From Xiaoao to travel around the world

Chapter 131
The Mongolian army returned to the north, and Yang Qing returned to Jianzhong.

Afterwards, Yang Xi and Guo Fu got married, and the two gave birth to a son, more than ten years passed in a blink of an eye.

Early this morning, a carriage stopped outside the valley in the northwest of Xiangyang.

Bao Xiruo, Li Ping, and Yang Tiexin were sitting in the car. The three of them are now over seventy years old and their hair is gray.

"Kang'er, did your elder brother say that he left the valley today?"

Yang Kang, who was sitting in front of the car, turned his head and smiled and said, "Don't worry, mother, I made an agreement with my elder brother two days ago."

Having lived in Xiangyang for more than ten years, the three old people who felt that their days were numbered decided to return to their roots and return to Niujia Village in Lin'an Prefecture.

Yang Kang helped Guo Jing guard Xiangyang for nearly 30 years. He was also over fifty and had a grandson at this time. In addition, he had already given up hope for the court, so he and Mu Nianci volunteered to send them back.

It happened that Yang Qing successfully left the customs, so Yang Kang made an agreement with him early on that the two brothers would return to Lin'an to spend the rest of their lives with the elder.

Not long after, Yang Qing appeared on the western mountain road in the morning light.

He seemed to be walking slowly, but in Yang Kang's eyes, he seemed to melt into the sunlight, and he was in front of the frame in an instant.

"Father, Aunt Li."

"Qing'er, hurry up and get on the road."

Hearing Bao Xiruo's urging, Yang Qing agreed and rode on the prepared horse, Yang Kang also jumped off to ride alongside him, and Mu Nianci drove instead.

He has often returned to Xiangyang these years, and his appearance has never changed. Everyone knows that he has something special and has long been used to it.Then the frame turned around and headed east, and a group of six people embarked on the road to Lin'an.

Yang Qing didn't know how long ago he rode a horse last time, just as he was feeling sad, he suddenly saw Yang Kang cast a strange look from one side.

"If you weren't my big brother, I would really think you were a monster."

"I mentioned it to you ten years ago, I can help you and Nian Ci stay young, but you don't want to."

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are the normal state of human beings. I don't have the same pursuit as you, big brother, so it's better to let nature take its course." Yang Kang looked back at the car and asked, "By the way, where is that Fairy Chilian?"

"Still at the Sword Tomb."

"Mother always thought you two..."

Yang Qing shook his head gently when he heard the words: "That's not the case, don't mention this matter again."

Yang Kang saw that he didn't want to say more, so he turned to ask: "Then you don't need to retreat anymore?"

"For me, some things have no end." Yang Qing looked at the long road ahead: "Maybe there is, but I have to find it myself."

Yang Kang nodded half-understanding, and changed the subject again: "Brother, what do you think of Da Song today?"

"You want to ask Xiangyang?"

Seeing him nodding, Yang Qing thought for a while and said slowly: "Xiangyang should still have a peaceful life, but it will definitely not be preserved in the future. If there is something unavoidable, you should get out early."

Yang Kang said fortunately: "After listening to what you say, big brother, I don't feel that I am despicable anymore."

Yang Qing smiled: "Is it because of Brother Guo?"

"Yes." Yang Kang said distressedly: "I have advised him many times to retreat, but Brother Guo insisted on living and dying with Xiangyang. It was the best time for Mongolia to return to the grassland ten years ago, but he..."

"He's not wrong either." Yang Qing sighed softly, "A great chivalrous man is for the country and the people. It's hard to find a man like Big Brother Guo in a hundred years."

"I have known him for 30 years, so of course I know what kind of person he is. He didn't even accompany Mrs. Li when she returned home this time. Alas, are people who achieve great things so ruthless?
Isn't it pedantic to know that something can't be done but to do it, even if the family doesn't care? "

"You want to say you're stupid." Yang Qing replied, "But in fact, this is what Brother Guo is so valuable about. Both you and my brothers are much worse than him in this regard.

But even though I admire him, I still don't want to see him go down that road of no return. "

"Huh? Brother, what can you do?"

"What can I do? Just stop him at the critical moment and just take him away. He will never guard against you."

Yang Kang has long since lost the frivolity of his youth. After listening to Yang Qing, he pondered for a while before smiling bitterly: "If I really do that, I'm afraid he will hate me for the rest of his life."

"It's better to have a good brother who hates you than to see him die in the city. It may be tragic, but it's too unfair to his family." Yang Qing said lightly: "Besides, the Guo and Yang families have been friends for many generations. If he doesn't leave by then, can you Do you leave it alone? Could it be that many younger generations also died together?"

Yang Kang fell into deep thought after hearing this, and turned his head to look at Mu Nianci who was on the side after a while.

The two spoke in a low voice, and the three elderly people in the carriage could not hear clearly, but Mu Nianci, who was driving in front, could hear clearly.

Seeing Yang Kang looking sideways, she didn't speak, but smiled back.

The two have been husband and wife for many years, and Yang Kang understands that no matter what decision he makes, she will stand by him.

After that, I didn't talk all the way, and the frame stopped and stopped, and I didn't return to Niujia Village, Lin'an Prefecture until the ninth day.

After 50 years, the three elderly people returned to their hometown.

Looking at the once densely populated villages that are now luxuriant in wild grass and uninhabited, I have endless emotions.

When Yang Qing and Yang Kang returned to their old residence, they both remembered the mud hut in the back house of Prince Wanyan's mansion in the early years, smiled at each other and began to clean it.

After cleaning up the two houses, he went to a town a hundred miles away to buy poultry and vegetable seeds, as well as all the necessities of life, before he settled down completely.

Afterwards, Yang Qing no longer thought about martial arts or the way ahead, and accompanied Bao Xiruo, his wife and Li Ping to do some farming work with Yang Kang every day, while Mu Nianci took care of three meals a day.

As the days went by, Yang Qing only felt that this period of time was more fulfilling and precious than his own retreat for decades.

Just after lunch that day, the three old men had already taken a nap.

Yang Kang called out Yang Qing and Mu Nianci and said, "Brother, I found a secret room at the entrance of the village."

"Secret room?" Mu Nianci was about the same age as Yang Kang, and had also cultivated a calm demeanor in Xiangyang over the years.But she is also a person with a pure mind, and she couldn't help but be curious when she heard about the novelty.

Yang Qing remembered Qu San Tavern after a short thought, and then thought of many people he had never met.

"By the way, Xiaokang, do you remember Mei Chaofeng?"

Yang Kang said with a smile: "Thanks to the elder brother, you have often come to Xiangyang these years, but you have never chatted with the younger generation. Mei Chaofeng has already returned to Peach Blossom Island."

"?"

Yang Qing was taken aback.

Most of his visits to Xiangyang these years were to visit Bao Xiruo and his wife, but he really didn't have much contact with other juniors except Yang Xi.After all, time is limited, every time they come and go in a hurry.

"Mei Chaofeng went back to Peach Blossom Island? But I didn't hear my parents mention it. Did Senior Huang know that I read her Nine Yin Manual?"

"What do you say?"

Yang Kangmu Nianci looked at him and couldn't stop laughing: "But the old man doesn't care about these things anymore. For so many years, he has never seen the beginning and the end, and I rarely see others."

"Then where are the other disciples of Senior Huang?"

Mu Nianci nodded and said: "Sister Huang Rong said once that Lu Chengfeng passed away a few years ago. There is also a senior brother Feng Mofeng who is also in Peach Blossom Island, and a descendant of senior brother Qu Lingfeng was also taken back. .”

"Silly girl?"

"How did you know, bro?"

Yang Qing looked up at the dilapidated tavern in front of him and said, "Isn't this the tavern of Qu Lingfeng? Besides, the old man Huang was able to find this place, probably because of his father's guidance."

Yang Tiexin lived with Qu Lingfeng in Niujia Village with Guo Xiaotian in his early years. Although he had no friendship, he had seen Qu Lingfeng's martial arts by accident.

The husband and wife have lived in Peach Blossom Island for many years, so it is not surprising that Yang Tiexin talked about it with Huang Yaoshi when he saw Peach Blossom Island Wu Gong.

Yang Qing guessed that Huang Yaoshi probably found Sha Gu through this.

"Brother, is this what Dad told you?"

When Yang Kang heard him talk about the events before the two were born, he couldn't help muttering, but Yang Qing stopped asking after he was perfunctory.

The three said as they walked, and when they entered the house, they each understood the reason.

When Yang Kang turned the iron bowl on the wooden frame to open the passage of the secret room, Yang Qing remembered the story that happened here in the time and space without himself, and couldn't help asking:
"This place is so secretive, how did you find out?"

Yang Kang smiled: "I was thinking of cleaning up this tavern, so we brothers can have a place to chat in the future, and I accidentally discovered the mechanism."

The three of them walked into the secret room while talking.

The interior space is not big and there is no special design, and the whole picture can be seen at a glance.

Seeing that there were no bones in the room, nor the famous paintings and treasures that Qu Lingfeng had stolen in the early years, Yang Qing thought that Huang Yaoshi probably buried the bones of his disciples, and buried the rest together.

Without these legacy, there is nothing worth watching.After staying for a while, the three of them went out of the secret room together, and started to clean the tavern out.

From then on, Yang Qing and Yang Kang would come here to sit and chat every time they were free, and three months passed in a flash.

Autumn is getting stronger, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming again.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yang Qing set up tables and chairs in the courtyard, Yang Kang and Mu Nianci prepared drinks and dishes, and the six people sat down one by one and had a long talk with the moon.

Guo Jing and the others are still in Xiangyang, but the six of them are not deserted.

When Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo talked about the past, together with Li Ping, they sometimes laughed and sometimes felt sad.

Yang Qing and the others listened quietly.

Compared with competing in the rivers and lakes, the lives of such ordinary people may be too ordinary.But Yang Kangmu Nianci is no longer young, but cherishes such a rare time even more.

And Yang Qing naturally has more emotion and understanding than the two.

This night, the few people dispersed until the middle of the moon. Yang Qing and Yang Kang were about to go back to their rooms after packing up, when they suddenly heard a neighing sound from the sky.

Yang Kang was very familiar with the voice, without looking up, he smiled wryly at Yang Qing, "It must be Brother Guo's letter."

As soon as he finished speaking, the white eagle landed in response, and he stepped forward to take down the letter and let the white eagle fly away.

Then he unfolded the letter and read it for a while and handed it to Yang Qing: "Mongolia has been making frequent moves in the north recently. I am afraid it is going to plunder the border before winter. Brother Guo intends to go north to meet the enemy and let me go back as soon as possible."

Yang Qing took the letter and glanced at it, and said to Yang Kang: "In this case, you can go, parents don't have to worry if I take care of them."

"It doesn't matter if it's late." Yang Kang looked into the room and said slowly, "With my pace, I'll arrive in two or three days. Let's bid farewell to the elders tomorrow morning."

The itinerary has been set, the two said no more, and went back to their rooms to rest.

Early the next morning, Yang Kang explained his intention to leave, and left Mu Nianci behind and asked her to take care of the old man.

Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo naturally had no objection, but just told him to be careful.It wasn't until Yang Kang walked away that the two showed their deep reluctance.

After Yang Kang left, Yang Qing still went as usual every day, and went to watch the tide by the Qiantang River that went around the village in his free time, and even untied the cold iron sword that seldom left his body and put it at home.

He has been in seclusion for many years and has not used weapons for a long time, and there is no trace of evil spirit on his body.Without the long sword accessory, at this moment, being blown by the breeze by the river, his clothes and black hair flew together, and he didn't look like a person in the rivers and lakes at all.

In the evening of autumn, he looked at the reflection of the red sun in Jiangxin, heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and looked sideways. Mu Nianci was walking towards him stepping on dead branches and fallen leaves.

"Brother, I have something to ask you."

Yang Qing smiled and said, "Although we get together less and leave more, but you and my brother and sister have been together for decades, so just say what you have to say."

"Father and mother..." Mu Nianci hesitated for a while before asking, "Are they running out of time?"

Yang Qing heard the words and said calmly: "I washed their meridians and pulses for them two days ago, I'm afraid it will be within three months."

"This... big brother, even you can't help it?"

"It's not caused by a disease, but it's the end of my life. I can't even think about it."

"I'll write a letter to Xiangyang!"

As the footsteps faded away, Yang Qing couldn't stop sighing softly.

He has gone through several lives, and he has seen too many life and death.Although my heart was calm at this moment, the faint heaviness that covered my heart was heavier than the sadness of ordinary people.

Traveling all over the world like this for many lifetimes, even if the body surpasses ordinary people in the end, can the human heart really bear it?
Throwing this thought out of her mind, Yang Qing also turned and returned to the village.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Mu Nianci had already prepared the food, and his expression was as usual.

"Qing'er, it's time to eat."

Bao Xiruo's face is old, but his demeanor is still the same, as when he was telling him to put down his sword and rest early when he was a child.

After agreeing, Yang Qing sat down as promised.

After dinner, he was about to go back to rest as usual, but Bao Xiruo reached out and grabbed him.

"Qing'er, accompany me outside for a walk."

"it is good."

Yang Qing took her by the arm and walked out of the small courtyard. Bao Xiruo said slowly when he reached the entrance of the village, "This is where I married into Niujia Village when I was young..."

Along the way, Yang Qing listened to her talking about the past, and the night became dark before he knew it.

"Qing'er, mother has something to tell you."

Yang Qing put on a posture of listening quietly.

"Actually, when I was a child, I liked Kang'er more. It's not that I don't love you, but that you are too sensible and too righteous. Sometimes I am a little afraid of you."

Yang Qing laughed and said, "I have nothing to be afraid of."

Bao Xiruo shook his head and said, "Maybe it's my mother's overthinking, she always thinks that you know too much, more than adults. And it doesn't look like someone taught you, it seems like you were born knowing."

Seeing that he was about to go back home, Yang Qing echoed and asked, "Are you still afraid now?"

"It's just an inappropriate metaphor to say that I'm afraid, how could I be really afraid of my own child." As she said that, she quickened her pace, walked to the front of the yard and opened the door and said, "I know that without you, our family might not be the same. "

Yang Qing helped her into the door of the room, and looked at each other with a smile when they parted, as if they all recalled the days in Wanyan Palace.

"Qing'er, thank you."

As soon as the words fell, Bao Xiruo's deeply wrinkled and kind face disappeared behind the door. Yang Qing quietly looked at the closed door for a long time, and finally returned to the room...

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(End of this chapter)