The low house of green bricks was dimly lit, and the flames of beans were dancing.

Zhong Ming sat on a wooden bench, holding the box of the mandarin duck with a stone lock in his hand, and looked at the stone box carefully.

The stone lock mandarin duck is a square stone box the size of a person's head, which is carved with a simple relief, the mandarin duck playing in the water, and the stone lock mandarin duck is also named after it.

The stone box does not have a keyhole, and people of unknown origin will mistakenly think that it is a stone carving.

But the young man knows the ingenuity of this thing, the stone lock mandarin duck, the mandarin duck is just its good name, according to the mother's explanation, this thing is the ancestor of the Xu family to the grandmother's love thing, so it has the reputation of the mandarin duck.

The word stone lock is its meaning, and the lock item is the purpose of this strange thing.

Thinking of the ancestor's expression, the young man couldn't help but mutter: "I think my ancestor is still a seed of infatuation." ”

After turning over and looking at the stone box, Zhong Ming immediately discovered the mystery of the stone box, there was a thin crack on the mandarin duck map, if you didn't touch it with your hands, you can't detect it with your eyes alone.

After several attempts, Zhong Ming held down the two mandarin ducks and gently pushed them to the sides before opening the mechanism inside.

The center of the mandarin duck figure exposes a mezzanine, in which is the keyhole, and the shape just coincides with the dragon and phoenix key.

The person who made the keyhole also played a clever trick, the real key is not the front end of the dragon and phoenix key, but the dragon head and phoenix pattern that are merged together, and the inverted key can open the stone box.

The process of opening the box can be described as a little bumpy, and the young man has also seen the ancestor's careful cleverness.

After inserting the dragon and phoenix key into the stone lock mandarin duck, the young man opened the stone box with a little force, and with the crisp writhing sound of the machine, the top of the stone lock mandarin duck fell off.

Due to the stone box itself, the space inside it is not large, and the objects inside are also stunned by the young man.

At the top was a piece of gold, a piece of silver, and a copper coin.

Beneath the money was a letter, and below that were two pamphlets.

Taking out the contents of the stone box, the young man groped in disbelief for the box, hoping to find out if there was a secret compartment again, but to his great disappointment, there were only these few simple objects in the box.

Gold and silver aside, it's just the official silver of the former Chen system, and now it can't be spent, and if you want to spend it, you have to melt it.

The new Tang Dynasty has been established, and new laws must be implemented and new money must be used.

A country's official silver is a symbol of wealth and status, if there are still people who dare to spend the former Chen Guanyin for unknown reasons, it is asking for hardship, the light one will confiscate the official silver, the cane Xing will wait, and the heavy one will be punished as a rebellion, and the prison will be taken into custody and wait for the beheading at the east gate.

That copper coin is quite interesting, more than twice as large as an ordinary copper coin, neither the copper coin of the former Chen nor the copper coin of the current Tang Dynasty.

On the top side of it is printed with a powerful ghost, and on the other side is a dead man buying his life.

He looked at the heavy copper coin bell over and over again, but he didn't see any fame, so he could only put it down and read the booklet again.

The two volumes are also different, one is a yellowed vellum, I don't know what material, it feels smooth and like some kind of animal skin, and the book has the title of "Three Gusts of Wind" written on it.

The bright red font is certainly not ink, but more like blood.

When he picked up this booklet, the young man was excited, this is probably his family knife technique, today I heard Uncle Yang mention that the family tradition is not inferior to his Yang family's marksmanship.

His father, Xu Qiandao, was once on the Tiangang list of martial arts legends, and his uncle was also at the top of the list of Dikui, which is certainly not bad.

The young man hurriedly flipped through it, and he thought that the light was too dim, so he picked the wick of the oil lamp with a stick.

The flames rose a little higher, and the room became brighter, and the faces of the young men were also reflected in the candlelight.

Suppressed excitement, the young man's hands trembled a little.

When the young man opened the book, he couldn't stop it, and he read it in one breath before he put it down.

It is unknown whether the sword technique of "Three Gusts of Wind" is a peerless young man who walks alone in martial arts, but the description in it is extremely obscure, only a few thousand words, and the young man is also very difficult to read, and he can only understand 12 out of 10.

It involves a lot of words about the human body's acupuncture points and qi cultivation, which young people have never heard of.

In his previous life, Zhong Ming was not a doctor, how could he understand the acupuncture gate and the theory of cultivating qi and mysteriousness.

In general, there are two things in the book: the first half of the book is the method of cultivating qi and luck, and the second half of the book talks about the three knife techniques.

Yang Qi said that the young man was confused, but he understood the knife technique in the second half of the book, not that the young man was talented and intelligent, but the book was equipped with illustrations, which was very detailed, and it was easier to understand than the previous article.

These three knife techniques are named respectively: rolling wild sand, chaotic water moon, and Fushan Gang. Just listening to the name, I feel that these three tricks are quite interesting.

The roll of the wild sand is intended to be heavy, with the strong knife as the soul, invincible, every mountain to open the mountain, every stone to go to the stone, to win with fierceness;

Seek change in the turbulent water and moon, make the light and spiritual knife path as the law, meet the source left and right, avoid the false and straightforward, and win with flexibility;

Fushangang takes into account the length of the first two strokes, thin with thick, the knife of change and light and agile carries the momentum of opening the mountain and gravel, the knife intention is mixed, the virtual and the real are there, and the intention is to win, and there is no shortcoming.

The young man was immediately in a surging mood, and he was about to dance in the courtyard with the Yama Absolute Sword.

But after a cup of tea, the young man shook his head and returned to the house with a wry smile.

It seems that this sword technique is easy to say, but when young people go to practice, problems arise one after another.

First of all, the young man's physique is weak, and the weight of the knife is not low, and he holds the knife as if he is lifting weights, and there is no way to standardize the movements.

Secondly, the book also says that the moves are important, but they must also cooperate with the method of luck to exert their power, and young people can't do the artistic conception mentioned in the book, even if it is one out of ten or two.

It's hard!

Nothing can be succeeded overnight, let alone this martial arts technique that has been refined into a hundred talents.

After dancing for a while, the young man was sweating profusely, not to mention the snoring of Liang Heizi next door shook the sky, disturbing the young man's heart.

He simply stopped practicing, and the young man dragged his tired body back into the house.

After thinking about it carefully, the young man still thinks that there is no urgency in practicing the knife, and it is not possible to achieve it quickly.

It seems that after today, we have to find someone who knows how to practice the Fa to ask for advice, whether it is Sun Longhu or Yang Yanlang, they are both masters in the eyes of young people, and they are objects that can be consulted.

The heavy ring-headed sword was hung on the wall by the young man, and it took up space when laid horizontally.

Back in the house, the young man's interest in practicing knives was halved, and the other volume was his father Xu Qiandao's knife experience, which involved more obscure words, and the young man hastily turned two pages and put it down, and then read it carefully.

At last only the letter remained, and the young man hesitated for a moment before opening it.

Because it is written: My son Zhong Ming personally opened.

After all, the young man is just a foreign surname who borrows his skin to live, and this letter was obviously left to Zhong Ming by Xu Qiandao, does he read it?

Just a few words pierced the sore spot in the young man's heart, and he hesitated for a while before deciding to open it.

Since he has received the skin of someone else's son, the corresponding responsibility must follow, and this letter cannot be said without reading it.

More than 100 words are sprinkled on it, although Xu Qiandao is a martial artist, the writing is not good-looking, but the pen outline has a fierce momentum, making his words look as sharp as a knife carving, and it also has a unique charm.

It is said that seeing words and knowing people, this Xu Qiandao is a sharp-edged master.

Approaching the oil lamp, the young man read through the letter with respect.

The letter said:

My son Zhong Ming, you can see this letter, the father will not be by your side, I don't know when and where my son opened this letter, you must remember what the father said.

The things left in the box are silver coins to save lives, and if my son is in a desperate situation now, he can take silver ingots to live.

Gold ingots are left to start a family, don't be ambitious, gold ingots can buy good land, shops, and don't squander them at will.

If my son is in a peaceful and prosperous world, my father does not want you to learn the exercises, let alone get involved in the bloody things in the rivers and lakes.

If you are in troubled times, you can learn to defend yourself.

Remember, you must not fight bravely and ruthlessly, and you must not show your exercises without encountering danger to your life.

I have been writing for several months, leaving many years of experience in swordsmanship, and I can learn from martial arts.

The copper coin in the box is a life-saving thing, not easy to show people, if you have a worry about your life, you can take this copper coin to buy your life in the city's Jishengtang.

Remember, remember, life money is a life-saver, it can save your life, and it can only be used once, remember not to show it lightly.

As a father, I can't see my son grow into a pillar, and my heart is a relative, and I am ashamed of your mother and son.

I hope that my son will take care of your mother for my father, and I don't ask for food like my son's name, but only for the safety of my mother and son.

Finally, if my son has an heir, he must change his surname to Xu and recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

The bell is sealed.

After reading this letter, the young man only felt depressed in his heart, and he could not spit it out for a long time.

When he came to his senses, he quietly lit the letter on an oil lamp and burned it on the stove.

Zhong Feng, who was incognito back then, and now the world-famous giant sword Yan Luo Xu Qiandao, how many secrets there are in the young man's father, he still needs to slowly discover it himself.

In a trance, a thought arose in the young man's heart: if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely take the Yama Jue Ring Sword on his back and go to Fengtian City in the northwest to find his legendary father in person.

After burning the letters, the young man put all the money in the books into the mandarin ducks in the stone lock, leaving only the miraculous money to buy his life, which was worn on a rope and hung around his neck with the dragon and phoenix key.

Originally, the young man had a brocade box, which was picked up in a large family, and the lock was specially made by the locksmith in the town, and it was used with the Fengming key.

Now that there is a stone lock mandarin duck, the brocade box is useless, the young man will put the brocade box in the corner of the wall at will, and put the gold ingots in the stone lock mandarin duck, and finally put the stone box into the dark compartment under the bed.

By the time the young man had done all this, the moon was already hanging in the sky, and everything was silent.

Lying on the big bed, the young man tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and Liang Heizi snored from time to time next door, and he always remembered all kinds of strange things that happened today in his mind.

After tossing and turning for a long time, a deep sleep came, and the young man was finally able to sleep soundly.

The bizarre day has finally passed, and the young man's tomorrow will be even more exciting.