"A dream of rivers and lakes 'over 100' years. The return is still the same. Under the storm pavilion, the young man is old, and the front edge of the picture is drawn in Baixiao. Ladies and gentlemen, old and decrepit Xu Qingnian, this is polite!"

At this moment, standing alone on the sword platform was actually a centenarian who had been in the future.

His sparse silver hair, wrinkled face, cloudy eyes, cricket and thin body, crumbling steps, trembling hands, and the round, old cane in his hand all showed that he was old, and it seemed that the end was not far away.

But even so, he was still in good spirits, his voice was like a bell, and he showed a spring breeze on his face in front of everyone, giving everyone a kind and easy smile.

His voice was loud and sound, on the top of Huashan Mountain, which was as quiet as death, it was sonorous and powerful, and every word was in the ears.

As soon as they saw this person, most of the people present were suspicious and puzzled. But the heads of the various factions, the elders and other seniors in the rivers and lakes all changed their faces, and their hearts were shocked.

At the same time, the heads of the various factions led by Luo Tianjin and Jin Fuyu stood up one after another to show respect.

"It turns out that the distinguished guest that Master Shen said last night is actually Old Xu!"

Seeing Luo Tianjin's sudden realization, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but wonder even more, and asked Xie Xuan in a low voice: "Second Master Xie, who is Xu Qingnian, and which faction is he?"

"He has no sect, and he is not a peerless master, but he has a lot of experience and seniority. Xie Xuan explained, "He used to be a powerful Bai Xiaosheng in the rivers and lakes, claiming to know 500 years from above and 500 years from below, and he knew everything about the rivers and lakes. His ability is very different from Bai Xiaosheng, who is cheating and drinking today, and there is a difference between cloud and mud. As everyone knows, when Xu Lao became famous all over the world, the Qingfeng Daoist was just a little Taoist boy who burned incense and shook fans, and the abbot of Xuanming was also a little novice who carried water and chopped wood. ”

"Shhh

Xie Xuan's words made Liu Xunyi gasp. At the same time, when he looked at Xu Qingnian, who was almost unstable on the stage, he couldn't help but have a look of respect in his eyes.

The opening just now is the mantra that Xu Lao often puts on his lips when he is young. Xie Xuan said again, "People who know him are very familiar. As for you...... You weren't born when he retired, so it's not surprising that you didn't know him. ”

"Retirement, I don't know how many years Old Xu has retired?"

"It should have been twenty-seven or eight years. Yan Bugui interjected, "It's been too long, and no one remembers it." However, although you don't know Xu Qingnian, you must know the last vigorous thing he did before retiring. ”

Hearing this, Liu Xunyi suddenly became interested and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"Do you remember 'Fuhu Dao' Mo Cen?" Murong Bai asked rhetorically.

Of course, I remember that two years ago, Mo Cen held a golden basin handwashing conference in Lufu, Jiangnan, and I still remember it vividly. Liu Xunyi nodded and said, "But what does Xu Qingnian have to do with Mo Cen?"

"Back then, Mo Cen led twelve volunteers to sneak into the Bianjing Palace to assassinate Wanyan Shouxu, the lord of the Jin Kingdom, which is a righteous act for the country and the people, you should know. Jiang Yiwei said, "And the person who provided them with information back then was Xu Qingnian." Without Xu Qingnian's information, no matter how powerful Mo Cen and the others were, it would be impossible for them to successfully infiltrate the heavily guarded Bianjing Palace. ”

"What?" Liu Xunyi said in surprise and disbelief, "This matter is actually related to Old Xu?"

"Not only is it relevant, it's crucial. Xie Xuan said, "But because of this incident, Xu Lao's rules were broken, forcing him to cut off his wealth and retire from the rivers and lakes." ”

"What rules?"

"Bai Xiaosheng, who has great powers like Xu Lao, every news sold is sky-high. Murong Bai said with a smile, "Back then, Old Xu had a very strange temper and a stubborn temperament. There are only three things that can be used to exchange messages with him. One is gold, the second is beauty, and the third is the secret of the rivers and lakes that he doesn't know. But where in the world is there a secret that he does not know, so ordinary people can only rely on gold or beauty to deal with him. ”

"I understand gold, but beauty is ......" Liu Xunyi stopped talking, and the embarrassed expression on his face already explained everything.

"Don't you know, when he was young, Xu Lao was suave and suave, looked like Pan An, shrewd and eccentric, witty and witty, and very good at pleasing women. Xie Xuan said in a low voice, "Back then, a woman who was infatuated with him could go from the sword platform to the foot of Huashan Mountain, but Xu Lao did not refuse to come, and almost every woman who liked him had a romantic affair. ”

"That'...... How did things break his rules back then?"

"Back then, Xu was very old, and he had a heart for women but was powerless, so the news of buying and selling was generally a sky-high price of gold. Murong Bai explained, "However, the assassination of the lord of the Jin Kingdom is the great righteousness of the nation, how can it be measured by ordinary things? Therefore, Xu Lao thought about it for three days and three nights, but he couldn't offer a suitable price, so he finally told Mo Cen the information for free. ”

In this way, it was Xu Lao himself who broke his own rules. ”

"Sort of!" Xie Xuan sighed, "Since then, Xu Lao has been incognito and retired to the mountains and forests, and few people even know whether he is alive or dead. I really didn't expect that Shen Dongshan would invite this person to preside over the martial arts conference, which was also painstaking. ”

At this moment, Xu Qingnian was greeting each other with many old friends in the audience.

Today, anyone who can talk to Xu Qingnian is the head of a faction, the head of a family, or a hero.

As for the younger generation, most of them have never heard of his name. However, seeing that so many big people were so polite to Xu Qingnian, the juniors didn't dare to interject indiscriminately, so they could only silently speculate in their hearts about the origin of this person.

"After so many years, Xu Lao's body is still as tough as it was back then. Zuo Hongxuan, the head of the Qingcheng faction, had a smirk on his face, and said complimentally, "The secret method of Xu Lao's longevity, Zuo Mou has to ask for advice." Haha......"

"Huh...... Old decay is to live for another 500 years, and it is not as good as the work of the left head for a day, and in the end it is just empty years. Xu Qingnian smiled humbly, waved his hand and said, "I still remember that when I first met Zuo Zhangmen, you were only ten years old. At that time, you followed behind Feng Buyao, serving tea and pouring water, and leading the horse in the stirrups. But the old man could see at a glance that the left head of the house would definitely have a great future in the future, and for this reason, he repeatedly told the head of Feng that he would definitely cultivate you well. When I saw it today, it was true. ”

Feng Buyao is the former head of the Qingcheng faction.

"If there was no love for Xu Lao back then, I am afraid there would be no Zuo Hongxuan today. Zuo Hongxuan seemed to recall the past of the year, and the smile on his face became a little emotional, "In a blink of an eye, it is dozens of spring and autumn." ”

Xuan Ming clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha! How many years has Lord Xu Shi been incognito, how many years has the Central Plains martial arts been lonely." ”

"It's serious!" Xu Qingnian shook his head and said, "The rivers and lakes are so big, and there are many talents, how dare I dare to be a bad old man?" I still remember that when I played a game with Abbot Xuanming in the Great Compassion Building, you were nine years old at the time, but the high level of chess skills has surprised and shocked the old man. Therefore, it makes sense that you can achieve what you are today. ”

Xu Qingnian's every word can almost cause an uproar in the crowd.

Now that they stomp their feet, the big men who have to tremble in the martial arts, in front of Xu Qingnian, have had the naïve years of serving tea and pouring water, carrying water and chopping wood. This unparalleled qualifications alone is enough to shock the heroes of the world.

"Master Xu Shi is too modest, in that chess game that year, Lord Xu Shi gave way to the nine sons of the little monk. Xuan Ming said humbly, "But even so, the little monk could only barely reach a draw with Xu Shizhu in the end, and there was no chance of winning." ”

There are only a handful of people in the world who can make Xuan Ming call himself a "little monk".

In this regard, Xu Qingnian just smiled faintly and did not answer again.

He looked around, from the top of Mount Hua to the sea of people on the mountains on all sides, a pair of old eyes flashed, like excitement, confusion, relief, and sentimentality......

Turning his head, in his eyes, it seemed that the world had changed for decades, and the sea and the fields couldn't help but make people feel inexplicably sour.

"It's old! it's really old!" Xu Qingnian laughed with tears and muttered to himself, "There are so many heroes and heroes here today, but I don't know a few, I'm really ashamed." Don't blame you, you are all today's heroes, living heroes, the old man is already buried in the loess, the living dead who will die soon, you can give the old man a thin face, let me stand here and feel the breath of the rivers and lakes again, the old man died without regrets. Thank you very much!"

After saying that, Xu Qingnian trembled his weak body, and bowed respectfully in all directions.

This move is touching and extremely moving.

This situation and this scene reminded Liu Xunyi of the poem that Luo Tianjin said: "Who first saw the moon on the riverside, and when did the river moon shine at the beginning of the year." ”

Although Liu Xunyi had never seen Xu Qingnian when he was suave and high-spirited, he could imagine that Xu Qingnian back then, perhaps just like himself today, was strong and energetic, and had infinite reverie and hope for the future.

Put yourself in the shoes of Liu Xunyi, it is hard to imagine what it will be like when he becomes "Xu Qingnian", reminiscing about the past?

Time passes, the years change, people alternate, the old goes to the new.

How many grievances and grievances finally turned into a past, a joke.

After all, before you know it, it has not been done, and people are old. But he didn't know it, and he still thought he was a teenager until he died.

It's just that I can't dream and sleep for a long time.

Thinking of this, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but secretly teased: "Perhaps, I can't live to such a transcendent age as Old Xu." Maybe...... I'm going to die today. ”

I don't know why? When Liu Xunyi had this thought in his heart, another emotion followed by sadness was inexplicably gratifying.

For the younger generation, sometimes they may be more afraid of aging than dying. Especially, the people in the rivers and lakes who spend their days in the shadow of swords and swords all day long. It is far more difficult to live than to die.

"When people are old, they are inevitably verbose. ”

In the silence, it was still Xu Qingnian who dragged everyone's minds back from the trance.

He walked on crutches and hobbled on the sword platform, talking and laughing: "Today is the martial arts conference, the old man has been crawling in the rivers and lakes for nearly a hundred years, and it is the greatest blessing that God has given me to experience a martial arts event in my lifetime." If a few decades ago, in the eyes of the heroes and heroes of the year, Lao Yu was just a businessman who bought and sold news, full of copper smell, and he was not worthy of being compared with them at all, let alone participating in the martial arts conference. Today, the old man can be in charge of the old man in front of everyone's attention, and if you think about it, who should be most thankful? Why? Because my bad old man's life is hard enough, and he has lived long enough, and those who once looked down on old decay are afraid that now even their bones are rotten. ”

"Haha......"

Xu Qingnian's gags gradually enlivened the depressing atmosphere.

Everyone was infected by Xu Qingnian's open-mindedness, and they all smiled, and then shouted one after another.

"Without further ado, everyone knows the rules of this martial arts conference, which is to elect the leader of the martial arts alliance, lead the world's heroes, support justice, abide by the right path, and maintain the continuation and prosperity of the Central Plains martial arts. Xu Qingnian's expression was straight, and he said loudly, "According to the rules set on the second day of August last year, anyone who intends to compete for the leader of the martial arts alliance must first kill a Tartar with his own hands, and swear a blood oath in front of the heroes of the world to never rebel." ”

Xu Qingnian said as he looked around at the heads of the people present, and said with a light smile: "Dare to ask which hero intends to compete for the leader of the martial arts alliance, please bring your 'spoils' and come to the stage to meet the heroes of the world." ”

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(End of chapter)