The southeastern province is the smallest of the five provinces in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but because of its proximity to the East China Sea and its abundance of products, the southeastern province is not only not poor, but it is also the richest region in the Southern Tang Dynasty except for the Wenqu province where Kyoto is located.

This point, just from what they saw and heard along the way, it is enough to reflect that the spring equinox has passed, and now it is time for spring planting.

But it seems that the people of the southeast province do not pay much attention to this matter, when they first enter the southeast province, it is not too obvious, many farmers will still be lucky in the fields to cultivate diligently, but after half of the walk, there is almost no one to farm, even if someone will plant a little, it is just to satisfy the family's food and drink.

Near the East China Sea, the people here can no longer be called farmers but fishermen, which is probably the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water.

After entering the Southeast Province, the speed of the two dogs became slower and slower, as if everyone wanted to arrive in the East China Sea later, but the Southeast Province was not big, and no matter how slow the speed was, there would be a day to arrive.

According to the solar term algorithm of the ancients, the spring equinox is postponed for 15 days after the Qingming Festival, although the two dogs they have been on the road for less than half a month, but they also saw the coast of the East China Sea on the first two days of the Qingming solar term.

There is a city on the coast of the East China Sea called Linyuan Ancient City, this ancient city was built in He Dynasty and He Dynasty and its name origin is now unverifiable, because since the written record, the name of this ancient city has appeared I don't know how many times.

According to a historian who has dedicated his life to this ancient city, it is probably in ancient times that human ancestors have lived here before they learned to fish, and with the continuous development and improvement of the future, there is now this world-famous Linyuan ancient city.

In fact, there are two things in this ancient city that are collectively called double uniques by the world, the first one is the pearl, for some reason, the sea mussel pearls that were fished up near the ancient city of Linyuan are much larger than those in other places, and even the noblewomen in the capital of Dachu also like the beads produced in the ancient city of Linyuan.

This second thing is the pearl girl who picks pearls, probably because she has been swimming in the water since she was a child, this kind of woman is not only slender and flexible like a water snake, but her skin is tender and smooth to the extreme.

Just imagine, how wonderful it would be to be able to carry such a woman to a bed! So this man in the Southern Tang Dynasty regarded it as a lifelong blessing to be able to marry a pearl diver!

Especially in the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, I don't know how many pearl divers were raised by those ministers and nobles as canaries.

But those pearl divers are different from those in the ancient city of Linyuan, once the pearl divers are locked in the cage in the capital, they will lose a sense of agility in the sea, so only in the ancient city of Linyuan, pearl divers are called a must.

In the ancient city, the noise at night is not inferior to or even more than during the day, because most of the men in the city have to go to sea during the day, but they can only visit the kiln or something at night to relax.

In an inn that is a restaurant on the surface and a meat business in the dark, the two dogs are resting here, although they have reached the East China Sea, but the ancient city of Linyuan is not their final destination, and they have to walk up along the coastline for a while.

In a slightly dimly lit room, two figures were reflected under the dim oil lamp in the room, and the master and apprentice duo, who had not really calmed down to talk all this time, looked at each other speechlessly.

After being silent for a long time, Ergou opened his mouth first.

"Old man, didn't you say before that with a sword in your hand, you are invincible in the world, but why do I think you are afraid of that Wang Jianqing now?"

Wang Xuanlang's gaze at the oil lamp did not have a trace of waves.

"Ergou, although your master and I don't have any great talents, we still have the ability to be invincible in the world, but that Wang Jianqing is different, when I met him about twenty years ago, he was already on the stage, and now... I always had a hunch that he had half a foot in the sky!"

Ergou's lips trembled and he wanted to say something, but after opening his mouth, he didn't know what to say.

Although he didn't understand how strong he was after stepping into the heavens, he also knew that his master was still some distance from that realm.

Wang Xuanlang saw the worry in his apprentice's heart, and reached out and touched his head as before.

"Ergou, you don't have to worry about me, since you are out to walk the rivers and lakes, how can you only allow yourself to win and not lose when you fight! What's more, I have been preparing for this battle for 20 years, so it is not so easy to lose!"

The more Wang Xuanlang said this, the more Ergou felt that this was the old man comforting himself, probably because the oil lamp was too smoky, Ergou's eyes gradually turned red, and he said to Wang Xuanlang in a trembling voice.

"Master, I won't let you die in the future, you promised me that I wouldn't lose this battle, okay, if it really doesn't work, let's go back to Dachu now, and wait until that broken mountain stream never comes out again." ”

Wang Xuanlang did not directly refuse Jiang Ergou, but looked at him with more and more kind eyes

"Ergou, you listen to me tell you a story, the story should start from three hundred years ago, I told you, the great world is rotated in three hundred years, but the first hundred years after the great world is the most green and yellow time, when the first-grade master is hidden, the second-grade master can be called the great master. ”

The color of memories in Wang Xuanlang's eyes gradually became stronger.

"But in that environment, a guy named Wang Feng stubbornly relied on a white-clothed sword practice to the second-grade realm, in that era when the first-grade master did not come out, he was also a few masters in the world, and became a second-grade grandmaster Wang Feng was no longer obsessed with martial arts, but was idle to establish a Wang family. ”

"The Wang family has actually developed well in his hands, especially with the gradual weakening of the influence after the great world, the Wang family has emerged a lot of geniuses, especially two hundred years ago, the Wang family gave birth to two peerless geniuses, one of them is called Wang Shijie, the other is called Wang Shiqiu, the two of them broke through the first-class realm almost at the same time, at that time everyone in the Wang family thought that this was a sign of imminent rise, but later found out that this was a big bane!"

Speaking of this past, even if his mood is as strong as Wang Xuanlang, he still can't help but express his grief.

"After the two of them entered Yipin, they embarked on two completely different paths, one pursued the ultimate breakthrough in the state of mind, and the other pursued the one-hit killing of the sword move! At that time, both of them were not very old, so no one was convinced by the other in the way of the sword, but under their influence, the Wang family gradually split into two factions, one faction of the heart of the sword, and the other of the sect of the sword. ”

"These two factions fought openly and secretly for decades under the leadership of the two peerless geniuses of the Wang family at that time, and in the end they even evolved to the point of incompatibility, and when the two peerless geniuses found out that it was too late to eliminate this influence, they failed to resolve the grievances between the two factions of the Wang family's kendo until their deaths. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Xuanlang let out a long sigh, and his voice began to tremble.

"In the twenty years since the death of those two peerless geniuses of the Wang family, the two factions of the Heart Sword and the Magic Sword can barely suppress that hatred, but after a long time, this hatred still broke out. A shocking battle broke out between the two factions, the master of the heart sword was almost dead, and most of the elites in the family withered! But in the end, in the end, in the end, the heart sword won the way, the sword entered the realm quickly, and the heart sword was re-cultivated, after decades of accumulation, the heart sword was naturally stronger than the sword. ”

At this point in the story, Ergou finally understood the grievances between Wang Xuanlang and Wang Jianqing, and now it seems that Wang Jianqing is a new genius in the sword lineage.

"After the civil war that destroyed the family's century-old exploits, the sword was driven out like a lost dog, and came to the Southern Tang Dynasty to survive, the heart sword thought that this matter would be over, and there was nothing to do with the heart sword and sword, after decades of development, the heart sword line once again had four second-grade masters, including my father, but just fifty years ago, a young man named Wang Jianqing claimed to be the successor of the sword line, and came to the heart sword line to ask for advice!"

Maybe it's because the story has reached Wang Xuanlang's generation, Wang Xuanlang has more and more feelings into it, and the old man who was smashed into the mountain by Xinyi Sect Youquan and didn't shout a word of pain actually had tears emerging from the corners of his eyes at this moment.

"When I was young, I was greedy for fun, so when Wang Jianqing hit my heart sword, I only had the realm of three grades, and Wang Jianqing already had the peak of the second grade, he created his own four swordsmanship, in the name of spring, summer, autumn and winter, he did not hand out a sword, it would take away the life of a second-grade master of my heart sword, and after that, he even said that if anyone in the heart sword can have the same realm to receive his move, he will apologize to himself, but in the end, no one can take his move at that time, including me! There was even Lin Cangsheng, who was the most guest in the Wang family at that time, and just like that, all the sword practitioners in my heart and sword lineage except for me died in his hands!"

Wang Xuanlang was already in tears when he said this, and when this great hatred that he had buried in the depths of his heart for thirty years could be spoken, the deep grief that had accumulated for thirty years was released at this moment.

"Actually, my life was also picked up, he said that I am the most promising genius in the heart sword lineage, so he wants to keep me, I can find him for revenge at any time, and he wants to prove to his ancestors that the heart sword is not as good as the magic sword!"

The story should have ended here, but Wang Xuanlang didn't end it.

"Later, I was blinded by hatred, and I couldn't sleep all night wanting to kill Wang Jianqing to avenge my heart sword, but the more I wanted to take revenge, the more I couldn't break through, and in the end, I was defeated by him for a sword. ”

Wang Xuanlang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, restrained the grief on his face, and looked at Jiang Ergou gently.

"Ergou, I met you later, after living in that mountain stream with you, my desire for revenge has slowly faded, especially watching you grow up little by little, but on the contrary, my martial arts realm has reached the current realm day by day. ”

Wang Xuanlang pulled a strand of hair next to Ergou's ear behind his ear and stroked his cheek with his hand.

"Ergou, what the teacher wants to tell you is that I didn't come to the East China Sea to take revenge, I just wanted to take on the responsibility of destroying my state of mind, for this reason, even if I don't want to come, I have to come, my Wang family's heart swordsmanship and sword two veins have been fighting for hundreds of years, and I can't tell who is right and who is wrong, but after all, the bitter fruit I planted has to be swallowed by myself. ”

"Ergou, it's not to stop you from taking revenge in the future, after you know everything, it's up to you to choose whether to take revenge or not, you only hope that you won't be blinded by hatred, because in this way, you won't be able to see the way forward!"

Jiang Ergou, who had been listening to the story with peace of mind, had decided not to persuade his master to go back after listening to the whole story.

Under the faint oil lamp, tears flowed from the eyes of the master and apprentice, and the second dog said in a trembling voice.

"Master, if you lose this fight, I won't give you a pension. ”