Chapter 9:
The next day, Xiaoyaozi summoned four disciples to the Zen room. His eyes swept towards them one by one, and finally fell on Li Canghai.
But seeing that her eyes are now so bright and her skin is like snow, the thirteen-year-old girl is beyond anything. She obviously looks like Li Qiushui, but her temperament is completely different.
After she broke through the first level, she is not arrogant and complacent now, and Xiaoyaozi is secretly satisfied.
Xiaoyaozi finally opened his mouth and said, "The four of you are all my disciples, and I didn't favor any of you. You have different temperaments, but as my disciples of the Xiaoyao School, you are all extremely talented people in the world. Now, Cang Hai took the lead in practicing the first level of 'Changchun immortality'. This does not mean that she is higher than you in talent. But you must also pay attention to a word of fate. The result of any of you now is your fate, and it is also your fate. My own choice. As a teacher, I have already said that on the day of my teacher, whoever becomes the first to achieve the first level of 'Changchun immortality', as a teacher, will pass on the position of the head to her, so she cannot break the promise. Do you have any dissatisfaction in your heart?"
Li Qiushui was a thousand people who refused to accept it, but he didn't dare to say it.
Wu Xingyun felt that the plan of marrying the "Master Junior Brother" was in vain, but she had nothing to say.
Wu Yazi said first: "Master, my disciple does not have this fortune, so he is willing to gamble and admit defeat. In the future, the younger sister will take over my faction, and I will obey the order of the head."
Seeing what he said, Wu Xingyun also said: "Master, my disciple has no objection. The younger sister will take over as the head in the future, but there is an order, and the disciple does not dare to disobey."
Li Qiushui said abruptly: "Canghai is my little sister, she has this fate, and my sister is also happy for her."
Xiaoyaozi nodded in satisfaction and asked Li Canghai again, "If you take over the Xiaoyao faction, what do you think is the most important thing?"
Li Canghai remembered her mission and said, "Solidarity and fraternity, carry forward my Xiaoyao faction and become the largest faction in the world."
Xiaoyaozi asked with a smile: "The largest faction in the world? Is it possible to surpass the Shaolin faction and the Beggar Gang?"
The Shaolin faction is the biggest faction in the world, and the Beggar Gang is the biggest faction in the world.
Li Canghai said: "The Shaolin School rose because the monks helped Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. 'Seventy-two stunts' and 'Yi Jin Jing' are famous all over the world. It's not worse than it at all. When I unite with my senior sister and senior brother, nothing is impossible."
In "Tianlong", Grandma Tong told Xu Zhu that the kung fu of the Shaolin school is not comparable to that of her Xiaoyao school, but the Xiaoyao school is too secretive, and the Taishan Beidou of Wulin is still the Shaolin school.
The other three couldn't help but be startled, but Xiaoyaozi asked with a smile: "You want to be the No. 1 faction, but you are too concerned about gains and losses, but it goes against the word "Xiaoyao".
Li Canghai couldn't help holding a smile that didn't look like a child, and asked back: "Master, if you can't ask for it, it's too much of a gain or loss. However, if the gods give it to you, you will be blamed, how can you be free?"
Xiaoyaozi couldn't help laughing, stroked his white beard, and finally made up his mind. And the other three, seeing Master like this, no matter how unwilling and regretful it is, it is too late.
Xiaoyaozi said: "In the future, I will pass on the position of the head to Canghai. Tomorrow, Canghai will go down the mountain with the teacher and receive the proper teaching of the head. And you three can stay in the Misty Peak to practice the exercises, or you can go down the mountain. practice."
Wu Yazi said, "Master, the younger sister is still young, and I'm afraid that she will not take good care of you if she follows you. Let the disciples go with you." The real kung fu is still very different from the other three, and their three great skills have also been practiced very well.
Xiaoyaozi shook his head and said, "No need, why I haven't seen the teacher, and I don't need her to take care of me."
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After a day's preparation of dry food and salutes, Li Canghai followed Xiaoyaozi to bid farewell to Wu, Wu, and Li, and went down the mountain early the next morning. Among them, Wu Yazi was the most reluctant to give up, but he felt that he had nowhere to vent his thoughts and wanted to cry.
Li Canghai's salute is not much, except for water and dry food, he is a change of clothes, and the same is true for Xiaoyaozi.
The Misty Peak and the Vulture Palace are located in the Tianshan Mountains in the Tianxi Region and belong to the Uyghur country. All the way to the east, the Uighurs arrived in the western part of Gansu in a few days, and the once prosperous Xixia had not yet been established at this time.
The Western Regions is not as prosperous as Guannei at this time, unless it is a tribal gathering place and the population is sparse. This is a world of rivers and lakes, but there are a few people in the rivers and lakes, but third-rate characters, even the current Li Canghai can easily defeat them.
The Western Regions are arid, but much better than the severe desertification of modern times. The two are rich people, and the Thirty-six Caves and Seventy-two Islands are also respected every year. The oppression of the Vulture Palace against them was not as severe as that of Tianshan Tongmao, but these people from the green forest had also received Xiaoyaozi's warning not to do evil and submit to the Xiaoyao faction.
The two of them brought a lot of gold leaves and silver, and soon after descending the mountain, they went to a herdsman to sell two camels, and bought some Hu people's clothes, dried meat, goat milk and other things for the road.
After arriving at Xingqing Prefecture (Yinchuan) in one day, he had already arrived in Song Dynasty in name, but in fact it had already been separated.
In the fifth year of Emperor Xianping of Song Zhenzong (AD 1002), Li Jiqian, the leader of the party, captured Xiping Prefecture, cut off the way for tribes in the Western Regions to pay tribute to Song, and also prohibited the sale of horses from the Western Regions to Song. The Han people ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to Liao as early as in Shijingtang, and lost their ancestors' horse-raising land. As a result, the entire Song Dynasty in later generations lacked good horses, and the cavalry became a shortcoming.
Although the Western Xia Dynasty was not established as an emperor at this time, the area around Xingqing Mansion was actually a place where the people of the Dangxiang were cut and sawed. She and Xiaoyaozi didn't want to cause more trouble on the road, and they all dressed up as Hu people all the way to the east.
Li Canghai looked at the Dangxiang people in this history, who were tall and strong, with strong horses, cocoons in their hands, and proficient in riding and archery. It is too much to suppress martial arts with literature, but the suffering in the future will be suffered by the people of Song Dynasty."
Song Taizu is a hero. He released his military power with a glass of wine and suppressed martial arts with literature. He has a deep historical background. The military disasters of the Five Dynasties made the people miserable. Just like the warlord melee in modern times, if you want to criticize the warlord melee period in peacetime, then Song Taizu's position and perspective at that time are almost the same as ours now.
Xiaoyaozi rode on the camel, smiled at the little apprentice, and said, "The good apprentice still has a heart of worrying about the country and the people."
Li Canghai said, "I am also a commoner, and I can understand the suffering of the common people."
They just rested in Xingqing Mansion for one night, bought supplies, set off eastward the next day, and arrived in Liangzhou after two days. Although there are heavy soldiers guarding here, the two of them pretended to be merchants from the Western Regions, brought some gems and spices, and gave Dangxiang people enough bribes. They saw that there was nothing that the king prohibited from entering the Songjing, so they let them out.
It's not that the two are afraid of these party members, but the purpose is not here, and they don't want to entangle with them.
Li Canghai felt a lot when he left Liangzhou, but he couldn't tell what it was.
She suddenly asked Xiaoyaozi: "Master, what are you taking me to do?"
Xiaoyaozi said: "It took so long to go down the mountain, but you never asked. I thought you weren't curious."
Li Canghai said, "I thought Master would tell me when I should know."
Xiaoyaozi said: "Then why do you ask now?"
Li Canghai was silent for a while, then said, "I feel uncomfortable and want to talk to Master."
Xiaoyaozi couldn't help laughing and asked, "But you miss Senior Sister and Senior Brother?"
Li Canghai shook his head: "No. But I feel that the world is huge and human beings are insignificant. Living between the heavens and the earth, it is difficult to find a smooth place, where and when and who can be free? The people are oppressed, and naturally they will not be free; Although the official is fishy with the common people, but his career is not smooth or the king is jealous, he can’t be free; when he is an emperor, he also has to worry about someone’s rebellion, and he wants long live in his heart, but the seventy years are rare, where is the free time?”
Xiaoyaozi said: "When you realize 'not free and easy', you will understand the true meaning of 'freedom' better."
Li Canghai thought about it and said, "Compared with the common people, officials, and emperors, I follow Master, and I have sisters and brothers to accompany me, but it is much more relaxed."
Xiaoyaozi said: "Even so, the destiny is still limited. Canghai, even if you cultivate the 'Changchun Immortality Gong', you can't really live forever."
Li Canghai said: "I never thought that I would live forever, it is enough to live up to this life."
Xiaoyaozi sighed: "Okay, I have an apprentice like you for my teacher, and I will live my life."
Li Canghai couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He was about to say something when he heard the sound of horses' hooves from the southeast, and he kept running westward.
After a while, the dust was flying, and people's cries and whips were heard. Li Canghai looked up and saw that there were almost two dozen cavalry men on horseback, roaming back and forth, driving around. A crowd of forty or fifty Han Chinese, among which several children were crying loudly.
This is the first time that Li Canghai has personally experienced such a miserable scene. She was also an ordinary person before she passed through. She can imagine what it would be like to be captured by criminals or terrorists when she had no power to tie the chicken, and her head would be cut off at any time. Now these innocent people have been invaded and killed, looted, kidnapped, and driven away like animals. What is the difference between modern people being captured by terrorists?
What kind of despair and fear was that, her heart softened, and because she felt the same, her eyes suddenly turned red.
Xiaoyaozi and Li Canghai were originally posing as Uighur merchants and riding on camels. At this time, so many people came over and they were in an open area. Even if they didn't want to cause trouble now, they had nowhere to hide.