Will Ming

Shanggu County, beside the Yishui River, on the Barniu Mountain.

There is a peach grove at the foot of the mountain. It has already entered October, and the peach blossoms have already fallen. The mountain peaches have already been picked clean, and even the peach leaves are no longer green and begin to fall off.There is a thatched hut in the peach forest, which is low but not dilapidated.It is so simple that there is no yard, and it seems that the owner is too lazy to insert a short fence.The peach grove looks a bit bleak, while the thatched hut looks lonely, put the two together, it seems to become doubly bleak throughout the autumn.

Outside the peach forest is Yishui, which is not magnificent, but there are no fishermen on the river, no children grazing cattle on the grassland, and of course, there are even more village women washing clothes by the river.

There is a mountain, a river, a peach grove, and a hut here.

On the bluestone slab outside the thatched hut, sat an old man with his head down and eyes squinting as if he was asleep, but in fact, his eyes were moving all the time. There is a lost ant crawling back and forth.The old man sat there, his hand like that piece of dead branch trembling imperceptibly, as if he couldn't stand the coolness of the autumn wind, or he was worried about the ant that couldn't find its home.

Beside the old man lay an old dog.

In the mountains in October, the sweltering heat had long since disappeared, but the old dog was still panting with his tongue out. He didn't know whether he was exhausted from chasing that naughty hare just now, or he was too old to keep his mouth shut.

The old man squinted at the ants, and the old dog squinted at the old man.

The wind passed through the peach forest, blew the branches, and rang the bells outside the peach forest.

The bell was in the hands of a little girl, and the little girl was in the arms of a tough man.

A group of five or six people appeared outside the Taolin.Everyone got off their horses outside the peach forest, and walked into the depths of the peach forest on foot.Walking in the front was a thin man with a hideous scar on his face, and he was full of travel and dust.Behind him was a man who was a bit stronger than him, holding in his arms a little girl about ten years old who looked as delicate and beautiful as carved jade.Behind the two sturdy men, there are two beautiful women who are eye-catching.The older-looking woman who walked a little ahead was like a mouth-watering peach that was rosy and ripe.The young woman at the back looked like a mountain peach blossom blooming against the wind in mid-March.The last person walking was a young man who looked a bit lazy, with a withered yellow fluffy grass in his mouth.

The setting sun dragged the figures of this group of people out for a very long time, and the shadows walking through the peach forest were like wandering ghosts.

Of course they are not ghosts, but a few flesh and blood, affectionate and righteous people.

When the old man saw the man with the scar on his face, his squinted eyes widened instantly.Even the already bent back straightened a little involuntarily.

"Daxi? Is that you?"

The old man raised his head and asked in surprise.

The one walking in the front was Daxi Changru, he smiled relievedly when he saw the old man, "Why are you still alive?"

The old man curled his lips like a child: "I remember telling you that I can live to be at least 80 years old, and you can only live to be 50 years old at most. You are not dead yet, how can I die?"

Daxi Changru sarcastically said: "How many of what you said can be taken seriously? I remember that when you were still the servant of Sanqi, you swore to me that that person would become a person who will be praised forever. The eternal emperor is coming. If what you said is true, why did you come to this Barniu Mountain to linger on your last breath?"

The old man snorted and said, "Even if it's as you said, I'm waiting to die in this peach forest, why are you disturbing my purity again?"

Daxi Changru laughed, pointed to the old man's nose and said, "You can hide if you want to hide in peace? I want to find you, let alone a mountain of bulls, even if you get into the East Sea, you can rest and hide. You have already I’m over 60 years old, and I’m only over 30 years old, so I want to tell you when I see you, I’m sure I’ll hold a beautiful funeral for you in time, burn firecrackers, beat gongs and drums, and send you on your way. Of course, if You died later than me, and you can do that for me."

"Daxi Changru! If you came all the way to ridicule me, then I don't welcome you."

The old man said solemnly.

Daxi Changru saw that he was serious, so he made an equally serious expression and said: "Of course I am not here to ridicule you, but to send you a smart apprentice. Speaking of which, you should thank me, Otherwise, your superb medical skills will be buried in the rotten peach leaves with you, rotten, smelly, and then be forgotten."

"Disciple?"

The old man froze for a moment, then said angrily, "No!"

He stood up tremblingly, walked a few steps forward, pointed at the tip of Daxi Changru's nose and said, "You said you want me to accept apprentices, and I will accept apprentices? Although I owe you my life, you can't control my life." idea!"

Daxi Changru ignored him at all, but waved to the beautiful little girl not far away and said: "Xiao Di, come on, I have seen this bad old man, from now on he will be your master, call him master."

The little girl ran over obediently, looking up at the old man's dead leaf-like face with her delicate face up.

"Don't bark!"

The old man shouted hoarsely, and the old dog lying on the ground also stood up, showing its no longer sharp teeth to the strangers.

"grandfather"

Xiao Di, who looked like a porcelain doll with her small face upturned, laughed and let out a clear cry.The sound spread far, far away, making the entire peach forest seem to be full of life at this moment.

The old man froze, his body trembling involuntarily.

"What did you call me?"

The old man's voice became even hoarse, as hoarse as a horn that had been washed by the wind and sand in the north.

"grandfather"

Xiao Di's voice seemed so ethereal and pleasant in the peach forest.

The old man couldn't help but bent down, and raised his dead wood-like finger to lightly tap the tip of Xiao Di's delicate nose.At this moment, scenes of the past that he deliberately kept dusted poured out uncontrollably.In that year, 50 soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty crossed the great river and wiped out Nanchen in a devastating manner.The sky can't stop the vigorous and powerful Sui soldiers, not to mention the already decayed Southern Chen court?

That year, the country was broken and the family died.

That year, his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter who was only five years old all went to another world.

That year, he was still called Xu Zhizang, and he was Chen Guo's Sanqi servant.

"Grandpa, don't cry."

Xiao Di unfolded a clean handkerchief, and carefully wiped away the tears overflowing from the old man's muddy eyes.Her movements were very careful, as if she was coaxing a child younger than herself.

"Grandpa, I'll show you what elder brother An Zhi left for me, so don't cry."

Xiao Di took out Li Xian's notebook from his pocket and handed it to the old man.The old man took the note tremblingly, looked at Xiao Di lovingly and said, "Okay, grandpa, let's see what it is."

A few minutes later, the old man wiped his nose and shouted: "Which lunatic wrote this! What a fucking... what a fucking genius!"

Xiao Di was startled, and stared blankly at the old man.

"Ha ha!"

Dugu Rui, who was standing at the back, laughed triumphantly: "I just said, anyone who reads it will say that kid An Zhi is a lunatic!"

Hongfo and Ou Siqingqing glared at Dugu Ruizhi at the same time, and said in unison: "It's still a genius!"

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Trekking thousands of miles, day and night, Li Xian led a team of more than a thousand people around the state capital checkpoint and finally returned to Yanshan Mountain again.Eighteen riders left Yanshan and went to Youzhou, and now they turned around in a big circle and turned back, which should be regarded as a small reincarnation that will not be discovered.Wen Jie and his Long Tingwei had already left, and the corpses from the fight on the mountain had also been buried.A few months later, a layer of weeds had grown on the grave.

The Yanshan area is regarded as a place without government jurisdiction.The Great Sui declared that Yanshan was the territory of the Great Sui, so the grassland people did not dare to approach here easily.As for the part outside the Great Wall, Sui people would not easily cross it.The frontier army of the Sui Dynasty would not tolerate grassland people approaching here, because this was the border of a powerful empire, and anyone who came uninvited would be killed.The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were all proud, so Wen Jie was clearly here to hunt down and kill Li Xian, but when he saw the Turkic wolf riders appearing in Yanshan, he would simply order to kill those guys.

Of course, it is impossible for Wen Jie to hide this matter. Emperor Yang Guang of Daye would definitely know, but he would not do anything to the Turkic people when he was about to conquer Goguryeo. Therefore, the murderous Sui would not publicize it.Similarly, Ashina Quhu will not publicize it unless he wants to lead the millions of troops who are about to gather in Zhuojun to the grassland.

Therefore, Yanshan is very safe now.

At the place where he was fighting the Turks, Li Xian stopped.

"It's right here, build a village along the hillside."

"The terrain here doesn't seem to be very good."

Ji Haotian looked carefully at the terrain and said: "One side is a gentle slope, the other side is a cliff, and two of the three sides are dense forests. Once someone comes, it will be difficult to retreat."

"The terrain here is indeed not the most suitable."

Li Xian said word by word: "But since you pushed me to be the head of the family, don't question my order. I said it is here, it is here."

Ji Haotian was stunned, then nodded with a smile and said: "Everything is to be ordered by the master."

Li Xian hummed, pointed to a big rock outside the dense forest not far away and said: "Also, you can find a way to get that rock away, or smash it to pieces, anyway, I don't want to see that rock. "

"why?"

Ji Haotianxia