Chapter 225: Night Road
Not long after Chen Ping'an returned to the verandah and sat down, he didn't see Zhang Shanfeng, the bearded man was a joker, so he said that the priest and a young woman looked at each other and went on a night tour. Liu Gaohua followed and coaxed, of course Chen Ping'an didn't believe it, but at this moment, looking at the face of the county guard's sister-in-law, Chen Ping'an's eyes were a little strange, thinking that there would be no such coincidental thing in the world, so he hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you have any sisters who have been married?"
Liu Gaohua was confused, "No, there is one sister each, now I don't marry a wife, they don't marry, they all eat and drink at home, my father complains all day long that we are a group of wine bags and rice bags, and we have all been trampled up, especially the preparation of the dowry, which caused him to not buy a desk for many years." β
Chen Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that she doesn't get married, otherwise the woman who looks a little similar to Liu Gaohua, if she is really Liu Gaohua's sister, then she will go out of the wall with a red apricot, whether to say it or not, Chen Ping'an is very embarrassed.
The curtain soon came to an end on the high platform of the Huxin Pavilion, the applause was thunderous, Liu Junshou and General Ma did not rely on their official bodies, they walked out of the water pavilion in person, and went to the high platform to ask the old fairy for warmth, the old fairy answered decently, and the two parents and officials of Yiwen and Wuwu both felt like a spring breeze, and during the period, there was a young man who looked like a disciple of the scholar clan, and he wanted to learn from the old fairy to learn the arts, but he was quickly dragged away by the housekeeper and miscellaneous servants.
Taoist priest Zhang Shanfeng came back a few steps later than Chen Ping'an, and when he saw Chen Ping'an, he sat peacefully in place, relieved, and joked: "I thought you fell into the pit." β
Chen Ping'an didn't want to leak the battle of the small street, and said in a low voice: "I didn't find the pit, and I was embarrassed to ask the housekeeper, so I thought about secretly finding a secluded place, but I looked for a long time, and when I came back, I saw that there were many people in the verandah, so I was embarrassed to squeeze in, so I stayed outside for a while." β
The bearded man asked: "If you drill into the shadows, you won't see any pictures of me?" Can I tell you, this colorful country, especially Rouge County, has the most scholars and beauties, and when they have nothing to do, they all like to watch some gaudy and forbidden books, and if you read too much, don't you just follow the number of roads written in the book......
When the man said this, Liu Gaohua couldn't help laughing, nodded vigorously and said: "Just like the little girl in my family, thirteen years old, just because she peeked at a few cigarette books, it is not to see the love between men and women, and her temperament is wild. β
The bearded man's eyes lit up, and he patted his chest and said: "It's good to yearn for the rivers and lakes, Xu someone pretends to have a belly of rivers and lakes, and casually brings out one or two stories, which are the best appetizers in the world!"
Liu Gaohua rolled his eyes and said: "Don't, my sister is still young, Xu Daxia, why are the two brothers friends and friends, only talking in the rivers and lakes, besides, you have become my brother-in-law, you don't lose your generation?"
The man smiled and said, "Don't you have a sister?"
Liu Gaohua didn't dare to say anything, it seemed that there was something unspeakable.
Chen Ping'an wanted to speak and stopped.
The bearded man laughed and slapped Liu Gaohua on the shoulder, "Look at what scares you, I, Xu someone, have been wandering the rivers and lakes for so many years, and I can't count my confidantes with one hand, and I have never been interested in the women in the boudoir of the embroidery building!"
The feast dispersed, walked out of the house in the flow of people, the three returned to the inn, Liu Gaohua was arrested by his father to socialize, although the son was not successful, the craftsmanship was not refined, and the career was basically cut off, but in the end, it was the only son in the family, Liu Junshou still hoped that Liu Gaohua would be able to support the faΓ§ade in the future, and not be too ugly.
On the way back, because of the two things in hand, Chen Ping'an asked Xu Yuanxia and Zhang Shanfeng about the magic weapon.
If you want to blame the people Chen Ping'an met before, it was too unruly, Ah Liang casually carried a bamboo knife around his waist, as for the young Cui Yun accidentally chatted about the realm and magic weapons, his tone was so big that it was scary, as if the qi practitioners of the upper and middle five realms, and the magic weapons they carried, they were all children playing with mud, not worth mentioning. The barefoot old man in the bamboo building was more straightforward, saying that my generation of martial artists, if I rely on external objects, I can walk the world, it is better to stay at home and work in the fields and be a farmer.
Chen Ping'an was also helpless.
Fortunately, after the introduction of Xu Yuanxia and Zhang Shanfeng, I have a general understanding of the division of the "magic weapon", which turns out to be also strictly hierarchical, not much inferior to the rank of officialdom. "Magic weapon" is a very general statement, the bottom of the object, is a craftsman, can only be regarded as a well-cast dead thing, blowing hair, cutting iron like mud these rivers and lakes, mostly to describe this category of weapons, as well as the mountain immortal symbolic gift to the beginner disciple of the object, is often a good appearance of the craftsman, just like the Taoist priest Zhang Shanfeng's peachwood sword.
Of course, if it was the peachwood sword given to the Heavenly Master of the Lower Mountain by the Heavenly Master's Mansion of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, it would be far more than that.
The craftsman is a heavy weapon again, the magic weapon of the master of the rivers and lakes, most of them belong to this category, the material is rare, the general qi practitioners, especially the rootless duckweed, no master inheritance of the wild cultivation of the immortals, regarded as the pure martial arts of the layman of the avenue, the mountainside people on the cultivation road, if you are lucky, there are one or two "heavy weapons", it is not easy, like the Taoist Zhang Shanfeng, he dreams of heavy weapons, hoping to have a magic sword in the future.
The bearded man's saber is actually the best among the heavy weapons.
The next spiritual weapons and magic weapons are the real "magic weapons", the spiritual weapons are divided into congenital and acquired, and the innate spiritual weapons are more rare, and the heaven and earth love them, giving birth to abundant spiritual energy, so that the cultivators can control it and get twice the result with half the effort. At the critical moment, it can also feed back to the master at the cost of destroying the foundation. Xiao Xue Qian can barely be regarded as such, but the aura contained in a snow money is too scarce to be ignored, and no qi practitioner is stupid enough to absorb Xiao Xue Qian's aura to boost the cultivation realm.
The acquired spiritual weapons, such as the high-quality yellow paper talismans, and some supernatural artifacts carved and made by qi practitioners, such as the jade pendant of Fu Nanhua, the young city lord of the old dragon city, named "Old Dragon Buyu", is the first-class object among the spiritual weapons, which is invaluable, and the "mandrill pot" he bought from Song Jixin is even more precious and abnormal.
Compared with the "Old Dragon Bu Yupei" and the "Mandrill Pot", the demon ropes, demon suppression wood, and ghost bamboo whips carried by those qi practitioners of the Divine Sect are also acquired spiritual weapons, whether it is price or value, they are worlds apart.
On top of the spiritual weapon is the magic weapon.
Law has always been a big word.
Otherwise, there would be no Taoism, Buddhism, and Buddhism.
The magic weapon contains the invisible rules of the avenue of heaven and earth.
The sword raiser, which is specially used to warm and nourish flying swords, steadily occupies a place. Of course, Ah Liang took the silver sword-raising gourd from Wei and Jin, as well as the gourd hanging from the waist of Su Jia in Zhengyang Mountain, which is the Tianhuang noble in the sword-raising gourd, and it is said that it is a string of gourd vines planted by Daozu before his ascension, and the six gourds produced were then made into six sword-raising containers by the masters on the top of the mountain, which is naturally not comparable to ordinary sword-raising gourds.
There are also immortal soldiers on top of the magic weapon.
Nine times out of ten, the qi cultivators on the mountain will not be able to see a single immortal soldier with their own eyes in their entire lives. Even if it is the immortal mansion with the head of the sect, not every one of them may have immortal soldiers sitting on the mountain. The Divine Sect of the Divine Sect of the Ruler of the Continent, Qi Zhen, the head of the sect, successfully broke through the realm this time and became the Heavenly Monarch, only to be given an immortal soldier by the Shangzong of the Middle Earth Divine Continent.
Cao Xi, the sword immortal of Nanpo Continent, the natal flying sword tied to his wrist was a great chance that he met and refined it with the water of a big river, which can be regarded as a half-immortal soldier, which is the most feared place for Cao Xi.
But the world's most top-notch immortal soldiers, all of them are full of legendary existence, and the people who have them are even more transcendent and famous all over the world, such as the Heavenly Master Seal and the fairy sword of the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Longhu Mountain, as well as the Yingyin Chen ancestor who traveled the world when he was young, and accidentally obtained a bronze small tripod, which is said to have been an imitation of the mountains and rivers of the ancient sage hanging from the waist.
Among the already rare immortal soldiers, there is a more legendary one, which has been cultivated over a long period of time, giving birth to a "god" with self-awareness.
This god is by no means the flow of the righteous gods of the mountains and rivers enshrined by the secular court, the so-called immortal golden body of the righteous gods, before this kind of high-ranking "gods", I am afraid that it is not as good as the local chicken and tile dog.
Chen Ping'an knew it in his heart.
Even if you put aside the five mountains, you are still very rich!
My current wealth is solid!
Porcelain bowls and ebony that were just "picked up" from the side of the road tonight.
A wooden sword made of locust wood "slaying demons".
The snake gallstone that Lu Shen returned to him through He Xiaoliang, even if he didn't mention the love of the dragons in the world, it must be the best spiritual weapon material.
And the tripartite seals left by Mr. Qi to himself are all carved from the best snake gallstone seals.
Li Xisheng gifted a small cone pen from the wind and snow, as well as a large stack of precious rune paper.
The sword cultivation glove on his waist, which is extremely special in the magic weapon, is a treasure that most sword cultivators in the Middle Five Realms will covet.
Two natal flying swords that temporarily recognized him as their master, the first and fifteenth of the first month.
So when Chen Ping'an walked back to the house alone, there was wind under his feet, like a boy in Tsing Yi who hadn't met a certain person on the road.
Although it is impossible to say for sure
Drink and drink!
There was no wine in the sword gourd, so Chen Ping'an went to ask the innkeeper about the price of the wine, and when he heard that the worst Rouge County local brew cost at least eight dollars of silver for a catty, as for the inn's signature rouge wine, it cost ten taels per catty, and he would never bargain! Chen Ping'an's wine gourd could hold more than ten catties of wine, and the most expensive rouge wine of ten catties was only one hundred taels of silver! It was not a hundred snowflakes for the gods on the mountain, and if he didn't drink such fine wine, he was worthy of the spiritual weapons and magic weapons of the mountains of gold and silver on his body?
So Chen Ping'an decisively asked for ten catties of home-brewed soju.
Originally, the three of them had already gone back to the house, but Liu Gaohua came to the inn again, and knocked on Zhang Shanfeng's door first, the son of the Tianzi official eunuch of Rouge County, was full of embarrassment at the time, and there was a pair of talented young men and women behind him, the woman's face was somewhat similar to Liu Gaohua, and it was estimated that it was his sister. Tell Zhang Shanfeng about the matter, it turned out that he came to ask them for a little bone-setting medicine for Jianghu Erlang, saying that Liu Gongzi went to see the old fairy tonight, there were too many people, and it was a night road, so he accidentally fell and hit his head, and his brain was still dizzy, the pharmacy in the county town had long been closed, his sister really didn't worry about Liu Gongzi, after hearing that his younger brother knew the heroes of the rivers and lakes and the fairies on the mountain, he wanted to help take a look, don't fall into the root of the disease, all expenses, she will pay.
Taoist priest Zhang Shanfeng led the three of them to Xu Yuanxia's house, and the bearded man was also refreshed, and showed it to the weak scholar, saying that it was not in the way, seeing that the woman was reluctant, how old and spicy the man was, so he smiled and took out a cool cream from the baggage, and let the scholar surnamed Liu stick it on his temples to ensure that the medicine is eliminated, and there are no sequelae.
Only then did the woman relax and sit on the stool, her soft eyes looked at the scholar obsessively, full of love and pity. The scholar comforted him not to worry, chewing the words, and the text was crepe.
The bearded man can't stand these the most, and he looks straight and sour.
Although Zhang Shanfeng is a monk, he is not ambiguous at all, and it is better to be happy alone than to be happy, so he immediately ran to pull Chen Ping'an over. said that she was Liu Gaohua's sister, she looked like a very upright girl, and she brought a scholar tonight, and it is estimated that she will soon be the son-in-law of the county guard. Chen Ping'an had just finished pouring the wine, filled with a sword raiser, a room full of wine smell and empty wine jugs, and saw that Zhang Shanfeng would not give up if he didn't catch himself to watch a good show, because he didn't want to show his feet in the matter of wine, so he had to give up the idea of practicing the sword furnace, and followed him to Xu Yuanxia's house.
If the enemy does not move, I will not move.
Chen Ping'an pretended not to know anything, sat down at the table, took off the wine gourd and began to drink.
The scholar surnamed Liu is not sitting nor is he sitting, Liu Gaohua's sister, the woman who was poisoned by the talented and beautiful woman, is even more weak-hearted, after all, a yellow flower girl in a rich and noble court, and a strange man is only one step away from a private life, no matter how you look at it, it is not a good thing that can be taken out to talk about it, although the people of Rouge County are open, but the eldest daughter of a county Taishou hugged and hugged the scholar from the countryside, and bumped into someone, if it is an acquaintance, I am afraid that half of the county town will spread tomorrow.
Liu Gaohua wondered: "What, you all know each other?"
The scholar surnamed Liu will make it up, cough, and explain: "I was walking by the lake with your sister tonight, and I happened to meet this son, carrying a sword box, it is really the dragon and the tiger, the spirit is extraordinary, and I was immediately impressed by the child's bearing, naturally unforgettable, meet again at this time, it is an honor!"
The scholar bowed to Chen Ping'an, his eyes full of pleading and pity. At that time, he was just a young man under the apricot tree, with small arms and thin legs, so he thought that God would reward him with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to let himself be a hero to save the beauty.
Chen Ping'an didn't have much liking or dislike about this person, and he definitely didn't have a good impression, so he smiled, but he didn't expose the scholar's old background, which left room for maneuver.
In the final analysis, Chen Ping'an is still unwilling to get involved in Liu Gaohua's housework.
Whether this marriage is good or bad, whether it is a beautiful man, a match made in heaven, or a bad fate destined for a dewy mandarin duck, it has nothing to do with him.
But then again, if Liu Gaohua is replaced by Zhang Shanfeng, a Taoist priest who is regarded as a true friend by Chen Ping'an, Chen Ping'an will definitely have to be outspoken, even if he doesn't say it to his face, he will remind Zhang Shanfeng in private, just say that your future brother-in-law is not very authentic, not like a scholarly son.
In the end, it is said that he traveled all the way to study here, this scholar surnamed Liu, who met Miss Liu's down-and-out cold man at a temple fair, was so poor that he wanted to live with people, because the inn was really unable to vacate the house, Liu Gaohua was there to pay for his smiling face, begging the bearded man and Zhang Shanfeng to take them in, which opened Xu Yuanxia's eyes, when the brother-in-law was in this role, it was also rare, not only did he not dislike the family background of the scholar surnamed Liu, but helped his sister hide this relationship of not being in the right household.
The scholar surnamed Liu didn't dare to live in a room with Chen Ping'an, nor did he want to stay with the bearded man, he always felt that he had fine skin and tender meat, and the appearance of the bearded man who was not taboo was too scary. picked the most normal and pleasing young Taoist priest, Zhang Shanfeng had no opinion on this.
Liu Gaohua left the inn with his reluctant sister.
The two sisters and brothers were walking on the lonely street where the night was about to be banned, and when Liu Gaohua was about to arrive at the door of the county government, he said softly: "Sister, I don't like that person very much, but since you like him, I will do everything I can." If one day you find out that you are wrong, don't feel that there is anything, the sky can't fall, whether your father beats and scolds, or if you are angry and does something excessive, don't be afraid when the time comes, with me, I am your brother. β
The woman kicked her brother lightly, and said angrily: "Liu Gaohua, you can't read a little bit of your sister's goodness, what kind of bad words!"
Liu Gaohua turned his head and grimaced.
The woman pretended to be frightened, shouted ghosts, picked up the hem of her skirt, and ran to the gate of the county guard's mansion.
Liu Gaohua sighed and quickly followed.
Liu Gaohua suddenly stopped, suddenly turned his head, the empty street, and looked around, still didn't see anything unusual, he shook his head and continued to move forward.
Because at this moment, he felt cold at the back of his neck and back.
Liu Gaohua kept comforting himself in his heart, what are you afraid of, he is a person who has seen the old fairy with his father, and he has chatted with the old fairy elder with a few words of fairy wind and bones in person, and he has been stained with so much fairy energy, even if there are really filthy and dirty things in the world, such as the tree demon in the ancient mansion, he will definitely not be able to get close to him now.
At the moment when the handyman closed the side door of the mansion, on a secluded and empty street in the distance, a night watchman just began to knock on the watch, but for some reason, it was the hour of the third watch, but the gong of the fourth watch was played.
In the streets of this Rouge county, a hoarse voice sounded faintly, "The weather is dry, watch out for the candles." β
The blind old man who has been patrolling the night for many years, holding a gong, was supposed to bring a mute companion who was responsible for holding the gong and knocking the watch, and he was extremely familiar with it after many years of cooperation.
But the old husband didn't know that his companion was replaced by a woman in white, and when she struck the gong again and again, blood would be splashed on the gong, but before the blood splashed on the street, it turned into wisps of black smoke and quickly dispersed.
The blind old man still shouted hoarsely, the sky is dry, be careful of the candle.