Suddenly I heard the sound of carriage shafts at the courtyard gate, and I returned home on a long windy and snowy night. After bidding farewell to Zheng Shuan and others in Lin Zhong, Lin Manliu and others drove the carriage and continued towards Hangzhou.
They never stopped to rest until night fell over the sky. The sound of frolicking in the carriages along the way was much less than before.
Because everyone knew that something might happen to Yijian Villa... Maybe Lin Manliu was too impatient, or maybe it was because after winter, the horses really couldn't stand the cold.
The horses in the two carriages at the front and back began to feel weak on their feet, and they bumped the carriages several times when the mountain road was winding.
With Xiao Huang's neighing, the panicked young man seemed to be awakened, and he looked up to the sky. The ice wheel was turning and the clouds were covered with mist... Yue Hanzhi gave a concerned look and looked at the driver. He wanted to say something but didn't say it.
When Shen Qingpei saw this, he said, "Do you want to rest for a while?" Lin Manliu turned his head and looked at the three people in the car, then raised his hand toward the outside of the car and threw two stones one after another.
This is a signal for them to stop and rest while traveling. After hearing the news, Zhou Mo followed the young man's car and together they found a place to park under a tree and rest.
After half a day of running around, the horse finally rested and kicked its stirrups from time to time, as if it was exhausted.
Among the horses, Xiao Huang, who was the thinnest, reacted the most strongly. He would snort a few times from time to time, and then chew up all the grass blades beside him.
The six people traveling together each found an open space to rest. The young Taoist priest finally found no one in the carriage and lay half of his body in the carriage.
Lin Manliu took out some dry food from the bag and distributed it to everyone, and then began to rest against a tree.
Yue Hanzhi took the pancakes handed over by the young man before, walked over, and squatted down beside the young man.
The woman in blue was the first to speak: "Is it because of the news from Zheng Shuan's mouth earlier?" The young man looked at the woman beside him and nodded.
"After all, I am still a little young. I told you to trust me before and not to be in a hurry? Will it start again?" Yue Hanzhi complained.
Lin Manliu didn't answer directly, but hugged Zhuang Nai's sword tighter.
"After returning from southern Xinjiang, I thought I wouldn't be afraid of these things anymore, but since the old liar's accident, I'm still afraid..."
"No one is afraid of anything. There will always be timidity and fear in your heart. Why do you have to think about it?" Lin Manliu raised his head and looked at the dark night above the woods. At this time, the world seemed to be bound to this piece of land. Forest.
"Now that there is no trace of the Slaughter Evil Sect, and the villa is surrounded by tigers and wolves, there is still a possibility that the Evil Slayer might take advantage of him behind the scenes..." Yue Hanzhi listened to the young man's tone, as if he was about to start talking about their worries. As soon as it happened, he immediately waved his hand in front of the young man.
"Stop! I'm trying to comfort you, but I didn't just listen to your ramblings. Where is the great hero Lin who taught others during the day?" After finishing speaking, Yue Hanzhi gave Lin Manliu an expression of admiration.
Looking at the girl he liked, he poked his cheeks with both hands. She looked younger than him.
In this way, the young man's worries were interrupted by the woman in blue, and he could only recall what happened before and after the inn.
Lin Manliu said a little shyly: "At that time, my head was all hot. I remembered some of the truths Mr. Mo said, so I acted like this..." Before the young man could finish speaking, Yue Hanzhi slapped him. on his shoulders.
Then she said seriously: "Is it you Lin Manliu who is full of truth? Is it you who others admire? Did they wake up after your words?" Looking at Yue Hanzhi's sudden change of attitude, she still had the same admiration before. His sister next door suddenly turned into a sister again, and Lin Manliu felt much better.
"Then I, Lin Manliu, do have some skills?" The young man laughed. Yue Hanzhi also laughed, broke the pancake in his hand into two halves, and handed one piece to Lin Manliu.
"Then Lin Manliu, who has some skills, can you help me eat half a piece?" Yue Hanzhi said with a smile. The young man took the pancake, put it directly into his mouth, and started to devour it.
When the woman in blue saw this, she raised her eyebrows and pouted her little mouth.
"Lin Manliu, you eat so fast, you just don't want to eat with me!" The young man was stunned and finished all the pancakes while she was talking.
Lin Manliu hurriedly explained: "When I was at the inn earlier, I didn't eat much..." Yue Hanzhi thought about it in his head, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.
Before she could find a way to go down the stairs, she saw the young man taking out another pancake from behind!
"I have another piece..."
"Eat it yourself! I'll kill you at night!" The voices of the two of them were actually as low as possible, but the person accompanying them was not a martial artist.
This method of identifying the position by listening to sounds naturally makes you perfect with practice, even if you don't want to hear it. Not far away, Su Miannuan and Qing Lan were each leaning against a tree... The man was holding up the snow on the ground with both hands and wiping the two short guns between his knees.
Su Miannuan glanced sideways at Lin Manliu and Yue Hanzhi, and after a while, she let out a sigh of relief.
"Today's world... has changed so fast. In your eyes, can he really adapt to the present or the future?" Qinglan stopped what he was doing and looked in the direction of the boy with his beloved wife.
"The prosperity of Jianghu is naturally waiting for new books. Such juniors will be the mainstream in the future, and they will not die halfway because of us who stand in the way!" After he finished speaking, he moved his eyes from Lin Manliu and looked at it first. Yue Hanzhi, then looked at Shen Qingpei, and finally looked sideways into the carriage.
There were six people traveling south on this trip. Except for him and his wife Su Miannuan, they were all rising talents who had just entered the world. ...On December 6th, the new year is approaching and heavy snow is coming.
Lin Manliu and Zhou Mo, who had been traveling north for more than half a month, finally returned to Hangzhou. The running around these past few days is far less tiring than the rush to the inn that day.
On the way south, the boy walked as far as possible through villages and towns. Whenever they encounter a town with a lot of people, or happen to encounter a village going to the market, they will go there to find out the recent news about Yijian Villa.
From the information he got, the young man felt a lot more at ease. Indeed, as Zheng Shuan said, the reputation of Yijian Villa has plummeted. It is another sect that has been criticized verbally and writtenly after Fengxue Grand View Tower.
Especially the scolding of the old liar was the loudest. First, he was said to be a hypocrite who was behind the scenes, and later, he was said to be a true villain who disturbed the stability of the world.
In short, no matter how contradictory the words are, as long as they are scolding Ye Dang, they will become reasonable and everyone will agree with them.
In response to this, Lin Manliu could only curse, "The old liar deserves it!" But among these scattered pieces of news, one piece caught everyone's attention.
That's the news about Xunhan Mountain... Although Xunhan Mountain's former status was not as good as Fengxue Grand View Tower, it was second only to Zhujianfeng and Wenjianhu sects.
It is one step lower than Nanjiang Shenxingguan, just because there are really no outstanding sects in Southern Xinjiang, and they have all been swallowed up by the Shenxingguan family.
But now Fengxue Grand View Tower has changed hands twice, Zhujianfeng and Shenxingguan factions are in full decline, and the reputation of Yijian Villa, which has just emerged, is even worse.
In the current arena, Wenjianhu ranks first in the Heaven and Earth Alliance. I don’t know why? Suddenly he stopped doing anything.
Under this situation, Xunhan Mountain is about to start to move quietly! As the reputation of Yijian Villa gradually deteriorated, Zhan Keng, the chief elder of Xunhan Mountain, stepped forward to correct the problem on his own, and Yijian Villa and the Fengxue Grand View Tower switched sides.
During the past few days of traveling, when arriving at Hezhou City, Lin Manliu went into the city specially to find a restaurant to get information.
We generally know that since Zhankeng started to gain momentum, four small sects have responded to Xunhan Mountain’s call.
Now we are almost close to Hangzhou, but there has been no action yet. It seemed that he was waiting for Xun Hanshan to take action first... The young man thought that this was also the case. Without the general who took the lead, how would those soldiers who followed the charge move first?
Lin Manliu was driving a carriage, and the sound of Yue Hanzhi came from the carriage behind him.
"Aunt Nuan, we can enter the city before dark!" After Su Miannuan heard the voice, she opened the car window and looked at the ginkgo trees on both sides of the road.
Autumn has passed, and the golden ginkgo has long disappeared. Frost and snow have hit the branches, leaving only a few dead leaves still standing on the trunk.
"I haven't been able to come to this water town in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time!" Su Miannuan sighed. Yue Hanzhi spoke up and asked: "I heard Man Liu say that I met Uncle Qing before I left Jianmen. At that time, Aunt Nuan and you two had already gone south. Why are you thinking of going north this time?"
"Su Miannuan retracted her gaze from afar, and reached out to grab Yue Hanzhi's hands into her arms.
"Aren't you those men who always pretend to have the whole world in their hearts? I want to wander around freely and leisurely... But he said it's not yet time!" Hearing Su Miannuan's complaints, Shen Qingpei also became interested.
"Isn't that right? I always feel like I can hold up the sky!" After Yue Hanzhi heard this, he tilted his head and looked at the woman in red at the opposite table, and gradually laughed, but did not speak out.
Shen Qingpei was a little confused: "Sister Hanzhi, why are you looking at me like this?" But Yue Hanzhi, just laughing there, remained silent.
Being looked at like this, Shen Qingpei's cheeks turned slightly red, and he immediately turned his head to look at the corner of the carriage. Su Miannuan joked: "It seems that our Qing Pei also hides a man..." Yue Hanzhi was about to follow Aunt Nuan to speak out, but she heard this
The word "hide", I immediately realized that it was said together with her! She quickly stopped her mouth and glanced at the young man driving the car in a panic.
Su Miannuan looked at the reactions of the two people in the car and couldn't help but start shaking her head and laughing, thinking to herself, they are all stupid girls.
When the moon and stars are scarce, the crows and magpies hide under the trees in the forest to keep out the cold. The young man looked at the city of Hangzhou that gradually appeared in front of him, and couldn't help but tighten his hands on the reins.
Xiao Huang seemed to be aware that he was about to return home, and his previously slow pace also accelerated a bit. But before Lin Manliu could take in the entire city of Hangzhou, he saw several riders appearing at the end of the street.
The person sitting high on the horse at the head was a woman, none other than Senior Sister Ji Ting. After the young man approached, he quickly jumped off the carriage and saluted Ji Ting.
"Junior brother Lin has worked hard all the way. The city gate is closed at this time. Come with me!" Ji Ting said. Lin Manliu responded, then continued to mount his horse and drive, following Ji Ting and others toward a post station outside Hangzhou.
"This place is run by the villa. I received a message from the disciples in the villa on the way earlier, saying that you have returned south. I didn't expect it to be so fast!" Ji Ting, who was riding a horse beside him, sighed with emotion.
The horse-riding young man said with a smile: "Thanks to the care of the senior sisters, it was able to go so smoothly!"
"Why are you so sweet after you go out?" Ji Ting noticed something strange about the young man and immediately joked.
The young man was thinking about it, looking for some reasons to explain. Suddenly I saw the courtyard door in front of me wide open...
