Sir, this sword is a keepsake

After the carriage traveled another few hundred meters, the trees beside the road gradually thinned out. The sun was shining in the sky, and the ground really became a bit hotter.Feeling sorry for using the Huangxue Sword to cool down, Shen Fang simply rolled up the bamboo curtain on his side to let some wind in.

Outside the window, the view is unobstructed.In the far horizon, full clouds piled up like cotton.Under the blue sky, there is a lush wilderness.The green field is divided into two banks by a clear river running from north to south, and patches of calamus wildflowers by the river sway like waves in the wind, making a pleasant rustling sound.

Where there is a river, there is a bridge.The bridge is the simplest and roughest wooden bridge.It looks quaint and chic.But what they didn't expect was that there were still people on the barren bridge.

It was a lonely woman, standing in front of the water to take a picture, and with the spring makeup, she was a bit brighter and more charming than she looked a few days ago.What is bright is not her face, but an indescribable feeling.After all, she was still wearing that iron mask on the right side of her face.

Shen Fang said: "Stop the car, I'll go back as soon as I go."

"I'll go with you."

The two got out of the car and walked towards the bridge one after the other.

The woman cast a calm gaze at the two of them, clasped her fists in salute, and said softly: "Mr. Shen, you are finally leaving Qingzhou." Her tone was calm and gentle, not at all like the repulsive person she was when she was in Fengshan that day.

Shen Fang returned a salute, wondering in his heart: originally he wanted to "invoke the teacher to inquire about the crime", but judging from the tone of the other party, it seemed that he was ready to confess what he had done here.

"It's thanks to the girl's help that I can get here smoothly."

"Mr. Shen is serious. I just drove away some annoying flies for Mr. Shen, so that Mr. Shen can concentrate on his business."

"What the girl is talking about is about sending the sword manual into the palace."

"A good spring is fleeting. Wouldn't it be a pity if we couldn't arrive before the vernal equinox?"

Shen Fang frowned, and said seriously: "Girl, can you answer the next few questions?"

"nature."

"The girl refused to reveal her name that day, I don't know—"

"My surname is Xiao, Xiao Mori."

Shen Fang was a little surprised, "Xiao... Mo Li?" He subconsciously looked at Zhuang Li, but saw the latter listening with great interest.

"Mo is inexplicable Mo, pears are pears of pear blossoms." The woman explained.

Shen Fang smiled, "Naturally it's the pear of the pear blossom." He thought for a moment and said, "I heard that most of the women in Chicheng in Donghai are surnamed Xiao, Miss Xiao, are you from Chicheng in Donghai?"

Xiao Moli nodded, "But I have been away from Chicheng for a long time, so long that if Mr. Shen hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten where I came from."

It sounded like he was blaming Shen Fang for bringing this up.Shen Fang immediately realized that there was a secret that no one else could wantonly pry into.

He asked the woman's name, just to make sure he knew her.However, he had no memory of the name "Xiao Moli", so it seemed that he could only ask directly.

"that……"

"Young Master Shen, you don't need to be cautious, just ask if you have anything to say."

"That's right, Mr. Shen just ask if you have anything to say."

"My memory has always been poor..." Shen Fang glared at Zhuang Li who was learning his tongue, and told a lie that he didn't even believe, "Could it be that the girl is an old friend?"

Xiao Moli smiled lightly, "I hate you, today is the first time you and I have talked."

"That's being rude..." Shen Xin was still confused, "Girl, if that's the case, why did you help me?"

"Helping Mr. Shen is a matter of loyalty and a wish of the heart."

"First, the matter of loyalty, Miss Xiao, who are you doing things for? Second, the wish in your heart...you should stop joking with me, since you and I have never met, how can you make a wish?"

Xiao Moli smiled lightly, "This is what Mr. Shen really wants to know, who am I working for, and whether I have bad intentions towards Mr. Shen and Mr. Shen's sword manual." Speaking of this, she restrained her smile, "I You don't do things for others, you just do what you want. Mr. Shen may as well guess, why should I help you?"

"This..." Shen Fang was a little embarrassed for a while, although the woman stopped joking with him, she let herself guess her intentions.Her mischievousness and interest today are completely like another person.Shen Fang suddenly had an absurd idea in his head: Could this girl wearing a mask today be a sister of the girl from that day?Maybe the two sisters are young ladies from some martial arts family, and they intend to make fun of themselves?

However, if he is a martial artist, there is no reason to help him get out of Qingzhou.

Shen Fang drove away the absurd thoughts in his mind, and his mind moved.

"Miss Xiao," Shen Fang paused intentionally, and seeing curiosity in the woman's eyes, he said in a tone of respect and admiration: "Miss Xiao, your sword is very good." Since you are a swordsman, you don't want to eat it. This set.

Seeing Xiao Moli's eyes burning, he was not only happy to receive the praise, but rather moved.

"There are not many people in the world who can recognize my pear blossom smile as a sword. I know there must be Mr. Shen."

"Ewha smile...a good name, the girl helped me because of the sword?"

The surprise on the woman's face flickered away.Shen Fang was even more surprised: he made a random guess and got it right.

The spring breeze blows through in the silence like still water.Zhuang Li coughed and interjected, "I don't know if Miss Xiao killed a woman in Fengshan."

Shen Fang was slightly taken aback, and glanced at Zhuang Li who was speaking.Xiao Moli was even more surprised. She turned her head to look at Zhuang Li, who was not as casual as before, and shook her head, "I went up to Fengshan with the two of you, and I did hear about the Wuxiang Tower, but," Xiao Moli frowned. Zheng Se, returning to the previous indifferent expression, said without hesitation, "I didn't kill that woman. After you go up the mountain, I have something to go down the mountain by myself."

After finishing speaking, she paused, and said solemnly to Shen Fang, "If I kill someone, I will never lie."

Shen Fang remained calm, with a smile in his tone, but no smile in his eyes, "Very good, this way I don't have to kill the girl with a sword just because of the so-called elimination of evil and promotion of good."

"Do you believe her?" Zhuang Li couldn't help but ask.

Shen Fang laughed, "I don't trust her people, but I trust her sword."

Xiao Moli was silent, and didn't make any more excuses. She lowered her head slightly, just looking at the mottled light and shadow on the bridge, and listening to the river gurgling under the bridge.

"Miss Xiao, you hit my sword that day, and the blade was blunt in one place. I wonder if I can give you some money. I went to a sword shop in Haoxun in Lanzhou to repair it. I guess it's only a few tens of pennies."

Zhuang Li's words were too sudden.Shen Fang was stunned and didn't understand what he had in mind.Xiao Moli, who was caught off guard by the question, was a little confused for a while, but seeing that Zhuang Li didn't seem to be joking with her, he hesitated and said, "I seem to only have one tael of money..."

"It's easy to say, I have a lot of broken silver on me, so I can exchange it with you."

Without waiting for Xiao Mori to answer, Zhuang Li raised his hand.Shen Fang and Xiao Moli watched him take out a pile of broken silver from his arms, sleeves and even shoes, poured it on his hands and counted it.

Shen Fang naturally knew where Zhuang Li's so much broken silver came from, he couldn't bear it and dared not tell Xiao Moli.

He dignifiedly embraced the young owner of Xiashan Villa, and on such a beautiful spring day, he just watched the person who let his emotions fluctuate squatting on the bridge in front of outsiders and counting pieces of silver.But he couldn't do anything - he didn't know that Zhuang Li would come this way!When did the sword become blunt?

Wait, what does the outsider mean... He subconsciously regards Zhuang Li as one of his own?

Shen Fang thought desperately: Sure enough, his attitude towards Zhuang Li's matter began to show some problems.

"Just keep the extra, don't need to change it." Xiao Moli said with a forced smile, obviously not wanting to collect the pile of broken silver.

"How can this work?" Zhuang Li handed over the change money to Xiao Moli, smiling innocently, until Xiao Moli took the money with a blank expression, and then withdrew his hand.

"Young girl is straightforward, heroic among women! Oh yes, Miss Xiao, I thought your swordsmanship and acupressure techniques were extremely brilliant when I saw them that day, but it's a pity that my master couldn't experience it."

Shen Fang held back his smile, knowing that Zhuang Li was actually told by him in a few words, he really doubted his master.

"Mr. Xu is such a character, I'm just playing tricks in front of him."

"You know my master?"

Seeing the stunned faces of Zhuang Li and Shen Fang, Xiao Mori shook his head and said: "The whereabouts of the respected teacher is uncertain, and I have not been able to see him so far."

"Well, I never told you who I am, how does Miss Xiao know who my master is." Zhuang Li hesitated.

"Anyone who has seen the shadow of the cold pool will never forget that kind of eyes." Seeing that Zhuang Li wanted to ask, Xiao Moli smiled slightly, "It's a bit too much, you two don't mind. Mr. Shen , and this young master, we’ve finished talking, let’s just leave here. After passing the Zhuluyuan in front, it’s within Lanzhou’s borders, and I won’t appear in front of the two of you again, causing you to worry.”

"The girl knows where I'm going next, and I think it's hard to have the opportunity to learn swordsmanship with the girl."

"You want to compete swords with me?" Xiao Moli was surprised, and pondered: "No, my swordsmanship is not as good as yours... Maybe after three years of hard training, I will be able to fight."

Speaking of this, she was a little excited, and the next second her expression froze on her face, and she turned her face away in embarrassment, "Young Master Shen, let's ask the way ahead first, and don't worry about the people behind you."

"Ask the road in front of you first, and don't care about the people behind you." The smile in Shen Fang's eyes faded instantly, first there was a flash of surprise, followed by serious worry.After all, having seen Shen Fang make moves twice, Zhuang Li realized something was wrong with Shen Fang before Xiao Mori, and he looked at Shen Fang warily.

"Thank you for your deployment in Qingzhou, Miss." Shen Fang's voice was as cold as ice.

"It's easy to do." Xiao Moli knew that she had slipped her words and revealed her identity just now. Although she was right, she felt tense when she heard Shen Fang's tone.

"Miss misunderstood, I am not Miss Xie who took action to eliminate those people, I am Miss Xie who gave the sword in Fengshan last time and saw it. The sword skills of the Shenwu Pavilion scouts are really extraordinary."

In an instant, Shen Fang's sword was in his hand.Zhuang Li didn't see when Shen Fang drew his sword, but the moment he heard the word "Shenwu Pavilion", he had already grasped the dagger that Shen Fang had given him.That new sharp blade.

Shen Fang raised his hand and shook his sword.The woman watched the sword light whizzing towards him in a square inch, and felt that her heartbeat almost stopped for an instant, but her eyes were still calm.

She knew that Shen Fang didn't want to kill herself. She thought that this sword was aimed at her mask, but she was wrong.Shen Fang had no intention of prying into her true face.Sword Qi brushed across her forehead, a few strands of her hair were broken in the wind, and at the same time, she felt the damp heat on the top of her forehead.

After the sword energy dissipated in the wind, Shen Fang still didn't speak.

Xiao Moli let the blood cover one side of his face, and said calmly: "If those two people from the Qinling Sword Sect were here that day, you would know that what I said was not exaggerated. Jinghong sword, sword shadow shocks Hong .”

Shen Fang just sternly said, "Li Wuhen, the great disciple of Yongxia Mountain Villa, did Shenwu Pavilion do it?"

"I don't know the cause of Li Wuhen's death. I can only tell you that neither I nor Xiaofeng had anything to do with this matter. As for whether other scouts from Shenwu Pavilion did it, I don't know. I told you just now that if you kill I will never lie to anyone."

She said seriously again: "If Mr. Shen wants to avenge Li Wuhen, maybe... maybe he has to rely on Chunqiu Nineteen."

Shen Fang remained calm, thinking about Xiao Moli's words, and finally, he glanced at Xiao Moli's cuff, "Why didn't you come out with the sword just now?"

"I won't strike you with a sword." Xiao Moli said calmly.

Even if Shen Fang was hostile to Shenwu Pavilion, his expression would become weird and complicated when he heard such intimate words.

Xiao Moli laughed at herself, "Young Master Shen, this is not what it sounds like. Let me ask you, are you really going to kill me here?"

"Since you didn't kill my elder brother, why should I kill you." Shen Fang said with a hint of warning, "However, I can do it myself."

He took one last look at Xiao Moli: "The sky is big and the earth is big, so why not join the Shenwu Pavilion with such swordsmanship? I don't understand."

Shen Fang stopped talking and turned to get off the bridge.