Master Zhao laughed loudly and said, "Are you from the Dugu family in Dongting? I only know that Dugu has a granddaughter, but I haven't heard that there is a boy."
Jiang Shuo clawed and kicked in the air, trying to break free, but the old man's support was pressing on the Zhongwan point of Jiang Shuo's Ren meridian. The Zhongwan point is four inches above the navel and is one of the eight meeting points, one of the six fu organs. When he touched the acupuncture point, Jiang Shuo felt his stomach churning, and then he felt that his limbs were limp and weak. Although he was using his hands and feet, he could not reach Master Zhao's body.
Master Zhao held Jiang Shuo with one hand but it was as if nothing happened. He smiled and said, "Answer my questions well and I will let you down."
Seeing that he couldn't get away, Jiang Shuo could only say: "I am not a boy from the Dugu family, and I have never been to Dongting."
Master Zhao said: "That's strange. This star-crossing step is a unique skill of the Dugu family in Dongting. It is never taught to outsiders. Since you say you are not from the Dugu family, how can you learn his unique skill?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Xiang'er taught me this Star Step. I only know it's fun, but I don't know what kind of unique skill it is."
Master Zhao slowly put down his hand. Strangely enough, Jiang Shuo seemed to be glued to his hand. Along with his palm, he slowly moved from lying down to standing upright without falling. It wasn't until his feet landed on the ground that Master Zhao stopped. Jin withdrew his palm and said, "What's your name? How old is the granddaughter of the Dugu family, so she can accept a disciple? Dugu asked that old scholar son-in-law, does he know?"
Jiang Shuo thought to himself that Xiang'er's grandfather was called Dugu Wen, which was a strangely tight name, but he replied: "My surname is Jiang Shuo. Mine, she doesn't know."
Master Zhao covered his hands and laughed and said, "It turns out that Xiao Nizi from the Dugu family is choosing a son-in-law for me, so I'd rather follow her mother-in-law."
Although Jiang Shuo was only a teenager, his son-in-law still understood it well and couldn't help but said with a hot face: "No, no, we call it 'little sweethearts guessing'."
Master Zhao said: "Hey, do you know Li Bai's poem? Do you know the last sentence of 'Living together in Changganli, the two little ones guessed'."
Jiang Shuo's skill in memorizing poems was outstanding, and he immediately blurted out: "She is a gentleman's wife at the age of fourteen, and her face has not yet opened with shame."
Master Zhao asked: "Brother, how expensive is Geng this year?"
Only then did Jiang Shuo realize that this sentence was inappropriate. He originally wanted to use "Liang Xiaowu Guess" to show that the two of them had no romantic feelings, but the last two sentences of this poem confirmed Master Zhao's words of "choosing a son-in-law". His face immediately turned red to the roots of his ears.
Seeing Master Zhao laughing so hard, Jiang Shuo exclaimed, "Old Master, you are already a very old man, how can you be so disrespectful to your elders?"
Master Zhao laughed a few more times before he stopped and said seriously: "Li Taibai's "Changgan Xing" is widely sung in Jinling, but in Xunyang County, few people hear it. Little brother, you have learned a lot and can remember it well. I know this poem."
Jiang Shuo was surprised and said, "Which Xunyang?"
Master Zhao was also surprised and said: "You are not a local? Where else in Xunyang? Xunyang County on the edge of Pengli Ze." Seeing that Jiang Shuo was still in a daze, he added: "During the Kaiyuan period It's called Jiangzhou, and it was changed to Xunyang County in the first year of Tianbao."
Jiang Shuo thought to himself: Xixi Villa is in Jianhu Lake, Yuezhou. Yuezhou is adjacent to the East China Sea, and Xunyang is the starting point of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The distance between the two places is probably more than a thousand miles, and the old horse actually carried him all day and night. After traveling a thousand miles, and on the continuous mountain road in western Zhejiang, he heard Pu Guhuaien say that this old horse is a Pegasus that can travel thousands of miles a day. He didn't believe it before, but now he knows that this statement is true.
Master Zhao saw him in a daze and asked, "You are not from here. Why are you here alone? Where are the adults at home?"
Hearing this, Jiang Shuo couldn't help but shed tears and said, "I am an orphan."
Master Zhao said: "Nonsense, how can an orphan grow so big alone? Have such good clothes to wear? And this mount with yellow hay and a jade top?"
Jiang Shuo said: "I haven't finished yet. I was originally an orphan. I was later adopted as a book boy by Mr. Taibai. My name was given to me by Secretary He Zhizhang He Jian..."
Master Zhao interrupted him and said: "Slow down, slow down, which one is too white?"
Jiang Shuo said proudly: "That's the Qinglian layman, Li Bai from Shu, whose pseudonym is Taibai."
Master Zhao said: "Since you are an orphan, why did you become Taibai's schoolboy?"
When Jiang Shuo saw him asking for details, he acted like he would not let him go without explaining, but he couldn't escape him, so he had to tell the whole story of how he was picked up by Wu Yun and how he became Li Bai's scholar.
Master Zhao twisted his beard and said, "There are still such coincidences in the world."
Jiang Shuo wondered: "Coincidence?"
Master Zhao said, "Who do you know I am?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Master Zhao...you said it yourself...didn't you?"
Master Zhao said: "My surname is Zhao Mingrui, my nickname is Dongyanzi. I have been studying and studying for more than seventy years. Isn't it an exaggeration to call me Master Zhao?"
Hearing this, Jiang Shuo quickly called him "Master" and knelt down to kowtow. It turned out that Li Bai once worshiped Zhao Rui as his teacher and studied at Daitian Dakuang Mountain in Sichuan. Although Li Bai left the country with a sword at the age of twenty-five and never returned to Shu, he never forgot this magical study experience in his youth, and naturally he told Jiang Shuo many anecdotes about it.
Zhao Rui smiled and helped Jiang Shuo up. Jiang Shuo immediately thought of something Li Bai had said to him and blurted out: "Master, Mr. Taibai said you can sing birds?"
Zhao Rui laughed loudly and said: "Master Zhao, I am proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I am best at the art of emperor, vertical and horizontal, and the art of controlling beasts is only inferior. You are only interested in the song of birds?"
Jiang Shuo hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Master, that's not what I meant, but..." He is just a child after all. He doesn't know anything about the art of emperors and the way of verticality. He still feels in his heart that there are many people in the world who are good at chess, calligraphy and painting. But I have never heard of anyone having the ability to talk to birds.
Zhao Rui said: "If you want to see what's new, it's not difficult at all. It's just that it's late at night and hundreds of birds are returning to their nests. I'm afraid you won't be able to summon them."
Jiang Shuo felt disappointed when he heard this. Zhao Rui saw his disappointed look and said with a smile: "Actually, I understand the truth. Everything can be driven, and there is no need to have birds."
Jiang Shuo looked at him in confusion, but he saw Zhao Rui making a "puff" sound with his lips. The old horse was facing him, and he turned his head when he heard the sound. It turned out that the horse has two eyes on both sides, which can see people. When he needed to turn his head sideways, the old horse snorted and called out twice, Zhao Rui also made a similar sound, one man and one horse making long or short "whoops". As if they were having a conversation, Zhao Rui suddenly let out a long whistle, and the old horse roared in response, and suddenly started galloping. The horse was so handsome, and disappeared into the dusk in a moment, Jiang Shuo. Seeing this, he was very anxious and shouted: "Why did the old horse run away? Hurry up and run after him." He decided to go to Gyeonggi to look for Li Bai. Naturally, he would return the horse to He Jian by then. Now that the horse has been lost, what will happen? Not urgent.
Jiang Shuo was about to chase after him, but Zhao Rui grabbed his wrist and said, "Don't worry, little boy, I'll call him back again." After speaking, he twisted his tongue and uttered a "goodbye" sound. He had profound internal energy and could not speak very loudly. High, but it spread far away, and for a moment I heard the sound of horse hooves, and the old horse broke through the dusk and came back.
Jiang Shuo clapped his hands and said hello, and Zhao Rui said: "What is this? How can you say it well?" He raised his neck and made a sound of "lulu", and the old horse ran around them in a circle. He pursed his lips and vibrated his lips again. To the sound of "pengpeng", the old horse actually follows the rhythm, raising its head and hooves, advancing or retreating, jumping or circling, just like dancing. Jiang Shuo couldn't help but applaud and applaud when he saw it.
Zhao Rui then said "Uuu", and the old horse immediately stopped dancing and stood there humming, looking very comfortable. Zhao Rui laughed and said: "Zhang said that there is a poem about horse dancing that says, 'The holy king comes out to answer the urn, and the divine horse floats on the river to present the picture; he steps on the heaven to encourage, and his heart hesitates to the emperor's music.'" It is said that the royal horse in the palace can perform horse dance. When I see it today, I will know it is true."
Jiang Shuo's eyes widened and he said, "Didn't you make it dance? If you don't know that the old horse can dance, how can you control it?"
Zhao Rui said: "I am not an imperial envoy, I am not a warrior, and I don't know how to tame a horse."
Jiang Shuo said: "Then you were both Lulu and Pengpeng just now, but what were you doing?"
Zhao Rui said: "I just asked the old horse what you know. The old horse said he was good at galloping. I said you run for a while and let me see, and it started running on its own. I said it was too far, come back quickly, and it turned around. We ran in circles so that we could see clearly, and I asked you what else could you do? The old horse asked me to give him a rhythm, and he started dancing on his own."
Jiang Shuo's admiration arose spontaneously, and he said happily: "Master, do you know how to speak horse language? It's so magical, can you teach me?"
Zhao Rui smiled, glanced at him sideways, and said, "Is this how you learned the Star Step from Xiao Nizi of the Dugu family?"
Jiang Shuo felt ashamed when he heard this and didn't know what to say.
Zhao Rui said: "Okay, farewell Master, Master, you should call me Master Zhao. I can teach you anything. I am old, should I take it all into the coffin? But I am not in a hurry at this moment. Tell me how you got separated from Taibai and why you are crying here."
It was getting dark, so Jiang Shuo went to pick up some stones to surround a small stone stove, piled them with dead branches and leaves, and lit a small bonfire. This was all the work he was used to doing as a child, so he was quick with his hands and feet, and he was ready in a short time. He then tied up the horse and donkey, found two large flat stones beside the fire, wiped them with withered grass, and asked Zhao Rui to sit down first, and then he sat down and began to talk.
Jiang Shuo was feeling miserable and had no one to talk to. Now that he has met his relatives, he will see how he fell into the Han River and slayed a dragon, how he was fed the Black Dragon Pill by Cheng Ang, how he woke up in Xixi Villa, and how he was promoted as the leader of the Five Lakes Young League. , how Master Ge found out that he had swallowed the black dragon inner elixir and wanted to kill him to get the elixir, how Mrs. Achu came to his rescue, and finally how he got on the old horse and traveled thousands of miles all night and day to get here, the bamboo tube was like beans. Say it will come out.
There were only two things left unsaid. One was that he had taken the White Dragon Pill before taking the Black Dragon Pill, and the other was that Li Yong mistakenly believed that Renyan sent people to massacre four hundred Japanese. He did not intentionally conceal the former, but he felt that it had nothing to do with what happened later, so he did not tell it; the latter was because he knew that the matter was of great importance and did not dare to reveal it casually. He only said that the Japanese came to seek revenge on Li Yong for some unknown reason. Fortunately, Zhao Rui did not ask any questions.
He had an excellent memory and was very articulate. He talked about everything in detail. Zhao Rui did not interrupt to ask questions, but listened attentively while twirling his beard. Jiang Shuo spoke eloquently for more than an hour before he finished.
Zhao Rui took a water bag from the donkey he was riding on and handed it to him. He smiled and said, "Shuo'er, you became a bandit leader at a young age. It's disrespectful and disrespectful."
