little interesting story, saying that on the side of the shop, the monk of the Longmen Realm, who was more advanced, chose the young man of Mu Ne, the monk of the Sea Viewing Realm, but chose the smart young man.

But these are the little things in the eyes of outsiders.

Maybe for those two teenagers who are still ignorant for the time being, they will not understand until they really set foot in cultivation in the future, and that is a big thing.

Just like after the three horsemen parted ways with Xu Mao.

A young woodcutter who happened to pass by accidentally tripped and fell, but when he opened it, he saw the picture under the snow, which scared the boy half to death.

Maybe there is a providence in the dark, and the young man who is about to endure the hard days gritted his teeth, strengthened his courage, and dug the snow to the bottom.

When he left tremblingly, the young man had an extra jade pendant that exuded warmth.

That piece of Han Jingxin as a piece of beloved jade pendant, one side of the seal is engraved with the three ancient seals of "Yunxia Mountain", and the other side of the seal is engraved with a piece of Taoist poetry of Yunxia Mountain.

On the avenue, fortune and misfortune are unpredictable, a drink and a peck, the difference between cloud and mud.

After that, Chen Ping'an rode three horses and continued to hurry, a few days later, in the evening, as a result, on a relatively secluded road, Chen Ping'an suddenly turned over and dismounted, walked out of the road, and walked to more than a dozen steps away, in a snow with an extremely strong smell of blood, with a wave of his sleeves, the snow scattered, revealing a tragic scene inside, not to mention the severed limbs, the chest was all hollowed out, and the death was miserable, and it should have been dead not long ago, at most a day ago, and this area that should have been contaminated with yin and evil spirit, there was no sign at all.

It was the work of a monk with a unique secret art.

Ma Duyi couldn't bear to look at it directly, and Zeng Ye even ran to the side retching.

Chen Ping'an buried the corpse a little far away from the road, and before that, he tried to piece together the whole corpse of those poor people.

After Chen Ping'an finished doing this, after making sure that there was no one nearby, he took out the imitation glazed pavilion from among the nearby objects, and invited a yin object that was a monk of the Longmen Realm before his death and was made into a ghost general by Yu Hui after his death.

Then this ghost general who maintained his wisdom spent most of the day and took the three horsemen to an inaccessible mountain, at the border of the territory, Chen Ping'an put Ma Duyi into the rune paper, and then let the ghost general live in Zengye.

I started to climb the mountain, and finally found a cave in the mountain with the word "Qin" engraved on the cliff.

The pattern of the landscape itself, in fact, is beautiful, and the cave is located, which is the finishing touch.

It's just that the monk who first opened this monastery cave is long gone, and then it was occupied by the mountain spirits and ghosts.

Chen Ping'an and "Zeng Ye" stepped into it.

After more than 100 steps, the sight suddenly opened up and brightened, it was a huge stone cave, the lights and candles were bright, more than a dozen mountain spirits that had not yet completely turned into human shapes, plus a deep mountain demon sitting on the throne, if he stood up, the height should be more than two zhang, so the body size was as big as a hill, I saw that he was wearing a yellow robe and gold armor, the crown on his head was crooked, there were two beautiful women in revealing clothes, leaning on the throne, kneading and beating the calf of the big demon, next to the throne, there was a red sandalwood official hat chair, sitting a man in green shirt with a playful smile.

Whether it's a human or a demon, it seems that they are all waiting for two fools who have thrown themselves into the net.

The big demon in yellow robe and armor, whose head is still the head of a leopard in its real body, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, shaking a huge wine glass in his hand, and when the scarlet wine spilled on the ground, it gently raised its feet and stepped on the head of a bewitching woman, who immediately lay on the ground, licked the wine clean, and raised its head, his face was full of intoxication.

The man in the green shirt turned around, cocked his thumb, and exclaimed: "King, you have the spirit of 'the general holds a cup to watch the snow fly'!"

The big demon grinned and said, "Look at your mother's snow, where did the flying snow come from? Don't say it's my cave, and the snow has stopped outside for a long time." ”

The man smiled and pointed to the plump breasts of a beautiful woman, "The king only needs to bow his head to see it." ”

The big demon laughed.

The whole cave was filled with commotion.

Chen Ping'an asked, "Finished talking?"

The domineering demon squinted his eyes and said, "Are you in such a hurry to get off the oil pot?"

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "I still have to hurry, it's more urgent." ”

The man in the green shirt smiled: "The world is so chaotic, die early and be reincarnated early?"

Chen Ping'an nodded again, "That makes sense." ”

Half an hour later.

Chen Ping'an and the real Zeng Ye left this cave mansion.

The ghost general who chose to stay in this "Qin" mansion saw the two of them off to the door.

As for the cave behind him.

The "big demon" of the yellow-robed and gold-armored sea viewing realm is so dead that he can't die anymore, as for the green-shirted man of the military advisor, he is not a spirit or ghost, but a human, he still died before the big demon, and his soul was devoured by the ghosts.

Two women who are also human beings, after the secret law prohibition, one chose to attach to the ghost general of the new master, and the other committed suicide by hitting the wall, but according to the previous agreement with her, the soul was collected by Chen Ping'an into the imitation glazed pavilion where the ghost general lived.

As for those mountain spirits and ghosts, some of them were killed, but none of them did not die.

Because Chen Ping'an, a veritable Mr. bookkeeper of Qingxia Island, from the time he started punching to the end, he was actually less than half a stick of incense, and he was settling accounts for half an hour.

Chen Ping'an said to the ghost general: "Before I leave Shujian Lake, I will come to take a look, and in the future, Zeng Ye will also come." ”

The ghost general nodded and said: "I will practice here with peace of mind, and I will not disturb the ordinary masters, now that the world of Shihao Country is so chaotic, there will be no fewer powerful ghosts and evil ghosts that are difficult to find in ordinary times." ”

Chen Ping'an asked, "What about ten or a hundred years from now?"

The ghost will be stunned.

Chen Ping'an said: "Go and fight for the identity of a mountain god, even if it is just an obscene shrine that is not recognized by the imperial court at the beginning." ”

The ghost general bowed, hugged his fists and said: "Mr. Chen's great kindness, I will definitely remember it!"

Chen Ping'an didn't say anything, just took Zeng Ye down the mountain and went away.

Halfway through, Chen Ping'an took out the talisman paper, and Ma Duyi was able to see the light of day again.

Immediately chatted with Zeng Ye.

Chen Ping'an shook his head helplessly.

Since then, the horse's hooves have not stopped, heading north, but compared to the official road in the south of Shihao country, Chen Ping'an's three horsemen have begun to choose the path as much as possible.

One day in the twilight, the three horsemen rushed to the gate of a state city before the gate was closed, and the soldiers of the city gate who were heavily guarded inspected the edition books and hurriedly entered the city.

Now this "scarred" northern city is already in the bag of Da Li's iron cavalry, but Da Li did not leave too many soldiers and horses to garrison the city, only more than 100 horses, not to mention guarding the city, guarding a city gate is not enough to see, in addition, there is only a group of civil officials with the official position of civil secretary Lang, and the military secretary Lang who serves as a guard. After entering the city, I walked almost half of the city, and finally found a small inn to settle in.

The reason is very simple, as soon as the war ended, there were heavy casualties, and after that, there was a storm of assassins attacking and killing Dali civil officials. Second, the day after tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, now the people's livelihood is withering, the business is already cold, plus the New Year, Chen Pingan and they can find this inn, which is already quite good luck.

The next day, Zeng Ye was possessed by a man's feminine object, and took Chen Ping'an to find a Jianghu sect whose family business was based in the state city, in the entire Shihao country, it was only a third-rate force, but for the people who were born and raised in this state city, it was still an unshakable behemoth, that yin object, back then, was one of the common people, his sister who depended on each other, was favored by the sect leader of the snake in the state, together with her fiancé, a shabby teacher with no reputation, one day drowned in the river together, the woman was disheveled, but the body was soaked in the water, who dared to take a second lookThe man's death was even more miserable, as if his legs and feet had been broken before he "fell into the river".

A teenager spent all the savings of the family, buried his sister and the man who had long been identified as his brother-in-law in his mind, and quietly left the state city, and then traveled all the way to the realm of Shujian Lake, and became a miscellaneous servant of the immortal mansion, without the qualifications to practice, and even failed to practice martial arts, and then died like his sister and brother-in-law back then.

"Zeng Ye" stands outside a gate that has been replaced with a plaque.

On the way here, this yin creature has already lost his soul, and at this moment, his expression is even more indifferent.

The grudge of the past, that was thirty years ago.

This is nothing, before leaving the inn, and the shopkeeper asked for directions, the old man sighed, saying that the man in that family, and all the people in the sect who played with guns and sticks, were heroes who stood up to the sky, but they preferred people to die without a good life. A Jianghu sect, more than a hundred men, sworn to guard a gate of our state city, after death, except for children, there are almost no men in the house.

"Zeng Ye" was full of pain, squatted on the ground, hugged his head, and kept muttering: "How can this be, how can this be ......"

Chen Ping'an squatted aside, even though "Zeng Ye"'s face became more and more hideous, and his eyes became more and more gloomy, Chen Ping'an was still quiet, just taking a small sip and drinking silently.

After a while, "Zeng Ye"'s eyes gradually returned to clarity, whimpered, and finally put his hands on the ground, lowered his head, gasped for breath, and couldn't cry anymore.

Chen Ping'an then spoke: "When I felt my worst, I was similar to you, I felt like a dog, even worse than a dog, but in the end, we are still human." ”

Chen Ping'an smiled miserably, "Of course, I survived, although I don't eat shit, but I have taken a lot of shit luck, which is much better than you." ”

"Zeng Ye" took a big breath, sat on the ground, and stretched out his hand, "Mr. Chen, can you borrow a few sips of wine to drink? I have never drunk alcohol in my life." ”

Chen Ping'an handed over to raise the sword, "If you have enough wine, I'm afraid you can't drink enough." ”

"Zeng Ye" raised his head, poured a large sip of wine, coughed, trembled all over, and was about to hand it back to the bookkeeper.

But the man was already squatting there with his hands in his sleeves, like the most ordinary ordinary masters in the market, basking in the sun on a sunny day in the winter.

He shook his head and said, "If you drink again, maybe you will drink a few more sips, and when you get used to drinking, you will know that it is good to drink." ”

"Zeng Ye" really took another sip of wine, but frowned, wiped the corners of his mouth, shook his head and said, "I still think it's unpleasant." ”

Chen Ping'an took the sword gourd, and after taking a sip of wine, he gently pinned it to his waist.

"Zeng Ye" sat on the ground, looked at the mansion, his face was full of pain again, and he wanted to speak several times, but he swallowed back his stomach and stretched out his hand to cover his face.

Chen Ping'an turned his head and asked, "What, do you want me to help me write down the name of that family, and write it together when we hold the Zhou Tian Jiao Festival and the Water and Land Dojo in the future?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head lightly: "I won't agree." I'll write your name, your sister and brother-in-law's name, but I won't write any of those people's names. For I don't know them, but I know you. ”

Zeng Ye choked up: "Am I stupid?"

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "Very stupid." ”

"Zeng Ye" wiped his face, his eyes were firm, "I am such a wreck, how can I have the face to go to the grave of my sister and brother-in-law, Mr. Chen, you can help me go to the incense and toast when I go back, okay? Anyway, I have already told Mr. Chen about the specific location of the grave before...... I'm not going. ”

Chen Ping'an asked softly: "Have you really thought about it? You must know that there is no chance to regret it in this life." ”

Zeng Ye nodded, "I've thought about it." ”

Chen Ping'an snorted.

"Zeng Ye" suddenly said: "Mr. Chen, can you go to the grave and say to my sister and brother-in-law that you are my friend?"

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "No problem." ”

"Zeng Ye" must kowtow to the bookkeeper in the end.

Chen Ping'an did not agree.

But "Zeng Ye" insisted on doing this, saying that otherwise there would be no way to go on the road with peace of mind.

Chen Ping'an looked at him, whose real name is "Zhou New Year", and was speechless.

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On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

On a hillside more than ten miles outside the state city.

In front of a small tomb, someone is making a toast on incense.

The young man from the countryside in a blue cotton robe told the truth of the matter as it was, even if "Zeng Ye" wanted to pretend to be his friend.

In the end, Chen Ping'an looked at the small tomb and said softly: "It is a great thing to have such a brother-in-law, such a brother-in-law, and me, Chen Ping'an, to have a friend like Zhou for the New Year." ”

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Inside the State City Inn, the night was deep.

The thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The three guests did not spend money to ask someone to cook a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the innkeeper was a little disappointed.

Chen Ping'an just asked the shopkeeper for a stove and a bag of charcoal, and Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye, who was in a low mood, sat with Chen Ping'an until about the hour.

There was no fireside talk, nothing was said.

After that, Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye returned to their rooms.

Chen Ping'an was in a foreign country, keeping vigil alone until dawn.

A year has passed.