Chapter 11 Dowry
In the three days before the arrival of the Huashan faction, Zhou Budo did nothing, did not meditate or practice, and accompanied Lingxiao to play around Wudang Mountain, tasting the distant artistic conception of this blessed land of the cave, and appreciating the lakes and mountains of this holy land.
Tea tasting, flower appreciation, writing, painting, and looking through the Taoist collection of Wudang are almost all the things that Zhou Budo has done in the past three days. Of course, if sitting there in a daze is also called a thing, there is no doubt that Zhou Bu has done a lot of things in the past three days.
It's not that Zhou Budo is slack, generally speaking, kung fu has reached the point where he is about to enter the congenital, and unremitting hard training all day long is not of much use, but it is to accumulate and cultivate, calm down to comprehend and ponder the truth, and if he can't make a flash of inspiration, he will break through the realm and achieve the innate with a flash of inspiration.
Especially the authentic internal strength of the Huashan faction, which is even more so. If you are brave and diligent, it is good not to advance an inch, but if you are careless when cultivating internal strength, you are eager for quick success, regardless of your own realm, and forcibly drive your true qi to take a shortcut, that is the end of going mad. Only by being patient and slowly boiling, this can ensure that nothing goes wrong, and the cultivator is not impatient and responds to the Taoist principle of doing nothing and going with the flow, and the skill is much faster than the courage and diligence of one force.
That is, Zhou Budo felt that several of Ren Mai's tricks that could not be opened before, like an iron wall, had loosened a lot, and at this rate, he could completely open it in more than a year and achieve innateness.
In fact, the same is true of swordsmanship, although Ling Hu Chong seems to be free and carefree and has not practiced swordsmanship much, but when he is drinking and playing, his mind has been splitting up various swordsmanship, how should this sword be used? Where are the flaws? If I am faced with this move, how should I deal with it? If the enemy is strong and I am weak, what should I do? It is these thoughts in his daily life that have created the miracle of practicing the Dugu Nine Swords General Technique overnight.
In the past three days, Zhou Budo felt unprecedented relief. There is no need for intrigue, no need to make a development plan with red eyes, no need to be scared, and no need to sleep with one eye open. Sometimes Zhou Budo thinks about how good it would be if he could do this for the rest of his life. Comfortable, get up every day to look at the mountain, look at the water, accompany the beauty to walk in the mountains, drink tea, enjoy the flowers, there is no calculation and no danger, there is no need to tremble and walk on thin ice, some are just laughing and relaxing. Cultivating martial arts is no longer for the sake of fighting fiercely and killing the enemy to avenge oneself, but to understand the way of heaven and earth and cultivate the truth of life. Slowly move forward on the road of exploring the mysteries of life.
Zhou Budo's expectations are obviously unrealistic, and they will obviously be shattered by the ruthless reality. The person who shattered Zhou Budo's unrealistic dream was Zhou Budo's master, father-in-law, Huashan faction qi sect master, head of Huashan faction, and Wuyue alliance leader Zhou Qingxuan.
After Zhou Qingxuan received the news that the army of the Sun Moon Divine Sect had set out and rushed straight to Wudang Mountain, he rushed to Shangluo with twenty elite masters of the Sword Sect and Qi Sect, and hundreds of elite disciples, and then boarded the boat from Shangluo, and went down the Danshui River, and arrived in Wudang within ten days, arriving before the Sun Moon Divine Sect members who had set off early. It is also strange to say that on the official road from Hebei to Wudang Mountain, the righteous path martial arts have set up a lot of eyeliners, but they have not even discovered the movements of the Sun Moon Divine Sect's army? Even if they secretly act with their identities and a full 10,000 people, how can they not have any news at all, not to mention that with the righteous path martial arts' understanding of the Sun Moon Divine Sect's style of acting, they will not act secretly.
However, all this has nothing to do with Zhou Budo, and it doesn't seem to be much of a big deal at the moment. The first thing Zhou Budo has to deal with now is the criticism of the Huashan faction.
"It's been three days. It's been three whole days, and you don't go to arrange many matters after my Huashan faction came to Wudang, and it is a stop to accompany a woman to run all over the mountain. How did you become a big disciple?" Zhou Qingxuan Baishan saw Yu Lianzhou, the head of Wudang, and after accepting the arrangement, he pulled Zhou Budo to the residence that Wudang arranged for himself, and asked. "You know that you have gone to Nanyang in the past two years, and you have not gone to the rivers and lakes to make a name, those old immortals of the Sword Sect, especially that Liu Qingyan, how many strange things have you said? He also said that you must have done something unseemly in the past two years overseas, otherwise where did you get so much silver, and I wanted to take you back to Huashan for interrogation. You, aren't you giving them the handle now?"
Zhou Budo knelt on the ground and listened to Zhou Qingxuan's chatter, not only did he feel upset, but he felt extremely warm.
Isn't that what it feels like to be at home? someone cares about you, loves you, fears you, and pays attention to your every move. At this time, Zhou Budo felt that the old man in his fifties who was about to be sixty years old in front of him, he tore off his own layer of masks, and lost his majesty in the past, he was not the head of the Huashan faction, nor was he the leader of the Wuyue Alliance, he was his father.
"Laugh! You are still laughing!" Zhou Qingxuan saw Zhou Budo standing aside with a smile, and he didn't have any intention of reproaching. Thinking of the girl who ran all over the mountain with her son, Zhou Qingxuan suddenly cheered up: "That girl just now is the granddaughter of Sun Zhenren, the head of Wudang Mountain mentioned in your letter?"
Zhou Budo didn't know what Zhou Qingxuan wanted to do, his eyes rolled, and he said: "Yes, Dad, you said that this Wudang is also strange, the head of the sect is not afraid of facing two internal strife in a few decades like our Huashan?"
Zhou Qingxuan has long been accustomed to Zhou Budo's divergent thinking, and gently patted Zhou Budo's head: "Go, go, the wisdom of Sanfeng Zhenren, how can you see through such a kid?" Don't open the topic, say, is that the granddaughter of the Sun Zhenren mentioned in your letter?"
Zhou Budo rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say it just now?" Daddy, didn't you hear me?"
Zhou Qingxuan looked at the furnishings in the room: "It seems to be." Look at this Wudang, the creation time is less than half of our Huashan. But the temple of this palace is much more magnificent than our Huashan. ”
"You've learned this trick too. Zhou Budo secretly complained in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, if he dared to say it, he would be waiting for him at that time. Zhou Budo hurriedly changed the topic: "People have the support of the imperial court, so they are naturally different from our Huashan faction." But Dad, what are you asking Lingxiao about?"
Hearing this, Zhou Qingxuan didn't pretend to be crazy and stupid, and said solemnly: "For my father, I came this time, firstly, out of righteous morality to help Wudang resist the attack of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, and secondly, to propose to your kid, it is said that your two carts of gold, silver and jewelry have also been transported to Wudang?"
"yes. When the time comes, when the Sun Moon Divine Cult is repelled, it will be transported back to Huashan. What's wrong?" Zhou didn't ask.
Zhou Qingxuan looked at Zhou Budo in a daze, he never expected such an answer: "You kid is really... It's also for my father to protect me too tightly, so that you don't have the tempering of human feelings and sophistication, and you still want to bring this batch of gold and silver back to Huashan?"
Zhou Bu asked: "Could it be that Wudang will still swallow this batch of property? ”
Zhou Qingxuan wanted to pick up the teacup and take a sip of tea, but when he heard Zhou Budo ask, he almost didn't drop the teacup to the ground: "Your daughter-in-law doesn't want to marry? ”
"Two cars are all for Wudang? I have worked hard in Nanyang for a year, and there are too many of them, and Wudang is also a Taoist gate, offering gold and silver as a dowry. Will it make people think that our Huashan is cheesy?" Zhou Budo was a little reluctant, this was the more than 200,000 people in Mochizuki City, who worked hard to cultivate the land for more than a year and paid taxes in exchange. It's not the gold and silver that Zhou Budo got by pretending to be a pirate. But Zhou Budo is not easy to say clearly, gathering people to build a country without permission is a big sin of rebellion, if the immortal Sword Sect elders next door know, the Qi Sect can directly move south.
"Why? I can't help it? I have to give to you, although these gold and silver are a little cheesy as a dowry for Wudang, but they are enough to pull Wudang to our side, don't say that you haven't even figured out the temperament of the head of Wudang Mountain. Zhou Qingxuan said, "Besides, who asked you to transport it to Wudang? If you directly ask someone to transport it back to Huashan, we don't have to do it." With so much gold and silver, transported to Wudang, I'm afraid people have long recognized that it was your dowry to Wudang. Do you still want to take it away?" Zhou Qingxuan said with a smile.
"I knew it would have been better to stay in Mochizuki City. It is better to buy weapons and attract homeless people than to give them to Wudang for nothing. Zhou Budo muttered to himself in his heart. However, I also know that it is indeed my own indiscretion to transport these gold and silver to Wudang Mountain. But if they put up a dart board, who knows if they will guard and steal from themselves? These gold and silver are worth a year's income of the political envoy of Shandong Chengxuan in the Ming Dynasty. The Huashan faction does not need to raise soldiers and officials like the imperial court, which is enough to lie on it for three generations. It is difficult for the bodyguard bureau to meet the wealth, and when the time comes, sit on the ground and share the spoils, the Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles away, and there is nowhere to find them.
"Master, Uncle Liu of the Hengshan Sect and his disciples Mo Da and Liu Zhengfeng have already gone to Zixiao Palace to see Master Yu, and they are coming here. A Huashan disciple came in and said, Zhou Budo looked at it, but the person who came was the later head of Huashan, Yue Buqun. But now he has no pressure to destroy the door, and he is not the hypocrite he was later. Elegant and tolerant, it is better to look like a Confucian celebrity than to be like a martial artist.
"The matchmaker is here?" Zhou Qingxuan got up and dusted off his body and tidied up his appearance. said, "Let's go, don't group, go meet your big brother's matchmaker." I don't doubt that you will give me a good stay in the room, and I will not be allowed to go out without me. ”
Zhou Budo originally wanted to go out with him and meet his old friend Liu Zhengfeng, but as soon as Zhou Qingxuan said this, he had to stay in the room obediently.
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