Sword comes

Chapter 451: Crossing the Bridge

There are a lot of things this month, and there are so many things, I can only strive to update between 12 and 15 words.

The grass and trees in the city are deep in spring, but in the entire northern border of Shihao Kingdom, there is hardly a prince or grandson who is out on a spring outing.

The three riders who stopped and stopped went north all the way, and before they knew it, it was already summer.

On this day, it was located on a ridge path at the border pass of Shihao Country. Three riders stopped their horses to rest, and Zeng Ye was busy cooking. , it is the Yasheng spiritual weapon that was picked up, it is a relatively rare sun and moonlight continuous arc mirror, she bought it from the poor-sighted shopkeeper at the pawnshop for less than two taels of silver, and put it in the fairy house Ferry, according to the old monk in charge of the eye, Ghost General, at least forty or fifty snowflakes can be sold.

Chen Ping sat aside and looked through the account books. Most of the names had already been lightly drawn with a touch of ink. These belonged to the fulfillment of long-cherished wishes, to fulfill long-cherished wishes.However, some last wishes of ghosts and ghosts can only be put on hold temporarily. In fact, both Chen Pingan and them know that those wishes are very likely to become long-cherished wishes in Buddhist language. It's hard to achieve.Some yin things formed a knot in their hearts. In the midst of grief and anger, they couldn't help themselves, their hostility soared, and they almost turned into ghosts. They could only rely on the few heart-cleaning charms posted in the palace of the king of hell to maintain their remaining spiritual wisdom.

Ma Duyi, who is "diligent and thrifty in managing the family", did not complain about Mr. Chen's writing of the pure heart talisman again and again. When the aura is exhausted, he will make up again. It is simply a bottomless pit that continues to consume fairy money.

Along the way, I encountered many broken and defeated soldiers and horses of the Shihao Kingdom, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, becoming bandits, gathering and dispersing indefinitely, crazily plundering the food and grass behind Dali, some of them were for the sake of sustaining themselves, and for the sake of their hearts. That awe-inspiring righteousness had to point the finger at the people of the local counties and counties of Shihao Country. At the end of last year, there were three heavy snowfalls in succession, coupled with the raging wars, the northern border of Shihao Country, people's livelihood was dying, even if these soldiers and horses were no more than three or four hundred horses What they want is only a small amount of grain, but in those scattered and barren counties on the border, every household is counting on that little grain to last until the next crop harvest. Avoidance leads to conflicts, one comes and two goes, one is not to starve to death, the other is to live for the righteousness of the family and the country, and the conflict becomes more and more intense.

Chen Ping's three cavalry encountered a conflict that almost turned into a bloody fight. One of the young soldiers in broken armor almost slashed on the shoulder of a thin old man. Chen Ping rushed in and grabbed the sword The Shihao country's standard saber, dozens of Shihao country's defeated soldiers swarmed in an instant, Chen Ping stomped his feet, and turned his back on his back. Chen Ping threw back the saber in his hand and inserted it back into the scabbard of the young soldier. The impact made him stagger back.

Chen Pingan didn't say anything after that, he just led his horse and stood on the street of the small town, and those hungry soldiers quietly withdrew from the county town.

Chen Ping's group of three riders also left slowly.

Behind them, the local people began to yell at those soldiers of their own country. They had all kinds of bad words, and they didn't have the ability to fight the barbarians of Dali. They bullied their own people, but they were more powerful than each other. They should die on the battlefield and finish it off. own people.Some people even suggested that they should inform the Dali Iron Cavalry near a large county, and maybe they could get a bounty.

After the cavalry pawn left the county, the young soldier suddenly burst into tears.

An old military officer with the appearance of a school lieutenant stopped his horse, weeping sadly, and the whole cavalry team with yellow and emaciated faces and almost everyone injured also stopped, panicked and dazed.

Chen Pingan let Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye stay where they were, and rode away slowly.

In its heyday, the famous old cavalry army on the border of Shihao Kingdom had more than [-] fine cavalry, but now it has less than [-] cavalry, and each of them looks like a big enemy.

Chen Pingan threw out a heavy bag and said in Shihao official dialect that became more and more proficient: "Let's go, take off your armor, take off your vest, and use this money for travel expenses and settling expenses back home."

The old military officer caught the bag and opened it to see that it was full of government-made gold ingots. The old man raised his head with a puzzled face.

Chen Pingan said: "If you don't want to just give up like this, you can choose a few quick-minded brothers, pretend to be merchants, go to those counties that have settled down to buy food, try to avoid Dali spies and scouts, and buy less food each time , otherwise it will easily make the local government suspicious, and I believe you can't tell who is your own now."

The old military officer asked: "Just don't ask for anything like this"

Chen Pingan nodded and said: "You have no choice at the moment. Since it is already the worst situation, you might as well try it. Besides, if I want to use dozens of your heads to go to the county government that has surrendered to Dali You don’t need to be so troublesome to ask for credit, your soldiers may not be able to see this, but you, as a pure martial artist of the four realms, should be very clear.”

The old military officer hesitated to speak.

Chen Ping waved his hand, "That's all for helping so much, I'm not a good-for-nothing boy, don't take me for a fool."

The old military officer was resentful, so he had no choice but to give up that thought that was really not very kind. After putting away the bag of gold ingots that could save lives, he cupped his fists to thank the thin man in the blue cotton robe: "Mr. Gao Yi"

Chen Ping returned the salute with his fists clasped, and left. As for the final decision made by the Shihao National Cavalry Army, it was not like the previous dog meat shop in the state city, which saw the choice of the young man from the beginning to the end.

The old military officer was a little embarrassed, he hadn't asked his name yet.

At that time, Ma Duyi saw Mr. Chen who was riding his horse back, and said jokingly, "I said that I am not a boy of good fortune, but actually I am."

Chen Ping said with a smile: "It's a good habit to live in the world without telling the truth."

Just as Ma Duyi was about to say a few more words to him, Chen Pingan had already galloped on, so he and Zeng Ye hurriedly followed.

Sanqi's horseshoes lightly stepped on the vast land of spring flowers.

At this moment, Ma Duyi put down the bronze mirror, turned to look at Chen Pingan who had closed the ledger, and asked, "Mr. Chen, can we return to Shujian Lake before autumn comes?"

Chen Pingan nodded and said, "Almost fine."

Ma Duyi stretched, and accidentally bumped into the big bamboo box behind her, and quickly reached out to hold it. It was full of treasures bought at low prices in the last three cities, even if it was wrapped in satin and padded with cotton, I'm still worried about bumping into those particularly squeamish guys. According to the palm-eyed old ghost who lives in the imitation Liuli Pavilion, these are mostly treasures that the rich and powerful in the world like. In troubled times, they are far inferior to real gold and silver. In Shengshi, even a small bird food jar can be worth 300 taels of silver. If you meet a wealthy person who loves this way, it is not difficult to double the price.

In fact, these items can be placed in Mr. Chen's close-by items, but Ma Duyi likes to open the box and rummage through it every time he stops, just like that little bronze mirror that he can't put it down. Bitter, she carried it on her own.

Zeng Ye is now a veritable monk of the four realms, while Ma Duyi has better understanding and aptitude, and is even a ghost of the five realms.

It's just the real foundation of practice, or Zeng Ye is better, this is the importance of the root bone.

One is not too slow, the other is not too fast, and now Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi get along more and more harmoniously, with some tacit understanding.

While eating, Chen Pingan still habitually chewed slowly, and Zeng Ye squatted aside, chomping at the rice, and asked casually, "Mr. Chen, how is my fist?"

Chen Ping smiled and said, "Sparsely."

Zeng Ye lamented, he himself thought that his six-step walk, not to mention anything, was handy, practice makes perfect, and he couldn't escape.

Ma Duyi added fuel to the fire: "You are not a piece of martial arts material. Even a layman like me can see it clearly. Your boxing frame is empty and loose, and you have never entered the room at all. Zeng Ye, do you think it looks like something?"

Chen Ping comforted Zeng Ye: "Since martial arts is not your main business, it is enough to strengthen your body a little bit and help you strengthen your muscles and bones. Otherwise, a mouthful of pure true energy will be born, which will collide with the spiritual energy of the Qi Palace. It's not beautiful."

Zeng Ye said sullenly: "Either you can't learn anything, or you are slow to learn everything. Mr. Chen, why don't you worry."

Chen Ping was amused, and said: "If it is useful to be anxious, I will be anxious with you too."

Ma Duyi held back his anger and was about to speak.

Chen Pingan had already raised his hand, "Shut up, don't continue to have fun with Zeng Ye's practice. Also, it's strange that you can tell if Zeng Ye's boxing is good or bad. It's a casual comment from the seniors, and I borrowed it for you." use it"

Ma Duyi smiled and narrowed his long eyes, silent and acquiesced.

The three of them continued to move forward, walking along the border of Shihao Country.

Came to a fairy sect in the northern border called Fuluo Mountain. The green hills are stretching, the scenery is beautiful, and the aura is quite abundant. After entering the border, the two monks Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye felt refreshed and could not help but take a few more breaths. .

In many lands where the aura is barren, the common people may never meet a monk in their lifetime. That is the reason, merchants are bustling with each other looking for profit, and monks will subconsciously avoid places where the aura is scarce and almost non-existent. Paying too much attention requires time and effort, especially monks of the lower five realms, and gods of the middle five realms below the earth immortals. It is a kind of waste in itself to waste precious time in places with no aura for thousands of miles around.

In the past, there were constant wars, which affected the mountains of Shihaoguo. Then, for some reason, many small hills gathered together, vaguely taking Fuluo Mountain as the leader. , belonged to the kind of sect on the mountain with a large family business and few people, so many hills of Fuluo Mountain were divided and leased to those monk sects at the end of the Shihao Kingdom who came to rely on them.

In just two years, Falcon Luoshan has gained a good momentum.

I heard that there are a lot of fairy shops here, which is also the reason for Chen Pingan's trip. Since he was passing by, let Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi let Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi find a dozen or so messy spiritual artifacts to see if they can be sold well. The price and all the fairy money they got belonged to them. As for how to "divide the spoils" afterwards, Chen Pingan didn't care. It was up to Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi to discuss it themselves. The shrewdness of that little abacus, none of the three Zeng Ye is her match.

Chen Pingan thought that if he opened a shop to do business someday, Ma Duyi would be a good helper.

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p; Arriving at a hilltop outside the border of Fuluo Mountain, Chen Pingan discovered that a lot of refugees had gathered. A market was built in a decent manner, and there was a lot of people. In addition to the relatively strong young men, there are also many women and children who can walk into the Huluo Mountain alive. There is no lack of one piece of court etiquette.In addition, there are some monks who are building the mountain protection formation, and they are also busy.

This is probably the earliest prototype of a fairy family ferry or a mountain sect.

The two monks saw Chen Pingan and the other three walking with their horses. Facing the three unfamiliar faces, their eyes were a little wary, and they secretly contacted each other. The fellow monks gathered together from all directions to frighten the group of foreigners.

Now Chen Pingan no longer hangs the jade tablet dedicated to Qingxia Island, and he has no choice but to ask one of the monks for the way, saying that he is going to the mountain where the Patriarch Hall of Fuluo Mountain is located.

The group of fellow monks headed by an old monk in the cave state pointed out the way, and they were relieved until Chen Pingan and the three left the market, and continued busy building the landscape formation.

There is no way, they are just low-level sects, even if they take refuge and relocate to Fuluo Mountain, compared with the other rich and wealthy immortal family mansions, they can't raise too much fairy money, so they can only be thrown here On the other hand, when the door gods from the Shandong gate of Huluo come, as long as there is any trouble, such as the big Li iron cavalry seeing Hulu mountain is not pleasing to the eye, they will naturally be the first to suffer, but they can only bite the bullet and give it to them. The falcon falls to the mountain to block the disaster.

The establishment, rise and inheritance of any school on the mountain must involve hardships and humiliation.

It's just that the old monk who was already one of the "ancestors" of the sect was standing on a high platform, and his eyes quietly stayed on a refugee child who was helping his parents wipe their sweat. The old monk showed understanding Smile, it’s a good seedling. The Patriarch Hall of Fuluo Mountain realized it later, and planned to pay a small sum of money and a mountain top with a radius of more than ten miles to replace the family’s household registration on the mountain, but he resisted. The public argued that he rejected the kindness of Hu Luoshan, but planned to personally accept this child as a direct disciple. Maybe in one year or a hundred years, there would be an extra cave-level monk in his mountain gate, perhaps reaching the level in the history of the mountain gate. The sea view of a Zhongxing ancestor is not a luxury. Thinking of this, the old monk is quite relieved. Although the brothers in his ancestral hall, although they quarreled fiercely at the beginning, after all, today's Xiaoshu money, especially in vain An extra mountain is of great significance.But after he really rejected the proposal from the Patriarch Hall of Huluo Mountain, all his efforts were united, even the most stingy junior brother, made up his mind that on the day of the apprenticeship ceremony, that child would take out a long-preserved spiritual weapon, Gift it to my nephew.

After Chen Ping left the market, he suddenly looked back and asked, "Did you see anything?"

Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi just felt baffled.

Chen Pingan shook his head and said, "It's nothing, maybe my eyes are dazzled."

Ma Duyi jokingly said: "Mr. Chen, it's not good to say half of what you said."

Chen Ping smiled and said: "In the future, when you are on your own, you will know that half-talking is a university question worth studying."

Ma Duyi clicked his tongue and said: "Mr. Chen has changed his way of bragging about his ability, and he has become more and more proficient."

Chen Pingan turned around on horseback and clasped his fists, "Thank you, thank you."

Ma Duyi smiled angrily: "Mr. Chen, if you continue to behave like this, you will no longer be the Mr. Chen in my mind."

Zeng Ye shook his head and said, "Where is that."

It was obvious that this young man wanted to be more towards Mr. Chen.

As a result, he was hit on the face by Ma Duyi's suddenly stretched sleeve, and it was hot and painful.

Zeng Ye said angrily, "A gentleman uses his mouth but not his hands."

Now it's Ma Duyi's turn to shake his head, "It's just that a villain and a girl are hard to raise, what the saint said, I don't understand the truth."

Chen Pingan smiled wryly: "This sentence is not understood in this way, but you are willing to bury yourself like this, I think it's okay."

Laughing all the way, Sanqi came to the real gate of Fuluo Mountain.

Compared with the two fairy family hills that passed along the way, this place is imposing and unique, and compared with Huangli Mountain, its aura is somewhat better.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a peaceful town near the mountains and rivers, or a larger village. Looking at the buildings and buildings, there should be more than a thousand people living there.

The so-called majesty on the mountain, if it disappears from the human world, it will become a loft in the sky and a river without a source.

It's just that many immortal masters who have not reached the summit are too lazy or disdain to think so.

To go to the village at the foot of the mountain, and then to the mountain, you have to cross a river, not an arch bridge, just like a slender snake dragon lying quietly in the river. They are going to work in the nearby fields. Behind the young man and the buffalo, there is a young boy riding a green bamboo, shouting "Drive", like driving a horse.

Chen Pingan took the lead and stopped with his horse, making way for the villagers and the buffalo with curved horns.

After the villagers and the buffalo walked down the small bridge, they were obviously well-informed and didn't look at the three strangers very much, but the child riding a bamboo horse was very curious when he saw the real horse. Chen Pingan smiled at the child , the child also grinned shyly, followed his father and the buffalo and continued on their way.

Zeng Ye found it interesting.

Above the cloud-shrouded Falcon Mountain, there are often sword lights and rainbow lights piercing the sky.

But the young boy obviously didn't mind this anymore, but was even more curious about the horses beside them. The child on the bamboo horse often looked back.

Chen Ping took the lead to lead the horse onto the low stone bridge that was not too high above the river.

Halfway through, there are also villagers who need to go to the other side waiting quietly.

After walking down the stone bridge, Chen Pingan nodded his thanks to them, and the villagers nodded back with a smile.

Zeng Ye was thoughtful.

The same is true for Ma Duyi.

At this moment, Chen Ping suddenly turned his head to look at the sky.

The small sword tomb wooden box in the sleeve and the Qingxia Island enshrined jade tablet became hot almost at the same time.

Regarding this matter, Liu Zhimao did not hide it at the beginning, and he could use them to trace Chen Pingan's footsteps.

Chen Pingan has no objection to this.

A snow-white rainbow light of a monk speeding up against the wind came through the sky from outside the Falcon Mountain and crashed to the ground.

It is an old monk of Qingxia Island with a panicked expression and a messy aura, Zhang Dian who is in charge of the secret storehouse and the fishing room.

This secret trip to the north has almost exhausted the aura of Zhang Ji's acupoints. It is the same reason to run to death and change to a horse.

Zeng Ye was full of joy at first, after all Zhang Di was the benefactor who dragged him out of the big fire pit on Maoyue Island with his own hands, but when the young man saw Zhang Di's face, he immediately shut up.

Chen Pingan supported the swaying Zhang Di, and asked softly: "There is a change in Shujian Lake."

Zhang Di said sadly: "The sky has changed."

Chen Pingan sighed. He actually expected this kind of situation, but because it wasn't the worst situation, Chen Pingan didn't do much to deal with it. In fact, he couldn't do much to deal with it. move.

After all, it is time to run out of manpower.

It's very simple, either the Great Li Lord General Su Gaoshan made a move, or the person behind Gongliu Island Liu Laocheng started to enter the game.

Or simply the two sides join forces.

Tan Yuanyi on Lisu Island turned against him, only wanted to protect himself, and broke the covenant. Liu Zhimao was reluctant to part with Qingxia Island's foundation, and was tricked and put in danger, which is very normal.

But this is definitely not good news for Chen Pingan at the moment.

In the original book Jianhu's situation, Chen Ping'an has already grasped the context, and the chessboard that he worked so hard on may have been overturned by the later chess players casually.

Zhang dimple knelt down with a plop, "I implore Mr. Chen to save the island owner."

Chen Pingan shook his head, and asked directly: "Gu Can and his mother, have they been secretly detained by Senior Zhang?"

Zhang dimple, who was kneeling down, raised his head, "It happened suddenly, Qingxia Island couldn't do such a thing, even if I could, I wouldn't do it, because I knew it would be counterproductive, and the only thing that can save the island owner is Mr. Chen."

Chen Pingan supported Zhang Di, and said slowly: "Senior Zhang got up to talk, I will listen to it first, but it is almost impossible to save Liu Zhimao. I believe that the old man has already understood the reason on the way. Running this trip is just doing my best to obey the destiny."

Zhang dimple nodded slightly, smiled wryly, and there was some gratitude in his eyes.

Chen Pingan had a headache.

In front of Zhang dimple, some words, just like joking with Ma Duyi before, only half said, see through but don't tell.

Zhang dimple is naturally doing his best, but it is very possible that zhang dimple is also fully aware that his whereabouts have already fallen into the eyes of some caring people, maybe he is overlooking this place somewhere in the falcon mountain.

So Chen Pingan didn't hit him when he was down, and beat him to death with one punch.

In fact, it has been considered as benevolent and righteous.

Chen Pingan said: "Let's talk as we walk."

Zhang Wei calmed down, and the first sentence shocked Ma Duyi and Zeng Yexinhu, who were listening with pricked ears, "Our island owner lost to an unidentified monk, has been seriously injured, and is being detained in the water prison of Gongliu Island Not only that, Su Gaoshan, the leader of the Dali Iron Cavalry, has personally arrived at Yunlou City by the Shujian Lake, threw his whip on the lake, and threatened to kill all Shujian Lake Yexiu who disobeyed him within ten days."

The first thought in Chen Ping's mind was that the great monk who could suppress Liu Zhimao might be the Mohist ranger Xu Ruo, or the sage Ruan Qiong.