Let's say that after Liu Ruyan rode a horse for a long time, he came to a place called "Immortal Residence".

It's a slightly remote town bazaar, with only one long street in its entirety, nestled in the heart of two mountains. It's small, but it's not deserted. There are a row of large and small shops selling all kinds of daily necessities, as well as some pharmacies, pawnshops, blacksmith shops, teahouses, noodle houses, restaurants, and more than a dozen inns and restaurants.

Every time there is a market day, the villagers of the nearby villages will come early, and the whole street market is full of people, and all kinds of cries and hawks come and go, so it is not lively.

Liu Ruyan galloped for a long time, and felt a little hungry, and when he saw that the market was very lively, he dismounted from his horse and led the horses to the long street. He led the horse and looked around. At this moment, it is lunch time, and the inns are already full of people, and the business of the stores is good, and customers are coming in and out one after another.

He walked and walked to the door of a restaurant called "Drunken Immortal Building", and thought about going inside to eat something, and just to feed the horses with some grain and grass. He tied his horse to the stake at the entrance of the shop. The two-storey hotel has a clean and elegant environment and many guests.

As soon as he walked to the door, the shopkeeper, who was busy at the counter, greeted him with a smile: "This guest officer, please come inside," he said, nodding and leading Liu Ruyan to a dining table by the window. The greasy towel on his shoulder was wiped on the table: "May I ask the guest officer what to do?" We have roast chicken, smoked duck, braised beef, boiled live fish, stewed pig's trotters, ...... "He said a lot of dishes in one breath, and his small eyes almost narrowed into a slit.

Liu Ruyan hesitated slightly: "Bring me a plate of braised beef, a plate of fried peanuts and two steamed buns, and a pot of burning knives." ”

"Weller, wait a minute, guest officer. The little second shouted, hunched his waist, turned around and walked away quickly.

Liu Ruyan unloaded the long sword and rested it on the table. He looked around casually, it had been months since the last time he had gone down the mountain with his master. This time, he came down the mountain alone, and the master was not by his side, he seemed to have a little less scruples, and he felt more free and happy without the master's care. If he wasn't in a hurry to pick up Hua Mei back, he would still want to wander around the mountain and stay longer. He thought to himself: "I haven't seen Hua Mei for a few months, has she changed her appearance, is she thin or fat? After being separated for so long, will she miss me and the master?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile on his lips.

The wine and food were quickly served on the table, and the little two said with a smile: "The wine and food are ready, you can use it slowly." "At first glance, this child is a familiar cousin, and he is polite and warm. The little second was about to turn around and leave, but he stopped him: "Little second, wait! I have a colt tethered in front of the door, can you feed it for me, I will be on my way in a while." ”

The little two answered, and asked someone to go to the front of the store to lead the horse to feed.

Liu Ruyan suddenly felt that everything outside the mountain was very fresh, and her mood was much more relaxed.

He poured his wine and ate slowly.

When he was young, a young man dressed in white and a long cedar walked in outside the store, looking to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, holding a three-foot long sword in his hand, holding a bun on his head, tying a blue silk scarf, and hanging a tassel red knot and a small round kettle around his waist.

The young man walked into the store slowly, looked around, and when Xiao Er saw that a guest was coming, he hurriedly greeted him and greeted him warmly. The young man seemed to be deaf to the greeting of the shopkeeper, and walked straight to the middle of the hall by himself, swept his eyes around, and said to the shopkeeper: "Xiaoer, is there a private room upstairs?" he said, looked at Liu Ruyan, and then withdrew his gaze. Xiao Er's face showed a look of embarrassment, and he smiled with him: "This guest officer, it's really unfortunate, the private room upstairs has been booked, or will you sit at a table with this master?"

The young man was dismissive, and said coldly, "Why should I sit at a table with others? It's so noisy here that I can't eat here." ”

Xiao Er saw that this young man was not good at harmony, and showed a bitter face, and he was stunned, not knowing what to do.

Liu Ruyan looked up at the scene in the hall, and ate and drank by herself. The young man then turned his head to look at Liu Ruyan again, paused and said, "That's it, since it's inconvenient, let's sit here!"

The young man came straight to Liu Ruyan, pulled out the bench, straightened out the long fir and sat down: "Xiao Er, bring me a plate of braised beef, a plate of peanuts and two steamed buns, plus a pot of burning knives." ”

Liu Ruyan listened, and was stunned in her heart, thinking: Why is the dish this young man calling exactly the same as mine? It's really strange, after thinking about it, he didn't pay attention to it anymore, and drank it all with his wine glass.

The little two were originally stunned at the entrance of the hall, but when he heard the young man shouting, he hurriedly trotted over, nodded and laughed, and then shouted and turned to leave.

The boy rested his sword on the table, looking a little awkward, and his eyes wandered around. From time to time, he glanced at Liu Ruyan, who was drinking and eating meat in front of him, and showed an inexplicable expression, as if he was a little embarrassed.

The wine and food were quickly served on the table, and the young man poured the wine himself, looked up and drank a glass with his eyebrows, and looked up from time to time to look out the window.

Two strangers sat at a table opposite each other, eating by themselves, and each other felt a little awkward in their hearts, this is a place outside home, and it is not easy to say anything.

The boy ate meat and drank wine slowly, and did not seem to be hungry.

He glanced at Liu Ruyan from time to time, and said in his heart: "This young man, his clothes are dusty, he is born with beautiful eyebrows, and he is a talent! ”

Liu Ruyan seemed to sense something, raised her head, looked at each other for an instant, and then avoided her gaze, and both of them felt a little flustered and awkward. Sitting and eating with a complete stranger is a bit uncomfortable.

Liu Ruyan said in his heart: "This person in front of him is so strange, he always looks at me quietly!" Just thinking about it, suddenly his hand slipped, and the wine glass fell on the table with a "clanging sound", and all the wine in the cup was poured out, spilling on the table, he saw this, and hurriedly apologized to the young man: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry to surprise Your Excellency!"

The young man was flustered for a while, and then smiled calmly: "Don't tight, don't tight," he said, and quickly took out a white handkerchief from his clothes and wiped the spilled wine stains.

He stretched out his hand to wipe it, and Liu Ruyan saw that the handkerchief was clearly a woman's thing, and he couldn't help but be stunned again, and suddenly realized: "It turns out that this young man in front of me is actually a woman!" "He is obviously a woman, why is he wearing a man's clothes and a woman dressing as a man?"

Although his face was silent, he secretly said in his heart that there must be something strange in it. On second thought, what does it matter to me what other people wear?

The young man saw Liu Ruyan staring at his handkerchief, as if he sensed something, and immediately spoke: "What are you looking at? Why are you restrained?" His eyes flickered, with a slight panic.

"Oh, nothing! I didn't see anything down!" said Liu Ruyan. When he asked, Liu Ruyan began to panic.

The young man spoke again: "Seeing that Your Excellency is a little flustered, I thought Your Excellency saw something that should not be seen?"

Liu Ruyan's hand suddenly stopped, and said with a slight smile: "Your Excellency is too worried, I really don't see anything here!" I couldn't help but secretly laugh in my heart.

The young man poured another glass of wine, looked at Liu Ruyan and said, "I see that Your Excellency is extraordinary, can you please have a glass of wine?" He seemed to have found out, and the young man in front of him had already seen that he was dressed as a man, so he showed such a flustered look.

Liu Ruyan was also looking at him, and said with a smile: "It's an honor to be here!

Liu Ruyan raised his eyebrows lightly, and said slowly: "Look at Your Excellency's beautiful eyebrows, excellent temperament, I feel quite good in the next place, I have a good chance to meet today, please ask Your Excellency to respect your name?

The young man smiled and said, "I feel very honored to be so good!" He laughed, unconsciously laughing out of a woman's voice, which was considered to have completely exposed himself. By the time he realized this, it was too late.

He continued: "Presumably Your Excellency has already seen that I am a woman!" He smiled softly: "Well, don't say secret words in front of the Ming people, since Your Excellency has seen through it, I don't need to hide it, my surname is Luo, and my name is Xiangxue." I don't know what Your Excellency is called?"

Hearing this name, Liu Ruyan was shocked, and said in a lost voice: "What did you say your surname?" He seemed to remember something, and his eyes widened.

The young man smiled: "My surname is Luo, my name is Luo Xiangxue!"

When Liu Ruyan heard this name, she suddenly felt familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

He frowned and thought about it, and suddenly realized that he had a smile: "Oh, oh, you are...... That day, the girl I met in the Crescent Bay Tea Garden?" He muttered, "Luo Xiangxue, Miss Luo, it turned out to be you!"

Luo Xiangxue couldn't help but sneer: "Oh, I remember too, you are, it's the son who picks tea!"

Seeing each other's true faces, the two young people laughed together.

Both of them felt the wonder of the fate of the world, that day, the two had a relationship in the tea garden, no wonder she looked at Liu Ruyan a little familiar, but it was only a one-sided relationship, and she passed by in a hurry, so she was not impressed.

Liu Ruyan said leisurely: "Yes, it is the tea picker below, Liu Ruyan!"

The two of them couldn't help but feel excited, and they had a kind of surprise of "meeting old acquaintances in other places"!

Liu Ruyan immediately hugged her fists and thanked her: "Thank you for the girl's generous gift! Although you and I only have one side, the girl's kindness has always been remembered in my heart!"

Luo Xiangxue smiled, immediately picked up the wine jug and poured a glass for Liu Ruyan, poured it herself, raised her glass and said: "Childe is too polite, it's a trivial matter, why worry about it! Come, a toast to our reunion again!"

The two of them raised their glasses and drank it all!

Unconsciously, the two drank all the wine in the pot, and there was not much food left, Luo Xiangxue was in a high mood, and wanted to call another pot, but was persuaded by Liu Ruyan to stop.

Liu Ruyan politely declined: "Miss Luo doesn't know, I have something important to do when I go down the mountain this time, don't hide it from the girl, in a few days, it will be the day of the 60th birthday of the family teacher, I am on the order of the family teacher to pick up my junior sister!"

Luo Xiangxue's eyes lit up, and she said, "Oh, I see! I don't know where the son is going to pick up the junior sister?"

Liu Ruyan said: "Girl, have you heard of the Mingyue Peak of Cuihua Mountain?"

Luo Xiangxue pondered for a long time, frowned, and said: "A long time ago, my little sister seemed to have heard my father talk about it, and I heard that there is a red qin residence on the Mingyue Peak of Cuihua Mountain, which is an elegant and interesting place!"

Liu Ruyan was quite surprised, smiled slightly, and said, "The girl also knows about Hongqinju?"

Hongqinju is a generation of heroes Xu Feng, who was known for his benevolence and righteousness in the rivers and lakes, after retiring to the rivers and lakes, he brought his family to build a pavilion courtyard on the Mingyue Peak of Cuihua Mountain, standing proudly on the cliff of the Mingyue Peak, the momentum is magnificent, the scenery is magnificent, and it is extremely precipitous. The whole courtyard is divided into two floors, with a traditional nine-square grid layout, which is an excellent place for feng shui to escape from the world.

Luo Xiangxue's eyes flowed, and she said faintly: "I also overheard my father and a friend of his talking about it. So how do you have to build on a cliff, and isn't it dangerous to get there?"

Liu Ruyan pondered: "I think Xu Daxia chose to live in seclusion in such a place, because he had his intentions. I heard from the master that the name Hongqinju was taken from Mrs. Xu's name!"

Luo Xiangxue laughed and said, "Oh, in this way, that Xu Daxia must love his wife very much, their relationship must be very deep!" she chuckled, her eyes flashing with crystal light, full of fascination. As if it wasn't someone else's story, but her own.

The two of them talked eloquently in this way, and before they knew it, they had been chatting for almost three hours, and all the guests in the hall had dispersed, but they were still talking freely, and their intentions were still unfinished!

The shopkeeper, who was fiddling with the abacus at the counter, looked up at them from time to time, and thought: The wine and food on the table of these two people have been eaten completely, why are they still sitting there talking, how can there be so many endless words......?

Before Xiao Er finished speaking, Liu Ruyan beckoned and said, "I'm already full of wine and food, so I don't need to." The little second responded, and was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped again: "Wait, don't pack me two steamed buns and a roast chicken again." After that, he glanced at Luo Xiangxue and smiled a little embarrassedly.

Luo Xiangxue couldn't help but laugh, thinking: This Liu Gongzi can really eat it! Thinking about it in her heart, it is inconvenient to say it, but she can't help but secretly laugh in her heart!

Liu Ruyan looked up at the window, the blue sky was blue, there were no clouds, the towering blue peaks behind the long street were magnificent, and the pedestrians on the street had gradually become scarce, only the cries of selling one after another were endless. The breeze was light, and a few willows outside the hotel swayed slightly in the wind. It's really a sunny day, and it makes people feel good!

Suddenly, Liu Ruyan seemed to think of something in her heart, and asked, "Miss Luo, there is something unclear below, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?"

Luo Xiangxue Dai frowned slightly, opened her eyes wide, and said, "Childe, do you have any questions?" She looked at Liu Ruyan quietly.

Liu Ruyan pretended to be naughty and rolled her eyes, and said slowly: "The girl is obviously a daughter, why is a woman pretending to be a man?"

Luo Xiangxue's face turned red, lowered her head slightly, looked a little embarrassed, sighed for a long time, and said: "I rarely go down the mountain, I heard that there are many thieves under the mountain, and I am alone in a girl's house, so I thought of this method and disguised myself." With that, I couldn't help but cover my mouth and chuckle.

As he was talking, Xiao Er had already taken the packed steamed buns and roast chicken, and ran over quickly.

Seeing that the two were talking happily, Xiao Er seemed inconvenient to interject, standing there Nuo Nuo's words came to his lips, and he didn't know how to speak.

Liu Ruyan glanced at him, and said, "Little second brother, do the calculations, how many silver taels are there on the table?"

Xiao Er then walked quickly to the counter and said a few words to the shopkeeper, then ran back, huffed his waist and said, "Two guest officers, are you two knotting together?"

Liu Ruyan raised his eyebrows, and said with a straight face: "Oh, of course it's a knot together! Calculate quickly, how much? I still have to hurry up!"

The little second smiled and said, "Guest officer, it's a total of one or two or three cents!"

Liu Ruyan groped in her breast pocket, and then took out a small half of the silver and handed it to the little second-hand. Xiao Er nodded again and left.

When Luo Xiangxue heard this, she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Young Master Liu, I can't help it, I can't help it, how can I let you break the money for me? I'd better settle it myself!"

Liu Ruyan said: "You and I have a fate to meet again today, it is a rare fate, Miss Luo, don't be polite!"

Liu Ruyan said: "Miss Luo, you and I met unexpectedly today, this is fate, besides, you gave me generously that day, I don't know how to thank you?"

He said leisurely, "If we meet again today, why don't we make friends?"

Luo Xiangxue smiled and said, "It's really an honor for a little woman to be friends with Liu Gongzi!" she blinked, "That's it, then from now on, we will be friends!"

On that day, I met Liu Ruyan in the mountains, and saw that he was unusually handsome, talked out of fashion, and behaved elegantly in his gestures, and immediately had a good feeling in his heart.

The two talked happily today, and in her youthful heart, she was already a young girl, and her love was beginning to open. Liu Ruyan said that she was willing to make friends with her, and she was naturally 10,000 willing in her heart.

Liu Ruyan's eyes rolled, looked at her and said, "That's very good! Today I met another friend, it's really happy!" He paused and said, "Why don't you and I swear here today, to be good friends for a lifetime, and never change, how about it?"

Luo Xiangxue grinned and nodded.

Immediately, the two borrowed the hotel's divine case, and both knelt in front of the god and swore an oath:

Liu Ruyan looked at the divine position, and said: "The Bodhisattva is above, today I, Liu Ruyan, am willing to become close friends with Miss Luo, share the blessings and difficulties, please testify with the Bodhisattva's discernment!" After that, he looked at Luo Xiangxue with a smile and nodded.

Luo Xiangxue also looked at the Bodhisattva, and said: "The Bodhisattva is above, today I, Luo Xiangxue, am willing to be good friends with Liu Gongzi, share blessings and difficulties, please Guanyin Bodhisattva testify!" After saying that, he also turned his head and looked at Liu Ruyan with a smile.

The two of them prostrated three times in front of the god and prayed and swore an oath.

This pious scene stunned the shopkeeper who settled the accounts in front of the counter and the little two who were busy in the store! The two strangers made friends because they sat at the same table and had a meal, and this is the first time this thing happened in the store, it is really strange, there are really all kinds of people in this world! However, looking at the appearance of the two of them, they must also be sincere in their worship, and they can't help but be happy in their hearts!

After the salute, the two walked out of the inn, and the little two saw that Liu Ruyan was about to leave, so he brought the horse that had been fed in the horse irrigation!

Liu Ruyan looked at Luo Xiangxue and said in a deep voice, "I don't know Miss Luo, where are you going?"

Luo Xiangxue smiled and said: "Don't hide it from my son, I secretly ran down the mountain this time, and my father and mother don't know yet!"

"Oh, that's the case, why did that girl sneak out, your father and mother can't find you, she must be in a hurry. Liu Ruyan looked at her a little anxiously.

Luo Xiangxue suddenly sank her face, pouted and said quietly: "Childe doesn't know, my father and my mother tell me to learn the piano and practice every day, and if I am a little lazy, it will be a scolding, you don't know, I am annoyed to death." She let out a long sigh: "So, I couldn't stand it, so I sneaked out." ”

Liu Ruyan looked at her, showed worry, frowned and said: "The girl is alone at a girl's house, I'm afraid that there will be some danger, the girl must be more careful!"

Luo Xiangxue muttered: "Don't worry, son, I have been learning martial arts with my father and mother since I was a child, and I can still cope with the ordinary hooligans, I will stay at the bottom of the mountain for two days, and I will go back after walking around." She pondered for a while: "Liu Gongzi is going to Hongqinju, there is still some way, you should be more careful along the way! We will meet again in the future!"

Liu Ruyan led the horse, and the two walked slowly in the direction of the south of the long street, talking as they walked.

Before you know it, you will come to the end of the long street, and there is a long official road outside, which stretches into the vast distance!

Liu Ruyan said: "Miss Luo, I'm going to be in a hurry, you must be more careful!" He hugged her fist, and said, "Farewell, we will meet later!"

Luo Xiangxue hesitated a little, her eyes flowed, she wanted to speak and stopped, she looked a little restrained, and after a while, she smiled again, hugged her fists, looked at Liu Ruyan and said faintly: "Take care, son!

Liu Ruyan turned around and stepped into the saddle and stepped on the horse, pulling the reins, and the white horse raised its head and let out a neigh, and then walked slowly. Not long after walking out, Liu Ruyan suddenly grabbed the reins again, turned her head to look back at Luo Xiangxue, her eyes flickered, and she shouted to Luo Xiangxue: "I don't know where to find the girl?" The horse sneezed and paced back and forth in place.

When Luo Xiangxue heard this, she couldn't help but be shocked, and she also shouted loudly: "South of Zhongnan Mountain, under Zixia Peak, Forget Worry Valley, Baiyun Lake!"

Liu Ruyan listened, and no longer talked, turned the horse's head, and the horse suddenly churned with four hooves, and quickly disappeared!