(This is the chapter today, 6,000 words.)
Chen Ping'an carried the girl and ran all the way. He ran faster than he had gone up the mountain before, like a man who had robbed a young girl. Flower picker. Ning Yao suffered serious internal injuries and was uncomfortable with the bumps, but she didn't care about her face. If she was punched by the old ape at this time, she and Chen Pingan would really "die for love."
Ning Yao's forehead was covered with sweat and he asked: "How did you survive? No stones were hit? How do you know that the old ape's backhand was aimed at you and not me?"
After asking a lot of questions, Ning Yao suddenly woke up, "Don't talk about this now, while the old ape needs to breathe, he can run as far as he can! I have let the sword entangle the old man as much as possible. "Ape, but I guess it won't last long."
The straw-shoe boy nodded lightly and walked swiftly through the alleys, like a fish swimming at the bottom of a stream.
After leaving the small street in the west of the town, Chen Ping'an still kept walking and took the time to explain in a low voice: "Earlier on the Mud Bottle Lane, the old ape was tricked by me into going to the roof of a dilapidated house. , and then he fell into the pit. After that, I secretly threw a small broken tile on the house next to the hole. Sure enough, the old ape thought that I accidentally leaked the sound of my footsteps. He suddenly smashed out a tile and connected it to the wall. It was penetrated along with the roof next door, which made me break out in a cold sweat."
"I was actually on the roof just now and didn't dare to show my head, because I was afraid that you would be distracted, and I also thought I could. You can't shoot an arrow at the old ape, and then see the stone that the old ape smashed down on you, hanging in the sky like a fire snake. I guess everyone in our town can see it as long as you raise your head, how dare I I took it lightly. At that time, my mind took another turn, thinking that if it were me, I would definitely use you as bait. I would first hunt the ones hiding in the dark, and then go back to take out the ones in the open. One bait would string two fish on it. Okay, right? So I took off Liu Xianyang's clothes first and threw them out before I dared to save you." Ning Yao's eyes lit up and he was amazed, and then he started to settle accounts inexplicably: "Chen Ping'an, who did you learn these winding intestines from?! You are sanctimonious, but you are definitely not as honest as you appear. Tell me! The time Lu Daoren rescued me, at your ancestral home in Mubo Alley, all you did was take off your hat, Did you take advantage of me?"
Chen Pingan was confused, as if he was slapped in the face by a cow's tail when he was a child, "What?"
The girl did not continue to accuse him. , but he laughed to himself.
Chen Ping'an is a money addict, definitely not a pervert.
Ning Yao is convinced of this, just like she has always believed that she will definitely become a great swordsman in the future, not one of the few, but one of only one.
Ning Yao whispered: "Put me down!"
Chen Pingan asked: "Can you walk on your own?"
Ning Yao said helplessly : "You can't leave yet, but if you keep running like this, you will break out my heart, liver, spleen and stomach. If the old ape doesn't smash me to death with his fist then, the result will beIt will die on your shoulders just like hanging pork, and the old ape must not be laughed to death by us. "
Chen Pingan slowed down and said with a headache: "What should we do? Find a place nearby to hide? I originally wanted to leave the town, which was not easy to find. "
Ning Yao suddenly remembered something and asked curiously: "Where is your homemade wood-porcelain armor? Why aren't you wearing it?
Chen Pingan smiled bitterly and said: "It doesn't mean much to deal with the old ape. Instead, it will affect my running speed, so I just took it off." It's a blessing, otherwise I wouldn't know how to take you away from there. I can't carry you, carry you, or carry you. It gives me a headache just thinking about it. "
Ning Yao sighed and made up his mind: "Chen Ping'an, let me down first, and then carry me to the place you mentioned. "
Chen Ping'an naturally had no objections and complied without any hesitation. He carried the girl on his back and continued running, asking: "Miss Ning, where is your knife? Why only the scabbard? "
The girl hugging the boy's neck said angrily: "Buried in the soil. ”
Chen Pingan stopped asking any more questions and ran to an inaccessible place outside the town.
The wilderness was surrounded by tombs that no longer had descendants to worship. The grave was overgrown with weeds and was as lush as a vegetable garden. From time to time, there were several calls of night owls, one after another, which was really scary. Fortunately, Chen Ping'an had an emotion for this place that his peers had never had before, so he didn't feel it. However uncomfortable, after about a stick of incense, Chen Pingan carried the girl on his back, passed through countless collapsed statues with broken limbs, and walked around behind a huge statue. The clay statue fell to the ground. For some reason, its head was missing and it was two feet long. You can imagine how majestic this statue once stood in the ancestral temple.
Chen Pingan squatted down and tried to put Ning Yao down first, but waited for a while. She didn't move at all, which frightened Chen Pingan to think that Miss Ning had died on the way. Just when Chen Pingan was stunned as if struck by lightning and couldn't say a word, the girl who had slept comfortably along the way, Finally waking up, he subconsciously wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand and asked in a daze: "Are you here? "
The young man squatting on the ground couldn't even figure it out at this moment. Anyway, he almost shed tears.
The young man quickly took a deep breath, restrained his strange emotions, and put his hands He gently let go of the girl's leg sockets, turned around and said with a smile: "This is a temporary cabin I built last autumn. I used to take Gu Can here to play. He shouted that he wanted to mess with it, so he used a hatchet to chop some branches to build it. I built a shelf and covered it with leaves and grass. It was quite strong and it didn't collapse even after two heavy snowfalls last winter. "
Ning Yao stood up straight and looked back. Feijian did not return in embarrassment. This was a good sign. At least it meant that the old ape had not found the direction of the two hiding places.
Chen Ping'an asked Ning Yao to wait, and then he bent down and entered the temporary den made of wood and grass, tidied up a little, and then opened the door to welcome the guests.
Ning Yao sat in the temporary den, which was not too cramped.Nest, relieved.
Chen Pingan did not close the rough wood door, but sat at the door with his back to the girl.
Ning Yao asked: "Why don't you close the door?"
Chen Pingan shook his head and said: "If the old ape finds this place, there will be no difference."
Ning Yao, who was sitting cross-legged, nodded and said, "Yes."
After a moment of silence, Ning Yao asked, "Don't you have anything to ask?"
Chen Pingan really did Asked: "Did the old ape use up three breaths?"
Ning Yao snorted, "But let me tell you a bad stream, the old ape can break the rules at least one more time. Deal with it. The two of us who are injured are probably more than enough."
Chen Pingan asked again: "Miss Ning, how much do you think the price the old ape has paid for this?"
Little The nest was filled with the fragrance of green grass seeping in from all sides, refreshing the mind. Although there was a little moisture on the ground, the girl felt that she could not ask for more.
Ning Yao thought about it carefully, "Old Ape took action three times in total. The first time from your Mubo Alley to the west end of the town, Old Ape was more reserved, mainly to test whether you have any backers. , after all, he was afraid of someone behind the scenes and was afraid that someone would target the young master of Zhengyang Mountain who he had escorted here, so his life expectancy was only between three and five years. After that, he confronted me by the stream, about twenty years later, on the third The first time, I estimate it will be at least fifty years, and the next fourth time will take a hundred years to start."
Chen Ping'an's eyes sparkled, he bent down and pulled out a piece of grass, and dusted off the soil. , chewed it in his mouth, and said happily: "Even if it takes one hundred and eighty years, I will make a lot of money! Even if we don't consider the frame-up of the woman named Cai in Yunxia Mountain, ordinary people can only live for sixty years, so I will make more money." I have come back after two lifetimes. Besides, the old ape has nearly two hundred years of life in exchange for my life. I think he will be very angry just thinking about this."
Ning Yao frowned and said: "Chen. Pingan, do you think your life is worthless?"
Chen Pingan said without hesitation: "Compared with the gods and monsters like Lao Yuan who have lived for thousands of years, I am a small-town kiln worker. The common people are naturally worthless, and there is no shame in admitting such a thing." Ning Yao was confused by Chen Ping'an's fallacy.
Chen Pingan turned around and smiled, "Of course, after thinking about this and accepting my fate, I will still feel aggrieved. Think about it, why am I just going to live in this world for a while? Are you born worthless?"
Ning Yao was about to agree, and then showed him some heroic and knowledgeable sages' mottos. Unexpectedly, the young man quickly gave the answer himself. He asked himself, "Is it because I didn't do enough good deeds in my last life? But I haven't had time to do any good deeds in this life. Isn't it going to end in my next life? What should I do?"
Ning Yaona There was an empty green scabbard lying across his legs, and he gently tapped the young man's back with the tip of the scabbard.
The boy in straw sandals suddenly bared his teeth and turned his head with a look of anger that he dared not speak.
Ning Yao glared and said: "This life is not over yet, what do you think about the next life?!"
Chen Pingan quickly stretched out a finger to signal Ning Yao not to raise his voice.
The girl shut up quickly.
Chen Pingan moved his butt outside, trying to stay away from the girl and the scabbard.
Ning Yao hesitated to speak, and finally decided to tell the boy the truth. He said in a hoarse voice: "Chen Ping'an, have you ever thought about it. Although his life span has been shortened for 180 years, this Zhengyang Mountain's Mountain Protector, how long can he live?"
The boy who turned his back to the girl and looked at the sky in the distance just shook his head.
How could the young man know such a mysterious and mysterious thing? He probably couldn’t figure out the answer even if he tried his best.
Some things are like the bluestone streets of Fulu Street and Taoye Lane. If the boy had not sent letters, he would have never known that all roads in the world are not dirt roads.
Ning Yao sighed and said: "The remnants of these ferocious beasts born from the phenomena of heaven and earth have far less apertures than we humans have. Although it is extremely difficult to practice because of this, the advantage is that the energy and spirit flow away. , is also slower, making it extremely long-lived, ranging from five hundred years to five thousand years. Mountain-moving apes are naturally active and do not like silence. Without practice, their lifespan will not be too long. Naturally, they will not be as good as turtles and dragons. However, After all, the mountain-moving ape was once the overlord of the party, and its lifespan is still about two thousand years old. Moreover, this mountain-moving ape has obviously developed Taoist and magical powers. Once he is promoted to the fifth realm, plus his ninth realm physique, let alone A life span of two thousand years is not impossible, even three thousand or four thousand years."
Ning Yao looked at the emaciated figure, "So don't think that you have lived enough."
Chen. Ping An remained silent.
Ning Yao felt a little sad.
The two were speechless, and the girl who revealed the secret gradually felt a little guilty in her heart, so she tried her best to think of something to say, thinking of comforting the guy.
Just when Ning Yao was thinking so hard, he heard a slight snore from the straw-shoe boy.
Ning Yao was stunned.
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There is a large house deep in Xinghua Lane. It is clean and tidy from the inside out. Even the road at the entrance of the courtyard is better than other people’s houses. Much neater.
An old woman with a face that is definitely not associated with a kind face and kind eyes picked a wick to make the lights in the house brighter, then looked at her grandson with adoration, and began to talk about it day after day, year after year. Nao Nao: "What are you doing on the roof in the middle of the night? As the old saying goes, you never listen to the advice of spring and autumn. It's the time when you are growing up. If the cold really brings out the root of the disease, how can grandma survive?"
The silly boy grinned.
After sitting down, the old woman sighed and began to recite her own difficult-to-recite sutra, "My dear grandson, you don't know that during the day, that white-eyed wolf didn't know that he smelled it. He smells like meat. He suddenly came to the door with big and small packages of gifts. You were not at home at the time. You didn’t see his face. He was so filial.My son is such a kind father, and my grandma was almost moved to tears. ”
When she said this, the old woman’s face was full of sarcasm, and she spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground. She felt a little regretful, so she quickly crushed it with her toes. The old woman looked up at the young man with an indifferent expression. , I wasn’t angry at all, but I couldn’t bear to fight, so I could only say angrily: “You heartless brat, you don’t know how to feel sorry for grandma. Your real name is Ma Xuan, but you have a father and not a mother. It’s not that life is miserable, so grandma added the word “ku” to you. If you think it’s unlucky, you can change it back later. It doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about grandma. idea. Grandma is an old woman from the countryside, a toad in the field, short-sighted, and deserves to suffer a lifetime of suffering..."
The old woman began to wipe her tears.
The young man Ma Kuxuan put his hand on the old woman's hand. The old woman looked at her grandson on the back of her skinny and dry hand. The young man finally had some emotion in his eyes. She smiled happily and patted the back of Ma Kuxuan's hand, "Grandma. Ah, he is an unlucky person. Your grandfather has a conscience but not the ability, so he is unreliable. Your son has the ability but no conscience, but he is still unreliable, so you are the only one left to think about him. If you never make a difference, all the hardships grandma has endured in her life will be in vain. Suffering is nothing, don’t be like grandma, you must be successful in the future, have a big future, whoever bullied you, bully you to death, don’t be a good person, as for the bad person, you can be a bad person occasionally, it will be fine , don’t just think about hurting people when you’re full, just be careful of retribution, right? God likes to take naps all year round, but there is always a time to open your eyes. If you are caught red-handed, whoops..."
Young people have heard these sayings that sesame seeds are rotten and millet is rotten. The old man probably had calluses on his ears several times, but the young man never retracted his hand and allowed his grandmother to hold her gently.
Asked: "What do you like about that little bitch Zhigui?"
The young man smiled and said: "It looks good." "
The old woman slapped the back of Ma Kuxuan's hand with a little more force and cursed: "You heartless little rotten maggot! Even grandma refuses to tell the truth? "
The young man chuckled, "Grandma, don't worry, it's a good thing. "
The old woman was doubtful, so she suppressed the question for the time being and changed the topic, "Do you know why your parents don't want you?
The young man smiled and said: "My family was poor at that time and couldn't afford to support me?" "
The old woman suddenly raised her voice and screamed: "Poor? The seven or eight generations of our Ma family are really not considered a poor family. That is to say, they are used to pretending to be grandsons. In the end, they don’t even know how to become an uncle. In fact, our ancestors left an ancestral precept that no matter how rich you are, you are not allowed to own the house. It is not allowed to be placed on Fulu Street, and Taoye Lane is not allowed. Your parents, who deserve to be struck by lightning, if they were poor, could they wear gold and silver every day? Have a delicious drink every meal? In addition to not daring to move to a place where four surnames and ten tribes gather to live affluent, what kind of good things they enjoy are missing one after another? ”
Every time I talk about my sonSon-in-law, the old woman was so filled with hatred that she sneered: "Those ancestral rules are just things buried in the soil and rotted into mud. How many years have passed, how much are they worth now? Grandson, you will make a difference in the future. , don’t take it too seriously, grandma has lived a long life and has seen many rich and poor people. In the final analysis, only those who have no ability can be honest people!”
Ma! Ku Xuan smiled brightly, not sure if he thought it made sense or if he thought it was ridiculous.
This young man has been like this since he was a child. He can suffer any loss and endure any bullying. But when he becomes stubborn about some things, even his grandma cannot persuade him or listen.
The old woman thought for a while, got up and ran out to see if the courtyard door was bolted. After returning to the house and sitting down again, she lowered her voice and said, "Grandson, don't look at grandma who has been pretending to be a ghost for so many years. Apart from being a midwife, she is also giving people Drink a bowl of talisman water, or shamelessly collect rags from others, but grandma tells you, those old objects collected are all precious treasures..."
The young man regained his tiredness. With his lazy look, it was obvious that Ma Kuxuan had no interest in grandma's big box of rags.
The old woman still recounted all the tricks she had used to deceive her in the early years, feeling very proud.
Ma Kuxuan suddenly asked: "Grandma, did Chen Ping'an's father in Mu Ping Lane die in..."
The old woman's face changed drastically, and she quickly reached out to cover herself. The grandson's mouth said sternly: "There are some things that can be done but not said!"
The young man nodded with a smile and stopped asking further questions.
After that, the old woman lost interest in showing off her past glory. She became sickly, with a heavy heart, and looked out the window at the night scene from time to time.
Ma Kuxuan asked with a smile: "Grandma, you have been a goddess in our town for so many years. Everyone in the neighbors of Xinghua Lane says that you can cross the gap between yin and yang and connect with each other. Leading the souls of the dead back to the earth..."
The old woman rolled her eyes and said: "Others believe in these evil spirits, but you also believe it? Grandma is even afraid of thunder. If you really see a ghost, you have to take care of it yourself. Are you scared to death?"
"Don't be afraid, grandma."
The young man Ma Kuxuan chuckled, "People and ghosts have different paths, and gods have different paths. ”
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At dawn.
Ning Yao slowly opened his eyes in the small nest of vegetation.
The boy was nowhere to be seen.
She stood up quickly, bent down and walked out, tiptoeing, and jumped onto the huge shoulders of the dilapidated statue lying on its side.
The boy in straw sandals in the distance is running this way, his steps are neither urgent nor slow, and he does not look like he is being chased. When he saw the dark green girl, he quickly waved her down.
Ning Yao jumped off the shoulders of the Buddha statue and stood in front of the young man.
"The old ape didn't find us."
After finishing speaking, Chen Ping'an faced the headless statue, clasped his hands together, bowed his head, and muttered to himself read. Ning Yao vaguely heard the words pleading not to blame her, and she rolled her eyes., but didn’t say anything.
After that, Chen Ping'an mysteriously whispered: "I will take you to see the two statues, which are very interesting!" Come out to see you? Isn't that true?"
Chen Pingan said angrily: "Miss Ning, what you said..."
Ning Yao raised his eyebrows.
Chen Pingan continued with lightning speed: "As soon as I heard it, I knew I had read the book!"
Ning Yao suddenly changed into a different person and coughed several times. , silently thinking about being reserved and reserved in my heart.
The boy led the way, and the girl followed silently.
Ning Yao subconsciously stretched out a finger and rubbed his eyebrows.
It’s really a life hanging by a thread.
The girl and the gods fought for a long time, took a deep breath, and then weakly said two words, thank you.
The young man had actually been watching and listening in all directions, so he naturally heard the girl's sudden words of thanks. Although deep down in his heart, he didn't feel that she needed to thank him. On the contrary, he should thank her.
It’s just that Chen Pingan really didn’t know how to speak, so he simply ignored it.
Chen Ping'an suddenly stopped, looked to the south in a daze, and said to himself: "What if the old ape has been expelled by Mr. Qi, so he didn't chase us?"
p>The girl was speechless.
Chen Pingan continued to move forward without seeing anything strange.
Ning Yao quickened his pace and walked side by side with him. He couldn't help but ask: "Chen Pingan, are you okay?"
Chen Pingan shook his head and said: "It's okay. I know. Some things are like this, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
The young man has never read a book, so he doesn’t know what that sentence means. If you put it another way, it is called the time when manpower will eventually be exhausted.
Ning Yao suddenly stopped, and when the boy turned around in confusion, she pointed to the red mark between her eyebrows, "I know you are curious, but I don't have the nerve to ask, so I might as well tell you the truth. This is Ning Yao’s trump card. Isn’t the old ape of Zhengyang Mountain so powerful that I can make you and I miserable than a homeless dog? But in the hole between my eyebrows, there is the same tenth birthday gift my mother gave me. It is my destiny. As long as it appears, let alone the old ape is going to die, it is..."
At this point, the girl cut off the conversation and skipped directly, "The reason why I tell you this, I want to tell you that the world is huge, don’t underestimate yourself, and don’t be discouraged. Aren’t you already practicing martial arts? Why not practice swordsmanship as well?”
Chen Pingan asked: "You know how to teach swordsmanship?"
Ning Yao said confidently: "I am very talented, I learned swordsmanship very early, and my level rose very quickly, but I don't know how to teach others swordsmanship!"
< p>Chen Pingan scratched his head.Ning Yao thought for a moment and said seriously: "Even if I want to give that flying sword to you, it won't agree, and I don't want to humiliate it like this. In my hometown, I think that in the world, haveThe swords of spirit are all members of my generation. ”
Ning Yao finally took off the snow-white scabbard from his waist, “But I can give you this scabbard!” "
Chen Pingan was confused, "Why? "
Ning Yao patted Chen Pingan on the shoulder hard and said seriously: "I even have the scabbard. Is it still far from the sword immortal? ”
Chen Ping’an stupidly took the empty scabbard and said, dumbfounded: “What are you talking about?” ”
Ning Yao strode forward.
At that time, the girl only felt that she had done an extremely chic thing, nothing more.
Chen Pingan was careful Holding the scabbard, I thought, where can I find a sword?