Crown Sword

In fact, as long as the heart is ruthless, it doesn't matter whether the people in the valley are dead or alive, there is no threat or restriction at all.It's not that Chao Chen doesn't understand, it's just that he can't take advantage of people's dangers, for Gongyangyue, and for these ordinary people who don't know whether they are Di people or not.

He waved his hand and covered the firewood: "You have a good rest!"

"Wait a minute!" Ding Gui clenched the quilt tightly, regretting what he had done the past two days. After taking a deep breath, he cupped his hands and clasped his fists, and said loudly through the chai gate, "I will wait for you here in the future. , Don’t wait for the time, don’t tell anyone. I can tell you, you...you are indeed a kind and righteous person, I believe.”

"Si time?"

Chao Chen showed his face in an instant, and hurriedly responded happily, but he was a little confused, and blurted out, "Why not tomorrow?"

"There are so many reasons, whether love comes or not!" Ding Gui said viciously.

Chao Chen was afraid that he would retort: ​​"Come, I will come."

Ding Gui let out a "hmm", straightened the pillow, pulled the quilt to lie down, and repeatedly warned: "I have something else to do, don't come to me tomorrow, and you won't find it if you look for it."

The Mianzhu battle has never been investigated. It is nothing more than the fact that all the people involved have died, whether it is Zhang Yu, the king of Shu who defended, or Yang Guang, who followed Zhang Yu in the army, whether it was Gong Yangchi who rebelled against the city, or Qin who attacked the city. General Deng Qiang is now all bones under the ground.

Maybe there are still people who know the truth among the two armies, but the state of Qin is falling apart, and the world has been in chaos for several times. Such a chance is very small, and it can be called a godsend. The root cause that those people have never been able to find out.

But right now, there is a person who is determined to speak, no matter what the final result is, at least there is much to look forward to, after all, the light of fireflies is also light.

After leaving the small hut in the mountains, Chao Chen felt that his breathing was smoother, and even his steps were much lighter than usual, so that when he greeted Shun'er's father at the entrance of the village, the man had a ghostly expression on his face, but it was Shun'er's mother who warmly greeted him. Bring him two reeds planted in his own field and give them to him.

Thinking of being teased by Gong Yangyue, he politely declined.

Leaving the village, crossing the mountain pass, and walking outside Mianzhu City, by coincidence, he bumped into Gongyangyue who was returning to the city. Chao Chen felt that he really had a foresight.

Gong Yangyue came over from another small road, and stared at him: "Are you following me?"

"Let's be reasonable, I'm so good at walking ahead of you, how can I follow you?" Chao Chen was annoyed, this guy always has a way to make people angry with one sentence.He copied it with both hands, his good mood ruined him, and he said stiffly: "I didn't follow you, who cares to follow you."

"most."

Gong Yangyue put down two words, didn't quarrel with him, didn't even tease him, taunt or tease him as usual, just waved his sleeves and went to the city gate.

Is this the sun coming out from the west?

Chao Chen's heart skipped a beat, and belatedly remembered Gong Yangyue's tired eyes when he spoke, and his whole body looked sluggish. Thinking of his disappearance these days, he only suspected that he was busy chasing down clues, so he didn't bother to care about it, and followed him Go up, don't say booing and inquiring, at least ask if you need help.

The moment he stretched out his hand, the mountain wind blew away, and the untied sleeves of Gongyang Yue's clothes were blown away, revealing his empty waist.

Gong Yangyue didn't move her expression and turned away from Chao Chen's hand that was pressing on her right shoulder.

"Where's your sword?" Chao Chen flinched, his mind was buzzing, and he immediately realized the meaning of the broken sword that never left his body being taken off at this moment.For a moment, a big hole seemed to open up in his heart, and even his body trembled uncontrollably, "Are you forging a sword? Are you reforging that broken sword?"

Hearing this, Gongyangyue stopped and remained motionless.

Chao Chen circled to the front and blocked him with his arms outstretched, but when they looked at each other, he didn't know what to say. This kind of behavior fell into the eyes of others, it was a bit stupid and unreasonable.

Gong Yangyue pursed her lips, her eyes suddenly brightened, but soon the stream of light quickly dimmed like a comet, and then turned into cold words: "Oh, look at your excited look..."

Without thinking, Chao Chen blurted out, "I'm not excited!"

"Oh, look how happy you are..."

"I'm not happy either!"

Not excited?Not happy?

Gong Yangyue didn't speak anymore, and gave him a complicated look, feeling very incomprehensible.Isn't it Chao Chen's long-cherished wish to reforge the Broken Sword, untie the shackles, repay kindness with kindness, and repay grievances with grievances?

Or……

Gong Yangyue tried her best to suppress the longing in her heart that made her panic and uneasy, walked past Chao Chen with a stern face, and explained coldly: "Only Mianzhu has the gold and stone to continue the sword."

"Who cares about gold and stones!"

This roar not only made Gongyangyue stunned on the spot, but also surprised Chao Chen himself - the one who cares most is obviously himself, every month in the past, he almost pestered Gongyangyue to urge him earnestly He would also be annoyed by Gong Yangyue's deliberate delay with all kinds of excuses, but right now, he is the one who says he doesn't care.

why?

Why exactly?

Chao Chen felt timid in his heart, he felt a chill creeping up his bones, fear came over him, and he wanted to carve him up, but he dared not and was unwilling to admit that it was because of Gong Yangyue. He will feel ashamed, ashamed of surrendering to his enemies.

No, he couldn't accept it, at least not yet.

"Oh," Chao Chen let out a breath of white air, lowered his head and laughed twice, and when he looked up again, his eyes were full of reason and righteousness, "I mean, why did you forge a sword at this juncture and kill the Taoist priest? The murderer is no longer found? The sacred object is no longer found? "Kaiyang Jilue" is ignored? Ye Zidao and his behind-the-scenes pushers are not important? Okay, what about the Gongyang family? Didn't you say that a loyal family has grievances? Is it thanks to me..."

Hearing his explanation, Gong Yangyue breathed a sigh of relief, but was very disappointed.

"Fortunately, I have been..."

The more Chao Chen showed that innocent and aggrieved look, the more Gong Yangyue became agitated and restless.He stretched out his hand and pushed the person away: "What does it have to do with you!"

"Chao Chen, let me say it again, what does it have to do with you!"

With the sound of thunder, the peaceful and gentle smile on Chao Chen's face finally couldn't hold back, but he still subconsciously tried to find an excuse: "I understand, I understand, the enemy is in the dark, and there are too few clues at hand. The best thing to do now is to stand still, that is... just wait for the opportunity, you must have forged the sword to paralyze the opponent..."

"Really?" Ram Moon asked disdainfully.

That kind of contempt stung Chao Chen, he really wanted to yell, "What is Ding Gui, I'm the fucking evil, so I can help you talk about nothing".But he has never been able to speak vulgar words, even when he is emotionally excited, so he just twitched the corner of his mouth and looked deeply at the person in front of him.

The two just looked at each other speechlessly, until Gong Yangyue raised his legs to leave, Chao Chen was so excited that he rushed forward and grabbed his lapel for the first time, saying yes three times in a row.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Gong Yangyue didn't expect his reaction, lowered his eyes, stared blankly at the pair of white hands that fell on his chest, and involuntarily covered his right hand.

When his palm touched the coolness on the back of his hand, he came to his senses, pulled Chao Chen's arm away, and said word by word, "It's better for you to hate me."

"Ram Moon!"

"Don't try to get close to someone like me, once you get close, there's no turning back—"

The plum blossoms on the top of the city were flying, falling on the forehead of the swordsman in red, shocking like a drop of blood.Chao Chen's pupils shrank, and he quickly avoided it. Having reached this point, he turned around resolutely, and walked away with his back.

The two separated at the city gate without looking back.

Until the sound of footsteps was gone, Gong Yangyue clenched her fists tightly and looked up at the blue sky with deep eyes: "If you can't kill me, then I will definitely kill you. Chao Chen, you won't be The second Xia Houzhen, I will never repeat the same mistakes, and I will never let anyone become my weakness."

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After returning to the courtyard of the Wei family, Chao Chen was so angry that he kept the door closed except for two meals a day. Until the next evening, there was a commotion outside the door. Li's scream flew across several rooms, and he couldn't sit still when he heard it.

He got up and wanted to push the door, but he was a little anxious, his calf bumped against the table, and the pain was so painful, Chao Chen rubbed his bruised skin, the book in his hand fell on the shoe, and he bowed his head. Look, it was only then that I realized that not only did I not turn the pages all day, but I also took the book upside down.

"Who brought it?"

Shuang Li took the long sword from Old Servant Shi, and asked eagerly, but the old servant said that the thing was hanging on the door knocker, and he didn't go out to pour the slop, and he couldn't see it, let alone who did it and when.

Chao Chen walked down the stone steps, eyes lingering on the scabbard, vaguely discerning the identity of the sword owner: "Ji Ci?"

"Oh, it's that little disciple of Sword Valley!" Shuangli suddenly realized, threw the sword out subconsciously, and shouted loudly, "Lao Yue is not here, what tricks are they trying to do!"

Qiao Min stretched out his hand and grabbed it back.

The sharp blade was unsheathed, and the entire body of the sword was covered with dried blood.

"Whose blood? What... what does this mean?" Shuang Li asked stammeringly.

Chao Chen rubbed the edge of the blade with two fingers, rubbed the blood into a muddy shape, and spread it out for the three of them to see.Judging from the color of the blood and the coagulation state, it has been at least two or three days.

Two or three days?

Shuang Li was worried about Gong Yangyue, so he raised his legs and rushed out of the door. Qiao Min stopped them, pushed them to Chao Chen, and went to the city by himself: "I remember they settled in the inn."

When Qiao Min went to the place, he asked and found out that he hadn't returned for several days, and he didn't even pay for the hotel.

The four of them sat around and discussed, Chao Chen recalled that the last time he saw Ji Ci and Zhou Bihai was following him out of the city that day, but he was lost in Liupo Forest outside the city, and it was after that that he saw Fang Jing.But for the next three days, he focused on Ding Gui, even though he was in the city, he didn't pay much attention.

If it really happened that day outside the city...

"Could it be a ghost sword?" Qiao Min frowned.

Chao Chen lowered his head and thought, but he didn't dare to answer, let alone think about it. For a moment, he was confused, and he only had a premonition that something big was going to happen——

Most of the people who collect swill go from house to house in the morning from Mao to Chen. Usually, the old servant Shi will carry the vat from the hut to the side door before midnight. Cui Tanfeng, who lives in the medicine hall, and Gong Yangyue came back from outside, should be the first person to find this thing.

If the three of Ji Ci met with an accident, and the only one who could send the blood sword to the door was the so-called "ghost sword", then, such an obvious intention, what is it if it is not provocation!

The ghost sword killed people long before they came to Mianzhu, why did the murderer suddenly turn the gun around?

The four of them discussed, and the only one who is capable of fighting the murderer is Qiao Min. He will go out of the city and inform Gong Yangyue that Chao Chen and Shuang Li will stay in the city, while Old Servant Shi communicates with each other. Familiar with the environment, he helped go to the medicine hall to call Cui Tanfeng back, and inquired about Ji Ci, Fang Jing, and Zhou Bihai along the way.

Chao Chen and Shuang Li took a chance and waited and waited.

Until the setting sun fell into the distant mountains and the stars and the moon rose, Cui Tanfeng, Shi Laopu and Qiao Min returned one after another, but Gongyangyue was the only one missing.In the middle of the night, Shuang Li felt like sitting on pins and needles, and didn't care whether it would cause trouble, so she took her cloth bag and went out to find someone in person. Qiao Min and her fought wits for a few rounds, and then used the acupuncture point to knock him out, and then Cui Tanfeng gave it to her Back to the house to take care of.

After the third watch, Chao Chen urged Qiao Min to rest, while he patiently filled each lamp with enough oil, propped his chin with his hand, and sat in the main hall to wait.

At sunrise, Chao Chen's arm slipped, and he woke up as he knocked on the table.He opened his eyes and saw that it was pitch black in front of him. He was sleepy and confused, only suspected that he was packed in a sack, his hands were busy scratching, but it turned out to be a coat, and he was dumbfounded.

Looking up again, Gongyangyue stood in front of the door, wanting to go or not, and looked back at him like a monkey, with a smile on his mouth unconsciously, but quickly put it back together, and said in a cold voice: "You can't sleep if you have a couch. Is it learning from an old monk to enter meditation?"

"What kind of meditation, I'm waiting for you! Do you know that I've been waiting for you all night!"

"wait for me?"

Chao Chen walked up to him angrily, suddenly realized that the words were ambiguous, and quickly explained: "I mean, wait until you have something to discuss." He avoided Gong Yangyue's scorching gaze, and when he lowered his eyes, he happened to recognize him. Grabbing the wrinkled shirt with his hands, he stammered, "This, is this yours?"

——No wonder he felt suffocated in the dream just now, presumably the ram moon came over to put on his clothes, and when he realized that he was awake, he simply put the whole clothes on his head.

It's like something he would do.

Being called out, Gong Yangyue snatched the robe, snorted and walked out.

Chao Chen shook his head, and pulled him back to the front of the hall: "Now is not the time to argue about this, something may have happened to your juniors in Jiangu!" He said, and he took out the belt from under the short-legged food table. The saber of blood detailed yesterday's discoveries one by one.

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