Sword of Coming

The river water flowed by outside the window for eternity. Chen Pingan lay on the window sill and squinted for a while, and his spirit relaxed a little. This was a rare thing. Chen Pingan had not slept soundly and soundly for too long.

Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi have not returned yet, and Chen Pingan is still a little worried.

As he expected, he saw the tip-off letter Zhang Ding, returned to Shujian Lake and then left Qingxia Island. This time he entered the Meigla Kingdom from Liuliuguan. He was indeed shadowy along the way. There were people following him from a distance. He was extremely high-level and extremely hidden. It was so deep that Chen Pingan only felt it occasionally. Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi were kept in the dark from beginning to end. Chen Pingan did not reveal anything, so that they would not be worried and easily expose their flaws and cause unnecessary trouble.

Even if the other party didn't show any kindness or hostility, Chen Ping'an still felt like he was carrying a light on his back.

In the past, there were only a handful of monks in Shujian Lake who could do this. Liu Laocheng, who was in the Jade Purity Realm, disdained such a thing, and Liu Zhimao, the old Yuan Ying, would not do such a thing.

The Song family of Dali was unwilling to cause trouble. Moreover, Chen Ping'an was a Dali family after all, and Lu Baixiang and others had all joined the Dali edition. Even the senior officials of Dali besides Cui Cheng were ready to make a move, such as the palace official. The empress's confidant spies would never have the guts to interfere in the chess game of Shujian Lake, because it is under Cui Han's nose, and Cui Han acts according to the most important rules. Of course, Da Li's rules, from the temple to the military , and then to the mountain, almost all of them were formulated by Cui Chan.

Chen Ping'an can almost conclude that that person is one of the foreign monks on Gongliu Island, the top one. It is impossible. Shujian Lake is of great importance, otherwise he would not take action to suppress Liu Zhimao.

This requires him to personally take charge of Gongliu Island, so it should be the second or third person in command of the dragon crossing the river to keep an eye on him and wait for opportunities. Fortunately, the other party did not intend to kill him directly. It seemed that he had not yet come up with a foolproof strategy that would leave no hidden dangers, but once he did, it would definitely be thunderous.

In this regard, Chen Ping'an was still somewhat grateful to Liu Laocheng. Instead of making suggestions for him, Liu Laocheng did not even watch the fire from the other side. Instead, he secretly reminded himself once and leaked the secret. Of course, there is another possibility here, that is, Liu Laocheng has told the other party about the jade tablet that was enshrined in the Confucian Temple of the saint. Foreign monks are also worried that both jade and stone will be destroyed, which will fundamentally ruin their overall plan for Shujian Lake.

However, Chen Pingan vaguely felt that Liu Laocheng was a...wonderful person, and the former was more likely.

It's a pity that Liu Laocheng is not the person who finally decides the trend of Shujian Lake. The chessboard that he worked so hard to build, and the two chess shapes with Liu Zhimao, Tan Yuanyi, and Liu Laocheng were destroyed in one go. Chen Pingan had to admit that this The chessboard was just short of being overturned to the ground. Now Su Gaoshan, the general of Dali, was playing chess with a group of foreign monks at Yishu Jian Lake. Everyone, including Chen Ping'an, had to step aside.

But to say that all the hard work and hard work is just a waste of time, Chen Pingan doesn't think so.

Do you want to accept your fate? You need to know your fate before you accept your fate. Just like when Chen Pingan wanted to see Su Gaoshan, but received a rather domineering reply of "fuck off", Chen Pingan was able to accept it calmly, because on a trip to Shihao Country, he could see the person with his own eyes. Hearing it with his own ears, as well as the previous summary of Liuxu Island's newspapers, Chen Ping'an dared to say that he had a relatively good understanding of Su Gaoshan's temperament. He was born in the Han clan, had gone through hardships, and relied on his outstanding military exploits as the foundation of his career. This kind of Because he occupies a high position, he is extremely tough and his heart is as solid as a rock. His state of mind has long been similar to that of a great monk. It is impossible to say that Cui Han and Song Changjing, even if they did not lack instructions and accountability for their actions, must have felt sorry for Su in their hearts. How much respect does Gao Shan have?

But accepting your fate, after all, it is a hard work, but the work is fruitless, and of course there will still be disappointment.

This point is actually no different from Zhang Ting who appeared in Falcon Mountain.

Chen Ping'an wanted to touch the sword gourd and take a sip of wine, but then he remembered that he had given it to Ma Duyi and hung it on his waist. He sat back at the table, thought about it, and simply took out the calligraphy treasure of the bookish county captain. , spread out the copybooks one by one, and start admiring them, no matter how you read them, you like them.

One breath, hearty and unrestrained.

How is this different from a martial arts punch?

The spirit is moving and moving, and everything is in harmony with the Tao.

How is this different from the sword fairy drawing a sword?

There are always some similarities in the world's principles.

Each copybook has a different private seal of the young county captain printed on it. Most of them are printed on one calligraphy, but rarely on two copies.

One of the copybooks has a great content, "If you take a picture of me by the water, don't be afraid that every word will turn into a dragon and walk away. If you take a photo of me and go out at night, it will teach ghosts and gods that they can't escape."

There are two seals printed adjacent to each other, "The young dragon is strong and strong" and "The thin dragon is fat".

In another one, three seals were stamped on the copybook one after another. Chen Ping'an was particularly impressed by the actions of the young county captain at that time. His face was as bright as a calligrapher banishing an immortal, laughing loudly like a young prince. "If you meet a fool and use the wine from the Immortal Family to sell me the name of the Immortal Family, it will be a pleasure!" The seals are "Kaiyuan", "Changshu" and "Mochi Immortal".

Chen Pingan put them away one by one.

From now on, it must be kept in Luopo Mountain for collection. No matter who asks, no matter how high the price is, it will not be sold. It must be passed down as a family heirloom!

When he thought of this, Chen Pingan couldn't help but smile.

Chen Pingan stretched his waist, put his hands in his sleeves, and turned his head to look at the river.

There was once a beautiful poem excerpted from a book and carved on a bamboo slip. A small bamboo slip carries such a huge artistic conception.

Thousands of falling trees and mountains, the sky is far and wide, and the moon is clearly visible along the Chengjiang River.

The magnificent river view outside the window unknowingly opened my mind.

Mr. Qi, there is a saying that, after working hard, I may have done what I couldn't do in Daoxuan Mountain now.

After Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi came back, Zeng Ye was very excited. He said that he actually met the water god of the Chunhua River. He was very kind with his hairpins and embroidered clothes. He met them and even made a special trip to show up and took them for a stroll in person. A circle of water temples.

But Ma Duyi rolled her eyes and said that the old man's eyes were uncomfortable and leering. When he looked at the sword gourd on her waist, he also looked at her waist.

Chen Ping'an couldn't say much about this.

The Chunhua River is the largest river in the Meigla Kingdom, and the Meigla Kingdom has always respected the water god. As the leading river god, the Chunhua River Water God is definitely not a simple person.

In fact, Chen Ping'an has seen quite a few landscape gods. The earliest Wei Bo from Qidun Mountain was considered half a wedding ghost of a landscape god. Later, the embroidered river god military general Tong Yezhou appeared next to Gu Can's father. Over there, the Goddess Burying the River Water, on the way north from the Daquan Dynasty, encountered a pair of rival gods who were fighting against each other, shaking the mountains and rivers. Of course, there was also the person in the Ziyang Mansion of Huang Ting Kingdom who met Chen Pingan. Baihu River Water Goddess.

I just don't know what the relationship between the boy in green and his friend from the rivers and lakes, Yujiang Water God, is like on the other side of Luolu Mountain.

Wei Bo and Zhu Lian sent Feijian summons to Qingxia Island. The letter mentioned this matter more or less, but they didn't say much. They only said that the river god of Huang Tingguo got a piece of peace and nothing happened, and personally I paid a visit to Longquan County, and the boy in green greeted him at Luolu Mountain. Finally, he treated the water god to a farewell drink in the small town. After that, the boy in Tsing Yi no longer mentioned this good brother who values ​​love and justice.

Chen Ping'an was a little worried. He only relied on the few words in the letter and couldn't tell the boy in Tsing Yi anything casually.

In the eyes of outsiders, Chen Ping'an never resents the almost childish loyalty of the boy in Tsing Yi. In fact, in his eyes, it is the most valuable thing about the boy in Tsing Yi.

It's much better to be a little stupid than to be shrewd and not smart at all.

At least in Chen Pingan's Luolu Mountain, this is very important and crucial.

Because this is Chen Pingan's small world, the rules are determined by him. Chen Pingan's own personal likes and dislikes are like watching an old Taoist in a Taoist temple. In a blessed land of lotus flowers, he is "God".

Outside the circle, many people's shrewdness in dealing with people is different from the way everyone strives to be first. Chen Ping'an also recognizes it. It's not even that he doesn't like it. On the contrary, he also feels that there are many advantages, such as sitting on a whole hundred miles outside Laolong City. Sun Jiashu of Changjie, the young head of the Sun family, was not only shrewd, but also had unique wisdom in life. But in the end, Chen Ping'an and Sun Jiashu, as well as the Sun family's ancestral home, had no choice but to part ways, but in the end , when taking the ferry to leave Old Dragon City, Chen Ping'an's impression of Sun Jiashu had already deepened.

The same rice can feed hundreds of people.

If you are willing to see more of other people's good qualities, you will not get into trouble.

You also need to know more about the differences between others and yourself, only then will you know why others live well or poorly.

Think about it and think about it a thousand times.

Just like the cursive calligraphy of the young county lieutenant, the scrawling was so crazy that Zeng Ye couldn't recognize a word at first glance, but in fact, down to the root, it wasn't every word?

But when it comes to observing calligraphy and appreciating the wonders of calligraphy, it doesn’t matter if I don’t know the calligraphy or the calligraphy doesn’t recognize me. I just need to take a rough look at the momentum. It doesn’t matter if I don’t look at it. But when everyone lives in this complex world, and you don’t understand the various rules and constraints of this world, especially those at the lowest level and the most easily ignored, life must teach people how to behave, which has nothing to do with good or evil, and is selfless. As the seasons pass and time passes, no one can say "I had known it before" after suffering hardships.

Chen Ping'an was a little worried. The Shaohuo Taoist boy carrying the golden sword-raising gourd had said that he would move to another world. Didn't he mean that the Lotus Flower Blessed Land would also be taken to the Qingming World? What should we do about Zhong Qiu and Cao Qinglang, the national masters of Nanyuan Kingdom? Is there any chance to meet again? The flow of time in the blessed land is under the control of the old Taoist. Will it be possible that even if Chen Pingan can return to the blessed land next time, Zhong Qiu will already be an ancient person who has received a great posthumous title in the history of Nanyuan National Youth? What about Cao Qinglang?

Chen Pingan has always been thinking about Cao Qinglang's kind-hearted child and never forgets him.

Zeng Ye and Ma Duyi were sitting at the table chatting and eating melon seeds. Unknowingly, they noticed that Mr. Chen seemed a little sad again.

Fortunately, this sadness is different from the past. It is not heavy. It is just the melancholy of thinking of someone or something. It is like green ants floating on the surface of wine, and it has not turned into the sadness of old wine.

But the accountant never said anything about his joys, sorrows and joys, and always suffered them alone.

This made Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye feel a little disappointed.

There was a knock on the door, and another copy of the Xianjia residence newspaper compiled by Mei Glaze Kingdom was delivered to this Xianjia Inn built on the riverside. It was freshly baked and filled with the long-lasting fragrance of ink unique to the Xianjia.

After Chen Pingan thanked him, he flipped through the book, browsed it twice, handed it to Ma Duyi, and said helplessly: "Su Gaoshan has begun a large-scale attack on the Mei Glaze Kingdom, and all the borders near the left pass have been lost."

This matter was recorded in detail in the Di newspaper.

Zhou Mi, one of the three navy commanders of the Mei Glaze Kingdom, is responsible for garrisoning the upper reaches of the Chunhua River. He had already turned his back to the Great Li cavalry, intending to lead an army to rebel, and secretly contacted the Great Li. However, the Emperor of the Meigla Kingdom, who had already noticed it, sent several royal monks to worship him, and they worked together to kill him. At that time, three of the monks accompanying the Great Li army beside Zhou Mi were killed in the battle. Among them, there was a Jindan Earth Immortal from Dali. Su Gaoshan was furious and asked his three generals to issue a military order. Within one month, they must attack three places in the Mei Glaze Kingdom to deal with the stubborn Mei Glaze. They formed a siege in the capital of the country and threatened to cut off the head of the emperor of the Meigla Kingdom and use it as a wine flask. They would use it to toast at the grave during the Qingming Festival next year.

Zeng Ye just watched the excitement and couldn't understand it anyway. He just felt that the Great Li cavalry was so powerful and domineering.

The monks on the mountain often don't have deep feelings about their home and country. The longer they practice and the longer they leave the secular world, the more indifferent they become.

Stand by and look on with cold eyes.

Otherwise, if you are not cultivated enough and have never really stood on the top of the mountain, you will still be trapped by the general trend and have to go down the mountain.

Therefore, the middle-aged Taoist who met by chance in the stream took the initiative to go down the mountain and help people in distress at the foot of the mountain. This made Chen Ping'an respect him. However, as he practiced Taoism, he had demons in his heart. The suffering and confusion involved were hard to describe to outsiders. Chen Ping'an doesn't think that middle-aged Taoists must be firm in their true intentions and do good deeds and accumulate virtue in the world. This is the right path, otherwise they will fall into the inferior realm.

Ma Duyi saw further than Zeng Ye, and asked doubtfully: "Why is Su Gaoshan so anxious to win the Meigla Kingdom quickly? Although I am not familiar with military affairs, I have walked through the Meigla Kingdom, and I also know the Meigla Kingdom. The waterways are criss-crossing and are not suitable for the galloping force of the Li cavalry."

Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "We say it's the Great Li cavalry, but it's not really just the cavalry. It's just that the Great Li cavalry is famous for its iron cavalry. It's easy for people to mistakenly think that the Great Li frontier army only fights on foot. Going south, what? I have never experienced such a dynasty and vassal. It is the general trend for Dali to conquer the Meigla Kingdom. But you are right. If you are so anxious to win the Meigla Kingdom, you will definitely have to pay a higher price than conquering the capital of Shihao Kingdom. , both sides of the Great Li and Mei Glaze Kingdom will lose more troops and horses. The mystery here may only be clear to Su Gaoshan himself. I believe that someone should be urging Su Gaoshan and Cao Ping, such as the true identity of the Great Li cavalry. The backbone is Song Changjing, the vassal king."

Ma Duyi hesitated for a moment, "Why doesn't Sir seem to care much about the battlefield? The life and death of those warriors on the battlefield are not as concerned as the common people?"

Chen Ping'an thought for a while and drew a circle on the table with his finger. "There is a saying in my hometown that if the earthen jar is not broken far from the wellhead, the general will inevitably die on the battlefield. Joining the army and fighting on the battlefield is equivalent to tying your head to your belt. . Just like the general in Lingguan Temple, do you think he will regret sacrificing his life for the country after his death? There are also those stragglers from the Shihao Kingdom who are fighting for food with the people in the small county. That young soldier, even if he dies He has killed so many people, so how can he really be willing to use his sword against the common people?"

Chen Pingan drew a larger circle, "You may not know that in Shihao Kingdom, I stopped a mountain spirit boy who wanted to kill someone at a dog meat shop in a county town, and gave him a ...Fairy money. But if the monster clan invades the world in large numbers, one day, even if I know that among the monster clan, there will be the fox spirit from the ancient temple in the early years, and there will be this strange young man who finally gave up killing, but when I face the vastness The big army is in front, and I am the only one standing in front of them. Behind me are the city and the people. What do you think I should do? Go to the battle formation and ask the monsters one by one why they want to kill people, and whether they are willing or not. kill?"

Chen Ping'an said calmly: "Since I chose to stand there and block the road, it means that I have prepared to die. Since the other party has fought there, it should be the same. The military sage sitting at the site of the ancient battlefield means he is sitting in heaven and earth. , such as Confucian saints sitting in academies, and Taoist true kings sitting in Taoist temples, why do they have such a favorable time, place, and people? This is probably part of the reason. When they are in it, outsiders have to follow the local customs."

Chen Pingan asked: "If I say this, do you understand?"

Zeng Ye shook his head honestly.

Ma Duyi asked: "I understand the general principle, but there is another problem. What if outsiders can forcibly break the saint's world? Does that mean the original principle, right?"

Chen Pingan shook his head and said: "This shows that you have not thought clearly about why the saint can rule the world. This is the foundation. This is the thread of the thread and the beginning of the sequence. After that, let's wonder why it is still destroyed by external forces. , the seemingly unreasonable outsider defeated the reasonable one with his fists. As for why I say "seemingly", it is more complicated. If I have the opportunity to encounter real things in the future, I will explain it to you in detail, otherwise You will only feel more and more confused, as if everything is reasonable, but in the end everyone is being unreasonable."

Ma Duyi nodded, "Okay, we'll see."

Chen Pingan smiled and said: "But I hope I won't have that opportunity."

Ma Duyi became increasingly confused.

Chen Pingan said slowly: "We have seen with our own eyes the misfortunes of the Shihao country. Only the poets and heroes, the voices of the country's subjugation, the words of grief and indignation, and those civil servants and generals who perished for the country are the most likely to be remembered in history books. . We have also passed through the Mei Glaze Country, and there are more diligent people and grumbling literati who live a relatively stable life. Which one do you think is luckier, the Shihao Country or the Mei Glaze Country?"

The answer is obvious.