Alternative Jianghu Adventures

"My mother said that on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the year I was born, there had been a blizzard. That night the snow stopped suddenly, revealing a jade-like moon in the sky, so she called me Yue'er."

In the most famous Yipinzhai in the capital, Yue'er is softly sucking silver silk cold pottery into her mouth, and the thin noodles soaked in the tender juice of green locust tree are so green that they are about to drip.

Yue'er's manner of eating noodles is extremely elegant, but the speed is extremely fast, which is comparable to the speed of Xia Yun's wolfing down on the opposite side!It's just that it seems to set off the difference except the cloud and mud - but Xia Yun is just the mud on the ground.

"Hey, don't you have a famous name?" Xia Yun buried her head in eating noodles, and after listening to Yue'er's answer, she asked casually.

"No." Yue'er was a little dazed, "my mother always called me that, and didn't say anything else. But I guess my surname may be Qiao—the jade pendant that mother asked me to carry with me has the word Qiao engraved on it, maybe it's me Father's last name."

Xia Yun finished the last mouthful of noodles in the noodle bowl, relying on the money that Yue'er's family brought in to count as money, and called the waiter to serve the best wine in Yipinzhai. The chopsticks, stared at by Yue'er, put the bamboo chopsticks away in an instant.

"What about you? You haven't told me why your name is Xia Yun?" Yue'er wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, staring at Xia Yun with her big watery eyes.

"I—" Xia Yun's right hand restlessly beat the beat on the wooden table, raised his eyebrows,

"According to my master and his old man, there was a severe drought eight years ago, and God didn't rain for three months. The crops in the field died seven or eight times, and the ground was cracked like a chessboard...

He just went out to meet friends in the Northland that day, and when he passed by a piece of dry land, he looked at me lying there, maybe it was luck, because there were two clouds shaking over my head in that piece of land, which just blocked the venomous sun—or else I too was roasted alive like the crop beside that. "

The waiter brought up a small jar of wine, and Xia Yun immediately filled a bowl for himself.Taking a deep breath, as if making a huge sacrifice, he slowly took a sip.

The next moment she frowned and spat out the small sip of wine, feeling a burning pain in her throat, she drank several sips of noodle soup in a hurry, said dissatisfiedly,

"What the hell does it taste like! It tastes awful! I don't know why so many people like to drink this kind of thing! Ahhh, I won't drink it again!"

Yue'er quickly poured a cup of tea and handed it to Xia Yun to rinse her mouth. As if she was used to Xia Yun's behavior of asking for trouble, she asked, "And then?"

"What and then?" Xia Yun took a sip of herbal tea, feeling a little more comfortable in his throat, and then reacted, pouted,

"Oh, oh, then the master said that he had killed countless people at such an old age, and had no offspring. He was just about to retire to the north that day and not care about worldly affairs, but he felt unwilling to pass on his kung fu, so he was sighing there, and then Just saw me.

Coincidentally, the cloud above my head drifted away as soon as I picked it up. It was midsummer, and it happened that his old man’s surname was Xia—maybe it was God’s will in the dark, so he named me the name “cloud” ' up. "

Yue'er blinked, "So, you don't know your date of birth?"

Xia Yun shook his head, smiled indifferently, "Anyway, I don't have any feelings for the man and woman who lost me, and things like birthdays don't matter... It's better to save the little money for birthdays."

Xia Yun pushed the wine jar aside in disgust, frowned and said, "We've been eating here for so long, why haven't those bastards come yet?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of eight or nine-year-old boys around Xia Yun's age shouting outside Yipinzhai, "Xia Yun! Yue'er! We're here!"

Xia Yun pricked up his ears, with a happy expression on his face, he pulled Yue'er and ran out, leaving behind a cart of silver, and put the leftover cakes, melons and fruits on the table into his bosom.

The half-grown children gathered together, and immediately became lively.The other children stuffed their food indiscriminately into their mouths, and hurried out of the city.

"My mother is so annoying, she insists on sending the goods to the north of the city before letting me out to play!"

"That's right, my father just asked me to chop the firewood - if it wasn't for Brother Afei to help me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get out now."

"Me, I too..."

"Forget it, Ah Quan, stop talking if you stutter... Ah Quan was taken by his brother to do carpentry work, and we snatched him away from his brother!"

Except for Xia Yunyue'er, all the five members of the group were boys—this was the last time Xia Yun killed someone and clamored to take Yue'er home and introduce her to the "pussies" she knew.

Xia Yun's family lived in the outskirts of the capital city, and a street was full of peddlers, such as cloth sellers, blacksmiths, and carpenters.

Xia Yun was taken here by his master to "live in seclusion" since he was a child.

According to the master, I originally planned to live in seclusion in a no-man's land in the north, but I accidentally picked up Xia Yun as a "burden". I felt that children should grow up in a populated place, so I randomly found a nearby land boundary-just right Settled in the capital.

When Xia Yun couldn't walk, the master still patiently accompanied little Xia Yun every day, but since Xia Yun was able to walk and dance, the master often went out to "cloud travel", but every time it happened that Xia Yun practiced martial arts when he reached a bottleneck or It is to practice the current stage of Dzogchen and then "return from the cloud tour", and then lead Xia Yun to practice the next stage of martial arts.

Originally, the master wanted to irresponsibly leave a few tattered martial arts cheats for Xiao Xiayun to figure out by himself, but Xia Yun had no intention of learning, and the master didn't force him, he just said "everyone has his own ambition" and Xia Yuner would not While talking about it, she learned how to read.

It can be seen that his love for him is by no means ordinary.

But the favorite is the favorite, and the master's disappearance from time to time also caused the biggest problem in Xiao Xiayun's life, which is that he has no money.

The master seems to be some kind of big man, who completely regards money as something outside of him when he walks in the rivers and lakes—anyway, no matter where he goes, someone will give what he needs, so that the concept of "money" is completely absent in the old man's mind.

Therefore, the first Yunyou didn't leave any money for Xia Yun at all.

And what can a toddler do?Fortunately, Xia Yun was a cute child who would laugh at everyone, and the neighbors were not villains, so they took turns calling Xia Yun to eat with him at meal times.

——Of course, it wouldn’t be delicacies from mountains and seas. Everyone is poor, and adding a pair of chopsticks is an extra mouth, but at least they can survive by gritting their teeth.

Therefore, Xia Yun grew up eating hundreds of meals from a young age, and she can be regarded as everyone's common "daughter", and she can be said to be brothers and sisters with the children of the whole street.

And this experience also firmly imprinted the word "lack of money" in Xia Yun's mind. The first kung fu she learned was lightness kung fu, but the best "wind catcher" in the world was used by her to steal things every day. !

——If people in the rivers and lakes know, they may vomit blood for three liters and say the last sentence "violent waste"!

And I don't know what fallacy was poured into her mind by the so-called "master", saying that those who wear gold and silver must steal, and those who are in high-rise buildings can easily be thieves.

The big families in the capital are heavily guarded, and Xia Yun doesn't have the guts to attack, but Yue'er, as the only family in the suburbs of the capital, naturally becomes Xia Yun's test target!

So Yue'er was brought in front of everyone by Xia Yun that day, and Xia Yun only said "I was taken advantage of", and everyone immediately understood the cause and effect.

At the beginning, everyone was worried about whether the young lady of the rich family would be estranged, but Yue'er's innocent face of "not deeply involved in the world" became the object of everyone's collective protection within a few days.

And this day, taking advantage of the good weather, everyone had already agreed to meet at Yipinzhai and go out of the city to dig out bird eggs to improve food, and that's when the above scene happened.

"Xiao Feizi, your legs are fast, you go up first!"

Everyone rushed under a big tree, and a boy with a thick head and a thick head stood next to a slightly taller boy, saying in a low voice.

"Huzi, you only bully me!" The boy called Xiaofeizi made a face, "I'm not going up there!"

"Aren't you the only one among us who has learned that... fluttering step from Xia Yun? Show it to our brothers!"

"It's chasing the wind! You are uneducated!" Xiao Feizi rolled his eyes, and said to another boy, "Don't talk about your younger brother, Daniel, be careful when he turns around and he's riding on your neck!"

Daniu and Huzi are the two sons of a straw sandal seller, and they often hang out with Xia Yun and the others.

Xiao Feizi was born similarly to Xia Yun, with no father or mother, he was sold to a blacksmith shop as an apprentice since he was a child, and then fled when he couldn't stand the beatings and kicks, and then wandered around among the refugees and entered the capital.

Later, I met Xia Yun, and while doing odd jobs, I learned a little from Xia Yun at the same time—not to mention serious kung fu, at most it can be regarded as physical fitness.

"Little Feizi, stop talking nonsense! Hurry up! Go up as soon as you are told!" Daniel chuckled and pushed him forward.

Xiao Feizi rolled his eyes, shouted "You don't care about Xia Yun", and climbed up the tree with hands and feet.

Soon he touched a few birds' eggs, and Xiao Feizi threw them down deliberately as a prank, making Huzi and Daniel's hearts hang in their throats, for fear that the eggs would be broken.

He jumped down from the tree two or three times like a monkey, and handed the remaining two eggs to Xia Yun and Yue'er one by one, showing his white teeth, "This is yours, take it! "

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Zi punched him from behind and knocked him to the ground, "Wow, you boy, you can take it down safely, but you still play us like this! You ungrateful guy!"

"Hey, hey, you guys didn't bully me first..." Xiao Feizi was not a good one, so he turned his head and started fighting with Huzi.

The boys laughing and joking suddenly turned into a scuffle, and even Daniel who was watching from the sidelines was not spared.

The three of them immediately wiped the mud all over the ground.

Xiao Feizi's slick voice was dragged farther and farther by Huzi, Xia Yun and Yue'er looked at each other, and suddenly burst out laughing, the silver bell-like voice spread to the distant sky, very pleasant.

"Moon?"

At this moment, the door of the mansion in the suburbs of Beijing was pushed open by a woman with a tired face. She was wearing a lavender skirt, with light makeup and makeup, and she had a beautiful appearance—but the fine lines and the sad eyes at the corners of her eyes made the beauty go away. old age.

"Yue'er?" She called softly, but she couldn't find her little daughter in the yard, her complexion changed, and her tone became urgent, "Yue'er?!"

***

"What about after that?" Sixteen listened to Aunt Guo talking about Xia Yun's past bit by bit, and it seemed that the carefree little girl slapped the table and laughed loudly before her eyes, and there was a hint of twitch between her eyebrows and eyes. smile.

"Later... 12 years ago, there was an accident." Aunt Guo's tone sank, "Except for Xia Yun and Xiao Feizi, no one knew what happened in that accident, and Xia Yun never happened again. Daiyueer appeared in front of us.

The houses on the outskirts of the capital were also empty.

Xia Yun had been drinking since then, but it was only a few years ago that he drank so violently like now.

She won't say anything, and we can't help it.

Shopkeeper Qian and I had a meal with her in the early years, and this child has been remembered to this day.

Not long after the accident 12 years ago, I still remember that in the 34th year of Taiping, the capital was quite unstable.The late emperor suddenly heard the news that he was in critical condition and passed away, and there were dark tides all over the place.

Xia Yun only said that he was afraid that the capital would not be able to stay any longer, so he advised us to pack up our things and head south, escorting us to Qingzhou City.

I don't know what method I used to arrange such an errand for Shopkeeper Qian.I didn't want to get involved, Xia Yun used up all his belongings to help me open this Yuelai Inn.

After that, I was busy with various missions in Shenyuan Pavilion. After returning from a mission a few years ago, I started to drink heavily, and then took on missions day and night. Maybe I came back this time to take care of you, and I was not so cruel to myself, but it was also a success. look like this. "

Aunt Guo obviously didn't want to talk about the things related to her difficult years later, so she brought it up in a few words, patted Shiliu on the shoulder, and said in a tired tone, "Okay, go get some hangover soup, I'm afraid the child will have to pay for it later." vomit."

Shiliu hardly said a word when he heard about Xia Yun's life experience, but now that he was slapped by Aunt Guo, he seemed to come back to his senses, answered, and ran lightly to the kitchen.

Boiling water, seasoning, Shiliu's hands and feet are quite dexterous.

She squatted down and added a handful of firewood to the stove, only to hear the crackling sound of the dry firewood suddenly amplifying in her ears.

Sixteen stood up and stared at the still-boiling water. Suddenly, his face was expressionless, and his voice was slightly cold, "Why are you here?"

Behind her, at some point stood a slender man with a mask on his face, and the fire from the stove reflected in his eyes trembled slightly.

"I've left a message, why didn't you come here?" Sixteen asked coldly.

"I have doubts on the first day of the new year, please explain it." The masked man replied.

"What's the matter?" Shiliu put the ingredients into the boiling pot, his eyes were dead silent.

"The plan is to bring disaster to the east. Knowing that the news has been leaked, why don't you let the mice go away? It's meaningless, it's nothing more than delaying time." Chu Yi said solemnly, "You are hesitating."

The calm tone, with 12 points of determination.

"..." Sixteen was silent for a moment, "It's useless to talk too much, it's because I took a step and made a foolish move."

"You want to protect her?" Chu Yi tilted his head slightly, implying something.

"I cut off the bloodline of the Jin family, but the head of the family refused to leave a name, so I introduced it to someone else. I happened to meet Xia Yun, so I just followed suit." Sixteen paused, "I don't understand why Xia Yun had to die?"

"So you are still soft-hearted - you know that Xia Yun will be hunted down by the Jin family, and the news has been released long ago, but you have hindered the speed of the news's spread in Qingzhou City." Chu Yi said coldly, "It doesn't help the matter. "

Sixteen added another handful of firewood, his eyes were fixed on the dancing flames, and his voice was neither sad nor happy, "So I admit, this is a stupid move."

"Pieces that deviate from the track will be punished," Chu Yi seemed a little dissatisfied, "I will not hide it when I go back and report."

"I understand," Sixteen said quietly,

"In the first day of junior high school, I never thought about anything other than killing people before, but these days, I've been thinking about it every day—I don't know what to think about, it's just that the things I experienced during the day will appear in front of my eyes over and over again when I dream at night .

There are even hallucinations.

I had a dream. In the dream, I could cry, laugh, and show my emotions. I even saw a girl who was exactly like me in the dream, the size of a baby, lying in a swaddle... …Then the screen turned, it was full of blood and red, and many, many blurry faces appeared..."

Shiliu's voice became smaller and smaller, but the pupils of Chuyi who stood behind him shrunk—the dark green pupils under the mask revealed his barbarian blood.

"It's just a dream." Chu Yi paused and murmured, "Don't worry about it."

His fists clenched suddenly.

"I said, I was thinking about things," Sixteen said incessantly, "and then I suddenly remembered that you are different from the second and third graders of junior high school...you always look at me directly, but your eyes never fall on me in the eyes...

I remembered that I had seen this kind of look in Xia Yun too.

Xia Yun is looking at the so-called Yueer through me, I know it.

On the first day of junior high school, what are you looking through me again? "

Shiliu's voice was indifferent, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all, just asking questions in his heart like a child.

On the first day of junior high school, he was stopped by Shiliu's questioning, and he didn't say a word.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say anything," Shiliu still had no expression on his face.

At this time, the hangover soup was ready, she took out a porcelain bowl, and presented a full bowl, "Don't come again, according to the order, we must make sure that the Jin family pursuers find Xia Yun before we can retreat, you go."

Chu must have glanced at Shiliu's back, a rippling in his cold eyes, his lips parted slightly, and when Shiliu turned back with the hangover soup, Chuyi was no longer there.

Sixteen pushed the door open without changing her pace, and Chu Fangcai's words echoed in her ears for a long time:

"I am looking forward to the sun through the moonlight."

The author has something to say: Alright...don't think my memories are watery...you will understand what I mean when I introduce Da Niu, Xiao Feizi, and Huzi later.

Sixteen is the moon (I gave you a reassurance first)

In addition, regarding the last sentence of the first day of junior high school, I will explain it later (of course it is the last and last), so let me give a reminder to see if you can get in touch

——The conversation between the old woman who sells candied haws and the old man.

Also, I'm very happy to be on the list today :) Maybe it's just a little promising... When I'm happy, I want to do something happy, such as... sharpen the knife or something :)