On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month of the nineteenth year of Jingning, the snow covered the sky, Liu Yi was thinking about what New Year's goods to buy, and said in pieces: "Firecrackers have to be bought, in the bandits' dens before, dumb people were the most popular, who buys firecrackers?" Came to Jiangut City, and also watched a few festive events, so firecrackers must be bought, fish must be bought, Li Baiyao said that there is a scholar named Li Shiyu, his style is very inferior, eat tail fish should help Li Baiyao take revenge, and then buy a string of sugar gourds, Brother Lang loves to eat, two catties of meat, a pot of wine, half a catty of shrimp, seven or eight meat buns, a pair of Spring Festival couplets, two door gods......" Liu Yi, who thought about it for a long time, suddenly woke up, money, these are all money used to buy swords, after a violent ideological struggle, fish has to be bought, sugar gourds have to be bought, and what has been promised to the boss has to be done, and if you buy forty more steamed buns, it will probably last until the store opens next year.

The poor boy in the sword gall city is thinking about buying New Year's goods, after the last big dynasty of the year in the capital of Daqin, the small people in the market look inside from the east gate of the imperial city, ring Ding Dong, gold and stone strike, wide sleeves and belts of the Gong Gong Zhugong, take a specific step from the east gate of the fish out, as if a fire was lit in this winter.

Out of the imperial city gate about fifty steps, the civil and military are distinct, the large and small circles are in groups of three or five each greeting, if you see your own servants, you must first say goodbye with your colleagues, and then the servants tie the cloak, hand over the stove, and then cross the sedan chair that has already pressed down the head of the sedan chair, and hold the official hat into the sedan chair.

There are also a few newly promoted officials, although they have already been famous, but their qualifications are still shallow, and no one cares about talking anywhere, and they are still out of step with the circle, and they are alone.

It is not easy to live in the capital, in addition to the official eunuch family and the door valve of the major scholars, more are the officials who still can't afford to buy a house for ten years, how to talk about adding clothes and buying a sedan chair, all the way to support the demeanor that the Beijing official should have, and so on to the street without acquaintances, his hands are slightly raised, his sleeves are brushed, the wide sleeves are tightly wrapped around his arms, walking in the wind and snow, not to mention the downfall, but the previous romance.

At noon, the main street of Ruyang City was unusually slippery, and the snow from last night had already been swept away, and the yellow ones were piled up in the corners.

The horseshoe iron on the new nail stepped on the cold stone slab, the horse walked very slowly, the sound of hooves was lazy, and the wheels of the carriage behind still made a slight sound from time to time, the horse looked not an urgent fast horse, and the carriage also seemed a little ordinary.

The carriage first walked slowly along the main street, then turned into Qingyun Lane, turned left and turned right to White Horse Street, and stopped at Qingyuzhai

The groom jumped out of the car and put the stool down, pestle the horse's nose, and when the carriage was no longer shaking, a trembling old man in black narrow sleeves in civilian clothes walked out, and it was the Lord of the Hubu Shangshu Wang, the red man in front of the emperor this year.

In just one year, under his rectification, the household department has a surplus of tens of millions of taels of silver, and this morning he was just crowned with the title of Zijin Guanglu doctor.

After the old man got out of the car, he put his hands behind his back and looked up at the signboard of Qingyu Zhai, three large characters of bronzing Lishu, which are still as good as new after many years of wind and frost.

There is a small servant in the house to pull the carriage away and unload, the groom supports the old man to lift the curtain to enter the door, different from the cold curtain after the snow, the roof is full of heat, a strong fragrance of mutton is still sandwiched with half of the fishy smell, the old man inhales with satisfaction, and is in a happy mood.

The master and servant came unfortunately, the business in the house was booming, and there were many diners, and the groom negotiated to no avail, and returned to the old man with a look of grievance.

It wasn't until the shopkeeper came out to make amends and promised a four-fold discount that the other three reluctantly agreed to add a table and squeeze it together, of course, not because of the four-fold discount, who would come back to Qingyuzhai for dinner if there was no money, and that was not self-deprecating? The main thing was that the boss of the house came out to ask for it in person, and naturally everyone would give the good-faced boss a face.

The three of them reluctantly moved the table, but everyone was still the same as before, the stool moved far away from the table, and the master and servant were tightly squeezed, and they did not give the old man a good face.

The cold winter is the most suitable for eating mutton, in the winter of Ruyang City, the Qingyu Zhai family is favored, the mutton in the store is a must, but the old man only eats haggis.

The old man was silent, and the groom sat down next to him after serving the old man, and only dared to sit on half a stool.

Xiao Er first wiped the low table on the old man's side, and then brought charcoal, the bottom of the material and the haggis.

The old man put in a bowl of raw sheep's blood, followed by sheep's hooves, heart, liver, intestines and lungs. Dry right hand holding chopsticks kept stirring in the pot, and his hands were covered with brown spots.

The blood clot slowly changed color, the old man bowed forward, held chopsticks in his right hand and picked up a whole piece of sheep blood, and the thumb and index finger of his left hand clamped two chopsticks at the same time and pressed, and the sheep blood became two pieces, and repeated for a while, he was a little tired and straightened up after supporting his waist with his left hand.

Before it is finished, the inside of the pot is already steaming, and it goes straight to the edge of the pot, so I don't care about it.

With his right hand, he picked up a wooden spoon that was badly worn and scooped a spoonful of soup for the groom, who had received such a great gift, and stood up instantly, helpless.

The old man's right hand holding chopsticks slowly pressed down, motioned for the groom to sit down, and also scooped a spoonful for himself, took it to his mouth with both hands and blew it, and drank it in a big gulp, the feeling of piping hot was the same as back then, but now he is in a high position, and he has no embarrassment at that time.

The diners on the side are rough men who only care about their own drinking, and at first glance they are outsiders who have not seen it, so they don't know that they have already been famous all over the world and are famous in the temple.

Daqin is not poor, with nine counties and 20,000 people, more than 2,600 counties and 20,000 people, the north rejects the three kingdoms abroad, and the south resists the barbarians in the barrier forest, but the Daqin treasury is very poor.

The old man chewed slowly, ate the sheep's blood in his mouth, and then drank another glass of wine, and his beard and clothes were full of wine.

The groom didn't seem to hear the old man's reminder, and was as restrained as a girl.

As before, the carriage slowly walked out of the alley and into the stone streets, this time in the direction of the outside of the city.

It snowed heavily, and three miles out of the city, the groom helped the old man out of the carriage, chose a place on the side of the road, burned paper money, spilled some wine, slowly turned around and walked towards the carriage, and said to the man: "I'm back!"

On the way back, the old man slowly told some things about the year.

"In the eighth year of Emperor Daqinming, I was thirty-two years old and entered Beijing for the first time. ”

I didn't forget to sigh and say: "Ruyang is a good place, it's been thirty-four years, and I still like this city!"

"I wasn't famous, but I was able to enter Chunfu, and at that time I thought the word Chunfu was really good. ”

"I walked for four months from Shangai County to Ruyang, and the snow that year was really big! It was bigger than this year! The snow of Baihuahua blocked the way, and I still survived to Ruyang City with a full spirit, and the money spent in Baihua blocked my career, and the Ming Emperor was nine years, which was really a difficult year. ”

Most of the scholars gathered in the city are from official families, and there are a few people who are from similar backgrounds to my Wang Can, but they have silver, and they naturally become famous people with wide clothes and sleeves, and there are banquets every day to hand them over, and I only knew at that time that the sage book is not as good as the copper coin......"

"That year was also the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Yan Chengxing invited friends to a banquet in Qingyuzhai, I read every day stupidly, I don't understand the world, people called me casually, and I followed. ”

As he spoke, Lao Shangshu laughed to himself.

The old man spoke slowly, and the groom waved his whip from time to time, not knowing if he was listening.

It's a joke to say it, Yan Chengxing invited Wang Shizhi to the banquet, Wang Shizhi took me by the way, and I really went. About 40 people came, including Wang Shizhi, Cui Chengsheng, Han Yueyun, Liu Xichen, Qin Shaoyou, Yang Heng, Jiang Gong, Li Chengbing, ......"

Wang Can counted with the fingers of his two hands, and then he forgot about it, paused for a while and said, "Anyway, there are many people." ”

"The ...... of Wang Shizhi, who was born in White Horse Academy"

The old man paused for a moment and commented: "He is only eight buckets high, he is as virtuous as a saint, and his integrity is even more embarrassing for my generation." ”

"Just such a person, the gentleness of the scholar seems to be engraved in his bones, and he takes good care of me. ”

"The soup I drank for the first time was so hot, I was not used to eating mutton and haggis at that time, and the smell of fishy mutton went straight to the internal organs, so I ran away with a mouthful of hot haggis soup and vomited under a jujube tree in front of the door, which is the persimmon tree with a thick grinding plate outside the door" The drunken old man pointed indiscriminately with his hand.

"Nearly 30 years later, I have forgotten what that date tree looked like. ”

"Wang Shizhi's ......"

"What's he talking about?"

He has been a bachelor of Hanlin for a year, traveled the world, and has not heard from him for more than 30 years, and may have become an immortal on the mountain, or he may have become a loess underground. ”

The old man finally said: "The old man said, 'When you are old, you can plant a laurel tree in the yard, put a big water tank under the tree, and catch the rainwater dripping from the tree, and a lot of small insects will grow in the water and swim and swim in the water, which is very interesting.'" ’”

Reminiscing about the past, shedding two lines of turbid tears!, in this world, the only thing that remains unchanged is the clatter of horses' hooves on the stone slab.

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The snow in the south of Daqin is basically gathered in the two months of the wax moon and the first month, although the time is concentrated, but the temper is still too small, most of the time only a thin layer is laid, can not completely shade the trees and rocks, it is not good-looking, Pingshan County located in the northwest border is different, Pingshan County in winter is like a fairy wrapped in silver, that is, the temperament is too cold, not pleasing people.

In the distance, three people walked on the thick snow, two walked steadily, and one hung forty paces away.

Yang Hong's soaked feet have long been unconscious, and if he rolls his eyes up, he can still see the fluffy ice edges on his eyebrows, which can't be wiped so much.

He didn't know any martial arts, he was very curious about the cultivation of the two subordinates, Yang Hong, who was almost crowned in a flash, had never seen the ruthlessness of the people fighting in the market, and had never seen the freehand of martial arts to catch the masonry. After traveling abroad for so long, trying his best to incite along the way, the emotions of the two martial artists have not changed, and Yang Hong keeps adding up every day by relying on his three-inch incorruptible tongue.

The strongest of the two made a saber and a strip of coarse cloth was worn cross-body, and just by looking at the outline of the broadsword, he could know the strength of the man. The thin one made the sword, and the long sword only looked at the sword outfit was very ordinary, sometimes cross-shouldered on his back along the way, sometimes carried or held, his breathing was slow and even, and his clothes were still the usual one, only Yang Hong was wrapped under a thick cotton coat.

Yang Hong scolded and roared at the bird weather for a while, his throat was broken, and in response to him was the roaring wind and snow, he whined after complaining, recalled the warm earth dragon at home, and then ran to keep up with the two in front of him, the cold air was slamming around in Yang Hong's body, and the coughing sound was drowned out by the wind.

Walking steadily in the snow made the knife man suddenly stopped, patronizing Yang Hong, who was running with his head down, almost collided, the man who was holding his hand before pulled the slipknot under the left rib, and the saber on his back stood in the snow, Yang Hong squinted, the man waved the knife casually with both hands, and the four-foot-thick ice cube in front of him turned into two pieces like tofu, and the lake overflowed from the straight knife edge, Yang Hong could be seen to say nearly two hundred feet!

The man with the sword held the sword in his right hand and hugged his fist and said, "Congratulations to Brother Zhu for breaking through the realm." ”

Then draw your sword slowly.

The man surnamed Zhu did not speak, and slashed left at the man who made the sword, and the knife momentum was about to affect the man.

However, everything was expected by the man holding the sword, and after bending his knees and retreating dozens of feet with strength, the long sword held flat in front of him barely unloaded the sword.

I never thought that the body did not stop, and the second knife came, and it turned out that the knife man did not breathe after making a knife, but in an instant, he dragged the knife to run sixty feet and then jumped high is a force split.

The sword-wielding man turned his mind and decisively took advantage of the situation to fall into the lake.

Between two or three breaths, the battle is over, and the victory or defeat is clear.

The man on the shore hurriedly sat down to adjust the ventilator, and the man did not move after falling into the water.

Yang Hong hurriedly ran to the water's edge and shouted: "Liang Yu ......"

Yang Hong in the wind and snow did not see it, there was a new crack on the ice in the center of the lake, after a crossbow arrow jumped out of the lake, it approached Yang Hong violently, and the frozen Yang Hong was in the dead but did not know it, when the crossbow arrow was less than a hundred steps away from Yang Hong, a white cloth came out of the water and rushed straight towards Yang Hong, and there was only wind and snow in the wind and snow, and there was no white clothes.

On the shore, Zhu Hong threw his saber at Yang Hong to resist the crossbow arrows, regardless of the scattered qi, and at the same time, a slender sword broke through the water in the lake, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at the assassin's back.

When the saber broke through the wind and snow and flew to Yang Hong's chest, the crossbow arrow was in the middle of the sword, and the huge stamina overturned Yang Hong to the ground, and the long sword flying over the lake pierced the back of the white shadow, revealing from the chest, the white-clothed assassin and the long sword were spread on the ice together, the two of them tried their best to come to Yang Hong's side, ready to meet the next attack, and after two hours of full vigilance, both of them were already at the end of the crossbow, sitting down the breathing machine, Yang Hong was playing the fire chain without the slightest fire, and he was destined to be hungry today, and the snot was always blown inexhaustibly, like sobbing。

Yang Hong, who couldn't catch fire, shrank into a ball, watching the two eldest brothers adjust their own qi machines, and he was so tired that he fell asleep deeply.

When Liang Yu slowly gathered his qi and was about to spit out the turbid qi that had been circulating in his body for four hours, the snow exploded, and under the slender long knife, the weak snow was already full of devastation.

The hot blood sprinkled on the white snow, melting a deep red groove, the white snow was picturesque, and the red blood was like poetry.