Inside the carriage, Mr. Sun slept soundly, sleeping in a dissolute position.

Ah Qing sat outside the curtain with the coachman and showed the way to the Pearl Spring Inn. When I got in the car just now, I had specifically asked Mr. Sun's address, which was No. 8 Courtyard B in the garden behind the Pearl Spring Inn.

At that time, Shopkeeper Chu and Xu Lao Sikui glanced at each other, and they were more sure of the authenticity of the identity of this Mo family who was not good-looking but had a big tone. Even so, the shopkeeper Chu still instructed Aqing to "drink the guest and send it to the room in person". And Aqing, who has been in Linzi all the year round and is familiar with all the doors and courtyards, roughly knows what the meaning of the big garden behind the inn represents.

The distance from the lakeside to Dongcheng is not far, Ah Qing led the carriage straight to one of the side gates of the Pearl Spring Garden, woke up Mr. Sun to verify his identity, and helped him into the house of No. 8 Courtyard B with the young man in the garden. There are also two maidservants in the garden who specialize in serving guests, Mr. Sun said that he wanted to take a nap, Aqing watched the maidservants wait for Mr. Sun to lie down, and waited for the hangover tea to be served, and waited for Mr. Sun to drink before leaving.

Out of the gate of the Eighth Courtyard, Ah Qing did not go out of the garden directly, but asked other guys for directions, and found a familiar guy in the Pearl Spring Inn, named Li Mingai. Ah Qing and he are good friends, they have been here many times in private, and some of the people in the Pearl Spring Inn already know Ah Qing, and the little guy directly asked Ah Qing to stand under a rockery and call him by himself.

Ah Qing didn't wait long before he saw a young man trotting along the bamboo path from the direction of the front building. Stretching out his hand from afar, "Qingzhi!"

Aqing also greeted, "Akiko!"

Aqing and Mingye were not born and raised in Linzi City, but grew up together since childhood, and came to Linzi City together when they were seven or eight years old, one entered the silver building and the other worked as a buddy in the inn. The two of them call each other interestingly, Ah Qing's big name is Chen Qingzhi, the elders of the silver building are generally called Ah Qing, and Li Minghui usually calls Ah Qing's big name Qingzhi. The people here in the inn generally call Li Mingai Mingai, but Aqing likes to take the word in the middle of his name and call him Mingzi.

Lee Ming-wai was the first to jump on a big rock. The two sat side by side, the setting sun shining the side faces of the two teenagers, casting two long shadows on the ground.

The calves of the two teenagers are dangling, and the two of them treat people in the Yinlou Inn on weekdays, only when they see each other, they are happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Ah Qing asked, "How is today?"

Mingzi replied: "It's not very good, I was scolded by Brother Dachen this morning." ”

Aqing smiled, "What's the matter, you're careless again?"

Mingzi shook his head, "No, it's a particularly good-looking person who has recently come to the restaurant, and he's not very old, just good-looking." The temper also stinks, when I first came a few days ago, Dachen didn't care about it, it was the door I went to greet him, and I didn't let me touch the box in my hand. He came downstairs this morning, and I looked twice. I look at him......" Akiko's eyes lit up, "he lives in the front building, but I think he's a bit like those immortals who live in the courtyard." ”

Ah Qing touched Li Minghui's head, "You kid, you want to be an immortal, right? Although we still have big things to do in the future, we can't be in a hurry." Grandpa Xu said that most of those immortals are actually no different from the gangsters on the streets of our market, and their temper is not good. Deliberately pursuing immortal fate may be a bad thing. ”

The setting sun shone Akiko's ears red, and she lowered her head and was silent for a while, saying, "Got it." ”

Ah Qing chatted about business: "There is a guest from the Yinlou today, it is said that it is from Jiang Chuguomo's family, I just sent him back and lives in the courtyard of No. 8." Grandpa Xu and Shopkeeper Chu are a little worried about him, you can help me keep an eye on it and see if there is anything abnormal. ”

Li Mingwei closed his eyes, searched in his mind for a while, and spit out words little by little: "My name is Sun Yiqi, I came here six days, and I will go out every day for a few days after moving in, and I will come back at night." The day before yesterday and last night, there was another guest in the front building, who entered the courtyard of No. 8 B when no one was looking. ”

Ah Qing nodded and pondered for a while, "The person in the front building, you can also help me keep an eye on it." If these two people knew each other, it would be strange that one would live in the front building and the other in the garden. ”

Turning around and patting the young man on the shoulder, "This news is very useful, thank you Akiko." ”

Li Mingyi smiled, "Little things." Chen Qingzhi and Li Minghui will be the ones who will do great things in the future. ”

A-Qing nodded seriously, "For Grandma Qi." ”

Li Mingwei also nodded solemnly, "For the little moth." And he said, "I have a day off tomorrow, so I don't have to be on duty." You can go to Hanfu to learn boxing. ”

"Help me say hello to Master Han. Yinlou was still waiting for a reply, I couldn't leave for too long, left. Ah Qing jumped off the stone, and instead he jogged along the stone path to the garden gate, in a hurry.

Suddenly came and went young man.

Mingye stayed on the stone and watched him leave. The two teenagers have experienced too many things that should not have suffered at that age when they were young, but fortunately, they have each other, can take care of and support each other, so that they can stand firmly in this crowded Linzi City.

Li Minghui came back to his senses and returned to the front building to do things, and it was already evening when he changed the duty. In order to ensure that the service of the guests is not interrupted, the inn arranges a separate courtyard for the guys and handymen in the building at a corner of the garden. Mingye returned to his room, lay down on the bed, and did not fall asleep immediately, according to a set of breathing methods taught by Grandma Qi when he was a child, holding his thumb with four fingers of both hands and making a fist, his tongue against the roof of his mouth, and then slowly swallowing and breathing, the so-called "Na Yi Six, Na Qi one means inhaling, exhaling six means blowing, exhaling, hee, he, he, shh, whoo." The former is called "Grip Solid" and the latter is called "Building a Magpie Bridge", which is not an esoteric practice method, but just some health preservation techniques for prolonging life. Ah Qing and Ming Ai have both learned from childhood, and they are still practicing diligently, not so much to cultivate their bodies, but to miss their old people more.

Since the two dynasties before the immortal law was universal, some basic practice exercises were also partially scattered among the people. The Grip and Breath Method is actually the broadest entry foundation for the orthodox Taoist method of cultivating immortals, but it is still too far from the true cultivation path. For example, the grip method needs to be combined with a "fetal breath" method in order to imitate the appearance of a newborn baby and return to a little innate vitality in the body. The convincing of the Tuna method is to practice the qi, and the tongue against the palate is a bridge and the breathing technique, which requires the qi to be taken into the body and run in the body for a few days to store the dantian. After the foundation, the exercises of each school are different, and most of the monks in ancient times were purely "practicing qi", paying attention to refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, and refining gods to reverse emptiness. Many immortals in modern times have to swallow it with their tongues and teeth in addition to spitting. This "Qi Route" and how to "add silver and mercury" to the body to refine into Neidan after swallowing the "Golden Essence and Jade Liquid" are the secrets of the immortals who were still practicing in the "mountains" back then, and the secrets of various families and factions.

Li Minghui insisted on practicing every day after encountering major events since he was a child, and the effect cannot be said to be nothing, but his ears and eyes are clear. He has a better memory than others, and can always "see" many things outside of the naked eye.

At this moment, for example, he suddenly woke up from his dream and turned his head to look at the front building in the distance.

When I closed my eyes and fell asleep, the part of my heart that belonged to the front building of the inn suddenly became ignorant and not very clear, and the faint sound of drums beat with my heartbeat. When he frowned and concentrated on looking, he seemed to have suddenly passed through some obstacle, and the next scene he "saw" shocked his spirit, and then his heart yearned for it.

Li Minghui hurriedly got up, put on his clothes and carried a lantern, and ran towards the front building where he worked every day.

It's the real immortals fighting. It's a pity that I took a break at this time, which is not worth it!

The lantern shuttled through the bamboo shadow by the spring, panting. When he was walking briskly, he saw a tall and thin figure on the stone bridge in front of him, his back shrouded in the shadow of the bamboo, and he looked at the front building with his hands behind his back.

Li Minghui stopped, raised a lantern to probe his face, and called, "Shopkeeper?"

The figure on the bridge did not turn around and said, "Go back." ”

Li Mingwei immediately nodded "hey" and turned around, but he was actually very reluctant in his heart, but his body immediately sped up and ran back to his room, closed the door neatly, extinguished the lantern, and turned over to bed.

Li Mingwei knew that the thin shopkeeper was actually a cultivator, and there was a mountain sect behind him. He naturally knows how much he likes to pursue the fairy shopkeeper, but since he has never looked for himself once so far, it means that from the inn, the "fairy road", in a short period of time, it will not work. Therefore, no matter how great the temptation from the front building is, he can't leave a bad impression from the inn.

Just lying down again, just tossing and turning. After a while, the sound of night owls outside the window was loud, and the drums were bursting, and it was not until the second half of the night that it gradually stopped.

Li Mingwei fell asleep in a daze.

This night, in a trance, he dreamed that the moon in the sky, which had never been bright, seemed to be broken, and he was standing under a large embankment, and people on the embankment came and went, busy patching together and mending the moon, and he seemed to see the barely repaired moon falling into his arms. He also dreamed that he could leap over mountains, cities, and rivers by standing nine days away, bowing like a tiger and slapping the river with his palms......

At dawn, Li Minghui opened and closed his eyes, it was still a new day.

The young man first ran to the front building to inquire about the details of last night's movements, and listened to the other guys on duty in the second half of the night to describe how dangerous it was at night, how the young man in the green shirt and the green shirt was haunted, and under the encirclement and suppression of dozens of immortals on the mountain, he held a long sword and killed all directions. It's just that in the end, it drifted away, but it was a pity that there was a lot of Tianfang money stored on the cabinet. Li Minghui was the first time he heard the scene, and he exclaimed and sighed as the guys told him.

As for how the inn compensated and reduced the room money for the frightened guests, it had already been handled by the innkeeper who was in a good mood after seeing the amount of the banknotes last night. There is no way to reach a consensus, such as a wealthy businessman who died unfortunately downstairs from a young man and his maidservant, and there is also Jing Anlang's mediation. In addition to the fact that there are many damaged rooms in the inn that need to be sealed and repaired, a trivial matter is dealt with quickly and returns to normal.

When the boy arrived in the lobby on the first floor of the inn, he heard from the frightened tenants that there were sometimes other behind-the-scenes versions. Among them, the most credible is a martial artist in the crowd, who raised his glass and said that last night it was actually a group of thieves on the mountain who came to seek revenge against the green shirt knights, and the green shirt people did not kill all sides as the guys said, but fell into disadvantage. Thanks to the fact that he couldn't bear the grievances in his heart, he was iron-clad, he opened the window and shouted at the thieves, and with the support of everyone in the building, the fierce and vicious shutter assassins didn't dare to be too blatant. The chivalrous man was given time to delay the arrival of Jing Anlang, and he successfully escaped.

There were a few other room occupants around him, and they proved out that Takeo had indeed opened the window last night and said righteous.

The others nodded in praise, and Takeo waved his hands to drink.

The young man went back to his room to pack up a few of his belongings, left the Pearl Spring Garden, and returned to a remote courtyard of his own in Xicheng. Ah Qing has already done a big job, and the silver building will provide a place to live. The house on this side of the inn is not officially assigned to the name of ordinary guys and miscellaneous servants, and whoever is on duty will go to sleep. So Li Mingwei still retains a very small yard of his own in the bungalow area in the west of the city.

His Lee Ming-i's yard.

At first, he and A Qing first arrived in Linzi City, the first place to settle down.

The boy had breakfast and went to a neighbor's house a few alleys away. is an old woman surnamed Gongsun, has a little granddaughter surnamed Bai, and has two grandchildren in the family. The old man lives in a secluded house on weekdays and doesn't go out much. Relying on the soles of some cloth shoes and his own marinated duck paws to make a living, he is too old and frail to sell along the street, so he can only sell them to the back kitchen of a restaurant at a low price, and the guys of the restaurant come to collect them every day. When Li Mingai was empty, he always came to Gongsun's mother-in-law's house first to help with heavy work such as fetching water and chopping firewood.

The little granddaughter's name is Guoguo, she talks very little, and she walks lightly, elusively, when Aqing also lived in the yard before, she especially liked to stick to Aqing. The old woman has a very good heart, and the shoes on Li Mingwei and Aqing's feet before were all from her hands. The old man lived next to a vacant lot, and there was a large ginkgo tree growing outside the house, which, according to the older generation, had lived for more than 2,000 years and had long since become a spirit. Every year in September and October, when the old ginkgo tree outside the door bears fruit, it can always intercept some of the best ripe ones for the first time and give them to Ah Qing Ming-ai to eat.

Today, Guoguo's mouth is quite sweet, and when he meets, he calls "Brother Mingzi", and when Li Mingai carries water, he follows from afar, and he doesn't approach, and he plays his own. The water was picked back, and the grandparents in the courtyard thanked the grandparents who were on the soles of their shoes. Li Minghui was about to get up and leave, but Granny Gongsun grabbed the young man's arm and looked up and down.

"Ming boy, blessed. ”

The boy laughed and didn't take it seriously. Mother-in-law Gongsun is very nice, and always solemnly says auspicious words to their children. It's just that the boy was still very serious about waiting for good luck to come, and he was especially careful when doing things from the inn, for fear of accidentally missing any good fortune. It's just that for two days in a row, nothing else happened except for the innkeeper who gave a pot of wine to all the unworthy men at night.

The boy trotted all the way to Old Man Han's house in Dongcheng. Practice boxing.

The days of June are like children.

It didn't take long for the weather to turn down. The wind became strong and urgent, shaking down countless pink and white locust trees on both sides of the road, dotted with stars, and piled up on the road. The wind gradually became stronger, rolling along the bluestone pavement, driving the locust flowers on the ground, as if there was an invisible demon transiting, wrapped in the wind and carrying the acacia, and the momentum was huge.

Li Ming-wai ran in the wind, listening to the muffled thunder rolling overhead. Looking up at the sky for a while, I am afraid that I will not be able to run to the east of the city before I see this posture, and I will be drenched in soup halfway.

When he was hesitating, he passed by an ox cart behind him, and just staggered past, a crisp and crisp female voice sounded in the shed of the ox cart: "Li Ming-ai!"

The boy looked up suddenly, and a girl with a round face, dressed in green, with her hair in a bun. The girl has a pair of round apricot eyes, and the sparse bangs can't cover the black eyebrows. waved his hand from the ox cart without a car wall and shouted, "Li Minghui, are you going to Master Han's house too?"

The boy smiled, yes.

The girl turned around and greeted the driver who was driving the car, "Uncle Qi, slow down. Then he waved his hand magnificently, "Get in the car!"

The speed of the ox cart slowed down slightly, and the boy hurried two steps, holding the back of the cart one step further. The girl let her body go and asked Li Mingwei to sit inside. The ox cart was rolling around, and the girl had to shout when she spoke, explaining to Li Minghui: "I looked windy on the way here, and I happened to meet Uncle Qi to go to the east to pull oil, so I asked him to give us a ride." ”

The girl's name is Dong Luzhu, and she studied with Li Minghui and Aqing in the old master's house in Chengdong Han, living in the north of the city, and her family background is better than the two. Old man Han has a strange temper, he is a little stupid, but he is a veritable civil and military master, he opens a school from his own house, teaches everything, can also learn boxing, also teaches archery, can also do learning, and sometimes even teach some girls how to be female celebrities. What Meng Tong wants to learn depends on his mood, if he needs to help with work on weekdays, he can also find time.

The rain fell, from a few drops to a sudden increase, and Qi Bo had already put on the poncho that was always on the car. The ox cart drove slowly forward, and pedestrians with umbrellas and grassy streets beside the road appeared from both sides and were left behind. The sound of raindrops falling on the road, and the sound of the ox cart rolling against the stone slabs is very good.

The bullock cart had no walls, and some rain still blew in and wet the clothes of the two men. Mingye sat inside, looking at the back of the girl who was wet by the rain, the faintly visible waist, and the skylight from outside the car outlined the outline of the volume. Li Mingwei listened to the girl in front of him chirping, and could see the raindrops condensed on the girl's neck, and the short hairs-

There is a lesbian car, Yan Ru Shunhua.

The boy thought, this is the blessing that Grandma Gongsun said.

Boom and fall.

It didn't take long for Qi Bo in front of him to turn around and shout: "Luzhu, little Housheng, I have to turn to the left two streets in front of me, and you won't be able to go to Chengdong Hanfu by the way." It's not too far from Hanfu, you two get out of the car and find a place to take shelter, and wait for the rain to stop before you go over?"

Lu Zhu asked Qi Bo to park the car next to a well pavilion on the side of the street, Li Minghui jumped out of the car first, and protected Lu Zhu's hair with his arm, and the girl suddenly ran into the pavilion, and the two teenagers jumped up and down, shaking off the rain on their bodies.

There is already a person in the small well pavilion, and the two have also seen it in the Han Mansion, named Pei Wenhu, who is sitting on the edge of the well with a big thorn, and is not afraid of falling. Pei Wenhu is a small outlier in the Han Mansion, most of the children who usually study in the Han Mansion are poor families, and the children of large families will naturally ask Mr. Jiaxue to study, and the most unfortunate is to go to the public school in the city. Only children from families who can't even afford to go to public schools will choose a private school like Hanfu. Dong Luzhu is already considered to be from a higher family among many children in the Han Mansion. Pei Wenhu is different, the Pei family is definitely one of the wealthy families in Linzi, but he is tired of the rigid dogma of Mr. Jiaxue, and I heard that the Han Mansion not only teaches reading, but also teaches fists and feet, singing, fishing, and shooting birds. And after being excluded by other children, he came to study and lay down resolutely without a servant, and he had to go to the house. At this time, I saw Li Minghui and Lu Zhu coming in at the same time, and after chatting for a few words, they began to joke, did the little couple get out of the wedding car?

Li Minghui's face sank, and he quickly intercepted the conversation: What nonsense. Who knew that Luzhu's temperament couldn't help but provoke, and he opened his mouth and said: "You don't make do." Who is comparable to the eldest young master of the Pei family, who has been a baby since he was a child, and he is still married to the daughter of the Zhou family in Threshing City. "I don't know what the girl looks like, but the Zhou family doesn't say anything else, it's rich. In the future, if you marry someone into the door, will you marry a girl from the Zhou family? Or will the young master of the Pei family marry himself as the son-in-law of the Zhou family?"

Pei Wenhu's face turned red, and he wanted to refute but was said to be sick of his heart, and he thought of a few words in response in his heart, and he couldn't even pass the barrier in his heart, so he glared angrily.

In the small pavilion, the atmosphere was awkward.

Dong Luzhu said: "What are you staring at? Makeshift talents are hiding in the pavilion, don't stay with our makeshift people if you have the ability?"

Pei Wenhu turned his head to look outside, and saw that the rain had turned smaller, so he jumped down from the well. Fortunately, the two bad guys one studied and the other practiced boxing, and the place where they learned archery in Han Mansion was not together, so they didn't "live in the same room" with the two disgusting people, and shouted viciously at Dong Luzhu: "Shameless, sing and harmonize, if I stay with you again, I will be a dog." He raised his sleeves to cover his head, turned his head and rushed out. Manly man, one step ahead.

Dong Luzhu and Li Mingwei looked at each other and smiled.

The girl invited merit and said: "Look, sometimes only the little woman rules the wicked. ”

Li Minghui nodded yes, and suddenly raised his head and shouted into the distance: "Qingzhi?"

Among the pedestrians holding umbrellas on the road, one person turned around, it was Ah Qing, holding an umbrella in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other. Hearing this, he ran over with a face full of surprise, stood outside the pavilion with an umbrella and asked, "Mingzi, Luzhu! Why are you ......?" and put his head on the back of his hand, "Haha, yes." Go to Master Han's house and get trapped in the rain, right?"

Luzhu was happy: "Yes." Brother Aqing, are you going to practice boxing today?"

A-Qing shook his head, "There have been a lot of things in the silver building recently, and I can't be idle today." He turned his head to look at Li Minghui and raised the basket in his hand, "No, the shopkeeper wants me to buy a box of early-maturing plums from there and send it to the one at the inn." ”

Li Mingwei nodded, "I asked, and there was no one in Courtyard B 8 this morning." The one in the front building went out instead, and I don't know where he went. Ah Qing was about to speak, when there was a rolling thunder in the sky, and the rain suddenly became heavier again. Hurriedly put away the umbrella and came in and walked in. After thinking about it, I placed the umbrella horizontally on the wellhead to prevent people from falling unintentionally.

Then he saw that in the heavy rain, Pei Wenhu held his head in his hands, ran back with big strides, rushed back to the pavilion, and took two steps to stand firm.

Several people in the pavilion were silent, and the second eye was opposite to the sixth.

Pei Wenhu said: "What do you see? ”

The rain was loud, and the ground was splashed with water and clouds. The four of them leaned into the pavilion.

Green beads sit on the pavilion railing, revealing the calves under the skirt, the cool clogs hang from the feet, the calves are upside down, and the clogs are dangling. The water droplets on the calves condense and do not slip off, reflecting the light of the sky. Aqing reached out and touched the big toe of the green bead, and the green bead shouted What are you doing, the young man and the girl giggled.

Ren is running away and laughing, and the girl's years are moving.

After the rain stopped, the four went their separate ways.

One person was busy with a basket, and three people went to the school empty-handed.

When approaching the Han Mansion, I heard the sound of young men punching and shouting through the high wall. There are children's voices singing in unison: "Hang the people and cut down the crime, Zhou Fa Yin soup." Sitting on the court asked, hanging the arch flat chapter. Love and educate Li Shou and surrender to Rong Qiang. As one, lead the guests back to the king......"

Dong Luzhu ran into the door and shouted from afar, "Master Han-"

In the eyes of some people, the Han Mansion is noisy and noisy, not like a serious school.

In the eyes of some people, the top of the Han Mansion is full of green energy, a hundred evils are easy to dispel, and the clouds are hanging in the world.

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It's twilight.

Li Minghui dragged his body that had been tossed for a day by "spitting out the old and accepting the new, and the bear path and bird stretched" and walked home, and forced himself to eat on the simple stove in the courtyard.

Suddenly, in the afterglow, there was a thud of thunder and laughter coming from the sky. After seeing another fire, the sky was full of light and gradually faded away.

The young man looked forward for a while, bowed his head to eat, and then went back to the house early to rest, relying on the "gripping method" and "building a magpie bridge" to recover his physical exhaustion.

After nightfall, the boy heard something fall from the wall of his house.

When I went out of the house to check, it was a figure, curled up under the wall.

I can't see my face clearly, and my shirt is bloody.

(6680 words.) The two story lines are one, and the protagonist officially appears. Did Li Minghui's identity be guessed before?)