Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 123 Sword Pill
Li Xiuyuan who returned to the mansion did not go into the room to sleep, but sat in the gazebo to meditate and practice Qi.

Although the Renshan Avenue has not been effective, if you practice it on a daily basis, among other things, at least you can be energetic, and you don't have to sleep every night like ordinary people.

This sitting is two hours.

The night faded quickly, and the early morning sun had already fallen.

Li Xiuyuan, who was in good spirits, opened his eyes slightly just now.

"Others say that cultivating the Tao is good and you can live forever, but who can understand the boringness of cultivating the Tao? I have only meditated for two hours and I can't continue to meditate. I really don't know how those so-called masters can sit for a day , or even ten days and half a month."

He secretly thought in his heart.

After stretching his waist and exercising his muscles and bones, he still planned to go back to the house to review the Four Books and Five Classics, so as not to fail the exam as a scholar, which would become a joke.

"That scholar who trains Qi, are you the owner of this mansion?"

Suddenly, just as Li Xiuyuan was about to meet in the study, a voice came.

"Who?" Li Xiuyuan immediately looked for the sound.

But he saw a big man standing on the wall of his own courtyard, with a swallow jaw and a tiger beard, and a leopard head and eyes around him. Although this big man was not ugly in appearance, he looked ferocious, like Zhang Fei in ancient times. If people glanced at it, they would be frightened and take a detour.

"I'm just a passer-by. I saw that you have bad wine outside your house. I want to ask the owner of the house if he sells it?" said the burly man.

"There is no wine in front of my house, this friend may have misread it." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Since you are the master of this house, it's easy to handle."

After finishing speaking, the burly man jumped down from the courtyard wall again, and after a while, holding a big wine jar with one hand, he jumped onto the courtyard wall again. Why isn't the wine at your door yours?"

"Good skill." Li Xiuyuan didn't care about the wine, but cared about this big man's skill.

The courtyard wall of my mansion is at least one foot high, and since this big man can jump up with a jug of several tens of catties of wine, it is not something ordinary people can do.

"Your martial arts are not bad. There are so many scholars in the world, but none of them are like you. You have such a good martial arts at a young age."

The burly man said: "Looking at the way you meditated and practiced qi before, I know that you are taking the way of qi training, and you can cultivate a whole body of martial arts through the way of qi training. You, a scholar, are very talented in martial arts. I see you It’s a waste to continue studying, just practice martial arts, in less than 20 years, you will be the master of martial arts in this world.”

"It's a pity that my ambition is not to practice martial arts." Li Xiuyuan laughed.

The burly man nodded and said: "I understand that everything is inferior, but reading is high. Reading is indeed an elegant thing, but have you ever thought about it, how many scholars have there been in the past and present? Those who are promising are nothing more than being officials in the court, or becoming a local scholar. A county magistrate, a mediocre one, just spends his whole life as a teacher, how can he enjoy being a chivalrous man with his martial arts."

"Everyone has their own way, and some things cannot be forced." Li Xiuyuan said, of course he knew how happy he was.

But now the Li family needs to become a family of officials, otherwise what happened to County Magistrate Liu would still happen that day.

"That's right, everyone has their own way. Then let's not talk about this, you really don't sell this wine?" The burly man shook the wine jar in his hand and said: "I will buy you a jar for 100 taels of silver. "

"This wine is not mine to sell you." Li Xiuyuan said.

At this time, the burly man seemed to smell the wine in the wine jar, and he smiled: "Since it's not yours, then I don't care about it. Let's drink it first. If the owner finds it, I'll pay him some money."

As he spoke, he lifted the mud seal, lifted the wine jar and poured it into his mouth.

Even Li Xiuyuan in the yard could smell the strong aroma of wine.

It is indeed a rare good wine.

But the smell of this wine is very familiar!

Li Xiuyuan looked at the wine poured out of the wine jar, but it was as scarlet as blood, shining brightly, like the wine from the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty that he drank in the Town God's Temple last night.

Immediately, he understood something.

This wine appeared at my door, I am afraid that the city god sent a few jars to him at night with ghost messengers.

But immediately he frowned again: "This city god will not send me wine for no reason, I am afraid that this wine is sent to make amends for me."

"I remembered that this is the apology wine that someone gave me. I didn't want it at first. It seems that the person didn't notify me in advance, so he put down the wine and left. Now you drank a jug, but I can't return it." gone back."

The burly man put down the wine jar, wiped his beard and said with a smile: "I said earlier that it was your wine, but you didn't admit it, but I drank this wine too, and you can't let me spit it out. I will pay you 100 taels of silver." Well, it would be a pity not to drink such fine wine here."

"I'm not short of money." Li Xiuyuan said.

"You don't want money, so what do you want? Let me be honest, if you don't want money and wine, I won't pay you back." The burly man said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "I don't want you to change, just now I saw that your martial arts are very high, how about showing me my martial arts?"

"Guide you?"

The burly man looked at Li Xiuyuan with a pair of leopard eyes, and grinned: "You don't need my advice, as long as you continue to practice like this, you will become a master of martial arts in less than a year. You can't help it."

After speaking, he looked at the golden gun standing in the yard.

"Besides, what you play is a big gun, a weapon on the battlefield, you can only see it when you are riding a horse. I use a sword, a weapon for fighting people, and you don't walk in the same way. My martial arts are useless for you to learn." .”

"You use a sword, but I didn't see your sword." Li Xiuyuan asked.

"My sword needs to see blood when it comes out, otherwise it won't come back." The burly man said.

Li Xiuyuan said; "Then you wait."

After speaking, he turned and went to the kitchen, took out a live chicken, and threw it into the yard.

"Then can this chicken try your sword? This can be regarded as seeing blood." Li Xiuyuan said, he was still quite interested in the big man's sword.

"Haha, yes, since I drank your wine and you don't take my money, I will show you my sword." The burly man laughed, then opened his mouth to spit out, and a white rainbow flew out.

This white rainbow was extremely swift and fierce, and it went straight to the hen, and quickly turned around the hen's neck, only to see that the hen was still running forward, and the head had fallen silently. It fell, and chicken blood spattered from the neck.

"How about my sword?"

The burly man opened his mouth to inhale again, and Bai Hong flew over, turned into a pill and swallowed it in his stomach.

Li Xiuyuan shrank his eyes slightly immediately, he didn't expect that the sword of this big man was actually a flying sword.

According to the legend, the flying sword can kill people by exhaling the breath.

"Okay, what a flying sword. It's as fast as lightning and extremely sharp. It can decapitate people thousands of miles away. This is the sword fairy's method. I never thought that you are a sword fairy." Li Xiuyuan said.

"What kind of sword fairy am I? I just gained a little fortune and earned a sword pill. Don't envy me. This sword pill will see blood when it comes out, but it can't kill people. If you kill someone, the sword will be stained with blood. Wash it with thunder and fire, otherwise you will lose your spirituality and you will not be able to fly. I have not killed a single person since I got this sword, but today I slaughtered a chicken."

The burly man took another sip of wine and said, "Okay, I won't tell you anymore. I'm a policeman from Six Doors, and I'm going to catch another bandit today. Scholar, you are different from other ordinary people. I think Be pleasing to the eye, see you later when you have time."

After speaking, he jumped off the courtyard wall and left.

"Since it's fate, I'll give you two jars of wine to take away." Li Xiuyuan shouted again.

"Okay, then I'll take it away." The big man's voice came from outside the courtyard wall, and he was not polite.

When Li Xiuyuan went to the gate of the mansion to take a look, he found that there were only seven jars of wine left outside. As for the big man, there was no trace of him, and he didn't know where he went.

It looked like the city god gave him a total of ten jars of wine.

"Ten altars of wine should be regarded as an apology, and the city god really dismissed me like a child."

Li Xiuyuan looked in the direction of the City God with a calm face: "If I didn't realize it for a while and was drunk by this man, I really want to return this wine to the City God."

But right now there is no need to go back.

Ten altars of wine were sent out and three altars were given away, so how can I return them.

However, using three jars of wine to make friends with a man who can spit flying swords is worth it, and if we meet in the future, we can also have some friendship.

Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan turned around and returned to the mansion, and then ordered the two guards who stayed at the mansion to bring the seven altars of wine in.

Since the item can no longer be returned, then accept it.

"Ten altars of wine can understand the grievances between the city god and me. This city god has made a lot of money."

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, and then put away his thoughts and stopped thinking about these frivolous things.

After returning to the house, he went back to the study and began to study hard.

For several days in a row, he seldom left the house, and stayed alone in the study. If he was sleepy, he would go outside to meditate for a while. When he was hungry, Xiaodie and Du Chunhua would naturally take care of him.

Although Xiaodie is Qingmei's maidservant, she also knows a little bit of pen and ink, and she reads with her on weekdays, and she doesn't feel lonely when she rubs ink, on the contrary, she feels a bit like a red sleeve.

Although Du Chunhua is a village girl in the mountains, she is diligent in her hands and feet, and is proficient in washing, cooking, and housework.

The two of them were waiting by his side, which made Li Xiuyuan feel more at ease.

As for making friends and attending literati gatherings like an ordinary scholar, he is not very interested, lest he meet that plain-looking scholar again, and that young man from Hedong, Ye Huai'an, and he will ruin himself by then. Mood.

Let's talk about everything after the examination of scholar.

But the peaceful days have not passed for many days.

About five days from now.

In the morning, Li Xiuyuan played with a big gun in the yard and shot a pot of bows to ensure that his muscles and bones would not be lazy, and then went into the study to practice calligraphy.

"Quiet and far."

He took the pen and snake on the rice paper and wrote down these four big characters.

"Xiaodie, look, how does my strength compare to the previous few days?"

Xiaodie was rubbing ink aside, her bright eyes moved at this moment, and she said with a smile: "Young master's writing skills are amazing, no matter what you write, it looks good, and it's much better than the previous few days."

"Hehe, you know how to flatter me. This handwriting has to be tested in the examination room. If you don't write it well, you can't do it." Li Xiuyuan shook his head and smiled, but continued to practice calligraphy.

But then again, he really felt that his handwriting was much better than the previous few days.

I don't know if it's because of my exquisite heart.

(End of this chapter)