In summer, the sky is relatively early, the eastern sky is faint, and the surrounding things are still a little dark, but you can already see clearly under your feet. One old and one young, left and right.

In the trees on the side of the road, birds chirped.

The old man was tall and stout, and his steps were not fast, but his steps were large. Young people adjust their pace to follow. For a long time the old man did not speak, and the young man just followed, and did not speak.

So in addition to the footsteps, the birds chirped more and more.

The high-crowned old man turned his head to look at the other side of the lake and asked the young man, "Do you like to sleep?"

The customer took two steps forward, opened the branches of flowers and trees sticking out of the side of the road for the old man, and replied, "Yes, the three great joys of life." Judder than a woman. It's just that there aren't many times when you can sleep peacefully. ”

The old man shook his head, "Young people should not ignore the ordinary places around them just because of their age. Especially today, I won't live long anyway, so let myself see more. ”

Young people are like eating bitter melons, and their pace has slowed down.

The old man asked again, "How long have you not seen the sunrise?"

"Then from the elders. ”

The customer really raised his head and stretched, left the old man's side, and staggered to the side of the big rock, under which was the lake, looking in the direction of the east.

The old man turned around and stood under the stone. Two backs, one high and one low, watching the sun across the lake. After a moment of silence, the old man said slowly, "I want to teach you that the old man is especially good at water law." Let you look at the sun, just look at the sun. ”

The customer said, "That's right." So I really felt at ease.

He said he was watching the sunrise, but in fact he was in the city, and he couldn't see the sun breaking over the horizon. You can only see the sky on the other side of the lake slightly brightening, hooking the undulating grass and trees on the other side and the occasional spire of the letter tower into a black continuous silhouette. A hint of horizontal clouds changed from a striking black-purple to a neosa and then an orange-red. The change was both slow and fast, and as the two of them spoke, the sun had risen at a height at some point, hiding behind the orange clouds. Will be out but not out.

It turned out that the sky was already blue.

The customer suddenly felt a sense of exhaustion. The body and mind were tense all night, the heartstrings relaxed at once, the lake breeze came to him, and the injuries on his body seemed to be extremely painful.

"About 80 years ago, I should have come to Linzi once, when I was young and good at swimming, I went to Dalu to see the spring. I remember that there weren't so many tall buildings in the city at that time, and the air was better than it was now. Looking to the northeast from the lake, you can also see the flower mountain dozens of miles away from Linzi City, a mountain tip emerges, and in spring, the flowers on the mountain bloom, and it looks very good. ”

"Of course, I can't see it now. The old man looked at the lake, the direction of Huashan was a lot of high-rise buildings, and the part that should be exposed was also covered by the mist of the lake, and it was not clear to the naked eye.

The customer simply sat on the stone, wanting to close his eyes but reluctant to close them, so he only squinted. "I heard that this is already the result of Linzi's Taixue Ling's hard work, several years of writing, insisting that only around the lake to build a large garden, not a very tall building, so as not to spoil the scenery from the lake to the four directions, even the Jing'an Division Xiuxin Building, failed to build in. Mr. He Da, the superintendent of the Great Lu State, is pragmatic and not pragmatic, which is a rare elegant event over the mundane in the local city below after a series of laws and regulations have been implemented. ”

The old man was interested: "Oh, I heard?"

The customer said, "When I enter the city, of course I think first." ”

The high-crowned old man turned his head, "If you can trust me, you can sleep for a while." ”

The customer admitted: "I can't believe it." ”

The high-crowned old man said, "It's better to believe it." If I kill you now, you won't be able to run away from your full body, and you can get two more punches after sleeping peacefully. It's not in vain that you secretly rushed to repair your injuries from the beginning of seeing me, and you would rather rush through the pass with your breath and leave yourself with sequelae than recover your combat strength. I'm going to die anyway, and I'm more comfortable before I die. ”

The customer thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right." Then he stood up, and jumped down to the surface of the lake like a fish swimming in the water. The old man turned a blind eye. The young man's body fluttered like a paper kite, his arms swayed lazily, and he turned a corner and glided towards the pavilion built in the lake not far to the left.

The old man turned around from the boulder and walked around the distance to the pavilion step by step. The customer, who was already lying down in the pavilion and leaning on the beauty in the pavilion, closed his eyes and said, "It's more comfortable this way."

The young man opened his eyes again and looked into the distance on the shore of the lake.

The high-crowned old man said, "Sleep at ease." The old man stood here, and it was not the turn of this group of cubs to make a move. ”

The young man whispered: "Senior Lao has been waiting for a long time. ”

The lake breeze blows in the ears. The young man fell into a deep sleep.

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The number of tourists is increasing.

The customer opens his eyes and asks, "What time is it?" and the sound of birds and cicadas fills his ears.

"Tatsumasa. The high-crowned old man stood aside, as if he had never moved. Teasing customers: "What a big sleep." ”

The customer got up and stretched out, his joints crackling. Cheeky: "The elders give it, don't dare to take a nap." ”

The old man smiled, "I heard that you called yourself a gluttony last night?"

The customer is colorful, "I never boast, not to mention the beauty and food should not be laughed at." ”

"Don't be ashamed. ”

The old man turned around and walked out of the pavilion, "The old man is hungry, so he will eat a later morning meal with me." ”

Peony Building. Not far from the Great Lake, there is only a small garden separated from the Great Lake, and the four-storey building is rare on the shore of the Zhongcheng Lake, where it is strictly forbidden to build high-rise buildings.

Unlike Chunjiang Building, which generally only undertakes daytime food and dining, the owner of Peony Building is a native of Liangzhu in the south, and the food in the building is light in taste and more exquisite in workmanship. Because some of the dishes are refreshments from the south, and the mansions near the Great Lake are so noble that some officials are not accustomed to eating the taste of the chef at home in the morning, so the breakfast is also open.

The two of them sit along the window on the third floor, and they can look down at the private garden downstairs and the lake a little farther away. It is now the end of the hour, and the officials who were on duty early have long since left, and there are not many people in the building. The few tables of guests eat quietly.

The high-crowned old man ordered a bowl of freshly boiled boat porridge, with a cage of mustard and lettuce shrimp dumplings. The customer asked whether the soup dumplings here were small or large packets, and the guy replied that they were big packets, and they only needed the soup dumplings and mixed algae shreds to clear their mouths. The old man hesitated again and again, and was interrupted by the customer whose eyes were shining, saying that soft-shell crabs were hard to find, and he wanted four, as long as they were steamed, and then a pot of ice and ink rose carving wine.

Xiao Er smiled and retreated, and the old man began to complain, you can't eat so much in the morning, not to mention eating crabs and drinking ice wine.

The customer said, "What is the use of practicing if you still have so many scruples about eating?"

The old man shook his head with a smile and stopped talking. Between the old and the young, there is no need to say much.

The customer raised his head and asked tentatively, "And it's the last meal, you have to eat as well as you like?"

The old man nodded, "That's right, let's eat." ”

The young man sighed.

The shrimp dumplings and soup dumplings were faster, and the shop guys quickly served them first. The customer's large soup dumplings are served with a white reticulated porcelain dragon, another name for the porcelain cage, the body of the cage holds the soup dumplings, and the lid of the cage is made of slender porcelain clay kneaded into a thin rope and hand-woven into a net to make porcelain. The porcelain cover has a large hole, and the soup bag is steamed with the porcelain dragon, and the bun of the soup bag will stick out from the hole, sandwiching the soaked fungus, like a small black lotus flower. The customer pressed the lotus flower piece by piece with a small copper shovel under the hole, and lifted it with a special small copper fork to lift the lid of the cage to reveal the steaming soup bag, and a small flat spoon pressed the scattered flower center, and there was milky white soup mixed with fungus flowing into the spoon.

The two of them ate quietly and did not speak. It wasn't until the customer finished drinking the soup and began to eat the meatballs at the soup base that the old man began to review with the customer, "Last night, you first played a little trick and threw out the table and chair to explore the way to see if the formation had been completed, and when you saw that you couldn't get out of the other side of the restaurant, you talked to the girl of Gong E and delayed the words, but in fact, a puppet transposition was arranged from the room. Then he pierced through the floor to create chaos, stealth out and tried to destroy the formation. After being forced out by the Manifestation Talisman, they delayed the melee and deliberately injured themselves to relax their vigilance, using their own offensive to break the formation and kill the formation division to escape in one fell swoop. ”

The customer listened quietly, without expression.

The old man continued: "Of course, these are all open-faced small ways, and what really makes your customers self-conscious is the grasp of people's hearts. mentioning Gong E's master Meng Xiaodong touched the humiliation in her heart, making her selfish hatred greater than official business. Use words to provoke these beads that have not officially become the curtain people, and deliberately let Gong E 'see' through your thoughts, thinking that you want them to attack you alone and not form a siege momentum, but in fact, you just need multiple people to shoot at the same time, so that you can choose the attack that hits you in the chaos, so that your injury is not so deliberate. What you are afraid of is that they pick out masters to fight with you in wheels, wear down your physical strength, expose your every move to the surface, and delay the time preset by the puppet transposition. ”

"You've been waiting for a few shutter people who are hidden among everyone to make a move, the old man with five elements of magic, the illusion woman, the blind Confucian student, and especially the sword basket of the palace girl. You don't know how many swords she can make, so you have to keep pretending to be powerless to dodge, and the sword is really in vain. You deliberately leaked your breath to lure her out of the sword, and relaxed your mind to prevent selfish thoughts to kill you alone and not allow others to interfere, leaving you room to maneuver. In fact, with Gong E's current fit with the sword basket, it is already easy to ask for four, and if you fight to cultivate for regression, you can call five. It's just that your kid was lucky, and at that time, she was in the state of mind of 'shaking the tree', which led to the third hook out of Wan Yu. She was out of strength, so she had to destroy your box and instructed the Confucian who had been accumulating her strength to deliver the final blow. ”

The young man's face was solemn, then he lowered his head and smiled, "There is no luck, but it is delicate and willing to work hard." ”

The old man frowned, "Seems quite complacent?"

The customer said, "No, standing in the snow, although the same color, the slush is no different." ”

The old man looked up at the sky, and there were floating clouds in the sky.

"Confused. When I was young, I was also like you when you were young and frivolous, killing a few ordinary people, teasing a few ants who had not yet opened their minds, and they were complacent, feeling that they were in the hands of life and death, and they were free to stay, and they were merry people. Later, I finally found out that there are still clouds on the mountain, and all the things you do before thinking about it are just what the real mountain people are willing to let you do. More than 100 years of accumulated practice, I have worked hard to learn, but I am not an eagle dog under the mountain. ”

"Take this time as an example, you also acted for no reason in the past, and you really had to live because of your outstanding grades? At this time, you were ordered to be culled, and it was just a few small-minded wind and rain among the shutter people who couldn't tolerate you? It's just that the person who came forward from the mountain family that hired you in the past is a woman, who likes you to act interestingly, and thinks that you have a good skin, so he has repeatedly named you to act. It's not necessarily clever, it's just pleasing to the eye. But now the factions within the family are overturned, and the woman has been degraded in disguise for doing something wrong, and she has been sent to Hongyuzhou to pioneer. The new person on duty knew the little preferences of the previous woman, and inadvertently confided a disgusting word, so he had his own people to figure it out. Therefore, dispatching a string of beads to surround and kill you is just an unintentional word from the family members, and an idle stroke from his subordinates, and the head of the Feng family who you carelessly killed, only interfered greatly. ”

"When you kill someone, you look at the dispensability of the person who is going to die in front of you, and only care about whether your killing method is interesting. In the eyes of the real mountain people, whether the head of the Feng family under the mountain died yesterday is a matter of winning or losing a small bet, and your customers are dispensable. You claim to be a crane in the snow, but you are just mud under your toes. ”

The customer looked down and pondered.

The shopkeeper pedaled upstairs and brought the young man a box of freshly steamed four blue crabs, one male and three female. Lake crab from young to mature to shed five times shell, each time just after the crab shell new shell is not ripe, or soft, in the shell at the same time to take off the old gills and food sacs, so there is no trace of dirt in the whole body, the crab at this time is the most delicious, the whole body can be eaten. The new shell will gradually harden after touching the water within two hours of shelling, so it is extremely rare, usually fishermen find it to stay for their own consumption, only the knowledgeable big restaurants will be specially designed to find fresh, every molting season to collect a lot of money.

Because it is a small crab that has only molted three shells, the crabs on the plate are not big, with the prepared crab vinegar, and the minced ginger and chives served in a small dish are placed on the table one by one. He also lifted a long-necked and round-bellied glass bottle and thick-walled wine glass, which contained Huadiao wine, and a ball of ice cubes was held on a mint leaf and placed in the customer's hand.

The customer pushed the plate of crabs to the old man, turned his head and said to the shopkeeper, add a pot of room temperature rice wine and a cup, not ice.

The old man said: "Early in the morning, I don't eat crabs. ”

"Tender crabs are not cold, and they know how to eat people when they are delicated. The customer's tone was stunned: "What's more, you should see off the juniors." ”

The old man said to Xiao Er: "Two pots." ”

When the new wine is served, the customer fills it for the two of them, and then silently snorts the crab. Don't say anything when you eat, don't say anything when you sleep. One old and one young, well-behaved.

Four crab roe with tender meat in the shell were eaten, and the customer raised a toast, and the two of them drank it all.

The young man poured a full bottle of wine for the old man and asked, "Why did the senior save me?" The high-crowned old man smiled, "Oh, weird, how do you think I'm saving you?"

The customer was full of confidence, "The chance encounter by the lake seemed to intercept me from escaping to the center of the lake, but it actually shocked the string of beads that came from the tail." Allowing me to sleep soundly in the pavilion is to give me enough time to repair my muscles and veins and expel the residual sword qi in my body. At this moment, I also invited the younger generation to eat such a delicious and rare crab roe, if I am a senior, I will be reluctant to meet such a talented junior who understands food and has always respected the elderly. ”

The old man had a strange expression, "Do you know my name?"

The customer said: "Dare to ask the seniors to respect." ”

The old man said, "Is your master's name Magnolia? ”

The young man suddenly turned into a bitter gourd face.

Every famous roller shutter person often has a bit of a personal habit, and customers like to create allusions or famous painting scenes when they kill themselves. And the three generations of roller shutter people Baizhu, who are as famous as the customer's master, have the habit of retiring before retirement, and like to satisfy the party's within reach first, first be kind to people, and then kill people.

The old man said: "I didn't say that I would invite you to this meal, since you respect the elder, didn't you invite me?"

The customer's face became even more bitter, "Sir, my bus box was destroyed last night, and I don't have any money." ”

The shutter whose name is a Chinese medicine blind man raised his wine glass and invited him to drink, "Okay, there is one more reason to kill you." ”

The customer raised his glass and drank it.

The old man took the initiative to raise the bottle to pour wine for the customer, "It's not that there is no room for nothing." I've retired a long time ago, and this time there is an old guy who knows my relationship with your master, and I happen to be nearby, so he specially asked me to come over and have a look, so I can't make a move. You don't have to act like this, you should know that I have been friends with your master and another person for many years?"

The customer taps the table with his fist and bows his fingers. The mouth kept talking: "Yes, the master once said that before he retired, he had made twenty-two high crowns, and parted with the old people on the mountain and down the mountain, saying that now everyone in the world is chasing fame and fortune, and only those who can be respected in his heart can get the high crown that he can be given." Only when he said goodbye to Mr. Baizhu, he left empty-handed, Mr. Yan was ambitious, and the crown was not enough. ”

The old man nodded, "That's the way it is. But don't bluff me with this, I thought it was very reasonable, laughed heartily, and treated your master very well. Later, I learned that after he went out, he told people that there were still twenty-one high crowns left. ”

The customer was convinced, "Mr. Gao Zhi." Sure enough, Mr. is Mr., and juniors are just juniors. ”

The pride of the old man should be. The customer bows his head and pours the wine.

The old man said: "The elders can't make friends. Give me one more reason not to kill you. ”

The customer first looked directly at the old man for a long time, and then lowered his eyes to look at the flowing clouds in the distance.

"I have a woman who still has to give up her heart and can't give up. ”

"I'm not afraid of Mr. Jokes. I have been sluggish since I was a child, and I have been working under the market for more than ten years, and I am worthless before I meet my master. It was that woman who was able to treat me well as a wandering cultivator at the end of the day, saying that I deserved to be a better man. That's why I learned to figure out people's minds, and I have to make myself grow into enough time as soon as possible to be worthy of her. Later, she was forced to leave, and I met my master, and I learned to read and write, learn grooming and etiquette, practice broken mirrors, and save fairy money, all in order to find her again. ”

The old man stared straight into the customer's eyes, "What does it feel like to be liked by someone?"

The customer was stunned, "Probably, among thousands of people, she sees that all living beings are grass and trees, but I am the green mountain." ”

The old man's eyes drooped, and he asked, "What does it feel like to like someone?"

The customer replied, "It should be peace of mind." She allowed me to walk in the crowd on the streets of the city without being distracted by the small and ordinary. So even after she left, although my heart was shaken, I didn't set foot in Fireworks Willow Lane for half a step. Therefore, even though other wonderful women showed their hearts to me after embarking on the path of cultivation, I refused to do it even as a friend. So I can't die, because now I'm finally living to be able to stand in front of her generously and say that I'm worth it. ”

There was silence for a long time.

The old man said, "I will not kill you, nor will I save you." I will not kill you, and there are more prosperous than me. You are blessed. ”

The customer asked, "Is it the apprentice next to the pawnshop?"

The old man glanced at the customer with relief, "Apprentice, he is not much younger than me." It's just that you practice fast and stay early, and for some special reasons, your stature is not high, how can you still dare to judge people by their appearance after so many years on the avenue?" the old man paused, "I am an old friend with your master, and I remind you." He's a puppeteer. ”

The young man asked, "Is it a puppet, a wire puppet, or a medicine puppet?"

The old man chuckled, "How could it be such a low-end thing." He's a Yanshi. ”

Turned his head to look inside the building.

On the side of the fourth floor, the guy who was serving food to other tables turned his head and shouted to the old man: "Baizhu Lao'er, you don't make a move." Then I'm coming. ”

The fat guest who was listening to the recipe beside him also tilted his head and said, "Since you don't make a move, go and help me block those offerings in the City Lord's Mansion." When I'm playing, I don't like outsiders messing around. ”

The customer only felt creepy, and it was only at this moment that the alarm bell sounded in his heart, and he felt like he was facing a great enemy for a moment.

The old man replied, "No." You carry your natal life with you by your side. Besides, I have already withdrawn from the book, and it is not your turn to support me. Zhang Liu'er, you let go of the guy early, don't delay me to eat porridge. ”

The guy replied, "Okay," and staggered downstairs. The chubby guest turned to the customer, "I am also an old acquaintance with your master, don't say that I don't have friendship." Give you six hours, you can escape the wall before sunset, I won't make a move, let the little minions below exert their strength. Six hours later, I took it personally. Within six hours, the cultivation of the person who killed you will only get higher and higher. ”

The fat guest smiled, and his teeth were full.

The old man glanced at the customer sitting stiffly in the chair, "The corpse of the god is sitting, and it is just hanging in the world." Why, if you don't leave, you want to stay and watch me eat porridge?"

The young man came back to his senses and walked out of the window.

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Customers are running.

From between buildings, from the streets. Whether it's rushing or disguised to hide, there are always people who appear in their field of vision and greet them with a smile and a smile.

Run from noon to afternoon.

Obviously, it was only a handful of people around him who were controlled by the Yanshi, but he felt that the whole city was against him.

At first, it was just a greeting and gossip with oneself that didn't hurt. joked that his escape route was too poor, and that he had a better choice, where he should go. The mask that mocked himself had been used the day before yesterday, and it was a shame to take it out today.

After a customer came up lazily and sat under a wall, ignoring the person who appeared in front of him throwing feces, he seemed to annoy the Yanshi. Someone began to kill people.

It may be a dagger that suddenly comes from an ordinary passer-by when passing through the crowd, or a basin of boiling hot water poured by an aunt on top of his head when he is hiding from under the corner of the wall. At first, it was all just this kind of attack by the ordinary people, but just when he relaxed his vigilance and relied on his newly changed low-grade magic robes, he was not afraid of ordinary swordsmen, and a short knife engraved with runes was held by an ordinary child and stabbed into the customer's thigh.

This sword is just the beginning, and then there are real monks who appear and use flying sword tricks to spell illusions, sneak attacks or strong attacks.

There are no rules, or all rules. Designed in advance to tease your nerves and kill your will. Rao is a customer's temperament, and he has the illusion that there is no place to use his strength, no more resistance, no more defense, and no end to assassination.

The most frightening thing is that when the monk approaches, the customer does not feel the slightest warning of the danger that has passed. These monks, who are obviously powerful and dangerous, are like harmless chariots, horses, and beasts, until the flying sword flies in front of them, there is a kind of heartstring shock in hindsight.

Over time, young people can no longer trust their own judgments.

There is a young couple who can't see a customer covered in blood being chased and beaten by several strong mortal men, and the husband will use some martial arts to help restrain the gangsters and hide the customer in his own home. When the wife was holding her husband's clothes to change into the customer, the couple grinned at the customer together.

For a while, customers found that if they walked through the streets, they would only be attacked by mortals with dangerous magic weapons, and in the streets and alleys, there would be a dense number of monks coming to kill them. After second thought, the customer would rather choose to walk in a remote alley, because he was angry in his stomach, and he would rather slaughter the shutter monk who interfered with him.

Then he saw a crowd of ordinary children in shabby clothes rushing in with swords in their hands.

A tall kid laughed and shouted, "Customer, you cut, you cut?"

In the end, the customer was stabbed several times and rushed out of the alley. The Yanshi seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and he thought that why, he would overturn something.

The young man seems to have returned to his childhood, when he walked through the market as an orphan and ran around stealing for a living. Everywhere there are malicious eyes, vicious speculations, and knives and sticks to drive away. No one can trust anyone or reason.

Can't even trust yourself.

The untrustworthy customers ran along the route, gradually approaching the city gates. It's just that whenever he approached the edge of the city walls, monks and mortals mixed together and besieged the whole world. He was like a moth that had touched a huge cobweb, and once he struggled hard, he was covered in scars. If you obey the Yanshi's wishes, you will slowly relax your strength.

Just when the young man wondered why there was no movement at all, among the people who besieged him, he saw Hiyasu Yashiro, who was wearing a silver fish bag.

The amulet was exhausted, the robe was torn, and one arm was completely powerless. The veins that had already cleared away the breath of the frozen bird were filled with all kinds of miscellaneous sword qi. There were multiple penetrating wounds on the chest and abdomen, and blood stained Tsing Yi.

It's not acting, it's too late to act, it's really at the limit.

The customer dragged the sickle with one hand. Running mindlessly along a path overgrown with willow trees along a river.

He didn't know what he was running for.

The sun has set in the west.

It's going to be twilight.

Everyone is the enemy.

(7034 words.) There are also 1500 words that have already been written, and I am hesitating whether to continue to write in this chapter or open a new chapter. Everyone's comments. ）

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