The Sword of Smiling and Proud

Chapter 11 Ten Years Later
There is no blooming in the New Year, and I was surprised to see grass buds in early February.

Baixue dislikes the evening of spring, so she wears garden trees as flying flowers.

——Tang, Han Yu

In the blink of an eye, time has come to the eighth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. The Lantern Festival has just passed, and there is still a little taste of the New Year in the air on Mount Hua.

Guan Yuan has been on the mountain for ten years, and the boy Chuitiao has grown into a 16-year-old boy.Now Guan Yuan is more than six feet tall, with a calm expression and piercing eyes. He is coming down from the Lotus Peak, finishing his morning swordsmanship training.

"Brother Guan"

"Second Brother"

……

Passing by the martial arts field on the mountainside of Yuntai Peak, a group of teenagers greeted him one after another.Over the years, Yue Buqun has recruited several disciples to the mountain one after another, and the Huashan sect has gradually become more lively and more popular.

Slender, with a loyal and honest face, standing beside him is the third disciple Liang Fa;

Holding a long sword in the field, the fourth disciple Shi Daizi is practicing Huashan swordsmanship;
The person over there is big and small, and the one who is waving to this side is Gao Genming, the fifth disciple who just went up the mountain not long ago.His family is also in business, and he is the most shrewd and a little clever on weekdays.

There is also the most lively and cheerful "six monkeys" Lu Dayou who shares the same interests as Linghu Chong. He is only in his teens this year.

In the original book, there are still a few low-ranking disciples who have not yet gone up the mountain.In addition, under Guan Yuan's suggestion, Yue Buqun recruited a few foreign disciples with art apprentices to take over from the elder Xu Jinyun and others to take care of the land industry around Mount Hua.

Three years ago, Lao Denuo, who was nearly fifty years old, took a letter from Yue Buqun's old friend and went up the mountain to ask for a teacher.

Guan Yuan is familiar with the plot of the original novel, and knows that this person is actually an undercover spy sent by Zuo Lengchan of the Songshan School, so he persuades Yue Buqun not to take him into his sect.Yue Buqun was thoughtful, he had already seen something wrong in Lao Denuo's martial arts, but he never pointed it out, he just arranged for Lao Denuo to go to the outer sect to become a disciple of the outer sect.In the past few years, the Huashan faction has arranged some dirty work to maintain its reputation and maintain a sense of existence, all of which have been handled by Lao Denuo, who is so busy that he can't go to the mountain a few times a year.

Guan Yuan is more vigilant towards Lao De Nuo, every time he talks with him, he is thoughtful, and the topics he talks about are false and true, true and false.Over the past few years, Laodenuo didn't get much information about the real sect, but was dizzy and turned by Guan Yuan.

On this point, Guan Yuan and Yue Buqun, master and apprentice, had reached an inexplicable tacit understanding.

"Second Senior Brother, I heard that Huayin sent a letter, it's your family letter, and the sender is in the Zhengqi Hall at the moment." Liang Fa said.

"Okay, I'll go right away. Eldest brother, didn't you practice swords with you?"

"Senior brother is practicing swordsmanship in the back mountain, and junior sister has recently worked out a few double swordsmanship, and she is practicing with senior brother." Guan Yuan shook his head helplessly after hearing this.As she grew older, Yue Lingshan still had a deep-rooted love for Linghu Chong as described in the original book.On weekdays, he didn't practice Huashan's swordsmanship well, but tossed out a Chongling swordsmanship, and pestered Linghu Chong to practice it.

"Eldest senior brother really dotes on little junior sister~"

Guan Yuan shook his head helplessly, then pointed out Shi Daizi and Gao Genming's flaws in their sword moves, then turned and went to Zhengqi Hall.

Then everyone continued to practice swords. When it comes to martial arts, the most admired by the juniors is not the senior brother Linghu Chong, but the second senior brother Guan Yuan.

Linghu Chong is very talented, any sword technique is very good-looking and powerful.But this innate talent can't be learned, Linghu Chong often takes it for granted, the easy sword moves, the juniors can't understand anyway, this is an innate advantage, and the big guys can't learn it.Coupled with Linghu Chong's free and easy nature, he couldn't bear his temper when he was guiding his junior, and he got tired after a while.

Recently Linghu Chong has learned to drink again, from time to time he steals some wine from the back kitchen to drink, and gets very drunk, often being reprimanded by Yue Buqun.

Although Guan Yuan, the second senior brother of the public view, has a stable personality and doesn't talk much on weekdays, he is really fragrant when he guides swordsmanship.Every movement, every posture is explained in detail, and I can't wait to feed it to the mouths of my juniors.Guan Yuan has been with all the juniors for a long time, and they have a good relationship. Thinking of the fact that the martial arts of the disciples in Zhonghua Mountain in the original book were not very high, and they suffered heavy casualties, he couldn't help but want to catch their martial arts practice, so that they can protect themselves at the beginning of the plot.

Seeing that someone was doing the work for him, Linghu Chong entrusted him with the daily work of instructing his junior. As for himself, of course he wanted to spend more time with his junior.

In addition, Guan Yuan's persistence in self-discipline is also admired by everyone.Regardless of the intense heat and cold winter, Guan Yuan never slacked off practicing sword and qi every day.Many disciples even often saw that it was late at night, and the lights in Guan Yuan's room were still on, and he was still meditating and practicing Qi.

With these years of unremitting perseverance, Guan Yuan's Huashan internal strength cultivation has made rapid progress, has reached the bottleneck, and is almost successful.Guan Yuan speculates that in half a year at most, as long as the circulation of the big and small cycles of the eight extraordinary meridians is opened up, the Huashan internal energy will be considered to have reached the state of Dacheng.In terms of swordsmanship, Guan Yuan is also very proficient in Huashan swordsmanship and the thirteen styles of Qingfeng that he learned later.Guan Yuan also took the time to practice Jinyan Kungfu, Poyuquan and so on.

Several times of year-end exams, Guan Yuan and Linghu Chongruo went all out. Within a hundred moves, Linghu Chong's swordsmanship had the upper hand. After a hundred moves, the long-breathed Guan Yuan could gain the upper hand, and turned from defense to offense.Once two hundred moves are passed, Guan Yuan will definitely win.

So all the disciples admired and admired Linghu Chong, but respected and admired Guan Yuan.

After a while, Guan Yuan came to the Zhengqi Hall on the mountainside, and the guy from Xiyue Restaurant in Huayin County was waiting outside the door.Xiyue Restaurant is a restaurant opened by Yicheng, a former disciple of Huashan Mountain, after he left the mountain. On weekdays, most of the correspondence on Huashan Mountain is sent here first, and then sent up the mountain by the staff in the store.

Guan Yuan took the letter from the clerk, gave it a reward, and opened it to read. It was indeed sent from his home in Luoyang.It turns out that Guan Yuan's cousin, Guan Xiu, took part in the provincial examination in Henan Province last year and won the Juren.The letter said that the Guan family planned to hold a family banquet on February [-]th. The letter to Guan Yuan was to announce the good news, and to hope that he would come down the mountain. The family reunion was lively and lively.

The Guan family's tavern business has been running smoothly in the past few years. Relying on the connections in the rivers and lakes accumulated from traveling all over the world, they have a good reputation in Luoyang City.This time, his cousin Guan Yuanhanchuang studied hard for many years and won the Juren, which added another happy event to the Guan family.

After going up the mountain for several years, Guan Yuan only returned home once.That time, his third uncle Guan Yi'an went down the mountain when he was celebrating his daughter and having a full moon wine.

In other words, ever since Guan Yi'an let go of his emotional pain and married a woman from a wealthy family in Luoyang, he has lived happily ever after.She got a daughter, and she loved her in every possible way, and she named her Guan Qingqing.

Guan Yuan planned to take this opportunity to go down the mountain for a walk, firstly to go home to visit relatives, and secondly to go out for a walk to see if he could make a breakthrough as he was approaching a bottleneck in his internal strength cultivation.

Ever since, Guan Yuan found Yue Buqun and expressed his thoughts.

"You've been up the mountain for many years, it's time to go home and have a look." Yue Buqun said, "Now that you have achieved a small amount of internal and external skills, traveling in the rivers and lakes, self-protection is no problem, and going down the mountain to relax may be good for you too."

"I think so too. I want to stay a little longer this time when I go down the mountain, and I hope Master will allow me."

Seeing that Guan Yuan did not relax in his daily practice, Yue Buqun was also afraid that he would be too self-critical and tense, so when he saw that he was going down the mountain for a walk, he immediately agreed to do so.

"Now that you're going down the mountain, I'll arrange for you to take care of something."

"A year ago, a letter was sent up the mountain. It was a descendant of a senior in the previous generations of my Huashan School. The letter said that I wanted my juniors to learn from Huashan. If you have finished your housework, you can send my reply letter. By the way, help me consider the child's bones, if it is suitable, you can escort the child up the mountain."

The senior's hometown is located in Ba County, Central Sichuan. His surname is Shu, and he is also a big local family.

Guan Yuan agreed, and planned to travel all the way west after leaving Luoyang. There are many mountains and great rivers in Sichuan, and it is very good to browse.Guan Yuan didn't procrastinate, chose a day, packed up the package, bid farewell to master, wife and brothers, and went down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)