step on mountains and rivers

Everyone returned to the earthen house, and after dinner, they went to rest.

In the early morning of the second day, the blizzard finally stopped. After saying goodbye to Wu and the old man, everyone drove towards Taihua in a carriage.

The carriage drove on the snow for a few more days, and then came to Taihua's mountain gate.

Tang Qingfeng stopped the carriage, and everyone got off and walked to the mountain gate.

A few people stood at the mountain gate and looked inward, and saw majestic halls standing proudly in the flat valley among the mountains covered in silver.Next to the main hall group, a steaming river flows out of the mountain, passes through several sporadic palaces standing at the foot of the mountain, and then flows into the distance.

A wide mountain road beside the river is built along the mountain, winding up and disappearing into the snow-white mountain top.

Under the top of the mountain, in the wide square, a huge dark blue sword stele stands proudly on its own. On the three-foot-high sword stele, four large characters are engraved on it, "righteous way with the sword." '

Tang Qingfeng looked at the huge monument in the distance, and said in a slightly appreciative tone:

"The stele is not bad, I will make one when I go back to the Tang Sect."

Jiang Ling heard what Tang Qingfeng said, and asked him:

"The Tang Sect doesn't practice swords, why are you erecting a sword stele?"

"Who said I want to erect a sword stele." Tang Qingfeng said.

"Huh?" Jiang Ling was puzzled.

Seeing his doubts, Tang Qingfeng looked at him with a mysterious smile and said, "What I want to erect is a statue."

"Statue? Old Tang, what statue do you want to erect?" Jiang Ling asked puzzled.

"Secret." Tang Qingfeng said, glanced at Li Zhenwu, and then smiled lightly.

While the few people were talking, a beautiful girl in snow-colored clothes slowly came from behind the mountain gate.She was holding a silver-white wolfhound in her hand. The wolfhound was very well-behaved and walked slowly with the girl's pace.

The girl led the wolf, and after seeing Li Zhenwu at the mountain gate, she quickened her pace and walked towards the crowd.

When she came close, the girl saw Li Zhenwu in red, and she was overjoyed.Immediately thought to myself:

"Brother Zhenwu came here in red, is he trying to imply to me that he is here to propose marriage?"

Thinking of her, a bunch of scenes of Li Zhenwu's confession and marriage proposals appeared in her mind, and she even thought of the scene of marriage.On the wedding night, Li Zhenwu was wearing a red dress, gently lifted her veil, and said softly to her, "Linglong, I have been waiting for this day for a long time." Then Li Zhenwu lowered his head and slowly approached her.

Just when she thought of this, Tang Qingfeng saw her looking at Li Zhenwu with an infatuated face, she didn't know what was going on in her head, and she was smiling happily, so she interrupted her fantasy by saying:

"Ms. Chu, should you be more reserved, you are a girl in a boudoir, it's not good to stare at Zhenwu like this and make a fool of yourself."

Chu Linglong was fantasizing, but when she was about to fantasize about Li Zhenwu kissing her, Tang Qingfeng's sudden words interrupted the fantasy.

After waking up from her fantasy, she looked at Tang Qingfeng with an unhappy expression and said:

"Why are you here?"

"Didn't you read the letter?" Tang Qingfeng asked back.

"I see, but your name is omitted." Chu Linglong said.

"Whatever, I don't need you to remember anyway." Tang Qingfeng said.

"Exactly, I don't want to remember you either." Chu Linglong replied.

Li Zhenwu saw that the two men were at war and disliked each other, so he said softly:

"Miss Chu, we have already informed you in the letter of our visit, why don't you go back to Taihua to discuss specific matters."

Seeing Li Zhenwu speak, Chu Linglong nodded and said, "Okay, since Senior Brother Zhenwu said it, I won't argue with him."

As he said that, he looked at Li Zhenwu and said, "By the way, Senior Brother Zhenwu, didn't you just call me by my name in the letter? Why are you so out of touch today? Just call me Linglong."

Hearing what she said, Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng with some embarrassment.Just when Chu Linglong was puzzled by Li Zhenwu's actions, Tang Qingfeng said slowly:

"Zhenwu doesn't know how to write polite words. I made them up for him. Miss Chu doesn't need to care."

"What?!!" After hearing Tang Qingfeng's answer, Chu Linglong looked at him sullenly and said, "You!! You are really hateful!!"

Chu Linglong felt that something was wrong when she read the letter. Although she only got along with Senior Brother Zhenwu for a few days, she knew that he was definitely not the kind of person who would take the initiative to ask for help. It made her happy for nothing.

Thinking of her, Tang Qingfeng became angry with Tang Qingfeng, so he opened his mouth and said loudly to the wolf dog beside him:

"Small gray!"

After hearing her words, the wolf dog grinned at Tang Qingfeng, ready to attack at any time.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the wolfhound, and said nonchalantly, "Oh."

Seeing his attitude, Chu Linglong became even more angry.Just listen to her order to the wolf dog beside her:

"Xiao Hui, bit this hateful person for me!"

After listening to Chu Linglong's order, the wolf dog flew towards Tang Qingfeng.

Tang Qingfeng's eyes were cold when he saw the wolf dog rushing towards him. Just when he was about to fan out, Li Zhenwu suddenly shot out and knocked the attacking wolf dog to the ground with a palm.

When Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu in surprise, he heard Li Zhenwu's words and said to Chu Linglong coldly:

"Miss Chu, although you disagree with brother Tang, you don't need to hurt others. Since you hate brother Tang, we can find another way to deal with the Four Sacred Palaces, so we won't bother you."

After Li Zhenwu finished speaking, he pulled Tang Qingfeng and turned away.

Seeing the two leaving, Jiang Ling and Lu Qing looked at Chu Linglong in embarrassment, turned around and followed behind them.

When Chu Linglong saw Li Zhenwu leaving with anger on his face, a sense of grievance rose in her heart. Since she was born, no one had dared to be so cruel to her, not to mention that this person was Senior Brother Zhenwu whom she had admired for a long time.

She looked at the back of Li Zhenwu leaving, and wanted to call him to stop, but she couldn't hold back, so she watched Li Zhenwu go further and further in silence.

On the snowy road, Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu who was beside him with a slightly angry expression, smiled slightly and said:

"Zhenwu, don't be angry, she's just joking, she doesn't really want to hurt me. Besides, that dog can't hurt me, let's go back."

"Brother Tang, she hates you, you shouldn't go back and suffer." Li Zhenwu said seriously.

"Really, well, I won't go back, Zhenwu can just go back." Tang Qingfeng smiled.

"Brother Tang......" Hearing what he said, Li Zhenwu looked at him speechless for a while.

"Well, I was just joking. How could I be willing to let Zhenwu leave?" Tang Qingfeng said, glanced at Chu Linglong behind him, and then smiled at Li Zhenwu:

"Okay, since Zhenwu doesn't want to, let's check it ourselves."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu replied.

Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu who was angry for him, and found it cute.So he teased him with words:

"Zhenwu's domineering guard just now is very cute."

"........." Li Zhenwu was speechless after hearing Tang Qingfeng's words, and lowered his head with a reddish face.

Jiang Ling, who was walking behind the two, thought about what happened, looked at Lu Qing inexplicably and said:

"Lu Qing, are we going to leave like this?"

"Yes." Lu Qing replied.

"Then why did we travel long distances to Taihua?" Jiang Ling asked.

"Brother Li is angry." Lu Qing replied.

"Huh? Isn't Miss Chu just kidding around? Besides, that dog can't hurt Old Tang, why is Brother Li so angry?" Jiang Ling asked puzzled.

Lu Qing glanced at Jiang Ling, then sighed softly and said:

"Jiang Ling, if the dog attacked me, what should you do?"

"Then I will punch it..." Before Jiang Ling finished speaking, he suddenly realized something:

"Lu Qing, you mean, Brother Li is to Old Tang..."

"Jiang Ling, your reaction is a bit slow." Lu Qing said.

"What?! When is Brother Li?" Jiang Ling asked in surprise.

"Probably at the Mohist Treasure Cave." Lu Qing replied.

"The treasure cave? You mean when they fell into the abyss together?" Jiang Ling asked.

"Maybe, I'm just guessing. You have to ask Brother Li for the details," Lu Qing said.

"Forget it." Jiang Ling continued to ask after returning: "So Brother Li likes Old Tang?"

"Why are you so gossip?" Lu Qing heard him ask, and glanced at him.

Seeing him roll his eyes, Jiang Ling explained:

"Lu Qing, no, you don't know, it's Old Tang."

"I know." Lu Qing said.

"Huh? What do you know?" Jiang Ling was puzzled.

Lu Qing looked at him and said slowly:

"I know Brother Tang is more pleased than Brother Li."

"What? How do you know?" Jiang Ling asked in surprise.

Lu Qing glanced at him, and replied calmly: "The Valley of Immortal Medicine, Brother Tang himself said it."

After hearing Lu Qing's answer, Jiang Ling froze in place in surprise.He quickly recalled the scene of Immortal Medicine Valley in his mind. At that time, he thought that Old Tang was just caring about his friends, but he didn't expect that he had such affection for Brother Li at that time.

Jiang Ling thought about it and quickly recalled the time in Yangzhou, and then suddenly realized:

"So that's it. From this point of view, Old Tang has been interested in Brother Li from the very beginning."

"Huh?" Hearing what he said, Lu Qing looked at him puzzled and asked.

Seeing that he was puzzled, Jiang Ling explained:

"When we first met in Yangzhou, he was very kind to Brother Li. He also said that if the Daoist was like this, he would consider it. No wonder I was the bait when the bait was planned, and he and Brother Li were the plan. No wonder he If I want to ask Brother Li where to travel, I want him to go to Bashu with me! Old Tang is so scheming! I didn’t realize it before!”

After Jiang Ling finished speaking, Lu Qing looked at him and said slowly:

"Jiang Ling, what Brother Tang did was not scheming, but because he loved too deeply, so he was so careful. But I don't know what he has experienced with Brother Li before, so that he loves so deeply, and even to save him, you can Without any hesitation, I jumped into the bottomless abyss."

"Lu Qing, if you are in danger, I can die for you." Seeing that Lu Qing seemed a little envious in his words, Jiang Ling said softly to him.

"Well, I know." Lu Qing replied, "Me too."

"Lu Qing..." Jiang Ling was moved after hearing Lu Qing's words.

At this time, Chu Linglong looked at Li Zhenwu who was going further and further away, feeling very flustered.She didn't want Li Zhenwu to go, and she didn't want to apologize to Tang Qingfeng.Just when she was struggling, she saw Tang Qingfeng pulling Li Zhenwu into the carriage. She glanced at Li Zhenwu who was about to leave, and said loudly:

"Brother Zhenwu!!"

Li Zhenwu was about to drive away, when he heard Chu Linglong's voice suddenly, he turned his head and looked towards her.

But she saw Chu Linglong running towards here with the unconscious wolfhound in her arms.

When Chu Linglong came close, Li Zhenwu looked at her, then at the wolfhound in her arms, and then said:

"Miss Chu, don't worry, I just stunned it, and it will wake up later."

Hearing what he said, Chu Linglong looked at him and hesitated to speak.

Seeing her speechless, Li Zhenwu glanced at her and said:

"If Miss Chu has nothing else to do, we will take our leave."

As he said that, he was about to pull the rein, but was stopped by Chu Linglong:

"Senior Brother Zhenwu, don't leave, it's my fault, I shouldn't be so nonsense and make Senior Brother Zhenwu angry."

After hearing her apology, Li Zhenwu did not answer her words.

Seeing that Li Zhenwu seemed to be still angry, Chu Linglong looked at Tang Qingfeng hesitantly and said, "I'm sorry."

Seeing her apologizing, Tang Qingfeng glanced at her and said to Li Zhenwu beside him:

"Zhenwu, Miss Chu already knows her mistake, let's let this matter pass."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu nodded, and then said seriously to Chu Linglong:

"Miss Chu, although we have something to ask of you, we won't take your anger at will. The matter of the Four Sacred Palaces is very important, and the girl should put the overall situation first, and it's better not to play petty temper casually."

"Well, Brother Zhenwu is right. I did something wrong before, so don't be angry, Brother Zhenwu. Come down quickly, brother. I will take you to Taihua. I have important information to tell you." Chu Linglong said.

"En." After Li Zhenwu returned, he got out of the carriage with the others, and followed Chu Linglong into the Taihua Mountain Gate.

On the way, seeing Chu Linglong condescending to Li Zhenwu, Jiang Ling looked at Lu Qing in disbelief and whispered:

"Lu Qing, it seems to be Brother Li who played a little temper just now."

"......." After listening to Jiang Ling's words, Lu Qing was silent for a moment and said:

"I thought Brother Li had a flat temperament, but I didn't expect to be such a stubborn person."

"It's really stubborn." Jiang Ling echoed.