In a pawnshop on Taolu Street, Old Man Ma was smoking a dry cigarette and counting the day's harvest. The hand holding the cigarette rod suddenly paused slightly, and then returned to normal. He just said in his mouth: "I didn't expect that the one with the worst life would go further. Do you think this thief is so strange?"
At this time, a rabbit with snow-white and smooth hair appeared in front of the pawn shop, stuck out its head and timidly said: "Great Immortal, I successfully condensed the demon elixir according to the method you gave me."
The old man was sitting on the stool in front of the shop, and the old god was there, "Oh, really? Congratulations, you have made another step forward on the road to attaining the great road."
The rabbit spirit said with a shy face: "The Great Immortal is so complimentary. I still know how much I weigh."
Only after staying with Old Man Ma for a long time did the rabbit spirit realize what it means to be someone outside the world, and there is a world outside the world. Therefore, the rabbit spirits in the small town are extremely cautious, for fear that they may accidentally touch some powerful people. The rabbit spirits know how this small town in a corner is like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the real person does not show his face, maybe Randomly bumping into a man with a loyal and honest face in a small town was a little-known Dongxuan monk or a Hedao monk.
Old Man Ma suddenly laughed and said: "You should be cautious, but I kindly remind you that it is best not to leave this shop within ten days. As for why you don't need to know, you just need to avoid this ten days honestly." , and then whether you are able to control the wind and transform into a dragon, or whether you are on the thin line between life and death, it all depends on whether you can catch it."
Nowadays, all forces are secretly observing and preparing to make a move. The town has become the center of the whirlpool. If it weren't for Lu Ran, I'm afraid that all the forces would have already taken action to remove the golden body of the eight righteous gods in heaven. Divinity is taken for oneself.
The old man sighed when he thought of this.
For thousands of years, the town has been occupied by the golden god who descended from heaven. The mountain range where the town is located evolved from that golden god. This is why the town has had good luck for thousands of years. The excellent reason is that there are countless romantic figures who have come out of the small town over the past thousands of years, including the civil servants and officials who are high above the temples; Blessing, but as the saying goes, wealth that is not mine will eventually be blamed. The town has enjoyed blessings for thousands of years relying on that golden body of divinity, and now that person's divinity is awakening. When a ray of that person's divinity is entrusted to the divinity, When the divine will in the god really awakens, according to that person's temperament, the town is probably in danger. How can the majesty of a god allow a small town to occupy his destiny for thousands of years?
The rabbit spirit didn't expect that the old man had said so many words to her, and that some secrets seemed to be revealed in his words. She said in a daze: "Great Immortal, what do you mean by these words?"
Old Man Ma, who was interrupted from his thoughts, was a little impatient and waved his hand, "I have finished speaking. It is your business whether you listen or not. If you are really determined to go out, I will not stop you. Good advice. It’s hard to persuade the damned man, but I can still eat rabbit meat when the time comes.”
After hearing this, the rabbit spirit suddenly tensed up, bowed to Old Man Ma, and then walked away.
Old Man Ma continued to smoke his dry cigarette, his thoughts wandering all over the place, and he said to himself: "You are such a dedicated person. Are you really determined to protect this town?"
After Zuo Shuwen helped Xia Chengyi's house put up a new painted door god, he said goodbye and left.
Xia Chengyi looked at Zuo Shuwen's leaving figure. He always felt that this guy was a little weird in recent days, but he couldn't tell what was weird, so he turned to Xia Yao and asked Xia Yao beside him, "Yao Yao, do you think Zuo Shuwen has something weird?" Unspeakable secret?"
Xia Yao was concentrating on fighting with a piece of osmanthus cake in the handkerchief. She was thinking about whether she should eat the last piece. If she ate it now, it would definitely be gone at night. If she didn't eat it, she would be too greedy. Little girl The little face was wrinkled and very tangled.
After Xia Yao heard Xia Chengyi's question, she raised her head and analyzed it seriously: "I think Brother Shu Wen may be a little disappointed because he didn't eat the pastries from Osmanthus Shop."
Xia Chengyi rubbed his eyebrows.
He raised his hand and rubbed Xia Yao's little head, wondering whether to laugh or cry: "Eat, eat, eat. You know eating in your little head. Have you turned the knowledge in books that Mr. Lu taught you into eating?"
Xia Yao looked miserable.
Xia Chengyi finally asked Xia Yao to go back to the room alone to read and complete the homework assigned by Mr. Lu.
Xia Chengyi peeled the last bamboo shoot and threw it into a basket aside. He took out the previously pickled wild boar bacon and placed it on the bamboo pole in the yard. After doing this, the young man started walking as usual. Sun essence and moon essence, this is a set of practice methods figured out by the young man.
The young man walked extremely seriously, walking step by step according to the movements of Master Li in his memory, but there was always a deviation from the movements of Master Li in his memory.
Little did the young man know that this was because he had only learned the similarity in form, but one part of the charm was the most important. Even if there were nine points of similarity in shape but missing this part of the charm, it would be the same as nothing. However, for Xia Chengyi, being able to learn eighty-nine points of the similarities is beyond most people. After all, it is not easy for a young man who doesn't even know what cultivation is to learn the cultivation techniques by following the gourd.
After half a stick of incense, the young man stopped his movements, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and felt refreshed.
In fact, it is not that the young man has never been exposed to the so-called immortal magic. Zuo Shuwen originally wanted to teach Zhong Quan and Xia Chengyi the magic of the celestial being. Who would have thought that one would not bother to learn it, and the other would not be able to learn it well.
Zhong Quan felt that a rare cultivation genius like him must be different from ordinary people. If he practiced this magic, he would be no different from ordinary monks, so the tall young man did not learn anything. Xia Chengyi, on the other hand, knows nothing about introducing Qi into the body. For monks, attracting spiritual energy from heaven and earth is like drinking water and eating for ordinary people. If he can't even practice the most basic state of Qi, how can he talk about his subsequent practice. However, the swarthy young man took this indifferently. Monks have their own way of living, and ordinary people have their own way of living. If you can't practice, then just don't practice.
Seeing that it was getting late, Xia Chengyi moved the split firewood into the kitchen, prepared the required ingredients and started to light a fire for cooking.
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After Zuo Shuwen left Xia Chengyi's house, he took a leisurely stroll on the street. As a result, he was almost hit by a carriage without paying attention. The carriage driver scolded: "You little bastard, you don't have eyesight when you walk? Why don't you get out of the way and get out of the way?" "
Zuo Shuwen rolled his eyes and hurriedly stepped aside to get out of the driveway.
The carriage window revealed a tall man in splendid clothes and a jade belt from outside the small town. After Zuo Shuwen saw the man, his expression suddenly became tense and his whole body trembled slightly.
The tall man smiled and said in a skilled small town dialect: "I am Marquis Jianye of the Xia Kingdom, and I have come here to inspect the small town on the order of the emperor. Oh, by the way, my name is Bai Hao."
After Bai Hao finished speaking, he closed the curtain and ordered the driver to drive towards the county government office. The carriage raised a cloud of dust and passed in front of Zuo Shuwen.
Of course Zuo Shuwen knew the name of this tall man. If it hadn't been for this man, he would not have lost his country and his family, and ended up in this state now. In fact, Zuo Shuwen did not tell Zhong Quan and Xia Chengyi that he was the subjugated prince of the Zheng Kingdom and was not a native resident of the town. If Grandpa Song hadn't sacrificed his life to send the young man out of the palace in the national defense formation, he would have died tragically in the palace like his other brothers and sisters. Before he died, Grandpa Song told him to go to Longquan Town, thousands of miles away, where even people from the Xia Kingdom did not dare to act arbitrarily. In this way, the young man walked thousands of miles alone and arrived at Longquan Town in Xia Kingdom. Zuo Shuwen was only five years old at that time.
At that time, Lu Ran was slightly surprised when he saw the thin young man who looked like a beggar, because he saw that the young man had a faint aura of true dragon attached to him. After some questioning, he learned that Zuo Shuwen was the prince of Zheng, and Zheng Not long ago, the country was destroyed by the Shu Kingdom and its vassal state Xia Kingdom. Zuo Shuwen's father, queen and mother also committed suicide one after another after the city gate was breached. In the battle against Zheng, Bai Hao even reached the eleventh realm of separation and union, and killed several monks in the realm of separation and union. His military exploits can be described as proud. As the first real eleventh realm monk of the Xia Kingdom who also possesses swordsmanship, Xia Kingdom Bai Hao's name has completely spread throughout the Middle-earth Divine Continent, and he has become one of the top ten heroes in the Middle-earth Divine Continent.
Later, Zuo Shuwen heard people in the town talk about how Lord Bai had received a bamboo fan from the emperor and was awarded the title of Marquis of Jianye for his outstanding military exploits.
Zuo Shuwen looked at the carriage going away with a gloomy expression.
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In the carriage, Bai Hao leaned back against the cushions and closed his eyes to meditate. The driver's voice came from outside the carriage, "Sir, why did you tell that young man your identity?"
Bai Hao opened his eyes and remembered the young man he met earlier. His slender fingers, which were more beautiful than ordinary women, were stroking the bamboo fan. He smiled and said, "Tell me why that young man is so hostile to me."
Zuo Shuwen thought he was hiding his well-hidden hostility, but Bai Hao saw through it at a glance.
The coachman pulled the reins of the carriage and said with emotion: "For a man like you, who is less than fifty years old and has already become one of the top ten heroes in the world, it is inevitable to be jealous of others. The young man is not so much hostile to you. It’s jealousy, sir.”
The coachman naturally took Zuo Shuwen's hostility as the result of the boy's jealousy. Who didn't have a scholarly spirit when they were young and could not get away with it without scolding him?
Bai Hao laughed it off and didn't take it seriously.
The coachman continued: "Sir, the county government is just ahead. The county magistrate must have been waiting for a long time."
In front of the county government office in the small town, several old people had been waiting eagerly. One of them, a long-bearded old man, whispered to the young county magistrate wearing a green official robe beside him: "Mr. Zhang, why don't you think the inspection envoy hasn't arrived yet? , it will be sunset soon, could it be that you saw the wrong day?"
The white-faced and long-bearded old man was the ancestor of the Zhao family, one of the three surnames in the town, and the man in green robe he asked was Zhang Yuci, the county magistrate of the town. The young magistrate was also a little anxious at the moment, but he did not show it to the surface. Calming his mind, he said slowly: "Master Bai must have had something happen on the road and was delayed. If Mr. Zhao can't wait any longer, he can go back on his own."
The long-bearded old man cursed in his heart, "You've been asking me to stand here with you for a whole day, and now you're telling me to leave?" If I had just walked away with my front foot, and the patrolman came with my back foot, wouldn't I be at a loss?
Although the ancestor of the Zhao family had complaints in his heart, he still had a smile on his face, smiling like the good grandson of Magistrate Zhang, "What are you talking about? Aren't I afraid that the inspection envoy will be like a pig?"
Before he finished speaking, a lazy voice sounded, "I heard that someone wants to see me?"
