not bound

In 1015 of the new calendar, the nine kingdoms of the Central Plains, Huashou, and Liancheng.

Liancheng is located in the extreme north of Huashou country, and is rich in lotus flowers. Since ancient times, there is a saying that the fragrance of clothes in the city will stay in March for three months. The famous lotus tea and lotus wine are treasures bestowed on this city by heaven.

Liancheng is the closest city of Huashou Kingdom to Kitano Chilan Kingdom. It is less than two hundred miles away from the [-]-foot-tall Shenyin Peak at the junction of the two countries.

Shenyin Peak is about [-] feet high. The mountain is vertical and the stone is hard and smooth. It is extremely difficult to climb. The highest point seems to be leveled by an axe of a god and man. It looks like a seal of a god standing on the ground, so it has this name.

Because the Canglian on Shenyin Peak is the main raw material for making high-quality lotus tea, after hundreds of years of hard work by countless generations of tea pickers, stone steps were finally built within four hundred feet from the foot of the mountain. What remains is the wooden plank road built on iron piles and iron cables. The wooden plank road is swaying in the wind all year round, crumbling, knocking on the stone wall, clanging, and there is a faint sense of unattainable miracle.

On this day, there were two small figures lying on the boardwalk where few people go. One of them was a handsome young man about thirteen or fourteen years old, with black hair and jade face, thick eyebrows and fine nose, proud mouth, and alert eyes. Wearing white fur and black camel boots, he looked like a kid from a rich family.

The other age seemed younger and cuter.The brown hair is tied with a silver bell, the red lips are pouting, the big glass-colored eyes are staring, and the crystal clear snow skin, although it is a little dirty now, it looks like a child of Xihai blood, and the beauty is incomparable A teenager is more than that.

The two had been climbing on this cliff for a long time, going up at a speed that didn't match their age, going up the stone steps and passing through the narrow wooden plank road.At the beginning, the clothes of the two could still be seen at the foot of the mountain, but after half a day, the two got into the clouds and could not be seen by others.

The sunset on the second day had not yet set, and the two had already stood at the end of the wooden plank road. According to the foot of the mountain, there was at least five hundred feet, and there was only one huge stone platform, which could accommodate at least ten people to rest at the same time. It would be too difficult to go any further.Looking up, on the nearly vertical cliff, there will be a hole every three feet that can just fit half of the sole of the foot, and not far away there is a hemp rope as thick as a thumb hanging from the sky.I don't know which expert wrote it, even if the most experienced lotus pickers arrive here, they can only hesitate and dare not climb, so this platform is also called Immortal Stepping, and the rope is called Yinxian Tiansuo.

"Stupid, what do you think it will be if it's more than [-] feet? What about more than [-] feet? What about the top of the mountain? Master, I've been down to Hayden, crossed the island, walked through the forest and crossed the desert, but I haven't been to the mountains. It's really true." A little excited." Although Xihai's child was young, he could still see some martial arts foundation, grasping the iron chain with both hands, and swayed forward according to the swing of the wooden plank road.

"Lu Feixing, do you really want to go up to the highest place? I just went up and checked, and the iron cables going up here are all rusted. I think there are very few people going up." As light as a swallow, he must be the son of a famous family who has practiced hard for many years.

In fact, he didn't know why he followed this little brother to climb Shenyin Peak, but since he came, let's treat it as a pastime, even if this little brother always called him stupid, he didn't reject him that much.

"Of course, you can see that the smallest lotus here is the size of a fist, and at most it is a fifth-grade lotus. It is certainly good for those in the town, but it is obviously not as good as the one I have seen before, so it is better. It must be on the top. Why, are you afraid?"

Lu Feixing, who looks younger, speaks quite old-fashioned.

"No, I just think that if there is an expert living on the peak, we will bother him too much, and if he is unhappy..."

The dumb boy said more and more quietly, as if he felt that this sentence could not convince himself.

"When I met you in the town the day before yesterday, you had a shrewd face that made people afraid to talk to you, but after getting along with you for a while, I found that you were actually a fool in your heart. But I really didn't expect you to have a coward in your heart?" Lu Feixing joked.

The boy sighed, followed behind Lu Feixing as if accepting his fate, and said: "Then go, you first, I will follow you."

Lu Feixing pulled the sky-leading rope and looked down. Above the rope are misty clouds, and below the rope are misty clouds. It really is the road of gods to reach the sky.

But how can the road of immortality stop Lu Feixing, who is as big as a little ghost?

Lu Feixing exerted all his strength with both hands, climbing up like a mountain spirit monkey, and his light posture made the young man feel much less nervous.

The young man was taller than Lu Feixing, but his speed was not slow at all. The feeling of being so familiar was not at all like going up the mountain for the first time.

It was completely dark, and the moisture on the cliff became more and more insane, making it impossible for people to perceive time.Only the occasional lotus flowers of better and better quality growing from the crevices of the mountain wall can make people feel that they still exist in the world.

After all, Lu Feixing is young, even though he has a good foundation in martial arts, he has also made up a lot of panacea over the years, when he climbed to the top of the mountain, he was still so tired that his eyes turned black, and this was all supported by the young people below.The boy didn't speak all the time, but when Lu Feixing was struggling to climb, he stretched his hands and put them under his feet, so that he could breathe for a while.If not, Lu Feixing might have fallen to pieces before climbing a tenth of the distance.

If it was said that he still distrusted this "flashy" rich son before, he was really grateful now, and wanted to give the boy the first top-grade lotus he saw on the spot.

The top of Shenyin Peak can almost be called a flat river, even though it is shrouded in clouds and mist, the ground is flat within the visible range.

The fog was too thick, and there was no moonlight. The two walked forward side by side. Although they couldn't see with their eyes, they could almost hear all directions. Any sound would make them tense, and even their muscles were tense. To what birds and beasts raid.

"Wow." Lu Feixing called out in a low voice, one of his feet sank into a mud puddle.

The boy tried to lift his feet up, but Lu Feixing stopped him.Lu Feixing's hands were covered with sweat, and his hand tremblingly stuck to the boy's arm, the heat was very high.

"Hush, look!" Lu Feixing leaned into the boy's ear and said.

As Lu Feixing ignited the torch in his hand, the young man finally saw clearly that the ground in front of them was not a mud pit, but a large piece of land, and the top-grade lotus that the two of them were looking for was planted in the land.

The lotus flowers in Liancheng are divided into nine grades. Under Shenyin Peak, there are lotus flowers with large petals but little fragrance, which are called nine grades of pure lotus.There is a faint fragrance of lotus in the peak, which is called the seventh-grade lotus.The lotus with a fragrance of more than three hundred feet and above is already a good product, which is called the fifth-grade rhyme lotus.Tea masters never strive for the first, and the third grade can be the ultimate.Everyone in Liancheng knows that there is a tea picker who lives on Shenyin Peak who can pick lotus from a cliff above [-] zhang. That kind of lotus is already worth a thousand gold, which is called the third-grade Hualian.Although the three are extremes on the surface, in fact, there is a kind of lotus tea that is more rare and precious than the third-grade Hualian in the legend, the first-grade Shengcang.The lotus in full bloom blooms on the [-]-zhang cliff of Shenyin Peak.

The two walked into the mud involuntarily, marveling as they walked.Every lotus flower in this mud is extremely stunning. Although it has not yet bloomed, it can be vaguely seen when it is blooming.

"Idiot, what are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and pick it up!" Lu Feixing lowered his voice, already picking up a lotus in his hand.

The boy didn't have time to stop it, and his whole body froze.

"I still don't know where the mountain beasts are so smart and powerful. Not to mention climbing the cliffs of Baizhang, they can also hug my precious lotus. After a long time, they are the two little piglets who came down from the mountain?"

A deep female voice came from behind the two of them, like whispering softly close to their ears, which scared the two of them so much that they ran away.

Unfortunately, did not run.

The clothes at the back of the necks of the two were pulled by a strong force, like a long nail, passing through the clothes and nailed to the wall.

Of course it wasn't a spike, because the two of them rubbed two cold fingers while twisting.

Lu Feixing took off his outer shirt without hesitation and leaned forward, trying to use a trick to escape the shell. At the same time, the young man grabbed the wrist behind him, turned his back, and spun away from his waist.

The two of them ran away separately, one in front and one behind, one left and one right, and they cooperated for the first time, they had a tacit understanding, and they both thought, catch me and let him escape.

However, without knowing what treacherous means the visitor used, and without seeing her move, Lu Feixing noticed that the terrain in his original field of vision suddenly changed, and the sky and the earth spun. In a blink of an eye, he fell to the ground in the posture of a dog eating shit, his chest was tight, and he couldn't get up for a long time.

Then there was another muffled sound, and when I turned my head to look, there was a stupid boy with a ignorant face lying on his back, looking at each other.

The shadow above the head struck, and the voice said again: "Tsk tsk, the foundation is so bad, it's not easy to get here before sunrise."

Lu Feixing held up the torch that was accidentally not extinguished in his hand, and took the opportunity to look up.

A woman, in her twenties, was condescending, holding her chest with her face full of sarcasm.

Before he had time to reply, he heard the stupid young man next to him, awkward and aggrieved, call softly, "Master."

Master, Master? !

Damn it, my lord, I was tricked!

Lu Feixing wanted to give himself a punch. He thought it was a stupid soul hiding under the shrewd skin, but he didn't expect that he was shrewd inside and out. He pretended to be a stupid in order to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger!Mistake!This time I really missed it!So what next?This woman feels too strong, and I'm afraid I can't even take a move.

How to protect yourself under the powerful and irresistible forces?

Pretend to be a grandson.

This is what his grandfather, the leader of the sand bandits, taught him. A man can bend and stretch. God gave him a cute and innocent appearance, so don't let it go.

Lu Feixing slowly got up from the ground, and smiled sweetly at the woman. The smile was cute and innocent, which could make countless women overflow with motherhood: "Boy Lu Feixing, I have met Master Qianqiu."

Shen Qianqiu, a young man who just came back from Canaan Valley, looked at Lu Feixing's smile and suddenly trembled. He wanted to say a few words for him, so he quickly backed away.

And the woman is really Xue Zangxue who sent Qianqiu to Canaan Valley and lived alone in Shenyin Peak.The previous day was the day when Qianqiu was supposed to go home. Unexpectedly, he waited for a long time on the peak but disappeared. Now it seems that he was delayed by this little pig named Lu Feixing.Where is Qianqiu who is good at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger? This is clearly Lu Feixing's famous stunt.

"Since you like my lotus, then stay and plant it with me."

Xue Zangxue also smiled at Lu Feixing.Aged wine always has a bit of charm, and the aged Xue's smile naturally completely overwhelmed Lu Feixing's poor performance.

"I..." Lu Feixing wanted to refuse, but this woman's smile was really comfortable, more loving than his savage mother's smile, and he couldn't resist it.

"If you pick one of my lotus flowers, you will cook for me, sweep the floor and plant flowers for one year. If you have two in your hand, it will be two years. You have no right to veto, because I am the biggest here, and if you don't obey me, I will throw you down. Well, it's almost dawn, let's get to work, little piggies."

Xue Zangxue clapped his hands, and the clouds and mists in the sky seemed to be scattered by him, revealing a larger area of ​​Canglian, and the simple thatched cottage that Xue Zangxue lived in these years.

Lu Feixing's tenderness was disturbed, he squatted down and sat back in the mud, crushing a flower.

"Three years." Xue Zangxue raised three fingers with his back to Lu Feixing as if he had eyes in the back of his head

Shen Qianqiu shook her head rather speechlessly, and quickly pulled Lu Feixing up, signaling him not to fight against Xue Zangxue.

Lu Feixing remembered another sentence that his grandfather said, a man who knows the current affairs is a hero, if smiling is useless, then bow your head and admit defeat, and prepare your troops for recovery.

Lu Feixing nodded heavily, and followed Xue Zangxue resignedly.

This is the beginning of the sweetness and suffering between Lu family Feixing and Shen family Qianqiu.