Although there is no need to visit relatives, it is not a problem to stay in the deserted Luoluo Mountain during the Chinese New Year, so Chen Pingan took the two little ones out of the mountain and returned to the bustling town, which was already bustling with activity. It is not inferior to any county in Huang Tingguo, but without the iron lock wells, the old streets without the old locust trees, and without Mr. Qi’s school, no matter how popular it is and how full the flavor of the year is, it still makes Chen Pingan I feel a little lost.
As he approached the alley, the boy in Tsing Yi complained: "Master, if I go to Mud Bottle Alley this time and see a vicious spirit on the way, the kind that can kill me with one punch, I won't give up." Damn it, I will never go back to my old house again! Then don’t blame me for being unloyal.”
As soon as he reached the entrance of Mu Bottle Lane, Chen Ping’an saw a familiar figure. Her figure was slender and graceful, like a young willow branch in the spring breeze. She was holding a bucket in both hands. She must have been returning from the well on Xinghua Lane just now. It was a little difficult, so she simply dropped the bucket, and then the girl bent over there. Panting, the bucket fell heavily to the ground, splashing a lot of water, but the girl didn't care about this flaw at all.
Zhigui, or Wang Zhu, was the maid of Jixin in the Song Dynasty.
Only who became the maid, he or his next door neighbor Song Jixin, Chen Pingan did not blame the girl, because the book said that good birds choose trees to roost.
On that windy and snowy night, the girl lay dying in the snow. Using her last strength, she reached out and gently knocked on the door.
Whether to save others or not is Chen Pingan’s own business. Whether others repay their kindness is their business.
We just met again, much faster than expected, and Chen Ping'an felt complicated.
Zhigui also saw Chen Pingan, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and looked at Chen Pingan. The straw sandals were still straw sandals, but his hair was tied with a hairpin. He seemed to be a little taller, and he was no longer alone. People were walking around, but there were two more small oil bottles beside them.
The girl said nothing.
As soon as Chen Pingan was about to say hello, he found that the boy in Tsing Yi grabbed his arm hard and stopped letting him go forward. Not only him, but also the girl in pink skirt hid behind him and held on to him tightly. The two little guys' teeth chattered together and they didn't dare to breathe.
It’s like a timid ordinary person who is most afraid of ghosts in his life, and then he really saw a ghost in the daytime.
The boy in Tsing Yi felt remorseful in his heart, wishing he could give himself a big mouth and make you a crow!
The girl in pink skirt whispered behind Chen Pingan: "Master, I am afraid, more afraid than death."
Chen Pingan sighed, "Then you go to the small town Go shopping elsewhere, such as our shop over at Qilong Lane. You can help take care of some business. I'll find you later."
The two little guys ran away as if they were amnesty.
Chen Pingan walked to Mud Bottle Alley alone. Just like the scene that had been the same for so many years, the boy helped the girl pick up the bucket and walked into the alley together.
Zhigui asked: "Those two guys are your new book boys.servant girl? "
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Do you think I am a master? They were shouting for fun. ”
Zhigui said oh.
When passing by the ancestral house of the Cao family, the courtyard door was wide open. The old Cao Xi was squatting at the door eating melon seeds, and the young Cao Jun was squatting on the wall. , or eating melon seeds.
Obviously, we are here to watch the fun.
Cao Xi said with a smile: "My dear, is this your little lover?" We made love to each other very early in the morning, which made me and Cao Jun envious. "
Cao Jun, who likes to squint at people, still has a smile on his face. He wears a pair of long and short swords on his waist and nods: "I'm envious, I'm envious." "
Zhigui snorted coldly: "The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked! No wonder the ancestral houses collapsed. "
Cao Xi, a dignified Land Sword Immortal from Nan Po Suo Continent and half owner of a Zhenhai Tower, was not annoyed at all. Instead, he smiled even brighter, "My aunt taught me the right lesson, but I don't know why she is like this. Over the years, why has there been no one in our Lao Cao family? Logically speaking, I have been very prosperous in Posuzhou. Here, the door lintels are shining brightly and the lights are shining at night. How can I fall into this situation in my family? Such a field?
Zhigui kept walking and turned to look at Cao Xi with an innocent smile. Man, besides, magic is forbidden in this small town. It is more difficult to raise an incense villain relying on the influence of family ancestors than to reach heaven. Maybe your Cao family has never had an incense villain. Right? "
Cao Xi laughed loudly, "It makes sense. Auntie, walk slowly, the alley is dilapidated, be careful not to sprain your feet. "
Zhigui turned his back to that old bastard, his face gloomy.
From beginning to end, Chen Pingan said nothing.
Cao Jun asked with a smile Said: "Old Cao, what's going on? Over there in Posuzhou, with your achievements, the number of incense villains can be gathered together to fight on the lintels and plaques, right? ”
Cao Xi said unconcernedly: “It is one thing that it is difficult to produce incense villains in Lizhu Cave. She did not lie, but with the achievements of Xie Shi and I, there should still be one or two left.” For example, the Xie family in Taoye Lane relied on a pair of incense villains to maintain the family tradition for hundreds of years and barely managed to save the incense heirs. Otherwise, everyone would have died like this dilapidated house like ours. . "
Cao Jun clicked his tongue and said, "Are you going to trouble that girl? Then you are still so nice and kind? Do you want to sleep with her? "
A fiery red fox jumped from the roof onto Cao Jun's head and said with a smile: "Sleep with her? How could Lao Cao have the courage? That girl is now the center of attention. If Lao Cao were to reach a higher level, he would not dare to do anything to her. At most, he would just give her a few kisses and use the wax head of a silver gun to look at her. use.
Cao Xi turned his head and said with a smile: "Get away, I smell like a fox, preventing me from breathing in the breath of my hometown." ”
The fox standing above Cao Jun stretched out a paw and pointed at the sole of his foot, not forgetting to useStomping his feet vigorously, "Come on, come on, if you have the ability, use the natal sword on your wrist and slash me. If you don't slash me, Cao Xi, you will be my grandson. Just slash to death. If I hide, I will be your granddaughter." !"
Cao Jun shook his head, but did not throw the fox away, and said helplessly: "You two are so angry, can you please not hurt me? To be fair, Lao Cao is just doing this. You just married the thirty-eighth beautiful concubine. If you really can't bear the bad breath, just peel off her skin and use it as your new clothes. You haven't done this kind of thing often, and you are familiar with it. Why? You just want to vent your anger on me."
The red fox sneered: "The old bastard likes big butts. It's really disgusting that he hasn't grown at all in so many years."
Cao Xi sat on the doorstep again, nibbling on melon seeds, "Money can't buy it, I like it. Oh, by the way, bitch, I'll treat you to some melon seeds during the Chinese New Year."
There was a bang.
The flaming red fox shattered above Cao Jun's head, and then revealed its original shape on the roof. In an instant, it exploded again, and so on, extending all the way from the roof of the Cao family's old house to the house next door. , until leaving Mud Bottle Alley, the flaming red fox did not suffer any disaster. His eyes were dim, he was sitting cross-legged on a raised eaves with gnashing teeth, and he began to breathe.
Cao Xi had run out of melon seeds, clapped his hands and stood up, walked back to the yard, and told Cao Jun: "Don't be impatient in the near future. The Great Li Dynasty is now a battleground. You think it's so simple."
Cao Jun said lazily: "I know."
"'Yes, got it'"
Cao Jun said. Xi chewed on the words, and finally sneered: "You are not qualified to say these three words."
Cao Jun said cynically: "I know."
Cao Jun Xi strode into the house and said bitterly: "Trash from the Nine Realms!"
Cao Jun looked calm.
Chen Ping'an arrived at the door of the next courtyard, handed the bucket back to the girl, and asked casually: "Song Jixin didn't come back?"
She answered the question inappropriately, "My cage of hens Where are the chickens?"
Chen Ping'an looked confused and said: "I don't know."
The girl looked at the boy carefully, she suddenly smiled brightly and stopped asking. But she stretched out two fingers and gestured, "Now Song Mu is so much taller than you."
Chen Pingan said oh, turned around and walked back to his yard.
Chen Ping'an had just unlocked the door and entered the courtyard. Suddenly he saw the upside-down word "福" above the door of his house, which disappeared. He became furious and walked directly to the courtyard wall without saying a word, " Zhigui, where is the word "福" in my house?"
Then he laughed angrily, it turned out that the word "福" was posted on the door of the next door.
This thief is really bold.
The girl put the bucket in the kitchen, walked out slowly, and said innocently: "I don't know."
The answer was exactly the same as Chen Pingan's answer before. .
Chen Pingan said angrily: "Give it back to me!"
Zhigui opened his eyes wide, "Then I deliberately left the wooden figure in the kitchen. You obviously touched it, but I didn't even What are you talking about?"
Chen Ping'an suddenly became speechless and felt a little unreasonable.
Zhigui suddenly asked: "Qi Jing... At Mr. Qi's school, have you posted the Spring Festival couplets?"
Chen Ping'an was stunned, nodded and said: "Post it The Spring Festival couplets and the character "福" were not left behind."
Chen Ping'an didn't want to continue to entangle with her, so he went directly to the house and took out the remaining character "福", and set up a ladder to put one on it. New bad luck.
The girl stood on the other side of the courtyard wall and reminded: "It's crooked."
Chen Pingan was unmoved and gently tamped the red paper and paste with his fingers.
The girl said anxiously: "Really, why are you lying to me? Chen Ping'an, why are you ungrateful? If the word "Fu" is posted crookedly, it will be unlucky."
Chen Ping'an leaves. After getting off the ladder, I looked up to make sure it was not crooked.
The girl was still chattering: "It's really wrong. If you don't believe it, if you let Cao Xi and other practitioners come to see it, you will know that I didn't lie to you. You are a mortal with naked eyes. No matter how good your eyesight is, you are not as good as us." "
Chen Pingan walked into the house and slammed the door.
After about a stick of incense, the young man opened the door quietly, crossed the threshold quietly, and stared at the word "Fu" with his eyes wide open.
It’s not crooked.
Zhigui opened the door with a ghostly appearance, stuck his head out, and said with a straight face: "It's really crooked."
Chen Ping'an felt a little aggrieved, so he took a bench to dry himself at the door. Sun, after a while, began to practice drawing.
Zhigui stood on the other side of the courtyard wall, looking at the young man who was no longer firing porcelain. After watching for a while, he felt a little bored, so he went back to his room to sleep.
She lay on the bed and swallowed. In the lintel of the Cao family's ancestral house, only a little incense man was born. He was of high appearance and golden, with only a few flaws. He was completely golden. It's a pity that it's not enough for her to fill her teeth.
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Next door, Chen Pingan practiced drawing blanks skillfully, and his mind was as calm as water.
While resting, Chen Ping'an began to plan his future. Baolu Mountain, Caiyun Peak and Xiancao Mountain were all near the top of Ruan Qiong's house, because according to the agreement, they would have been leased to Ruan Qiong for free. A continuous area is equivalent to helping Ruan Qiong occupy the largest vast land in the west. For this reason, Ruan Qiong needs to help Chen Pingan take care of the five hills, so that Chen Pingan will not have life, money, or money to spend. Regarding this matter, Chen Pingan I am grateful to Ruan Qiong.
Let’s not talk about Zhenzhu Mountain. It’s such a big place. It’s difficult for a clever woman to make a living without rice. Let alone build a cave. If it’s too much, it’s just to build a hut on it. It’s estimated that only Chen Ping’an is willing to squander one. Gold and copper coins.
But the management of Luoluoshan does require careful attention.
Chen Pingan is well aware of the unusualness of the Bamboo House. Luolu Mountain has the help of the mountain templeSitting in the mountains and rivers, it is a real treasure of Feng Shui, and there is also a black snake that is determined to walk across the river and become a dragon, which plays the role of looking after the house and the courtyard. Now there are two more little guys of the dragon family, so he thinks of using it. Exchanging ordinary snake gallstones with the boy in blue for money, not to mention turning Luo Luoshan into a cornucopia, can at least give him some hope of supplementing his family's income in the future.
Chen Pingan loves money because he has known that making money is not easy since he was a child. This does not mean that after Chen Pingan has money, he will tightly cover his money bag.
Swordsmanship requires practice, but before you determine how to practice swordsmanship, it is useless to worry.
Of course, Shanshanquan must continue to be practiced diligently. After all, it is still early to promise a million punches.
The matter of drawing talismans is equivalent to another form of martial arts practice. The former focuses on physical forging, while the latter focuses on the inner tempering of Qifu acupoints. The two sides do not conflict, but complement each other. It's a good thing that Chen Pingan just allocated part of the time for walking and setting up talons to draw talismans, but drawing talismans requires talisman paper, which is made of real gold and silver, which inevitably makes Chen Pingan feel a little scared.
In the final analysis, I still earn less money.
Beyond these, the biggest regret in Chen Pingan's heart at the moment is that he is temporarily unable to control the small object given by Sword Spirit. Although it is safe to put most of the family's wealth in the blacksmith shop, it is inconvenient after all. Cui Dongshan and the boy in Tsing Yi's close proximity to each other allowed Chen Ping'an to see the preciousness and practicality of such treasures. No wonder not everyone has the immortals on the mountain.
Chen Pingan looked to the south, wondering how Master Ruan was doing with his sword making.
Ruan Qiong promised Miss Ning that he would help her create a magical weapon.
If the casting is successful one day, she will have a handy sword, and he himself will have a locust wood sword.
Chen Ping'an thought it was a good idea to name them "Subduing Demons" and "Exterminating Demons".
In addition to the sword embryo, although Master Wen Sheng said it was called "Xiao Fengdu", Chen Pingan felt that it would be more appropriate to change its name to "Chu Yi" or "Morning", after all, it was in the first month of the year. On the morning of the first day of the new year, it came to this world as a flying sword for the first time.
When Chen Pingan had such an idea in his mind, the sword embryo, which had been silent for a long time, immediately began to make waves in the sea of qi.
Chen Pingan's face turned red instantly and he began to suffer.
Chen Ping'an took a deep breath. He didn't have time to go inside, so he had to use the sword furnace to set up stakes to deal with the sword embryo's swift revenge.
It’s miserable.
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Over there at the inn closest to the town, Cui Yi, the national advisor of the Great Li Dynasty, has been staying here recently, without any publicity or deliberate intention. Hidden whereabouts.
Today, the Imperial Master walked out of the inn, not letting the swordsman Xu Ruo follow him, and traveled far alone.
Every time Cui Han took a step, he was three or four miles away. Finally, he stood in the middle of a narrow path and stopped an old man in ragged clothes.
The embarrassing lightOld Man Jiao looked longingly at the Imperial Master of Da Li who was wearing a Confucian robe. His vision was cloudy and he still hadn't woken up. The old man just relied on his remaining sense and asked a strange question, "You are not my grandson, my grandson." "What?"
Cui Han's eyes were complicated and he hesitated to speak.
The old man covered in grass clippings and dirt continued to ask: "Where is my grandson? I don't want to see you, I want to see my grandson."
Cui Chan put his hands behind his back and intertwined his fingers. , trembling slightly.
The unconscious barefoot old man suddenly shouted angrily: "Where is my grandson?! Where did you hide him! Give me back my son quickly!"
At this point, the old man's momentum suddenly dropped and he murmured: "I want to change my grandson's name to a better one..."
Cui Chan looked miserable and laughed at himself: "It seems like It's not like it's a lifetime ago, it's clearly there."
The old man in shabby clothes stretched out his hand to push Cui Chan's shoulder away and walked forward, "Get out of the way, don't delay me from looking for Chan'er. I want to find his husband and ask him if my new name is good."
Cui Chan stood there without stopping.
Cui Chan looked into the distance and saw a middle-aged monk with a resolute face coming slowly.
Ascetics measure the heaven and earth with their feet and are practitioners of Buddhism.