The Eastern Regions and the Western Chu Dynasty have long been shattered, and the whole country is mourning, and the scars left by the war a few years ago have not faded in this vast land of dynasties.

However, there are always some places that can be avoided by luck no matter how chaotic the times are, such as this small town far north of the Western Chu Dynasty. This small town is closed all the year round, the location is remote, close to the Northern Wilderness, the economy is backward, and there are almost no outsiders coming here all year round. The nearest county town is more than 100 miles away, and there are two towering mountains and three rivers in between.

But it is precisely because of this that the town was able to avoid the engulfment of war. The people of the town do not say that they are happy, but they can live in peace.

Once again, the nameless boy came to the grave of his master, the old beggar, and the coffin in this tomb was bought from the copper plates that the old beggar had saved all his life, and the nameless boy would come to the old beggar's grave every Qingming Festival, and then he would come here from time to time—mostly when he was in a bad mood.

Since the old beggar died, he stopped begging, he went to work as a clerk in a wine shop in the town that was still a hot business, and he could earn a small string of copper plates a month, and the shopkeeper of the wine shop gave him food and shelter, and he was very satisfied.

Every day he gets up in the morning when the rooster crows, and takes the initiative to work in the liquor store that has not yet opened, and cleans the house he had cleaned last night. This makes this wine shop the most "clean" wine shop in this town, and it can be said to be a wine shop that everyone knows for wine lovers, which also attracts many new wine customers to this wine shop.

The shopkeeper of the liquor store was in a good mood because of this, and when he paid the monthly money every month, he would also give the nameless boy a few more copper plates, and sometimes even took out one or two pieces of broken silver from his sleeve and gave them to the nameless boy with a smile.

The nameless boy is actually no longer young now, he has been pulling up suddenly with a full stomach every day in the past few years, and he is tall and big, and now he is just twenty years old, and his face is filled with the hot breath of youth.

What satisfies him the most is not only the daily satiety that he would dream of when he used to beg for food, but also the fact that he has practiced martial arts every day in the past few years, month after month, year after year.

He used to listen to the old beggar talk about some things about the rivers and lakes every day, and after listening to it a lot, he was like most young people, very yearning for the rivers and lakes, or the rivers and lakes in his heart.

Nameless boy, no, it should be said that the nameless young man has been since he met that strange man in green shirts that time, and then was taught to him by that man in green shirts that set of exercises, he felt that his strength was constantly surging, and he couldn't suppress it like he had been in the past few years.

He didn't know what kind of cultivation he was now, whether he had the middle and third grade realm of the old beggar at his peak, he broke the mirror again a few days ago, and that time he even attracted purple thunder in the sky! This made him a little excited!

He now feels like he has an inexhaustible internal force, and there is still a kind of qi in his body, which is suspected to be the kind of "sword qi" that the old beggar said. But he couldn't be sure that there were no masters in this town, only some ordinary martial arts practitioners, but there was no real cultivator, so he didn't know who to ask for advice.

Finally, on this day, he was busy in the wine shop from morning to dusk, until after the wine shop closed, he looked at the wild geese flying freely in the sky, and couldn't help but shake passionately in his heart.

Once again, he went to the old beggar's grave with the wine he had bought.

But this time, he no longer bought the cheap drinks in the past, but the most expensive "Frost Blue Dew" in the town, although the price was expensive, but the savings he had accumulated in the past few years were enough not to make him sad about it!

The grave of the old beggar is on a small nameless earthen bag seven miles away from the town, and the land here does not belong to any small town family because it is far away from the town, and it is also the place where the old people from poor families are buried after they die, because the small piece of land occupied by the buried people here does not require people to spend money to buy it.

He carried the pot of wine, which he had never been willing to buy once, and came to the tomb. He sat on the ground in front of the tomb, looking at the geese in the sky who were driven to the south by the cold autumn wind, and was stunned.

"Chirp!"

The neighing of a wild goose brought him back to his senses, and then silently unscrewed the jug and sprinkled the precious wine in front of the grave.

"Master, I named myself because you said that your surname was Tian, and that senior in the green shirt taught me the exercises, so I named me 'Tian Nianen'. ”

Saying that, Tian Nianen smiled shyly at himself, and continued: "Master, don't laugh at my cheesy name, I still thought about it for many months. ”

After Tian Nianen spilled the pot of wine, he screwed the cork, and after being silent for a while, he said seriously: "Master, I want to go out for a walk around the rivers and lakes, to see the rivers and lakes you are talking about, to see how wide the world is outside, and to see if the rivers and lakes that are only occasionally recited by you are really so magnificent." ”

"But Master, you old man don't have to think that the apprentice will not come back after leaving, no, I will rush back every year in the future to see you! When Tian Nianen said this, he felt that his nose was a little sour, and his eye sockets were a little hot.

He got up from the ground, took three steps back, then touched his knees to the ground and solemnly kowtowed three times to the small mound.

"Master, I'm leaving, I'll come back to see you later!"

With that, he wiped the tears from his eyes, turned away, and walked away with firm steps.

When he returned to the town, it was also evening, and the sun had sunset in the western sky, and only a bleak of dull orange twilight was still lingering, but it was evident that it was about to dissipate.

As soon as he arrived in the town, he went to the only blacksmith shop in the town, and he made Uncle Li of the blacksmith more familiar, and Uncle Li often went to the wine shop where he worked to drink, and he went directly to ask Uncle Li to give him a long sword.

"Huh, what are you going to do with the doll?" Uncle Li of the blacksmith shop was on his upper body, his strong muscles were exposed, he was sweating profusely, and he was not afraid of the autumn cold, he looked at this young man who was quite familiar with him with some surprise at this time.

"Uncle Li, I'm going to go out and have a good time. Tian Nianen replied with a smile.

Uncle Li grinned: "Good thing! Good thing! Don't stay in our town for a lifetime, always go out for a walk." ”

Tian Nianen smiled and nodded, he knew that his Uncle Li had also gone out back then, although he had only gone to the county town more than a hundred miles away, but in this town, he was still a "world-breaking" Jianghu person!

After some discussion, Tian Nianen paid the deposit first, although Uncle Li said that he didn't have to pay the deposit, when the sword was finished, it would not be too late to pay it together, but he still forced the money to pay. In the end, the two talked again, and after he finished explaining, he said goodbye to Uncle Li, and he had to return to the wine store and give the wine shop shopkeeper an explanation in advance, not only because the wine shop shopkeeper withheld his monthly money for a month, but also because this was the "Jianghu etiquette" that the old beggar taught him back then.

He returned to the wine shop, found the shopkeeper who was taking a sip of wine and resting, and then told the wine shop shopkeeper what he thought, the wine shop shopkeeper was a little reluctant and wanted to keep him again, but his eyes were firm and his tone was calm, and finally let the wine shop shopkeeper sigh and give up, and agreed to the request of this hard-working and hard-working shopkeeper.

In the end, when the shopkeeper of the wine store settled the previous monthly money for him, he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and handed it to Tian Nianen, who helped the wine store become famous in the town. Tian Nianen did not shirk it, accepted it calmly, and then packed up his own dry food and prepared to go away and wander the rivers and lakes.

At night, he sat alone under the moon and drank, looking at the stars in the sky, and he thought of the old beggar and the green-shirted senior who had "preacher's grace" to him.

He remembered that his master, that is, the old beggar, once said that the rivers and lakes of Kyushu in the world, Duzhongzhou has the most atmospheric weather, and also said that Zhongzhou is the holy land of the world's rivers and lakes, with so many super sects and big sects in the eight states of the world combined!

He remembered that the senior in the green shirt had told him that he had a good talent, and that he was a "natural sword embryo", a strange word he had never heard from an old beggar before. The senior in the green shirt also said that he would be able to cultivate in the third grade within three years, but now that about six years have passed, what is his current realm? The most impressive and fresh memory for him is the sentence said by the senior in the green shirt: After taking a look at the joys and sorrows of the rivers and lakes, you can give the world more kindness, I believe in you, you can do it.

This young man, the man who used to be a beggar, in the last drunken confusion, the green shirt appeared in his eyes again, his heart was full of excitement, and he whispered in his heart: Senior, I will do it.