When the moon was high in the sky, the fish bones on the ground had been cleaned up. The two of them had eaten and drank enough, and felt very comfortable.
Xu Zhuchen took a break after dinner and went to practice outside as usual. In the world of ice and snow, her ice and snow body is the most suitable. But I saw her turning ice and snow into a sword blade, singing and fighting against the snowflakes flying all over the mountain. Her figure merged with the mountain wind and snow, and all turned into the cold and proud white snow on the mountain top.
She danced faster and faster, and the sharp sword made of ice and snow gradually began to be unable to withstand her internal strength. Seeing that the snow in front of her was almost overturned by her, she put one hand on the sword and sang:
"The deer in Wangyi Palace turned into horses, and the people of Qin were half-dead under the Great Wall. Not only Shang Shanweng was the only one who took refuge, but there were also those who planted peaches in Taoyuan.
I have been planting peaches for several springs, and I have collected the flowers and eaten the solid branches for fuel. The children and grandchildren grew up isolated from the rest of the world. Although there were fathers and sons, there were no rulers or ministers.
The fisherman wanders in the boat and is fascinated by the distance. He meets each other among the flowers and asks each other. Who knew in the world that there was Qin in ancient times? How could I know that there is Jin in the mountains now?
I heard the dust of war blowing in Chang'an, and the spring breeze touched my head with a towel. As soon as Chonghua left, Ning found it again, and the world passed through Qin one after another. "
Xiao Mei was wearing a robe and coming out to bury the fish bones. When he saw her stop her movement and the snow flying up and down in the sky, she knew that Xu Zhuchen's skills had improved again. She walked up to Xu Zhuchen and said teasingly: "Wang Jinggong has thousands of poems, why do you always love these 'anti-poems'? Chang'an is in the dust, Taoyuan is peaceful, so tell me, are we in Chang'an or Taoyuan?"
Xu Zhuchen threw away the broken sword in his hand, picked up the robe that had fallen off Xiao Mei's shoulders, straightened it up, looked at the horizon and said: "Everyone in the world loves Chang'an, just to gain fame. I only love to live in seclusion in Taoyuan, leaving Fancong. Return to nature.”
Xiao Mei followed her gaze and looked up. The moon in the sky was half waxing and half waning, glowing brightly. She recalled the word Xu Zhuchen thought of for her - "Xiao Shanyue", and couldn't help but smile.
"Wang Jinggong also had a poem that said, 'The path is warm and the grass is like accumulation, and the mountains are clear and the flowers are more numerous. There is a river across the river, and there are several villages above and below. I rest quietly at noon, and the dogs bark in the wilderness. When I return, I tell people that it is suspected to be Wulingyuan.' Zhuchen, is your Wulingyuan actually this desolate and lonely Qingye Snow Peak?"
Xu Zhuchen looked into her eyes and said, "Being by your side is already a paradise to hide from the world."
The two laughed and walked back to the cabin, where the stove was warming up. Xiao Mei threw in two more pieces of coal, leaving a small crack in the window, then took off his clothes and boots, and got into the warm blanket.
The wind was blowing outside the window and the aurora was shining brightly. Xu Zhuchen took a bath and fell asleep soon after. Xiao Mei lay on his side on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
Who is the man I met at the Ice Lake? The man seemed to have something to tell her, but why did he run away as soon as he saw Xu Zhuchen?
The memory she recalled in the woods was a picture she had never seen clearly. Now it appeared clearly in front of her, bit by bit, the vivid pain seemed to have happened yesterday.
That was obviously a memory that she should never forget, a memory that was burned into her bones and blood. But why didn't I really remember it until that moment?
She didn't want to doubt Xu Zhuchen, but Wei Wangfan's word "liar" with a smile still rang in her mind; when Zhuchen taught her the exercises, the chilling comfort was a help or a deception?
Xiao Mei's consciousness became clearer as he listened to the dripping sound of the bedside dripper. Time passed, the aurora dissipated, and the dark night pressed down, making her almost breathless.
She simply lifted the quilt, got out of bed quietly, and began to dress and tie her hair. After putting on the thick robe, she picked up Xingyun again and put it on her waist to defend herself. Everything was ready. Before going out, she glanced at Xu Zhuchen - she was sleeping soundly, as if the heat source around her had left her. She moved uneasily and turned over a corner of the quilt.
Xiao Mei stepped forward helplessly and covered her with the quilt.
The body of ice and snow will not be frostbitten by cold weather, but the flesh will be injured and cracked. This is the contradiction between the fragility and strength of warriors.
After doing all this, she quietly opened the door curtain and walked into the thick snow outside.
The surrounding areas were dark, with only a little hazy moonlight left in the sky. With her excellent light skills, she followed the earlier path and found her way into the pine forest.
"Senior, where are you?" She called in a low voice, trying not to disturb the birds and beasts in the woods. "I am Xiao Mei, who I met with you earlier. Are you-"
Before she could finish her words, a pebble suddenly hit her ankle. Xiao Mei knew it was that man, so he walked in the direction where the stone came from.
After walking a few steps, a hoarse and strange voice sounded beside her: "...It's really you."
Xiao Mei pressed Xingyun and scanned around vigilantly, but saw no one. Just as she was about to speak, the man's voice appeared behind her again: "Don't make any noise, don't light the fire...turn around slowly, I'll take you out."
Xiao Mei heard the man's footsteps getting further away and immediately chased after him. She walked very fast, stopped the man in a few steps, raised her hand and grabbed the man's wrist.
"You speak Moxisha, and I can speak it too." Her voice became low, hoarse like gravel, "I won't leave here, tell me who you are and what happened here."
The man didn't reply for a long time. After a while, he spoke with difficulty in sand language: "Miss Xiao, I already know that I was wrong. Why are you doing this! Why... what do you have to do to let me go?!"
An extremely weak light suddenly lit up in his hand. It was a match, only enough to illuminate the faces of the two people. Under the dim light, his severely burned face looked even more terrifying.
Xiao Mei stared at his face and was stunned for a moment. Then his memory came back a little and he pieced together the identity of the person in front of him.
She asked in disbelief: "Shopkeeper Jin?"
The man in front of her refused to look directly at her at all. He seemed to be extremely afraid of Xiao Mei, but his expression changed when he heard her call. Xiao Mei looked at Jin Liang, and her experience in Huayu Academy resurfaced in her mind. She gritted her teeth and her whispers became sharper: "Shopkeeper Jin, why are you here? Why are you taking me away?"
Jin Liang was about to cry when he saw it. He touched the festering wound on his face. He seemed not to hear Xiao Mei's question, but was completely trapped in his own emotions: "Why...why don't you let me go...you have obviously ruined my life..." Everything, kill my family! I have already hid here, I obviously didn’t mean it!!”
Xiao Zhu was stunned. She pulled Jin Liang, who was gradually losing control, and asked: "What are you talking about? Your family? Have I ever harmed your family?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that what Jin Liang and she had just said were not sand words, and the low howls of wild beasts had already sounded in the woods. She covered Jin Liang's mouth, threw away the match, and gathered a small flame between her eyebrows, shining on the snow, and followed the footprints back to where she met Jin Liang.
Along the way, Jin Liang struggled with all his strength, but couldn't defeat Xiao Mei. When the two of them reached the end of the footprints, Jin Liang seemed to have lost his strength and fell to the ground.
"Haha, hahahaha! Finally... finally I came back here..."
Xiao Mei grabbed Jin Liang's collar with one hand, leaned against the pine tree with his back, and gasped for air. She didn't hear the beast roar anymore, and she relaxed a little. Just as she was about to sit down, she was suddenly punched by Jin Liang.
"It's all you! It's all because of you!" Jin Liang trembled and knelt in front of Xiao Mei, his deep voice full of anger, "It's you... I asked you if there was any way to get rich, and I just believed you. !”
He punched Xiao Mei in the face again, using 100% of his strength, causing Xiao Mei's mouth and nose to bleed. Xiao Mei raised his hand to defend himself, but Jin Liang crawled back in fear. After only a few steps, he collapsed completely, knelt on the ground, and burst into tears.
"I knew it, I should have known it! Because of you, my academy was burned down and I lost lives! Because of you, I had no choice but to leave Zhiyang and live in this shabby place!"
"Let me just say, you must have bad intentions when you came to my house a few days ago... That ball of fire must be you, it's all you, it's all you! If you hadn't asked me to find some 'sword' here, I would have If you hadn’t said you could make a fortune here, I wouldn’t have been entangled, and I wouldn’t have ended up with my family and my family broken up today!”
"It's all you, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! It's all because of you, it's all you!!!"
Xiao Mei wiped the blood from his mouth and was still digesting the "sword" mentioned by Jin Liang, but he saw that Jin Liang had lost his mind and rushed towards her like crazy.
She didn't even intend to take Xing Yue out of her sheath, she just dodged to the side and easily avoided Jin Liang's attack. Jin Liang fell out of the air and fell into the snow. He got up and tried to scratch Xiao Mei again. Xiao Mei turned his wrist and circulated his internal energy, aiming to restrain Jin Liang.
However, as soon as the crimson inner energy lit up, some memories suddenly flooded into her mind. A sharp pain came from Xiao Mei's temple. She used Qinggong to avoid it. As soon as she moved, a girl's crying face flashed in front of her eyes——
"Sister, father and mother, are they all dead?"
"Sister, sister! Please, don't die." The girl clutched her arm tightly, tears streaming down her dirty little face. Her burned clothes, disheveled hair, and little hands burned with blood blisters, one by one, stung Xiao Mei's heart desperately.
"Sister, help me, I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."
Xiao Mei could hardly stand up straight, and the hot pain made her almost fall to her knees. Seeing Jin Liang staggering up to her, she gritted her teeth and prepared to knock him out when he got closer.
But she heard a sound of wind in her ears, and a few flying snowflakes fell on her temples, which did not melt for a long time. Xiao Mei smelled a very faint smell of blood, mixed with the boundless chill. Her headache subsided in the chill, and the picture in front of her gradually faded. In the darkness, a snow-white shadow gradually lit up.
Jin Liang's body slowly slid to the ground without even letting out a scream. The bright red blood spread out, spreading black and red on the snow.
Xu Zhuchen walked around a pine tree and landed in front of her with a little effort. The ice sword in her hand has been washed with snow and is spotless white, just like herself, spotless.
"Azadirachta," she said with a soft smile, holding a candle in her hand, "Why didn't you call me when you came to the ice lake to hunt in the middle of the night?"
At the same moment, the snow mirror flower ring on Xiao Mei's left hand shone brightly, and a blue-white cold light lit up in the forest, turning into thousands of flower vines, binding Xiao Mei's limbs one by one, and entangled her in the cedar tree. superior.
Xiao Mei raised her hand subconsciously, but her inner energy did not flow as she expected. She raised her head in shock. Xu Zhuchen had already walked in front of her. The wick of the candle flickered with the same cold white flame. She relied on that inner force to find her location.
"He is an ordinary person." Xiao Mei, whose whole body was numb from the cold, struggled to find his voice, "What's the need to kill him?"
Xu Zhuchen looked at her quietly, speechless for a moment. Her beauty is so astonishing. Her white hair is untied and blends with the color of the snow. Her red eyes are faintly shining with water. She is breathtakingly beautiful. Xiao Mei was almost intoxicated when he heard Xu Zhuchen say:
"Jin Liang 'accidentally' harmed you at Huayu Academy, and he also wanted to harm you just now. I just 'accidentally' failed to control my power."
A thin layer of ice had already crawled on Xiao Mei's skin, and she trembled. After a long time, she said, "Okay."
"You were the same way back then, 'accidentally' letting my whole family die, right?"
