According to the original rules, the swordsmanship training in Guchen Village only accepts teenagers under the age of fifteen. However, because the original sword practice took up the teaching time of the school, the elder of the ancient Chen village discussed with Mr. Chen several times before finally obtaining Mr. Chen's permission. Therefore, after Chen Lezhong observed for a few days, he also asked to learn sword from Ren Pingsheng.

Although it was a little unruly, under Wu Chunmang's matchmaking, Ren Pingsheng still accepted this over-age student. The other students were a little embarrassed to get along with this juku-sama teacher.

Do you call him junior brother, or continue to call him sir.

Mr. Chen seemed to be very unconcerned about this, and after discovering the embarrassment of his classmates, he smiled and said, "In front of Teacher Ren, I am your junior brother, and in the school, I am still a gentleman." The two are not in conflict, and the two are not related, okay?"

Everyone cheered, but in fact, in that joy, there were more people secretly rubbing their hands.

Most of the senior brothers began to wait for an opportunity to feed the sword to the junior brother.

It's just that Chen Lezhong learned the sword, and he comprehended every move and style, but he was also extremely fast; after ten years, he was already able to rank at the middle level among the dozen or so fellow disciples, and there was a tendency for latecomers to take over.

With the increasing improvement of the students' swordsmanship, Wu Chunmang, who is now fried and sold, if he is not relying on his cultivation, he will actually be very stretched when teaching. The old monkey king, Hou Shangshan, has now become one of the swordsmanship teachers in Guchen Village. His joining was originally a heavy burden on Ren Pingsheng's shoulders, and it was much lighter. The old monkey king had a long time before learning and practicing this new set of swordsmanship, and asked the master to feed the sword every day, so he learned swordsmanship and it was easier for him to get started.

The reason why Ren Pingsheng didn't let Hou Shangshan join at the beginning was because Shi Yuqing was on the mountain, but he could practice with him every day, one move and one style, and he got a little more divine will. Moreover, the recovery of Shi Yuqing's physique also requires someone to rub his hands with him every day to practice his sword.

It's just that when it comes to teaching swords under the mountain, Ren Pingsheng still doesn't want Shi Yuqing, who was born in an orthodox Taoist sect, to participate in peace. Even if you can look at it emotionally, but in such a thing as accepting apprentices and teaching them, after all, the avenue is not compatible.

In the month or so when the swordsmanship teaching was going most smoothly, something strange happened. Chen Kucheng, who practiced swords the hardest, came to learn swords every day, and he had wisps of murderous remnants. And every day there will be new wounds on his body or on his face. Sometimes it's just green, and sometimes it's a horrible wound with flesh open. There are many wounds on the dark parts of the body, others can't see it, but they can't hide it from Ren Pingsheng, who is well versed in the art of looking at qi.

Ren Pingsheng asked many times, but Chen Kucheng just smiled, saying that he practiced too much sword when herding sheep, and there were too many bumps. It's all flesh and skin, and it's not in the way.

Ren Pingsheng also secretly asked Chen Qi, who has always been a good woman, a few times, but Chen Qi always shook his head, not knowing what strange things he encountered Chen Kucheng. It's just a matter of stumbling occasionally, and if there is a new injury every day, it must be very abnormal.

Ren Pingsheng is not afraid that he will cause trouble, if he is not always bloody, he will practice a fart sword. But if you are too brave and ruthless, and fight with others every day, then it really shouldn't be the way of a swordsman to treat people.

Later, he secretly confessed to Chen Tianshi and Chen Tianjin, the two clever ghosts, and let them figure out who Chen Kucheng fought with every day. However, Ren Pingsheng clearly instructed that he only needed to find out who the other party was, and if it wasn't for Chen Kucheng's life-threatening danger, he was not allowed to show up to make a move.

The next day, surprisingly, Chen Kucheng had no new injuries on his body. Only this time, not only Chen Kucheng, but even the two brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Tianjin, each had a murderous aura after happiness and revenge. The wooden swords of the three were all defective.

Seizing the opportunity to leave school, Ren Pingsheng called the two brothers aside to ask, and the brothers spoke in unison, but he Chen Kucheng practiced his sword too hard, and he really fell a lot. Fortunately, now it seems that swordsmanship has entered the realm again, and he should not hurt himself easily in the future.

The two boys were talking nonsense with their eyes open, without blinking.

The barren grassland that stretches for hundreds of miles under the boundary mountain is not the vast plain. Instead, the mountains are undulating everywhere, and the situation is bad. There is a perennial drought and little rainfall, and most of the snow left by the annual snow on the boundary mountain flows down the valley and rivers down the low plains and lakes, so these low mountains only grow barren grass and vines, not trees.

The reason why these mountains are low is because of the towering snowy mountains of the Boundary Mountains. Compared with those ordinary hills and mountains, these barren grass and mountains still have the momentum of towering between heaven and earth.

The reason why these herdsmen in the western wilderness in the area of Guchen Village were able to migrate to settle here is also because Guangxin Prefecture was originally sparsely populated and mostly lived in fertile places on the plains. This kind of bitter and barren mountainous land, local farmers and herdsmen are unwilling to patronize.

At dusk, on a hill at the boundary of the pasture of the clan in Guchen Village, three young men holding wooden swords, full of murderous aura, stood in the wind.

Three healthy horses graze leisurely on the hillside behind the boy, and the reins are just casually tied around the horse's neck, without the need for stakes.

Makino is a young man, skilled in arching horses since he was a child, and his own horses are the most humane.

The long grass breeze, gently swaying, spread all over the mountains, there is a terrible silence before the wind and rain are coming.

Suddenly, at the bottom of the grass, there were angry horses galloping, about twenty or thirty horsemen, raising dust and sand in the wilderness.

The three wooden sword boys on the top of the mountain are still standing like the wind, looking down on the mountainside, their eyes are firm.

"Dare to come. Chen Tianshi's eyes were gloomy, and the hand holding the wooden sword showed a slight green tendon, "Brother Kucheng, it's better to beat them up this time, and beat them until their parents can't bear it, so that they can have a longer memory." ”

Chen Kucheng looked unwavering, and said lightly: "Don't worry, anyway, this area of Guchen Village has been occupied by them for many years." If it weren't for Teacher Ren and them to teach the sword this time, we wouldn't have been able to get it back. It's normal to be unconvinced, just come to feed us swords every day. You've scared people once, where can you find such a good opponent to practice swords?"

Chen Tianshi suddenly realized that he had respect for this ordinary clansman who was silent on weekdays.

The younger brother Chen Tianjin just smiled shyly, slightly raised the wooden sword in his hand, and did not speak. He is accustomed to only his brother and the horse's head, anyway, you point to the east, and I will never fight the west.

But in yesterday's fierce battle, Chen Kucheng first fought with one person and one sword, fighting against more than a dozen fierce young men from other places. Although he has been learning the sword for nearly two months, after all, he has two fists and four hands, and he is about to be beaten by those two dozen people on the ground. The two brothers Tianshi and Tianjin, who were hiding in the shadows, had already outperformed their indignation over reason, and they could still control the advice of the original teacher.

The two brothers rushed forward with their swords, and the three of them worked together to beat the group of foreign teenagers to the ground, and when they ran, they only hated their parents for missing two legs.

At that time, Chen Tianjin, the well-behaved younger brother's sword, made the elder brother, who had always protected his younger brother, and Chen Kucheng, who was several years older than him, all amazed fiercely.

Chen Tianjin not only shot ruthlessly, but also his sword was like the wind, faintly carrying the sound of wind and thunder. Not to mention how much it hurts when the wooden sword hits the body, just the whirring momentum has already made the opponent shudder.

Chen Tianjin's brows furrowed suddenly, thoughtful, "No, each of them is still carrying a girl on their horseback?"

Chen Kucheng actually discovered the clue early, it stands to reason that the horses on the grassland are not so slow. Slow is slow, but the appearance of the sky full of dust and sand is at least fifty or sixty horses.

But in any case, the number of people on the other side today is at least twice as large as yesterday, and this will be another fierce battle.

The ground beneath his feet began to tremble slightly, and the herd of horses, swept like a storm, gradually approached. The young man who was originally standing on the top of the mountain had a wooden sword hanging down to the ground in his right hand, and in his left hand, he had also held a short sharp hunting knife.

The closer to the top of the mountain, the thinner the soil and the shorter the grass became, and finally in the sparse yellow grass in front of the herd, a rushing white cloud appeared.

Flock!

Good fellow, not only did he come to fight, but he also simply herded sheep by the way. It stands to reason that you shouldn't come out near sunset to herd sheep. However, the nomadic steppe and the migration of sheep and pastures are not so particular. The flock, which had been fed for a day, was just in time to move the grazing location. When you get to the place, you can set up a tent at will, and you can stay there for another month or two.

It seems that the other party is not only determined to win this time, but also puts himself in a situation of ruin.

When the group of horses approached twenty or thirty zhang in front of him, Chen Kucheng pointed the long sword in his hand at the other party, held the hunting knife in his left hand, and the edge of the blade turned outward, making a gesture of cutting the tendons of the horses. The group of young men who were riding angry horses but had no fresh clothes on the opposite side suddenly stopped their horses and were uniform. The whole grassland is as silent as ever, with only the occasional sound of healthy horses snorting, one after another.

This is also the rule of the rivers and lakes in the wilderness, since it is a duel between the two sides, then dismount in advance. Otherwise, even if one of them has already gestured to warn, and you still come on horseback, then don't blame others for being ruthless and hurting the horses.

In this land, horses and sheep are the lives of herdsmen.

The sturdy young men who dismounted one after another, swept the grass under their feet with a horsewhip in their hands, and came on foot in a line.

There were three teenagers on the top of the mountain, the short knife in his left hand was sheathed, and only the wooden sword in his right hand remained, and they were waiting for the battle. But they didn't wait for the expected line of charge, and the twenty or thirty people walked evenly until they stood two or three feet apart.

"What, how many people are amazing?" Chen Tianshi was already a master who didn't make too much trouble, and said with a mocking look, "Yes, there are not only more than a dozen more people who will die today." I also brought all the loot we deserved. ”

In the camp of the strangers, a tall young man in a sheepskin robe and a wolf's cloak came out.

You can only peel off a full wolf cloak by stabbing a Steppenwolf in melee combat with a knife and spear in the chest and abdomen below the neck to reach its mortal enemy. Only the wolf that you killed with your own hands, peel off the wolf cloak, and you are qualified to wear it on your head.

Therefore, those who wear wolf cloaks on their heads may not be the leaders of a clan, but at least they are all deeply respected people in the clan. That young man is only the same age as Chen Kucheng, and he can wear a wolf cloak, which shows that this son's combat power is not trivial.

Of course, that is not trivial, and it is only relative to ordinary herders.

"You, there are only three of you?" the wolf-clad young man asked, his expression natural, as if he was listening to Chen Tianshi's provocative words.

"Three people. Chen Kucheng's words were even colder than his eyes, "You can win." ”

Chen Tianshi only put his hands around his chest, his sword resting on his shoulders, and he sneered.

The wolf-clad boy today is unprecedentedly like a suit, "I didn't mean that." I'm asking, the sword envoy in Guchen Village, just the three of you?"

Chen Tianshi finally couldn't help it, and said coldly: "What, it's not enjoyable? Now in our ancient Chen Village, there are many swordsmen." It's just that the three of us are the most unsuccessful, and we need to find someone to practice. Refreshing, don't ink. Call them together, you one, it's not enough for us to stuff our teeth. ”

The wolf-clad young man was not annoyed, and said with a calm expression, "I didn't mean that......"

"What the hell do you mean!" Chen Tianshi finally became angry, "If you fight, you fight, if you are so verbose, my hands are not itchy, and my sword is itchy." ”

The wolf-clad boy shook his head and said lightly: "I can't beat you, and I can't beat you together." We shepherds in the wilderness are not afraid of death, but we are not stupid. ”

"Then what are you doing?" Chen Kucheng had already gestured to stop Chen Tianshi from continuing to go crazy, and said to the wolf-clad young man.

"Make peace. The wolf pointed back with a young horsewhip, and in the direction of the whip, there was a white flock of greedy grazing, "A total of forty heads, which is considered the compensation for our occupation of these mountains over the years." ”

The wolf-clad young man took back his horsewhip and looked a little embarrassed: "I can't take more, and at this time next year, I will take forty more." We graze here for a few years, and then we take a few years. ”

Chen Tianshi was a little disdainful at first, and when he noticed the mighty flock of sheep again, he was a little dumbfounded.

Forty sheep is not a small number for a family. At the end of the year, a herdsman raises hundreds of sheep. But after accepting the Tiangong of the local immortal family, those who can stay and keep the family food and clothing are already thankful.

If you want to talk about surplus, a whole village can raise a maximum of thirty or forty sheep a year.

Chen Kucheng's face was calm, and there was no obvious change in his expression, and he said lightly: "Why?"

The wolf cloaked young man looked at the wooden sword in the other party's hand with envy, "We want to learn swords, and we can see that your teacher from Guchen Village has recently come to teach swords." We also want to be swordsmen in the wilderness. ”