Chapter 85 The big exam comes to an end

When Chen Pingan woke up, he found that the oil lamp on the table was gone and the sky outside the window was already dark.

He only remembered five words that the tall woman said to him.

"So many secrets and secrets I have said before, you will forget them all after you wake up from the dream, and you don't have to try to remember them. It's just that I want to talk."

" If I appeared in this world now, even if the saints from all over the world did not come to suppress you and me, with your current body and soul, you would not be able to bear it at all, and it would be harmful to you. Therefore, we have established a hundred-year period. You only need to succeed within this hundred years. After reaching the tenth floor of Qi Practitioner, you can return to the stone arch bridge of the town and take away the iron sword."

"I have chosen you as my master. You must not be complacent or complacent because of this in the future. Don't belittle yourself. Over the past eight thousand years, I have seen too many amazing and talented people. Some of the most recent ones, such as Cao Xi, Xie Shi, Ma Kuxuan and others, have never caught my eye, so I chose you. Naturally, I am not forced to make a choice when the deadline is approaching."

"Although I can't fight with you for the time being, I still have a greeting. I had nothing to do in the dragon-slaying battle three thousand years ago. Watching their children fighting, it was quite lively. Things were lost on the floor, so I picked up a white jade sign with good quality. It looked simple and elegant, with no carvings. It was small and exquisite, and could be used to store objects. It belonged to some Compared with the square-inch arsenal and square-inch sword tomb that are popular all over the world today, it is of a higher quality. The space is about the same as your ancestral home in Mubo Lane. It does not need to be hung to show others, and can be warmed and maintained in the body. In the acupoint, I have made you have the same mind as it. If you touch something with your hand, you can put the jade tablet into the acupoint where the jade tablet is located with just a movement of your mind. Unless the Ascension Realm monk breaks it with force, it will not be broken. Not at all. The bad news is that you can only control and use the jade pendant when you reach the middle five realms."

"Well, the title of Fairy Sister is very suitable for me, so I will give it to you. There were three extremely small wisps of sword energy."

Chen Pingan was stunned.

It feels like a lifetime ago.

I just want to be able to go back to my home and light up the lights until dawn before leaving the town, in order to make up for the stay-at-home stay that I am destined to miss on New Year's Eve this year.

Chen Pingan’s head is as big as a bucket.

Not to mention the fifth and tenth floors of Qi Practitioner, Chen Pingan’s current body is leaking from all sides, just like a dilapidated thatched house in the wind and rain. It is very difficult to hide the wind and gather Qi, so how to practice Qi? Be a god? Chen Pingan is not only destined to be unable to practice, but also needs to nourish his body by practicing boxing if he wants to survive.

Ning Yao once said unintentionally that it is easy to break a person's root bone acupuncture points, just like Cai Jinjian "pointed" Chen Pingan and forcibly opened the acupuncture points for him, but if he wants to rebuild his complete body, Especially building a body suitable for cultivation is even more difficult than reaching heaven. In fact, the reason is very simple. A door is given to a child to chop randomly with a kitchen knife. It only takes a little effort, but he wants to repair the broken door like new., of course it is difficult.

In fact, what Chen Pingan was most afraid of was that she agreed to escort Li Baoping to Cliff Academy. It would be a long journey, and it was hard to say whether she could return to her hometown alive. Why was there another hundred-year promise? It was not that Chen Pingan was not honest with him at the time, but the woman in white dismissed him with just one sentence, "It's okay. I have no room for regrets now. I will accept you, Chen Pingan, as my master. If you die, I will wait for death." Well, one day the old sword fell into the stream, and my soul completely dissipated. It's okay. You don't need to feel that you owe me anything. If you want to blame it, just blame me for being blind. I can't blame others.

At that time, Chen Ping'an thought to himself, you have said so, can I live with my conscience? And what does "not being able to blame others" mean? Aren't we just you and me?

Chen Ping'an doesn't know anything about the Tenth Floor of Qi Practitioners, nor does he know what things close at hand and things within an inch are.

In addition to the inexplicable extra burden, the young man actually had some small joy deep in his heart.

It turns out that from today on, there is one more person in this world who needs to rely on himself.

At the end of the chat in the dream, Chen Pingan remembered that he and the woman in white were sitting side by side on a golden stone arch bridge. It was so long that there was no end in sight, as if they were traveling through the sea of ​​clouds. Dragon.

Chen Pingan took a deep breath and lay on the table. When he finally thought about it, he felt that it was Old Man Yao’s words that were easiest to understand: "It should be yours, so take it and don’t throw it away. It shouldn’t be yours." , Don’t even think about it.”

Chen Ping’an put all the items that needed to be packed into a small backpack, such as slingshots, fish hooks, fishing lines, flints, etc. They were very trivial, and finally he carefully picked them up. A small cloth bag was taken out from the bottom of the clay pot, containing a bag of broken porcelain. There are a lot of things here and there, but none of them are heavy. When traveling for a long distance, like Chen Ping'an, when he went into the mountains, it would often take him one or two hundred miles. If he carried too much weight, it would definitely be a bad thing. He had to know how to rely on the mountains to survive, and how to rely on the water to survive.

Chen Pingan was carrying a small basket, locked the door, and stood in the yard. After seeing the locust branch leaning against the wall, he thought about it and reopened the door and put it on the Keep it inside the house to prevent it from being exposed to wind and sun and causing early decay.

Chen Ping'an carried the two taels of silver he earned from the last time he went to the mountains to collect herbs, and went to Xinghua Lane and Qilong Lane. It was still early, and the straw-shoe boy was squatting behind the closed door. Outside the shop, he waited patiently. When the shop owner opened the door with a yawn, the boy bought incense candles, paper money, and a pot of wine called Peach Blossom Spring Shao from the wine shop. Finally, he wanted to buy a bag of Ku from the New Year's shop. I remember that my mother ate the festival cake once when I was a child and said it was delicious. She also said that she would buy it again when Chen Pingan’s fifth birthday happened. So Chen Pingan remembered it very clearly, but when he arrived at the New Year’s Eve shop, the waiter said that the shop was early. I don’t make this kind of pastry anymore, but there are old masters who can make it. The shop is about to close down, and the old master has already followed the shopkeeper and the others to the capital to enjoy their happiness. Chen Pingan had no choice but to buy a pack of peach blossom cakes that Ruan Xiu gave to Li Baoping yesterday.

The boy walked out of the town, passed the small temple where he and Ning Yao were hiding from the mountain-moving ape, and went further south until he came to a small mountain. The boy then started to walk up, reaching halfway up the mountain. , is a barren field that has not grown crops for many years, and there are two small earth mounds. There are no weeds in the field and the earth mounds. Chen Pingan stood in front of the two small mounds, slowly squatted down, and took off his backpack. , put away the items for ancestor worship one by one.

The town has been around for thousands of years. I don’t know if it was like this at the beginning or if the folk customs changed later. Regardless of whether the people are rich or poor, when they go to the graves to worship their ancestors, they don’t like to kneel down and kowtow. They just need to light up the fire. Three sticks of incense and three bows are enough. After all, this boy from Mud Bottle Alley, who has only been exposed to the "four years of family tradition" through his ears and eyes, is of course no exception. However, before lighting the incense, Chen Pingan, as usual, symbolically grabbed a handful of soil at his feet and added some dirt to the grave. soil and press down gently.

This time, because I was walking in a hurry, I could only get soil nearby. Otherwise, every time the boy went into the mountains, he would secretly hide a handful of soil from various hills and bring it here. Of course, it would be fine. The special meaning is just for peace of mind. The young man always feels that he has never been filial to his parents at all in his life, so he has to do something to make himself feel better. In addition, Old Man Yao once said that the older generation of porcelain makers had a tradition of making porcelain that was passed down from generation to generation, so Chen Pingan has persisted in it for so many years.

The two small tombs are close to each other.

There is no monument.

After Chen Pingan lit three sticks of incense, he bowed three times to the tomb, then placed it in front of the tomb. Then he opened the pot of wine and poured it gently in front of him.

Finally, Chen Pingan stood up, closed his eyes and clasped his hands together, and spoke to his parents what was in his heart.

For example, this time I took a little girl in a red cotton jacket named Li Baoping on a long trip together. I didn’t know that I would have to leave my hometown thousands of miles away.

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A handsome young man stood in a small temple by the roadside, looking up at the names written with charcoal on the wall. They were densely packed and crooked. Big and small.

Perhaps in the eyes of the people in the small town, the playfulness of those children is not worth mentioning, but in the eyes of the young man at this time, it is like a bright Milky Way in the historical years.

The Lizhu Cave Heaven located above the Great Li territory of East Aquarius Pingzhou is the smallest of the thirty-six small caves. It is only a thousand miles of mountains and rivers. If there are no magic restrictions, it is not suitable for Qi practitioners who control the wind and volley. I mean, that little bit of scenery is really not enough. But in Lizhudongtian, in addition to the great sages and ancestors of various schools of thought, the magical artifacts left behind after the war are so coveted, and the characters raised by the soil and water here are really beautiful and magical, very different from The rest of the place.

Imagine the possibility that two great qi practitioners form a Taoist couple who are a match made in heaven, and then give birth to offspring that will inevitably reach the middle five realms, and then reach the top of the upper five realms. They are not much taller than the children who were taken out of the town in Lizhu Dongtian. How many people are there in a small town?

This is equivalent to a poolThere are dragons coming out of the pond, and there are one or two in each generation, so this time the Li Zhu Cave shattered and fell, the emperors of the major dynasties in the East Aquarius Pingzhou, as long as they had a little sense of worry, must have been relieved. The Song family of Da Li was finally over. The discovery of this huge golden vein will definitely have an impact on the future southward hegemony of the Great Li Cavalry.

Cui Chan refused to take his eyes back for a long time, with mixed feelings. The dynasty imperial examination has had the friendship of classmates, same age, and fellow villagers since ancient times.

The same is true on the road to spiritual practice.

The dust of Lizhu Cave Sky has now settled, and a good ending has been achieved at the cost of someone's life and death.

Then all the great monks who walk out of Lizhu Cave will recite this incense love, the difference is more or less. This is even more true as for those four surnames and ten tribes and the forces behind them.

It is a pity that during this turmoil, the Song family of Dali did not lose points, but it also did not gain points. But originally, Da Li could have been more "humane". For example, Ruan Qiong asked to enter Li Zhu Cave early and should not have agreed so quickly. For another example, if I had known that Qi Jingchun would not even use his all-out cultivation in the end, and only used two words to compete with those big guys, then when the forces from all directions asked to take back the saint's overpowering thing, even if the Dali Department of Rites did not If you have the courage to refuse, you should delay it with righteous words and say that this is against the rules. For example, the Dali court should not privately inform the four surnames and ten tribes in the name of family letters, almost arrogantly, that the catastrophe has come, and quickly withdraw the incense seeds of each family and tribe, so as not to be implicated by Qi Jingchun's rebellious behavior, etc., it is too Much more.

Once Emperor Da Li comes to his senses or is greedy enough, then he, the national advisor who is in charge of half the country's government and strategizes thousands of miles away, may really be settled by the Queen.

It’s just that Cui Chan, the national preceptor, was standing in the small temple at this time, his face was full of comfort and leisure, as if he didn’t care about the anger of Emperor Da Li at all.

Cui Chan said to himself: "Wait a minute."

Cui Chan looked around the walls, wrote down all the names, and was about to wave his sleeves to erase all traces to avoid In the future, other interested people will make a fuss about it, but at the moment when he was about to take action, Ruan Qiong appeared at the door of the small temple and said with a ferocious smile: "What a good boy, you are so courageous. How many times has this happened?"

Cui Han said with a smile: "Have I not done this yet?"

A voice appeared leisurely near the small temple, "You just let your hands and feet go and fight, I will be responsible for cleaning up the mess, I promise If there is no situation like the turtle turning over and the mountains being cut off, after you decide the winner, the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers will be destroyed at most. Ruan Qiong, instead of being so sticky and entangled by this guy, I think. You might as well end it all with him. You are not afraid of thieves, but they are worried about you."

Cui Han's expression did not change, and he laughed and said: "Old man Yang, you can still kill people without showing blood. It's a good idea to reap the benefits of being a fisherman."

Ruan Qiong nodded, "I think it's okay."

Cui Chan quickly bowed to apologize and said with a smile: "Okay. OK, I'll take itCan we just come down and wander around the town? Saint Ruan? And Senior Yang? "

Ruan Qiong was obviously weighing the pros and cons.

Cui Chan said lightly, "Even if Senior Yang has the ability to protect 10% of the mountains and rivers, if I only focus on How about destroying Shenxiu Mountain’s Hengshan Peak? "

Before Ruan Qiong could speak, Old Man Yang's voice sounded again, "If it were me, I really couldn't bear it. "

Ruan Qiong said angrily: "Hurry back to Erlang Lane. ”

Cui Chan shook his head and walked out of the small temple leisurely. When he passed by Ruan Qiong, he even made a face with a "youngster's heart".

When Cui Chan After crossing the other side of the stream, Ruan Qiong turned around and saw the old man sitting on a dry bench in the temple, smoking a cigarette.

For the first time, the old man did not sneer, but smiled, "I really care about you. My daughter. "

Ruan Qiong sighed. Apparently he was so provoked by Cui Han but couldn't bear to take action. He was very aggrieved. He sat opposite Old Man Yang, leaned against the wall, and tugged at the corner of his mouth, "I don't owe it to God. I don't owe the land, and now I have even paid it back to my ancestor. I only owe that girl and her mother. She is gone, so how can I pay it back? She can only put what she owes her on her daughter. "

Old man Yang smiled and said: "With your identity and ability, plus your relationship with the Yingyin Chen family, it is not impossible to find your wife's life. "

Ruan Qiong shook his head and said: "Her qualifications in her last life were not good. She had not reached the fifth level before her death, so even if she was reincarnated as an adult, there is no possibility of knowing what happened in her previous life. In my case, It seems that without those memories, there is only a shell left, then she is no longer my wife. What is the point of finding her? It's enough for her to live in her own heart.

Old man Yang nodded and said: "You are reasonable. The tenth floor of the military strategist is the most difficult to break. It is not without reason that you are the latecomer among your peers." "

Ruan Qiong didn't want to talk about this matter in depth, so he asked: "Do you think that person is bluffing? "

Old Yang smiled and shook his head, "Then you underestimate this person. A reckless hero dared to pull down the emperor even if he was willing to be killed. This man, I guess, was one of those who dared to pull down the Taoist Buddha even if he was willing to be killed. Of course, I am only talking about character, not ability. "

Ruan Qiong was doubtful.

Old man Yang pointed to the ground at the entrance of the small temple with a dry tobacco pole. There was a path that was particularly well-trodden by pedestrians, and said slowly: "This guy Unlike us, he feels that he has walked a single-plank bridge, so once he meets someone on a narrow road, he feels that if he doesn't kill the other person, he will be really sorry for himself. Or if someone from behind wants to cross him, it will be a dead end. You cannot simply say that this kind of person is a good person or a bad person.

Ruan Qiong suddenly jumped to another question and said slowly: "Chen Ping'an's parents and grandparents were just ordinary people born and raised in a small town. How did his father know the mystery of Benming porcelain?" And insist on breaking that piece of porcelain at the risk of his life? Obviously, someone deliberately revealedTianji asked him to do this.

Old Yang was silent for a long time, exhaled a puff of smoke, and finally said: "At first, I just thought it was an ordinary family dispute. By the time I realized something was wrong, it was already too late." But I'm too lazy to get involved in these dirty intrigues. It's just a way to keep my mind occupied when I'm bored. Thinking about it, this was all a seemingly small idle move in the overall situation against Qi Jingchun, but in the end it was discovered that this move was the real killing move. In the words of a Go master, it can be regarded as a magical move. To be precise, it was not just to deal with Qi Jingchun, who was destined to be too good, but also to deal with the literary fortune of the literary saint's lineage. But nowadays, Qi Jingchun's last battle was so dazzling that everyone is used to equating Qi Jingchun's life and death with the survival of that cultural lineage. In fact, it's not that far off.

The old man glanced at the stern military saint and said, "When you entered Lizhu Cave early, I suspected that you were one of the people behind the scenes, either from Fengxue Temple and Yingyin Chen." The family has reached a deal, and you have to contribute to the sect, or you have secretly received great benefits from the Yingyin Chen family, who is the 'worldly scholar', so you established the sect here. "

Ruan Qiong smiled calmly and said: "Senior Yang is thinking complicatedly.

The old man sneered and said: "If you think complicated, it doesn't mean you are thinking wrong. The reason why you can still have a clear conscience now is because you military strategists are good at turning the complex into simplicity." It's unbelievable that when the truth is revealed to the world, you will realize later that you have become just one of the pawns. ”

Ruan Qiong’s mind was still firm, as stable as a rock, and he laughed and said: “It doesn’t matter, if it is really the Yingyin Chen family or some other force that dares to use me as a chess piece on the chessboard, then what will happen?” I, Ruan Qiong, have arranged an escape route for my daughter. One day, I will kill her all the way! "

Ruan Qiong sneered in his heart, "If that's true, it's exactly what I want. In a hundred years, at most, I will be able to forge that sword. Where can't I go and who can't be killed?

Ruan Qiong retracted his thoughts and asked curiously: "Is it possible that the boy from Mud Bottle Lane is really the heir to Qi Jingchun's incense?" "

Old man Yang picked up the old cigarette pole and knocked it lightly on the wooden chair. He replaced the cloth bag on his waist with tobacco leaves and said angrily: "God knows. "

Ruan Qiong knew that the secretive old man in front of him had accumulated too many secrets in his belly over the long years.

Ruan Qiong asked with a smile: "If you want to enter the town, everyone needs to pay a bag of gold and copper coins and hand it to the town gatekeeper. This generation is the man named Zheng Dafeng. I know that these priceless copper coins did not fall into the hands of Emperor Dali. pocket, so you are an old-timer and you are safe? What did the seniors do with the money? "

The old man asked: "I ask you Ruan Qiong, how to forge the sword in your heart, will you answer? "

Ruan Qiong laughed heartily.

Old man Yang said calmly: "I want to move this temple. ”

Ruan Qiong was stunned.But he quickly replied: "As long as you don't move outside, I have no objection."

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "For the sake of your cheerfulness, I can tell you a little secret." "

Ruan Qiong nodded, indicating that he was willing to listen.

The old man exhaled a thick puff of smoke, and after it dissipated, strands of smoke wrapped around the entire small temple. In fact, before this, the small temple had long been covered with a thin layer of white mist. Obviously, the old man was being careful. For the sake of safety, he increased the cover-up of the small temple. The old man sighed and slowly said: "Do you know where Qi Jingchun's greatest strength is?"

Ruan Qiong said with a smile: "Of course he has good qualifications. , High understanding, terrifying cultivation. Otherwise, how could those big figures in the sky be willing to deal with Qi Jingchun together?"

The old man shook his head, "Assuming that Chen Ping'an is really Qi Jingchun's choice, then there is someone outside. Someone used Chen Ping'an as a master of chess and kept it idle for ten years. In fact, he was operating carefully secretly. Even I was taken advantage of during this period. The wonderful thing is that that person played chess outside the chessboard and moved away from the chessboard. Hand, after the chess piece is taken root, the person is not a rigid chess piece after all. He will gradually become angry on his own, so he will become less and less like a chess piece, and his killing moves will become more and more hidden. What's more, there is another one next to this chess piece. This seemingly powerful key chess piece was the Song Jixin on which Emperor Da Li pinned the entire Song family's hopes, helping to attract attention from all walks of life, and ultimately create a great situation of darkness under the lights."

"I only figured out these twists and turns now. It's interesting, really interesting! If the bystanders are like this, what about the authorities?" The old man laughed suddenly, even coughed a little, patted his thigh, and said: " But the authorities figured it out very early that Qi Jingchun, a scholar, was really not honest at all. Do you know what he did before his death? He deliberately came to my side. In addition to giving Chen Ping'an and Chen Ping'an two learned landscapes After printing, Qi Jingchun and Chen Pingan walked together for a while, and finally left Chen Pingan with a word, "Ruan Qiong, guess what?"

Ruan Qiong was completely interested, but He said: "I can't guess Qi Jingchun's thoughts."

Old man Yang sighed: "Qi Jingchun said that a gentleman can be bullied."

Ruan Qiong thought about it. Thinking about it, he was a little disapproving at first, but after a moment, his face changed slightly, and in the end he clenched his fists, his face flushed, shook his head and said helplessly: "I feel ashamed, I have to give in."

The old man He nodded, his eyes wandering, "The first meaning is to let Chen Pingan tell me, or everyone, how to deal with him Qi Jingchun within the rules. In fact, it doesn't matter, whether he wins or loses, life or death, he Qi Jingchun has already seen through it." ."

The old man stood up and said solemnly: "The second meaning is for ten years or even a hundred years from now.Chen Pingan told him that even if he knew the truth later and knew that he was the chess piece that really killed Qi Jingchun, there was no need to blame himself, because Qi Jingchun already knew everything.

Ruan Qiong stood up suddenly and strode away, "It's so damn boring. The dignified Qi Jingchun died so cowardly." If it were me, with his cultivation ability, I would have collapsed through the East Aquarius Continent with one kick, and shattered the world with one punch! Feel aggrieved, go drink! ”

The old man smiled and walked out of the small temple with one hand behind his back. With a slight shake of the hand behind him, the small temple disappeared out of thin air and was put into the old man’s hand and held gently.

"Cui Cheng, the great master of the Great Li Kingdom, was once the first disciple of the Confucian Literary Sage. I think your moral conduct is more than that, right? Then I'll wait and see. ”

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Old Yang, who rarely leaves the town, became more and more hunched after walking onto the stone arch bridge, his expression was solemn and he said nothing.

Walking back and forth across the stone bridge, the clouds were calm and the wind was gentle. After the old man stepped off the stone bridge, he walked towards the small town with a sad expression on his face. He thought silently in his heart: "Is this an opportunity that cannot be missed? It will never come again." ? Even Ma Kuxuan, who was born by fate, is not qualified to see you? Even if he just becomes your comrade, not your master? "

"What kind of person do you have to find before you are willing to nod? Not to mention the previous five thousand years of accumulation, the existence of Lizhu Cave Heaven alone has been a full three thousand years, three thousand years! In such a long period of time, how many heroes have appeared in East Aquarius Continent that will shine brightly in the future? If they had your help, wouldn't it be possible for them to move up several levels? On top of the 11th or 12th floor, even if only two floors are added, what state would that be? "

The stone bridge is silent.

The iron sword hanging at the bottom of the bridge is motionless.

The old man gently exhaled and laughed at himself: "Good luck! Heroes are not free. That's all, if that's the case, then you can fend for yourself, and save me from worrying about good fortune and misfortune, and ruining the little incense we have left because of you. In this way, it is also a good thing. You can enjoy small bets without worrying about losing everything. ”

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Chen Ping’an was returning from a small mountain with a medium-sized backpack on his back. On the way, he found that the temple was missing. The young man looked around blankly, making sure that he was not there. I misremembered the location. The small temple for people to rest was indeed moved away like a stone. But now Chen Pingan is used to it. Just get used to it.

Chen Ping'an came to the blacksmith shop and first went to the yellow mud house where he had stored his belongings. He took what needed to be taken and left what needed to be left behind. Then he went out and found the little girl in the red cotton coat, Li Baoping. < /p>

Li Baoping stood in front of him, raising her little head high, her face full of joy.

The little girl had already been covered with no fewer than seven embroidered bags and sachets. There were eight kinds of things, and he also carried a small basket on his back, which was covered with a bamboo hat that could protect him from wind and rain. It was just used to cover the things in the basket. It is estimated that these were the suggestions of the little girl, and then Ruan Xiu.Helped to clean it up.

Ruan Xiu, a girl in blue, stood next to the little girl in red cotton jacket, looking particularly festive.

Chen Pingan looked at the little girl and asked with a smile: "Did you bring anything to eat?"

Li Baoping nodded and said: "Most of the baskets were given by Sister Ruan. What I eat! The rest are books, not heavy... not that heavy!" Chen Pingan said: "Whenever you feel tired, just tell me."

The little girl puffed up her chest and said boldly: "How can you be tired!"

Ruan Xiu said softly: "The situation map of the northern part of Dongbaopingzhou, as well as the maps of the respective prefectures and counties of the Great Li and Great Sui, and There are several smaller maps put in Li Baoping's backpack. But after you leave the Dali border, you need to ask for directions frequently. Fortunately, Li Baoping understands your Dali Mandarin and the entire Dongbaoping. It should not be a big problem for Dayayan, which is circulating in China. Besides, I put some silver and copper coins in it. They are nothing compared to the gold and copper coins you gave to my father, so Chen Pingan, please don’t refuse. "

Chen Pingan smiled knowingly: "I'm not stupid, why don't you pay me?"

Ruan Xiu said angrily: "Aren't you stupid? They have nothing to do with each other..."

As soon as the hurtful words were spoken, the girl felt extremely regretful, and she quickly stopped and said no more.

Because not far away, there were four young men from the school who were no longer traveling together.

Chen Ping'an, who had been secretly winking, breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "I'll leave it to you, Miss Ruan, to do those things I mentioned yesterday."

Ruan Xiu nodded and said, "Don't worry. Well, I will keep those keys and clean the house every once in a while."

Chen Pingan took a deep breath and said to Li Baoping: "Let's go."

Li Baoping said happily: "Let's go!"

One big and one small, even the backpacks are one big and one small.

In everyone’s sight, the two of them were getting further and further apart.

Go south to the Sui Dynasty.

Along the way, the little girl muttered some interesting things about the small town, and finally talked about the study tour. She said to Chen Ping'an in an old-fashioned way: "Students are responsible for study tours. Older people all need it." He can defend himself with a sword, and he can also show that he is both civil and military."

Chen Pingan was happy, "Yes, those are you scholars, and I am not one."

The little girl was stunned. He was stunned and fell silent for a moment.

It seemed like this truth made her very discouraged.

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Cui Chan bought a pot of good shochu at a small town wine shop and walked slowly towards Erlang Lane.

When Cui Han arrived at the ancestral house of the Yuan family, he paused for a moment when he opened the lock, and finally pushed it open with a smile.

He walked in quickly, closed the door, and walked to the pool. He looked at the man standing under the plaque in the main hall, ethereal and shining. Cui Chan was sitting on a chair by the pool. Open the wine bottle, smell it, then turn around and smileSaid: "Even if there is only a trace of residual soul left, it is not the behavior of a gentleman to break into a private house uninvited. Qi Jingchun, Junior Brother Qi, right?"

The man turned around The body, the face is vaguely visible, it is Qi Jingchun, the elegant school teacher, and the owner of the Cliff Academy who single-handedly resists the law of heaven.

Qi Jingchun smiled and said: "That day you and Cui Minghuang were acting for Wu Yuan on the surface, but actually for me. Are you tired?"

Cui Chan moved He took a chair and sat down, smiling and said: "Oh? Then what did you see?"

Qi Jingchun stood on the north side of the pool, facing Cui Han who was sitting on the south side, and asked: "Why did you come from A qigong practitioner on the 12th floor fell down, all the way to the 10th floor?"

Cui Han leaned on his chair and shook the wine bottle between his two fingers, "It's not like ours. A scholarly gentleman, who would have thought that you would actually have a different outlook on life a long time ago. Therefore, as the statue of the gentleman continues to move downwards, you are not affected, but your realm keeps rising. On the contrary, I have rebelled against the master for so long, but I have never been affected. The most despairing thing about being able to escape the influence of his school of thought and cultural background is that I have no hope of overpowering or surpassing him with my own knowledge. What should I do? The problem is that when Mr.'s statue collapsed, the impact was so great that it was not like a stone falling into the lake, but like a mountain peak falling into the lake. The waves were so big that almost no one could escape except for people like you who were already ashore. I am even more so. So I thought of a little trick, Junior Brother Qi, what do you think?"

Qi Jingchun nodded and said: "Use the stone from other mountains to attack jade, and break the ego."

Cui Chan's eyes flashed and he stopped shaking the wine bottle.

Qi Jingchun sighed and said: "The best result is that your knowledge surpasses my husband and me, Qi Jingchun, and is recognized by heaven, earth, people and gods, but it is a pity that you can't do it. Secondly, you hope Mr.'s cultural heritage is cut off in my hands, and then you can take it away. Even if you can't reach Mr.'s high position in the Confucian Temple, it is still thousands of times better than being a so-called Great Li State Master. In the end, it is to take someone as your own. The shadow of the person, and then the real body enters concentration and does Buddhist visualization. If that person can stick to the original intention, it means that you have adhered to the original intention at a certain hurdle, and ultimately it will become the road for you to climb from the tenth floor to the eleventh floor again. Opportunity."

Qi Jingchun shook his head and said: "Cui Chan, do you think that you will make a profit in this transaction? I know that you have arranged a back-up plan, even if Chen Pingan You can still keep your mind pure and firm, and you will still arrange backup plans, such as magnifying the shortcomings of those Meng Tong as much as possible to continuously wear down Chen Pingan's mood, such as grinding a stone on a mirror, making the mirror surface rough and eventually fragmented, then once Chen Pingan It’s me who has chosen the seeds of reading that will be passed down from generation to generation. You can then be done and have all the cultural background and luck of your husband and me, Qi Jingchun, in your pocket. The final result will be far greater than the third method, Buddhist visualization. ."

Cui Han's face was ashen.

QiJingchun smiled and said: "If you are willing to choose to let go now, I can promise to let you achieve the third result. Although it is relatively the worst, it is a great good thing for you Cui Cheng. You have been a fool who has exhausted all your agencies for so many years. Finally, I got what I wanted."

Cui Chan stood up and sneered: "Qi Jingchun, you are half human and half ghost! You are worthy of negotiating with me?"

Qi Jingchun’s expression was as usual, “I’ll give you one last chance.”

Cui Han said with a ferocious expression, “You dare to ruin my mood?!”

Qi Jingchun looked sad and whispered Said: "Senior Brother Cui."

Cui Chan suddenly smashed the wine bottle in his hand on the ground, took a step forward, pointed at Qi Jingchun, who was across a pool on the ground and a patio in the sky, and said sternly: "I I don’t believe you, Qi Jingchun, can beat me!”

Qi Jingchun held his back with one hand and flicked his sleeves with the other. The wine flowing at Cui Han’s feet slid into the pool, showing a mysterious water curtain of ripples.

Exactly the same as Cui Yan before.

As expected of his former fellow disciples.

The raised hands and feet are all the romantic and freehand expressions of a scholar.

In the water curtain, there are boys and girls carrying backpacks.

The little girl in the red cotton jacket was walking sideways, raising her head and asking the boy about this and that.

The straw-shoe boy smiled and patiently answered the little girl’s strange questions. If he encountered a difficult problem that he didn’t understand, he would say he didn’t know.

The young man does not feel embarrassed, and the little girl does not feel bored.

Qi Jingchun asked: "Cui Chan, don't you understand yet?"

Cui Chan stared at the picture, his face was pale, his lips were trembling, and he murmured: "This Impossible!"

Finally he raised his head. The handsome face of the young imperial master with a mole between his eyebrows was twisted to a terrifying level, "Qi Jingchun, you actually chose a woman as your only direct disciple. ? ”

Qi Jingchun looked at the unfamiliar young man’s face and asked with a smile: “Why not?”

Cui Han took a deep breath and raised the corners of his mouth. , "But the young man's character remains unchanged. At worst, I will remove all my backhands and help him find whetstones along the way. I can still win! I just won less. What, Qi Jingchun, do you want to block my way? Are you going to harm Chen Ping'an?"

Cui Chan's face was wild and extremely proud, "Haha, I share weal and woe with that boy from Mu Ping Alley. Qi Jingchun, how can you do this with me? I fight?"

Qi Jingchun said calmly: "I advise you to cut off this involvement now. It's still too late to stop. At most, you can still stay in the middle five realms if you fall from the tenth floor to the sixth floor. "

Cui Han said with a gloomy face: "Qi Jingchun, have you lost your mind and gone crazy?"

Qi Jingchun glanced at Cui Han, sighed, and stretched out his fingers. , shake gently.

The boy in straw sandals and the girl in the red cotton jacket in the pictureMy mother didn't notice it at all, but Cui Han watched helplessly as a jade hairpin suddenly appeared on the young man's head and was quietly pinned in the bun.

Cui Yi's face was full of sluggishness, shock and fear. He stretched out his hand and pointed tremblingly at Qi Jingchun, "Qi Jing..."

He couldn't even say the last word "spring".

In an instant.

Cui Chan, who had lost his Taoist heart and almost collapsed, was bleeding from his seven orifices.

Slumping back on the chair, Cui quickly made the treasure vase seal with his hands in front of him and said hoarsely: "Peace for the soul!"

Qi Jingchun raised his head and looked at the patio, there was no Looking at the miserable Cui Han, he said: "You must remember that after you have suffered a loss, if you dare to sneak up and stumble again, I will find a way to make you fall from the fifth floor of the Qi Practitioner to a common man. Of course, with If you hit a wall and break it, you definitely don’t believe it. It doesn’t matter. It’s up to you whether you believe it or not. For the first time, I want you not to lose confidence in your husband. If you don’t believe it and you fall into trouble, I’ll do it. Before Lizhu Cave, I asked you not to take action against Shanya Academy, so this time, it’s up to you.” Qi Jingchun left the Yuan family’s ancestral home in Erlang Lane and walked on earth for the last time. Then he went to the school, then to the Stone Arch Bridge, then to the grave of his junior brother Ma Zhan, and finally Qi Jingchun went to the sky.

The last and the last.

Qi Jingchun returned to the ground and walked quietly beside the boy in straw sandals and the little girl in the red cotton jacket, walking side by side with them.

It’s just that they don’t know.

Every time the three of them took a step, the figure of Mr. Qi disappeared.

He finally stopped and looked at the backs of the two children heading south. The scholar was worried, regretful, reluctant, relieved, and proud.

He waved gently and said goodbye silently.

That’s it.

Very good.

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“Huh? Why do you have a hosta on your head?!”

“Ah? I don’t know.”

"When did it happen? Chen Ping'an! You are actually a rich man, right?"

"It's really not the case. At least it's not the case now. When I was rich, Just a few days."

"Okay. What's going on with the wooden sword hanging out of your basket?"

"I don't know."

"Chen Pingan! If you keep doing this, I will really not like you today!"

"I really don't know..."

"Forget it, forget it, I won't like you anymore tomorrow."

"..."

The green mountains and green waters of the young man, with a little girl by his side.