December 1003 in the Great Wind Calendar.

The traces left by the heavy snow in Lingnan have melted a lot, and the occasional remnants of the snow that have not melted look mottled in the blue-gray mountains, and the mountains are wet and drenched, as if some heavy rain has washed everything into a broken appearance.

On the side of the small building outside the Luofeng Canyon, there is a huge wooden water tank.

This is a rare and diligent Le Chaotian cut it with a sword, using a big tree in the mountains that I don't know how many years it has grown.

After Le Chaotian did it, he sighed for a long time, we are really extravagant.

It was filled with a tank full of water, not a stream, but snow water, which was the snow mass dug up by Lu Xiaosan from those mountains and forests in order to please Nandao, and put it into the tank.

There is a peach blossom in the water.

The peach branch is three feet long, and there are some peach blossoms, and it looks particularly petite when leaning on the edge of the tank.

This is a peach blossom from the South Island to Heavenly Town.

Although you can't dig up the whole tree, there is no problem in bringing a peach blossom to Lingnan.

The South Island is to drink peach blossom wine.

Wu Dalong then had one more idle thing, that is, winemaking.

The entire canyon was filled with the smell of wine lees from the Tianya Sword Sect every day.

Saying incense is also fragrant, and saying sour is also sour.

In addition to carrying the name of the sword every day, Lu Xiaosan lay on the edge of the water tank, counting how many peach blossoms there were on it, and Uncle Shi drank a few pots of wine today.

This branch is essentially a peach branch from the peach tree in Nanyi City, and it is also magical, and every day it is those few flowers, falling and blooming.

Even if it is planted in snow water, there is no sign of wilting.

It makes this lonely canyon building in winter a little more lively.

When Le Chaotian first saw Nandao bring back this peach blossom in the twilight, he was happy for a while.

Sitting in the moonlight that night with a guzheng in his arms, he played a tune and sang a few words - the young man's heart is still affectionate. The silver armor on the wine side plays the zither. Play the kite. Under the peach blossoms, drunk to the third watch.

It's just that this peach blossom is probably too petite, and there is no artistic conception that the peach blossom is drunk to the third watch, so Le Chaotian just played it for a while, then put away the music, sat on the side of the cylinder and held his cheeks, looking at this peach blossom.

"Senior brother."

Nandao, who was about to step on the snow to find wine in the Sword Sect below, turned around and looked at Le Chaotian.

"When will this peach blossom grow into a big peach tree?"

Le Chaotian thought with some anticipation.

This sentence is a little more naïve than Lu Xiaosan.

Nandao thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, it grew into a peach tree, and then what?" ”

Le Chaotian said with a smile: "If you can see a tree of peach blossoms flying when it is snowing heavily, it must be a very beautiful picture." If you go to Jiangdong to catch spring, you must live with spring. When I saw the peach blossoms, even if it was a cold winter wax moon, it could be regarded as retaining the spring. ”

Nandao looked at the peach blossoms in the wooden water tank, but he remembered the heavenly town in the spring all year round, full of spring, a lake of flying flowers, really good.

"That might grow." Nandao said.

He didn't care if the peach branch would grow into a peach tree at the moment, he just wanted to go down and get some wine.

If not, I can only go to Heavenly Town again and come back with some wine from the grass for Hotaru.

Le Chaotian is talking about trees, trees, trees, you grow up quickly.

It looks very similar to the way he squatted in the vegetable field and talked to himself with the little cabbage.

Trees, trees, cabbages, cabbages, flowers.

The world, the world.

In the early morning of December 3, Nandao was still leaning on the railing of the small building and watching the world, while drinking the remaining half of the jug of wine from yesterday.

I heard Le Chaotian's voice coming from downstairs.

"Hey, it's really a new branch?"

Nandao stood up with the wine jug and looked down, only to see Le Chaotian and Lu Xiaosan surrounding the big water tank, looking at the peach blossoms.

Lu Xiaoer, who practiced swords in the canyon, also walked out curiously holding the sword.

A group of people gathered there, looking at the peach blossom in amazement.

Minamijima hung the flask around his waist like a black garlic head, and then walked downstairs with an umbrella.

When they walked to Le Chaotian's side, they saw the side of the peach blossom, and a new green spore came out.

"It's not going to be with this tank." Lu Xiaosan said curiously.

A few people looked towards the bottom of the peach branch, and there were some peach blossoms under the water, but they couldn't see what was going on below.

Lu Xiaosan wanted to pick him up and take a look, but just as he stretched out his hand, he was knocked on the head by Le Chaotian with a gourd silk.

Really down.

Lu Xiaosan thought like this, and withdrew his hand aggrievedly.

"Don't move." Le Chaotian said very seriously, "In case you move, it will die." ”

Lu Xiaosan also realized the seriousness of the problem, nodded like garlic, and then his eyes fell on the black garlic-like wine jug in the South Island.

Nandao didn't notice Lu Xiaosan's doggy gaze, just frowned and looked at the peach blossom in the water, after a long time, he didn't say anything, reached out and picked a peach blossom, and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

Sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking at the peach blossoms in his hands, and also looking at the distant mountains - some of the snow in the mountains has melted, some have not, one black and one white, like a Dalmatian sleeping on his stomach.

On the other side, Le Chaotian and the others probably didn't come to any useful conclusions, so they scattered.

"What is Senior Brother thinking?"

Le Chaotian walked to Nandao's side, stretching his waist, looking into the distance.

"I was thinking that the mountains in the distance looked like a dalmatian." Nandao said softly.

"I thought my brother was thinking about those peach blossoms." Le Chaotian said with a soft smile, and also looked at the lying mountain, "Dalmatian, it's really similar." ”

"Peach blossoms will always grow, nothing strange." The South Island is calm.

"The main thing is that your behavior is too strange, senior brother, first looked at it with a sad face for a long time, and then didn't say anything, picked a peach blossom and left."

"Can I make a sad face?" Nandao looked at Le Chaotian helplessly. "I just want to pick a peach blossom and soak in wine."

"Why not."

The junior brother said that it would be counted.

Le Chaotian is not straightforward and strong.

Nandao didn't pay any attention to Le Chaotian, picked up the flask at his waist, and put the peach blossom inside.

The pot shook like the sound of waves.

"Senior brother, have you ever seen the sea?"

"Nope." Le Chaotian shook his head regretfully.

"Neither do I." "So sometimes when I shake the flask, I think it's the sound of the waves." ”

"Senior brother wants to see the sea?"

"I may see the sea later." Nandao thought about the high cliff of the East China Sea, the world knows that the Mojian Cliff is on the edge of the East China Sea, and also knows that sitting on the edge of the cliff, you can see a whole vast and endless sea, I heard that it is blue, I heard that it is gray, I heard that there are many wet and salty winds that will blow over the high cliff, and then fall silent in those green hills on the east coast.

But not many people have seen it.

"So I'm a little worried, what if the sound of those waves is different from what I imagined?"

Nandao continued.

Le Chaotian was stunned, thought for a while, and said, "Can this also be a reason to worry?" ”

Nandao smiled softly and said, "Then why don't you worry?" Are you worried about starving to death today? ”

Because practitioners don't starve to death, they have a lot of other afflictions.

The two of them were chatting there.

Lu Xiaosan ran over again.

"Uncle Shi, I want to learn that sword."

Naturally, it is the sword of fine snow that I will never forget after seeing it in Heavenly Town.

Nandao looked at the little boy and said, "You can't learn that sword." ”

"I, Lu Xiaosan, are talented, and there is nothing I can't learn."

Le Chaotian held back a smile, turned his head, and looked at the world.

"Uncle Shi, what are you laughing at?" Lu Xiaosan stared at Le Chaotian and said.

Le Chaotian coughed, and Zhengse said: "No, absolutely not, someone is farting on the other side of the mountain, I'm looking over there." ”

"You're farting."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes." Le Chaotian nodded busily, then looked at Lu Xiaosan, who was dancing with his teeth and claws, turned around and ran.

Nandao took advantage of the time when the two were arguing, and had already sneaked away with the wine jug.

......

The peach branch did grow more and more.

At first there was just one more branch, and then there were two more.

Until it was like a small tree, lying on the wooden wall of the water tank.

Lu Xiaosan did guess correctly.

The peach branch grew together with the wooden jar that Le Chaotian had worked so hard to make.

This made several people look dazed.

Could it be that the old tree that has been turned into a wooden jar is not actually dead?

Or was it about to turn into a demon at the time?

Other people's cabbage grows for a season, and then it becomes a demon, how to say that this tree has to be thousands of years old, there is indeed that possibility.

However, the water tank has been made, and several people have not continued to think about it.

It's impossible to throw the water tank back again, and I'm sorry to say that I don't know that your old man is going to become a human.

So everyone let the peach branch stand on the side of the wall, and one branch stood alone.

......

Lingnan is still sealed with mountains.

Wu Dalong, the news they heard from outside the Sword Sect may be sealed until the beginning of spring next year.

When Nandao went down to drink, he saw Lu Xiaoxiao and Wu Dalong sitting idly on the courtyard of the Tianya Sword Sect, watching the clear stream with the sound of gurgling water at the bottom of the mountain again, talking about it.

"I heard that the people of Qingtian Dao came to seek revenge from the people of the Human Sword Sect, and as a result, they killed a lot of demon cultivators in the mountains."

"Where did you hear this strange news?"

Lu Xiaoxiao naturally didn't believe it.

"It's been closed for so long, and I heard that it won't be unsealed until the response from Qingtian Dao comes over." Wu Dalong said eloquently. But then he frowned again.

"But I heard that there is another theory, saying that those demon cultivators were not killed by Qingtian Dao, but Zhang Xiaoyu."

Although Wu Dalong didn't believe that Zhang Xiaoyu would do this kind of thing, the closure of Lingnan Mountain was indeed after Zhang Xiaoyu left.

Lu Xiaoxiao was silent, she naturally didn't believe that this was what Zhang Xiaoyu did.

The sound of the two winds was blowing in the south.

Wu Dalong heard some, but he didn't know which one was true and which one was false.

Maybe it's all fake.

But Wu Dalong is just a small sword cultivator in Lingnan, so he naturally doesn't know a lot of things, and the world is naturally the same.

As the two of them talked, they talked about the situation of the Tianya Sword Sect and the Little White Sword Sect.

After all, those things are things that have little to do with them.

The general stream of the world never cares about the idea of a small sword cultivator, how to go, how to go, how to go.

"In the spring of next year, there should be many teenagers in Lingnan going up the mountain. When the time comes, see if you can accept a few disciples. Wu Dalong sat on the steps of the courtyard, holding his arms and looking forward to it.

"When the time comes, I will be like the old man, doing nothing there every day, and let them go and strike iron for me and plant cabbage."

Wu Dalong was very unproductive and imagined.

Lu Xiaoxiao held his forehead and looked at him, very helpless, and then found Nandao leaning against a tree not far away with a wine jug.

"Senior brother, why are you here?"

"It's been a while." Nandao said with a soft laugh.

"Then why aren't you silent?"

"I want to see what Senior Sister and Senior Brother will say."

“......”

Lu Xiaoxiao turned his head and gave Wu Dalong a look.

"Tell you to plant cabbage, if a disciple really comes in the future, see if you still grow cabbage."

Wu Dalong laughed, touched his head and said, "Just kidding, joking." ”

Nandao was just drinking under the tree, looking at the two of them, and after coming over for a long time, he said slowly: "It wasn't Zhang Xiaoyu who did it." ”

Lu Xiaoxiao and the others were stunned for a moment, and then remembered that they were talking about some rumors in the world recently.

After Nandao finished speaking, he went to the Sword Sect with an umbrella to drink.

Wu Dalong would brew a lot of wine at a time, but Lu Xiao didn't let Nandao drink too much, so as not to become a fool when he got it, so he still put it in a small building of the Tianya Sword Sect, which was the building where Nandao lived at the beginning.

Not long after, Nandao came out with wine, but he was not in a hurry to leave, but sat on the steps of the courtyard with Lu Xiaoxiao.

He took two sips of wine, then looked into the distance and pondered.

He naturally knew that Zhang Xiaoyu didn't do it, but it shouldn't have been done by someone from Qingtian Dao.

The person named Mei Xiyu came to Lingnan after the mountain was closed.

Revenge is naturally true.

The letter was originally sent from the South Island to the north, but it was a fake.

The people of Qingtian Dao are not crazy or stupid, and it is impossible for them to do such a thing.

It's just that he doesn't know why there is such strange news in the world.

So he looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and the others, hesitated for a long time, and didn't say these things.

I guess it's something that doesn't make much sense.

It's just that after sitting here and brewing for so long, looking at the puzzled expressions of Lu Xiaoxiao and Wu Dalong, Nandao thought about it and said another thing.

"I'm thankful for four things."

Wu Dalong and Lu Xiaoxiao were not too surprised.

Naturally, it is expected.

Even if Nandao came over and told them that I was going to break through the Nine Realms tomorrow, these two would probably only applaud.

If the junior brother is not such a junior disciple, then what does Lingnan spend so much effort on?

It's just that maybe there is still some emotion after all.

For example, Lu Xiaoxiao, a thirty-year-old Lingnan little sword cultivator, sat there holding his cheeks and looking at Nandao, with joy and envy in his eyes.

After a long time, the woman chuckled softly, "That's good! ”

Wu Dalong didn't say anything, just laughed.

Nandao actually wanted to make a joke, saying that he was envious, and exchanged for freedom outside the umbrella.

It's just that after all, his mind is still not calm enough to face those things so calmly, so he just smiled and didn't say anything.

It took a long time before Nandao looked at the two of them and said softly: "At the beginning of spring next year, I want to go to the East China Sea." ”

Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, looked at Nandao and said, "What are you doing in the East China Sea?" ”

Nandao lowered his head and took a sip of wine, then raised his head to look at the mountains where there was no snow in the world, only distant clouds hanging low, and said slowly: "Climb the cliff." ”

The simplest and most surprising two words in the world are probably cliff climbing.

That high cliff is not only the highest in the literal sense of the word.

At the same time, it also represents the pinnacle of the way of sword cultivation.

In other words, it is the pinnacle of the path of cultivation.

Every year, many people step on those stone steps to go up the cliff.

There is hardly any stone moss to be seen on the lowest level, but the stone steps have become smooth and old as they have been stepped on over and over again.

Among those who went up the cliff, there was naturally more than just sword cultivation.

There are also Taoists.

Many years ago, there were monks.

It's just that the world hasn't seen those shiny big bald heads for a long time.

Amiji Temple also disappeared.

If it weren't for the reappearance of the Wushan Mountain in Yunmengze, the only place of the four major cultivation places in the world would be the Grinding Sword Cliff.

Perhaps this also means that in the two thousand years since the emergence of the avenue, many stories about exploration and precedence are slowly coming to an end.

The road is naturally stepped out one foot at a time.

When Nandao said the word "climbing the cliff", Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment.

After a while, he came back to his senses, looked at Nandao and said, "You can climb the cliff?" ”

Nandao said softly: "No, but I always have to try, Lingnan is too far away from the East China Sea, and I can't even see the cliff, so naturally I don't know how far I have to go to climb that high cliff." ”

Nan Dao said, laughed again, and said: "But there is no hurry, what will happen after the beginning of spring next year, maybe January, maybe December, I haven't decided yet." ”

Indeed, just like Lu Xiao, Lingnan will only be a place where teenagers march and stay in their spare time.

The cultivation path of the South Island is going very fast, and maybe after the beginning of spring next year, it won't be long before the flowers fall all over the ground and break through the trail.

The red-clothed sword from the East China Sea cultivating green peppers is just the beginning of the trail.

But the sword of the South Island progressed slowly.

Maybe not slowly.

It's just that in the face of the speed of accumulation and transformation of heaven and earth vitality, it seems a little overwhelmed.

So maybe it is really necessary to leave Lingnan and go for a walk in the world.

I don't see the sea, and the sword I saw on the All Souls' Day in Nanyi City was naturally just a trickle, never a cross-current.

Nan Dao looked at the two and said, "Of course, I am still the sword cultivator of Lingnan, the Little White Sword Sect and the Tianya Sword Sect. ”

This is the first time that the South Island has acknowledged the name.

Wu Dalong said with a smile on the side: "You haven't learned our sword. ”

Nandao actually learned the sword of the Tianya Sword Sect, and when he was first in the Hanging Courtyard, he looked through the first understanding of the sword path of the Tianya Sword Sect.

It's a pity that I was confused at the time, so I didn't study it in depth.

However, the parrot island he was carrying behind him could actually represent something.

For example, he can also summon the Sword of the End of the World.

As for the Little White Sword Sect, Lu Xiaoer actually practiced his sword there every day.

Maybe it's also learned.

The three of them didn't say anything more, sitting in the courtyard, sniffing the smell of those sake lees, and quietly looking at the world.