The backyard of Nanyang County, the sun is beautiful and spring, and the flowers and plants are fragrant. Next to the rockery pool, in the cloister corner pavilion, a table of exquisite banquet, two people push the cup to change the lamp, and the wine is happy. A pretty woman stood at the table, full of wine and tea, and served very well.

The people who talked about the wine were Qiu Qianzhang and Qian Qingjian, and the one who added tea and poured the wine was naturally Li Xinghua. Li Xinghua had already eaten alone. According to the folk customs of the Song Dynasty, when drinking and eating with outsiders, the Hun family [Note 1] could not be served.

This wine can be drunk until the sun is in the mountains, but the old and the young are full of interest.

In Qian Qingjian's opinion, the character of Qiu Qianzhang is actually a very good old man. In his life, this gentleman has never harmed any innocent people, and all his shortcomings are just like to brag and tell lies. And his countless wonderful performances have brought bursts of laughter to martial arts people such as Guo Jing and Huang Rong.

Is it a crime to brag about it? Even if he pretends to be someone else to swindle and cheat, people cheat money or deceive sex? Besides, he is pretending to be his twin brother, and his brother has no complaints, so what kind of coaxing does others follow?

If it is said that defecting to the Jin State is indeed a flaw, but Old Man Qiu has not been able to help the Jin State to do substantial harm to the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, right?

Furthermore, it is to write the famous sentence "Ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die." And a few years after Qiu Qian's banquet, Yuan Haowen was exactly the owner of this Nanyang County Ya. [Note 2]

So Qian Qingjian is very happy to drink and brag with this old man who likes acting. Of course, drinking and bragging is not the goal, and the purpose is not to climb the high branches and then take refuge in the Jin Kingdom.

His purpose was to properly settle Li Xinghua, and take Li Xinghua to find Dugu Sword Tomb outside the chaotic Xiangyang City, which was not realistic. On the territory of Nanyang, if you want to properly settle your family, it is more appropriate to rely on officials like Qiu Qianzhang. [Note 3]

When dinner time was approaching, Qian Qingjian noticed that the servant woman who came to serve the food did not only present him with this table, but in the corner of the garden, there was a big house, with bluestone as the wall and the iron lattice as the door and window.

Qiu Qianzhang saw Qian Qingjian's gaze, so he explained: "Those are the three women who were picked, and they can't starve their bodies." ”

Qian Qingjian said curiously: "It turns out that the seniors Qiu will still tune in this way! The juniors really haven't seen it." ”

Qiu Qianzhang laughed and shook his head: "The doll's words are bad, although the old man is skillful, he is not good at it." ”

Qian Qingjian was about to ask, when he suddenly heard someone laughing a little far behind him: "The two of you are good Yaxing, but why don't you call me, a hard-working person, to drink together?"

Qian Qingjian looked back, but saw two people behind him, one of them was Chen Xiaolin, and the other was white and fat, with a big white beard, if it weren't for a brocade robe with thousands of flowers, and nine sacks behind him, he looked like a big gentleman and a rich man, he smiled before he spoke, his face was full of spring breeze, a ball of harmony, and said: "This little Taoist is very eye-catching, and he can drink at the same table with the Qiu gang master, but I don't know which senior brother it is?"

Qiu Qianren laughed and said: "Elder Peng is out day and night, Qiu is worried that it will disturb your daydream, so he didn't greet him, this is Qian Qingjian, the disciple of the Yellow River Gang Sha Gang Leader, the Taoist robe is robbed of the whole real bull's nose, you are all close and close." ”

Elder Peng said "long admiration" and stretched out his hand to Qian Qingjian enthusiastically, Qian Qingjian's heart was dark, this is the Elder Peng who can "detract from the heart", right? At this time, there are a total of four elders in the beggar gang, Peng, Liang, Jian, and Lu, well, this is most likely this person, he carefully shook hands with Elder Peng, but he didn't dare to look into Elder Peng's eyes.

Elder Peng smiled disapprovingly, let go of Qian Qingjian's hand, and spread his palm to Chen Xiaolin and said, "Gang Master Qiu, let me introduce you, this is ......"

"There's no need to introduce it, Gang Master Qiu, you're back so fast! Isn't it impossible for Prince Rong's disciples to be taught?" Chen Qilin interrupted Elder Peng's words.

Qiu Qianzhang has been performing for a long time, and he knows that this head should have met Qiu Qianren, and he also knows that Qiu Qianren was hired to go to Zhongdu, so he laughed and said: "How can I practice this iron palm magic skill in one day? I only left a few maps for the two dolls, which is enough for them to practice for ten years." Come, come, let's drink together. ”

Elder Peng smiled and stretched out his hand to invite Chen Qilin to sit first, but Chen Qilin refused to sit down, but looked at Qian Qingjian, stretched out his hand, and said in a cold voice: "I'm not as approachable as Gang Master Qiu, I have to see if this little guy is qualified to drink at the same table with me." ”

Qian Qingjian immediately stood up, but did not reach out to shake it, grandma is a bear, this is the vajra finger power that can crush the bones of Yu Daiyan in Wudang in later generations, and the fool shook hands with you, but he said: "Naturally, I am not qualified to drink at the same table with Master Chen, Gang Master Qiu, Elder Peng, and the juniors will retire." ”

Chen Zhenlin's color changed, Qiu Qianzhang hurriedly said: "Why does Master Chen stretch a younger generation so much, this little doll is very close to the old man, although his kung fu is outstanding among the younger generation, but if compared with us peak figures, it is still a lot worse." ”

Chen Xilin's face turned slightly pale, and he said to Qian Qingjian: "In this case, you can show me your kung fu, I just want to know why the old monk in Shaolin wants to keep you." ”

Qian Qingjian was secretly angry, and said: "I don't practice martial arts for people to watch and play, I can't go?"

"No!" Chen Xiaolin stared at Qian Qingjian's eyes, and his attitude was extremely tough.

Qiu Qianzhang gave Qian Qingjian a look and said, "You just practice it, it just so happens that my old man also wants to appreciate it." ”

"Okay, listen to people's advice to eat a full meal, and the younger generation will be ugly. Qian Qingjian didn't dare to fall out with Chen Xiaolin seriously, walked to the corner of the pavilion, held up the big iron cylinder of Old Man Qiu's props with one hand, and said: "I will learn and sell it now, and show everyone a Qiu gang leader's iron palm floating on water." ”

Anyway, he carried up the real golden goose gong, even the person with the cylinder has flown out of the corner pavilion, lightly stepped on the edge of the pool by the pavilion, the body flew up again, over the surface of the water, and then stepped on the strange rocks protruding from the rockery in two consecutive steps, and in the blink of an eye, it was already standing on the top of the rockery.

I saw that he held the cylinder with his left hand, stepped on a stone with abrupt corners with his left foot, and made a move "Kuixing Kick Fight" style, kicked out his right leg and hugged it by the side of his right ear, the breeze hit, and his body and the big iron cylinder swayed gently from side to side with the wind, but there was no risk of falling. The robe is fluttering, showing the fairy wind and bones.

"Good light work! Good internal strength!" The three people in the pavilion applauded heartily.

"I think Brother Qian's hand is already better than the iron-footed fairy king of the Quanzhen faction!" Elder Peng's evaluation was particularly high.

In other words, if this big vat is a real three or four hundred catties, with Qian Qingjian's performance at the moment, not to mention beating Wang Chuyi, even Wang Chongyang is just like that.

Qian Qingjian jumped back, and gently put the iron jar of more than 20 catties in his hand outside the pavilion, he was really afraid that Chen Xilin would come over to weigh this big tank, if he really wanted that, but even Old Man Qiu sold it.

Looking at Qian Qingjian's hand, Chen Qilin looked shocked, sat down, looked at Qian Qingjian and asked: "Brother Qian's kung fu is very handsome! Isn't it the internal strength passed on to you by the old monk of Shaolin?"

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[Note 1] Hun family, during the Song Dynasty, was another name for the housewives of the common people. can be compared with "Water Margin".

[Note 2] Yuan Haowen, a famous poet at the end of the Jin Dynasty, wrote a good sentence for the ages at the age of 16. At this time in this book, Yuan Haowen is taking the college entrance examination in Beijing, and one year later he will serve as the magistrate of Zhenping County (a new county next to Nanyang), and five years later he will be appointed as the magistrate of Nanyang County.

[Note 3] Qiu Qianzhang's work in Nanyang at this time was equivalent to the director of the Nanyang County Public Security Bureau.