After five days of delay in Heyue City, the journey afterwards was smooth sailing. The shopkeepers in Mulan City and Hechao City had obviously received the news, and they did not dare to follow in the footsteps of Heyue City. When Hua Yitang arrived, they would welcome His style became more enthusiastic and respectful, and his account books were prepared in advance, so he never dared to be slighted or disrespected in the slightest.
Sure enough, as Hua Yihuan said, as long as there is no problem with the account books, Hua Yitang can check the accounts at most two hours per city. The rest of the time is to eat, drink, go shopping, rest for a night, recharge, and hit the road easily, plus wood. Xia's itinerary was arranged reasonably, and the original twenty-day journey only took fifteen days. When we arrived at the Huashi Villa on the outskirts of Dongdu Waiguo City, it happened to be the first day of November, exactly two months before the first day of the Lunar New Year.
"The Hua family is considered a high-ranking noble family, so the name of this courtyard is too hasty!" Jin Ruo stared at the plaque above his head with disgust on his face.
Hua Yitang shook his fan: "This is the characteristic of my Hua family. It is called being independent and returning to nature."
Jin Ruo: "..."
Along the way, they walked through three cities and seven counties, and none of them had ever stayed at an inn. Each time they stopped at the Hua Family Courtyard. Lin Sui'an had reason to suspect that the Hua Family had real estate in every city and county in the Tang Dynasty. The architectural style of the other courtyards is also very unified, which can be represented by four words: "wealth, wealth and majesty". If nothing else, the plaques of each courtyard are four feet wide and six feet long, made of sandalwood, Black background with gold characters and silver edges. Whether it is sunlight during the day, moonlight at night or the lights in front of the door, as long as the light shines on the silver-plated frame that is more than four inches wide, it will reflect the radiant light. What’s even more outrageous is that the large gold-plated characters on the plaque, written in iron and painted with silver hooks, are very elegant, but the specific content is just...ahem...
The other courtyards in Heyue City are called "Hua Family's Thirty-Five Houses", the ones in Mulan City are called "Hua Family's Forty-three Houses", the ones in Hechao City are called "Hua Family's Twenty-Five Houses", and the one in front of them is "Hua Family Houses". "The Eighty-nine Houses", combined with the "Hua House" in Yangdu - uh...
"There are so many houses in the Hua family that it's difficult to name them, so we use numbers instead, with a square number (convenient and easy to remember)." Ita explained.
Fang Ke snorted.
The world of rich people is so simple and unpretentious!
Lin Sui'an sighed inwardly and asked the question that had troubled him for several days, "What is the number of Hua's Villa?"
Hua Yitang's eyes were bright, "You want to know?"
Lin Sui'an knew from Hua Yitang's expression that he had nothing good to say. Sure enough, the next sentence was, "Teach me self-defense skills, and I will tell you."
Lin Sui'an turned around and left, "I'm hungry, let's eat."
Hua Yitang waved his small fan angrily.
I remember that when we stayed at Huazhai on the first night, Hua Yitang once mentioned learning kung fu. Later, when he encountered a series of cases and became busy and chaotic, Lin Sui'an forgot about it. He originally thought that Hua Yitang Just saying casually, I never thought that when I caught Jin Ruo as a sparring partner in Mulan City, I would be caught by him. Ever since, a certain dude had once again ignited his ambition to become a middle schooler.
As a result, Hua Yitang spent the entire dinner time croaking:
"Lin Sui'an, you are not kind. You clearly said before that your kung fu is passed down from family to female, not male. But Jin Ruo is also a male. Why do you teach him? Have you discussed it with your ancestors? Our ancestors agreed. Is that so? Does my ancestor think that Jin Ruoneng is more talented than me? My ancestor is too ignorant."
Lin Sui'an sighed, and the taste of the meat on his lips no longer tasted good, "I was just competing with him in martial arts."
Hua Yitang sneered: "With his three-legged cat skills, is he worthy of competing with you?"
Jin Ruo, who had a mouthful of steamed cakes, said, "Hey!"
"And why did you choose to do it in the middle of the night, when the night is dark and windy, and the moon is in front of the flowers..." Hua Yitang grasped the chopsticks and stirred the hot spicy soup quickly, "I stayed there for more than an hour, it's too long..."
Jin Ruokuang rolled his eyes, and Mu Xia smiled and handed a bottle of vinegar to Ita. Ita poured half of the bottle into the tea cauldron without ceremony, mixed it with various seasonings to make a strange tea soup, and placed them in front of everyone. You Fangke cheered and took a sip, shook his head and said, "It's too sour."
Hua Yitang's face turned red, "I, I don't, no, no, no, it's not that... I, the men of the Hua family, are all broad-minded and upright. The so-called Kunpeng soared ninety thousand miles -"
"Tonight, Haizheng, come to the back garden and I will teach you." Lin Sui'an said.
Hua Yitang swallowed the second half of what he said, choking and belching.
Everyone looked at Lin Sui'an with surprise on their faces, and a piece of the cake that Jin Ruo had just stuffed into his mouth fell out.
Hua Yitang "burped, burped" twice, patted his chest with a fan repeatedly, lowered his voice and asked, "Are you serious?"
"Yeah." Lin Sui'an nodded, "Eat more and build up your strength."
Hua Yitang immediately became happy. He opened his sleeves and ate like a glutton. While eating, he glanced sideways at Jin Ruo and read the words "The villain succeeds" from head to toe.
Everyone looked at Jin Ruo, but they didn't expect that Jin Ruo was just laughing and didn't say anything.
Just after dinner, Hua Yitang went back to his room and asked Mu Xia to bring the things he brought with him in the car, the new ones bought in Mulan City and He Chaocheng, as well as the clothes, boots, hairpins, hairbands, and folding fans in stock in other courtyards. , took all the sachets, arranged them in categories, and began to select carefully.
The attendants in the other courtyard usually only do the work of sweeping and planting. They have never seen such a battle. They were almost blinded by Hua Yitang's complicated and gorgeous clothes. They were in a hurry to serve. Fortunately, Mu Xia was in charge. Someone is responsible for clothes, who is responsible for accessories, who is responsible for incense, and who is responsible for serving tea and water. After several arrangements, there is finally some order and order.
However, I saw that the flower boy Shiro had first changed into a set of nine-layered sweatshirts painted with bridges and flowing water, and moon boots that were stained red by the rain. He also hung up the scent of lingering silent dream souls. After walking around twice, he found the matching weeping poplar and flying flower hairpins. I couldn't find it, and I was very upset. I quickly changed it and chose a Hanyingshao red shirt. As soon as I put it on, I felt that the color was not good enough for my skin tone, so I changed it again...
The "Lake Reflecting Snow Shirt" is too plain, the "Blue Fall Yellow Spring Shirt" is too floating, the "Purple Jade Smoke and Dust Hairpin" is too complicated, the incense in "Fading Grass and Green Green" has a bad meaning, and "Willow Eyebrow Smoke and Thick Fan" is too gaudy. For two whole hours, Hua Yitang changed into twenty-eight sets of clothes and thirty-nine sets of accessories. The eight servants were so tired that they were dizzy. Finally, under Mu Xia's recommendation, they chose a satisfactory set of clothes and combed them carefully. Bun your hair, hang up the sachet, and go out happily.
After seeing off this ancestor, the servants were relieved but also a little curious.
"Brother Xia, it's this hour, why is Shiro wearing something so nice?"
Mu Xia thought for a while and smiled, "Probably - looking for a fight."
Lin Sui'an sat on the stone bench, flipping through the Shi Jing Ji sword manual page by page, her brows furrowed into a knot. She had read Shi Jing Ji hundreds of times, but in view of the tragic painting skills and vague description of the moves, , it’s really confusing.
A few days ago, she caught Jin Ruo as a sparring partner, hoping to make a breakthrough based on consolidating muscle memory, but she was disappointed. Her strength and speed exceeded Jin Ruo by a lot, and before it was time to compete with her sword skills, Jin Ruo She has already beaten him to the ground. To use a metaphor, it is like a king fighting against a bronze. He cannot reach the level of technical competition at all. He has already defeated him in an instant just by relying on his physical strength, and cannot achieve the effect of special training at all.
Lin Sui'an sighed again: Unless he can find an opponent similar to Dong Chao, it will be really difficult.
The only solution for now is to start with theory first. Lin Sui'an thought about it, why not let the "well-read" Hua Yitang take a look at the Shijing Collection with funny painting style, maybe he can make some breakthrough——
As if responding to her thoughts, a wisp of fragrance floated over. The smell was very familiar. It was the unique fruity wood fragrance of Hua Yitang. Mu Xia said that this fragrance has a calming effect, but today this fragrance smells... There seemed to be something extra - the faint fragrance was floating, and the beautiful shadows were graceful - Lin Sui'an's eyes widened, she saw the beauty under the moon.
The clear moonlight blew the quiet fallen leaves, Hua Yitang walked through the garden, the wind condensed on his fluttering clothes, the surrounding became more and more quiet, and there seemed to be distant piano music in the fragrance of fruit and wood, singing Ancient Book of Songs - There is a beautiful person, clear and graceful, the moon is clear and dew, the autumn waves are shining, and the pulse is speechless...
His heart seemed to be suspended by a thin thread, and his breathing became a little rapid. Lin Sui'an couldn't help opening his mouth and taking a deep breath. The sultry fruity wood fragrance penetrated into his mouth with his breath, passed over the tip of his tongue, and slid into his throat. It smelled of sweet and sour fruit. She licked her lips, her throat was a little dry, and she suddenly wanted to taste what kind of fruit it was.
Hua Yitang's face flickered between the shadows of the trees, with a faint smile waving at the corner of his mouth. His steps were obviously very light, but they seemed to be very heavy. Every step stepped on Lin Sui'an's heartbeat. Suddenly, he Walking into the moonlight, his whole body was bathed in brilliant light, and he smiled and said, "Lin Sui'an——"
His voice was like a dewdrop falling from the leaves into the lake of his heart, causing thousands of ripples. Lin Sui'an's pupils shrank violently, he stepped forward and held Hua Yitang's wrist, swinging his arm. Hua Yitang said, "Ah! "Yeah" yelled and made a semicircle in the air. Lin Sui'an flicked his wrist, Qian Jing took out the sheath, held the sword in the air and struck it vertically. An arrow split in half from the middle and passed by Lin Sui'an's ears. , more than three inches into the ground.
A whole set of actions was completed in just a snap of his fingers. Hua Yitang landed on the ground almost at the same time as the feather arrow. Looking left and right, he gasped repeatedly.
Lin Sui'an pulled Hua Yitang and stuffed it behind him. Just as he was about to speak out, Hua Yitang behind him started to curse, "Sneak attack with arrows, shameless! You pigs and dogs, come out and die!"
Lin Sui'an: "..."
Okay, the meaning is almost the same as hers.
The black shadows on the wall jumped to the ground one after another, and there were actually more than a dozen masked men in black, holding horizontal knives and cold eyes, swarming up to the two of them, and the piercing light of the knives was like a blizzard rolling towards the two of them.
Lin Sui'an was overjoyed. This was like sleeping on a pillow. She was worried that no one would challenge her, but someone came to her door. She pressed Hua Yitang's shoulder with her left hand and said, "Squat down!" She turned her head to avoid the two. With the sword's light, Qianjing's right hand almost penetrated the enemy's wrist against the opponent's blade. The blade was lifted bit by bit, and a small ball of blood bloomed - the second move of Shijingji "Beheaded like an animal", the move lives up to its name. , can pick off the enemy's hand tendons and hamstrings at the fastest speed, smallest amplitude, and most accurate point, leaving them defenseless, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered - the opponent groaned, fell to the ground with the sword, and rolled away. The battle circle.
The defeat of one person did not affect the attack of others, but stimulated their killing intent. The sword light became more and more dense. Lin Sui'an had Hua Yitang behind him. Cut throat and bleed ten feet", nor could he change his body and use the group attack move "Swift Wind Shakes Autumn Leaves" - but Lin Sui'an was not in a hurry at all. The attacks of these killers seemed to be uniform, and they came almost at the same time. But after all, he is a human being, not a machine. There must be a sequence of moves, but the sequence is only a few millimeters. It would be impossible for ordinary people to distinguish, but for Lin Sui'an's eyesight, it is not difficult.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, held her breath attentively, and concentrated her ears and eyes to the extreme. Qian Jing was like a dark green snake burrowing into the gaps in the dense network of sword light, stabbing, prodding, swinging, teasing, plundering, poking, and thrusting, all with extreme force. Xiao Jiji's quick moves greatly overturned the killers' understanding of Lin Sui'an's sword skills. They felt a sudden flash of green light in front of their eyes, and the wind blew past their ears. Before they could recover, a ball of blood suddenly burst out from their wrists. The flowers bloomed like wintersweet in the snow under the pale moonlight, extremely beautiful and intense. Suddenly, the pain was heartbreaking. The blade fell to the ground. When I came to my senses, the tendons in my hand were broken.
"Ahhhh!" Seven or eight people screamed almost at the same time, making the whole courtyard tremble.
Lin Sui'an shook off the blood from the tip of Qianjing's knife and felt something strange. The killer's moves just now were aimed at her throat. They were somewhat similar to the first move in the Shijing Collection, "cut throat and bleed ten feet". Could it be - - She raised her eyebrows and stared at the remaining seven people. Those seven people were so frightened that their hands were shaking. They looked at each other and shouted, "Shoot!"
Three feather arrows shot through the air from three directions at the same time. Lin Sui'an was even more happy. He planted his feet on the ground and jumped into the air. He picked up Qianjing with both hands and slapped the three feather arrows three times in a row like a swatter. The shot was taken back in the opposite direction, and three screams sounded almost simultaneously from the wall.
The sniper archers were all captured in one fell swoop, and there was no need to worry about hidden arrows. Lin Sui'an jumped up the moment he landed and shouted, "Hua Yitang, run!" From the corner of his eye, he saw Hua Yitang running away like a rabbit, and his heart relaxed and changed. He was so aggrieved before that he no longer cared about any moves. He spread his arms and slashed hard. Wherever Qian Jing touched, the blade was broken. The killer couldn't bear the impact of such terrifying power and was knocked unconscious. He retreated to The killers at the base of the wall were so frightened that they threw away their weapons and jumped over the wall to escape. Unexpectedly, at this moment, two figures jumped onto the wall. One of them swept the hall's legs in a row, and the other punched like a colorful shooting star. The killer who climbed up the wall was beaten down again and lay on the ground wailing.
Lin Sui'an couldn't catch up and was very sorry, "You should leave two for me!"
Jin Ruo ignored her at all and squatted on the wall to direct, "Mu Xia, there is another one with an arrow in her hair, yes, yes, yes, right here. Oops, your face is covered with blood. Are you still alive?"
Ita wiped the blood from the ring on the killer's clothes, dragged the two killers and threw them in front of Lin Sui'an, "Pigman, I'll beat you."
When the two killers heard this, they rolled their eyes and were completely stunned.
Lin Sui'an could only take Qian Jing back, picked up the only conscious killer, and shook it like a rag doll in his hand, "Hua Yitang, you really have enemies all over the world, and they are all chasing you to Dongdu. .”
Hua Yitang walked over waving his fan, his chest heaving violently. He didn't know whether he was tired or angry. He took off the killer's mask and stared at it for a long time, "Ew shit!"
Etta: "Who?"
Hua Yitang frowned: "I don't know."
Jin Ruo jumped off the wall, quickly walked over and took a look, his face darkened, "I know him, he is Ding Kun, the tenth elder of the Jingmen branch of Dongdu."
Everyone: "Eh?!"
"So -" Lin Sui'an had a bad feeling in his heart, "could they be -"
"They..." Jin Ruo took a breath, "They probably came to rob Qian Jing.":,,
