I. Chapter 13: Encounters

Little Taoyuan Villa. Martial arts training ground

"Senior sister, it's still not good, why don't you rest for a while. Jiang Ming looked at the leaves in front of him that were not moving at all, and looked helpless.

Li Mengru also hated that iron could not become steel, and reprimanded: "It's really rotten wood that can't be carved!"

Jiang Ming tried for a long time, and kept trying his best to sense and control. But he never got the essentials, boring and boring, coupled with Li Mengru's occasional cynicism beside him, Jiang Ming was already exhausted, and even wavered about his talent and qualifications, wondering if he was really stupid as Li Mengru said. Then he asked, "Senior sister, how long did it take you to practice this technique?"

Li Mengru didn't expect Jiang Ming to suddenly ask like this, she was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Also...... It's only a few days!"

Jiang Ming was dumbfounded for a while: "I...... Senior sister ......" and then yelled, "Then why are you forcing me so tightly! I thought I was really stupid!"

A flush suddenly appeared on Li Mengru's pretty face, and she smiled awkwardly, and said: "Teaching people to practice, naturally I hope that the blue is better than the blue, your senior sister, I am in a hurry, but it is also for your good!"

Seeing Jiang Ming's puzzled expression, Li Mengru urged again: "Hurry up, don't stop, maybe you will succeed next time." ”

Jiang Ming sighed and began to induce endlessly, controlling ......

After a long time, the leaves in front of Jiang Ming suddenly moved slightly without warning, but they were so conspicuous. Jiang Ming was overjoyed.

"Senior sister, I succeeded!"

With a "snap", Li Mengru patted Jiang Ming's head and said sharply: "Are you having a bad brain? Don't you know yourself? That's the wind! The wind is blowing!"

"Forget it, I'm so angry, put the leaves away, and practice again in the afternoon. Li Mengru rolled her eyes heavily, quite helpless. Then, he ignored Jiang Mingjing and left.

Jiang Ming, who was still standing in place, put away the leaves, and for some reason, ran to the Heart Nourishing Hall uneasily.

There is an extremely simple house next to the Heart Cultivation Palace, which is the living room of Master Jiang Ming's master. Before he arrived, he heard a cough coming from inside the house.

When he was eating breakfast, Jiang Ming didn't feel right. Master's three meals a day are very regular, and they come from the Taoist sect, so they are naturally exquisite, and how can they sleep lazy. It's just that Li Mengru didn't dig into it at that time. Now my heart sank and I guessed a few points.

Jiang Ming slowly pushed open the door. There is a small window in the hall, the furnishings are simple and clean, only a few mahogany tables and chairs, old and faded. There was a whisper from one of the rooms inside.

"Bang", I only felt that the door of this wing room was so heavy.

Chen Zhiyi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, was slightly stunned, wiped his reddened eyes, and said softly, "Ming'er, why are you here?"

Although Jiang Ming had already guessed one or two in his heart, but looking at the sad appearance of the gentle and strong master, he couldn't help but have a sour nose and said, "Master, is the old man okay?"

Chen Zhiyi saw that there was no one behind Jiang Ming, so he gently closed the door and said, "Your master is fine, it's just that it's been cold again recently." ”

Li Changfeng on the bed had a bloodless face, and the quilt was wrapped in layer after layer, but he was still trembling.

β€œ....... Master is all right...... Ahem......"

Jiang Ming's whole heart fell into the ice cellar, and when he saw the usual serious master, now he looked like this, he couldn't help but shed tears, and cried and shouted: "Master......"

Chen Zhiyi, who was on the side, hurriedly wiped Jiang Ming's tears, and hurriedly said, "Silly boy, what are you crying about, your master is fine." It was the cold poison attack last night, and there was no medicine in the house, which made it worse. ”

Jiang Ming looked at the woman in front of him who was still comforting him, but his tears couldn't stop flowing.

Chen Zhi sighed, and whispered to Jiang Ming: "Silly boy, don't cry, since you are here, then do the master a favor." ”

"I wanted to wait for your master to get through this and then go down the mountain to grab the medicine, but ...... It just so happens that you are here, so let's take a trip for my mother. ”

"Hmm. Jiang Ming looked at the master and mother who were so kind to him, and felt sad from his heart. But when she heard Shi Niang say this, she still held back her tears and nodded heavily.

Chen Zhiyi smiled gently, turned around and picked up a pen and paper, wrote it for a while, handed it to Jiang Ming, and said, "Just follow the prescription." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his sleeve and wiped Jiang Ming's face, and said, "Good boy, don't worry, it's okay." By the way, don't let your senior sister know, lest she worry. ”

Jiang Ming forgot how he got out of this house, just looked at the faint sunlight outside, and clenched the paper in his hand......

In an instant, a thousand emotions welled up in my heart.

In a trance, I suddenly thought: If my mother is still alive, it should be like this......

There is a small city not far from the small Taoyuan Villa, which is called Yonghe City. Although it is not as grand and prosperous as Wutong City. But living in the Central Plains, it's not much worse. Leaning forward to the small Taoyuan Villa and other famous and decent families, leaning on the righteous road giant Wutong City, the people in the city are also living and working in peace and contentment.

Because of the matter of the master and the mother, Jiang Ming was in a very low mood, and he walked on the lively street of Yonghe City, but he couldn't raise his interest at all. Thinking about the teacher's explanation, he only lowered his head and walked towards the pharmacy.

"Alas, girl, don't go, let the old man calculate a hexagram for you......"

With pedestrians coming and going and hawkers scattered on the side of the road, the wide street is also quite crowded. Jiang Ming was already anxious, and because of what happened in front of him, it was a mess, and it was even more difficult to move an inch.

"Girl, I can see at a glance that you have an extraordinary bearing, it is better to let the old man calculate a hexagram for you, you know yin and yang, you can know the future, only five taels of silver ......"

I saw that at the corner of the street in front of me, an old man was pulling a woman, entangled in it. The woman was in a panic for a moment, but she wanted to leave, but the old man grabbed her skirt stiffly. Between the two of them, there were many pedestrians around who stopped to watch, and the streets became even more chaotic.

"Let go!" the voice was clear and bright. Jiang Ming, who walked closer, somehow only felt that the voice was slightly cold, rejecting people thousands of miles away. But the old fortune teller still persevered as if he hadn't heard it, and seemed determined to tell the woman a hexagram.

Jiang Ming, who was absent-minded, was annoyed. It was difficult to achieve cultivation, and Master suffered again. I have something important at the moment, and I have inexplicably delayed it, and everything is not going well. Thinking about it, he bypassed the crowd and rushed to the source of the blockage.

I saw an old man, with a white beard and a mediocre face, and he also had three points of immortal wind bones. But he dragged the woman's blue and white dress with one hand, leaving a layer of dirty black handprints, which couldn't help but make people's impression greatly reduced.

Jiang Ming, who was angry, just wanted to scold, but was suffocated by the woman in front of him.

If you talk about classifying women in the world, they are as gentle as Zhu Qing and Chen Zhiyi, and they are playful and smart, and they are senior sister Li Mengru. But at the moment, this woman was something Jiang Ming had never seen.

I saw the woman in a blue and white dress, carrying a fairy sword. If the shoulders are cut, the waist is as plain. The snow muscles of the bright neck and a little tear mole under the bright eye on the right side. It's really beautiful, but at this time, it is slightly sad and slightly embarrassed.

With such a beautiful woman, it is no wonder that many pedestrians stopped.

"Let go!" The voice was as cold as a human being. In the faint anger, the movement was extremely slight, as if he was afraid of hurting the old man.

When Jiang Ming came back to his senses, he slowly stepped forward and said to the old fortune teller, "Old man, what are you doing here?"

When the old man heard this, he glanced at Jiang Ming, and said slowly: "Naturally, it's for fortune telling, huh!" As he spoke, the bamboo pole he held in his other hand leaned forward.

I saw a white banner on the bamboo pole, with Qiankun gossip on it, and a string of small characters under it: good fortune and misfortune, prosperity and disgrace.

Jiang Ming sneered, and then asked, "It's not that I heard that fortune telling pays attention to fate, but how can I see that the old gentleman is unyielding, why?"

The fortune teller was quite thick-skinned, and when he heard this, he naturally understood what he meant, but he slowly put down his hand that was tugging at the corner of the woman's clothes, and his face still did not change, and he said amicably: "I saw that this girl had a deep fate with me, and I felt pity, so I couldn't help but ask for some advice." ”

The beautiful woman saw that the old man let go of his hand, and her face gradually improved, and she glanced at Jiang Ming lightly, and did not speak.

The old man saw that the woman was difficult to coax, so he turned to look at Jiang Ming with a smile, and said amiably: "Little brother, because of today's events, you and I met. You and I are naturally fated to be not shallow, so it's better to let the old man calculate a hexagram for you. Solve your doubts and count your future numerology. How?"

Jiang Ming smiled and thought to himself: If you see one and say that you have a fate, wouldn't that be fate with everyone in the world?

Curiosity came, Jiang Ming also wanted to see how the old man was abducted, and then said: "Since there is fate, then according to the old gentleman's, let me calculate a hexagram." ”

The old man was overjoyed, pointed to a vacant place on the stone bridge next to him, and said, "Hehe, little brother, let's go over there and talk." ”

Seeing Jiang Ming and the old man talking and going away, the Qingli woman in the same place hesitated, but still followed.

The old man looked at Jiang Ming and said with a mysterious expression: "Little brother, I look at your face, but what difficulties have you encountered recently?"

Jiang Ming snorted in his heart: I'm afraid that even the blind can see that his face is bad. But he pretended to be surprised and said: "The old gentleman is really clever, and what he said is extremely true!"

The old man stroked his gray beard with a smug expression. Then he took Jiang Ming's hand, pondered for a while, and said, "If the old man is not mistaken, I am afraid that the little brother has an excellent background......!"

Seeing the old man groaning, a cold voice came: "Just what?"

Jiang Ming looked at it in a blink of an eye, and the beautiful woman stood behind her at some point, looking at the fortune teller with an indifferent expression.

The old man was stunned, but he didn't expect this woman to come with him again, and he thought about his own good deeds, and when he weighed it in his heart, he pretended to be profound and said slowly: "I just looked at the palm lines of this little brother, which can be described as ...... Alas......"

Jiang Ming naturally didn't believe in fate, but now he was also interested, and asked urgently: "But what do you see?" ”

The old man said "hehe" twice, smiled and said: "The old man walks the rivers and lakes, and naturally he also wants to eat." Well...... It was originally five taels of silver, but you and I have come to this fate, so give the little brother a cheaper, two taels. ”