Recently, Yanguan Town has been entering the town one after another, as always, going forward and successively.

The Chen's mansion located next door to the township school specially opened the main door and welcomed two groups of people one after another, one after the other.

The first of the two groups to visit Chen's was an old man and a young man, each dressed in a pure white gown, with a high crown and a big sleeve, and the young man surnamed Chen, with a single name and a cool character, elegant and noble, and a handsome face. Along with this young man, followed by him was a slightly wealthy short and fat old man, holding a pair of walnut lion heads in his hands, and a bright smile on his face all the time, which made people feel close to him.

These two people are from the Nanxi Zhou Chen family, which is the Nanxi Chen family mentioned by Han Yuanfu before, holding the land of half a continent, ranking among the three products in the nine-grade system of the rivers and lakes, and the world's tyrants who are really on the same level as the top immortal sects such as the Four Great Sword Sects, and the well-deserved Jiuzhou surname.

The two people who came to the door after them were two sword cultivators, carrying long swords, each wearing a long shirt with the same shape, looking like both a Confucian shirt and a Taoist robe, belonging to one of the four major sword sects, the clothes only had by the disciples of the Qinglian Sword Sect of Yong'an Continent, in addition, these two people each wore a Daomen lotus crown, which was a Dao crown that could only be worn by the immortal masters under the Shangqing Yimai Sect of the Daomen.

These latter two sword cultivators from Yong'an Continent are unusual, very different from other foreigners they have seen before, not an old man and a young man, but a pair of young people who look of the same age, a man and a woman, with the same surname as the founding ancestor of the Qinglian Sword Sect, the man's name is Li Tianran, and the woman's name is Li Pingyang, they are a pair of brothers and sisters, and their cultivation is Zhuoran.

For the small town of Chen, the four immortals who came successively are rare guests, but the origin is slightly different, the first step into the door of the Nanxizhou Chen family belongs to the main lineage of the Chen family, and the town of Chen is about equivalent to the difference between the surname and the collateral lineage, this trip is actually for the Chen family head Chen Shuhuai's knee under the only son Chen Ji, according to the news of the Nanxi Zhou side of the newspaper a long time ago, for many years have not been enthusiastic about the town of Chen, the far northwest side branch of the Nanxi Chen main line, intends to accept Chen Ji to Nanxizhou at the time of this Jiazi appointment, and be personally cultivated by the wealthy Chen family.

As for the two people of the Yong'an Continent Qinglian Sword Sect who entered the door later, they also had other unspeakable mission purposes in addition to accepting disciples.

According to the rules that have been passed down for many years in Yanguan Town, the four surnames each have their own business context, except for the Zhu family, the other three have different external disks behind each other, but in addition to these, in fact, there is also a group of sword cultivators standing behind the four surnames, which happens to be the four major sword sects that are among the three products in the rivers and lakes, and each of the four stands on one of them, and their main task is to ensure the safety of the family house clan of the corresponding small town surname during the operation of the big array, which is when the Yanguan Great Array was first built. The great sages of the Three Sects and the Three Sects who were in charge of setting up the formation personally came forward and negotiated an agreement with the ancestors of the Four Great Sword Sects.

It's just that it was one thing to agree to keep the lifeblood of each family at the beginning, and in the countless years that followed, how the four major sword sects each looked at the way of the big surname in the town was another thing, some of them would definitely take away a child with a big surname regardless of the talent of the child in charge of the big surname and what the final success or failure was, some would choose whether to choose a certain child to bring into the mountain gate for cultivation depending on their talent and qualifications, and some would never take away any young people from this town regardless of whether they were talented or not...

Because of the long history, in the minds of the four major surnames, the eyes of the sword sect behind each other will be different, and the longer it is passed on, the more deeply rooted this view will be, and the world is far away, which is why the Zhu family did not hesitate to destroy its own foundation, but also to sever the connection with the Yuanjia Sword Sect of the Zhengsanpin Xianmen, and in turn to paste a hot face on a Shuixiu Lake with only the Zhengwupin.

Today, the distinguished guest came to the town surnamed Chen, and Chen Shuhuai, the head of the Chen family who went out to greet him in person, is a middle-aged man who looks a little dull, and it seems that he has read too much and read stupidly, and he took the Chen family and a group of clansmen to greet the fairy family at the door, and he stood silently in place when the person was in the future, his expression was calm and not smiling. Later, when the two groups of immortals came to the door one after the other, he greeted them from afar, met with people, saluted, and every move was rigid and upright, meticulous, and then let the door open the door and say the word "please", which was regarded as welcoming the distinguished guests into the door.

Two groups of immortals came to the door with their front and back feet, and after a while, in the main hall of the Chen family, the four distinguished guests of the two immortals who had arrived successively sat down with the head of the Chen family, and each looked at tea.

The two sword immortals of the Chen clan in Nanxizhou and the Qinglian Sword Sect in Yong'an Continent each looked at the head of the Chen family who was sitting on the top and drinking tea with their eyes down but did not speak, as if they had no opinion on his dullness, and they were not surprised, but then the two sides looked at each other, which made the atmosphere between the two families seem to be not so harmonious, neither good color nor good tone, and it seemed that they were not even willing to nod to each other at the very least.

In this way, in the main hall of the Chen family, a famous scholarly family in this town, Chen Shuhuai, as the host of the host, did not speak, and the two immortals who came to be guests did not speak as the host, and the scene was a little quiet and slightly embarrassing.

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A small town and a village school.

In the pavilion in the backyard, a Confucian scholar in a green shirt and a young man in ink sit opposite each other on both sides of a special chessboard with 17 lanes of vertical and horizontal channels. This special chessboard shape, such as the nineteen vertical and horizontal chessboards that are used in Jiuzhou today, is smaller, and has been uncommon for many years.

There is a saying that the game between the two sons of black and white, at the beginning was with one of the four heavenly books had some relationship, the earliest chessboard was also very small, may not be more than ten vertically and horizontally, and then after countless years of generational evolution, the chess road became more and more prosperous, sitting on both sides of the chessboard, the skill of tossing and moving on the chessboard is also getting higher and higher, and the chessboard is naturally getting bigger and bigger, so that there are now nineteen vertical and horizontal in the world, as for the seventeen roads that are missing two roads in the vertical and horizontal, It was probably thousands of years ago, but it was inexplicably moved out today.

In today's game, the two of them coincidentally chose the chess, the smaller the chessboard, the more anxious the battle.

Chen Ji, a young man who has always served as a school teacher, sat on the stone bench next to the chess table, watching the chess without saying a word, which was an eye-opener.

This young man, who is also one of the sons of the four major surnames in the town, always seems to be different from the teenagers of other families, does not like to go out, inherits the scholarly family style and loves to read, is one of the best students in the township school, and is very appreciated by Mr. Cui, the teacher of the school.

Therefore, Chen's young man can be regarded as a scholar of Mr. while studying, and he has the opportunity to follow Mr. to read and learn characters, watch chess and read music, play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and benefit a lot from the water.

Zhu Zhen, the little overlord of the Zhu family, has always had the three people he admires the most, and he also has the three people he dislikes the most, unfortunately this Chen Ji is one of them, and he has always been called a "nerd" by the little fat man, but he has never cared much about it.

A few days ago, when Mr. Cui's husband came to the village school, the Chen boy also had the honor to sit aside and visit the game between his husband and his husband's husband.

I never thought that he would suddenly have another opportunity today, although the young man still guarded the etiquette of a scholar on his face, but his heart was already excited, and he was overjoyed! It's just that today's chessboard is different, and the number of moves in chess will naturally be different from the number of moves in the game a few days ago.

Su Sanzai, a young man in ink with a sunspot in his hand, lowered his head and looked at the first hand with a great advantage somewhere on the chessboard, and chuckled: "You really don't want to take care of it?" If you let it go, some of the tricks you prepared in advance won't be useful, and I can't say I'll have to go down to the city first!" ”

The Confucian scholar in the green shirt did not show his face, he was gentle and peaceful, and he did not have a particularly big reaction to the ridicule of his opponent, and then he turned his head sideways at the young student who was fascinated by chess, smiled gently, and did not speak.

Su Sanzai followed his gaze and also glanced at Chen Ji, looking at the young man's engrossed attention and seemingly unaware of the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but look at Cui Jue and smiled: "Why do I think you're a little stupid as a student?" Far worse than the one I picked? ”

After that, the sunspot twisted in his hand took root.

Cui Jue, the teacher, only smiled slightly at this and did not comment.

Su Sanzai saw that the Confucian always didn't speak, and began to feel a little bored, in fact, since he won his own always serious and rigid gentleman in a certain game of hand talk many years ago, he has not been very interested in playing chess in the following years, and he always feels that this kind of game of small competition is not very interesting, so at this moment in the game with the Confucian scholar, he laid out the fall as he wanted, from beginning to end without a long exam, but he can also have a relationship with the small town teacher.

Seeing that the green-shirted Confucian who was the opponent refused to speak, Su Sanzai was extremely bored, so he put the target on the young man who was watching chess on the sidelines, and stretched out his other hand while playing Go, waking up the young man from watching chess as if he was in a state of sleepwalking, and then asked with a smile: "Xiao Chen Ji, I heard that your Chen family is also here?" ”

The young man looked at Su Sanzai with an interested face, and inevitably hesitated, in the two days that this eccentric man in black came, he didn't understand what the relationship between his husband and Mr. Su, who seemed to have never planned to leave after the abrupt visit.

Say it's a friend, it doesn't seem like ...

It's not quite like an enemy...

Fascinated by chess but suddenly asked a question, the young man first glanced at his husband, and after seeing that Mr. Su had no special expression, he turned his head to look at Mr. Su, nodded lightly, and did not speak.

"Nanxi Chen?" Su Sanzai was very interested, "The north and south have gathered." ”

It seemed that he suddenly found it interesting, he stared at Chen Ji with a smile and asked, "Since you Chen Clan's main lineage are all here, then how can you still come here to watch idle chess?" Your father, the head of the family who has always pursued self-denial and revenge, is not afraid that other immortals will come to accuse you of being rude? ”

When the young man heard this, he didn't have any other expression, but continued to watch the back and forth between the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard, and simply said four words: "Respect the teacher." ”

Su Sanzai listened to the young man's answer, he didn't know what he thought of again, and chuckled, "The four surnames of you Yanguan Town are interesting in their own way. ”

Chen Ji was a little confused, so he turned his head and looked at this Mr. Su suspiciously, who always spoke and acted strangely, and was covered with clouds and mountains.

The young man in ink didn't care about him, and another sunspot was randomly placed at a certain point on the special chessboard, and said in a strange tone: "One family demolishes the roof, one digs the root of the wall, one holds the beams and does not let go, and one ......"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, smiled at the expressionless town teacher sitting opposite, and said with a slight mockery: "I always think about Fu Lushou hanging on the wall." ”

Chen Ji, a young man who was staring at the chess game for most of his attention, was a little unclear about this strange evaluation, so he looked at Su Sanzai with a strange face, and then at his own gentleman, who was calm and gentle, and then hesitated and whispered: "Mr. Su......"

Su Sanzai turned his head to look at the young man.

"Why don't you take a look first...... Your sunspot may be about to be slain......"

“！”

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After a while, the chess game was settled, and Su Sanzai didn't seem to care much about the final result of the chess game, but just wiped a handful of the two sides scattered on the chessboard at random, making a mess of it, and then looked up at the green-shirted Confucian on the opposite side and asked with a smile: "I've looked around at random in the past two days, and the appetizers for this issue of your Jiazi covenant seem to be almost served, and I guess the next step is to go to the real main seat, right?" Aren't you going to do something to prevent it? ”

The green-shirted Confucian man smiled and said nothing, first glanced at Su Sanzai, and then turned his head to the young man who was still sitting on the side and said softly: "Chen Ji, you will come here first today, and you will also go back to meet the guests, but don't be greedy for too much fun, and remember the homework that Wen Yiwen learned today before going to bed at night." ”

Hearing this, the young Chen Ji got up very obediently and said goodbye, respectfully performed a comprehensive and standard Confucian etiquette with Mr. Chao and Mr. Su, and then slowly withdrew from the pavilion, turned around and walked slowly out of the school to his own mansion next door.

Su Sanzai and the Tsing Yi school teacher sat in place, watching the young man go out, and he could also feel that he left the gate of the school, and walked into the door of the Chen family next door that was slightly shabby compared to the other three in the town, walking slowly, not in a hurry.

Su Sanzai smiled slightly, turned his head to look at the small town teacher opposite, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are very satisfied with you as a student?" ”

The middle-aged Confucian raised his hand to sort the chess pieces on the chessboard and put them into the black and white chess pieces, and replied: "It's okay, it's just that I've read a lot of books, but I haven't been outside to see, and I still need some experience to 'travel thousands of miles'." ”

The young man in black smiled slightly, noncommittal, and continued the previous topic with a smile: "The town is open, I see that almost all of the people who should come have come, and there are a lot of outsiders who should not come, this situation... I'm afraid it's not the same as your previous covenant with Jiazi, right? You're not ready to take care of it? Aren't you afraid that someone will sneak on the ground, and then suddenly look up and lift the whole table for you? ”

The middle-aged Confucian priest kept moving in his hands, and soon sorted the chess pieces, and after hearing Su Sanzai's question, he seemed to suddenly think of something, frowned slightly, raised his head and stared at the person opposite with a calm face, and did not speak.

The young man in black saw Cui Jue's eyes on the other side, and said with a little amusement: "Hey, don't go too far!" What do I mean by that? If you really want to think about what you have to do according to my rules, I can't let you guess it's me, let alone I'm jumping in front of you! ”

The Confucian scholar in the green shirt also smiled when he heard this, and said lightly: "With Mr. Su's ability, the partnership can knock on the bamboo pole so tactfully, there is borrowing and repaying, if it is a whim, and occasionally ingenuity is dark, it is not impossible, isn't it?" ”

Su Sanzai, who said this, was instantly furious, jumped up as soon as he slapped the chess table in front of him, pointed at the township school teacher with a calm face and scolded: "Okay, your surname is Cui, I told you in advance not to do that voyeuristic business of stealing chickens and dogs, you still dare to do this?" You wait for Lao Tzu to see how I make your name more famous than ever! Besides, Lao Tzu worked hard to knock around, but he asked Lu Chunjue of that dog day to open his mouth and take away the big head of thirty percent, and fifty percent of it was given to half of your apprentices. ”

This time, the gentle and gentle town teacher just smiled and didn't answer, whose apprentices are apprentices, and the master earns money for the apprentices, rightfully righteous?

Su Sanzai, who was furious, snapped into a cannon fight, turned his head and saw that the Confucian scholar simply didn't answer, opened his mouth and suddenly became a little dumb, and then looked around sneakily, and then sat back on the table, looked at Cui Jueshen and said mysteriously: "I happened to hear that Yun Zhongjun once let go of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, saying that he wanted to come over after you opened the door this time... I'm a little curious now, you should know best about guarding the door in this place, is that really coming? ”

"I don't know."

Juku Master Cui Jue's answer is only three simple words, when talking about this topic, there is also a slight solemnity between the eyebrows, there has always been a very mysterious vein among the hundred schools of thought, it is said that this door should have been born from the Daomen, but they went up from the unique ancestor master, down to the disciples of the disciples of the two jujubes under the door, all of them are mysterious and secretive, occupying the position of the second-grade immortal gate, but they never stand even a mountain, and each dragon sees the head but does not see the tail, Few people even knew the real names of those of them, and they acted treacherously, secretively, and fearfully.

At this moment, Cui Jue inexplicably remembered the kraft paper envelope that his husband specially sent to him a few days ago, which was covered with a wax seal and a simple seal with a fire paint seal on it.

The gentleman handed the envelope to his student, and said only one sentence: "Here, I have come to deliver the letter, and now that the errand is done, I should go back in two days, but there may be a turn on the road, and I will go to someone to talk to." ”

At that time, he also took a special look at Mr.

As a result, the old man just waved his hand and said lightly: "Don't worry, so many years of cultivation and cultivation homework are not done in vain, don't fight, just chat, I promise to convince people with virtue." ”

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