Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

A hundred miles south of the Huai River is a fertile village, but between the village and the ruins of the Shuiyue Palace is a vast forest.The forest is very humid when it rains, and the hilly terrain is always undulating, because there are few hunters in the south, and there are not even thatched cottages in the woodland. In early summer, the day is fine, and it is almost dead at night, only wild deer Such docile beasts run from time to time.

Liu Shiqi followed behind Yu Zheng. The other party didn't carry a lamp. After his eyes adapted to the night, he could still see the road clearly.

He was full of doubts and couldn't ask, expecting that Yu Zheng would not answer, so he simply didn't ask.They walked quickly, their feet skimming the grass, making a rustling sound like a breeze in the night.

The surrounding woods were getting denser and denser. Liu Shiqi took a look and couldn't find his way back.He couldn't help it in the end, and just about to speak, Yu Zheng stopped by a big tree: "Here we are."

"Are you there?" Liu Shiqi looked around, not even a bird or an animal.

Yu Zheng nodded: "Wait."

He was different from Wen Di, even if he asked, he might not get an answer, Liu Shiqi and Yu Zheng were not close, so Wen Yan had to sit casually on the boulder beside the tree.The Changhe Knife lay across the back of his waist, and it hurt so much, Liu Shiqi put it across his knee.

Half of the river was broken, but it didn't affect his use. Now Feng Tingyun fitted him with a scabbard, Liu Shiqi exerted a little force, and the sharp edge of the knife exposed three inches, and the cold light almost illuminated the square inch.He looked at it for a moment, then withdrew the knife again with a "buzz". Changhe was extremely light during the battle, but the movement at this time was very heavy.

Yu Zheng was attracted by his attention, he looked at it quietly for a while, maybe he was waiting for others to be bored, and suddenly said: "Your knife is very good, but when I saw it once before, it seemed to be broken?"

Liu Shiqi didn't raise his head: "I picked this one from Wangyue Island's arsenal, but when I pulled it out, there was only half left. I don't know if it was only half back then, or it was broken with the wrong strength when I took it out."

Yu Zheng asked: "May I have a look?"

Without doubting him, Liu Shiqi raised the Changhe knife and handed it over.Yu Zheng took it, at first he didn't pull out the blade, he only took a close look at the handle in the night, and then pulled out the blade after careful inspection - the material is neither gold nor iron, there is a faint coldness on the blade, it should be very thick, but when he started It is so light that you can't even feel the weight when swinging the knife, as if it can be integrated with the knife holder.

The lancets used on the twelfth floor are all forged from the special ore of Xixiu Mountain, and there is also a special knife shed in the door.Yu Zheng has been obsessed with it since he was a child, although he can't be said to be proficient in the art of forging knives, he can be regarded as quite accomplished.He flicked the blade with two fingers, and the sound was clear and clear, with an ice-like echo.

"It's really a good sword!" Yu Zheng praised, "I took a rough look at the shape before, and thought it was the usual one on the twelfth floor. I thought that even if you left Xixiu Mountain, you have practiced sword skills anyway. The weapons may be similar, so it's not surprising. It was only after I got it that I realized that this knife is much more delicate than Chang He, and although the two are similar, its killing intent is far superior to that of the lancet on the twelfth floor."

"If you can find a way to restore it, I'm afraid it's an extremely long Tang knife." Liu Shiqi explained, "I don't know how many years it has been discarded in the arsenal, and it can still cut iron like mud. Brother once wanted to restore it. ,but……"

Yu Zheng interface: "Materials are not easy to come by, if you have a chance, you can take it to Xixiu Mountain, and discuss it with a few brothers who are in charge of forging and smelting iron in our secondary school - such a good knife, it is really broken. It would be a pity to go down."

Liu Shiqi didn't know what he meant by suddenly mentioning this, so he agreed first.

"By the way," Yu Zheng put the knife back into its sheath, "You just said that this knife has a name."

"Inscription on the handle of the knife, the name is 'Long River'."

Yu Zheng frowned, and after a while he relaxed again, and even had a smile on his face: "The thing on Wangyue Island must have something to do with Ye Tang."

Liu Shiqi: "Huh?"

Yu Zheng said slowly, it seemed to be a very long story: "I heard that Ye Tang doesn't like to use weapons, but he likes to collect famous swords. Although he doesn't know how to use swords, he carries a sword called 'Guyan' with him. The sword...the sunset over the long river, the lonely smoke in the desert, I felt that this sword should have some relationship with that sword."

Neither Yi Chunqiu nor Feng Tingyun told him about this, Liu Shiqi said in surprise: "Master never told me about Senior Ye Tang. How could Senior Brother Yu know?"

Yu Zheng smiled and didn't answer, just said: "I've lived in Xixiu Mountain for a long time, the winter is too long, I always need to find something to do."

There was something in his words, but before Liu Shiqi had time to ask more, there was a sound in the woods to the north!

A sword light strikes!

Reflexively, Liu Shiqi supported the stone and quickly stood up and retreated. The Changhe knife suddenly came out of its sheath, and instinctively stood in front of Yu Zheng.The place where the blade swept was the color of snow, and the green grass around the feet was cut down by three inches, bringing a gust of cool wind.

"Miansheng!" Yu Zheng pressed his shoulder and growled, "Don't be nervous."

But there was no one around except them, Liu Shiqi didn't dare to withdraw his knife, he turned his head to indicate what's the matter with Yu Zheng, his eyes were still fixed on where the sword light came from.He secretly thought that he was a master, and he was able to control the sword energy into form!

After only a moment of sword-striking, the sword energy disappeared without a trace. Liu Shiqi didn't dare to neglect, and still protected Yu Zheng - even though he knew that Yu Zheng didn't need his own protection.

At this moment, a familiar voice was heard from the place where the sword energy came from: "Master Yu is so nice to talk to you!"

Liu Shiqi trembled all over, but hesitated to speak.

Yu Zheng tightened his fingers on Liu Shiqi's shoulder, telling him to stand behind him, reminding him in a low voice to put the knife away.As soon as Liu Shiqi said this, no matter how dull he was, he understood something, and he followed Yu Zheng's words politely.Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a light flickering deep in the woods, like fire, or just a candle.

"You said that you want Yu to come here alone, but Yu is timid and not as skilled as your predecessors, so naturally he is not willing to take risks easily. Although Liu Miansheng is no longer a member of the twelfth floor, the transaction between us is not completely complete. It doesn't matter, senior Yu wouldn't mind having him one more, right?" Yu Zheng spoke very slowly, every word and every sentence was very clear, but he didn't look weak at all, "If senior thinks that Yu refused to show up for an appointment, then Yu Mou bids farewell here."

It sounds as if the other party has something in Yu Zheng's hands?Liu Shiqi thought for a while, but then snorted coldly.

Immediately, a strong wind hit, and Liu Shiqi couldn't help closing his eyes.In an extreme moment, when he opened it again, there was an extra person three feet in front of him——Xi Lanyu.

Everyone would think that he escaped from the ruins of the Water Moon Palace because of a guilty conscience, but now that Liu Shiqi saw his expression of anger and helplessness, he immediately knew that things were not that simple.

"What I want." Xi Lanyu stretched out his hand towards Yu Zheng.

Yu Zheng remained motionless: "Mr. Xi, Duxin Pill is highly poisonous and extremely dangerous. It may not be able to cure the disease. Do you want this thing to save your life, or do you have other intentions?"

Xi Lanyu's fingers contracted, and veins stretched out on her forehead: "Are you kidding me too?!"

He was far from the gentle but powerful image of an elegant middle-aged man at the meeting that day. Liu Shiqi thought to himself, could it be that rumors can really destroy a person, and when he is desperate, will he really become unfamiliar?

"No," Yu Zheng said, "Yu just told you the good and the bad. You should have heard about how much trouble Du Xindan caused back then. You also know in your heart whether it has anything to do with the death of the teacher."

Xi Lanyu frowned: "Even you think I killed Zuo Nian?"

Yu Zheng shook his head lightly: "If I think so, will I still come today as promised? Mr. Xi sent a letter to Yu, isn't he just trying to use the mouth of the head of the twelfth floor to return your innocence and lead the martial arts again? "

He cut straight to the point and hit Xi Lanyu's vital point.

It turned out that after staying in that position for a long time, I really felt that I was born to be nobler than others.

"What a joke!" Xi Lanyu flicked his sleeves violently, bringing up a gust of wind, "I, Xi Lanyu, have never harmed others for no reason in my life, and I have never killed innocent people indiscriminately for my own self-interest, but today I have ended up like this, even a junior came to negotiate terms! Haha, ridiculous!"

He looked up to the sky and laughed, the night was full of depression, Yu Zheng looked at it quietly, and after a while he said: "Mr. Xi went to the doctor in a hurry, that day outside the city of Yangzhou, the poison you suffered from is not the same as ours, right?"

Xi Lanyu only frowned and remained silent, watching the two young men in front of her vigilantly.

Yu Zhengdao: "The poison we are suffering from is the highly poisonous Xiaoyao powder from the Moon Sect back then, and the antidote was sent by Mrs. Li from the Green Mountain Pavilion. Although the effects of Xiaoyao powder are powerful, once you take it and rest for a few days, it will be fine. The lost internal strength can also be gradually regained through practice. But Mr. Xi returned to Linzi from Yangzhou and arrived in Huaishui today, his complexion is getting worse and worse. Yu does not dare to speculate. If Mr. Xi is trustworthy, can he Ask Yu to feel your pulse?"

"No need!" Xi Lanyu flatly refused, "I know my body well, so don't take the opportunity to negotiate terms!"

Yu Zheng: "If you don't talk about it, don't talk about it. Mr. Xi, if you don't cooperate, Yu can't do it either. Ah Mian, I'm sorry to bother you to accompany me tonight, let's go."

He turned around and gave Liu Shiqi a look without losing the opportunity, and the other party quickly cooperated: "Senior brother Yu is kind, but Du Xindan can't be taken at any time... Seeing that a generation of masters are tossing like this, maybe it's not good. How long will it take to fall...it's a pity."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Yu Zheng gestured for him to follow.

Just a few steps away, Xi Lanyu's voice came from behind: "Wait a minute."

Yu Zheng paused slightly, without turning his head, he said, "Mr. Xi, have you made up your mind?"

"What do you want?" Xi Lanyu said in a low voice, "Don't try to play tricks."

"Yu won't embarrass Mr. Xi." Yu Zheng said, his voice was clear and clear, even more like a lingering string in the woods in the middle of the night, and he couldn't guess his emotions, "Mr. just need to go back to the inn with Yu and stay in the dark. There is one thing I want to do, then, I will get what I want, and my husband will be able to take away Du Xindan."

Xi Lanyu sneered: "How can I trust you?"

Yu Zheng: "To show my sincerity, I can give you three Duxin Pills first, to suppress the toxicity for the time being - this product is very risky, but after all, it is said to be 'clearing all poisons, making flesh and bones', so you can take it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Zheng took out a kit from his pocket and threw it behind him, and then he heard the wind blowing on the grass, and when he looked back, Xi Lanyu had disappeared.

His voice came from the depths of the woods: "Let's wait until tomorrow evening, if Duxin Dan is useful, I will come here myself!"

For a moment, the rustling wind blew the leaves, and the woods returned to silence.

Liu Shiqi has been silent ever since Yu Zheng took out Duxin Pill, now observing that Xi Lanyu might have left, he said angrily, "Senior brother Yu, I gave it back to you..."

"Let's go back and talk about it." Yu Zheng interrupted him.

There are few lights in the small town of Huaiyin at midnight, and the watchman leans against the alley to take a nap, and the only street lamp is also dimmed due to years of disrepair.The whole town seemed to be shrouded in night, in another dreamland.

Liu Shiqi followed Yu Zheng back to the town, but he was not in a hurry to go to the inn, and stood with Liu Shiqi under the big locust tree outside the backyard of a farmhouse, and took out a bottle from his arms.

The bottle was made of glass, with a few fireflies inside, and at night, there was a twilight light dancing in the palm of the hand.Not long after Yu Zheng took out the bottle, Liu Shiqi heard familiar footsteps.The question mark in his stomach reached its peak at this moment, he turned around aggrievedly, deliberately lowered his voice but was still angry: "Wear the flute!"

"I don't even call brother, I'm so angry." Under the cloak of the visitor, the white clothes and the hair tied with a knife can be seen faintly. It is Wendi.

Yu Zheng leaned against the locust tree: "Is it done?"

Wen Di pulled Liu Shiqi closer, pamperingly rubbed the man's cheek, and said back to Yu Zheng: "Everything is going well, this time I would like to thank the senior brother who has done a lot for me."

"I'm not all for you. Master died strangely. Now that we can find clues, maybe in the end..." Yu Zheng was silent for a moment when he said this, as if it took great courage to support him to continue, "Maybe I can understand him Why did it become like that in the end, his inner demon... can also get a glimpse of it."

Wendi said: "Naturally, I really admire the senior brother who is in charge of the sect regardless of past suspicions."

Yu Zheng frowned and said, "Stop flattering. Your business?"

Wendi: "I just met Sheng Tianya's first apprentice, Gong Qianying, according to the agreement, and gave him the "Heaven and Earth Kungfu". He only looked at the outline, and immediately left without doubting whether it is true or not. After Lan Yu takes the Jiuhua Pill, the twelfth floor can easily control his life and death, and by then, whether he has colluded with Sheng Tianya or not, it will be clear."

Even though Liu Shiqi was still in the fog, he now understood the general idea.

Before that, he thought that Yu Zheng really gave Du Xin Dan to Xi Lanyu, the light in the woods was dim, and he only had time to identify it from the familiar smell of blood, could it be that Yu Zheng was lying from the beginning to the end?

"What... Jiuhua Pill?" Liu Shiqi asked.

Wendi pinched his face and just smiled: "What a silly boy, how could Du Xindan be given to others so easily, that thing harms others and yourself, and was destroyed by Senior Brother Yu long after you returned it."

Liu Shiqi became more and more puzzled: "But didn't he say that the 'Du Xin Dan' can detoxify Xi Lanyu?"

Wen Di: "That's true. He practiced alchemy for Zuo Nian in the early years, and accidentally got a prescription, which can make a pill that has the same shape and smell as Du Xin Dan. It is composed of eight different flowers from the Western Regions. Brother Yu named it Jiuhua Dan with the medicinal materials obtained from the Quefeng of Xixiu Mountain. This pill will not cause any trouble to normal people, but if it is taken by a person who is highly poisoned, although the toxicity can be suppressed in a short period of time, it will not cause any trouble. The illusion of getting better gradually, over a long period of time, if taken irregularly, the toxicity will be detonated again."

Liu Shiqi: "This..."

Wen Di's words are all there, but he still doesn't forget to hurt others: "As expected of Senior Brother Yu, in terms of using poison, in my opinion, even Hua Ni, Qiu Xinglang and others who worshiped the Moon Sect back then may not be as good as you!"

Yu Zheng didn't refute him, just ignored the yin and yang words, and said to Liu Shiqi: "After hearing the flute, he will do his tricks. In the eyes of outsiders, he has long been in harmony with Twelfth Floor's appearance. It is only natural to steal the "Heaven and Earth Cultivation Technique" and dedicate it to Sheng Tianya." .It would be the best if we gained trust. Even if we don't, we can still grasp the real reason why Sheng Tianya wanted the "Tiandi Gongfa."

After thinking for a while, Liu Shiqi murmured: "So...you have been planning for a long time to take advantage of Huaiyin to create trouble, and know which decent person Sheng Tianya is colluding with? Now that you are restraining Xi Lanyu, you are also suspicious of him?"

"The timing of Zhao Yang's retaliation was too strange," Yu Zheng explained, "No matter who that person is, he must not be willing to actually kill Shuiyue Palace——Xi Lanyu's righteous indignation is the most normal in comparison. Yes, once his suspicions are cleared, the real mastermind will be exposed under the blue sky when Xi Lanyu comes to his senses, so he cannot die."

Wen Di: "There is also the enmity between parents, the death of Zuo Nian's wife and children, why Duan Wuchi suddenly appeared and revealed the existence of "Bi Luo Tian Shu", all these need to be investigated one by one..."

Behind the scenes?Liu Shiqi fell into deep thought.

The plan for tonight came to an end, Yu Zheng said that he had to leave beforehand, it seemed that only he and Wendi were left in this corner of the town.

In the middle of the night in early summer, the sound of frogs croaking in the puddles outside the town became one of the few sounds that could disturb the tranquility.The watchman dozed off, and carrying a firefly lantern, he walked through several streets and alleys while knocking on his clapper.

"Still mad at me?" Wendi said, deliberately leaning over to put his face under Liu Shiqi's eyelids.

Liu Shiqi staggered his gaze with drooping eyes, and murmured: "No, you didn't tell me because you were afraid that something bad would happen."

"But you are not too stupid to cooperate with Senior Brother Yu without knowing it." After Wen Di finished speaking, as expected, seeing his eyebrows frowned, he quickly hugged him and called his name loudly, "Amian , Amian."

"...Don't think that I will forgive you this time." Liu Shiqi ignored him with his arms hanging down, turned his head to the side, and his eyes fell into the faintly visible flickering lights in the distance, "I don't want to be a drag, you Be it Yu Zheng or Yu Zheng, they all treat me as a child who hasn't grown up. But Brother Dee, I'm already 21."

Wendi didn't expect him to say that suddenly, and said after a while: "I'm not...I want to protect you."

He was all concerned about Wendi for so many years, and once his heart moved, he didn't know how to treat him well.Seeing Yu Zheng protecting Mo Ci so much, and hearing too many rumors from outsiders, he started to follow suit.

I want to protect him, I want him to live a stable life and not suffer any setbacks anymore.

Liu Shiqi was still hugged in his arms, he twisted and broke free and stood still and said, "Brother Di, look at me, I went to Donghai well when you were not there, and I ran to Yangzhou safely without meeting you—" -You have to believe me."

Even though those missed and lost years cannot be looked back, the future can be expected.

The child who once hid in the cave on Xixiuyan Xuefeng was drenched and kept shaking behind his back.For a long time, this has been Wendi's biggest nightmare. The world goes with the flow, and it is rare to meet again. He wants to try his best to make up for the guilt of several years, but he really can't think that Liu Shiqi has grown up.

"Yes." Wendi was sad for a moment, and the phoenix's eyes were bright again, "I forgot that you can also be alone."

Liu Shiqi took his hand and put his palms together: "Brother Di, I'm not useless. The more you protect me, the more I feel that I'm living under the wings of others... I also want to investigate the hatred of my parents. , and Duan Wuchi, Master Huici has given me the grace of reinvention, you let me face him by myself, okay?"

Wen Di thought about it, as if he was very unwilling to let him take risks, but he was caught by his words: "...you say that, I will naturally obey you."

Liu Shiqi nodded at him, and finally had the first smile of the night.

His brows and eyes are gentle, and he usually only thinks he is innocent and pure, but when he smiles, he is very cute.Hearing the flute, his heart fluttered, the night was covered, amidst the sound of frogs, he wrapped his arms around Liu Shiqi's neck, and kissed him in the cool breeze.

The other party hugged back cooperatively, touching lips and tongues, Liu Shiqi's cheeks were a little hot, and when Wendi touched her with his fingers, the temperature rose even more.

To the south of the Huai River, he seemed to smell the fragrance of lotus.

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