Chapter 24 Children in the Snow
At this time, Lin Qinglong took the "child elixir" given to him by Ji Zeyan. Suddenly, there was a soreness and a feeling of sleepiness. He felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and he unconsciously fell asleep in the whirlpool of spiritual power.
"It doesn't seem to be an interesting thing to become a child..."
The goose feather snow fell on the whole earth, and the whole Thousand Kings City is still wrapped in silver. A year later, Lin Qinglong returned to this place that brought him countless pains. Although Qianwang City is Qianwang City, it is already human.
"It's really cold this year, but what can be colder than people's hearts?"
A big man walked out of the door with a broom, with an unhappy face and muttered.
The two big words "Shanfu" are written on the gate, and the pen is sharp and calm. This mountain mansion is the residence of the famous mountain elder Shan Zhilin in Qianwang City.
This big man's name is Duan Renjian. Now he is the housekeeper of Shanfu. He was originally a person in the "Xuanjitang" born in the southern wilderness. When he mentioned "Xianjitang", all the people in the martial arts talked about tiger's color change. Later, due to the war, the masters of Xuanji Hall died one after another. Duan Renjian was in an important position in Xuanji Hall at that time, but he was betrayed by his subordinates in times of crisis. Fortunately, he was saved by General Longwei and Shan Kun. After that, he loyally followed the new master's expedition to the south and the north. His name was the master's servant and his brother-brother. It was not until he retired from Qianwang City more than a decade ago that he settled down.
Duan Renjian said that his "heart is cold" for three reasons:
First, he was originally a close follower of General Longwei Shan Kun. Unexpectedly, after Shan Kun returned to Qianwang City and was awarded the title of Qianwang more than ten years ago, Shan Kun sent him to the elders of the Shan clan as a housekeeper. He said that he was a housekeeper, but in fact he was an undercover agent, because at that time, Shan Kun, the patriarch of the Shan clan, had discovered Shan Zhi. Lin's conspiracy. Duan Renjian asked himself whether he was not an undercover agent, or whether he was happy to rush into the battle, but Shan Kun insisted on saying that he came from the Southern Wilderness and had a strange face. Everyone didn't know him, and it was much more convenient to do things. Since the general said it's good, let's be an undercover agent...
The second reason is that Shan Kun strictly ordered that he is not allowed to drink by himself. He said that drinking is a mistake, but he knows that he is a lot of people. He is a good man who is not drunk. Can't he drink undercover? Will you definitely leak the wind when you are drunk? If you leak the wind, will you definitely be killed? Obviously, the general was too worried, but the general had to listen to it. He had to make up his mind to quit drinking. Unexpectedly, he quit drinking for more than ten years.
The third reason is obvious. He has been an undercover agent for so long that he has not plotted a rebellion. At most, he is just recruiting troops and strengthening his power, but he is still far from conspiracy! Does a seven-foot man want to follow that old dog all his life? The war between the State of Chu and the Royal State is about to break out. The general charged into battle and killed the enemy in blood. He didn't take me. Did he forget me? Or do you think I'm useless?
Duan Renjian sighed and continued to sweep away the snow at the door. What was he thinking about? Is it possible that my heart is smaller than the needle eye?
There is a small lake not far from the mountain mansion. Due to another heavy snow last night, the snow on the ground hardly passes the calves of passers-by, and there are fewer people coming and going by the lake. Instead, there were seven or eight and a half-and-a-half children pedaling sledding happily on the frozen iron lake, and there were bursts of crisp laughter from time to time. Tired of skiing, the group of children returned to the shore to make a snowman.
One of the eight- or nine-year-old boys is named Shan Po, and his cheeks are red like two small apples. However, the other children understood his identity, so they consciously led the mountain break and helped build a snowman.
Shanpo is the direct grandson of Shan Zhilin. He has an elder brother named Shan Ming. Shan Ming was originally the eldest grandson. Shan Zhilin's hope will all fall on Shan Ming. Unexpectedly, a year ago, Shan Ming provoked Lin Qinglong, who was known as the demon king of the mixed world in Qianwang City at that time. He was plotted by that guy, and his face was unconscious. At that time, Shanming seemed to have lost his soul and lost his soul. He was crazy and stupid. Soon after, he was really crazy and stupid. Shan Zhilin invited a very famous Lang Zhong to treat Shan Ming's crazy disease. Unfortunately, the effect was little. Later, the child Shanpo became the pearl of Shan Zhilin's palm.
A year ago, after Shan Ming was severely damaged by Lin Qinglong, Shan Zhilin often regretted this matter. If he had taught Shan Ming a few tricks, he would not have been so miserable. Shan Zhilin originally wanted to kill Lin Qinglong to vent his anger, but unfortunately, the Qingshan Three Overlords under his seat had a false reputation and were defeated by Lin Qinglong. He lost his face and lost face. Later, he planned to join hands with Huan Yuanyi to deal with Lin Qinglong, but the two had a disagreement on how and when to do it. Huan Yuanyi meant to catch Shan Kun, Xiao Yunu and Lin Qinglong, but Shan Zhilin wanted to take advantage of Shan Kun's absence to plot against Lin Qinglong. After Lin Qinglong was killed, he would pay the other two masters one by one. Due to disagreement, the two broke up unhappily. Now Huan Yuanyi has been hunted down by Su Meier all the way and is fleeing to the nest of the State of Chu, while Shan Zhilin has fled back to Qianwang City and continues to plot this next conspiracy - of course, he still wants to deal with Shan Kun.
Since Shan Zhilin regarded Shan Po as the pearl in his palm, he has carefully taught him some magic skills, but this Shan Po is still young, and Shan Zhilin's ability to teach spells is limited. Children are natural. I love to play. Not long after teaching, Shanpo ran out, gathered his partners, and made a snowman.
In a short time, the snowman was piled up, but without eyes and nose, it always looks a little different. If only there were two black charcoal balls and half a carrot. The mountain's mouth was sprayed with white fog, and his big round eyes looked around in the snow, trying to see what could be replaced.
He looked for it again and again, and suddenly found that two shiny things were exposed under the snow a few feet away, the size and appearance were just right. The mountain broke with great joy, and there was no need for the sled to tap two verticals and three verticals on the snow, and inadvertently revealed a good leaping method.
He bent down and was about to take the two black things out of the snow with his fingers, but he was suddenly stunned. It turned out that under the snow, it was clearly a person's open eyes.
He was very curious. After being a little stunned, he pushed away the snow around his eyes with his hands, gradually revealing the face of a nine-year-old child, looking frozen.
Shan Po felt surprised and patted the man on the cheek and shouted, "Hey, wake up!"
Who knew that the other party was still unresponsive to let him slap him in the face, like a dead man, motionless.
The children playing beside him didn't know what had happened, so they ran over and asked, "Shanpo, what are you doing? Shall we make a snowman to play?"
A six- or seven-year-old girl walked behind the mountain and saw the face buried in the snow. She was so scared that she screamed and cried. The other children were also shocked and shouted in a trembling voice, "There are dead people!"
Shanpo ignored them and turned around and shouted to the housekeeper sitting under the tree: "Uncle Duan - Come on, there is a dead man buried under the snow here!"
"Dead people?" Duan Renjian looked at the dark sun rising towards the sky and said, "This is interesting!"
Duan Renjian paced over and glanced at the teenager's face. A wisp of light suddenly flashed through his eyes. He replied, "Young master, please don't worry, this boy can't freeze him to death with a little snow."
Shan Po said, "That can't let him stay in the snow and freeze all the time. If Grandpa knows, he will blame us for not saving him when we die, which is against our human nature.
When it comes to Shanpo's grandfather, he is Shan Zhilin's man. Duan Renjian sighed angrily, "You little guy, you always like to press me with your master." Although he said so, he still listened to the young master's instructions, stepped forward and stood behind the head of the teenager buried under the snow, and shouted in a low voice, "Get out of the way!"
The children retreated in a hurry, leaving a large area of snow. Duan Renjian stepped on the snow with his feet, and he couldn't see how hard he tried to rise the white cold fog at the bottom of his feet, and his feet slowly sank into the snow.
The snow at the location of the teenager's body sounded like a small hill gradually rising to the ground. For a moment, Duan Renjian's feet were completely submerged under the snow, but there was an extra snow platform one foot long, two feet wide and three feet high in front of him. His palm pressed the falling snow platform and the red light flashed all over his body, and the ice and snow melted instantly to show the whole body of the teenager. And the snow under him was safe and sound at all.
A group of children were cheering, and Shan Po said with envy, "Uncle Duan, you are really handsome with these two hands!"
Duan Renjian shook his head carelessly and said, "What is my little carving skill? Your grandfather's kung fu can be called invincible in the world. As long as you work hard and can learn his ability of six or seven points, you will be inexhaustible in your life. But he said in his heart, how can the kung fu of the old thief Shan Zhilin be compared with General Shan Kun?
"This is a common saying again," Shanpo's most fing strangers used his father's actions to educate him. He quickly changed the topic and asked, "Why did he sleep in the snow and bury him in the snow?"
"I don't know either." Duan Renjian picked up the child and said, "Let's go. Let's take this man back to the house and find a man. His life can still be saved. Please don't worry, young master!" So, the young master saved people this time!"
When Shanpo was a child, he often listened to his father tell stories about heroes saving people. He didn't expect that he could do such a good thing today. Saving people's lives is better than building a seven-level Futu. If he saves other people's lives in the future, how many levels of Futu will he win! Thinking of this, Shanpo jumped up happily.
It's just that Duan Renjian looked at the child in his arms and seemed to think of something. He frowned slightly. The child in his arms was about eight or nine years old, wearing a brown shirt and a pair of calfskin boots on his feet, like the son of a relatively wealthy businessman, but why was he buried under the snow in front of the mountain gate?
What's more, the child looks so familiar...
Duan Renjian's mind turned sharply, but his feet kept holding the teenager into the mountain mansion. The middle door was opened, and there were guards everywhere in the house. Everyone was strong and powerful. Even in the cold winter, he only wore black clothes and was majestic. The power of Shan Zhilin can be seen from this.
Duan Renjian turned three times and came to an ordinary mansion with a "Wind and Rain Pavilion" plaque. It was different from other places. There were not so many guards. Only an old man took a chair and sat outside the threshold and looked at the door sleepily.
This old man is the smart Langzhong invited by Shan Zhilin after Shan Ming was crazy. This Langzhong is also a strange person. Since he walked around the world, he has no name and no surname, which is called "Langzhong". Over the years, people call him "Lao Langzhong".
It is said that the old man lost his hand for Shan Ming's diagnosis. Shan Zhilin was furious and scolded him for his false reputation.
The old man just smiled and said casually, "I can cure all kinds of diseases, but I can't cure heart diseases. Master Shanming is suffering from heart disease, and the heart disease has to be treated with heart medicine. I think I don't have the ability."
How could Shan Zhilin easily let him go? He said strictly, "The old man can't leave the mountain house for the rest of his life. From then on, he will stay in the mountain house. No matter who is sick, he has to recruit the old man to make a diagnosis. If the disease can't be cured, I will kill the old man." His heart is not poisonous. It is obvious that he wants the life of Lao Langzhong, but Lao Langzhong not only did not die, but fortunately he has lived to this day.
In the past year, in the whole mountain mansion, no matter who is sick, no matter who is sick, this person has been invited to see it. For more than ten years, the old man has been a big and minor illness in the house. This old man has been rid of medicine and has never failed. The whole mountain mansion has looked at this old man differently. Even Shan Zhilin was a little stunned. Although he wanted to take this old man. The life, but at first sight, the old man is also a talent, so let's not talk about this matter for the time being, leaving the life of the old man.
The old man saw the mountain running all the way. He got up and picked him up. He pricked his red face with a hard and dense beard and smiled affectionately, "Young master, such a storm is running around. Did you make someone come to the door?" This old man has cured Shanpo several times on weekdays. The relationship between the two is quite skillful, and Lao Langzhong often tells some strange stories to Shanpo, so Shanpo is very fond of this grandpa. He comes here to listen to Lao Langzhong's stories after dinner every day.
The mountain was itchy and giggled, "No, I saved someone back!"
The old man didn't take it seriously and continued to joke, "Really? Let me see if this person is a man or a woman. If it's a little girl, she will just make a pair with our young master."
Duan Renjian said, "Lao Langzhong, don't mess with the young master. This baby is a little strange. I took him to this 'Wind and Rain Pavilion', so I came to ask you to come and have a look.
Seeing that Duan Renjian said cautiously, the old man restrained his smile and nodded and said, "Okay, you put him in the wing first, and I'll prepare it."
Duan Renjian took the child across the bridge and quickly walked into the wing and put him on the soft collapse. Shan Po called the two maids for a busy time, took off his boots and cover and covered him with a quilt. The old man had arrived with a medicine box.
The old man is already in his early 60s. He is thin and weak, but he is immortal. He only wears a thin Chu-colored robe, and the spring is cold but he doesn't feel cold at all. He asked, "Where did you find the child?"
Duan Renjian was still a little respectful to the old man and said, "I found him in the snow by the lake. I touched the details of the baby and realized that his internal cultivation was not bad, but the path of true air was very strange, and I couldn't say that it was evil. I don't know what Langzhong thinks of this teenager.
When he was talking, Mr. Chu Yi had put his fingers on the child's right wrist for a long time and said, "Brother Duan is right. This child is indeed suspicious. His internal skills in his body are solid. He is more than a hundred times stronger than our young master. I'm afraid that even the young generation of the mountain people is not as good as him. He is a A monk, and his Taoism is not shallow, he will certainly not fall into a coma in the snow because of the cold. However, there is a kind of old toxin circulating around his body that he has never seen before. The toxin is strange to say that it does not cause harm to the child, but makes him completely enter a state of innate selflessness and does not know anything outside. Unless he wakes up, the violent external interference can only scare him away. Alas, this is just an old conjecture, but it's not necessarily right.
Shanpo lay by the bed, dragged his cheeks and asked, "Grandpa Langzhong, according to your estimate, how long will it take for this little brother to wake up?"
Lao Langzhong shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Let him sleep here first." After a while, I found someone to go to the street to buy two sets of suitable clothes, socks and boots, and keep him to change them after taking a shower. His clothes were washed by Xue'er. The material is good, but it's a little dirty. After thinking about it again, he ordered the maid beside him and said, "Xueer, let Lao Liu in the kitchen cook a light hot porridge on the stove, and deliver it as soon as he wakes up."
Lao Langzhong opened the medicine box again and took out a fiery red pill to put into his mouth. However, the teenager's teeth were closed and failed to try twice. Duan Renjian said, "How can it be so troublesome?" With two fingers pinching the teenager's chin, Danwan was steadily sent in, and the entrance was melted, which was really the best elixir in the world.
Seeing that Shan Po didn't have his share in these things, he hurriedly said, "Grandpa Langzhong, what about me? What should I do?"
Lao Langzhong smiled warmly and said, "If you can stand it, you can stay with Grandpa to guard him."
Duan Renjian couldn't help saying, "Lang Zhong, he is just a little child from an inexplicable way. Why do you need to guard him in person?"
Lao Langzhong said, "I just noticed that his true qi is running abnormally. It seems that there will be a slight tremor and a little stagnation when it flows near the acupuncture point. I'd better keep it. In case something happens, I can take care of it in time. You all go ahead, as long as I'm with you.
Duan Renjian smiled and said, "You can't have the intention to harm people, and you can't have the intention to prevent others. If he is really a scheme thief, it's not worth it if you treat him so well.
Lao Langzhong said, "Brother Duan, it's not wrong for us to treat people with sincerity. Didn't you bring the child back in person? I believe that this child is not a bad person. Pull a chair and sit down before it collapses.
After a while, Shan Po remembered the snowman outside the door and ran out quickly.
Lao Langzhong saw the mountain break and ran out secretly. He thought that he was still a child's temperament and couldn't stand it.