Peach and plum spring breeze and a glass of wine

Squeak.

Yang Ge gently pushed open the courtyard door. The feeling of coldness and loneliness that hit his face, coupled with the dim scene with a thick layer of floating dust everywhere, made him tense up again before he could relax.

He sighed and quickly walked into the back room with the cold moon sword on his shoulder.

When he came out again, he had changed into linen clothes for rough work.

He tied his belt, went to the kitchen house to get a pole and bucket, put it on his shoulders, and hurried out.

After a while, he came back with two buckets of water.

As soon as he entered the house, he put down the carrying pole, turned around and closed the courtyard door, and then walked into the stove with a bucket of water in one hand.

A faint smoke soon emerged from the chimney.

A large pot of water was boiling in the pot. After Yang Ge set up the firewood, he stood up and wiped his hands and came out of the stove. He picked up the broom and swept it twice carefully inside and outside, sweeping away the floating dust in the room. Clean and tidy.

As soon as he put down the broom, he fetched a basin of water without stopping, and took the rag inside and outside to scrub the tables, chairs, doors and windows...

As pots of black dirty water were poured into the overgrown vegetable patch in the backyard, the dusty doors, windows, tables and chairs finally regained their clean wood color.

At the right time, the water in the iron pot had already boiled, and the dense water vapor mixed with the faint smoke from the kitchen and spread in the yard, dispelling the cold and lonely atmosphere.

Yang Ge dried the clean rag, went to the back room to get a set of clean clothes, then went into the kitchen to fetch a bucket of hot water and brought it to the toilet, where he took a comfortable hot bath with fragrant soap.

After washing, he put on a set of clean soft clothes and walked out of the toilet. He did a circle of exercise on his body, and the rolling heat evaporated the remaining water vapor on his body.

As the heat circulated, his mind and muscles slowly relaxed, and he let out a long breath.

Finally, like an old man taking a walk, he slowly went to the back room with his hands behind his back to get the tea leaves from the teapot, and made a pot of hot tea with a little boiling water still bubbling in the big iron pot.

After serving the scalding hot tea, he sat comfortably on the rocking chair under the grape trellis and took a sip of the scalding tea: Hiss...

ah!

With a breath of hot breath, he exhaled the wind, frost, rain, snow, swords and shadows along the way.

The three souls and seven spirits scattered in the rivers and lakes finally settled down again.

He was lying on the rocking chair, holding a hot teapot in his hands, squinting his eyes and staring at the clear sky. The breeze gently caressed his face. The smell of cooking smoke was in front of his nose. His mind was empty and his heart was empty.

After a while, a low snoring sound floated from the rocking chair...

…

Xiao Huang, Xiao Huang, what's wrong with you?

Yang Ge looked at the yellow gas tank in front of him with a shocked face and screamed at him. He couldn't believe that he had only been out for three months and this guy had become like this.

Liu Mang stood beside him and yelled angrily: Since this guy came to our house, even if the old man can't remember whether I have eaten or not, he will definitely not forget whether he has eaten or not. Good guy, I haven't eaten anything. It eats well!”

What do you mean, you, a man of several decades, care about a dog?

On the other side, shopkeeper Liu scolded him angrily, while taking out a lotus leaf bag as big as a noodle bowl from behind, and waved to Xiao Huang with a smile on his face: Come here, Xiao Huang, let's see what delicious food we have today. of!

Xiao Huang waggled his tail like a windmill, looked at Yang Ge, then at the lotus leaf bag in the old man's hand, then at Yang Ge, then at the lotus leaf bag in the old man's hand... His mouth was watering. .

go Go!

Yang Ge dumbfounded and rubbed the dog's head: I won't leave, I'll wait for you!

Xiao Huang glanced at him again, turned around and rushed to Shopkeeper Liu, washing his face enthusiastically.

Hey, Xiao Huang is so good, so good!

Shopkeeper Liu gently stroked the dog's head and slowly opened the lotus leaf bag: Look, there are chickens, ducks and pig head meat today...

There are meat, rice and steamed buns in the lotus leaf buns. It can be seen that they are all leftover bits and pieces eaten by the guests in the inn, but they are all clean, and they really have meat instead of bones.

Look, look!

Liu Mang pointed at the lotus leaf bag and shouted angrily: I want to eat some meat, but he hides it like a thief. If it wants to eat meat, just take care of it!

Shopkeeper Liu looked at him sideways: Xiao Huang can still look after the house after eating meat. What can you do after eating meat? Apart from bringing your friends to the inn to eat and drink, what else will you order?

Liu Mang became angry from embarrassment: There is no way I can survive this day!

Shopkeeper Liu didn't tolerate him at all: Then separate the families, separate the families!

Liu Mang sneered and said, What a beautiful idea. If we separate the families, you can bring Widow Wang in, right?

Shopkeeper Liu raised his fist and struck: I'll beat you to death for being an unfilial son!

Liu Mang turned around and ran away: Hey, you can't hit me!

Yang Ge suppressed his laughter and stepped forward to persuade the two stubborn fathers.

He knew that the two men seemed not in harmony, and seemed a bit filial, but in fact this was just the way they got along.

Privately, these two men actually care about each other more than anyone else.

For example, at least half of the reason why shopkeeper Liu treats him well is because of Liu Mang.

The reason why Liu Mang was willing to return to Luting to open a martial arts gym was because he was afraid that the inn would be troubled by Jianghu people again and no one would take care of him.

After some pleasantries and banter, shopkeeper Liu went into the room to make tea, leaving Yang Ge and Liu Mang to talk by themselves.

As soon as shopkeeper Liu left, Liu Mang looked Yang Ge up and down with suspicion: Boy, what state are you in now? Why can't I understand?

Yang Ge smiled and replied: When did you open the sea of ​​qi?

Liu Mang: I knew I couldn't hide it... just last month, it happened unintentionally!

Yang Ge was not surprised. Liu Mang had been stuck at the step of opening the sea for a long time. In addition, he had used his own internal energy many times to help Liu Mang sense his Dantian. It would be weird if he failed to open the sea to practice Qi!

He nodded: If you cultivate the Qi Sea, your Iron Fist Martial Arts School will be considered a success!

Liu Mang scratched his head: What about you? I've already developed my internal energy. Why do I think you're more confused than before?

Yang Ge stretched out two fingers and made a pinching motion: I'm only a few hundred million points taller than you!

Liu Mang was doubtful: A little bit, is the difference so big?

Yang Ge: So, we have to keep a low profile in the future. There are many masters in the world. If you don't take action, who knows whether the person standing in front of you is Qi Hai or Gui Zhen?

Liu Mang was a little doubtful about life: Really? But when I was traveling in the world, Qi Hai was already a rare master. The leaders of many sects were just Qi Hai...

Yang Ge shrugged: This is normal. You used to be in the Peiyuan realm. Of course, everything you saw and came into contact with were experts in the Peiyuan realm. Now that you go out to travel around the world, I will keep what you see and come into contact with. They are all Qihai masters!

Liu Mang felt that what he said made sense: That's true. I heard not long ago that the owner of Lianlianwuwu, the right envoy of Mingjiao Guangming, and Zhang Mazi and Daxia Zhang teamed up to kill three real people in Jiangnan, including There is a big shot on the list of heroes!”

Those are real people. They actually died when they said they were going to die, and then they killed three people!

If I can become a real person, I can lie down and do nothing every day, and have mountains of gold and silver and beautiful women crashing into my arms. How happy will those days be...

As soon as he finished speaking, a Hedong lion roar came from the other side of the stove: Liu Datou, what are you mumbling? Make it louder, I can't hear you!

Liu Mang and Yang Ge both shrank their necks.

Liu Mang: Hun, I didn't say anything!

Yang Ge: Sister-in-law, it was me who was talking just now.

The muffled sound of a kitchen knife chopping on a chopping board could be heard from the other side of the kitchen: Both of you, please behave yourself. If you dare to cause trouble, watch your skin carefully!

Liu Mang and Yang Ge: Hey!

After the two brothers responded, they silently stepped back a few steps in a tacit understanding, further away from the kitchen room, and then they both made a motion to wipe away their sweat.

Liu Mang: Good brother!

Yang Ge: Speak of loyalty!

Liu Mang: Hey, didn't you just say that you went to Jiangnan?

Yang Ge: Yes, when those three Guizhen masters died, I was at the scene and saw with my own eyes what Zhang Daxia and the others did.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, you haven't seen it. The three masters who have returned to the truth have all died miserably. They just died on the front foot, and the disciples followed behind. There was a river of blood on the scene. I took a look, and they were all I had nightmares for several days.”

This means that when God is crazy, there will be rain, and when people are crazy, there will be disaster. We, let's live our own lives in a down-to-earth manner and earn the money we deserve. We won't get involved in bad things, and we won't get involved in bad people. If we go and provoke him, maybe we two brothers can live peacefully for the rest of our lives.

Liu Mang glanced at the kitchen house and said with mixed feelings: Yes, what is more important than a stable life?

Yang Ge looked at it and felt happy: Yes, what else is more important than a stable life?

Liu Mang thought for a moment and said in a low voice: Now that we are both angry, why don't you go to the martial arts school and become the deputy master? There are two Qihai masters in the sect. From now on, no matter who wants to move to our martial arts gym, they must think carefully first!

Yang Ge: You can't put it this way. In a family, if someone takes advantage of the situation, then someone has to take care of it. If I really encounter a difficult obstacle, I will deal with it privately and no one else can find out about you or me. Isn’t it the head? As long as you don’t tell anyone, who would have thought that I, an innkeeper, would still be so angry?”

That's what it says...

Liu Mang frowned: But this is so unfair to you. What do we martial arts practitioners do by practicing Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer? Isn't it just to get ahead and honor our ancestors? You are so angry. , how can I keep being a waiter in an inn?

Yang Ge waved his hand: You know, I don't care about this...

Liu Mang said without any doubt: You are ignorant, how can I still be ignorant?

Seeing his stubborn look, Yang Ge thought for a while and replied: Let's do this. The martial arts school will give me a little salary increase. In addition, you can sell me the yard where I live at a cheaper price, okay?

If you like that shabby yard, my brother can give it to you!

Liu Mang waved his hand proudly: But this is not the same thing!

The Iron Fist Martial Arts School has improved, and he has become more like a prodigal son.

Yang Ge made the final decision: This is the same thing. As the saying goes: brothers have settled the score, I have already taken the money, what else is there to feel wronged about?

Liu Mang looked at his determined look and sighed: Don't use your brother as a bargaining chip. With your martial arts skills, money is nothing. Just go out to rob someone or lead a sheep. You can make money by working in the inn for ten years. It’s not that much money!”

Yang Ge smiled haha, turned around and walked towards the kitchen house: Sister-in-law, Brother Fu said he wanted to go out to rob houses and rob women!

clang.

The kitchen knife hit the chopping board hard, and the tall figure rolled up his sleeves and walked out of the stove. He waved to Liu Mang with a smile on his face and said, Master Liu, come here and let's chat!

Liu Mang's tiger body trembled, and he said incompetently and furiously: What about the loyalty we promised to our good brothers?

The old shopkeeper's gloating laughter suddenly came from the back room.

…

Yang Ge finally lived the life he had dreamed of.

Study and practice martial arts every day, and go to get off work on time.

In his spare time, he grows vegetables and feeds chickens.

I go back to the fishing village to visit the old man once or twice a month.

This is his whole life.

As for the upper right side, he arranged the days. On the tenth day of every month, he would go there and cook a big pot meal for the warriors.

Although many people did not believe that he would actually cook for his former subordinates, they were secretly waiting for him to bow his head...

But in the past, he really worked on the stove, washing and cutting vegetables, cooking and cooking, and cooking for four to five hundred people by himself.

Yang Ge didn't have any mental barriers. After all, he still received a salary of a warrior level from the Upper Right Institute. Of course he should do things with the money.

As for why I only go there three days a month...

How can a worker not fish?

‘I fish, but I don’t get paid. ’

This is Yang Ge's attitude towards his new job as a cook at Shangyousuo.

If anyone is dissatisfied, he can be fired. He is always waiting for the dismissal notice from the right office.

He is not short of money anyway.

The thousands of taels of silver he squeezed out of the hands of the three major grain merchants are still buried in the vegetable patch in his backyard, moldy.

Of course, no one dared to care about him at all.

Even Deputy Qin Qianhu, who was actually in charge of the affairs of the Shangyou Office, avoided Yang Ge.

He neither wanted to salute Yang Ge, nor dared to wait for Yang Ge to salute him.

official?

From the fifth grade?

Yang Ge chopped off so many heads of fifth-rank officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that he could use baskets to trick him. Who does Qin Feng mean to him?

But the One Hundred Households and General Banners headed by Fang Ke have no such worries at all.

They even specially adjusted the time when they went out to handle the case. When Yang Ge went to the right office, they went to the kitchen to meet Yang Ge. After the meeting, no matter what Yang Ge said, they still called him an adult.

Who can be the leader of hundreds of households and the general banner in Xiuyiwei? Who is not a human spirit?

How could they not see who had left the empty seat of Thousand Households on the right?

Maybe one day there will be a major case and Yang Ge will be reinstated... or even go further, it is entirely possible!

Looking at Yang Ge’s expression now, are you waiting to wear small shoes later?

Furthermore, let’s talk about the things Yang Ge has done and his martial arts.

They were all convinced!

Yang Ge naturally didn't care what they thought. When they came to him to report work or ask for instructions, he would kick them all out.

He is just a cook, and he only does what a cook should do.

He didn't bother to ask about the rest, nor did he think about it.

In short, no messy people and things will bother Yang Ge anymore.

There is a letter from an old friend...

But it was Jiang Kui who was far away in Liaodong. After hearing about Yang Ge's actions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he sent a secret book to Yang Ge through Xiuyiwei's material transmission channel.

The secret book is Five Elements Return to Vitality.

When the secret book came into Yang Ge's hands, it was already the fourth day of the first lunar month in the fourteenth year of Xiping.