Zhao Tingzhen and Qiu Zhongshu really cannot distinguish between the various sects of Taoism.

China respects Confucianism alone. In the past, Taoism was declining, and its activities were mainly concentrated in the south. In the Central Plains, the influence of Longhu Mountain was originally extremely weak, and there were almost no Taoist sects north of the Huanghe River.

In addition, in recent years, the Qing sect has risen and the Qing doctrine has developed very rapidly in the north. Although it encountered setbacks from almost destroying the faction during this period, now with the support of the barbarian army, it has rekindled and developed even more rapidly.

The Taoist Quanqing cannot marry a wife. It is precisely because of this, when they saw this Taoist Xiaobai, they subconsciously thought that he was the same as the Taoist Quanqing.

At this moment, when Taoist Xiaobai said this, they suddenly realized... Yes, it seems that Taoist priests in the south can get married and have children?

Somehow, Zhao Tingzhen's face suddenly turned red, and Qiu Zhongshu became more and more gloomy.

The convoy continued to move forward, and the atmosphere became a little awkward. Along the way, Zhao Tingzhen, who was originally talking and laughing with the young Taoist priest, suddenly became much more restrained, while Qiu Zhongshu's face became increasingly ugly.

The whole journey became boring.

On the evening of that day, they entered Xinjin City.

Xinjin City is a relatively famous city in Luzhou. Because it was captured by the barbarian army without bloodshed, it was still preserved in general and was not massacred by the barbarian army afterwards. Unlike Lucheng, nearly 10,000 people were killed by the barbarian army on the day the city was destroyed.

Qilifeng's convoy moved into a house in the east of the city. The owner of this house was called Zhao Mu, who was Zhao Tingzhen's clan. With Qilifeng's support, he did some business in Xinjin City, which can be regarded as Qilifeng's stronghold in Xinjin City.

As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, the weather becomes hotter and hotter. Many families have hung deworming items such as mugwort leaves at the door, and realgar wine has also begun to sell on stalls on the streets and alleys.

That night, after Ningjiang took a bath, he stepped out of the house and took a walk outside. Suddenly, he heard the sound of brushing in the courtyard on the other side. He waved his whisk and walked away, and saw two lanterns hanging under the eaves in front of him.

On the field, Zhao Tingzhen, wearing white clothes with arrow sleeves, turned her delicate body, and several flying knives came out, snatching and snatching, all hitting targets in the distance. What is quite strange is that none of these flying knives are straight, and all draw nearly semicircular trajectories in the air, which are mysterious and unpredictable.

He stepped forward and smiled, "Miss Zhen is indeed a good flying knife!"

Seeing him coming, Zhao Tingzhen stood under the lamp, embarrassedly tweaked the hair in his ear and said, "Master laughs!"

Ning Jiang pondered for a moment, and looked at the flying knife that was clearly flying out of different directions but stuck on the same target in the distance, and suddenly said, "Miss Zhen's flying knife technique should not be taught by Ling Zun. I don't know what does Miss Zhen have to do with Qiu Shuijiang, a famous 'Suanxiong' in the world?"

"'Suzuka's Melancholy' Qiu Shui recommended?" Zhao Tingzhen opened her eyes wide, "I have indeed heard of the name of this martial arts woman. She was a master-level figure who was famous in the world before the mysterious energy was soaring, but I have never seen her."

Ning Jiang said in surprise: "Although I have never seen her, I can recognize her. Your flying sword technique is clearly rumored by the 'Suanxiong Sorrow'. How could you not recognize her?"

Zhao Tingzhen said thoughtfully: "This set of flying sword technique was taught to me by a woman I met when I was young. At that time, some of my friends and I were playing in the forest and saw a strange woman sitting alone by the river, lowering her head to ponder, looking sad, and not knowing what she was thinking. We played there all day, and she even sat there all day. Other children said she was a weird person, but I thought, how could she stand it when she sat like this and didn't eat anything? So she ran home and brought some food for her. In the next few days, she kept sitting like that, and I brought food for her every day, and occasionally talked to her. Until one day, she asked me if I wanted to learn skills? I nodded, and she taught me this set of flying sword technique. Later, I never saw her again..."

He looked at Xiaobai Taoist in surprise: "Did I meet really Qiu Shuijiang? Later, although I had investigated her origin many times, I never saw her. My father said that the sword technique I learned was far better than the unique skills he could teach me. The one who taught me sword technique must be a strange person in the world. But I never knew who she was."

Ning Jiang smiled and said, "Although I don't know martial arts, I still have this little bit of vision. I heard what you said, it is probably her who teaches you the skills of flying swords."

Zhao Tingzhen said: "But Qiu Shui recommends it in the world. Isn't he a famous piano master? Haven't you ever heard of her using a flying knife?"

Ning Jiang laughed and said, "Sunkong mourns Qiu Shui, the nine heavens and swords fell into the world! Since she is known as the "Nine Heavens and swords", why can't she use a knife? However, the technique of flying swords is her unique skill before she advanced to the master. At the moment she entered the master level, she had already obtained the sword and forgot the sword. Well, Qiu Shui became a grandmaster and was famous all over the world, just ten years ago. If I was not wrong, when you met her, it was a critical period when she was only one line away from the master level master. She passed her nine heavens and swords to you. When you learned her sword skills, she had forgotten her flying sword. From then on, she no longer used the sword, but at the same time, her flying swords were everywhere."

Continuing, "It is normal that you can't find out her origin, just because before you met her, she was just a first-class expert. In addition, she was low-key, so there were naturally not many people in the world. Before the mysterious energy was soaring, I'm afraid you can't say it, right? After she left, she had already entered the Grand Master level. Even if she did nothing, a Grand Master level master was difficult to become famous in that era. But she no longer used a flying knife, so what you know was naturally the only one who used a piano to "Suanhuo Sorrow".

Zhao Tingzhen looked up at the night sky and yearned for a moment: "It's like this? I forgot the knife and stepped into the master at the moment I passed the knife... Such a strange thing is really mysterious."

Ning Jiang said: "Although the Xuan Qi is now so prosperous, many people can have the strength that can only be achieved by the Grand Master level in the past, those who have made breakthroughs with their own powerful cultivation and amazing insight before the Xuan Qi is prosperous are still beyond the same as others. And with the emergence of the Xuan Qi is prosperous and the Nine Yin True Sutra, the top masters who first entered the sect saint level must be among these people."

Zhao Tingzhen looked at her and the waves turned: "Master Taoist, you have never seen Qiu Shuijian before, but you can infer such a mysterious truth. With your ability, if you practice martial arts, you may not be inferior to anyone in this world. Why do you only study medicine and not practice martial arts?"

The young Taoist man carried his left hand and waved his hand on his whisk, put it on his arm, and smiled and said, "I am a Taoist person. I have said: The best is like water! Water conservancy is not a fight, but if you don't fight, what's the point of learning martial arts?"

Zhao Tingzhen said: "But nowadays, unlike in the past, even if you don't fight, others will come to fight with you, so what should I do then?"

The young Taoist looked up at the sky and said leisurely: "The heart of man is dangerous, and the heart of Tao is small! Although I do not fight, no one in the world can compete with me!"

...

***

In the distance, a dim corner came an unpleasant sound.

After a while, a woman's vicious voice rang out: "I originally wanted to teach them some lessons, but unexpectedly, I was destroyed by the Taoist priest who was in trouble."

Then a man said: "The Taoist priest from the south can actually break my blood snake? Haha, I want to see what he has to do."

The woman said, "Although the Taoist hates it, it's easy for him to harm him. I heard that he doesn't know martial arts at all. He just takes two little girls to travel around the world with pretty good medical skills. If you want to kill him, you just kill chickens and sheep. Humph, when I deal with that stinky girl Zhao Tingzhen, I will settle the score with him."

The man said, "It's not easy for you to deal with that girl? Since you have designed her to show her skills before Princess Liuman's banquet, how much preparation can she be? When she doesn't do well, she will find an excuse to say that she can't see the princess clearly, kill her, and then lead the disaster to Qilifeng."

The woman said, "You don't know this. That girl didn't move much in the world and was not very strong, but her flying knife skills are indeed very good. If she is just used as a performance, it is difficult for people to make excuses."

"What great skills can a powerful family raise in a place have? Remember you said that even her father only entered the master after the mysterious energy was soaring?"

"Her unique skills in flying swords are not family traditions at all. The women who taught her flying swords are quite mysterious. According to my subsequent investigation, the one who taught her flying swords when she was young was Qiu Shuijian. I heard that Qiu Shuijian used flying swords before stepping into the grandmaster. Although she had never used them again in the past ten years, carefully calculated that when she began to abandon the sword and use the piano, it was almost the time when Zhao Tingzhen, the girl who learned to fly swords."

"Haha, even if that girl has a skill, with your ability, what is it difficult to make her look ugly?"

"Ha, that's the same!"

Afterwards, dirty words continued to come. Looking out the window, through the window flowers, inside, in the swaying candlelight, a woman's figure was kneeling on the ground, shaking back and forth, the man behind her stood, with two pythons dancing on her arms...

***

Early the next morning, Zhao Tingzhen became busy.

Although I was forced to perform at Princess Liuman's banquet, I naturally couldn't deal with it now. I had to ask someone to help design the props to use and how to arrange the scenes.

In addition, she was looking for someone to help with the links, and during the period, she found relationships and asked for favors. In the afternoon, she finally met Diao Lixiang, one of the five beauties of Youhuang.

Diao Lixiang's age is not much different from Ying Kaixiao. In the hot weather, she lay slanted on a jade bed. A servant knelt down at the head of her bed and opened the treasure box. She took out the jade beads from the box and played with it carefully. She glanced at Zhao Tingzhen, who was standing next to the table with his hands behind her back and said lightly: "So you are the daughter of Qilifengfeng Master? Well, Qilifeng and I have never had any friendship in the past. How can we accept your father's gifts for no reason? Take these things back?"

Zhao Tingzhen quickly said, "Madam, you are the name of "Yuxiu Xiang". Who doesn't know about the world? I, Qilifeng, have always looked up to the majesty of my wife. This little gift is not respected, so please accept it with a smile."

Diao Lixiang waved her hand: "No need to say anything, take it back. Come and see the guests."

The servant covered the treasure chest and brought it back to Zhao Tingzhen. Zhao Tingzhen could not do so, so he had to put away the treasure chest and retreat.

As soon as she left, Diao Lixiang said, "Call Manager Mo."

After a while, a fat man with a fat belly came to her house. Diao Lixiang asked, "Qi Lifeng and I have never had much to do with each other, so it's so good, why did you give me a gift?"

When the manager heard this, he knew that his wife was still quite moved by the gold, silver and jewelry sent by Qilifeng, otherwise he would not have called him to ask questions. So he said, "My wife doesn't know that Ying Kaixiao, although she was born in Qilifeng and was the sister of Qilifeng's Sanfeng, had a grudge against Qilifeng. A few days ago, the beloved son of Qilifeng's Sanfeng master was infected with severe illness for no reason, and it was probably because Ying Kaixiao was killed. Later, the child was cured by a Taoist priest invited by Zhao Tingzhen. Ying Kaixiao probably had hatred and used the excuse to let Zhao Tingzhen perform at the princess' banquet. In fact, he might have taken the opportunity to harm Zhao Tingzhen. Qilifeng came to you with your wife, probably because he hoped to protect Zhao Tingzhen and Qilifeng through your relationship with the princess."

"So that's how it is?" Diao Lixiang hesitated for a moment, "but now, the gods and queens of the Falcon want to step by step remove these unstable factors in the northern part of the Huanghe River. Although the lake bandits in Yinze are the first to be the brunt of it, Qilifeng and others will probably not be left alone in the future. You should have heard of the fact that Cao Ziteng, the second leader of Qilifeng, had secretly joined the bandits who resisted the heavenly soldiers. Later, the bandits were defeated, and he was outnumbered. After being captured, people recognized it.

It is necessary to punish Qilifeng. Zhao Guipan, the leader of Qilifeng, rushed to the scene, cut off Cao Ziteng's arm with his own hands and cut off his own arm. He vowed that Qilifeng would never betray the heavenly soldiers and rescued Cao Ziteng just now. At that time, the tiger general Sang Han under the throne of the Leopard was still the one who managed Luzhou. Sang Han was also a straight-minded person. Qilifeng was able to protect it, largely because of him. As for now, if the person in charge was replaced by the Grand Marshal, who knew whether the Grand Marshal would attack Qilifeng in the next step?"

Manager Mo had already taken Zhao Tingzhen gold and silver secretly. He smiled and said, "Madam, everything is the same. Not to mention how dare Qilifeng resist now? Even if something really happened to them, what does it have to do with us? How much money does it have? This time, they came to you, just to keep Zhao Tingzhen from being killed by Ying Kaixiao in these few days. I think this time, Zhao Guipan did spend a lot of money to protect his daughter, and that big box of goods is all good. But it is not a big deal to protect her daughter for a few days. When the princess banquet is over, Zhao Tingzhen will leave Xinjincheng, and the subsequent things will naturally have nothing to do with us. Madam, with your friendship with the princess, it is nothing more than a few words to help, so what is the matter?"

He continued: "Besides, everyone knows that Ying Kaixiao and her brother and sister are in conflict. Now Qilifeng has come to the wife's relationship. It doesn't matter whether he makes money or not. It's just spreading it out. If he knows, he says that the wife just looks down on this thing. If he doesn't know, he is afraid of Ying Kaixiao."
Chapter completed!