Ten days can be long or short.
On the eighth day, Duan Yao had actually learned all the moves and routines. The old man also said that as long as he went back to the logistics and practiced, and then pondered it carefully, with this extraordinary talent of comprehension, it could be as short as two years or as soon as one year. , you will be able to understand the whole set of kung fu, and you don't have to come again in the future.
Only on the ninth day, Duan Yao still came to the door on time, carrying some food in his hand.
The old man raised his head dazedly in front of the chessboard, saw who was coming and waved his hand: "I don't have anything to teach you anymore."
"I didn't come to learn kung fu." Duan Yao sat across from him, "Although Master doesn't allow me to recognize another master, senior has taught me a set of internal skills, so I should always come to thank you."
"Alright." The old man smiled rarely, "When do you plan to go back to the southwest?"
"The day after tomorrow." Duan Yao opened the food box and went to the house to make a pot of tea.
The old man looked at the dishes and shook his head: "It must have cost a lot of money."
Duan Yao held her breath and said, "Well."
"It's not good to be in the world in the future and cry from time to time." The old man picked up a bowl of fish ball noodles and chewed it hard, "You little baby, everything is fine, just this point needs to be changed."
"Senior." Duan Yao said, "I'll find a doctor for you to take a look."
The old man still shook his head: "It's almost time to live to my age. Although the people in this palace are kind, they have their own things to do. I've been here for nearly ten years, and I have to eat every day. If you want to wear it, just because of the favor you owe, you will have to wait for the next life. If you spend money and labor on the doctor to take medicine, even if you burn this candle for a few more years, what is the use?"
Duan Yao suggested: "Why don't we go back to the Southwest Mansion together? There are more people there and it will be more lively."
The old man laughed: "Silly boy, I was wrong just now. Your kind heart is not suitable for messing around in the rivers and lakes. It's almost the same as your brother."
Duan Yao pursed his lips.
"There are too many poor old men in this world, and you can't control them." The old man said, "Let's go back to the southwest quickly and accompany your brother."
Duan Yao nodded and didn't say anything else, and kept accompany him to finish the meal before packing up the dishes and leaving.
The old man watched his back fade away. He laughed at first, then remembered what happened when he was young, but when he regained his senses, he was already full of tears.
The next morning, Duan Yao packed up her little things and went to the bedroom.
Chu Yuan was waiting for him to have breakfast together.
After agreeing to go find the old man together, the atmosphere at the dinner table cannot be as happy as before. Duan Yao lowered his head and took a bite of the steamed bun, then drank another mouthful of gruel, then raised his eyes and glanced furtively.
Chu Yuan laughed: "Why, it's not to your taste, and you're still angry with me?"
Duan Yao almost choked.
"If you are unhappy, just say it." Chu Yuan patted him on the back, "I treat you as my own younger brother, Xiao Jin has never been so restrained." can be dismantled.
Duan Yao said, "If I say it, will the emperor listen?"
Chu Yuan shook his head: "It may not be willing, but if you say it, your heart will be more relaxed."
"Then I won't talk about it." Duan Yao muttered.
Chu Yuan picked him a chopstick with salted egg yolk and found it a little funny.
They are clearly brothers, but their temperaments are completely different, and I don't know how they were taught when they were young.
Duan Yao ate this meal very slowly.
But no matter how slow it is, there will always be a time to finish eating and swallow the last mouthful of buns. Duan Xiaowang is reluctant to go to the remote courtyard with his tail behind his sister-in-law.
Liu Dajiong came back from walking the bird. He was very surprised when he saw it from a distance. After thinking about it for a long time, he thought that the emperor was trying to deceive people, but it was not very similar. They all said that the little prince was very skilled in martial arts, and also Extremely self-willed, it is not a problem to demolish the house with bare hands, even the old King Duan can't control it, and the King of Southwest often has a headache because of this, the emperor shouldn't be asking for trouble like this.
This kind of thing, you have to ask Lao Tao.
In the small courtyard, the old man was still basking in the sun, but there were no chess pieces on the chessboard in front of him. He changed into new clothes, his hair was neatly combed, and his face was rarely bloody.
"Senior." Duan Yao felt guilty.
"Think you will come earlier." The old man's face was not surprised, "The old man sees the emperor."
Duan Yao was surprised: "Senior knows that we are coming?"
"I didn't know it before, but I guessed it yesterday." The old man said, "The food boxes sent are all snacks that are only available on the southeast coast. It is not easy to find in this Yunde City. I think you have to pay to buy all of them. A lot of thought. If I didn’t guess something, why bother to work so hard, just to give me a taste of my hometown.”
Duan Yao: "..."
"From the first day I taught you, I've said that kindness is a good thing, but it's not necessarily a good thing." The old man said, "If I really want to leave, after that meal, I will find a way to leave this palace. "Aren't you going to run for nothing today?"
Duan Yao kept his head down.
Chu Yuan said: "It's really inappropriate to disturb the tranquility of the predecessors. However, there are some things that I have to ask."
The old man nodded: "Your Majesty, please speak."
Chu Yuan single-handedly said: "Is your Excellency Xuantian?"
Duan Yao was surprised.
The old man nodded: "Yes."
Duan Yao: "..."
Where did this rumor come from, why didn't I know it at all? !
"It's really a senior." Chu Yuan understood, "No wonder he knows so much about Chaoya's affairs and the Burning Star chess game."
"I know what happened in Chaoya many years ago." The old man said, "I have been away from there for more than ten years, and I have no way of knowing what is going on."
"The King of Southwest once told me that the senior wanted him to destroy the island." Chu Yuan said, "Why?"
"Because it's already messed up there." The old man sighed, "I'm limited in my ability. I'm a mediocre person, but I think very highly of myself.
Chu Yuan frowned slightly.
The island is divided into two factions, the north and the south. The southern faction protects the island while the northern faction goes to sea to make a living. It should have been interdependent. But later, the southern faction wanted to annex the northern faction, relying on a few punches and kicks. The leader of the northern faction at that time was Xuantian's father. In order to compete with the southern faction, he hid his eight-year-old son in a wooden barrel and sent him to a merchant ship to go to another island to learn the arts.
Xuan Tian's talent is very good, he was able to defeat all the brothers at the age of ten, and then he followed another ship to the state of Chu, and worshipped a more powerful master. In addition to a copy of the martial arts secret book that his father stole from the Nanpai and passed down from the ancestors of Chaoya, he became a master in his early twenties - but he never showed the mountains and dew on weekdays, and no one knew about it.
"After I finished my studies, I went back to Chaoya Island, led the Northern Sect to regain its strength and regained what was lost." Xuan Tian said, "It's just that no matter how good the kung fu is, you can't eat or wear it. Thirty years later. The egrets of the southern faction went out to sea to find food, colluded with the Nanyang people to go to the island, and slaughtered the northern faction. After I was injured and fell into the sea, I was knocked unconscious by a piece of driftwood, and when I woke up, I was caught by a merchant ship. Help, they thought I was an old fisherman who was shipwrecked, so they took me back to Chu and sent me to a sanctuary in Dakun City."
"Dakun City is in the southeast, not too close to Yunde City." Chu Yuan said.
"Begging all the way, you can stop and go." Xuan Tian replied.
"Why are you here, for that old woman outside the city?" Chu Yuan asked again.
Emotional fluctuations rarely flashed in Xuan Tian's eyes.
"Senior, don't worry, I won't bother that mother-in-law." Chu Yuan said, "It's just a question."
Xuan Tian said: "I have borne her too much in this life, but I can't repay it even when I die."
Chu Yuan said: "That mother-in-law is doing well now."
Xuan Tian nodded: "I know."
"So the seniors don't have to worry about it anymore." Chu Yuan sat opposite him, "Even if we can't stay together, knowing that the other party is doing well and being able to watch from afar is a blessing."
Xuan Tian said: "What else does the emperor want to know, as long as you don't disturb her, just ask."
"Where did those Nanyang people who came to the island come from?" Chu Yuan asked.
Xuantian shook his head: "I really don't know. They are proficient in mechanical formations, and they are extremely good at making poisons. Even if I had a kung fu at that time, I still couldn't prevent it."
Chu Yuan said: "In the eyes of the seniors, why did they go to the island?"
"What else could it be for?" Xuan Tian said, "Naturally, it is for the rumored jewels, gold and silver. The Moon Cry Gu is in the hands of the old people of the Northern Sect, but if the old people die, then the last clue to find the treasure map will be. It went away, and what happened after that, I can't tell."
"Senior came to this North Palace more than ten years ago, and I didn't know about the entry of the Chaoya people into the palace." Chu Yuan said.
Xuan Tian said: "I heard from the servant here. Before I left Chaoya, the northern faction had been slaughtered. Presumably, all the Chaoya people who have entered the palace in ten years are from the southern faction."
"But at that time, they planted Moon Sound Gu on me," Chu Yuan said.
Xuan Tian frowned upon hearing this.
Chu Yuan said: "According to what the predecessors said, the Moon Cry Gu should all be in the hands of the Northern School."
"It should be so." Xuan Tian said, "When King Duan came to ask me, I was also puzzled by this, but he also had a lot of Gu worms on him at that time, so I thought that the emperor's Gu was not the one that belonged to the emperor. It comes from Chaoya." After all, the rivers and lakes are so big, and the country of Chu is so big, no one dares to say that only Chaoya can have the sound of the moon.
"It would be fine if I was alone." Chu Yuan said, "But a few days ago, a group of people from Chaoya also came to Chu secretly, and they had a dispute with a person in the rivers and lakes, and the tourists in the rivers and lakes were also caught. Moon Sound Gu."
"People from Chaoya?" Xuantian was puzzled, "Why do you want to come to Chu in secret?"
"The people are still under house arrest in the palace, and I will only go to trial when I go back this time." Chu Yuan said, "Do you want to go back with me, senior? It's also a good way to find out what happened on the island in the past ten years."