After encountering Wei Zhen's small twists and turns, Li Xuandu and his party did not continue to stay in Guantao City for too long, and set off for the capital city of Lanling Mansion.

The closer it is to the capital city of Lanling Mansion, it means that the time of separation between Li Xuandu and the Pei family is approaching.

There is no endless feast in the world, Li Xuandu walks the rivers and lakes, is used to seeing life and death, and does not have too much nostalgia for this, but Pei Yu, the little guy, is quite reluctant to Li Xuandu, and even moved the idea of following Li Xuandu to walk the rivers and lakes, but was persuaded by Li Xuandu.

One evening, before arriving at Lanling Mansion, Li Xuandu and the Pei family came to an inn in the wilderness.

This place is more than 30 miles away from the capital city of Lanling Mansion, and it is also the last inn on this official road, after all, in this year, it is in Qizhou, bandits are rampant, and there are many wars, and if you want to open an inn outside the city, it is not something that ordinary people can do. In other words, it would not be an ordinary person to be able to open a store in this place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back.

This lonely inn is unpretentious, even a little shabby, and the inn in Linzaoguan with a back garden is worlds apart. However, the scale is not small, the earthen wall encloses the courtyard, there are both stables and carriages, the main building has two floors, and if it is full, it can be stuffed with hundreds of people,

Li Xuandu sat on the horse, looked up, a big flag fluttered in the wind, and saw four big characters written on the crumpled and dilapidated flag: "Taiping Inn".

Unexpectedly, it is reasonable that the Taiping Sect has such manpower and material resources to open so many Taiping inns in the wilderness.

Li Xuandu was still a little resistant to the Taiping Inn, but now he is a little numb.

If it comes, it will be safe.

When I entered the inn, I didn't see the shopkeeper, only the proprietress of the hostess.

The proprietress is a half-old who still has charm, or according to Li Xuandu's old rules, compare Mrs. Lu, this proprietress is more like an innkeeper than Mrs. Lu, warm hospitality but abide by her duty, if she doesn't appear in this inn in the wilderness, she is like a good woman who teaches her husband and children at ease.

It's not that a woman from a good family can't open a store, but if she opens a store in this kind of place, if she doesn't have a little wrist, I'm afraid that she will have been eaten by all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods so much that there is not even half a bone left.

In addition to the hostess, there was a cook and a female handyman in the inn.

The cook was born fat, burly and powerful, and regardless of the principle of "parents of the body's hair and skin", he shaved a shiny bald head, but perhaps because the place where the inn was located was too remote, the cook had not taken care of the top of his head for some time, and grew a layer of green stubble, which looked a little funny.

The female handyman was born thin, quite handsome, taciturn, never leaving the broom and rag, usually whatever the proprietress ordered, she did it, her hands and feet were diligent, and she worked neatly, which made people feel very good.

After settling down in the inn, Li Xuan didn't come down to eat, but meditated in his room to breathe, and continued to "pacify" the strong dragons in his body in order to achieve balance.

The next morning, Li Xuandu woke up from his meditation on time.

At this time, Pei Zhou heard the proprietress say that there was a small lake not far from the inn, quiet and elegant, and the old man still couldn't get rid of the interest of literati who liked to explore the secluded and secret, so he took Li Xuandu to the small lake.

Li Xuandu naturally didn't brush the old man's face, and in the end, Pei Zhu and Pei Yu, two sisters and brothers, went to Xiaohu together, without letting any Pei family guards and entourage follow.

In early spring, there is already a scene of grass growing and warblers flying.

It's just that at the end of last year and the beginning of spring this year, the official army of Qizhou and the Qingyang Sect fought a series of fierce battles, especially a bloody battle in Dongchang Mansion, which made the spring breeze seem to carry a bloody smell that has not completely dissipated.

A group of four walked along a path behind the inn to the small lake in the spring breeze with a little bit of spring cold.

Because Pei Zhou is old and weak in foot, he walked for more than half an hour to come to the small lake that the proprietress said, which is connected with an unknown river, because it is living water, the flowing water is not rotten, so the lake water is clear, and because the sun is just right, it is actually showing a blue color, the lake has thawed, only a little thin ice remains, the spring breeze blows, the lake surface wrinkles ripples, sparkling in the sun.

On the occasion of the green season of wicker budding, there should be many young men and women to go out to play, and children will also come to the wild to fly kites happily, but after experiencing a natural and man-made disaster, the whole Qizhou is silent, it cannot be said that every family is vegetarian, ten rooms and nine emptiness, and it is also shrouded in a gloomy cloud.

The old man stood alone on the shore of the lake, looking at the water, not knowing what he was thinking.

Pei Yu was practicing the "Divine Realm Pass" that he had just gotten a glimpse of, constantly stepping on the pebbles by the lake, as if he wanted to tread water, but he didn't dare to try rashly.

Li Xuandu sat alone on a big rock, looking at the lake, and slowly realized the "blue sea tide and moonlight" in the "Taiyin Thirteen Swords", but he just felt it, but he didn't dare to practice rashly, just like a swordsmith casting a sword, just polishing the sword embryo, and constantly comparing the sword embryo, and never turning the sword embryo into a sword.

Pei Zhu came behind Li Xuandu and asked softly, "What is Mr. Li looking at?"

Li Xuandu retracted his thoughts and replied, "I'm practicing swords." ”

"Practicing swords?" Pei Zhu said in slight surprise: "Can you still practice swords while sitting?" and why didn't you see Mr. Li's sword?"

Li Xuandu smiled lightly: "Practicing swords is like reading people's articles, although things are different, but the truth is the same truth, before putting down the pen, we must have a plan in mind, and the same is true for our sword practice, if you just blindly practice with a sword, you know it but don't know why, then you have fallen into the inferior, and you can't practice superior swordsmanship in your life." ”

Pei Zhu subconsciously glanced at Pei Yu not far away, at this time the young man had already stepped into the water with both feet, but he didn't care about the cold of the lake at all, but his face was full of excitement and excitement.

Li Xuandu also followed Pei Zhu's gaze and said softly: "Pei Yu's martial arts talent is excellent. ”

This is true, and it can even be regarded as a compliment.

After all, Li Xuandu himself is a first-class genius in the world, and he can praise the word "excellent", so it is conceivable that Pei Yu's qualifications must be extraordinary.

Pei Zhu turned his head to look at Li Xuandu, and asked softly, "But, Mr. Li......"

Li Xuandu seemed to know what Pei Zhu was going to say, and waved his hand and said: "Whether it is practicing martial arts or refining qi, it is just a means, not an end, some people use it to fight and kill, and some people use it to prolong life." It's like a knife, which can be used to chop vegetables or kill people, and the merit lies not in the knife itself, but in the person who uses it. I passed on Pei Yu's martial arts, and Pei Lao taught him the truth of being a man, which is to be constrained by rules, which is equivalent to adding a scabbard to the knife, as for whether to make a knife, it is between Pei Yu's thoughts. ”

Pei Zhu nodded, and finally didn't say anything more, but his eyes were dim.