Chapter 879: A guest came to Jianyu Tower, and the snow was watched by the purple clothes on the snow.
In the third year of Xiangfu, in the spring breeze of peach blossoms, a middle-aged man rode his old donkey across Jianyu to enter Western Shu. He pretended to be carrying a peach branch, and passers-by, especially young people, could not help but smile. Oh, another person in the martial arts world who admires the style of the sword god Deng Tai Azhuoran. However, there is a rumor in the world that the Peach Sword God is not only standing out in the sword forest today, but also a beautiful and beautiful man. The appearance of this uncle in front of him is really unfair.
A man with a not-stunning appearance was leisurely riding a donkey to see the scenery of Shu Kingdom, stopping and stopping, and not in a hurry. The reason for entering Shu was that he received a letter from his apprentice in a familiar restaurant. The letter said that he fell in love with a woman, and was almost at the right time to talk about marriage, thinking that he, the master, was a matchmaker. The apprentice reminded him many times in the letter not to go to Western Shu in a mess, not to help his apprentice with face. After all, people in the world believe that having a master must have a disciple. If the master does not take responsibility, how good the apprentice can be is not that Master, you must keep yourself clean and refreshed, otherwise the girl’s family may not be assured to hand over her daughter to him.
After receiving the letter, the man did not care about everything as he used to. He really put his heart into it. He borrowed thirty taels of silver from the restaurant shopkeeper and bought two new sets of clothes. Then he rushed from the distant southeast Jianzhou to Western Shu. The letter was sent half a year ago. Fortunately, the disciple knew that his master was wandering all year round, so he moved his life to more than half a year later. At the end of the letter, he still swears that if he saw the letter late, it would be fine. His disciple waited patiently for his master.
This man who had used swords and cast swords but never wore swords were hesitating along the way whether to buy a sword and hang it on his waist, because the disciple’s letter said that the woman he liked came from a wealthy family in the Western Shu River and the gang used swords from the head to the servants, and even the names of those swords were very charming. The sword of the head of the sect is called “Huozhu”, and the famous sword offered by the chief is even more famous on the “Magic Book”. Even a few external disciples who are familiar with each other have more magnificent names than the other. The most important thing is the daughter of the head of the sect, who is the woman his apprentice takes a fancy to. The sword of the sect happens to be called “Tao”, fate.
The middle-aged man arrived in Yizhou and asked for a little direction in the city of Zhou and found the famous gang on West Shu Road – Jianyulou. It is said that whenever there are major events, more than 300 swordsmen in Jianyu Tower will join forces to climb the main building that is as high as six floors, and throw the sword out of the building at the same time, and fall the sword like rain. Although Jianyu Tower is not famous in the entire Liyang River and Lake, it is far less than that of Chuntie Caotang, which has produced a rouge-rated beauty, it is indeed a top sect within the jurisdiction of Western Shu, and it is known as the “Swords of Western Shu come out of the Rain Tower”. Looking back to the past, the Western Shu Sword Emperor, who later vowed to guard the city gate for the country to the death in front of the Xu family’s iron cavalry, had climbed to the main building many times and personally commented on the sword skills of the outstanding disciples in the Jianyu Building. And there is also a sect hanging on the highest floor.The portraits of the masters of swordsmanship in the rivers and lakes established by the sect are encouraged to persevere in strengthening their swordsmanship. For example, in the distance, there is Ji Xinding, a great sword immortal of the same era as Gao Shulu, and in the near future, there is Liu Songtao, a big devil a hundred years ago. In the past decade, there have been portraits of Jian Jiuhuang, Song Nianqing, Qi Jiajie, Chai Qingshan and others. Of course, Li Chungang is a towering mountain that cannot be avoided by swordsmen in the world. Jianyu Tower especially admires this Spring and Autumn Sword Armor, and hangs its portrait in the center, side by side with Lu Zu.
When the gatekeeper of Jianyu Tower heard that the guest from afar was looking for the young man, he saw that he was riding a donkey and hanging peach branches and became more and more disliked. In the eyes of the old man, the young man was not bad, his swordsmanship was mediocre, but his vision was not bad, and he won by chance with several Wenfen who worshipped on paper. But if we marry the only daughter of the owner of Jianyu Tower, he has neither a prominent family background nor a solid cultivation. It is not a fool who said that it is really not a deliberate way for the young man from the foreign country. The entire Western Shu River knows that the owner has spoken long ago. He is just such a daughter. As long as he fails to enter the first-class realm, no one can think of being his son-in-law.
The old man was a kind-hearted person after all. After hearing that the middle-aged man had walked thousands of miles, he told the truth about the bamboo tube pouring beans and gave the middle-aged man a guide, saying that the young man had rented a small yard on the nearby streets and wandered around the gate of the Jianyu Building every now and then. There was a rare light snow in Western Sichuan at the end of last winter. The young man took a broom to sweep the snow before dawn, but he almost got beaten. It snowed, how rare this is in Western Shu. Everyone wished that the snow was like a mountain. But after he swept it, many disciples who ran out to enjoy the snow on the street were completely dumbfounded. The whole street was so clean that it was outrageous. The concierge was also amused and laughed at this point, and said angrily that if he hadn’t seen that young man be stupid, he would not have been as scattered as ordinary gangsters, otherwise he would have wanted to beat him up.
The middle-aged man from afar listened to the old man’s nagging, holding the donkey with one hand and rubbing his chin with the other, as if he was smiling.
The old man in the concierge finally remembered to ask what the relationship between this man and the careless young man. The man said he was the guy’s master. The old man grinned, and the newly-started chatter disappeared. He quickly waved his hand and signaled the man to find his apprentice.
As the sun sets, the old man looked at the distant back who was not riding a donkey. As the back gradually stretches on the street, he feels from the bottom of his heart that the master and apprentice are all weird people, but after careful consideration, he can’t tell what’s weird.
The middle-aged man walked around with an old friend who was reluctant to ride, and finally found the cold yard in a humble alley. Standing at the door, he suddenly felt a little guilty. It turned out that his apprentice followed him around for so many years, and had no desires, so he had no gains.
He knocked on the door, and a young man who was no longer suitable to call him a boy walked out quickly and saw his master’s familiar face, full of surprise. The middle-aged man was about to smile and talk, but his apprentice had bypassed himHolding the old donkey’s head hurts the self-indulgent middle-aged man a little.
The middle-aged man then found that in addition to his apprentice, there was also a girl with a wooden hairpin and cloth skirt in the yard, carrying a water spoon to water a small tree at the base of the wall in the yard. Seeing the middle-aged man, he smiled shyly and was at a loss.
My apprentice talked to the old donkey who had been dependent on each other for many years and introduced to the master carelessly: “Master, this is Acao, my neighbor here. She found this peach tree to plant. Acao’s parents are also easy to get along with. Their family runs a small porridge shop on the street. Acao usually goes to the downtown area in the city to sell apricots, peaches, orchids. Master, if you go to Acao’s house, you can smell the fragrance of the yard…”
The middle-aged man listened to the apprentice’s mother-in-law’s muttering, for no reason. No wonder after parting, he always felt that there was something missing in the world. It turned out that the apprentice’s muttering was missing, and he was not used to it.
He glanced at the thin poor girl with a few more eyes. Her back was facing their master and apprentice, and her ears were red.
He smiled and turned to ask, “Master has called you too, when will you come to the door?”
The apprentice suddenly looked dim and had a far-fetched smile: “Master, I’m sorry, it may have made you go for nothing.”
He frowned and said softly, “What’s going on?”
The apprentice scratched his head and said awkwardly, “That’s it, Master, don’t ask more questions.”
He asked with a smile: “It’s the woman’s parents. The master of Jianyulou despises you as a ranger, so he bullies others with his power.”
Unexpectedly, the apprentice shook his head: “The master of Jianyulou is not alone in looking down on me. He is infatuated with swords and is a heroic righteous man. He has a reputation in the martial arts world of Xishu Road. In his eyes, only the young children of the second-rank master are considered to be his daughter’s good match. It is the woman’s mother and several brothers who are a little unreasonable, said some ugly words, and did some… In short, I just don’t want me to continue to stay in this city.”
The middle-aged man smiled and said, “Then you are scared.”
The apprentice hurriedly said, “How can that be? But later the woman has something else in her heart. I can’t bother her. The reason why men and women should be in love with each other is still understand.”
The girl with wooden hairpin mustered up the courage and said, “Those people once gave…”
The young man quickly stopped the girl from “compensation”. The middle-aged man looked as usual, but he just held his apprentice’s arm in an instant: “There is insufficient energy in his words. I originally thought that you were not accustomed to the waters and lands of Western Shu, but it turned out that he had internal injuries. Four months ago, someone stabbed you with a sword, Danzhong, Juque, and Qihai. It was a point that it stopped. It seemed that the scar was not serious, but it actually hurt the origin. A swordsman of such a level, I think he has become a famous person in the West Shu Road for a long time. I will say his nameCome and listen and let the master reason with him. “
The young man shook his head and said, “Master, let’s forget it. I had wanted to leave here for a long time, but… I was afraid that my master would not find me when he went to Western Shu, so he did not leave. “
The middle-aged man who was not angry at first heard this sentence, for some reason his face suddenly became gloomy, as if he had been touched by the reverse scale. The middle-aged man who had been silent and said slightly raised his voice, with a slight reproach and a little blame: “You didn’t tell them what your master’s surname is! “
The young man was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said, “At that time, the other party came to the door with great momentum, and he beaten to death, but the apprentice accidentally forgot it. “
The middle-aged man snorted coldly: “I don’t think I’m willing to say it out loud.”
The young man smiled silly: “It’s so embarrassing to say it out loud. I’ll let people know that Master, you have found such a futile apprentice. Besides, I am so shameless that I am not guilty of reporting your name, who believes it?”
The middle-aged man was stunned.