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"Although this is the case, they will often appear by our side, giving advice on kung fu and life... But most of the time, we just let us go our own way." Ah Po didn't know what to think of, and then Laughed, "Grandma Liu asked Uncle Xu to come to find us a year later. Seeing a few children with yellow and emaciated faces, they scolded our master behind their backs for days and nights."

A Po took off the red lid of the jar, found a jar of mellow and thick fine wine, took a sip and shook the wine jar towards Qiu Lingfu, Qiu Lingfu turned his head away as if he hadn't seen it.

Ah Po looked at it and only smiled: "But later, we couldn't get over the boredom in this cave, and went down the mountain again. Master seemed to have nothing happened, and still appeared on a certain night or on an empty street, enlightening Our martial arts. Old Uncle Xu also looks for us once a year, when we were young, we lived near Chongyun City, so we couldn't run far."

"If it gets older, he can't care about it anymore." A Po said, took another sip, and threw the wine to Qiu Lingfu in a jar, and Qiu Lingfu had to catch it in a hurry.

Qiu Lingfu had no choice but to take a sip of the wine. The taste of the wine was good, but Qiu Lingfu knew that it had great stamina after smelling it, so he didn't dare to taste more.

Returning the jar, looking at the endless road ahead, Qiu Lingfu asked with a bitter face, "How long is the road? If it's too far, wine won't solve my worries."

"It's here." Apo laughed.

The two turned a few more turns, and gradually there was some light in front of them, and the thin morning light diffused on the stone wall.

After passing through a narrow crossing, the vision suddenly opened up.

The tens of feet wide caves are chiseled on the cliffs of the upper part of the high mountain with extraordinary workmanship.Down below is the swift-flowing river, and there is no way up.Surrounded by clouds and mists all year round, it is hidden and mysterious.

In the spacious place under the cave, clothes and dry food are neatly dried. There is a small hole on the mountain wall, and water flows into a wooden barrel. It is a mountain spring that accumulates water vapor in the cave.

"Qiu Lingfu, it really is you!" A familiar voice descended from the sky, and Qiu Lingfu raised his head. There were several small holes in the cave, which were regarded as habitable rooms. One person flew down from one of the small holes and landed on the spacious flat ground, like a swallow, It's Xiao Shiliu.

In addition, there is a small hole with a white boy who looks like a book boy, who came out yawning and rubbing his eyes, and woke up early in the morning.Not far away, there was an old man who was cleaning up the sundries. He also stopped folding vegetables and looked this way. He stared at Qiu Lingfu in a daze, "Grandma Liu said there were two people, but I still think it's Xiaoru."

An old lady with dry skin was sitting on a rattan chair on the flat ground, her eyes were cold and she looked at herself with hostility.

Qiu Lingfu recognized that it was Granny Liu whom he had just met.

Although Granny Liu had cold eyes and a cold face, Old Uncle Xu was enthusiastic, he hurriedly greeted Qiu Lingfu and Ah Po to sit down, and immediately went to set up a table of dishes.

There is little meat on this table, but all the way here, how can I sit down and eat it like this?It was just a few days ago when I enjoyed snacks alone in that carriage, I still had to worry about whether an assassin would fall from the sky.Qiu Lingfu didn't care what Grandma Liu thought of him, she ate comfortably while holding the bowl.

Ah Po and Xiao Shiliu drank the wine taken out of the cave, and Old Uncle Xu and Granny Liu also drank a few drinks from time to time to celebrate. Seeing what Qiu Lingfu was whispering, there was only the white and clean appearance of a book boy Neither the young man nor Qiu Lingfu touched the wine glass.

According to Xiao Shiliu's introduction, the boy's name is Mu Rong, and his mother is Bai Xingyi's younger sister, who is a cousin of Ah Po.

His appearance was not quite similar, the boy seemed to have lived in this cave all the time, his complexion was pale, and he had never seen much sunlight.

"Why don't you drink?" Qiu Lingfu asked him.

The boy glanced at him, ignored him, and only concentrated on eating the food in front of him.

His fingers are slender, and he holds the chopsticks in a good posture. All he eats are vegetarian dishes.

Qiu Lingfu asked closely again: "Why are you only vegetarian? Doesn't it mean that you believe in Buddhism? If you believe in Buddhism, you have to eat more meat while the monks and Taoists are away."

"It's not that you have picked up all the vegetarian ones, how can I eat them?" Mu Rong was overwhelmed and finally answered with a frown.

"Where is there?" Qiu Lingfu picked out a little bit of minced meat with his chopsticks in a dish, "here, here you are, don't accuse me of being greedy."

Just as he was about to put it into Mu Rong's bowl, he was picked away by the horizontal chopsticks, and the specks of minced meat flew into the air, and when it fell, it happened to be pinched by the pair of chopsticks just now.

Ah Po smiled and put the minced meat in his mouth: "Don't tease Mu Rong, he doesn't like other people's chopsticks getting on his food."

The bowls of meat and vegetables were turned over and looted by Qiu Lingfu with chopsticks. Of course, only the vegetables in front of him were swallowed.

Mu Rong looked up and watched Ah Po put the bit of meat that Qiu Lingfu picked up into his mouth, his brows were frowned like knots, he couldn't even eat the meal.

Granny Liu was careful, watching Mu Rong re-use a clean bowl and put new dishes in front of Mu Rong, so she could barely continue eating.

But Xiao Shiliu kept looking at it, and said strangely: "Oh, hey, this spoiled one is not as good as our young master Qiu who grew up with rich parents in Huai'an, who knows how hard every grain is."

Before Mu Rong had eaten a few mouthfuls of rice, a pair of chopsticks flew towards Xiao Shiliu. Not to be outdone, Xiao Shiliu grabbed the ends of the chopsticks with his hand and made Mu Rong slap the table in disgust.

"Can you have a good meal!" Old Uncle Xu also dropped his chopsticks and went over to persuade them to fight, but the three of them entangled and fought together.

"This dining table should be placed in a smaller place. If you want to fight, you can bear it." Three people were missing from the table, and Qiu Lingfu was happy to eat a few more mouthfuls of food. Without panicking, he joked, "Isn't that right, Granny Liu?"

"······" Granny Liu's face seemed to be holding back something, tangled and ugly, she took a last look at A'Po, dropped her chopsticks and left.

With an effort of lightness, he flew into a small cave.

There are tables and chairs, pens and ink and rice paper in this cave. Except for the rough and simple stone walls, it is no different from ordinary people's study.

Half of the scrolls, calligraphy and paintings here were brought back from the mountain by Ah Po.

Grandma Liu looked at these calligraphy and paintings, depicting the rivers, lakes and mountains outside, but unfortunately she was old, and she no longer wanted to recall or ask about the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys outside.

Looking at these things just makes my daily life less boring.

Hearing the footsteps behind her, Granny Liu didn't turn her head.

"This person is neither as good at martial arts as his mother, nor as kind and sincere as his father." Grandma Liu sighed, "What you have to do is so difficult and dangerous. If you work with this person, you won't be afraid of harming you." life?"

Ah Po didn't answer Granny Liu, but was just curious: "A Po wants to ask Granny Liu, Granny Liu has never met Qiu Lingfu, why she has such prejudice against him."

"His mother can just watch his father die in front of her eyes without going to rescue him, and can watch the Bai family beg for each other when they are in danger without making a show of it. The mother's cold-blooded and ruthless so far, how can the son who brought up with one hand be better? !" Grandma Liu said this with righteous indignation.

Ah Po couldn't help being a little stunned by the news about the past of the Qiu family's parents who came suddenly, and said in a daze: "It turns out that the Bai family and the Qiu family have a relationship, but I didn't know."

Granny Liu turned her head and said with a wry smile: "When you said that under the snow-white ridge, the thick soil, strange flowers and plants everywhere seemed to be related to flowers and rainy leaves, I thought of Qiu Xinsu. It's just that your father has a lot of friends in the world, and he has a lot of friends with flowers. Qiu Xinsu is not the only one who has a deep friendship with Yuye, I didn't say... Who knows, you still found her son in the end."

"Father once entrusted Qiu Xinsu to save the Bai family? I met Qiu Xinsu a few months ago, and he doesn't look like someone who would die." Ah Po thought of the person with the old mask in the sea of ​​flowers, "There are also people in the rivers and lakes. It is widely rumored that she acted as a hero in those days."

"How much is true or false in the rumors in the world? Storytellers can say whatever they like for a living. Don't forget, the Bai family also attracted the attention of the world because of those storytellers' nonsense. , ended up in such a miserable state!" Granny Liu was full of grief and indignation at the end when she thought of the tragic situation of the Bai family.

Ah Po also knew that even though Grandma Liu was a heroine of a generation, now that she is old and has gone through this and that, he shouldn't say too much, so he said a few words of comfort.

"Xu Yu is a good boy, but her son has the same surname as hers, so I'm afraid she won't get any kindness from Xu Yu... Even a person like you can be malicious. I don't think Qiu Lingfu can be a close friend." A person." Granny Liu regarded Ah Po as her own, and she also advised him to distinguish people carefully, so as not to make friends carelessly and end badly. By the sword of the enemy, but by the hands of one's own."

Ah Po whispered: "If Ah Po makes mother-in-law worry, then it is Ah Po's fault. But what Ah Po can do is to make himself stronger than those who have malicious intentions."

"Isn't it easier to stay away from people with malicious intentions than to be better than all those with malicious intentions?" Granny Liu said earnestly.

"Grandmother." Granny Liu's painstaking efforts made Ah Po both grateful and heavy, "It's more difficult than anything else if you don't mean what you say or do."

Granny Liu looked at Ah Po, the child who made her feel distressed every time she came back with a disheveled face, has grown into a tall and straight young man who created all corners of the world.

She was both proud and troubled by his utter goodwill.

Thinking that I am also very old, I am afraid that I am going to die in the mountains, and this child will not have the chance to intervene for most of his life, so he took a deep breath resignedly: "I rarely make mistakes in my life, but I hope this time, it is I was old and stubborn and misunderstood the man."

If the Bai family who watched and grew up, all they make are sincere friends, and their love is a beloved man who will never change life and death, then it would not be a pity to sacrifice all the well-being of this old thing for the rest of his life.

After drinking and eating, they began to sit down and discuss the news that everyone had traveled around for the past few months.

After the Huachao meeting, the discussions about Qiu Xinsu and Qiu Lingfu in the Jianghu did not decrease but increased.

Because Ding She of Xiangshui Palace secretly reported Hua Yuye before, and Qiu Xinsu attracted Lieyun Village, so he was able to witness the silencing of the people behind the scenes with other sects.

With such a behind-the-scenes person, the interest in the discussion in the world has increased.Qiu Xinsu's disappearance and Qiu Lingfu's appearance in Huayuye were originally the focus of Huachaohui, so it is not surprising that they were connected.The person behind this scene is the most popular in Jianghu, and it turns out to be the mysterious and unpredictable Suxin faction.

It's just that there are rumors in the rivers and lakes that all this is related to the treasure of the Bai family that was not found back then.

Ah Po followed the vines to find the past, and as expected, the people who spread the news were all young men who were bribed by Kongquebin.I don't know what is the purpose of laying the Peacock Coast in this way.

And Xiao Shiliu also secretly visited Kongquebin in recent years, and was shocked by the result.

Kongquebin seems to have become more and more quiet in recent years, but it is gradually going downhill!

After Duan Jinglan took over as the head of the sect, he did not know what method he used to make many local officials let go of Kongquebin, secretly annexing many white and black sects.

It seems that justice is awe-inspiring, but in fact it is all done for the purpose of expanding strength, no matter whether it is right or wrong, what they do is no different from the underworld.