Xuanjian Xianzu

Chapter 6 Jade
However, it was said that Li Tongya and Li Xiangping entered the reed marsh, they pushed aside the layers of reeds and gathered them together to see that the blue-grey mirror was shining warmly with white light. Li Xiangping looked in the direction and said in a low voice:
"This is the direction of Moon Lake, just walk along Guli Road for half an hour."

Li Tongya shook his head, and said, "Gu Li Road can't be walked on, we have to pass through the reeds."

Li Xiangping answered yes in a low voice, and started walking with his elder brother.

Lu Jiangxian only felt that the gravitational force was getting stronger and stronger, and when he entered the reeds, a blurry scene appeared in front of him, which seemed to be a cool and clear lake, and a dozen white gulls stood on one foot. Rest on the shore.

As Li Xiangping continued to move forward, the blue-gray mirror in his hand became hotter and hotter, which made him uneasy. He looked up at his second brother, but Li Tongya also had a cold face and did not speak, but his eyes were full of worry.

"Is Xianyuan really something that mortals can get their hands on..." Li Xiangping touched the mirror without realizing that his hands were hot.

"Good Jianzi, good Jianzi, we'll be here soon." He murmured while holding the blue-gray mirror.

Not long after, the two got out of the overlapping reeds, and the sparkling Moon Lake and a pool of frightened gulls and herons came into view.

Lu Jiangxian looked straight at a rocky sandbank in the lake. Among the rocks covered with moss, a piece of shining white jade was firmly stuck between the rocks.

A pale white moonlight spewed out from the hot blue-gray mirror, Li Tongya and Li Xiangping vaguely saw the sandbar with white jade shining between the cracks in the eyes of Li Tongya and Li Xiangping.

Li Xiangping and Li Tongya looked at each other, and they both saw surprise and joy in each other's eyes. Li Xiangping nodded vigorously, took off his clothes, and was about to step into the lake.

"Wait!" Li Tongya held him back and shook his head:
"I'll get it, you wait on the shore with the mirror, if the moon moves to that position, I haven't come back yet."

He pointed to the direction of the sky.

"You just hide Jianzi in the reeds, run to Guli Road, don't go home." Li Tongya looked at his younger brother solemnly. "Wait until the sun rises and come back to see the situation."

"Yes..." Li Xiangping unknowingly began to cry, and looked at his second brother wiping away his tears.

Li Tongya smiled and took off his clothes, showing his strong arms, turned around and swam into the lake, leaving Li Xiangping staring at his brother blankly in the reeds.

He came to Wangyue Lake with his father and brothers a few years ago, swam back and forth countless times, and swam to the center of the lake with ease.

Cautiously, he explored among the many crevices of the rocks, and he walked around the sandbar in a stick of incense.

"No." Li Tongya frowned, checked carefully again, and took out five or six small river crabs.

Sure enough, he felt a cool touch between his fingers, and he touched something smooth. With two fingers, he took out a piece of jade that was two fingers wide.

This jade is in the shape of a long strip, with some writing patterns engraved on the surface, Li Tongya identified it in the moonlight:
"Tai...yue...qi...yanglun..." He could only read a few words in a scribble. Li Tongya went to his husband to learn Chinese characters when he was young. He could read most of the characters. However, the patterns on this jade stone were complicated and the writing method was simple and special. It was really... Hard to identify.

Looking at the shore calmly, he held the jade in his hand and swam towards the shore.

"Third brother!"

He landed on the shore, and called out to the reeds in a low voice, Li Xiangping leaned out.Li Tongya was just about to show the jade, when he opened his hand, the jade turned into a white light and fell into the mirror with a "swish".

The two were terrified by this change, watching the white light surge on the mirror, and the moonlight also turned into halos into the mirror one after another.

However, Lu Jiangxian felt as if he had been struck by lightning, a white light hit him directly, and a vast amount of knowledge rushed into his mind quickly, he let out a painful cry, and fainted readily.

Li Tongya and Li Xiangping watched the Jianzi in their hands slowly calm down after swallowing the jade in one gulp, and the white light gradually dimmed.

The golden-red morning glow climbed up to the sky and landed on Li Tongya's naked upper body, revealing golden lines. He bowed his head and said to his younger brother:

"Go home first."

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Li Mutian sat at the red lacquered wooden table, listened to the two sons explain the ins and outs clearly, nodded to Li Tongya and said:
"Well done."

He and Li Changhu tossed and turned last night and couldn't sleep all night. Now that he saw the two children returning safely, his hanging heart finally eased.

"The front door and the backyard of our house are not too small, and the backyard is even closer to the back mountain. I thought about building two houses on the two melon fields in front. The left and right arches are connected to form a large courtyard. When the front door is closed, people can peep in."

Li Mutian said slowly that he had this idea in the early years, and the children grew up day by day, and they were about to separate.

With his savings, the Li family can be said to be a big and respectable family in the village. Li Mutian bought more than ten acres of paddy fields when he returned from the army, plus the five acres of fertile land inherited from his father, the total is nearly twenty acres.

Lijing Village is good at water and soil to support people, and the reed marshes and tidal flats are the treasures of life.

If labor is removed, the [-] mu of land can support more than ten people in a good year. The Li family has long been able to close the door and be a landlord.

It is precisely because the Li family has food and land that his four children can read and write. That is to say, Li Mutian has never been used to idle rich families, so he requires his children to study and work every day. They can all eat and live well.

"Now this family is inseparable, and the daughter-in-law has to find someone who is her own."

Li Mutian thought of those rich families he saw in the city, a family with direct relatives in the big courtyard, studying as an official, practicing martial arts, how beautiful it is!On the other hand, the poor peasant households are divided cleanly. If you don't drag me, I won't drag you.

"Just do it!"

Li Mutian's eyes lit up, and he looked at the two children.

"Go to the field and call your elder brother back to level the foundation, and leave the field to the tenants to deal with. Your fourth brother doesn't have to go pick mulberries in the afternoon, and he will spend the whole day studying at the master's place from now on."

"Okay." Li Xiangping was still full of energy after tossing all night, and went out quickly after hearing the words.

Li Tongya looked at his father, pondered for a while, and then said:

"Father wants to learn the clan law from that book, build an ancestral hall, open a clan mansion, become an official by studying, and practice martial arts."

"My Li family has saved two hundred years, and it's about time."

Li Mutian smiled and waved his hands.

"As for studying and practicing martial arts, the ancient Li Dao is extremely dangerous. Ten deaths and nine deaths occur in and out of Dali Mountain. Even studying and practicing martial arts can't be sold to the emperor of the Yue Kingdom. It's nothing more than looking for someone to inherit the family business and protect ourselves..."

Li Tongya nodded, and said in a low voice:

"There is nothing better than studying and practicing martial arts."

"Hugh's talking nonsense here."

Li Mutian laughed loudly, patted Li Tongya on the shoulder, and went out with his head raised and his hands behind his back.

(End of this chapter)