Li Jingxi walked into the inn with her baggage, saw that Zhu Ziping had already bathed, and said: "Brother Zhu, you are famous now, the battle last night, it is rumored outside, that the blue sky hero defeated more than 30 people in the Tea Horse Gang alone, and even the deputy helmsman was defeated by three moves and was seriously injured." ”

Zhu Ziping said indifferently: "What a blue sky hero, as long as you don't mess with me, I am Zhu Ziping." Li Jingxi opened the baggage: "Brother Zhu, the clothes on your body are already shabby, I bought two sets of clothes for you, I guess you like blue, so both are blue plate-collared shirts, you try to see if they fit." Zhu Ziping thanked him and changed his clothes, which fit just right.

Li Jingxi watched him put on new clothes and look even more extraordinary, but his face turned red again, he picked up the old clothes and prepared to take them outside to wash, but Zhu Ziping said: "Miss Li, I'll wash the clothes myself."

Li Jingxi was stunned: "Why can't I wash it for you?" "I'm used to washing it myself, the clothes were sewn by my aunt with stitches and threads, or before the Chinese New Year last year, my aunt was already in her sixties, and her eyes were not good, and it took more than ten days to sew them out......"

Li Jingxi smiled: "Brother Zhu, you are rough, can you wash clothes more carefully than me?" Don't worry, it won't break. After a while, Li Jingxi came in with the washed clothes and found a hanger to hang indoors. Seeing that it was getting late, he asked, "Brother Zhu, let's go have some dinner, should we eat at this inn or go to an outside restaurant?" ”

"I don't care, Miss Li will do it." "This inn is the largest in the city, and the dishes are still very particular, but there are many people in the inn, and the restaurant must be noisy, so I asked the little second brother to bring the food in, how about we eat in this room?" Seeing Zhu Ziping nodding in agreement, he went to the front hall to greet Xiao Er.

The effort is not big, and the small two sides come with four dishes, namely beef and mutton steamed buns, gourd heads, meatballs and spicy soup and Muslim stir-fry, and a bottle of Xifeng wine. Li Jingxi took it and put it on the table, the table was only half the size of a table of eight immortals, hence the name half table, the legs of the table were tied at the waist, small and exquisite.

The two sat down, Li Jingxi poured two glasses of wine, Zhu Ziping took it and drank it all, the wine was sweet and mellow in the mouth, and the tail was clean and long, but it was a taste that he had never drunk, and he couldn't help but praise: "Good wine!" ”

Li Jingxi poured another glass and said: "Big brother, this Xifeng wine is also called Qin wine, which started in Yin Shang and was served in the Tang and Song dynasties, there is another story about this wine, do you want to hear it?" Zhu Ziping replied: "I have been afraid of studying since I was a child, and I don't like those crepe stories. ”

"Brother Zhu, this story is not literal." Li Jingxi picked up the cup and saluted Zhu Ziping, the two drank dry, and then said, "During the Spring and Autumn Period, the place where Xifeng wine was produced was called Fengxiang, and there were more than 300 local people, so they were so hungry that they couldn't stand it and secretly killed a few of Qin Mugong's horses to eat. After being caught, he was about to punish them, but Qin Mugong pardoned them, and also gave Xifeng wine to these people to drink, because eating horse meat without drinking alcohol would hurt their bodies. Later, Qin Mugong was besieged by Jin Huigong and led the army, and at a critical juncture, suddenly a team of ordinary people entered the siege and desperately saved Qin Mugong, and also captured Jin Huigong alive. ”

Zhu Ziping praised: "Qin Mugong is a big husband. "The eldest brother is right, under the governance of Qin Mugong, the country has gradually become stronger, and he himself is also known as one of the 'Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period'." Li Jingxi said, while Zhu Ziping clamped a chopsticks gourd head, "Brother, this is a unique flavor snack in Xi'an, according to legend, the famous doctor Sun Simiao went to Chang'an to eat, felt greasy, fishy smell, left the medicine gourd for the shopkeeper to season, the shopkeeper in gratitude to Sun Simiao, the medicine gourd hanging at the door, this is the origin of the 'gourd head'." Zhu Ziping ate it, it was really delicious and delicious.

After dinner, Li Jingxi asked Xiao Er to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and chatted with Zhu Ziping: "Big brother, have you just walked the rivers and lakes for a short time?" "I didn't go through the rivers and lakes, I just came out to look for my father, but I met my second brother and sister Ouyang, so I escorted them to Xi'an." "I know, I asked my eldest brother if he just walked the rivers and lakes, just to see that the eldest brother had no scruples when he ate and drank just now, you must know that you must not have the heart to harm others, and you must not have the heart to prevent people, and you have formed such a deep bond with the Tea Horse Gang, you are not afraid that they will be secretly poisoned?" "Thank you, Miss Li, for reminding me, I'll pay attention in the future."

While the two were chatting, they heard someone knocking on the door, and Li Jingxi asked, "Little second brother, is there something wrong?" "Just now a little boy asked me to give you this letter." After Xiao Er left, Zhu Ziping was very surprised, and opened the letter, with only one line on it: "At one o'clock on April 15, the Jingtai is waiting for the driver." The payment is "Tea Horse Gang Deng Qiankun".

Zhu Ziping asked, "Who is Deng Qiankun?" Where is the prayer platform? "Zheng Qiankun is also the deputy helmsman of the Tea Horse Gang, but his status is higher than Zhou Zhenglin, Zhou Zhenglin and the helmsman Zhou Zhenwu are brothers, Zheng Qiankun can stand firm, it is indeed his own excellent skills." Li Jingxi frowned, "The scripture platform is in the Louguan platform, in the north foot of Zhongnan Mountain in the southeast of Zhouzhi County, one hundred and fifty miles away from here. ”

"What do the Tea Horse Gang want to do, ask me to go so far?" "I don't understand it either, but it is known as the first blessed land in the world, and if you want to come to the Tea Horse Gang to ask you to go there, you must have a good intention." "Regardless of him, I will also go to the sword mountain and the sea of fire at that time, so I don't have to wait here. It's the fifth day of April, and there are still 10 days to go, so there's really nothing to do. "Big brother, can I accompany you to the city?"

"No, it's not safe. There is also the Salt Gang who has not shown up so far, and it should not be so easy to end this frame, we have come all the way, and the Salt Gang must know. Miss Li, you have also offended the Salt Gang, it is better to be careful, we might as well stay in the inn. ”

In the next few days, it rained continuously, and the rain hit the green bricks in the courtyard, making a ticking sound. Li Jingxi took a lunch break in his room, Zhu Ziping sat under the porch, listening to the sound of rain, and after a while, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the courtyard soon became flooded, and the raindrops fell on the water, splashing circles of ripples. Looking at this scene, Zhu Ziping seemed to think of something, but he couldn't capture it.

A scene flashed in my mind, that night in Myoko Zen Temple, facing the five-color lotus array, when I was trapped and had nothing to do, I looked up and saw Bo Yun bleak, remembering that my father had asked Wang Hou and himself: "When will this fog disappear?" When did the rainbow form? Originally, there was no color in the sky, but after the sun came out, we saw the color of the cloud. As a result, he closed his eyes that time, and finally broke the five-colored lotus array.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ziping muttered to himself: "There are no ripples in the pond, but the rain falls to form this circle of ripples, and my Falling Sun Method, there are all chopping, sweeping, and stabbing these moves, but they are all brute force, and when I encounter Guangrun's Songtao swordsmanship, I can't be coincidental for a while, and I was injured by Monk Guangjing." But...... The ripples of this rain falling, although the raindrops are small, can stir up a large area, why is this?

Zhu Ziping sat on the chair and was stupid for a while: "If I condense the internal force in the sunset, and then send it out like this raindrop, what kind of effect will it be?" Thinking of this, he stood up and walked to the bottom of the corridor, the internal force was poured into the gong, and the gong pointed to an ancient pine tree five zhang away, the internal force was excited, and the sunset was connected with his heart, and his internal force came from the sunset, at this time, he heard the sound of "click", and the ancient tree that the three people hugged together was broken at the waist! was so shocked that Zhu Ziping opened his mouth.

Xiao Er ran out of the front hall when he heard the sound, looked at the ancient pine who fell to the ground, and shouted: "What a big thunder and lightning, such a thick pine tree has been broken, fortunately there is no one under the tree." "There were a lot of people poking their heads out of the room, too.

Zhu Ziping returned to his room, stroked the sunset, and sighed: "I only knew how to fight with brute force before, but just now this trick imitated the landing of raindrops, but I didn't expect it to inspire such a great power." My father taught me not to use the 'whirlwind of the world' until the last resort, and I did it last time at Myoko Zenji Temple, and the result was recognized by Hirosawa ...... Besides, after the Falling Sun Gong is out of his hand, although it can fly back at will, it may be controlled by the master after all, and my move just now makes up for this shortcoming, but the power is too great, and you have to control the strength. Sunset ...... Sunset, when you fell from the sky, how much power did you have? …… Just now this trick is called 'lightning strike'. ”

In fact, Zhu Ziping himself didn't know that this "lightning strike" move had something in common with the "Transformation City Finger" of Jiuhua East Sect, but because Zhu Ziping's internal force came from the Falling Sun Gong, and with the help of the Falling Sun Gong, the power was even more amazing.

Zhu Ziping saw that there was no one in the courtyard, and he cast a "lightning strike" towards the sky again, but when he heard a "click", it seemed that thunder and lightning sounded, and Xiao Er ran out of the front hall again, looked up at the sky, and muttered something in his mouth.

At this time, in the courtyard of the Yan family, Ouyang Lan and Yan Yue were watching the rain trickle down from the eaves of the opposite house, collecting in the courtyard and disappearing along the drainage ditch. The Yan family compound is located in the north of Xi'an City, the compound faces the street on three sides, the wall is as high as three zhang, and there are ten small courtyards in it, with a total of more than 100 houses. As soon as you enter the gate, it is the wall of brick carving Baishou diagram, bypass the wall, it is a bluestone paved road, the courtyard is a positive partial structure, the main courtyard is the tile house out of the eaves, the master lives, the partial courtyard is the bungalow with the square brick roof, it is the guest room and the servant's room and the stove room, it is the local quite luxurious courtyard.

Ouyang Lan asked: "Ah dog, this rain is unsettling, do you know the news from Brother Zhu?" "I sent the little guy to the inn every day, it's okay these days, the eldest brother told the little guy that he was going to go to the appointment on April 15, and it was related to the Tea Horse Gang." "I've heard you say this three times." "Alas, aren't you worried about the eldest brother, didn't you ask three times."