Sword of Coming

Not long after Chen Pingan returned to the verandah and sat down, he didn't see Zhang Shanfeng. The bearded man was a joker, so the Taoist priest made eye contact with a young beauty and went out for a night tour. Liu Gaohua started making noises, and of course Chen Pingan didn't believe it. However, looking at the face of the county magistrate's legitimate son, Chen Pingan's eyes were a little strange, thinking that such a coincidence wouldn't happen in the world. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Have you ever... Married sisters?”

Liu Gaohua was confused, "No, there is one sister each. Now I am not married, and they are not married. They are all eating and drinking at home. My father complains all day that we are a bunch of losers, and our salaries have been ruined by the three of us. , especially the preparation of dowry and betrothal gifts, which caused him to not purchase a desk clearance for several years."

Chen Pingan breathed a sigh of relief. It would be good if she was not married. Otherwise, if the woman who looked somewhat similar to Liu Gaohua was really Liu Gaohua's sister, then she would stick out a branch of red apricot. Chen Pingan would be embarrassed whether she said it or not.

The curtain quickly came to an end on the high platform in the center of the lake, with thunderous applause. Governor Liu and General Ma did not rely on their official status, but walked out of the waterside pavilion in person and went to the high platform to greet the old immortal. The old immortal answered appropriately, and the two parents, one civil and one military, were both It felt like a breath of fresh air. During this period, there was a young man who looked like a disciple of the noble clan. He wanted to learn skills from the old god, but he was quickly dragged away by the housekeepers in the house.

Taoist Zhang Shanfeng came back a few steps later than Chen Pingan. When he saw Chen Pingan sitting there peacefully, he was relieved and joked: "I thought you fell into the latrine."

Chen Ping'an didn't want to reveal the battle in the small street, and whispered: "I couldn't find the latrine, and I was too embarrassed to ask the housekeeper, so I thought of secretly finding a secluded place. In the end, I searched for a long time, and when I came back, I saw the verandah. There were so many people, so I was embarrassed to squeeze in, so I stayed outside for a while.”

The man with the big beard asked anxiously: "You keep digging into the dark places, but you don't see any scenes of being in love with each other? I can tell you that Caiyi Country, especially Rouge County, has the most scholars and beauties. When you have nothing to do, they all I like to read some gaudy and forbidden books, and if I read too many, just follow the instructions in the book..."

When the man said this, Liu Gaohua couldn't help but laugh, nodded vigorously and said: "Just like that little girl in my family, she is only thirteen years old. She peeked at a few Yanliu books, but she didn't read about the love between men and women. She has a wild temper and has been yearning for it since she was a child. Chivalrous in the world, she always said that the men in Rouge County are all women, so she was unhappy. She only learned the tricks in the book about sneaking out of the embroidery building and setting up ladders to climb over the wall. Fortunately, she was smart, and my mother was smarter than her. There’s never a single little girl movie that’s successful.”

The bearded man's eyes lit up, he patted his chest and said, "It's good to yearn for the world. Mr. Xu pretends to be full of the world and casually tells one or two stories. They are the best snacks in the world!"

Liu Gaohua rolled his eyes and said: "No, my sister is still young. Hero Xu, why are the two brothers just friends? They only talk about it in the world. Besides, you have become my brother-in-law. Do you deserve your seniority?"

The man smiled and said, "Don't you have a sister?"

Liu Gaohua did not dare to say anything, as he seemed to have something to hide.

Chen Pingan was about to speak but stopped.

The bearded man laughed loudly and slapped Liu Gaohua on the shoulder, "Look, I scare you. I, Mr. Xu, have been wandering around the world for so many years. I can count my confidante on both hands. I have never been attracted to the women in the boudoir of the embroidered building." interest!"

The banquet was over, they walked out of the house in the crowd, and the three of them returned to the inn. Liu Gaohua was arrested by someone sent by his father to socialize with him. Although his son was incompetent, his craftsmanship was not good, and his official career was basically ruined, he was the only son in the family, and Sheriff Liu still wanted Liu Gaohua. In the future, you can support your appearance and don't look too ugly.

On the way back, because he got two things, Chen Ping'an asked Xu Yuanxia and Zhang Shanfeng about the magic weapons.

The blame is on the people Chen Ping'an met before. They were so unconventional. A Liang casually carried a bamboo knife around his waist. As for the young Cui Han, he accidentally talked about realms and magic weapons, and his tone was so scary that he sounded like the upper five realms and the middle ones. The Qi Practitioners of the Five Realms and the magic weapons they carry are just children playing in the mud, not worth mentioning. The barefoot old man in the bamboo house was even more straightforward, saying that if we, the warriors, rely on external objects to travel around the world, we might as well stay at home and work in the fields and become farmers.

Chen Pingan was also helpless.

Fortunately, through the introductions of Xu Yuanxia and Zhang Shanfeng, we had a general understanding of the division of "magic weapons". It turned out that the hierarchy was also strict, not much inferior to the official rank. "Magic weapon" is a very general term. The bottom object is a craftsman's tool, which can only be regarded as a well-cast dead object. The quaint expressions such as blowing hair to break hair and cutting iron like mud mostly describe weapons in this category, and The objects that the Immortal Family on the mountain symbolically bestows on its disciples are often good-looking craftsmanship, like the peach wood sword owned by Taoist Zhang Shanfeng.

Of course, if it were the peach wood sword given to the descending Heavenly Master by the Longhu Mountain Heavenly Master's Mansion, it would be far more than that.

The next level up from craftsmanship is heavy weapons. Most of the magic weapons of Jianghu masters belong to this category. The materials are rare. Generally, Qi practitioners, especially those who have no roots and no masters to inherit, are regarded as Dao Dao. A layman who is a pure martial artist or a mountainside person on the road of spiritual practice. If he is lucky, he will have one or two "important weapons", which is not easy to come by. For example, Taoist Zhang Shanfeng dreams of important weapons and hopes to have a magic sword in his hands in the future. .

The bearded man's sword is actually the best among heavy weapons.

The following spiritual weapons and magical weapons are the real "magic weapons". Spiritual weapons are divided into innate and acquired. Innate spiritual weapons are more rare. They are loved by heaven and earth and breed abundant spiritual energy, allowing practitioners to control them and get twice the result with half the effort. At critical moments, it can also reward its master at the cost of destroying the foundation. In fact, Xiaoxue Qian can barely be classified as such, but the spiritual energy contained in a snow money is too rare and can be ignored. No Qi practitioner is stupid enough to absorb Xiaoxue Qian's spiritual energy to promote his cultivation state.

Acquired spiritual artifacts, such as high-quality yellow paper talismans, and some magical artifacts carved and forged by Qi practitioners, such as the jade pendant of Fu Nanhua, the Young Master of Old Dragon City, named "Laolong Buyu". The first-class item among the spiritual weapons is priceless, and the "mandrill pot" he bought from Song Jixin is even more precious.

Compared with the "Laolong Buyu Pei" and "Mandrill Pot", the demon-binding ropes, demon-suppressing trees, ghost-killing bamboo whips, etc. carried by those Qi practitioners of Shengao Sect, although they are also acquired spiritual weapons, both in terms of price and value , are all very different.

Above the spiritual weapon is the magical weapon.

Dharma has always been a big word.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as Taoism or Buddhism.

The magic weapon contains the invisible rules of the great road of heaven and earth.

The sword-raising gourd, which is specially used to warm and nourish flying swords, has firmly occupied its place. Of course, the silver sword gourd that A Liang took from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, as well as the gourd hanging around Su Jia's waist in Zhengyang Mountain, belonged to the noble Tianhuang among the sword gourds. According to legend, it was planted by Taozu himself before his ascension. A bunch of gourd vines produced six gourds, which were then made into six sword-raising containers by experts on the mountain. Naturally, they were not comparable to ordinary sword-raising gourds.

There are immortal weapons on top of the magic weapon.

Nine out of ten Qi practitioners on the mountain will never be able to see an immortal weapon with their own eyes throughout their lives. Even the mansions of the Immortal Family with the prefix Zong may not all have immortal soldiers standing on the top of the mountain. Qi Zhen, the leader of Shen Gaozong, the leader in the Taoist tradition of the continent, succeeded in breaking through the realm this time and became a Heavenly King. Only then was he given an immortal weapon by the Shang Zong of the Middle Earth Divine Continent.

Cao Xi, the Sword Immortal of Nanbosu Continent, had his natal flying sword tied to his wrist. He encountered a great opportunity and refined it with the water of a large river. It can be regarded as a semi-immortal weapon. This is the most fearful thing about Cao Xi.

However, the most outstanding immortal weapons in the world are all legendary beings. Those who possess them have a transcendent status and are famous all over the world, such as the Tianshi Seal and the immortal sword of the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain, and Ying Yin. When the ancestor of the Chen family traveled around the world when he was young, he accidentally acquired a small bronze tripod. According to legend, it was an imitation of the large mountain and river tripod hung by the ancient saints.

Among the already rare immortal soldiers, there is another one that is even more legendary. After a long period of accumulation, it has given birth to a "god" with self-awareness.

This god is by no means a righteous god of mountains and rivers enshrined by the secular court. The so-called immortal golden body of a righteous god, before this kind of superior "god", is probably not as good as a chicken or a dog.

Chen Ping'an knew what was going on.

Even if you leave aside the five mountains, you are still very rich!

My current wealth is abundant!

Just picked up the porcelain bowl and ebony wood for free from the roadside tonight.

The wooden sword made of locust wood "dispels evil spirits".

The snake gallstone that Lu Chen returned to him through He Xiaoliang, even if he put aside his love for it as a dragon in the world, it must be the best material for spiritual weapons.

The three seals that Mr. Qi left for him were all carved from the best snake gallstones.

Li Xisheng's gift of the Fengxue small awl pen and a large pile of talisman paper made of precious materials.

The sword-raising gourd on his waist, which is extremely special among magic weapons, is a treasure that most middle and fifth-level sword cultivators would covet.

Two natal flying swords that temporarily recognized him as their master, the first and the fifteenth.

So when Chen Ping'an walked back to the house alone, there was wind at his feet, like a kid in Tsing Yi who hadn't met someone on the road.

Although it is currently impossible to determine the specific grade of each item, the objects brought out from Luopo Mountain are definitely indistinguishable.

Drink, drink!

Yangjian Gourd was out of wine, so Chen Pingan went to the inn to ask about the price of wine. A bottle of the worst local wine from Rouge County cost at least eight silver coins per pound. As for the inn’s signature Rouge wine, it cost ten dollars per pound. Two, and there will never be a counteroffer! Chen Ping'an's wine gourd can hold more than ten kilograms of wine, and ten kilograms of the most expensive rouge wine only costs one hundred taels of silver! It’s not like a hundred snow coins for the gods on the mountain. If you don’t drink such fine wine, how can you be worthy of the spiritual weapons and magic weapons that you have on your body?

So Chen Pingan decisively ordered ten kilograms of local brewed shochu.

Originally, the three of them had gone back to their houses, but Liu Gaohua came to the inn again and knocked on Zhang Shanfeng's door first. This official son of Tianzihao in Rouge County was full of embarrassment at the time. Behind him was a pair of talented young men and women. The woman The face is somewhat similar to Liu Gaohua, so she is probably his sister. When I told Zhang Shanfeng about the matter, it turned out that I came here to ask for some bruises from the charlatan. He said that Mr. Liu was going to see the old god tonight. There were too many people and it was night time, so he accidentally fell and got knocked down. It’s reached his head, and his brain is still dizzy. The medicine shop in the county has been closed a long time ago. His sister is really worried about Mr. Liu. After hearing that her brother knows the heroes of the world and the gods on the mountain, she wants to help and make sure not to fall behind. She will pay for the root cause of the disease and all the expenses.

The Taoist priest Zhang Shanfeng led the three of them to Xu Yuanxia's house. The bearded man was also happy. He looked at the frail scholar and said that it was not a problem. Seeing that the woman was reluctant and how sophisticated the man was, he smiled and took the bag from the bag. He took out a piece of cooling ointment and asked the scholar surnamed Liu to apply it on his temples to ensure that the medicine would cure the disease without any sequelae.

The woman felt relieved and sat on the stool, looking at the scholar with soft eyes, full of love and care. The scholar comforted him not to worry, and he was very literate.

The man with the big beard couldn't bear this, and his teeth were sore.

Although Zhang Shanfeng was a monk, he did not hesitate to join in the fun. He would not be as happy as everyone else, so he immediately ran to pull Chen Pingan over. It is said that she is Liu Gaohua's sister. She is a very upright-looking girl. She has brought along a gentle scholar tonight. She will probably be the son-in-law of the County Sheriff's Mansion soon. Chen Ping'an had just finished pouring the wine and filled the sword-raising gourd. The room smelled of wine and empty wine bottles. Seeing Zhang Shanfeng's attitude of not giving up until Zhang Shanfeng caught him to watch a good show, because he didn't want to show his weakness in the matter of wine, He had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​practicing the sword furnace and follow him to Xu Yuanxia's house. As soon as Chen Ping'an entered, the talented and beautiful couple who had a tryst under the moon gasped in unison.

I will not move until the enemy is immovable.

Chen Pingan pretended not to know anything, sat down at the table, took off the wine gourd and started drinking.

The scholar surnamed Liu could neither stand nor sit. Liu Gaohua's sister, the woman who had been poisoned by novels about gifted men and beautiful women, was even more guilty. After all, a young lady from a wealthy family was only one step away from having a lifelong private contract with a strange man. , no matter how you look at it, it is not a good thing to talk about. Although the people of Rouge County are open-minded, the eldest daughter of a county prefect is hugging a foreign scholar and bumping into each other. If they are acquaintances, I am afraid that half of the county will be attacked tomorrow. The news spread throughout the city.

Liu Gaohuahua said dullly: "What, you three know each other?"

The scholar surnamed Liu knew how to make it up, coughed, and explained: "Tonight, your sister and I were walking by the lake, and we happened to meet this young master, carrying a sword box on his back. I am impressed by the young master’s magnanimity and will certainly remember it forever. It’s a great honor to see you again now!”

The scholar bowed his hands to Chen Pingan, his eyes full of pleading and pity. At that time, he just saw the young man under the apricot tree, with small arms and thin legs, and thought that God would give him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty. If he missed it, wouldn't it be in vain that Yue Lao led the red line? So there was a "misunderstanding" that didn't end well.

Chen Ping'an couldn't say much about this person's likes and dislikes, and he definitely didn't have a good impression of him, so he laughed, but he didn't reveal the scholar's background, so he left some room for maneuver.

After all, Chen Ping'an still didn't want to get involved in Liu Gaohua's housework.

Whether this marriage was good or bad, whether it was a match made in heaven, or whether it was destined to be a love affair, it had nothing to do with him.

But having said that, if Liu Gaohua were replaced by Zhang Shanfeng, a Taoist priest who was regarded as a true friend by Chen Pingan, Chen Pingan would definitely be outspoken. Even if he didn't tell Zhang Shanfeng in person, he would remind Zhang Shanfeng in private that your future brother-in-law is not a good person. Too authentic, not like a handsome young man from a scholarly family.

In the end, it is said that the scholar surnamed Liu, who had traveled all the way to study, was so poor that he met Miss Liu at a temple fair. He was so poor that he had to live with others because there was no room left in the inn. , Liu Gaohua was smiling there, begging the bearded man and Zhang Shanfeng to take him in. This opened Xu Yuanxia's eyes. It was rare for him to be a brother-in-law. Not only did he not dislike the family background of the scholar surnamed Liu, but he helped He was hiding this inappropriate relationship from his sister.

The scholar surnamed Liu did not dare to live in the same room with Chen Ping'an, nor did he want to stay with the bearded man. He always felt that he had thin skin and tender flesh, and the look of the bearded man who was not taboo about meat and vegetables was too scary. He chose the most normal and pleasing young Taoist priest, and Zhang Shanfeng had no objection to this.

Liu Gaohua left the inn with his reluctant sister.

The two siblings were walking on the lonely street that was about to be closed for the night. When Liu Gaohua was approaching the door of the county house, he said softly: "Sister, I don't like that person very much, but since you like him, I will do whatever I can." .If one day you find out that you are wrong, don’t think it’s a big deal. It doesn’t matter if the sky doesn’t fall, or if your father beats you or scolds you, or if you get angry and do something that goes too far, don’t be afraid when the time comes. I am here for you. I am you. My younger brother."

The woman lightly kicked her brother and said angrily: "Liu Gaohua! Why don't you say something nice about your sister and say something unfavorable!"

Liu Gaohua turned around and made a face.

The woman pretended to be frightened, yelled "Ghost", picked up her skirt, and ran towards the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion.

Liu Gaohua sighed and followed quickly.

Liu Gaohua stopped suddenly, turned his head suddenly, looked around at the empty street, and still didn't see anything strange. He shook his head and continued to move forward.

Because at this moment, he felt a chill on the back of his neck and back.

Liu Gaohua kept comforting himself in his heart, what should he be afraid of? He had met the old immortal with his father, and had also chatted face to face with the immortal elder. With so much immortality, even if there is really something in the world, Filthy and dirty things, such as the dryads in the ancient house, are definitely out of reach now.

At the moment when the servant closed the side door of the mansion, on a quiet and empty street in the distance, the night watchman just started knocking the clock. But for some reason, the gong of the fourth watch was beating when it was clearly the third watch.

On the streets of this Rouge County, a hoarse voice sounded faintly, "The sky is dry and things are dry, be careful of the candle."

The blind old watchman who has been doing the night watch for many years, holding a gong, was originally supposed to be accompanied by a mute companion who was responsible for holding a bang and knocking on the watch. He has been working together for many years and is extremely familiar with it.

But the old watchman didn't know that his companion was replaced by a woman in white. She struck the gong again and again, and blood would splash on the gong. But before the blood splashed on the street, it turned into wisps of black smoke and quickly dispersed. go.

The blind old watchman still yelled hoarsely that the sky is dry and things are dry, be careful of candles.