martial arts ghost

In the year He Yuze was sent to the valley, both He Yuze and Li Baozi were only seven years old.They were all orphans then.Li Baozi was abandoned at birth, and then picked up and brought back by the master who went out to practice; He Yuze was a little more complicated, he became an orphan only two months before he was sent to the valley.

He Yuze was originally the son of a wealthy businessman, with a wealthy family and loved by his parents, but unexpectedly, disaster struck and his whole family was killed overnight.If his father hadn't hurriedly stuffed him into the hidden storage compartment when something happened, he would be nothing more than a rotting corpse now.

He Yuze was locked in a dark cell for two days and one night before he was discovered and rescued by a person from the rivers and lakes who had been favored by his father.But the He family's enemies are too powerful, they are still looking for the missing He Yuze, and that Jiang Hu person can't protect him.

After several twists and turns, the man sent He Yuze to Li Baozi's master, Li Zheng.And for some reason, Li Zheng, who was originally unwilling to accept He Yuze as his apprentice, finally accepted this apprentice.

From then on, Baozi Li had a brother who didn't like to talk, and He Yuze had a brother who could take care of others and a master who was indifferent.

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"Junior Brother, Junior Brother, get up!"

In the morning eight years later, before dawn, He Yuze was woken up.When he opened his eyes in sleepiness, he saw Baozi Li standing in front of his bed in only his unlined clothes.

Seeing that he woke up, the person who seemed to be smiling forever went back to his bed and said while getting dressed, "Get up quickly, junior brother. Today is the day we go out to experience the valley, you and I haven't been out for almost ten years, right? .”

There are no extra houses in the valley, and He Yuze and Li Baozi have lived in the same house since childhood.Due to the limited space in the room, the beds for the two of them were placed at the corner between the two walls.There is a triangular cabinet in the middle, and the straight-line distance between the beds is no more than two or three steps.

He Yuze sat up with his elbows propped up, still a little groggy. He corrected a number in Li Baozi's sentence, "eight years."

"Huh? Junior brother, have you actually calculated it? I thought you wouldn't care about these numbers." Li Baozi, who had already changed his name to Li Bao, turned around in surprise and said because he disliked the ugly name because of his experience in the valley.

"I just made up the whole thing, I thought you wouldn't find out, Junior Brother."

"..."

He Yuze didn't talk anymore, he took his clothes and put them on.Li Bao didn't care if he didn't hear He Yuze's answer, so he went to fetch water to wash up after he got dressed.

After getting along for so many years, Li Bao has long been used to He Yuze's silence.

Li Bao prepared two portions of water and used one portion to wash up. He Yuze happened to pack up and go out, so he naturally used the other portion to wash up.

After Li Bao finished washing, he stretched himself out in the cold sleet and wind. He turned his head and saw that He Yuze's collar was not flat, so he reached out to help tidy it up.He Yuze was wiping the water off his face with a towel at the moment, and when he noticed that Li Bao didn't dodge the sudden movement, he stretched his hands away to make it easier for Li Bao to do it.

The actions that are obviously too intimate for ordinary people, but the two seem extremely natural.

After all, He Yuze was brought up by Li Bao, and he has been used to being taken care of by Li Bao for a long time.Regardless of the fact that when He Yuze came to the valley, Li Bao was only a seven-year-old child.At that time, Li Bao, as a child who had to take care of himself since he was a child, was enough to take care of another child who was cared for and grew up, but couldn't even wear proper clothes when he left.

Moreover, apart from Li Bao, no one else in this valley would take care of He Yuze.Master is absolutely impossible.

"Let's go, let's go to the master to fight, and then take the money to go out of the valley." Li Bao saw that He Yuze's whole body had been cleaned up, and checked that there was nothing wrong with himself, so he said to He Yuze with a smile.

He Yuze nodded when he heard that, and walked towards the master's residence with Li Bao.

Although today is the day for the two of them to go out of the valley, before they leave the valley, they still have to accept the "send off" from the master, and the master will open the mechanism of the secret passage out of the valley and let the two of them go out.

Of course, there are ways to get out of the valley without taking the dark path.As long as they climbed to the top of the cliff, they could go out.It's just that this way of getting out of the valley is just courting death for the two of them.

The cliff is high and steep.Sometimes a whole vertical stone wall stretches for hundreds of meters without any protrusion or depression exceeding the width of a fingernail.The nails used here as a metaphor refer to the man's nails that are properly trimmed.

A large part of the land in the valley is quite barren.The two brothers and sisters stepped on the soft white snow and walked in the open wilderness.Their strides are almost the same length, but their walking postures are different.Li Bao shrank his neck with his hands in fear of the cold, and buried his chin in the scarf; He Yuze held his scimitar in both hands, straightened his back, and stared straight ahead indifferently.

The residences of Li Bao and He Yuze are quite a distance from the master's residence, almost across half of the valley.Few masters and apprentices who live in the same place arrange their residences so far away from each other.But the situation of the three masters and apprentices has always been so inexplicably awkward.

Before Li Bao was four years old, he still lived with his master, and the two got along almost like father and son.And after Li Bao was four years old, that man built a house for Li Bao in a place far away from his residence.He sent Li Bao there, left the necessary daily necessities and food, and left Li Bao alone.

Li Bao was forced to start his own life when he was just four years old.

Apart from teaching martial arts, and occasional special situations such as illness, the master will take care of one or two, and there is no intersection between them.Even if He Yuze came later, he still inherited the indifference between the master and the apprentice, as if they had separated the relationship.

And so on until now.

Although Li Bao and He Yuze called Li Zheng Master, they often felt that their relationship with Li Zheng was not like that of a master and apprentice.

They would steal into Li Zheng's treasury to get things, they would set traps to catch Li Zheng, they would fight with him when punished by Li Zheng, they would be punished only when they were convinced, and they would take revenge on Li Zheng after being punished... ...and Li Zheng, who usually let go of the two of them, would often find various reasons to punish them, and the reasons he found were usually very weird.

Just like this time.

This time, the two of them went out to practice in the valley, which was originally ordered by Li Zheng himself one day.But just yesterday, he told the two of them that before going out of the valley, they had to come and compete with him, and if the kung fu of the two of them satisfied him, they could go out of the valley.

Thinking of having to be beaten before leaving the valley, the two couldn't help but feel gloomy.

After walking for a while in the white wilderness, a bamboo forest appeared in front of us.An unfrozen stream meanders through the bamboo forest.

This bamboo forest is where the master lives.He Yuze and Li Bao walked into the forest, and after a while, they found a bamboo house built by the stream with ease.

A figure as long as bamboo stood by the stream, with long white silk hair tied up with a jade crown and hanging neatly on his back.

"Are you ready?" the man asked without turning his head.

"All right."

"Please enlighten me."

He Yuze and Li Bao unsheathed their weapons and spoke together.

As usual, He Yuze and Li Bao only had time to block Li Zheng's attack, and quickly retreated to try their best.And they didn't dare to be careless during the retreat. They used their extreme eyesight to find the trajectory of Li Zheng's activities as much as possible, predict his next move, and attack first.

Li Zheng's martial arts were much higher than theirs, and in the end, they often only ended up with unilateral beatings.However, before the competition progressed to a one-sided beating, with their tacit cooperation with each other and their instinctive eyesight to predict the next move, they could beat Li Zheng a few more moves.If you are lucky, you can even use your cunning to hurt Li Zheng.

Bamboo leaves and white snow flew, bamboo branches trembled from time to time, and three shadows shuttled among the bamboo forests.Occasionally, there would be the crackling sound of breaking the air, hitting a weapon, and the muffled sound of a fist hitting flesh...

This continued for two hours, and He Yuze and Li Bao's physical strength was basically exhausted.But Li Zheng didn't say to stop, the two of them were stunned, none of them begged for mercy, and they tried to dodge Li Zheng's fist.

It's not that the two are stubborn, but that even begging for mercy is useless.Li Bao was a flexible person, he had begged for mercy in this kind of fight before, but it had no effect other than being beaten worse.After trying a few times, he learned from He Yuze and became a silent and tough guy.

"Okay, you still have that level, go to the rivers and lakes to see and see." After beating the two disciples into pig heads, Li Zheng retreated, said something to the disciples, turned around and went to the bamboo house, and took out two bundles Throw it down, "I'll give you travel expenses. When you have the ability to come down from the abyss, go back to the valley. Don't come back before that, I won't open a secret passage to let you in."

"...Understood." Li Bao stood leaning on the iron ruler, slowing down the rhythm of breathing, trying to recover his strength as much as possible.

Li Zheng looked at his two disciples, nodded, and entered the bamboo house.

After a while, Li Bao regained some strength, raised his voice and shouted to the bamboo house: "Master, let's rest for a while, and have lunch before leaving the valley, is it okay?"

"It's up to you." The master's reply came from inside the bamboo house.

"That's how it is." Li Bao said, walked to the side and gave He Yuze a hand, and said, "Let's go, junior brother. Let's take a wound medicine and have a meal before going out of the valley."

"Yes." He Yuze agreed, and he and Li Bao helped each other back.