After finishing his work, Lu Pingchuan came to a well-known mountain spring and began to clean up those wild meats. In the process of plucking and removing the intestines of those prey, Tang Ping felt bloody and pickled, and saw Qian Chao go to the forest to pick up firewood for barbecue, so he left Yan Xuan, who helped Lu Pingchuan, and ran to pick up firewood.

"Hey, boy Qian, I always think you still haven't finished speaking." While picking up dry branches and sticks from the ground, Tang Ping asked Qian Chao beside him.

"Well, there are some things I haven't told you yet," Qian Chao, who was holding a small pile of firewood, paused, "I have a question for you before I tell you." ”

"Just ask."

"With your family background, you shouldn't have to stay with us in this Youming Valley, your sixth grandfather is an elder in the sect, you can directly enter the inner gate, why do you still come here to refine your body with us?" Qian Chao asked.

"I'm going to say I'm playful, do you believe it?"

Qian Chao shook his head, looking disbelieving.

"As my sixth grandfather said, there are not many sons born in the sect. The sons of this family are those who were born in the Five Spirits Sect, the children of those monks in the sect, and the children of ordinary families, most of them can't endure hardships, and they can't stand grievances, and they are still high-spirited and low-eyed on weekdays, so my sixth grandfather said that they don't have much talent, so the second and third sons can take a look in the future, he doesn't want me to become a five-spirit gentleman, but it just so happens that I am also playful, and it is too boring to be around my sixth grandfather, so I came here. ”

Qian Chao nodded after hearing this, and said, "It's similar to what I expected, it seems that you are a person with great ambitions." ”

"I don't dare to say that I have great ambitions, but I just want to go further in my future cultivation, hey, are you satisfied with my answer? Is there anything you haven't said? ”

At this time, the two had already picked up a pile of firewood, estimated to be enough for this time, and walked back with their own arms.

"Do you know how the elder of my family I talked about before, how he was injured?"

"Didn't you say that you went out to do something for the Remitted House, and you encountered danger and got injured on the way?" Tang Ping replied.

"Yes, but my elder in the book but deeply hated that none of the four companions who went with him helped him, his old man said that if the five of them joined forces to fight the enemy, even if he was still injured, it would not break the foundation of cultivation, speaking of which, I am an elder who is a good person, when the situation suddenly changed, the most dangerous person was not him, his old man could not bear to reach out to rescue his companions when they encountered an accident, but he didn't want to end up like this."

"I see!" Tang Ping sighed when she heard this, "Then what exactly do you want to do?" ”

"Naturally, I don't want to repeat the mistakes of my elders in the future, speaking of which, I wonder why the Worship House stipulates that they can only do things for their disciples in a group of five people, do you know the reason?" Qian Chao asked.

"I really don't know this, I know the rules of the five-person team, but I have never considered the reason, I am also a little curious when you say this." Tang Ping replied.

Qian Chao nodded and continued: "My idea is that since I want to be with people in the future because of the affairs of the Remembrance Academy, instead of being with people who have known each other for a short time and nodding their heads at that time, it is better to find a few like-minded and like-minded people in this Yuming Valley now, who are friends now and can be companions in the future, what do you think?" ”

"Oh? So, that Brother Lu must be the person you like? ”

"That's right, to do things to plan and then move, to make friends is to know the prophet and then the heart, this Brother Lu, in my opinion, the heart is pure and straightforward, but a little lazy, I am talking about him is too lazy to use his brain, but he is definitely a good friend." Qian Chao said.

Tang Ping nodded, and Lu Pingchuan gave him the same impression, but she asked again: "Then the sister Yan who came with me, what did you fall in love with her?" ”

"I have little contact with that Sister Yan, and I don't know much, but I believe in your vision, and it shouldn't be bad."

"Well, you have a good shot, although Sister Yan is a little timid and cowardly, but she is a very good person, well, Sister Yan can indeed be counted as one, so there is still one missing?"

"Do you have a choice?" Qian Chao asked.

"How can I choose anyone, except for you and Brother Lu in this valley, everyone else respects me, hey, by the way, how about Liang Baike who was beaten by you?"

"He was a little worse, he was beaten by me that time, even if he woke up and thanked me, but he was beaten in front of everyone, and his face was naturally damaged, and he was inevitably still guilty, so don't choose him." Qian Chao said.

Tang Ping nodded and said, "You have a point, I don't have any candidates, what about you?" By the way, did you fall in love with the one named Li Jian? ”

"That's right, if you don't have a candidate, I'll go find him."

"Well, you go and try it, but I can't figure it out, why do you always value that Li Jian so much, is it because he is very powerful?"

"I don't understand, when I was on the bronze carriage, as soon as Li Jian boarded the car, I felt that this person was extraordinary, and I haven't talked to him until now, but if I guess correctly, this person should be a military general, and he just experienced a bloody battle of life and death before boarding the car, as soon as he entered the car, I felt a strong bloody aura, and it was rare that he still left a sense of proportion when he taught those stubborn people who were looking for provocations."

Tang Ping thought about the situation when she first saw Li Jian, but she didn't pay so much attention to it, and couldn't help but say: "I didn't notice this, is this really the case with Li Jian?" ”

Qian Chao replied: "You can ask him yourself if you have a chance in the future, this person is a relatively cold kind, it is not easy to be a friend, but once you make friends with him, he is the kind of person who can be entrusted with big things." ”

Tang Ping nodded, raised his eyes and looked at Lu Pingchuan and Yan Xuan in the distance to pick up those prey on the edge of the mountain spring, and Qian Chao was squatting down to build a few stones around the firewood.

For Qian Chao's proposal, Tang Ping felt that it was not bad, when she first heard Qian Chao talk about it, she was moved, she had some troubles that had not been solved due to her own and family background, and she would be very troubled in the future, if there were a few friends by her side when the troubles came, such as Qian Chao who was full of scheming, plus a few people who were willing to help, then she would definitely be much better, thinking of this, she was moved by Qian Chao's proposal.

However, there is another thing that Qian Chao didn't think of, and it is necessary for him to talk to him now, so as not to think about it and rejoice in vain.

"Your idea is good, but I don't know if you've thought about it, it's very important, it's related to the success or failure of your idea." Tang Ping said.

After laying up the last stone, Qian Chao stood up and clapped his hands, and smiled at Tang Ping: "I know what you are talking about, you are worried about my spiritual root, right?" ”

Tang Ping didn't say anything, just nodded.

Her worries are indeed reasonable, Qian Chao said that his spiritual root is too poor, so he desperately tried his best to find this spiritual vein, although it seems that entering the inner door is not a problem now, but the spiritual root is innate, and there is almost no way to change it the day after tomorrow. If the spiritual root is much worse, then even if you enter the inner gate, the cultivation speed will be slow, and it is very likely that there will be an embarrassing situation where the cultivation of the money tide is far behind by the rest of the people, or a few people have uneven cultivation because of the different qualifications of the spiritual root, in that case, it will be very troublesome to go to the worship institute to receive things to do, the difficult things are paid high, but everyone has to cultivate higher to do it, the easy things are low, and the higher ones are disdainful to do, if the cultivation of several people is different in the future, so that in the end a few people can only disperse.

"I've thought about what you said, and I can't solve it now." Qian Chao said and found a clean stone and sat down, "Since I had this idea, what you said has been bothering me, but then I also figured it out, at least one thing is certain or not difficult, that is, I can go to the inner gate with you, right?" ”

Tang Ping listened and nodded.

Qian Chao continued, "Do you know how I felt when I practiced the Jade Sea Sutra without any gain? Hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I was stunned as soon as I entered the bronze carriage when I was selected, for me this is a new world that I have never seen before, the bronze carriage makes my heart shake, this cultivation world makes me yearn for it, plus this opportunity to come here can be said to be very rare, so I am a mind to enter the inner door. ”

"But when I found that my cultivation was difficult, and it was almost hopeless to enter the inner door, I was really almost desperate, and it was the first time I knew what it was like to fail in doing things when I lived so long, and then I felt like I was in a desperate place to find this spiritual vein."

"You know what? After this incident, I found out that this practice is not something that you can gain if you put in a little effort, and now I feel that if you want to achieve something in this practice, the first thing is to be reluctant, and then to be flexible, if one method doesn't work, you might as well try other methods, and finally it is God's favor. I have this reluctance and flexibility, this God's favor, I will talk about it then, but if one thing is not planned and not arranged in advance, then even if God wants to favor us, we will not have the blessing to consume, right? ”

After listening to it, Tang Ping looked at Qian Chao carefully as if she had re-acquainted herself, similar words her sixth grandfather once said, and it was said when she was playing a scoundrel to teach her, the original words were: There are three things for cultivators: one must be single-minded, two must be thoughtful, and three must have chance, those who have cultivated to a high level can not be excepted, the first two of these three are the most important, and this opportunity is the most mysterious, and it cannot be forced. If the mind is not attentive, or it will only be fatal, and the person who seeks fish from the wood will have an organic fate, and it will only cheapen others.

"Since you say so, I think you can give it a try, and I just hope that there will be a road before the car reaches the mountain."

Qian Chao listened and nodded. Turning his head to see that Lu Pingchuan and Yan Xuan still hadn't come over, he said to Tang Ping: "There is another thing, I don't know if it has something to do with you, but I overheard it, I don't know what it is, but you should listen to it." ”

Tang Ping was curious: "What's the matter?" ”

So Qian Chao told Tang Ping that he had just found this spiritual vein and practiced here until night, and when he was about to return to his residence, he suddenly heard someone talking at the bottom of the mountain.

Tang Ping nodded, this matter was in line with Qin Suiyi's character of always calculating people behind his back, but he still asked uneasily: "How can you be sure that person is Qin Suixu?" ”

Qian Chao said: "The person who talks to him calls him Qin Gongzi, how many Qin Gongzi are in this valley?" Besides, I also recognize his voice, and then I took a few looks at it from a distance through the lights in the valley, wouldn't it be wrong? ”

Tang Ping nodded when she heard this, what Qian Chao said was worth thinking about carefully, and when she didn't have a clue for a while, she heard Lu Pingchuan's loud voice over there and said: "Okay, okay, it's all cleaned up, light the fire, and start roasting!" ”

When Tang Ping heard this, he put the matter down first, snatched the fire sickle from Qian Chao's hand and began to snap the fire.

"This ...... How do you bake it? Yan Xuan held a branch stripped of bark in his hand, and the tip of the branch was sharpened by Lu Pingchuan with a knife, and a pheasant that had been plucked out of its feathers and cleaned up was strung with it.

"In this way, come," Lu Pingchuan said, taking the branch from Yan Xuan's hand, and thrust the back end of the branch into the soil under his feet, and the front end was cocked, and the pheasant strung on the branch was just set up on the bonfire.

"Oh," Yan Xuan understood.

Tang Ping thought it was funny, so he also stuck the branch in his hand in the soil under his feet, and took a branch wearing a skinned hare in his hand, and kept turning the rabbit over the flames.

Lu Pingchuan saw it and said: "Sister Tang, this is not good, even if the meat on the outside is burned, the meat on the inside is also raw, so it will work." ”

Saying that, Lu Pingchuan asked Tang Ping to move the branch in his hand up a little.

"Brother Lu," Tang Ping said, "I heard that there is a delicacy that is to paste the cleaned chicken with mud and then roast it and eat it, how is that made, do you know?" ”

Lu Pingchuan replied after listening: "That, of course it will, if you want to eat, I will make it for you another day, but you have to find some suitable leaves first, the best is lotus leaves, there are no lotus leaves and other large leaves, clean up the pheasant, smear the condiments inside and out, wrap it with leaves first, wrap it with a few more layers, tie a few more straw ropes, and then paste it into a ball with yellow mud, dig a shallow pit on the ground and bury it, set up a bonfire on the pit, and when the time comes, remove the fire, dig it out, break the yellow mud and peel off the lotus leaves, The chicken was steaming and tender, and there was not a hint of smoky fire, and if I could pick up the eggs of pheasants or other birds, I could bury them all in them, and then they would be cooked together, and alas, I hadn't eaten anything like that in a long time. ”

Lu Pingchuan's words made everyone's hearts yearn for it, and Tang Ping even shouted that Lu Pingchuan would do this again to satisfy his hunger.

"Brother Lu," Yan Xuan asked, staring at the pheasant on the branch, "where did you learn this craft?" ”

"Ahem! This still needs to be learned," Lu Pingchuan said, "I have followed my father to the mountains to hunt since I was a child, in our Lujiazhuang, my father's hunting ability can also be ranked in the top few, my hunting barbecue is taught by my father, I used to go into the mountains with my father for more than ten days, dry food also bring a little, mainly roast some wild things to eat." ”

Tang Ping was very envious when she heard this, and said: "That kind of day must be very interesting!" ”

"Well, our Lujiazhuang place is not small, but there are not many fields that can grow crops, there are many stones in the ravine, and the food planted in that place is just enough for the family to eat, my family is my mother and my sister-in-law to farm, my father and I and my brothers only help when harvesting crops, and other times they all run to the mountains, catch prey, meat can be eaten, meat can be pickled and eaten slowly, skins can be sold for some silver, oh, there are medicinal herbs on the mountain, pick some yams to the market in the city below the mountain can also be exchanged for money, Therefore, the days of our village are not bitter. I am the youngest in the family, and my parents have already begun to save money for me, and they said that they would marry me a daughter-in-law in a few years. If my grandfather and my dad hadn't forced me to come, I wouldn't have wanted to come. ”

Several people listened to him interestingly, especially at the end, and couldn't help but laugh.

Tang Ping knew the rules of Jiaxuan, and also knew that this Lu Pingchuan was brought by his sixth grandfather, so he couldn't help but ask with a smile: "Brother Lu, if you insist on not coming, others can't do anything!" ”

"Ahem! I really can't complain about others, I originally made up my mind not to come, but the old ...... who came to our Zhuangzi Senior," said Lu Pingchuan only remembered what Qian Chao had confessed, that old thing was Tang Ping's sixth grandfather, and he couldn't say bad things about him in front of Tang Ping, so he quickly changed his words, how could Tang Ping not hear the truth, but she felt funny when she saw Lu Pingchuan quickly change his words.

"The old-timer later gave me a glass of wine to drink, and it was really a good wine that I had never drunk, and alas, I was also blamed for being greedy, and then I asked the old-timer for another glass and came. But that old-timer is a little bit of a joke about me, he said that he can still drink such good wine when he arrives here, but after so long, when have you ever seen that Chunxiangtang take out wine for people to drink! ”

Tang Ping stopped laughing when she heard this, took out a small jar from the storage bag she was carrying, handed it to Lu Pingchuan and said, "Come, Brother Lu, I promised to invite you to drink." ”

Lu Pingchuan was overjoyed when he saw Dengshi, and hurriedly took it, pulled out the plug of the seal and took a deep breath.

"You've drunk that old fellow's wine, how about you taste my wine?"

This surprised Lu Pingchuan, holding the jar and asking, "Sister Tang, do you know how to make wine?" ”

"Brother Lu, you all know that it is my sixth grandfather who went to you to preside over the first selection, then it is not uncommon for me to make wine, and my craft of winemaking is also taught by him, alas, he used to force me to practice and I was lazy, but I pestered him to teach me this winemaking, but the heat may be much worse, you taste, how does it taste?" As he spoke, Tang Ping took out the wine cup from the storage bag and handed it to Lu Pingchuan.

How do you know that Lu Pingchuan heard Tang Ping let him taste it, so he picked up the wine jar and brought it to his mouth and drank two big sips, then closed his eyes and tilted his head to savor it, and finally took a long breath, exhaled happily, and then praised: "Sister Tang, your wine is not bad, the wine is strong enough to have a strong taste, although your sixth grandfather's wine is good, it is too light, or the wine you brew is good!" ”

After speaking, he picked up the wine jar again and drank two sips.

"Hey, Brother Lu, that's not how you drink wine, if you get drunk, we won't be able to carry you down the mountain."

"Don't worry, this jar of wine can't get me drunk."

"Brother Lu, you take a closer look at that jar of wine before you speak."

Lu Pingchuan listened to the firelight and looked into the wine jar, and found that the wine in the wine jar was still full, and it was not less, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed that Lu Pingchuan was overjoyed, so he didn't bother to pay attention to why the wine was still full, so he could always have wine to drink, and he was happy.

When Tang Ping saw it, he could only tell him to drink less.

After a while, the game that was grilled on the fire was almost ripe, and the hot oil was dripping down, and Lu Pingchuan saw that he took out a few small cloth bags, pinched out fine salt and other condiments from them, and sprinkled them while turning.

Yan Xuan was very surprised when he saw it, and he also followed Lu Pingchuan's example and sprinkled the pheasant he roasted while saying, "Brother Lu, you are really well prepared, even these are ready." ”

"These are all from the cooks of Chunxiangtang, and those guys are not fuel-efficient lamps, they won't be given to me for free, I exchanged game with them."

Tang Ping endured the hot hand and tore off a thin piece of meat from the rabbit leg and put it in her mouth, and called it delicious, and Xiaobai, who was sitting in her arms greedily, sat restlessly and begged her for meat to eat.

Yan Xuan also nodded after tasting it: "Well, the first time I ate it like this, it was really delicious." ”

After eating, Tang Ping also took out his osmanthus wine and poured it for everyone. Qian Chao saw that his head was a little big, he had tried it at home, and he would be dizzy for a long time when he dipped his chopsticks in a little wine and put it in his mouth, and now he was really scared when he saw wine.

"Hey, don't be stupid, it's good for cultivation." Tang Ping persuaded.

Hearing that it was good for cultivation, Qian Chao closed his eyes and poured a cup as if he were drinking poison, smacking the taste and thinking it was very wonderful, so he drank several glasses in a row.

In the evening, the meal was over, and the four of them went back to their own residences, but they made an appointment that everyone would come here together tomorrow to practice.