Liu De didn't rush to speak, just slowly drank the cold rice wine in the bowl.

Obviously, at the same table, Cao Meng and Guan Changyu were still sitting next to him and were constantly talking, but at this moment, he was inexplicably a little more lonely, like a fallen leaf floating in winter.

In fact, of course he noticed Qin Ke's eyes, but he sighed softly in his heart, only feeling that from this child's pure eyes, he saw his former self. In those years, I also trusted that person, right?

It's just that there are always times when there is a lot of good things in this world.

"Where do you start...... I met your master more than ten years ago, and at that time there was not even Jing Wu, only the Wu Kingdom where the major scholar clans fought each other. Liu De gently put down the wine bowl, and finally began to tell the past, his cold voice seemed to carry complicated emotions, stirring the flames in the small yellow clay stove on the table.

The flame swayed softly, like a flower trembling in the cold wind.

"But whether it's Wu Guo or Jing Wu, it doesn't really matter. The important thing is that I had just been swept out of the house that day, and I had no more than a few old clothes, a worn-out quilt, a few rolls of bamboo slips, and only a few pieces of broken silver left in my arms, and it was not enough to even go to the inn to make a room. ”

"The one who drove me out was Liu Ran, the county guard of Dongjun, who was a distant relative of the same clan as me, but unlike my family, who was still in defeat, he had a prominent position, with 3,000 private soldiers under his command, and his reputation among the scholars was not small. It's just that he has always had a heart disease, because his son's temperament has been obedient since he was a child, but he is only eight years old, but he only loves to lead the dog and lead the house slave to run rampant. So I volunteered to be his son's teacher and teach him to read. ”

"I know that the boy is not really bad by nature, but that he just thinks that the old Confucians who teach him to read are boring. So I taught him martial arts and literature at the same time, and I really subdued him, so that he would not continue to be a disaster in the village. In this way, Liu Ran was naturally overjoyed, not only increased my money several times, but also arranged for me to live alone in a courtyard. ”

Speaking of this, Liu De laughed at himself, took a sip of wine and said: "Count, it is the best place I have ever lived in when I was young, I wear silk every day, eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, have maids shake a fan for me when it's hot, and have a fire to keep warm when it's cold." ”

Qin Ke didn't speak, because Liu De had already said the ending. Speaking of which, if Liu Ran hadn't swept Liu De out of the house, Liu De would not have met Master at this moment, let alone gone north to Canghai, so that he was sitting here today and talking these words to himself.

Liu De glanced at Qin Ke, didn't pause too much, and continued: "It's just that I'm restless after all, and I've only been a teacher all my life, and I approached Liu Ran just to be able to show my ambitions. So while I was teaching his son to read, I was also constantly explaining my strategy to Liu Ran in various ways. ”

"At that time, I was still young, I didn't understand personnel, and I didn't know how to advance and retreat, I only knew that I kept writing the recital and talking about the strategy every day, but I didn't notice that Liu Ran's increasingly dissatisfied look with me and those bamboo slips that were gradually thrown into a corner. ”

"After going on like this for more than a year, one day finally ......" Liu Bei paused for a moment, and then said, "Liu Ran finally couldn't bear it anymore, took my bamboo slips, rushed into my room, scolded me, and beckoned his subordinates to drive me out of the county guard's mansion." ”

Cao Meng, who was listening on the side, suddenly smiled, he had heard about it, but maybe Liu De himself didn't know, to some extent, Liu De still hasn't changed much over the years, and he is still the one with a pure heart, who would rather hit the south wall and bleed.

But he also valued Liu De's point, not only regarded him as a bosom friend in his life, but also gave him high-ranking officials and real trust.

"And then, how did you meet my master?" Qin Ke asked softly.

Liu De glanced at Cao Meng, and then continued to say steadily: "Seventeen years ago, it was the cold winter of November, and it was snowing heavily, and there were few pedestrians on the entire street, all nesting at home to keep warm. I was the only one standing on the street, carrying a quilt, looking around, but there was almost nowhere to go. ”

"My hometown is far away from the city, and it will take a lot of time to walk there, and I was full of grief and indignation at that time, and I only felt that there was no one in the world who could understand my ambition, and it was better to die clean. In such a state of mind, I carried a quilt, found a broken wine restaurant, ordered wine with the last few pieces of silver, and got drunk until I was drunk. ”

When I woke up in a daze, I saw a man in shabby clothes, with long hair disheveled, who looked like a beggar sitting across from me, drinking the rest of my wine and smiling like a madman. ”

"Is it my master?" Qin Ke said in disbelief.

"It's your master. Liu De grinned, as if he still found it interesting to recall that picture, "I later learned that at that time, your master had been away from home for a long time, and I didn't know what he had experienced. ”

I saw that he was thinly dressed, and had no shoes on his feet, so I wanted to give him my old clothes for a change of clothes, but he didn't want to, just drank wine, and sat there steadily, dressed in rags, but there was no hint of coldness. ”

"I started to think something was wrong with him, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. At this time, he suddenly spoke, and the first thing he said was that he wanted me to worship him as a teacher. ”

"Huh?" Qin Ke felt more and more ridiculous, you must know that the master he knew on weekdays was never an unstable person, and he always liked to be clean. Liu De's ragged clothes and running to drink other people's leftovers already made him feel a little unbelievable, but the master once said that he would accept Liu De as an apprentice?

Could it be ...... The Liu De in front of him should be regarded as his senior brother to some extent?

However, Liu De's next words made him breathe a sigh of relief, and he put the heart that was about to come out back into his stomach.

"I thought he was a little weird, but when he suddenly said that he wanted me to be his teacher, of course I wouldn't agree, so he held his head in some annoyance, looked at me and said, 'This is not good, I need a helper now, you are the material I have been looking for for a year to find, if you don't agree, I have to find another one, it will be too difficult'. ”

It sounded strange to me, but judging by his very coherent words and bright eyes, he must not have been a madman. But what he said was so incomprehensible, so I asked him what kind of helper he was. But he said that he could not tell me about it yet, and that he could only know it after I learned his things. ”

Just when I felt bored and was about to sleep in another place, he cheered as if he had figured out something, and then grabbed my sleeve and refused to let me go. I wasn't in a good mood at that time, and I felt even more irritable when he pulled me like this, so I naturally didn't want to mess around with him, so I planned to tear up my sleeves and leave. ”

"Who knew that when I pulled like this, the sleeves of my shirt were motionless. I was startled at first, and finally knew that he must not be simple, and I also had the intention of fighting in my heart, but even if I pushed my qi and blood to the extreme, I still couldn't move half a minute, and even the sleeves were not broken!" Speaking of this, Liu De's voice suddenly lowered.

Qin Ke's heart moved, and he guessed the problem: "What kind of cultivation did you do at that time?"

Liu De looked at Qin Ke and said with a smile: "My cultivation in the martial arts is actually not fast, but that year I was already faintly about to break through the bottleneck of qi and blood, and I was only one step away from the realm of the little grandmaster. ”

He raised a finger and pointed at Qin Ke: "It's about the same as your current realm." ”

Qin Ke lost his mind slightly: In this way, at that time, Master's cultivation realm could already easily restrain a cultivator who was about to reach the realm of a little grandmaster?

Moreover, in the case of Liu De's use of qi and blood, he can't tear the sleeve of an old dress, even a little grandmaster probably can't do this kind of thing, right?

Liu De said that this happened seventeen years ago, and it is estimated that the master at that time was the second time he left home.

Could it be that he already had the cultivation of the Grandmaster realm at that time?