It was getting late, and the dim lights passed through the windows of every house, dyeing the small town of Saibei in early winter with a warm color.

Zhao Xifeng's father and son, Aunt Li and Li Xuan, the four of them were sitting in the kitchen hall of the Zhao family at this time, there was a one-foot-high copper-framed blast furnace on the table, the charcoal in the pot was red, the mutton was first ripe, and the Chinese cabbage stored before winter was tumbling back and forth in the fatty soup, which was mouth-watering.

The table was full of joy, and even revealed a little festive taste.

Aunt Li dug out a jar of aged wine that has been aged for more than ten years from under her own tree, which is different from the clear and cold glazed wine in the town, this is the rice wine of Aunt Li's hometown in Jiangnan.

Aunt Li first poured two small bowls, and let Zhao Xifeng and Li Xuan solemnly sprinkle them on the ground to commemorate the blood relatives who were no longer around, Li Xuan looked ignorant, thinking that she had not seen her mother for a long time, and tears rippled while toasting, while Zhao Xifeng had never seen her biological parents since she was a child, so she didn't care about it, she hastily spilled the wine, and licked the remaining wine at the bottom of the bowl and returned to the table.

Then, Aunt Li filled the wine glasses of the four people one by one, even Li Xuan, who had never drunk wine, also got a glass, and after a while, most of the mutton and rice wine had been wiped out, and suddenly Aunt Li thought of Li Xuan's parents, so I don't know how many times she wet her eyes, and Zhao Wu was bragging about the story of his young horsemanship, saying how fierce the barbarians were, how powerful the generals were, how majestic Miyun Pass was, gradually, these were not to be said, and began to talk about the interesting stories of Zhao Xifeng's childhood, what evil he made the day before yesterday, and what eggs he made yesterday, Aunt Li smiled and added that Li Xuan didn't know why the elders were so happy today, but he also guessed that it had something to do with the school office, the childish promise to study hard, everyone laughed, and Zhao Xifeng took out the cotton clothes from the house and draped them on Zhao Wu, who was already quite drunk.

After drinking and eating, Li Xuan fell asleep without any alcohol left, and Aunt Li helped Zhao Wu, who was still muttering to herself, into the back room to lie down, while she stayed to clean up.

Zhao Xifeng silently walked out of the house, wandering around at will, and after a while, he walked under the peach tree, looked at the peach tree, and looked at the small door that couldn't get out this morning, hesitated slightly, walked into the temple courtyard, and sat down slowly leaning on the trunk. I don't know why, he has an inexplicable dependence on this peach tree, when Zhao Wu said that he wanted to take him to refine his body, he chose this place, after signing up for the school, he also wanted to come here to sit, today at the dinner table to listen to the adults talking about their biological parents or something, although his face showed disdain, there was still a faint sense of amazement in his heart, he lowered his head and picked up a branch, slowly drew two words on the ground, and whispered: "Mom." ”

The moonlight sprinkled leisurely, and the shadow of a peach branch swayed on Zhao Xifeng's face, like a comforting hand, gently caressing his cheek.

In the small temple, the old monk in Mai looked at the back of Zhao Xifeng who was gradually moving away after sitting quietly under the tree for a while, his eyes showed compassion, and he proclaimed the Buddha's name.

After a while, the old monk said to the empty corner: "Master Ding Shi has come to my mountain and wild temple, and I don't know what to do. ”

There was a sudden tremor in the shadow of the corner of the small temple, and a vague figure gradually appeared, the voice was like a night owl, like a ghost: "The dry sea bald donkey, I haven't seen you for seventeen years, and the old man really misses you a little." ”

The old monk returned indifferently: "Twenty years ago, Ding Yuan's benefactor assassinated the lives of business travelers in the name of water ghosts by the buried water river, collected soul refining magic weapons, and the poor monk guarded you by the river for ten years, but unfortunately he has never had a chance to meet, and it is rare to have a fate today, so it is better for you and me to learn and confirm, to see if there is one less water ghost in the world, or go to a big monk." ”

Ding Yuan smiled strangely: "You don't want to trick me, you have been sitting here for the past few years, and you have already refined the entire Panlong Town within the Ten Directions Fence, and the whole town is your world, except for the blue blood of the city, no one can break it, but as long as I don't enter the town gate, you can't help me, because I'm faster than you." ”

During the period of talking to the dry sea, Ding Yuan's figure was always a phantom, and it turned out that he had been urging his body to advance and retreat repeatedly in place, almost to the point where his body was blurred.

Kuhai closed his eyes and confirmed the fact that as long as Ding Yuan did not set foot in the town, he could not be locked, so he sighed and gave up trying.

Ding Yuan laughed proudly twice, and continued: "This time I came, it was not that I could embarrass you as a monk, but I was entrusted by someone to ask you for two things, and by the way, I brought my master's magic weapon back to the mountain." ”

Kuhai raised his eyelids slightly, and said, "The magic weapon that Master Ding Shi said, but the soul connoisseur that was lost here when the hundred ghosts assassinated Princess Yongle?

"It's the soul tube, the hundred ghosts took advantage of my senior brother's retreat to steal my sect and go away to Baihu, and now I come to retrieve it, and it can be regarded as returning to the original owner. Ding Yuan nodded and said, "As for the other two, one is the star stone condensed by the star tide this time, and the other is the dragon tooth bi of the Zhao family's girl." ”

Kuhai said angrily: "That soul tube is a bad weapon for gathering and refining yin things to search for souls! If the poor monk hadn't remembered the old relationship between the head of your family and my master, it would have been ruined a long time ago! How could it be handed over to someone of Ding Shizhu's character, and the dragon tooth bi is the burial thing of Princess Yongle, not to mention that the poor monk doesn't know where the princess is buried, even if he knows, it is impossible to dig people's graves! As for the Xingshi ......" Kuhai paused and said, "The poor monk has searched for many ways for many years, but he has not found his whereabouts. These three things are precious and incomparable treasures, Mr. Totin's officer, hey, what a big face, what a greedy appetite!"

Ding Yuan raised his hand and threw a waist card, and said with a sneer: "The face is not big, you can talk about it after you have seen it." ”

Kuhai raised his hand to take it, only to see a golden-winged griffin on the token looking forward to the majesty, fluttering its wings and ready to fly, couldn't help but be silent for a moment, and said: "Even if it is a royal figure, not everything in the world belongs to it, and after the Jiayuan Student Movement in the capital, no one can say the future trend of the future royal family Zhao family, and I also asked Mr. Ding to convey to the palace for me, there is no eternal wealth in the world, if you want to take the star stone and the dragon tooth blue, you must first pass the gate of the poor monk." ”

Ding was originally a person with a good temperament, and tonight he spent a long time talking with the dry sea, one is afraid of the dry sea's cultivation, and the other is that this matter is too important, at this moment, he has been impatient for a long time, and the partial dry sea still refuses to be categorical, and he can't help but be furious: "Bald monk, don't think that if you retract into the turtle shell of Panlong Town, the old man can't help you." ”

Kuhai said indifferently: "Master Ding can try, but the poor monk can't ask for it." ”

Ding Yuan smiled, put his hands into his sleeves, seemed to be constantly rubbing something, making a gurgling sound, and after a while, on the floor tiles of the small temple, in the cracks of the earthen wall, and even under the futon of the dry sea, thick blood began to flow, and the plasma quickly filled the entire small temple, drowning the mouth and nose of the dry sea.

Kuhai looked indifferent, ignoring the plasma at all, and still spoke: "Master Ding Shi was tinkering with these rotten flesh gadgets seventeen years ago, and Miss Baigui was able to search for gods and ghosts to make an external Dharma body five years ago, I have to say that talent is limited and pattern is limited. ”

While talking, the dry sea took out a wooden fish, and with a light knock, there was a hidden Buddha sound echoing in the small temple, and everything returned to normal.

The exercise was broken, but Ding Yuan was not the slightest frustrated, he still put his hands into his sleeves and said: "You bald donkey is old and immortal, and your skills are profound, but do you think, does everyone in this Panlong Town have your ability?"

Kuhai frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"

Ding Yuan sat down cross-legged and said lazily: "It's not interesting, I can't beat you, you can't catch me, so the old man lives next to your town, where there are residents in the town who go out of the town for more than thirty miles, the old man sees one and kills the other, anyway, the palace is in a hurry to ask for star stones, use some extraordinary means, helpless, it will be fine." He laughed wildly.

Kuhai's brows tightened and he was silent.

Ding Yuan saw that the dry sea had been taken by himself, and he was also worried that the old monk was burning, so he took a step back and said: "The old man doesn't take advantage of your old monk, so it's better for you to gamble with the old man, if you win, the old man turns his head and leaves, if you lose, you choose two of the three things I mentioned just now, so that I can have an explanation, you see how it is." ”

Kuhai pondered for a long time and asked, "I don't know how Master Ding wants to gamble?"

Ding Yuan said: "I know that Zhou Zhe's child, what kind of school exams are you doing in the town in the past two days, hey, I just want to pull a few strong men for the cabinet of Tianqing Division, which has always been thin, it just so happens that there is a little baby in this batch of children, and I want to teach him something, why don't we compare the achievements of this batch of children in a year, if the heirs of the monks can overpower the heirs of the old man, then I have nothing to say, what do you think." ”

Kuhai weighed for a while and replied, "You can only teach the exercises, and you are not allowed to enter your master's door." ”

Ding Yuan sneered: "It's up to you, don't blame me for taking advantage of you, my apprentice has already been chosen." Yours also have to pay attention to the fate of Naraushzi. ”

"Don't worry about it. The withered sea waved his sleeves to send off the guests.

Ding Yuan sneered and retreated into the shadows, disappearing instantly.

Kuhai stood up and walked out of the small temple slowly, the sky full of stars and rivers flickered, shining in the night sky, he muttered for a long time, and said to himself: "Xingshi ......"