The gentleman sitting at the stone table was making tea. Next to him was a copy of the Hua Dharma Sutra copied by Li Ye.
Opposite the gentleman sat a beautiful woman, wearing a red skirt like Li Hongxiu, with a phoenix embroidered on the skirt. Her long hair was casually draped over her shoulders, tied up only with a white silk scarf.
Looking at Li Ye pushing the door open, a pair of phoenix eyes stared at him closely.
"This is Tang Qiuyu, the uncle of Guan Wushuang, who is also your senior. Come and call for someone." The gentleman looked at him with a smile.
"Senior Li Ye, I didn't know that you and your husband were here, so I didn't prepare for you. Please forgive me." Li Ye bent down and saluted.
When Li Ye approached the husband and raised his head, both the husband and Tang Qiuyu were startled. They stared at Li Ye blankly and were speechless for a long time.
Xiaobai, who was outside the house, heard the movement in the house, whined twice, ran in and lay down at Li Ye's feet, staring blankly at the two strange visitors.
After a while, Mr. took a deep breath, looked at Li Ye and said, "You are practicing so well on the mountain, how come your face is all black and you can't wash it off?"
Tang Qiuyu, who was extremely surprised, pulled Li Ye to sit next to him and took out a silk scarf to wipe Li Ye's sweat.
While saying distressedly: "I didn't expect you to be practicing here alone. It's not easy."
Li Ye looked at his husband, then at Tang Qiuyu, and said with a smile: "After I came here, I was struck by several lightning strikes when I broke through. I didn't escape, and it ended up like this... .It’s okay, after so long, I’m used to it.”
Tang Qiu looked at Li Ye with his mouth wide open, and blurted out: "What kind of situation have you broken? How could there be a thunder disaster?"
The teacher looked at Tang Qiuyu who was in a daze and said: "He is like this. He has been struck by lightning since he was a child. He is used to it. You are Wushuang's uncle. I hope you can keep this secret for Ye'er temporarily after you come down from the mountain."
Tang Qiuyu nodded and looked at Li Ye distressedly. "How much hardship have you endured on Tianshan Mountain? You have nothing to eat even if you stay here in the winter."
"I will eat whatever is on the mountain. I won't be hungry." Li Ye replied softly.
Tang Qiuyu's heart tightened, as Li Hongxiu said, the winter in Tianshan is not something ordinary people can stay in.
"I asked Xiao Qing to take the elixir I gave you last time? Did you have any reaction?" The gentleman poured a cup of tea for Li Ye.
Li Ye looked at Xiao Bai at his feet and said, "Go and call Senior Lao Yuan over and tell him that there will be wine tonight."
Xiaobai looked up at him, howled twice, and ran out.
Tang Qiuyu's eyes lit up and she said with a smile: "You little white wolf can still listen to people. It's amazing."
Li Ye smiled and said: "This guy is too lazy. He is just a foodie and loves to sleep."
"I took the elixir that night. I felt a little uncomfortable after taking it, but it got better later. When I woke up in the morning, I found that it had dropped to five levels. I was fine, but it shocked the old ape and the old wolf, thinking that I had gone crazy. "
Picking up the tea in front of him, Li Ye replied to his husband.
"That's good. As I said before, don't be in a hurry to break through the realm. Only after you have established each realm firmly will you consider breaking through. I've been away from you for more than a year. Tell me what you have practiced."
Li Ye glanced at Tang Chao Qiu Yu and said nothing.
"What level do you have? There is no need to avoid Mr. Tang. In addition, I caught two pheasants on the road. They have been washed and marinated. They can be roasted and eaten at night." The gentleman looked at Li Ye and said.
Li Ye touched his head, lowered his head and thought for a while, looking at Tang Qiuyu who looked curious, hesitant.
After a while, he slowly said: "I haven't practiced anything. I just carved the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" on the stone wall of this cave and practiced swordsmanship in the glacier and cold pool."
"That's all?" The gentleman looked at him with an expression of disbelief.
Seeing his husband like this, Li Ye knew he couldn't hide, so he simply continued: "When I had nothing to do, I made myself a bamboo hat, copied a few volumes of scriptures, and then learned to cut snow in the winter."
Li Ye talked for a while, but when his husband didn't say anything, he continued.
"The copied scripture was left behind by Monk Poxu who practiced here before. He is an old monk from Fangcun Mountain. I heard from the old ape that he has overcome the calamity and left Poxu."
"Oh, you have learned how to cut snow. How many can you cut?" The gentleman became interested.
"When I learned it, I only chopped off one. Later, when I thought I could chop off a few more, the snow was already gone. Also, I haven't learned the Falling Leaf Sword Technique yet."
Li Ye answered the gentleman's question in a low voice.
The gentleman showed a happy smile on his face, looked at Tang Qiuyu's confused look, and shook his head.
He said: "You may not know what cutting snow is. It is to use a wooden sword to cut the falling snowflakes into two pieces. The snowflakes cannot be broken. If you are interested, you can try it in winter."
After the gentleman finished speaking, he turned around and took down Li Ye's bamboo sword from the wooden stand, holding it in his hand and looking at it for a long time.
He raised his head, looked at Li Ye and said: "It's not bad. I can chop off one snowflake in one winter. I should be able to chop off three or more next year. This sword is good. I can see that you are very attentive. I cut the wood for you." Where’s the sword?”
Tang Qiuyu took the purple bamboo sword from his husband, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
"When I came out, I didn't think I wouldn't be able to go back, so I didn't bring the wooden sword with me." Li Ye picked up the cup in front of him and drank all the tea in it.
Tang Qiuyu looked at Li Ye and said, "Take me to the cave where you live. I want to see the scriptures you carved."
She wanted to take a closer look at the scriptures on the stone wall here to see if there were more sword intentions in them.
The husband smiled and said, "Let's go together."
After saying that, he took a stick of rosin from the shelf and lit it. He held it in his hand and stood up.
Li Ye touched his head and thought, what's so interesting about this scripture?
He stood up and walked ahead, taking his husband and Tang Qiuyu into the cave where he lived.
The husband inserted rosin into the lamp holder on the stone wall and looked at the small cave where the entire stone wall was densely covered with scriptures.
Li Ye pointed to the stone platform where he meditated and said: "This used to be the place where Monk Poxu meditated. Originally, there was his back on the stone wall. Later, after I meditated and chanted sutras here, he disappeared."
Li Ye did not say in front of Tang Qiuyu that he had received the ring and inheritance from Po Xu Monk.
While he was talking, Xiaobai's cry came from outside the cave, and Li Ye said quickly: "Sir, you and Mr. Tang are taking a look at this. I'll go greet the senior ape and light the stove to cook the meat." "
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the cave.
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The teacher looked at Tang Qiuyutong who was stroking the scriptures on the stone wall with his hands, but he was thinking about his apprentice's appearance when he was carving the scriptures here.
After a moment, he said: "Did you find anything? I asked him to carve words on the stone wall just to lay a solid foundation for his swordsmanship. I didn't expect that he actually mastered it."
Tang Qiuyu stood quietly under the stone wall, stroking each verse, but felt a shocking wave in her heart.
After a long time, he murmured: "I am comprehending the sword intention engraved in the scriptures. If you don't believe me, come and try it."
The gentleman was startled and said: "When did this kid realize the sword's intention? Didn't he just say it?"
After saying that, he stretched out his hand to touch the scriptures on the stone wall...
In an instant, the cave became quiet, except for the faint breathing of the two people.
After a long time, Tang Qiuyu stopped, looked at his husband and said, "I want to stay here for a few days to carefully understand the meaning of these swords."
For sword practitioners, every opportunity should not be missed. This is the principle of Tang Qiuyu's life.
The gentleman looked at Tang Qiuyu with shock on his face, speechless.
Tang Qiuyu laughed softly, clapped his hands and said, "You never expected that your apprentice had already realized his sword intention at a young age. You didn't teach him sword moves, so these sword moves The meaning can only be his own."
The husband looked at Tang Qiuyu blankly, and then said for a long time: "This boy is full of surprises for me."
Tang Qiuyu no longer looked at the stone wall, but walked outside, saying as he walked: "I feel that there are more than two kinds of sword intent in this scripture. I wonder if you feel it."
The husband followed her and said softly: "Are there two ways? I have an indescribable feeling. I will ask this kid later. Even I will hide it."
When the two returned to the shed, Li Ye had already put the marinated meat on the stove and roasted it. Next to him sat a burly old ape.
Seeing Tang Qiuyu's surprised look, the husband smiled and introduced, "This is Li Ye's old friend, Senior Lao Yuan. Old Yuan, this is my friend Tang Qiuyu, Mr. Tang."
Tang Qiuyu quickly greeted the old ape and said with a smile: "I heard the name of the senior as soon as I entered Tianshan Mountain, and today I finally see his true face."
"No, no, this bad old man like me has only lived a few years longer than you, and you are the rising stars." The old ape stood up and returned the greeting.
The gentleman invited the two of them to sit down. Li Ye, who was looking at the barbecue, said, "Ye'er, Mr. Tang said that there is sword meaning in your scriptures. What's going on?"
The old ape was stunned, looked at Li Ye and said, "When did you realize the sword's intention? Why didn't you tell me."
The husband and Tang Qiuyu were both startled, thinking that this guy even hid it from the old ape who was with him every day.
Li Ye smiled and said: "I don't know. I just used some of the strokes that my husband asked me to carve scriptures on the stone wall and some of the feelings I had when carving scriptures on bamboo leaves to carve scriptures on the stone wall. inside."
The gentleman nodded, looked at him and said, "Go on!"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Later, in the glacier and the pool of the waterfall, I realized that the form of water is all-pervasive and invincible. I call it the sword of water."
"I remembered that the first two seemed to be what my husband said about lifting light as if it were heavy and lifting as light as light. I realized something about it. I plan to wait until the flash flood breaks out in the summer to go to the river to practice a few times before thinking about going down the mountain."
The teacher and Tang Qiuyu looked at each other blankly and murmured: "Lifting as light as heavy, lifting as heavy as light, and Ruoshui sword intention, three sword intentions!"
"No wonder I have an indescribable feeling. It turns out that you have understood the sword intention of water more. Not bad! I want to drink one more drink tonight! Old ape, you also need to drink one more drink!"
Li Ye was stunned, looked at his husband and said, "Sir, do you know Senior Lao Yuan?"
"He didn't tell you that he and Lao Lang came to the wooden house on the mountain to find me a few days ago." The gentleman said with a smile.
Li Ye touched his head and said with a silly smile: "So you have already met, senior, and you didn't even say a word to me when you came back."
The old ape picked up a jar of wine from the ground on the wooden frame, patted it away gently, and smiled: "Is it useful to tell you? Can you tell me what to pay attention to on the top of the mountain?"
The teacher handed the scriptures copied by Li Ye to Tang Qiuyu and said, "I really didn't pay attention just now. I was just attracted by the scriptures. It's really interesting to read it now."
Tang Qiuyu took the scripture and looked at it carefully in his hand. After a while, he closed the scripture and looked at Li Ye and said, "The sword meaning here is better than the poem last time."
"Have you written a poem for Mr. Tang? Haven't you seen him before?" Mr. Tang looked at Tang Qiuyu in confusion.
When Tang Qiuyu saw that her husband had misunderstood, she hurriedly smiled and said: "Didn't you read the poem Li Ye gave me last time in the city lord's mansion? Later, I asked Xiaoqing to ask Li Ye to write a poem for me when he came up. ."
The old ape filled three cups with the wine in the jar, poured half a cup for Li Ye, looked at his husband and said with a smile: "Come and let's drink, so that we can meet each other, and also for the sake of your husband to have a good apprentice." "
Tang Qiuyu sighed, stared into Li Ye's eyes and said, "You kid, you have such a strong heart at such a young age."
Xiaobai, who was lying on the ground, whined with dissatisfaction, urging Li Ye to roast the meat for him.
