[Rat cat] The legend of Lou Xiaochong

Half a month later, in the backyard of Kaifeng Mansion.When Bai Wuye came here on the moon, Zhan Weiwei was practicing sword in the yard alone.

Everyone who practices martial arts pays attention to the communication between heaven and earth.Practicing swords, fists and kicks is mostly done in the early morning. Even if you use exercises at night, you usually sit cross-legged in a quiet room and ask your inner breath to rotate for a few weeks. This is also the principle of the harmony of the sun and the moon.

But what kind of sword is the guard at the moment, wearing stars and wearing moons, practicing!Thinking of this, Bai Yutang flicked his left thumb, and the steel knife flew out of its sheath, with a clang in the air.He himself looked at the spacious place in the courtyard and jumped down.

One toe on his side hadn't touched the ground, and he had just grabbed the handle of the knife with his backhand and held it firmly. It was a one-word posture. Zhan Zhao also turned around half a turn, and the edge of the sword pressed over.Even though the number of weapons is different, both of them are top masters. After such a encounter, Bai Yutang estimated that Zhan Zhao only used three parts of his strength, but they came to a tacit understanding.With just the force of the touch, he flipped his wrist, switched to a forehand, and yelled softly: "Here we go again!" Without waiting for Zhan Zhao's answer, he swept the plate directly, followed by an uplift, a feint, A partial stab—it was just five points of skill, just to see how Zhan Zhao would react.

As expected, Zhan Zhao ignored the opening he intentionally threw, but took a step sideways to let the knife blow, and took the defensive position.

"Hey, if you're like this, it won't be fun—" Bai Yutang also moved away from the steel knife in his hand, and swiped half a circle back to stop it. !"

Zhan Zhao secretly sighed in his heart, he came out to practice sword because he had a lot of things recently and felt bored, and wanted to relieve himself.How come it's so unlucky to run into this Fifth Master Bai who wants to fight for everything?As far as sparring and competitions are concerned, it's common for martial arts practitioners, but he really doesn't dare to take a bite of Bai Wuye.If you want to keep a three-pointer as long as you want, he said you look down on others; you can go all out without reservation, if you win him, you will arouse his temper, and it will be endless troubles.But when he raised his head, he saw Bai Yutang was full of anticipation, and he couldn't say the words of refusal—it's almost fifteen again, why is the moon so bright tonight, it caught the fifth master's eyes Also shiny.

"What are you thinking about!" Bai Yutang saw Zhan Zhao standing there in a daze and did not speak, he took two steps forward and waved his hand in front of his eyes, "Should I beat him or not? If not, go drink!"

drink wine?As long as there is no fight, it's fine, but Zhan Zhao sized up this master, he was alone, with a knife, and didn't even bring a bag, so he brought wine here. "Where's the wine?"

When Bai Yutang was asked by him, he smiled: "Hey, you are the host and I am the guest! Of course you invited me for this wine!"

"This statement is reasonable. However, Zhan has just returned to Kaifeng, I don't know that Brother Bai is visiting tonight, and he hasn't prepared drinks yet..."

"No, you!" Bai Yutang looked surprised, "A manly man, drinking is like drinking water, and you don't even hide a few jars of 60-year-old Zhuangyuan red!" He deliberately sniffed Sniff, "...wait a minute, does it smell like wine?"

It's true that there is no wine left - Zhan Zhao's heart moved, he took a step forward, and wanted to block the door, but Bai Yutang moved earlier and had already pushed the door open.

In the middle of the table, there is a small wine jar.The moonlight came in from the door, and it was quite clear.

Zhan Zhao stood at the door with a calm expression on his face, complaining to himself: Why didn't he speak up earlier and drag Bai Yutang to go elsewhere.

Over there, Bai Yutang had already picked up the empty wine jar, weighed it twice, and turned it upside down, looking at it for a while, as if confirming that there was really not a single drop of wine left.

"Hey, I said Zhan Zhao." Bai Yutang turned around and stuffed the jar under Zhan Zhao's nose, "Why does this wine jar look familiar to me? Did you steal Fifth Master's—and drank it all up?" No, I didn't leave it!"

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, what kind of medicine is sold in this white mouse gourd?He thought for a while and finally replied: "It's not early today, if Brother Bai wants to drink, why not wait until tomorrow afternoon, when Zhan finishes his errands, and invite Brother Bai to have a good drink?"

Tomorrow afternoon?Bai Yutang counted with his fingers: "It's been a long time, so long. Forget it, let's go, Lord Wu will take you to the wine cellar of Taibai Building to open your eyes!" As he spoke, he threw the empty wine jar into Zhan Zhao's hand. Se, turn around and go out.

If you go to the wine cellar at this time... then it means you are planning to steal wine, right?Zhan Zhao grabbed the mouth of the jar with one hand, threw it back on the table, and grabbed Bai Yutang's sleeve with the other hand: "Brother Bai's style is unrestrained, Zhan has always admired him, but after all, he has to be upright to act the right way!"

"Pfft——" Bai Yutang turned around and smiled when he said this, "That's the restaurant owned by my elder brother. I said that I would drink whenever I feel like it, but I just brought you an extra one. Everyone knows me so well." It’s been a long time, so I’m not considered an outsider..."

"Thank you Brother Bai for your kindness, but Zhan has to get up early tomorrow to escort Mr. Bao to court. It will be bad if the time is late." Zhan Zhao had a flash of inspiration and offered Mr. Bao this excuse.In fact, he just wanted to reject Bai Yutang's invitation inexplicably, as if he had a vague feeling that if he drank too much tonight, something would happen.

Bai Yutang looked at him, half guilty and half sorry, tsk tsk, he immediately gave up the pleasure of drinking, "Forget it." But even if Zhan Zhao let go of his sleeve, he didn't seem to be bothered. He planned to leave, but turned around and went back to the house, took out a fire pocket and lit the lamp, held it up to look around, and then said, "Fifth Master has been away for so long, you didn't change to a bigger bed. By the way, today I have to ask Mr. Zhan to take him in for a night—don’t bother me?”

In fact, it was a little disturbing—but how could Zhan Zhao say that.Seeing Bai Yutang who had already rushed to the bedside to shake the quilt and move the pillow unceremoniously, Zhan Zhao sighed: "How could it be. If Brother Bai doesn't mind, please do it."

Although Bai Wuye is in a good mood today and really wants to take a hot bath, but this is Kaifeng Mansion, not his house in the empty island. At this time, the fire worker in the kitchen has already gone home to reunite with his wife and children.However, since Zhan Zhao just wiped his face casually, he would follow suit.

After all, Zhan Zhao was older and used to taking care of others. After wiping his face, seeing Bai Yutang's face dripping with his sleeves rolled up, he handed him the handkerchief.After handing it out, Zhan Zhao secretly said "no".Everyone knows that the man in front of him is a clean-spirited man, but luckily he has a thick skin... Just as he was thinking about it, Bai Yutang said "Thank you", took the veil, and spread it out I rubbed my face twice, then smiled and said to him, "I'll return it to you after I wash it!"

"No need—" Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to snatch back the handkerchief, he was just using it to wipe his face, besides, he was so particular about it.

"...so stingy." Bai Yutang muttered in a low voice, with a smile on his face, and went to undress without mentioning it.

At this point, the two of Zhan Bai finally turned off the lights and lay down on the bed side by side, the whole Kaifeng mansion was already quiet.The sound of the autumn wind wrapping the fallen leaves can be heard clearly.

Zhan Zhao was ready to be kicked and beaten and robbed of the quilt by the man next to him again, but after waiting for a long time, the man was very quiet.Listening carefully, it turned out that he was awake all the time, but he didn't move or speak.Zhan Zhao just wanted to speak to persuade Bai Yutang to go to bed earlier, but he heard him speak first: "Hey, little cat Zhan, didn't you sleep?"

"No." Zhan Zhao listened to this sentence with a low tone, and didn't care about the title of "Zhan Xiaomao". "Brother Bai, is there something on your mind?"

"What's on your mind?" Bai Yutang muttered a few words, turned around, turned to Zhan Zhao, put his hands on his side, and raised his tone of voice, "How can you be so preoccupied, Mr. Zhan. Speaking of which, Mr. Zhan You don't sleep in the middle of the night, you are practicing swords and sighing, what are you thinking about? You can't miss me—"

What nonsense.Zhan Zhao shook off his hand: "I didn't think about anything."

"I really don't think about anything?"

"I really didn't think about anything!" Zhan Zhao pressed Bai Yutang's hand that was trying to reach him again, a little annoyed, "Based on this calculation, Brother Bai, you are also awake at midnight, maybe you are thinking about Zhan!" This was a bit abrupt. , Zhan Zhao said it hotheadedly, and then regretted it: How can he care about Bai Yutang, who is just out of the rivers and lakes!He hurriedly added: "Sorry, Zhan didn't mean to offend..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Bai Yutang just waved his hand, regardless of whether Zhan Zhao could see it, "Let's talk about something else, guess where I've been these half a month?"

Fortunately, Bai Yutang is not a small-minded person, Zhan Zhao secretly heaved a sigh of relief: "Brother Bai left in a hurry, there must be some important business?"

"It's fine if it's important." Bai Yutang turned back, lay on his back, folded his hands behind his head, but couldn't help but raise his feet, "I found Lou Xiaochong—and guess what, he was killed by his family. The adults took it back, alas, although it seems that he is not a very pleasing person, it is rare that the child is not bad... Later, he was entangled in a small matter and did not catch up with him. Next time we meet again, I have to ask him. Why did he disappear all of a sudden on the mountain road that day?"

Zhan Zhao also responded with emotion: "That's a good boy, as long as there is no accident - after you left, I went to Jiangning. I got some clues in the previous case, and I was about to take another trip to Yuancha when I had time. Check it out."

"Jiang Ning?" Bai Yutang raised his body and asked him, "Have you tried the tavern I mentioned? It's the best wine in Song Dynasty!"

"Well, I'm on official business, so I haven't had time..."

"Alas!" Bai Yutang lay heavily back on the bed, chilly under the quilt, "It's really..."

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Sorry for posting so late again!

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Guess how these half a month passed so quickly?

——Because the two are not together, I skipped it...