Duanmu Kang was already crying into tears, and with a "hmm", he followed behind Huang Shang.

Back in the Five Immortals Cave, Huang Shang picked up a stone and carved on the cave wall, "The world is sad, and the peak is sent to the guest through hard work." Sigh for ten years, Hugh Momo, teach people not to be hurt! ”

Although Duanmukang didn't know much about words, he still knew a few of these two lines, and immediately read out the words on the stone wall, and said: "Grandpa, these words are so difficult to understand!"

Huang Sheng listened to Duanmu Kang's words, and the hand that was carving on the cave wall stopped, turned around and asked, "Child, what did you just call me?"

Duanmu Kang replied: "I call you grandpa senior! My mother calls you 'senior', and Sister Shui Pei calls 'grandpa', so she simply calls you 'grandpa senior'." ”

Huang Sheng shook his head and said, "This title sounds a little awkward, you remove the word 'senior', and call me 'grandpa' like Shui Pei!"

Duanmu Kang asked, "Yes, grandpa." Then why don't you like the word 'senior'?"

Huang Shang saw Duanmu Kang's innocent appearance, very similar to his granddaughter Ruan Shuipei, and said softly at the moment: "First, there are only you and me on the mountain, and the shouts of your predecessors are naturally a bit raw; ”

Duanmu Kang said: "Grandpa, I understand 'Jianghu', but what is 'tired guest'?"

Huang Sheng was a little surprised that the child in front of him didn't understand the word "tired guest", but he thought that Duanmu Kang might not have studied every day like Ruan Shuipei, so he patiently explained: "'Tired guest in the rivers and lakes' naturally refers to people who are tired of the rivers and lakes, and tired means tired. ”

Duanmukang nodded to indicate that he understood, and Huang Sheng said again: "You understand the rivers and lakes, but you don't understand the 'rivers and lakes'." The rivers and lakes are not only the rivers, lakes and seas, but also the state of the world. ”

In the next few days, Huang Sheng prepared medicine for Duanmukang during the day, taught him to read and write, and helped him relieve his veins at night, and the rest of the time, he went to the cave to continue making firecrackers.

Fortunately, Duanmu Kang is also very studious, and Huang Sheng is also willing to teach, in the past few days, Duanmu Kang has been able to read through the "Hundred Beasts Tongjian" left to him by Ruan Shuipei when he went down the mountain, plus those beasts have been domesticated by Ruan Shuipei, so Duanmu Kang just followed the practice in the book and Ruan Shuipei's instructions, and did it step by step, and also did it well, and many beasts also listened to his instructions.

Duanmukang is in good spirits day by day, the whole person is much more lively than when he first went up the mountain, the day before yesterday, Duanmukang took the initiative to make meals, and he was very praised for eating yellow clothes.

On this day, it was already the last day of the year, and Duanmu Kang prepared some things for the New Year according to Huang Shang's instructions. In the morning, when it was still snowing, Duanmu Kang put on a thick leather coat, put on a felt hat, carried the small bow left by Ruan Shuipei, and led the leopards and wolves to patrol around. Just as he was about to cross the lake, he faintly heard the sound of crying on the other side, and when he stopped to listen, it seemed that there was more than one person.

Duanmu Kangxin said: "Why are there still people going up the mountain in such weather? Could it be that Zhang Hongshan led Jiang Hai and other small people to find here?"

At that moment, he shouted loudly, "Who is over there? Go down the mountain! Grandpa doesn't like people living on the mountain." ”

There was no response, and the sobs were still there.

Duanmu Kang thought that the people over there might not have heard his voice, so he deliberately raised his voice and was about to ask again, but the leopard and wolf around him had already rushed from behind him and ran straight to the opposite side.

Duanmu Kang hurriedly said: "Come back quickly, don't hurt people's lives!" The command was dancing, but the group of beasts didn't listen to his instructions at all at this moment, and just rushed forward one by one. Duanmu Kang hurriedly followed.

On the other side of the lake, it was none other than Ruan Shuipei, who had only gone down the mountain a few days ago, and the leopard and wolf surrounded her in the middle, and they were very affectionate. And outside the wolves, there are two other people, Duanmu Kang knows, it is Grandma Ruan Bing, and the other, who looks like a family member, came up the mountain together.

Duanmu Kang was overjoyed and called: "Grandma, Sister Shuipei, it's you! Hurriedly ran over and threw herself into the arms of Grandma Ruan Bing, asked long and short questions, and also asked about her mother Ling Fangrui and Brother Yin, Grandma Ruan Bing said that the two of them went south after sending Ruan Shuipei home, saying that they would also go home.

Grandma's eyes are still so kind, just like the grandma in the store a few days ago, but she is dressed differently.

Ruan Shuipei said: "There is still a living person here, don't you see it? ”

Duanmu Kang approached Ruan Shuipei, smiled, touched his head, and said: "I saw you a long time ago, but I saw Grandma, and I forgot for a while, ha, Duanmu is not blind!" and said: "Little sister Shuipei, you didn't go down the mountain, it's about to be the New Year, why did you come to the mountain again?"

Ruan Shuipei couldn't answer, and when he heard Duanmu Kang ask like this, he cried even more.

Grandma Ruan Bing said: "Akang, come here, I have something to say to you." Duanmu Kang walked over according to his words, and Ruan Shuipei also followed and approached Grandma's side.

It turned out that Grandma Ruan Bing went back that morning and rescued her family, and then, she dealt with the aftermath of the gang, buried her son Yang Yifan, and held a funeral banquet. After Ruan Shuipei returned to the Huanglong Gang, it was also common sense to wear linen and filial piety, and there were relatives of the Yang family, among whom was Liu Yixuan, who was Ruan Shuipei's cousin. It is common for children to be vindictive, but Ruan Shuipei injured his cousin Liu Yixuan. Although Liu Yixuan is half a head taller than Ruan Shuipei and has also learned some martial arts, Ruan Shuipei has followed Huang Shang to learn internal skills since he was a child, and he easily injured Liu Yixuan, and the injury was not light. The son was injured, and the mother was naturally unwilling, so she came to Ruan Shuipei's mother to theorize. The two mothers naturally protected their children, and in the end, it was Ruan Shuipei's mother who understood the righteousness and counted a few words about Ruan Shuipei. Unexpectedly, Ruan Shuipei refused, and under the collision of words, her mother slapped her. Later, Ruan Shuipei hid in his house and didn't see anyone, didn't take medicine, Ruan Bing was afraid that his granddaughter's condition would deteriorate, so he took his granddaughter up the mountain.

Duanmu Kang heard that Ruan Shuipei was slapped by his mother, and at that moment, he asked softly, "Does it still hurt?" After that, he reached out and touched Ruan Shuipei's face.

Ruan Shuipei immediately dodged and said angrily: "Why are you touching my face, this is rude." ”

Duanmu Kang was also surprised, but when he heard the word "indecent", he didn't feel that his cheeks were red and hot. Hurriedly withdrew his hand, his eyes didn't dare to look at Ruan Shuipei, and he was at a loss. And although Ruan Shuipei said that, he could hear that Duanmu Kang cared about himself, and his crying had slowed down.

Duanmu Kang said: "Grandma, I'll take you to find grandpa!"

Grandma Ruan Bing's eyes were a little confused, and after a long time, she said: "You and Shui Pei will go! I'll go down the mountain?" Right now, the Chinese New Year is also a big event, and there are many chores waiting for me to do it!"

It turned out that after Duanmukang was poisoned, he couldn't hear the voice of the wolf until he met the wolves at the foot of the Five Immortals Mountain, and Duanmukang naturally didn't know about Ruan Bing's conversation with Ling Fangrui and others before, and he didn't know that Ruan Bing swore not to meet Huang Sheng before her husband Yang Keqin died, and this time she sent her granddaughter up the mountain as a last resort, how could she go to see it? But when she saw that her grandma said this, she didn't force it, so she nodded "um" and agreed.

The family helped Grandma Ruan Bing down the mountain, Duanmu Kang saw the two leave, Ruan Shuipei on the side patted Duanmu Kang on the shoulder and said, "Let's go back!"

Ruan Shuipei straddled the leopard's back very skillfully, Duanmu Kang returned the small bow, and also learned Ruan Shuipei to look like riding a leopard, but the leopard bullied him, so he refused, tried again, but it still didn't work. Immediately walk in front and walk past the glacial lake.

Huang Sheng was drinking tea in the Five Immortals Cave, and when he saw Ruan Shuipei entering the cave, he thought it was just a phantom at first, rubbed his eyes and looked at it carefully, shook his head again, and said in his heart: "Shui Pei should be at home at this time, why is she?" But when he heard Ruan Shuipei shouting "Grandpa", he ran over and hugged him, and then he came to his senses, and almost shed tears with excitement, and said: "It's really my granddaughter! You, why did you come up the mountain again?"

Ruan Shuipei smiled without saying a word, and squeezed into Huang Shang's arms one by one.

Huang Shang asked, "Ah Kang, did you bring her back?"

Duanmu Kang shook his head and told him what happened to him in the morning with his livestock and what happened after Ruan Shuipei returned home.

Huang Shang heard that Grandma also came up the mountain, showed a panicked look, and sighed: "She still hasn't seen me, so it's okay." He said: "It's already Guanshan Feidu, it's better not to see each other than to see each other!" Then, he hurriedly checked Ruan Shuipei's pulse, shook his head, tried again, and said: "The pulse is normal, not like what your grandma said!"

Ruan Shuipei grinned out loud and said proudly: "This is the method that Sister Ling taught me. I promised to go down the mountain that day, which is the filial piety that a human child should keep, and I also know that reason. But filial piety was also worn, and my head was knocked over, and I came back. He sighed again: "This method really works!"

Huang Shang said: "What is it?"

Ruan Shuipei said: "Sister Ling taught me a way to move my tendons and wrong veins, which can be instantaneous and my own meridians are disordered, so Grandma mistakenly thinks that my old illness has recurred, so she is naturally willing to let me come back!"

Huang Shang said: "Naughty!"

Ruan Shuipei just laughed evilly, and then coquettishly asked her grandfather Huang Sheng not to tell her family, don't send her back, and so on.

Huang Sheng sighed and said, "Okay, no matter what! In the future, you and Ah Kang will stay here and not go anywhere." ”

Ruan Shuipei took out a few books from his arms and said, "Grandpa, don't we have these books on the mountain?" You see, these are all recipes, and in the future, Shuipei will practice according to the above dishes, and then make them for grandpa. He said to Duanmu Kang on the side: "Duanmu is blind, you can also get naked!"

Duanmu Kang glanced at the recipes, shook his head, and said, "These recipes of yours were given to you by my mother?"

Ruan Shuipei said: "Yes! When Sister Ling took me back, she passed by a shop where no one was around, and my sister went in and took out these things. ”

Duanmu Kang laughed "haha" and said, "I have long been familiar with these dishes in your hand." Not only that, but the dishes that are not in the book are actually more delicious!"

Ruan Shuipei didn't believe it, and Duanmu Kang continued: "Little brother, I have traveled from south to north, and I have really learned a lot of dishes! My mother's cooking skills are good, but as a chef in the store, I naturally learn more! I don't believe it, you ask grandpa, how is Akang's skills?"

Ruan Shuipei looked up at his grandfather Huang Shang, and from his eyes, he could see that Duanmu Kang's words were true, but he was still a little unconvinced, and said immediately: "There is a cloud in the ancient book 'Gentleman is far away from cooking'." ”

Duanmu Kang pondered for a moment and asked Huang Shang, "Grandpa, what does 'cooking' mean?"

Huang Shang's face flushed, he had cooked for Ruan Shuipei all these years, and he could be regarded as a "cook"! ”

Duanmu Kang Sicun said for a long time: "I am not a so-called 'gentleman', and 'Yuanku Kitchen' naturally has nothing to do with me. Besides, the 'gentleman' also has to eat, and if he stays away from the cook, won't he starve to death? Otherwise, the 'gentleman' will have to cook for himself, but in that case, he will not become the so-called 'cook' himself?"

Ruan Shuipei saw the change in his grandfather's face, and also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said: "This is not entirely true, you don't have to guess." ”

Ruan Shuipei of Duanmu Kangli continued: "I think there should be this reason, the 'cook' does all day long killing chickens and slaughtering sheep, perhaps, this sentence is to persuade people to do good deeds and not harm living beings." ”

Ruan Shuipei was very happy to hear Duanmu Kang's explanation, and said: "Yes, yes, that's it! This sentence was said by Meng Gong, and his original intention was to exhort King Qi Xuan to practice benevolence. ”

Huang Sheng on the side laughed out loud and said, "You two little dolls, don't sing and harmonize, grandpa and I are not a 'gentleman', whether it is a near kitchen or a distant kitchen, it doesn't matter." He added: "However, you can come up with this truth from the phrase 'gentleman is far away from cooking', and it is also teachable and teachable!"

Ruan Shuipei and Duanmu Kang laughed together, and Ruan Shuipei said: "Grandpa is so good!"

Huang Sheng touched the heads of the two and continued: "In the future, you will urge each other to learn some skills." The two nodded in agreement.

Huang Sheng said to Ruan Shuipei: "Elder Akang, you should call your brother, don't always call Duanmu and Duanmu's surname." Later, teach him to read and read more. He also said to Duanmu Kang: "Shui Pei has lived in the mountains since he was a child, except for those leopards and wolves, he has no playmates, and he doesn't know much about the world. Also, you are an older brother, let her be more in the future. ”

Duanmu Kang said "yes".

Ruan Shuipei said: "How can that be? I call Duanmu her mother 'sister', according to the generation, Duanmu should call me 'sister-in-law', how can I call him 'brother'?" Duanmu Kang was very embarrassed to hear.

Huang Sheng explained: "Why not? They are adopted sons and adoptive mothers, and you can call each of them your own." Even if it's your own mother and child, you can still call it differently. For example, an old man of mine wants to eat wine in a tavern, and when he sees a few years old, he also shouts 'little brother', and the reason for this will be understood when you pay attention to the sophistication of the people. ”

Ruan Shuipei let out an "oh" and said, "Okay then, grandpa, what are I doing with Brother Duanmu today?"

Huang Sheng looked at the top of the cave and said, "Today, we are preparing to welcome the New Year." He added: "Today, we are three people, we should have a lively time and really celebrate the New Year." Everything that should be prepared is known to Akang, so let's go together!"

Ruan Shuipei walked out of the cave with a smile, and when he saw that Duanmu Kang had not come out yet, he shouted: "Duanmu, Brother Duanmu, let's go!"

Duanmukang and Huang Sheng walked out together, and Huang Sheng said, "It's slippery on the mountain, you guys be careful." So he went to the cave alone to drum up "firecrackers".

On the way, Ruan Shuipei said, "Duanmu, what are we going to prepare next?"

Duanmu Kang laughed and said, "After only a few steps, you won't call me brother?"

Ruan Shuipei rolled his eyes and said, "Then why don't you call me sister-in-law?"

Duanmu Kang said: "I'm older than you." ”

Ruan Shuipei said: "Okay, you are big, you are reasonable." I can just call you brother in my heart, and I don't need to talk about it! Now it's just the two of us, and I'll call you 'Duanmu' more smoothly." ”

Duanmu Kang pretended to sigh and said, "But after all, 'brother' sounds more pleasant! If it's called 'Brother Kang', it will be more close." ”

Ruan Shuipei said: "Okay, brother, tell me quickly, what are you going to prepare?"

Duanmu Kang smiled: "Well, this is good! Okay, Brother Kang, I'll tell you." ”

The two swept the snow off a large rock with a branch and sat down.

Duanmu Kang said: "We have to do a lot of miles today! Although the customs on this day of the New Year are different from place to place, there are a few things that are the same. First of all, we have to clean the cave, put up the door gods, wall the clock and the statue, nail the peach charm, then we make the glaive and make the lanterns, and finally, we have to keep the New Year, so we don't sleep all night to welcome the arrival of the next year. ”

Ruan Shuipei didn't understand anything, but there were a few things she had seen in books, and sighed: "This New Year is so troublesome!"

Duanmu Kang continued: "At the moment, there are two things that are the most difficult to do. ”

Ruan Shuipei asked, "What is it?"

Duanmu Kang said: "Of course, the door god and Zhong Kui are like these two, we are on the mountain, so naturally we can't buy them." ”

Ruan Shuipei clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I can do these two things! As for the peach charm, grandpa can do it for you." ”

Duanmu Kang asked in surprise, "You brought it with you when you came up the mountain?"

Ruan Shuipei said: "That's not true, but there is a book in the cave, specifically for drawing those characters, I can draw it like that!"

Duanmu Kang was a little unconvinced, and said, "Do you still have that ability?"

Ruan Shuipei pretended to be angry and said, "You are underestimating people! You will believe it when the drawing is made later." I have never seen the appearance of making lanterns and making glaives, and as for cleaning caves, this is not what I am good at. ”

Duanmu Kang hurriedly said: "I'll do this." ”

Ruan Shuipei got up, shook the snow flakes that had fallen on his clothes like this, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go our separate ways." So he walked to his grandfather's study (Lingyin Cave). Duanmu Kang cut down a bamboo to make a lantern. Press not table.

At noon, there was another loud noise in the cave, Duanmu Kang and Ruan Shuipei naturally heard it, and rushed over, only to see Huang Sheng dancing with his hands, looking very happy, and he couldn't stop shouting: "It's successful, it's finally successful." ”

Huang Sheng turned his head and said, "You two little dolls, I can hear your footsteps from afar, the mountain is so slippery, why don't you walk slowly, what do you look like if you are reckless!"

The two looked at Huang Shang and smiled, Ruan Shuipei said, "Grandpa, is it the 'burst' that grandpa has prepared it?"

Huang Shang replied, "Yes!" After that, he took another one and said, "Come, try." "Hand the fire fold to Ruan Shuipei as well.

Ruan Shuipei took two steps back, pursed his lips and smiled: "Grandpa, I don't dare, if I can't hide from it, I won't be what my grandfather looked like that day." ”

Huang Sheng explained: "The various dosage ratios that day are not suitable, and the power is extremely high, even if you want to play, I won't allow it! Today is different, I have already tried it, and the dosage is just right." ”

Ruan Shuipei still shook his head, signaling that he didn't dare, and Duanmu Kang on the side hurriedly said on his shoulder: "Grandpa, I'll do something!"

Duanmu Kang stretched out his hand to take the firecracker and fire fold in his grandfather's hand, walked forward five or six steps, put the firecracker on the ground, lit the lead, and quickly ran back, saying, "Be careful, it's going to ring." He reached out again to cover Ruan Shuipei's ears. The three of them looked at the firecrackers expectantly, and the firecrackers made a series of "silk" sounds, but they did not explode, only wisps of green smoke came out.

Ruan Shuipei took away Duanmu Kang's hand that was covering his ear, smiled and bent over, and Duanmu Kang also shouted: "This is a 'squib'!" also laughed out loud.

Huang Sheng was very embarrassed, and said to himself: "I succeeded just now, why can't this be?"

Duanmu Kang ran over and took the firecrackers back, picked up the one that Grandpa Huang Shang had just lit, compared the two, looked at them for a long time, and said: "Grandpa, these two bamboo tubes seem to have different thicknesses, you see, the 'firecrackers' I just lit are thicker than the ones you lit before." Ruan Shuipei also came over to look at it and said, "Grandpa, these two bamboo tubes are really different!"

Huang Sheng took the bamboo tube in his hand, compared it with it, and sighed at the moment: "Sure enough, no wonder the same amount of medicine, but the second one doesn't explode." ”

Duanmu Kang said: "Grandpa, Ah Kang has a way, I don't know if it will work." ”

Huang Shang turned his head, obviously trying to listen to what the method was. Duanmu Kang said: "I see a lot of pine oil flowing out of the pine trees in the forest, touch it with your hands, it is sticky, we can put it in a pot to boil it into water, and then soak the paper in it, and then make it into a paper tube." ”

Huang Shang seemed to suddenly realize, and said: "It is said that scholars are rigid and do not know how to be flexible, and this is true." Grandpa is an example. He added: "Your method, if you want to come, it will work, we might as well try it." ”

At the moment, according to Duanmu Kang's proposal, the three of them made a new "firecracker", tried to order one, and it really succeeded, and they laughed out loud. Then, Huang Shang continued to make "firecrackers", Ruan Shuipei went to Lingyin Cave to paint a portrait, and Duanmu Kang made lanterns and cleaned the hole.

But it was said that Yin and Ling hurriedly worked hard, stayed at night, and finally arrived in Xiuzhou on the last day of the year. It's south, but it snows, and this year it did.

In the evening, the two finally saw the pear blossom village, the sky is not completely dark, according to the habit of previous years, at this time the pear blossom village, should have been lit up, the lights are bright. But this year is not, somehow, the whole Ewha Village, lifeless, that dull atmosphere, as if walking alone among thousands of graves at night, can't help but make people break out in a cold sweat. Yin and Ling looked at each other, and felt that it was not good, so they approached with light steps, tiptoe, and leaned on the courtyard wall to look, only to see that the courtyard wall was full of people.

Someone shouted loudly: "Ling Feng, if you know each other, hand over my daughter-in-law, otherwise I will set foot on your villa." ”

Ling Fangrui and Yin Jingping were very annoyed when they heard this, the name Ling Feng was Ling Fangrui's father, Yin Jingping's master.

Ling Fangrui said in her heart: "Who dares to be so bold and call my father by his name." He wanted to rush in and ask what was going on. Yin Jingping, who was on the side, pulled the placket of her shirt and signaled not to be impulsive first. Ling Fangrui held back her anger and continued to listen.

There was another voice, and the two of them could hear it clearly, it was the voice of Ling Fangrui's brother Ling Zijian, and said: "Dad, don't, Xiaoxiao will be killed by these people after all." ”

Who is "Xiaoxiao"? Many questions flashed through Ling Fangrui's mind, but she could tell from her brother Ling Zijian's voice that she was obviously not lightly injured.

I only heard my father Ling Feng say: "You let go of my son first, and you have something to say." ”

The man said, "Let him go, you treat me stupidly?" After that, he heard a miserable scream, which was Ling Zijian's voice.

At this time, Ling Fangrui couldn't stand it anymore, she supported her palms hard, and the whole person stood on the courtyard wall, scolding: "Who is presumptuous again?" fluttering jumped off the courtyard wall. Yin Jingping also jumped down and walked in front of Ling Fangrui, with his palms together, "bang", the crowd was in turmoil, only to see that Yin Jingping had knocked over the "visitors" on both sides and opened a road.

Ling Fangrui was not in a hurry, and Ying Ying walked over.

Someone recognized it and shouted, "Miss, it's Miss who has returned." Also, the elder brother is back. Lihuazhuang went up and down, happy and excited, and these "outsiders" were even more shocked and speechless when they saw Ling Fangrui's appearance, their eyes widened, and the corners of their mouths opened but they couldn't speak.

There was no sound for a while, and I don't know what it was, and people on both sides were quiet.