Sword comes

In the eyes of the carefree little girl, this bustling county town in the north of Huang Tingguo is just as lively as many small towns from her hometown combined.

But in the eyes of an old scholar who has seen all over the mountains and seas, of course he will see farther and more emptily. He may have seen the bleak scene of iron cavalry going south and gunpowder everywhere, and those bustling laughter will become heart-piercing in the future. The root cause, on the contrary, is that those ragged roadside beggars, the pain and suffering they will suffer in the future will be lighter and shallower. As for those local hooligans, they are more likely to jump up in troubled times, and they may become Huang Tingguo's father. An upstart in the officialdom and a general in the army.

It's just that the old scholar has gone through vicissitudes of life, so naturally he will not show this emotion on his face, so as not to spoil the good interest of the boy and the girl shopping.

The old man led them around all the way, found a time-honored bookstore, and bought a few books for the two of them with his own money. The old man in the shop was an old scholar who failed in the imperial examination. Such a poor old scholar like Xuanhe, it is considered a hero's sympathy, and he was impressed by the old scholar's knowledge and morality, the small book money of 20 taels of silver is counted at ten taels of silver. After the old scholar went out, he looked at the Chen Pingan and Li Baoping, who were full of admiration, smiled and said, "Well, reading is still useful, right? It helped us earn more than eight taels of silver today, so ah, there is a golden house in the book."

Speaking of this, the old scholar lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Don't tell me, there is a land in the south, of course it is not the south of your Aquarius Confucian. The Chen family of Chunru, there is one that I don't deal with the most. When he was young, he read every day and every night, and about a few decades later, because of his sincerity, one day he actually read a golden house and a Yan Ruyu from the book."

Chen Ping's eyes widened and he swallowed, "How big is that golden house?"

Li Baoping asked curiously: "How beautiful is that Yan Ruyu?"

The old scholar laughed, and pointed to the two children, "I will go and see for myself when I have a chance, I won't tell you, what you hear is not what you hear, what you see is what you see. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and beautiful scenery in books. Describing it is nothing compared to seeing it in your own eyes."

Li Baoping asked suddenly: "Old Mr. Wensheng, why did you buy those books for my little uncle? They are really superficial. Even Lin Shouyi and I can teach them. Isn't it a waste of money?"

The old scholar restrained his smile and said solemnly: "It's not the same, it's very different. The most learned books in the world must be the most profound and simple, and the most suitable for enlightening the common people. Do you know that these books are the cheapest? The old man’s [-]-text book is so cheap that anyone can buy it if they want to read it, and anyone can learn from it as long as they are willing to read it.”

Li Baoping said in a daze: "There are more printings, and more people buy it, so it's cheap."

The old scholar nodded and said with a smile: "Half right, if the truth in the book is too expensive, who is willing to pay for it? Why not buy food, which can still fill your stomach. The remaining half is for those who are superior Moral sages, if they want to teach their knowledge more widely, and become the orthodox knowledge of a state, a country, or even a continent, or the whole world, if they teach their disciples in person, it is better to cast a wide net and get a few out of them. My own learning and principles are engraved in the book. The lower the threshold, the more people will walk in. The threshold is too high, and I can’t even climb over it. In the end, there will be a few proud disciples and students under the door.”

Chen Ping sighed softly.

The old scholar asked worriedly: "What's the matter? It's boring. It's not okay. I still have to read the book."

Chen Pingan shook his head and said, "I just think it's like ordinary people opening shops to grab business. In Qilong Lane in my hometown, I have two shops that my friends help take care of. I don't know if they are losing money or making money."

The old scholar seemed to think of some old things about Chen Zhima, he sighed, and waved his hand, "Come on, I'll take you to drink. If Chen Ping'an is really hungry, you can drink a little. Aquarius is too young to drink."

It was still early, and many restaurants had not yet opened for business. Fortunately, the old scholar found a restaurant at the corner of a street. Frowning, one has a high vision, one is a clean freak, and the other has been pampered since childhood, it is estimated that he will never drink on such an occasion in his life.

The old man ordered a catty of loose wine and a plate of salted peanuts. Chen Pingan still insisted that people who practice martial arts should not drink alcohol. Li Baoping actually wanted to drink, but with his junior uncle by his side, he was just a little greedy. Staring at the old scholar drinking.

Having been with Chen Pingan for so long, from Li Baoping to Lin Shouyi and Li Huai, I have been fascinated by it all the way, and I know what I can do and what I can't do. Sometimes Li Baoping actually feels small. Uncle Shi was too serious, but after looking at the beautiful little bookcase and the thick and soft straw sandals, he didn't say anything more.

Because Lin Shouyi became a fairy on the mountain, he had lofty aspirations, so he had no idea about Chen Ping'an, but from a high standpoint, he felt that the trivial things under his nose were not worth his distraction, so he never said anything.

As for Li Huai's most willing to say anything, it's a pity that most of them are unreasonable. With a delicate balance, after Zhu He and Zhu Lu's father and daughter left, Cui Chan led two people into the team outside Yefuguan, which made the previous four people more and more united in hatred, but the relationship became closer.

The old scholar drank the wine, only half a catty was a little overwhelmed, probably because he was hurt by the scene, and he didn't deliberately use his supernatural powers. It was rare to be so relaxed, so he let himself drink to relieve his worries. A friend I knew since I was a child, his family was poor, he dropped out of school, and later opened a restaurant, which was about the size of a small shop. He opened the restaurant for nearly 65 years from the time he got married and had children until he died at the age of 40. 40 years of wine."

The old scholar shook the wine bowl lightly, "As long as I have spare money in my pocket and want to drink, I like to buy wine from him. No matter how far away, I will definitely go."

The old scholar smiled, feeling a little sad, "But one day, the shop was closed, and after asking the neighbors in the neighborhood, I found out that my friend had died. Now that the original shop was closed, I had to go elsewhere to buy wine, so I found out. He sells my kind of wine more expensive than anyone else."

Li Baoping said angrily: "Master Wensheng, you treat him as a friend, but he doesn't seem to treat you as a friend."

Chen Pingan didn't say anything.

The old man took a sip of the wine, "But it took many years before I realized that the wine he sold to me was brewed by himself from the herbs collected in the mountains. Regardless of the cost, all the best things were used, and it sold at a loss. gone."

Li Baoping opened his mouth wide, and the little girl's heart was filled with guilt.

The old man picked up a peanut, put it in his mouth and chewed it, "In the past 40 years, I have grown from a poor scholar to a scholar, and then I have some skills and fame. Every time that friend sees I only persuaded me to drink. I never mentioned his children's schooling, or his wife's family's turmoil. He just persuaded me to drink. Every time he sat in your place in the little treasure bottle, Sitting across from me, the seat is farthest from me, but you can look at me when you look up, and smile silly every time."

Li Baoping thought for a while, left his seat silently, sat opposite Chen Pingan, and grinned.

Chen Ping made a face at her.

The old scholar said slowly: "It was only later that I found out that his children either became Huang Zi Gongqing of the local imperial court and ran amok, bringing disaster to the country and the people, or became imperial wives at a young age and frequently beat and killed concubines and maidservants. The daughter-in-law's family has suddenly become rich and powerful, and has become a powerful family. The whole family is very bad, and they can do all kinds of bad things, and they have harmed many innocent people."

The old scholar stared blankly at the empty seat opposite, "But you just stay in that small wine shop, guarding a dilapidated shop, brewing wine year after year, and staying until you die of old age."

Li Baoping opened his mouth wide again, his face full of disbelief.

The old scholar withdrew his gaze, ate salted peanuts with bad wine, and said to Chen Pingan: "From now on, practice martial arts and swords hard. Don't be reasonable in everything, especially don't follow the principles in the book. You must know how to adapt, otherwise You will be very tired, and you may be the only one around you in the end, and you will lose half of your friends. Since ancient times, sages and sages, the higher the status of the gods, just because they lead by example, do less unreasonable things?"

The old scholar stretched out his fingers and slid a line on the table, and finally straightened his arms, as if he wanted to draw a road beyond the table, "Think about it, some roads, you walk alone for a year, it's okay, ten Years, hundreds of years, but the problem is coming, some people are dead-headed and insist on going on, so what to do is to do the right things at the right time, don't be too old-fashioned, have experienced everything, When I walk alone in the future, I won't feel regretful. On the contrary, I will feel "

The old Xiucai was really drunk, he stretched out his thumb and pointed at himself, "I'm such a fucking cow"

After saying this heroic speech, with a bang, the old scholar fell forward and hit his head heavily on the table.

The young man settled the bill with the shopkeeper, and walked out carrying the old scholar on his back.

The little girl was secretly happy.

It turns out that Mr. Wensheng can get drunk, and he can talk a lot while drinking.

"Chen Ping'an doesn't flirt with youth, he must drink, drink is good"

"Little Aquarius, please remember, you must cherish Chen Pingan, a good and stupid person, and don't think that he is unreasonable just because he has done so well and rightly, and instead get farther and farther away from him. You will regret it, Chen Pingan will also become the second Xiaoqi, and when something happens in the end, either no one knows at all, or if they know it, they don’t have the guts to help, how miserable it will be."

"Xiao Pingan, we speak the truth, not to make ourselves wronged, but to save it slowly. If one day, when you suddenly feel that the whole world is unreasonable, you have the confidence and heart to speak loudly to the world. Say, you're all wrong"

While reeking of alcohol, the old man slapped the boy on the head vigorously.

Chen Pingan, who was carrying the old scholar on his back, had a bitter face and could only nod his head desperately.

The old scholar hiccupped and straightened his neck, as if he was looking for the little girl in the green bamboo box. Li Baoping jumped up and said, "I'm here."

The old scholar said oh oh twice, and then slapped Chen Ping'an hard on the head again, "Xiao Ping'an, let me ask you, the more you read in the future, the more you think the truth in the book will become more and more reasonable, but if you One day, the entire or half of the scholars in the Haoran world began to criticize Xiaobao Ping, scolding her for being shameless, but actually liking her little uncle, what are you going to do?"

The little girl didn't take it seriously at all, and said angrily: "I like my little uncle and I'm wrong, how do these people read books?"

The young man has struggled to survive at the bottom of the market since he was a child, so Chen Pingan thought farther and knew more dirty things, and he said without hesitation: "If there is such a day, if they want to scold Aquarius , you have to ask me about Chen Pingan's fist first."

Chen Ping turned to the little girl and said with a smile: "In addition to fists, my little uncle will have a sword in the future, so if there is such a day, you must tell my little uncle, even if my little uncle is far away, he will come to protect you "

The old man was drunk and said: "Then if the little girl thinks that you can't beat those people anyway, and she deliberately doesn't call you for fear of getting hurt, you, Chen Pingan, only know the pitiful ending afterwards, what should you do? Let those scholars kill indiscriminately"

Chen Pingan stopped and looked at the little girl, "Bao Ping, do you think that my uncle will kill you for you afterwards and be scolded and beaten to death, or is he confronting people with dignity beforehand, let's face those villains together?" , even if you die, you will die righteously, and you will not leave any regrets at all.”

The little girl was a little flustered, "Little uncle, it sounds like the latter option is better."

The old man laughed loudly, "It's not as miserable as you think. Scholars still have to be shameless. It's not too difficult to divide life and death, but it will be a bit rough."

The old scholar finally clicked his tongue and said: "As for the order, the kid has used it so quickly, and it is very powerful to apply what you have learned."

Chen Ping said with a smile: "Mr., it's fine if you scare us. Isn't it a bit too much to drink and pretend to be drunk in order not to pay?"

The old scholar tilted his head instantly and snored like thunder.

Li Baoping still had lingering fears, and grabbed Chen Pingan's sleeve.

Chen Ping joked: "What are you afraid of? In the future, you should study hard and try to be reasonable to beat them. If this is not enough, the little uncle will work harder to practice boxing and sword from today. Sword flying, come to you from thousands of miles away, think about it, everyone raised their heads and stared at your little uncle with wide eyes, just like we saw Fengxue Temple Wei and Jin Dynasties at that time, when the time comes You just tell people, this is my little uncle, handsome or not, great or not."

The little girl nodded vigorously, laughed heartily, and jumped up, "Wow, handsome and handsome"