Chapter 56 The Mysterious Old Man
Le Yiyang has read many books on sages and knows the principles of seniority and inferiority. He often sees people older than him and will respectfully salute, not to mention that the person in front of him is less than 70 years old.
Le Yiyang walked forward. The woman didn't know what he meant, so she hurriedly drew her sword and pointed it at him and said, "Stop, don't go any further." Cui Xin saw this, and secretly sweated for Le Yiyang. Le Yiyang smiled and said, "Girl, I just want to pay attention to the honor of the old man. Why do you need to be so nervous?" The woman said, "Stupid, who are you? You can actually break the mysterious mechanism in this stone house."
Le Yiyang was about to speak, but the old man behind the woman said, "Zheng'er, don't be rude." The woman stared at Le Yiyang with her eyes and reluctantly retreated behind the old man.
Le Yiyang bowed and said, "Grandpa, my younger brother's surname is Le Yiyang. He came from Daizhou and was preparing to go to Hengzhou. This time he passed by Guidi, he had some misunderstandings with Lingtu. I hope the old man will understand it." The old man laughed and said, "As the saying goes, you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. Mr. Le, what is the so-called thing you are here?" Le Yiyang told the story of Mei Jiutong and Zhai Jingyue falling off the cliff. The old man nodded while listening, turned around and said to the woman, "Zheng'er, I think this young master Le is sincere, and his words will not be false. It seems that you are eager to protect the treasure, but you have misunderstood their purpose."
After hearing this, the girl replied, "Master, people's hearts are sinister, and Master has to be careful. How can he tell the truth by opening his mouth alone?" The old man laughed again.
Le Yiyang felt that the air around him was filled with a powerful aura, passing through his body over and over again with the old man's laughter. The old man stopped laughing and looked at Le Yiyang up and down. Le Yiyang suddenly felt that the cave was extremely strange, so he had to secretly use his true energy to resist the invasion of the airflow and had no time to argue with the girl.
Cui Xin observed silently, and when she heard the woman's guardianship, she couldn't help but stand up for Le Yiyang and said, "Hey, what are you saying? Every word Mr. Le said is true, I can testify for her." The woman said in a serious voice: "You are so bold, you dare to talk nonsense in front of my master." Cui Xin was unhappy, and she didn't care about the danger, and said loudly: "Facts are facts." The woman sneered: "There is no reason for thieves to testify for thieves."
Cui Xin heard her compare herself with Le Yiyang as thieves, and said angrily: "We are not thieves, you are slandering." The woman suddenly had her feet off the ground. Before Cui Xin could react, she had already passed by her side, holding the golden velvet in her hand and said, "Little girl, now the stolen goods are in my hands, you still want to argue." Cui Xin thought: "This golden velvet is well placed, and somehow she discovered it." So she said, "The things in the stone chamber are not yours at this time, can you care?" The woman thought that if she grasped the handle, Le Yiyang and Cuixin would be in trouble, but Cuixin scolded her for meddling in other people's affairs, and couldn't help but feel angry, pulled out the sword and stabbed her straight at her.
Le Yiyang was competing with the old man for internal strength, and he couldn't let him go to save her for a while. Cui Xin saw the sharp sword coming towards him, but she was not panicked. The sword stopped an inch away from her. The woman said, "Why don't you hide?" Cui Xin said, "Without having Mr. Le here, what am I afraid of? Besides, your people are everywhere in this cave, so I can hide there?" The woman said sternly, "Little girl, do you think I dare not kill you!" As she spoke, the old man raised his palm and leaned back slightly, saying, "Zheng'er, you forgot what you are like again." The woman felt a wave of attraction coming from behind, so she said softly, "Master, I know you are wrong." After that, she walked to Cui Xin and returned the golden velvet clothes to her.
Cui Xin took the Jinluoyi and pretended to be angry and said, "Grandpa taught you not to make things difficult for others, but you deliberately disrespect your teacher's orders. No wonder he scolded you." The old man smiled and said without saying a word after hearing this. Le Yiyang pulled her sleeve and whispered, "My sister, don't mess around, please forgive others if you want to forgive others." Cui Xin didn't say anything after hearing this, and just stood behind Le Yiyang silently.
Le Yiyang stepped forward and said, "The old man has a strong internal strength and saves people in silence. He is so kind and righteous. I really admire me." The old man smiled and said, "My disciple is ignorant, so don't be surprised by Mr. Le. I didn't expect that you are young and have such martial arts, which really makes me see." Le Yiyang said, "It's shameful that I don't know martial arts. It's all due to my father's teaching me skills. In addition, I have come to practice swordsmanship recently."
The old man said, "In this way, you must be very talented and your martial arts skills will increase greatly in the short term." Le Yiyang said, "Grandpa, I don't understand what you mean." The old man said, "Young Master Le is not a martial arts practitioner, and you don't know anything. If you don't move your body in three months, you will disappear on your own. If you can be lucky within one month, you can make the true qi spread throughout the body and turn it into a part of your body's power." Le Yiyang exclaimed in his heart, "I didn't expect it to be true."
The old man was stunned when he saw Le Yiyang alone and coughed, "Young Master Le came from afar, can you move into the wine cellar of the cave so that I can do my best to the landlords?" Le Yiyang hurriedly said, "Grandpa has trouble." The old man slowly stood up and walked towards the cave in front with the help of the woman. Le Yiyang and Cuixin followed them carefully. The group of young men in green shirts walked at the end. The woman pressed the motive mechanism on the stone wall, and the stone wall moved back and forth, and Le Yiyang and Cuixin were just dazzled.
After walking dozens of steps, the group finally entered a spacious stone house. The old man ordered the young men to retreat, leaving only the girl standing behind, and then signaled Le Yiyang and Cui Xin to sit down. Le Yiyang looked at the stone house and saw that it was not much different from the ordinary wine cellar. Cui Xin looked at the wine glass on the table and asked with a smile: "Grandpa, please come over, it's not just to drink with you to relieve your sorrows." The girl's resentment had not yet faded, and she heard Cui Xin's voice again, and was angry. Cui Xin looked at her vicious expression, made a face to her, snuggled up to Le Yiyang, and said: "Mr. Le, she is going to bully me again." Le Yiyang smiled slightly and said to the old man: "Grandpa, I'll ask you, I don't know what's wrong. Please tell me clearly."
The old man smiled and said, "Young Master, don't worry. I have been waiting for this day for decades. Please drink a glass of wine first." After that, he raised his glass to show Le Yiyang. Le Yiyang tasted it with his tongue, but felt that the wine was a little sweeter than the wine he usually drank. He didn't want to sweep away the old man's interest, so he raised the glass and drank it all.
The old man turned around and said, "Zheng'er, Master is happy today. After finally meeting his old friend, he will fill up his wine for Master and Master Le." The woman poured a glass of wine for the old man and filled Le Yiyang's wine glass. After more than ten times, Le Yi was already dizzy and hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Grandpa, I don't have much alcohol and can't drink anymore." Cui Xin saw that his face turned red and his expression was unclear, and knew something was wrong in his heart, so he also stood up and said, "Grandpa, Master Le really can't drink anymore." The old man was still energetic and signaled her to sit down, and said with a smile: "Girl, I am happy today. I actually started to persuade him to drink. It was wrong for me. I punished myself for a glass." After saying that, he raised his glass, but found that there was no wine inside.
The woman stepped forward and said, "Master, you have finished a jar of wine." The old man woke up as if he was in a dream and said, "I have just drunk a jar of wine. Zhen'er, go and get two more jars." The woman was in a dilemma, and Le Yiyang said, "Grandpa, I still have something to do today, I will have a drink with you another day." The old man clapped his hands and said, "Okay, it's a matter of determination. But the young master can't leave yet, I still don't understand one thing."
Le Yiyang had long expected that it would be impossible to leave easily, so he said respectfully: "I don't know what the old man is referring to?" The old man looked at Le Yiyang and Cuixin and said slowly: "I heard from Zhen'er that you and this girl were trapped in a secret room, I don't know how they came out?" Le Yiyang was stunned, knowing that things could not be hidden from the old man's eyes, and his martial arts were far above him. If he deliberately concealed it, he and Cuixin could not get out of this cave. How could he find Mei Jiutong and Zhai Jingyue, let alone go to Hengzhou to do business? Thinking of this, Le Yiyang took out the gold and silk from his arms and put it on the stone table, and the old man and the girl were both surprised.
Cui Xin asked softly, "Mr. Le, is this also a treasure in the stone chamber?" Le Yiyang shook his head. The old man opened his eyes wide, picked up the gold and silk and looked carefully, and sighed, "God's will, it's God's will." After that, he stood up and knelt at the stone wall. Le Yiyang and Cui Xin looked at each other, neither of them understood the old man's behavior. When the woman saw the master kneeling, she hurried over and helped him up and said, "Master, what are you doing?" The old man did not answer her, slowly stood up, and sat back on the stone bench.
Le Yiyang said in a soft voice: "Grandpa, what's going on?" The old man did it for a while before saying: "This matter is hard to describe. More than 60 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos. First, Wang Xianzhi killed the snake and gathered together, and then Huang Chao became emperor in Luoyang. The young master was familiar with poetry and books, so he should have a little understanding of this section." Le Yiyang remembered Huang Chao's deeds described in history books, and admired and sympathized with his life. Thinking of his poem "Inscription of Chrysanthemums", he said softly: "The rustling west wind is planted all over the yard, and the cold butterflies are hard to come. If I were the Emperor of Green in the past, I would like to give birth to the same peach blossoms."
When the old man saw him chanting Huang Chao's poem, he also said, "When autumn comes, September 8th, I will kill all the flowers after the flowers bloom. The fragrance array soars into the sky and penetrates Chang'an, and the whole city is covered with golden armor." Le Yiyang remembers that this poem is "The Chrysanthemums of the Forbidden Destiny", and asked curiously: "This poem has profound meaning, and the old man is also very interested in Huang Chao's deeds?" The old man looked at Le Yiyang carefully and said, "The Huang King raised an army, and was originally a commoner, but the time was not with the people, and he abandoned it without the advantage of land. Hundreds of thousands of rebels were destroyed in ashes. What a pity!"
At the end of the talk, the old man slapped the stone table with his hand, and saw thousands of pounds of stone table shaking. Le Yiyang was worried that the stone table would be slapped by him, and hurriedly said, "Yes, if there was no Zhu Wen's turn against him, there would be no blocking from Li Keyong, and Lin Yan's betrayal. If Huang Chao had overcome the difficulties, it would be unknown if the country changed its name again." The old man sighed, "History books mislead people! No wonder the young master only knew one thing, not the second." After hearing this, Le Yiyang looked at him curiously, and heard the old man say, "What is written in the history books are all about success, kingdom and defeat, and how could it be all true? The young master didn't know that Lin Yan was the nephew of King Huang, how could he betray him? This was all falsely accused by Li Keyong, a native of Shatuo."
Chapter completed!