At that time, Lin Zongbian was two in his twenties, and he was also a fledgling junior youth.

This year, he went to Luoyang with his father Lin Xi to participate in the flower party, but the father and son were delayed on the road for some time, so that when they arrived in Luoyang, it was the last day of the flower party.

The biggest purpose of Lin Xi's visit to the meeting this time is to grandly launch Lin Zongbian, who has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years, to let his only son show his skills at this flower fair, win fame, and enter the martial arts with a terrifying attitude.

But as soon as he arrived, he was told by a friend he knew that a handsome young man named Mu Beiting had shined first and became the most dazzling star at this flower party.

After hearing the news, how could Lin Xi still sit still, in order not to let his only son be left behind, he sent an invitation to Mu Beiting to fight.

At that time, Mu Beiting was in full swing, but there was an appointment, so he didn't want to do it.

Then the news came out, which immediately caused a big wave in the venue. When everyone heard the news, they immediately surrounded the three layers of the competition field, and they were full of expectations for this competition.

On one side is the martial arts wizard who has dominated the limelight in the past few days, and on the other side is the hidden son of the martial arts giant. The competition between the two was so exciting that everyone felt that the wine and food in the banquet were not as attractive as this competition.

As the drums fell, the two sides of the competition went to the ring to show their faces. Everyone looked at the two handsome young men on the stage, and they didn't wait for the competition to start and shouted hello.

Today's Mu Beiting is wearing a gray robe, with a stone sword "Ink Rain" tied on his back, and his long jade body stands in the first place in Taipei, with a chic and elegant posture, and anyone who sees it can't help but praise in his heart: "What a handsome young man!" On the other hand, Lin Zongbian, who is in the first place in the south, is wearing a plain white dress today, at this time with a smile on the front, standing with his hands in his hands, and his bearing is gentle and elegant, like a well-educated scribe and scholar, but there is a heroic atmosphere hidden between his eyebrows, and he knows at a glance that he must not be an idle person.

At present, the two of them are standing on the same stage, which gives people a sense of sharpness and corresponding brilliance, which suddenly makes everyone present lose their color.

At the beginning of the competition, Mu Beiting attacked first, and its momentum opened and closed, like the Yellow River rushing, pouring thousands of miles;

The two of them attacked and defended, you came and went, fed and dismantled, and the fight was dark, and the people around them were dazzled. With just a stick of incense, the two have already dismantled more than 100 moves, but they have never been able to distinguish the winner from the loser.

The onlookers watched the confrontation between the two in the field as smooth as mercury, and they were all very addicted. Even Lin Xi began to praise Mu Beiting, and his previous contempt was gone.

Lin Xi's own cultivation is already extremely high, and he has a very deep view of the tricks of the two people in the field, and he also knows that Lin Zongbian can have the current performance, although he has a lot of martial arts talent, but the more important reason is that he has relied on the fact that he has been reading thousands of martial arts classics in his family since he was a child, and he has the help of the elders in the family, so he finally has this ability; 。

Thinking of this, he twisted his beard and his head, and his gaze towards Mu Beiting became softer and softer, and his heart cherished talents, thinking that no matter what the result of the competition was, Lin Zongbian and Mu Beiting would definitely make friends and have a good relationship in the future.

After a small half of the incense stick, the two of them have dismantled to two hundred moves, but they still can't tell which is higher and which is lower.

At this time, Yi Liangwen, who was outside the court, saw that the two of them were really inseparable, and knew that the kung fu of these two people was between them, and even if they were allowed to fight for another three or five hundred moves, they might not be able to distinguish the winner from the loser. Moreover, it was getting dark again, so he jumped into the middle of the field, stretched out his hands to block the attack of the two at the same time, and announced that the result of the competition was a tie.

Although the onlookers felt that they were still unfinished, they also felt that the strength of these two people was equal, even if they continued to fight, it would only be a waste of time, and they had been hungry for a long time, so they responded to Yi Liangwen's ruling, and then dispersed to enter the banquet.

Lin Zongbian failed to win, and felt great regret in his heart, but he felt pity for the opponent in front of him. Coincidentally, Mu Beiting also had general feelings about Lin Zongbian. Although the two did not speak, they were already cordial.

Mu Beiting was bold by nature, and opened his mouth and said: "You and I have no distinction between victory and defeat in martial arts, you might as well choose another day, but at the moment, there is another important matter that needs to be divided immediately." ”

Lin Zongyan was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you want to distinguish?"

Mu Beiting laughed and said: "I am twenty-five this year, if I am older than you, then I am the eldest brother, if I am younger than you, then you are the eldest brother." ”

When Lin Zongbian heard this, he couldn't help but feel that this person was really a bold person, and at this time, he wanted to marry the person he met for the first time as the Jinlan brothers, and he didn't ask whether the other party was willing or not, and his behavior was inevitably a little abrupt and rude, and he wanted to excuse himself at the moment. But when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly held back, thinking that he also had a very good impression of this person, and at the same time admired his martial arts cultivation. At that moment, he was also heroic, hugged his fists and smiled, and responded: "The little brother will ask the elder brother for a trick in the future!"

Mu Beiting saw that Lin Zongbian responded quickly, and his heart was overjoyed, and he immediately pulled Lin Zongbian to kneel side by side. Then the two of them made the soil for incense, bowed to the sky, one called the virtuous brother, and the other called the eldest brother, both of whom were overjoyed.

Since then, Mu Lin and the two have been in close love, going out to the same public, sitting at the same table, and sleeping in the same bed, just like their own brothers. Since then, they have helped each other for more than ten years.

The people in the martial arts at that time were all in awe when they mentioned the friendship between the two of them, and they all admired the luck of the two of them. After all, not everyone is lucky enough to meet a confidant brother who lives and dies together.

However, although the brotherhood of life and death can last forever, there will always be a time when two big men are separated from each other.

About five years ago, the two forces of the north and the south, which had been grudging for a long time, fought because of a little friction, and the situation soon entered a white heat, and then several bloody and tragic internal wars broke out, causing the entire martial arts to suddenly fall into a crisis.

At that time, Lin Mu and the others were already the public of the world, and they naturally shouldered the responsibility of stabilizing the situation in martial arts. So they divided the north and the south, Mu Beiting went north through the Qinling Mountains to negotiate, and Lin Zongbian went south along the Huaishui River to communicate. The two tried to mediate in the hope of settling the dispute.

However, this war between the north and the south is really the result of new hatred and old hatred, and it will not be easily quelled by the mediation of one or two people. No matter how hard they tossed and turned, the situation of the struggle never eased, and the number of fights and casualties continued to increase, and the situation was on the verge of getting out of control.

Seeing that the situation was beyond the reach of the two brothers, they could only sigh and feel heartbroken, and secretly began to prepare for the aftermath.

But on the eve of the catastrophe of the martial arts generals, a game-breaker suddenly came out of the oblique stab without warning and broke the dilemma.

And this game-breaker who "saves the suffering and saves the suffering" is the 3,000 Japanese who suddenly invaded the border from the sea.

If you want to say that the people who participated in the dispute between the north and the south this time, they were all hot-blooded men, and they were killing each other in the dark, but as soon as they heard the news of the invasion of the Japanese invaders, the north and the south tacitly reconciled Qin and Jin in an instant, and began to work together to go to Taizhou to defend against foreign enemies.

Of course, the results of the cooperation are also self-evident. As soon as the 3,000 wouldn't have landed on the shore, and before they could even distinguish between the east, the west, the north, and the south, they were driven into the sea by all kinds of blades and hidden weapons flying in the sky, which was really miserable.

After this battle, most of the hostility between the north and the south was also dissipated by slashing and killing the Japanese invaders, and the hatred between them was also greatly eliminated. Lin Zongbian saw the changes and knew that the opportunity to resolve the enmity between the two sides had come, so he took advantage of the triumphant victory as an excuse to hold a celebration banquet. During the banquet, when the two parties were still in the same hatred, they forcibly made an intermediate peacemaker, and with the help of a group of seniors, the two parties were finally brought together to shake hands and make peace.

The matter was satisfactorily resolved, and everyone was naturally happy. But Mu Beiting worked hard because of this matter, and he was physically and mentally exhausted, and he couldn't slow down for a long time. In addition, he had just married a year before, and his mind had already drifted, so he began to avoid the disturbances in the martial arts under the pretext of being ill.

After half a year, he simply took advantage of his wife's illness, cleaned up all his belongings, broke off all the relationships between the rivers and lakes, and retired to the mountains and forests with his wife, and since then he has lived a life of seclusion and seclusion.

And in order to prevent outsiders from disturbing, he only informed a few people about his seclusion. Those who knew his whereabouts also kept their promises and never revealed his hermitage to outsiders.

Lin Zongbian naturally knew Mu Beiting's hermitage, but in order to keep his promise, he didn't tell Zhou Chuqing the news, so that after the kidnapping happened, Zhou Chuqing couldn't find Mu Beiting, so he turned to Master Tongze for help.

But he didn't expect Master Tongze to know the traces of Mu Beiting, so this rescue was like a deadbolt locked - full of stability. After all, Mu Beiting and Lin Zongbian are friends for eight worships, and they will definitely go all out in the rescue.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chuqing laughed and said, "As long as we can get the help of the master and Brother Mu, even if the other party has thousands of troops, we have nothing to fear!"

Master Tong Ze shook his head and said, "Don't talk too much. Now that the enemy is dark and I am clear, we have to discuss it in detail. ”

Zhou Chuqing said yes again and again, and then asked, "But I don't know where Brother Mu lives in seclusion?"

Master Tong Ze did not say it explicitly, but said: "The hermitage of Beiting is far away from here, we need to rush there immediately, so as not to miss the appointment of the day after tomorrow." ”

The two said that they would go, but when they were about to get up and go out, they heard a young voice suddenly sound outside the door: "Master, please use Zaoshan." ”

Only then did the two people in the house realize that the sky had been clouded and shining between the words, and it was just time for the novice to deliver the meal.

Master Tong Ze sat down again and said with a smile: "The ancients had a saying: 'The emperor is not a starving soldier', let's use some breakfast first, and then prepare some dry food, so that we can also save the time of sharpening on the road." ”

At this moment, Zhou Chuqing couldn't wait to see Mu Beiting immediately, where could he still settle down to eat. It's just that Master Tongze arranged it like this, and he had no choice but to respond: "What the master said is very true, then let's have dinner and then leave." ”

Master Tongze summoned the little novice who delivered the food into the house, and after he set the food, he explained to him: "I need to go out for a long time, at least three or five days, at most eight or nine days, Yuan Hui presided over the office, you go to help me inform." In addition, you can prepare some dry food and water for the two of us, and one horse will also be needed, and you will wait for me at the foot of the mountain after you have finished it. ”

When the novice received the order, he immediately withdrew and made preparations. After Zhou Chuqing and Master Tong Ze shared the gruel and steamed buns sent, they also went out to descend the mountain.

When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw that the little novice had already prepared dry food and horses and was waiting.

Master Tong Ze stepped forward, took the burden, and took the reins. The novice retreated after giving a salute to him.

Master Tong Ze turned over and got on his horse, and after greeting Zhou Chuqing, he led first, and Zhou Chuqing followed closely behind.

The two of them galloped away in the direction of discharge from the hospital, and disappeared after a while.