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Dalou and a few humble scholars also climbed up the stable together. Compared with Xiaoqian, their movements were faster and more precise. Qin Ke could tell that this included Dalou, and a few of them obviously had a foundation in cultivation.

"From here up to the other end of the eaves, you can see the Wuyang Gate." Abu explained with a smile, "I didn't discover this, it was discovered by the building. Brother Gong punished him by asking him to start from the house every day, and go up from the roof to the school all the way. No matter how high the roof is in the middle, he can't go around and has to climb over it himself. So who in this school is the most He is the one who is familiar with the landform of Yecheng."

He is really the most familiar, even the roof that normal people can't walk on, he knows it like the back of his hand... Qin Ke thought dumbfounded.

"Let's go up too." Abu said. Compared with these students, his cultivation level is higher, and his natural movements are faster. He felt that he was eating grass in the stable without worrying about these students crawling around. The claret horse, who didn't care, lowered its knees into a squatting motion, and between a jump and a grab, the whole person flipped and landed on the top of the stable.

"It's very simple." Abu turned his head, only to find that Qin Ke leaped lightly, his whole body was as light as nothing, and he floated up to the roof of the stable.

Abu was dumbfounded and said, "How do you jump so high?"

Qin Ke was still wondering that Abu didn't continue to climb up but kept looking back at him. Hearing his question, he looked back at the ground and said, "Just use the wind to bring your body around. I used to do this." Do it often, it's easy."

Earlier, Abu used very simple to tell Qin Ke that this matter is not difficult, but Qin Ke now returned a very simple one, which made Abu smile bitterly: "It is very simple. It is probably very simple for you. For you For us, it's impossible."

"It seems to be the same." Qin Ke thought for a while, and said: "Master said that it is impossible to practice the spirit and blood at the same time, but if the two are practiced separately, it will become complete but not perfect. Cultivation requires concentrating the mind and nourishing the mind, while cultivating qi and blood requires invigorating the qi and blood, beating the muscles and bones, cutting the hair and washing the marrow, and the two diametrically opposite cultivation methods will conflict."

Abu looked at Qin Ke, originally he also agreed with this statement, but now Qin Ke's actions made him a little suspicious: "But... can't you cultivate both mind and body at the same time?"

"Me?" Qin Ke was startled, raised his right hand, and gradually the wind was blowing on it, faster and faster.After Shenlong poured something into his chest that day, his perception of wind seemed to be enhanced. Originally, the wind between heaven and earth was like a group of children playing around on their own. Sometimes when he received his message, Gather around him happily and play with him, but sometimes they just play around on their own and are unwilling to respond to his calling.

But now, these winds seem to have some intimacy with him, as long as he speaks, these winds will move closer to him.

"I actually don't have the spirit of cultivation." Qin Ke said, "I have never been asked to cultivate the spirit in Xunfeng Art."

"Can you do Taoism without practicing spirituality?" Abu reached out to touch the wind on Qin Ke's hand, feeling the wind constantly spinning in the palm of his hand, scattered and gathered, "What is the principle?"

"I don't know. I just followed what my master taught me, thinking wildly in my head, and these winds came." Qin Ke answered honestly without hiding anything from Abu.

Abu didn't know much about innate wind art. Even after he returned to Jingwu, he checked the relevant classics in the library, and there was only one sentence mentioned in it: "There is a heart, there is a spirit." But this heart, what kind of heart is it? , referring to spiritual cultivation or something else, there is no more description above.

Qin Ke's answer gave him some inspiration, but it pushed his speculation about Xunfeng's technique into a bigger mystery.

Fortunately, he was only purely curious about this, and never envied Qin Ke for learning the Xunfeng technique. Zhuge Wanling once told him that there is a personal chance, and he also firmly believed in this matter.

Back then, he was just a cowherd boy for the rich man's family, but now he can enter the hall, enter the palace gate, and study in the school. What is he not satisfied with?

At this time, Xiaoqian shouted to the two of them from the eaves: "Hey! What are you two dawdling about! We won't wait for you if we delay later!"

"Here we come!" Abu smiled, followed Qin Ke, and the two easily climbed to the eaves, walking on the sturdy tiles.

"Whose roof is this?" He didn't turn on the windscreen, but the breeze still brought him the laughter of some women, the sound of strings beating, a man laughing heartily, and the lute playing " Yangchun Baixue".

Abu blushed, as if he didn't know what to say, and was about to speak, but the building interrupted: "This is the roof of the Izumo Pavilion. Step lightly, don't step on the tiles."

"Izumo Pavilion?" Such a name is somewhat elegant.Qin Ke continued to ask, "Is this a place to study knowledge?"

Abu hesitated and said nothing.

The building replied carelessly: "Izumo Pavilion is a famous brothel in Jianye City."

"Big... Mom... What's so big?" Qin Ke's eyes widened, thinking he had heard wrong, "Brothel?"

He finally understood why there were some yingyingyanyan voices under his feet, and when he unfolded the wind vision technique, some faint voices made him blush even more.He waved his hands hastily, letting the wind that brought the message blow away quickly.

Chapter 82 Conflict

But when everyone walked up the middle section along the slope of the eaves, they realized that something was wrong.

On the other side of the eaves is indeed the bustling Wuyang Gate, probably because the missions from the two countries are about to arrive. Numerous Jingwu guards lined up on both sides of the road to maintain order, but there are still many Jingwu people who want to get a closer look. It was clearer, constantly pushing forward, even these soldiers were somewhat unable to resist the huge force of the tide, so they could only sternly stop it so as not to keep the whole crowd in chaos.

However, Qin Ke and the others were surprised to find that it was not just a few of them on the roof and eaves that were most suitable for watching Wuyangmen. The same young faces were sitting or standing on the roof tiles, commenting on the situation at the city gate.

"Why are they here?" The building had a disgusted expression on its face. These individuals were all dressed in extraordinary clothes, and even wore expensive pendants around their waists, allowing them to recognize these familiar figures at a glance.

Xiaoqian followed behind, and also snorted: "Followers, they must have found a way to get up because they watched you climb the wall before."

Abu shook his head: "It's better not to judge so early. Besides, the roof does not belong to our house, and it is their freedom whether they come or not."

"Do you want to go?" Qin Ke tilted his head and looked. This location can be said to be the place with the best view. It would be a pity to leave here.

This place was first discovered by the building. At this time, of course, he refused to back down: "Why go? The roof is so big, there are so many places. Just go, people think we are afraid of them. Let's go, Just pretend you can’t see them.”

Qin Ke couldn't help smiling, thinking to himself, how can you act like you can't see them with your attitude?If you really can't see them, you don't need to be angry.

But he is right, the roof is really big, if you just walk like this, the view is surprisingly good, it would be a pity if you just give it up to these people.

At this time, Zhang Mingqi, who had just had a quarrel with everyone before, turned his head and found them, and sarcastically said, "Hey, why do you guys think you want to come up with us?"

As the building changed color, all the "pretending to be invisible" mentioned earlier were all forgotten. Looking at Zhang Mingqi's handsome face, he cursed: "Obviously I discovered the place first, shameless!"

"The place you discovered first?" Zhang Mingqi snorted and laughed, the laughter was harsh no matter what, "You should call it and see if he will agree?"

"You!" The building was furious, and he raised his leg and wanted to go up and teach Zhang Mingqi a lesson, but Abu suddenly pulled him back.

"Don't make trouble. The building." Abu whispered, "If you make a fuss, it's what they want."

"That's right." Qin Ke looked at Zhang Mingqi with a bit of disgust on his face, "If you take the initiative to fight him, it will seem that you are unreasonable. Leave him alone, let's just look at the mission."

After a few times of persuasion, the originally hot-tempered building calmed down. He also knew that as a child of a poor family, even if he really went up to fight with these people, it would be difficult to win them over. Besides, beside Zhang Mingqi, a The proud and tall figure stood quietly, with no expression on his face, as cold as a piece of ice in an ice cellar.

"Sun Qing..." The building shuddered. He knew very well that even Abu, who had the strongest cultivation base, was only a matter of a few rounds in front of Sun Qing. Go up and bring shame on yourself.

With a snort, the building turned its head, followed Qin Ke and Abu to another part of the roof and sat down. The roof was very wide, and several people talked to themselves, but there was a lot of laughter.

Looking at this situation, Zhang Mingqi felt that although he had won the game to a certain extent, it was as if a knife had been stabbed into the cotton and had nowhere to focus, so he was still a little depressed.Just at that moment, another thin figure appeared from behind.

"Master Zhang... Your food and drink is ready. It's on the table. I'm afraid it will get cold in a while." I can't do it, I can only do odd jobs in the kitchen and serve food.

With his respectful temperament, it is naturally impossible to climb such a high roof in a leisurely manner, but today is an exception. The big shopkeeper specifically told him to take good care of these young people from various noble families with strong backgrounds .After shouting a few times below and getting no response, he could only bite the bullet and move the ladder up to the room.

The roof is very high, especially for someone like him who has no practice or even heavy work, looking at the blue sky in the distance seems to see a deep well that may fall into it at any time, it is not at all Dare to straighten up, he can only crawl forward with both hands and feet, but even so, his hands and feet are still trembling with fear.

Zhang Mingqi looked at his trembling look, and sneered: "What are you afraid of?"

The boy was about to burst into tears. He thought to himself that according to the height of the roof, if he fell, he would at least be broken, so how could he not be afraid?

However, Zhang Mingqi obviously didn't have the intention to continue laughing. He first looked at the Wuyang gate, which was still noisy but there was no big movement, and then looked at Sun Qing who was standing there with a motionless expression, and said, "Take it!" Bring up the food and wine, we will eat here."

Although he didn't intend to make things difficult on purpose, such an impromptu thought almost made the boy's eyes pop out of his eyes.

"Move... up?"

The little guy really wanted to cry, but thinking of the shopkeeper's meaningful exhortation and the promise of "I'll do it well, I'll double your monthly payment", he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" Le, young master Zhang, please wait, the small one will be brought to you."

Looking at this situation, Qin Ke felt a little uncomfortable.He has always hated this kind of superiority and taking others seriously, as if he agrees with what Zhuge Wanling said to him, but he has always disliked Zhuge Wanling's supercilious indifference.

Because he knows the feeling of life like nothing. Everyone in this world wants to live a good life, but many people can't do it.

"If you have the ability to go downstairs to eat by yourself, what's the point of embarrassing someone else's restaurant work." He wanted to say 'brothel', but after thinking about it, he still couldn't get those two words out of his mouth, but the words were a bit rustic The meanness of the young man, "Or is it that you are used to being served by others, and you have to be fed to your mouth even when you eat? How is that different from the big meat worms in the ant nest?"

Zhang Mingqi heard Qin Ke's words. Although he didn't know what the "big meat worm" in the ant's nest was because of his identity, he could tell that it was not a good thing. What's wrong with being served? Don't tell me, I really want to be fed to my mouth, and it has to be done with those white and tender hands of the popular Qing Dynasty. Young master, let me rub my shoulders..." He closed his eyes, as if thinking of that scene, he let out a triumphant sigh, "It's comfortable."

Chapter 83 Looking at the sea and welcoming the Great Wall

"Come here!" The commotion at the gate of the city made everyone on the roof cry out, and the conversation between Qin Ke and Zhang Mingqi was interrupted.Qin Ke looked away and said to himself in a low voice: "Calm down... let's not get angry with this kind of person."

As for how much such a hint in the heart can play, only God knows.But when he cast his eyes on the gate of the city, he really quickly forgot about this troublesome matter.

In order to welcome the missions from the two countries, Wuyangmen closed its doors a few hours ago and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Although the people inevitably complain, it is the face of Jing and Wu to welcome the missions of the two countries. If you go to the two countries When the envoys arrived, what awaited them was a crowded and chaotic gate that smelled of pig feces and human feet. I am afraid that the envoys of the two countries would suspect that Jing Wu was negligent on purpose.

At that time, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble.

"The door is open!" While Abu exclaimed, he carefully glanced at Qin Ke's expression from the sidelines, and found that there was nothing unusual about him because of the quarrel, so he laughed, "I heard that there is a lot of trouble on the side of Canghai and the Great Wall. The blood of the ancient barbarians in the north is on their bodies, they are big and thick, and they will draw totems on their faces when fighting, and I don’t know if it’s true.”

Qin Ke recalled that the books left by his master were different from Jingwu, whose founding was still young so there was not much information about them. Although Canghai is also a new country, after all, it has been entrenched in the north for a long time, and naturally there are some classics about them.

Speaking of the local conditions and customs of Canghai, it is said that there were [-] tribes split because of the fall of the Ji Dynasty in the early years. These [-] tribes fought with each other endlessly for the land with the most abundant water and grass.

Although he didn't know how Cao Meng, the lord of the Canghai Kingdom, managed to bring the [-] divided tribes under his command, but compared with the gentry clans in Wu State who had room for negotiation in Jing and Wu, the people there believed in more The most important thing is the sword, and to gather this power is definitely not just a simple matter of a few words.

The officials of Honglu Temple were already waiting at the gate. Unlike the common people in this city, they had the mission of receiving the missions of the two countries. However, the two missions of the Canghai Great Wall entered the city at the same time, which can be said to be a rare event in Jingwu diplomacy. .

According to ancient rituals, Honglu Temple not only had to arrange all the matters for the mission to enter the city, but also the "city entry ceremony" when the mission entered the city was the most important thing.The ancient holy king welcomed the original barbarian tribe in Kaesong, the capital of the country. He used [-] musicians and [-] dancing girls from the imperial dynasty. The barbarians on the frontier have also become the good people of the imperial dynasty.

But this time Jianye City welcomed the missions from the two countries, Honglu Temple spent several months preparing, and many officials of Honglu Temple even "passed through the house for a whole month without entering", and finally integrated the entire singing and dancing troupe, just waiting This is to show Jing Wu's sincerity for peace between the two countries at the critical moment.

Qin Ke looked carefully, and there was an old man with white hair standing in the center of the officials. He was dressed in a meticulous manner, with a dignified face, without anger and prestige, showing the "neither humble nor overbearing" majesty of Honglu Temple.

It was Huang Hansheng who asked him "Shooting Righteousness" not long ago.

"Why are you nervous?" Huang Hansheng shouted in a low voice, seeing the flustered expressions of the officials at Honglu Temple beside him, "I, Jing and Wu, received the diplomatic missions from the two countries. Although we cannot be negligent, we must not weaken our momentum. Let others know , I, Jingwu, are a country of etiquette, treating each other with courtesy is the sincerity of our country, but sincerity does not mean servility.”

Hearing Huang Hansheng's slightly majestic voice, the officials of Honglu Temple immediately calmed down, as if they had found their backbone. Everyone looked straight ahead, respectful but without losing their demeanor, and straightened their backs facing the horse team.

"Come in!" Xiaoqian said excitedly, pointing at the gate, even the little boy who was trying to move a table to the top of the building with a crying face turned his head and looked over.

Qin Ke's lips were tightly closed, but the rapid beating of his heart revealed the shock in his heart.The cavalry outside the city gate finally marched slowly, with the banner bearing the words "Canghai" and "Wood" at the forefront, held high side by side by two calm-looking riders.

The breeze blew the flag, and the pattern on it shone brightly in the sun, as if it wanted to burst out of the flag.

Behind the word Canghai is a blue tiger. When he stared carefully, Qin Ke even felt that the tiger was opening its mouth wide and roaring towards the mountains and forests.Behind the wooden characters is a shield, although it doesn't look very eye-catching, but there is a fierce air coming out of it.

"It's the family emblem of the Cao family and the Mu family." Abu admired, "After Cao Meng established his country in the sea, he set the family emblem as a bronze tiger, which is a metaphor for his almost invincible tiger and leopard cavalry who swept the world. .”

"What's the matter with the Mu family?" Qin Ke asked, "Isn't it the Great Wall Mission?"

"The Great Wall is just a name for us people. In fact, the Great Wall has never been declared king, so naturally it has no national title." Abu pointed, "Compared to the bronze tiger emblem of the Cao family, the emblem of the Mu family It is even more amazing. It is said that this emblem originated from before the death of the ancient holy king. In order to commend the sacrifice of the Mu family for resisting fierce beasts on the Great Wall in exchange for the peace of the world, he gave the shield that he used when he was young to conquer the world to the ancestors of the Mu family. , meaning to praise them as the shields of the people. The ancestors of the Mu family used this as their family emblem, and it has been passed down to this day for thousands of years."

Although in such hot weather, the clothes in the armor of the cavalry who held the flag were already wet with sweat, and there were countless fine beads of sweat on their foreheads, but they didn't have any complaints, and they didn't even seem to feel the pain in their bodies. Feeling unwell, ride your horse forward.

Their skin has turned a wheat-like brown from the perennial sun exposure, and their bodies are strong and broad-boned. Each of them is nearly nine feet tall (about 1.9 meters).Compared with the southerners in Jianye City, whose height is only about seven feet, and the average is only more than six feet, they walk side by side like two moving pagodas.

And the horses under their crotch are even fatter and stronger. Compared with the horses Qin Ke has seen, they can be a head or more taller, breathing heavily, and the collision between the horseshoe and the brick floor seems to rub off sparks.

Once such a horse charges on the battlefield, it will almost be a torrent of flesh and blood. No matter what kind of phalanx it is, it will probably be crushed under their bodies, right?

"It's really scary." Qin Ke sighed softly, "Is this the horse breed of Canghai and Great Wall?"

Abu nodded: "It is also because of such a breed of horse that Cang Hai can have such an integrated heavy armored cavalry 'Tiger and Leopard Cavalry'."

Speaking of this, he showed a bit of embarrassment, "My Qingzhou ghost cavalry of Jingwu and the black cavalry of the Mo family are ranked as the three major cavalry armies in the world. Having not left Canghai territory for many years, few people know the true combat power of tiger and leopard cavalry. But as early as a few years ago, Canghai used [-] tiger and leopard cavalry to attack the phalanx of [-] soldiers of the Mo family. Victory, and even killed the corpses of soldiers all over the field and fled in a hurry, that battle was enough to shake the world."

"A pair of five, and a complete victory?" Qin Ke asked in surprise.

"You have never seen heavy cavalry charging on the frontal battlefield. For them, even arrows have little effect. The formation of infantry is simply vulnerable to them. When they run over the formation, All that's left is dry bones." Abu's eyes showed a bit of fascination, but he blushed quickly, "Oh, I've never seen it before. Brother Chang Gong told me this. He thought about it a few years ago. Formed a heavy armored cavalry, but in the end it was not done. Although the south is rich, it is not impossible to polish the armor, but a suit of armor weighs at least a few kilograms, and with the horse armor, ordinary horses cannot run at all. Even those good horses can run It’s been a few miles and I’m out of breath.”

Qin Ke nodded his head, but his eyes flickered, but the blood in his heart gradually cooled down.

For the battlefield, he is not as yearning as Abu. He still remembers the scene when he fled the famine, the army swept all the places like a frenzy, and the hungry people fleeing the famine were lined up like straw in the rain of arrows When he fell down, his father picked him up who couldn't run fast, and ran for his life at the fastest speed in his life.

If his parents hadn't fallen into a ditch used to keep out horses while running, he might have died at that time.When the cries of killing finally stopped amidst the sound of horseshoes, the family climbed out of the ditch full of dead bodies, and the crows landed on the flagpole standing upright, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain to form a great wall of flesh and blood.

Extreme silence is like death everywhere.

Qin Ke shook his head, didn't think about those things, and continued to look at the gate of the city.

Chapter 84 A Woman Like a King

As the horse team moved forward, the envoys holding the king's scepter finally appeared at the gate of the city with a white horse on their shoulders.

Everyone was stunned. Compared with the entire army that could be called sturdy, this envoy from the sea looked much thinner. He was wearing a Confucian robe that fluttered in the wind, with a bookish air on his body. On the contrary, he was carrying an ancient and formidable ancient sword, but from a distance, he looked like an ordinary scribe from the south of the Yangtze River.

With gentle and calm eyes, he looked at the woman beside him who belonged to the Great Wall but didn't hold the king's scepter, and said with a slight smile, "How did you feel when you first arrived in Jianye City?"

A woman is not a relative or family member. She is dressed in armor, and behind her is a daunting and terrifying sword.

A head of black and beautiful hair is casually tied into a ponytail at the back of the head, looking refreshing and simple.And the most important thing is that her white face, a pair of arrow-like eyebrows and steel knife-like eyes are full of heroism. When she looks around and connects with those Jingwu people, many people can't even touch her. Bearing the sharp breath, he lowered his head.

She is not an envoy, so she does not need to hold the king's scepter.But she did come to Jingwu with a mission, and all the affairs of the Great Wall Mission needed his approval, so it can be said that she has great power.

But everyone feels that this kind of thing should be taken for granted.

Because she is not an ordinary woman, her name is Mulan, the only daughter of the Mu family, a first-rank general of the Great Wall, after her father died in a battle outside the Great Wall, she is now a veritable ruler of the Great Wall.

It's like a king coming in person.

Mulan looked at the sky in Jingwu, the sky here is not as blue and clear as in the north, because there is a lot of water vapor, it looks a bit white, as if the sky has suddenly become far away.

Just like your own mission?Mulan thought.

"It's indeed more lively than I imagined." Mulan's lips were thick, but they were a little more attractive because of their rosy lips.Of course, with the aura of "stay away from idlers" released by the huge saber on her back, no one would really dare to strike up a conversation easily.

"The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, compared with the vast land and sparse population in the north, is naturally more prosperous," said Liu De, a scribe, who also holds a high position in Canghai, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a casual conversation with Mulan. Still a bit worse."

"I don't want to mention that place again." Mulan raised her brows, as if recalling some bad memories, she raised her brows suddenly.

Liu De smiled, knowing that Mulan was still brooding over that matter.He raised his head and looked forward. The officials of Jingwu Honghe Temple were already standing in a row, with solemn and formal etiquette, and obviously made a lot of preparations: "In this case, let's put aside those troublesome things and take a good look at Jingwu Temple. Let's enter the city ceremony."

He was riding on the horse, and he didn't dismount. He just bowed to Huang Hansheng, the most central official of Honglu Temple, and the two exchanged a look. network.

The drums sounded rumblingly, accompanied by vocal music, and the passionate and magnificent music began to play at the wide city gate. The dancers wore light gauze skirts, and when they danced, they looked like a lot of delicate flowers, but with the passion of the music, Their every move seems to have regained the heroic spirit of the battlefield.