It was late at night, at the back door of an inn in the capital.

Master Zhao brought his two disciples, carrying bags on their backs, and carefully pushed open the back door. The figures of the three people soon disappeared into the night.

This time, although Master Zhao stumbled, he still got a lot of silver from Meng Haowen.

As the saying goes, if you don’t open for three years, you can make money for three years after you open. This business is not a loss!

"It's impossible to stay in the capital. The evil spirit is too strong."

Master Zhao walked forward while muttering to himself. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong.

The footsteps behind him... why did they suddenly disappear?

What about those two disappointing apprentices?

Master Zhao's heart trembled, and he subconsciously reached into his arms, wanting to take out the dagger hidden in his arms, but the next moment, a slender figure appeared in front of him.

Master Zhao looked at the girl in front of him and swallowed hard: "God..."

Before he could even utter the second word, the girl had already placed the sword on his neck.

**

The moon was at its zenith, and many people couldn't sleep tonight because of Mantanghong's incident. Jiang Jiang also didn't fall asleep at this time, but she wasn't thinking about Mantanghong. She was reading Yan Chong's letter -

【Ginger:

It's been a while since we last met. Are you all right? Uncle Ping and I have returned to Hezhou safely. Have a safe journey, don't worry.

Yan Chong. 】

This... is gone?

This letter is shorter than her diary!

Jiang Jiang read the letter over and over again. Well, it was just these two sentences, completely meaningless.

This person traveled thousands of miles to write a letter, and only wrote a few sentences?

What kind of straight man is this!

There is no romance at all.

Negative Ratings.

Jiang Jiang threw the letter aside and became angrier the more he thought about it. Postage is not cheap these days. You should at least say a few more words!

Have a safe journey and don’t worry. What the hell is this!

Besides, who misses him?

Jiang Jiang angrily put the letter back into its envelope and casually placed it in her drawer. She didn't know that tonight, Gu Yanhuan also received a letter from her brother. The content inside was almost exactly the same as Jiang Jiang's letter.

【Yan Huan:

Haven't seen you for a while. Are you okay? I've arrived safely in Yuzhou. Have a safe journey. Don't worry.

The difference between the two letters is that in the letter to Gu Yanhuan, Gu Yanqing wrote "Yuzhou" and he did not mention the person "Pingshu".

"Big brother is still so frugal with words."

Gu Yanhuan was happily holding her brother's letter at this time. She had never been to Yuzhou, but it was far away from the capital. Gu Yanhuan had no idea what her brother was doing there this time.

However, he still has time to write back, so he shouldn't be in any danger, right?

Speaking of which, Yuzhou should be not far from Hezhou.

Gu Yanhuan unconsciously thought of her hometown again.

Her hometown is located in Yuntai County, the northernmost part of Hezhou. It is an unremarkable village far from the hustle and bustle. In Gu Yanhuan's vague childhood memories, her hometown is beautiful, Gujia Village where she grew up is also very prosperous, and the people in the village are particularly kind.

If it hadn't happened later...

Will she and her brother live happily in Gujiazhuang forever?

Whenever Gu Yanhuan thought of her childhood, her head would ache slightly. She had this disease after a serious illness when she was young.

Grandpa found many miracle doctors to treat her, but there was no improvement. Fortunately, this did not affect her daily life.

Gu Yanhuan just forgot something.

such as.

She has no recollection of how her parents died.

Gu Yanhuan only vaguely remembered that her family was very wealthy when she was a child, and her parents doted on her. Her brother was a genius since he was young, and was good at both literature and martial arts.

later……

No one knew what had happened, but her parents died, and she and her brother returned to Gujiazhuang to live with their grandfather. Although Gujiazhuang was not rich, her grandfather treated them very well and even hired the best martial arts master to teach her eldest brother martial arts.

Until the winter when Gu Yanhuan was eight years old, a fire broke out in Gujia Village. The fire was so fierce that many people in the village were burned to death and could not escape.

The fire in my memory was extremely fierce.

Gu Yanhuan still remembers that she was so scared that her legs were weak and she couldn't walk, so her brother carried her all the way out of the fire. That night, Uncle Ping and two other farmers in the village also escaped with them.

The fire burned down their homes, Gujia Village was gone, and the two farming families went out to find a way out.

Uncle Ping is Grandpa's housekeeper. He used to be with Gu Yanqing and Gu Yanhuan, but then, suddenly one day, Uncle Ping disappeared.

My brother said that Uncle Ping had more important things to do, and they had to walk their own path in the future.

For the next two years, the siblings were constantly displaced, until Gu Yanqing went to Beijing to take the imperial examination...

So many years have passed, and now they, the brother and sister, have finally reaped the rewards of their hard work.

Gu Yanhuan still can't remember the things that happened when she was young, and her brother never takes the initiative to talk to her about the past.

Gu Yanhuan had a premonition that those past events... might not be so beautiful, so her brother never mentioned them. In fact, for many years, he had never taken her to pay homage to her grandfather and parents.

Sometimes, late at night when everyone was asleep, Gu Yanhuan would see his elder brother standing alone at the gate of the Gu Mansion, staring blankly at the screen wall.

Perhaps buried in that screen wall were the Gu family's past events from many years ago.

In fact, my eldest brother has never come out of it.

**

Hezhou, Yuntai County, Gujiazhuang.

It was late at night and Gujiazhuang was already dark.

Nine years ago, a fire destroyed everything in Gujiazhuang. The present Gujiazhuang was renovated in recent years with the support of the government.

Although the name is still Gujiazhuang, Gu Yanqing can no longer find a familiar figure here.

The old house of the Gu Mansion is located in the most central location of Gujiazhuang. The current Gu Mansion was completely rebuilt according to the layout of the old house before the fire nine years ago. At that time, Uncle Ping personally led people to supervise the construction.

At this moment, Gu Yanqing was standing in the ancestral hall in the backyard of the Gu Mansion. White candles flickered in the room. There were many tablets enshrined in the hall. The one in the middle was exactly the tablet of Mr. Gu.

Gu Yichuan.

This name is unremarkable in Hezhou.

But in the martial arts world, he was once very famous - the Sword Saint, Gu Yichuan.

Back then, one man and one sword swept across the world!

"Grandpa, I'm back to see you."

Gu Yanqing knelt on the futon, staring at Gu Yichuan's tablet with a nostalgic tone: "I've been too busy these years, so I haven't come back to visit you much. I hope you don't mind. Yan Huan and I are doing well now. You don't have to worry about us. Uncle Ping is also doing well and is still in good health..."

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