The third day of February is the vernal equinox.
In the month of mid-spring, the day and night equinox, the day and night are equal, the cold and heat are equal, and the yin and yang are half, so it is called the vernal equinox.
It was calm last night. Chu Yuanxiao, a poor boy, let go of his dragon lantern in a quiet place in the town where the Pengying River flows. He watched it go along the river, enter the red maple forest in the south of the town, and disappear.
When I got up and went out this morning, I happened to meet a group of people heading east out of the town. It was the Yunlin Zongxian family who came from Dongshijizhou, and the young man named Han Yuanfu. These three people set out from the town today. Returning to Shijizhou, Han Kui, the Tenth Realm Martial Saint who had asked the Lord of Quan a few days ago, was not among them. To be precise, Jiang Martial Saint Hua Hongfei left the town that day and never came back.
Behind the three of them were the ardent parents of the young man from the Han family, the swarthy man Han Kui, and the female shopkeeper Liu Yuqing. These two people were not leaving Yanguan Town. He will continue to live in the small town, so this moment is actually just a farewell, but when he thinks about his son going far away from the mountains and seas, he will have to close the mountain with the Yunlin Sect, and whether the couple will remember their son after the town closes. Going to a foreign country is also a dilemma. Maybe the whole family will have no chance to see each other again, so the couple is not in a good mood at this time. Shopkeeper Liu, who is still looking forward to her charm and charm, has tears in her eyes. The middle-aged man also had some red eyes.
According to Shopkeeper Liu's original idea, since half of the food shop's assets were to be transferred to Yunhaijian and recorded in the name of the young man named Chu, it would be better to just hand over the entire food shop to Mr. Fan, the shopkeeper of Yunhaijian, and take the money. Half of the wealth left the town with the Yunlin Sect and the two of them, all the way to Shijizhou. Even if they couldn't enter the Yunlin Sect's mountain gate by then, the couple could reopen a shop in a crowded place near the mountain gate to do business. Even if she can't see her son in person, she can still get closer, but for some reason, her husband Han Kui, who has not expressed much opinions for many years, firmly disagrees with this proposal, and her son is about to travel far away. Han Yuanfu also disagreed, so the atmosphere in the family of three was not harmonious in the next few days.
Shopkeeper Liu couldn't resist the father and son, so he was reluctant to give her husband a good look. He originally wanted to ignore his son, but when he thought that he was going to travel far away, he felt a little reluctant to leave. The three of them had been awkwardly arguing for many days, and finally decided to Unable to change the resolute and unusual decision of the father and son, they could only reluctantly bid farewell to their precious son today with tears in his eyes.
Just when he was about to leave the town, he met the poor young man who opened the door. Shopkeeper Liu's face turned ugly and gloomy in an instant. He seemed unwilling to even look at the young man, and instead followed the expressionless man. The father and son behind the two immortal families of Yunlin Sect had different reactions to Chu Yuanxiao's appearance.
The middle-aged man looked at the expressionless traveling boy standing at the entrance of the courtyard and nodded slightly to him as a greeting. The young man surnamed Han who was about to travel far went a step further and not only nodded towards his peers. Nodding without saying anything, there was actually a smile on his face. The smile was as warm as that of an old friend, without the slightest hint of worry or resentment, and even traces of apologies could be seen.
The poor young man standing at the door of his courtyard looked at the father and son, and felt a little touched in his heart. In fact, before that, even he himself felt that due to some changes, the relationship between him and this family might be like that of Shopkeeper Liu. It was normal for them to resent each other, turn a blind eye, and never interact with each other until death. However, they did not expect that the father and son would behave like this today. It was a bit weird, but also seemed... not very weird.
However, despite these changes, the two sides could not be truly harmonious, so they had no intention of talking to each other. Chu Yuanxiao watched a group of five people leaving the east side of the town, and when he turned around, he saw the sloppy man opposite. He was leaning against the door frame of the hut, looking at the backs of the five people walking away, with a strange expression, half-smiling but not smiling.
As if sensing the young man's gaze, Hou Junchen turned to look at the young man, smiled and waved to him. When he came closer, the sloppy man smiled and said: "I didn't think so before, but now I suddenly realize that this Han Kui is really interesting."
Chu Yuanxiao recalled the eye movement of the swarthy man who nodded to him when several people passed by. Going back to that night when he was inexplicably robbed of Shui Yun, the man who had been silent at the beginning said at the end In those few paragraphs, the young man inexplicably felt that this man who had always had no sense of existence was actually more intelligent than the eloquent shopkeeper Liu.
Hou Junchen seemed to be able to see what the young man was thinking at a glance, and said with a smile: "Those things you think of are actually small things. The most interesting thing about him is actually stopping Liu Yuqing from selling her shop. , and then the couple left with Han Yuanfu... The true appearance of this person has always been different from the Han Kui you see in your eyes, and even different from the Han Kui Liu Yuqing saw. He has many interesting things. The story is just not well known.”
The meaning is ambiguous.
After the past few days, the young man has already become accustomed to these guys with the word "master" clearly engraved on their foreheads. They always say half of their words and leave the other half of their words. They only give an introduction but never say anything clearly. Method, seeing that the old monkey was unwilling to say more, he didn't bother to ask. Many things will always come to light, just watch.
After the two of them finished chatting, they both hesitated for a while. Then Hou Junchen turned his head and looked in the direction of Wufang Pavilion, lowered his voice and reminded the young man: "It seems that today will not be peaceful, I guess. It won't take long for someone to come looking for you, so you'd better prepare in advance to avoid being caught off guard and scared out of your mind, leaving others trying to smooth things over and summon your soul. It’s wonderful.”
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Twenty miles west of Yanguan Town is Liangzhou City.
Recently, a lot of people have come to this city, and many of them have come directly through the city from Yanguan Town. Therefore, this Liangzhou border town, which was originally only considered lively, has become more popular since the New Year. From then on, it became much more lively than before.
There were crowds of people in the city, most of them were outsiders wandering around. It seemed that they were not coming to the small town that was open for business, but it did not necessarily mean that they were not.
The streets and alleys in the city are criss-crossed, and doors are connected in all directions. In this month after the beginning of the new year, whether it is the merchants who are open for business or the small vendors who can only set up stalls on the streets, no matter how good they are in doing business, Basically, everyone made more coins and broken silver than usual.
It was three o'clock in the morning today, and it was just past midnight. The city gate had been open for a long time, and the streets had been very lively. After a long time, a handsome and well-dressed young man with fair skin and good looks came out of the gate of the largest and tallest restaurant in the city. , it is difficult to distinguish between male and female.
This person is wearing white clothes and boots, and a white brocade robe with moiré trimmings. There is also a complete landscape pattern outlined with snow-white silk embroidery thread. The whole person exudes a sense of dignity and elegance. When he was born, his steps were gentle and neither hurried nor slow. If others observed carefully, they would be surprised to find that the length of each step was surprisingly consistent. One inch too long was too long, and one inch too short was too short.
In addition, the man in white is also holding an unfolded folding fan in his hand, holding it flat in front of his forehead to block the sun. The only strange thing is that the folding fan's surface is actually made of pure Black, without any variegated embellishments, even the fan bones are black. Such a folding fan, which looks thick just by looking at the color, is abrupt and awkward when placed in the hands of such a graceful lady in a white robe, whose skin color is whiter than the brocade robe. garish.
Because this person is too beautiful, and it is really difficult to tell the difference between male and female, let's say he is a man. His flawless face is really beautiful. However, if we say she is a woman, her tall and tall figure and the protruding Adam's apple in her throat are definitely not what a woman should have. Therefore, such a stunning appearance on the street makes passers-by, both men and women, feel like they are being seduced. It was as if his soul had left, even though he had already walked far away, he could still leave behind him a long line of onlookers, who were looking at him with lust, and were so happy that he couldn't get back to his senses.
A black folding fan that served as a parasol blocked most of the daylight, so that more than half of the handsome face of the young man in white was covered in shadow. It seemed that he had long been accustomed to such scenes along the way, and the corners of his lips just curled up. With a faint smile, and not caring about the scrutinizing eyes of others, he walked out of the restaurant and slowly walked towards the tall and deep city gate under the city wall on the east side of the city. No matter how many people were salivating along the way, they No one dared to come forward and talk to them without permission, as if facing such stunning beauty that could only be seen in the sky, everyone felt ashamed and ashamed to see others.
At the east city gate, a group of Liangzhou frontier troops armed with swords and guns were standing in two columns on both sides of the city gate. They carefully checked the identity documents and luggage of passers-by, and only gave way after confirming that they were correct. The city gate allowed passage.
The leading captain in charge of the east gate garrison of Liangzhou was standing not far away from the crowd of people coming and going. When he saw the young man in white from far away, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised, but After all, he was an army general and a practitioner, so he didn't behave like ordinary people. He just let people go after the interrogation as usual.
After the man in white walked away, a centurion under the captain sneaked up and whispered curiously: "General, do you think this person is a man or a woman? Why does he look weird?"
The captain squinted at the white-clothed figure who had left the east of the city and was drifting away. He didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until the centurion thought that his captain might not answer his question anymore that he looked sideways. He glanced at his subordinate Pao Ze who was also staring at that figure beside him, and without hesitation slapped him on his military helmet, causing the centurion's helmet to sway, and then he didn't care that the man was dizzy after being slapped by him. Dazzled, he directly opened his mouth and cursed: "It's none of your business whether he's a boy or a girl! You're a soldier, you eat food, you go out to fight, and you've only been idle for a few days, and you're so lenient? You're missing training, right? Do you want me to send you to scout? How many days will you stay in camp?"
The soldiers at the gate of the city originally pricked up their ears to hear what their captain had to say, but when they were met with this violent roar, they all shrank their necks and did not dare to be distracted, and hurriedly went about their business.
They are all frontier soldiers who have been on the battlefield. No one has not carried a few lives on his body. It is not that they are afraid of death. However, although there has been no war in the border areas in recent years, the scout camp is still not something ordinary people can do. When staying in a scout camp, it is common for those who enter the scout camp to know that they may not be able to come back if they go out one day. If possible, it is best not to go.
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The young man in white, who had already walked far away, had very good ears. He could still clearly hear the two sentences of the conversation at the city gate even though he was far away. However, he was not angry about this, and even raised the corners of his lips surprisingly. He was in a good mood and had a smile on his face.
He raised his eyes and looked at the cliff nearly a thousand feet high twenty miles away, and the towering Sword Mountain that was farther away. He then looked up from the edge of the unfolded folding fan and looked at the wheel above his head that was rising higher and higher. The sun was shining brightly, and the smile on the lips of the man in white became brighter, and he murmured in a low voice: "Soon, it will get dark!"
The steps he took were measured in length. If nothing unexpected happened, his last step in front of the cliff was exactly the moment when the bright sun set over the west mountain!
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The wind and smoke disappear in a hurry, and the sunset on the spring mountain gradually becomes dusk.
For some reason, the poor young man sitting under the old locust tree at the east entrance of the town and watching the sunset felt that today's setting sun was different from the past, as if it had cast a vague shadow, blocking out the setting sun. The warmth coming from the last ray of sunlight makes people feel cold all over, and a layer of fine goose bumps crawls up their arms, which makes people feel bad.
What worried him even more was that ever since that sloppy man first reminded him to prepare early, in the past half day, he had been almost like a revolving door, transferring all the locals and foreign visitors he had come into contact with before. All the experts from the Xian family have met, Mr. Cui, the teacher of the small town school, the old Taoist priest of Beilinguan, the shopkeeper Fan of Yunhaijian, Mr. Lu, the storyteller, the girl in white Li Yuyao, the girl in red Jiang Chenyu...
Some of them would come up and say a few words to him, and some of them would just stand far away on the street corner and look this way. They didn't know whether they were looking at the old bronze bell behind him or looking at him. people…
Every time one of these people came over, the shadow in the boy's heart became more and more intense. By the time the last two girls came one after another and said almost the same words to him, the boy's heart was already filled with an ominous feeling. substance.
The girl in white clothes was still dressed with a sword on her back, and her expression was a little awkward when she walked in front of the young man. She probably hadn't calmed down yet. She didn't feel that the young man in front of her should be blamed for being arranged by the Zhao family, she just felt that the young man in front of her should be blamed. How long did the guy in front of him have to endure before he got used to that bastard named Zhao who dared to have such a bad habit of speaking unscrupulously?
He obviously has a tiger in his heart, but he insists on doing the humiliating thing. In the end, even his friend, who he just met, has to be slandered along with him. As the saying goes, he will not argue with him when he is angry, but it is nothing more than that!
So when we meet today after many days, the girl can probably understand some of the difficulties unique to teenagers, but she still feels awkward. She always feels that this guy is always like a soft bun, which makes people angry when he talks. His tone was a little harsh, and he only said one sentence before leaving.
"If the situation is not right, you can use that ichthyosaur pendant to ward off disasters. You don't have to worry about whether it is precious or not, or whether it has any other connections. Save your life first so that you can talk about it later. Making the best use of everything is truly useful. Otherwise, Do you want to keep it to give birth to cubs?”
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The girl in red still had the same smiling expression, and did not change her habit of jumping when walking. She wandered all the way from Zhenxi. When she arrived near the old locust tree, she rubbed her fair and delicate chin and took a closer look at the silent mouth. The old bronze bell, a pair of apricot eyes as bright as the stars and the moon are full of calculations, as if they are considering how to steal this bronze bell home...
In fact, the boy had always had a question that he didn't dare to ask face to face, which was why on earth did this girl in red named Jiang Chenyu lend a helping hand and speak out for justice?
He didn't feel that there was any profit in him, nor was he confident enough to think that a good girl would fall in love with him without even meeting him a few times. The girl in white was at least because she had sex with him twice. Business, some debts of favor were never repaid to each other, and they became friends after seeing each other a few times. But why did this girl in red have no evidence?
It's just that it's hard to ask this question directly, so it makes the young man feel a little uncomfortable.
The young girl Jiang Chenyu didn't seem to care about the boy's hesitation and hesitation. If there were any questions that he wanted to ask, he would definitely ask them. If he could hold back and not ask, it meant that he hadn't reached the point where he couldn't hold back anymore. Since If you want to hold it in, then just hold it in. It's not me who feels uncomfortable.
"I guess they will all tell you whether you want to use the money in your hand depends on your own choice, but I think the saying 'Don't take advantage of the bastard' is unreasonable. You just need to What's wrong with having a powerful master instead of stealing the opportunity of others? Only when you're alive will things come later. Even if you lose your life, do you still have a chance to intervene in the stories that follow? "
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Soon, it was getting late, and when the last ray of sunlight on the western horizon disappeared, the man in white who came out of Liangzhou City happened to have completed the last step of his eastward journey. When he looked up, he could see Seeing the rocky cliff that separated him from the town, it was indeed like a roadblock squatting in the middle of the road, watching with eager eyes, choosing people to devour!
The man in white smiled playfully, first looked up at the sky above him, and then lowered his head to look at the square stone cliff that was more than a thousand feet high. He raised his eyebrows and said: "Although it is the vernal equinox tonight, the stars and the moon are not visible, and the sun is setting. Without the last ray of light, it’s a blind night where you can’t see your fingers. Who can you bite like a toothless tiger?”
Between heaven and earth, a cold wind suddenly rose.
As if to echo the joke of the man in white, the last ray of sunlight on the horizon completely disappeared. The entire area within ten miles of Yanguan Town, Liangzhou, felt as if someone had been detained at the bottom of a bowl in an instant. The night fell, the ground was dark, and the sky was dark. faint!
At this moment, a figure appeared above the four objects in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the town.
On the back of the Eastern Hidden Dragon, an old Taoist with closed eyes, holding a bamboo pole, suddenly stood on the top of the Jianfeng mountain that had been deserted for nearly ten thousand years. A pair of eyes that had not been opened for hundreds of years suddenly opened at this moment. There are no black pupils in the white, and the lightning and flint between them are as if there is thunder!
At Xuannv Lake in the north, a scholar in a blue shirt holding a paperweight slowly appeared above the lake overlooking a copper ring. He was dressed in a scholar's shirt, a wide robe and large sleeves, and there was no wind. There were bursts of ink light and shadow slowly on the paperweight in his hand. It fainted and shone brightly, causing the entire lake to rise with the wind, and the waves rolled like boiling water!
In the red maple forest in the south, the red leaves in that large forest never fall all year round, but they turn from red to green, and then from green to red each year as the cold comes and the heat comes. Today, on the vernal equinox, there are red and green, and in that red maple forest, the sword is held upside down. When the white-haired old man appeared in the sky above the maple forest, there were countless maple leaves under his feet. Without exception, the red light bloomed like the phoenix feathers of nirvana, burning the whole night like day!
On Jinzhuya in the west of the town, a bald monk with his upper body exposed, his chest and abdomen exposed, and his muscles as strong as a black dragon, holds a string of 108 white jade Buddha beads, and hangs around his neck another string of 18 as big as a child's fist, shaped like a dragon. The moment a Buddha bead like a lion's head appears on the top of the cliff, the immortal golden body of a high-level warrior gleams with golden light. With his hands clasped together, he looks like a god in golden armor from a distance!
The next moment the four people appeared, the entire square Yanguan Town, with seven streets in each direction, was like an ink stroke drawn by a large pen, dividing the entire Yanguan Town into eighty-eight sixty-four blocks, starting from Qian. For the sky, when water and fire are not enough, it is easy to count the sixty-four hexagrams, and they are all in this town!
There are six courtyards in each small area, and a total of 384 courtyards are lit up. There are two other courtyards that are larger than the other courtyards. They are the small town rural school in the northeast of the town. The Beiling Temple in the southwest of Hezhen is like a pair of eyes on a yin-yang fish, merged into the three hundred and eighty-four courtyards, gathered together in three hundred and eighty-six numbers, and formed the three hundred and eighty-six lines of Yi, which evolved in all directions!
The small river Pengying flows out from Xuannv Lake in the north of the town and flows through the town into the red maple forest. As it flows through the town, it looks like a dragon turning back again and again, encircling the four four-spirited statues on the four sides of the town. The circle is divided into yin and yang fish on the east and west sides!
The outer circle is the Bagua, the inner square is sixty-four, the outer circle is the inner square, and the number is easy to cover the world!
At this moment, the entire Yanguan Formation has truly appeared in the world for the first time since its formation ten thousand years ago. It is supplemented by the green dragon in the east, the Xuanwu in the north, the red bird in the south, and the white tiger in the west. It is the gathering of the four elephants. , the Tao is everywhere!
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At the east entrance of the town, the poor young man who was sitting under the old locust tree now stood up and looked at the golden light around him. It illuminated the entire ten-mile radius of the town, which was like an upside-down bowl, as bright as the sun in the sky. Only his inner heart was left. Shocking beyond measure!
The next moment, he heard a slightly dry and old voice ringing in his ears.
"Come with me to Wufang Pavilion, so that some people can open their eyes and take a good look at what is real..."
The voice seemed to pause after speaking here, and then slowly finished the last three words.
"The dragon raises its head!"
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