Mr. Qingniu received three bows from Lou Yun, helped him up, and said, "Lou Yun, since I have taken you by my side, I will tell you my origin." My real name is Wu Guanxian, and the people in the bamboo forest gave me a nickname called Mr. Qingniu, and I live in Wujiazhuang under Xiaogu Mountain in Hangzhou Prefecture. Lou Yun said: "I wrote it down, master." ”

Mr. Qingniu Wu Guan smiled and said: "Although I say that I accept you as a scholar, you and I don't have to be commensurate with master and servant, I call you Lou Yun, and you call me Mr. Wu." Lou Yun saw that Mr. Qingniu was elegant and open-minded, and he had already had a sense of admiration in his heart, if he called him by his surname and called him Mr. Wu, he looked a little disrespectful and said, "I know, sir." ”

Mr. Qingniu heard him call himself Mr. instead of Mr. Wu, and probably guessed some of his thoughts, and felt a little more close to him.

Mr. Qingniu introduced the other three people to Lou Yun one by one, and Lou Yun bowed to them one by one. It turned out that these four people were Wu Guanxian, known as the "Four Friends of Jiangnan", Liu Wenzhi and Zhang Yizhuo, Zhang Zhuoyu brothers, among the four, Wu Guanxian's statement was the most prominent, and he was faintly the head of the four friends.

Everyone boarded the ox cart, Wu Guanxian, Liu Wenzhi and Lou Yun shared a car, Zhang Yizhuo and Zhang Zhuoyu brothers took another car, and the driver urged the ox cart, but he returned to the direction of Xuzhou. In the car, Wu and Liu asked Lou Yun what had happened in the past few months, and after listening to Lou Yun's narration, they both sighed.

While they were talking, they came to a village and saw that the sun was setting in the west, and it was getting late. Zhang Yizhuo asked for accommodation in a large mansion in the village. Seeing that there were four Confucian students and a child, the owner of the house was also very enthusiastic, and busily ordered the family to clean out the wing room for the guests to move in.

Lou Yun and Siyou have been together for most of the day, and they are no longer restrained, at dinner, they ate three bowls of rice, and hiccuped a few times one after another, and when they looked up, they saw Siyou looking at themselves with a smile, and they couldn't help but blush.

After dinner, they went back to their rooms and went to sleep.

Lou Yun and Mr. Qingniu lived in the same room, and when they returned to the room, they saw a set of children's clothes on the bed, although they were old, they were exactly the same size as Lou Yun. The two of them couldn't help but be touched by the attentive enthusiasm of the host.

Lou Yun hurriedly changed his clothes, and when he saw that Mr. Qingniu was reading, he asked, "Sir, where are we going?" Mr. Qingniu replied: "We came to Xuzhou this time to visit Mr. Li Zeshen of Phoenix Mountain. ”

Lou Yun said: "Sir, who is that Mr. Li?" Mr. Qingniu heard him ask Li Zeshen, put down the book in his hand, and his eyes also showed yearning, and said: "Speaking of this Mr. Li Zeshen, he is a great figure today. He was originally an important minister of the court, dissatisfied with the emperor's disregard for the people's suffering, only blindly indulged in pleasure, so he wrote a book to give direct advice, and after being deposed several times, he was still outspoken, and finally was suspicious of the emperor, and resigned in a fit of anger, living in seclusion in Phoenix Mountain, and devoted himself to reading and teaching his children. ”

After hearing this, Lou Yun seemed to understand what he said, and thought: "People like Mr. Li think that Mr. Li is a great person, then he must be very remarkable." I can't help but have admiration for Mr. Li Zeshen.

At midnight, Lou Yun got up quietly, heard that Mr. Qingniu was breathing evenly and was sleeping deeply, so he opened the door, slipped out, and gently covered the door with his backhand. I practiced the Bodhi palm first, and felt that my body was stretched out, and then I practiced Luohan Fist and Fu Demon Palm twice, and I saw that half an hour had passed, and my body was already slightly sweating.

I felt a lot more comfortable, and I went back to my room again, but I didn't go to bed, and sat cross-legged on a chair to meditate and vomit. In the past few months, although Lou Yun has suffered a lot, he does not dare to delay his practice, even when he is extremely hungry and unable to practice boxing, he has to meditate and breathe, and he has not delayed a day.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Lou Yun woke up from meditation, and saw that Mr. Qingniu was still asleep, so he went out to get washing water, washed his face by the water tank, and returned to the room with a large basin of washing water, and saw that Mr. Qingniu had gotten up and said, "Sir, wash your face." Then he went to clean up the bedding.

Mr. Qingniu asked while washing his face: "Lou Yun, I woke up last night and saw you sitting cross-legged on a chair, as if you were asleep, what are you doing?" He has seen monks and Taoist priests meditating for the sake of meditation, ordinary people meditating for the sake of peace of mind, and he has also seen people meditating for the sake of meditation, Lou Yun was also meditating like that last night, but he didn't know why he was meditating.

Lou Yun said: "That is the practice method taught to me by my father, not only to strengthen the body, but also to cultivate internal strength, which is the homework I have to do every day." He didn't intend to deceive Mr. Qingniu, so he told the truth. Mr. Qingniu said curiously: "So you can also do martial arts?" Lou Yun nodded and said, "Yes, in addition to this meditation, I will also practice boxing." Mr. Qingniu said: "When it's convenient for you, show me the boxing." ”

Lou Yun was about to practice when he opened the stance, but he stopped him and said, "Silly boy, this is someone else's house, it's not good to break the tables and chairs." Lou Yun said, "No." Mr. Qingniu hurriedly grabbed him and said hurriedly: "I'll talk about it another day, I'll talk about it another day." The heart said, "How can a very smart and clever child be stupid." "I think Lou Yun is a person with a temperament, and he is very cute.

After everyone had breakfast, they thanked the master and said goodbye, and the master sent everyone out of the door, and then they said goodbye. There was no word all the way, and in the afternoon, two ox carts came to the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

I saw a large manor house with bluestone slabs paved with enough horses to run parallel to a large manor, and the plane trees on both sides of the avenue were full of life and lushness, and the sound of birdsong constantly came from it. The group jumped off the ox cart, walked along the bluestone avenue, and came to the gate of the manor with the gray wall of the Zhumen, and a plaque was hung on the door, with the word "Li Fu" written on it, which was vigorous and powerful.

Zhang Zhuoyu stepped forward and said to a servant on duty at the door: "Jiangnan Confucian Wu Guanxian, Liu Wenzhi, Zhang Yizhuo, and Zhang Zhuoyu come to worship, I don't know if Mr. Li is back?" The servant is obviously different from the servants of ordinary large families, and he has also heard of the reputation of the "Four Friends of Jiangnan", and said: "My master just came back today. Four gentlemen, please wait, the little one will go and report it. After a short time, the servant came back and said, "Four gentlemen, please, my master is in the main hall." ”

Everyone followed the servant and walked inward, and after a while, they came to the compound, only to see a middle-aged man in his forties standing under the porch at the entrance of the hall. Siyou hurriedly returned the salute and said, "I have heard of Mr. Li's high righteousness, and it is really an honor for me to finally see the true face today." ”

The guests and hosts continued to be polite and walked towards the hall, but Lou Yun didn't know what to do, so he had to follow behind Siyou, but he felt strange in his heart, he heard what Mr. Qingniu said before Li Zeshen was also a Confucian student, but at this time, he saw that he was dressed in a strong suit, but he was dressed as a martial artist. Entering the hall, Li Zeshen invited the four friends to sit, Lou Yun stood behind Wu Guanxian and listened to their chat, and all he heard was boring.

When he was absent-minded, Wu Guanxian said: "Yun'er, if you think it's boring, go to the courtyard to play, don't go far." Lou Yun was pardoned, gave Li Zeshen a salute, and bowed out of the room.

When I came to the courtyard, I saw a garden on the west side, in which the flowers and plants were dense, and there seemed to be the cry of a cricket, so I walked in, bent down to open the grass, and sure enough, I saw a big cricket lying in it, and was about to reach out to catch it, when a voice behind me said: "Who are you? What are you doing?" Lou Yun was startled and almost fell into the grass. The man behind him laughed when he saw this.

Lou Yun turned around, and saw a young man of the same age as himself standing there, dressed in a gorgeous costume that was particularly eye-catching, thinking that it should be the nephew of the master here, and said, "My name is Lou Yun, and I came with my husband." The young man said, "Lou Yun, what are you doing?" Lou Yun said, "I'm catching crickets." ”

The young man hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Have you caught it?" Lou Yun said, "I saw that I could catch it, but I was scared away by you." The young man said embarrassedly: "I don't know what you're doing, so let's do it, I'll compensate you tomorrow." Lou Yun felt embarrassed in this way, and said again and again: "No, no." ”

The young man said again: "Lou Yun, my name is Li Shiji, I have always done what I say, I will ask someone to catch a few tonight, and I will definitely compensate you tomorrow." Lou Yun saw that this young man named Li Shiji looked like he was swearing, and he suddenly had a good impression of him in his heart, smiled and waved his hand again and again, and said, "I really don't need to." ”

Li Shiji asked again: "Lou Yun, you said that you came with your husband, who is your husband?" Lou Yun said: "My husband is Mr. Qingniu." When Li Shiji heard this, his eyes immediately widened, and he said, "Is it Mr. Qingniu named Wu Guanxian?" Lou Yun nodded and said, "Do you also know my husband?"

"Of course I do. Li Shiji said proudly: "My father often mentions him, saying that he is the top Confucian scholar in the world and a unique talent in the world." Lou Yun was extremely happy when he heard that he recognized Mr. Qingniu very much, and said: "Li Shiji, your father is really discerning. No wonder my husband revered him so much, and told me yesterday that your father is the greatest man of our time. ”

In fact, Mr. Qingniu only said yesterday that Li Zeshen "is a great character", and did not have the word "most", at this time he saw Li Shiji praise Mr. Qingniu so much, and it was not interesting enough for him not to praise his father, but he thought that if he only said Mr. Qingniu's original words, he could not match the words such as "one top one, unparalleled in the world" that Li Shiji said, and he could not show his attention, and he could not think of such an idiom, so he added the word "most" and changed "is a great character" to "is a most amazing person". ”。

After hearing this, Li Shiji nodded solemnly and frequently, and said: "This is a hero cherishes a hero, and a good man cherishes a good man." Lou Yun clapped his hands and smiled: "Li Shiji, what you said is so good, your father and my husband are both heroes and heroes." I think you're also very good at saying such reasonable things!"

Li Shiji continued: "Mr. Qingniu is good everywhere, but his name is not very good. Lou Yunqi said: "What's wrong with Mr.'s name?" Li Shiji said: "Do you think, Wu Guanxian, Wu Guanxian, aren't you idle at home without an official?"