Chapter 7: The Dangers of the Rivers and Lakes (4)

"Even if you are really 'Peng Zu in this world', because you innocently insulted my family and seniors just now, I won't kowtow to you and admit your mistakes!" Zhong Ming seemed to have realized who the other party was, but he was still puzzled by the drastic changes in his appearance before and after the retreat, and he couldn't help but respond resolutely when he heard the other party's scolding.

"What a stubborn boy, that's pretty much to my appetite...... I haven't seen you for three years, I didn't expect you kid to become so virtuous...... Well, let's make peace. Let's just leave these verbose relationships of Rory aside, and from now on, you don't have to treat my juniors, and I don't treat you as children, let's travel the world together, okay?"

Unexpectedly, the strange boss suddenly changed his attitude, he was infected by Zhong Ming's true feelings for a while, and suddenly came to a 180-degree turn. Zhong Ming already knew from Yi Hui's mouth that this person was undoubtedly the strange boss on the mountain, and at this time, seeing that he was easy-going and amiable, he put down the shelf and didn't care about himself, which was quite suitable for his spleen and stomach, so he knelt down and kowtowed to him three times, and said:

"The younger generation Xie Zu is not punished. Without waiting for the other party's permission, he immediately stood up and said, "From now on, I can call you an old partner." ”

The strange boss liked the child's straightforwardness and frankness, and then pulled up Yi Hui on the ground and said:

"That's, that's, it's just that you won't be able to call the word 'grandfather' in the future. I don't like to be recognized, so you two can call me the old man with a white beard from now on. ”

Seeing that Master Zu was such a casual friend, the two of them nodded their heads again and again, and the old man was so happy that he couldn't stop laughing, and it seemed that he had made a big bargain. Immediately took the hands of the two children and left, and from the outside, the three of them seemed to be a group of old friends who had been separated for a long time and met enthusiastically.

Speaking of this strange old man is a strange person in the world, although his martial arts are world-renowned, immortal, and almost all the benefits of the world, but he also has his own unspeakable secrets. As early as 60 years ago, he was gullible and mistakenly took the longevity "rejuvenation" pill given to him by one of his closest friends, and since then he has been trapped in a three-year cycle of pain and cannot extricate himself.

The medicinal power in his body has to attack once every three years, and every time he has an attack, he needs to retreat for three years before he can return to his original appearance. During the three years after leaving the customs, his appearance will gradually change over time, and his appearance will gradually become child-like. In fact, his heart is constantly enduring the pain and suffering that only he knows.

The friend who drugged him didn't want to kill him, he just wanted him to obediently obey his command, but the strange boss was stubborn by nature, and the more painful he was, the more he refused to bow down to the other party. Because in the absence of the other party's antidote, the only way to do it is to use one's own retreat cultivation to resist again and again.

Therefore, he cherished the three years after he left the customs, and thought that he must not let himself down, and it was not until the expiration of the three years that he had to re-enter a new retreat to resist the exertion of this poison. Therefore, in front of the world, Peng Zu in this world, in different periods, is shown in front of everyone with different faces, and it is not an exaggeration to describe him with the word "strange".

What's even more unexpected is that this strange boss continues to grow with age, in addition to the medicinal effect, the childlike heart is getting stronger and stronger, and his temper has become like a child, and he is most afraid of being disturbed by people in the martial arts. In addition to hiding in the mountains to practice, I usually find some children to play together.

It's just that he has peerless martial arts, and when he inadvertently showed his martial arts, he scared other people's children away, and everyone agreed that he was not human, but a fox spirit who became an old man and came to deceive children. The old man had no choice but to walk away in a fit of anger after hearing this, although such a scene has appeared many times, but the old man's hobby has not changed, and his only interest is to find a few friends to play around.

Today, I happened to meet two juniors, and I liked them from the bottom of my heart, and I liked them at first sight. Seeing Zhong Ming straightforward and frank, Yi Hui was polite and easy-going, and when he was happy for a while, he simply threw away the constraints of the world's generational etiquette law, regarded the two children as friends who forgot about the year, and immediately introduced the two as confidants.

The three of them had their own needs at this time, and the appointment of the companion was an instant hit. Among them, in addition to Zhong Ming and the old man's special relationship, in Yi Hui's eyes, having this ancestor by the side of the two of them is more secure than holding the emperor's holy decree token. That's not afraid of anyone's aggression in the world, no matter how long she stays outside, the master is embarrassed to blame himself for his face afterwards.

Among the three, Zhong Ming was the most proud, he was moved by the old man's easy-going for a while, and simply hugged the head of the strange boss and couldn't help but kiss it, which frightened the old man. This kind of courtesy that he has not met for many years made him unbearable for a while, and he thought that there was something wrong with the child's spirit, and he couldn't help but ask:

"What are you doing here?"

Unexpectedly, Zhong Ming shouted happily for this:

"Why are you so good...... If you had known this, why didn't you pull you out of the retreat and play with you when I was on the mountain? Influenced by the Three Strange Brothers, I thought you were very majestic and unapproachable...... From now on, we will be together, but we have wronged you, a white-bearded old man. ”

Zhong Ming didn't know that this was a sign of the old man's rejuvenation, and thought that people were deliberately accommodating themselves, and there was an indescribable sense of gratitude in his heart. The old man was even more happy at this, and immediately replied:

"No grievances, no grievances, my old man likes to be with children the most now. Your age is like a piece of gold and jade, simple and unpretentious, innocent and simple. Without the kind of indescribable etiquette and scheming in adulthood, the most appetite for my old man, as long as you don't dislike my old man along the way, I will be thankful. ”

Speaking of this, the old man suddenly paused, rolled his eyes, and immediately warned the two:

"But there is one thing that everyone must make clear in advance, no one of us is allowed to mention any bullshit martial arts together, let alone ask me to teach you anything, this is not because of the disparity in generations. It's because my old man has a strange disease now, that is, as soon as others mention me and ask me to pass on his martial arts, I will immediately grunt and regurgitate for many days, you can't hurt me not to eat. ”

The two children were very strange about this, but they didn't care. As everyone knows, the two children have no need for the old man in terms of martial arts, and Yi Hui was afraid that his idea of testing his own martial arts as the ancestor on the way would disappear cleanly. I didn't expect this ancestor to be so tired of passing on martial arts.

In fact, they didn't want to think that this old man's apprentice had almost closed his door and stopped teaching martial arts, and when he reached his age, he had already regarded teaching martial arts as a never-ending ordeal. It has long become unbearable for the newcomer to repeat the old content and the life pattern of demanding rules for newcomers, and it is understandable to say that he will feel sick to his stomach when he hears this.

The old man now has two innocent and simple children by his side, and it seems that he has become young too, so as to return to his own youth, which is the greatest enjoyment and relaxation of his body and mind. It is also a kind of compensation for the three years of retreat. Considering the image of the three of them in the eyes of outsiders, the old man first made suggestions on Yi Hui's dress:

"You little girl doll, why do you always wear a Taoist dress, and walk there to outsiders as if there is some Dharma to do, which makes people feel unlucky? Besides, this female nun dress will also bring a lot of inconvenience to us during our journey, so that people look at our group of people are a little nondescript, for the convenience of everyone, you simply disguise yourself as a man. ”

"Follow the teachings of our ancestors. Yi Hui said when he heard this.

"Ahem...... Why are we here again, how did we come by appointment?" the old man was suddenly dissatisfied.

"Just listen to the old man with the white beard. Yi Hui replied again.

"That's right. The old man replied happily.

According to the old man's meaning, Yi Hui immediately went to the nearby market to buy clothes, and then disguised herself as a man and pretended to be a young man. Yi Hui's modification made Zhong Ming scream endlessly, and said:

"My sister changed into a man's clothes, but I didn't expect to be more and more handsome!"

"How...... If I'm still a daughter, is it that annoying?"

"Look where your sister thinks again, no matter what clothes you wear, whatever clothes look good!"

Yi Hui's face couldn't help but turn red when she heard this, and the strange boss commented on this: "I can't see that your kid is dumbfounded, and he is quite good at flattering people when it is critical." ”

"Isn't my sister pretty?" Zhong Ming asked the old man with some puzzlement.

"Pretty, pretty," the strange boss realized that he shouldn't get involved in similar topics, and hurriedly defended: "It's still you kid who has vision!"

Zhong Ming didn't know whether the old man appreciated or ridiculed himself, so he just changed the clothes that Yi Hui bought newly, and the clothes on his body were still bought by the third master. The old man changed into a satin jacket and suddenly pretended to be a rich man. At a glance, the three of them look like the three of them are going out to play together.

When the three of them mentioned the goal they were going to go to next, the old man took it and first proposed:

"When it comes to playing, Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang should be the first choice, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the strange rocks are repeated. After going up the mountain, the temple gives people a sense of winding paths, and going there to play is the best enjoyment of people's physical and mental aspects. My old man went there once 60 years ago, and although I have visited many places over the years, I still can't forget Tiantai Mountain. ”

Yi Hui nodded in agreement, but couldn't help but be a little worried, and said:

"It's weird, it's just that the silver I carry is limited, and I have to go so far, I don't know what to do with the three of us?"

"My old man never brings money when he goes out, but with you two little dolls, the problem is different. The old man scratched the back of his head, suddenly looked up at the collar around Zhong Ming's neck, and said, "The matter of our travel expenses should not alarm others for the time being. We might as well use the bell ring first, and then my old man will ask someone to build you a bigger one. ”

Zhong Ming just wanted to nod and agree to take it off, but he didn't expect the old man to reach out and pinch the collar from it. The finger-thick gold collar was in his hand like a noodle break. Then I saw him straighten the collar with his hand, and then said:

"On the way, we pinch it out for money, and with it as a support, the cost of the road is hardly a problem. Of course, it is best if we can meet some characters such as the King of Dao Dao Mountain on the way, and we can take a hard grab from them, whether it is black and black, or white and black, anyway, we don't have to worry about having no money to spend. ”

When the two children were happy, they couldn't help but admire the five-body body of the ancestor master's martial arts realm, and they wanted to ask for advice, but when they thought of the old man's prior agreement, they had to laugh at it. Each of them held the old man's arm and walked south. Looking at it from a distance, it really looks like the three of them went out to play.

Along the way, the three people saw that the local people lived very difficult and difficult, and during the Yongzheng period, due to the continuous war, the military expenditure was greatly lost, and the tax revenue used by the state could only be increased by changing the law, and finally implemented on the people. Zhong Ming Yihui has never had time to contact the reality at the bottom of society in the past, and is very shocked by the difficult life of ordinary people.

There was nothing to do on the way, and the two couldn't help but ask the old man for the reason. The old man explained:

"This is a major national matter, and it is not something that you and I can change. Although many people have lost their heads in opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, in my old man's opinion, it is really not worth it. My old man is a person who has come over, so he naturally knows that the life of the common people in the previous dynasty was no better than now. The world is so unequal, I don't think it's a way to do it. ”

"Can those rebels achieve great things?" Yi Hui couldn't help but ask.

"These anti-Qing and Ming people acted very naΓ―ve, they were mostly descendants of the powerful of the previous dynasty, and if they wanted to overthrow this dynasty, they could have aroused the self-esteem of the Han people and launched a unanimous Han Chinese against foreign rule, and they could have easily succeeded. Who knows what kind of banner these people are short-sighted, narrow-minded, and self-defeating, but they are anti-Qing and Mingming. Even my old man can't figure it out, why should everyone work hard for the restoration of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty?"

"If your old man were to be the leader of these rebellious parties who opposed the government, I think it would be very smooth to overthrow the current imperial court!" Yi Hui immediately praised.

"Female dolls, don't slap the sycophants indiscriminately, even if they can overthrow the existing court, my old man doesn't know how to govern the world?

The three of them each sighed, but the world is like this, and the suffering of the world is a fact that no one can change. At noon that day, the three of them came to an inn on the side of the road for dinner. There were not many customers in the store, and as soon as the three of them sat down, a group of Jianghu men broke in with knives and swords. There are dozens of them, and the leader is a black-faced man in his forties.

The group sat down at four tables, and then someone shouted at the restaurant to serve the food quickly. The man at the head was even more angry, and a loud shout shook the room to buzz:

"Shop, if you have good wine and good food, we don't lack your wine money!"

Entertaining such a guest, the shopkeeper knew what to do, and immediately responded again and again, and after serving the wine, he quickly urged the kitchen to serve the food. During this time, one of these people was a yellow-skinned man who suddenly stared at the bell on the opposite table, and his expression was suddenly stunned, and then he stood up and walked to the ear of the leader and said something.

After the man nodded and agreed, he immediately walked to Zhong Ming's table and first sneered, and then said:

"Forgive me for being clumsy, is this the little young master Ouyang Gongzi of Wolong Villa?"