[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

The entire Kaifeng mansion looked for Ding Meng all night, and Li Yang who was in the vinegar workshop did not close his eyes all night.

Although Li Yang usually worships the Kitchen God and the Bodhisattva and Guan Gong, he doesn't really believe in ghosts and gods.That time, he suddenly heard the shadow outside pretending to be Li Tong and threatened him to go to Zengji Tea House. He was terrified, but when he chased him out, he saw a figure flying over the wall, and knew it was just someone scaring him.But the other party took so much trouble to inform him to go to Zeng Ji Tea House, it must not be just casually.

Li Yang thought to himself, the people who forced him to go to Zengji Teahouse and said that he wanted to avenge Li Tong might be those people who had acquaintance with Li Tong. The government's blessing for a while, but after all, he can't hide for a lifetime; if he goes according to his word--didn't the man say that he would not let him kill someone?He didn't kill anyone, and he didn't know anything about Li Tong, so Bao Longtu couldn't do anything to him, besides, Zeng Ji teahouse was in a busy city, so those people couldn't easily touch him.Thinking in this way, Li Yang made up his mind, determined to break into the Zengji Tea House.

But he had a vague premonition that he would not see any good things if he went there, so he tidied up the inside and outside of the vinegar shop, and packed his bags.

Seeing that the shadows of the sun were getting shorter, Li Yang was sitting in the room, as if a big drum was beating in his chest.He ate two overnight steamed buns with cold water, looked out the window again, wiped his sweaty hands on the hem of his clothes, stood up, quietly carried his burden, and sneaked out through the back door.

Li Yang had never been to Zengji Teahouse, and the staff in the building didn't know him, so he walked in without any concealment.He ordered a bowl of tea in the building, and he sat at the table and drank it slowly, but his eyes flicked around.At this time, a man dressed as a clerk came down from upstairs, looked at Li Yang and said, "A guest invites you to go upstairs."

Hearing this, Li Yang picked up his bag and followed him upstairs.The clerk opened a door and led Li Yang into the private room.Li Yang looked around, and the first thing he saw was the golden screen, surrounded by the window, and with the sunlight outside the window, a figure was reflected on the screen, someone was sitting in the armchair, with his legs raised, resting on the window frame superior.On the other side of Jinping, there was also an armchair. The man pointed to the armchair and said to Li Yang, "Sit on it."

Seeing someone in the room, Li Yang couldn't help trembling.He walked forward tremblingly, felt the armchair up and down, back and forth, and after making sure that there was nothing unusual, he carefully sat down on half of the chair.

The clerk bowed to the person in Jinping and said, "Pavilion Master, this subordinate has to step back first."

The people in Jinping raised their hands, and the man screened the door respectfully and went out.Li Yang couldn't help turning his head to look back, but he heard people in Jinping say: "Do you know why the young master came to Zeng Ji Tea House?"

Li Yang shook his head, and realized that the person who shook his head couldn't see him, so he responded: "I don't know."

The people in Jinping laughed and said, "Because the windows across the street of Zengji Tea House are big, and the screens in private rooms are long."

Only then did Li Yang look out the window, seeing the bustling long street, but he didn't know what the man called the pavilion master was thinking.Suddenly, his eyes widened - a person suddenly appeared on the long street. After he looked closely, he could not be mistaken. It was Zhan Zhao who worked in Kaifeng Mansion.

"It came very quickly." The pavilion master chuckled, "See, that's Zhan Zhao from Kaifeng Mansion—the guardian Zhan. You should have seen it before."

Li Yang obediently responded twice.He also heard the pavilion master say: "Do you know why the young master chose him?"

Li Yang replied: "Little man... I don't know."

The owner of the pavilion said: "When Li Tong died, I was the one who sent him off. I asked him who he wanted to go down with him, and he said - Zhan Zhao. Although I don't know the details of the grievances between him and Zhan Zhao. , but I can vaguely guess it. Zhan Zhao is a man from Yujie Village, Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. Send it to Changhezhong, the imperial edict is issued, and it enters the palace to perform, that is, it takes two steps on the eaves, and is given the title of "Royal Cat" by the emperor who has no knowledge, and has been sealed as a fourth-rank belt since then. The guard of the knife is truly magnificent. Later, he followed Bao Longtu to serve in the Kaifeng Mansion, and he was nothing more than an eagle and dog. In Li Tong's eyes, he was an out-and-out cruel official—that's all, not to mention the cruel official In fact, he is just a mediocre person who knows martial arts. He can't see and learn the strange methods of cruel officials. But Li Tong still suffered a lot under his hands. People are made of flesh and blood, who can not feel pain? The person who hates him, bears the brunt of it is this Zhan Zhao."

The pavilion master paused, laughed, and said: "What he hates——he hates that he works too hard. He works hard to serve Bao Longtu, and to worship the emperor. He looks upright, but he is just a wife Thoughts, I have seen a lot of people like him, and I am used to it. Now it is his bad luck that he hit the point of the knife. If you want to blame, you can only blame God."

The pavilion master laughed again, as if seeing something in his mouth, he began to suck it with relish.In the end, he said vaguely: "But after this incident, he can't die—maybe he got promoted and got rich because of the joy of the dead wife. How can there be fewer beautiful wives and beautiful concubines when he gets promoted and rich? Li Tong, and brought him a new wife."

From what he said, Li Yang seemed to have murdered Zhan Zhao's wife.He knew very well that the person sitting next to him, but couldn't see his face, was a real desperado. Thinking of this, Li Yang's hands and feet trembled.But he was still worried about his own life, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and bravely asked the pavilion master: "My lord, I don't know anything, I just listened to your old words and came here, when the time...the time..."

The pavilion master heard this, and said impatiently: "You are a fool! If Li Tong said that he hated you the most before he died, the young master would have chopped you up and nailed you to the city gate piece by piece! What are you talking about? The carriage is waiting for you outside the gate of the east city—after watching this good show, you can go wherever you want, if you ask the young master to see you again, he will order someone to chop you up and feed them to the dogs."

Li Yang was so intimidated by him, he immediately fell silent, and fell silent.

The downstairs Zhan Zhao seemed to be holding a square object, and Li Yang poked his neck to look at it a few times before he was sure that it was a black box.He saw that Zhan Zhao was holding the box, knocked on it, put it to his ear to listen, and looked at it over and over again, but he still refused to open it.

The pavilion master obviously also saw this scene, couldn't help laughing a few times, and asked: "Do you think Zhan Zhao has the guts to open the box that my master gave him?"

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When Lu Bai and Tolerance yelled that it was not good, both of them were startled, and hurriedly asked about Tolerance's situation.Tolerance said: "I heard people say that there was a murder case in the woods outside Anyuan Gate!"

Lu Caichun and Bai Yutang looked at each other, feeling a little uneasy in their hearts, and hurriedly followed Tolerance to look outside the city gate.After walking for a short time, I saw a flat forest, and there were many people ahead, all of whom disappeared into the forest.

When he first entered the forest, the first thing he smelled was not the vegetation and clouds, but the thick bloody smell.A circle of people gathered at the front, some shouted to report to the officials, some whispered to each other, some covered their mouths and looked aside, some turned back in a hurry, saying they wanted to inform Kaifeng Mansion.

Lu Caichun and Bai Yutang pushed aside the crowd and squeezed in front of them.

At the first glance, what I saw was the bloody abdominal cavity that had been cut open, and the inside had been emptied; the second saw the internal organs scattered on the ground, which were blue, purple and crimson, crushing several weeds; What I saw was a white torso and a drooping head, and pearl hairpins were still hanging on the disheveled blue hair.

The disemboweled corpse was tied to a locust tree that couldn't be hugged with its limbs spread wide, and the grass and trees under the tree were dripping with blood.

A line of words was written on the trunk: Hongjian Pavilion is here to restore Li Tongzhi.

When Lu Caichun saw it, she couldn't help covering her mouth and retching.Bai Yutang hurriedly took a step forward, covering Lu Caishu's eyes.

A voice almost squeezed out of his throat came from behind: "Don't stop me, you go to block the onlookers."

Bai Yutang understood, turned sideways, turned his back to the corpse, looked at the crowd and said: "This case is of great importance, the two of us were entrusted by the Kaifeng Mansion to deal with this case, and please disperse and leave, so as not to destroy the evidence." thing."

When everyone heard this, most of them felt like leaving, only a few people looked back step by step.

Lu Caichun stepped forward, and with trembling hands brushed away the hair hanging from the corpse in front of her.There was a dead blue face underneath, eyes never closed, Lu Caishu seemed to be able to see his own face from the light on the eyeballs.

The whole person seemed to be held in an ice cellar, from head to toe, to fingertips to hair tips, trembling, trembling until teeth chattered.Her own voice felt very far away in her ears, Lu Caichun said, "It's Sister Ding."

Bai Yutang didn't turn around, but his back visibly stiffened, but he relaxed in frustration.

Lu Caichun pulled out a dagger fish shadow from his boots, cut the ropes that bound the corpse's hands and feet, slowly moved the corpse to the grass, took off his outer robe, and covered the corpse.She said softly: "Fifth brother, come and see her for the last time."

Bai Yutang still stood still, and sighed after a while, "Forget it, don't look at it anymore."

Lu Caichun crouched in front of the dead body in a daze for a while, then covered her face and began to cry.While crying, she said repeatedly: "Fifth brother, what reason do you think this is... what is the reason?"

In the woods, it seemed that even the sound of birds could not be heard, only the cries of Lu Caishu suppressed in his throat could be heard, each and every sound, like an unseasonable wind.

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Suddenly there was a loud noise downstairs, shaking the street with screams, a puff of smoke rose from the place where the box was originally placed, and the surrounding people fled in all directions, but Zhan Zhao stood dumbfounded in the middle of the street, as if lost. The appearance of the soul.

Li Yang heard the pavilion master spit out something with a puff, and he said quite happily: "This box will really explode—my sister is sincere."

Li Yang didn't dare to answer, but he vaguely saw the pavilion master standing up, and seemed to be patting his clothes.He smiled at Li Yang and said: "You are a fool! Run away quickly! If half an hour later, you are still in Bianjing City, then you will lose your life yourself, and you can't blame us."

Li Yang was so intimidated that he didn't dare to say a word, so he hurriedly ran down the teahouse, looking at the east gate.When he passed a foot away from Zhan Zhao, Li Yang suddenly felt his feet step on something soft.When I looked up, I found that it seemed to be a piece of minced meat, with blood gushing on the sole of the shoe, like a bright red mountain flower embroidered.He felt his hair stand on end, hurriedly lowered his head, rushed into the crowd, and threw himself outside the east gate.

When the Kaifeng officials found Zhan Zhao, they saw that there were not many pedestrians on the street, and Zhan Zhao was silently picking up the debris on the street, and there was already half a foot of debris piled up beside him.When he raised his face, he saw that his face was covered with bruises, as if he had been scratched by countless swords, and then looked down at his hand, which was also covered with blood, which was shocking.

Only Wang Chao came forward and wanted to help him, but he pushed him away: "If you want help, help Zhan pick up these pieces of wood."

When Ma Han saw this, the phrase "sorry" got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't move up or down.He already knew the tragic situation outside the Xi'an Yuan Gate of the city.

The people didn't know why, so the dynasty greeted him, and all the officials stepped forward to pick up the broken wood for him.

Suddenly, Zhan Zhao shouted: "Be careful!"

All the officials followed the prestige, and saw Zhan Zhao rushing forward, pushing an official away, and there was something under the official's foot, bright red and clear, I don't know what it was.Zhan Zhao leaned down/body, carefully picked up the small piece of bright red thing with three fingers, untied the brocade bag at his waist with his free hand, and put the thing into the bag.

No one dared to ask what it was, only felt that it looked like minced meat but not like minced meat, and there was still a blood stain under the kit, the situation was really weird.Everyone had no choice but to look down for pieces of wood.

Wang Chao picked up three or two pieces of broken wood, put them in the palm of his hand to look at them, turned them over, and saw that there seemed to be pictures on them, but they were painted with ink, which was obviously added later.Chao Chao only felt that the ink-smeared picture looked familiar, thought for a moment, then quickly stepped forward, handed it to Zhan Zhao, and said, "Brother Zhan, look, isn't this Feihong from Hongjian Pavilion?"

Zhan Zhao stared at Feihong for a while, then said in a trembling voice, "Hongjian Pavilion?"

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[-]. Jinge Warm

Evening snow presses down on the environment, and the north wind shakes the wild.

The snow particles and the cold wind are like sharp claws, constantly scratching the window lattice, and there is no peace at all.Inside the house, seal seal incense is lightly burning, green smoke and books are empty, and the warmth is overflowing.

Ding Meng hid in the quilt, looking tired and drowsy.She was usually not very lively in winter, and when Zhan Zhao was going out, she couldn't cheer up even more. She spent all day embroidering, twisting cold clothes, and doing nothing else.As for practicing martial arts, she didn't bother to get up and hold the sword in such a cold climate.

Hanging on the wall is the giant sword sword before Zhan Zhao.She can see it from a distance without looking up.The sword is a murder weapon, it shouldn't be hung in the wing room, but martial arts practitioners love the sword like life and never leave their hands, and second, they have a murderous aura and can suppress the evil spirit of this murder weapon. For Ding Meng, three Then this is the token of love between her and Zhan Zhao back then, which is of great significance.

During the nearly two-month business trip, Ding Meng did not receive a letter from Zhan Zhao anyway.Whether it's urgent and he doesn't have time to write, or he doesn't care about his wife who often stays alone, and Ding Meng doesn't bother to worry about it.

The sky gradually dimmed, the bamboo bamboos in the courtyard rustled in the falling snow, the sound of leaves invaded the window screen, and it was lonely and deserted.

Just as Ding Meng was wandering outside, there was suddenly the sound of hurried footsteps, thick-soled cotton boots stepping on the bluestone slab, and they were coming towards the wing.Ding Meng listened leisurely, and recognized that it was a maid.

Sure enough, there was a knock on the door soon, and the servant girl's clear voice easily overwhelmed the sound of the wind and snow outside the house, and she said: "Ma'am, Mr. Zhan is back."

Ding Meng was startled, and joy flooded into his heart like a tide, and the strength hidden under his pulse instantly poured into his limbs and bones.She threw off the quilt and called out in a hurry: "Get my cloak quickly!"

The servant girl quickly entered the room, holding a moon white cloak in her hand.Ding Meng just remembered that his hair was disheveled, his face was not powdered, he was wearing underwear, and he looked lazy after waking up from sleep.According to the servant girl's tone, Zhan Zhao had already entered the yard, so she didn't have the time to carefully dress up at this moment.The children of Jianghu don't care about these details, she stepped on the embroidered shoes, shook off the cloak, turned it over her shoulders, picked a cheap style and tied it with silk ribbons, and hurried forward to open the door.

The cold wind poured in, mixed with cold snow particles, tore her black hair and thin clothes, and cut her face back and forth like a sharp knife.

"It's so cold." Ding Meng shrank his shoulders.It was so cold outside that my bones were screaming and aching.However, the air outside the house smelled much better than the smell of the incense inside the house, and it was full of cool and refreshing smell. She was refreshed, and all her energy returned to herself, and a bright smile opened at the corner of her mouth.

With the cold wind hitting his eyes, Ding Meng hurriedly lowered his head, tightened his cloak, and walked out against the wind and snow.

The sky is dim, the dusk is all together, and the wind and snow are pressing.Ding Meng was struggling.When Fang walked to the courtyard, he heard someone walking on the snow, and the footsteps were lighter than ordinary people.With such footsteps, who else could be besides the royal cat hand-picked by the emperor?

"Third Sister." Suddenly she heard someone calling her from a distance in the snowstorm, "Why are you coming out in this cold?"

Ding Meng raised his eyes with difficulty, and saw a red dress flying like a kite in the wind and snow, it was Zhan Zhao.He was wearing a sable cloak with zhanlu hanging from his waist, and he was wearing a vermilion official uniform as usual.In the heavy snowfall, Ding Meng saw his calm brows and eyes still very clear.

Seeing Ding Meng's slender figure being engulfed by the wind and snow, as if he would be engulfed by the heavy snow in the next second, Zhan Zhao's heart tightened for no reason, and he walked forward quickly, opened his cloak, and wrapped her in his arms.The wind and snow were kept out, the chill receded slightly, and his face was not as painful as before from the knife cut. Ding Meng curled up in his arms, closed his eyes, and let out a breath.

The two entered the room together.Soaked in incense and warm, there is no other world.

"Is there borneol and perilla in the burning incense?" Zhan Zhao took off his sword and cloak, sat down on the couch, and asked habitually, as if he was investigating the case.

Ding Meng poured tea and replied casually: "Yes. The name of this fragrance is 'Qiqi'."

The grass is luxuriant, Zhan Zhao is a little dazed, this is exactly what it means to look forward to returning home.

Ding Meng held the hot tea and handed it to Zhan Zhao, saying: "I don't have time to make tea, it's too cumbersome, just let it go, just warm your body." Zhan Zhao took the teacup, Ding Meng's hand shrank quickly Go back, clasping your hands together to keep each other warm.Zhan Zhao's heart was slightly sour, he took a sip of tea, and handed back the teacup, indicating that she could use it to warm her hands.Ding Meng shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, I have a heater." Then he turned around and hung Zhanlu on the wall, next to Juque, and then took his cloak, trying to find a place to hang it stand up.Zhan Zhao raised his eyes and saw that her hair was tied up in a bun, her clothes were thin, and her normally pretty face was covered with an inappropriate layer of weakness and paleness due to the raging cold wind. Let's rest. Let's talk about it when the clothes are dry."

Ding Meng couldn't find a place to hang it for a while, so he put down his cloak, and sat beside Zhan Zhao in a resolute manner, grabbed the stove and embraced him, curled up slightly, and sank into the cloak.

"The cold shyness is still not cured? I will teach Mr. Gongsun to show you in a few days." Zhan Zhao bowed his head and saw her like this, and said softly.

"Alright." Ding Meng raised his hand to brush off the falling snowflakes on his shoulders.When Zhan Zhao saw her hands were cold, white and purple, he knew that she was very cold.He stretched out his hand and gently took Ding Meng's hand, holding it in his palm.The warmth seeped into his skin, and Ding Meng drooped his eyelashes in a panic.Although she has been married for more than a year, she still sometimes blushes with shyness when facing the person in front of her.

"Where did you go back?" Ding Meng asked casually.

"It was originally in Jiangbei, but the fugitive fled all the way south and tracked him to the Jiangzuo area."

"Jiang Zuo... no wonder... Hey, do you know," Ding Meng said, looking up into his clear eyes, "Do you know where I first met you?"

"Isn't it Dingjiazhuang?" Zhan Zhao frowned, thinking carefully.

"I'm afraid you and your brothers don't know. When my father and mother passed away, I went to Dingjiazhuang to visit relatives alone, so I met you in Yangzhou."

"Yangzhou?" Zhan Zhao tilted his head and thought carefully, and said, "I don't remember clearly, please tell me."

[-]. Qing Fenghan

When Ding Meng met Zhan Zhao for the first time, it was indeed in Yangzhou, where the fireworks are held in March.

Wrapped around a hundred thousand guan, ride a crane down to Yangzhou.The willow wind blowing on the face is not cold, and the curtains are blowing on the restaurant.At that time, Zhan Zhao was not a fourth-rank guard with a knife, but a Nan Xia respected by everyone in the world.Ding Meng was not called Ding Yuehua back then, but Ding Meng.One is to follow a group of thieves passing by, and the other is to go to Dingjiazhuang, Mohua Village, Songjiang Prefecture to visit relatives.

"It turns out that the third sister's boudoir name is not 'Yuehua'? Why did she change her name later?"

"After arriving at Ding's Village, my aunt said that my uncle was hit by a water crime, so she taught me to change my name." Ding Meng's expression was calm, and the grievance in him was something Zhan Zhao never expected.Zhan Zhao didn't want to ask any more questions, the marriage between Ding Meng and him was finalized by this old lady.Although it is reasonable for the elders to marry him, Zhan Zhao does not have much confidence in whether Ding Meng really wants to marry him.

"At that time, I was working in a restaurant, and I heard someone singing a song upstairs. It was originally a song by Liu Qiqing. It was a very cheerful tune, but I taught that girl to sing it sadly. I only thought that someone was bullying her. So I went upstairs to see her. The girl was sitting there alone, holding the pipa, but there was nothing unusual about it. At that time, because I was alone outside, I pretended to be a man, and asked questions. I was afraid that it would be inappropriate. .” Ding Meng squinted his eyes and recalled, with a hint of longing in his expression.

Zhan Zhao stared at her long eyebrows, and said, "I remember what Sanmei said. At that time, I was tracking a gang of thieves all the way to the outskirts of Yangzhou. I finally found it in that restaurant. They. I didn't want to ruin their business, so I waited on the sidelines. And that girl was also the one I passed by at the time and rescued her from the thieves. It was dusk when I rescued her, and the thieves came and went in a hurry. I didn't see what the girl and I looked like."

Ding Meng came upstairs at that time, so he sat down by the window, looked around, and saw a table of people dressed in Jianghu sitting not far from the girl, with swords and other lethal weapons on the table.These people talked and laughed loudly as if there was no one else around, and their obscene language was unbearable.The girl kept looking at the group of people, seeming timid or resentful, which made Ding Meng really strange, not knowing what kind of grievances there were between the two.

It was Zhan Zhao who sat facing the gang of thieves.He was dressed in blue plain clothes, with a sword hanging from his waist, and he drank tea calmly.Ding Meng peeked at him through the faint shadows of the passing crowd, curious about the origin of such a handsome figure.

The villain saw the girl singing beside him, he smiled and beckoned her to come over.The girl turned a deaf ear to it, and just lowered her head to pick and wipe the pipa.The group of people got impatient, one of them stepped forward and wanted to hold the girl's hand, but the girl had a strong temper, raised her willow eyebrows, picked up the pipa and hit the person on the head.How can a girl's family have such strong strength and quick reaction of these barbarians. Someone came to block the oncoming pipa, then clasped the tail of the pipa with his backhand, and threw it violently to the ground, and the pipa was instantly smashed to pieces.The man yelled at the girl: "Stinky bitch, teach you to toast and not eat fine wine!"

Zhan Zhao sighed: "At that time, the girl relied on me to be by the side, so she dared to argue with that villain, but she didn't know that by doing so, she ruined my great affairs and put me in an unrighteous place."

Ding Meng knew that he was referring to fighting with people in the restaurant and ruining the business of the restaurant, so he said: "So when the guy came up to persuade the fight, you wanted to let it go for a while, and endure this first before you talk about it, right?"

Ding Meng recalled that she was resentful at the time, and she had the idea of ​​helping the girl out, but unexpectedly, the girl rushed to Zhan Zhao, fell to her knees with a plop, grabbed his sleeves, tears filled her eyes, and she burst into tears. Want to cry.

The sudden change made everyone in the room dumbfounded, not knowing which one was being played.

I saw the girl raised her head, choked up and asked him: "Righteous man, a good man will go to the end and send the Buddha to the west. If you don't kill these villains now, when will you wait? If you let them insult me , when they ransacked my village and killed my father, let me and my poor father go together, why save me? Why do you want me to suffer in this world?" He said As soon as I heard it, the girl's tears rolled down like broken pearls and shattered to the ground, making me feel pitiful.Teach others to see it sadly.

Ding Meng was stunned for a while, and temporarily gave up his plan to make a move, wondering what kind of drama this was.

The girl made a confession and pushed Zhan Zhao to the forefront.All the people around cast their reproachful eyes on him, pointing fingers and whispering to each other. Even Ding Meng said at that time that he was timid and shameless, not to mention the ignorant people.

One of the thieves carried a gun and strode up to Zhan Zhao, raised his thick black eyebrows provocatively, and raised the tip of the knife flirtatiously, separating Zhan Zhao and the girl.The girl was so frightened that she couldn't say a word, she just stared at the cold knife face in front of her.The man said: "Brother, I think you are a good man. You saved this woman, but this woman didn't appreciate it, and she had to make an inch of it. I wish I could teach you to marry her before you give up. Why don't you give this woman to me today, and I Take care of her, how about it?"

Zhan Zhao didn't turn his head to look at the person who came, but softly persuaded the girl: "Don't be afraid, you step aside first."

The girl timidly raised her eyes and took a quick glance at the villain, and was about to stand up and retreat, but the man yelled angrily: "I see who dares to leave today!"

"Quick back!" Zhan Zhao frowned Qingjun, urging the girl, so as not to accidentally injure her during the fight, or to protect her from being unable to spread her arms and legs.

Hearing Zhan Zhao's resolute tone, the girl probably thought that the thieves would not hurt her life in front of everyone, so she braced herself to stand up and was about to retreat.Unexpectedly, the man suddenly got into trouble, and with a twist of the blade, he slashed at the girl.Seeing that slender body was about to splatter blood on the spot, the others exclaimed, even Ding Meng couldn't help but clenched the porcelain cup in his hand, and was about to throw it out to slow down the momentum of the knife.

It was too late to say it, but it was soon, between eyelashes, I could only hear the sound of the sword being unsheathed, there was a squeak, a green light flashed, and there was a ding, the thick knife was actually broken into two pieces, the knife The tip fell into the ground and penetrated more than five inches.The girl was so frightened that she trembled uncontrollably and almost fell down.

"What a fast sword! What a handsome kung fu!" Ding Meng secretly praised.A layman watching the fun, an insider looking at the doorway, others may not be able to see it, but Ding Meng can clearly see that Zhan Zhao and the girl were very close at that time, just the distance of a sword.When he struck, the tip of the sword slipped from the tip of the girl's nose.If he went any further, that girl's pretty face would be ruined.Furthermore, Zhan Zhao was sitting steadily.Sitting and drawing a sword, it is extremely difficult to exert internal strength, but when the blade cuts into the blade, it is like cutting a block of tofu. It is not moved by an inch, and it directly teaches people to cut into two knots. can't do it.This hand was beautifully exposed, and the people around him applauded in unison.Ding Meng leaned forward to see how Zhan Zhao reacted. She thought this man should be proud for a moment, but she didn't expect him to frown. It was obvious that he didn't expect to rescue the girl. The applause is even more helpless.

The gang of thieves saw that someone dared to challenge them, and they couldn't help being furious. One of them had a big arm and a round waist, a furious beard, a simple knife in his hand, and slashed at an empty table in front of everyone, intending to scare the surrounding audience.Ding Meng couldn't help but his teeth turned cold - this reckless man, it seems that he can't beat him, so he finds an innocent table to vent his anger?

The expected shattering sound of the wooden table did not come out.

Ding Meng caught a glimpse of a clear light slanting towards him, and easily blocked the ferocious Pu Dao.Ding Meng saw the long sword in Zhan Zhao's hand slipping lightly, stabbing at the bandit's wrist obliquely, and shouted: "Get out!" Shocked, the teacup on the table was shaken off the table—this plain knife is so heavy that he could easily hold it up?Ding Meng only felt that Zhan Zhao's martial arts were strong, which he had never seen before, so he couldn't help but respect him, and also felt that his trip was worthwhile to see such a wonderful fight on the way to visit relatives.

Seeing that the person in front of them was difficult to deal with, the four thieves wanted to calm things down.One of them asked, "Dare to ask the hero's name?"

"I don't want to talk to you." Zhan Zhao stood with his sword horizontally, his brows were cold, and his words were merciless.Hearing that, Ding Meng bent his lips and smiled.

"Don't you dare to say your name, the nameless one?" The bandits became furious, swung up their weapons, and wanted to rush forward.Ding Meng thought to himself: Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, no matter how high this chivalrous man's martial arts are, he may not be able to gain the upper hand, these thieves are so shameless!

Just at this moment, there was a commotion downstairs——

"The officers and soldiers are coming! The officers and soldiers are coming!"

Hearing that the thieves were making trouble, a large number of officers and soldiers rushed to the restaurant.The gang of thieves upstairs looked at each other solemnly, knowing that they couldn't afford to fight, so they walked quickly to the window—not the window Ding Meng was leaning against—and jumped down.

There was another sigh and noise downstairs.Zhan Zhao glanced at the girl who was sitting on the ground covering her face and weeping in a low voice, with a complicated look on her face.In order to avoid suspicion of men and women, Zhan Zhao didn't help her up himself, but just taught a woman next to her to come forward to do it for her.Throwing down a piece of silver, Zhan Zhao also jumped out of the window, and flew after the gangster.

Ding Meng watched a good show and was in high spirits.While walking down the stairs, I heard people whispering: "Did you see it? That sword looks like a giant sword!"

"Could it be that the knight just now was Nan Xia Zhan Xiong Fei?"

"Probably. Who else in Jianghu has such good looks and good skills?"

……

"By the way, did you catch up with those thieves later?" Ding Meng simply retracted into his arms, raised his eyes and asked him, with a rare lightness and joy in his tone. It is very interesting to meet such strange people and strange things in this vast and prosperous world.

"Three were killed, and one escaped." Zhan Zhao lowered his eyelashes, carefully tightened the cloak that Ding Meng was wearing, and said, "The thief committed another crime, and I was ordered to hunt him down this time."

"Have you caught it?" Ding Meng asked.

"Of course, he is now in prison."

"Sure enough, back then I was very worried that you would not be able to defeat those thieves, and you would lose the wind. I still underestimated you." Ding Meng said lazily, lying in his arms.

"It was actually very dangerous back then." Zhan Zhao hugged her.

"Then are you annoyed by that girl? She treats you like that." Ding Meng asked.

"Everyone has everyone's suffering. She doesn't know what kind of person I am. In that situation, she doesn't know what to do. She can only provoke me." Zhan Zhao said calmly.

"I cheated when I competed with you back then, can you put yourself in my shoes and be considerate of me, don't you blame me?" Ding Meng asked cautiously.

Zhan Zhao laughed, and said, "Why did I ever blame you?"

"That's right, if you blamed me, you wouldn't call me 'Third Sister' today." Ding Meng leaned on him leisurely and said softly.

Extra

[-]. Luhua Dang

Back then when he taught Ding Zhaolan and Ding Zhaohui's two elder brothers to come out to compete with Zhan Zhao, Ding Meng did use some disgraceful tricks.She had seen his skill, knew that she couldn't beat him, and thought that she couldn't lose and lose face of the Ding Family Manor, which would make the old lady unhappy and make life even more difficult for herself, an orphan girl dependent on others.But they didn't know that the old lady and her two elder brothers were colluding together, wanting to promise herself to the well-known Nan Xia in the Jianghu, so as to win honor. As for her winning or losing, they didn't care about her.

During the martial arts competition, she took possession of herself as a daughter, and expected that Zhan Zhao would not be cruel, so she did not avoid Zhan Zhao's sharp edge, and only greeted the opponent's vital points.

Zhan Zhao didn't know why the girl in front of him played so desperately, she could only see her tricks, she was on the defensive, but she didn't lose the wind.Several times he could have ended this embarrassing contest, but he was forced to continue dealing with her by Ding Meng's sword moves regardless of his own death or injury.

At that time, the sky was gloomy and the autumn wind was blowing. In one courtyard, only the sound of the impact of the giant que Zhan Lu Dingran could be heard, accompanied by the whistling autumn wind, it was really pleasant to hear.Zhan Zhao raised his eyes, and saw that the girl across the street had lost all strength, and she was twisting her long willow-leaf eyebrows, and her clear eyes were full of seriousness.Her cherry lips parted slightly, panting lightly, her cheeks were dyed a delicate blush, but she still held on firmly.The west wind curled up, raising her long black hair.Yellow leaves are flying all over the place, full of chills.

Zhan Zhao's heart suddenly moved, and the giant que in his hand wrapped around Zhan Lu.He only heard him shout: "Withdraw the sword!" Zhan Lu in Ding Meng's hand was surrounded by the giant que, Zhan Zhao raised his hand, Zhan Lu flashed clear, broke through the wind, and nailed into the side trunk.

The girl opposite had no sword in her hand, and suddenly became at a loss, not knowing where to put the hand holding the sword.She closed her eyes slightly, her expression was a little terrified, but when she opened her eyes, there was water in her eyes.She timidly looked at the old lady, seeing that the old lady didn't look angry, she breathed a sigh of relief, and blessed Zhanzhao.

Zhan Zhao cupped his hands and said, "I have accepted."

Ding Meng turned to draw his sword, and Zhan Zhao's gaze followed her Pingting figure.Pleated single skirt, five-color silk handkerchief, weak willow Fufeng, although she is ruthless in her actions, she makes people feel extra pity.

Ding Meng felt that Zhan Zhao's gaze was always on him, and his cheeks couldn't help but blush.She didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, and she was worried, so she didn't dare to use much strength when she drew her sword.So Zhanlu was stubbornly nailed to the tree trunk, motionless.Ding Meng was even more embarrassed.

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao quickly stepped forward, Ding Meng hurriedly withdrew his hands.He held the hilt of the sword, and with a little luck, Zhanlu taught him to pull it out and handed it back to her.Ding Meng took the sword, lowered his brows, and said softly: "Thank you." Then he turned and walked towards his boudoir.

Later, the old lady ordered Ding Meng to marry Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao agreed.The second elder brother Ding Zhaohui went into Ding Meng's boudoir and told his sister about the marriage.Ding Meng closed his eyes resignedly, without saying a word.When Ding Zhaohui walked out of the room, she let out a long sigh.There is no wiggle room.It's not that she doesn't want to marry Yu Zhan Zhao, it's just that she has such a clear and involuntary sense of powerlessness