On July 5th, the morning light was dim. On the eastern cliff, a little light appeared, reflecting the entire Zhujian Peak, and all the houses and buildings were reflected in the early morning light of the day.
Lin Manliu went out several times last night to visit him and found that none of the Sword-Building Peak disciples who were following him and Ning Ke had evacuated. This made the young man in short shirts have to admire Li Junce's methods. If he wanted to escape later, he would probably have to Wait for something to happen.
The young man in a short shirt pushed open the door and faced the east, letting the morning light shine on him. He began to stretch his limbs very lazily, like a rich and idle man with nothing to do.
The door of another room behind him also opened, followed by
With a "crunching" sound, Lin Manliu turned his head and saw Ning Ke, who had combed her hair extremely neatly. Unexpectedly, the hosta she took out was pinned to her bun like that. If it weren't for her clothes, It was the robe that Lin Manliu bought for him. If he changed into decent scholar clothes, he would be much more handsome than he is now.
"In the enemy's territory, Brother Liu can still be so relaxed and elegant?" Ning Ke said in her confident masculine voice, and the original name of Lin Manliu was changed to Brother Liu.
"Since you are already a prisoner, why should you be more sentimental if you are not comfortable?" Lin Manliu responded casually.
"That's right," Ning Ke nodded.
"Yesterday's proposal, Brother Ning should give it some more thought..."
"...If you have time, can you pay more attention to your own trivial matters? Zhujianfeng's thoughts are with you. Since I want to leave, I have a way." Ning Ke looked at the young man in front of him in surprise. How could he still think about others after a whole day? Even though I am a clay Bodhisattva who has crossed the river, I am still thinking about this.
"Then why does Brother Ning stay here? You can't really risk your life to accompany a gentleman and have to go through this with me, right?" Lin Manliu pondered for a long time, thinking about finding some reason to let Ning Ke go earlier. He couldn't leave in troubled waters, but as soon as he said these words, the young man realized that he had said the wrong thing.
After hearing this, Ning Ke did not respond immediately. Instead, he suddenly looked at the boy in short shirt in front of him with a gloomy face, and began to clap slowly.
"Pah...pah...pah..." Following the long applause, Ning Ke looked bitter, but her lips were raised in laughter.
"Very good... I went south to Guizhou just to explore the things in the valley. However, I left in a hurry and did not continue to delve deeper. Now that I can enter the Zhujian Peak Mountain Gate, why should I leave? You say Right...Brother Liu?" Ning Ke laughed miserably and began to tell the purpose of his trip and what he insisted on staying on Sword Forging Peak.
"Reason", the last call to Lin Manliu
When he said "Brother Liu", his voice was extremely long.
"Ning Ke, I just..." Lin Manliu hurriedly explained.
"There is no need for so much preaching. This is a cooperative relationship of mutual benefits. I also need to borrow Brother Liu's name to stay in this Sword Forging Peak. There is nothing to say... Let's go." Ning Ke stopped clapping and went directly to Go outside the door.
The boy in the short shirt stayed where he was, looking at the back of the poor scholar who walked out of the courtyard. He paused for a long time. He wanted to chase Ning Ke out and explain to him, but what kind of attitude and words should he use to let him go earlier? Stay away from Zhujian Peak... While Lin Manliu was still thinking about what to do, there were rapid footsteps outside the courtyard gate.
"Brother Liu, Brother Liu, what's wrong with you!!!" A young man's voice came from outside the door.
It was Qiao Yunnian... The boy in a short shirt looked intently at the door and saw Qiao Yunnian sticking his head out from the door, looking at him anxiously and curiously.
"What's wrong with Yun Nian..." Lin Manliu looked at the panting young man and said with some confusion.
After Qiao Yunnian stopped breathing, he went to the middle of the courtyard gate and said to Lin Manliu: "I just saw Brother Ning. I asked him why he didn't see you, and he said you were about to die...I Of course he didn't believe it, so he ran over quickly."
Hearing Qiao Yunian say that Ning Ke said that he was about to die, Lin Manliu thought about the rashness of her previous conversation with him. In her opinion, did she really deserve to die? Lin Manliu was embarrassed. He said aloud: "Brother Ning and I just had some differences in opinions, so we had some verbal conflicts...".
Qiao Yunnian nodded and said: "Brothers, there will always be quarrels because of some things. Since you have nothing to do, come and go out with me!" After saying that, the young man strode directly to the courtyard and went to pull him. Lin Manliu's sleeves were ready to pull Lin Manliu out of the hospital.
"Did you see where Brother Ning went before?" Lin Manliu followed Qiao Yunian out of the courtyard.
"Brother Ning... seems to have gone to the martial arts field. I see that Brother Ning's hair is combed today, but his clothes are too shabby. Otherwise, the female disciples in the peak will definitely fall in love with him." Qiao Yunnian pulled Lin Manliu's hand kept walking through the streets of Zhujianfeng.
"Well... then Yun Nian is in such a hurry, where are we going to play today?" Lin Manliu decided to give up the idea for the time being, caring about it would cause confusion, and he would explain it easily if he met Ning Ke later.
"Just follow me!" Qiao Yunnian seemed to not want to tell Lin Manliu in advance. After saying that, he just kept pulling him forward.
Along the way, there were naturally some Sword-Building Peak disciples passing by. The difference from yesterday was that they began to salute the two of them, no longer ignoring Qiao Yunnian or Lin Manliu.
"Brother Liu fought three battles yesterday, and the results were excellent. Those fellow disciples who always looked down on me before, today they treated me with respect when I walked down the street," Qiao Yunnian said with a grin.
"It's not good to borrow someone else's power like this. Yun Nian still needs to practice swordsmanship earlier, only when he has the ability," Lin Manliu said earnestly.
But just after he finished speaking, Lin Manliu thought to himself, starting from yesterday, hadn't he been relying on his vague relationship with the Jiang family to connect with Li Junce's scheme to dominate the Sword-making Peak? Why do you have the nerve to preach to Yun Nian now... Thinking of the young man in a short shirt here, he started to sigh.
"Brother Liu, why are you sighing? Do you miss my sister?" Qiao Yunnian turned to look at Lin Manliu and said with a smirk on his face.
Lin Manliu was just about to say something to teach this naughty child a lesson, but suddenly he realized that he was quietly taken away by Qiao Yunnian outside the mountain pavilion where he had practiced swordsmanship with Senior Sister Qiao without even paying attention.
"We're here!!! Brother Liu, look at this place!" Qiao Yunnian jumped up and walked towards the pavilion.
"Yunnian is interested..." Lin Manliu said out loud, because rather than saying that Qiao Yunnian wanted to come here to play, it was better to say that he wanted to take himself here to see it.
The boy in short shirt also walked into the small pavilion on the mountainside. He recalled that when he first went out for travel, it was here that Senior Sister Qiao taught him the sword skills of Fei Guluan and gave some guidance on his sword skills. .
The two of them sat in the pavilion and looked at the stone carvings on the cliff outside the pavilion. While Lin Manliu was thinking about it, Qiao Yunnian began to imitate his sister's speech in a very weird way.
"The gesture just now was wrong. You can't come back after flying branches and hitting objects like this. Just look at me! Look, I'm coming back now."
"Why did you learn so much from others before? How come you can't throw things away anymore!"
"Watch and catch them. You want to stab someone else and then come back and give yourself a sword. You will hurt the enemy by 1,000 and damage yourself by 800, right?"
...Lin Manliu listened to these familiar words and began to laugh at Qiao Yunnian. He waited until Qiao Yunnian said a lot. At that time, he thought that the boy had been driven away by his sister, and then he said to himself With his words, the boy in short shirt realized that when he was practicing sword practice with Senior Sister Qiao, Yun Nian had been watching him by his side.
Lin Manliu reached out and rubbed Qiao Yunnian's head. Qiao Yunnian also giggled happily and made a face at Lin Manliu.
"Brother Liu misses my sister?" Qiao Yunnian said with a smile.
"Senior Sister Qiao, of course I want to, but now that Senior Sister is out to help, I can only stay here and I don't know when we can meet again." Lin Manliu said after looking around the small pavilion for a week.
"We will meet again later. My sister told me when she went out to wait for her and her father to return home. I will be safe in Yuezhou. All the sects in the world have gone there." Qiao Yunnian looked at Said a voice from afar.
Northeast, that is the direction my father and sister traveled together. Lin Manliu also looked in the direction of the young man, nodded together and said, "It will be safe here."
However, apart from Senior Sister Qiao's eastward journey, Yun Nian is even more worried about the changes in the Sword Making Peak. Now that it has been confirmed that the Qiao family is not in the peak, Li Junce and the Yuezhou Jiang family have some unspeakable involvement. Will they follow It is related to the Tue Evil Sect's journey to the west. If Zhujian Peak is the next Yangfeng Valley, how should the Qiao family deal with themselves while traveling far away? What should I, Qiao Yunian, and Ning Ke do in this prison? Is there any way to escape... Based on these conjectures, Lin Manliu couldn't help but shudder. He didn't think about it from these places before, but now he guesses that these are what he saw on the Sword Making Peak recently... From the disciples in the sect The elders and deacons at yesterday's banquet were quite closed to outside news.
I thought it was just at the Hongmen Banquet that the elders and deacons were working with Li Junce to act out a scene of dragging people into a pirate ship. If it was as I guessed, the Jiang family was involved with the Tu Evil Sect, and Li Junce was imitating Na Yang. Feng Gu, when the Tu Evil Sect attacks, they immediately switch sides... With the color of the world changing, and the two sects with the highest rank in the Jianghu in central Guizhou turning to the Tu Evil Sect, who can still survive in this chaos? , looking for a solution.
"The situation may change in the future. Yun Nian must remember that except for your father and Senior Sister Qiao's words, no one else should be credulous. Since I am now in Sword Forging Peak, I will definitely protect you!" Lin Manliu After interrupting his thoughts, he crossed directly over the stone table in the mountain pavilion, squatted down in front of the young man, and held Qiao Yunian's arms tightly with both hands.
Qiao Yunnian looked at him with some confusion, why Lin Manliu was suddenly so solemn. He nodded to him and said, "What Brother Liu said is whatever he said!" Qiao Yunnian believed Lin Manliu. Now that Lin Manliu said this , must have his own ideas.
On the stone carvings on the cliff opposite the mountain pavilion, behind the big tree, there was a poor scholar, shaking his head and sighing helplessly.
This Lin Manliu... Why is it always like this? He thinks about others in everything. Have he ever thought about himself? Now that he can't protect himself, he still has to make promises to others.
If you have no way to save yourself, how can you save others...
