Zhang Liang was beyond his expectation and laughed loudly: "Senior, you will like my brother when you hear it. Do you know what kind of name he gave the wine shop?"
The old man said: "What's your name?"
Zhang Liang nodded and replied: "Come on, he said, come on, let's have a bowl of wine and laugh at Zhang Liang being bullied."
Amidst the bitter laughter, Zhang Liang spent a while nagging the old man about the fact that he was rejected when he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion, as well as the previous encounter with Li Xiuyuan.
There was a trace of surprise on the old man's face, and he laughed loudly: "Come and have a bowl of wine, and watch Zhang Liang being bullied. He is an interesting guy. I want to meet him."
"Junior wants him to teach me how to gather energy."
Zhang Liang sighed and said, "Senior, you won't object, right? I promise I won't become an assassin."
The old man shook his head, looked into his eyes and said, "I have thought about this matter myself. Don't think too much until your fate is over."
Zhang Liangzhong lamented secretly. He naturally understood that the old man in front of him was also a strange person, otherwise he would not have taught him the art of war.
But there was always a trace of unwillingness spreading in my heart. After pondering for a moment, he said resolutely: "Let's go to No. 47 tomorrow to see if the black bean wine we brewed is ready to drink."
"Wine, meat and stories are what the old man likes."
The old man hesitated for a moment, looked at Lao Liang and said, "There are some things I need to understand so that I can safely let you embark on the path of spiritual practice."
In the old man's opinion, it was not appropriate for Zhang Liang to embark on the path of spiritual practice before he experienced calamity.
However, he only kept this matter in his mind and would not tell Zhang Liangming.
Just as the two were getting excited about chatting, the butler came in and asked, "Master, can we serve dinner now."
Zhang Liang put away the plain silk and iron sword on the table and replied: "It's rare for senior to come back, so I'll have one more drink tonight."
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There are still a few days until New Year's Eve. Li Xiuyuan took Xiao Hei and the two of them to buy some clothes, and exchanged two gold coins for them. In order not to arouse others' concern, he only exchanged two gold coins.
Even this was enough for him and Xiao Hei to spend a long time.
The two went to the market to buy New Year's goods. Xiao Hei was greedy and bought a lot of different snacks. Li Xiuyuan laughed at him and said that he was afraid that he would be enough to eat for a month.
Xiao Hei shook his head: "Maybe brother Zhang Liang will want to come over and join us, and he can eat it too."
Li Xiuyuan thought about it. He was careless and forgot about his creditor.
In his opinion, maybe when spring blooms and Xiao Hei goes to school, he can provide Zhang Liang with a bucket of potion to temper his body.
Qi gathering practice, for him and Xiao Hei, was just a matter of raising a hand.
It was only because the old Taoist priest warned him not to destroy the balance of this world and not to change the outcome of all events that he had to be careful again and again.
The two of them walked through the thick snow and looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street. Li Xiuyuan thought that the New Year was approaching, and even people staying at home had to go out to buy new year's goods.
He hadn't seen Zhang Liang for a few days, and he didn't know if the guy had completed the procedures for selling wine.
After spring, Xiao Hei can't go to the academy to study with the teacher and just sit in a daze by himself in the courtyard, right?
It would be better to leave Xiao Hei to Zhang Liang and travel around by himself.
With Yu Xiaohei's ability, even if he doesn't cause trouble, self-protection is not a problem. He won't cause any trouble in the academy, right?
He was thinking about it, but when he raised his head, he returned to the door of his house.
There were two people standing outside the closed door. One of them was Zhang Liang, but the other old man looked strange to Li Xiuyuan.
Xiao Hei shouted from a distance: "Brother Zhang Liang, why are you here?"
Zhang Liang looked at the two of them and smiled and said, "I'm here to see if the wine is good. This is the senior of my family. I also want to try the wine made by my eldest brother."
For some reason, Zhang Liang did not reveal the identity of the old man.
Fortunately, Li Xiuyuan didn't care about these details. Those who came were all guests, but they didn't necessarily have to have any fate with him.
From now on, Xianlai Restaurant will be an open dojo, and anyone can come.
So he pulled Xiao Hei forward to salute the old man. Although the old man saw the two men from a distance, up close he saw that although the two brothers were wearing coarse clothes, they behaved in a courteous manner.
Feeling good in his heart, he returned the favor with a smile, and the group entered the shop and headed to the backyard.
Xiao Hei was a well-behaved person. He didn't enter the living room in the yard until the door of the shop was closed, and he took out the snacks he just bought and put them on the table.
He looked at Zhang Liang and said with a smile: "Brother said I couldn't finish the meal, but I said there is still brother Zhang Liang."
Zhang Liang was stunned, looked at Li Xiuyuan and blurted out: "You sold alcohol? Otherwise, where did the money come from?"
In his memory, he didn't seem to have given Li Xiuyuan too many copper coins. Even if he had given them, they wouldn't have been enough for the new year's goods they bought today.
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "We'll talk about this later. Xiao Hei will make a pot of charcoal fire and I'll make tea."
After some pleasantries, Li Xiuyuan lit the small stove on the table and prepared to make tea for the guests.
Standing outside the door, he did not look at the old man carefully. It was not until he entered the living room and sat down that he realized that the old man in front of him was not a simple man. He turned out to be an unborn monk.
This was out of his knowledge of Great Qin. When did this world have great monks?
On the contrary, the old man was stunned when he saw Li Xiuyuan's watertight appearance.
Because no matter how he looked at it, the two brothers in front of him did not look like practitioners with special skills. In his opinion, either Li Xiuyuan and Xiao Hei were ordinary people.
Or it was beyond the scope of his cognition. Thinking of this, the old man was startled.
I couldn't help but ask: "I wonder where you two are from?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned. He didn't expect that the old man would ask about the origins of himself and Xiao Hei when they met.
Without thinking about it at the moment, he poured hot tea into the old man’s cup and said with a smile: “Of course I came from where I came from!”
Zhang Liang and Xiao Hei were both stunned. Xiao Hei thought about it and finally couldn't help laughing.
In his opinion, his brother's reply was the real answer, but the origins of the two of them could not be told even to death, so they naturally came from where they came from.
Looking at Xiao Hei's appearance, Zhang Liang couldn't help but stroke his head and said with a smile: "Xiao Hei, tell me, did your brother lie to me?"
Xiao Hei shook his head: "Brother Zhang Liang, what is there to lie to?"
After following Li Xiuyuan for so many years, Xiao Hei has also learned a lot. How could Zhang Liang fool him?
The old man didn't take it seriously. He looked at the three people stroking their beards and sighed: "What a place from where they came from. It seems that the two of them are also people with stories. They will definitely not harm my disciple."
Li Xiuyuan was startled when he heard this, looked at Lao Liang and asked: "It turns out he is your teacher, disrespectful, disrespectful."
The old man shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not the case. After all, Zhang Liang and I just met on the roadside. In the end, we are not masters and disciples."
When Zhang Liang heard this, he immediately said to Li Xiuyuan with a grimace: "Senior just taught me some knowledge, but refused to teach me how to practice."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled lightly: "Senior is afraid that you will bleed five steps and enter reincarnation early."
Zhang Liang was dumbfounded when he heard this. He couldn't help but look at the old man and said, "Senior, why do you two have the same thoughts? Are you afraid that I can't think about it?"
The old man looked at him and said seriously: "The emperor's wrath will bleed for thousands of miles. The commoner's wrath will bleed for five steps. Your destiny is not for the world."
Li Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, he reached out and patted Zhang Liang's shoulder and said: "What the seniors said is reasonable and worthy of your careful consideration. Sometimes taking a step back is not a bad thing."
Xiao Hei shook his head, not understanding what the two were talking about.
Instead, he looked at Zhang Liang and asked: "Brother Zhang Liang, are you going to take me to study in the academy in the spring?"
Zhang Liang looked at Xiao Hei and sighed, and said leisurely: "Not to mention you, even I have to go."
Xiao Hei nodded and said with a smile: "Then Xiao Hei can play again, don't worry."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two and shook his head, thinking that one didn't want to study and the other wanted to practice martial arts. There really were no two identical leaves in this world, let alone two people with the same temper.
"Teacher, you have been chatting for a long time, but you haven't said when you can teach me how to practice? At least let me make the sword I want?!"
The old man was stunned, thinking that it was rare for you to lose your temper like a child, and he couldn't help but laugh.
He said solemnly: "I told you before that you are going to face a disaster. I will wait until you get over it before talking about it. Your mood is too impetuous."
"Is it that serious?" Zhang Liang said with a grimace: "Am I in danger? Will I die?"
The old man smiled lightly: "I didn't know, that is your life, not mine."
Zhang Liang was angry: "You are trying to scare me." After that, he looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Brother, can you help me?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied: "It's not impossible, let's wait until spring."
When Zhang Liang heard this, thinking about what the old man said before, he couldn't help but doubt Li Xiuyuan's answer.
So he stepped forward and asked, "Teacher, he called me a pig. You won't fool me too, right?"
"You are indeed a pig." Li Xiuyuan frowned slightly, thought for a moment and replied: "Since your teacher said you have to wait, why are you still so impatient? Is killing someone really important to you?"
When the old man heard this, he sighed softly.
Quietly looking at Li Xiuyuan in front of him, there was a hint of approval in his heart. This was exactly what he wanted to say. He didn't expect that he would meet his soulmate.
To him, this was a wonderful thing worth drinking a glass of wine.
The old man held the hot tea in his hand and drank half the cup carefully. After a while, he said: "I didn't expect that sir, what the old man thought was the same. It's interesting. I can have a glass of wine today."
When Zhang Liang heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother, is the wine you made ready to drink?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard this, looked at the two of them and replied calmly: "Wine, water, you can drink it whenever you want, just like the hatred in your heart is burning all the time."
Xiao Hei touched his stomach and said, "I'm hungry."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Liang and asked, "Can you cook?"
Zhang Liang shook his head.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, stood up and walked out of the living room. As he walked, he said, "One day, if you are alone in the wilderness, will you starve to death?"
Xiao Hei followed Li Xiuyuan out the door, turned around and made a face at Zhang Liang.
The old man sighed and said quietly: "Zhang Liang, you have a lot to learn."
Just as Li Xiuyuan said, if the Zhang Liang in front of him was really alone in the wasteland, he would probably starve to death.
In the kitchen, Xiao Hei squatted in front of the stove and asked nervously: "Brother, that old man is not simple."
Li Xiuyuan touched his head and smiled: "Is there any master who is powerful? Is there any great elder who is fierce?"
Xiao Hei shook his head gently. In his heart, his master and brother were the most powerful.
Li Xiuyuan laughed while chopping firewood: "You even dare to steal the great elder's divine water and drink it. Are you still afraid of an old man in this world?"
Xiao Hei laughed when he heard it: "Xiao Hei is not afraid of him, but is afraid that he will dig a hole for his brother."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said quietly: "As long as we don't provoke useless fate, no one in this world can dig holes for us."
"As for what Zhang Liang wants to practice, that will have to wait, because he still has a calamity left."
Thinking about what the old man said and the books the old Taoist priest threw to him, Li Xiuyuan sighed.
He looked at Xiao Hei and said, "You and I are just here to take a look."
