The heroine Bai Xianchen and four girlfriends

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Maybe it was 20 years ago, maybe it was longer, maybe it was in—a lifetime ago.

Others may not know Liu Hongyan, even the white-haired heroine who used to be a confidant with Liu Hongyan has never really understood Liu Hongyan's heart that has long been muddy.

Liu Hongyan always said that she was an orphan, but in fact, with her memory, how could she not remember her parents, she just didn't want to recognize each other, as if the two elders were dead.

Liu Hongyan's family was poor when she was a child, and the world was full of evil spirits. Where could the poor people have enough to eat, where could they wear clothes? Living in a hut with air leakage, Liu Hongyan was already very content with the hard and torn quilt in winter. Compared with those children whose family members were eaten by evil spirits, Liu Hongyan at least has relatives.

Liu Hongyan was not a very secure person. Whenever her father went hunting, she would secretly follow behind her father, for fear that something would happen to him. Ghosts, also beware of thieves and hungry people.

In this year, only selfish people can survive. People do not destroy the world for themselves. Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures, and Confucian admonitions are useless truths that are read by emperors, generals, rich and powerful, and those who have nothing to do when they are full. In everyone's heart, it is always the real truth to be able to live and eat enough.

The Northern Kingdom of Wei was wiped out by monsters that appeared suddenly two years ago, and the rest of the kingdoms have long since lost the majesty of imperial power after a series of twists and turns. The world is no longer ruled by princes and generals. .

But Xiao Liu Hongyan doesn't care about what's going on outside, she only cares about the one-acre field in front of her house, after diligently farming, being able to eat well and wear warmth, and being able to live a happy reunion life with her family is the happiest thing for Liu Hongyan.

However, not long after, Liu Hongyan even lost the little happiness in front of her eyes.

She remembered that it was a cloudy day that was about to rain heavily, and Liu Hongyan was very excited that the dry fields were moistened by the rain. When she heard that her mother and father were going to take her to the city, she was extremely happy.

The little girl was holding an oiled paper umbrella, looking up at her parents, blinking curious eyes, looking at her parents with red and swollen eyes. She didn't understand why her parents showed such expressions when she was clearly supposed to be happy.

Her mother, who had always been hard-pressed, bought a bunch of candied haws for Liu Hongyan for the first time. There were two pieces in each bunch. Divided into two, stuffed into the mouths of father and mother respectively, and kept the other one as a treasure, saying that they would save it for tomorrow.

At that time, the mother who ate one-third of the candied haws cried. Liu Hongyan didn't understand why, but she still wiped away her tears and patted her back to comfort her.

The father kept walking in front, with his broad back facing the two women he loved the most in his life behind him, clenching his fists and walking briskly without making a sound.

Liu Hongyan still still remembers the astonishment she felt when she first came to the big courtyard of "Red Flowers, Willows and Greens". Such a magnificent courtyard attic is simply the palace courtyard in Liu Hongyan's mind.

Mother asked: "Do you like it here?"

Liu Hongyan suddenly seemed to understand something, desperately grabbed her parents' arms, and said "I want to go home", but saw a tall man walking quickly, stretched out his thick palm and lifted the little girl into the air , and with the other hand, he casually threw a few pieces of silver at the feet of the stunned, ashen-faced man and woman, and cast aside the two poor couples with some insulting eyes, then turned his head and held Liu Hongyan towards the strange and extremely Walk to the deep attic inner courtyard.

Liu Hongyan cried and hoped that her parents would change their minds. She just wanted to stay with her family. Even if she didn't have enough to eat, even if it was raining and shivering in the corner of the hut, she was still proud and happy.

She extravagantly hopes to have any kind of glory and wealth, even if a family of three starves to death together, it is better than being alone and slowly suffocating in loneliness.

Liu Hongyan used to be a girl who was afraid of being lonely, a lonely and cowardly girl, so when her father picked up silver coins on the ground, she held the arm of her crying mother, and walked farther and farther without looking back. Liu Hongyan's world gradually became gray. The price of two silver was sold to "Hua Hong Liu Lu".

Such a world will be destroyed, so what does it matter if all such human beings are eaten up by evil spirits?Anyway, even if there are no evil spirits, this is still the way of the world where individuals cannibalize people - on that day, Liu Hongyan cried out her tears, her heart could not be said to have become stronger, but she was numb and felt no pain at all.

Liu Hongyan was very resistant to the personnel affairs in the building at first, she had to do everything against the maids and servants, and the male mother. When others asked her to go east, she went west, and the musician taught her to play the piano and sing to please the guests. Ri said nothing, and did nothing with a cold face.

The old lady who was in charge of teaching Liu Hongyan couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered her servants to beat the little girl to death. Liu Hongyan lay on the ground and was tortured with the cane, but instead laughed loudly, with a strange and terrifying expression, which made people feel creepy.

After scolding and slapping countless times, the old lady no longer had any confidence in Liu Hongyan, so she withdrew her servants and servants, and allowed her to lock herself in the door without eating or drinking, and fend for herself.

Liu Hongyan's heart has long since died, would she still care about starvation of her body and her soul returning to the west?Poor families believe in Buddha and worship Bodhisattvas, and what kind of vows they make to be rich and powerful are all just returning their souls to the west and getting out of the sea of ​​​​suffering sooner.

One night, a luxuriously dressed woman came to Liu Hongyan's room. The woman was about thirty years old, but her figure was not inferior to that of the oiran in the building. The little girl followed behind her, bowing down and dragging the extremely long golden silk skirt for her. In the eyes of Liu Hongyan at that time, she really looked like a fairy goddess descending to earth.

The beautiful woman withdrew the servant girls behind her, and sat alone beside Liu Hongyan's bed, chattering about these useless daily routines, but in Liu Hongyan's ears, it was far better than the threats and entreaties of old mothers.

The beautiful woman said to herself, Liu Hongyan listened carefully, and became obsessed with that beautiful woman like a demon.

Seeing Liu Hongyan's expression, the beautiful woman smiled and asked: "Do you still want to go back to your hungry days?"

Liu Hongyan shook her head, she didn't think about anything, she was already an outcast, so what if she went back, it was no longer her home.

The beautiful woman smiled with satisfaction, and then asked: "Then you hate your parents? You hate the people who bullied you? Have you ever thought about making these people pay the price when you become stronger?"

Liu Hongyan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded abruptly, her eyes burst into unspeakable brilliance, as she looked at the beautiful woman, the knot in her heart was instantly untied.

On the second day, Liu Hongyan no longer resisted the old mother's teachings, and began to smile and talk to people, and became a cute and well-behaved girl who was loved by everyone. After a bit of a pleasant taste, she got her own single room and officially took on the job of receiving guests. In the prime of life, Liu Hongyan gradually became famous and became the "No. Beauty".

Liu Hongyan was not originally called Liu Hongyan, and she didn't say her name when people asked her. She only said that her surname was Liu. Many people called her Miss Liu. The landlord named her "Xiaohong", so she called herself Liu Xiaohong.

After getting her own nickname, she is no longer the sloppy girl who worries about not having enough to eat all day long. Since then, there has been a stunning beauty in the world. Behind the mask of that coquettish smile is a hard heart that hates the world.

In such a world, when is the best time to be destroyed by the evil spirits of hell——Liu Hongyan prayed in her heart every day.

Troubled times are prone to heroes, and troubled times are prone to legends.

In this era of the decline of royal power, countless warriors became the protagonists of the world, fighting against evil spirits in the north, and there were many masters with superb skills, so the good people also had the capital to talk about after dinner, and commented one after another The "No. [-]" martial art master came out, and the numerous martial arts attainments in this period are undoubtedly the pinnacle in history. Originally, there were only a dozen or so master masters in a hundred years, but there were as many as a hundred in this period!This can be described as an unprecedented miracle in the history of martial arts.

It seems that it is too boring to comment on martial arts as "No. Impermanence, the world's number one Taoist Chen Xianshi, the world's number one pharmacist Mo Yandao... Some of them earned their fame in vain, and some were squeezed out by others after only one day on the list.

However, Liu Hongyan, who was ranked No.1 in the beauty list, has no interest in these things, and at most they just use them as topics for chatting with guests. The opportunity for that person to get acquainted.

The first time Liu Hongyan heard about "that person" was from a poor scholar. Fame, the scholars who failed the exam were considered the worst, but now it is this group of scribes who passed the exam but were useless because they lost the emperor's family and were full of sage words.

The scholar was about thirty years old, his clothes were patched a lot, he usually lived frugally, and looked very poor, but what people don't know is that this scholar is by no means a nerd, he can speak well, and in Zuixianlou In fact, he earned a lot of money from storytelling, but he saved it and spent it on Liu Hongyan, who is "a lot of money and willows are green".

Liu Hongyan saw that the scholar was pleasing to the eye, so she specially reserved a seat for him, and ordered the servants to report the young master's arrival immediately, Liu Hongyan would definitely greet him personally, and drink alone with the young master to relieve boredom.

The scholar probably fell in love with Liu Hongyan, and wrote a lot of poems and songs for Liu Hongyan in a romantic and elegant way, to praise Liu Hongyan's incomparable beauty. Live resentment?

That poor scholar only wanted to make "Miss Hong" smile, and whenever he came here, he would not force Liu Hongyan to drink and sing for him, but the two of them sat at the same table and chatted, telling a joke that the scholar was best at, and telling some strange things The strange people and strange things, as if the owner of the money is not the scholar, but Liu Hongyan.

This time was no exception. In order to open up the conversation, the scholar straight to the point told Liu Hongyan a strange incident that had only been spread recently, and said in a storytelling tone: "Miss Xiaohong, have you ever heard that there is a fairy in the north?" A person with white hair and plain clothes, one person and one sword slaughtered thousands of evil spirits, yet not a single drop of blood was stained on the white clothes?"

Liu Hongyan was taken aback. You must know that the reason why evil spirits are powerful is because they are stronger than tigers, leopards, and beasts. Their skin is harder than iron armor and shields. A pair of sharp claws and bloody teeth can penetrate even a cast steel shield. , Back then the Northern Wei Dynasty was a country of great soldiers, what a majestic power it was, millions of lion cavalry fought against evil spirits, but they were completely killed by these strange beasts from hell, until later a master master and an evil The ghosts fight each other, and accidentally discover that the strong internal force can shatter the internal organs of the evil ghosts to death, and the situation of people being beaten has improved.

In today's world where Chen Xianshi proposed to "govern the world with warriors", almost everyone is practicing martial arts desperately, and the general trend of the whole people advocating martial arts is already a mainstream trend, but even a master like Chen Xianshi can hardly deal with more than ten monsters. May I ask, who can slaughter thousands of evil spirits by himself?

Liu Hongyan pursed her lips and smiled, and took a few steps to sit on the poor scholar's lap, leaning softly and seemingly boneless in the poor scholar's arms, making the scholar's face flush, and then said: "It's rumored that you will go too Believe me, won't you be afraid of being laughed out of your teeth if you tell me?"

Seeing that Liu Hongyan didn't believe it, the scholar blushed and explained in a very serious manner: "Xiaosheng thinks this should be true. Miss Hong, do you know that Mu Wuchang who has been sitting on the throne of 'the world's number one swordsman' for many years? He is a master of the master realm The character, once fought against thirteen evil spirits by himself, and slashed and killed the evil spirits with a single sword, no one in the current swordsmanship can match him!"

At this time, there was a commotion outside the wing room. It seemed that someone was arguing and making noise outside. This was a common thing in the building. The two of them just paused for a moment, but they didn't take it seriously.

Liu Hongyan ignored the commotion outside the room, yawned, and said with white eyes: "Mu Wuchang? I know this little old man better than you. He came to the building to steal money a few days ago, but he forgot to bring some money, or did he ask me to borrow it?" money."

The scholar laughed loudly, raised his index finger and said, "Yes! That's the old rascal!"

Liu Hongyan poured a glass of wine for herself and the scholar, took a sip, shook the cup and said: "Although his behavior is absurd, I have seen him fight against others, and he always wins with one move. I don't know anyone If the thugs of the rivers and lakes can be more powerful than him, then say that he is not the 'world's number one swordsman', but the 'world's number one warrior', I am afraid that many people will agree."

The scholar shook his head, with a strange expression on his face, and sighed: "If it was said that Mu Wuchang was the number one warrior in the world, no one would object to it, but recently... well, Mu Wuchang fought against the newly debuted Bai Xianchen. After a match, the disparity in strength is really unimaginable."

Liu Hongyan raised her eyebrows and said, "This old scoundrel beat that junior to death?"

The scholar looked at Liu Hongyan and shook his head again, Liu Hongyan was even more surprised, and said: "Could it be that Bai Xianchen killed Mu Wuchang?!"

The scholar smiled helplessly: "It's not possible to kill, but the result is clearly worse than death!"

Such words aroused Liu Hongyan's interest for a moment, she fixed her beautiful eyes on the scholar in front of her, and motioned him to continue talking.

The scholar aroused Liu Hongyan's interest, and he was very happy in his heart. He coughed twice, took out his storytelling skills, and said vividly: "That day at the former site of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Mu Wuchang took the dragon-seeking sword to find that Bai Xianchen, who claims to have slaughtered more than a thousand evil spirits, wants to find out the truth of that Bai Xianchen.

It is said that that day Mu Wuchang asked the warriors along the way, and when he found the place where Bai Xianchen lived, he was very surprised. It was not a palace building, and it was not even a mansion of a wealthy family..."

What the scholar said would be difficult to understand if he heard it in ordinary times, but today the world is falling apart. When the Northern Wei Dynasty collapsed, countless people fled south, and even the emperor who sat on the golden dragon and jade throne abandoned his magnificent palace. Therefore, the warriors who go north to fight against ghosts all choose a good house for themselves to live in. The more powerful people live, the better the place.

This is not difficult to understand, a person with mediocre martial arts living in the palace, can he be kicked out by someone with high martial arts?This is the same as fighting for territory, it is human nature.

However, since this Bai Xianchen claimed to have slaughtered more than a thousand evil spirits by himself, how could he live there--the scholar paused for a moment, and then said: "The little dog's den next to the big family's house."

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