Wu Dalong and Lu Xiaoxiao went to the library furtively.
Chen He had come back from Laogou Town and was reading a book downstairs. When he saw the two of them, he always felt familiar. He held the book and thought for a while before he remembered who this thirty-five-year-old man was.
Wu Dalong also recognized Chen He.
"Hey, why are you here?"
Wu Dalong was very surprised.
Lu Xiaoxiao stared at the two of them without saying a word.
Chen He smiled and said, "I must be here. I am from the library in the courtyard. You came here to talk about the iron plate tofu?"
Wu Dalong waved his hand and said with some embarrassment: "We'll talk about that later. I mainly wanted to see someone today. I heard from the gentlemen in the courtyard that he was in the library, so I came here to take a look. I didn't expect you to be here too. .”
Who else is there in Chen He's Xindao Library besides me, so he asked: "Is the person you are looking for named Chen He?"
Wu Dalong was stunned for a moment and said, "Who is Chen He?"
Chen He covered his face and said, "Chen He is me."
"..." Wu Dalong was a little embarrassed.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Chen He and said with a smile: "Sir, we are here to find a young man named Nan Dao."
"Oh, Nandao..." Chen He said subconsciously, but immediately felt something was wrong and looked at the two of them curiously, "What are you looking for him for?"
Originally, Chen He thought he would be a relative of Nan Dao's family, but then he remembered that when he pushed Nan Dao to sell tofu on the street, Wu Dalong didn't recognize Nan Dao at all, so he rejected the idea and asked more cautiously. For a moment.
Wu Dalong thought for a while and said sincerely: "We are sword cultivators from Fengqiling. My name is Wu Dalong and her name is Lu Xiaoxiao. I wanted to ask if he has any ideas to learn swordsmanship with us."
Although he is sincere, he is very unconfident.
Chen He thought that sword cultivators should all come from sword-wielding, so he stopped in the air with sword intent and looked at them - boy, you have good skills, I have decided to accept you as my disciple...
Or it's the enigmatic type, after all, that's how many biographical novels are written.
But thinking about the first time I met Wu Dalong, he was squatting and resting on the street. He probably didn't have the same temperament.
Chen He thought for a while and asked, "Oh, Lingnan sword cultivator, which sect does he belong to?"
Wu Dalong said shyly: "Tianya Sword Sect."
I thought that Chen He had never heard of the name of this sword sect, but Chen He was a little surprised.
"Oh, are you the sect that doesn't practice throwing swords but practicing swordsmanship?"
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
Wu Dalong lamented, thinking that he would have known to repay Lu Xiaoxiao Bai Jianzong.
Lu Xiaoxiao also secretly stepped on Wu Dalong, probably feeling too embarrassed.
Chen He didn't mean to laugh at them, but looked at Wu Dalong very curiously.
"There is an introduction to the swordsmanship of your Tianya Sword Sect upstairs. I read it several times out of boredom. It's quite interesting that there are swords everywhere in Tianya! Have you mastered it?"
Wu Dalong was quite happy at first, until he heard the last sentence, he laughed twice and said: "No."
Just like Wu Dalong and Nan Dao said at the beginning, it's just a Lingnan sword.
That's not to be modest, but it's really just a small sword.
Seeing Wu Dalong's appearance, Chen He didn't ask further. He thought for a while and said, "I know, but what should I say? Your hopes may be in vain."
Lu Xiaoxiao asked nervously: "What's wrong?"
Chen He said: "Nandao had a fight with someone in the city a few days ago. Now his life or death is still uncertain. I don't know if he will want to go to Lingnan, but the current situation..." Chen He apologized Looking at the two of them, "I can't let you take him away."
Wu Dalong froze there and said, "How could this happen?"
Chen He sighed and said, "He had a grudge against someone else, it was probably three days ago."
"Is he the one you pushed to bask in the sun when you were selling tofu?" Wu Dalong suddenly remembered something.
Chen He nodded.
Only then did Wu Dalong realize that he had already met Nan Dao twice.
Once on All Souls' Day, and once just a few days ago.
It's just that I didn't know at that time that the boy holding the black umbrella was Nan Dao.
Wu Dalong stood there blankly.
He looked down at his hand and pumped it hard a few times.
Play cards, play cards, I tell you to play cards.
Chen He quickly grabbed him.
"Brother Wu, don't be like this, don't be like this, Brother Wu."
Wu Dalong sighed and stopped, but Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Chen He with some suspicion: "Where is he now? Can we take a look?"
Chen He pointed upstairs.
Lu Xiaoxiao pulled Wu Dalong and ran upstairs.
On the listening stage, Cao Weiying was holding a book and was looking at it in fascination when she saw two swordsmen in their thirties running up.
He was stunned for a moment.
Wu Dalong and Lu Xiaoxiao were also stunned for a moment.
Chen He didn't say there was anyone else up there.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the lazy-looking young man in front of him, smiled, and said, "Are you Nan Dao?"
Cao Weiying thought for a moment and said, "I'm probably not the one, the one next to me is."
Their eyes fell on the side of the listening platform. There was a young man sitting cross-legged with a black umbrella, surrounded by sword intent, and a peach blossom that was about to wither on his chest.
No breathing, as if dead.
Only then did Lu Xiaoxiao believe Chen He's words.
I walked forward with some regret, looked at Nandao for a long time, and kept sighing.
Wu Dalong comforted her and said, "It's okay. We'll just take a look when he wakes up."
Lu Xiaoxiao shook his head and said, "I'm just sorry that we got that beating in vain."
"..."
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Cao Weying and asked, "When will he get better?"
Cao Weiying looked down at the book and said, "I don't know, what are you looking for him for?"
Wu Dalong expressed his intention.
Cao Weiying put down the book, looked at Wu Dalong up and down for a long time, and then looked at the sword behind him. She didn't know what she thought of, smiled softly, and said: "So that's it. Then when the time comes, if he wakes up, I will talk to him He said it."
Wu Dalong said gratefully: "Thank you very much."
Cao Weiying smiled slightly and said, "You're welcome."
Lu Xiaoxiao, however, had her eye on Cao Weiying. For some reason, she felt that Cao Weiying would be very suitable to be a swordsman, so she walked to sit down next to Cao Weiying and said with a smile: "What about you, are you interested in joining us?" Shall we go learn swordsmanship?"
Cao Weiying looked a little strange.
After thinking for a while, he said: "I still have some things to do now. When I'm done, maybe I'll think about it?"
Lu Xiaoxiao solicited enthusiastically and said: "If you want to learn swordsmanship, you must remember to come to Lingnan to find me. I am from the Xiaobai Sword Sect of Lingnan. Don't look at the places where the Human Sword Sect is famous. It is very popular there. It’s hard to get ahead…”
Cao Weiying smiled and said, "Okay."
Lu Xiaoxiao was polite for a while, and then was dragged out of the library by Wu Dalong.
Lu Xiaoxiao was naturally still thinking about how to trick the young man in Qingshang into joining the Xiaobai Sword Sect, but Wu Dalong was squatting on the roadside with some worry, holding his sword and talking to himself naturally.
"Sword, sword."
Lu Xiaoxiao knocked him on the head.
"What are you doing?"
Wu Dalong sighed and said, "Actually, I don't think we should be like this."
Lu Xiaoxiao's head was full of questions: "What shouldn't be like this?"
Wu Dalong whispered: "Didn't you see the realm of that young man just now? He is already in the Zhishui realm, and maybe he will be out of seclusion soon."
Lu Xiaoxiao also fell silent.
"What can a place like Lingnan give him?" Wu Dalong said softly, "How many vegetable fields on the mountain? How many acres of thin fields below the mountain?"
Lu Xiaoxiao also squatted down next to Wu Dalong, wondering what he was thinking.
"Just now, little brother Chen He said that he had a fight with someone three days ago. When I didn't know whether he was alive or dead, I still felt guilty. I thought that if I hadn't gone to play cards and found him early and brought him back to Jianzong, maybe this wouldn't have happened. It’s over.”
Wu Dalong smiled bitterly and continued: "But then I thought about it, if that was really the case, maybe his life would have been ruined in the Lingnan Sword Sect. How many of the 80,000 sword cultivators in the Lingnan Sword Sect are there? "
Lu Xiaoxiao didn't beat up Wu Dalong, thinking that this was indeed the case.
Wu Dalong stood up, holding his sword and walking mindlessly.
Lu Xiaoxiao asked from behind: "Where are you going?"
"I've been out for almost half a month, and I don't know if the old man has remembered to water the vegetable field." Wu Dalong said with disappointment, "I went back to water the vegetable field."
Lu Xiaoxiao snorted and looked back for a long time at the young man who was reading a book by the listening platform.
Sighing, he thought to himself, then you don’t want to come either.
Then he caught up with Wu Dalong.
The two of them were walking on the path in the courtyard.
"Are you going back too?" Wu Dalong looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and asked.
Lu Xiaoxiao was silent for a while and shook his head: "It's foggy in the south. Many people will come down, so I won't go back."
"There is actually no shortage of little sword cultivators like us in the world."
"If everyone thinks this way, then there will be no one in Nanyi City."
Wu Dalong was silent for a while and said: "When I go back and finish watering the vegetable field, I will come back."
"Um."
The two of them walked out of the courtyard side by side, one going north and the other staying.
...
Mr. Mei and Mr. Xie stood at the entrance of the courtyard, watching the two unknown figures leaving.
"What you said to Nan Dao that night made sense."
Mr. Xie sighed and said: "Once people in the world enter the avenue, they no longer care about the world or future generations. They always think about going as high as they can."
Mr. Mei chuckled softly and said, "It's just random talk."
"But it is undeniable that perhaps the lower levels of the world of human cultivation are more lovable to the world. They have not yet gone out and have not tasted the sweetness of the evil consequences of the great path. So they think about the acres of thin fields and the human world." Mr. Xie tilted his head and thought. , "Or marry a wife, have children, and pass on the world."
Mr. Mei looked at Mr. Xie and said, "What about you?"
Mr. Xie smiled softly and said, "I'll forget it. I won't marry or have children."
Mr. Mei sighed and said, "It seems that there are some things that you still can't let go of."
Mr. Xie looked at the scattered moss all over the courtyard and was silent for a long time.
"Who isn't?"
Then Mr. Mei also fell silent.
