The carriage moved slowly on the silent plain, the winding official road was like a soft ribbon deep into the sky, and there was no other end in sight, and the sound of the "creaking" axle suddenly rose and thrust, which made people feel depressed. The grass on the plains swayed gently in the wind like a mane on a horse's neck, and many cattle and sheep appeared between the bottom and the height.

Under the blue sky, there was a faint fragrance of flowers and plants everywhere, Li Xin slightly rolled up the curtain and stretched his head out of the car, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, and when the turbid breath was exhaled, the depression in his chest disappeared completely. It has been nine days since Yijing turned to drive through Beiyuan and Taoyang into Longxi County, and finally arrived in Daocheng, although the body was slightly tired, but the heart was more and more excited. couldn't wait to raise his eyes and look into the distance, but he still couldn't see the head of Daocheng, Li Xin sat back in the car in frustration. The old man who was driving the car shook the horsewhip in his hand and said: "Childe is so anxious, he must want to see Long Gongzi earlier, the old man will beat the horse faster, and strive to rush to Daocheng before sunset, Childe should stay in the car for a while." ”

"Okay, there's Uncle Lao." Li Xin stroked the bun on the top of his head and said: "It has been more than ten years since I left the city and countryside at the age of twelve, and Brother Yi was only six or seven years old at that time, but he has begun to read a lot of books and study the art of war. Although we have been exchanging letters from time to time, we still can't get rid of the longing in our hearts, and I really want to see him immediately......"

Wang Laohan urged the horse and echoed: "Long Gongzi has been very smart since he was a child, and even the old man often praises him, all these years under the teaching of Old Lady Long, I don't know how he became born, but the old man admires it incomparably." ”

"The teacher is an old man who knows astronomy and geography, but I have served his old man for too little time and have not learned the essence of it, and I often think it is a pity."

Wang Laohan also said: "Old lady Long has a lot of ability, but it's a pity that he is weak in fame and fortune, otherwise if he is the king of Zhou with his knowledge and martial arts, then our Great Zhou Army will not be what it is now." ”

I don't know how many hours passed, but the carriage slowly stopped. Li Xin woke up from his memories when he heard Wang Laohan's shout: "Son, Daocheng has arrived." Li Xin hurriedly got off the carriage and looked at the Daocheng at sunset, which was still so beautiful, familiar and cordial.

Daocheng, a small town on the Longxi Plain, is surrounded by mountains on three sides and isolated from the world. From then on, go west through the Hehu Mountains to Didao, where the Huqiang people live. In the eighth year of Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (note: 383 AD), the Qin Dynasty Fu Jian and the Eastern Jin Dynasty fought with the water, the Jin people defeated Fu Jian's million army with a strategy, and Fu Jian was killed by the Qiang Yao Chang, Yao Chang established the Later Qin, and later the Northern Wei Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao unified the north, and the Later Qin perished. However, the Qiang people have always occupied Didao, Baohan and other places, nominally attached to the Northern Wei Dynasty, but they have always dominated the power, and the Northern Wei Dynasty has no way. From Daocheng to the east, we arrived at Shouyang, a military city controlled by the Great Zhou army.

There are thousands of households in Daocheng, and Hu and Han live together. This is something that is rarely seen during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It turned out that the people of Daocheng were all refugees who fled thousands of miles under the iron hoof, and they found this secret place to settle down, so naturally everyone lived in harmony and cherished the abnormal.

was about to see his long-missed mentor and childhood friend Long Yi, Li Xin was a little excited and couldn't help himself, he hurriedly supported his crown and flicked his robe, Wang Laohan looked at the overwhelmed young master in his eyes and felt a little funny, and reminded: "Childe, this is still a long way from the courtyard of Old Lady Long." ”

"Hehe... Oh, that's too, but it's not sloppy to meet the teacher, so you should pay more attention. ”

Long Yi's single courtyard is at the other end of the town, and it has to pass through a bluestone street. Li Xin said to Wang Laohan: "Uncle Wang, I want to walk over alone, and you can follow slowly behind." ”

"Okay, Childe."

Walking on the cold stone slab, I saw a middle-aged woman wearing a dark blue apron walking out of the restaurant, Li Xin recognized that it was Aunt Li, and when he was a child, he and Brother Yi often went to her house to eat Yangchun noodles made by her. But I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and I have grown up, and Aunt Li can't recognize it, so I don't dare to rush forward to say hello.

Even though the imperial courts in the world have changed one by one, and the flags at the head of the city have changed once a day, the streets of the small city that have not been seen for ten years have not changed much as they did ten years ago, and the trees on both sides have turned green and yellow, and yellow has turned green, and they are still as leisurely and comfortable as ten years ago.

After a bag of cigarettes, I arrived in front of the small courtyard of the teacher's house, and the old locust tree in the courtyard lushly stretched out of the wall, covering half of the street. The "thump" sound coming from inside the courtyard wall can be heard from afar. Li Xin gently pushed open the courtyard door, only to see an old man in the courtyard with white hair and beard, dressed in a white suit, paraded between the twelve wooden stakes like electricity, his fists and feet were like lightning struck the wooden stakes, and in the blink of an eye, the twelve wooden stakes were broken at the waist.

Before the Jin Dynasty, there was no sect that practiced martial arts in Kyushu, and the heroes and generals of those periods relied on their own innate divine powers, such as Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, and Wang Shuang during the Three Kingdoms period. There were very few people who relied on their own cultivation in the later period, because there were not many martial arts for people to practice at that time, and martial artists practiced some simple techniques that were summarized on a daily basis. Of course, there are some exceptions, such as Zhao Yun's spear skills and Wang Yue's swordsmanship reached a high level of achievement at that time, but compared with the powerful Zhang Fei, there is no advantage at all. In the late Jin Dynasty, political erosion, there were a large number of Buddhist believers in the sea, and there were more temples that preached the scriptures and praised the Buddha, and the monks in the temple lived a hard life, and developed a variety of martial arts techniques in order to strengthen the body, and several of the Shaolin Temple were even more famous, and the fame shocked the sea. It is rumored that there are as many as seventy-two stunts in the Shaolin Temple. At this time, various schools of martial arts in the country also began to be established.

"Teacher, the unscrupulous disciple Li Xin is late to see him, kowtow to his teacher!" Li Xin took two steps forward and fell to his knees.

Hearing the voice, the old man paused, turned around and walked over quickly, helped Li Xin up, looked up and down carefully a few times, and asked, "But Xin'er is not?" ”

Li Xinli hurriedly replied: "It is the disciple Li Xin!" ”

The old man patted Li Xin's shoulder with both hands and said, "It's really my good man Li Xin, ah! It's ten years in a flash, but the kid has grown up, how is Ling Zun? ”

"Father is well, he wants me to say hello to your old man on his behalf."

"Good, good. Has he failed my trust? ”

"Father, I never dare to forget your old instructions, and I dare not be slacking off in the slightest in contributing to the people."

"Okay, haha....ha, with your father and son as disciples, my Long Gong will have no regrets." Saying that, Long Gongwang took Li Xin's hand and entered the hall one after the other. At this time, Wang Laohan walked into the courtyard with a wooden box, and said loudly: "Old Han Wang Wei pays a visit to Old Lady Long." Long Gongwang scolded with a smile: "Okay, you are Wang Wei, you are still so strong and strong, come quickly, come in and drink some hot tea." ”

Li Xin took the wooden box from Wang Wei's hand, opened it and took out ten bags of tea wrapped in straw paper: "Teacher, this is the Meiding Snow Tea that my father entrusted someone to bring to you from the Tubo tribe."

Long Gongwang took the tea and sniffed it greedily: "Your father has made a lot of money this time, this tea is hard to find, and he actually got ten packets." ”

This plum top snow tea is produced from the plum top snow peak of the Tibetan border plateau at the end of the cloudy sky, the plum top snow peak is covered in silver all year round, smoky, is the holy mountain in the hearts of the Tibetan border people. The snow peak cliff is steep, the bird can not cross, it is in the middle of this thousand zhang steep wall, but a mountain rock is miraculously protruded, there are six or seven snow tea trees on the mountain rock, and it is said that the tea leaves of the gods in the sky come from here. Meiding Snow Tea is the best in tea, more precious than the golden treasure jade, it can only grow in the extremely cold frost and snow in three years, since how to pick it down no one knows, every three years can only produce 30 packs of Meiding Snow Tea. I don't know how Li Xin's father got these ten bags of tea.

As he was talking, the courtyard door was slammed open: "Dragon, let's walk the horses." A figure ran in.

"What a reckless man, you want to smash my courtyard gate!" Although Long Gongwang scolded sharply, his eyes were smiling.

The person who came was nearly eight feet tall, with a wide forehead and broad face, a tiger body and a bear waist, standing on the hall like an iron tower, his eyes were like a torch, so that people did not dare to look directly. Seeing that there were guests in the hall clearly, he remembered that he was reckless: "Chi'er asks the master for peace." Long Gongwang said to Li Xin's master and servant: "This son is a nominal disciple accepted by the old man, the surname is Meng Yan, the single name is Chi, the family martial arts are unique, and the foreign family qigong is extremely domineering, you should be more intimate in the future." Li Xin saw that Meng Yanchi was extraordinary, stood up and arched his hand: "Fool Li Xin, you have seen Brother Meng Yan." ”

Meng Yanchi hurriedly replied: "I Meng Yanchi is a rough person, which makes the eldest brother of the Li family laugh." ”

Long Gongwang smiled and said, "Chi'er is looking for Xiao Yi, he is now studying in the backyard, you can go find him." ”

Li Xin also wanted to see Long Yi very much, so he said: "The teacher will sit down for a while, and Xin'er will also go to see how Brother Yi is studying." ”

"Okay, then you can go together, and I'll taste your plum top snow tea with Old Man Wang."

Li Xin and Meng Yanchi approached the backyard and saw that the courtyard was full of peach trees, peach blossoms blooming all over the branches, and the fragrance of the courtyard was fragrant. Under a crown tree, there are two natural stones, one large and one small, the big one is the table, the small one is the chair, the chair is sitting on the head, this person is wearing a red scarf, wearing a black robe, the bottom of the robe is exposed in a red robe, the waist is tied with a red belt, holding a book in his hand, concentrating on his eyes, reading happily. A pot of fragrant tea is placed on the table, and the heat is filling. Occasionally, a few peach petals floated down, and this person in this place made Li confident and admired.