"I woke up drunk after drinking in the west at night. I raised my head and it was past three o'clock. The hero's breath was making noise in the mountains and forests. No one answered his whispers. He held his sword and listened to the sound of the waves. I regretted that this life was not mine. When will I see the faintness? The wind is blowing and the trees are shaking and the streams are singing. . A leaf chases the waves, and the rivers and lakes spend the rest of my life."
The sound bounced in the wind, just like musical notes, constantly brushing against Bai Yutian's ears, like a chicken feather tickling it. It was extremely pleasant, yet extremely uncomfortable, waking people up from their sleep.
Bai Yutian rubbed his eyes and saw a moonlit man sitting alone by the creek, inviting each other to fly together, full of poetry and painting. On a whim, he stood up with a smile on his face, walked over, and joked: "Senior Xie, you stayed up most of the night and talked to the moon. Did you feel that you were still in love last spring and wanted to play lovesickness on the pipa string?" If so, the bright moon is here now, reflecting the early return of spring.”
Xie Mubai turned around and smiled slightly, and said: "You child, I am an old man who is nearly seventy years old. The spring has long since disappeared without leaving any trace, so there is no need to play lovesickness on the pipa strings."
Bai Yutian sat down next to old man Xie, listened to the sound of the stream beside him, and asked softly: "Since I don't mean to play with lovesickness, why don't you have a good sleep and recharge your batteries? Tomorrow there will be a roar of tigers and lions." Roar, drive away those evil spirits."
Xie Mubai thought to himself that since he is a monster, he must be cruel like an evil tiger and cruel like a lion. Everyone knows that tigers and lions are their teachers, but how can they not hear the roar of tigers and the roar of lions? He replied: "One person was convicted and three tribes were wiped out. Even this inhumane punishment is useless in the face of interests. How can it be stopped by the roar of a tiger and a lion?"
Bai Yutian said: "Then tomorrow's fight must be fought?"
Xie Mubai said: "Not only must we fight, we must also make a name for ourselves."
Bai Yutian seemed puzzled when he heard the word "famous" and asked: "Senior, what does it mean to have a famous name?"
Xie Mubai said: "Let me ask you, why can the Dragon Slaying Club develop and grow?"
Bai Yutian replied: "A chivalrous person violates the ban with force, and the court is afraid of him; Tu Longgan is an eagle and a dog, and the court supports him."
Xie Mubai said: "Slay the dragon and break the ban with force, and the court will be afraid of you; you are willing to be a hawk and dog, and the court will support you."
Bai Yutian didn't understand, and said suspiciously: "According to your opinion, the reason why the magistrate is willing to help me is just to take advantage of the situation, to make up for the shortcomings but to make up for the losses, so that both us and the Dragon Slaying Association will lose, and a fisherman will benefit. Because he knows that the power of the Dragon Slayer Guild entrenched in Huizhou Prefecture is stronger than ours, and if we don’t give us some help within our ability, it is very likely that we will not be the opponent of the Dragon Slayer Guild, and it will show a one-sided trend. "
Xie Mubai said: "It may be more than that. If I were the prefect, I would definitely fish in troubled waters. After you and the Dragon Slayer Association have a life-and-death contest and both sides suffer, I will use the name of suppressing the riot to take down both parties. , eliminate future troubles forever."
Bai Yutian said: "But we have never been hostile to the imperial court, let alone brought harm to the world, why is this!"
Xie Mubai said: "You have to know that these magistrates crawled out of the pile of books. They gave birth to good heads and sold them to the emperor's family. Those who are good-natured will worry about their people if they live high in the temple, and worry if they live far away from the rivers and lakes. His Majesty: Those who are inherently evil will be rewarded with one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver if they clear the prefecture in three years. Regardless of whether they are inherently good or evil, as long as their own interests are not harmed, everything should be based on the interests of the court. They know clearly that, Without the court, they might be nothing.”
Bai Yutian said: "What should we do? Why can't we do evil things in order to eliminate evil and lose the lives of all the knights and heroes here?"
Xie Mubai said: "Of course you can't. Knights and heroes have the courage to protect the right way, but they just want to live a better life after eliminating evil. If they are all compromised here, the talks will turn ugly in the future, and who will dare to follow you? Deal with the Dragon Slayer Guild.”
Bai Yutian said: "But now, the Dragon Slayer Association is on the offensive side, and we are forced to fight. Whether to fight or not is not up to us."
Xie Mubai said: "What we need to think about now is whether to fight or not to fight, whether to go all out, fight to the death, win or lose, or whether to just pass by and fight in a small way without breaking the bones. The most important thing is to save the lives of all the heroes. You have to think clearly beforehand."
Bai Yutian said: "The purpose of eradicating the Dragon Slaying Society is to rescue those heroes who have no choice but to do evil and escape from the sea of misery. If even the heroes who are dedicated to defending the right way are involved, wouldn't it mean that they are doing things in the name of doing good? Something evil goes against the original intention.”
Xie Mubai said: "Tomorrow's battle will focus on repelling the enemy, not on destroying the Dragon Slayer Association."
Bai Yutian said: "But the Dragon Slayer Club is bound to get this batch of escort money. Just because of a small fight, we want them to retreat automatically. I'm afraid it's our wishful thinking."
Xie Mubai said: "Don't you have twenty police officers and twenty sets of police uniforms in your hands? They will come in handy."
Bai Yutian said: "You are saying that with so many officials present, the Dragon Slaying Association would not dare to openly antagonize us on the pretext of robbing escorts and silver."
Xie Mubai said: "If the Dragon Slaying Society wants to rob the escort money, they will have to kill all the officials and family members present. I think no matter how violent they are, if they are not completely sure of escaping, they will not dare to do this if they are not forced to have no other way out. It's a stupid thing. After all, the prefect is the prefect of the imperial court. Once so many officials and family members die, no matter how close the relationship with the Dragon Slayer Association is, if they don't want to do anything about this matter, they dare not turn a blind eye, not to explain anything to the imperial court."
Bai Yutian said: "In that case, we will use martial arts to meet friends tomorrow, and we will win three out of five, or two out of three, until the point is reached. If it can be done, they will take their Yangguan Road, and we will cross our single-plank bridge, and wait until we reach the northwest for a showdown. , determine the winner or loser.”
Xie Mubai said: "But this time we managed to gather all the people from the Dragon Slaying Association who are entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a pity to let them go so easily."
Bai Yutian smiled and replied: "The imperial court has no clear intention and takes action rashly. It is hard to guarantee that it will not fall into the trap of the government. It innocently sacrifices the lives of many heroes and the loss outweighs the gain. Furthermore, the official banknotes have been released, He Zhencun has been abolished, and the Dragon Slaying Society dominates everything in the south of the Yangtze River." The killers' whereabouts have been exposed and they continue to stay in Jiangnan, doing nothing but waiting to be defeated by us one by one. Dragon Slayer should order them to leave Jiangnan to avoid the danger for the time being."
Xie Mubai asked: "After what happened, you have to think clearly about where Ning Zhenan and Lu Lianhai will go."
Bai Yutian said: "Continue to lie dormant, while inciting those killers who are not willing to sacrifice their lives for the Dragon Slaying Society, while collecting evidence that Tu Long colludes with the party members to collude with the enemy and treason, so as to prepare for our future attack on the Dragon Slaying Society's general master."
Xie Mubai said: "Ning Zhenan and others are highly skilled in martial arts. Once they go north, they are likely to be reused by the Dragon Slayer Association. However, He Zhencun is still alive. Once the news leaks out or appears at the Central Plains Martial Arts Conference, Ning Zhenan and others will inevitably be When you slay a dragon and hold it accountable, you must be on guard against it."
Bai Yutian said: "As long as we don't have contact with Ning Zhenan and others after they go north, Tu Long will be held accountable no matter how much he is held accountable. Since we can't find any evidence of collaborating with the enemy, we will at best be on guard against them and not kill them. "
The wind was blowing and the sky was cool, and the chill hit her body. Zhang Yan'er woke up and saw two people sitting by the stream. She got up and walked over.
Bai Yutian took Zhang Yan'er and sat down. Seeing that she was afraid of the cold, he took off his coat and put it on her.
Zhang Yan'er stretched her little head and saw that Xie Mubai's face was full of sorrow, so she asked in a low voice: "Senior Xie, other people drink to relieve their worries. Why do you become more and more worried as you drink?"
Xie Mubai cleared his sad face and replied with a smile: "Drinking wine is a favorite of people in the world. Only fools use wine to relieve their sorrows."
Bai Yutian said: "Once you are drunk, you will not be able to relieve a thousand sorrows. When you are drunk, you can speak true words without counting them."
Zhang Yaner smiled and said, "Then what you just said was all in vain."
Bai Yutian said: "The speaker has intention and the listener has intention. How can it be said in vain?"
Zhang Yan'er asked: "Then what did you just say?"
Bai Yutian replied: "I have discussed it with Senior Xie. We will fight the Dragon Slaying Association tomorrow. We will only try to defeat the enemy."
Zhang Yaner said: "What about Uncle Ning and Uncle Lu?"
Bai Yutian said: "Keep lurking."
Zhang Yan'er said: "No, it's too dangerous. Besides, we don't know when the Dragon Slaying Society will be destroyed, so why can't we let Aunt Wang wander around alone?"
Bai Yutian said: "Then what do you think we should do? Uncle Ning cannot leave the Dragon Slaying Association, and I have to rely on him to collect evidence of the Dragon Slaying Association's collusion with the enemy and treason."
Zhang Yaner's eyes lit up and she said happily: "Uncle Ning can't go back to Aunt Wang, but Aunt Wang can go back to Uncle Ning!"
Xie Mubai said: "Yes, Wang Xiulan went north with Ning Zhenan. Not only can it eliminate Tulong's suspicion, but it can also make Ning Zhenan act more cautiously."
Bai Yutian said: "But my third uncle doesn't know our thoughts, why can't we take the initiative to send Aunt Wang there."
Zhang Yaner smiled and said: "You are really a good person who doesn't know the bad things. If Aunt Wang is abused by us, just say 'Zhen'an, save me!' and it will be over. Furthermore, you can also use Aunt Wang to blackmail Uncle Ning." Uncle Ning is a smart man, and he will definitely understand at first glance."
Bai Yutian said: "That's right. Ning Zhenan once betrayed his trust and betrayed the whereabouts of my parents. I can use Ning Zhenan as an excuse."
"In that case, let's go to sleep." Xie Mubai got up and walked towards a big tree.
Bai Yutian touched Zhang Yan'er's little face and said, "Are you sleepy?"
Zhang Yan'er leaned her little face against Bai Yutian's arm: "You're not sleepy, how about I watch the moon with you for a while."
Bai Yutian smiled softly and said: "Miss Yan'er is still smart. If you want to see the moon, you can still accompany me."
Zhang Yaner smiled and said: "Who told you to be so lovable?"
Bai Yutian smiled and said, "What's that like?"
"I won't tell you."
Zhang Yan'er smiled sweetly and dug into the moon. The little bird remained.
Bai Yutian looked at the moon, unable to control himself, and forgot about himself.
