Chapter 018 – Roadblock on the East-West Line
A carriage hanging yellow mantle into the East China Sea Wudi City, after entering the city, attracted countless side-eye, in addition to the carriage itself is very eye-catching, but also because the driving horseman is the city of Tai’an has long been famous expert Qi Jiajie, the capital of the first swordsman more than a decade, Qi Jiajie white clothes, white shoes, white scabbard sword, even when people to the age of middle-aged years, it is still like a crown of jade face, outstanding style. Qi Jiajie’s sword scabbard is extremely long, but the handle “white frost” is actually very short, only slightly longer than the dagger, no one knows why the short sword but long sheath, these years only a few times than the sword, out of the sword is not much, counted on a handful of. Qi Jiajie practicing sword, is a wild origin, and no famous world of teachers, and then came out of nowhere, became after Li Chungang Deng Ta’a after the world of the sword forest one of the first show characters, several now has been the vassal of the prince, and Zhang Gaoxia, daughter of the chief minister Zhang, including some of the most outstanding Liyang power and noble children, are all the disciples of the man, the achievements of the high or low, but are not cheesy. How could Wudi City not be curious about a person who could make Qi Jiajie personally drive? Moreover, the court forces do not interfere in the city of Tai’an, is the agreed rules, so this carriage’s sudden entry into the city, triggered a great panic in the city of Wudi, we must know that there are too many people in the city of the jianghu who are responsible for the murder of the case, and they are all on the list of the wanted list of the huge bandits and big criminals, if there is a day that the city of Tai’an lost the talisman of the life preservation, pull out ten beheadings, at best, only wrongfully killed one or two.
Certain first-class masters who had tasted the human cat Han Diaoji’s great suffering, but also the wind is very nervous, already ready to be a loss of family dog’s intention.
Qi Jiajie drive parked in the inner city of the wall full of celebrities, a eunuch wearing a bright red python robe lifted the curtain, stepped out of the carriage, some of the distant jianghu Han did not see the face, they were scared to turn around and run away, are given to the devil Han Woliji, non-eunuchs shall not be draped in a big red python, is the custom of the Imperial Palace of the city of Tai’an. In fact, this eunuch is very young, Song Tanglu, but high up in the Secretary of the seal eunuch position, is Han Sheng Xuan after the world’s first eunuch, he raised his head and looked deeply at the wall, showing a trace of imperceptible bitterness, the owner of the city, how is not the king of a different name of the border and the land? To reason with this person, Song Tanglu even if he carries a carefully worded imperial decree, but also no confidence to speak of. Qi Jiajie is up to heaven to hear the first-class jianghu loose immortal, can be said to be hidden in the dynasty, do not need to look at who, far from Song Tanglu this kind of worry, he idly to the side of the eunuchs said those nailed to the wall of the jianghu anecdotes, Song Tanglu distracted, but careful and prudent habit, is still pleasant to listen to this is expected to become the jianghu “emperor teacher! The story of this “emperor master” of the Jianghu is still pleasant to listen to.
Soon someone walked down to meet the guests, Qi Jiajie eyes light up, is the old monster Wang’s personal disciple Lou荒, wearing a sword “Bodhisattva barbarians”, give up the road to seek the art of practicing the sword on the path of the crippled, so there is a small DengTa’a name, the three of them together pick up the steps to the top, there are already a few people standing in the city waiting, Qi Jiajie according to the rumors of the rivers and lakes to recognize most of them, the neck riding a green girl, should be A green girl, should be Wang Xianzhi big disciple Yu Xinlang, that tall and majestic but rich beauty, has been ranked three times in the rouge evaluation, is the boxing master Lin Crow, she is teasing her brother Yu Xinlang neck on the girl, but Qi Jiajie did not find the head of the ring scars but clad in robes of the Palace of the half Que, but there is a two-cheeked sunken withered young man, waist hung a broken and unattractive ivory fan, he stood a little far from Yu Xinlang Lin crow, and the three together picked up the steps to the top, waiting for the three together. He stood a little far away from Yu Xin Lang Lin Crow, staring blankly at the East China Sea. Song Tanglu scanned once, after seeing the side of this young man’s face, a slight pause, and then did not move to look at the groom Yu, softly asked: “Yu Gongzi, our family Silience Supervisor Song Tanglu, I do not know where is Lord Wang City?”
Yu Xinlang, who held the green-clothed girl’s legs with both hands, apologized, “Master has already left the city with Master Gong, but knowing that Sung Sable Temple is coming, he specifically instructed me to bring a message to the Tai’an City side.”
Song Tanglu hmmm’d, not half a bit of indignation or loss, his eyes were calm, and said, “Mr. Yu, but there’s no harm in saying it.”
Yu Xinlang smiled and said, “Master said that his previous message to Tai’an City was not to ask for a promise, it was just to say hello to the Zhao family’s son of heaven, and that this trip out of the city would be the last time he would show his face in the world, so if anyone wants to get in the way.”
Speaking here, the girl in green lowered her head to whisper in Yu Xinlang’s ear, he only had to gently pat her little head, asking her to let himself finish his words, when that girlie piece subsided, Yu Xinlang continued, “Great can get 10,000 iron cavalry to try first.”
Qi Jiajie frowned, while at the same time, Lin Crow looked straight at this disgruntled capital city’s number one swordsman.
Song Tanglu seems to be born as a chronic person who doesn’t smoke out of fire, hearing this kind of treacherous words, he just notes it down very carefully, still like a clay Bodhisattva who doesn’t have half a temper, where is it like a powerful capital’s Secretarial Supervisor’s Seal of Approval.
Yu xinlang is also calm and said: “Yu is not not sympathetic to the idea of the capital, that the king of Beilang should not die in this moment, it is best to die in the North Mang with the defeat of the two after. Just master is not willing to wait, we as disciples naturally do not dare to say anything more. If this is considered a bad thing, there is also a good news to say to Song Bao Yin, that is, since the master out of the city that day, the imperial court in the future to jianghu to pass the head of the city of wudi, can, and even into the city to arrest and kill people do not matter, the East China Sea no longer have the door ban said. Yu Mou said these, also want to go out of the city together with the master brother and sister, intend to go to the jianghu to break into the world.”
Song Tanglu nodded and said warmly, “Jing is equal to your son’s success in the world.”
Song Tanglu obviously does not have martial arts, but none of the presence is not the most outstanding masters of the jianghu, but listen to their words to see their gas, it is as if all from the bottom of their hearts, can be said to be impeccable, if it is really intentional, the sable temple of the official cultivation, is simply shocking. Of course, does not rule out that this person is really warm temperament, but such a eunuch, really step by step, from Han Sheng Xuan hand over the Secretary Secretary of the Palace of Justice seal? Lin Crow is fine, still teasing the girl in green, Lou Arai can not help but look at Song Tanglu a few more times. Song Tanglu turned his head to look back and said with emotion, “It was not easy for us to go out of the capital once, but we did not get to see the old immortal Wang with our own eyes, and we have to draw regret.”
Song Tanglu quickly laughed aloud and said, “Since we have already left the city, then our family will have to return to the capital right away, all of you great heroes, this is goodbye, I hope that we can meet again in the coming days!”
Yu Xinlang and Louwang simultaneously clasped their fists to send off, even Lin Crow nodded slightly.
The girl in green coldly asked softly with a curious face, “Hey, Mr. Song, is there a holy decree, can I touch it?”
Mr. Song?
Mr. Song Tanglu first froze for a moment, then smiled brightly, his eyes narrowed into a thin line, his expression was especially gentle, and he did not refer to himself as “our family”, “Yes, I’ll take it to the girl, wait a moment.”
The imperial decree is installed in the box, Song Tanglu at first did not think to take it out to declare the decree, it is difficult to not want these people in Wudi City to kneel down to listen to the decree? So he simply left it on the carriage, but since the little powdery girl on the groom’s shoulder wanted it, Song Tanglu gave it to her. Qi Jiajie glanced at Yu Xinlang, who had been said to be good enough to inherit Wang Xianzhi’s mantle, and rubbed his thumb over the hilt of the White Frost Sword, then smiled, “Mr. Yu, if you have a chance to go to the capital, Mister Qi will definitely do my best to fulfill his duties as a landlord.”
Yu Xinlang gave a flat hmmm.
Qi Jiajie turned around and walked down the city.
Lin Crow had been watching that big eunuch run down the city in a puff of smoke to get the imperial decree, and couldn’t help but laugh a little, “It’s not obnoxious.”
Yu Xinlang nodded and said, “Rare indeed.”
The girl jumped off Yu’s neck and hurriedly ran to “receive the decree”. Lin Crow asked, “Senior Brother Yu, Senior Brother Gong was originally going to Tai’an City, but temporarily changed his mind and has gone to the Southern Border, and I didn’t listen to my master, so what about you and Senior Brother Lou, what do you say?”
Lou Arao’s eyes were resolute and said, “I am going to go to Northern Liang, to see if that surnamed Xu can really fight with Master.”
Yu Xinlang laughed, “Those who stayed behind to watch over the family have it, those who went to the south have it, and the west will soon have it, so it looks like I’ll just have to go to the north ah.”
Lin Crow frowned and asked, “Tai’an City?”
Yu Xinlang shook his head and said, “Further north, the two Liao.”
Lou Arai looked around and said softly, “I have to go ahead.”
Lin Crow urged, “Hurry up and get lost, be careful of getting your ass kicked by that sixth king of the world, the King of Northern Liang.”
Lou Arao glanced at the young man who didn’t fit in and was about to speak when Lin Crow glared, “You can’t spit ivory out of a dog’s mouth, so shut up for me!”
Lou Wilder laughed, swept across the city, on the eaves of the house all the way dragonfly, floating out of the city.
Yu Xinlang glanced at Lin Crow and said in a deep voice, “Take care.”
Lin Crow stretched out her fingers and rubbed her eyebrows, “I’m a woman who isn’t sentimental yet, but you big old men have a little bit of interest, can’t you?”
Yu Xin Lang smiled and shook his head, turned away and bent down to pick up that green clothed girl who had re-ascended the city, she rode on her neck and spread out the holy decree, showing off, “Holy decree yo.”
Groom Yu softly laughed, “Got it.”
The little girl spread out the holy decree with both hands and held it above her head, staring wide-eyed to read the words, saying, “Xiaoyu, where are we going next? I actually quite like it here, but it’s a pity that white-bearded Grandpa Sui has gone to the South China Sea to find that Peach Blossom Sword God for a match.”
“To the very north, it’s a bit cold, so next you recite more of the secrets that Master has passed on to you.”
“How northern is very northern? Never mind, Sister Lin always says that you’re a wayfarer. Xiao Yu, you won’t lead the wrong way, right?”
“Shouldn’t be.”
“Huh? Xiaoyu Xiaoyu, what is this character pronounced?”
“Zhao.”
“What about this word?”
“Lower it, I’ll take a look.”
On the city, Lin Crow walked to the side of the downtrodden young man with a broken fan hanging from his waist, a rare soft expression on his face, “Zhao Hook spent a lot of effort to get you out of Beiliang, and your father, Yuan Benshi, even went so far as to make an exception and begged for help to send you to the East China Sea, and you’re just going to keep on being depressed?”
The young man was silent.
Lin Crow sighed and touched his head, “Silly child, there is no hurdle that can’t be passed.”
The young man muttered, “I can lose to anyone, Gu Jiantang can lose, the old ancestor of the Wu family’s sword mound can lose, but I just can’t lose to Xu Fengnian ……”
Lin Crow directly interrupted his self-talk, “Bullshit! Jiang Axe Ding, do you know how many times my master lost to Li Chun Gang back then? Six years, six times! That’s how he climbed from the Vajra Realm to the Heavenly Image Realm!”
Jiang Axe Ding, the old master of the River Crossing Pawn, laughed bitterly, “Who am I to be compared to Wang Xianzhi, who has been sitting on the throne of the world’s number one for a thousand years?”
Lin Crow looked furious and was about to open his mouth when Jiang Axe Ding said, “Don’t try to persuade me.”
Jiang Axe Ding turned his head and asked with a smile, “Is there any wine?”
Lin Crow grunted coldly, “Wait, get drunk!”
Jiang Axe Ding suddenly pulled on Lin Crow’s sleeve and didn’t say anything.
The tall Lin Crow reached out and pressed his hand on the back of his head, pulling it towards his shoulder, “You men, you always think of being the best in the world. Especially you, once you feel hopeless, you love to take the bull by the horns, in fact why bother. Xu Fengyen this son of a bitch is also really sinister, determined that do not dare to fight to the death, first intentionally use the power to pressure people, let you give up the river pawns not to mention, and then put you hard as the prey of the Northern Liang armor, little by little completely wear down your sharpness. Also deliberately let the water not kill you, let Zhao hook save you. Indeed, the one my master met back then was Li Chun Gang, you were far too unlucky, and your arch-enemy is a guy with little poise.”
Lin Crow pushed Jiang Axe Ding away, patted his shoulder and stretched, “Forget it, I’m also too lazy to accompany you to drink heavily all day long in Wudi City, women can’t afford to be tossed around like this, they grow old fast! No, while I still have some poise, I will go to the rivers and lakes to see if I can dump a few young warriors.”
Jiang Axe Ding looked at her fading back, his lips trembled, and in the end he did not say those two words out loud.
This proud son of heaven, who had once called himself a brother to Emperor Zhao Kai, sat disheveledly on the city’s head, looking away from the line of the great tide of the East China Sea, rolling from west to east.
Dragon Gate Ferry.
Further east is the old West Chu territory, Li Yang was here to step on the Guangling ice across the river, to fight for the lion and rabbit, forcing the West Chu river generals to surrender without a fight. Just as the world is set, Longmendu has been no longer in the Spring and Autumn of the armored pomp and circumstance, the nearby people live and work in peace and contentment, for this time the west of the turbulence, this side of the stability, still sunrise and sunset and rest, before a monk and a monk in this knot thatched and live in the court to destroy the Buddha, countless monks were displaced, so these two people outside the world of the temporary settlements, and is not eye-catching. The village people encountered a little illness and small disasters, they have to ask the middle-aged Taoist in plain clothes for some prescriptions, and the herbs on the prescriptions are easy to search for, the Taoist priest surnamed Wang also never charge for yellow and white goods, at most, he received some food and vegetables, and will not fight with people for small profits, probably this Taoist priest is too peaceful, no one treats him as a Taoist god, some children like to borrow the peach tree sword to play with him! Although the Taoist priest did not smile and laugh, but the children mostly have the heart of a child, but more accurate to see people, know that Wang Taoist priest never angry. On the contrary, that robe tattered monk, crazy, always like to talk to people do not understand the words, not crazy, when looking at the water of the Guangling River, Wang Taoist should be afraid that he is too bored with idleness, to the monk made a bamboo fishing rod, the monk in the riverside often sit for a whole day, the fish basket from no harvest, empty, far less than the side of the several fishermen’s children.
Today, in the twilight, the monk caught nothing, sitting there motionless, the fishermen’s boys have been loaded, happened to meet Taoist Wang, said hello, and then laughed and went.
Taoist priest stood next to the monk, asked with a smile, “awake?”
The monk nodded.
The poor Taoist was none other than the contemporary Wudang Master Li Yu Axe’s senior uncle, the Sword Idiot Wang Xiaoping. The monk, on the other hand, was both the Dharma King of Ragged Mountain, and Liu Songtao, the Demon Sect Master of Mount Yu Lu a hundred years ago, and even the useless monk who was now famous in the Jianghu. After the two met, and war and line and asked and answered, until this dragon gate crossing, Liu Songtao only “wake up” more “sleep” less, Wang Xiaoping’s attainments of the sword is soaring, although not among the new martial arts evaluation of the fifteen people, but Wang Xiaoping vaguely perceive that he is away from the threshold of the road is only A foot away, this threshold, the master as well as the eldest brother and then as well as the youngest brother, successive three Wudang masters have had their own insights, but all have the same path. When Wang Xiaoping is the old generation of brothers and sisters in the alien, heavy art not heavy road, temperament is relatively not so mild, at first only he was very nonchalant to the North Liang Shi Zi face look. If you say that in the past, the world’s first runic sword Shentian Wang Xiaoping, is the sharpest sword, then today’s middle-aged Taoist, will be much sharper introverted, heavy sword has no edge.
Wang Xiaoping squatted down, picked up a stone and threw it into the river. Around the monks, “asleep” in the eyes of the world like to say nonsense, such as catching a commoner said “poor monk know your past life, early reincarnation to enjoy the great blessings, you die or not”, the people scared to death, or ask others! “My generation was born in heaven and earth, is it when the grass, trees, fish and birds as close neighbors, or folks?” Either ask yourself, “What I think and what I seek, is it predestined by heaven, and what I don’t want and don’t think and don’t seek, is it just as hard to escape heaven’s predestination? In that case, how can I be truly self-contained?” Moreover, this monk often made the move of “asking the Buddha” by the river, asking aloud, “Buddha, how to come”, “Joyful Buddha, what is joyful”, and so on, all of which made the common people with wives and children feel incredulous. All of these things make the wife and children hot bed of the common people feel incredible, but in mind that there is a not strange Wang Taoist, which did not go to the police.
Liu Songtao in the hands of the bamboo pole rare flung up over, asked: “You are still thinking about ice and charcoal in the same furnace thing? What good does it do to make things difficult for yourself when Lu Zu can think clearly but also can’t speak clearly about the difficult problem?”
Wang Xiaoping smiled and said, “Cultivating on Wudang Mountain, for five hundred years, I have been insisting on doing small things, not being a big person, and what I have done is nothing more than adding lamps and grasses full of oil for a long time. Cultivate yourself, do not seek to ascend to immortality, let nature take its course, this before all to travel down the mountain, more busy cultivating others. Whether the world is good or bad under the mountain, there is no delay in spring and summer growth, fall harvest and winter storage. You talk about Lu Zu failed to say clearly the roots of the three religions fusion, but Wudang Mountain has never been the ancestors do not do a good job of the rules of the descendants do not go to do. Just like the Guangling River in front of us, go ferocious, attributed to the front water to open up the road, after the water to walk, the lack of one, otherwise there is no eye rolling eastward into the sea, so that stretches for thousands of years of the grandeur of the atmosphere.”
Liu Songtao lamented, “Difficult ah.”
Wang Xiaoping turned his head and asked, “Have you thought it through?”
Liu Songtao nodded and said, “Liu Songtao is going to seek one person for himself, and the old monk of Rotten Mountain is going to stop one person for the inheritance of the Buddhist tradition in the world. Since we know that the person we are looking for is no longer there, there is no need to look for him.”
Wang Xiaoping asked with a smile, “I once promised my youngest brother that I would probably be the same person as the one you are stopping, so when the time comes, will you come first or will I come first?”
Liu Songtao calmly said, “You, when the time comes, the poor monk will still be able to recite a few sutras for you. Moreover, the poor monk can’t die for the time being, if you can’t stop it, then you can’t stop it, just get out of the way. But you Wang Xiaoping, or rather your Wang Xiaoping’s sword, will not be able to.”
Wang Xiaoping said, “That’s fine. When it comes to praying for people’s blessings and sacrifices, I’m too far behind my brothers and sisters.”
Liu Songtao laughed, “Your sword is a good sword. Putting it aside a hundred years ago, the poor monk would have sympathized with it just the same.”
Wang Xiaoping, who had been cold-faced and cold-hearted, suddenly laughed for no reason.
Remembered that back then in Wudang Shang Shang, that young man who practiced the sword, went to the purple bamboo forest to sneak around, mouth so-called outstanding sword skills, sword method into the gods, in fact, should be that bitchy word right? No wonder the young master has been stealing joy at that time, but did not dare to laugh out loud.
Xu Yan Bing single handedly left the Northern Liang border and stopped at the border of Youzhou and Hezhou.
There was also a young girl who left the Northern Liang Road after going to meet the grave, carrying a green and tender sunflower that was not yet golden; she did not walk fast because she did not think to meet Old Huang once.
She wore an ill-timed sable hat, and did not know who had given it to her to make her so unwilling.