Every time he went down the mountain over the years, Yan Longyu would come to this side of the mound at the foot of the mountain to have a look.

After Yan Gui came down from the mountain two years ago, he often came here to worship his master, so there was no grass around this mound.

Qin Ruoyang did not allow Dugu Haodang, the prince of a country, to kneel to anyone, so at this moment, he could only stand in the distance and quietly look at Yan Longyu who was kneeling in front of the grave.

The lazy old yellow dog also squatted beside Dugu Hao.

The handsome young man knelt down with a smile and wiped the tombstone with his sleeve, "Brother Sixteen, I've almost forgotten what you look like, why don't you give me a dream?" ”

"Mr. Qin accepted me as his closed disciple today, and gave me a word, wash the dust, isn't it domineering?"

"Uncle Feng said that we are about to go down the mountain, maybe no one will bother you in the future......"

Yan Sixteen, the youngest disciple of the Xishu Sword Immortal, has been dead for fifteen years in a blink of an eye.

After kneeling in front of the grave for a long time, Yan Longyu finally got up, and finally said: "Okay, let's not talk about it, Dugu and I went to the county town, go and see how your precious apprentice is doing after coming down the mountain, and come back to bring you a roast chicken." ”

Yan Longyu has often gone to the county town for fifteen years, mostly taking Yan Gui and the old yellow dog to wander around, at least one or two days and more than four or five days, so the young man is very familiar with the way down the mountain.

Hua Fengju and Dugu Haodang rarely go down the mountain, and Dugu Haodang has to practice swords with Lao He when he is free, and he has no time; Hua Fengju was purely lazy, and he preferred to go around the mountain alone than go down the mountain, because he knew that as long as he didn't go out of Fulong County, even if his nephew was in any danger, the person on the mountain would take action.

Yan Longyu has never learned martial arts, but he has practiced the unique light skill "Moving Flower Steps" of Tonghuang Island in the South China Sea that Hua Fengju gave him.

Walking through the forest and sea, treading water and boating is as easy as a breeze.

With a few bamboo poles, the two teenagers can easily cross the Rolling Dragon River, which is more than 100 feet wide.

Behind the two, the old yellow dog struggled in the turbulent river water, and the dog shaved to catch up.

After crossing the river, Yan Longyu, who often goes down the mountain, pointed forward and introduced to Dugu Hao: "After crossing the river, you can enter the county town after walking for two hours, and we will go to Yangui to live there tonight." ”

Dugu Haoran nodded lightly.

Yan Longyu immediately squatted down, patted the old yellow dog who had just come ashore, and said, "Huang Qian, you go to the county town to find Yan Gui first, and let him pick us up at the city gate." ”

The young man named his old yellow dog Huang Qian, and he didn't know if Huang Qian, the crying cormorant who had wanted to kill him, would die of anger after he knew it.

"Wang." The old yellow dog seemed to understand, and ran towards the county without looking back, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Watching the yellow dog walk away, Yan Longyu grinned with satisfaction, "After staying on this mountain for fifteen years, it's time to go to the outside world to see, maybe this time to go to the county town is the last time." ”

As if thinking of parting, the young man changed his words again, "Mr. Qin wants to kill the uncle who usurped the throne for you and let you go back to be the emperor, are you really willing?" ”

Dugu Hao, who was holding his sword and moving forward, said slowly: "My life was saved by Mr., so naturally I listened to Mr." ”

Yan Longyu turned his head to look at Dugu, "Boring, don't you want to see this great mountain and river, don't you want to be a carefree swordsman who draws his sword to help him when he sees injustice, and doesn't want to get to know a beautiful chivalrous woman who flies with wings?" ”

Dugu Hao's expression was gloomy, he didn't speak, and continued to walk forward.

"A few days ago, I heard from the storytellers in the city, and the people of the rivers and lakes all over the world gathered in Mount Tai to jointly evaluate the top ten sects and ten masters in the rivers and lakes.

Among the ten major sects, the Jianzhou Yushan Sword Market with a sword mountain, the Xiazhou Muhua Mountain Lingfu Palace full of fairy sisters, the Yanbei Qi Sword Tower where Uncle Feng apprenticed to learn swords, the Tonghuang Immortal Island on the South China Sea, and the Crying Pass and Xiaoyao Sect that sent people to block the river on the Rolling Dragon River fifteen years ago are all impressively listed.

There is no ranking of the top ten masters, there is the white-clothed celestial man who is already famous in the rivers and lakes without leaving the mountain, there is the living dead who sits in the middle of the lake on the shore of Xizi Lake in the south of the Yangtze River and no one can break the sword array he has deployed, there is the old beggar who is independent of Yuhua City and even the Son of Heaven can't take him, and there is a penny of the Linjiang immortal who dyes a river with blood......"

"This is a great river, don't you really want to go with me to see it?"

Listening to Yan Longyu's constant nagging beside him, the corners of Dugu Hao's mouth were slightly hooked, "If I talk to you, I can consider it." ”

Yan Longyu looked at Dugu Haodang, with a strange expression on his face, and was a little frightened.

What and you? What considerations? What are you laughing at?

Yan Longyu felt a chill behind him, and he seriously suspected that the stuffy gourd in front of him had a habit of breaking his sleeves.

"Dugu, do you like men and women?"

"Don't worry, I don't like you anyway!"

"Don't like me, though I'm handsome and dashing."

"Huh."

…………

In fact, Dugu Haodang, who is not good at expressing himself, has long regarded Yan Longyu as a brother, but the two tacitly dismantle each other and pay attention to each other.

With your encouragement, three lives are fortunate.

The rivers and lakes are good, but it is best to have a like-minded person with you.

- Three miles away from the county seat, there is an inn called "An Inn".

The inn is not big, and most of the people who come here are poor people who need to enter and leave the county town but cannot afford to live in the inn in the city. The innkeeper was a husband and wife, the elderly woman was responsible for serving tea and water to the guests, and the unsociable honest man was cooking some rough meals and arranging accommodation for the guests of the house by the way.

When Yan Longyu and Dugu Haoran came to this inn, it was already past dinner. Therefore, there was no one else in the inn except for a scribbled old man who occupied a table alone and drank rough wine.

Yan Longyu has been here many times, and has had a few conversations with the couple here, and he can barely be regarded as a regular customer.

The two teenagers chose a clean table by the window and sat down, and Yan Longyu shouted behind the wine cabinet: "Sister Wang, bring me two bowls of green onion noodles." ”

"The little mouth is so sweet, you don't have to look at it to know who is coming. At home, make two bowls of chopped green onion noodles for your child and put more chopped green onions. The middle-aged woman who was called her sister by the teenager heard her voice before she saw her.

A capable and lean middle-aged woman walked out from behind the wine cabinet, walked quickly to the two of them, and said with a smile: "Brother Yan has brought a friend to the city for a walk." This friend of yours is as handsome as you, is it a marriage match, do you want me to introduce a few water spirit girls? It's so white! can pinch out the water. ”

Dugu Haoran, who has been stared at by the woman, is inevitably a little cramped, he rarely goes down the mountain, he doesn't know anything about men and women, and he has never seen such a "wolf-like-tiger" woman, so he can only avoid the woman's sight and look out the window.

Yan Longyu looked at Dugu Hao, who wrote his discomfort on his face, and gloated: "Sister Wang doesn't care about him, he doesn't like girls." ”

"Let's talk to my brother about what's interesting out there these days."

The woman looked intently at Dugu Hao, whose face was cold and picturesque, and didn't care that her man was still busy in the back kitchen, her eyes rolled, and she continued to laugh: "I don't like girls, it's hard for me to be a little boy, hahaha." ”

"If it's interesting, it's true. A few days ago, I heard from a few guests from the capital that there was a big official surnamed Fan in the capital who left the capital with his daughter for four or five years, and a few days ago he came back to the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager Dugu, and gave two rare treasures to the Empress Dowager Dugu and the Son of Heaven. ”

Yan Longyu asked with interest, "What baby?" ”

The old man who had been listening to the movement here couldn't bear the loneliness and opened his mouth, "It's spread in the market now, and Lord Fan Liangchun Fan presented two picture albums." One is called the splendid mountains and rivers, and the other is called the national color and heavenly fragrance. ”

The woman glanced at the old man with a bean-sized black mole under the corner of his mouth, turned his head and nodded to Yan Longyu with a smile, and walked to the back kitchen.

After the woman left, Yan Longyu turned to the old man and asked, "Uncle, let's talk to the child, how are the splendid mountains and rivers, and the country is fragrant?" ”

The old man was interested, drank all the rough wine in his hand, and said with a red face and spitting: "This splendid mountain and river map was painted by Lord Fan himself, a full one hundred and eight pictures, and one hundred and eight mountains and rivers of our Wu Zhao have been painted." As for this picture of the national color and heavenly fragrance, it was painted by the daughter of our Lord Fan, and it was painted by the twenty-four national beauties of my Wu Zhao! ”

The middle-aged woman walked out with two bowls of steaming green onion noodles and said with a smile: "Yes, I heard that this country is beautiful and fragrant, and it is divided into two evaluations, nine people on the top and fifteen on the bottom, but all of them are big beauties." I heard that our Empress Dowager Dugu, who was also very touching when she was young, saw it, and asked the Son of Heaven to give each of the twenty-four beauties on this painting a festival waist card, allowing them to choose their own lovers to marry. Envy others, the scenery is very beautiful! ”

The woman put the noodles in front of the two of them, Yan Longyu was about to move the chopsticks, but was stopped by Dugu Hao, who was sitting opposite, he took out a silver needle from his sleeve, and after trying the poison in the noodles, he raised his hand to signal Yan Longyu to continue.

The woman surnamed Wang and the scribbled old man both cast meaningful glances. How is this eaten? There seemed displeasure in the woman's eyes, but she quickly laughed it off.

Yan Longyu felt that the scene was a little embarrassing, and then said with a smile: "I don't know who those twenty-four beauties will be cheaper in the future." ”

The old man smiled and said: "There are more than twenty beauties in this world, young man, you still have more opportunities!" ”

"Then I'll borrow your auspicious words."

The two of them had not taken a few bites of chopsticks before a puff of dust flew in through the window and landed in the noodle soup.

Outside the inn, a team of fast horses galloped away.

"What kind of people are that team, who dare to gallop outside the county town, so they are not afraid of being arrested by the government?" Yan Longyu put down his chopsticks in disappointment and asked the woman who was standing at the door watching.

The proprietress was already surprised, "That, the second son of Sun Jun's family, I heard that he was going to get married these days, and he was in a hurry to go back to get married, who would dare to stop him!" ”

The old man who drank got up, put a few copper coins on the table, and walked out of the door, as if he had a deep meaning: "If you want to say that the girl you married, she is also a well-known handsome. Hey, it's a pity! It's a pity! ”

After the old man left, the woman cleaned up the old man's table and shouted: "Among the three sons of the county guard, these two sons are the worst-looking, and they are not as beautiful as your two little brothers' toes. Not only was his skin unsightly, but his temper was violent, and I had seen him beat an old woman half to death who had no intention of blocking the way, and the bleeding was suffocating, and I was terrified when I thought about it. ”

Dugu Hao slapped the table, "If you commit murder on the street, there will be no royal law!" ”

The woman snorted coldly, "You are still unworldly, and now this royal law is not for us people." ”

Yan Longyu sat at the table and listened quietly without making a sound, he felt a little stuffy in his heart, and always had a bad premonition, so he couldn't help muttering: "No, it shouldn't be her." ”

By the time the two of them finished settling the accounts, walked out of the inn, and arrived at the county seat, it was already nearly dusk.

There were few pedestrians outside the city gate, and Yan Longyu and the others saw a young man in cloth and a dog standing in front of the city gate from a distance, and the young man was waving to them.

"It's Yangui."

"Hmm."

The "mud child" who was bullied by his peers back then has grown into a sturdy teenager, with wheat-yellow skin and mediocre appearance, half a head lower than Yan Longyu and Dugu Haodang, it's okay when he doesn't smile, and when he smiles, he will show two rows of criss-crossed teeth, which is very ridiculous.

Today, in order to meet the two teenagers, Yan returned a special change into a clean cloth shirt, and wore new cloth shoes on his feet that he had just bought a few days ago.

Seeing the two young men walking towards him, Yan Gui smiled shyly: "The little one has been away from the mountain for two years, and the little lord and His Royal Highness Dugu are doing well on the mountain?" ”

Yan Longyu actually didn't let Yan Gui call himself the little master, but Yan Gui never changed his words, as if he was born inferior, he looked at Yan Gui, who was slightly embarrassed, and joked with a smile: "Two years away from the mountain, why are you still shorter Yan Gui?" ”

Yan Gui bared his teeth and smiled kindly, his wheat-yellow cheeks instantly turned red into a monkey's buttocks, and he lowered his head and said: "It's right that the little lord and His Royal Highness have grown taller, the little lord and His Royal Highness Dugu are big people, and naturally they can't compare with the small ones." ”

Yan Longyu had long been accustomed to Yan Gui's character of eating hard rather than soft, and pretended to be angry and said: "What bullshit little master, Your Highness!" Okay, okay, since you love to call me little master, then little master, I will teach you a sentence today, which is called 'not related to the poor, not to learn from the rich'. ”

"Remember, I don't want you to be my servant Yan Longyu, I want you to be my brother! Got it? Also, don't laugh in the future, I'm scared when I see your teeth. ”

What kind of kinship?

Yan Gui heard it in a fog, couldn't help scratching his head and grinning, and closed his mouth shyly.

Yan Longyu was immediately laughed at Yan Gui's reaction, and was a little annoyed: Didn't he play the piano to the cow!

Seeing Yan Gui's appearance of not entering the oil and salt and Yan Longyu's helpless expression, Dugu Haodang, who has always been unsmiling on weekdays, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

Yan Longyu noticed it this time, and he glared at Dugu, "Stuffy gourd, what are you laughing at?" ”

"You have to take care of it!"

"Laugh if you want to, don't hold back."

This word hit Dugu's mighty laughing hole, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and pointed at Yan Longyu with his slender finger and laughed.

Yan Longyu also smiled helplessly.

Seeing that the little lord and His Royal Highness Dugu were laughing, he didn't seem to be happy to laugh, and Yan Gui, who didn't know why, also scratched his head and laughed.

The guards outside the county city cast a surprised look at Yan Longyu and the others: Didn't these three get hysteria at a young age?

Standing in place for a long time, Yan Longyu rubbed his stomach and pointed at Yan Gui and said, "Yan Gui, Yan Gui, you are silly enough, okay, let's go, go to your house and have a look." ”

Yan Gui looked shy, and stopped talking.

Yan Longyu, who understood Yan Gui's thoughts, patted him on the shoulder and smiled slightly, "It's okay, the three of us brothers haven't seen anything." Feel relieved! I won't dislike your family. ”

Dugu, who rarely put down the shelf, also made an unprecedented hum.

Yan Gui's eyes turned red instantly.

Brothers?! One of you is the son of the Sword Fairy, and the other is the Northwest Royal Family, I, Yangui, am a poor and ugly person with no father and no mother, and I am very different from you, can I really be brothers with you?