Sweet as candy

On the tip of the moon, in the lonely courtyard, black shadows sneaked in silently.

A wrinkled old man was leaning on the rocking chair in the room, shaking slightly with his eyes closed, and there was a grunting sound from his throat from time to time.

A sword quietly protruded from the shadow behind and touched his neck.

The old man opened his eyes calmly.

A voice behind him said, "Old He."

Mr. He smiled lightly, and his tone of voice revealed a crazily satisfied: "Okay, you really didn't die."

Mu Yunyi approached the sword a little more lightly, and said in a soft voice: "Since Guardian Zuo took office, he has sent people out to scout for news, don't you know?"

He Laodao: "Do you still think I am the same as before? After Zuo Hufa came to power, he wished to dig three feet to find people who would follow your father, and then drive them out one by one. If I hadn't saved him by accident back then One life, he is thinking of this favor, what you see now is nothing but bones."

Mu Yunyi lowered his head and glanced at his feet, which had not moved all this time, then withdrew his sword: "Did he cripple your legs?"

"More than that." Elder He laughed miserably, there was no light in the house, his face was deathly white under the moonlight: "Although he didn't kill me, he still couldn't figure out which side I was on, so he could only try to force me to confess. If it weren't for seeing me always look like a wimp and unable to speak in front of your father, he might even want to pull out my tongue."

Mr. He took a breath, and said in a low voice: "He thought that if he spared my life, I would be grateful to Dade, and I would stay in this crappy place honestly for the rest of my life, huh..."

He raised his head and stared at Mu Yunyi closely with sunken eyes: "I look like this, I might as well die."

Mu Yunyi looked at him with folded arms, as if everything he said just now had nothing to do with her: "Then why didn't you kill yourself?"

"..." He probably didn't expect Mu Yunyi to ask such a merciless question, so Elder He was silent for a moment: "You are really just like your father, with a heart of stone."

Mu Yunyi didn't make a sound, but He Lao said: "In order to find out who else in the sect is your father's tribe, he has already released the news that you are dead, just to see who will show their feet. But he His tone was firm, but he never saw your body. With his personality, if he really caught you, why not cut off your head and hang it in the church for public display?"

"So I guessed that you weren't dead yet. I kept the promise I made with your father, and waited and waited in this poor place. But it's been a year, and you haven't heard from me. I fought myself Just a bet, if you find it first, I will help you resume teaching according to the agreement, if he kills you first, I will sell all the secrets of the first-line fame to the Wulin League, and everyone will die."

Mu Yunyi raised his eyebrows and said: "You know that Yixian Feihong is the deadly enemy of the Wulin League, and if you say this in front of me, you are not afraid that I will kill you first?"

Mr. He tilted his head and smiled, and there was a piercing ho-ho: "I am a dying person, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Even if you kill me, is it possible that with your own strength, you can defeat them? "

"No more than three people in this sect know about the arrangements your father left in order to save his life." He Lao sighed, and said quietly: "When Guardian Zuo saw me nodding and bowing to your father every day, he thought I was really just An old dog who can only flatter you, and thanks to him, you can get the chance to turn around."

There was a sense of desperate life in this man's words, Mu Yunyi looked at him indifferently: "What about your conditions?"

Mr. He opened his eyes suddenly, and tightly grasped the sides of the rocking chair with both hands, with bulging veins on his arms.

Like an excited hyena, he gritted his teeth and gasped excitedly: "I want you to hand over the left guardian to me after you regain your position."

Looking at his appearance, it seems that he has already thought about how to deal with the other party.Mu Yunyi said: "What did he do to you to make you hate him so much?"

"You don't need to know about this." He Lao said with a smile: "You just need to remember that the only person who can help you is me."

"By the way, where were you hiding before, and they have been searching for your news to no avail?"

Mu Yunyi didn't answer his question, but said, "They already know that I'm not dead, is your place safe enough?"

He Laodao: "You can't stay here. Even if he abolished me, he didn't fully trust me. He sent someone to serve me in a good name, but in fact he wanted to see if I had contacted you secretly. Fortunately, he I have been watching me for a year, and I see that I do not go out every day, and my vigilance is not high. But now that they know that you are not dead, they will definitely strengthen their surveillance on me. He has not returned yet while shopping, so you leave Always be careful."

"And your previous hiding place, don't go there again." He continued: "If it is discovered, the plan will be ruined. I will tell you an address, you go here, and find a man named Three Crazy... ..."

He muttered a lot of explanations, and finally said: "Before you get my signal, don't act rashly, let alone come to me, the people over there will naturally help you."

Mu Yunyi glanced at him, said thank you, turned around and went out through the back door.

Mr. He closed his eyes and took a nap on the rocking chair for a while. The door was pushed open, and a teenager came in. He saw him and was about to speak when the tip of his nose moved.

"Hey, old man, you again!"

Mr. He opened his eyes and looked at him indifferently. Seeing him blushing, he said with a cold expression, "You've been making noise all day long. Why, the leader gave you less money? It's so uncomfortable for you to serve me? "

The young man clenched his fists, reluctantly approached him, endured the foul smell, took off his pants, and threw them into the bucket beside him in disgust.

He Lao laughed twice: "Be gentle, in the end you still have to wash me, why lose your temper."

The young man stared at him resentfully, and said viciously: "Old man, he is so proud of being a waste. When the leader doesn't need you anymore, you see how I will deal with you."

Elder He didn't care about his blatant threats to him, he closed his eyes while humming a little tune, and waited for him to wipe it for him.

Outside the window, Mu Yunyi took a last look at this side, and quietly hid in the bamboo forest.

No wonder he hated Guardian Zuo so much, it turned out that even his qualifications as a man had been stripped away.

Thinking of the scene I saw just now, a surge of sour water almost surged up in my stomach.Mu Yunyi covered her mouth with her hands and coughed lightly, put the bamboo hat on her head, and gently pulled it down to cover her face.

He got on his horse and looked up at the direction he was going. The night was dark and the road ahead was unknown.

It has been more than a month since we separated from Xiao Lang, I don't know if he is still in the south of the Yangtze River, and if he still hates himself in his heart.

He had never been able to experience the pain caused by love before, and when he saw someone pouring out the pain of lovesickness, he thought it was just mediocrity, and now it was his turn to be mercilessly mocked by this feeling.

He misses Xiao Lang all the time, whether it's his voice or his smile, the jokes he told himself, the promise he made with himself.

In the past, it was absolutely impossible for him to imagine that he would be tormented by these disturbing thoughts and almost go crazy.

He has not taught Xiao Lang how to master the chess game, but he has already lost all games.

The only thing left by my side now is the bamboo hat that lives up to this remaining warmth.

Mu Yunyi raised his hand to straighten the edge of the bamboo hat, pulled the rein with one hand and scolded.

Ma'er ran forward obediently, he knew that he had to solve the problem at hand quickly before he could continue to deal with the matter between him and Xiao Lang.

Haoran City far in the north.

The temperature here is much colder than that in the south. The city is leaning against a mountain, and the snow on the ridge has not yet melted. The people in the city are still wearing thick clothes and eagerly gather together in the streets and alleys.

"I've been here for a few days. After hearing the wind, I deliberately walked past the door every day. I finally saw it today."

"He came out?"

"No, it's just showing one side, but I can see it clearly, it's exactly the same as in the portrait, no, it's even better than the portrait!"

"Oh, what a blessing it would be if I could call Daxia Xiao to be my son-in-law!"

"That's right, she's handsome, with high martial arts skills, and I heard that she has a good personality, and she's gentle with those girls. I'll have to ask for my Juan'er sometime, to see if there's a chance."

The three women laughed together after they finished speaking, and a person beside them watched them talking for so long, and was always eager to join the topic. Hearing this, he finally couldn't help but said: "That's not very hopeful."

The three of them were chatting happily, when they heard someone pouring cold water on them, they were immediately unconvinced and said: "Why don't you have much hope? My Juan'er is also very good-looking, she has everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, except that she doesn't know martial arts, she doesn't deserve anything up?"

The man sneered and said, "Eldest sister, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Ling Ai is not good enough, it's just..."

just what?The ears of the people next to him were pricked up long before he spoke. Seeing his trickery, he hurriedly urged: "It's just what, you continue to talk!"

The man coughed dryly and said in a soft voice: "Hero Xiao is the most sought-after sweet potato in the Jianghu. Who wouldn't want to betroth his daughter to him? But it's just about looks, virtuousness, and virtue. There are so many ladies in the world." A daughter from a famous family may not be able to convince the public after three or five years. But think about it, among these people, which one is the closest to him and the one who is most familiar with him?"

Everyone's appetites were lifted, and they blinked and said in unison: "Who is it?"

"Hey, of course it's the jewel in the palm of President Song, Song Shuyan!" The man sighed with emotion, and said loudly: "It is said that the moon is the first to be close to the water. No matter how excellent and beautiful your girl is, you may not have heard of Xiao Daxia. But Song Shuyan It's different, because of President Song's relationship, she and Xiao Lang have known each other for a long time. In addition, Song Shuyan is good at medicine. I heard that President Song has intended to let her stay with Xiao Daxia. Last time I went back to Pingyi She is also in the plague of locusts. These two people, who are talented and beautiful, get along with each other for a long time, and if they say they don't have feelings, who will believe it?"

He talked about it vividly, as if everything was happening right in front of his eyes.Everyone was aroused by him first, and then after thinking about it, what he said was really reasonable, and everyone was sure that there must already be feelings between the two.

All of a sudden, everyone in the teahouse lamented that the men envied that Xiao Lang could capture the hearts of so many girls, but the women regretted that Song Shuyan had already taken the lead.

The news became more and more intense, and finally spread into the Wulin League.

When Song Shuyan came back from picking herbs on the mountain, he got envious looks from several female disciples along the way.

She didn't know why, so she quickly walked into the yard with the herb basket in her arms, and a bolder person at the side saw that the place she was going to was Xiao Lang's place, and said: "Miss Song, are you looking for Xiao Daxia again?"

Song Shuyan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.Xiao Lang was very busy these days, and he went to bed late at night, his face looked a little dark, and she was going to make some soup for him to recuperate.

Seeing her admit it, the man blesses her heartily: "You two have such a good relationship, you must tell us when you get married!"

Song Shuyan: "..."