Sir, this sword is a keepsake

At noon in midsummer, the sun was shining brightly, and the yard was so hot that even the cats couldn't stay there, so they all hid in the house to enjoy the cool and sleep soundly.Amidst the noisy cicadas, suddenly came the voices of a man and a woman.

"Well, it's not good for us to do this—"

"It's all here, why not take a look?"

Shen Fang, who was lying on the tree, opened his eyes with a displeased expression, wondering who would dare to enter the inner courtyard of Yongxia Villa without permission - I heard that the people from the Gushan Sword Court arrived this morning, maybe it was theirs.Listen to the voice, not too old.

The heat wave on Yongxia Mountain was steaming, and he hid in the dense canopy of trees. Mosquitoes and insects were infested in this season, but they didn't get close to him.Not only that, Shen Fang's body and clothes are dry and clean, without a drop of sweat.And this is all because he just closed his eyes and comprehended the realm of the winter waterfall, nourishing the cool sword energy.

Shen Fang had always hated other people distracting him when he practiced his sword to nourish his energy--almost no one has ever done this in going up and down the villa.Now that he was disturbed, the sword energy dissipated, and beads of sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.

Hearing that the man and the woman had already arrived outside the courtyard gate, but they still seemed a little guilty and did not dare to break in directly, Shen Fang said impatiently:

"who?"

Before the words fell, there was a thin exclamation from outside the door, like animals like squirrels, footsteps sounded, but stopped suddenly, mixed with deliberate whispers.

"Leave if you have nothing to do." Shen Fang, who lost the winter waterfall, didn't have much patience in the heat, and his tone was cold.After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes again, but after waiting for a while, the two people at the door remained motionless, obviously not planning to leave.

Shen Fang suppressed his anger, "I said, what do you want to do?"

"Hey—" the female voice exclaimed, and with the sound of staggering footsteps, the woman who made the sound stumbled into the courtyard.

Shen Fang could tell by his ears that another person pushed her in. He was still motionless, lying in the canopy of the tree.

"Huh..." The woman made a surprised voice because she couldn't see Shen Fang's person.Another series of footsteps sounded, and another person outside the door came in dignifiedly.Shen Fang already knew that these two people were about the same age as him, so reckless, they definitely could not be the servants of Gushan Jianting, but the young master and lady of the Fang family—but so what?

Shen Fang was supposed to meet Gushan Jianting and his party in the hall with his parents this morning, but he excused himself because of his illness, but he didn't expect that the other party came to the door.

If you don't explain why you came here, then I won't speak anymore——Shen Fang closed his eyes and tried to continue the sword energy just now.

However, it was interrupted again.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Shen Fang there?" The woman asked softly with timidity.The voice came from underneath Shen Fang.

"This is not asking knowingly." A little further away from Shen Fang, a hoarse but still immature male voice muttered.

Shen Fang had no intention of hiding his figure, he coughed lightly, pushed aside the thick treetops, looked down, and met the eyes of a young girl.

"What do you want from me?" Before he could ask, the girl seemed to be on fire, and jumped out in panic, out of his sight.Shen Fang frowned slightly, not understanding why she was so afraid of him since she came to look for him.

At the same time, he noticed that she seemed to be holding something in her hands.

"It's him, it's really him..." Shen Fang with sharp ears heard the woman's murmur.

At this time, another young man in brocade clothes stood in the thick shade under the tree. It could be seen that he had been carefully tidied up, but his face was dripping with sweat, obviously the weather was not good.

"You are Shen Fang?" Listening to his tone, it seemed that he had thought about who Shen Fang was for a long time.

Shen Fang was a little amused, "Are you from the Gushan Sword Court?"

"Yes, I'm Fang Di, why didn't I see you this morning?"

Shen Fang didn't answer immediately, not sure if the other party understood his excuse, but since he stayed in the tree on a hot day, he obviously didn't look sick.Just for a moment of hesitation, the other party said again:

"What are you doing up the tree?"

"Practice the sword." Shen Fang blurted out.

"Practice sword?" Fang Di repeated in surprise, and was about to continue to ask, but was gently pulled by the woman.Fang Di suddenly realized, and immediately introduced, "Oh, this is my sister, her name is..."

The name evaporated without a trace like water vapor on the ground, leaving no memory in Shen Fang's mind.

Shen Fang hummed without any emotion, and stopped looking down.He didn't want to talk meaningless nonsense with these two.

Xia Chan was still making noise, but the young man was silent. Fang Di was annoyed by Shen Fang's reaction, and said abruptly, "Shen Fang, since you know who we are, why are you still on the tree, come down—"

Fang Di's mouth was covered by his sister, unable to speak the second half of the sentence.

"Master Shen, I, I have something I want to give you."

The girl mustered up the courage to finally speak her mind, and the words she said were clumsy but sincere.

Shen Fang frowned, not knowing what it meant that the person who met by chance gave him something inexplicably.

"This, thank you, let's put it in the courtyard." Shen Fang simply didn't want to get off the tree in front of Fang Di - the sweat on his back had already soaked his clothes.Asking himself, he wanted to leave the tree right now and jump into the mountain stream to cool down. However, for some reason, the embankment asked him to go down, and he didn't want to go down in an instant.

"What do you mean?" Fang Di raised his tone.

Shen Fang raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face, feeling that the breath he exhaled was hot, he suppressed his emotions, and said solemnly: "Then, Shen has thanked Miss Fang for her generous gift."

Apparently, he misunderstood the reason for Fang Di's dissatisfaction, and thought it was a thank you but not a treasure.

"My sister is looking for you, why are you hiding in a tree and refusing to see us?"

"Hiding in the tree?" Shen Fang laughed back angrily, and blurted out, "I'm afraid the two of you think highly of yourself."

Hearing this sneer, Fang Di was furious, and even more convinced that the other party didn't bother to discuss friendship with him.

"Is this how the young owner of Yongxia Mountain Villa treats guests? My father has always urged me to learn from the young owner of Yongxia Mountain Villa, but I didn't expect that when I saw him today, he would hide in a tree like a wild monkey. Will come down."

A woman's scream sounded in the courtyard.

"Little sister is really blind. She fell in love with such a person, and she went to such lengths to do this—"

"Fang Di!"

Fang Di stopped talking.

"What did you do?" Shen Fang didn't want to talk to Fang Di anymore.One of the brothers and sisters is impulsive and impulsive, while the other is cautious. He would rather talk to the latter.

Fang Di showed a bit of surprise. He didn't expect that what he said still didn't anger Shen Fang, and he restrained his temper a little, and temporarily stopped talking.

The girl slowly took a breath, and said, "It's just a sword ear, I heard that Mr. Shen practiced sword day and night..." She couldn't continue, her cheeks that were so hot were even more blushing, and she felt short of breath. Not angry.

Her thoughts are obvious: Shen Fang likes to practice swords, so he made sword tassels for him, and after tying them to the sword, Shen Fang would think of her whenever he practiced swords.She thought that she was very clear in just a few words, and Shen Fang could naturally understand this unspeakable charm as long as she said tenderness without saying anything.

Shen Fang's mind fell on that thing, "Jian Sui? You guys from Gushan Jianting, what do you use?"

As soon as the word "that thing" came out, coupled with Shen Fang's tone of disgust, the girl was stunned, and her face immediately turned pale.

Shen Fang asked again, "Do you practice swords?"

She subconsciously said, "Practice." She lowered her head, her eyes drifted, and she looked towards the gate of the courtyard.

But Shen Fang couldn't even see her demeanor and movements, but just talked about it on his own.

"Since you are a swordsman, why don't you know that the lowest level of swordsmanship is the decoration of a good sword." Although Shen Fang's tone was light, there was still a bit of dissatisfaction, "You still put your mind on it. Put it on sword practice, my sword has never been equipped with a spike, and it will never be in the future."

After Shen Fang finished speaking, there was no response from below. Just wondering, the girl said softly, "Okay."

Fang Di suddenly shouted, "What's good?"

Hearing this, Shen Fang sat up, not because of Fang Di's outburst of rage, but because he felt a sword energy ready to go.

This kid, is it true?

Just as Shen Fang was thinking, he heard:

"Shen Fang, you fool who can't distinguish between beauty and ugliness, has no rules, and only knows how to practice swords, if you don't roll off your crooked neck tree today and apologize to my sister, I will cut down all the trees in your yard! "

Sorry, sorry for what?Before Fang Di finished speaking, before Shen Fang could figure it out, a gust of sword wind rushed out from under the tree and hit the southwest corner of the yard. With a "click", a locust tree was cut off, and the crown fell to the ground with a bang. There was a gust of dusty hot wind.

"Sick?" Shen Fang said.

Fang Di choked, stretched out his sword, pointed at Shen Fang on the tree, "Come down, let's compare swords!"

"Forget it..." the girl begged her brother with tears.

"Don't pull me!"

The girl was familiar with her brother's character, and said in a low voice, "Father said, don't cause trouble when you go up the mountain this time, if you get hurt..."

Shen Fang with sharp ears smiled softly, the girl's ears warmed up, and Fang Di pushed her away.

With a cold face, he pointed his sword at Shen Fang on the tree, "Are you worried that I can't beat him?"

Without waiting for the girl to speak, he swung his sword again and again, and the two sword winds attacked the two toon trees planted side by side in the corner one after the other.

Seeing that the trees in the courtyard were being destroyed one after another, and Fang Di didn't intend to stop at all, Shen Fang thought to himself that he had been more patient, and finally pressed the sword at his waist.

His eyes were cold and sharp, and he glanced at the small piece of sword drawn out of his hand, but changed his mind, and pushed the sword back again, with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth.

Fang Di's fourth sword cut at the ginkgo tree where Shen Fang was sitting, just like the previous three swords, he didn't think about it at all.

A ray of sword wind pierced the tree, but it collided with another sword energy covering the surface of the tree trunk from top to bottom. The former's internal strength was insufficient, and it reverberated, just sweeping Fang Di's livid face.

Shen Da laughed, turned over and fell down, using the momentum of the fall, put his fingers together and pointed down: "The sword skills of a three-year-old like you are also worthy of my sword?"

"Be careful!" The girl's reminder made Fang Di even more annoyed. He didn't evade and turned forward. Seeing the opponent's finger, he thought it was impossible to win his own iron-cutting sword, so he stabbed out with the sword.He didn't want to hurt Shen Fang, he just wanted to make him bleed and suffer.

Shen Fang quickly flicked the tip of his sword with two fingers, brushed the sword with his arm and drove straight in, and poked Fang Di's chest with his two fingers.

Fang Di suddenly felt a tingling sensation, immediately withdrew his sword, and moved his body to the outside.

Shen Fang landed a foot away, patted the leaves on his body, and smiled at the astonished Fang Di, completely ignoring the girl.

Fang Di gritted his teeth, and stabbed out with his sword again.

Shen Fang frowned slightly, he didn't know whether it was because this kid was not afraid of death, or because his swordsmanship was so poor that he couldn't tell the difference in swordsmanship between the two.Gathering a raging sword glow at his fingertips, he jumped out with one step.

As the two keep getting closer, two sword lights, one gold and one gray, are approaching...

"And, she, apologize."

"What's wrong?" Shen Fang didn't pay attention to Fang Di at all.

Fang Di suddenly changed his posture and threw the sword straight away, watching the sword fly sideways, piercing through the ginkgo tree trunk neatly.

The ginkgo tree that had lived in the yard for many, many years, longer than Shen Fang's, was suddenly pierced through a huge hole.

Shen Fang stopped his movements, turned his head, and saw the leaves of that beautiful ginkgo tree scattered like rain.Under the scorching sun in the afternoon, a gust of extremely cold wind passed through his heart, mixed with the whispers of fallen leaves.

The moment the canopy fell to the ground, the whispering stopped abruptly, and Shen Fang moved suddenly, attacking Fang Di, whose smile hadn't faded.

The air in the courtyard first froze suddenly, and then was stirred by a murderous aura.Fang Di saw Shen Fang coming towards him like a tiger and leopard rushing for food, a wave of fear gripped his heart, and without a sword in his hand, he retreated subconsciously.

The sword wind cut through the skin of Fang Di's neck, but the next moment, a cold light flashed, and the girl entered the field of vision, and fell out with Shen Fang.

Shen Fang pushed away the girl who was pressing on him, and when he stood up, the murderous look in his eyes had faded.On the back of his right hand, there was a bloody scar.Blood trickled down the palm of his hand onto the hot ground.

Without saying a word, he glanced over the stunned girl and the blood-stained long sword in her hand one by one, thoughtfully.

There was a dead silence in the courtyard. Fang Di, who was holding his neck and motionless, was terrified, and no one spoke.After a long time, Shen Fang spit out three words lightly.

"Get out."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Fang heard someone calling him. When he turned his head, he saw an old Taoist priest with white hair smiling at him.

Shen Fang opened his eyes, and sure enough, he saw Gui Xuzi sitting in front of him, and he didn't know how long he had been dreaming.

"Fang Qing."

"What did you say?"

"I remembered the name of the girl from the Fang family. Her name is Fang Qing." Shen Fang closed his eyes tightly, not wanting Guixuzi and Lady Kui, who had just entered the cabin, to see his emotions at this time.