Qi Yuanxiu · Self-cultivation

It's going to snow soon, and the Yinshui side is getting colder every day.

There is a flower in Jinyang called Baichan, which has double petals, like snow.It is planted in every household. The flowering period is very short. It blooms when it snows lightly and withers when it snows heavily. The flowering period is only half a month.Rao it is half a month, it is enough to make Jinyang charming.Yinshui is considered a small border county, but there are still white toad flowers, especially in places such as inns and taverns. They like to use them to decorate the terraces.

Ji Xiu is looking at the flower.

"You are so rude."

Ji Xiu saw the old wand slowly swinging out from the crack of the door, not surprised.

"Watching flowers is like watching people. If you stare at flowers like this, the beauty will disappear in a short while."

While speaking, the old god stick tore off his white beard and white hair, and tore off his face, revealing a lively face.

Ji Xiu took his hand away from his waist.

"They're all smart people, so they won't be around the corner. I know who you are, and I know what you're going to do. I can help you, but I have one condition."

Ji Xiu narrowed his eyes.

Wang Jian clasped his fists together: "My lord, please save someone."

Seeing that Ji Xiu was indifferent, Wang Jian continued: "I am much more familiar with this world than you. What you want is not that simple."

Ji Xiu didn't want to pay attention to him, and turned around expressionlessly.

Wang Jian grabbed his arm suddenly, the wound on Ji Xiu's arm hadn't healed yet, blood oozes out when he pulls like this.

Ji Xiu instinctively took out his dagger and pressed it against Wang Jian's neck, but his eyes were bloodthirsty.

"Don't be too confident, Qi Yuanxiu! Do you really think that you can change the status quo by yourself? The whole country has internal and external troubles! The whole Jinyang has internal and external troubles! You, Qi Yuanxiu, are not both internal and external troubles!"

With a little force from Ji Xiu's wrist, the blade pierced half of Wang Jian's neck.

Wang Jian ignored it and continued loudly: "Yin Shui City has a total of 170 inns, large and small. Since I can find you, I will definitely help you win the world."

Ji Xiu squinted his eyes. The sun was about to set, and the red light shone on the pavilion, leaving a black silhouette of this person. The bloody setting sun, paired with the snow-white white toad flower, Ji Xiu's figure became ghost.

Wang Jian is gambling, using his own life to bet with Ji Xiu.

Ji Xiu was silent.

The cold wind blew out white toad petals all over the sky, Ji Xiu in the white toad petals was like a Shura, Ji Xiu put the knife into the sheath, and left without saying a word.

Wang Jian knew that he had won, and touched his back again, it was already wet.

Ji Xiu is really terrifying.

It was late at night, Mr. Li still had a lamp on in his house, and his wife, Mrs. Wang, was doing needlework on the kang. My son didn't know where he had gone, and he hadn't come home yet, so he was reading under the lamp.

Wang sighed: "I said, what's the use of looking at it now? The imperial examination has been terminated."

Master Li raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything, and continued to read.

Mrs. Wang sighed again. Her husband had always wanted to be an official and gave his knowledge to the emperor's family. Unexpectedly, he lost the emperor's family with the capital. After returning from the yamen every day, he would not put down the scroll. Wang only thought that this man was stupid in reading, and pitied him, so he would do needlework for others at ordinary times to subsidize the family.Fortunately, I gave birth to a son who is exactly the opposite of my father. He likes to wield knives and guns. He is a scholar who is useless. I think it is better to have real skills in this troubled world.

Just at this time, Li Ziquan came back.The young man is only fourteen or fifteen years old, but he is extremely tall, with a childish face, a bunt, and wrist guards, what a handsome young man!

Li Ziquan sat at the table of the Eight Immortals, Niu drank three big bowls of water, saw his father working tirelessly under the lamp, cut it disdainfully, handed the silver to his mother, and then planned to go back to his room to sleep.

"Stop," Master Li called out to him in a low voice.

Li Ziquan looked back at his father with disdain in his eyes.

Li Haifang has long been used to his son's behavior, and he doesn't care about it: "It's not very safe in the city recently, please give me peace of mind!"

"Oh, I see."

"I'm telling the truth!" Since he knew the news of King Jin's coming, San Dao must have known about it too. Who knows what will happen after this, Li Ziquan is working in a small bodyguard agency in Yinshui County Bodyguards are obviously not safe.

Li Ziquan smiled, with malicious intentions: "I think father should worry too much first, the son's brute strength is sold to others, at most he can save himself from disaster, father, you are working for Sai county magistrate , there must be nothing wrong, even if something happened, the way of Confucius and Mencius can still protect father, can't it?"

"Shut up!" Wang stared at the father and son. This kind of conversation was not once or twice. This child didn't like his father since he was a child. To copy the articles of Confucius and let him "seek the Tao", how can Li Ziquan like this father, how can he like that dry book?Fortunately, the kid later hooked up with a master in an escort agency, learned a lot of moves, and then worked directly in the escort agency, earning some money to supplement his family.

Li Ziquan laughed and walked out of the door. He had also heard about San Dao. If San Dao dared to come, try it. Anyone in the world can be afraid of San Dao but he can't!

Ji Xiu looked at the dark guard kneeling on the ground.

"Have you checked it out?"

"Report to the master, the green scarf army is only composed of ordinary people, wearing green scarves, and those people are led by a man named Sandao. The most recent thing is to cut off the grain transported by the official road. The green scarf The Scarf Army was only designed to stun the escort officers and soldiers, and then transport the food away. No one was hurt, and because of this, the locals turned a blind eye to the Green Turban Army.”

It seems to be a bit consistent with my imagination, that is, the green scarf army is not a rebel army, and it is probably a trick that the local people are oppressed and can't come up with. He is not a fool. He also knew that old thing, and knew that he was Liu Ling's godson. He was waiting for the right time to deal with him before, but he didn't expect that the green scarf army fell down, and he cut the mess quickly. These things must be over within three days.

He waved his hand to let the hidden guard go down, as if thinking of something again, he said, "How about the things I asked you to get?"

Get something?Ji Xiu agreed to cooperate with Wang Jian, and Wang Jian asked him for a pair of medicine, saying it was to save people.

"The medicine has been delivered to that person."

Ji Xiu thought for a moment, then waved the man down.Some things should be dealt with as soon as possible. This Yinshui is located on the border of Jinyang, and it is handed over to Shangwan, Xiawan, and Hanzhong. It is an extremely difficult place to manage. The old forces did not dare to control this place. No matter what you think, letting eunuchs casually be the county magistrate will be a pain for the common people.

The hidden guard presented a letter with both hands, "The Taoist priest handed it over to you."

Ji Xiuzhanxin said, "Thank you for the medicine, my brother has a lot of body, how can I eat it? Xichuan is waiting for your ears, and I worship you."

The place where Wang Jian invited guests was actually just a stall selling Chaos by the river.

When Ji Xiu arrived, the man seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and the bowl in front of him was already empty.

Wang Jian shaved his teeth: "Changzhi, you came too late, I have all the delicious food alone." He smacked his mouth as he spoke, as if he was eating a delicacy.

"The Taoist priest is polite." Ji Xiu was not surprised that this person knew his name, so he said: "Chang Zhi is dead, now it is impermanent."

Wang Jian asked Xiao Er to wipe the table, and settled the bill with a few copper coins, "Impermanence? Impermanence in the world? I have never heard of such a taboo. It is too dark and unlucky." That chart of the zodiac. "Young Master Wuchang, for the sake of treating my younger brother, I will open my eyes today and sacrifice a year or two of my life to test it for you. What do you want to test?"

Ji Xiu sneered in his heart, this person really played himself like a monkey, but this person is very smart, he has already asked people to check the details of this person secretly, and found nothing as expected, as if out of thin air There are two kinds of people who appear out of nowhere, one is a spy, and the other is a hermit, either of which is an unborn talent.

"It seems that Brother Ling's health has recovered," Ji Xiu said slowly, "Since the Taoist priest is willing to sacrifice his life to repay my favor, then I will test the biggest one, fate."

"It doesn't get in the way, it doesn't get in the way." Wang Jian wrote down Ji Xiu's birth date, "Excuse me, is your son's birthday like this?"

"The Taoist priest is really the reincarnation of a true god."

The old magic stick babbled for a while, testing characters and asking questions about tortoise shells, so he came to a conclusion after a long time:

"Wolf."

"The number one star of the Big Dipper, resourceful and ambitious," Wang Jian said, giving Ji Xiu a meaningful look.

Ji Xiu is not nervous, the lone star of Tiansha and Shapolang are collectively known as the two deadliest. Fifteen years ago, the group of gods in the Hall of Heroes said that they were the lone star of Tiansha, and the god in front of him today said that he was greedy. The reincarnation of Wolf Star, it seems that he was not a good thing in his life.So he said slowly: "A few years ago, a master did the calculation for me. Why did the two masters say it differently?"

"Secrets must not be leaked." Of course Wang Jian knew what Ji Xiu was talking about. Smart people said very clever things. To outsiders, it was nothing more than a trick of fortune-telling. Only these two people knew it well.

Wang Jian suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and when he looked again, it turned out that it was Ji Xiu who suddenly pulled out his sword and pointed it at himself.Seeing this, the surrounding people fled away one after another, not wanting to cause trouble. After a while, the area was empty.

"Master Wuchang is really impermanent," Wang Jian smiled without any panic at all.

Ji Xiu raised his eyebrows, and frowned at the tree behind Wang Jian: "Come out."

"Is it interesting to listen to people talk?"

Ji Xiu looked at this boy, wearing a brown short jacket, only about fifteen years old, with a proud expression, sword eyebrows and star eyes, such a proud child, I am afraid that he was extremely dissatisfied in his heart.

Wang Jian rolled his eyes, thinking that he would not come here any more, and looked at Li Ziquan who was on the verge of breaking out, and said, "Li Escort".

Ji Xiu sneered, "What does the Taoist priest mean?"

Li Ziquan held his sword, a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, "Let Wang Daochang go."

"Who are you?" Ji Xiu squinted his eyes, looking at this brat who didn't know what to do.

"You don't care who I am—" "Shut up!"

Wang Jian finally couldn't bear to speak. While drafting in his mind how to start the scene, he considered how to avoid bloodshed, "You two, put down your weapons. We all know each other poorly. Swords and swords are sharp weapons, and they are all murderous things."

Seeing the two of them not moving, Wang Jian was extremely helpless.

"This is my friend, Li Ziquan, Li Escort, and this is an old friend, Mister Wuchang."

He became an old friend of the old god stick for no reason, Ji Xiu kept his face on the surface, and Wang Jian made a pot of wine out of nowhere, "You all do little things, acquaintance is fate, let's have a drink."

Neither of them moved, so the old magic stick had no choice but to drink on his own.

"Tsk!" After drinking a glass of wine, the old magic stick smacked his lips, "I said you little brat, what's wrong with you, why are you hiding behind and listening to people talking?"

Li Ziquan frowned: "This man looks very evil at first glance, I'm afraid he will harm you." After all, he is a child, so he doesn't hold back his words, pouring out what should be said and what should not be said.

"Have you seen him?"

"No."

"Then why do you say he is evil?"

"I've been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and I can see his face more clearly than you, the Taoist priest. This person's face is extremely evil."

"Oh, a kid with a big fart is ashamed to say that he has been in the rivers and lakes for many years." Wang Jian shook his head and poured another glass for himself. Very prosperous, Mr. Wuchang is a good-looking talent, how can he face evil?"

"I just find him uncomfortable," Li Ziquan glared at Ji Xiu. He hates this person, but that person's appearance is indeed very good. Even compared with the legendary beauty 'Wu', this appearance is terrifying. It is also impossible to fall.But just looking uncomfortable, this person is filled with a strong Yin Qi, which is very dangerous. He doesn't know when he will entangle the people around him one by one, and then strangle him to death.

"Hey, what does it have to do with you being uncomfortable? Faces grow on other people's bodies, and eyes grow on your own body. If you don't like it, just don't look at it." Wang Jian joked, "I said you should look more at ordinary times. Book, a martial artist, you are not afraid of being laughed at if you say it, why did your father give birth to such a white man like you?"

"Hmph!" Li Ziquan said playfully, "Is reading useful?"

Ji Xiu's expression did not change, obviously he had heard such words a lot.While listening to the little ghost, he said: "Li Haifang won the Juren, and then? He didn't live by copying and writing, and he was instructed by Sai Luozhou every day. The Green Turban Army came from Yinshui County. He wrote and drew. Can it be paid? You can’t rely on real skills! The former dynasty is destroyed and the country is divided. Can it be restored by relying on a group of literati?”

"Shameless words!" Sister Wang protested.

Ji Xiu's eyes were gloomy.

Wang Jian drank a glass of wine, "The reckless man's eyesight is always so short-sighted, don't take children's words seriously."

Ji Xiu stared at the boy, "Little devil, how about a bet with you?"

"What are you gambling?"

"Peace and prosperity."

"the term?"

"Within ten years."

"What about the bet?"

"If the world is peaceful within ten years, then you must give me the number one in the first year of the exam."

"What if you lose?"

"I can't lose."

Wang Jian sneered in his heart, the King of Jinyang was a little too confident, the various factions and forces in the world were intertwined, and Qi Yuanxiu thought highly of himself, so he said: "If Mr. Wuchang loses, he will be that lonely person and spend his whole life. shall not marry a wife and bear children."

Ji Xiu smiled slightly: "It's just as the Taoist priest said."

After Shan Xuechen took the medicine, her body gradually improved a little, and her feet couldn't help getting tired, so she got out of bed and went out for a walk.Yinshui is a border town, but there is a river called Xichuan in the town. The Xichuan River is the mother river that runs through Jinyang from north to south, and both sides of the Xichuan River are also lively.

Shan Xuechen was tired from walking, so she found a chaotic booth to sit down and rest her feet.

The moonlight is as quiet as water, and the surface of the water is sparkling.

There was one person sitting at the table opposite to Shan Xuechen's table, and Shan Xuechen's eyes suddenly lit up.

That person's face is like a sculpture with distinct features, the angular face is extremely handsome, the straight and straight eyebrows flying obliquely, and the slender and sharp black eyes, like an eagle in the dark night, cold and arrogant but aggressive.But it was such a face that was neither sad nor happy, like a wooden mask.

Wang Jian had just sent Li Ziquan back, but unexpectedly found that Shan Xuechen had come, and he couldn't help lamenting in his heart that after sending off a stubborn person, another heartless person came.

Wang Jian looked at Shan Xuechen, Shan Xuechen was completely attracted by the man's face, Wang Jian went over to say hello, "Are you feeling better? Why did you run out?"

Ji Xiu looked at the two expressionlessly and said hello.

It turned out that that was the person Wang Jian wanted to save.

After sending Shan Xuechen away, Wang Jian sat next to Ji Xiu, "Haha, I've been waiting for forgiveness for a long time, that was my younger brother just now."

"Oh," Ji Xiu responded blankly, he never believed anyone.

Sai Luozhou, the magistrate of Yinshui County, has been anxious these days. Accurate news came from there. King Jinyang has arrived in Yinshui County. Although this prince has no actual power, he has indeed done a lot in the past few years. It would be difficult to deal with such an unreasonable thing if it really got too serious.

□□ Mingxiang comforted: "My lord, King Jinyang is just a little boy, and you are Lord Liu's dry grandson, so he dare not do anything to you."

Sai Luo reprimanded in a low voice: "What do you know?"

Sai Luozhong got out of bed and stuffed his fat body into the official robe, "Although King Jin is a little boy, we are not from the old school. Want me to look good!"

Ming Xiang smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? I've earned a lot of money in the past few years. At worst, let's just walk away and leave this ghostly place!"

"Where else can I go?" Sai Luozhong reflected him, "Let's get this thing out of the way first."

The servants came to report just now, and someone said that there was an important information notification, maybe it was about King Jinyang.

At the same time, the secret guards arranged by Ji Xiu also investigated a lot of news in the Yinshui county government office, even the moles on the buttocks of the magistrate of Sai County were also clear.The Green Turban Army was originally a good citizen, they picked up a hoe and became peasants. These peasants depended on the sky for their food. When the year was bad, the harvest was poor and they couldn’t pay the rent. Some bad landlords teamed up with Sai Luozhou to oppress the good peasants and forced them to The common people sold their sons and daughters, and their families were ruined.At this time, a man named Sandao rose up and formed a green scarf army to fight against the county government, but it also protected many civilians.

"Who is the soldier and who is the bandit? It's really ridiculous," Wang Jian shook his head and sighed in an abandoned thatched hut in the west of the city.

"There were no officials and bandits in the first place, but the original backgrounds were different, and they happened to be opposites."

"It's disrespectful," Wang Jian laughed.

Then the door was pushed open, and Shan Xuechen walked over imposingly, and made a big bow to the two: "I heard that you are here, Xue Shante came to thank you for saving your life."

Ji Xiu instinctively touched the dagger at his waist.

Wang Jian's expression was very bad.

He didn't expect that Shan Xuechen would come over. Shan Xuechen lacks intellect but is not lacking in IQ. He obviously noticed the embarrassing factor in the air. The Daoist priest's face was half-smiling, and the face of the person next to him had been gloomy since he came in. The tall body is placed there like a mountain, oppressing people.

Then Shan Xuechen bowed again: "Xueshan interrupted me, it's inconvenient today, so I'll take my leave first."

"Wait," Ji Xiu walked up to Shan Xuechen step by step.

"Who the hell are you?!" Ji Xiu looked down at this person.

"He's me—" Before Wang Jiandi's words came out, Ji Xiu gave him a sharp look and said, "Don't say that he is your brother's bastard, there are so many flaws, no ghost will believe it." .”

Ji Xiu repeated again: "Who the hell are you?"

The dark pupils stared at Shan Xuechen's light brown eyes, and the hostility forced the scholar who had just recovered from a long illness.

This person is really too dangerous. Ji Xiu's body felt uncomfortable the first time he saw him. He had never felt like this before. His whole body was showing flaws. He didn't allow himself to have such flaws.

Suddenly there was a loud sound of swords and swords outside the door.

Li Ziquan kicked open the door wearing a green scarf, "Ji Xiu, get out," followed by many strong men wearing green scarves.

"What do you mean?" Ji Xiu narrowed his eyes and looked at the visitor.

The hidden guard who was hiding in the dark appeared immediately, surrounded the three of them and protected them.

"You are Ji Xiu, Jinyang Wang Jixiu."

Li Ziquan ordered his subordinates to tie a person to the front. The person was only wearing a red bellyband and obscene pants, and there was still a red lip mark on his face. It seemed that he must have been caught from a romantic den.

"The county magistrate Sai is well," Wang Jian bowed to the man.

"This is the shady earth emperor, this bastard who bullies men and women, you Jinyang king."

"There is nothing good about being an official."

"Officials are the cheapest," Li Ziquan expressed his anger fiercely.

Ji Xiu remained calm, and when the brat finished speaking, he said slowly, "So what?"

So what?

Everyone at the scene was indifferent, they were just people, they only asked for the least things, but some people even wanted to snatch this little things, and if they couldn't survive, they rebelled, they would all die anyway, and rebellion might not kill them, but , what can happen later?What about after you get what you want?

Ji Xiu raised another question in a few words.

"You killed County Magistrate Sai, regardless of whether you can get out from here today. Even if you win, without County Magistrate Sai, there are still County Magistrate Zhang, County Magistrate Zhao and others, and they still use the method of County Magistrate Sai. What can you do? If you kill the King of Jinyang today, you will become the emperor of Jinyang, and there is no guarantee that there will be tens of thousands of county magistrates coming to harm your people," Wang remonstrated eloquently, eloquently .Everyone is a common people with little knowledge, hearing this statement without thinking.

The two of them, one at a time, they cooperate very well, Shan Xuechen thought to himself.

"So, Escort Li, you should read more books." Wang Jian finished the last sentence with a smile.

In fact, these days, according to the information they inquired, the two of them had already learned that the green scarves were a group of ordinary people, but they never expected that San Dao was Xiao Li's bodyguard.

The contradiction between people and officials has been a popular proposition since ancient times.

"Li Ziquan," Ji Xiu said, "bring Sai Luozhou over."

Sai Luozhou burst into tears, stumbled towards this side, and knelt down at Ji Xiu's feet with a plop like a dog: "I don't know that the prince is coming, and I am far away to welcome you, please forgive me!"

"Are you really Sai Luozhou?" Ji Xiu smiled and looked at the dog-like thing in front of him. There were really three moles on the shoulder blades.

"Exactly!" Sai Luo said excitedly on Monday.

Then there was only a flash of the knife, and before Sai County Magistrate could scream, Ji Xiu's knife slashed from his face to his chest. The panic was split in two.

Shan Xuechen's legs began to tremble involuntarily.

"As you said, I have already killed this man, do you trust me?" Ji Xiu threw aside the bloody knife and asked the Green Turban Army.

The air is filled with the smell of blood, so exciting, life is in the hands of this king, manipulating no one can resist.

Li Ziquan was dumbfounded. He lived for 15 years. After all, he was still a child. It's not like he never killed people, but the king of Jinyang turned his face a little too quickly. He killed people like chopping vegetables without any discussion. The melon was slaughtered so easily, this is not a person, this is clearly a ghost from hell.

As if he just drank a cup of tea, the blood on Ji Xiudao was still warm, but his face was calm, "Don't forget to bet with me."

Li Zi seemed to be enlightened, his face was covered with sweat, and with all his strength, he shouted: "I won't lose!"

Sai Luozhou was slaughtered, and Master Li temporarily took over the post of county magistrate. The whole Yinshui county applauded. Li Ziquan locked himself in the house for three days after that night, and he lost weight when he came out again. In a big circle, blushing, he ran to the private school to attend classes.

This is a normal day.

The carriage had been parked outside the hut for a long time.

"Who are you?" Shan Xuechen looked at the man in his thirties, who was wearing Taoist priest's clothes and holding the Taoist priest's octagonal bell.

"We can see each other again," Wang Jian stuffed the wig and beard into the bag, "Everyone has their own way to go, I have to keep my promise, I went to Jinyang," Wang Jian smiled, "I have a few days ago I wrote to your good brother, and he should take you out of here in two days."

Up to now, Wang Jian has not told him some things, such as his good friend Yu Songming, some things the less he knows, the safer.

Suddenly, Wang Jian's back touched a dagger.

The dark guard entered the room silently without knowing when.

"Sir!" Shan Xuecheng exclaimed, only to find that a dagger appeared around his neck.

"What do you mean??" Wang Jian said angrily.

"This is what our master wanted," one of the hidden guards said in a cold voice.

"I'm sorry, both of you, come lie down with us in Jinyang!"

The incident took a dramatic turn, Wang Jian sighed, he really underestimated Ji Xiu.

He met Ji Xiu before, 15 years ago.

At that time, Ji Xiu was still Qi Yuanxiu, Emperor Gong's sixth prince. At that time, Qi Yuanxiu was just a follower who followed His Highness Fifth Highness's butt asking for sweets, with a pure and harmless face. How did he become such a vicious person later on? ?Wang Jian thought about it again. Fifteen years ago, he was just the second son of Zuoqing of Guanglu Temple.

That turmoil changed the trajectory of everyone's life. Those who were carefree all their lives became indifferent and suspicious at this time, and those who were originally bohemian became worried about the country and the people at this time.

Extremely funny, called a fateful joke.

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