refuse to be a teacher

Therefore, when the wooden boat finally reached the river bank all the way along the water, the night was almost past Mao's hour, and the sky was faintly white, which was just the time when dawn was breaking.

Xue Yan and the two hurriedly bid farewell to the boatman, and walked along the edge of the pier towards the center of the city.After a night of hard work, anyone's physical condition is unbearable, so since the two of them entered the city, they went straight to their destination without rushing, and turned to find an open space under the thatched shed on the side of the road to rest for the time being. In order to avoid being too tired for a long time without conditioning, it is easy to cause bad things at critical moments.

——The so-called Biyun City in the Southern Region is known as "Putting the clouds to see the sun, and the pearls and jades to unite the brilliance". , It seems that there is a lack of a bit of strictness and rigidity, and the extra little things add a little bit of fireworks to this unique city.

As the old boatman said, the bustle and hustle and bustle of Biyun City is not comparable to any ordinary town.No, it didn't take long for the genius to shine, and the constant crowds gathered quickly on the street. The noisy voices of people going to the market, shopping for vegetables, pushing carts, and yelling up and down were endless.

At that time, the summer solstice was just over, the end of summer was coming, and it happened to be the Qixi Festival. The streets and alleys were covered with colorful decorations. The red paper lanterns painted with gold had not yet been lit, and the bright luster that reached the ground was already dizzying. In full swing.It is clearly still the first waking moment of the rising sun, but the star-studded sunlight under the red walls and green tiles seems to crush the morning light and embed it in the stone brick floor where people come and go, embracing it to sleep forever.

The master and apprentice rested on the spot for a while, and finally decided not to procrastinate.It just so happened that Yan Jue also knew the way, and when he entered the city, he dragged Xue Lanyin through all the turns and twists and turns. Xue Lan hadn't stopped since he saw him all the way, so she couldn't bear curiosity and asked a few questions. Only then did I realize that it was nearly 30 or [-] years ago when Yan Jue visited Biyun City last time.

When Yan Jue first came out of the rivers and lakes, he was just a hot-blooded boy, and he would do a lot of fighting and killing. This time, it was going through wind and rain, and a peerless sword was planted in his hand , It was ground into a piece of scrap copper and iron.

"... Later, when I passed by Biyun City, I was lucky enough to meet the shopkeeper of the Shaoling Restaurant. She saw that my Yachen sword was really badly damaged, and she couldn't bear it, so she insisted on taking it back to polish and maintain it."

"Female shopkeeper?" Xue Lan couldn't help saying with great interest because she was surprised after hearing this, "The woman's family used to forge iron for a living? That's amazing!"

"You can't say that, forging iron and casting swords is only one aspect." Yan Jue patiently explained to him, "The female shopkeeper has a deep family background, and she is a descendant of the Feng family in the ancient city of Yuncheng. The Feng family has always been proficient in recovery techniques Whether it is an excessively worn sword or a fragmented calligraphy and painting paper and pen, they can be restored to their original state through their own spells."

"Recovery technique?" Xue Lan asked curiously, "This is much better than blacksmithing. If I know how to do this, I will make a lot of money!"

Yan Jue sneered, and taunted him: "Don't think about it, people don't pass it on, unless..."

Xue Lan leaned over to grab his sleeve, tightly gripping it and said, "Unless what?"

While they were talking, the two had stopped by the door of the legendary "Shaoling Restaurant".Xue Lan thought it was the first time in more than ten years that all restaurants of any size had to be wiped out, but she didn't expect to find such a fairy-like place after following Yan Jue around along the way.

It is said to be a restaurant, but it is indeed a low building.It's just that the age has passed for a long time, and most of the color of the vermilion carved railings and wooden windows has faded, with sporadic gray and white faintly revealing.A plaque was hung vertically under the moss-soaked eaves, on which the four characters "Shaoling Restaurant" were engraved flying and dancing. Judging from the background color, it was originally inlaid with gold, but for some reason it lost its color, leaving only A string of brightly colored lanterns hangs by the corner, dyeing the lines between the lines with a ray of bright red that varies from reality to reality.

There was no one in the restaurant, most of them were regular customers, there were only a few, but they never came in and out repeatedly.When entering the door, the smell of wine filled the nose, neither too strong nor too weak, just right, not to the point of dizziness.

Xue Lan Yinfang followed Yan Jue across the threshold and entered the room, and saw a chair moved crookedly in front of the round wooden table, and there was a person sitting bored on the chair, probably the female shopkeeper of the entire restaurant.Look at her, although she is wearing an ordinary sarong, she is not as gaudy as an ordinary woman.The light gauze hugs the shoulders, the black hair is coiled up and combed into a double-knife bun, and a light blue hairpin is inserted on the top of the forehead, which sets off the half-lazy and half-charming face in a unique and lively way.

"It's noon, the store is not open, I don't bother to greet you. Go out and come back after the sun goes down." The man is really good-looking, and his temper is not bad at all. This man hasn't come in and sat down for a while. , she rushed to see off the guests as if she hated it, as if she didn't want others to patronize her business.In the end, You You was lazy, leaning back in his chair and was about to take a nap, but for some reason, suddenly sat up again, changed his face, rubbed his eyes and looked at Yan Hao and said: "... oh , Isn’t this, isn’t this the little boy from the Yan family? I’m really blind, dreaming in broad daylight?”

Wait... little brother?

younger brother?

Xue Lan's eyebrows twitched, and she quickly squinted at Yan Yao's face.But seeing that his eyes were flat and unwavering, he just clasped his fists and said to the female shopkeeper: "Aunt Feng."

"Well, it doesn't look like a dream." The female shopkeeper called Aunt Feng blinked her eyes, and looked Yan Jue up and down for a while, her eyes stuck to him like nails, covering everything from head to toe.After a while, he came back to his senses, grinned at him and said, "I heard that you have done a great job at the bottom of Xixin Valley, what's the matter? Now that the ban is lifted, dare to show your face in front of people?"

Yan cheated back: "What kind of territory is Biyun City? Anyone with eyes knows it. Who would dare to make a mistake here for no reason?"

Aunt Feng was overjoyed when she heard this, clapped her hands and laughed loudly: "Brother Yan Xian, do you know? I just like your temperament, you don't have to be afraid of the sky falling!" He rolled up his hands, slapped the table with his backhand, and said extravagantly, "Tell me, after so many years, you are finally willing to move out of the bamboo forest, where are you planning to go to have fun?"

Yan Jue shook his head, and only gently took off the Ya Ling sword hanging from his waist, and handed it to her along with the half-folded hideous scabbard: "Who still has the energy to go around causing trouble? Now I just want to Going back to the Northern Territory to rest in Ansheng, you can't take a broken sword to defend yourself on the way."

With a clear sound of "Zheng", Ya Ling got out of the sheath, and the cold light instantly disappeared like snow.Aunt Feng's slender and slender hands slowly stretched out from her sleeves, then bent her knuckles, knocked on the worn part of the sword with all her strength, stroked it back and forth several times, and finally frowned and sighed: "This Letting you bring the Ya Ling sword with you is really reckless... Tsk tsk tsk, look at the tip of this sword, how did it work? It's bent like this?"

Yan Jue glanced at her indifferently, and said: "The reward is easy to talk about, as long as you can repair it."

"That's not necessarily true." Aunt Feng raised her eyebrows and said, "Our Feng family's recovery technique is not for treating swords." After a pause, he raised his hand and patted his smooth and pretty face twice He said, "Otherwise, at my pitiful age of over sixty, how can I maintain my beauty for a long time?"

Xue Lan was startled when she heard the words, and when she looked at her everlasting youthful and beautiful facial features, she finally thought clearly—that is, if a woman lived for 30 to [-] years, she should have become a woman by now. A yellow-faced woman with fine lines all over her face, how can she have such a flamboyant youthful appearance?It turned out that the Feng clan's unique magic skills were behind her, even though she was born like a baby who is indifferent to the world, and at her age, even Yan Jue had to call her aunt.

It's a pity that Yan Jue didn't intend to deal with her, raised his eyes slightly, and said straightforwardly: "...what do you want?"

"I've heard that Yan, the second disciple of Lord Feng'ai's sword master, was extremely handsome and talented—it's a pity that he was once bewitched by the forbidden technique, and since then his hands have been stained with meat, and he no longer has the brilliance of when he was young." Aunt Feng slightly. With a smile, her voice softened, especially humanely, "But I just... just like you now - the compassion is gone, but the tenderness is still there."

While he was speaking, the pair of jade hands that had touched the blade of the sword just now were silently lifted up, as if there was no place, and lifted Yan Yao's beautifully curved jaw.Yan Jue's eyes darkened, and Fang wanted to subconsciously turn his head to dodge it, but before that, Xue Lanyin had already pulled back abruptly, using all his strength, and bound him between his arms, as if trying to rip his bones to pieces. crumb.

"Good sister, talk is what you talk about, but don't do it." Xue Lan was smiling, but her eyes were not as obedient and soft as before, "If you really like it so much, then stand a little farther away, why don't you look at it?" more fully?"

Fearing that he would talk nonsense, Yan hurriedly shook his wrist and said, "Xue Xiaomao..."

"Hey! I mean brother Yan Xian, where did you bring this handsome boy?" In the middle of the conversation, unexpectedly, Aunt Feng suddenly turned her eyes away and stared at Xue Lanyin with great interest, " She looks good, and her mouth is as sweet as honey, which is very attractive."

Xue Lan had a look of unkindness on her face, so she said straightforwardly: "I am..."

"Aunt Feng." Yan Jue took the first step, stopped Xue Lanyin and gently pushed Xue Lanyin aside, then increased his tone, and said expressionlessly to the charming woman who was waiting in the seat, "If you really need a certain reward , please make a long story short, don't waste time."

"Look at what you said, I've been in this business for decades, and I never thought of making things difficult for my regular customers." Aunt Feng casually bent over and sank into the chair, her pair of dark and bright eyes still Shutting back and forth between Xue Lanyin and Yan Jue, "It's just...it's inappropriate to not ask for compensation. Look at me, I only made a half-human height last night by pinching my cultivation base." I’m so tired, don’t mention how miserable it is...Your broken sword came to your door again today, tell me, should I repair it or not?”

Yan Jue understood something, so he asked her quietly: "What kind of reward does Aunt Feng want?"

"Well, I don't want to make things difficult for you." Aunt Feng bent her lips and smiled, "If you insist on saying that I'm greedy for beauty, then there's nothing I can do. I wonder if there is any girl who doesn't want to wait Do you want to be favored by a beautiful woman?" After saying that, he spread his palms towards him, hooked his knuckles and said, "...Now it's the Qixi Festival, and everything is sold in the streets and alleys of Biyun City, so I will be more greedy and look at the beauty. If you ask for a box of rouge and gouache, it should be considered as a gift for me—this, shouldn’t it be too much?”

Ever since, in the evening of that day, it was the setting sun.The last ray of sunlight was swallowed up and exhausted by the coming of night, and at last most of the red lanterns strung together on the streets of Biyun City were lit one after another, scrambling to be the first, swaying slowly in the warm evening wind.

The turbulent flow of people around the Shaoling Restaurant began to increase suddenly, as if the river was in high tide, they stepped across the threshold to come in and out, shouting and footsteps were heard endlessly, and even the surrounding teahouses and restaurants were noisy Shengteng, all of a sudden, drunk dancing and singing, drinking and drinking, everyone is indulging in this, but it is really a lively scene!

But at this time, Xue Yan's master and apprentice were not resting. They only placed the Ya Ling sword with the broken sheath in the hands of the female shopkeeper of Feng's family, then turned around and walked out of the gate empty-handed—that was a terrible walk. Call a hurry.

——for what?

Hey, no one thought that he was rushing to buy rouge for someone.