Crown Sword

One step too late, "Qiao Min" stretched out his hand, copied Fu Yuyu, turned around and ran away, while the "Sword Guards" who came with him took off their coats one after another, rushed into the melee, and blocked them with their hands.

They are a gang!

Zhang Xiuyi was so disheartened that the flying knife in his hand was off the mark.Who doesn't want the person in his heart to be a hero straddling a white horse, not a villain at the ends of a mouse.

Gong Yangyue crossed his legs, kicked her small flying knife back, and the handle of the knife hit her forehead, followed by a scolding: "Zhang Xiuyi, he is not Qiao Min!"

Correct!

Qiao Min in her heart, even if she doesn't have the heart of a lover, she won't be unfaithful and traitorous, he isn't!

"Who the hell is that? Bring back my old lady's Captain Qiao!" Zhang Xiuyi shook his head, fired three swords at once, and leaned behind Gongyangyue to clear the way for him.

Gongyangyue Jianghao broke out of the siege, and chased after him.

"Seventeen!"

Chao Chen turned around and opened his mouth to call out, but there was no one there, leaving him frozen in place, reaching out to touch his chin. When Gong Yangyue ran past him, he even felt the trembling blood on the tip of the sword and the suppressed breath in the sword energy. Sullen.

The one who seized the jade was none other than Shi Qi they knew.

The answer to the mystery is neither strange nor complicated. The robbery case in Marudu Mountain City has been delayed for more than a month, and no clues have been found, because the person investigating the case is himself a robber.

Wei Xi pushed Chao Chen, the jade was gone, he had no scruples anymore, he stood in front of him: "Hey, if you're worried, go after him!" He said, pointing to the direction where Gong Yangyue left.

"Qiao Min" gritted his teeth, but no matter how he picked up the difficult and dangerous off-road trails, he still couldn't get rid of the swordsman behind him. After walking for so long, he knew it clearly, but he just didn't give up.

Even now, he has never regretted sending that letter to Yunzhong. If he didn't say goodbye, he would feel sad.

Gong Yangyue quickly caught up, and the two walked through the woods, almost neck-to-neck, and went up the mountain at the same time. "Qiao Min" took the lead, changed the course first, and guarded the outside of the cliff. Gong Yangyue stopped and looked at him five feet away: "Farewell means that there will be no more Qiao Min in this world, right? Then who are you?" ? Where is the real Qiao Min? Is he dead?"

"Qiao Min" looked at him fixedly, as if meeting Jinyang Library for the first time, with a stern expression on his face.

Gong Yangyue sighed softly: "It's a pity."

"Qiao Min" asked, "What's the pity?"

"It's a pity that it's a beautiful relationship, it's even more pity," Gong Yangyue lowered his eyes, not hurting his nerves, but the expression on his face was indescribably obscure. He was silent for a moment where he shouldn't have paused, and when he spoke again, what he originally wanted to say As the night wind dissipated, only a ruthless sneer remained, "...If Qiao Min dies, someone is afraid that they will never die with you."

This person is none other than Zhang Xiuyi.

"Joe Min" shook his head, glanced down at the torrent in the night mist, and said with relief, "It doesn't matter." Then he stretched out his arms and fell backwards.

"It doesn't matter! Who is the person who guided you to come to Jinyang to find me?"

Gong Yangyue didn't expect him to jump so crisply that he was ready to strike at any time, but he didn't try his best to get a piece of clothes, and under the cliff, the water (note) was surging, and the sound was endless.

There was a big kite hanging on the cliff in the middle of the mountain. "Qiao Min" stretched out his hand to pick it up, grabbed the handle pole under the keel, spread his wings and slid out, flying over the mountains and plains, even the once unattainable royal city was only under his feet .From the moment he jumped off without hesitation, there was no such "Qiao Min" in the world, that shadow living behind him, and as Qiao Ling, he never had such freedom as he is now——

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"What's your name?"

"Me? My name is Ling."

"Last name?"

"..."

"It's okay, I'll call you Ling from now on. In front of people, you have to call me Young Master like everyone else. As for queens, don't be particular about it. You can call me Brother Qiao Ling."

Since when did he start to be afraid of women, not to mention facing the ladies in the mansion, even talking to maids and women, he would stay far away, frightened like wild beasts?

three years old?Still five years old?

Probably since he came to Qiao's house with his mother.

His mother had no title or status. In order to find his father, he crossed the river from the Central Plains to Goguryeo and stayed there voluntarily as a slave, but he, as the son of a concubine, did not even have the right to take a surname.

Qiao Xinjian didn't tell the truth, and only asked the housekeeper to arrange it, saying that it was a poor man who was taken in by fate while on business.

The butler didn't have time to think about it, and thought that the master was kind, so he assigned him the job of serving, and then threw the boy to Master Qiao Min to play with him as a servant.

In the huge house, no one knows the truth, but paper can never contain fire. Mrs. Qiao didn't take it seriously at first, but when she mistakenly identified Qiao Ling sitting on the porch as her son Qiao Min one day, she was terrified. Let's be uneasy, why are two children who have nothing to do with each other so alike?

A woman's intuition has always been accurate, and a search will reveal the truth.

Mrs. Qiao hates, resents, and blames her, but she doesn't know Qiao Xinjian's true attitude, doesn't know his intentions, and dare not act rashly. The Qiao family has developed so far, and their room is the most promising one, but this room The population is thin, and there are three advantages and disadvantages, so wouldn't her son be easily replaced...

No, this kind of thing must not happen, it must be done cleanly.

So, Mrs. Qiao came up with a brilliant idea. She continued to pretend she didn't know anything in front of the man, and tortured the woman crazily in the back.

Qiao Ling didn't know it, but he could clearly feel that his mother forced a smile every day.Every time those people came to call his mother away, his mother would hand him a clay doll and order him to sit and play in front of the stone steps with his arms in his arms.

One day, the clay doll was broken.

He was afraid of being blamed, so he hurriedly knocked on the door, but stopped in front of the door. He heard crying, cursing, and some creepy sounds.

There was a gap in front of the door, and he put his eyes on it——

For more than ten years, nightmares have been haunting him.

"Who's outside?"

A few thick-armed women came out, looked around vigilantly, and found the hem of the clothes fluttering behind the pillar, showing a wretched smile, and slowly approached with tools.

A person jumped out from behind the pillar: "It's me!"

"Huh? Master?"

"Why is the young master here?"

Qiao Min pointed at the swallow kite behind the bushes, and said with a straight face, "The paper kite fell, I'll come and pick it up, what are you doing? Who's in that room?"

"It's nothing..." The mother-in-law prevaricated, and only said that the young master should not have come. If the wife knew about it, she would be scolded and scolded. She even invited him out, and even picked up the paper kite as an apology.Qiao Min pretended to leave, and waited until the old woman closed the door and the sound in the room died down, then he slipped past the wall.

Qiao Ling hugged his knees and sat under the pillar of the porch. When he saw Qiao Min, he immediately jumped on him sobbing, repeating "I'm afraid, I'm afraid".He was afraid, but he didn't know why his wife would do that. This lifeless old house is like a beast that eats people without spitting out its bones.

They are all beasts.

The next day, when his mother was working as usual, he approached quietly, biting his lips and keeping silent, hoping to see some clues, but the woman in front of him was just as usual.

"mother……"

"What?" The woman scowled.

He tugged at her sleeve and said harshly, "Mother, let's get out of here, I don't want to stay here..."

His mother covered his mouth with a ferocious and distorted expression: "You are not allowed to say such things, do you hear me! You are also half the owner of this house, as long as the old woman doesn't do anything to you, we must not first Compromise, listen to your mother, whatever Qiao Min learns, you can follow suit!"

"I know." He lowered his head.

Mother grabbed his hand, rolled up his sleeves, and looked at his wrist carefully for a while: "I remember Qiao Min has a mole here..." As she spoke, she suddenly pulled out an embroidery needle and picked it towards the flesh and blood.Qiao Ling opened his mouth to cry out in pain, but was tightly covered by those big hands. At that moment, he couldn't see the tenderness in his eyes, he could only read pain and madness.

He still couldn't figure out why Qiao Min had a mole, and he must grow it too. When he figured it out, God made a big joke, and everything was irreversible.

Before she could grow up, Qiao Xin saw that she missed and died in a mission, and Mrs. Qiao was finally able to justifiably kick that woman out of the house.

On that day, the sky saw snow and it was cold to the bone.

Mrs. Qiao held the hand stove, stood in front of the threshold, looked down at the mad woman who looked like a bereaved dog, and said with a sneer, "Don't think I don't know what you've been planning. Stay here, I won't hurt him, I will keep him and see if he can really replace him."

Until now, Qiao Ling didn't know where his mother died. He only thought that she couldn't stand the torture, left him, and flew back to the Central Plains.

Mrs. Qiao really kept her promise and didn't make things difficult for him. On the contrary, Qiao Min learned something, and he also had a part. It was strange, but he was still grateful, even after knowing his life experience, he didn't feel hatred.

But Qiao Ling knew very well that he could never become Qiao Min.

Qiao Min is the hope of his peers, he lives in the light, he is steady, smart and good at dancing, but he can only live in despair, as gloomy as a shadow that cannot see the light.

Yes, he is the shadow.

When Qiao Min became the head of the Seven Sword Guards, he would not be able to become the Sword Guard, but could only be his shadow, doing dangerous things for him, so as not to let him follow in the footsteps that Qiao Xin saw.

reject?

But Mrs. Qiao gave him a bowl of rice and raised him for so many years; but his mother disappeared without a word; the most important thing is that Qiao Min is his big brother, who is really good to him, and he is willing.

What if he never knew the truth?

Therefore, when Gongyangyue threw himself on the edge of the cliff, facing the long wind, gnashing his teeth and shouting the word "Qiaoling", he was so happy and moved that he held a big kite in his hand and wept against the wind——

Turns out someone else knew who he was.

He was very happy. During the year and a half he went to the Central Plains, even though his name was Qiao Min, even though his name was Seventeen, he had always been himself, the one who was dull, unreasonable, unable to speak, and afraid of women.

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Note: Xishui is now the Yalu River.