On the surface of the Nanjiang River, countless small boats flutter in it.

The captain looked at Chen Mingye with a somewhat surprised expression, as if he didn't expect him to say such a sentence.

"What's wrong?" Chen Mingye asked with a faint smile, looking at his father-in-law.

"Childe really dares to say it," the captain smiled, "Childe wants to come here and is also a scholar, and he is also going to Beijing to take the exam this year, right?"

Chen Mingye is indeed dressed as a scholar at this moment, and the bags behind him are bulging, and people who don't know really think that they are all his books inside.

Seeing that the captain said this, Chen Mingye simply did not deny it, and replied: "That's true, brother is wise." I'm planning to leave early this year, see all the way, and go to Kyoto to study again in preparation for next year's spring. ”

The captain sighed: "In this way, I really hope that Childe can go to high school, but I am also a little afraid of Childe High School." ”

Chen Mingye said with a slight surprise: "How can my brother speak like a Buddhist proverb, it makes some sense." ”

Gongzi laughed: "Gongzi Miao praised, I also have a feeling, I hope that Gongzi can go to high school because I feel that Gongzi will be a good official who can think of the people in his heart and do practical things for the people in the future, but I am also afraid that Gongzi's straightforward temperament will suffer in the future." ”

Chen Mingye was stunned when he heard this, nodded lightly and said, "Thank you brother for reminding me." ”

"There's nothing to thank you for, let's just talk," the captain laughed.

The overall atmosphere of the boat along the way was quite harmonious, but the old man was wrapped in a dark robe, his expression was lonely, and there was a rare silence.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" Xiaohong glanced at him and asked with concern.

The old man raised his head and saw Xiaohong's delicate and lovely cheeks, and sighed slightly: "It's okay, I'm choking on a mouthful of saliva, this kung fu is already much better." ”

"......" Chen Mingye looked at the old man and didn't say much.

Xiaohong still looked heartless, smiling and sharing a few of her little treasures with him, as if such a simple happiness could easily satisfy a whole day.

The river is swaying, and if you are not used to it, it is easy to get seasick, and even the two horses on the deck are a little restless.

Although Xiaohong is light, she rarely seems to have been on a boat, and it didn't take long for her eyelids to droop and cry out that she was sleepy.

Chen Mingye had no choice but to reach out and hug her, as a human cushion. The little girl was not shy at all, and deliberately twisted to find a comfortable angle to lean down, and rubbed her little head into his arms, which happened to be the most familiar feeling.

"Hehe, little junior brother, you are so good. Xiaohong closed her eyes peacefully and murmured softly.

Chen Mingye hugged him gently, he didn't even notice it, and the corners of his eyes inadvertently became gentle.

The old man tilted his head and looked at the two of them for a while, sighed softly, reached out and poured a pot of tea, and silently raised his head and drank it all.

"Why don't seniors drink?" Chen Mingye looked at him with some surprise.

The old man glared at him angrily: "Didn't you listen to the stinky boy who rowed the boat, how lonely it seems to be drinking alone." ”

Chen Mingye smiled and shook his head slightly: "It's okay, if the seniors want to drink, the kid will naturally sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman." ”

"Stinky boy, have you changed your personality today?, have you become so caring all of a sudden?" the old man looked at him incredulously, as if he was a little incomprehensible, and the words came out of Chen Mingye's mouth.

Chen Mingye was silent for a moment, and said helplessly: "If the seniors are unwilling, then the juniors don't say it." ”

"Okay, okay, anyway, you can drink, old man, I am polite, I can't ask for it. The old man shook his hand and looked at Chen Mingye with a proud face.

Chen Mingye smiled and nodded: "Okay, there should always be a time to have fun." ”

While the captain saw the two talking to each other and persuading each other to drink, he grinned, hummed an unknown song to himself, and rowed lightly all the way to the opposite shore.

The boundary of Jingzhou naturally includes part of the area on the other side of the Nanjiang River, but in general, after crossing the Nanjiang River, it is officially stepping into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Chen Mingye didn't expect that the old man would get drunk after a drink on the river, and he really had no choice, so he had to ask the captain for help, and found a small inn on the dock on the other side of the Nanjiang River for the old man to rest temporarily.

The rooms in the inn were really limited, the three of them were crammed into a small room, the old man was lying, and Chen Mingye and Xiaohong were sitting in a daze looking at each other.

On one side, a few mutters suddenly came from the silent room.

Chen Mingye looked, but the old man turned over, and unconsciously muttered a few words in his mouth.

He smiled, guessed that the old man had dreamed of something, and hurriedly stepped forward to listen carefully, but vaguely heard only a few mutters, and he couldn't really hear them at all.

Xiaohong glanced at him and said, "Little junior brother, your bad smile just now looks really bad." ”

Chen Mingye stretched out his hand and jumped at the little girl's head, and said viciously: "How dare the little girl say such a thing?"

Xiaohong was furious, and stretched out her fingers to counteract.

Chen Mingye hurriedly said: "Whoever said that Southern Xinjiang had to listen to me, you look at me just to test, you will immediately show your feet, what if you get into trouble in Kyoto?"

Xiao Hongden looked at him with some grievances.

Chen Mingye said helplessly: "Okay, if Xiaohong is obedient, she will eat delicious all the way, and keep it to make you happy all the way, okay?"

"Okay!" As soon as the little girl heard this, she immediately returned to her smiling face, and she almost jumped up.

The two of them made a fuss, but they woke up the old man.

The old man sat up with his hands on the hard bed, and unconsciously reached out and patted his head, which was still a little drowsy.

"Senior, you're awake, drink some tea and wake up the bar. Chen Mingye stretched out his hand and handed over a cup of tea.

The old man looked at him and snorted softly, his fingers slightly clamped, and he actually forced a stream of wine out of his fingers.

Chen Ming's face was surprised when he boarded the night, he didn't expect the old man to have this trick, and the tea half-held in the air was a little embarrassed for a while.

And Xiaohong had already jumped up excitedly when she saw this scene, and looked at the stars in the old man's eyes: "Wow, grandpa, what kind of magical exercise is this?"

The old man stretched out his hand and took the teacup that Chen Mingye was still holding in the air, raised his head and drank the tea in the cup, then wiped his mouth and said with a smug face: "It's just a small skill of carving insects, how about it, isn't it very powerful?"

Xiaohong nodded again and again without hesitation.

The old man was drunk and just dissipated, and glanced at the two of them with interest, and he didn't seem to have any intention to go around the bend with them, so he said casually: "It's just a trick that I figured out when I was young, using sword qi to force alcohol, what's so difficult." ”

Chen Mingye was stunned when he heard this, and the whole person looked at the old man in a bit of a daze.

Xiaohong shook her little head suspiciously, then turned her head to look at Chen Mingye on the side, and asked, "Little junior brother, do you understand?"

Chen Mingye smiled bitterly: "The methods of the seniors are too profound, and the juniors really don't understand it thoroughly for a while." ”

"Stupid," the old man glanced at the two of them, and said slowly: "Sword Qi can be done out of the body, so have you ever thought about using the sword qi to go out with other qi in your body?"

When Chen Mingye heard this, his brows tightened.

Xiaohong on the side stretched out her hand to cover her nose, and looked at the old man with a frown: "Grandpa, your method is very bad?"

When the old man saw Xiaohong's movements, Deng Shi understood what she was thinking of, and Deng Shi's face darkened: "It is worthy of being a young man, and his ideas are really a little rich." But it doesn't matter, it's all the qi of the human body, and it naturally has to be solved. ”

Chen Mingye sighed and secretly tried it, only to find that although the meridians were accustomed to the entry and exit of sword qi, it was really more difficult to bring some other private goods out of the sword qi than to ascend to the sky.

The old man glanced at Chen Mingye and said with a smile: "Don't try it, stinky boy, you are no different from constipation." ”

Chen Mingye's face darkened, but he didn't hear it, and he didn't reply at all. However, he also knew in his heart that the method that the old man said seemed to be light, but it was really not something that could be done easily.

"Hey, old man, if you have this method, how can you still get drunk?" Xiaohong seemed to think of something, and looked at the old man with some puzzlement.

The old man looked at the pair of watery eyes, and was speechless for a while, so he had to sigh for a long time and said, "Drink freely, what's the point of not getting drunk?"

"Xiaohong doesn't understand. The little girl continued to look at each other seriously, shaking her head like a rattle.

"I don't know how to ask your little junior brother. The old man did not have a good breath, rolled over and got up from the bed, sat down on the edge of the table, and reached out with the empty cup and poured himself another glass of water.

"Little junior brother......" Xiaohong's eyes for help immediately turned to Chen Mingye.

Chen Mingye sighed and said, "I think the predecessors didn't get drunk with that method when they were young before, so now I deliberately want to get drunk a few more times." ”

Xiaohong grinned: "Yes, this method is really powerful, if the master knows, he will definitely be very envious." ”

Chen Mingye smiled helplessly, and couldn't help but think of the red-robed woman who drank even though she had a very poor amount of alcohol, but she couldn't help but drink.

The old man smiled: "What if you drink so much? What about being the best in the world? In the end, you can't just sit in a daze, thinking about it all day long." ”

Chen Mingye's expression moved, this old man who came out of the bottom of Yunmengze Lake really seemed to have some unknown past.

That's right, the seniority is here. Chen Mingye thought for a while, but he never searched for a kendo master surnamed Li from his memory.

"Senior, is your surname really Li?" asked Chen Mingye.

"Why do you think this surname is good, and you want to change it with me?" the old man pouted, not bothering to deal with him at all.

"......" Chen Mingye suppressed the irritable impulse in his heart, and still calmed down and said peacefully, "The juniors are curious about the martial arts cultivation of their predecessors, why do the juniors search the memories of the former martial arts evaluation masters, and there is no grandmaster surnamed Li?"

"Martial arts evaluation list?" the old man smiled, looking at Chen Mingye's eyes, there was some inexplicable smile hidden in it.

"Yes, in the martial arts evaluation list of the past dynasties and decades, the younger generations are probably some impressions. Chen Mingye nodded and said.

"Well, that's good. The old man praised perfunctorily, and there seemed to be no meaning in talking deeply.

"Then, senior, why ......" Chen Mingye felt that the old man's mood fluctuated rarely, and it seemed to be a good opportunity, so he kept inquiring.

The old man shrugged: "Do you believe me when I said I wasn't chosen?"

Chen Mingye shook his head: "The juniors have seen the swordsmanship cultivation of the seniors with their own eyes, so they naturally don't believe it. ”

The old man smiled: "Then I said I don't want to go to you, believe it or not?"

Chen Mingye was slightly stunned, in his memory, the selection of the martial arts evaluation list would always hold the most righteous opinion, but it seemed that he had never heard of asking the opinion of the grandmaster on the list, and of course, there had never been a grandmaster who deliberately asked to erase his name.

"Let me ask you again, is that old turtle who Yun Mengze is good at fishing?

"Most of the martial arts evaluation lists are martial arts people in the rivers and lakes, and Qingxuan Jiuding are all Qi cultivators, and they don't seem to be of the same stream. Chen Mingye replied.

"Okay, then you can understand it like this, I'm not a martial arts person, isn't that okay. The old man seemed to be annoyed by his question, and waved his hand casually, which was an answer.

Chen Mingye nodded thoughtfully, but he always felt as if he had missed some key information in the old man's words.

On the other hand, Xiaohong pulled his sleeve: "Little junior brother, it's almost noon, let's go eat." ”

"Good. Chen Mingye stretched out his hand to take Xiaohong's little hand, looked back at the old man who was still sitting and said, "Senior, let's eat some together, we will continue to rush in the afternoon." ”

"Forget it, you go and eat, this old man will have no appetite. The old man waved his hand and said.

Chen Mingye nodded and took Xiaohong out of the room.

Although this inn is small, it has a lot of people. There was almost no vacancy in the hall, Chen Mingye brought Xiaohong over, and it happened that Xiao Er cleaned up an empty table, and Chen Mingye walked over with Xiaohong.

"Hey, boy, this table is the first thing we have our eye on," a man suddenly reached out and pushed him back with force.

A cold light flashed in Chen Mingye's eyes, and it faintly fell on the man opposite him.

The man who spoke was quite strong, and the horizontal flesh on his face showed a bit of fierceness, looking at Chen Mingye's eyes full of disdain, thinking that in his eyes, this kind of weak scholar was afraid that he would fart and urinate when he saw them, and he couldn't say half a sentence.

There were two other men beside this man, who were thinner, wearing short shirts, and looking like a child, and one of them had a stunned eyes that fell on Xiaohong's body, and a trace of perverted excitement vaguely flashed.

"I'm sorry, I only saw that Xiao Er had just cleaned up, and there was no one here. Chen Mingye took Xiaohong a few steps back, as if he didn't want to cause trouble.

The sturdy man saw that the scholar opposite made a concession, and laughed and said: "Look at your cowardice, okay, my brother is in a good mood today, and I don't embarrass you, but you collided with my two brothers, what can I do?"

The thin men on both sides immediately followed and said: "That's it, you grabbed a seat when you came up, and almost didn't scare me out of cold sweat, look at it, my body is not good in the first place, hey, I was scared by you, I'm afraid I have to go to Lang Zhong to take a look." The two of them spoke so vividly that they almost didn't make themselves laugh.

Chen Mingye said lightly: "Then what should I do?"

"It's simple, with one or two pieces of silver as the cost of our medical treatment. A thin man said immediately.

"By the way, it's not easy for us to see you, or you can bring your sister to eat with us. The other man's eyes fell on Xiaohong's body and never looked away, and at this moment, he smiled and immediately answered.

Xiaohong seemed to hate that look a little, but thinking that Chen Mingye said that he had to listen to him outside, she had to quietly move her body behind him, and her small hand grabbed his big hand tightly.

Chen Mingye sensed Xiaohong's movements, and the coldness in his eyes completely bloomed, but he looked at the three men opposite, but the corners of his mouth suddenly hooked: "Okay, do you want to see a doctor?" ”