In the middle of the night, Ye Xieyou bought a carriage and stayed overnight in Xiaoxing. Three or two days later, on the 15th, there was a sudden heavy snowfall, so they stayed in Dancheng, not far from Dongting.
Ice and snowflakes were still falling on this day, which made the vast white city look beautiful. However, there were only a few pedestrians on the road, and the atmosphere of laughter that should have been lost during the Yuan Festival. Even the two siblings stayed there. The main street of Fangshi next to the inn also has few shops open.
In the inn room, in the middle of the night, with the charcoal fire burning in the stove, he suddenly said: "Sister, I plan to go directly to Wudang."
Ye Xiayou naturally couldn't guess what Ye San was thinking at this time, and asked: "What do you think?"
"I'll avenge you for Bo Jinhou." Ye Sangen joked, "I don't dare to watch a weak woman like my sister try to steal the limelight."
"You bastard." Ye Xia smiled, "What I said that day was just angry words. Don't take it to heart."
"Sister, like an old monk, she woke me up with a warning. I must keep these words in mind."
"You're an old monk!" My sister was slightly angry, then she picked up a white porcelain tea cup and threw it at her.
Ye Sangen raised his hand to catch it, put away his joking expression, and said, "I can't let you be angry with those old noses."
"Why are you so angry? Those Taoist priests who meditate and chant sutras and keep the precepts and rules all day long can still eat me." My sister sighed and continued, "Let's not talk about this anymore. You took me out to Xibo back then. Da Mo once said, take one step at a time, no matter whether you stay or go tomorrow. Right now, you just have to take one step at a time, regardless of the path under your feet."
In the middle of the night, I didn't say anything, I turned my head and looked out the window, and I saw that the spring season was about to hit, which made the snowy scene a little cooler for no reason, and the few pedestrians on the road also shrank their heads and walked in a hurry.
At the end of the road walked a man who was dressed inconsistently with the people around him. He was wearing a thick felt hat, and the brim of the hat on both sides covered most of the man's face, so that others could not see his appearance clearly. He was wearing a gray cotton-padded jacket that had not been washed for a long time and looked a little dirty. He wore a vest made of some unknown beast's fur. He was probably wearing it for a long time, and the hair had fallen out in some places, and it was sticky in some places. Into pieces. At his waist was a scimitar that was common outside the customs. As he walked, it swayed and hit the skull of an unknown beast the size of a fist hanging next to it, making a clanging sound. On his feet, a pair of over-the-knee boots stepped into the snow and fell to the ground, making a nice crunching sound.
Of course, in the middle of the night, he wouldn't care about this traveler whose clothes were inconsistent with the hinterland of the Zhou Dynasty. He looked like an outsider, but what caught his attention was the bird that kept hovering more than four or five feet above the man's head. As he got closer, it was only in the middle of the night that he saw clearly that it was a snow-white gyrfalcon. It was small but very handsome.
Perhaps it was unclear who the two people were with their hands in their sleeves and the brim of their hat covering their faces. Seeing the Gyrfalcon, Ye San Geng could guess the identity of this person pretty well.
"What are you thinking about?" Ye Xiayou couldn't help but ask after not hearing his brother's voice for a long time.
"I saw a person." Ye Sangeng said thoughtfully, "A person who shouldn't be here."
Ye Xiayou turned to face his younger brother and asked doubtfully, "Have you met any old friends again?"
"Haitongqing."
My sister was stunned.
Carved out of Liaodong, the most handsome one is called Haidongqing.
This sentence, which was spread throughout the world during the Great Zhou Dynasty, was talking about the eagle that only appeared out of the 100,000 condors outside the Pass, and it was also talking about a person.
I don't know whether this person is handsome or not, but I know him well. When I joined the WTO, I traveled through Shanhaiguan, a place where tigers had dominated the customs for more than a hundred years. The one I heard the most about was "Haidongqing".
Hai Dongqing is a bandit who commits all kinds of crimes including robbing and robbing families, but his targets are limited to those rich and wealthy. His business of robbing the rich and giving to the poor has earned him a reputation as a thieves outside the customs. When he was young, he single-handedly and with a machete shocked the Andong Protectorate outside the Pass. When he got older, he occupied a hilltop near Zhendong Zhongdu, gathered people and camped there, and lived the life of a local bully.
It's just that this little old man spans half of the mountains and rivers of the Zhou Dynasty. What is he doing here on the edge of the river?
Ye San couldn't figure it out, and her sister certainly didn't understand it even more.
The two siblings were silent, but they saw Hai Dongqing, whose identity was guessed in the middle of the night, shake his shoulders, and the snow-white gyrfalcon hovering in the sky swooped down and firmly grabbed Hai Dongqing's shoulder with its claws, and then Hai Dongqing shook his head. Wandering into this inn, he frowned in the middle of the night.
Not long after, there was a knock on the door, which made Ye San Geng's brows furrow deeper, and a pair of sharp eyebrows seemed to stand up, showing the idea that he was least willing to accept.
"Two guests, a gentleman from outside said that they are two friends and would like to meet you."
The waiter's words also made her sister frown, and Ye Xiayou also thought of the only possibility.
Unable to hear the sound in the room, the waiter asked again, but before he could finish speaking, Hai Dongqing stepped aside and squeezed aside.
Taking out his hand from his sleeve, Hai Dongqing banged the door a few times. The rustling of the door made the waiter feel pain in his body. He was afraid that the dark-faced and bearded old man might destroy the door with just a few more powerful blows. It can be removed.
"Young Master Ye San, I know you are inside, and all my little whites are watching." Hai Dongqing's voice was loud, which quite resembled the rough temperament of these outsiders.
Ye San didn't even know what his Xiaobai was. He felt two dagger-like eyes outside the window and turned around to see the snow-white gyrfalcon. Ye San even felt that the steel claw Hai Dongqing gave him could tear the black blind man alive and his sharp beak could peck it. Isn't the name given to the yellow-skinned raptor a bit too random?
Ye San Geng opened the door. Hai Dongqing, who was a head taller than him, put his hands in his sleeves and laughed, "How are you, Master Ye San?" Without Ye San Geng, Hai Dongqing turned sideways and lowered his head and squeezed into the room. , seeing Ye Xieyou sitting there, he grinned and said hello with a smile: "Hello, Miss Ye Er."
Regarding Hai Dongqing, who was familiar to him, Ye San was even more certain that he had never met or interacted with him in the slightest before. This man did not regard himself as an outsider. He entered the room and glanced around, then said, "This place is not good. The third young master and the second young lady are wronged here." When he turned to look at the third watch of the night, he found that the waiter who had brought him here was still there. Standing at the door, he immediately said impatiently: "Why are you still standing here? The money I just gave you is too little!"
The waiter in the shop was annoyed, seeing that even though this big guy looked old, he was afraid that his small body would not be able to resist him, so he did not dare to contradict him, so he turned around and left in a sullen manner.
Hai Dongqing was not polite. He walked to the stove and knelt down. He held the stove and warmed his hands. He pinched his ears from time to time and asked, "Do the third young master and the second young lady know me?"
Without waiting for the two siblings on the opposite side to reply, he said to himself: "I am Hai Dongqing, from outside the customs."
Ye Sangen and her sister had no intention of talking to him, at least until they knew his purpose, Ye Sangen did not want or want to say another word to him.
Hai Dongqing blew a loud whistle towards the gyrfalcon that was holding on to the window lattice. The king of eagles, called Misty White, fluttered its wings and flew away. The force of its steel claws broke the window lattice it had just grabbed. next paragraph.
"Do you understand this thing, Third Young Master? What do you think of my eagle? Back then, I endured the eagle for seven days. I didn't close my eyes for seven whole days and nights, just fighting with this thing."
Hai Dongqing's display did not arouse the interest of Ye Sangeng, who was secretly guarding against him, but it whetted the appetite of his sister who would not have any unnecessary worries even if the sky fell. Ye Xie said: "I heard that training an eagle is hard, and training an eagle is the hardest among all eagles, and training the most beautiful eagle, the most beautiful sea eagle, is even more miserable. Throughout the ages, there are only records of the most beautiful sea eagle, the most beautiful sea eagle. Yes, even if he succeeds, he will suffer from physical and mental exhaustion and a serious illness. In the mild case, he will have to rest for a few months, and in the severe case, he will lose half his life. Senior Hai has to endure the eagle for seven days, which is probably not a short time."
Hai Dongqing found a common topic with the girl he didn't care much about at first, and he immediately became interested, "Miss Yeer, have you studied this thing?"
Ye Haoyou was noncommittal, as if he was thinking that he knew a little bit about all the stuff in the world. If he compared it with those who specialized in studying, there would definitely be a big gap, but he still knew a little bit about it. "I can't talk about research. I read this kind of classics when I was young. Compared with Senior Hai, it's just superficial."
Haidong Qing was so proud that he moved his body, his hands closer to his cotton sleeves, and his elbows closer to his legs. It seemed that the room, which was already very warm compared to the outside, seemed very cold. He was an old man in the fields, and he didn't have any of the master's demeanor that made him famous outside the country. He said: "Miss Ye Er doesn't know something. There is something special about training eagles. You don't need to say anything about choosing an eagle. If you don't have good eyesight, Price, not to mention that I can’t tell the difference between a falcon and an eagle, maybe the cat owl can be regarded as a gyrfalcon.”
"As far as I remember, Haidongqing has many names, such as autumn yellow, wave yellow, three-year dragon, six-year phoenix, unicorn pillar, and foggy white. Among them, jade claw gold is the best, let alone the ten. There is only one eagle in ten thousand eagles, and probably only a few in 100,000 in eagles. This is a rare eagle that can only be encountered. I once saw it in a document However, it is said that more than a hundred years ago, a tribe in Dameng outside the Guan Dynasty got a Jade Claw Gold by chance. At first, I didn't expect it to be such a precious species. I just treated it as a Wulibai that is quite similar to the Jade Claw Gold. , but this Jade Claw Gold has an extremely arrogant temperament, and even after two men died, he did not slack off at all."
Ye Hao's eloquent talk greatly increased Hai Dongqing's interest. He took out a pipe rod from his arms and wanted to put it on the stove, but when he saw Ye Hao, he gave up and just put the pipe pot under his nose. He took a sip and said: "Miss Ye Er knows a lot. How can this Jade Claw Gold be so easy to tame? It is said that this Jade Claw Gold is psychic. The person it likes doesn't have to endure it. If you throw a piece of meat, it will follow." Let’s go, it’s not happy. Let alone two men, it won’t obey even if it kills itself. Although my misty white is not as handsome as the Jade Claw Golden God, it’s still about the same. It can hunt rabbits and deer. As for swooping, even if it is a hundred miles high in the sky, a deer deer marten in the snow cannot escape its eyes."
When he mentioned the foggy white that had been with him for several years, Haidong's green eyebrows danced, and he whistled again. The condor, which kept circling outside and was named "Xiaobai" by its owner, dived and flew quickly. Coming into the house, Hai Dongqing raised his hand and clenched his fist. In the middle of the night, I could clearly feel the energy flowing around the half-hundred-year-old man's body flowing towards his arms, and saw the eight-fingered steel claws of the condor firmly embedded in the master's arm like hooks.
Ye Xie heard the fluttering of bird wings and guessed it was the white foggy bird in Haidong Qingkou that he was quite proud of. He said: "It's just a pity that the little girl is blind and has no chance to see the majestic eagle of Senior Hai."
Hai Dongqing chuckled, caressed the white feather in the mist like a sharp blade, and said: "Speaking of which, Third Young Master, listen to my advice from the half-grown old man who has half of his body in the coffin, Second Young Lady. Since this is the case, why not take her home as soon as possible to enjoy the blessings. You are a man's family, no matter how close you are to the second lady, you still have to avoid certain things, right? It's better than not being able to take care of those pretty girls at home. "
Before Hai Dongqing could even finish his words, he was staring at the former man like a knife in the middle of the night. The air around him was turning and a cold light suddenly appeared in his eyes. Even the foggy white bird was fluttering its wings on Hai Dongqing's forearm and felt uneasy. , an eagle's cry is shrill and harsh.
Hai Dongqing still stroked the white feathers of the bird, comforting the condor that had followed him for more than ten years like an old friend, and said: "Isn't it just a crime of disobeying the imperial edict? With Lord Ye's extraordinary ability, , have a good talk with the Emperor, and everything will be fine. Do you think so or not?"
Ye San Geng didn't speak, and his expression didn't change at all. He just stared at the old man opposite him, who could look at each other staunchly for several days without moving.
He was waiting for Hai Dongqing's next words. There was no way that this half-hundred-year-old man could just come to the two siblings to say a few words.
Ye Xieyou didn't speak a word, and as smart as she was, she almost guessed the motive of why this old guy who loved to show off his pets traveled thousands of miles to find them.
It's definitely not just as simple as letting the two of them go back.
"I know that I have only reached the Celestial Realm after having been together for several years and have stopped moving forward. I should be about the same as the Third Young Master." Hai Dongqing continued slowly, shaking his arm, which was second only to Haidong, the best among the eagles. Qing Wulibai flapped his wings and flew around the room twice before flying out of the window, "But the third young master and the second young lady can't do anything at all, right?"
"Senior Hai is threatening me." Ye Sangeng finally spoke and chuckled.
"Don't dare." Hai Dongqing chuckled and waved his hands repeatedly, "I don't have that ability. I'm just telling a fact."
Hai Dongqing looked at the white mist swirling outside the window, and then looked at the midnight watch. He stuffed the tobacco pouch rod in his hand back into his arms, and then took out a soap jade tablet the size of a no-nonsense card.
"But after taking this thing, I can't do anything." Hai Dongqing looked helpless, "Thanks to the superiors for not giving up, I, an old man, can see this little sign in my lifetime. That's enough."
Ye Sangen sneered, "The luminous monument, I haven't seen it for a long time."
There are heroes and lords in the rivers, lakes and temples, and there are thousands of troops and luminous monuments.
