On the winding sheep intestine path several miles away from the town, a man in a white robe appeared at the end of the path, his face was like a crown of jade, the wind god was handsome, a silver wine gourd hung from his waist, and a green bamboo long sword was on his back, and a white jade card was hung on the sword spike.

The man drove slowly towards the town, and scolded as he walked: "Let me go down the mountain and don't give me the customs clearance papers, the old man counts you ruthless, you wait for me, and I will definitely in front of your hut when the time comes." ”

The man hurried up the hillside while scolding the old man in his mouth, but it was slippery in the rain, and he almost stumbled and fell on the stone steps without paying attention, and quickly pretended to make a set of stake handles, quite the taste of Zhong Quan's self-created crazy demon dance fist, and pointed to the stone steps after standing still, just like the spicy woman scolding on the street in the market.

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The rain fell silently, and the clouds passed through the rain.

The first rain of spring came and went in a hurry, and the crystal raindrops rolled down from the young shoots and new leaves.

Inside the house, Xia Chengyi cooked a pot of pickled bamboo shoots and fish soup with the herring caught this morning and the dried bamboo shoots he had pickled before. Xia Yao sat on the table, with a chopstick in one hand, standing on the table, tapping gently, looking at the stove room, and asked a little eagerly: "Brother, why hasn't the soup been made yet?" ”

For Xia Yao, the world is the biggest eat, and when the sky falls, you have to eat first.

Xia Chengyi walked out of the stove room with a clay pot of fish soup, put the clay pot on the table, and held two bowls respectively, one for himself and one for Xia Yao. In less than a moment, the fish soup in the clay pot has bottomed out.

Seeing Xia Yao gobbling up the fish soup, Xia Chengyi couldn't help but persuade: "Yaoyao, drink slowly, be careful of fish bones." ”

He sometimes feels that his little sister is not a starving ghost in the previous life, and in this life he can only eat so much in order to make up for the previous life. But it's also strange to say, even if the little girl is so edible, but a little face has not become fat, it is still cute and pleasant, and people can't help but want to pinch it when they see it.

This is probably what women on the street often say, "Just eating, you don't grow meat, your body is very thin, and your body is not small."

Xia Yao put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped the corners of her mouth with her little hands, "Brother, why don't you go to the blacksmith shop today?" ”

Xia Chengyi took a sip of the soup and said casually: "Master Li has entered the mountain in the past two days, let's wait for him to come down the mountain and then go over to cast a furnace for him." ”

The young man's Li Shi is the owner of the blacksmith shop, Li Dadong, a tall and honest man, who lives on Taolu Street in the town, has a wife and children, and his son is named Li Gan, and Xia Yao is the same brother in the same school.

However, Li Shi's daughter-in-law is not an ordinary person, I often hear the nearby mother-in-law say that Li Dadong's mother-in-law is a master who is not easy to mess with, that body is spicy, and her mouth seems to have given birth to a litter of snakes, scorpions and centipedes, and she can smoke her popularity when she opens her mouth, the key is that you can't scold her, you can only be scolded by her pointing her nose. That Li Gan seems to have inherited his mother's pungent energy, he is a thorn in the head at a young age, and he has to stab anyone who catches him, I heard Xia Yao say that even Mr. Li Gan is helpless every time he faces Li Gan, and he can't help but sigh every time. Xia Chengyi sighed when he thought that Mr. Lu, who was not smiling, would also hold his forehead and sigh, and his dark face was full of smiles.

It turns out that Mr. Lu is not as high as a god, he also has seven emotions and six desires.

Xia Yao jumped off the bench, still wearing a red and eye-catching shabby padded jacket, she first ran into the inner room and then ran back like the wind, she didn't know where to find a rusty piece of iron in her hand, she put the piece of iron on the table, "Brother, you put this away by your side." ”

Xia Chengyi also wondered where Xia Yao picked up a piece of iron, and asked with some curiosity, "What is it?" ”

Xia Yao pondered for a while, and decided not to tell Xia Chengyi the shocking truth first, and it would be okay to tell him when the time was ripe in the future, with a wave of his hand, "Brother, just take it away, you believe me, it will definitely come in handy in the future!" ”

"Good, good." Of course, Xia Chengyi would not refuse for his little sister to give him a gift, and the little sister said that it must be useful, but it is not yet the time to use it.

After Xia Yao finished speaking seriously, a small face was pulled down, and she looked at Xia Chengyi miserably, "Brother, I'm hungry again......"

Xia Chengyi stiffened his dark face when he heard this, "I can't eat it anymore, I will really become a chubby girl after eating it again." ”

Xia Yao was like a deflated ball, shrugging her head, looking sick.

Xia Chengyi couldn't cry or laugh, rubbing his forehead.

After cleaning up, the young man had nothing to do, and he didn't have to go to the blacksmith shop to work, so the young man put on the bamboo basket on his back, said hello to Xia Yao, and ran towards the back mountain, and happened to bump into Lu Ran who was also walking into the town when he passed through the town on the way.

Xia Chengyi stopped, saluted Lu Ran, and said, "I've seen Mr. Lu." ”

Lu Ran saw that it was Xia Chengyi, and said softly: "But go into the mountains to hunt? ”

Xia Chengyi scratched his head and said with a smile: "I heard that there are a lot of bamboo shoots in the mountains for no reason recently, and I want to go to the mountains to pick up more, anyway, it is not planted by others, but is this a little unauthentic?" ”

Lu Ran smiled and explained: "It's okay, God doesn't accept it, but suffers from it, since it's yours, then accept it with peace of mind." ”

The boy was afraid of missing out, so he took his leave and left.

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Outside the east gate of the town, a man with a sword in a white robe stopped his steps, looked up at the stone archway in front of him, and the plaque was engraved with the words "Purple Qi from the East" with a small seal.

The man rubbed his chin with some beards, and said in amazement: "Good place, good place, worthy of being a treasure of feng shui where dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, I just don't know if I can take this plaque off and sell it, if I can sell it outside, I have a thousand eight hundred taels of silver, right?" ”

The man was the white-robed man who had hung a wine gourd on his waist on the sheep intestine path outside the town, he took off the wine gourd on his waist, poured a sip of wine, and slowly drove into the town.

I didn't think that I was stopped just about to enter the town, a short old man walked towards the man, the old man held a cigarette stick in his hand, and glanced at the man, "The old rule, pay a tael of silver ingots before entering the town." ”

When the man heard that he had to hand over one or two silver ingots, he was immediately unhappy, and sneered: "Old man, I see that you are not too young, is it a little shameless to come out with an old bone and old legs to cheat money." ”

The old man sat on a wooden bench against the wall and gently tapped the wooden bench with a cigarette stick to pour out the tobacco inside.

Seeing that the old man was indifferent, the man continued to say in a strange manner: "Old man, didn't I say you, you are still cheating here at such a large age, I'm afraid that the children in the family will not be treated, right?" ”

The old man took a puff of dry smoke, a large cloud of smoke filled the surroundings, the wind and clouds were churning around the sea of clouds, and the wind said lightly: "How many realms is Li Haoran's little hairy head now?" Have you ever touched the legendary threshold? ”

The man in the white robe was struck by lightning.

The old man glanced at the white-robed man, "Why, wouldn't it be that after ten thousand years, he would still be a little hairy man in the Dao Realm?" ”

The white-robed man looked dazed, swallowed a mouthful of water, and said with some indecisiveness: "You...... How do you know the old man...... Sword Immortal's predecessors? ”

The old man smashed it, smashed it, smoked a dry cigarette, crossed Erlang's legs, and sneered: "Yo, all sword immortals?" Back then, this kid was following me and yelling for me to pass on his swordsmanship, why, now I feel that I am so angry that I dare to call myself an immortal? It's amazing, but if you take a Haoran name, you are indeed qualified to win a share of the creation of heaven and earth. ”

The man in the white robe wanted to take a sip of wine to suppress the shock in his heart, but found that there was no alcohol in the wine bottle.

The old man sitting on a wooden bench smoking a dry cigarette frowned slightly.

A blue-shirted Confucian with frost-white temples appeared outside the east gate, it was Lu Ran, a teacher at the township school, who was the holder of the world and the ruler of the town, and every move that happened in the town was in his mind.

After Lu Ran saw the old man, he saluted and said, "Lu Ran pays a visit to Mr. Ma." ”

The old man looked leisurely, and waved the cigarette stick in his hand, "I can't stand your Lu Ran's worship, old man, I still want to live a few more years, but I don't want to die because of this." ”

Lu Ran smiled, ignoring the meaning of the old man's words, "Can the old gentleman allow my friend to enter the town?" ”

The old man said leisurely: "The old rules just do things, the money is not in the gold." ”

Lu Ran's wrist flipped out of thin air, and an extra gold ingot appeared out of thin air, and the word "Ying" was engraved on its square.

The old man took the gold ingot and sighed: "The big country is generous, and this is the first time I've seen this kind of thing, old man." ”

Lu Ran didn't care about the old man's ridicule.

The old man accepted the gold ingot with the word "Ying" and waved his hand, "Let's go, let that kid keep his mouth clean, he met me, if he meets someone else, he won't be so good-tempered." ”

The rickety old man took the back of one hand and held a cigarette stick in the other, and slowly walked into the town.

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At the same time, in the other direction of the town, a horse-drawn carriage slowly drove towards the town.

The coachman slowed down the speed of the carriage and said respectfully towards the sedan chair: "My lord, there is Longquan Town ahead." ”

The curtain of the car was pulled up, and a tall man in a brocade dress stepped out of the car, he took one hand behind his back, and the other hand stroked the green bamboo folding fan in his hand, looking at the town.

The man shook the folding fan lightly and said with a smile: "In the world of life, suddenly like a traveler from afar." ”

The coachman said in a deep voice on the side: "My lord, this trip is intended to escort those cultivation seedlings of the Great Qin Kingdom to travel far away, don't go wrong because of the excitement of the adults, if there is a problem, the saint will not be able to bear this responsibility at that time." ”

The man in brocade clothes and jade belt put away the folding fan, smiled, turned to look in the direction of a certain school in the distant town, and said softly: "There is one stone in the world, and Lu Shi has nine buckets, and since ancient times, he has used the same bucket." ”

For Lu Ran, a Confucian in a green shirt who is dressed in a majestic and righteous manner, the man admires it from the bottom of his heart.

At that time, it was this Confucian Confucian Confucian Temple sage who defied public opinion, single-handedly blocked ten thousand people, and vigorously promoted the implementation of the order that women could hold half the sky, so that women in Daxia could also be equal to ordinary men to gain fame, or devote themselves to the battlefield to resist the enemy and make meritorious achievements. For this reason, the first emperor of Great Xia also specially ordered the Ministry of Rites to set up a complete set of meritorious titles for female warriors and scholars, opening up a precedent for the entire Middle Earth Divine Continent.

But somehow, this sage and literati who was so heavy in the Temple of Literature was suddenly relegated to Longquan Town, a small place where birds don't, gods hate ghosts, and are suppressed by the way of heaven.

Whenever the civil servants and warriors of the Xia State talked about this matter, they all regretted what happened to Lu Ran, but it was not easy to interfere in the internal affairs of the Confucian Temple itself.

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