Golden Greenery

Yang Yi never thought that Zhongnan Mountain would be as dry and hot as it is now. If it weren't for the water diversion project planned and built by Huang Yaoshi, he and A Ke would have moved out of the mountain long ago.

Since the beginning of winter last year, Zhongnan Mountain has not seen a drop of rain nor a single snowflake. This kind of vision has been seen in Zhongnan Mountain in this world.

It was midsummer now, and there was still no sign of rain. There was not a single cloud in the sky, and the air was so dry that it seemed like it would burn at any moment.

There is a severe drought in the north, especially in Guanzhong, and famine has appeared in the outside world. If the drought continues and delays the sowing of winter wheat seedlings in autumn, the consequences will be disastrous. The land will be starved and the people will be in dire straits.

The situation in the mountain col is much better. The products in the mountain are quite rich and there are many wild animals. The key is that there is water source and no one is fighting for or disturbing it. This is thanks to Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi.

Thirty-five years ago, a son-in-law who was bothering him and a beggar who was his disciple's descendant. Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi successively found this place to live in seclusion with Yang Yi. The two lived here for eleven years.

Huang Yaoshi is a very contradictory person. He hates red tape and pedantry the most, but he respects loyal ministers and filial sons the most. Yang Yi asked him: If someone is a very pedantic and loyal minister, should you kill him or kneel him.

Huang Yaoshi didn't answer. He turned around and went back to repairing the water tanker. He was always very proud.

He was undoubtedly an extremely miraculous person. Yang Yi concluded that if Huang Yaoshi had devoted all his energy to martial arts, he would have been truly number one in the world, and had even realized the Tao.

But for Huang Yaoshi, martial arts is probably the one he pays the least attention to. Even so, in the past twenty or thirty years, he has ranked among the top five in the world.

Huang Yaoshi was proficient in chess, calligraphy and painting, Qi Men Dun Jia, astronomy and geography, Five Elements and Bagua, agriculture, mulberry medicine, civil engineering and water conservancy. The small wooden house he designed and built for himself on the hillside amazed Yang Yi and A Ke. I never thought that there could be such exquisite and beautiful buildings in the ravine.

Therefore, Yang Yi unceremoniously asked Huang Yaoshi to renovate his wooden building, and it must be full of elegance, otherwise he would demolish the small courtyard he just built.

There is no law in the mountains, and the truth is as strong as the fist. The proud Huang Yaoshi readily agreed.

Finally, it was Hong Qi’s turn.

Heavy physical work such as cutting trees, raising beams, and moving rocks was basically done by Hong Qi, because he didn't know anything else. Yang Yi said she was older, A Ke said she was a woman, and Huang Yaoshi said she was a designer of mental work.

Fifty-five-year-old Hong Qigong could not say anything.

I can only admit that I am young, hunky and powerful.

It has to be said that he is very skilled in martial arts. He can split a big tree with one palm using the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. Two new buildings and one renovation were completed in less than half a year.

Hong Qi was lying in the hard stone house drinking fruit wine made by A Ke, planning to rest for a few months, but Huang Yaoshi held his chin and muttered: "The stream is about to stop flowing, and a water diversion system needs to be built." OK."

It has to be said that those who are good at martial arts are good at work. Hong Qigong carried the big rocks and ran in the mountains as if he were walking on flat ground. Before the winter dry season came, the water diversion channel and the water storage pool were also announced to be completed.

In this way, even if the stream stops flowing, you will not have the trouble of water shortage if you live in the mountain valley, and this place becomes a paradise.

Still missing a little bit.

Hong Qi lay in the stone house rubbing his waist, drinking the second batch of fruit wine, preparing a meal and resting for the whole winter, but Huang Yaoshi frowned again.

Outside the mountains are troubled times. The surviving Jin Kingdom in the northern part of the Central Plains is at war with Mongolia, and many people have taken refuge in the mountains. Originally, the water source in this mountain valley was scarce and not very suitable for living, so no one came here. However, now that the water conservancy project has been built, it has directly turned into a blessed place. As a result, Huang Yaoshi violently drove people out every day.

He shouted to Hong Qigong again, displayed his power with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, split stones and trees, and spent a whole winter finally building a formation in the mountain col.

Although there is no peach blossom, Huang Yaoshi still calls it the Peach Blossom Formation because it is exactly the same as the formation on his Peach Blossom Island.

Without guidance from someone who understands, people who walk into the mountain valley will turn out as they please, and will never be able to get in. This time, the real paradise was finally built. Of course, there are no peaches in the peach garden, but there are some plum trees.

Hong Qigong looked at the dazzling array of completed masterpieces and felt very accomplished. Yang Yi, A Ke and Huang Yaoshi were indifferent. They felt that there was nothing to fuss about and they were not tired at all.

After everything was completed, the four of them were completely at ease, chatting about the past and the present every day, regardless of the years outside the mountains.

A Ke is in charge of hunting, buying food for sheep and vegetables, and Huang Yaoshi is a master chef. In order to commend Hong Qi for his more than 10,000 spells of Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms in the process of building Taoyuan, the three people allowed him to just water the three acres of vegetable fields in the mountain col every day.

In the fourth year, Huang Yaoshi felt really sorry, so he designed a small waterwheel for the vegetable patch, which could be turned and stopped.

"Huang Laoxie! Why didn't you get it out earlier? I had to carry water for four years." Hong Qi was furious and had a fierce fight with Huang Yaoshi. After the fight, he was so angry that he built the water tanker according to the drawings. , the Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon struck the mountain with a loud sound.

Dongxie and Beibei always fight, and they fight more than a dozen times every year when they live in the mountain col. Each time, there is no winner or loser. Yang Yi and A Ke neither care nor give any advice on this, because although their martial arts are not as good as Yang Yi, they have reached an extremely high level and no longer need guidance from others.

Huang Yaoshi's martial arts came from the Xiaoyao sect, which was very diverse and extremely complex. It was often confusing to look at the sheep at a glance.

Hong Qigong is just the opposite. He has a set of extremely powerful Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which can cope with all changes by remaining unchanged.

Yang Yi and A Ke watched them fight with great interest, as if they were watching She Huo. Although Taoyuan is nice, there is too little entertainment. Yang Yi thinks Xiao Huang and Xiao Hong are quite sensible.

He knew that the two of them wanted to avoid worldly troubles, but also wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains and learn their own martial arts. In this regard, the sheep group does not have much, so we can only fight with them from time to time, using a strong sense of oppression to let them realize on their own, and practice all on their own.

In eleven years, Yang Yi fought 105 and 99 fights with Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi respectively. He was a little unable to fight, but they still didn't realize it, but they all improved in martial arts.

In the past eleven years, Dongxie and Beibei have not left Zhongnan Mountain. Yangyi and Ake went out in the ninth year of their arrival because Wang Chuyi received news that Granny Sun in the Tomb of the Living Dead died.

Grandma Sun was called A Sun when she was a child. She was an orphan adopted by A Diao Lin Chaoying. She is also A Diao's only remaining disciple. It can also be said that she is the last concern of Yang Yi and A Ke in this world.

The Ancient Tomb Sect did not mourn with great fanfare, but only hung a white flag on the top of the tomb, and refused the condolences of the neighbor Quanzhen Sect.

In the name of old friends, Yang Yi and A Ke spent a long time saying good things before they saw the person in the tomb. She was a pure and pure girl who was only fourteen years old. Her name was Xiao Longnu, and she was also the current leader of the Ancient Tomb Sect.

Granny Sun once had a disciple named Li Mochou, but I heard that she expelled him from the ancient tomb a few years ago. It seemed that he had bad character and habits.

Although Xiao Longnu was young, she was very cold-tempered. She frowned and let Yang Yi and A Ke into the Tomb of the Living Dead, watching them indifferently as they paid homage to Grandma Sun and Grandmaster Lin Chaoying.

She didn't understand why the old Hu girl in front of her was crying in front of Patriarch Lin's coffin.

Saint Akademo shed tears for the last time for her good sister Adiao Lindatra. She was over eighty years old, and sixty-four years had passed since the day she and Adiao happily left Persia and headed towards the Central Plains. It has been forty years since A Diao passed away.

Yang Yi and A Ke had no sense of intimacy with Xiao Longnu. They bid farewell to A Diao for the last time. The Tomb Sect no longer had any relationship with them and no longer had any concern for the world.

All ties are gone, only finding the way back is left.

Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qi have lived in the mountains for eleven years, but in the end they are just passers-by in the lives of Yang Yi and A Ke, and are insignificant. But it was they who came here to live in seclusion and enlightenment, and built the mountain col beyond recognition, and finally created the opportunity for Yang Yi to find his way home.

After six hundred years, it was finally time for him to go home.