Sword of Coming

The matter at the porridge shop and medicine shop has been resolved. Ma Duyi and Zeng Ye thought they would continue on their way to the border of Shihao country as usual. There were two men with backgrounds in the border army. Their last wishes were related to this. People can no longer return to their roots. But my wish fell on my hometown.

But Chen Ping'an stayed for another day. In the dusk, he stopped at the city gate and watched a thin black boy leave the county from a distance. Then he went to see the closed dog meat shop in the back alley. The wall outside the door On both sides of the door were posted the two door gods of Da Li and Yuan Cao, who were holding sceptres and maces. Chen Pingan then returned to the inn.

Earlier at the city gate, Chen Pingan met Guan Yiran, a monk accompanying Da Li. The latter deliberately left his followers and stood alone with Chen Pingan at the city gate. He asked softly: "Is it a long-term plan to catch big fish?" , let the tiger go back to the mountain temporarily, in order to find the place where this little demon can find enlightenment, and find one or two opportunities for immortal objects? Or is it just like this, let this little demon go away, and treat it as a good relationship? "

If the mountain monster can transform into a human form, he must have a great blessing. Either he accidentally entered the deserted fairy cave, or he swallowed the miraculous Ganoderma lucidum that condenses the spiritual energy of the world. No matter which one it is, the former will follow the clues, and the latter will directly refine it. Transforming that monster into a monster is a huge windfall.

Chen Pingan smiled and said: "It's the latter."

Guan Yiran said regretfully: "It's a pity. If you hadn't shown up, two of my colleagues who shouted every day that they couldn't expose the pot would have long since targeted this little monster hiding in the dog meat shop. But now that you have intervened, I So I persuaded them to give up. It was just an extra step. In fact, we usually have military affairs to attend to. Of course, if you choose the former, we can do it together."

Chen Ping'an asked: "If I interfere, won't it reduce the income of your colleagues? Will it make it difficult for you to be a good person?"

Guan Yiran smiled and said: "Although those two friends and I are practitioners, we are actually more members of the Great Li Army. So it is enough to have your words and this intention. When we are away from home, It's rare to meet people from my hometown, so you don't have to be so polite, but you can be a little polite. It's best if you have it. It doesn't matter if you don't have it. At worst, if you meet someone in the future, just pretend that you don't know them. Everything is in accordance with our Dali laws and military rules. Come."

Chen Ping'an thought deeply and said: "It's right."

Guan Yiran laughed heartily, "I'm very happy to meet such a promising member of my family in a place like this, so far away from my hometown."

Chen Pingan clasped his fists and said, "It is inconvenient for me to reveal my identity now. As long as there is a chance in the future, I will definitely drink with Brother Guan."

Guan Yiran, the secretary general of Da Liwu, raised his arms and clenched his fists, tapping the iron armor on his chest, "Then I will really remember it! I agreed in advance that if I save my brother on the battlefield, I owe him his life." It doesn’t matter, the only thing you owe me is Guan Yiran’s wine, not even the King of Heaven!”

This chance encounter between fellow countrymen in a foreign land makes everyone happy even after separation.

The young man in the green cotton robe was far away from the city gate, and two monks accompanying the army wearing light armor specially made by the Dali Arsenal came slowly, one a strong young man and the other a delicate woman.

The woman looked at Guan Yiran, who seemed to be unfinished, and asked curiously: "Yiran, the beginning of spring this year is not a good sign. You have lost so much fairy money in vain, and you are still so happy?"

Guan Yiran chuckled and said, "I'm happy. Money can't buy it for me. I'm happy."

The strong man said: "A young monk who can easily give away a small summer coin has nothing to ask for from that little demon. Instead, he deliberately sends him all the way to the gate of the city, plus the porridge shop and medicine shop he previously opened in the city. , according to the intelligence, it is not just one city or one place, but everywhere. If it were anyone else, I would not believe that the monk on the mountain has such a bodhisattva heart. If it were this person, looking at his words and deeds, it would make sense, and I feel confused. You're right, you're from my hometown, and it's not a loss to be a friend worth drinking with."

The young woman with a graceful figure but carrying a huge sword complained: "You men are all like this. When you meet someone you like, you like to slap your face and make yourself fat. Isn't that the case?"

Guan Yiran said seriously: "Miss Qi, I don't like it when you talk about us men like this. I'm much richer than Yu Shanfang, so there's no need to slap someone in the face. Who said that I was born into a wealthy family?" You dandy, even your farts smell like copper?"

"A dog can't spit out ivory things from its mouth!" The woman, who was as delicate as a spring willow, punched Guan Yiran on the shoulder, causing Guan Yiran to stagger back a few steps. The woman turned around and walked back to the top of the city.

Guan Yiran grinned and rubbed his shoulders. It really hurt. He smiled bitterly, while the strong man named Yu Shanfang looked gloating.

The woman is a military monk from Fengxue Temple. Compared to Zhenwushan monks who mostly serve as mid-level and high-level military attachés in the Great Li Cavalry, the woman named Qi does not have this opportunity. She just chose another career path, but it is not a big deal. The Libian Army was not surprised by this. Most of the military monks in Fengxue Temple were like this. After coming down from the mountain, they liked to be the solitary rangers. Occasionally, there were women like this who also served as personal followers of some important generals.

Yu Shanfang put his arm around Guan Yiran's shoulders and whispered: "Yiran, after all these years, like me, I have known you for seven or eight years, but I still only think that you are a young general from the capital. , the kind of family that can't be high and low, otherwise it wouldn't have been thrown into such a shabby place by the family back then. I stayed there for nearly three years and has been the lowest-ranking monk in our frontier army. You have to know that you have a Beijing accent. , I don’t know how annoying it is. On the contrary, it’s Qi Qi, whom we’ve only known each other for less than two years. We’re just going south together this time, but she is the only one who can see through your family background and insists that you are a son of a wealthy family. Why? We are here The old brothers who have pooped in the snowy weather don’t believe it, could it be that you two have..."

After Yu Shanfang broke away from Guan Yiran, he pressed his thumbs with both hands and winked at the latter.

Guan Yiran said helplessly: "Who doesn't know that this Qi Qi has long admired her uncle, the swordsman Wei Jin, who is from Fengxue Temple?"

Guan Yiran sighed, "And I already have a fiancée. To tell you the truth, she is really the legitimate daughter of a noble family in the capital. It's just that I have never met her. It's funny to think that one day I will get married and wear the red hijab." , only then can you know what your wife looks like."

Yu Shanfang asked curiously: "Which family's unlucky girl ended up with an out-and-out frontier soldier like you?"

"I can't kill my brothers like you." Guan Yiran put the palm of his hand against the hilt of the Dali Border Army's standard sword. He walked side by side with Yu Shanfang on the streets of a foreign country. He looked around. On both sides of the streets, almost all the signs were posted. There are two painted door gods of Da Li and Yuan Cao. There are only a few surnames from Zhuguo on Da Li. The two surnames Yuan and Cao are certainly the most popular surnames in Da Li. It's just that there are actually two Shangzhu surnames that can compete with the Yuan and Cao surnames, but one is on the mountain and has little regard for secular affairs, and his surname is Yu. One only works in the court and never sets foot in the border army. His ancestral home is in Yizhou, and he later moved to the capital. It has been two hundred years. Every year, when the direct descendants of this family return home to worship their ancestors, even the Dali Ministry of Rites pays attention to it. Even the Grand Master of Da Li once joked with His Majesty the Emperor that a hundred years ago, during those tragic years when eunuchs interfered in politics, relatives took over power, feudal towns rebelled, and monks took turns looting, causing the entire Da Li to be in the most chaotic and disorderly state. Here, if this family hadn't turned the tide and worked diligently as the tailors of the Dali Dynasty, Dali would have been shattered to pieces.

Yu Shanfang intertwined his hands and fingers, stretched forward, stretched his muscles and bones, and the joints of his body crackled. Due to many personal connections, this half-wild man was promoted from a low-ranking scout in the frontier army to a military secretary. Xiu", casually said: "Actually, sometimes, when we old brothers are drinking and chatting, we will feel that you are different from us, but in the end what is the difference, and we can't explain why, there is no way, it can't be compared to that group. For the young generals who have been forced into the army, we are all guys who wash our eyes every day due to the wind and sand on the border. We all have poor eyesight and are far inferior to those young officials."

Guan Yiran smiled and said: "There are only three types of friends I recognize. On the battlefield, those who dare to dare will die, in the officialdom, the scholars with real character, and finally... the good people on the mountain."

Guan Yiran was a little sad, "It's a pity that the first and third types don't seem to live long. Needless to say, in the battlefield, after so many years of life and death, after the death of our best brother, we will no longer be like each other." Like a girl, I cry until I die. The third type is, I used to know a young man named Yu Yin, a peer who I particularly admire. What a good method, it is so good that it will make you feel... the world is no longer good. No matter how bad it is, it's enough to have him in front, talking and doing things. You only need to look at the back of the person who is getting away, and you will feel happy. But such a good cultivator should die. It's so unworthy. The family that has high hopes for him and our court chose to turn big things into trivial matters for the sake of the overall situation. I think this is wrong, but those big people will listen to what little people like me, Guan Yiran, say. Really? No. Even if...my surname is Guan."

Yu Shanfang laughed and said: "What's wrong with the surname Guan? Isn't it amazing? It's not the Guan family in Yunzai County, which is listed in the Shangzhu Kingdom! On your household registration registered in the military, it is clearly written that your kid is from the capital. , what are the virtues of our general, you still don’t know? I have already turned over your details, and told us that you are a third-rate general in the capital, not to mention that Shangzhu Kingdom and Shangzhu Kingdom are neighbors, Shangshu and Yichi Lane, where the ministers quarreled across the wall, and even the Chier Street, where the generals were crowded, your family was not qualified to have a small courtyard. Why, your kid is related to the Guan family in Yunzai County? Just because of Jiupaoze General Liu, who is also his sworn enemy, inexplicably discovered that a young scout under his command turned out to be a low-profile second-rate general in the capital. His ancestors had been second-rate generals, and he also received a drool-worthy posthumous title. When the call came, our general felt that he was being overpowered by General Liu. Now he is dreaming every day, thinking that there is a first-rate general's cub secretly hidden in the cub he brought out, which makes me laugh to death."

Guan Yiran hesitated for a moment, "If I die one day, our general may cry, laugh and scold me."

Yu Shanfang was shocked and said: "What, are you really a descendant of the Guan family whose ancestral home is Yizhou?"

Guan Yiran nodded and said: "Yizhou Yunzai County Guan clan, I am the great-great-grandson, there is nothing I can do. Although my ancestor is not a practitioner, his muscles and bones are very strong. He is a hundred years old and can still drink a pound in one meal." I drank two kilograms of meat with wine, and when the Imperial Master saw it, he was surprised."

Yu Shanfang rolled his eyes and said, "I believe you, you idiot! If you could have met Cui Guoshi, I would have met His Majesty the Emperor!"

Guan Yiran chuckled, "I told you, whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter to me anyway."

Yu Shanfang said suspiciously: "Really?"

Guan Yiran smiled and nodded, "I'm not going to lie to you. You still remember that during the New Year's Eve of the year before last, I took leave and returned to Beijing. Qi Qi said that she once followed the preacher and went to the capital in the first month of the year, maybe in In that Yuhua Lane or Chier Street, I was going door-to-door to pay New Year greetings, so Qi Qi glanced at me unintentionally. However, the rules in those two places were strict, and Qi Qi did not dare to follow me. Of course, that Qi Qi didn't know me at that time, so there was no need to explore my identity."

Yu Shanfang quietly reached out and wanted to touch Guan Yiran's head in a sneaky way.

Guan Yiran tilted his head and said with an angry smile: "What are you doing? Are you missing me so much that you think I am Qi Qi?"

Yu Shanfang rubbed his hands and said: "I have never touched a big shot in my life, so I just want to get addicted to it. Tsk tsk tsk, Shangzhu Guguan clan! I will get you drunk tonight, and I will touch you enough by then. Call me Old brothers, come one by one."

Guan Yiran said with a smile: "If you can do this kind of immoral thing, I will marry the sister who is to be married to you and say she will be a fairy daughter. Then I will call you brother-in-law every day."

Yu Shanfang kicked Guan Yiran in the butt.

Guan Yiran received the kick and did not hide.

The two continued to walk side by side.

Yu Shanfang suddenly sighed, "You should talk about this matter when the brothers leave, even if you tell them secretly."

Guan Yiran was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can't say it."

Yu Shanfang nodded sadly, "That's true."

Guan Yiran suddenly smiled and said: "One day when I die on the battlefield, the truth will be revealed. At that time, our generals and you will be able to talk about it with other cavalry soldiers."

Yu Shanfang shook his head, "Don't die."

Guan Yiran also shook his head and said slowly: "Just because I am a descendant of the Guan family in Yizhou and have a noble birth, so I can't die? Da Li has no such reason."

Yu Shanfang smiled and said: "You are mistaken. I just think that how you looked at that peer named Yu Yin back then is how I look at you now. In the future, when you become a high official in our Dali Temple, Even if you went to the capital at that time and looked like a dog, you no longer wore armor and wore official skins every day, and I was still hanging around in the border army, we might never be able to fight each other in this life, but I I still feel...reassured, well, I just feel more at ease."

Guan Yiran nodded.

Yu Shanfang asked curiously: "I'm just confused. Why do you generals, big and small, seem to like to remain anonymous and then become inconspicuous frontier army scouts?"

Guan Yiran smiled and said: "I care about Chixiang and Chi'er Street. Every young general who wants to show his face hopes that he can be a genuine frontier army scout in his life. He does not rely on the merits of his ancestors, but on his own." He has the ability to cut off the enemy's heads one by one and hang them next to the saddle. In the future, no matter what the reason is, he returns to Yichi Lane and Chi'er Street. Even the young man with the worst luck in his father's life in Chi'er Street has become a border passer. The scouts then met the scoundrels and grandchildren of the Shang Shu in Yichi Lane on the road. Once there was a conflict, as long as it was not too unreasonable, just beat the other party severely. There was no need to worry about implicating the ancestors and the family afterwards. , absolutely nothing will happen, it has been like this from my grandfather to my generation."

Yu Shanfang clicked his tongue and said in surprise: "Is this okay?"

Guan Yiran stamped his feet and said with a smile: "So the hoofs of our Li cavalry can step on them here."

Yu Shanfang asked in a low voice: "Yi Ran, do you think it is possible that one day in the future, you will become the first descendant of your Yun Zaijun Guan family to receive the posthumous title of military commander?"

"I'll lend you some good words, I'll lend you some good words."

Guan Yiran quickly bowed to thank him, straightened his back and joked: "Can't he get the posthumous title from his official position as a hunting envoy?"

Yu Shanfang patted Guan Yiran on the shoulder, "Since you are already a descendant of the Guan family, you have to be more low-key and speak softer. Otherwise, just a mouthful of Beijing movies will make people so annoying. How can you repay it in the future? You can't give it every day. My brothers and I are touching each other as pussies?"

Guan Yiran rubbed his chin, "It makes sense, it makes sense."