After this turmoil, the snobbish owner of the big boat immediately came to him, saying that he had prepared a good private room on the second floor for the distinguished guests, and it would not hurt to bring the donkeys together, and it was his small boat that was full of brilliance. There are also some high-rollers who come to admire, and they mostly hang their swords instead of wearing swords, which is obviously close to the set. Chen Ping'an dealt with these things and was not good, it was Lin Shouyi who came forward to help refuse, in the end, he was a young man who grew up in the Supervision Bureau, and his words and deeds did not leak, even if he rejected them, he still left with joy on his face.

The swordsman who was called "White Whale" by the old man was a well-known scattered monk in the south of Da Li, and the sword was a genuine magic weapon, named Lingxu, which was a divine weapon in the Taoist rune. Legend has it that it is a wandering master who went down the mountain to cultivate his mind, and the relics after sitting in the wilderness and wilderness were inadvertently obtained by the white-robed swordsman, With a good swordsmanship, he realized the true meaning of the sword, and became famous since then, but he did not like to be restrained by nature, so he was not recruited by the Dali government and the border army, but liked to travel with a sword in the rivers and lakes.

As a result, he couldn't even unsheath the sword, and he was played with in the palm of his hand like this from beginning to end, and he was so humiliated that maybe even the sword heart would be covered with dust and the sword intent would be stained. So how deep the family background of the straw sandals boy group is, you can use this to weigh it, and there are mostly well-informed literati, businessmen and heroes on the boat, no matter whether their hearts are good or bad, there are really not many stupid people.

Lin Shou saw that no one was coming to greet politely, rubbed his temples, the young man was a little upset, if it weren't for the time when he was resting, he could see the green bookcase in Chen Ping'an's hand, revealing the prototype little by little, just Lin Shouyi's indifferent temperament, I'm afraid I really can't help but face each other.

Chen Ping'an was a little unbearable, and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely make this bookcase satisfactory to you." ”

Lin Shouyi sat cross-legged, his face full of exhaustion, and he confided in his heart for the first time, and said softly: "I really want to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and practice alone against the wall, just care about my mountain and let the world for a thousand years." But Ah Liang said that this kind of path of mind cultivation is called a dry mound, which is feasible, but it is only a qi practitioner whose realm has reached a certain height, and I have just started, and if I do it now, I will definitely go mad and fall into the side door without knowing it. ”

Chen Ping'an nodded, "Then you really have to be careful." ”

Li Huai squatted aside with his cheeks, and said happily: "Lin Shouyi, maybe Ah Liang scares you, I think Qidun Mountain is good, it is suitable for you to be a god, when you are bored, you can also chat and fart with the land lord named Wei Yan, sitting on a big turtle, or riding a black snake and white python, majestic to death." But in this case, since you don't go to Dasui with us, then leave this bookcase to me? I can't carry it now, I will be taller and stronger in a few years, just replace the small bookcase with a large bookcase, I will miss your good, and I will return it to you when I return from the study tour of Dasui in the future. ”

Lin Shouyi squinted at this Li Huai, who was making a small calculation, and sneered: "Even if I stay in Qidun Mountain to practice the method of immortality, I won't leave the bookbox to you." ”

Li Huai sighed, "Then you should continue to go to Dasui with me." ”

Lin Shouyi rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that only Ah Liangzhi could get this Li Huai.

No, Li Baohua can, and Chen Ping'an seems to be able to do it.

Is it okay to take Li Huai yourself?

Lin Shouyi, who was not in a good mood, stared at Li Huai, made the latter look creepy, and hurriedly said loyally: " What are you doing, Lin Shouyi, I actually want you to go to Dasui with me, I'm just a little greedy for your bookcase, no way, it's bigger than my bookbox, I don't deny this, but if you really want to get off the boat and return to Qidun Mountain, I will definitely not be happy, do you think, among the four of us, you are sanctimonious, the most bad stomach, if you meet a bad person who does not engrave bad words on his face in the future, such as the kind that harbors evil intentions, only you can see through it at a glance, right, Chen Ping'an, Li Baohua?"

Li Huai looked left and right, seeking help.

Chen Ping'an lowered his head to build the bookcase, concentrated, and turned a deaf ear. Li Baohua didn't know what strange questions he was thinking, and he was wandering for thousands of miles, and his mind was not distracted.

Lin Shouyi was a little in a heavy mood, "Do you think that our trip to Dasui is very easy? In addition to the dangers of mountains and rivers, there must be many moths that we can't think of." ”

Li Huai blinked.

Lin Shouyi said slowly: "Our Dali established the country with force, the power of the rivers and lakes should not be underestimated, and few scholars were removed. ”

Li Huai nodded and said: "I know this, our Mr. Qi has never been afraid to say this, and it is not that he has not talked about the situation of our Dali." ”

Lin Shouyi sighed: " I remember when I was a child, the superintendent Lord Song once said one thing, saying that in the early years, Da Li finally relied on his ability to be admitted to Guanhu Academy, and as a result, he suffered humiliation from all directions, not just verbal abuse, according to Lord Song, it should be the two scholars of the Gao clan of the Great Sui and the Lu Dynasty who joined forces to set up a chain of games, which caused the scholar of our Dali to be in a broken mood and become crazy, and after many years, he finally recovered his senses, and was stabbed in the relationship between men and women, and then committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake。 ”

"Because of this matter, the government and the opposition are all over the country, and the whole country is angry, which has set off a big war with the Lu Dynasty to gamble on the national fortunes. Now, of course, the situation has changed a lot, and now we have more and more scholars in Dali, and the qi practitioners on the mountain have also begun to go down the mountain to serve the Dali court and fight bravely to kill the enemy at the border pass. ”

"This has emerged a new pattern, that is, the literati of Dali are very noble, and the scholars will regard themselves as superior, such as the person who claimed to be the commander of Wanping County before, most of them are from the goods of the place outside the capital, and he is from the imperial examination, so I am now worried that the man, after getting off the boat at the ferry under the jurisdiction of Wanping County, whether he is a scholar, or thinking about the three fires of the new official, he will choose to see us poorly. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Shouyi smiled and said: "Fortunately, he is a civil official who was born as a scholar, but among us, there is also a 'mountain immortal' who has never shown up, maybe he can deter him." After all, no matter how expensive a scholar is in Dali, he still can't compare to a qi practitioner. But I'm afraid that the county order is not smart enough, or even if it is a person from the capital, he has never really seen the power of a qi practitioner, then we will have a series of troubles. ”

Li Huai was worried, turned around and slapped the white donkey lying on his side, and scolded angrily: "Trouble the little white donkey! You think you are a big girl with yellow flowers, and you will lose your temper when you touch someone?"

Li Baohua suddenly spoke: "Now that old man must be the guest of the Wanping County Order, spitting bitterness on each other, I believe that the higher the identity of the old man, the better the swordsman's swordsmanship, the more Wanping County Commander will not dare to make a move openly, my eldest brother said that Xiucai has not rebelled for three years." As for secretly making a small stumbling block, we are not afraid, as long as that guy does not dare to use the power of the imperial court, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, what are you afraid of? Don't mess around!"

Lin Shouyi thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "It should be like this." ”

After Li Baohua finished speaking, he asked with a serious face: "Little uncle, right?"

Chen Ping'an said helplessly: "How do I know the crooked ways of these scholars and officials." In short, if you are in trouble, you and Lin Shouyi will discuss it. ”

The last time the school master "took care of the orphan", several children were able to return to the town safely, not to mention, but also played the coachman who called himself a spy of Da Li, in fact, it was Lin Shou's head together, Li Baohua formulated the general direction, Lin Shou repeatedly checked and filled in the details of the gaps, seamless, and precocious far more than his peers.

Chen Ping'an suddenly stopped the movement in his hand, thought about it, and simply put the firewood knife at his feet.

When his heart is not calm, Chen Ping'an will do nothing, and would rather let it go than make mistakes easily. In the past, it was like this when it was burned porcelain, and now it is even more so when it comes to boxing.

Li Baohua, Li Huai and Lin Shouyi noticed the abnormality almost at the same time, and even Li Huai hurriedly straightened his sitting posture.

Chen Ping'an saw the three suspicious guys, and said with a wry smile: "What, I just thought of one thing, what are you doing so nervously." ”

Li Baohua said: "Little uncle, you say it and listen to it." ”

Chen Ping'an smiled: "I just thought, in addition to being literate with you, should I also learn from you about the knowledge in the book." ”

Li Baohua was stunned and said: "But what we learned from Mr. is only an introductory Mengxue, and there is no great university question, besides, we are just Mengtong, how can we teach Uncle Xiaoshi." What's more, Mr. Lian Qi has a lot of Mengxue sentences, I asked casually, and Mr. couldn't answer, how can we teach, answer randomly, it's not good!"

Li Huai muttered: "It's not that Mr. can't answer, it's just that he answered a little late, and you don't want to listen to it at that time." ”

Li Baohua turned his head abruptly and smashed his fist on Li Huai's head.

Li Huai didn't hurt much, he still held his head and shouted: "I can't live this day! I also have to practice boxing, Li Baohua's strength is getting bigger and bigger, otherwise I will definitely be killed by her in the future." ”

Lin Shouyi asked curiously, "Chen Ping'an, what are you doing to learn the things in the book?"

Chen Ping'an said slowly: "I'm afraid that one day the truth I tell others will be found out afterwards that it is actually unreasonable." Therefore, I hope that in addition to the teachings that Old Man Yao and Ah Liang taught me, I can learn more from the books of your readers. ”

Li Huai was like a cloud falling into the mist, and his face was full of shock: "Chen Ping'an, you are already so good at fighting, and you practice boxing so hard every day, isn't it to be able to be unreasonable with others?"

Lin Shouyi hesitated, shook his head and said: "Chen Ping'an, I don't think there is any need to be reasonable in everything, after all, everyone in the world has their own path to follow, we can stick to our hearts, otherwise we will only fall into the mud and be too late." ”

Li Baohua's face was full of seriousness, "Uncle Xiao, don't worry, let me think about it for a while, I think this matter is very big, I must take it seriously and think carefully!"

Once in a small town school, Qi Jingchun was like this, whenever Li Baohua asked some seemingly superficial questions, he would fall into deep thought, and most of them would delay for a few days before giving an answer.

Chen Ping'an became more and more helpless, raised his head and looked at the blue sky, and after a while, he retracted his gaze, and for some reason suddenly had a smile on his face.

"The reason why I want to be so troublesome, in fact, is selfish, probably because you don't really practice boxing, so I don't have this feeling for the time being, after I got that boxing book, I have always had a feeling, I can't say that I am not afraid of your jokes, that is, whenever I am against someone, I only need to feel my truth, no matter if I can't say it, as long as I think I'm right!

Next, the three of them seemed to see a strange Chen Ping'an.

I saw this poor young man from Mud Bottle Lane, his face was bright, his fists were clenched on his knees, he had never been so confident, "Moreover, the next time I punch, I will definitely be faster! No matter who stands in front of me, I, Chen Ping'an, can make this punch, no matter who it is!"

Lin Shouyi's eyes were stupid, and he whispered: "It shouldn't be considered to be practicing martial arts and entering the fire demon, it's quite righteous and awe-inspiring, and it really looks like a gentleman studying in school...... Tell the story of the most subtle aspects of the Avenues of the Sages. ”

Li Baohua was busy thinking about the previous question.

Chen Ping'an had already picked up the firewood knife again and continued to make small bamboo boxes for Lin Shouyi.

Li Huai was in a trance, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Chen Ping'an at the previous moment made this child feel familiar.

Li Huai seems to remember that once when he was a child, his mother, who was invincible in the world in the quarrel, beat people, scratched his face with a big cat, and rolled around at home, the father who was scolded by the neighbors as a wreck, just squatted on the threshold sullenly, he and his sister Li Liu cried with his mother, and his mother finally said that she was blind, so she found this spineless man, and her mother-in-law couldn't let out a fart when she beat someone. Li Huai's father never said anything, and Li Huai, who was so angry that he had been closer to his mother since he was a child, ran to the door and kicked the guy's back and feet, saying that he would never recognize him as a father again. Later, his mother was tired of crying and her anger was gone, so she took her son and daughter to sleep, pulled the man's ears and threw them out of the door, saying that he would be punished to fall asleep in the yard tonight, but only when the door was closed and the lights were turned off, she asked Li Huai to open the door and called his father back to the house to sleep. Li Huai was reluctant, but he couldn't stand the urging of his mother, so he had to open the door, and saw that his father was still squatting honestly in the yard, so angry that Li Huai almost turned around and left.

Then at that moment, the short and sturdy man slowly stood up, "Son, my father is going to go out of the mountain overnight, say to your mother, and go home soon." ”

It's okay not to say this, no matter how stinky Li Huai's face is, he still hopes that his father can go back to the house and sleep peacefully, but is he still a man who hides from his mother and their brothers and sisters like this? As a result, as soon as he heard the depressing words that only these cowards would say, Li Huai immediately trembled with anger and cried: "What son, I am your Li Er's father!"

The man was not angry at all, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, you deserve to be my Li Er's cub!"

At that moment, Li Huai was a little demented, in his memory, his father would never talk to people like this, as if he would always be inferior, except for sleeping and snoring and thundering, he was a boring gourd, even if he and his sister Li Liu came here, he never looked like the head of the family, it was true, he was afraid of heaven and earth, afraid of people, afraid of ghosts, and afraid of everything.

But that night, when the man left, he strode away, walking very vigorously, very much like the rich old man on the Taoye Lane side of Fulu Street.

Li Huai didn't think much about it at the time, but he was lucky, thinking that it might be to help his mother scold people on the street in the middle of the night.

But the next day Li Huai was very disappointed, and the woman who kissed his mother and scratched his face, seeing their mother, was still arrogant, and then his father did not appear for a long time, it should be to go into the mountains to burn charcoal, make money to support the family, the so-called "out of the mountain", Li Huai felt that it must be his father's slip of the tongue.

But when he came back, the man seemed to have opened his mind, carrying a fat roast chicken home, not only bought a box of rouge gouache for his mother, but also brought gifts to him and his sister Li Liu. After that, Li Er, whose own father and mother were named more sloppy than anyone else, was the same as "You come to scold me, I still say a sentence to count your ability, you come to beat me, and you can kill me".

But for some reason, as Li Huai grew up, that night in the yard, his father's smile before he "went out of the mountain", the tone of his voice and the posture of walking, not only became more and more blurred, but became clearer and clearer.

Li Huai suddenly said: "Chen Ping'an, when we return to the town in the future, I invite you to my house as a guest." ”

Chen Ping'an was puzzled: "Didn't your father and mother and your sister have already left the town? You said before that they will not come back in the future." ”

Li Huai, who had just remembered this, suddenly had red eyes, his lips trembled, and he was about to cry.

Chen Ping'an had to comfort: "Don't cry, don't cry, didn't you also say it, your father promised you that as long as you really become a scholar, he will come to visit you." ”

Li Huai said aggrievedly: "But I'm greedy for fun, and I can't endure hardship, I like to be lazy and sleepy when I read, it's too far worse than Li Baohua and Lin Shouyi, I'm afraid that if I can't be a reader, my father and mother will never want me anymore." ”

If you say that Lin Shouyi and Li Baohua are old, they are already teenagers and girls, and they are still from big families, but Li Huai is really just a child, like him Chen Ping'an, he is from a poor background, and he is timid, which is normal. So Chen Ping'an's patience with Li Huai from beginning to end is the best person, even if it was the time in Qidun Mountain, Li Huai stepped hard in the mud, only Chen Ping'an, who was gradually covered in mud, didn't feel the slightest irritability from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Ping'an said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, if your father and mother don't feel sorry for you, will they send you to study in the school? Wouldn't it be better to let you work in the fields and help the family herd cattle earlier?"

Li Huai's mood improved slightly, wiped his face, and said with a sad face: "My family is poor and can't afford to buy cattle." ”

Chen Ping'an said softly: "Are you still poor now? Not to mention the weirdness in the book "Broken Water Cliff", the book itself is worth ten taels of silver, okay." ”

Li Huai smiled, turned his head and glanced at the white donkey, and grinned: "I still have a donkey!"

Lin Shouyi's expression suddenly turned grim, and he lowered his voice and said to Chen Ping'an: "The underwater yin god told me that someone came and wanted to see us, but that person claimed to know Ah Liang, and said that the reason why Ah Liang entered the city in advance was to ask him some questions. So the Yin God asked us what to do, whether to allow them to board the boat, or? The Yin God also said that the man was accompanied by a river god, and it was not surprising that it was the god of this embroidered river who enjoyed the incense sacrifice of all people. ”

Chen Ping'an was a little embarrassed, and finally said in a deep voice: "It's enough to let the Yin God seniors protect us, in fact, it doesn't make much difference if you don't let people board the ship." Next, you guys have to be careful, it's still the old rule agreed before, everything will be dealt with by me first, it's really not good, Lin Shouyi, you can use those yellow paper talismans again. ”

Lin Shou nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Lin Shouyi's mind moved slightly, and he whispered.

After a while, the big boat sailing on the water surface of the Xiuhua River shook slightly, if it wasn't for Chen Ping'an's four people knowing in advance, ordinary people would not have noticed the mystery.

Although they couldn't see the existence of the Yin God with the naked eye, it was obvious that the bow of the ship was a little more gloomy.

Then Chen Ping'an found that not far from the bow of the boat, there was a young swordsman sitting cross-legged, with a long sword hanging horizontally behind his waist, and a long item wrapped in cotton cloth in his arms, like a sword.

After he got up, he walked to Chen Ping'an's side, smiled at the hidden Yin God, stopped moving forward, and said straight to the point: "I brought the customs clearance documents for the four of you, including the Zhu seal of the county yahu room of Longquan County, Dali, and Zhu Wen about the permission for you to travel abroad. As for who I am, it doesn't matter, in short, I know Ah Liang, so I will definitely not be your enemy. As for the previous conflict on the ship, you don't have to worry, that Wanping County Decree will not delay your education. ”

Finally, the young swordsman handed over the object in his hand with both hands, looked at the little girl with the red cotton jacket with a small bookcase, and said with a smile: "You are the Aquarius girl, right? ”

Although Li Baohua was excited, he was still motionless.

Chen Ping'an stepped forward alone, took the auspicious talisman narrow knife from the young swordsman's hand, and said, "I'm troublesome senior." ”

The young swordsman laughed and said, "You are all friends of Ah Liang, I don't dare to consider myself a senior. ”

Chen Ping'an asked, "Is Ah Liang okay?"

The young swordsman's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded, "Don't worry, it's good." ”

This knife was sent out of the capital by the vassal king Song Changjing himself, and finally handed it over to himself, and the knife was returned, and the young swordsman was relieved, "Then I will go to the second floor to say hello, you can rest assured that you will travel far away, and then all the way to the border Yefu Pass, as long as it involves the imperial court and the official government, it will be unimpeded, but other than that, I Dali will not have any interference." Of course, if there is really trouble or accident, as long as you say hello to the border army or the local government, the court is willing to do its best to help. ”

Chen Ping'an looked into this person's eyes and nodded, "We know." ”

The young swordsman took out four copies of the customs clearance document from his sleeve, handed it to the straw sandals boy, and finally swallowed the words that came to his mouth, changed some kind words, and hugged his fists and said: "Then say goodbye, I'll go to the second floor to say hello and leave." ”

Chen Ping'an returned the salute with a little awkwardness.

On the second floor, in a high-class elegant room furnished with fine porcelain, the old man and the white-robed swordsman had solemn faces, and the incoming Wanping County Commander and his wife and children were trembling, and the atmosphere did not dare to breathe, and everyone was standing.

There was only one uninvited guest sitting there drinking and drinking, burly, with a green snake entrenched on his sleeve, his breath and breath were all white mist, and the man was full of energy, and he did not look like an ordinary person.

When the man saw the "young" swordsman, he immediately got up and bent down and clenched his fists, not saying a word, but extremely respectful.

The young swordsman waved his hand, and did not look at the old man and the swordsman who was famous in the southern rivers and lakes of Dali, and said to the Wanping county commander: "When you arrive at the jurisdiction of Wanping, you should be your parents and officials, today's matter, don't talk too much, so far, the court can act as if nothing happened, but if there is a slight disturbance, I may not come to you in person, but this water god of the embroidered river can screw your head off." ”

The young man didn't want to say anything, but smiled at the embroidered river god who never dared to sit down: "You help watch it, I'll go back first." ”

Embroidery Jiang Zhengshen said in a deep voice: "Then the subordinates will not send adults." ”

After the young swordsman walked out of the private room, he came to the verandah, looked at the river, and wanted to draft the words of the young man in the shoes, which was quite touching.

In the end, the figure disappeared in a flash.

The reason why martial arts is short to practice qi warriors is that the vast majority of pure martial arts under the mountain, as the foundation of the body, whether it is the boxing spectrum of practicing boxing, the swordsmanship of practicing swordsmanship, and the eighteen kinds of martial arts and eighteen kinds of weapons, all of which are habitually called martial arts and martial arts, in fact, in the eyes of the mountain practitioners, with the word "Tao", the eight poles can't be beaten.

Once martial arts never rises to the height of martial arts, it will just be rolling in the mud pond after all.

I'm afraid that the boy in the alley himself doesn't know his heartfelt words and insights about how to punch.

should have been at least a grandmaster above the six realms of martial arts, so he would think deeply about the questions, ask himself, and ask himself.

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In Qidun Mountain, there is a woman with a mediocre appearance, under the secret instruction of her own adult, with a beautiful girl from a boat family, and began to climb the mountain on foot and go north.

This is the first time the girl has gone on a long trip, so she keeps looking behind her head along the way, and she is reluctant to give up.

The woman doesn't say much, and there is no need to be harsh on human feelings.

What's more, her vein in Changchun Palace is more strange, cultivating her heart and affection, and ordinary qi practitioners regard it as a cumbersome and taboo dragging mud and water, but it is the ladder of her vein, so it is a good thing for a girl to be homesick when she leaves her hometown.

But why did she take the girl to walk through Qidun Mountain, the adult didn't say anything, and it was inconvenient for her not to get to the bottom of it.

All the way over the mountains and rivers, the scenery is pleasant.

The girl is innocent by nature, although she is slightly tired, but she is in good spirits, walking and walking, she folds a flower branch on the side of the road, sways it gently, and hums a folk song that has been passed down from generation to generation.

The woman of Changchun Palace frowned, but she never said anything.

In the distance, there was a handsome and extraordinary young man, like a mountain ghost, who was also walking slowly, always looking at the girl beside the woman.

The girl's voice is ethereal and tactful, even if the content of the folk song is very sad, it can be hummed in her mouth, with a unique charm, sad but not sad.

The young man's voice is gently in harmony with the girl's singing, and the rhyme is slightly different, more mellow and more pathetic.

The girl is like a yellow warbler shuttling in the spring grass, and the man is like a crow standing alone on the grave, one chirping happily and the other whimpering in a low voice.

Finally, on the lonely post road built with bluestone slabs on the ridge.

The girl looked up suddenly, and found a young man in white walking in the distance, who couldn't be more good-looking.

The two met on the narrow post road, but the young man had already lowered his head, did not speak, and passed by silently.

The girl couldn't help but look back.

The man was found standing at a distance, not walking or looking back, with his back to her.

The girl shook her head, turned her head and moved on.