[Comprehensive martial arts] Beautiful as me
Chapter 23 3 in 1
Time flies, and eight years have passed by in a hurry.
It took many years for the Longlong Gang to successfully clean up and turn around. It has become the most powerful chamber of commerce in Shuozhou City from a small organization of hooligans in the western district that people hated dogs.Li Yue has also been upgraded from a sinister and vicious dwarf in the legend of the Shuozhou underground forces to a diamond king who is most favored by women outside the pass.
Yes, you read that right, it's the diamond king.
Over the years, as Li Yue grew older, his facial features gradually developed, and his appearance exploded exponentially. When he dressed up, he could make all the servants in Li's house doubt their lives.For the convenience of her activities, and because she can't comb her hair well because of her handicap, she usually shows people in men's clothes, and occasionally changes into women's clothes, and Tie Chuanjia combs her hair.
Tanhualang raised objections to this. He believed that women are too strong and may not have a good future in this world.Li Yue didn't take what Li Xun Huan said seriously at all, and the two even had a cold war over it.
As the saying goes, if you don't belong to the same family, you don't want to enter the same family. Big Li and Xiao Li became stubborn, and no one could persuade them. In a fit of anger, Li Yue even moved to the dormitory of the Changlong Gang, and lived with other gang members of the same age under him for a period of time.
A Fei naturally followed Li Yue. Li Yue went to live in the dormitory, and he followed without saying a word.Tie Chuanjia and Fu Bo are in a dilemma because of this, they can't directly favor anyone, they can only try to ease the relationship between the two.
Everyone thought that Li Yue would be the first to admit his mistake and move back to Li's house, but within half a month, Tan Hualang bowed his head first.
It turned out that when Li Xunhuan "unintentionally" passed by the dormitory, he accidentally discovered that the little girl did not rely on her status as a helper to enslave others to help her with work, but just like other boys and girls of the same age, she did laundry and cleaned up by herself.
It was freezing cold in the twelfth lunar month, even if hot water was mixed in the basin when doing laundry, the little girl's soft and white hands like jade bamboo shoots were still red and swollen from the cold, like radishes dug out of the snow.Li Xun Huan's heart softened for a moment, and he took the little girl home without saying a word.
In fact, even if Li Xun Huan didn't go to the dormitory, he would bow his head to the little girl first.After all, Tanhualang generally upholds the principle of bottomless forgiveness for those close to him.Since then, Li Xun Huan never said a single word to the little girl unless it was a matter of life or death.
With Li Xunhuan's indulgence first, Tie Chuanjia and Fu Bo's tolerance, and A Fei's unconditional support behind him, Li Yue let himself go more and more.So much so that on the day she reached Jiji, she encouraged Zhu Ting to make a full set of camouflage equipment for herself, including fake Adam's apple, shoulder pads, fake pectoral muscles and fake [sound suppression].
On the day when Li Yue received the finished product, Li Xunhuan was also at home. He watched the girl put on a full set of equipment as if showing off, and put her arms around Yingying Yanyan, who knew the girl's true identity from the Longlong Gang, and her cheeks were still rosy. Dumbfounded, turned into loveless.
Tanhualang: I'm afraid I adopted a fake daughter.
Afterwards, the little girl changed into women's clothing several times to go out, all in order to use this face to deal with people who don't have eyes. Someone near the state is going to be unlucky.A few days later, Tanhualang can always hear new strange stories about the city from the tavern. There will always be an astonishingly beautiful female character in the strange news, either a ghost or a fox demon. The protagonists of such roles usually end miserably.
At this time, Tanhualang would always silently pick up his wine glass and take a sip with a complicated mood.
Time has changed the appearance of most people, but it cannot erase the thoughts in their hearts.
He has lived outside the customs for a long time, and Li Yue often brought him all kinds of little troubles. Although Li Xunhuan didn't drink every day to soothe his sorrows, deep in his heart, he was always thinking about his hometown and the time when he thought of it. There will also be a bitter and unspeakable figure.
On a clear autumn day, Li and Li finished breakfast together as usual. Just as Li Yue was about to go out to inspect Changlong's shop, Li Xunhuan said in a flat tone as if talking about today's weather:
"Chuan Jia, prepare yourself, we will go to the Central Plains at the end of the month."
At this time, it was only three days before the end of the month. After hearing Li Xun Huan's words, Li Yue quickly retracted her steps. She turned around and looked at Tie Chuanjia, and asked briskly:
"Uncle Li, what about me? I also want to visit the Central Plains."
"Xiaoyue, you... it's better for you to stay in Shuozhou. We went to the Central Plains... and we will be back soon."
Li Yue knew very well that what Li Xun Huan said was a lie, but she didn't mean to expose it at all, but smiled and replied "Okay", now it's Tan Hua Lang's turn to be disturbed.
It is one thing to promise verbally, and another to fulfill it with hands. Li Xunhuan, who has wandered in the rivers and lakes for many years, understands these twists and turns. , he barely felt relieved.
Tie Chuanjia watched the conversation between Li and Li finished, he sighed slowly and went to tidy up and salute.Li Yue walked out of the gate of Li's residence without any abnormality, and when she entered the main hall of the Longlong Gang, after dealing with trivial matters in the gang, the first thing she did when she was free was to go to A Fei.
Most people in the Longlong Gang implement morning and evening shifts. Only the managers above the shopkeeper, like government officials, implement a five-day rest and bath.
A Fei is almost Li Yue's personal bodyguard. He also takes a bath once every five days and lives in a double room in the dormitory building on weekdays.Because he once had a glorious history of beating twenty or so disobedient peers easily by himself, and he never had much contact with other people, so no one in the dormitory dared to live with him, and he was celibate for several years I live here alone.
Today is Ah Fei's holiday. When Li Yue found the young man, the young man happened to come back from sword practice, and the moment he met Li Yue's gaze, the young man's eyes were filled with astonishment.
Although the weather has turned cold, Ah Fei is still only wearing the thin clothes that are common in summer, but at this moment the top is completely wet with his sweat, and it is tightly attached to his body, conspicuously outlining the young muscles and strength that have just begun to take shape Thin waist.
He stood facing Li Yue for a while, a drop of sweat was falling down the boy's hair to his collarbone, and slipping down the ivory white skin into the depths of the boy's collar.Li Yue originally wanted to talk about the business directly, but seeing this situation, she couldn't help but whistle, and praised the other party unabashedly:
"Wow~ Ah Fei, in two more years, even if you write the words 'Don't get close to strangers' on your face, there will be men and women willing to come after you, right?"
The boy's complexion did not change, but his ears were so red that he was about to bleed. Li Yue coughed lightly, and entered the dormitory with him:
"Stop making trouble, let me just say it, do you still remember our previous agreement. Now Uncle Li and Uncle Tie are going to the Central Plains, and they don't want to take me with them, so I ask you to fulfill one of my wishes, to be with them Let’s go to the Central Plains together. Although Uncle Li is the reincarnation of the Holy Father, he is not so stupid as to be hopeless, but I am Uncle Tie, who is easy to admit death to the point of death, so please pay more attention to them, especially Uncle Tie.”
"Okay, I promise you."
"Wait, I haven't said how long it will be... Forget it, it won't be more than three months anyway, and I will come too."
A Fei frowned slightly, as if wondering why Li Yue went to the Central Plains since Li Xun Huan and the others disagreed.The girl had already seen clearly what A Fei was thinking from the change in the other party's expression. She cleared her throat and said confidently:
"I promised Uncle Li not to go with them, nor to secretly follow them to the Central Plains, but I didn't say that I wouldn't go there in a fair manner. Besides, I won't leave after they leave for a week. Followed. It's you, you must remember when you go to the Central Plains, don't easily believe what other people say, especially good-looking women! Remember, the more beautiful a woman is, the more she will deceive people!"
The young man lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Li Yue seriously, with a firm tone: "You won't."
"Who said that if I deceive people, I can sell them and give me back the money. Next time I will try to sell you, believe it or not?"
Ah Fei didn't say a word, and there was a smile in his eyes, obviously he didn't believe Li Yue's words.Li Yue knew that the other party was innocent and straightforward, so she murmured in her heart for a while, without saying anything else, she left the dormitory building to prepare luggage for Li Xun Huan.
On the day of departure, just after dawn, Li Xunhuan and Tie Chuanjia were ready.
At first, Tanhualang planned to set off in an ordinary carriage, but under Li Yue's good words, he replaced it with the newly developed reinforced shock-absorbing carriage developed by Changlong Shop.There is not only a small heater in the carriage, but also several folded dark cabinets filled with dry medical food. The two horses pulling the carriage are old horses from the Central Plains. They are not the fastest, but they have amazing endurance.
After tossing like this for half an hour, Li Yue still felt that something was missing, and babbled endlessly to Tanhualang and Tie Chuanjia as if she was getting old.
Li Xun Huan touched the top of Li Yue's head with a wry smile, lifted the curtain to enter the carriage, Tie Chuanjia was about to raise the whip, Li Yue let out an "ah" and quickly pushed A Fei into the carriage:
"I know you think I'm slowing down, but Ah Fei definitely won't! I've made an agreement with him, you are not allowed to refuse! Both of you are very old, and one of them is in poor health. If you don't want Ah Fei to be with you Let’s go to the Central Plains together, and I’ll immediately hire another dozen or so people to go with you.”
As soon as these words came out, the two middle-aged people in the carriage no longer objected, and when Ah Fei sat firmly in the carriage, Li Yue looked at Tie Chuanjia firmly:
"Uncle Tie, you have to take good care of yourself when you go to the Central Plains. I have to take care of you for the elderly. I haven't improved my martial arts these years, and I have only saved some money. Who dares to make you feel wronged? I will let him go from now on." It will be difficult after that. Don’t think I’m joking, Uncle Tie, you understand that once a woman is determined, she can do anything.”
The girl said every word seriously, and the bearded man had mixed feelings all of a sudden, he responded in a low voice, shook the reins in his hand, and drove the carriage to the east gate of Shuozhou City.
When the back of the carriage was no longer visible on the street, Li Yue curled his lips, turned around and said to the old man with white beard and hair in the mansion who was still in good spirits:
"Uncle Fu, thank you for your hard work! I will leave for the Central Plains in seven days~"
When the old man looked at the girl with a kind face, he nodded with a smile while holding a cane.
The carriage drove out of Shuozhou and drove on the vast wasteland.
Two of the three people in the car were taciturn, so the three of them stayed silent at the beginning of the journey.
It was almost noon, Tie Chuanjia parked the car in a flat and open place, and started to prepare lunch. Li Xunhuan stopped carving the doll in his hands, and smiled at A Fei who was hunting and barbecued:
"A Fei, since you are Xiaoyue's friend, can you tell me, are you really willing to come to the Central Plains? If not, as an elder, I apologize to you on her behalf."
The boy rolled the barbecue, and responded indifferently:
"I made an appointment with her first, which I owe her. In addition, I want to come to the Central Plains myself, and I must stand out."
"A young boy who is old in the rivers and lakes... It's the right time for you to venture into the rivers and lakes at your age. It's a pity that you are traveling with me who is in trouble, and it will inevitably spoil your interest."
"That's not the case. Ah Yue told me that if I want to get ahead, it's best to walk with you."
Tan Hualang suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Xiaoyue, do you mean to let you beat me, or do you mean to let you beat the people who come to trouble me?"
"I can't beat you right now." Ah Fei told the truth frankly, his eyes fell on the back of Tie Chuanjia, and he quickly retracted, "Ah Yue told me that there is a method that allows me to be famous as fast as possible. Move the rivers and lakes."
"Oh, in what way?"
"She asked me to hold the sword in my hand and kick the hall from Guannei to the Central Plains along the way."
Hearing A Fei's answer, Li Xun Huan opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time. At the end, he rubbed his brows with a stomach ache, and tactfully dissuaded the young man who seemed to be showing signs of moving:
"Xiaoyue...she's right, but you'd better not do this."
From Shuozhou to Liyuan, Baoding, Tanhualang's hometown, the journey is not so far away.
But now that the emperor is young and the court is controlled by powerful officials, the capital's ability to control the outside world has naturally declined. Many official roads have been in disrepair for a long time, and wolves, tigers and leopards dare to hurt people in broad daylight.In addition, now that the martial arts is in its heyday, heroes from all walks of life emerge in endlessly, and correspondingly, those evil spirits and crooked ways also emerge one after another.
This section can not be called a long road, in a sense, it can be called a crisis.
Li Xunhuan and the others dared to gallop across the wilderness in a carriage like this, it was because of their skill and boldness.As far as Li Yue's martial arts is mediocre and she can only deal with a few local hooligans, no matter how smart and quick-witted she is, it will be difficult for her to travel safely from outside the pass to the Central Plains alone.
Partly for his own selfishness, and partly for expanding the commercial market of the Longlong Gang, Li Yue spent a few days specially mobilizing people from the shops to form a small but capable caravan, and joined hands with the veteran caravan of the Li family. Merge together and go to Baoding together.
The plan has been made, all that remains is to arrange the personal entourage.It's a pity that Uncle Fu is too old to withstand long-distance travel, and Li Yue didn't like servants to take care of her personally since she was a child, so she had to bring along two contracted maids from the Salesian Bureau, and a green forest man who changed his career as a bodyguard after washing his hands in Jinpen A few, accompany myself all the way to the east.
Those in charge of travel arrangements are all veterans, and the journey has already been arranged. From Shuozhou to entering the customs, the journey is smooth.On a rainy evening, the caravan had to rest in an abandoned temple nearby because they couldn't go to the village or shop.
Before the leader of the caravan and a few guys pushed the door and entered, the flames could already be seen in the ruined temple, as if someone had already occupied a relatively complete back room.After pushing open the gate of the ruined temple, they faced a young man from the rivers and lakes, who seemed to be the person in charge of the night watch in the temple.Because he was alone in the main hall, the young man was inevitably in a bad mood, so he asked the caravan to find another place to shelter from the rain with a bad attitude.
In order to avoid trouble, the leader of the caravan whispered good things to the young man, and even handed him a big money bag.Holding the purse in his hands, the young man felt embarrassed for a while, and then he reluctantly agreed to allow the caravan people to enter the main hall to shelter from the rain, but he refused to let the caravan people approach the back room.
The leader reluctantly agreed, and was about to report to Li Yue, the actual owner of the caravan, when she put away the oil-paper umbrella and stepped into the hall.The vision of the vigilant youth directly bumped into Li Yue, a "young man" who can still make the ruined temple full of brilliance even after being drenched in the rain. His face turned red and then black, black and red again, and finally he gave Li Yue a vicious look. Withdrew and left the hall.
Li Yue who stayed in the main hall was confused, but the leader of the caravan was a middle-aged man who had experienced a lot of wind and frost and was used to watching the wind and the moon. How could he not know the change of the young man's mind? He didn't expose it, but greeted the caravan with a smile People hurriedly brought their chariots and horses to the hall to shelter from the rain.
Most of the caravans are veterans, and the speed of moving goods is far from that of the newcomers. After a while, they are all sorted out, and the hall is suddenly full of people from the caravan.
Because it is a rainy day, the air is extremely humid, and the temperature drops day by day after autumn, the leaders of the Shangdu are experienced, fearing that someone will catch a cold and get sick, they immediately call everyone to move the place, and make room for a few fire pits, and order their staff to cook. A few pots of ginger soup, one bowl for each person in the caravan.
Li Yue couldn't sleep because of the strong smell of ginger in the hall. Holding the ginger soup in her hand, she couldn't swallow it. It happened that the maid who accompanied her called her, so she put down the soup bowl and walked over: "What's wrong?"
"Little...Master, look, the stone statue of Guanyin in this hall is really beautiful."
"Don't be rude... Eh, this stone statue is so exquisitely carved that it looks like a living person."
"The young master said so, but I think that this Guanyin stone statue looks like a human being."
"... Who do you look like?"
"Like you, young master~"
The two little maids laughed together, and Li Yue sighed helplessly. The maids were right. This Guanyin stone statue did resemble her. Strictly speaking, it looked like her who had become more mature and put on women's clothes ten years later.
In the wilderness, it is also fate to meet this Guanyin statue. Besides, when Li Yue looks at the Guanyin statue, he always has an inexplicable sense of intimacy.Although she doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, she also respects the unknown person who can carve such vivid stone statues. In addition, she and the caravan under her door also borrowed the ruined temple tonight, so without waiting for other people in the caravan to help, Li Yue herself He straightened the overturned table, wiped off the dust and cobwebs on the table, and placed flowers picked from the wild at noon.
"It can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, no, offering Bodhisattva, I hope everything goes well after arriving in Baoding."
Li Yue muttered a few words softly, maybe it was because of the dancing fire at night, she felt that the stone statue seemed to smile at her just now, but when she rubbed her eyes and looked over again, the stone statue of Guanyin turned back to its original dignified and magnificent appearance With a look of compassion, she had no choice but to pat herself on the cheek, throwing away the strange thoughts that suddenly occurred to her.
The owner's abnormal behavior naturally attracted the attention of the employees below, and the two little maids surrounded them with concern, and asked Li Yue why.After Li Yue clarified his delusions just now, no one knew who would speak first. The sleepy people in the caravan immediately started talking about absurd and terrifying ghost stories with great energy.
The first to start telling stories were all young people, and the stories they told basically copied the strange stories from teahouses, restaurants and the older generation, which sounded a bit dry and tasteless.At first, the veterans in the caravan planned to close their eyes and rest their minds, but they were gradually aroused by the youngsters, and they also joined the ranks of telling ghost stories.
Most of the veterans are uneducated, and they are more knowledgeable because they have traveled far and wide. The stories they tell are not only novel, but also contain more details, which makes the whole story more real, and the audience in the hall listened with gusto.When Li Yue was telling the story, the fires in the nearby fires were no longer so hot. She deliberately lit a candle to light herself up, and told the classic ghost stories she had read in a drawn-out tone.
Outside the ruined temple, it was windy and windy, and the candlelight in the main hall was weak.Under the flickering candlelight, Li Yue's face had a faint ghostly aura, which made gasps resound in the hall, and some timid people in the caravan almost fainted from fright.When Li Yue reached the climax of the story, the door leading to the back room was suddenly pushed open——
"Ahhhh-"
"Help, don't look for me, don't look for me—"
The screams were in different tones, only Li Yue put down the candle in his hand, and looked at the visitor calmly:
"Young man, it's late at night, what's your purpose here?"
The young man who had been watching the night in the hall snorted coldly, and raised the beautifully decorated long sword on his waist:
"What are you guys called, be honest, don't disturb my fellow disciples to rest, if—"
"Brother, what are you talking nonsense with them, let me tell you!"
A girl in a pink dress came out from behind the young man, her face was full of disgust, but when she saw Li Yue, her expression changed several times, and finally settled into a deep obsession and anger.Taking a deep breath, she strode towards Li Yue and raised her hand:
"Wow, you heartless man, I thought you died in the Western Regions, so you hid here!"
Although Li Yue's martial arts are ordinary, she has been fighting against talented masters like Li Xunhuan and A Fei for the past ten years, so before the opponent's hand reaches out, she has already retreated three steps away, and distanced herself from the girl in pink. Avoid this slap:
"Girl, you—"
The girl in pink didn't give Li Yue a chance to defend herself. In a rage, she untied the long spiked whip on her waist and threw it in Li Yue's direction regardless.
Li Yue could dodge it, but behind her were two little maids who didn't know martial arts. If the whip went down, the two little maids would be disfigured even if they were not seriously injured. She had to hold the long fan with her backhand and barely blocked the blow. At the same time, he also felt a slight tingling pain on his left cheek.
The girl in pink wanted to make a move, but was stopped by the night watch youth.Li Yue touched her cheek lightly, and she saw a touch of scarlet on her fingertips. She frowned and looked at the pair of brothers and sisters who were trying to stage Qiong Yao's drama:
"Girl, we have no grudges in the past, and we have no grudges in the present. Why do you want to be so cruel to me?"
"It must be because of your bad face that you can provoke the junior sister to do something! How dare you pretend that you don't know the junior sister and tell me honestly, what did you do to the junior sister!?"
The young man's words made the atmosphere of the hall freeze immediately, and many young men in the caravan stood up one after another.Li Yue looked at the pair of senior brothers and sisters coldly, with a mocking smile on his lips.The girl in pink froze suddenly, she let go of the hand that was being tugged with the young man, stomped her feet angrily, turned around and rushed back to the back room.Seeing this, the young man uttered harsh words to Li Yue, turned around and chased after him.
Several young people in the caravan belonged to the Changlong Gang, and they grew up with Li Yue. When they saw the young man leave, they rolled up their sleeves and followed, preparing to find a place for their gang leader.Li Yue raised his hand and stopped all the young people. The leader of the caravan walked up to Li Yue and asked in a low voice:
"Young master, the moon is dark and the wind is high and the rain is high. It's a good time to do business. Why don't we..."
Li Yue ran through a series of barrages of complaints in his heart, but his face was still calm: "It's hard to go ashore, and I won't do it if I can't do my old job. Our priority is to reach Baoding safely, and don't worry about the rest for now." , Wait until Baoding to make a fuss.”
"Yes, Young Master."
The leader of the caravan urged the others to rest in shifts, and the two maidservants surrounded Li Yue, one on the left and one on the right. When they saw the small wound on her face, their heart ached, and they hurriedly took out the plaster from the medicine box:
"Master, Xiaocui will rub some medicine on you. You can't leave scars on such a beautiful face."
"That's right, from Xiaoqing's point of view, those brothers and sisters just now must have been jealous of the young master's beauty, so they poured dirty water on you. Especially that girl, she laughed so hard that she actually said that the young master failed her. Pooh!"
"Okay, young master, I'm blushing from you blowing me up, you two little girls should go to rest quickly. The girl's family rests late, but she will get old and blotchy."
Li Yue fought for a long time before persuading the two little girls to rest. She found a place with hay near the wall and fell asleep with her cloak in her arms. In a daze, she felt as if Someone had been looking at him and touched his cheek with his hand.
The torrential rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the wind continued all night long.
By the time the first rays of sunlight entered the ruined temple, the caravan had already rested and was about to head to Baoding on the same route.
Most of the people in the caravan rested well, but Li Yue was haunted by strange dreams all night long. At the end of the dream, she even saw herself covered in blood and smiling strangely, which made her wake up trembling.
Due to the extremely poor quality of sleep, Li Yue sat in the carriage and yawned continuously. The little maids advised her to rest. She didn't want to fall into messy dreams again, so she just gritted her teeth and stayed awake, shaking her upper and lower eyelids on the carriage. open.
After driving for a certain distance, the carriage stopped suddenly without warning. Li Yue heard the familiar voice of dispute, she opened the curtain and walked down:
"what happened?"
"Young master, it's the young hero from last night, he—"
Before the leader of the caravan finished speaking, he was pushed aside by the young man from last night. The young man pointed at Li Yue with the tip of his sword, his face full of rage:
"Little boy, is that you? Hurry up and hand over my junior sister?"
Li Yue was stunned for a while before she realized it. She looked at the young man in disheveled clothes, and separated the opponent's long sword with the handle of the fan:
"Young man, but... your junior sister is missing?"
"Sure enough, you little boy! Where did you hide your junior sister?"
"Hero, since last night, our caravan has no contact with your senior brother and sister. I only guessed from your mouth that your junior sister is missing. How can I know your whereabouts?"
Seeing Li Yue's calm and reserved appearance, the young man was anxious and angry, and he didn't bother to listen to Li Yue's explanation. He grabbed the hilt of his sword and stabbed straight at the opponent, but the opponent avoided them one by one.
Li Yue was already in a bad mood. Seeing the young man being so unreasonable, she didn't want to bear it any longer. After blocking the young man's sword with the handle of the fan, Li Yue ran into the young man's arms and punched him hard. Then he kicked the opponent to the side of the road with a flying kick:
"You are not clear-headed, and you can't listen to people talking well, so stay here alone and calm down. Believe it or not, I will say that no one in our caravan has seen the girl in pink. If you If you have the heart, don't let it go, then take a closer look around the ruined temple, and wait a little longer."
Too lazy to entangle with the young man any more, Li Yue boarded the carriage straight away and told the caravan leader to move on.The spacious carriage kept receding with the scenery outside the window, shaking slightly again.
Li Yue stretched out his hand and yawned long. When he opened his eyes, he met the curious faces of the two maids:
"Master, how do you know that the girl in pink was still in the ruined temple last night?"
"It's very simple. It rained for so long and heavy last night that it washed away all traces of the surrounding area. When I set off this morning, I didn't hear any movement in the back wing room, and I didn't see any signs around the ruined temple. The footprints of other people. The martial sister of the knight is a spoiled girl, even if she is angry with her senior, she will definitely not choose to run out in a stormy day full of mud and water. She will probably stay in a corner of the ruined temple and watch her Brother is looking around like a headless chicken. Maybe that girl will come out by herself after her anger subsides."
"Not necessarily, young master, think about it, what if someone... comes to the ruined temple before that pair of brothers and sisters?"
Xiao Cui's words made Li Yue and the other little girl have goosebumps all over her body. Li Yue exaggeratedly rubbed her arms, and looked at the innocent little girl with a complicated expression:
"Hey, Xiaocui, I found that you have a special talent for telling suspense and horror stories. When we return from Baoding, I will definitely open a bookstore and ask you to write stories."
"The young master is very annoying, and he is making fun of Xiao Cui."
"Don't dare."
Li Yue thought that being mistaken for a heartless person by others was just a coincidence among coincidences, but when the caravan was resting in a small town inn near Mount Wutai, she was pointed at the nose by a Jianghu female heroine and scolded the heartless person.
This heroine has three-dimensional facial features, bright appearance, fair skin, and a bit of exotic blood. She has a few silver ornaments dangling on her body, but she can't see any conspicuous weapons. He is obviously a master at using poison.
When she was in Shuozhou, Li Yue once heard a saying from the old Jianghu, "It is better to provoke a martial artist than a poisonous one", and she has always kept this sentence in her heart.After all, neither Li Xunhuan nor Ah Fei are people who use poison.
Without experience in dealing with poisonous Gu, Li Yue didn't want to drag the others in the caravan, so he had to bite the bullet and listen sincerely to the quality of the Eighteenth Company of Jianghu Heroines.Fortunately, the heroine only scolded Li Yue alone, and did not greet her relatives and friends. After a long time, Li Yue unexpectedly felt that the accent of the heroine had a bit of modern Sichuan dialect.
Li Yue in this room listened with great interest, while the heroine in the other room was tired of scolding, she poked her waist and asked Li Yue:
"You heartless man, tell me the truth, are you going to marry me? You don't like such a beautiful woman like a flower, but what kind of girl do you like?"
Li Yue casually answered "myself", and caught a glimpse of the woman's suspicious eyes, she decided to tell the truth, and by the way blacked out the real heartbreaker:
"This... this heroine, let me tell the truth. I was born a flamboyant scum who loves all beauties in this world, regardless of gender. Marrying a heroine will only wrong the heroine."
"You...you even like men? I don't believe it!"
"Then let's make a bet. I bet that any person who turns his back on us is a beauty. This can only be done by a veteran who has seen countless beauties."
The female hero's face was full of disbelief, and she decided that Li Yue did not want to marry her on purpose. In desperation, Li Yue glanced at the crowd passing by on the street in front of the other party, and pointed to a man standing with his back facing the two of them. Young Master Tsing Yi:
"Okay, it's this young master. I can tell by looking at his back that he is definitely a gentle gentleman who is as gentle as jade and as indifferent as clouds!"
As soon as Li Yue finished speaking, the young man in Tsing Yi happened to turn around. He was indeed as Li Yue said, a handsome man with elegant temperament and gentle brows.The girl subconsciously blew a whistle, and she regretted it as soon as the whistle sounded, but the young man in Tsing Yi seemed to have sensed it, smiled at her from a distance, and then crossed the vast crowd, walking towards the girl firmly.
Until he was face to face with Mr. Tsing Yi, Li Yue didn't even dare to take a breath. The woman's eyes kept jumping between the two of them. Just as she was about to ask something, Mr. Tsing Yi smiled and said to Li Yue:
"Since we parted that day, we haven't seen each other for many years. I sweep the couch every day, but I don't see any trace of you. Now that I meet you here, it really has its own destiny."
The conversation was cloudy and ambiguous, but it was enough to make the heroine imagine a dramatic drama with ups and downs. She gave Li Yue a vicious look, and left the inn without hesitation. , and the curse of the heroine can be heard in the distance:
"You bastard, it's my mother who's blind!"
Li Yue smiled awkwardly, and when she met the out-of-focus eyes of Mr. Tsing Yi, she suddenly remembered that the other party was invisible.Under the baptism of the indescribable eyes of the inn, she took the young man in Tsing Yi's hand calmly, guided him to her room on the second floor of the inn, then removed the false Adam's apple in her throat, and restored her original voice:
"Long time no see, Yuan Suiyun... brother~ how did you recognize me?"
The girl's original voice is clear, pure and full of vitality, with a little cunning, like a mountain spring bubbling in the mountains and forests.
Yuan Suiyun nodded slightly when he heard the words, and replied loudly:
"Although I can't see it, I can hear it better than anyone else. I've heard your tone once and I won't forget it. After all, you are the only one in this world."
"Are you praising me or scolding me?"
"Naturally, it's a compliment."
"Okay, okay, I believe. I have to apologize to you first. The trip to the Central Plains was too hasty this time. It was my fault that I didn't have time to go to Taiyuan. It's really a strange encounter in life. We will meet later. Let's go out to eat together, I'll treat you as compensation."
"What if I don't agree?"
"Our big brother Suiyun is so understanding~love~da~reason~how could he embarrass me, a helpless little girl?"
Yuan Suiyun sighed, pretending to have no choice but to say hello.Li Yue clapped her hands, signaling Yuan Suiyun to wait here, and she went next door to change.
Li Yue originally planned to simply change her outfit, but she was held in the room by two pissed-off little maids for a whole hour of dressing up, before releasing Li Yue.
Li Yue felt a little sorry for letting her childhood friend whom she hadn't seen for a long time wait for her for so long, so before Yuan Suiyun asked, she took the initiative to explain to the other party:
"I'm sorry, Suiyun, if I wasn't worried about running into a girl who pulled me to call me a 'heartless man' when I went out to eat, I wouldn't have made you wait so long. No matter what you want to eat, drink or play tonight, I will All inclusive."
"Speaking of which, I'm really curious, how did you mess with a woman from Miao Jiang?"
"Hey, it's hard to say. Let's find a place to eat first, and we can talk slowly later."
When the two walked out of the inn, the night had already enveloped everyone.
The town is located in the basin between the mountains, and it is built adjacent to Mount Wutai. Because the incense is flourishing on the mountain and the scenery in the mountain is excellent, tourists come here all the year round, so it is more lively than other villages and towns. In terms of population, it is almost comparable to a small town. City.
There is no curfew in the villages and towns, and there are lively night markets when it gets dark.Li Yue and Yuan Suiyun walked on the street together, thinking that they could look around freely, but because she hasn't dressed properly for too long
It took many years for the Longlong Gang to successfully clean up and turn around. It has become the most powerful chamber of commerce in Shuozhou City from a small organization of hooligans in the western district that people hated dogs.Li Yue has also been upgraded from a sinister and vicious dwarf in the legend of the Shuozhou underground forces to a diamond king who is most favored by women outside the pass.
Yes, you read that right, it's the diamond king.
Over the years, as Li Yue grew older, his facial features gradually developed, and his appearance exploded exponentially. When he dressed up, he could make all the servants in Li's house doubt their lives.For the convenience of her activities, and because she can't comb her hair well because of her handicap, she usually shows people in men's clothes, and occasionally changes into women's clothes, and Tie Chuanjia combs her hair.
Tanhualang raised objections to this. He believed that women are too strong and may not have a good future in this world.Li Yue didn't take what Li Xun Huan said seriously at all, and the two even had a cold war over it.
As the saying goes, if you don't belong to the same family, you don't want to enter the same family. Big Li and Xiao Li became stubborn, and no one could persuade them. In a fit of anger, Li Yue even moved to the dormitory of the Changlong Gang, and lived with other gang members of the same age under him for a period of time.
A Fei naturally followed Li Yue. Li Yue went to live in the dormitory, and he followed without saying a word.Tie Chuanjia and Fu Bo are in a dilemma because of this, they can't directly favor anyone, they can only try to ease the relationship between the two.
Everyone thought that Li Yue would be the first to admit his mistake and move back to Li's house, but within half a month, Tan Hualang bowed his head first.
It turned out that when Li Xunhuan "unintentionally" passed by the dormitory, he accidentally discovered that the little girl did not rely on her status as a helper to enslave others to help her with work, but just like other boys and girls of the same age, she did laundry and cleaned up by herself.
It was freezing cold in the twelfth lunar month, even if hot water was mixed in the basin when doing laundry, the little girl's soft and white hands like jade bamboo shoots were still red and swollen from the cold, like radishes dug out of the snow.Li Xun Huan's heart softened for a moment, and he took the little girl home without saying a word.
In fact, even if Li Xun Huan didn't go to the dormitory, he would bow his head to the little girl first.After all, Tanhualang generally upholds the principle of bottomless forgiveness for those close to him.Since then, Li Xun Huan never said a single word to the little girl unless it was a matter of life or death.
With Li Xunhuan's indulgence first, Tie Chuanjia and Fu Bo's tolerance, and A Fei's unconditional support behind him, Li Yue let himself go more and more.So much so that on the day she reached Jiji, she encouraged Zhu Ting to make a full set of camouflage equipment for herself, including fake Adam's apple, shoulder pads, fake pectoral muscles and fake [sound suppression].
On the day when Li Yue received the finished product, Li Xunhuan was also at home. He watched the girl put on a full set of equipment as if showing off, and put her arms around Yingying Yanyan, who knew the girl's true identity from the Longlong Gang, and her cheeks were still rosy. Dumbfounded, turned into loveless.
Tanhualang: I'm afraid I adopted a fake daughter.
Afterwards, the little girl changed into women's clothing several times to go out, all in order to use this face to deal with people who don't have eyes. Someone near the state is going to be unlucky.A few days later, Tanhualang can always hear new strange stories about the city from the tavern. There will always be an astonishingly beautiful female character in the strange news, either a ghost or a fox demon. The protagonists of such roles usually end miserably.
At this time, Tanhualang would always silently pick up his wine glass and take a sip with a complicated mood.
Time has changed the appearance of most people, but it cannot erase the thoughts in their hearts.
He has lived outside the customs for a long time, and Li Yue often brought him all kinds of little troubles. Although Li Xunhuan didn't drink every day to soothe his sorrows, deep in his heart, he was always thinking about his hometown and the time when he thought of it. There will also be a bitter and unspeakable figure.
On a clear autumn day, Li and Li finished breakfast together as usual. Just as Li Yue was about to go out to inspect Changlong's shop, Li Xunhuan said in a flat tone as if talking about today's weather:
"Chuan Jia, prepare yourself, we will go to the Central Plains at the end of the month."
At this time, it was only three days before the end of the month. After hearing Li Xun Huan's words, Li Yue quickly retracted her steps. She turned around and looked at Tie Chuanjia, and asked briskly:
"Uncle Li, what about me? I also want to visit the Central Plains."
"Xiaoyue, you... it's better for you to stay in Shuozhou. We went to the Central Plains... and we will be back soon."
Li Yue knew very well that what Li Xun Huan said was a lie, but she didn't mean to expose it at all, but smiled and replied "Okay", now it's Tan Hua Lang's turn to be disturbed.
It is one thing to promise verbally, and another to fulfill it with hands. Li Xunhuan, who has wandered in the rivers and lakes for many years, understands these twists and turns. , he barely felt relieved.
Tie Chuanjia watched the conversation between Li and Li finished, he sighed slowly and went to tidy up and salute.Li Yue walked out of the gate of Li's residence without any abnormality, and when she entered the main hall of the Longlong Gang, after dealing with trivial matters in the gang, the first thing she did when she was free was to go to A Fei.
Most people in the Longlong Gang implement morning and evening shifts. Only the managers above the shopkeeper, like government officials, implement a five-day rest and bath.
A Fei is almost Li Yue's personal bodyguard. He also takes a bath once every five days and lives in a double room in the dormitory building on weekdays.Because he once had a glorious history of beating twenty or so disobedient peers easily by himself, and he never had much contact with other people, so no one in the dormitory dared to live with him, and he was celibate for several years I live here alone.
Today is Ah Fei's holiday. When Li Yue found the young man, the young man happened to come back from sword practice, and the moment he met Li Yue's gaze, the young man's eyes were filled with astonishment.
Although the weather has turned cold, Ah Fei is still only wearing the thin clothes that are common in summer, but at this moment the top is completely wet with his sweat, and it is tightly attached to his body, conspicuously outlining the young muscles and strength that have just begun to take shape Thin waist.
He stood facing Li Yue for a while, a drop of sweat was falling down the boy's hair to his collarbone, and slipping down the ivory white skin into the depths of the boy's collar.Li Yue originally wanted to talk about the business directly, but seeing this situation, she couldn't help but whistle, and praised the other party unabashedly:
"Wow~ Ah Fei, in two more years, even if you write the words 'Don't get close to strangers' on your face, there will be men and women willing to come after you, right?"
The boy's complexion did not change, but his ears were so red that he was about to bleed. Li Yue coughed lightly, and entered the dormitory with him:
"Stop making trouble, let me just say it, do you still remember our previous agreement. Now Uncle Li and Uncle Tie are going to the Central Plains, and they don't want to take me with them, so I ask you to fulfill one of my wishes, to be with them Let’s go to the Central Plains together. Although Uncle Li is the reincarnation of the Holy Father, he is not so stupid as to be hopeless, but I am Uncle Tie, who is easy to admit death to the point of death, so please pay more attention to them, especially Uncle Tie.”
"Okay, I promise you."
"Wait, I haven't said how long it will be... Forget it, it won't be more than three months anyway, and I will come too."
A Fei frowned slightly, as if wondering why Li Yue went to the Central Plains since Li Xun Huan and the others disagreed.The girl had already seen clearly what A Fei was thinking from the change in the other party's expression. She cleared her throat and said confidently:
"I promised Uncle Li not to go with them, nor to secretly follow them to the Central Plains, but I didn't say that I wouldn't go there in a fair manner. Besides, I won't leave after they leave for a week. Followed. It's you, you must remember when you go to the Central Plains, don't easily believe what other people say, especially good-looking women! Remember, the more beautiful a woman is, the more she will deceive people!"
The young man lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Li Yue seriously, with a firm tone: "You won't."
"Who said that if I deceive people, I can sell them and give me back the money. Next time I will try to sell you, believe it or not?"
Ah Fei didn't say a word, and there was a smile in his eyes, obviously he didn't believe Li Yue's words.Li Yue knew that the other party was innocent and straightforward, so she murmured in her heart for a while, without saying anything else, she left the dormitory building to prepare luggage for Li Xun Huan.
On the day of departure, just after dawn, Li Xunhuan and Tie Chuanjia were ready.
At first, Tanhualang planned to set off in an ordinary carriage, but under Li Yue's good words, he replaced it with the newly developed reinforced shock-absorbing carriage developed by Changlong Shop.There is not only a small heater in the carriage, but also several folded dark cabinets filled with dry medical food. The two horses pulling the carriage are old horses from the Central Plains. They are not the fastest, but they have amazing endurance.
After tossing like this for half an hour, Li Yue still felt that something was missing, and babbled endlessly to Tanhualang and Tie Chuanjia as if she was getting old.
Li Xun Huan touched the top of Li Yue's head with a wry smile, lifted the curtain to enter the carriage, Tie Chuanjia was about to raise the whip, Li Yue let out an "ah" and quickly pushed A Fei into the carriage:
"I know you think I'm slowing down, but Ah Fei definitely won't! I've made an agreement with him, you are not allowed to refuse! Both of you are very old, and one of them is in poor health. If you don't want Ah Fei to be with you Let’s go to the Central Plains together, and I’ll immediately hire another dozen or so people to go with you.”
As soon as these words came out, the two middle-aged people in the carriage no longer objected, and when Ah Fei sat firmly in the carriage, Li Yue looked at Tie Chuanjia firmly:
"Uncle Tie, you have to take good care of yourself when you go to the Central Plains. I have to take care of you for the elderly. I haven't improved my martial arts these years, and I have only saved some money. Who dares to make you feel wronged? I will let him go from now on." It will be difficult after that. Don’t think I’m joking, Uncle Tie, you understand that once a woman is determined, she can do anything.”
The girl said every word seriously, and the bearded man had mixed feelings all of a sudden, he responded in a low voice, shook the reins in his hand, and drove the carriage to the east gate of Shuozhou City.
When the back of the carriage was no longer visible on the street, Li Yue curled his lips, turned around and said to the old man with white beard and hair in the mansion who was still in good spirits:
"Uncle Fu, thank you for your hard work! I will leave for the Central Plains in seven days~"
When the old man looked at the girl with a kind face, he nodded with a smile while holding a cane.
The carriage drove out of Shuozhou and drove on the vast wasteland.
Two of the three people in the car were taciturn, so the three of them stayed silent at the beginning of the journey.
It was almost noon, Tie Chuanjia parked the car in a flat and open place, and started to prepare lunch. Li Xunhuan stopped carving the doll in his hands, and smiled at A Fei who was hunting and barbecued:
"A Fei, since you are Xiaoyue's friend, can you tell me, are you really willing to come to the Central Plains? If not, as an elder, I apologize to you on her behalf."
The boy rolled the barbecue, and responded indifferently:
"I made an appointment with her first, which I owe her. In addition, I want to come to the Central Plains myself, and I must stand out."
"A young boy who is old in the rivers and lakes... It's the right time for you to venture into the rivers and lakes at your age. It's a pity that you are traveling with me who is in trouble, and it will inevitably spoil your interest."
"That's not the case. Ah Yue told me that if I want to get ahead, it's best to walk with you."
Tan Hualang suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Xiaoyue, do you mean to let you beat me, or do you mean to let you beat the people who come to trouble me?"
"I can't beat you right now." Ah Fei told the truth frankly, his eyes fell on the back of Tie Chuanjia, and he quickly retracted, "Ah Yue told me that there is a method that allows me to be famous as fast as possible. Move the rivers and lakes."
"Oh, in what way?"
"She asked me to hold the sword in my hand and kick the hall from Guannei to the Central Plains along the way."
Hearing A Fei's answer, Li Xun Huan opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time. At the end, he rubbed his brows with a stomach ache, and tactfully dissuaded the young man who seemed to be showing signs of moving:
"Xiaoyue...she's right, but you'd better not do this."
From Shuozhou to Liyuan, Baoding, Tanhualang's hometown, the journey is not so far away.
But now that the emperor is young and the court is controlled by powerful officials, the capital's ability to control the outside world has naturally declined. Many official roads have been in disrepair for a long time, and wolves, tigers and leopards dare to hurt people in broad daylight.In addition, now that the martial arts is in its heyday, heroes from all walks of life emerge in endlessly, and correspondingly, those evil spirits and crooked ways also emerge one after another.
This section can not be called a long road, in a sense, it can be called a crisis.
Li Xunhuan and the others dared to gallop across the wilderness in a carriage like this, it was because of their skill and boldness.As far as Li Yue's martial arts is mediocre and she can only deal with a few local hooligans, no matter how smart and quick-witted she is, it will be difficult for her to travel safely from outside the pass to the Central Plains alone.
Partly for his own selfishness, and partly for expanding the commercial market of the Longlong Gang, Li Yue spent a few days specially mobilizing people from the shops to form a small but capable caravan, and joined hands with the veteran caravan of the Li family. Merge together and go to Baoding together.
The plan has been made, all that remains is to arrange the personal entourage.It's a pity that Uncle Fu is too old to withstand long-distance travel, and Li Yue didn't like servants to take care of her personally since she was a child, so she had to bring along two contracted maids from the Salesian Bureau, and a green forest man who changed his career as a bodyguard after washing his hands in Jinpen A few, accompany myself all the way to the east.
Those in charge of travel arrangements are all veterans, and the journey has already been arranged. From Shuozhou to entering the customs, the journey is smooth.On a rainy evening, the caravan had to rest in an abandoned temple nearby because they couldn't go to the village or shop.
Before the leader of the caravan and a few guys pushed the door and entered, the flames could already be seen in the ruined temple, as if someone had already occupied a relatively complete back room.After pushing open the gate of the ruined temple, they faced a young man from the rivers and lakes, who seemed to be the person in charge of the night watch in the temple.Because he was alone in the main hall, the young man was inevitably in a bad mood, so he asked the caravan to find another place to shelter from the rain with a bad attitude.
In order to avoid trouble, the leader of the caravan whispered good things to the young man, and even handed him a big money bag.Holding the purse in his hands, the young man felt embarrassed for a while, and then he reluctantly agreed to allow the caravan people to enter the main hall to shelter from the rain, but he refused to let the caravan people approach the back room.
The leader reluctantly agreed, and was about to report to Li Yue, the actual owner of the caravan, when she put away the oil-paper umbrella and stepped into the hall.The vision of the vigilant youth directly bumped into Li Yue, a "young man" who can still make the ruined temple full of brilliance even after being drenched in the rain. His face turned red and then black, black and red again, and finally he gave Li Yue a vicious look. Withdrew and left the hall.
Li Yue who stayed in the main hall was confused, but the leader of the caravan was a middle-aged man who had experienced a lot of wind and frost and was used to watching the wind and the moon. How could he not know the change of the young man's mind? He didn't expose it, but greeted the caravan with a smile People hurriedly brought their chariots and horses to the hall to shelter from the rain.
Most of the caravans are veterans, and the speed of moving goods is far from that of the newcomers. After a while, they are all sorted out, and the hall is suddenly full of people from the caravan.
Because it is a rainy day, the air is extremely humid, and the temperature drops day by day after autumn, the leaders of the Shangdu are experienced, fearing that someone will catch a cold and get sick, they immediately call everyone to move the place, and make room for a few fire pits, and order their staff to cook. A few pots of ginger soup, one bowl for each person in the caravan.
Li Yue couldn't sleep because of the strong smell of ginger in the hall. Holding the ginger soup in her hand, she couldn't swallow it. It happened that the maid who accompanied her called her, so she put down the soup bowl and walked over: "What's wrong?"
"Little...Master, look, the stone statue of Guanyin in this hall is really beautiful."
"Don't be rude... Eh, this stone statue is so exquisitely carved that it looks like a living person."
"The young master said so, but I think that this Guanyin stone statue looks like a human being."
"... Who do you look like?"
"Like you, young master~"
The two little maids laughed together, and Li Yue sighed helplessly. The maids were right. This Guanyin stone statue did resemble her. Strictly speaking, it looked like her who had become more mature and put on women's clothes ten years later.
In the wilderness, it is also fate to meet this Guanyin statue. Besides, when Li Yue looks at the Guanyin statue, he always has an inexplicable sense of intimacy.Although she doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, she also respects the unknown person who can carve such vivid stone statues. In addition, she and the caravan under her door also borrowed the ruined temple tonight, so without waiting for other people in the caravan to help, Li Yue herself He straightened the overturned table, wiped off the dust and cobwebs on the table, and placed flowers picked from the wild at noon.
"It can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, no, offering Bodhisattva, I hope everything goes well after arriving in Baoding."
Li Yue muttered a few words softly, maybe it was because of the dancing fire at night, she felt that the stone statue seemed to smile at her just now, but when she rubbed her eyes and looked over again, the stone statue of Guanyin turned back to its original dignified and magnificent appearance With a look of compassion, she had no choice but to pat herself on the cheek, throwing away the strange thoughts that suddenly occurred to her.
The owner's abnormal behavior naturally attracted the attention of the employees below, and the two little maids surrounded them with concern, and asked Li Yue why.After Li Yue clarified his delusions just now, no one knew who would speak first. The sleepy people in the caravan immediately started talking about absurd and terrifying ghost stories with great energy.
The first to start telling stories were all young people, and the stories they told basically copied the strange stories from teahouses, restaurants and the older generation, which sounded a bit dry and tasteless.At first, the veterans in the caravan planned to close their eyes and rest their minds, but they were gradually aroused by the youngsters, and they also joined the ranks of telling ghost stories.
Most of the veterans are uneducated, and they are more knowledgeable because they have traveled far and wide. The stories they tell are not only novel, but also contain more details, which makes the whole story more real, and the audience in the hall listened with gusto.When Li Yue was telling the story, the fires in the nearby fires were no longer so hot. She deliberately lit a candle to light herself up, and told the classic ghost stories she had read in a drawn-out tone.
Outside the ruined temple, it was windy and windy, and the candlelight in the main hall was weak.Under the flickering candlelight, Li Yue's face had a faint ghostly aura, which made gasps resound in the hall, and some timid people in the caravan almost fainted from fright.When Li Yue reached the climax of the story, the door leading to the back room was suddenly pushed open——
"Ahhhh-"
"Help, don't look for me, don't look for me—"
The screams were in different tones, only Li Yue put down the candle in his hand, and looked at the visitor calmly:
"Young man, it's late at night, what's your purpose here?"
The young man who had been watching the night in the hall snorted coldly, and raised the beautifully decorated long sword on his waist:
"What are you guys called, be honest, don't disturb my fellow disciples to rest, if—"
"Brother, what are you talking nonsense with them, let me tell you!"
A girl in a pink dress came out from behind the young man, her face was full of disgust, but when she saw Li Yue, her expression changed several times, and finally settled into a deep obsession and anger.Taking a deep breath, she strode towards Li Yue and raised her hand:
"Wow, you heartless man, I thought you died in the Western Regions, so you hid here!"
Although Li Yue's martial arts are ordinary, she has been fighting against talented masters like Li Xunhuan and A Fei for the past ten years, so before the opponent's hand reaches out, she has already retreated three steps away, and distanced herself from the girl in pink. Avoid this slap:
"Girl, you—"
The girl in pink didn't give Li Yue a chance to defend herself. In a rage, she untied the long spiked whip on her waist and threw it in Li Yue's direction regardless.
Li Yue could dodge it, but behind her were two little maids who didn't know martial arts. If the whip went down, the two little maids would be disfigured even if they were not seriously injured. She had to hold the long fan with her backhand and barely blocked the blow. At the same time, he also felt a slight tingling pain on his left cheek.
The girl in pink wanted to make a move, but was stopped by the night watch youth.Li Yue touched her cheek lightly, and she saw a touch of scarlet on her fingertips. She frowned and looked at the pair of brothers and sisters who were trying to stage Qiong Yao's drama:
"Girl, we have no grudges in the past, and we have no grudges in the present. Why do you want to be so cruel to me?"
"It must be because of your bad face that you can provoke the junior sister to do something! How dare you pretend that you don't know the junior sister and tell me honestly, what did you do to the junior sister!?"
The young man's words made the atmosphere of the hall freeze immediately, and many young men in the caravan stood up one after another.Li Yue looked at the pair of senior brothers and sisters coldly, with a mocking smile on his lips.The girl in pink froze suddenly, she let go of the hand that was being tugged with the young man, stomped her feet angrily, turned around and rushed back to the back room.Seeing this, the young man uttered harsh words to Li Yue, turned around and chased after him.
Several young people in the caravan belonged to the Changlong Gang, and they grew up with Li Yue. When they saw the young man leave, they rolled up their sleeves and followed, preparing to find a place for their gang leader.Li Yue raised his hand and stopped all the young people. The leader of the caravan walked up to Li Yue and asked in a low voice:
"Young master, the moon is dark and the wind is high and the rain is high. It's a good time to do business. Why don't we..."
Li Yue ran through a series of barrages of complaints in his heart, but his face was still calm: "It's hard to go ashore, and I won't do it if I can't do my old job. Our priority is to reach Baoding safely, and don't worry about the rest for now." , Wait until Baoding to make a fuss.”
"Yes, Young Master."
The leader of the caravan urged the others to rest in shifts, and the two maidservants surrounded Li Yue, one on the left and one on the right. When they saw the small wound on her face, their heart ached, and they hurriedly took out the plaster from the medicine box:
"Master, Xiaocui will rub some medicine on you. You can't leave scars on such a beautiful face."
"That's right, from Xiaoqing's point of view, those brothers and sisters just now must have been jealous of the young master's beauty, so they poured dirty water on you. Especially that girl, she laughed so hard that she actually said that the young master failed her. Pooh!"
"Okay, young master, I'm blushing from you blowing me up, you two little girls should go to rest quickly. The girl's family rests late, but she will get old and blotchy."
Li Yue fought for a long time before persuading the two little girls to rest. She found a place with hay near the wall and fell asleep with her cloak in her arms. In a daze, she felt as if Someone had been looking at him and touched his cheek with his hand.
The torrential rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the wind continued all night long.
By the time the first rays of sunlight entered the ruined temple, the caravan had already rested and was about to head to Baoding on the same route.
Most of the people in the caravan rested well, but Li Yue was haunted by strange dreams all night long. At the end of the dream, she even saw herself covered in blood and smiling strangely, which made her wake up trembling.
Due to the extremely poor quality of sleep, Li Yue sat in the carriage and yawned continuously. The little maids advised her to rest. She didn't want to fall into messy dreams again, so she just gritted her teeth and stayed awake, shaking her upper and lower eyelids on the carriage. open.
After driving for a certain distance, the carriage stopped suddenly without warning. Li Yue heard the familiar voice of dispute, she opened the curtain and walked down:
"what happened?"
"Young master, it's the young hero from last night, he—"
Before the leader of the caravan finished speaking, he was pushed aside by the young man from last night. The young man pointed at Li Yue with the tip of his sword, his face full of rage:
"Little boy, is that you? Hurry up and hand over my junior sister?"
Li Yue was stunned for a while before she realized it. She looked at the young man in disheveled clothes, and separated the opponent's long sword with the handle of the fan:
"Young man, but... your junior sister is missing?"
"Sure enough, you little boy! Where did you hide your junior sister?"
"Hero, since last night, our caravan has no contact with your senior brother and sister. I only guessed from your mouth that your junior sister is missing. How can I know your whereabouts?"
Seeing Li Yue's calm and reserved appearance, the young man was anxious and angry, and he didn't bother to listen to Li Yue's explanation. He grabbed the hilt of his sword and stabbed straight at the opponent, but the opponent avoided them one by one.
Li Yue was already in a bad mood. Seeing the young man being so unreasonable, she didn't want to bear it any longer. After blocking the young man's sword with the handle of the fan, Li Yue ran into the young man's arms and punched him hard. Then he kicked the opponent to the side of the road with a flying kick:
"You are not clear-headed, and you can't listen to people talking well, so stay here alone and calm down. Believe it or not, I will say that no one in our caravan has seen the girl in pink. If you If you have the heart, don't let it go, then take a closer look around the ruined temple, and wait a little longer."
Too lazy to entangle with the young man any more, Li Yue boarded the carriage straight away and told the caravan leader to move on.The spacious carriage kept receding with the scenery outside the window, shaking slightly again.
Li Yue stretched out his hand and yawned long. When he opened his eyes, he met the curious faces of the two maids:
"Master, how do you know that the girl in pink was still in the ruined temple last night?"
"It's very simple. It rained for so long and heavy last night that it washed away all traces of the surrounding area. When I set off this morning, I didn't hear any movement in the back wing room, and I didn't see any signs around the ruined temple. The footprints of other people. The martial sister of the knight is a spoiled girl, even if she is angry with her senior, she will definitely not choose to run out in a stormy day full of mud and water. She will probably stay in a corner of the ruined temple and watch her Brother is looking around like a headless chicken. Maybe that girl will come out by herself after her anger subsides."
"Not necessarily, young master, think about it, what if someone... comes to the ruined temple before that pair of brothers and sisters?"
Xiao Cui's words made Li Yue and the other little girl have goosebumps all over her body. Li Yue exaggeratedly rubbed her arms, and looked at the innocent little girl with a complicated expression:
"Hey, Xiaocui, I found that you have a special talent for telling suspense and horror stories. When we return from Baoding, I will definitely open a bookstore and ask you to write stories."
"The young master is very annoying, and he is making fun of Xiao Cui."
"Don't dare."
Li Yue thought that being mistaken for a heartless person by others was just a coincidence among coincidences, but when the caravan was resting in a small town inn near Mount Wutai, she was pointed at the nose by a Jianghu female heroine and scolded the heartless person.
This heroine has three-dimensional facial features, bright appearance, fair skin, and a bit of exotic blood. She has a few silver ornaments dangling on her body, but she can't see any conspicuous weapons. He is obviously a master at using poison.
When she was in Shuozhou, Li Yue once heard a saying from the old Jianghu, "It is better to provoke a martial artist than a poisonous one", and she has always kept this sentence in her heart.After all, neither Li Xunhuan nor Ah Fei are people who use poison.
Without experience in dealing with poisonous Gu, Li Yue didn't want to drag the others in the caravan, so he had to bite the bullet and listen sincerely to the quality of the Eighteenth Company of Jianghu Heroines.Fortunately, the heroine only scolded Li Yue alone, and did not greet her relatives and friends. After a long time, Li Yue unexpectedly felt that the accent of the heroine had a bit of modern Sichuan dialect.
Li Yue in this room listened with great interest, while the heroine in the other room was tired of scolding, she poked her waist and asked Li Yue:
"You heartless man, tell me the truth, are you going to marry me? You don't like such a beautiful woman like a flower, but what kind of girl do you like?"
Li Yue casually answered "myself", and caught a glimpse of the woman's suspicious eyes, she decided to tell the truth, and by the way blacked out the real heartbreaker:
"This... this heroine, let me tell the truth. I was born a flamboyant scum who loves all beauties in this world, regardless of gender. Marrying a heroine will only wrong the heroine."
"You...you even like men? I don't believe it!"
"Then let's make a bet. I bet that any person who turns his back on us is a beauty. This can only be done by a veteran who has seen countless beauties."
The female hero's face was full of disbelief, and she decided that Li Yue did not want to marry her on purpose. In desperation, Li Yue glanced at the crowd passing by on the street in front of the other party, and pointed to a man standing with his back facing the two of them. Young Master Tsing Yi:
"Okay, it's this young master. I can tell by looking at his back that he is definitely a gentle gentleman who is as gentle as jade and as indifferent as clouds!"
As soon as Li Yue finished speaking, the young man in Tsing Yi happened to turn around. He was indeed as Li Yue said, a handsome man with elegant temperament and gentle brows.The girl subconsciously blew a whistle, and she regretted it as soon as the whistle sounded, but the young man in Tsing Yi seemed to have sensed it, smiled at her from a distance, and then crossed the vast crowd, walking towards the girl firmly.
Until he was face to face with Mr. Tsing Yi, Li Yue didn't even dare to take a breath. The woman's eyes kept jumping between the two of them. Just as she was about to ask something, Mr. Tsing Yi smiled and said to Li Yue:
"Since we parted that day, we haven't seen each other for many years. I sweep the couch every day, but I don't see any trace of you. Now that I meet you here, it really has its own destiny."
The conversation was cloudy and ambiguous, but it was enough to make the heroine imagine a dramatic drama with ups and downs. She gave Li Yue a vicious look, and left the inn without hesitation. , and the curse of the heroine can be heard in the distance:
"You bastard, it's my mother who's blind!"
Li Yue smiled awkwardly, and when she met the out-of-focus eyes of Mr. Tsing Yi, she suddenly remembered that the other party was invisible.Under the baptism of the indescribable eyes of the inn, she took the young man in Tsing Yi's hand calmly, guided him to her room on the second floor of the inn, then removed the false Adam's apple in her throat, and restored her original voice:
"Long time no see, Yuan Suiyun... brother~ how did you recognize me?"
The girl's original voice is clear, pure and full of vitality, with a little cunning, like a mountain spring bubbling in the mountains and forests.
Yuan Suiyun nodded slightly when he heard the words, and replied loudly:
"Although I can't see it, I can hear it better than anyone else. I've heard your tone once and I won't forget it. After all, you are the only one in this world."
"Are you praising me or scolding me?"
"Naturally, it's a compliment."
"Okay, okay, I believe. I have to apologize to you first. The trip to the Central Plains was too hasty this time. It was my fault that I didn't have time to go to Taiyuan. It's really a strange encounter in life. We will meet later. Let's go out to eat together, I'll treat you as compensation."
"What if I don't agree?"
"Our big brother Suiyun is so understanding~love~da~reason~how could he embarrass me, a helpless little girl?"
Yuan Suiyun sighed, pretending to have no choice but to say hello.Li Yue clapped her hands, signaling Yuan Suiyun to wait here, and she went next door to change.
Li Yue originally planned to simply change her outfit, but she was held in the room by two pissed-off little maids for a whole hour of dressing up, before releasing Li Yue.
Li Yue felt a little sorry for letting her childhood friend whom she hadn't seen for a long time wait for her for so long, so before Yuan Suiyun asked, she took the initiative to explain to the other party:
"I'm sorry, Suiyun, if I wasn't worried about running into a girl who pulled me to call me a 'heartless man' when I went out to eat, I wouldn't have made you wait so long. No matter what you want to eat, drink or play tonight, I will All inclusive."
"Speaking of which, I'm really curious, how did you mess with a woman from Miao Jiang?"
"Hey, it's hard to say. Let's find a place to eat first, and we can talk slowly later."
When the two walked out of the inn, the night had already enveloped everyone.
The town is located in the basin between the mountains, and it is built adjacent to Mount Wutai. Because the incense is flourishing on the mountain and the scenery in the mountain is excellent, tourists come here all the year round, so it is more lively than other villages and towns. In terms of population, it is almost comparable to a small town. City.
There is no curfew in the villages and towns, and there are lively night markets when it gets dark.Li Yue and Yuan Suiyun walked on the street together, thinking that they could look around freely, but because she hasn't dressed properly for too long
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