Yangyue

For three consecutive days, every morning, Xiao Yangyue would come to Jinwu Slope to practice swords. From early morning to noon, after a brief nap in the afternoon, when evening approached, he would go up the mountain to practice swords again.

Most of the dozens of swords given to him by his master have been broken by him in just three days. The iron swords he uses are still the hardest. It is fine to practice ordinary moves, as long as he starts to move the seven-step Qinglian sword With the sword style of the law, the sword in the hand will often break within a few breaths.

Fang Wuzhu accompanied Henry Zhang up the mountain every day, and occasionally practiced swords by himself, but most of the time, he just sat under the tree leaning on the trunk, eating fresh wild fruits picked from the mountain forest, and concentrating on Watch Henry Zhang practicing sword.

On this day, the sun was already at noon, Henry Zhangyue stood on the Golden Crow Slope panting slightly, looked at the shattered sword in his hand, and threw the sword on the ground, his fair forehead was a little red from the sun, hanging Fine beads of sweat.

Fang Wuzhu stood up, put the bamboo hat he brought on Henry Zhangyue's head, handed him the water bottle, and fanned him with a folding fan: "The sun is getting poisonous, let's stop here today."

Henry Zhang also understands that there is no rush to understand the tricks, nor can it be accomplished overnight.He took the kettle, raised his head and took a big sip, still a little disappointed in his eyes.

On the way back to the Taoist temple, the two met Ji Sheng who went up the mountain to chop firewood. Ji Sheng greeted the two of them, and asked Henry Zhang with admiration: "Do you practice until this hour every day, brother?"

Henry Zhang nodded.

Ji Sheng sighed: "Senior brother really has extraordinary perseverance. No wonder Master often praises you. I am too tired to move after practicing for more than two hours on weekdays. I have to learn more from my senior brother."

Henry Zhang glanced at Ji Sheng, didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, and then walked towards the Taoist temple with Fang Wuzhu.However, after walking a few steps, Fang Wuzhu suddenly turned his head, looking at the back of Ji Sheng going up the mountain, a thoughtful emotion flashed in his eyes.

Henry Zhang: "What's wrong?"

"Your junior..." Fang Wuzhu said slowly, "The talent in martial arts is really not high. I can see this, and your master must also be able to see it. Why did you accept him as an apprentice?"

"As Master's new disciple, Master must have his own reasons." Henry Zhang said, "If you can practice sincerely, you can make up for one or two."

When the two returned to the Taoist temple, just after lunch, a little Taoist boy suddenly ran over and said that Taoist Zhang invited Mr. Fang to Sanqing Hall for a talk.

Henry Zhang was surprised and said: "Master only let him go alone?"

Xiao Daotong nodded obediently, Fang Wuzhu put down his chopsticks, Daoist Zhang loves his apprentice eagerly, so he must not rest assured that he just handed over his beloved apprentice to him, a person from the rivers and lakes who has no future today, he has already had this "Hongmen Banquet" Expected, but also to set.

"It seems that Daoist Zhang has something important to discuss with me." Fang Wuzhu said, "Go back to your room and rest first, don't wait for me."

Fang Wuzhu came to the Sanqing Hall of the Taoist temple alone, knocked on the door of the hall, and slowly pushed the door in.Zhang Daochang knelt on the cloth in front of the altar in the hall, reciting a Taoist scripture in a low voice.Fang Wuzhu didn't rush to bother, but just stood quietly and waited.

A quarter of an hour later, Daoist Zhang put a Taoist scripture in front of another piece of cloth beside him, and said quietly: "Young people are too impetuous, and it is a good thing to recite more scriptures."

Fang Wuzhu lifted his clothes and knelt down on the cloth, picked up the Taoist scriptures and read them.

Half an hour later, Fang Wuzhu closed the Taoist scriptures in his hand, got up, took out three sticks of incense from the incense cage, and inserted them into the incense box on the altar in front of him.

Daoist Zhang: "What do you understand?"

Fang Wuzhu looked up at the Taoist patriarch enshrined in the Sanqing Hall, and said quietly: "If you are self-pure, self-empty, self-sufficient, and let go of fame, wealth, vanity, attachment and other external things, you can have no desires, no desires, no selflessness."

Fang Wuzhu paused for a moment, and a chuckle escaped his lips: "It's a pity, Daoist Zhang, I can't do any of what this scripture says, and I don't want to do it."

"You are a dead person, and you are full of hatred in the martial arts." Zhang Daochang stared at Fang Wuzhu, his voice gradually became colder, and he asked a little more, "Yang Yue's family was ruined due to martial arts disputes when she was young. Drag him back into these disputes!"

"If Daoist Zhang is worried about this, then you can rest assured." Fang Wuzhu said, "Yes, Yang Yue was involved because of me. The overall situation of this matter is settled, and neither you nor I can change it. He has sacrificed a lot for me. , I have nothing else to desire in this life except Yangyue, for this reason, I must kill the person who deserves to be killed, in order to seek stability for him for the rest of my life."

Daoist Zhang: "How can you guarantee that you can protect him?"

Fang Wuzhu: "I really can't guarantee what will happen in the future, but I cherish him more than he cherishes himself. As long as I am still alive, I will do my best to protect him. He also promised me that the two of us will never be separated again." Daoist Zhang, you are old and your martial arts are no longer what they used to be. When Daoist let Yang Yue choose whether to leave the martial arts, it must be because he foresaw his future situation. You are his master and our benefactor. I would like to kneel here to thank Daoist Priest for raising Yang Yue, but from now on, only I can protect him in this world."

In the afternoon of midsummer, the cicadas on the top of the tree kept ringing. Seeing his wrinkled hands, Daoist Zhang finally let out a long sigh: "People in the martial arts world don't want to be bound by their hands and feet. Are you really willing?"

Fang Wuzhu's voice resounded resoundingly: "Let him be my weakness in this world, I am willing, without Yangyue, even if I live in this world, I am no different from a walking dead."

Outside the Hall of Sanqing, Henry Zhang quietly stood in the corridor, the sound from the hall reached his ears, stirring up thousands of waves in his heart.Then he suddenly came back to his senses, and left in a hurry and silently. When he returned to the corridor of the wing room, he ran into Ji Sheng who came out of the wing room.

Ji Sheng: "Brother is back, is Master in Sanqing Hall?"

Xiao Yangyue calmed down slowly, and replied: "Master is chanting scriptures in Sanqing Hall, you can go there later."

"Yes, brother."

Henry Zhang stepped forward to leave, but Ji Sheng stopped him again: "Brother, I actually have something to ask for. I am not as talented as my brother in martial arts, and I often miss the point. I am impatient and let my master down. Therefore, my brother Do you have time to give me some advice on how to practice swordsmanship? Junior brother will definitely listen to me."

Henry Zhang frowned slightly, swordsmanship practice?Does he mean the seven-step Qinglian swordsmanship?

"The practice of swordsmanship varies from person to person, and my method may not be suitable for you." Xiao Yangyue said lightly, "Since the master taught you the swordsmanship, he will definitely teach you the cultivation method that suits you. My advice It’s not as good as Master’s advice. Master is not a strict person, as long as you are willing to work hard, Master will definitely not blame you, and it will be a matter of time before you succeed.”

Ji Sheng paused for a moment, drooping his eyes to get rid of the vague emotions that flashed past in his eyes: "Senior brother taught you the right thing, I took it for granted."

Henry Zhangyue nodded, and after leaving, Ji Sheng looked at his leaving back, but his face was a little more sinister.

When Fang Wuzhu came back, it was already two quarters of an hour later, he opened the door, and saw Henry Zhang sitting at the table in the room, with a cup of tea on the table, but he didn't seem to move at all.Henry Zhang sat quietly, staring ahead, as if thinking about something.

Fang Wuzhu smiled and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Xiao Yangyue looked up at him, but his expression became a little uncomfortable. He stood up, picked up the iron sword that was put aside and walked out, Fang Wuzhu followed and asked: "Go to practice sword?"

"I can't find a breakthrough recently, so it's better to calm down and rest for a few days." Henry Zhang replied, "I'll go for a walk in the mountains."

The two left the Taoist temple and wandered along a mountain path in the mountains.At ten o'clock in the evening, the two came to a tall banyan tree. Between the thick branches of the banyan tree, there was an old small tree house. After years of wind and sun, the tree house was covered with mottled cracks, and the outer layer was strengthened a lot. wood.

This tree house was built by his master when he was a child. At that time, he only practiced martial arts or learned to read characters with the master every day. There was no place for fun in Taoist temples. The master built this tree house for him. If you are tired, or want to have fun alone for a while, you will come to this place to catch some small insects or animals, or take a nap under the sound of insects in the mountains and forests.

Zhang Yangyue jumped up to the tree house lightly, and there was a small table in the house, a wooden and thatched bed, and a small hammock made of hemp rope. When I was a child, I looked at the spacious place, but now it seems very Narrow, but still bright and clean, it is a good place to sit alone.

I thought the tree house must be in a state of decay, but to my surprise, the furnishings inside the tree house are very clean, even the mattresses on the couch are snow-white, and the air can only smell the smell of vegetation in the mountains, nothing at all. No smell of rotting mold.

Henry Zhang's heart was touched, and he stretched out his hand to slowly touch the soft bedding. It turned out that the master had been cleaning here for him.

Fang Wuzhu leaned against the door of the tree house, looked around, and said, "This is a good place."

The scenery in Yulan Mountain was very beautiful. The two left the tree house and walked south for less than a mile, and a small green and clear lake appeared faintly in front of them.This lake is connected to the living stream in the mountains, and fallen flowers continue to flow into the lake along the stream.

Fang Wuzhu looked at the scene in front of him, recalled it for a while, and said: "Speaking of which, I have been here before."

Henry Zhang asked in surprise: "Have you been here? When have you been here?"

"Less say it was eight or nine years ago." Fang Wuzhu sat down by the lake, fiddled with the warm lake water in the afternoon sun, "I was being hunted down by Huo Qiao's men at that time, Passed by here on the way to escape, and didn’t stay for too long.”

Fang Wuzhu looked at this lake, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile in his eyes: "I was accidentally knocked down by Huo Qiao's people into a lake when I was passing by, and it seems to be this lake. There's another girl in the lake..."

Before Fang Wuzhu could finish speaking, he happened to see Xiao Yangyue's sudden gloomy and tense expression on the side, he paused in surprise, a thought flashed across his mind, and he laughed and said: "No way, could it be... It's you?"

Fang Wuzhu didn't see it too clearly when he was in the lake. He subconsciously felt that the other party was a girl, so he didn't look too much because he was afraid that she would be frivolous.This matter was just a small episode, and Fang Wuzhu quickly put it behind him. Thinking about it now, Henry Zhang was still living in the Taoist temple at that time, and it was not far from the Taoist temple, and there was his tree house next to it. Presumably he would bathe here by chance, too.

Henry Zhang sneered: "It turns out that Deng Tuzi is you, but I have been brooding and failed to dig out his eyes."

"Dengtuzi?" Fang Wuzhu laughed, "That's a bit wrong. I didn't treat you lightly or tease you. How could I be called Dengtuzi?"

Henry Zhang snorted coldly, ignored him, turned around and walked straight forward, Fang Wuzhu reached out and grabbed his wrist, and pulled hard, Henry Zhang fell back and fell into Fang Wuzhu's arms, and was caught by Fang Wuzhu Buckle up and hug.

Henry Zhang looked up and glared, Fang Wuzhu said: "You have been brooding about the matter for so long until now, no matter, if you want to poach my eyes, I will let you do so."

Henry Zhang was taken aback for a moment, looking at Fang Wuzhu's dark and distant eyes, and remembered the conversation between him and his master that he heard outside the Hall of Sanqing.

Henry Zhang does not open his heart easily, but if he really does, he must love the person alone.Fang Wuzhu is different from him, he has more burdens than himself, and he is more interested in the martial arts world at ease. Henry Zhang knows that he loves herself, and also knows that he will not leave her, but Fang Wuzhu loves him like he loves him. do you love yourself

If he hadn't met Gongsun He injured when he left, which made Fang Wuzhu temporarily soft-hearted, would the two of them still be like this now?

Xiao Yangyue didn't deliberately pursue this answer. The importance of love is an unsolvable problem. He gave up a lot, and he will no longer care about the past, but only for the rest of his life.

These insignificant thoughts, until today, Henry Zhang has completely let go.

They are willing to each other.

Henry Zhang: "... What if I really dig?"

Fang Wuzhu: "I told you to dig it, but you have to keep one for me. It would be a pity if I never saw your face again."

Henry Zhang was silent for a while, but finally just raised his head, bit the brow bone above Fang Wuzhu's eyes lightly with his teeth, leaving a shallow tooth mark, and whispered: "You said you would protect me, if With one eye missing, how can I protect me?"

When he was in Sanqing Palace, Henry Zhang was eavesdropping on the porch outside the door, Fang Wuzhu had already noticed it, if he couldn't even notice this, then he would have died countless times in this arena.The two of them knew each other's thoughts well, Fang Wuzhu held Henry Zhangyue's cheeks, kissed him, and said with a smile: "What's the lack of an eye, even half an arm will protect you .”

Henry Zhang frowned and said: "Don't talk nonsense."

"Okay." Fang Wuzhu half-jokingly said, "It's rare that the weather is so good today. At that time, I had a quick glance and didn't have time to see anything clearly. Today just makes up for this regret. Why don't we just take a bath here?"

It was almost night at this time, and the sky had already dimmed, but today the weather was clear, and there were faint stars twinkling in the night sky, and it would be a night full of moonlight.

Henry Zhang gave him a slightly annoyed look, knowing that Fang Wuzhu was teasing on purpose, he put aside Fang Wuzhu's hand and stood up without answering for a while.

Fang Wuzhu also knew that the joke should not be too much, so he smiled at the right time: "Okay, it's just a joke, it's getting late, we still..."

Henry Zhang reached out and untied the hair crown, pulled off the belt of the clothes, and took off his coat with his back facing him. The coat and the sapphire hair crown fell on the soft grass, and the black hair was spread out in the snow-colored light jacket Come on, Henry Zhang let out a breath slowly, unbuttoned his jacket, and exposed his skin inch by inch in the moonlight without any clothes to cover him, he said slowly: "Alright, I also have the same intention."

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