Let's say that Duanmu Kang looked for his grandfather Huang Shang and said the idea of going down the mountain, Huang Shang's face froze, and said, "No!" Duanmu Kang thought that his grandfather would agree, but he didn't want to, but he was immediately refused, he exclaimed: "Grandpa, why is this?"

Huang Shang's tone slowed down slightly, and said, "The poison in your body has not been completely cleared, and if you go down the mountain now, it will be equivalent to sending you to death." ”

Duanmu Kang patted his chest and said: "Grandpa, Ah Kang is strong now, he always feels that he has endless strength, even if he has not yet healed, but it is almost good, it will not take a few days to go down the mountain to the Yellow Dragon Gang, besides, Ah Kang can still practice on his own after going down the mountain." ”

Huang Shang's face turned cold, and said, "You kid, why are you disobedient?" I know why Grandpa healed Shui Pei, but he always refused to let her go down the mountain to visit her parents, but only allowed her parents to go up the mountain to see her once a year, and now you are not allowed to go down the mountain?" Duanmu Kang shook his head.

Huang Sheng continued: "It's because of a kind of grass here, and the smell it emits can suppress the poisonous gas in your body, so that grandpa can cure it with external force." Grandpa didn't know what it was called, but he saw it in a rotten ancient book. This plant is only found on the mountain, and you must smell it at all times until you have fully recovered, otherwise, the treatment of external forces is like pouring water into a gourd with a leaky bottom, and you will never be able to fill it, and you will never be cured!"

Duanmu Kang pondered for a moment and said, "Grandpa, this doesn't seem right!"

Huang Shang's face changed, and he said, "What's wrong?"

Duanmu Kang continued: "Since they are all gourds with leaky bottoms, except for the mountains, there is no kind of grass in other places that grandpa said, so why can Ruan Mei go down the mountain four years ago and go back to be safe, and also, on our mountain, the grass and trees on the mountain are dry and rotten in winter, and they can't emit a smell, so why are we okay?"

Huang Sheng was a little impatient and said, "If you can't go down the mountain, grandpa will give you an answer tomorrow morning." Now let's go and practice first!"

Duanmu Kang said "oh", very reluctantly, but he never disobeyed his grandfather, and immediately walked out of the cave and went outside to practice.

This day was very difficult, Duanmu Kang practiced all the internal skills and martial arts moves he had learned, and then said goodbye to the tamed wolves, leopards and other livestock. At last it was night, but he didn't feel sleepy, and waited for the sky to light a little, and then got up to get food and cook. Because it was just early spring, the food would not rot in a short time, so he prepared two days' worth of food for his grandfather, thinking that he would be able to eat it as soon as it was hot, and he would not have to bother with it himself.

When all the meals were ready, the sky was already bright, Duanmu Kang took breakfast to find his grandfather Huang Shang, and searched all over the cave, but Huang Shang was nowhere to be found. Otherwise, I'll put the food here first, and then go down the mountain by myself!" Then I thought, "Grandpa treats me so well, and it is too bad to say goodbye and secretly run down the mountain." Immediately, he secretly scolded himself for being careless. Xin said again: "Anyway, I didn't find my grandfather, so I simply took the livestock to patrol the mountains first." ”

As soon as he got out of the stone room, he saw Huang Sheng coming towards him, almost bumping into each other, Duanmu Kang Liding, and asked, "Grandpa, what do you think?"

Huang Sheng didn't speak, walked into the stone room with his hands behind his back, Duanmu Kang had to follow in, he looked, grandpa seemed to be holding something in his hand, and when he looked closely, grandpa quickly withdrew the hand holding the thing and shrunk it into his cuffs.

Huang Sheng sat down, and Duanmu Kang asked, "Grandpa, what are you holding in your hand just now, can you let Ah Kang see it?" Huang Shang raised his hands, pretending to have nothing, and said, "Look, Grandpa didn't have anything in his hand! You must have read it wrong." ”

Duanmukang smiled: "Grandpa lied to me, and I clearly saw the thing in your hand, like a small bamboo tube." ”

Huang Sheng stretched out his hand again, only to see that there was indeed a small bamboo tube in his hand. Duanmukang smiled and said, "Let me see!" Huang Sheng pretended not to give it and said: "This is grandpa's own thing, but I can't show it to you, don't you want to go down the mountain to find Shui Pei? Grandpa agreed, go and pack your luggage, grandpa is going to go with you! Let's go! Delay for a while, I'm afraid I won't be able to get there before dark." After that, he got up and deliberately pushed Duanmu Kang, but unexpectedly, as soon as his hand was unfolded, the bamboo tube fell to the ground, Duanmu Kang hurriedly reached out and picked it up, and Grandpa Huang Shang did not stop him, Duanmu Kang quickly dismantled the bamboo tube, and there was a note inside.

This time, it was terrible, I saw Duanmu Kang's face like ashes, tears burst out of his eyes in an instant, pinched the note and read it many times, and choked up: "Grandpa, you deliberately lied to me! ”

Huang Sheng smiled: "It's not like that, you get along with Shui Pei day and night, and you know her handwriting better than me." He added: "If you don't believe it, take out the internal strength mantra that Shui Pei copied to you and compare it." ”

Duanmu Kang was silent, but his hand had already reached into his neckline, and he took out the mantra written to him by Ruan Shuipei and compared it with this piece of paper. He was completely dead, he hoped that his grandfather would imitate Ruan Shuipei's handwriting and deliberately write to deceive him! But the fact is that this note was really written by Ruan Shuipei. He cried sullenly for a long time, Huang Sheng patted him on the shoulder, and said softly: "It's Shui Pei's own choice, you should be happy for her!"

Duanmu Kang choked up and said, "Grandpa, Ah Kang really can't be happy, I always thought she had me in her heart, but now it's like this." ”

Huang Sheng sighed: "Shui Pei's marriage is naturally a big deal, I don't know who Shui Pei marries?" Duanmu Kang gritted his teeth and said, "I know, the groom must be Yang Yixuan's kid!"

Huang Shang said: "Why are you so sure that the groom is Yang Yixuan." ”

At that moment, Duanmu Kang recounted the conversation he heard between the father and son on the mountain a few days ago. Huang Sheng sighed.

Duanmu Kang said: "Grandpa, I'm going down the mountain to tell her what I heard, but I can't be deceived by Yang Yixuan's kid!"

Huang Shang stopped: "As the saying goes, 'I'd rather demolish ten temples than destroy a single relative', what's more, they have all worshiped heaven and earth, and they are righteous husband and wife, don't you go down the mountain to make trouble?"

Duanmu Kang said: "Ah Kang doesn't care, now I have to go down the mountain to see and understand!" turned around and left.

Huang Sheng grabbed it and said, "If you do this, you are an unrighteous and unfilial person, and you have failed all people!" Duanmu Kang did not move, but he no longer tried to break free, Huang Sheng let go of his hand and said: "You have not been eradicated from the disease, and if you go down the mountain easily, it will be equivalent to death." First, when you died, you failed the people who sent you up the mountain, you failed the guidance of Grandma Ruan Bing, failed the heroes of Jifeng Village who fought with wolves for you and got injured, failed the treatment I have given you in the past few years, and failed Shui Pei to cook and wash your life for the past two years, which is unrighteous; second, have you ever thought that your adoptive mother did not hesitate to lower her body and beg me to treat you, and if you died, what should your adoptive mother do? And he said, "If you think about it, there are so many people who are good to you, and you have failed them all." ”

Duanmu Kang was red-faced and dumbfounded by what his grandfather said.

Huang Sheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "Ah Kang, you are not confused, you should think about it! After taking two steps, he turned around and said, "Grandpa will come down the mountain in an hour, and if you want to come, follow it!"

Duanmu Kang pondered alone in the stone chamber for a long time, and had already made up his mind not to go down the mountain again. At that moment, he helped his grandfather pack his luggage, sent it over, and said: "Grandpa, Ah Kang decided not to go down the mountain first, you go and take a good look at Ruan Mei, if Ruan Mei has her own thoughts, then that's it, if someone persecutes her, I will be the first to stand up for her." Huang Sheng nodded in agreement and left in a hurry.

Duanmu Kang is the only one on the mountain, practicing internal skills over and over again, and acquaintances often appear in his mind, but whenever Ruan Shuipei's figure appears in his mind, his heart will always be "pierced" and painful. He wanted to get rid of the torment of those figures for a while, but to no avail.

It's already the fifth day, get up early, practice cross-legged outside the cave, this time he practiced, he seemed to understand a lot of things, and the things he didn't understand in the mantra gradually became clearer.

"Seeing emptiness, forgetting emptiness, so that there is a vacuum. Moving and externalizing, quiet and connotating, Fang Likan is not chaotic... This sentence, he suddenly figured it out. Sitting cross-legged, practicing from the first to the ninth in one breath, smooth and unimpeded, I suddenly felt that my chest was extremely comfortable, and practicing it again was a different taste.

Duanmu Kang stood up and shouted around, but what he responded was his own echo, and he thought of Ruan Shuipei again, and the feeling in his heart was really beyond words.

After a few bites of breakfast, Duanmu Kang summoned the livestock to patrol the mountain, and when he arrived at the lake, although the mountain he saw in the morning was always full of fog, and the lake was even more so, he still saw someone standing on the edge of the lake, fixed himself to take a closer look, the figure seemed to have seen it, got closer, and exclaimed: "So it's him again?"

Duanmu Kang turned over and jumped over, and said angrily: "Yang Shiping, why are you again? What did you and your son do to my Ruan Mei? How could she marry your vicious son?"

asked four questions in a row, but Yang Shiping didn't answer any of them, turned around and sneered at Duanmu Kang, drew his sword and stabbed at Duanmu Kang. Duanmu Kang picked up a wooden stick casually, blocked it left and right, and spread all the sword moves, but the wooden stick in his hand had already been cut off by the sword. Duanmu Kang seemed to have discovered something, he stopped his hand and said, "Your wrist was not crushed by my grandfather, why is it better now!"

The man didn't answer, he raised his sword and stabbed Duanmu Kang again, Duanmu Kang hurriedly raised the wooden stick to resist, and the wooden stick in his hand was cut off again, but it was only half of the wooden stick, and he also took Yang Shiping's more than ten fierce attacks. I saw that Yang Shiping's sword turned and turned into a thorn, and the changes seemed to be completed at the same time. Before Duanmu Kang could react, the long sword in Yang Shiping's hand had already touched his throat.

Duanmu Kang had already closed his eyes and was waiting to die, not wanting to, Yang Shiping took the sword back, inserted it into the scabbard, and said: "The swordsmanship is very exquisite, but it's a pity that he has no experience in fighting the enemy. ”

Duanmu Kang heard this, and said in his heart: "But that's not the case? He thought again: "This person's swordsmanship was sparse and ordinary a few days ago, how can he become so powerful today!"

Without waiting for Duanmu Kang to speak, Yang Shiping said again: "I'll try your internal strength." Still not waiting for Duanmu Kang to agree, Yang Shiping put on a punching posture and said, "When you're ready, come and attack!"

Duanmu Kangxin said: "I can hear the meaning, let me make the first move." At that moment, Duanmu Kang stuck to the ground with a horse step, silently recited the mantra in his heart, and rushed towards Yang Shiping with his arms of true luck. Yang Shiping didn't wait for Duanmu Kang to attack, he saw Duanmu Kang make a punching posture, and he also rushed towards Duanmu Kang, with a "snap" sound, his palms touched, and the dead grass on the ground was shaken.

Duanmu Kang was very surprised, he fought with Yang Shiping a few days ago, a few catties and a few taels, and he had already known it in his chest, so he gathered his true qi in his palms, and used his strength to palm Yang Shiping, but he didn't want to, and his arm was sore.

Yang Shiping was even more surprised, and said in his heart: "I haven't seen him for a few days, but he has practiced such a palm power." Fortunately, Fang Cai didn't have the intention of supporting me, otherwise, I would have been knocked to the ground by him in a passive position. ”

"Brother Akang, good palm power, it seems that you have already practiced the mantra", this voice was very familiar, Duanmu Kang kept turning around and looking around, but there was no figure.

Duanmu Kangxin said: "This is clearly Ruan Mei's voice, could it be that I always think about her in my heart, so I have hallucinations?"