Tianshui County is located in the east of the Chu State and has nine counties under its jurisdiction.

Because the Lanjiang River, the largest in the Chu State, flows directly into the East China Sea through this place...... Hence the name Tianshui.

The state of Chu covers an extremely vast area and has a variety of landforms.

There are many valleys and swamps in the southwest, such as Danxia, where Shouyun Mountain is located, Wu'an, which is dangerous, and Nanze, which is deep in the mountains.

The extreme north is bordered by thousands of miles of yellow sand, and is named the Northern Desert.

However, the land of the Northern Desert is extremely cold, and only Qingquan County, which is sandwiched between the Cold Ice Valley and the Qianyuan Palace, is still habitable, but after the end of the Lanqingji Secret Realm five years ago, Qingquan County was also classified as the Cold Ice Valley.

The ghost Li Dan, who is famous in the Northern Desert, has long since left Qingquan......

It rains in the valley in late spring, and it is another year of tea picking season.

On the official road outside Tianshui Fang, a young man with an indifferent expression strolled here, he casually flicked the Tsubaki leaf in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

If Zhao Qing saw this person, he would definitely smile and shout 'Brother Li' from afar.

After the Lanqing gathering, Qingquan County was subsumed into the Cold Ice Valley, and this Dan ghost left the Northern Desert directly and wandered among the various cultivation markets, looking for an opportunity to condense the Golden Pill.

Time is like an arrow, and the avenue is like a bow.

After five years of spring and autumn, several people who had said goodbye to each other on the purple bead spirit boat met again in Tianshui County.

Zhao Qing's family came by spirit boat, first arrived at the Tianshui Fang Blood Clothes Building, and after staying in Fang City for a few days, they were ready to leave for Heyang County, which was where Qinghuan's sister lived.

A light drizzle of rain fell on the earth, soothing the wind and dust.

Li Dan's powerful divine sense swept away, and his indifferent eyes gradually became gentle.

At the end of the official road, a few people were strolling in the rain.

After a little thought, he found a large tree to lean on......

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The hazy smoke and rain locked the woman's whisper.

……

"Twenty years ago, when a heavy rain overflowed the Lanjiang River and flooded Jiaoping County, my sister took me to Heyang County to settle down."

"At that time we lived in a large courtyard, which was a safe place for prostitutes in the drunken flower house."

"In addition to my sister, there are seven smoky willow women in the courtyard...... There are often guests who come to stay overnight. ”

"My sister was very strict with me, and every day she shut me up in the upside-down room next to the stable and practiced the dance."

"Every night when a guest lit a candle for her, she would pull me to the stable, beat me the head, and reprimand me for all sorts of excuses, so that I could help everyone guard the door."

The woman walked slowly and said with a smile: "If the guests are interested, my sister will be even more ruthless, and she has almost beaten me to death many times." ”

"I was only six or seven years old at the time, and I thought my sister was pleasing guests, but I didn't know that she had good intentions."

"Later, my sister found a godmother for me, who was a bustard woman in Drunken Flower House."

"It is said that he wants to take care of me, and after the match, he may be able to win some guests in Heyang County with Pu Liuzirong with his perfect body."

Murker ......

Zhao Qing pinched Qing Huan's slender hand and nodded slightly.

He had some understanding of what Qing Huan said.

The Land of Smoke and Willows is not all women who sell their bodies, but there are also geisha with excellent appearances, and after some instigation by Qinglou, these geisha can sell for a higher price.

But in the end, it is not much different from ordinary prostitutes...... It's just that the first night is extremely expensive, and if the limelight is better, it is common for high rollers to take them home in captivity.

Auntie and Shuyue staggered their arms, and slowly followed them.

Gu Qinghuan's phoenix eyes fanned, and he looked at the master and continued to speak.

"Since then, I've been shouting at the Drunken Flower House."

"In the winter when I was fifteen years old, the bustard woman picked a good day and held a ceremony for me in Zuihuaju, inviting many merchants."

"It's just that Qing Huan didn't show up."

"Because I happened to knock on the door of the Liu Clan's Martial Arts Hall the night before."

“……”

The woman's slender hand gently touched the water sleeve, and the lotus step moved to tell another story.

The girl who had just turned fifteen was unwilling to be fate, and she cooked rice and clothes in the martial arts hall in Heyang County, and after five years of wind and frost, she stepped into the innate realm.

Then he stayed away from Tianshui and embarked on the journey to the south alone.

She worshiped Danxia at the foot of Shouyun Mountain and was able to set foot in the fairy road.

But when he arrived at Dancaofang, he was shocked to find that he had never broken free from the tricks of fate, but he was just from a green building...... Arrived at another green building.

When she returned to Tianshui, she found her biological mother in Drunken Flower House - the sister who was extremely strict with her.

In the autumn of that year, Qing Huan was only twenty-two years old.

But the fairy road is long and vast, but she can't walk anymore.

In the early morning of the cold dew season, Gu Qinghuan watched the girl with the porridge bucket go to the stove room, and then returned to the room to dress up in the mirror alone......

Halfway through the hour, she took the sesame grass she raised in Danxia and entered the Dantang No. 80 Dan room.

……

On the official road with no end in sight.

The woman's green silk was wet by the drizzle, and was sent to the corner of her lips by the spring breeze.

Gu Qinghuan choked on a strand of hair, and a trace of memory appeared on her beautiful face.

She looked at Zhao Qing with burning eyes, and said softly: "Qingying later asked me why I obeyed my master's words ......."

Zhao Qing's eyes moved slightly: "How do you answer?" ”

"The host is very attentive to Qinghuan...... Qinghuan doesn't have to worry about anything, it's all up to the master. ”

"I feel more relaxed than Sister Shuyue, the fairy road is vast...... Qing Huan just wants to be the master's puppet. ”

The woman's beautiful eyes showed affection and said softly.

"Following the master's side, it seems that his body and soul are not important anymore, not to mention whether he is practicing or suffering, sometimes he really envy Si He...... Able to mingle with the owner's heart. ”

Hearing Qing Huan's whispered words, Shuyue and her aunt looked at each other and smiled.

Gu Qinghuan also smiled and said: "The master has turned Qinghuan like this, but you have to accompany Qinghuan to old age." ”

Okay, I'm in charge.

Zhao Qing smiled and nodded, helping Qing Huan comb the hair that was stuck at the corners of his lips.

"I'm going to lock you away and let you stay with me for the rest of my life."

Shu Yueming's eyes flickered, holding her aunt's lotus arm and smiling, she said, "We'll be with you......"

……

At this time, an inopportune sound of divine consciousness reached everyone's ears.

"Yo Yo Yo!"

"I said a long time ago that Zhou Daoyou would inevitably marry you, let me be right?"

Zhao Qing: ......

His heart tensed for no reason, and he instantly clenched Qinghuan's wrist.

But after a little perceiving, he found a trace of not unfamiliar aura from this divine sense.

Brother Li?

"It's Li Daoyou." Zhao Qing looked at his aunt and Shuyue and said softly.

He immediately released all his divine senses, and then cast a magic spell to bless it.

Soon, under a toon tree a few miles away, I found that familiar figure.

After tea time, there is a light breeze and a light rain.

Zhao Qing carefully looked at the young man in front of him, and said with a smile: "It's been a long time, Brother Li." ”

And Li Dangui nodded slightly.

His eyes stayed on Gu Qinghuan and Zhou Xiaoyi......

"At that time, you were divided into two rooms to rest, but now you live together?"

Zhao Qing: ......

He knew that he was talking about his aunt, and at that time, there was still a layer of window paper between himself and Xiaoyi that had not been pierced...... At night, I often drink with Brother Li and Cheng Budo.

A smile appeared on the aunt's cold face, and she responded generously: "Thank you Li Daoyou for your concern, my husband and I have already become Taoist couples." ”

Li Dan's originally indifferent expression turned into an aunt's smile at this moment, and he seemed to feel very relieved.

"Where are you going?"

Zhao Qing groaned slightly: "The light rain in late spring, I should travel far away." ”

"Li Daoyou, ...... this?"

Dan Ghost smiled and shook his head: "Me too." ”

He glanced around, then took out a wooden table directly from the spirit ring and placed it under the tsubaki tree.

"I was still a little upset today, so I came out to breathe...... But I don't want to meet old friends. ”

Zhao Qing's eyes moved slightly, looking at the wine jugs and cups taken out by the two goods, and he was very speechless in his heart.

Isn't this a proper wine Mengzi?

He didn't think much about it, and directly pulled Qinghuan to sit on the ground, and then looked at Shuyue and Aunt Xiao and smiled: "It's rare to have someone to entertain, come and sit." ”

Li Dangui seemed to be in a good mood, and took out a few more portions of sauce meat.

It's like wanting to have a good drink with old friends on the side of this official road.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, but you've already built the foundation, it's so fast......"

Zhao Qing was not polite, and directly took Brother Li's wine jug and filled the whole family with glasses.

"Brother Li isn't practicing in the Northern Desert? How did you get Tianshui County? ”

The young man smiled and shook his head: "You have built a foundation and cultivated, can't I prepare for the Dan?" ”

"After staying in the Northern Desert for a long time, I thought about going out for a walk."

"You settled in Tianshui County?"

Zhao Qing shook his head and drank to himself: "Settling in Songshan County, it is not far from Changshengfang. ”

Oh......

Li Dan's ghost eyes flashed with enlightenment: "Danxia is weak, but she can't stay any longer." ”

Zhao Qing smiled at this and said nothing.

I saw the young man in front of him take out the bamboo chopsticks and distribute them, and the aunt stretched out her jade hand to take them, and then took a piece of sauce meat and sent it to her mouth.

This is for an aunt who has a serious cleanliness habit...... It's almost impossible.

But it did happen.

Zhou Xiaoyi's beautiful eyes smiled, and she took the wine jug to help Zhao Qing fill it, and it could be seen that she was in a very good mood today, and she seemed to think that it was a great pleasure for a family to meet old acquaintances when they traveled.

Shuyue also took out the sauce and roast chicken that she had recently prepared very generously.

Li Dan's trivial words came from his ears, and Zhao Qing smiled and handed his wine cup to Qing Huan's lips...... It was an extremely heavy blow to the single dog in front of him.

"At that time, it was inconvenient to talk on the spirit boat......"

"Actually......"

"Master Cheng is the father of the undoubted, and the female cultivator of the Yuanying realm is the garrison left by Zizhu Lou in the country!"

"She is the mother of no doubts!"

"It's interesting to say, there is no doubt that the parents are both Zizhu disciples, and they are also senior brothers and sisters...... One is in the state of Chu, and the other is in the country of departure. ”

Cheng Yue's Taoist companion is Zizhu's garrison in the country!?

Zhao Qing couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he suddenly remembered that when he was stunned, Liu Zijing said...... Cheng Yue went out of the customs and invited him to leave the country.

It turns out that there is still this layer of reason.

Li Dangui ignored Zhao Qing's slightly surprised look.

continued: "I'm a little curious......"

"There is no doubt that he is not very old, and the Danxia Sect was founded in the southwest of Chu State in the eighty-fifth year...... From this point of view, Cheng Zhangmen has something to tell with her senior sister. ”

A light breeze and drizzle enveloped the area.

Brother Li held the wine glass, and his fingers gently scratched the rain marks on the wooden table.

"Look, this is the country of Chu, this is the country of leaving."

"Eighty-five years ago, Cheng was still in the early stage of Jindan."

"Now, I am not under the age of thirty."

"What really happened thirty years ago? As a result, there is no doubt that Cheng Zhangmen is commensurate with his uncle!? ”

Zhao Qing: ......

He shook his head with a wry smile and quietly listened to Brother Li's speculation.

When he was on the spirit boat, he had already noticed the burning gossip heart under Brother Li's indifferent expression.

So this is not surprising.

Li Dangui groaned: "Xu is the two of them married a Taoist couple, and then regretted it? ”

"Or is it in a desperate situation and has to give birth to a son to break the siege?"

Zhao Qing frowned, and said in his heart, why do you have such an outrageous speculation?

"The first one may be bigger." He echoed with a smile.

"That's just as well."

Brother Li nodded slightly.

"If the two of them become Taoist couples and then regret it, why don't you follow Cheng Zhangmen instead of staying in the country?"

"It's worth pondering......

There are no more people here than on the Lingzhou, and Li Dan is in a good mood again, and he directly began to let himself go.

He pestered Shuyue after discussing Cheng Budo's family ethics.

turned to look at her aunt again: "Is the Queen Mother from Chu?" ”

Dowager?

Zhou Xiaoyi shook her head slightly: "The Queen Mother's surname is Shentu, she is a native of Qixia and came to Chu after marrying the Du family. ”

Brother Li nodded.

He muttered to himself, "No wonder ......"

"The Queen Mother is young and beautiful, and she has not shown the slightest beauty for a hundred years, but the emperor of the Du family is dying...... If she deliberately did not let her son practice in order to take power, it would not be like. ”

"Otherwise, she wouldn't have followed Senior Duan to the end of the world......"

"Why is the emperor of Chu just a mortal? Could it be the meaning of the Immortal Sword Sect? ”

The aunt's beautiful eyes stared at Zhao Qing.

While helping him pick up the food and deliver the wine, he softly answered Li Dan's doubts.

"The throne of Chu involves the dispute between the Du family, and although the emperor can't practice, he is the elder."

"But the actual power of the government is still in the hands of the Du family's Jin Dan."

Brother Li nodded lightly and sighed in a low voice: "I see, ......"

He turned to ask again: "It's a pity for the Queen Mother's Taoist couple." ”

The aunt's beautiful eyes were slightly raised, and she chuckled: "The marriage between the cultivation clans can't be said to be Taoist couples, it's just a matter of mutual benefit." ”

Zhao Qing quietly looked at his aunt's expression......

The situation of the Zhou family is not much different from that of the Du family, and Zhou Xiaoyi's parents are also a marriage match.

Now his father has taken in two adopted sons, and his mother has returned to the country......

However, after seeing that his aunt did not lose interest because of this, Zhao Qing stopped paying attention.

Half an hour later, the wind and rain gradually quieted down.

Brother Li is still talking about all kinds of gossip.

"You live in Songshan, do you know what the head of the Zheng family in Songshan did in his early years?"

The Zheng family?

Zhao Qing nodded lightly: "I don't know." ”

The Zheng family is a cultivator family in Songshan County, and there are only two monks in the family who are in the late stage of foundation building...... Zhao Qing didn't pay too much attention to this.

Although everyone is begging for a living in Songshanfang, in fact, they can't fight together.

The matter of Songshanfang Commercial Building, Zeng Nianke can solve it alone.

He just needs to hang up.

At this moment, Li Dan became excited.

focuses on the robbery of the Zheng family in the early years, and how the head of the family, who was still in the early stage of foundation building, begged for half of his life from a female cultivator, and then married him home...... The story of the golden basin washing hands and spreading the leaves.

Brother Li sighed: "From this point of view, it is extremely important to have a satisfactory Taoist couple. ”

"You're a very blessed kid."

Zhao Qing was a little puzzled, why is Brother Li still a single dog?

However, he didn't raise this question, but planned to gossip with his aunt Shuyue after returning to Songshan.

After Li Dangui finished talking about the anecdotes of Songshan County, he told about what he saw and heard in Qingquan County.

"Speaking of which, before I left the Northern Desert, I found an interesting thing."

Zhao Qing and his aunt glanced at each other and looked at Brother Li together.

I saw him gobbling it up, and said vaguely: "Cold Ice Valley and Qianyuan Palace are actually wearing the same pair of pants!" ”

"And the head of the Qianyuan Palace, the head of the Yuanying Sect, seems to be very indifferent to the affairs of the sect."

The head of the Qianyuan Palace......

Isn't it Qin Chuxin who left the smoke building?

Zhao Qing's eyes flickered for a moment, and then he said with a smile: "The head of Qianyuan Palace may be the same as the head of Cheng......

After becoming a disciple of the Bloody Cloth.

Zhao Qingcai slightly understood what the words he heard in Zizhu Tower meant - those who entered the twelfth floor of Yujing should not disturb Hongchen.

This is not to say that Yujing disciples must keep their mouths shut and say nothing......

It's just a matter of distinguishing what is private.

After all, the twelfth floor of Yujing is spread all over the world, and it is impossible for everyone to know each other, and it does not apply to the various rules of the sect.

If it involves personal grievances, the disciples of Yujing do not need to act in the name of the twelfth floor of Yujing.

Just like Zhao Qing suddenly made an improvised decision today, he was going to rob a Qi Refining Cultivator...... Nobody cares.

But he can't say that he is robbing the Bloody Cloak Building......

At this moment, Zhao Qing concisely described the layout of the disciples on the twelfth floor in the Chu State.

When Brother Li was already on the Spirit Boat, he had some guesses about the Phantom Rain Pavilion and the Immortal Sword, and told him that it was nothing.

If he wants to get to the twelfth floor, he might be able to find some way......

As for whether Qianyuan Palace and Han Binggu were wearing a pair of pants, Zhao Qing was not interested, and he would always meet that Qin Chuxin in the future.

……

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At the same time, the tea in Heyang County is in the center, and there is an endless stream of guests.

This teahouse is the former drunken flower residence.

But the years go by, the world is changeable, and the Qinglou, which was once famous in Heyang, has already changed its owner at this moment.

Gu Qingci stayed here to help manage the accounts.

In addition to her, there are many former smoke willow women who have stayed here.

At this moment, the first floor of the teahouse was full of friends, and a plump beautiful woman leaned lightly on the railing of the second floor and looked down.

"Smack!"

Mr. Storyteller woke up and patted the wood, coughed lightly and spoke.

"In the middle of this vast and deep mountain, there is a township named Yanyang."

"There is a down-and-out scholar in Yanyang Township who has had no parents since he was a child...... His surname is Xu and his name is Ziqing. ”

"In other words, in addition to gaining fame, Xu Ziqing also loves fishing very much."

"Autumn night, Ziqing fished at night and returned to ......"

A delicate chant attracted everyone's attention, and after discovering that it was Mrs. Gu who was in charge of the accounts, she ignored it.

The second floor of the teahouse.

Gu Qingci pursed his thin lips, rearranged his dress, and gently pushed the middle-aged man in front of him: "How can you be so eager?" ”

The man laughed, put his hands on the woman's shoulders, and said with a smile: "It's all old acquaintances, don't you want to obey?" ”

The beautiful woman gently raised her hand and pressed his palm, smiling lightly.

"From~"

"After everyone leaves, I'll finish the calculation~"

The man, with an extremely thick beard, whispered in her ear, "Wanderhoof, I heard that you have a sister?" ”

The woman turned her head slightly and looked at the man.

He chuckled and shook his head: "My sister is extremely smart, but it's a pity that you haven't tried it." ”

"When did she come back, and you spoke?"

"Humph!"

Gu Qingci sneered, and didn't care that the other party was groping on him, his eyes were full of disdain.

"How can it be your turn?"

"Huh!?"

"Master~?"

"How much money do you have in your pocket?"