Heartless

Evening sky, Wolf Point Lake.

It's warm and cold in March and April, and the weather in the frontier is changeable.The wolf smoke is rising outside, the north wind is blowing, and the Langjiao Lake has already been painted lightly.

Maybe it's because spring has faded a bit, and there are hundreds of flowers blooming in Langjiao Lake, but the ice tea is full of green and thick, and a tree has buds in it tomorrow morning, but it just doesn't bloom.

After crossing many corridors, the situation in the hall of Wolf Horn Lake is quite different from this pink, white and green spring.

The hall is spacious and can accommodate hundreds of people. Except for a few black carved gold pillars, there is almost no decoration.

Yi Dao Lian Cheng was in the hall with Shan Xiaohu, he took a black cloth to cover his eyes under the golden mask, and he took a bamboo knife.

It's just a master and apprentice practicing knives, but Shan Xiaohu didn't seem to be joking at all as if he was facing a formidable enemy. He shook the Suming Dao unnaturally, and said solemnly: "Master, the apprentice is tyrannical!"

The corner of Yi Dao Lian Cheng's mouth curled up slightly: "If you still can't stand up to my ten moves today, I will disable your martial arts."

"Master..." Shan Xiaohu gritted his teeth, knowing that his master always said that one is one, so he softly shouted, "Look at the trick!"

"I advise you to find some helpers."

As soon as he said that, more than ten people staggered in from outside the gate, they must be the top experts in the village, each of them held their swords, and within a few steps, they surrounded the city with swords.

Now that he doesn't see anything, the bamboo knife in his hand is no different from having no handle. He is still laughing like a knife, and calmly said: "I will let you ten moves."

Shan Xiaohu whistled again, raised his breath and leaped forward for a few steps, sparing no effort in slashing at the opponent's vitals.

"Good strength." It wasn't until the strong wind of the knife rang in his ears that he pierced through the bamboo knife with a slash, parrying the opponent's fierce blow - the bamboo knife turned sharply, and suddenly cut back.Shan Xiaohu's saber was almost perfect, at most there was only a half-inch omission, but he searched for a gap in the city, and did not take advantage of the situation to chop and chop, he just lightly hit him on the abdomen with the back of the saber, and said: "It's a pity to hold the fire, the dry man First burn, this is your first strike."

The lower abdomen was hot and painful immediately, and Shan Xiaohu was also ashamed and annoyed. He raised his knife and attacked again, and shouted to a group of onlookers: "What are you doing?! Come on!"

For a moment, the swords were aligned, one wave retreated and another wave came again, a cold light flashed.

He heard the tricks of more than a dozen masters in detail, and he heard them clearly. He used a bamboo knife to block the series of attacks in front of him, defending but not attacking, and Xian Xin said to a pair of beautiful women in the hall: "Dancing with a sword is like walking away. If you are accompanied by the sound of a beautiful woman's piano, it will be elegant."

Zichi sat on the ground playing the qin when he heard the words, the sound of the qin was like pearls walking on a jade plate, while Taoyao lightly spread her skirt, singing while dancing, the sound of the qin and singing were like a pair of birds singing in harmony, light and graceful, instantly dispelling all the swords and swords in the room The evil spirit, aroused endless thoughts.

——Remember that in the past, the pipa talked to the flying swallows; if I don’t see it now, the painting Ge forgets to return to Chu Jianghan.I hate the spring, and the green silk is all enchanting, who will share me, and look at the old silkworm with a white head?

"This libretto is too sad, I don't like it."

A sword is connected to the city, while the sword is not slack, on the other hand, it is as if it is a song. Zhou Lang listens to the music and recognizes the music, and criticizes Zi Chi from time to time.Suddenly he saw him leaning sideways, slashing lightly with the bamboo knife, forcing the three masters back with one move, he stood still and said: "Ten moves."

All of a sudden, the robes were hunting, the saber's momentum suddenly rose, and the offensive and defensive momentum was reversed instantly. The bamboo knife slammed into the body, although it was not fatal, but because the knife holder was full of energy, let alone the place where he was hit, his body would be conjoined. All internal organs are painful.He killed one with one blow, but Shan Xiaohu resisted nine moves, and finally fell to the ground with all his strength.

He removed the black cloth blindfolded, ignored the wounded soldiers all over the ground, threw the bamboo knife in his hand aside, raised his palm and chopped at Shan Xiaohu's Tianling Gai.

"Master!" I felt the weight on my neck was hard to lift, like a mountain top, Shan Xiaohu saw that there was no way to avoid it, so he folded his arms to protect the top of his head, closed his eyes and shouted in surprise, "If you destroyed me so easily, why did you bother?" Rescue me and teach me martial arts?!"

The power under the palm is free to receive and apply, even though he withdrew his internal force but did not withdraw his palm, he said softly: "It's okay if you don't abandon you, you have to agree to one condition."

"What conditions?" Shan Xiaohu quietly opened one eye, took a peek at Master, saw the unpredictable smile on the bottom of the other's eyes and lips, he was suspicious but didn't dare to ask, so he had to put on a shy face, pretending to be good, He leaned forward and hugged his legs and said, "The apprentice is not good at attainment, so he should be punished. Anyway, you are my master. Even if you want me to go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, I will do it."

Liancheng with a knife chuckled: "I don't want you to go to the mountain of swords, and I don't want you to go to the sea of ​​fire, as long as you promise to marry a woman."

Shan Xiaohu was still confused: "Which woman?"

"She's already here." Yi Dao Liancheng stretched out his palm to pull the other party up from the ground, suddenly turned his eyes slightly, and raised his voice: "Since Mr. Chieftain has come early, why bother to hide his head and show his tail?"

"One knife, your kung fu has improved again! In the whole world, I am afraid that no one can match you!" Mu He has indeed been here for some time. Young and strong are similar.

Shan Xiaohu didn't salute when he saw the Northwest chieftain, he just raised his arms and sneered coldly: "Yo! Master chieftain is here? Lord chieftain offered a huge reward, and notices were posted all over the street to arrest my master. Today he came to fetch someone by himself Already?!"

Mu He naturally didn't pay attention to this little boy, and only faced the sword-ridden city, so he sighed in embarrassment: "Everyone knows that my heart is devoted to Buddha, and if you cut off the golden statue of Buddha's head in public, I have the heart Protecting you, how can you ignore the Dharma?"

Liancheng took a piece of handkerchief from the hand of the maidservant who came close, wiped the sweat on his chest, handed it back, turned to Mu He and said: "Master Chieftain can sincerely worship Buddha, but I don't have the fate of Buddha. I just Knowing that I still have 1 brothers under my command to make a living."

"I know your brothers are going to make a living. How have I treated them badly these years?" Mu He clapped his hands, and immediately there were more than a dozen guards from the chieftain's mansion, holding gold and silver, and entering the hall.

Liancheng didn't look at the gold, silver and jewels at a glance, and only slightly curled the corner of his mouth: "My lord first gave Ye Qianlang a big gift, and then gave me a big gift, it's really too polite."

"I came here because of that Ye Qianlang." Mu He sighed again, "A few days ago some monks under my sect bumped into Mr. Ye on the street. Knowing that his subordinates reported that he had mobilized troops and horses into my Guancheng overnight, and said that he would visit my house within three days, it really made me sleepless all night. Thinking of Ye Qianlang, who is cruel and ruthless, he will take revenge, I'm afraid this time If I want to live, I have to do it first..."

Yi Dao Lian Cheng remained calm, only walked towards the hall door, looked at the unopened iced tea in the courtyard, and said after a while: "You want me to kill him?"

Mu He's face was slightly distorted, and a fierce light appeared in his eyes for a moment, and he said, "That's right."

"There are so many experts in the chieftain's house, so why do you have to ask me to help?"

"You don't know about one knife. Ye Qianlang is really a genius in this world. Not to mention an ordinary master, even the Great Secret Formation of Primordial Enlightenment can't do anything to him." No one of the 36 monks survived that night, so Mu He naturally had no way of knowing, Ye Qian Although Lang is indeed a genius in this world, he did not break the formation alone.

"Your Excellency, there is nothing left to do. A piece of notice to suppress the bandits will completely disassociate me from it. In this way, you don't have to worry about offending Eunuch Wei in Beijing, and you can use a knife to kill someone logically." Yi Liancheng's eyes slightly closed, with a happy face I couldn't distinguish the anger, and the voice that was originally mellow and wine sounded cold and inexplicable at the moment, "Ye Qianlang is still able to secure the position of commander of Jinyiwei at a young age. , there must be other reasons?"

"This……"

Mu He was at a loss for words for a while, and was about to find some excuses to evade, but saw Yi Dao Liancheng suddenly turned around, and said with a smile: "Actually, you don't need to explain the reason to me if you want to take someone's life."

Mu He was overjoyed and said, "What do you want?"

Yi Dao Lian Cheng calmly said: "I want your daughter."

"You..." Mu He's complexion changed. Fortunately, he is very good at mediating and self-relieving, and immediately suppressed his unhappiness with a smiling face. He didn't know whether to agree or not, so he just laughed and said, "One knife, I think you are more You know how to calculate, after a hundred years from me, you will be able to inherit the position of chieftain as my son-in-law and control the entire territory of the Northwest."

"A mustard seed is two or three inches long, and a mayfly is six to seven cents." In front of the chieftain of the Northwest, he actually compared his territory to "mustard seeds" and "mayfly", and laughed lightly, with a pair of gorgeous deep eyes full of disdain, "Your The place is too small, I don't care."

Hearing these words, Mu He felt even more depressed, and said coldly: "Then what do you want my daughter to do?"

"I want your daughter to marry my apprentice. One of them is Yingying [-], the other is Huanhuan [-]. They are a perfect couple." He stared at Mu He with a sharp knife, and every word between his lips seemed to be sent out with the true energy in his body. The majesty and strength are irrefutable, "The day your love gets married is the time when I present Ye Qianlang's head."

The other party was clearly waiting for an opportunity to threaten, Mu He was very unhappy, but after thinking about the pros and cons carefully, he finally managed to put on a smile: "The sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes don't need to be trifling, first give the dowry today, and you can get married tomorrow." After a pause, the cruelty in his eyes became more intense, and he said through gnashing of teeth, "No matter what, Ye Qianlang must die!"

Sending off Mu He, the difficult Bodhisattva, is already desolate and hazy at night.

Shan Xiaohu swung his long saber, drove away the wounded swordsman without leaving a single one, and said to Yi Liancheng: "I have made people spread the word, Lu Linchuan and the others really believed that the pair of young masters from the Zuo family hid in Xianlu In Feng’s village...they also believe that Master, you have been missing for the past few days, and you are trying to save them from this predicament.”

Yi Dao Liancheng looked at the unopened iced tea in a courtyard with his hands behind his back, he hummed casually, his deep eyes reflected the lonely spring night, and the blurred shadows of flowers.

"It's just...if that pair of boys surnamed Zuo suddenly reappeared, this lie would be self-defeating..."

"No." Yi Dao Liancheng asserted, "Jin Yiwei has dug this Guancheng three feet into the ground, but there is still not a single person in sight. Presumably Ye Qianlang has understood at this moment that there is only one place in the entire Guancheng that can Hiding without arousing anyone's suspicion is the residence of Lord Chieftain."

"No wonder!" Shan Xiaohu suddenly realized, "No wonder Mu He was so impatient to take the life of that surname Ye, he even did not hesitate to offend Eunuch Wei in Beijing, and even used the Benjue Great Secret Formation."

"Originally, I was just suspicious, but now I am very sure. Mu He showed his flaws when he was anxious, and he embraced the fire to build a fire, and the dry ones burn first. This is the reason." Yi Dao Lian Cheng stood still outside the hall door absent-mindedly, silent for a while Cai said: "In the past at this time, the ice tea flowers have already bloomed for hundreds of miles, but this year they bloom late."

Shan Xiaohu was also standing quietly, thinking about nothing else, but his wife who was about to get married - he had seen Mu He's daughter twice before, but at that time the girl was not tall enough, she was really not very good-looking, so she always I didn't take it to heart.At this moment, I tried my best to recall it, and found that the boy surnamed Lu was not as impressive as that one. He was about to cry in his heart, but when he raised his eyes, he saw the stabbing knife and stood still, so he asked: "Master, are you really going to kill Ye Qianlang? "

Liancheng did not answer and asked instead: "Why not?"

Shan Xiaohu rubbed the back of his head: "Where have you been these past few days, do you pretend that I don't know... Also, you have to take out a Yinglan earring to have a look at it from time to time, I'm afraid that thing is in your arms right now. Let's go."

Liancheng stabbed lightly at the corner of one side of his mouth, smiling but not smiling, and didn't say much.

"Master, this matter is scratching my head and I still can't figure it out. Mu He wants to seize the relic of the great treasure Dharma King for no other reason than to collude with the monks in Tibet and plot the great Ming Dynasty. Ye Qianlang pursues him relentlessly, presumably because he wants to return to Beijing." Save the short-lived emperor... But what about you? What do you want that thing for? Do you really believe that it can bring the dead back to life and make people live forever?"

"I don't believe it." Yi Dao Lian Cheng still stared at the iced camellia, and said lightly, "Even if it's true, I don't want it either."

Shan Xiaohu was even more puzzled, and asked, "Then what do you want?"

Liancheng turned around and glanced at Shan Xiaohu, and said: "Your father, Shan Xiaosheng, just wrote a private history, using Zhao Gaozhang and others to satirize the current nine thousand years old, and then he ended up with his head on the ground, and his family was married to a bad place." , You are the only one left after a narrow escape. Remember I asked you, what do you want?"

"I want to practice martial arts well, and kill those officials and prison guards who bullied me and hurt me!" Speaking of the past hatred and ambition, Shan Xiaohu's eyes shot out, and his whole body trembled, "In the future, high-ranking officials and nobles will be outstanding, and they will live up to it!" Parents' dying entrustment!"

"Your answer is very good," Yidao Liancheng smiled softly, and turned his back with his hands behind his back, "It's reasonable and reasonable, but it's still not what I want..."

Suddenly there was a gust of night wind, and the iced tea in the courtyard was quietly competing without knowing it.

Looking at the camellias that are as thin as cicada's wings and as beautiful as cold jade in this courtyard with a knife, they are full of melancholy, and sighed, "This flower is so beautiful, it's a pity, it's too late to appreciate it with him..."

Taoyao explained the words quite exquisitely, walked forward with a smile and said: "The song tastes like 'this kind of flowers and plants are loved by people, life and death follow people's wishes', flowers wither and have a re-blossom day, people can die Can't be resurrected, who do you want to enjoy the flowers with, while the flowers are still good and people are still there, just pick one and give it away."

Yi Dao Lian Cheng lightly nodded and smiled: "Alright."

Tao Yao plucked an iced tea flower from her hand, and handed it to Yi Dao Lian Cheng with her slender white porcelain hands, and said with a gruff smile, "How about this one?"

Yidao Liancheng glanced down, then shook his head and said: "The flowers are sparse and the leaves are dense, if they don't match, they won't be beautiful."

Tao Yaofu picked another one: "So what about this one?"

Liancheng still shook his head: "White with a little red, impure is not beautiful."

"Then... this one?"

"The calyx is a little plump. If something is full and decays, it's not as good as it is. If it's not right, it's not beautiful."

After three or two visits, nothing went according to my wishes. Suddenly I looked up and saw a tea tree towering into the sky, which was almost ten feet higher than ordinary tea trees. There was a blooming iced tea on the top of the branch, which was so beautiful and gorgeous. Pure and flawless.He closed his eyes slightly and stared at it for a long time, then touched the ground with his toes and went straight into the sky.

It lands like a feather and catkins, with little wind.He held the iced tea between his fingers, and smiled as gently as if drinking alcohol: "That's it."