Nightfall Chapter 194: The old lady sweeping the floor

Liu Yiqing is a silent and gentle young man.

Silence and gentleness do not mean that he is not proud, but he hides pride well under the silent and gentle appearance, just like a few years ago, when he obeyed his brother’s order to leave Liu’s old house and join Jiange incognito That way, no matter how indifferent or even hostile Jiange was, he was always gentle.

Because his elder brother is Sword Saint Liu Bai, he has enough qualifications to be proud, then he does not need to show this pride to the disciples in the sword pavilion.

But when faced with the academy in the south of Chang'an, his silence was more sincere, because he knew he was not qualified to be proud of this place.

Because of his respect for the academy, he chose to sit in a quiet position away from the front entrance of the academy, but a relatively remote side entrance to the back mountain. Chen Pipi's so-called humiliation to Ning Que in the cliff cave was naturally a bit exaggerated. However, a Southern Jin swordsman challenged at the gate of the academy, and sitting still waiting for someone to break through, still aroused many discussions in the world and attracted the attention of many people.

In the early spring in the early morning, the morning breeze was still cool, Liu Yiqing slowly opened his eyes, woke up from a state of meditation, and calmly looked at the complex onlookers around him.

Most of the people who watched this Southern Jin Great Swordsman were students in the front yard of the academy, but as he sat at the entrance of the academy longer and longer, the news spread to the city of Chang'an, triggering more people’s curiosity , Some good spectators in the city actually came together, wanting to see what he looks like.

The side door creaked open.

Professor Huang He came out, stood beside the futon, and looked up at the gloomy sky. Suddenly sighed and said: "For the sake of your brother's face, I asked you to enter the academy, but you are not. Now it has attracted so many spectators. Don't you think this thing is a little ridiculous? When you came to Chang'an, you already decided to use this method to shame the college?"

"Dare not." Liu Yiqing stood up from the futon. Bowing and saluting, he said: "Where can I be rude to the academy. I just came here. If I can't fight with Mr. Shisan, he will retreat. After returning to the Southern Jin Dynasty, I really don't know how to respond to my brother. Since Mr. Shisan is in retreat, I Wait for him here."

Huang He looked at the young Southern Jin swordsman, as if he had seen the man full of jealousy back then, although the young man in front of him had a gentle expression. But there seems to be the kind of persistent stubbornness in the body that does not reach the goal.

"You have to wait, then just wait. If you are thirsty, there is water in the courtyard, but the academy will not provide you with food. If the dry food on your body is finished, go back to Chang'an."

Liu Yiqing said: "Don't worry, sir. I brought a lot of dry food."

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Sit from early morning to dusk. Many disciples in the front yard of the academy made a special trip to look at Liu Yiqing at the side entrance. When they discovered that this young Southern Jin powerhouse had nothing special, sitting motionless on the futon, they felt a little boring and scattered.

And those people who have come to watch the excitement and good deeds from Chang'an City are wave after wave, pointing to Liu Yiqing not far away, pointing and whispering. There was even a fierce argument because of some different opinions, the originally remote and quiet side door was not quiet for a moment.

"The Great Sword Master...should be a very powerful practitioner, right?"

"This is the first time I have seen a living practitioner."

"I heard that he is already in the upper realm of Dongxuan, and his level is about the same as Prince Longqing."

"So what? I heard that the second-floor student of the academy he was going to challenge this time shot the prince Longqing directly to death in the wasteland. Will he still be defeated by him?"

"Speaking of which, this Nanjin man is really not as timid and incompetent like other Nanjin people, like a maiden. He actually has the courage to run to our college to block the door."

"I don't understand. The gate of the academy has been blocked by this guy, why the people in the courtyard allow him to be so arrogant and don't rush him away."

"First of all, the place where the Nanjin people sit is the side entrance. Apart from our neighborhoods, who else will pass by? Secondly, since the two-story student he challenged is in retreat. The rest of the academy naturally It’s not convenient to take action, and those people in the yard will take it casually. Isn’t it a loss?"

"It makes sense, do you guess that this Nanjin man can insist on sitting here for a few days?"

"Ten days and a half months? Who knows."

"I only know that when the student on the second floor of the academy broke through, this Nanjin man would not sit again, and would immediately lose miserably and roll back to the Nanjin embarrassingly. "

Of course, the Tang Empire is the most powerful country in the world, and the second strongest country is the Southern Jin Dynasty. With the support of the Xiling Temple, the Southern Jin Dynasty dominates the South and has always been a little dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty. Looking at the forever second place, a lot of ridicule and disdain arose out of vigilance.

The challenge of the young and strong in the Southern Jin Dynasty to the academy is a rare excitement for the Chinese people. It is also a world of peace and no war for many years. It is a rare opportunity to educate the Southern Jin people who is the real boss.

As for whether the Nanjin man sitting outside the gate of the academy could defeat the student... The Chinese didn’t know who the second-story student was, and did not know the level of strength, but they never thought about it. The people in the college will lose the duel.

This has nothing to do with pride, self-confidence, arrogance, and arrogance. It's just a certain kind of breath that keeps flowing in the blood of the Tang people. Before the battle has begun, I will never think about the situation after defeat, because the purpose of the battle is victory. , Except for victory, there is no other distractions.

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Day after day, the people of Chang'an who came to see the excitement kept repeating curiously looking, whispering, fiercely arguing, and finally unifying their opinions, thinking that this young and powerful man in Southern Jin is now looking arrogant, but destined to be certain It is not the opponent of the people in the academy, and it will definitely lose extremely miserably.

Day after day, Liu Yiqing sat outside the side entrance of the academy, greeted by countless eyes, feeling the curiosity and contempt in his eyes, listening to those Tang people’s comments and the ridicule and mockery of himself and the Nanjin people in the comments. , The expression on his face was still calm, as if he didn't care.

A wild flower bloomed under the stone steps in front of the side door, representing that spring has finally come to the world. Liu Yiqing looked at the little flower, and a smile suddenly appeared on her calm face.

The smile on his face is gentle, but the smile in his heart is slightly cold.

As the younger brother of Sword Saint Liu Bai, and the most outstanding young disciple in the Southern Jin Jiange, he is of course qualified to be proud and confident. Even facing the academy, he just buried this pride and confidence deeply. To my heart. However, listening to these Tang lay people's comments, why not be angry?

Mr. Thirteen of the Academy Ning Que?

Before Liu Yiqing left the sword pavilion, the sword sage Liu Bai had warned him that the disciples of the back mountain in the academy could not lose except for one, two, and twelve.

The meaning of this sentence is very clear. In Liu Bai's eyes, except for the second master of the college and the twelfth master who has been faintly known in the Haotian Taoist door for many years, the rest should not be Liu Yiqing's opponents.

Liu Yiqing is very clear about Ning Que's current realm strength.

A man who only broke through into the cave in the wasteland. How can you be the enemy of your own sword?

Many sects in the world still hold their views on Ning Que at this stage. At the beginning, they did not understand why the Master was willing to accept this waste wood as a disciple. Later, when Ning Que defeated Prince Longqing and the sea monk at Lan Ke Temple. And after the Dao Shi master returned from the Xuankong Temple, the spiritual world began to think about the real reason why the Master accepted Ning Que as a student, but no one thought that Ning Que was very strong.

Nowadays, the detailed process of the three battles that really allowed Ning Que to establish a position in the world of spiritual practice has long been the subject of detailed study in various schools of practice. Include every detail.

The more you study. The more they felt that Ning Que won these three battles and relied more on the peerless weapons provided by the academy, as well as those unpredictable luck, such as the weird iron arrows on the wasteland, or Ning Que and Master Daoshi on the Chang'an Street. The battle in the Lotus Pure Land was obviously helped by some external force.

Many people in the world of spiritual practice suspect that the young fat man standing next to Ning Que was probably the legendary Twelve Masters of the Academy, or that Twelve Masters secretly shot at that time. Master Dao Shi will fail miserably, but no one has the evidence, and after all, that is the twelve gentlemen of the academy, and has such a legendary life experience, no one dares to stand in front of the stage to ask questions about this.

If there is no mention, it does not mean that there is no doubt.

At least until now, no one still thinks that Ning Que is really better than Prince Longqing.

Liu Yiqing is on his way to Chang'an from Southern Jin Dynasty. Knowing the failure of the sea monk at Lanke Temple, he became vigilant about Ning Que's methods on Fudao. After arriving in Chang'an City, he carefully studied the three battles of Ning Que and finally reached a conclusion. In addition to those mentioned by the world practice sects, I also noticed a very crucial point. This Mr. Thirteen, who represents the academy's entry into the WTO, is very fond of speculation in battle.

Liu Yiqing has been practicing swords since he landed, practicing diligently, constantly polishing his spirit and will, and has suffered countless hardships before he has his position in the sword pavilion today. He has always hated those who only use opportunism, or luck. A very good person, and in his opinion, that guy named Ning Que, only because of good luck was accepted by the master, will he have these following scenes.

So he is not hostile to the Academy, but hostile to Ning Que.

And he firmly believes that Ning Que is not his opponent.

There are two other reasons for Liu Yiqing's infinite hostility towards Ning Que.

The reason was that he didn't even notice it. It was that when the second floor of the academy was opened, he was still cultivating in the old house of the Liu family. He was extremely sorry for this and felt that he had missed the most precious thing. opportunity.

And this opportunity he had no choice but to miss finally fell on Ning Que.

Sitting on the futon outside the side entrance of the academy, he looked at the odious onlookers not far away from the Tang people, thinking silently if it weren’t for the brother’s strict orders, he would let himself grasp the opportunity to sharpen his spirit and try to be favored by the master Accepted as a student, after Ning Que breaks the barrier, he will definitely cut him with one sword!

An old woman wearing a blue cloth coat and holding a bamboo broom in her hand walked out of the side door, walked to the futon, looked at Liu Yiqing's profile, and asked slowly: "Are you unhappy?"

The old woman was so close to Liu Yiqing that he realized that he couldn't help being a little shocked. He thought that there was a dragon and a tiger in the academy. Is this old woman also a great outsider?

But he didn't notice any thought power fluctuations in the old woman.

Liu Yiqing calmly responded: "There is nothing unhappy."

"It’s fine if you don’t feel unhappy."

The old woman in the blue coat crouched down to the stone steps and began to sweep the floor.

Liu Yiqing frowned slightly. I was wondering why this old lady didn't pay attention when she saw me sitting here, and she also raised so much dust?

The old woman seemed to perceive what he was thinking, so she stopped sweeping the floor, holding the bamboo broom to take a breath, looked at him and said: "Someone wants me to bring you a word."

Liu Yiqing looked slightly cold and asked: "Please speak."

The old woman squinted at the gloomy sky. It seems that I was reminiscing what the person who spread the word had said. After a long time, I finally remembered and said: "The person you are going to challenge is now practicing in a retreat in a cliff cave. What did you cultivate..."

"I remember, he is trying Fuwu Shuangxiu."

The old woman went on to say: "He said that if you can hold back the academy and go to the toilet, you can endure the smell of excrement and dust, and the coldness of early spring. Then wait for him for three months."

Liu Yiqing was silent.

The master returned to the academy, and Mr. Thirteen Ning Que began to practice in retreat. Many people know about this. However, when he heard the old woman Dai Ning Que's message today, he realized that Ning Que actually let himself wait for three. For months, especially when I heard about Fuwu Shuangxiu, I was even more angry.

It is true that practitioners often need to retreat and enlighten the Tao. But it takes up to three months to retreat. Either those who are major practitioners, or they are facing a critical moment of breaking through.

Ning Que's realm is so low, of course, he is not a great practitioner who needs to ask for the truth, and this person has just broken into the cave in the wasteland, is he going to break into the life now?

In Liu Yiqing's cognition of the spiritual world, this kind of thing has never happened before. As for Fuwu Shuangxiu, it sounded more like a joke, so the more he thought about it, the more he felt that all this was fake. Ning Que's retreat is also a fake, just a shameless excuse to avoid war!

Liu Yiqing looked contemptuous and said: "If Ning Que has no confidence to represent the academy's entry into the world, it is clear that he would use such an excuse to shame the academy and the master!"

The old woman in the blue lab coat ignored him after she finished speaking, squatting and continuing to sweep the floor.

It's just when she sweeps the floor. The bamboo broom in her hand was raised higher, as if she felt the breath of early spring, and remembered the beauty of her teenage years ago, she wanted to dance.

The dust mixed with gravel was raised high, and then slowly fell. Under the dancing of the old woman, the bamboo broom clearly and deliberately swept the dust down the stone steps.

Liu Yiqing's face is covered with dust. She looked very embarrassed, her face turned pale from anger, and she looked at the old lady sweeping the floor and said sharply, "No wonder Ning Que would let you preach that. So this is the so-called enduring dust? Is this the hospitality of the college? The way?"

The old woman glanced at him blankly and said: "Sitting at the door of the host's house, I will not invite in anyway. I have never heard of such a guest in the world."

Liu Yiqing frowned slightly.

The old woman looked at him and said: "Even if you have to wait for Ning Que to break through, you can wait in the academy, you can wait in Chang'an City, or even you can directly repair a book from the Southern Jin Jiange, but you I just want to sit at the gate of my academy. In fact, everyone knows why you are doing this, but the old man in the academy and the little yellow crane have had some friendship with Liu Bai in the early years, so I can’t say anything about you."

"In the past 100 years, I have seen many young practitioners who have been practicing hard for many years and intending to become famous in one fell swoop. They are like you. They believe that the soul of the academy lies in the master, and the rest of the disciples are just lucky to worship under the master. No matter how hard you work, you can't get the chance."

"I know you want to shock the world in one fell swoop, and achieve nothing in the world."

"But you chose the wrong place and the wrong object."

"You don’t like other people's opportunism, but you stare at the weakest Ning Que on the second floor. Isn’t this a speculation? Once you start to speculate, your sword intent from Liu Bai loses its roots. Reason."

"Because your brother Liu Bai has never been a tricky person."

"Because of this, he is the best in the world."

The old woman lightly dusted the big blue cloth coat on her body, and said: "You can't even eat ashes, so how can you eat so much pain and depression, and you can't endure depression? What qualifications do you have to come to the college? Be a footnote to your fame, even if you don’t even understand this kind of thing, why do you become an eternal name?"

Listening to these words of the old woman, Liu Yiqing remained silent, his face became paler and paler, cold sweat poured out of his back, wet clothes and even the futon under him.

After a while, he sat upright, pressed his hands forward on the ground, bowed his head and bowed the gift of a disciple’s generation, and said sincerely: "Thank you, senior, for awakening the fool."

The old woman walked up to him and swept the dust and **** mixed with very few fallen leaves into the basket, and said: "Don't thank me, I am not specifically to remind you, but you are sitting outside the side entrance of the college. In seven days, I have seven days not to sweep the floor. If you really have to wait for that guy for three months, I can’t do it without sweeping the floor for these three months. I’m the person I don’t want to see **** on the ground."

The old woman crouched into the side door.

Liu Yiqing turned around and looked at the side door of the closed college. He always felt that the old woman was mocking himself when she said that she did not want to see trash on the ground, but he was not angry, but thoughtful.

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If Ning Que was outside the side entrance of the college, of course she would recognize the old woman in the blue coat. Students in the academy can often see an old woman holding a bamboo broom, crouched and sweeping the floor in every corner of the academy. Sijing Sijing has long become a page in the academy’s legend.

Because that old woman was not the faculty manager in charge of the sweeping work, but the only female honorary professor in the college, and she was a great expert in mathematics that no one would dare to provoke.

Ning Que was the only one in the first class of the scientific examination when he was admitted to the hospital. At that time, the question was given by the big brother. In fact, the big brother gave a total of five alternative questions, and the old woman finally selected the peach blossom That way.

At this time, when he was thinking about retreat among the cliffs of Yashan, he also thought of this topic.

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(The first chapter is here, this is five thousand words, so it’s a bit late, and the second chapter must be updated before 11 o’clock.) (to be continued)