The waiter was panicked. This small place didn't see many Jianghu people in a year.
Although the two of them fought very restrainedly in the restaurant, they inevitably bumped into tables, chairs and benches. After a while, the restaurant, which originally didn't have many customers, was all gone. The waiter and shopkeeper huddled behind the counter, not daring to come out.
"Stop!" Xu Qingchen stopped hastily.
The woman asked, "What's wrong?"
Xu Qingchen threw down two taels of silver and said, "Let's move to another place so we don't destroy other people's property."
The two people left the town and came to a hillside outside the town to continue fighting.
Xu Qingchen wanted to laugh a little, it was so baffling.
After fighting for a while, Xu Qingchen didn't want to laugh anymore. The strange feeling he had when fighting Zhang Yuan some time ago came back. There was indeed something wrong with their Tian Fist Sect's boxing technique.
Linghan was no match for Xu Qingchen. If he were serious about it, Linghan would have lost long ago. Ayana also realized this. She took back her hands and said angrily: "No more fighting, you win."
Xu Qingchen sheathed her sword and held her chin with her left hand, thinking.
Ayana looked at him with interest and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Xu Qingchen raised his head and said, "Let's fight again."
"ha?"
With no choice, the two fought for another fifty rounds before stopping again. Xu Qingchen pinched his chin again and started thinking.
Ayana frowned and asked, "You are a very strange person."
When they meet, she takes action, and she has the nerve to accuse others of being weird.
After thinking for a long time, Xu Qingchen finally figured out the reason. He clapped his hands happily and said with a smile: "Wait a moment."
After speaking, he ran to a bush and broke off three branches, one long and two short. He threw the two short ones to Ayana and said, "Miss Ayami, use this."
"You know me?"
"I often hear Brother Zhang mention you."
"Why should I use this?" Xu Qingchen became even weirder in Linghan's eyes, and she thought to herself: Senior brother and sister-in-law want to introduce a fool to me?
Linghan's hands holding two wooden sticks were exposed, and Xu Qingchen saw what was on the back of her hands. It was made of fine steel, with chopsticks as thick as bones, attached to the back of her hands. Like Zhang Yuan's iron set, there are mechanisms at the joints that do not affect the bending of the joints. The difference is that it is much lighter than Zhang Yuan's iron fist glove. It is only wrapped around the fingertips to protect it, and it also comes with sharp iron nails that are half an inch long.
Xu Qingchen explained patiently: "After the last competition with my elder brother, I discovered something strange about your boxing technique. The distance is obviously not enough, but you still have to bend your arms. The thrust of the boxing technique is a bit far-fetched, and you don't use your forearms when blocking. These are so weird."
"What's so weird?" Ayana said, "Our Tianquan sect's boxing technique is inherently different from other boxing techniques."
"Maybe it's not boxing at all?"
"Ah?" Linghan was a little confused, "It's not boxing, is it swordsmanship?"
"It should be a pair of swords."
Linghan looked down at the two short wooden sticks in his hands, thoughtfully.
"Let's have another fight," Xu Qingchen said, "This time you try to incorporate your boxing skills into your double swords."
What Xu Qingchen said made sense. Linghan nodded, took off the "gloves" on his hands and threw them on the ground. He tried to wave the wooden stick with both hands.
"Huh?" After trying to swing the stick with a boxing move, Ayano's eyes were filled with strangeness. .
Next, before Xu Qingchen could speak, Linghan said excitedly: "Come on! Let's fight again!"
Xu Qingchen's guess was correct. The Tian Fist Sect's boxing technique was indeed a double-sword technique. At first Linghan was a little uncomfortable with it, but after dozens of moves, Linghan gradually became familiar with it, and the wooden stick in her hand also swung much faster. Xu Qingchen was unable to resist for a moment.
The two of them broke a dozen wooden sticks and did not stop until the sky turned dark.
The two sat on the grass to catch their breath and rest for a while. The sparring just now left the hairpins and other decorations on Ayana's head in a mess, so she simply took off all the things on her head and simply pulled her hair up.
Xu Qingchen watched her tying her hair and asked, "Are you not used to dressing up?"
Linghan smiled and replied: "My sister-in-law said in the letter that she wanted me to come and see you when I have time, and specifically told me to dress up nicely. I have never dressed so formally in my whole life. But, after meeting you, I I just feel unconvinced."
"Not convinced?"
"Yes, senior brother said that you are better than him, and he is no match for you. I just thought, how could my martial arts be so high at such a young age? They would all praise me unrealistically for the boys they introduced to me before. I thought You are also an embroidered pillow. It seems I was wrong."
This girl is a cheerful person and I feel comfortable chatting with her.
Xu Qingchen asked: "Has Miss Linghan been traveling around the world these years?"
Linghan shook his head: "It's not interesting. I used to like to look around. Because my sister-in-law said that the world is very big and there are many beautiful scenery and people. I have been playing outside for a few years and found that it is better to settle down."
"where do you live?"
"Tian Fist Sect," Linghan said with an innocent smile on her face, "it's not far from here. After the master passed away, the sect was abandoned. I went back last year and had a good rest, but I only live alone, with my senior brother and sister-in-law. I haven’t been back for many years.”
After saying that, Linghan stood up and stretched, and said, "I still want to thank you. If it weren't for you, the secret of our sect's boxing technique would have been hidden for who knows how many years. Okay, I've seen you before, Mr. Xu, Let’s just say goodbye.”
Ayahan's character is straightforward, without any twists and turns, very straightforward.
Xu Qingchen picked up the gloves dropped by Linghan and asked, "Miss Linghan, don't you want this?"
Ayana looked back and said, "I'll give it to you. You won't need it in the future anyway."
"Okay, next time we meet, I will give you a pair of knives."
"You said it," Linghan looked very happy, "You can't break your promise... Hehe, I gave all my money to my senior brother and sister-in-law. They travel around the world and spend a lot of money. I never save any money. This outfit cost me all my savings before I came here.”
"Isn't that... your dowry?"
"Dowry?" Linghan looked confused, "I haven't even thought about getting married, so there is no dowry. Let's not talk about it anymore, it's getting late, I have to go back. The green mountains will not change, and the green water will always flow. Let's Let’s meet again if we are destined.”
Xu Qingchen nodded, Linghan turned around and walked down the mountain. Because she was happy, she walked happily, jumping around like a deer. Xu Qingchen suddenly thought of Yao Xinxin. Miss Yao was only a few years younger than Linghan, and she also had an innocent and lively personality. Alas, what a pity.
…
One day later, Xu Qingchen arrived at the Thorn Gate before sunset.
The disciple guarding the gate took the wooden sign he handed over and led him into the inner gate.
The Thorn Sect has not been peaceful during this period. After the new sect leader took over, not everyone obeyed her. People who had some objections to the old sect master took this opportunity to leave the Thorn Sect, but many young people also joined, and overall it was quite balanced.
In Master Feng Yao's bedroom, Yang Fan was making tea. Feng Yao was lying on a rocking chair, looking at the scroll in his hand, smiling from time to time.
"Oh," Feng Yao lamented, "I didn't expect that I would still be on the Zhuge List and have to compete with the kids even though I'm so old."
Yang Fan said with a smile: "It's just a list of people who do good things. However, this Chaolan Valley Li Fenglan has become very famous recently. Her two maids can actually be ranked as top experts. Chaolan Valley's strength should not be underestimated. ah."
"There are no mediocre people in Changfeng Tower. Back then, Mo Changfeng was so impatient and righteous that even the old sect leader was not as popular as him. Chen Yi and Fu Yanhe, who were the most powerful young talents back then, were all impressed by him. They were impressed by him. You can imagine the children they have trained.”
"Our sect leader should not be underestimated. We are actually on this heavenly list."
Feng Yao looked at Yang Fan with a smile and asked, "Master Yang, are you feeling unbalanced because you didn't make the list?"
Yang Fan suddenly smiled: "If you're not the best, you'll be remembered if you're good. My physique really can't stand the torment...Master Feng, you haven't answered my question yet."
"You are not impatient, why are you so restless?
gas? "
"If I couldn't hold my nerve, I would have gone home long ago. Tell me honestly, did the old sect master arrange something?"
"Indeed, that's all." Feng Yao seemed to have figured something out, "Yang Fan, you are also a smart man. You and Xiong San accompanied the sect master to Luzhou a few days ago. I believe you can see something, and the sect master also I told you something, right?"
"Yes...but I can't say."
"Afraid I'm not someone you can trust?"
"right."
"Let me ask you, are you going to follow the new sect master wholeheartedly?"
"I believe in the old sect master. If the old sect master hadn't taught me the internal skills and mental methods, I wouldn't have survived these few years. If it was really the old sect master's intention, I would risk my life to assist the new sect master. Then , where is Master Feng?"
Feng Yao rocked the rocking chair and said leisurely: "The old sect leader blamed himself for what happened back then. He couldn't save the Li family and the Shangguan family... In the following years, he always blamed me."
"Why?"
"It was me who came up with the idea to protect the Bai family alone," Feng Yao closed his eyes and seemed to be recalling, "Shangguancheng is a very good boy, but it's a pity... I analyzed it back then and the Thorns Sect was not strong enough. To extinguish the anger of the Jianghu people, if we force all three families to be protected, the Thorns Sect will not end well. The old sect leader listened to my words and saved the Bai family. But in the following years, he blamed himself more and more. He thought that he had saved the three families. The strength is there. Hey..."
"Old sect master, how did you die?"
"I have thought about this problem, but after thinking about it, there is only one person."
"who?"
"Li Fengyao."
"The eldest lady of the Li family back then?"
"kindness."
"Why did she want to harm the old sect leader? Is it because the old sect leader didn't protect their Li family?"
"right."
Yang Fan was a little confused: "Isn't this too unreasonable?"
"yes……"
"You still haven't answered my question."
"I'm talking about you kid, just stop talking. Do you have to say it so clearly?"
"You can usually do it, but not this time. You have to speak clearly."
"Okay, I said..."
Before he could say anything, he heard someone shouting from outside the door: "Master Feng, someone has come to seek refuge with the sect owner."
Feng Yao asked: "Did anyone bring it?"
"Brought it."
"please come in."
Xu Qingchen followed the gatekeeper into the house. There were two people in the house, an old man and a young man. The old man didn't know him, but the young man had seen him before. He was the servant next to Chen Xiangzhi at that time.
"Master Xu!" Yang Fan's eyes lit up, "You are indeed here."
Xu Qingchen clasped his fists and said, "Thanks to the care of Master Shen, I came here to express my gratitude."
Yang Fanxin said: Take care of? When was it taken care of?
But now is not the time to care about this. Yang Fan said: "Come on, come on, let me introduce you. This is our Master Feng. When the sect leader is away, he has the final say. Master Feng, this is what I recommend to you." Those who passed, Xu Qingchen, Xu Shaoxia."
Xu Qingchen said: "I have met Master Feng."
Feng Yao smiled and nodded and said, "Well, he is quite a talented person. Take a seat."
