Fengguixu

dusk.Great Compassion Temple.

The Dabei Temple is deep in the white clouds, which have been dyed red by the setting sun.

Shen Xu slowly finished his last mouthful of fasting meal, put on his bamboo hat, walked out of the wing room, and entered the Zen courtyard.

He stood quietly, leaning on the black sword with both hands.

The wide-eaved bamboo hat covered most of his face, and no one could see his appearance and expression clearly.

But no one would admit that he was wrong, he was Shen Xu.

A gust of wind blew gently, and the sleeves of his green shirt fluttered with the wind. The clothes were washed white, and the cuffs were frayed, but it was very clean, so clean that it was ridiculous.A person who is being chased by the rivers and lakes, a person who rolls in blood and mud all day, shouldn't have such clean clothes.Even if he didn't die, he should be scarred and embarrassed.

But he didn't.

Summer is gone, autumn is here.

He is still so decent.

The faint crows among the pines startled up, and were replaced by a few black figures.

At the beginning, Shen Xu would still ask, who came.

Now, he no longer wants to ask or listen, because these strange names will turn into cold corpses in the end.

Day after day of chasing and killing, counter-killing, long-night raids, and narrow escapes will tire the most energetic people and numb the most merciful people.

Shen Xu's sword has become faster and more ruthless, he is no longer afraid of killing people, he can't count how many people he has killed.

He is famous all over the world.

His sword is terrifying.

Fewer and fewer people flocked to take his life, and their skills were getting better and better. They tried to avoid single-handedly, and instead sought win-win cooperation.

In the confrontation again and again, Shen Xu has been able to identify the sects they belong to through their moves, Haisha, Diancang, Kongtong, Emei...

The sword light is like a flash of lightning, chasing after him.

Shen Xu's toes touched the ground, and he quickly backed away. The sword came out of its sheath, and a cold light flashed. With a "Zheng", the man fell to the ground, and the man's sword also flew into the ground.

Then, the few remaining people exchanged glances and leaned towards the base of the wall. Suddenly, a dozen masked men appeared on the low courtyard wall, each holding a Zhang Qiang bow in his hand, the string was fully drawn, and the arrow was on the string.

With the sound of the bowstring, random arrows shot out like locusts.

Shen Xu rolled on the spot, and pulled the corpse on the ground to cover his back. The corpse was shot like a hedgehog. After one round of shooting, the row of archers squatted down, and another row of archers replaced them. full.

When they aimed at the center of the monastery, the cyan figure had disappeared out of thin air.

"Up there!" someone yelled.

The arrows of the bows and arrows rose in unison, and there was a burst of "boom, boom, boom", and the strings of a row of strong bows were cut off by a white light at the same time!Hearing another "creak creak" sound of snapping, the bow body of another row of strong bows was directly chopped off by the middle and split into two pieces!

The extremely sharp sound of the wind passed through the back of each seven-foot man's neck, very close at hand, and with a slight deviation, his head fell to the ground.Everyone's complexion changed, cold sweat dripped down, and a terrible guess emerged in their hearts. What they were facing was not a single person, but an erratic ghost, a erroneous errand, a god blocking and killing gods and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas Sword Demon!

The stream was gurgling, and the blood was scattered.

Shen Xu cleaned up the wound on his upper arm that was scratched by the arrowhead. The wound was shallow but blackened.

There is poison on the arrow.

Shen Xu frowned lightly, he was neither worried nor afraid, if God really let his life die here, he would have no complaints at all.He just tore off the hem of his robe expressionlessly, tightened his upper arm, and connected a few acupuncture points to prevent the poison from spreading further.

After doing this symbolically, he stood up and took two steps forward. A strong dizziness hit him, his body was uncontrollable, he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

He can finally rest.

But he woke up soon, and found that he was no longer by the stream, but in a dilapidated farmhouse. It was raining outside the paper window, heavy rain outside, light rain inside, the old quilt on his body was damp, Cold as iron.

There was a tickle in his throat, he coughed twice, sat up, and when he looked up, he saw a girl with big braids standing on the threshold, staring at him and smiling with big empty and confused eyes.

Shen Xu hadn't dealt with people normally for a long time, so he almost wanted to respond with a smile, but the girl turned her head and rushed into the rain.

Shen Xu's head was still a little dizzy. He rubbed his forehead and found a layer of black, sticky stuff on the wound on his arm. When he smelled it closely, it smelled of herbs and soil, and also a little fishy. It should have saved his life.

Shen Xu got out of bed slowly, stepped on the wet and cold mud floor with bare feet, a stove was burning in the room, and a boy about ten years old rushed in from outside the door, with ragged clothes and a messy face, except for a pair of piercing eyes.

"Are you the little husband-in-law picked up by the silly girl?" The boy looked at Shen Xu very rudely.

Silly girl?Shen Xu thought of the girl with big braids, and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm a duck egg." The boy folded his arms, "Silly girl is my sister."

"..." Shen Xu was silent for a few breaths, and said kindly, "Then duck egg, where's your sister?"

"I don't know, I ran out to fool around again, bringing men home all day, I'm so bored." Yadan muttered dissatisfiedly, picking and choosing Shen Xu, "What do you know? Do you know how to farm? Can you know how to cut pigweed? ? Will you raise ducks?"

Shen Xu thought for a while, and said honestly: "I don't even know how to do it."

Duck Egg became more and more contemptuous: "It's begging, is there always begging?"

Shen Xu: "I don't beg for food."

Yadan squinted at him: "Then do you have money?"

Shen Xu shook his head.

Duck had expected it early on, because when Shen Xu was unconscious, he had already searched through his clothes inside and out. Except for a broken sword, he couldn't find a single copper coin, and his nose was almost crooked. , said angrily: "Then we saved your life, what will you give in return?"

Shen Xu smiled, bent his waist and propped his knees up, and looked at him at the same level: "Tell me, what do you want in return?"

Oh my god, this guy looks so pretty when he smiles!

Ya Dan blinked and blushed: "Yeah, not many, this, so much is barely enough."

He spread his fingers.

"How much is this much?" Shen Xu thought he wanted at least 500 taels.In the past, he was used to being with Feng Yin, that extravagant and rich man, so his concept of money began to be a little fuzzy.

Duck's eyes widened, and the lion opened his mouth: "Five taels!"

Shen Xu: "..."

If the people outside who hunted down Shen Xu knew that Shen Xu's life was only worth five taels of silver, wouldn't he be so angry that he would vomit blood?

"Okay. I promise you." Shen Xu patted Yadan's head, and he couldn't hold back a smile.

Duck looked at him like a fool: "What are you laughing at? Do you have five taels?"

Shen Xu was just about to say that I don't have one but I can make money, when a white-haired old woman rushed in from outside, grabbed the duck's ears and covered her head and face, and scolded her: "You bastard, little ancestor! You just woke up, and you haven't walked yet. , don’t try to trick me!”

While scolding, she made amends to Shen Xu: "Your Majesty, don't blame me, the little bastard is naughty, and he took the risk of seeing the world."

Yadan covered her ears, winked at Shen Xu and stuck out her tongue.

The old woman's official language was mixed with local accent, Shen Xu got a general idea, and said with a smile: "No wonder, your grandson is very clever."

"What's the use of cleverness? What we peasants want is down-to-earth." The old woman pushed a bowl of gruel to Shen Hui, her skinny but kind face was full of wrinkles and kindness, "It's cold, why don't you come back?" It's raining, sir, let's drink something warm to warm up."

Shen Xu was hungry, so he took the porridge and drank it carefully one bite at a time, his stomach gradually filled up, and his mood improved.

He stayed here for two days and figured out some things.

The old woman's surname was Lin, she was originally the wife of a barefoot doctor in the village, but after the doctor died, she became a widow, because she practiced medicine with the king all the year round, so she knew some local prescriptions, and was able to detoxify Shen Xu's poison by mistake.Grandma Lin never had a child in her life. She picked up an abandoned baby at the entrance of the village in her early years, and brought her back to raise. The child was born stupid, and everyone called her a silly girl, but in fact she had a name, Lin Baizhi, which is a traditional Chinese medicine. Grandma Lin's husband gave it to her, and she died after taking it.Duck Dan is not Grandma Lin's grandson, and no one knows where Duck Dan came from. One day he came here, and he didn't leave. He said that he had neither father nor mother anyway, and it would be the same wherever he stayed.It snowed heavily that winter, so Grandma Lin took him in.

There are only three people in this poor family, and none of the three are related by blood. They live together and depend on each other for life, closer than real relatives.

On the third day, Shen Xu went out with the sword on his back, and when he came back on the fifth day, he gave Duck Dan five taels of silver.

Yadan was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He grew up so big and had never seen so much money. He didn't dare to accept it, so he quickly called his grandma.

Grandma Lin also felt that the money was too expensive, so she refused for a long time with Shen Xu. She asked Shen Xu where the money came from, and Shen Xu replied that it was earned, and it was clean money. She nodded and looked at the smirking Lin Xu. Bai Zhi looked at the uncooked duck egg again, gritted her teeth and accepted it.

From then on, Shen Xu became the fourth member of this dilapidated house.

Shen Xu put the sword of bullying in a cloth bag, buried it in the yard, and put on the coarse cloth clothes that his grandmother sewed by himself. Sometimes he went to the fields to help his grandmother harvest wheat, and sometimes he drove five ducks to the reeds to eat insects with grass roots in his mouth. When he came back again, he sometimes acted as Duck's brother to frighten those little carrots in the village who bullied him.

This village is very remote, there are only a dozen households, and they have nothing to do with the world.

Here, no one knew Shen Xu, and no one could find Shen Xu.

Shen Xu felt unprecedented peace and happiness.

He kept himself busy every day, and only occasionally, in the middle of the night, would he think of his master, Jiange, and Fengyin.

But there is one name that always weighs on his heart.

Sikong chases the phoenix.

Hatred, once the seeds are planted in the heart, will often last longer than love and be harder to let go.

Of course, nothing in this world is perfect, and there are always one or two discordant notes in harmonious days.

One of them is Lin Baizhi.

This girl would always strip naked in the dead of night, sneak into the woodshed, and climb onto Shen Xu's makeshift bed made of a wooden frame.

Shen Xu was a little suffocated.

Lin Baizhi is still very stubborn.

Shen Xu put on his own clothes for her for the third time, and finally said in a cold voice, "From now on, you are not allowed to take off your clothes and climb into a man's bed."

Lin Baizhi blinked her big misty eyes, seemed puzzled, bit her finger nervously, and muttered: "Everyone else likes it."

"Others are others, I am me, I don't like it." Shen Xu said with a straight face, "Also, what others like doesn't mean you have to do it."

Lin Baizhi became even more nervous, trembling all over: "I like it too."

Shen Xu: "..."

Shen Xu frowned, not knowing how to explain to her.In Baizhi's special situation, she doesn't understand what is chastity, but only knows what is happiness.God, in fact, he himself doesn't know anything, he has no relevant experience at all, but now he wants to teach others seriously.

"This kind of thing can only be done when two people like each other, understand?" Shen Xu explained bluntly, trying to soften his tone, he didn't want to scare her.

Lin Baizhi's big eyes immediately filled with tears: "You, don't you like me? But Bai Zhi likes you, Bai Zhi also likes duck eggs, likes grandma, likes Erya, likes Tie Zhu..."

"It's not this kind of liking." Shen Xu thought of something, his face burned up little by little, if it was just this kind of liking, how could desire arise?

He sighed, knowing that Bai Zhi would not be able to understand for a while, he patiently tied Bai Zhi's clothes, picked up the trembling girl, put her on the bed, and planned to send her back to herself like the previous few times In the house, nothing happened.

Only this time, as soon as he kicked open the door of the firewood room, he saw an unexpected person.

The author has something to say: Shen Ruins gradually became cool, so...the ruthless swordsman, pretty lady?