(Today's chapter is 6,000 words.) ）

Chen Ping'an carried the girl all the way and ran wildly, running faster than before going up the mountain, like a flower thief who robbed the yellow flower girl. Ning Yao suffered a lot of internal injuries, and the bumps were uncomfortable, but she didn't care about any face, if she punched the old ape to her body at this time, it was estimated that she and Chen Ping'an would really be "martyred".

Ning Yao's forehead was covered with sweat, and he asked, "How did you survive? No stone was hit? How do you know that the old ape's back hand is aimed at you and not me?"

After asking a long list of questions, Ning Yao suddenly woke up, "Don't talk about these things yet, take advantage of the old ape's need to ventilate, how far can it run! I have asked that sword to entangle the old ape as much as possible, but it is estimated that it will not last long." ”

The straw sandals boy nodded slightly, walking like a fly, walking through the alleys and alleys, like a fish swimming at the bottom of the stream.

After staying away from the small street in the west of the town, Chen Ping'an still kept walking, and took the time to explain in a low voice: "Before, on the side of Mud Bottle Lane, the old ape was tricked by me into going to the roof of a broken house, and then he fell into the pit, and then I secretly threw a small broken tile on the house next to the hole. ”

"Just now, I was actually on the roof over there, and I didn't dare to show my head, because I was afraid that you would be distracted, and I also thought about whether I could give the old ape an arrow, and then I saw the stone that the old ape smashed you down, hanging in the sky like a fire snake, I guess as long as I look up, everyone in our town can see it, how dare I take it lightly." At that time, I had an extra turn in my mind, thinking that if it were me, I would definitely use you as bait, first hit those hiding in the dark, and then turn around to clean up the ones in the light, how good it would be to string two fish on one bait, right? So I took off Liu Xianyang's clothes first, and only after throwing them out, did I dare to save you. ”

Ning Yao's eyes lit up, and he was amazed, and then inexplicably began to settle accounts after the autumn: "Chen Ping'an, who did you learn from these crooked intestines?! The time Lu Daoren rescued me, in your ancestral house in Mud Bottle Lane, did you take the opportunity to take advantage of me except for taking off your hat?"

Chen Ping'an was at a loss for a while, just like being thrown in the face by the tail of a cow when he was a child, "What?"

The girl did not continue to ask the teacher, but laughed to herself.

Chen Ping'an is a fan of money, and he is definitely not a color embryo.

Ning Yao was convinced of this, just like she always believed that she would definitely become a great sword immortal in the future, not a few and few, but the kind that was the only one.

Ning Yao said in a low voice: "Let me down!"

Chen Ping'an asked, "Can you walk by yourself?"

Ning Yao said helplessly: "I can't leave for the time being, but if you continue to run like this, my heart, liver, spleen and stomach will be turned upside down by you." When the time comes, he was not stoned to death by the old ape with his fist, but he died on your shoulder like pork, and the old ape must not be laughed to death by us. ”

Chen Ping'an slowed down and said with a headache: "Then what should I do? Find a nearby place to hide? I originally wanted to leave the town, and that place is not easy to be found." ”

Ning Yao suddenly remembered something and asked curiously, "What about your homemade wooden porcelain armor, why aren't you wearing it on your body?"

Chen Ping'an smiled bitterly: "It doesn't make much sense to deal with the old ape, but it will affect my running speed, so I just take it off." It's a loss, otherwise I don't know how to take you out of there, I can't carry it, I can't carry it, I can't carry it, I can't hold it, I can't hold it, I have a headache to think about. ”

Ning Yao sighed and made up his mind: "Chen Ping'an, let me down first, and then carry me to the place you said." ”

Chen Ping'an naturally had no objections, and did so without any delay, picked up the girl and continued to run, and asked, "Miss Ning, where is your knife?"

The girl who hugged the young man's neck said angrily: "It's buried in the ground." ”

Chen Ping'an didn't ask any more questions, and ran to an inaccessible place outside the town.

The wilderness is surrounded by tombs that have long been worshipped by descendants, the graves are overgrown with weeds, lush like a vegetable garden, and from time to time there are a few cries of night owls, one after another, it is really mad. Fortunately, Chen Ping'an has a kind of emotion that his peers have never had, but he didn't feel how uncomfortable, after about a stick of incense, Chen Ping'an carried the girl on his back, through the collapsed statue of countless stumps and broken bones, and went around to the back of a huge statue, the clay statue fell to the ground, for some reason, the head has been gone, and the body is more than two feet long, it is conceivable that this statue once sat in the ancestral hall and temple completely, how majestic and dignified.

Chen Ping'an squatted down and tried to put Ning Yao down first. As a result, she didn't move after waiting for a while, so frightened that Chen Ping'an thought that Miss Ning had died halfway through, just when Chen Ping'an was stunned on the spot as if he was struck by thunder, and couldn't say a word, the girl who slept comfortably on the way finally woke up, subconsciously wiped the corners of her mouth with the back of her hand, and asked in a daze: "Arrived?"

The boy who was squatting on the ground couldn't even figure it out at this moment, and he almost burst into tears anyway.

The young man hurriedly took a deep breath, restrained his strange emotions, easily opened the girl's leg socket with both hands, turned his head and smiled: "This is a hut I built temporarily last autumn, I used to bring Gu Cang here to play, he yelled to toss, so he used to chop some branches with a firewood knife to build a shelf, and then covered it with leaves and grass leaves, it was quite firm, and the two snows that were so big last winter did not collapse." ”

Ning Yao stood up straight and looked back, the flying sword did not return in embarrassment, which was a good sign, at least it showed that the old ape did not find the direction of the hiding place of the two.

Chen Ping'an asked Ning Yao to wait for a while, and took the lead in bending down into the temporary nest built of wood and grass, tidying up a little, and then opening the door to welcome guests.

Ning Yao sat in the small nest that was not cramped and cramped, relieved.

Chen Ping'an did not close the rough firewood door, but sat at the door, with his back to the girl.

Ning Yao asked, "Why don't you close the door?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "If the old ape finds here, it will make no difference." ”

Ning Yao, who was sitting cross-legged, nodded, "Yes." ”

After a moment of silence, Ning Yao asked, "You don't have anything to ask?"

Chen Ping'an really asked, "Did the old ape use three breaths?"

Ning Yao snorted, "But to tell you a bad stream, the old ape can at least break the rules again." It is more than enough to deal with the two of us. ”

Chen Ping'an asked again: "Miss Ning, how much do you think the old ape has paid for this?"

The nest was filled with the fragrance of grass seeping into the surroundings, refreshing, and although the ground was a little damp, the girl felt that she could not ask for more.

Ning Yao thought about it carefully, "The old ape made a total of three shots, from your mud bottle lane to the westernmost part of the town for the first time, the old ape is more subtle, mainly to test whether you have a backer, after all, he was afraid that someone was planning behind the scenes, and he was afraid that someone would target the little master of Zhengyang Mountain who he escorted here, so the life of the old man was only about three or five years, and then he confronted me by the stream, about twenty years, the third time, it is estimated that it will be at least fifty years, and the next fourth time, how can it start in a hundred years." ”

Chen Ping'an's eyes were shining, he bent down and stretched out his hand to pull out a piece of grass, dusted off the soil, chewed it in his mouth, and said happily: "Even if one hundred and eighty years are good, I will make a lot of money! Even if I don't consider the framing of the woman surnamed Cai in Yunxia Mountain, ordinary people will live for sixty years, then I will earn two more lives and come back." Besides, the old ape has a lifespan of nearly two hundred years, and he came to exchange my life for three lifetimes, I think he will be angry as long as he thinks of this. ”

Ning Yao frowned and said, "Chen Ping'an, you just think that your life is worthless?"

Chen Ping'an said without hesitation: "Compared with the immortals and monsters who have lived for thousands of years like the old ape, I am a common man from a small town potter, and I am naturally worthless, and I am not ashamed to admit this kind of thing." ”

Ning Yao was panicked by Chen Ping'an's crooked reasoning.

Chen Ping'an turned his head and smiled, "Of course, thinking of this, resign to fate, there will still be grievances in my heart, what do you think, why do I come to the world once, my life is inherently worthless?"

Ning Yao was just about to echo him, and then show him a few words of sage proverbs that were both heroic and knowledgeable, but the young man quickly gave his own answer, and asked himself seriously: "Could it be that I did less good things in my last life?" But I haven't had time to do any good things in my life, won't I have to be finished in my next life, what should I do?"

Ning Yao picked up the empty green scabbard on his lap and gently touched the young man's back with the tip of the sheath.

The straw sandals boy suddenly bared his teeth and grinned, turning his head with a look of daring to be angry and not daring to speak.

Ning Yao glared and said, "This life hasn't come to an end yet, what do you want to do in the next life?!"

Chen Ping'an hurriedly stretched out a finger and signaled Ning Yao not to raise his voice.

The girl quickly shut up.

Chen Ping'an's ass moved out, trying to stay away from the girl and the scabbard.

Ning Yao wanted to speak again and again, and finally decided to tell the young man the truth, and said in a hoarse voice: "Chen Ping'an, have you ever thought that although he has lived for one hundred and eighty years, how long can he live as a mountain protector of Zhengyang Mountain?"

The boy who turned his back to the girl and looked at the sky in the distance just shook his head.

How can a teenager know about this kind of mysterious thing, and he probably can't guess the answer even if he wants to break his head.

Some things, like the bluestone streets of Fulu Street and Taoye Lane, if it weren't for the fact that the young man was delivering a letter, he wouldn't know that the roads under the world were not all dirt roads in his life.

Ning Yao sighed: " Although it is extremely difficult to practice because of this, the benefit is that the flow of spirit and spirit is also more slow, making it extremely long-lived, less than five hundred years, more than five thousand years of life, if there is no practice, the life span will not be too long, naturally not as good as the turtle Jiao, but after all, the mountain moving ape is the overlord of the party, and the life span is still about two thousand years old, and this mountain ape has obviously cultivated the Taoist supernatural powers, once he is among the five realms, plus his ninth realm physique, not to mention the life span of two thousand years, it is not impossible to say that the life span of two thousand years is three thousand years, four thousand years, and it is not impossible。 ”

Ning Yao looked at the emaciated back, "So don't think you've lived enough." ”

Chen Ping'an was silent.

Ning Yao was a little sad.

The two were speechless, and the girl who broke through the sky gradually felt some guilt in her heart, so she searched her intestines and stomach to brew the wording, thinking about comforting the guy.

It's just that when Ning Yao thought about it, he heard a slight snoring from the straw sandals boy.

Ning Yao was dumbfounded.

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There is a big house in the depths of Xinghua Lane, which is cleaned up from the inside to the outside, and even the road at the entrance of the courtyard is much cleaner than the door of others.

An old woman who had absolutely no chance with her kind face picked a wick to make the lights in the house brighter, and then looked at her grandson with doting eyes, and began to babble day after day, year after year: "What are you doing running to the roof in the middle of the night?" As the old saying goes, you never listen to the persuasion of spring and autumn frost, it is the time to grow your body, you really want to freeze out the root of the disease, how can grandma live?"

The silly boy grinned.

After the old woman sat down, she sighed and began to recite her own difficult scripture, "My good grandson, you don't know, during the day today, the white-eyed wolf didn't know what meat smelled of, and suddenly came to the door with a large bag of gifts, you were not at home at the time, did you not see his face, it is really a filial son and kind father, and he will move his grandmother to cry." ”

When she said this, the old woman was full of sarcasm, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground coldly, and regretted it a little, so she quickly crushed it with her toes, and the old woman looked up at the young man with an indifferent face, and she was angry, but she was reluctant to fight, so she had to exhale angrily: "The cub who has no heart and lungs, and I don't know how to feel sorry for my grandmother." Your real name is Ma Xuan, but you have a father who has no mother to raise, it's not what life is hard, grandma added a bitter word to you, if you are unlucky, you will change it back in the future, don't worry, don't care about grandma's thoughts. Grandma is an old woman in the countryside, a toad in the field, short-sighted, and deserves to suffer all her life......"

The old woman began to wipe away her tears.

The young man Ma Kuxuan stretched out his hand and put it on the back of the old woman's skinny, dry hand.

The old woman glanced at her grandson, and the young man's eyes finally had a little emotion, she smiled with relief, and patted the back of Ma Kuxuan's hand in turn, "Grandma, I, I am an unblessed person, your grandfather has a conscience but no ability, and he can't be trusted, and his son has the ability but no conscience, and he still can't be trusted, so there is only such a thought about you." If you don't have any more talent, grandma has suffered so much in her life, and it will be in vain. It's nothing to endure hardships, don't be like grandma, you must be productive in the future, you have a big future, who has bullied you, you bully back to death, don't be a good person, a bad person, once in a while, it's okay, don't be full of food and support to hurt people, be careful of retribution? God likes to nap all year round, but there is always a time to open your eyes, in case you catch it, oops......

These sayings of Chen sesame seeds and rotten grains, the teenager heard them since he was a child, and it is estimated that his ears are calloused, but they have changed several cocoons. It's just that the boy never retracted his hand and let his grandmother hold it gently.

The old woman suddenly asked, "What do you like to do with that little?"

The young man smiled and said, "It's beautiful." ”

The old woman slapped the back of Ma Kuxuan's hand with a little more force, and scolded: "Little rotten maggot with no conscience! Even grandma refuses to tell the truth here?"

The boy smiled, "Grandma, don't worry, it's a good thing." ”

The old woman was skeptical, so she suppressed this question for the time being, and changed the topic, "Do you know why your father and mother don't want you?"

The young man smiled: "At that time, the family was poor and couldn't afford to support me?"

The old woman suddenly raised her voice and screamed: "Poor, our Ma family's seven or eight generations are really not poor people's doors, that is, they are used to pretending to be grandchildren, and in the end, even the uncle doesn't know how to be an uncle, in fact, the ancestor left an ancestral teaching, no matter how rich he is, he is not allowed to place the house on Fulu Street, nor is it allowed in Taoye Lane." Your father and mother, who deserve to be struck by the thunder of the sky, if they are poor, can they wear gold and silver every day? Except that they dare not move to the land where the four surnames and ten clans gather to widen up, what good things have they enjoyed one by one?"

Every time she talked about her son and daughter-in-law, the old woman really hated itchy, and sneered: "Those ancestral rules are things that are buried in the soil and rotten into mud, how many years have passed, and now they are worth a few dollars?

Ma Kuxuan smiled brightly, I don't know if he thinks it makes sense, or if he thinks it's funny.

This young man has been like this since he was a child, he can suffer any loss, and he can endure any bullying, but some things are stubborn, and even his grandmother can't persuade him to say that he won't listen.

The old woman thought about it, got up and ran out to see if the door of the courtyard was bolted, and after returning to the house and sitting down again, she lowered her voice, "Grandson, don't look at grandma pretending to be a ghost for so many years, in addition to being a midwife, it is to give people a bowl of rune water, or to be cheeky and collect the rags with others, but grandma tells you that those old objects that have been taken back are all treasures of the sky......"

The young man regained his lazy demeanor, and it was obvious that Ma Kuxuan was not interested in his grandmother's big box of tatters.

The old woman was still triumphant about the tricks of her early years.

Ma Kuxuan suddenly asked: "Grandma, Chen Ping'an and his father in Mud Bottle Lane, did he die in ......?"

The old woman's face changed drastically, and she quickly reached out to cover her grandson's mouth, and said sharply: "There are some things that can be done and cannot be said!"

The boy smiled and nodded, no longer asking questions.

After that, the old woman lost the interest in showing off the glory of the past, and was sick and heavy-minded, and looked out the window at night from time to time.

Ma Kuxuan smiled and asked: "Grandma, you have been a goddess in our town for so many years, and the neighbors in Xinghua Lane, everyone says that your old man can cross the gap between yin and yang and lead the soul back to the yang world......

The old woman rolled her eyes and said: "Others believe in these black miasma, do you also believe it? Grandma, a person who is even afraid of thunder, really wants to see ghosts, and she can't scare herself to death?"

"Don't be afraid, grandma. ”

The young man Ma Kuxuan laughed softly, "People and ghosts have different paths, and immortals are different. The avenue is facing the sky, each on its own. ”

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At dawn.

Ning Yao, who was in the small nest of grass and trees, slowly opened his eyes.

There was no sign of the boy.

She quickly got to her feet, stooped out, and on tiptoe, she jumped onto the massive shoulders of the dilapidated idol lying on her side.

In the distance, the straw sandals boy was running towards him, his steps were not hurried or slow, not like he was being chased and killed. When he saw the dark green girl, he quickly beckoned her to come down.

Ning Yao jumped off the shoulder of the Buddha statue and stood in front of the young man.

"The old ape didn't find us. ”

After finishing speaking, Chen Ping'an faced the headless statue, folded his hands, bowed his head, and thought in pieces. Ning Yao vaguely heard the words that pleaded not to blame her, she rolled her eyes, but she didn't say anything.

After that, Chen Ping'an said mysteriously: "I'll take you to see the two statues, it's very interesting!"

Ning Yao asked, "Is it the Immortal Bodhisattva who has appeared and is willing to come out to see you?"

Chen Ping'an said stupidly: "Miss Ning, what you said ...... said"

Ning Yao raised his eyebrows.

Chen Ping'an continued with lightning speed: "As soon as you hear it, you have read it!"

Ning Yao's whole person changed in an instant, coughing a few times, and silently reserved in his heart.

The boy led the way, and the girl followed silently.

Ning Yao subconsciously stretched out a finger and rubbed his eyebrows.

It's really hanging by a thread.

The girl fought for a long time, took a deep breath, and said two words weakly, thank you.

The boy has been watching and listening to all directions, and naturally heard the girl's sudden words of thanks, although deep down, he didn't feel that she needed to thank himself, but he should thank her.

It's just that Chen Ping'an really didn't know how to speak, so he simply ignored this stubble.

Chen Ping'an suddenly stopped, looked to the south in a daze, and said to himself: "What should we do if the old ape has been expelled by Mr. Qi, so he didn't chase and kill us?"

The girl was speechless.

Chen Ping'an continued to move forward, and he couldn't see anything unusual.

Ning Yao quickened his pace, walked side by side with him, and couldn't help but ask, "Chen Ping'an, are you okay?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "It's okay." I know that there are some things, that's what it is, no way is no way. ”

The boy has never read a book, so he doesn't know the meaning of that sentence, if you put it another way, it is called the time when manpower will eventually be exhausted.

Ning Yao stopped suddenly, and after the young man turned around in confusion, she pointed to the red mark on the center of her eyebrows, "I know you're curious, but I'm embarrassed to ask, I might as well tell you the truth, this is my Ning Yao's killer weapon, the old ape of Zhengyang Mountain is powerful, right? Beat you and me worse than a lost dog, right? But in my eyebrows, there is a tenth-birthday gift given to me by my mother, which is my destiny, as long as it appears, not to mention that the old ape is going to die, it is ......"

Speaking of this, the girl cut off the conversation and skipped directly, "The reason why I tell you this, I want to tell you that the world is very big, don't underestimate yourself, don't be discouraged, aren't you already practicing martial arts now? It's better to practice swordsmanship together!"

Chen Ping'an asked, "Do you know how to teach swordsmanship?"

Ning Yao said confidently: "I am too talented, I learned swords very early, and my realm climbed extremely fast, but I can't teach others swordsmanship!"

Chen Ping'an scratched his head.

Ning Yao thought for a while, and said: "Even if I want to give that flying sword to you, it won't agree, and I don't want to insult it like this, in my hometown, I think that there are spiritual swords in the world, and they are all my peers." ”

Ning Yao finally took off the snow-white scabbard around his waist, "But I can give you this scabbard!"

Chen Ping'an was confused, "Why?"

Ning Yao patted Chen Ping'an on the shoulder vigorously, and said earnestly: "Even the sword scabbard is there, is it still far from the sword immortal?"

Chen Ping'an stupidly took the empty scabbard and said dumbfoundedly, "What are you talking about?"

Ning Yao strode forward.

The girl only felt that she had done an extremely chic thing at that time, and that was it.

Chen Ping'an carefully carried the scabbard, thinking to himself where to find a sword?