On the eve of the winter solstice, Jin Wuming brought Murong Shuyu to the Hongchen Inn.
For the first time, Qin Xiangyu saw carefully and clearly this woman who made people in Chang'an's society change their minds after hearing about it.
Wang Yi put down what he was doing and went to the lobby in front to drink two courses of tea with Jin Wuming.
Qin Xiangyu looked at Jin Wuming and asked, "Where is Meng Xiaodie? Why don't you take her out for a walk?"
Jin Wuming sighed: "Xiaodie dislikes the cold weather and doesn't want to go out...Wang Yi, where is my Xiaoguang? Isn't he always by your side?"
When Wang Yi heard this, he spread his hands and said with a smile: "That boy is no longer under my control now. He became a disciple of an expert on the snow mountain. He must be suffering hardships up there now, right?"
Murong Shuyu sighed and glared at Jin Wuming, thinking to himself, aren't you asking questions knowingly?
Then he looked at Qin Xiangyu and asked, "I saw that the wine shop was closed just now. Could it be that the two seniors went to the snow-capped mountains?"
Qin Xiangyu thought for a while and replied: "They probably think the city is too noisy and want to go to the mountains to spend a few days in peace, right?"
Wang Yi thought for a while and said: "Xiaoguang's character is not very good. It is better to follow the master and cultivate your mind at the same time than to follow you two unreliable guys."
Jin Wuming was speechless when he heard this, thinking that I have no chance to control him?
Murong Shuyu sighed quietly.
Looking at Qin Xiangyu and Wang Yi, he said: "That's good. There is a powerful master in charge of Xiaoguang, so he won't become bad by following the people in the world in Chang'an City."
When Wang Yi heard this, he was not happy. He slapped the table and said, "Are you going around the bush to scold me? Come on, let's settle the accounts, starting from what happened ten years ago."
After he finished, he pointed at Jin Wuming who was dazed beside him and said, "You happen to be here too, so you have to give me a sword, right?"
Although Qin Xiangyu didn't understand what was going on, he couldn't help but giggle.
He looked at Wang Yi and said with a smile: "Looking at your unwillingness, you won't have another ten-year date, right? But in ten years, where can you choose?"
In Qin Xiangyu's view, on a full moon night, the top of the snow-capped mountains is already unbelievable.
Is it possible that the two people in front of them can think of something even more outrageous, and could they cause another storm in Chang'an City?
Wang Yi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It's not impossible to tell the shopkeeper this, just ten years later. This is what you and your wife owe me."
Murong Shuyu didn't say anything when she heard this. Now she has learned to behave a lot and no longer makes decisions for her man.
After all, she and Meng Xiaodie are both Lantian's genuine young ladies.
Jin Wuming frowned slightly and pondered for a long time before replying: "You and I are not enemies of life and death. Is it necessary to keep entangled like this?"
"I'm not pestering you, you owe me your reputation."
Wang Yizheng said seriously: "We don't have to decide life and death, but we have to decide a winner in front of the world. Only in this way can we pull out this thorn in my heart."
Jin Wujue sighed, looked at Qin Xiangyu and said, "In that case, please ask the shopkeeper to choose a place for us. Ten years from now, it will be the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Qin Xiangyu shook his head, looked at the two of them and smiled: "You two are so shameless. You are obviously very competitive, but you still want to drag me in as the referee."
Murong Shuyu also laughed when he heard this: "That's right, they shouldn't give
My sister is causing trouble. "
Just when Qin Xiangyu was about to refuse, an idea suddenly came to his mind and he blurted out: "In front of Weiyang Palace?"
After saying that, she herself was shocked. Although the senior sister had moved to the imperial palace in Dongdu, the old structure of the imperial palace was still preserved in Chang'an City.
Set up a ring in front of the palace where the Empress lived, and have an unprecedented battle. I'm afraid it will shock not just Chang'an City, but the whole world.
As soon as the king heard this, he couldn't help but read: "On a full moon night, in front of Weiyang Palace... I'm afraid this has to be approved by the emperor. Who has such ability?"
After speaking, he glanced at Jin Wuming and Murong Shuyu in front of him. They looked at him and shook their heads.
Jin Wuming smiled bitterly and said: "Don't look at me, I have no friendship with the royal family."
Murong Shuyu smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid it's something that can't be solved with money. Let's find another place. If not, go back to Lantian Villa."
Qin Xiangyu smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. I will go to Luoyang in the spring and ask my senior sister."
So, everyone is on the eve of the winter solstice this year.
In the Hongchen Inn, they made a ten-year agreement again: "On a full moon night, in front of Weiyang Palace."
The difference is that the battle ten years later is no longer a battle of life and death, but a competition that only determines the outcome. Even so, it is destined to be a spectacular event that will shock the world.
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This year's New Year's Eve, neither Li Xiuyuan nor Amu returned to Hongchen Inn, nor to No. 47 Wine Shop.
Like a group of monks in Yuhua Temple, Li Xiuyuan took a dip in the Buddhist scriptures brought back by Sanzang.
Even the old monk from under the snow-capped mountains rarely bothered him.
Both of them have their own
In practice, only when the old monk encounters doubts will he come over to discuss it with Li Xiuyuan.
Qingyu and Gao Yue'er from the mountain took Xiaoguang down to the snow mountain.
Xiaoguang lived in an inn with Wang Yi and Ye Xiaoqian, and only went to the wine shop to read and write during the day.
In Wang Yi's view, this was an incredible thing.
It wasn't until Xiaoguang told him that his master asked him to study for two years before starting to practice, that Wang Yi had to admire the two women's thoughts.
He actually turned Xiao Guang, a stupid young man, into an obedient tiger.
However, Qin Xiangyu thought this was the best. She looked at Xiaoguang and Wang Yi and said, "Even the Queen Empress learned the Tao of Qin first when she was practicing with her master..."
It wasn't until this moment that Wang Yi knew that the Empress of the Tang Dynasty was actually the shopkeeper's senior sister.
Thinking of this, Wang Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "It seems that after ten years, we are really going to have a fight in the palace."
When Xiaoguang heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother, have you made an appointment with that guy Jin Wuming again?"
Wang Yi sighed, touched Xiaoguang's head and said, "After all, he is also your biological father. Now your mother has fulfilled her wish back then. What else do you want?"
Xiaoguang thought for a while and replied: "Unless he can beat you, or beat me in five years."
When Wang heard this, he was stunned and speechless.
Qin Xiangyu smiled, looked at Wang Yi and said, "Don't ask me about this. Everyone has his or her own destiny, don't envy others."
In the winter of this year, Yeyu Tower seemed to have disappeared, no longer appearing in the arena of Chang'an City.
Some people say that the owner of Ye Yu took his men to the beautiful south of the Yangtze River, saying that the winter in the northwest is too bitter and cold.
Lian Wangyi
He and Qin Xiangyu didn't know either, because Wang Yi had never cared about this matter.
Because since Xiaoguang has become a disciple of Gao Yue'er, he doesn't need to worry about this guy's cultivation in the future.
Ye Xiaoqian, on the other hand, spent half of her time practicing with Xiao Guang and Gao Yue'er on the snowy mountains, and half of the time she came back to the inn to accompany Wang Yi and Qin Xiangyu.
Everything seemed like nothing happened.
In the winter of this year, Xiao Yue'er and the others did not return to Chang'an, but shopkeeper Wang returned to Chang'an from the desert.
Therefore, this winter is satisfying and happy for Qin Xiangyu.
Even if the daughter is practicing outside with her master, she will be happy as long as her husband returns home.
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Time flies and flies by in a blink of an eye.
For the old monk in Yuhua Temple, it seems that yesterday he was drinking tea in the Purple Bamboo Garden on the snow-capped mountains. In the blink of an eye, he has been staying in Yuhua Temple for nearly ten years.
And Li Xiuyuan didn't feel the passage of time at all, although he would return to the snow-capped mountains to see the flowers on the mountain and pick a few winter plums.
Fry a pot of spiritual tea and brew a few jars of apricot flower wine.
Even the little light in his eyes grew taller year by year, and his cultivation level had long surpassed that of Wang Yi in the Hongchen Inn.
Even a woman like Ye Xiaoqian, who didn't know what cultivation was, became a female monk next to Gao Yue'er.
Just when Qin Xiangyu was looking forward to the stars and the moon, the old man returned from the desert with Xiaobao and Wang Xiaoyue.
Xiao Yue'er has returned as a graceful young girl, while Xiao Bao has become the most obedient young monk in Qin Xiangyu's eyes.
On the second day after returning, Qin Xiangyu took Xiaoyue'er and Xiaobao to Yuhua Temple to see his godfather.
Pointing at Li Xiuyuan, who was dressed in coarse linen clothes, he said, "Don't think that he only
He is your godfather. He was also Amu in the inn, the uncle Amu who carried you on his back since you were a child. "
Xiaobao kowtowed to his husband three times and said with a smile: "Xiaobao has been gone for many years and I really miss my husband."
When Xiao Yue'er heard this, she immediately held Li Xiuyuan's hand in disbelief and asked, "Then there is another Uncle Ah Jue?"
Li Xiuyuan chuckled: "If you want to see him, ask your mother to take you to Lantian Villa some other time."
Only then did Xiao Yue'er laugh: "Yue'er is practicing hard in the desert, and there is no gift for her godfather."
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly, pointed at Qin Xiangyu and said, "My godfather has saved some money for you over the years and keeps it with your mother. You can take it out tomorrow and split it with Brother Xiaobao."
It has not been easy for the old man to raise two children these years. Li Xiuyuan thought that he would have to give the old man some gold coins some other day.
Xiaoyue'er turned to look at Qin Xiangyu and asked, "So all the godfather's money is in the hands of mother?"
"Bah! He didn't want it himself. He also lied to your mother for many years, making me think that my husband went to the snow mountain to practice. There is an obedient, sensible and free Amu in the inn..."
When Xiaobao heard this, he couldn't help but laugh.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "Sir, what will happen to Xiaobao in the future?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said: "Firstly, I have to ask Yue'er's parents about this matter, and secondly, I have to ask you and Yue'er yourself... Stay in Chang'an City for one year, and then return to the East China Sea next year..."
"I have passed on the magic circle on Penglai Island to you. You can take Yue'er and your parents to live there, or you can return to the Imperial City..."
In just a few words, Li Xiuyuan made arrangements for the future of the two of them.
After all, in his opinion, there is no
Neither Xiaobao nor Wang Xiaoyue are suitable for practicing in the world, because they are too simple and cannot withstand the test of the wind and rain of Chang'an City.
When Qin Xiangyu heard this, he immediately made the decision and said, "I have already told your father about this. She said that as long as Baby Yue'er is willing, we have no objection."
When Xiao Yue'er heard this, her face suddenly turned red with embarrassment.
After a long time, he asked: "What will Master do if we go to the East China Sea? Should we invite him to go with us?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "We can discuss this later. Let's discuss it with our seniors before making a decision."
This matter not only concerns Xiaobao and Xiao Yue'er, but also Qing Yu and Gao Yue'er. Li Xiuyuan needs to consider it carefully.
Qin Xiangyu sighed, looked at Xiaobao and said, "You two have grown up and your wings have hardened. You can't always cause trouble to Master."
Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard this: "She has also suffered a lot outside. Tomorrow, I will divide the money between the two children and let them go shopping."
Qin Xiangyu frowned slightly: "As a godfather, you are more spoiled than me."
Xiaobao smiled naively and said, "Sir, would you like Xiaobao to buy you some delicious food tomorrow?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "You should listen to the words of your two sisters and seniors in the wine shop, and stop hanging out with the guys in the inn, do you understand?"
Qin Xiangyu was unhappy when he heard this. He looked at him and said, "You are teaching a bad child."
This year is the first year of Shangyuan.
In August of this year, Li Zhi was proclaimed emperor and Wu Zetian was proclaimed empress.
In December, Wu Zetian proposed twelve things, which were all adopted by Li Zhi and issued an edict for implementation.
Wu Zetian attached great importance to agricultural production and stipulated that within the prefectures and counties, fields should be cultivated and family property should be cultivated.
Those with surplus grain will be rewarded.
If the government is harsh and abusive, those who have their household registration transferred will be punished.
The agricultural book "Zhaorenbenye" compiled by her was published all over the world and had a great influence. From the beginning of Wu Zetian's reign, Buddhism was respected.
