The catkins are scattered along the riverside, and the flowers and plants are fragrant. From time to time, a few orioles and golden-rumped swallows fly out of the bamboo baskets, passing leisurely over people's heads and singing happily.
Mu Haotian's eyes filled with tears, and he hugged the two approaching girls tightly, as if he wanted to rub them into his heart.
Xue Ying and Yu Yan both put their heads into his chest, one on the left and the other on the right, caressing him closely, squealing, and both burst into tears.
Yu Yan's little face was buried in Mu Haotian's clothes, her hair kept hitting his chin, and she sobbed:
"Uuuu...Senior Brother Mu, wuwu...I thought, I thought I would never see you again."
Xue Ying's shoulders trembled and she sobbed softly, unable to utter a complete sentence.
"It's okay, it's okay."
Mu Haotian's nose was sore and he felt distressed. He patted the backs of both Shu's heads with both hands, comforting them gently.
Not long after, Jing Ling caught up and saw that the two senior sisters were safe and sound. She was filled with joy and stood aside without disturbing the three of them.
Two long-awaited crimson begonias met next to the boy and girl who were clinging to each other, and merged into one, their petals slowly gathering together.
Suddenly the light dissipated and fell to the ground.
Jing Ling saw it and was about to pick it up. Suddenly she saw someone bending down to pick up the flowers first, holding them separately in his hands. After standing up, he remained motionless, just staring at the pair of "loving each other".
Jing Ling thought he was going to snatch the treasure and shouted anxiously:
"Hey! What are you doing?"
The man was bewildered when he heard this, and he was startled.
Mu Haotian was startled when he heard the sound. He turned around and saw that the man was tall and tall, with beards all over his face. When the river wind blew, his beard suddenly spread out, covering his facial features so much that he couldn't see clearly.
Mu Haotian took a closer look at his face and noticed that his nose was high and straight, his eyes were clear and bright, and his exposed skin was delicate and white, which showed that he was younger.
Looking down, he was wearing a white coat with silver threads on his upper body, giving him the aura of a wealthy young man, while his lower body was wearing a pair of dark brown training trousers, tied with a tiger skin belt. The stock is weird.
This nondescript appearance and attire immediately reminded Mu Haotian of the white horse layman in his memory, and he was slightly surprised.
I saw him holding a flower bone in each hand and placing it in front of me, looking at it in a daze, and then he said:
"Brother, that 'Ten Miles of Love' is my junior sister's favorite thing. Please return it to us."
The young man woke up with an "ah" sound like a dream, and handed the two flowers to Mu Haotian without hesitation.
Mu Haotian smiled and nodded, reaching out to take it.
At this time, the two girls came out of his arms one after another. The tears on Yu Yan's face were not dry, but she smiled at the big bearded man in white:
"Brother Tashan, this is the Senior Brother Mu I'm telling you about!"
Brother Tashan?
Mu Haotian was startled for a moment. Xue Ying looked up at him and said softly:
"Senior brother, thanks to Brother Tashan for saving us today."
As soon as he said this, Mu Haotian immediately let go of his arms, faced Tashan, bowed to the bottom, and said seriously:
"Brother Tashan! There is no way I can repay you for your kindness. If you are of any use to me in the future, please do as you please."
"No, no, no, don't do this. I actually didn't do anything."
Tashan opened his hands and shook them repeatedly, looking a little at a loss.
Mu Haotian clasped his fists again, keeping this in his heart and saying no more. Seeing him scratching his head with his hand, his posture simple and honest, but his clear eyes looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, I couldn't help but be surprised.
Suddenly I heard Yu Yan say:
"Senior Brother Mu, Brother Tashan is so powerful! He beat that vine basilisk to pieces with just one stick."
Natashan hurriedly said:
"Girl Yuyan is joking, how can I be so capable?"
He shook his head and just smiled bitterly.
"The vine basilisk? That's Pei Zhi!"
Hearing that this man beat Pei Zhi to death with a stick, Mu Haotian was shocked and looked at him again in surprise. I felt that although he was tall, he was not strong. His whole body seemed to have a big beard that could match such a powerful name as "Tashan".
He saw Yu Yan running to his side and rolling up her sleeves to get something. Only then did she realize that there was a very thick mace standing on the ground.
"Brother Tashan was like this at that time..."
Yu Yan struggled to lift the handle of the mace and tried her best to swing it, but she could only lift it a few inches and was unable to do so. It fell to the ground with a bang.
She stuck out her tongue and stepped back.
With a silly smile on his face, Tashan bent down, picked up the mace with one hand, and held it to his shoulder, his body still as stable as a rock.
Seeing this, Mu Haotian was even more surprised.
Strengthening the muscles and body is a compulsory course in Daoxuanwu Mountain. Although Yuyan is not considered to be a hard worker, he has practiced with him for several years, and it is not a problem to lift something weighing 180 kilograms.
The weight of this mace is obviously far more than a hundred kilograms, but Natashan lifts it as if it were light. Using it as a weapon, his physical strength is so strong that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a natural divine power.
But even so, Yu Yan claimed that Pei Zhi was beaten to pieces by Tashan with a stick, which still made Mu Haotian feel incredible, and immediately asked Shuang Shu in a low voice.
The story is not complicated. Shuangshu described it one by one and added to it, making it clear in a few words.
It turned out that the two of them were indeed captured by Pei Zhi and the old ghost from Xishan. Pei Zhi caught Swift while the old ghost held Xue Ying hostage. They raced at a high speed, only stopping for a moment in the middle. The whole process didn't have many twists and turns. The only thing that caught Mu Haotian's attention was Pei Zhi's repeated vomiting of blood.
Not long ago, just ten miles ahead, the four of them bumped into the Tashan eldest brother.
With sharp eyes, Tashan discovered that the two girls were actually being held hostage by a strong man. Seeing injustice, he roared and stopped the old ghost and Pei Zhi with a horizontal stick.
Pei Zhi was furious, threw Yuyan aside, and rushed forward to fight with Tashan.
Unexpectedly, before they could close together, as soon as the tyrannical vine touched the mace, Pei Zhi suddenly coughed up blood with a terrifying look on his face. He yelled, and his whole body was torn apart in an instant, and he died suddenly.
Talking about Pei Zhi's bloody and tragic situation at that time, both of them looked horrified and horrified. Mu Haotian felt shuddering just thinking about that scene.
"Senior Brother Mu, you don't know, that scar monster was very domineering in front of us, asking someone to show off his power, but it didn't work so well. He was so frightened on the spot that he left his sister and ran away."
While Yu Yan was scolding others, she opened her hand and patted her heart gently, showing that she was still frightened.
"Scar monster?"
Hearing this nickname, Mu Haotian burst out laughing. With the experience of chatting with Jing Ling, he immediately understood that the "scar monster" was the old ghost of Xishan, and thought to himself:
"No wonder Old Guicang was panic-stricken at that time. When he saw me, he turned around and ran away as if he had seen a ghost. However, with his eyesight at the foundation-building stage, does he believe that it was a curse cast by me?"
He didn't know that the old ghost of Xishan had planted fear deep in his heart when the strange sword fight happened with him. Later, when he saw that Pei Zhi was inexplicably injured and coughed up blood all the way, he suddenly remembered the heresy that Pei Zhi had committed when he fought with him, and his suspicions grew.
In the end, Pei Zhi shouted "Mu Haotian is the one who kills me", followed by the tragic explosion and death scene, which had an unprecedented impact on the old ghost, and he concluded that Mu Haotian used evil magic to kill people in the air.
Even the wounds in his body caused by fighting Han Wenjing and Mu Dingzhen began to hurt, as if he had been under the spell like Pei Zhi. Suddenly, his liver and gallbladder were shattered, and he ran away in fear.
Although Mu Haotian had a bold guess about this matter, he was not sure yet, so he asked Shuangshu:
"Yinger Yan'er, did Pei Zhi really say, 'My killer is Mu Haotian' before he died?"
