"is it you?"
Chu Xiaoxiao forced herself to stand up, holding on to the door frame. She looked at the man in front of her in disbelief with tears in her eyes.
He only met her once, when he was just a young and naughty young man.
But she had seen the young man's elder brother, the handsome young man with a body as tall as jade, whose facial features were 89% similar to the person in front of her.
But Nangong No. 1 is gentle and elegant, with a gentle and righteous air in his eyebrows. But the same eyebrows of the man in front of him seemed to be covered with a piece of Tianshan Xuanbing that had not melted for thousands of years.
He just stood there, neither speaking nor moving.
Chu Xiaoxiao could feel the murderous aura surging in his body like boiling water. The fierce and overflowing murderous aura was cold and bone-chilling.
She couldn't help but shiver.
"Chu...Xiaoxiao..."
Nan Er didn't know how to face the woman in front of him for a moment. He silently recited her name, never raising the knife in his hand, but also not putting it down.
"It's you, it's really you..."
When Chu Xiaoxiao heard her name being spoken from his mouth, extremely complicated emotions surged in her heart. She couldn't tell what they were for a moment. Was it regret, sadness, guilt, or relief?
Does she regret it?
But the incident more than ten years ago was not planned by her, nor did everything happen because of her. She was just used as a pawn in the whole thing, used to confuse the Nangong family, so there was no regret.
Is she sad?
It should be said that since that incident, she has been enveloped in sadness all the time, otherwise her temperament would not have changed so much that she would never want to go out again. She was sad about her fate, but there was nothing she could do about it.
Is she guilty?
She has always felt guilty for those Nangong family members who died innocently and tragically, so she kept a vegetarian diet and prayed to immortals and Buddhas in the hope of alleviating the evil that the Chu family had done to the Nangong family.
When today, her fiancé who was supposed to be dead appeared in front of her.
The most important thing in her heart is relief.
All kinds of guilt towards him, all kinds of guilt towards his family.
Today, maybe we can all come to an end.
Chu Xiaoxiao laughed, but tears also fell from the corners of her eyes.
"why are you laughing?"
Nan Er looked at the woman in front of him, and his heart was filled with confusion. He didn't know how to face the person in front of him, nor did he know how to face his already messed up heart.
Chu Xiaoxiao wiped the tears from her face hard, and she smiled again for the first time in more than ten years. Her innocence and purity were exactly the same as when Nan Er first saw her.
"It's good that you're alive..."
Nan Er didn't know how to answer. He couldn't raise his butcher knife to the woman in front of him who was smiling silly at him.
"Then...why are you crying?"
Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes were red, and there were several red marks on her face when she wiped her tears hard. When she heard the other party's question, she could only shake her head hard.
"sorry Sorry……"
Chu Xiaoxiao tried hard to suppress the tears in the corners of her eyes, but the more she tried to stop them, the more tears poured down her face.
She was apologizing, apologizing for everything that had happened.
But what's the use?
Nan Er let out a gentle breath, suppressing his chaotic thoughts, and his eyes gradually became firm again.
With the change of his mentality.
The demonic aura mixed with murderous intent swelled again, and the snow-white blade shone with a cold light as cold as frost.
To kill or not to kill?
Chu Xiaoxiao suddenly felt a cold autumn wind blowing on her face. The cold feeling made her skin and bones feel a tingling chill.
She raised her head in disbelief, tears still hanging from the corners of her eyes.
She didn't know martial arts, but she could clearly feel the cold killing intent.
Her delicate body swayed, and she would have fallen to the ground if she hadn't been holding the door frame with both hands.
"You...want...to kill me..."
He wants to kill her.
Chu Xiaoxiao saw the cold look in Nan Er's eyes, and a terrifying but reasonable thought appeared in her mind.
His fingers gripped the doorframe so hard that his knuckles turned white.
Nan Er held the knife in his hand. He was still hesitating or looking for the right time to draw the knife. Anyway, he only exuded killing intent and did not take action directly.
"You... want to kill me..."
Chu Xiaoxiao burst into tears again, her lips trembling, and she didn't know whether the expression on her face was crying or laughing.
"because……"
Nan Er gritted his teeth and swung his knife suddenly.
"Your surname is Chu!"
…
Most of the guests in the hall were drunk, and even Sima Chunlei, who always had a good drinker, was so drunk that he could hardly find the east, west, east, and west.
Ding-ding-ding-ding.
The sound of weapons clashing was heard outside the house. Sima Chunlei raised his head and looked at his father, who looked at Chu Tianba who had already fallen on the table.
Sima Qingfeng did not speak, but mouthed the word "do".
The eldest son of the Sima family married the second young lady of the Chu family, not for the sake of a strong marriage between the two families, but just to destroy the Chu family just like they destroyed the Nangong family, and then the Sima family would naturally dominate Jiangcheng.
At this time, the killers of the Sima family hidden around should have taken action to strangle the Chu family. The order left by Sima Qingfeng was to kill all men, women, and children as long as their surname was Chu.
Sima Chunlei received instructions from his father and pulled out from his waist the Qingxiao sword that had been cut off and then repaired with great effort by the Sima family.
The blade of the sword is bright, but there is an obvious break in the middle.
He came to Chu Tianba, who had become his father-in-law, raised the sword in his hand, and was about to stab him.
Suddenly I smelled a strange fragrance.
not good!
Sima Chunlei, who was in a daze due to excessive drinking, suddenly woke up and suddenly smelled this strange fragrance. It must be a scam!
Sure enough, after the aroma entered his body, his meridians were quickly blocked, his limbs became limp, and he could only sit on the ground.
"Hahaha, Brother Sima, you are still too anxious..."
Chu Tianba stood up with a smile. He flicked the corner of his sleeve that was full of wine scent, and then looked at his son-in-law who fell on the ground and could not move, and Sima Qingfeng who was sitting on the chair with a shocked expression.
"Chu Tianba, what do you want to do?"
Sima Qingfeng quickly identified that this strange fragrance should be the legendary cartilage fragrance in the world. After smelling it, one's bones would soften and one's body would become weak, unable to move for twelve hours.
He just didn't expect that Chu Tianba would actually get this kind of rare thing that had disappeared for many years, and deliberately use it against him.
"Of course it's the same as what Brother Sima wants to do..."
Chu Tianba wiped the antidote under his nose in advance, so he could stand there unscathed and look at Sima and his son who had fallen into the trap with a smile on his face.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
After slapping their palms three times in a row, the Chu family members who were already drunk at the banquet stood up one after another. They all looked fiercely and looked at the Sima family members who could no longer move with ferocious smiles.
"Brother Chu, you and I are both Jianghu people. We should keep a thin line in life so that we can meet each other easily in the future... Otherwise, as long as you let us father and son go, I am willing to hand over all the Sima family's property in Jiangcheng to Brother Chu."
Sima Qingfeng said with a smile, he didn't even care about the lives of other people, he just wanted to use everything the Sima family had now in exchange for his and Sima Chunlei's lives.
"Hahaha, Brother Sima, do you think I am a three-year-old child, coaxing me to play here?"
Chu Tianba picked up the Qingxiao sword from the ground. He put the sword in his hand and looked it up and down.
"I took this Qingxiao from Nangong No. 1 back then. Even though it was broken later, it still belongs to me..."
Uh-huh!
Chu Tianba put his sword on Sima Chunlei's neck with cold eyes. The sharp blade had already cut the latter's skin, and blood slowly seeped out.
"You guys, these greedy white-eyed wolves, took my sword and snatched the Nangong No. 1 that I captured."
"Brother Chu, Brother Chu, it was indeed my fault back then. You can take this sword back now, and you can also take back Nangong Number One."
Sima Qingfeng is already old, and among his sons, only Sima Chunlei is of great use, so he often gives priority to protecting the safety of his son Sima Chunlei.
"Bah! A broken sword, a useless person who has driven you crazy, you just want to send me away... there is no way!"
Chu Tianba spat hard, and the spit hit Sima Chunlei's face, who had just married his second daughter.
"Sima Qingfeng, don't fucking pretend to be confused for me here, just give me a fight haha... Tell me! Where are you hiding that counter-grain knife?"
Sima Qingfeng's expression changed, and he shut his mouth and stopped talking. The reason why he joined forces with Chu Tianba to destroy the Nangong family was because of the legendary Nigui Dao.
"Father-in-law, that knife is not a real counter-grain knife at all..."
Sima Chunlei endured the phlegm sliding down his face before he spoke:
"My father and I spent ten years studying that knife...and finally came to the conclusion that the knife was really not a reverse pattern knife."
I bother!
Chu Tianba spit out another mouthful, laughed a few more times looking at Sima Chunlei's disgusted look, and brought the long sword in his hand closer:
"Do you think I am a fool? What you said back then was that it was Niwen Dao. The treasure is dearer than your own son... Now you deny it and say with a shy face that the knife is not Niwen Dao. It's a lie. who?"
"But that knife is really not the legendary counter-grain knife. The counter-grain knife should be a knife with counter-grain, which shines like daylight in a dark place... But the knife has only half of the counter-grain. In other words, it is Defective products."
Sima Qingfeng sighed. Although his Sima family was also a family of blacksmiths, they had only heard of the legend of the Niwei Dao and had never seen the real thing. They have only seen descriptions of similar appearances in the notes written by their ancestors.
"Defective product? I want it too! Tell me, where is that knife hidden?"
Chu Tianba's eyes widened and he raised the sword in his hand, which meant that if you don't tell the truth now, I will chop off your son's head with one sword.
"Brother Chu, I said... can you give me, my father and my son a way to live in exchange?"
Sima Qingfeng was really at his wits end now. The killer he had arranged before had no movement, and his most valued eldest son was still under someone else's sword. He knew that he couldn't do anything if he didn't say it, but once he said it, his father and son would be completely worthless.
Nowadays, people work as swordsmen, and I work as fish and meat.
I had to bow my head.
"Hahahahahaha..."
Chu Tianba laughed and raised his sword higher. The cold light on the sword made people feel frightened, and it also chilled Sima Qingfeng's heart a little bit.
"Brother Sima, do you think I am a person who breaks my word?"
"good……"
Sima Qingfeng could only bet all his hopes for life on Chu Tianba's credit. The lives of his father, son and even the whole family are now in the hands of Chu Tianba alone.
"It's in the back hall, under the fourth blue brick from left to right on the west wall of my study..."
"OK!"
Chu Tianba walked out. Before going out, he wiped his neck at the Chu family waiting in the room.
That means killing them all.
"yes!"
Then the butcher's knife was swung. None of the Chu family had weapons, but the Sima family all wore swords around their waists, so...
Use the sword at their waist to cut off their heads.
"Chu Tianba!!!"
Sima Qingfeng roared, but Chu Tianba could no longer be seen.
He watched more and more Sima family members in the room being beheaded, and he could only let out a heart-wrenching roar on his seat, followed by extremely vicious curses at Chu Tianba.
Until he saw his son Sima Chunlei's head falling to the ground.
"Old beast, keep shouting, why are you mute?"
The Chu family smiled ferociously, and deliberately lifted Sima Chunlei's still-glaring head and dangled it in front of the unable to move Sima Qingfeng.
"ah!!!"
Sima Qingfeng screamed, spit out several liters of blood from his mouth and died. Until the last moment of his life, he was still viciously cursing Chu Tianba. Until his death, he believed that it was Chu Tianba's fault that caused the current situation.
But if Chu Tianba hadn't prepared to take action today, would Sima Qingfeng have wiped out the Chu family once he succeeded?
The answer is of course yes.
…
After Nan Er swung his sword, he turned around and left.
In the house, all the tables, chairs, benches, and screen ornaments were cut in half by the knife just now.
Only Chu Xiaoxiao was left paralyzed on the ground.
Yes, she's not dead.
There was a hint of unbearable sadness in Nan Er's departing back, and he didn't look back again until he disappeared at the entrance of the courtyard.
Yes, he couldn't do it.
Chu Xiaoxiao staggered up from the ground and walked out of the room at a slow speed that could only take one step forward.
The moonlight is very cold, and it shines on the ground like an invisible piece of snow.
She stood in the frosty moonlight, looking at the bright moon in the sky, lost in thought.
It's like a moon palace fairy who accidentally entered the human world.
"Hahahahahaha..."
She smiled and danced in the white moonlight.
Only the autumn wind kept pace with her rhythm, making a moaning sound like a whimper.
The song ends, the dance ends, and the person dies.
