The whole world is waiting for the devil to break up

Clouds enveloped the sky,? The thunderstorm continued.

Xiao Han and Li Zhi were probably the only ones who dared to go up the mountain in such weather. Fortunately, there was a shelter from the wind and rain. There was also a burning fire in the cold cave to keep them warm.

It is very irrational to go down the mountain in the rain when there is a thunderstorm, and the two can only stay here temporarily.

Xiao Han found that Li Zhi seemed to be very interested in his friend Xiao Jiang and his past, so he explained: "When I was 12 years old, my parents went out and were assassinated on the way. The old man only cared about my mother. I I was captured by assassins,? They wanted to arrest me and blackmail the old man,? Just in case,? They also poisoned me."

Li Zhi squatted in front of the fire with his arms around his knees, staring at Xiao Han intently.

Xiao Han deliberately paused, and said to Li Zhi in a serious manner: "The poison is very powerful. Once it occurs, it will cause chills all over the body. It will occur every night. It is a heart-breaking cold. I still remember it. ,? At that time, I thought I was going to be frozen into an ice cube,? After a long time,? The old man sent someone to find me."

Li Zhi stared at him with black eyes reflecting the firelight, as if asking him what to do next.

Xiao Han thought that Li Zhi definitely had worries about him in his eyes, so he purposely sighed, showing a meaningless attitude, and said indifferently: "It's a pity that the people sent by the old man are not their opponents, I took the opportunity with my wit Run away, rather than being caught by them to threaten my parents, I would rather die outside. Coincidentally, those assassins brought me near here."

Li Zhi lowered his eyes, looked at the fire silently, and leisurely picked up a dead branch on the ground and threw it in, lighting the fire.Although he knew that Xiao Han's words were exaggerated, he didn't interrupt.

"Then I went into this cave and met Xiao Jiang." Xiao Han looked around at the cave where the traces of his life had been erased by time due to years of no one, and sighed from the bottom of his heart.He opened his sleeve again, revealing the old scar on his right arm, "But I didn't see him when I first came, but I was shot by an arrow."

Xiao Han deliberately stretched out his hand to show Li Zhi, "Look at Zhizhi, this is the wound caused by the arrow that year. Although Xiao Jiang is young, he is very interested in organs. This was originally his private site. I bumped into it by mistake, and was injured by the mechanism he set up. The iron arrow head was still in the shape of a lotus flower. After being hit by the arrow, it would definitely kill the wound. Although the arrow was not too deep, it only hurt a little flesh, but When I pulled out the arrow, I took out a lot of flesh, which left this indelible scar."

Li Zhi had seen his scar a long time ago, not far from his scar, and the knife scar that Xiao Han thought he had blocked for him three years ago, and it was also three years ago that he saw this strange scar at the same time.

Xiao Han guessed that Li Zhi was feeling sorry for him, so he took the opportunity to touch Li Zhi's shoulder, "That lotus arrow was coated with anesthetic, at that time I thought I was going to die, who knew I would wake up, and then I saw Xiao Jiang. "

Li Zhi hummed perfunctorily.

Xiao Han didn't notice it, and when he talked about Xiao Jiang, he had obvious nostalgia on his face, "At that time, the poison on my body just happened, and he said he could help me, so he went down the mountain to find someone, and when he came back, he taught me I have a set of exercises, and he said that I am a martial arts genius, although I have never touched martial arts in the past 12 years, I can learn it as soon as I learn it."

Li Zhi raised his eyebrows as he listened.

"It was also the set of exercises that Xiao Jiang taught me, which allowed me to learn to use my internal strength to barely suppress the poison in my body." Xiao Han said with a smile: "Later, I went back to the palace and got rid of the poison on my body, and I have been practicing this all the time. My father saw the kung fu, and he invited many masters to teach me martial arts, but I am most familiar with that set of kung fu. Later, one of my masters told me that what Xiao Jiang taught me was The Nanhua Excalibur, which has been lost in Jianghu for nearly a hundred years, is a yang system technique that can indeed suppress cold poison."

"It's a pity that we parted soon." Xiao Han said, "Xiao Jiang took care of me for half a month. When I left, I was too anxious to say goodbye to him. I sent someone back to inquire, only to find out that he had lied to me. There are nine of Jiang's people, but none of them is him, and I have never seen him again."

Li Zhi frowned, "How do you conclude that he lied to you? What if he just has the same name as someone else?"

"I thought about this too, so I came back to find him in person. He only told me that his name was Xiao Jiang, and he was from Jiangjia Village. I found all the people named Xiao Jiang, and I met everyone of different ages. , and finally found a single family in the west of the village, it is said that the young master who was released here is named Xiao Jiang." Xiao Han looked at the tomb and said: "I have asked many people, and I am sure that this Xiao Jiang knows me. Xiao Jiang is exactly the same as Xiao Jiang. When I saw him that year, he was about ten years old. He practiced martial arts at the age of six, and he had developed internal strength at the age of ten. It's unusual, it's not common in this village."

Xiao Han paused for a moment, and said regretfully: "It is said that on the day I left, his house caught fire, and he was trapped in the sea of ​​fire alone. The village woman who took care of him didn't find out in time, so he really died."

Li Zhi found that when Xiao Han was talking to him, there was a bit of unconcealable grief in his eyes.

"Actually, if I had gone to say goodbye to him and take him away that day, maybe he would not have died. I once promised that if he saved me, I would repay him. I wanted to take him to my house to have a look. I also I didn't tell him that I am the heir of Pingyang Palace, but he doesn't seem to care about it, he just stares at me practicing martial arts."

Xiao Han said with a smile, "It seems that he is also practicing Nanhua Excalibur, but my progress is much faster than his. He doesn't like being surpassed, but he still got me a whole set of mental skills from his father."

Does this even boast of himself?There was a trace of strangeness in Li Zhi's eyes, and he curled his lips and said, "Whoever praises someone for being beautiful means that he looks like a girl."

Xiao Han spread his hands, "But he is really beautiful, I thought he was a little girl at first."

Seeing that he was so upright and confident, Li Zhi's heart choked up, but he could only grit his teeth secretly.

Xiao Han didn't continue joking, "I came here this time, only to find that his family didn't care about his death. They didn't even set up a small grave. It happened to be the anniversary of his death these days, and there seemed to be no one except me. Remembering him, I went up the mountain to set up a tomb for him, so that he would know that I am not an ungrateful person."

Li Zhi stared at him quietly for a long while, and finally squeezed out two words, "My condolences."

Xiao Han put his hand on Li Zhi's shoulder, pulled the distance between them closer, and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm not sure that he is really the Xiao Jiang I know. Think about it, Zhi Zhi, Xiao Jiang knows kung fu, the house He should be able to escape when it was on fire, and people in the village said that he was burned to ashes, not even a corpse."

Xiao Han asked Li Zhi, "Zhi Zhi, isn't it suspicious that the dead body can't be found?"

Li Zhi tilted his head back, away from Xiao Han's face, "Do you suspect that he is fake death?"

Xiao Han said with a smile: "The only one who knows me is Zhizhi."

Li Zhi pushed him away and reminded coldly: "This is just your speculation."

"But from the beginning to the end, he said that the father who taught him Kung Fu has never appeared." Xiao Han said: "There are many doubts. I believe that there is a one-to-one chance that he is not dead, so I have been looking for him for a full 11 days. In [-], I asked someone to write a storybook to spread his name all over the world, and I also hoped that he would know that there are still people looking for him."

Li Zhi couldn't help being taken aback, "You can't find anyone, so you hope that the other party will come to you?"

"That's right, his identity must be extraordinary, otherwise, why can't my people find out after so long? And the young master who was freed in a small mountain village actually knows the peerless magic of Nanhua Excalibur?"

Xiao Han rubbed his chin and said, "I think, Xiao Jiang may be the illegitimate son of a high-ranking man, and the suspended animation was also to avoid his enemies."

"Illegitimate child?" Li Zhi's eyes widened.

"It's just a guess. I believe he is still alive. As long as he is alive, nothing is a problem."

Li Zhi took a deep breath and asked, "For the benefactor who saved your life and the master who taught you swordsmanship, why do you make wild guesses about his status? Why do you erect a tomb when you know he's not dead?"

"What if he is no longer alive?" Xiao Han didn't notice Li Zhi's anger, looking at the pile of rocks he built with his own hands, there was a hint of melancholy between his brows, "At least he should have his own grave."

Li Zhi was speechless for a long while, just looked away sullenly.

Xiao Han thought of something, ignored Li Zhi, ran over to burn the paper money, lit all the incense candles and put them in front of the tomb, and said while burning the paper: "Little Master, have I been the only one to burn incense for you for so many years? Are you hungry? Just eat more, I will give you a longevity card in the future, and you will definitely not be short of your rations."

Li Zhi was so angry when he heard this, he clenched his fists behind Xiao Han's back, and held back for a while before retracting them.

After Xiao Han burned all the incense sticks and paper money he brought, the thunder stopped for a while, the heavy rain turned into a drizzle, the dark clouds in the sky were blown away for a while, and the sky slowly poured into the entrance of the cave, making the cave brighter.

Li Zhi, who was squatting by the fire, witnessed the whole process of Xiao Han's worship, his face was cold and smelly. Seeing that the rain had subsided, but it was getting late, he got up wrapped in a snow-green robe and reminded Xiao Han, "Go down the mountain." .”

Xiao Han looked at the gloomy sky outside the cave, guessing that the thunderstorm would not last long, took out a cloth bag from his arms, and put it in front of the tomb, "Let's go, I will treat you to dinner next time when I buy the longevity card."

The corner of Li Zhi's mouth twitched, why is this person so superstitious?It's just beyond words.When he came over, he couldn't help but ask, "What is that?"

Xiao Han pointed to the cloth bag, "That one?"

Li Zhi nodded.

"Bazhen Cake, I told him before that the cook in the palace is good, and he wanted to eat it, so he asked someone to buy some." Xiao Han looked at Li Zhi teasingly, "Think carefully about Zhi Zhi and Xiao Zhi. Jiang is also quite similar, he is also seldom talkative, gluttonous, and you all have strange tempers, and it is strange to be angry..."

Under Li Zhi's death gaze, Xiao Han rubbed his nose, as if nothing happened, stretched out his long arms to embrace Li Zhi and walked towards the passage outside the mountain. "Walk, walk, it's rare that the rain has become smaller, let's go back quickly."

Li Zhi withdrew his cold gaze, slapped Xiao Han's hand away, and at the same time secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

When the two walked out of the narrow hole at the beginning, they saw two umbrellas propped up on the mountain wall next to each other, and the cool smell of grass and trees came to their nostrils.

If the ground wasn't so much water and muddy everywhere, Li Zhi's mood would be much better.He glanced at the washed bamboo grove outside the cave, and then looked down at the hem of his clothes. Sure enough, it was covered with mud.

Xiao Han saw Li Zhi's disgust, he had an idea, straightened his collar, walked up to Li Zhi, coughed lightly to draw his attention back, then bent down and patted his back and said, "Come on, I Carry you." Knowing that although Li Zhi loves to be clean, he is even stronger, Xiao Han said again: "You have not recovered from serious injuries, and the mountain road so far away is not easy to walk, so I'll carry you back, just hold an umbrella."

An oiled paper umbrella was stuffed in Li Zhi's hand, he frowned, looked at Xiao Han's back for a moment, then reluctantly nodded, and reluctantly climbed up.Xiao Han felt a coolness on his back, and got up with a sneaky smile. He felt that Li Zhi was too light, so he couldn't control it, and Li Zhi subconsciously hugged his arms.

"Can you do it?" Li Zhi said displeased.

"Of course." Xiao Han wondered why a man can't do it, and walked out of the cave with a smile, urging: "Okay, don't worry, hold up your umbrella."

Li Zhi glared at Xiao Han, feeling that Xiao Han must be playing with him.He is rarely so close to outsiders, but his injury is really not suitable for walking too far, so he has to suppress the discomfort in his heart and open the oil-paper umbrella.

The 11-year Nanhua Excalibur was not practiced in vain. Besides, Xiao Han is still a martial arts prodigy. His footsteps are indeed very steady. When he stepped into the green bamboo forest full of rain, Li Zhi did not feel the slightest jolt.

Maybe it's because the exercises are of the Yang system, Xiao Han's body is always warm.

Li Zhi's body temperature was cold, and when he leaned against Xiao Han's shoulder, he couldn't help feeling yearning and reluctance in his heart. With such a comfortable heat source, Li Zhi almost fell asleep several times along the way. Fortunately, he still remembered the time when he held the umbrella. Task, barely cheered up.

He knew his own body well, Li Zhi knew that he was seriously injured and was about to catch a cold again.

When the sky was completely dark, the two finally returned to Jiangjia Village.

Li Zhi jumped off Xiao Han's back while wrapping his Xueqing robe tightly around his body.Xiao Han put away his umbrella, and walked all the way with the person on his back, but his steps were very steady.

The two stood in front of the old house, Xiao Han was about to push the door, Li Zhi suddenly sneezed.

Xiao Han laughed, looked at him and said, "Let Yan Ba ​​cook a bowl of ginger soup later."

Li Zhi rubbed his nose and did not speak.

Xiao Han pushed open the door and walked into the old house.

The wind and rain gradually increased, and the lights in the house flickered, flickering and dimming.Back all the way, Xiao Han's clothes were mostly wet by the rain, especially the hem of the clothes, which was dirty and full of mud. Xiao Han stepped into the threshold with the hem of the clothes, "Yanba, your master is back!"

Seeing him being so arrogant, Li Zhi silently rolled his eyes.Suddenly heard a voice suddenly sounded in the wind and rain, hoarse and cold, Li Zhi's ear tip moved slightly, and looked at Xiao Han's back in vain, "Be careful!"

As soon as the words fell, a saber slashed towards Xiao Han.Xiao Han was shocked, and quickly retreated to avoid the knife. The man in black with the knife rushed out from behind the door. At the same time, several figures in black rushed out from the dark together, and there were several people outside the door blocking their way. .

Xiao Han hurriedly repelled the man in black who was attacking him with a knife, and saw Li Zhi rushing into the old house, Xiao Han was surprised, so he had to cooperate to guard Li Zhi's back, and followed Li Zhi into a room .

Li Zhi was extremely fast, no one could hurt him, but it was hard for Xiao Han, he dealt with the siege of several black-clothed assassins with his bare hands, and when he was forced to the door of Li Zhi's room, he took out the dagger.

After entering the room, Li Zhi went straight to the bed, and he was relieved until he felt his long sword under the bed. Hearing that Xiao Han had already fought with the assassin in front of the door, he drew his sword and charged forward without hesitation. go out.

These black-clothed assassins attacked fiercely, and they came here to kill them. After Li Zhi made the attack, Xiao Han felt much more relaxed, and the two of them showed no mercy. Fortunately, their skills were not bad, and it would not be a problem to deal with these seven or eight people.

After dealing with the assassin in the old mansion, Xiao Han went straight to Yan Ba ​​Yanjiu's room, but the two of them went nowhere, leaving only a long trail of blood that had dried up in front of the door—the blood that had been dragged along.

"Yanba and the others..." Xiao Han didn't say any more, only clenched the short sword in his hand.

"If we haven't seen anyone, it means they are still alive." Li Zhi put away his long sword, he knew Xiao Han was worried about Yan Ba ​​Yan Jiu, but now is not the time, "This place has been exposed, it is not suitable to stay for a long time, come with me."

Xiao Han looked at the blood on the ground for a moment, his eyes tightened, he nodded and followed Li Zhi.

It was raining heavily tonight, and the blood in the courtyard was washed away in the blink of an eye. The two of them had just returned, grabbed the oiled paper umbrella, jumped over the corpses of the assassins in the courtyard, and rushed out of the old house again in the rain.

This time it was Li Zhi who led the way, and Xiao Han found a dilapidated old house in the corner of the village to shelter from the rain. There was no fire or people inside, only cobwebs and weeds, but it was still a safe place.

Li Zhi took out the fire folder, and lit a torch in the lee.Xiao Han stared at the dagger in his hand, his face was very solemn, "Something happened to them."

Li Zhi said: "Not necessarily, Yan Ba ​​is very smart, Yan Jiu's martial arts are not bad, they probably escaped."

"But the blood on the ground..."

"Maybe it's not theirs." Li Zhi stared at Xiao Han's uneasy eyes, and said, "They may have escaped from the old house. Think about it carefully, is Yan Ba's most precious medicine box missing?"

Xiao Han was very distressed, "I didn't notice."

Li Zhi took a deep breath, took the initiative to hold Xiao Han's hand rarely, and comforted him: "Now is not the time to blame yourself, we have to get out of here as soon as possible to find out where Yan Ba ​​and Yan Jiu are."

"I know." Xiao Han lowered his eyes, looking a little fragile, "I'm just worried."

Li Zhi hesitated to speak, he patted the back of Xiao Han's hand, and found that the back of his hand was cold, so he took off the Xueqing robe he was wearing, and was about to throw it to Xiao Han.

Xiao Han said: "No, I'm not cold."

Li Zhi directly put the robe on Xiao Han's shoulders, "Put it on, your clothes are all wet."

Xiao Han stared blankly at Li Zhi for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Li Zhi's shoulders and wrapped him in, Li Zhi frowned, and then he heard Xiao Han's weak voice, "I'm a little cold, please let me lean on you for a while. "

Li Zhi squinted at him, "Are you afraid?"

Xiao Han shook his head, his head really rested on Li Zhi's shoulder, his eyes were slightly absent-mindedly reflecting a little indifferent fire light, and his mood was very depressed.

"Yan Ba's kung fu is very poor, with so many people, Yan Jiu will not be a match."

Li Zhi also thought of Yan Ba ​​and his wife.It's not that he is not worried, but he is far inferior to Xiao Han, the master who has been with them day and night for many years.It can be seen that Xiao Han treats Yan Qi and the others as friends.

Xiao Han repented: "If I knew it earlier, I would have asked Yan Ba ​​and the others to go to Yanbo Lake to find Doctor Bai."

Li Zhi let the other party's heavy head lean on his shoulder, and supported Xiao Han with his thin body, his attitude was as calm as ever, without any expression on his face, and his voice was cold and ruthless. "Have you always been this vulnerable when you were in danger?"

"...That's not true." Li Zhi's tone didn't sound comforting, but angry.Suspecting that Li Zhi saw that he was pretending to be weak, Xiao Han hurriedly put away the fragility that he had exaggerated, and remedied: "I'm just worried that Yan Ba ​​will come back and ask me for a vacation. He wants to go to Yanbo Lake to find Doctor Bai all day long." Detoxify his brother, but if the poison is really detoxified, he will not survive."

The topic changed so fast that Li Zhi almost couldn't keep up, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "What?"

Xiao Han betrayed Yan Ba ​​regardless of the friendship between master and servant, and used this to divert Li Zhi's attention, "Their brothers have planted a kind of Gu worm called Twin Life Gu in their bodies, which can stabilize the poison in Yan Ba's body, but at the same time it will also affect Yan Ba's body. Jiu's body has caused some damage, so Yan Jiu can't speak now, and Yan Ba ​​is also blaming himself."

Li Zhi had heard this story before, but there were some discrepancies, "Poison on Yan Ba's body?"

Xiao Han nodded vigorously, "When I brought him back to the palace, he was full of poison. It was Yan Jiu who begged me to save him at the beginning. Fortunately, his foundation is broken and he cannot practice martial arts, but his medical talent is not bad."

Who begged whom to save whom?

This was the opposite of what Li Zhi had heard. Li Zhi didn't suspect that Xiao Han was lying to him, he had already heard that Yan Ba ​​must be lying to fool him.

Seeing that Li Zhi was very interested in Yan Ba ​​and Yan Jiu, Xiao Han said a few more words to him, "Yan Ba ​​has been testing medicine for the poison king since she was a child, and her body has been poisoned long ago, can she live past twenty years?" It's hard to say, luckily Yan Jiu found him in time, and my compassionate master was willing to help, so he was rescued, and it happened that Yan Ba ​​was missing from my guards, so he recommended himself."

"So, Yan Jiu is the one who entered the palace?" Li Zhi thought to himself.

"Yes." Li Zhi's question made Xiao Han a little confused, "Could it be that what you heard is different?"

Li Zhi pursed his lips, not wanting to answer at all.

Xiao Han, who had been master and servant with Yan Ba ​​for many years, knew who he was, quickly guessed the truth, and he looked at Li Zhi with a smile, "It seems that Zhizhi was deceived, it's okay, many people have been cheated by Yan Ba. lied to."

Li Zhi rolled his eyes, saw that Xiao Han was still holding him, and stabbed Xiao Han's abdomen with his elbow.

Xiao Han snorted, covered his stomach and curled up, and naturally let go of Li Zhi. He squeezed out two tears and looked at Li Zhi with teary eyes.

"...Zhizhi, why did you hit me again?"

Both the master and the servant used the same method to win sympathy... Li Zhi watched the exaggerated pain and ferocity on his face, and said coldly, "Jiang Family Village has been discovered, we have to leave here immediately after the rain stops."

Hearing this, Xiao Han also regained his composure, and sat up straight, "Okay. Yan Ba ​​should be fine, otherwise what we saw in the old house would be his body, and he and Yan Jiu may have escaped."

Li Zhi was still angry and didn't want to speak.

Feeling guilty, Xiao Han took off his outer robe and put it back on Li Zhi.Li Zhi glanced at it with disgust, but he didn't throw it away. Anyway, this dress also warmed him up in this rainy night.

Xiao Han sat down next to Li Zhi, and asked, "What is this place?"

Li Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly said: "I don't know, anyway, it's raining too much and we can't hurry, maybe there's an ambush on the road, just stay here for now."

Xiao Han agreed: "Then we'll wait here for Yan Ba ​​Yan Jiu and the others to come back to meet them."

Li Zhi hummed lightly in response.

The dilapidated old house can only provide a few tiles to cover the roof, a few beams are crumbling, and the surrounding walls are covered with burnt black marks.

It was too dark when he came here just now, Xiao Han didn't see the road clearly, he only knew that he was still in the Jiang Family Village, when he calmed down, he realized that the surroundings were extraordinarily cold.This may be the old houses in Jiangjia Village that have long been unoccupied, but it turned out to be a blue brick and tile house, and the scale is not small. It can be seen that this family is not poor, and the fire marks left around are also very strange.

As Xiao Han thought about it, he became more and more curious about this place, "This house looks like it has been burned."

Li Zhi said: "You still have the heart to study this."

"It's a bit boring." Xiao Han said honestly, he stood up, looked at the main room they were in, and suddenly sighed, "I remembered, Xiao Jiang's house was also on fire."

Li Zhi watched his back silently.

Xiao Han walked around the main room with his arms folded, and finally stood in the middle of this extremely dilapidated lobby, turned his head and said to Li Zhi: "Maybe we came to Xiao Jiang's house by mistake."

Li Zhi rolled his eyes and ignored it.

At this moment, there was a faint light of fire in the rain outside the dilapidated old house.

The two noticed at the same time, Xiao Han hastily pointed to the torch, Li Zhi also extinguished the torch at the same time, Xiao Han could only tiptoe back to Li Zhi in the dark, just so happened, someone came in with a lantern.

The half-covered door was pushed open by a hand, and a tall and thin figure walked in, holding a basket in his hand. He entered the door, looked at the rubble on the ground, put down the bamboo basket on the spot, and squatted down .

Li Zhi and Xiao Han, who were hiding in the dark, walked behind him silently, and Li Zhi's long sword approached the man's back silently.At this moment, the man sighed, "Master Jiang, I have come to worship you."

Hearing this, Xiao Han held down Li Zhi's hand holding the sword.

The man didn't notice the crisis not far behind him. While lighting the incense candles, he brought out fresh fruits and wine cups, and put them on the ground one by one, "Your death day is coming again this year, and I'm here to burn incense for you again."

The young master of the Jiang family died on the same day?

Xiao Han was startled, this is really the home of his childhood friend Xiao Jiang?

Li Zhi stared at the man's back coldly, the fingers of the hand holding the sword tightened, who would offer incense?

The author has something to say: Originally, I wanted to write about the lost horse, Shizi’s lovelorn and Zhizhi’s self-disclosure, but I couldn’t finish it_(:з」∠)_

Catch bugs

Thanks for subscribing =3=