beg for chivalry

Half a month later, in Fengyuan City.

The night rain was pattering on the ground, and it seemed like a water curtain was hung on the edge of the tile eaves.A moon like a jujube stone was hidden in the thick clouds, and the paper lanterns cast a dim light in the hazy rain and mist. The lamps and candles in the distance were extinguished, as if suddenly swallowed by a beast, and fell silent in the night.

The sound of the pipa stopped in the guest house, and He Xi was caged in the dead darkness.Several men in white clothes sat on the ground, with a candle in the middle, pale and tense faces appeared in the light of the fire.Taking a closer look, they all held long swords in their arms, with their eyes wide open, holding their breath to listen to the noise outside.

The raindrops shattered on the stone bricks, like the sound of strings being plucked.When the sounds of rain on Forty Street are strung together, they become a clamor of drums and zithers. When the nearby ones stop, they will reappear in the distance, one after another.Everyone listened to the sound of the rain and carefully discerned the abnormal noise.

"Tonight... How long is it?"

Suddenly someone asked in a trembling voice.Hearing this person's sudden words, everyone shuddered, and some even pulled their swords out of the sheath a few inches unconsciously.

Yu Jiachen clenched his sword tightly, his palms were sweaty. "The bamboo clapper has been hit three times."

Three times, only three times.Three or four more hours remained in this suffocating darkness.Every moment is so difficult that it makes people feel tense all over, and the hairs stand up, as if they are headless.

He looked around, all the people here were Tianshanmen disciples, and he was the one with the strongest swordsmanship among them, so naturally he had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting everyone.

It is really rare to go out of the mountain this time, the reason is that the Martial League General Assembly will be held in the near future, this time Elder Beixuan will show up, so they are ordered to go down the mountain first, because this trip is quite dangerous.All the disciples of Tianshan Sect didn't realize it before, until Yu Jiachen realized that there were always malicious eyes cast on them from alley corners and streets.

He was more careful, and since then he has realized that there are always things around him that are getting more and more wrong: a few days ago, there seemed to be a little silver in the core of the dishes on the banquet. The tip of the needle suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.The day before yesterday when they were discussing in the guest house, Yujiachen accidentally looked up and found a hole in the watchboard.What's even more frightening is that there is actually a gloomy eye in that hole, peering at them motionlessly.

Until yesterday, Yu Yi hadn't wandered around the street for a long time, and almost fell into the night, and was rushing to the inn in a hurry, when a few black-clothed men suddenly appeared on the way, armed with knives and axes, full of evil spirits.If he hadn't jumped into the canal in a hurry, he might have been decapitated.

After talking with each other, they asked the store owner, only then did they learn that they had been targeted by villains.

Maybe it's because Tianshanmen didn't show up at the Martial League Conference for several years, and someone with ulterior motives took the opportunity to act.Seeing that the meeting is approaching, the situation is becoming more and more dangerous day by day, and they have not yet waited for the meeting, so they really have no face to go back to Tianshan Gate.Yu Bingzi was quite reasonable, and it was assumed that there would be a bloodbath tonight, so all the disciples of Tianshan cheered up, didn't dare to close their eyelids, and stayed in the guest house.

Yu Yiwei's teeth chattered: "...if those men in black set fire outside..."

These words were immediately despised by the junior sister.Yu Bingzi said with a straight face: "Senior brother, it's raining heavily, where is the water coming?"

"Who, who knows what tricks they will come up with?" Yu Yiwei was so frightened that his legs trembled, and he grabbed the corner of Yu Jiachen's clothes, "Brother Jiachen, you are good at swords and strong in people, we have to follow you Behind."

In the dark and rainy night, the pale light of the lantern shines on Yu Jiachen through the crack of the door.He listened attentively to the sound of the rain and remained silent, but he was thinking of his senior brother unconsciously.

It has been more than half a month since Yu Qiuxia broke through the mountain gate.Yu Jiachen knew that he followed him back to the Tianshan Gate in order not to be punished by the elders, so he willingly went back to receive the punishment, and then took a lot of trouble to escape from the Tianshan sword formation.I don't know where my brother is and how is he doing in the past half month?

If the senior brothers were here, they would definitely not be afraid of gods and ghosts, and they don't need to be frightened here.

Yu Jiachen was in a trance, sighing slightly, and suddenly heard a slight sound in the rain.Pat, clack, like the sound of raindrops cracking.

In an instant, a string in his mind seemed to break.At the same time, his hand suddenly put on the hilt of the sword beside him, and he jumped up tensely.

This is the sound of human footsteps.

Someone walked in the rain curtain, stepped on the ground and smashed the water, and the rain gurgled out and fell into the cracks in the bricks.The voice was soft and slow, floating from a distance like a ghost.On this rainy night and during curfew hours, someone was walking slowly along the street!

At midnight, there should be no one on the street, but footsteps approached little by little.who is it?A night watchman?It was more distant just now, it should not have come so fast.

Yu Jiachen suddenly thought of the jujube with the silver needle hidden, the eyes peeping on the roof tiles, and the man in black with the knife and axe, and suddenly shuddered.The white-clothed disciples also heard the sound, and all of them were scared out of their wits, and hurriedly stood up holding their swords.

They looked with bated breath at the well-hidden door.Suddenly, a shadow appeared in Jinfangge.The thunder sounded instantly, and in the pale lightning, the shadow spread slowly like ink blots, and finally stuck to the door.

The door creaked open.

Yu Jiachen felt the blood rushing to his brain, he drew his sword quickly, and shouted: "Who is here!" The rest of the people followed his example and pointed their swords at the door, not daring to breathe out.

A foot wearing tung oil shoes stepped in, leaving a string of deep and shallow water marks.The door pusher was wearing a collared shirt, with a cotton towel wrapped around his head, he looked like a Confucian scholar passing by, his whole body was wet.

As soon as he entered the door, seeing dozens of swords facing him, he was shocked and said: "This... Is it possible that I walked the wrong way and entered the wrong door?"

Yu Yiwei shouted, "Who are you?"

The man said: "I'm a passer-by. I can't get out of the city every night. I want to stay here for a night. Is the accountant not here?" He took out three coins and put them in front of the cabinet.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally heaved a sigh of relief when they saw that the person was dressed plainly and had no sword or other wounding object in his hand.Yu Jiachen, however, remained suspicious and asked, "Why are you walking on the street during the night ban?"

The man sighed: "I also want to find a place to rest, but I am not familiar with the place, so I have been wandering around for a long time without knowing it, and now it is here."

Yu Jiachen looked left and right at the man, but felt that he was indescribably strange, vaguely familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen it.

"Mister looks familiar, I don't know where I was lucky enough to meet you before?" He asked hesitantly, put away his sword, bowed to the door of the house, "Tianshan Gate Yujiachen."

The man said: "I saw it just now, are you familiar with it now?"

The dark electric light shrouded him, and Yu Jiachen could see his face clearly at that moment.It was a young face, really not many years older than himself, with a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth and dimples.

After saying this, the man thought for a while before opening his mouth. "Next..." He thought for a while, then changed his words suddenly:

"It's called... Wang Xiaoyuan."

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Yu Qiuxia never thought that he would really be so sympathetic with the Tianshan Gate.

That day, he escaped the Tianshan Sword Formation, threw away his hat as a trick to get rid of the golden cicada's shell, took the opportunity to sneak into the disciples of Tianshanmen, found a gap and slipped down the mountain, and continued to eat and drink in Fengyuan City.In recent days, there has been a sudden increase in the number of pedestrians at night in Fengyuanzhong, and the rainstorm came suddenly this night. He followed the whereabouts of the man in black and found this inn.

Fortunately, he was not wearing a gauze at this time, and Yu Jiachen and the other disciples had never seen his real face, so they really regarded him as a passerby for a while.

"Wang...Xiao Yuan?"

"Don't worry about memorizing it," Yu Qiuxia twisted the water from the corner of his clothes outside the door, "every family can catch three or four of this name, it's very common."

Yu Jiachen had stretched out his hand and gestured at his cuff in a daze before, but now he said seriously: "Since Brother Wang said so, I will definitely forget the name carefully in the future, without leaving a trace."

Yu Qiuxia: "..."

Before he came down to the gate of Tianshan, he chewed a handful of snow, which made his throat hoarse, and when he ate rice yeast, his throat was swollen and sore from the heat. At this time, his speech was vague, and he coughed once or twice from time to time. .

Yu Jiachen only felt that his figure looked familiar, but he couldn't recognize that this person was his senior brother.He was silent for a moment, finally nodded prudently, and signaled everyone to withdraw their swords with his eyes, before hesitating for a long time.

"Brother Wang, please come in. I'm being rude and confronted each other with swords. To tell you the truth, my group of people are worrying about banditry, so they mistakenly regard Brother Wang as a villain wandering the streets at night..."

Yu Yiwei muttered: "Why do you have to say these things to an ordinary person who has no power to restrain a chicken? He can't help us, and we shouldn't help him."

Bingzi pinched him quietly, and said angrily, "Senior brother, what he said is wrong. It's a big disaster tonight, and it's not bad to accumulate some virtue."

The sound of the rain is getting denser, hitting the gray tiles heavily, like a drum beating.The sky was extremely cold, and it was dark all around.Yu Qiuxia's plain robe was soaked in water, and it was a little bit frozen by the wind.He picked a bench and sat down, rolled up his sleeves and wrapped them around his arms, leaning towards the candlelight.

The rest of the disciples sat around the lamps and candles, but their hands were still tightly on the hilt of their swords, their expressions panicked.

Everyone sat in silence for a long time, Yu Jiachen felt that the silence was too much, so he coughed lightly, turned to talk to Yu Qiuxia: "Brother Wang is from Fengyuan?"

"People from Guangxin came to Jiading later."

When Yu Jiachen heard this, surprise flashed in his eyes, "I'm ignorant... Where is Guangxin, and where is Jiading?" He didn't go out of the Tianshan Gate for a long time, and he knew nothing about the mortal world.

"In the South China Sea, there's no snow there, and it's still very hot on a cold day. If you go into a ravine, you'll be fine. If you want to go in the summer, you'll have to take off two layers of skin." Yu Qiuxia blinked and looked at Pourpo Rain curtain, murmured. "Jiading... is a good place. 'There should be no Shu crabapple in the four seas, and there is a city full of incense[1]'."

"South China Sea, Central Sichuan, isn't that thousands of miles away? What are you doing all the way here? It's not the capital city." Yu Yiwei interjected.

Yu Qiuxia thought for a moment, and then began to talk nonsense: "Oh, you don't know, I used to spend a leisurely life in Jiading, serving tea and water to the little young master on weekdays, working like a cow and a horse, I don't want my host's family to be ruined one day. The slaughter, the servants were dismissed and fled for their lives. I couldn't let it go, so I came here to find someone."

All the disciples frowned when they heard this, with expressions of pity showing on their faces.Yu Jiachen asked cautiously: "So, brother Wang is here to seek revenge?"

"It's not seeking revenge, it's just following their tracks to find people." Yu Qiuxia looked around, "Being ambushed on all sides here is indeed a serious crime."

"What do you mean by that?" Yu Jiachen asked tremblingly, jumping up like a fire.

Yu Qiuxia said: "Everyone, have you seen some figures in black clothes in the past few days? Like jackdaws walking at night, like ghosts without a fixed point."

"I've seen it." Yu Jiachen was horrified, "Could it be that Brother Wang knows their faces?"

He saw that this person was ordinary, he didn't look like a martial arts practitioner, but he was full of quack air, indescribably sophisticated.

"The Martial League Conference is just around the corner, and the Tianshan Gate has not been seen for several years. If you show up at this time, you will naturally not let the enemy let go of this good opportunity. Yu Beixuan is not here, and tonight is a good opportunity to do it. This is the urn, we are the turtles "Yu Qiuxia sighed, "Oh, if I hadn't followed their trail here, how would I have saved your lives? Teacher..."

He swallowed the word "brother" at the end.

Yu Yiwei rushed up and grabbed his dripping collar, cursing, "What a big tone! You are full of crooked melons and bad dates in the mountain gate, can't you beat a few thieves?"

Yu Qiuxia smiled and said nothing, but glanced towards the door.Everyone followed his gaze. At first, they saw heavy rain and misty stone steps, but gradually they felt something was wrong.Water droplets fell from the edge of the eaves, but they somehow condensed in the air and merged into waterlines to hang down.

Taking a closer look, the surroundings are actually covered with cobweb-like dense silver threads, which are cold and sharp, encircling the doors and windows.Yu Qiuxia hadn't seen this line when he just entered the door, and someone took advantage of the interval between their conversations to set up a murderous formation here.

"Twisting iron wire with guts can kill people invisible." Yu Qiuxia said, "If you step out of the door at this time, your body will be cut into mud. Let me explain to you first, no matter what happens in a while, it will be smashed." Don't move around where you are, the enemy will be tough tonight, very dangerous."

He spoke calmly, but all the disciples panicked, got up with their swords in their hands, and put their backs against their backs to form a golden gang formation.This formation has the effect of defending against the enemy, they dare not slack off, and dozens of eyes scan the surroundings.

Yu Jiachen also pursed his lips nervously, pulled his sword out a few inches, and asked: "Brother Wang, according to your opinion, who will you face tonight?"

Leng Yumi came in obliquely through the door and along the window, and when it landed on her body, it hurt like a needle prick.In the dark night, they seem to have opened a few gloomy eyes, staring at them, making people feel terrified and frightened.Thunder crackled in the sky, and a few pieces of cold white lightning leaked from the dark clouds.

Yu Qiuxia quietly touched behind her.On the belt buckle behind his waist is a short knife with a loose handle, although it is not as good as the jade white knife, it can be regarded as a self-defense item.He spent four years learning knives, two years searching for people, and spent thousands of days and nights in the rivers and lakes, and finally caught the ghosts tonight.

His heart was also beating fast, hitting his chest like a fire, hot and painful.Because he needs to catch this opponent tonight, and try his best to find out the whereabouts of that person.

Yu Jiachen saw his eyes shining in the dark night, and the gloomy electric light cast a solemn shadow on the side of his face, and the previous gentle look was gone.He said slowly:

"...It's the enemy of the Tianshan Gate, Houtianlou."

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[1] Poetry by Xue Neng