Chapter 41 Chapter Thirty-Nine

The sword light stopped suddenly, Li Qichen put the sword back into its sheath, and floated back to the bedside. I saw that Mubie's long hair was all down, almost bald, only a few strands of hair were left behind the ears and on the neck, which looked very funny, and there were thin wounds on the bald head, There was only a shallow line, and no blood was shed, presumably Li Qichen was extremely angry and lost his sense of control. Yan Wei only noticed at this time that Mu Bie also had a wound on his shoulder, which was tightly wrapped in cloth strips and still slightly oozing blood, obviously it was a new wound.

Mu Bie was shocked and angry at the same time, his eyes were wide open, his eyes were full of fear, his lips trembled slightly, he stared blankly at Li Qichen for a moment, then turned his head and went out and ran away. Li Qichen seemed to be still angry, and reprimanded: "He has sword skills but no sword quality, I really don't know how his parents taught him!" Du Rong sighed: "He is also a poor child... I don't know in which country Mu Xuanshi was merciful and caused evil fate. Four years ago, he came here with his mother's corpse, begging to recognize his ancestor and return to his clan. Mu Xuanshi refused to admit it at first, but when he saw the corpse, he couldn't help being moved..."

Yan Wei wondered: "Is that the severe winter season? Can the corpse stay uncorrupted for such a long time?" Du Rong said: "No... that child somehow made his mother's corpse into a preserved corpse, and also used a sorcery of 'removing the corpse', so that the corpse not only does not rot, but can also stand upright, with no facial features. Apart from being shriveled and yellow, it is no different from a living person." Yan Wei said: "Why do you want to do this? Could it be that he has no proof and no faith, so he can only use his mother's face as a token?"

Du Rong sighed: "It seems that's exactly the case. Then Mu Xuanshi recognized this son after seeing the mummy..." Yan Wei said: "The young man lost his mother, and his father has a weird personality. No wonder he is so withdrawn..." Du Rong said: "It's not just that... He came here and learned swordsmanship and sword casting from Mu Xuanshi. But Mu Xuanshi treated him very harshly and beat him frequently. Even if the master treats the slaves, this is not the case. His face The injury was also from the sword fight with Mu Xuanshi..." "Ah?!" Yan Wei was very surprised, "How can this be? Don't you bother?"

Du Rong said: "Father disciplines his son, and outsiders can only persuade him. If Mu Xuanshi refuses to listen, there is nothing we can do. What's more, the child is not good at being a human being, and his words and deeds are not pleasing. None of the craftsmen and soldiers here like him. At first, there were people who persuaded me, but gradually no one cares about it." He said, shaking his head and sighing. Jun Yue An said: "Then Mu Xuanshi has a very withdrawn personality. He won't listen to what other people say, and he can only listen to me. Therefore, this child is only close to me. It's as if he thinks of me as a father."

Li Qichen asked, "Why did he ask Tong Shu for a sword competition?" Du Rong said: "You may not believe it when you say it, but he only wants to go to Jiang Country and kill his father." As soon as these words came out, both Yan Wei and Li Qichen were taken aback. Yan Wei said: "How could this happen? It is common for fathers to be harsh to their children. I have never heard of them killing their fathers because of such things." Du Rong said: "It seems to be his mother's death... His mother resented Mu Xuanshi for abandoning their mother and son, so she ordered her son to kill his father to avenge herself."

Yan Wei sighed: "Is it really a family? If you don't enter a family, this family has a weird personality and is unreasonable." Du Rong said: "Before he wanted to learn swordsmanship and sword casting, he just held back. After Mu Xuanshi defected to Jiang country, he has invited Ying to go to Jiang country several times..." Jun Yue An continued: "I have never agreed, one is that I don't want him to bear the crime of killing his father; the other is that he is not good at swordsmanship, even if he goes there, he is not sure of success; the third is that this son is quite spiritual in smelting and casting. If he is not under his father, he will become a great master in time."

Li Qichen said: "Could it be that he insists on assassinating his father, so he wants to fight Tong Shui?" Yue Anjun nodded: "That's right. I wanted Tong Rate to teach him a lesson and hurt him a bit, so I could stop thinking about it. I didn't expect him to fail in the sword contest, but unexpectedly launched a sneak attack, and the ultimate move was still... ..." He shook his head and sighed. Surprised, Yan Wei asked Tong Shui, "Have you ever offended him?" Tong Shu shook his head vigorously, and said the word "no" with the shape of his mouth, but did not make a sound.Yan Wei was feeling strange, and was about to ask what was going on, when she thought that she had told him to keep quiet just now, and he followed the doctor's order so faithfully, so she couldn't help but smile.

Du Rong said: "This man is simply unreasonable, so everyone calls him a lunatic..." Mr. Yue An pondered: "You can't say that, everyone has his own reasons for doing things, Mu Bie just thinks differently from ordinary people, it's hard for us to understand." Li Qichen said: "It's understandable to have different ideas, but you can't lose faith. When you compare swords, you can learn from each other. How can you attack suddenly after losing? His father only taught him how to practice swords, but didn't he teach him how to be a man?" Jun Yue An said: "Although Mu Xuanshi is well-known all over the world, it is only because of his superb skills. Have you ever heard someone praise him for his character? There are a few things where he allowed others to forge swords but ended up with no results. How can this kind of person teach his nephew well? If the child follows him, he will be crippled. Mu Bie is still young, and if he teaches slowly, he will improve." Turning to Du Rong, he said, "You guys Don't dislike him either, treat him better."

Du Rong bowed his head and said yes. An attendant has prepared hot water for the medicine bath, and Tong Shi's medicine has also been boiled.Yue Anjun and Du Rong had already left, and only Li Qichen, Tong Shui, and Yan Wei were left in the room. Li Qichen's legs were soaked in the liquid medicine, he lowered his head, and said to himself, "Let me go!" "No! If you say I'll go, I'll go!" Tong Shui shouted. "Your injury is serious." Li Qichen looked up at Tong Sui. "Your injury is not minor..." Tong Su still had a cynical smile on his face.

"Are we going to compete with swords to decide the outcome?" Li Qichen laughed. "I've been injured so badly, you have to compete with swords, you're taking advantage of someone's danger!" Tong Shi smiled wryly. Li Qichen smiled and said, "Now you admit that you are seriously injured?" Tong Shui said to Yan Wei: "You come to judge, which one of us is more seriously injured?" Yan Wei sighed: "It's all heavy..." In Yan Wei's heart, of course, she didn't want the two of them who were injured and sick to take risks, but when she thought of Du Wang, she felt that this matter must be done by someone. Do you really want Mu Bie to kill his father?Seeing that Mu Bie was powerless to fight back under Li Qichen's sword, he might not be Mu Xuanshi's opponent at all, and if he went, he would die. "Then let's go together! We have a care for each other." Li Qichen said. "Sigh... I originally wanted to do this for you, as a gift for you, but I didn't expect it to be like this..." Tong Lv was a little lonely, and continued, "Jun Yue An said, as long as Mu Xuanshi is killed , you will be cleared of your charges." Li Qichen held Tong Shui's hand tightly and said, "I know, I knew what you were thinking from the beginning..." "Ah? I thought I acted very well, didn't I hide it from you?" Tong Rate looked frustrated. Li Qichen said with a smile: "Since I was a child, what has you been able to hide from me?" Tong Rate also smiled and said: "Okay! If you two go together, you will have a better chance of winning, but you have to listen to me, I am the head." "Yes! I would like to follow the order of the head." Li Qichen bowed his hands and seemed to be in a particularly good mood. It was getting dusk. Du Rong came to escort Yan Wei back to her residence. Du Rong said: "Mr. Yue'an has already ordered you to move to Jian Hut when everything is cleaned up tomorrow. It will be more convenient to take care of their injuries nearby." Yan Wei nodded and said, "Okay." After a moment's pause, she continued, "This road is not far away. I've walked through it twice, and I already know the way. It's not too late, so I don't need an escort." Du Rong shook his head and said: "No, Mr. Yue An ordered that you must be escorted. Recently, the cliff is not peaceful, not only Jiang Guo's spies are making trouble, but also the slaves are in chaos. What's more, you are a woman, and there are no women here. Shangya, if something happens, it will be difficult to explain." Listening to his voice, Yan Wei seemed to be talking about men and women, so she couldn't speak again. Turning around the mountain ridge, I saw that Mu Bie was still in front of the furnace, bandaging and fiddling with the injury on his right shoulder.He held the strips of cloth with his left hand, lowered his head and bit his teeth, but he couldn't tie a knot, and those strips of cloth were crookedly wrapped, looking extremely lonely and pitiful. Yan Wei walked over and stood still, and said, "Let me help you... ok?" Mu Bie didn't answer, just looked at her. Yan Wei said again: "Are you okay?" There was a little coquettishness in her tone. Mu Bie nodded lightly. Yan Wei took off the cloth strip on his shoulder, and took a closer look at the wound. The sword wound was just in the socket of the shoulder, and it wasn't deep, but it was enough to make him unable to use the sword before the wound healed.It can also be seen from this that Tong Shi stabbed the sword with ease, and his swordsmanship was not a little bit higher than Mu Bie's. Yan Wei took out Huayu ointment, applied the medicine on Mu Bie again, took another clean cloth strip, wrapped his wound up, looked at it carefully, and said: "The wound on your head should also be smeared. Medicine." Mu Bie didn't speak, and lowered his head slightly, allowing Yanwei to apply medicine for him.Yan Wei looked at the remaining hair roots and judged the movement of the sword. Only then did she realize that each sword had scratched a wound. The wound was extremely shallow, only the skin was injured, and there was only a red mark, but each wound was deep or small. Almost the same, it can be seen that this was done on purpose by Li Qichen, and it wasn't that he lost his sense of proportion in a fit of anger. This sword technique can be said to be retractable and superb. Although Mu Bie is not very old, but he is very burly, even if he bows his head, he is not short, even if Yan Wei stands on tiptoe, it is very difficult to reach the top of his head.Seeing this, Mu Bie knelt down. Yan Wei smiled, pointed to the few remaining hairs behind his ears and the back of his neck, and said, "Cut these off too, okay? It doesn't look good to keep them like this." Mu Bie nodded, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and handed it to Yan Wei. When Yan Wei looked at the sword, it was not too long, it was very generous, and it was also an iron sword.There are two lines of characters filed on the end of the sword body: one is "Xuan Shi" and the other is "Bie", which are the names of his father and son.The crooked handwriting seems to have been filed by a child who just learned to write, and it must have been forged by Mu Bie under the guidance of his father.Yan Wei sighed in her heart, looking at the situation, the father imparting skills to his son was no different from all fathers and sons in the world, but how could there be so much hatred between the father and son? Yan Wei picked up the sword, carefully cut off the remaining hair on Mu Bie's head, handed the sword back to Mu Bie with both hands, and said, "After a year or two, the hair will grow. If you think it's indecent Just put on a scarf and cover it up." Mu Bie put his sword back into its sheath, pursed his lips and did not speak. Yan Wei looked at the scar on Mu Bie's cheek again, and said, "When I have time in a few days, I will make some ointment for you, and put it on every morning and evening. Over time, the scar will gradually fade away. Don't worry about old wounds." , the days to come will be long..." Mu Bie still didn't speak, and didn't know what he was thinking, he just stared at Yan Wei steadfastly.Suddenly, Mu Bie hugged Yan Wei tightly and buried his head on Yan Wei's chest. Du Rong was shocked when he saw this, and wanted to step forward to stop him, but seeing Yan Wei shaking his head, he stopped. Seeing that Mubie didn't do anything else, he just stayed like this for a while, then stood up, turned around to pack the utensils used by Xiaoye, and returned to his usual expressionless face. Yan Wei took out the half bottle of Huayu ointment from her bosom again, handed it to Mu Bie, and said, "You can keep this medicine, I still have it. You will inevitably get hurt if you are exposed to fiery hot mines all day long, so you can use it." Mu Bie folded his hands together, holding the jade pot, and said in a low voice: "Thank you..."