March 27th, the rain has gone and the sky is sunny
The journey was delayed a lot due to rain along the way. It started raining at the Huangshan Mountains for four days. The caravan also encountered a landslide on the way, blocking the way and had to take a detour. The journey was delayed.
Fortunately, we entered Hangzhou before April. Different from Qianzhou and Yuezhou, there are more tea gardens next to the villages. When the caravan passed through the village roads, both sides of the road were full of vitality. Green and bright yellow bamboo fences surround circles of tea gardens. Many villagers are working in the tea gardens. A light fragrance floats in the tea garden fields. In this scene, the grass grows, orioles fly, the earth turns green, and the spring breeze is gentle. .
The caravan was passing through the mountain trail slowly and leisurely. Suddenly, a sentence came from the carriage surnamed Jiang in front: "What a scene! April in the world is full of beauty, and it's the right time to pick tea and go for an outing!" He laughed heartily, and it could be seen that he was leaning towards the window and smiling backwards.
"It's really a bad idea to take this person on the road together," Lin Manliu said speechlessly for a while, and recalled that Jiang Yanlin's incident in the past few days had really delayed the trip. Even if it rained, he could rest at night, whether it was to rest at a post station or stay at a mountain forest temple. There must be something to say.
"You can't speak without thinking." A disdainful voice came from the carriage next to him. It was Yue Hanzhi who was sitting beside the carriage.
The two looked at each other, then sighed helplessly and had to continue on their way. About two hours later, when the sun was at its peak at noon, Jiang Yanlin sent someone to tell them that they would change their route to visit a friend and talk about it later. He said goodbye to everyone in the caravan. .
After the caravan manager said goodbye, he seemed to have just come back to life. He talked more with Lin Manliu and the other two men in the caravan, and even arranged for everyone to find a place to rest later.
After everyone in the caravan entered the official road, there was a pavilion not far ahead and there were several willow trees around it. The branches hung down from the trunks and surrounded the entire pavilion. It was a good place to enjoy the cool weather. The caravan steward called everyone to repair it.
However, after approaching the pavilion, they saw a man in a yellow shirt holding a sword in the pavilion, with his back to everyone. The caravan man and the steward couldn't help but be a little wary. It must have been because they had been at ease for a few days and remembered the two groups of bandits and Fengxue Grand View Tower disciples.
Lin Manliu looked forward when he saw this scene, and also subconsciously reached out to hold Shan Yexing at his waist.
Unexpectedly, the man holding the sword in the pavilion said, "I'm just waiting for someone again. I'll just leave the pavilion if it disturbs everyone's rest. I'm sorry." After saying that, the man turned to look at everyone and was about to hand over his hands to apologize. Sensing Lin Manliu holding the sword, he deliberately stared at the boy in a short shirt and immediately looked away.
After the caravan manager took the lead to express his thanks, he led everyone to rest near the pavilion to rest. The man in yellow shirt simply retreated to the shade of a tree and continued to rest with his sword in hand and his eyes closed. Lin Manliu and two others were sitting on the stone steps of the pavilion. He took some dry food to Yue Hanzhi and continued to be wary of the man holding the sword next to everyone.
It seemed that the man also noticed his gaze. He twisted his neck and closed his eyes and said, "Little brother, is there anything you want to say?".
After being noticed, the young man in a short shirt stood up awkwardly and apologized: "No... I just guessed that you must be that heroic knight in the world, and I admire him mentally and physically."
"Since you admire me, why not draw your sword and practice martial arts?"
"ah......?".
"I think my little brother must be a first-rate player, please give me some advice."
The young man in a short shirt was speechless for a while. When he didn't know what to do, his left leg was suddenly kicked. When he looked down, he saw that Yue Hanzhi, who was still eating dry food, gave him a kick.
Lin Manliu walked out of the pavilion with his hands on his waist, stood in front of the man in yellow shirt holding a sword, and said to him: "Please enlighten me."
"Let's fight." The man in yellow shirt just replied with two words, then he held the scabbard of the sword in his right hand and stabbed straight at him, not giving the young man a chance to attack the enemy first.
The boy in the short shirt had no choice but to draw Shan Ye Xing upside down and hold it across his chest, preparing to block. Unexpectedly, when the man in the yellow shirt was about to reach Shan Ye Xing, his scabbard suddenly turned and swung directly at Lin Manliu's left arm holding the sword. A burning tingling sensation spread from the arm to the whole body, almost making the boy unable to hold the sword. After one blow, the man in yellow shirt retreated to his original position and waited for the boy to resist.
Lin Manliu gritted his teeth and gripped Shan Ye Xing, and sprinted forward with seven steps to go. When the boy jumped up, he was about to slash down. Shan Ye Xing struck the man in yellow directly in the face, but the man did not dodge and just held the sword with one hand. As soon as the scabbard blocked it, it seemed as if he raised the scabbard in his hand slightly and directly blocked the young man in the short shirt with all his strength. The young man had to use the force to jump back. The man in the yellow shirt swept the sword and chased him, leaving no place for the young man to stop and breathe.
Seeing that he couldn't stand still, the young man in short shirt could only turn around and prepare to use his sword to fly Gu Luan to force the opponent back. When he turned around and was about to throw Shan Ye Xing and fly out, unexpectedly, the man in yellow shirt stepped at a faster speed. In an instant, he was at the place where he was about to turn around. Behind Lin Manliu, the scabbard swung from bottom to top and hit Lin Manliu on the back. The scabbard collided with the black cloth strip on the boy's back, and the boy in short shirt was hit and flew a few steps away. Then he staggered and stood upright.
The young man reluctantly turned around to look at the man who had knocked him back with one blow. The burning pain in his left forearm and back kept coming, so he could only hold the sword in his right hand, with the desire to fight still in his eyes. Hot gaze.
The man in yellow shirt seemed to approve of the young man's gesture. He did a sword dance with his unsheathed sword, then continued to walk towards the young man and said slowly: "Of course it's a good idea. I want to hide my next killing move. , but the price is to expose your backside to your opponent. If you really fight in battle, you will die several times."
Lin Manliu held his sword forward, ready to meet the enemy at any time. There seemed to be leaves falling from the willow branches around the two of them. When an inconspicuous willow leaf moved in the air and landed on the shoulder of the boy in a short shirt, the man in yellow shirt moved. Got it! Just like the sudden sprint forward after sweeping the sword, he was very fast. He shuttled among the scattered willow leaves, and his figure looked a bit illusory.
The young man in the short shirt looked at the figure that could not be seen clearly. Suddenly, a sound like tearing the air exploded on the left side of the young man. Lin Manliu immediately held his sword to resist to the left, and instinctively moved his left leg back. He moved a few steps, and after barely catching the sword sheath that came through the air, he immediately twisted his body, raised his left leg and swept it from front to back.
Sure enough, the kick hit the figure of the man in yellow shirt who moved from the left side behind him, but the kick was blocked by the man in yellow shirt's right elbow and the impact was relieved. Seeing that the attack failed, the man in yellow shirt took a few steps back and distanced himself from the boy.
The fight in front of them was so shocking that everyone in the caravan was stunned. Although it was not as bloody and brutal as it was in Yuezhou, the speed of the sword moves between the two and the exchange of fists and kicks during the competition were really dizzying.
Yue Hanzhi's expression under the bamboo hat was a bit solemn. The man in yellow shirt was obviously not as simple as she thought at the beginning. If he hadn't been willing to let Lin Manliu be recruited and had no intention of harming him, he would have been defeated long ago.
"Little brother, you're okay, but you're a little bit more savage. Didn't your master teach you well or did you not learn well?" Just as everyone was watching them preparing to continue fighting, the man in yellow shirt had already stopped his offensive posture and hugged him while saying something. With the sword in his arms, he smiled and looked at the boy in the short shirt in front of him.
Lin Manliu just held up his hands and said, "Thank you for your advice." He didn't want to explain too much about his moves.
"Uh... I guess you haven't learned swordsmanship for a long time. Do you want me to teach you some tricks?" The man in yellow shirt looked a little embarrassed at the young man's response. He said with a fake smile on his face and watched quietly. Holding the black cloth strip on the young man's back.
