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Xia Suijin suppressed a smile, patted Yu Fang on the shoulder, and said with deep pain:

"The fortune teller said that I'm going to kill you, what does Kefu mean? If it's light, I'll overwhelm you in everything, and if it's serious, I might kill you. So this matter is big or small, do you really want to follow me?"

Yu Fang turned her head and said, "What are you playing dumb with that fortune teller?"

"Shh!"

Xia Suijin put her index finger on Yu Fang's lips, and said with a smile, "I'll talk about this later, let's go buy dry food first. By the way, I'll buy some paper money."

"What do you buy paper money for?"

Xia Suijin covered her mouth and raised her eyebrows, and said playfully: "Didn't they say that there is a fairy girl on Duantian Cliff who wants to kill her? They burn paper money to please the fairy girl, maybe the fairy girl will let us go."

Then he walked away and entered a cloth workshop.

The mountain road was rugged, Xia Suijin picked up a wooden stick and leaned on it, limped forward, panting and sweating profusely, Yu Fang's leisurely appearance looked like a young man on a spring outing, pointing to a place The gurgling brook said:

"There are fish in the water"

"Why, you still want to go into the water to catch fish and shrimp?"

Yu Fang was noncommittal, but looked longingly at the stream.When he reached the depths of the dense forest, he said:

"There's no one here, you can say it."

"Ah, are you still thinking about that dumb fan?! I have meat buns here, are you hungry?"

Yu Fang said, "Not hungry."

"There is water, are you thirsty?"

Yu Fang said: "I'm neither thirsty nor tired."

Xia Suijin sat down on the big rock by the side of the road, wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeves, and said, "I'm hungry, thirsty, and tired, so come and have a rest."

He took out a piece of bread from the cloth bag on his back, broke it open, and gave half of it to Yu Fang.

Yu Fang said, "I'm not hungry."

"Then I'll eat it myself. I don't think you're hungry, it's because you hate rough cakes."

Xia Suijin took a sip of water and said, "When you entered Huicheng, did you notice the merit monument at the entrance of the city?"

"……No"

"It is clearly written on the merit tablet that Huicheng was originally built by Shen Hui, the owner of the Shenjiabao, as a kind village to take in orphans who wandered under Duantian Cliff. Later, it became famous, and beggars and refugees came here to settle down , and within a few years, it became the current Huicheng."

"I've only heard of the Xuejiabao, not the Shenjiabao."

"Actually, I don't know much." Xia Suijin took a bite of the bread and suddenly asked Yu Fang, "How old are you?"

Yu Fang's ears were reddish, and she replied hesitantly: "After the new year, I will be 20 years old."

"You are 19 years old. You were only six years old 13 years ago. No wonder you haven't heard of it. 13 years ago, there was only the Shen family castle in the martial arts world, and it had a good reputation. I still remember that Lord Shen had two very beautiful daughters. Father liked it very much, and even joked that he wanted to betroth his eldest daughter to me, but of course I refused, I was going to eat and drink and wait to die, and I was still a lame man, wouldn’t I just jump into a pit of fire if a girl married her.”

Yu Fang nodded seriously: "Indeed."

"Not long after that, Shenjiabao's family was wiped out overnight. The fortune teller said it was a massacre by bandits. Later, Xue Zhengfeng, the disciple of the master of Shenjiabao, killed that nest of bandits. With the good reputation of Shenjiabao, here The Xue Family Fort was founded on Duan Tian Ya Ding. Since then, the Xue Family Fort has become famous, and there is no Shen Family Fort in the martial arts world."

At the end, Xia Suijin couldn't help but sighed quietly, and said: "It is said that Lord Shen is a great kind person, but good deeds are not rewarded with good deeds. It's really unfair to be a thief."

"You asked that fortune teller to keep it secret, why?"

Xia Suijin laughed mockingly, with a cold expression, and said:

"It's a taboo. Inquiring about Shen Jiabao on Xuejiabao's territory is clearly poking at Xuejiabao's sore spots. A strong dragon will not overwhelm a snake, and I'm alone, so it's better to take it easy."

The corner of Yu Fang's lips curled up, and she said, "You are not alone, you have me."

Xia Suijin was sobbing. Hearing this at first, it felt like a needle had been pricked in his heart. It didn't hurt or hurt, and the feeling of numbness was very weird.He turned his head to look at Yu Fang, who was fiddling with her dusty robe with her head down, muttering:

"Dirty again..."

Along the way, the white clothes became gray robes.

Xia Suijin immediately said: "I won't wash for you tonight."

This child's obsession with white clothes is too deep. When he was in "Pear Blossom Town", he was fine. He seldom went out all day, and the white clothes were not stained with dust. After dinner, he would squat in front of the tub and rub his clothes, his mood was indescribable.

Yu Fang turned her head, and there was a pear tree beside the road, which was falling like snow.He stopped suddenly, pointed to the hillside behind the pear tree, and said:

"There are skeletons there."

"What, skeleton? Where is it?"

Xia Suijin jumped up, grabbed Yu Fang's shoulder to look, jumped a few times, and sure enough saw a skeleton scattered among the rubble.

Not only the bones, but also a few rotting crows lying beside the crystal-clear stream, pecking at a rotting human corpse.The rancid smell drifted to Xia Suijin's place, and the bread in his stomach twitched, and then he supported a tree with a crooked neck, and vomited.

Xia Suijin rinsed his mouth with clear water and said, "When did this Xuejiabao become the gate of hell?"

He hurriedly took Yu Fang's hand, and said: "You must not run around, you swear."

The corner of Yu Fang's lips curled up, and she said, "I swear, I will follow you."

Those clear and clear eyes seemed to have lost the bright stars in the sky, looking at them intently and affectionately, Xia Suijin's heart skipped a beat, and immediately realized that something was wrong, she hurriedly moved her face away, holding her reddened cheeks with both hands, Strangely:

"...Why am I flustered? Why am I upset? It's not the home of a daughter who just fell in love. Why are you blushing?"

After a while, he took a sneak peek at Yu Fang, unexpectedly meeting a pair of suspiciously looking eyes, and heard him say:

"Xiao Su, you are so strange."

Xia Suijin forced her face to sullenly, and said, "Why do you call me 'Xiao Su'?"

Yu Fang seemed a little embarrassed to speak, paused for a moment, and then answered seriously: "You are Xia Suijin, Lord Ren, but the word 'Li Sujin' is only for me. You are 'Xiao Su', only I call it that, no one else can."

In an instant, my heart beat wildly.Xia Suijin covered her thumping chest, took a few steps back, and said, "Don't!"

At this time, Yu Fang's voice sounded a little distressed: "But I want to call it that way, I think it sounds good."

Xia Suijin covered her mouth and said in a low voice, "...up to you, but you can't say that in front of others."

it's a compromise

Yu Fang nodded: "Okay."

Then he took the initiative to hold Xia Suijin's hand, with anticipation in his eyes.

This……

Xia Suijin felt inexplicably terrible, but she was also very happy in her heart, so she had to go with the flow and said, "Hurry up."

……

When we got to the halfway of Duantian Cliff, there was a house hidden under the shade of dense trees.

Xia Suijin said: "That's the Shenjiabao."

Walking into the lush and lush forest, the centuries-old trees are intertwined with branches, and most of the fallen leaves and dead branches are under your feet.From the depths of the dense forest came the clear and crisp singing of birds and the sound of gurgling water. Xia Suijin used the Fusu sword to cut a path, pointed at Shenjiabao, and said:

"We'll sleep there tonight."

Ever since the skinning incident in "Pear Blossom Town", Yu Fang has been extremely afraid of bugs.The butterflies flying among the flowers are like scourges to him. He found that the forest is full of reptiles. It’s better during the day. If you see them, you can run away from them. But at night, it’s pitch black. If you step on earthworms, cockroaches, and spiders...

Yu Fang felt chilly for a while, and when Xia Suijin said that she wanted to stay overnight in Shenjiabao, she nodded hurriedly.

Xia Suijin laughed: "It would be great if you were a girl, if you are afraid of bugs, you will jump into my arms, and I will carry you away, flirting and lusting, that would be great."

Yu Fang replied in a muffled voice, "I'm not a girl."

The dense forest is mostly a dark and opaque corner. Xia Suijin is fine alone, but now he is following Yu Fang, he dare not be careless, choose the sunshine to walk the right way, and rush to the gate of Shenjiabao before dark.

Shenjiabao has been abandoned for 13 years, and it is dilapidated everywhere. The stone bricks are covered with a layer of damp green moss. Walking on them is like stepping on soft living things.

Xia Suijin first found the ancestral hall of Shenjiabao, pushed open the door, and the dust fell down, and the smoke and the fragrance of sandalwood mixed together.There are densely packed memorial tablets placed high on the wooden table against the wall, and there are half unburned incense ash in each of the two copper furnaces.

He wiped the floor with his sleeves, knelt on the futon, and said: "Master Shen, I am Xia Suijin, Prince Ren, and I will come to stay with you tonight. Please do it conveniently."

Take out the prepared paper money and ignite it, the flames flicker, and the rising smoke lingers upwards, and the densely packed tablets become blurred and ethereal in the curling incense, as if they are integrated with the black wall.However, there are two tablets among these tablets that are particularly different. They are placed in the most inconspicuous corners and covered with a layer of red cloth.

Xia Suijin glanced in that direction if he didn't know anything, bent down and kowtowed three heads, then got up calmly, and said:

"Okay, let's go out."

There are barren ruins outside the ancestral hall.There is silence all around, and the occasional chirping of birds is very far away in my ears.But at this time, a "ding dong" sound suddenly came from the quiet ruins, close at hand, Yu Fang stood holding a sword, and said:

"--Who?"

Xia Suijin also heard the sound of "ding dong", approached the ruins, and did not forget to push away Yu Fang in front of him, and said, "Stand behind me."

Unexpectedly, there is a pool of clear water hidden in the ruins, and the water surface is slowly rippling.

Yu Fang said: "There was something here just now."

After a pause, as if afraid that Xia Suijin would not believe it, he added: "I feel it, there is nothing wrong."

Xia Suijin chuckled: "Maybe a bird came to drink water and threw stones in. Well, don't worry about it, let's find a room to live in."

the two of them walked away

The waves on the pool became smaller and smaller, and gradually became silent.Suddenly, there was another crisp "ding dong", and a pale woman's face was slowly reflected on the water.

That face rolled its black eyes, and slowly grinned in the direction Xia Suijin and Yu Fang left, revealing a pale smile.

At this time, the sun was setting and darkness was coming from all directions, wrapping the entire Shenjiabao in swaddling clothes like a baby.

Night falls