Chen Ping'an glanced at the green bamboo scabbard on the waist of this uninvited guest, pretended to be puzzled, and asked, "Swordsman?"

The man held the hat in one hand, patted the hilt of the knife with the other, and said with a smile: "For the time being, I can't find a sword that is not worthy of me, so I have to use it instead, and use it to humiliate the people who use knives in the world." ”

Hearing this somewhat familiar tone, Chen Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that Liu Baqiao should be able to be good friends with this man.

Behind Chen Ping'an and Li Baohua, the father and daughter walked slowly side by side, and the girl Zhu Lu was a little disapproving, and sneered: "The dragon king yawns, and he can suck in a river, it's really a big breath, Dad, does this guy have a problem with his brain?"

Zhu He saw that there was a silver-white wine gourd hanging on the other side of the man's waist, the size of a palm, smooth and shiny, and at first glance it was an old object that was some years old, and whispered to his daughter: "Although I can't detect anything unusual about his qi, it's just a little longer than ordinary people, but you still have to be careful." Although my father has never been far away in his life, I have heard the ancestors say a lot of anecdotes about the rivers and lakes, saying that they are walking in the rivers and lakes, and they should be careful of Taoist old monks, children, and drunkards. ”

The girl sighed, nervous and excited, wishing that the unremarkable man was the assassin killer, just as a whetstone for her fledgling.

Chen Ping'an asked, "Are you looking for me?"

The man grinned and said, "I'll send you to the border of the Great Sui, and before that, we'll go together so that we can take care of you." ”

Chen Ping'an asked tentatively, "Do you know Master Ruan, who struck iron?"

The man nodded and said, "Of course I know." ”

Chen Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief again.

Before leaving the town, as one of the transactions, Master Ruan promised himself that he would guarantee his safety before arriving at Yefu Pass, a military stronghold on the border of Dali.

Chen Ping'an believed that Master Ruan would not break his promise, especially since this person appeared so early, almost under Master Ruan's nose, so he should not be one of the three forces of Zhengyang Mountain, Yunxia Mountain and Old Dragon City. Moreover, the timely appearance of the father and daughter of Zhuhe and Zhulu behind him also gave Chen Ping'an a lot of confidence.

However, Chen Ping'an was afraid of what happened.

So he asked, "Then you will accompany me to the town to meet Master Ruan, and then we will leave for the south?" It just so happened that I realized that in fact, when the east gate of the town went out, although it was a detour, there was a post road feasible, and the ox carts and carriages could go, but it was faster than us to cross the mountains and rivers. ”

The man smiled and played: "So cautious? ”

Chen Ping'an didn't turn his head, his eyes were always fixed on the man, but he said in a deep voice: "Zhu He, can you let Zhu Lu go back to the town with the treasure bottle first." We are in no hurry. ”

Zhu He figured out the joints at once, nodded and said, "This is the best." ”

Then Zhu He said to his daughter: "Lu'er, you take the young lady back first." Chen Ping'an and I accompanied this Ah Liang brother, whether it was drinking or sparring, it was not too much to meet each other. ”

The little girl in the red cotton jacket who was held by Zhu Lu did not hesitate, did not cry and shouted to be with her little uncle, just pulled Chen Ping'an's sleeve, and said the word "be careful" gently, and then decisively followed Zhu Lu and left quickly.

After seeing this scene of life and death, the man rolled his eyes, took off the wine gourd, leaned against the white donkey, took a sip of wine, and sneered: "Let the little girl take the little girl to go first, and after a stick of incense, the three of us will go to the town again." ”

Then the man raised the silver-white wine gourd in his hand, reached out and patted the donkey's back, looked at Zhu He, and asked with a smile: "You are also a good hand, don't you recognize this thing?"

He patted his head, "Forget that your Lizhu Cave has just opened, you know it's weird." It's okay, it's okay, we can talk slowly, a lot of time. ”

The man pointed to the old willow tree on the side of the stream, "Shall we go over there and sit and talk?"

Chen Ping'an and Zhu He glanced at each other, thinking that this was the best, and they could wait and see what happened.

The man led the white donkey, followed behind Chen Ping'an and Zhu He, came to the old willow tree, loosened the reins, and let the donkey gnaw the grass at will, he walked up the willow tree, walked out of the stream bank along the main trunk, and finally sat down, put on the hat again, lifted the silver white wine gourd, and was about to raise his head to pour wine, suddenly turned his head, handed out the wine jug, and asked with a smile: "Who wants to take a sip?" It is better to be happy alone than to be happy, two taels of silver and one tael of the Kuigang Immortal Brew, which is the favorite of all the rich people in the Great Sui, I went all the way north, drank and drunk, tasted more than 100 kinds of wine, or this immortal brewed the most authentic. ”

Chen Ping'an shook his head, "I don't drink." ”

Zhu He also shook his head, "I haven't completed my martial arts yet, so I don't dare to drink." ”

The man shook his head, looked at them, and said with regret on his face: "It turns out that they are not temperamental, I met a young man not long ago, and that is really suave ......"

This man suddenly found that Chen Ping'an and Zhu He's faces were strange, and he was a little puzzled, but he couldn't lose his master's demeanor, so he had to take a sip of wine to hide his confusion.

Chen Ping'an coughed lightly, and the man asked, "What's the matter?"

Chen Ping'an stretched out his finger and pointed to the outermost part of the crooked neck old willow tree.

The man frowned, turned his head to look, and saw that the two legs blocked the view, the man's face instantly stiffened, and he suddenly looked up, and saw an expressionless middle-aged man, at least one hundred and fifty or sixty pounds of guys, who was standing lightly on the top of the thick willow tree.

The person who came was Ruan Qiong, the sage of the military family, as Old Man Yang said, he was not interested in the movements within thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, unless it was Cui Yun's provocation that broke the rules, Ruan Qiong, who was bent on forging swords, would make a move. Ruan Qiong didn't think that anyone dared to make a move on Chen Ping'an within a radius of a hundred miles, it was simply slapping him Ruan Qiong's face, but the face of a soldier who cultivated the eleventh floor of the sword was only more important than the face of a dynasty. So Ruan Qiong didn't bother to pay attention to the situation here, a straw sandals boy and an innocent little girl just traveled far away, how could it be worth his personal attention?

But Ruan Qiong was touched by something.

Someone shook the object, Ruan Qiong immediately felt the majestic sword qi contained in the object, pure and vast, especially the feeling is extremely familiar, revealing a sense of intimacy and sadness, about this matter, Ruan Qiong has been practicing in the sect for many years, although he has never seen it with his own eyes, but he has heard of it for a long time, so he immediately rushed from the blacksmith shop.

At this time, seeing that the man's posture was worse than that of an ordinary master, Ruan Qiong not only did not ridicule this, but instead showed a little more solemnity, and asked, "But the Immortal Tai Wei Jin?"

The man who fell into the creek fluttered for a while, and finally stood up straight, picked up the wine jug from the stream, took off the hat on his head and shook it, looked up at the culprit, and said angrily: "My name is Ah Liang." ”

Ruan Qiong stared at him condescendingly, full of scrutiny, and asked, "Can you lend me two sips of wine?"

The man threw out the wine gourd and threw it high at Ruan Qiong, "Why not? But remember to return me." ”

Ruan Qiong took the wine jug, took a sip of wine, and asked with a smile, "It's not five yellow wine?"

As soon as the man heard this, he was furious, and said with a roll of his eyes: "The price has increased." ”

Ruan Qiong laughed, threw back the wine gourd, and asked, "Why did you come so quickly?" I thought it would take about ten years at the earliest. ”

The man who called himself Ah Liang walked ashore wet, and scolded and said, "You can manage it, the saint is amazing." ”

Ruan Qiong asked, "Do you want to go to my shop and sit down?" My daughter admires you very much. ”

Ah Liang pointed to himself and said with a smile: "To me, then your daughter has a really good eye." ”

Ruan Qiong seemed to have known the absurdity of this person for a long time, and asked, "Could it be that you are in charge of Longji Mountain this time?"

Ah Liang waved his hand, "It's not me, it's someone else." ”

Ruan Qiong looked at the man with a hat who was not very interested, and suddenly laughed, "Could it be that on the way north, you met that little Dao girl?"

Ah Liang's face was as usual, "I don't understand what you say." ”

Ruan Qiong sighed in his heart, no longer tempted, and no longer said.

In the Fengxue Temple where Ruan Qiong was born, there was a famous sword cultivator, who was young and genius, and rarely stayed in the sect, even in the Fengxue Temple, some people didn't know the name of this person. When he was young, he was taken by an ancestor of the Fengxue Temple who traveled down the mountain, and was accepted as a retreat disciple, so the seniority was extremely high, so that when he first went up the mountain, but the age of the crown, many hundred-year-old monks had to obediently call him a master, and then the Zhongxing ancestor of the Fengxue Temple failed to break through, and the talent of this vein withered, and the young sword cultivator became more estranged from the Fengxue Temple.

This person has been walking the rivers and lakes for seven or eight years, except for the occasional appearance in the sect on the day of the master's death, he is still alone, even if he returns to the Fengxue Temple, he never greets people. I heard that he got a priceless sword raising gourd very early, but he didn't use it to warm up the flying sword, but instead ruined the heavens, used to hold thousands of catties of alcohol, and was drunk for at least half a year and a year, so he was known as a drunken sword fairy, and when he was drunk, he was carried by a snow-white donkey, and the donkey was where it went.

Before Ruan Qiong broke away from the Fengxue Temple, he heard that this person fell in love at first sight for some reason to a young Taoist aunt who was known as "the best fortune in the world", and since then he has been deeply trapped in it and cannot extricate himself.

Ruan Qiong thought for a while, "Since that's the case, then you have to send them to Da Li Yefu Pass." ”

The man nodded.

Ruan Qiong hugged his fists and said goodbye, and his figure disappeared in a flash.

Only the willow branches swayed gently.

Zhu He asked cautiously, "Ah Liang...... Seniors are immortals of the Wind and Snow Temple?"

The man led the donkey and said lazily: "I am not familiar with Fengxue Temple. ”

Zhu He smiled, not embarrassed at all.

The martial artists in the world may not have a good impression of qi practitioners, but for the monks of Fengxue Temple and Zhenwu Mountain, they still have to give a thumbs up.

Before, Zhu He may have felt that this person's tone was bigger than the sky, and his posture was pretentious, but after the sage Ruan Qiong's trip, Zhu He looked back now, and the mediocre-looking man in front of him was really a real person who did not show his face, and the gods were hidden in the city. It is estimated that the long knife with a green bamboo sheath must be a shocking weapon as long as the knife is pulled out of the sheath.

Ah Liang took a big sip of wine to warm up, and said to Chen Ping'an: "That little girl is back." ”

Chen Ping'an turned his head to look, not only Li Baohua and Zhu Lu returned the same way, but also two familiar faces, and a mule with heavy bags hanging on both sides.

Li Huai and Lin Shouyi.

Chen Ping'an trotted over, Li Baohua looked sullen, and Zhu Lu said in a crisp voice: "We met these two children halfway, saying that they were going to study at the Mountain Cliff Academy with Miss." Our ancestor showed up just now to say hello, let me go back to you. ”

Chen Ping'an didn't ask Zhu Lu who the so-called ancestor was, and looked at the ghostly Li Huai and the down-and-out noble Lin Shouyi.

Li Huai stiffened his neck and said confidently: "I don't eat with you, do you want to be a beggar in a small town to ask for food." ”

Lin Shouyi still looked cold, and said: "Wealth is in danger." ”

Li Baohua snorted coldly: "You can start from the east gate and go to the academy by yourself." Why do I have to bring you two oil bottles?"

Li Huai said angrily: "Li Bao Vase! We are friends who have lived and died together!"

Lin Shouyi was not as scoundrel as Li Huai, and said frankly: "Li Huai and I don't talk about the Mountain Cliff Academy, even the border of Dali can't go." ”

Chen Ping'an nodded, gently pressed his hand on Li Baohua's head to stop her from speaking, and then asked, "Then Shi Chunjia and Dong Shuijing, are you sure you won't come?"

Lin Shouyi explained: "Over there in the New Year's shop, someone will take Shi Chunjia to the capital, and Dong Shuijing heard that the township school in the town will open again in the future, so he will replace your short-term job in the blacksmith shop." ”

Chen Ping'an looked at Li Baohua, Li Huai and Lin Shouyi, and said with a smile: "Then let's go together." ”

Ah Liang brought the white donkey back from the streamside, and when he saw Li Huailin Shouyi, he said reluctantly: "It's okay to bring one more cute little girl, but what's the matter with you two rabbit cubs?"

Li Huai scolded: "Which green onion are you?!"

Ah Liang's face did not change and replied: "I am your long-lost father, my own father." ”

Li Huairu was struck by lightning and stared at this strange man.

The man was looked down upon so much that his heart was furious, could it be that this little bastard really has an ulterior story about his father?

Li Huai quickly changed his original sluggish look, pulled the corners of his mouth, squinted at the man with a hat, looked disgusted, and muttered, "Fight with me?"

The man was deflated, and said, "Yo, the shallow little king is more." ”

Li Huai hugged the back of his head with both hands and said, "If you don't listen to Wang Ba's recitation, you can't listen to it." ”

Chen Ping'an asked for no reason, "Ah Liang, why do you speak our town dialect?"

The man smiled and said, "You go and ask Ruan Qiong." ”

Chen Ping'an looked at him and suddenly smiled, "Forget it." ”

The man stretched out his finger and pointed at Chen Ping'an, and said, "At a young age, it's not good to have such a heavy mind. ”

Ah Liang, who claims to be a swordsman but wears a sword, and his white donkey.

Chen Ping'an and Li Baohua, who each carried baskets, Li Huai and Lin Shouyi, who were empty-handed, and Zhuhe and Zhulu, who walked in the back, were father and daughter.

Seven people with disparate identities went south together.

Because this Ah Liang, who came from the same place as Master Ruan, said that the road when he came was not difficult, and along the Tiefu River all the way to the south, he could soon see the Da Li Post Road that was being built day and night.

However, after the next pause, Ah Liang was still willing to listen to Chen Ping'an's advice.

During the break, Li Huai ran to ask the man with a hat, who was not afraid of life at all, and asked, "Hey! Ah Liang, your donkey is male and female?"

The man doesn't hate this kid, but it's a little annoying, "It's your business." ”

"Give me a ride?"

"I don't want to ride myself, why should you? ”

Of course, if my mother doesn't agree, I don't wonder if I have to remarry the donkey. ”

"Fuck off!"

"Ah Liang, I didn't say you, your temper will have to change in the future. ”

Li Huai put his hands behind his shoulders, shook his head and sighed and left.

Leave an eye-opening man in the hat.

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On the bank of the stream, the two walked to the blacksmith shop, one was Ruan Qiong, the other was an old man with white hair but a red face, and the latter was the ancestor of the maid Zhu Lu's mouth, the real backbone of the Li family, one of the four major surnames in the town.

Li Baohua is such a treasure, and the Li family, which has high hopes for him, will certainly not only let the father and daughter be close to him, if it weren't for Master Ruan's appearance today, the ancestor of the Li family, who has practiced qi, would escort all the way to that Yefu Pass.

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Master Ruan, this person is the helper you invited from the Wind and Snow Temple......?"

Ruan Qiong said bluntly: "I don't look like a master at all, but I look like a bastard in the market, right?"

Ruan Qiong said slowly: "When I took the wine gourd and drank, I carefully investigated, the natal sword qi in the sword gourd is still alive, and it is indeed the true transmission of the Fengxue Temple, and the vein of the Fengxue Temple Shenxiantai is already a small number of people, and Wei Jin does not like the cold temperament of making friends with people, but likes to wander the rivers and lakes, and the temperament is strange, which is easy to explain." Although there are also vicious methods in the world that successfully seize the natal object after killing people, Wei Jin's cultivation is definitely not low, and he wants to successfully take away the sword cultivation and that wisp of sword qi on him......"

Ruan Qiong laughed, "Then even if I, Ruan Qiong, make a move today, I won't be able to stop what that person wants to do." ”

The old man sighed, "You can't say that, if the Three Sects didn't take away the winning thing, and the formation was still there, there would be many things that Master Ruan wouldn't have to be so tied." ”

Ruan Qiong thought for a while, "Later, I still have to go to meet with the people in the Fengxue Temple Giant Salamander Ditch to understand the situation, they are not far from here." Just about the division of Longji Mountain and the dragon slaying platform, in front of the people of Zhenwu Mountain, it is difficult to say it directly. During this period, if there is any accident in the town, trouble Li Lao to find Xiuxiu and let her fly the sword to pass the book. ”

Fengxue Temple, Zhenwu Mountain, is the ancestral court of the two major soldiers in Dongbao Aquarius, one south and one north, the relationship between the two sides has been not good, generally belongs to the well water does not violate the river water, of course, at the critical moment when it comes to the major right and wrong, it will definitely give up the view of the gateway and choose to join forces against the enemy.

Among them, Zhenwu Mountain pays more attention to the development of secular dynasties under the mountain, and there are many monks of Zhenwu Mountain in the Dali Dynasty, the Lu Dynasty that has been destroyed, and the Gao clan of the Great Sui Dynasty have the shadow of Zhenwu Mountain monks, most of whom are the personal servants of the generals on the battlefield, or the middle-level generals who hold real power.

Fengxue Temple tends to be alone, going back and forth to the ruins of the major ancient battlefields, a bit similar to the rangers on the rivers and lakes, with the top martial arts, everything is from the heart, happy, just kill the demon and the chivalrous righteousness, unhappy, just look for someone to learn Taoist swordsmanship, most of them are forced to break through the mountain gate uninvited, the master promised not to agree, they have to accompany them to fight and then talk about others. However, these weird-tempered guys in the Fengxue Temple don't fight to make a name for themselves, let alone kill people, so even if they are beaten to the ground by the monks of the Fengxue Temple, they don't have to worry about their ugliness.

Regarding the matter of the flying sword, the old man was puzzled: "Master Ruan, there are also several good quality messenger flying swords in my house......

Ruan Shi smiled and waved his hand, "It's not the same, it's not a small difference." ”

The old man immediately understood, and said with a smile: "Talking about flying swords in front of Master Ruan, you are smiling and generous, and you are smiling and generous." ”

Ruan Qiong suddenly sighed softly: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop." ”

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A small, delicate but plump woman in palace clothes walks in the mud bottle alley.

There were three people far behind him, and a middle-aged man was burly and resolute.

An old man with a pale face and beard, seemed to have weak eyesight, and always squinted.

A young woman carried a long sword in her arms, and the golden spikes of the sword curled up just over her plump breasts.

The woman finally stopped at the gate of Song Jixin's house and said with a smile: "Only Cui Yun can do such a thing as stealing Spring Festival couplets." ”