The Nine Cauldrons

Chapter 1: Teng Qingshan

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The second floor of the quiet tea restaurant.

The soft music sounds like a trickle, flowing through people's hearts. There were not many customers on the second floor of the tea restaurant, there were only about a dozen people, in twos and threes, all consciously talking about their respective topics in a low voice. Suddenly footsteps came from the stairs, causing many guests to glance over involuntarily.

An innocent girl with ponytails in jeans and a white polo shirt and a tall young woman with ear-length short hair in purple casual clothes came up side by side.

The eyes of many people in the entire tea restaurant lit up!

"Look, two beauties! Especially the one in purple casual clothes, tsk tsk, I stayed in Suzhou for four years in college, and I just came back. I didn't expect that there is such a big beauty in our Anyi County. She is really a mature woman, the one next to her Although immature, but also pure and beautiful."

"Monkey, no matter how beautiful the beauty is, it belongs to someone else, stop dreaming."

"Hey, brother, don't hit me. By the way, who is that tall girl with short hair around her ears? I have lived for more than 20 years, and this is definitely the top three women I have ever seen .That facial features, that temperament... really touching."

"Monkey, let me tell you, that beauty's name is 'Lin Qing', she is a big shot, she has a very deep background, the Land Rover we saw worth two million two days ago is hers. In Yi County, she owns a hotel and two teahouses under her name. But in our county, this property is only a small part of her property."

"So powerful?" The young man nicknamed 'Monkey' couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Anyi County is just an ordinary county in Jiangsu, and the 2 million Land Rover is really eye-catching in a small county.

"Miss Lin, your room is ready, please come with me." The waiter on the second floor of the tea restaurant immediately went up to her.

These two beauties, led by the waiter, stepped into the box under the gaze of many people, and then the door of the box closed.

***********

Inside the box.

I ordered a pot of tea casually, and asked the waiter to leave.

"Sister Lin, you have come here every day these days, and you have fixed this box. Haha, you are Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows you." The girl with ponytails smiled and glanced out the window. Opposite the window was a children's welfare home. .

In the open space of the children's welfare home, some staff members of the welfare home were playing with the orphans.

"You little girl." Lin Qing couldn't help laughing and cursing, but Lin Qing still looked through the window from time to time at the orphanage below, searching for a moment, and seemed to be a little regretful that she didn't find what she was looking for.

"Strange, Teng Qingshan can't be found in the open space of the orphanage. Why didn't he come today? Doesn't he know that Sister Lin is waiting for him here?" The girl with ponytail sighed deliberately.

"Okay, A Min, don't be so weird here." Lin Qing chuckled.

The girl with ponytail 'Xiao Min' nodded, and then said puzzledly: "Sister Lin, I always feel that Teng Qingshan is very mysterious. When we went on a self-guided tour in Daxing'an Mountains, when you were in danger, Sister Lin, Teng Qingshan was behind your back." A living man, he walked nearly 20 miles on a mountain road. That's a mountain road! This Teng Qingshan's physical strength is really terrifying."

"He is very mysterious." Lin Qing also nodded.

Lin Qing still clearly remembers the scene when he met Teng Qingshan back then.

That time, Lin Qing and a group of like-minded friends went to the Northeast for an adventure tour in the Greater Khingan Mountains. As senior traveling friends, Lin Qing and his group certainly would not follow the safe route provided by the tourist area. At that time, they hired local villagers as tour guides to explore some undisclosed areas.

I don't think so...

In the rare mountain forest, it is too charming. Lin Qing was attracted by a rare bird. In order to photograph this bird, he inadvertently separated from the big team. When Lin Qing woke up, she couldn't find the team no matter what.

In the barren mountain forest, the mobile phone has no signal at all, and it is impossible to contact the team.

In this case, shouting that every day should not be done, and that the land is not working, Lin Qing could only grit his teeth and walk back alone, but who would have thought that he would encounter a poacher from the Daxingan Mountains on the way. I guessed it.

In the wilderness, Lin Qing was so beautiful. Seeing Lin Qing, the group of poachers who hadn't touched a woman in the mountains for a long time had a surge of male hormones, and without much hesitation, they immediately attacked one by one. But Lin Qing has a very strong personality and desperately resists.

But how can a woman fight against five big men

Naturally, Lin Qing was beaten and injured, and was about to be insulted. When Lin Qing was almost desperate, 'Teng Qingshan', who was wandering alone in the Daxing'an Mountains, appeared. Teng Qingshan shot like lightning, and before the injured Lin Qing could even see clearly, the five big men fell to the ground and passed out.

"Huh..." Recalling what happened back then, Lin Qing couldn't help but hum, but a smile appeared on his face.

"Teng Qingshan wanted me to go back alone. Fortunately, he was not too cruel. He finally carried me back." Lin Qing's mind flashed scenes of the original scene, on Teng Qingshan's back. , like a floating boat, returned to the harbour. No matter how rough the mountain road was, Lin Qing felt peaceful in his heart.

Teng Qingshan arrived at the destination with Lin Qing on his back just like this for a full 20 miles on a rugged mountain road.

Ordinary people are exhausted after walking twenty miles of mountain roads, let alone carrying a large living person on their backs. And it's still in a place like Daxing'anling no man's land. Even an excellent special soldier may not be able to resist.

After the mysterious youth 'Teng Qingshan' and Lin Qing parted ways in Daxing'anling, Lin Qing originally thought that it would be difficult to see Teng Qingshan again, but who would have thought that they would meet again in Anyi County.

"Teng Qingshan..." Lin Qing was still immersed in the memories.

"Hey, sister Lin, look, Teng Qingshan has appeared!" The ponytailed girl'Xiao Min''s voice woke Lin Qing up, she turned her head and looked down the window.

Opposite the window is an orphanage, its full name is 'Huahin Children's Orphanage'. Lin Qing and Xiao Min can clearly see the playground of the orphanage through the window. At this time, a short-haired young man wearing ordinary casual clothes and glasses came to the open space with a large basin full of apples.

"Wow, Apple!"

"Eat an apple."

"Queue up and eat apples."

"Don't mess around, you are behind me. Line up."

The children who were playing immediately surrounded them, and at the same time consciously lined up into two teams.

The Hua Hin Orphanage for Children gives each of these orphans a glass of milk in the morning and a piece of fruit in the afternoon. These orphans usually don't have much snacks, so the fruit in the afternoon is particularly attractive to them.

"Thank you, Uncle Teng."

These lovely children, after receiving the bright red apples, they all shouted obediently.

The short-haired young man couldn't help but smile on his face when he heard this, and he kept handing out fruits.

In the box of the tea restaurant, Lin Qing and Xiao Min were watching through the window the short-haired young man distributing fruits.

"Sister Lin, look how happy that guy Teng Qingshan is smiling, it seems that he likes children very much." Xiao Min said with a sigh.

"He likes children very much, otherwise he wouldn't come to this orphanage to be a free volunteer." Lin Qing's eyes were completely focused on the short-haired youth 'Teng Qingshan' below. Teng Qingshan's sincere smile towards the orphans was completely attracted She, "Xiao Min, I suddenly thought of something to do."

"What are you doing?" Xiao Min's eyes lit up.

Lin Qing sighed: "The old lady Huaxin has maintained this orphanage for nearly 30 years by herself, which is very admirable... I am going to donate one million, so you can go and get in touch with the people in the orphanage. "

The old lady in Huaxin, who is over 80 years old, is the director of Huaxin Children's Welfare Institute.

"This is a good thing." Xiao Min was overjoyed.

At this moment, the short-haired youth 'Teng Qingshan' is also constantly distributing apples, and most of the children have already received them, and they all started to eat them.

"It's so small." A child with slightly curly hair looked at the apple in his hand, and then at the apples in other people's hands, and found that his own was one size smaller. Of course, it is impossible for the orphanage to buy apples of the same size. So the fruits that the children hold will not be the same size.

But children like to compare! It seems... a little bit smaller, and I will suffer a disadvantage.

"Brother, my fruit is the smallest. Your fruit is bigger than mine, and it almost equals two of us." The curly-haired child said to another burly child next to him.

"Well, I don't feel well in my stomach today. I can't eat such a big one. Let me change it with you." The burly boy said with a smile, and the curly-haired boy's black eyes lit up, and he said, "Really?" He said so, but his eyes fell on the big apple in his brother's hand.

"Is this still fake?" The burly boy smiled, took the apple from his younger brother's hand, and handed over his own big apple.

And at this moment, Teng Qingshan had already finished distributing them, so he happened to see this scene.

"These two brothers..." Teng Qingshan's eyes dimmed, and a scene from a very long time ago could not help appearing in his mind—

It was a New Year's Eve a long time ago.

Snowflakes were flying outside, firecrackers were constantly ringing, and inside an empty house, a large group of children cheered around an old woman who seemed to be about 60 years old.

"Everyone has it, everyone has it, come one by one." The gray-haired grandmother looked at the group of children kindly, and gave each child three pieces of white rabbit toffee. In that distant era, the era of poverty, it was not bad to have white rabbit toffee during Chinese New Year.

"Thank you grandma."

A group of children cheered and took the toffee excitedly one by one.

They hadn't tasted toffee for a year or so. At this time, how could they bear it? They ate happily and talked excitedly.

"Brother." A child wearing a tattered padded jacket with stitched patches, pursed his lips and looked at his elder brother.

"What's the matter? Qing He?" A slightly taller child next to him, dressed in the same frugal clothes, looked over suspiciously.

"I, I've finished my toffee. It's so delicious... I'll finish it in just a while." As he said this, the child named 'Qing He' looked at the other children who were still eating slowly. Almost drooling. The slightly taller child looked down at the two big white rabbit toffee in his hand.

"Well, Qing He, take it to eat." said the slightly taller child.

"Brother, don't you want to eat?" Qing He hesitated.

"I have a toothache." The slightly taller child laughed, "I just ate a piece, and it hurt so much. Here you go. By the way, remember... don't crunch the candy, just crunch it like you do Eat, others didn't eat one piece, but you ate all three pieces."

"Well, I know, brother. Brother treats me the best." Qing He giggled, "However, for these two yuan, brother and I will share one."

The slightly taller child looked down, obviously he was just a child, couldn't resist the temptation of toffee, nodded: "Well, we have one piece for each of us."

"One piece for each person." Teng Qingshan murmured in a low voice, "Qinghe, twenty-two years, already twenty-two years."

At this moment, footsteps sounded, and Teng Qingshan turned his head to look. I saw an old woman with silver hair walking towards here accompanied by a woman.

"Grandma dean!"

"Hello, Grandma Dean!"

A large group of orphans immediately shouted excitedly, and this silver-haired grandmother seemed to be smiling happily.

"The dean's grandma." Teng Qingshan was startled, the dean's grandma in front of him seemed to be the old grandma who took care of him and his younger brother in his memory. Thirteen years old." Teng Qingshan was so excited that his body trembled slightly.

But in an instant, his excitement subsided and he regained his calm.

"Dean, this young man is called Teng Qingshan. He came to us as a free volunteer. He has been here for six days. He is very diligent and smart." The woman said with a smile.

"Oh, Teng Qingshan?" The silver-haired old woman who was over eighty this year looked at Teng Qingshan with a smile.

"Qingshan, take care of the principal, I'll go to the cafeteria to prepare the children's dinner." The woman laughed.

"Don't worry, Aunt Liu." Teng Qingshan smiled.

"Dean, I'm leaving first." The woman said to the dean, and Teng Qingshan stepped forward very naturally to help the dean's grandmother. The old lady looked at Teng Qingshan and smiled kindly: "Qingshan, you are twenty-three this year, I have seen your resume."

"Yes, I just graduated from university." Teng Qingshan nodded.

"Looking at Qingshan, you have thin skin and tender flesh. It's obvious that you haven't done heavy work. These days, you must have suffered with me." The grandmother of the dean said with a smile.

"No, I am very happy to do it." Teng Qingshan said with a smile while supporting the dean.

The grandmother of the dean sighed: "To be honest, Qingshan, I feel very kind when I see you. I can't help but think of an orphan in this orphanage a long time ago, maybe in the 1980s. At that time, the conditions of the orphanage were very poor. It was me and my eldest daughter who took care of the children. At that time, there were a pair of brothers among the children in the orphanage, one named Qingshan and the other named Qinghe. I gave them the name. You are also called Qingshan... What a fate."

Teng Qingshan's heart trembled, but he nodded: "Well, it's fate."

"However, Qingshan was adopted by someone, and it has been twenty-two years since he left the orphanage. Today he should be twenty-nine, much older than you, and maybe they are all married and have children." The head's grandmother sighed, "That's an orphan. Very well-behaved child, I don't know how he is now, my health is getting worse, if I can see this child Qingshan again, it will be great."

Teng Qingshan couldn't help but trembled in his heart: "I believe Grandma Dean, you will definitely get your wish."

The brothers Qingshan and Qinghe were abandoned at the gate of the orphanage not long after they were born. At the beginning, the director 'Hua Xin' also just opened this orphanage. Qingshan and Qinghe can be said to be the first batch of orphans. Moreover, the dean 'Grandma Huaxin' worked hard to raise this pair of brothers slowly. The feelings are of course deep.

Lin Qing and Xiao Min watched Teng Qingshan in the orphanage. Teng Qingshan first played with the dean's grandmother, and later played with the children. From beginning to end, there was no trace of impatience. Those kids obviously liked this 'Uncle Teng' very much too. Afterwards, Teng Qingshan sent the children to the cafeteria for dinner.

"Sister Lin, he's out." Xiao Min said immediately.

Seeing Teng Qingshan coming out from the gate of the orphanage, Lin Qing immediately shouted through the window: "Teng Qingshan!"

Only then did Teng Qingshan raise his head.

"Come up and have a seat." Lin Qing said with a smile, she knew very well that Teng Qingshan must have had dinner in the cafeteria, because... She had invited Teng Qingshan several times a few days ago, and Teng Qingshan only came to meet her twice Just chat.

Teng Qingshan shook his head with a smile: "No, I have something to do today, let's get together later when I have time."

"That's fine." Lin Qing was a little disappointed, but still said with a smile.

Lin Qing and Xiao Min just watched Teng Qingshan leave.

"Sister Lin, this Teng Qingshan really doesn't show face. Sister Lin, a beautiful woman, invited him personally, but he refused." Xiao Min laughed.

"Okay, let's go, go to my place for dinner." Lin Qing stood up and left the tea restaurant with Xiao Min.

*****

In a farmyard on the outskirts of Anyi County.

In the empty courtyard, Teng Qingshan was shirtless but didn't wear glasses. Teng Qingshan was gentle and humble wearing glasses, but he looked calm and resolute without his glasses.

At this moment, Teng Qingshan, with his upper body naked, is standing in the Xingyi Sansana pose.

With the chest closed and the back pulled out, the palms are in the shape of tiger claws, and the soles of the feet are empty, as if walking on muddy ground. Standing there with Teng Qingshan's whole body, it gave people the feeling of a high mountain lying there. Whether it was advancing, turning sideways, or punching, it made people feel unshakable mentally.

"Hoo!" "Hoo!"

There was a strong wind in the air.

But once it is gaining momentum, it will be as quiet as a bell.

The left foot plowed the ground like an iron plow, and the right foot kicked suddenly, and the right fist burst out, the whole person was like a big bow bent to the limit, and the right fist shot like a sharp arrow.

"puff!"

A blast of air was produced out of thin air, and there was even a gust of wind in the courtyard out of thin air.

Xingyi Santi pose, turned into the "Bengquan" of Wuxingquan, is like flowing clouds and flowing water, without a trace of reluctance, and the power is so powerful that it even produces an explosion of anger.

Those who learn martial arts in the society will be stunned when they see this scene.

I saw Teng Qingshan's whole body start to move around in the courtyard, based on the Xingyi three-body posture, and sometimes transformed into Wuxingquan. Obviously, Teng Qingshan had the highest achievement in the 'Paoquan' of Wuxingquan.

"call."

Turning his body around, Teng Qingshan returned to the preparatory pose of the Xingyi Trisana, and exhaled slowly.

The mind is as calm as water, just like the unwavering lake surface, and can naturally and clearly sense the conditions of every part of the body, ranging from the internal organs to the small muscles, skin and hair of the whole body. However, it is still far from the legendary 'inner vision'.

"Although it is only the last step, but this step is like a natural moat, it is difficult to overcome. If you can step into the realm of the master in your lifetime, you will die without regret." Teng Qingshan couldn't help sighing.

If you hear it in the morning, you can die in the evening!

Xingyiquan is one of the three major internal martial arts, and there are some who have reached the realm of masters in history, but in modern society, there are very few who can reach the realm of masters.

"The ground is too weak, and it is impossible to let go of it." Teng Qingshan looked at the ground, and there were already some cracks in the concrete floor. This is still the case that Teng Qingshan didn't use his full strength at all, but just practiced. If there is a battle with the strong, the concrete floor may completely collapse.

Afterwards, Teng Qingshan sat cross-legged, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart, his breathing was so weak that it could hardly be heard, and his heart was as calm as still water.

The spirit is infinitely relaxed.

"哗哗~~" The extremely weak sound of blood flowing in the blood vessels in the body like gurgling water, as well as the sound of the beating heart, were so clearly audible.

Time passed slowly, and soon it was midnight.

Teng Qingshan was still sitting cross-legged in the courtyard, but at this moment, on the rural concrete road outside the courtyard, a thin man in black clothes was whispering to the neckline: "Grey Eagle, I have arrived at the suspected target." Afterwards, the spirit The thin man calmed down a little.

He approached quietly, with light steps, without making a sound.

With both hands quietly grasping the courtyard wall, ten fingers exerted a little force, grasping and supporting, the whole person jumped in like a civet cat, landing with both hands and feet, the sound made was extremely weak.

The man in black immediately looked around. Suddenly, he found a vague figure sitting cross-legged in the middle of the courtyard, and he couldn't help being startled.

"You are still chasing me." The eyes of the person sitting cross-legged suddenly opened.

"Run!" The man in black's face changed without hesitation.

The man in black knew very well that if there was a sneak attack and assassination, he might still have hope, but now that the other party found him, according to the information, he had no hope at all.

"Whoosh." The man in black retreated violently, his figure turned upside down immediately, and he was about to jump out of the yard.

"boom!"

In the line of sight of the man in black, he felt that the figure sitting cross-legged suddenly exploded, and the whole concrete floor was shaken suddenly, cracking open. The figure was like a furious tiger, and instantly crossed a distance of seven or eight meters, pounced. come over. The terrified man in black didn't even have time to draw out his weapon.

"Puchi!" The man in black felt a sharp pain in his throat.

"Ho~~, ho~~" The man in black wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak, then his head drooped weakly, and he died.

Teng Qingshan tore open the sleeve of the man in black, blood smeared on the arm of the man in black, a complex code similar to a 'tattoo' appeared on the arm, with Teng Qingshan's amazing eyesight, although there was only a faint moonlight, he could still see clearly , Teng Qingshan's face changed slightly: "For me, they are willing to spend such a high price, asking people from the 'Dark Hand' organization to track down my tracks."

"The whereabouts have been leaked. You can't stay in Anyi County anymore."

Teng Qingshan immediately turned back and entered the house, changed his clothes, put on his backpack, and quietly left Anyi County in the dark night.

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