On the 15th day of the seventh month, the night wind picked up, and lonely birds flew across the fields. Lin Manliu and Ning Ke found a temple outside the village and planned to stay again tonight. They originally wanted to take advantage of the twinkling stars on the sky to continue their journey, but Ning Ke refused. In her words That is, it is almost here and should be repaired.
The boy in short shirt was not stubborn and followed Ning Ke's idea. The two of them led the horses to the pillars outside the temple and tied them up, and then entered the dilapidated temple together. When the young man entered it, the first thing he saw was a simple Buddha statue. I don't know whether the gold foil on the Buddha statue fell off or fell off. It was stolen and now looks a bit dilapidated.
The poor scholar casually looked at the furnishings in the room, planning to find a good place to rest. The boy in a short shirt walked to the Buddha statue, clasped his hands and bowed to it three times.
Ning Ke was deeply bored when he saw this, so he found a futon, picked it up, patted it, and wiped away the dust on it to make the futon as clean as possible for resting.
"Brother Lin, does he believe in Buddhism?" Ning Ke asked Lin Manliu while taking action.
"If you say you believe it, of course you don't believe it. It's just that my parents have talked about ghosts and gods since I was a child. Now I still have to bow to them when I live in someone else's house for peace of mind..." Lin Manliu did not reply to Ning Ke's words immediately. After he finished his actions, he spoke out loud.
"Lin Manliu, are you pretending to be serious like this to deceive others or yourself? A little kid shouldn't be like this!" Ning Ke sat on the futon and leaned against a relatively clean wall to relax. said.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this boy in a short shirt is still young, but his words are always so mature. Ning Ke sighed in his heart, he shouldn't do such things at his age...
"I...I'm sixteen! I'm not the brat that Brother Ning said..." Whenever he mentioned his age, Lin Manliu always started to hesitate involuntarily, but he also thought about it every time. , the girl who said she wanted to celebrate her birthday twice at once.
"Isn't it better to be sixteen...I know, I know, let's stop talking about this." The poor scholar was about to continue to mock the young man in short shirt in front of him, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the funny way the young man pinched the corners of his clothes. The look made her want to laugh, so she had to stop.
"I know what Brother Ning wants to say, but now I have also traveled across the east and west. First I followed the caravan eastward to Hangzhou, and then I followed the old liar back west to return to southern Xinjiang. I have seen a lot of mountains and rivers, and it is no longer a He's a kid!" Lin Manliu swept away his previous embarrassment, stood in front of the temple door, turned to look at Ning Ke and said loudly.
Ning Ke looked at the young man standing in front of the door, illuminated by the moonlight. His figure was stretched extremely long by the light, and the moonlight shining on the young man's shoulders shone brightly.
She looked at the young man's face. The corners of his mouth were raised, and there was a faint smile on his lips. He was smiling confidently.
Ning Ke looked a little lost in thought, but immediately rubbed his cheeks, woke up and asked the boy in a short shirt: "You always mentioned that old liar and old liar along the way, who are you talking about? ".
"You are half my master, how do you call the old liar...Jiangnan swordsman Ye Dangting!" Lin Manliu said in deep thought. When he was thinking about how to call the old liar, he remembered what his master said. This is what he said when he announced his family status.
Ye Dangting... is the second owner of Yijian Villa. The words spoken by his uncle before were heard... When Ning Ke thought about it, he thought of more than just the rumors in Yijian Villa. I must have seen this person's name in the attic, but now I can't remember it...
"Where is he now?" Ning Ke continued to ask. Lin Manliu had also walked into the temple at this time, and found a place to sit down at random. Seeing that Ning Ke was interested, he told him to listen to him, and that he could trust Ning Ke.
"Now that I'm in southern Xinjiang with my master, I should have already met up with the owner of the village. The previous worry was that they were afraid that they would encounter the Evil Tu Sect..." Lin Manliu looked at the door and said slowly.
The two of them then talked about trivial matters. They talked about why Ye Dangting was called an old liar by the teenager, or what Lin Manliu's family did, but they both had a tacit understanding and did not ask two questions. , the purpose of Lin Manliu’s master and Ye Dangting, and why Yijian Villa traveled west, because these are not trivial matters.
...Thousands of miles away in southern Xinjiang, the sky was suddenly covered by dark clouds at this time, which would light up and darken. Then the dark clouds dissipated, and the sky was filled with stars again.
There is a team of people stationed in the dense forest here. There are about sixty people in total. They seem to be resting or celebrating. From time to time, some joyous sounds can be heard from the campfire.
"The bandits that the village owner encountered before were really beaten one after another. Since entering this southern Xinjiang, I almost feel that I am a martial arts hero!" A man said while holding a wine bowl. said.
"Hey, you talk a lot. Didn't you almost get stabbed yesterday? If Sister Xiao Xiao hadn't helped, would you still be able to have wine and food here today?" Then a female voice mocked.
After being told this, the man who had been talking so eloquently, his cheeks turned red due to the alcohol or something else, so he kept silent and just drank alone.
"You think so, Sister Xiao Xiao, right, owner of the village?" Seeing that the man was silent, the female voice asked towards the bonfire behind her.
"Well...".
"Forehead...". The response seemed to be unanimous. The female voice snorted and turned back.
"Although Feng Bai's trip is stable, the big fanfare now is a bit too much..." Xiao Xiao said in a low voice.
"It's okay! Brothers didn't have much chance to relax along the way. It's rare for them to have some leisure time now, so they all have a good time. They are all good men of the right age, and they used to be miserable all day long!" Lu Fengbai seemed to have no idea at all. Without wanting to discuss it with Xiao Xiao, he stood up and raised his glass to everyone.
"Uh..." Xiao Xiao was speechless. And everyone around them raised their glasses and drank together because of the words of their owner.
Isn't this team of sixty people from the Westbound Yijian Villa? Another half hour passed in the lively scene here. When it was almost midnight, Lu Fengbai's face was already flushed. He rubbed his cheeks and walked out of the crowd and walked towards a quiet place. When Xiao Xiao saw the direction of his travel, he was originally just He turned his head and took a look, but unexpectedly, he was approached by Zhou Zongmin next to him.
"Sister Xiao Xiao, when we were stationed here, was there a secluded pool in the dense forest in that direction?" Zhou Zhou said.
"You mean?" Sister Xiao Xiao raised her eyebrows and continued to look at Lu Feng's walking figure.
"Master, is he going to go?" Zhou Zhou suddenly said in surprise for some reason. Suddenly a serious voice came from behind the two of them: "Go and have a look?".
It’s Lu Cishan! The two of them said together without looking back: "How can you speak so well?". Before Lu Cishan could explain, Xiao Xiao continued: "I have heard from Ji Ting a long time ago that something was wrong with you two gentlemen in Yangfeng Valley...".
"Go or not?" Lu Cishan's voice was still as serious as before. The three of them pondered for a moment, then nodded together and said, "Go!" After saying that, while the other disciples in the villa were still chatting and drinking, the three of them followed Lu Fengbai's previous figure and walked into the dense forest.
In front of a cross-cut cliff in the dense forest, there is a quiet mountain spring. From time to time, spring water gushes out from the gap between the cliffs and falls into the pool.
Lu Fengbai, who was the first to arrive here, took off his shoes and socks first and put his feet into the cold pool water. As soon as his feet were submerged, Lu Fengbai was instantly shocked.
"It's great!" he said boldly, as if he was still drunk. The three people following behind hid in the bushes and looked at Lu Fengbai who was soaking his feet by the pool.
"Are we thinking too much? Sister Xiao Xiao must have read some idle books on weekdays!" Zhou Zhou said softly.
"It's early, it's just the beginning!" Xiao Xiao also said softly, and patted Zhou Zhou's head to signal her to be quiet.
Lu Cishan, who was beside the two of them, immediately hummed and continued to look at the scenery beside the pond. Xiao Xiao and Zhou Zhou saw Lu Cishan's reaction and felt ashamed.
Just as the three of them were talking, Lu Fengbai by the pool made another move. He swayed and started to stand up and walk into the pool. As he walked into it, he took off his robe and threw it away. Then he threw it on the shore.
Judging from his appearance, he is still drunk. The three of them nudged each other and reminded each other that it was time to start!
But this action inevitably caused some noises among the trees. Lu Fengbai, who had already walked into the middle of the deep pool, turned his head and looked somewhere, as if he had noticed something... Zhou Zhou was the first to become nervous, the owner of the village wouldn't have discovered it!
However, Lu Fengbai's head position was not in the direction of the three of them, and with just a slight sideways look, Lu Fengbai continued to walk into the pool.
Under the moonlight, several scars on Lu Fengbai's body were highlighted very conspicuously. At this time, Lu Fengbai had already walked to the middle of the pond. His robes and Qi Ye Dao were placed on the shore. There was nothing around him. One thing.
He picked up a pool of water from the water, splashed it on his face, and began to wipe the blush on his cheeks with the pool of water.
Not long after, the dark clouds above the sky moved slowly, covering the bright moon, and the pond began to become quiet.
At this moment, someone's voice came out from another direction in the dense forest: "You are so leisurely, do you know that you don't have many stable days left?".
Lu Fengbai didn't seem to hear anything. He didn't pay attention to the man's words and continued to wash himself.
The people in the forest saw that Lu Fengbai had no reaction, and then the forest shook, and the birds that had been resting on the branches immediately dispersed.
A dark figure poked out from the forest, holding a wooden stick he picked up from somewhere in his hand, and rushed towards Lu Fengbai, who was wiping his face in the pool.
Just when the wooden stick was about to hit Lu Fengbai's side, Xiao Xiao, who was on the other side, wanted to get up to help, but was stopped by Lu Cishan.
"Just wait and see what happens," Lu Cishan said. Lu Fengbai was seen yawning, stretching his body as if stretching, and facing the wooden stick with one hand.
The moment the wooden stick came into contact with Lu Fengbai's forearm, the wooden stick exploded. Lu Fengbai himself was not injured at all. He was standing in the pool, and the black shadow from before had already flown to the edge of the pool.
"We haven't seen each other for quite some time. Why don't we move forward instead of retreating? After all, we still agreed to the words that Gentle Village is the Tomb of Heroes..." Lu Fengbai turned his back to the black figure and said a little drunkenly.
"It's just a feint, come again!" The black figure said. After the black shadow finished speaking, he rushed towards the middle of the pool with one step.
Lu Fengbai shook his head, his eyes still closed as if he was still drunk, and he formed a fist stance to face the incoming black shadow.
The black figure flew over the pool water, and threw out several fists and kicks with great force, but all of them were removed or directly blocked by Lu Fengbai's seemingly weak and weak fist frame, and some of them were blocked directly. During the first fist fight, the black figure was almost dragged into the water by Lu Fengbai.
As the two of them punched and kicked each other, the originally peaceful small pool under the cliff became agitated, with water splashing from time to time and making waves of waves.
However, the black figure had a strange figure, and when there was no chance of winning during the fight, he would immediately retreat, not allowing Lu Fengbai, who was standing still, to take advantage of him.
"I stood motionless in the pool, and you turned around several times, but you didn't shake me at all, how about it?" Lu Fengbai's whole body was already soaked due to the waves caused by the previous confrontation, and the only thing on his body was His clothes were also soaked.
"Now that I see you, I have been so noisy before, come again!" As the black shadow spoke, he stepped forward on the shore, as if he was gathering momentum.
Lu Fengbai in the pool was still the same as before, shaking his body and putting on that boxing stance, ready to fight the enemy at any time.
The black shadow suddenly rose up, and this time it was no longer rushing forward on the pool, but the whole person jumped into the air, and was about to cross in front of Lu Fengbai in just one step. He held out both fists at the same time.
One punch was aimed at Lu Fengbai's face, and the other punch was aimed at Lu Fengbai's left arm. Lu Fengbai's figure was like that of a drunk man, and he seemed to have no ability to receive the fists of this black figure.
But just when those fists were about to touch Lu Fengbai's face and left arm, Lu Fengbai started to move strangely.
His figure began to become illusory, and the black shadow's fists instantly hit the air. Then when Lu Fengbai's entire figure appeared again, he had already appeared behind the black shadow. He raised his arms and the black shadow was directly punched into the air. into the pond.
"Ahem... No more fun! You are cheating! Ahem... How can you still use fists and kicks against the enemy..." The black shadow immediately shouted after getting up from the pool, and coughed from time to time during the process. Obviously He must have eaten a lot of water when he was thrown into the pool.
Before the black shadow finished speaking, Lu Fengbai spoke up and said, "Have you found out?" Lu Fengbai, who was speaking at this time, still looked like a drunkard from before, and the drunkenness in his whole body had long since disappeared.
"Eleven and I have already explored the entire Star Tower, but now that the Evil Slaughter Sect has entered southern Xinjiang, after all, internal agents have been deployed around Fengcheng." The black shadow stopped coughing and reported immediately.
As the two talked, the dark clouds that had previously blocked the moonlight dispersed, and the shadow finally became clear. It was Ye Dangting, the second owner of Yijian Villa.
"Thank you for your hard work..." Lu Fengbai muttered.
"I have lived here for a long time in southern Xinjiang. It is more leisurely than Jiangnan. How hard it is to live in this gentle country!" Ye Dang said with a smile, and then turned and walked towards the shore.
"How long are you three going to watch Cishan?" Lu Fengbai also walked towards the shore together, and he suddenly said.
The three people hiding in the forest were shocked. Oops, they were discovered! They could only walk out of the bushes together. Just as the three of them lowered their heads, Lu Fengbai had already put on his clothes, shoes and socks.
Ye Dangting stood beside Lu Fengbai and handed him the Qi Ye Dao. Lu Fengbai, who took over Qi Ye, looked at the night sky that was turning bright and dark, and said aloud: "Where?"
Ye Dang heard the answer and said: "Ten miles away, there is the Snake Valley." Lu Fengbai held his sword behind him and shouted: "Fight!" as he passed through the four people.
Ye Dangting, Lu Cishan, Xiao Xiao, and Zhou Zhou responded in unison: "Yes!" Then the five of them returned to the Yijian Villa camp together.
The wind in the forest was rustling at night, and everyone was galloping on horseback. At midnight, the men of Yijian Villa rushed to the Snake Valley.
