Chapter 10 Chapter Nine

A few months later, this matter has been widely spread in the world.In the teahouse and restaurant, everyone was guessing why this pair of male and female swordsmen, who were admired by the martial arts, suddenly became vassals of the Demon Palace.However, although the leader of the old alliance under pressure issued Jianghu orders, there was no trace of the couple in the whole Jianghu. Xiling Xiaozhu at the foot of the lonely mountain went to the empty house, Xie Hongying, who had lived in seclusion for ten years, had abandoned his old residence and disappeared, and Shen Xun, whose whereabouts were originally uncertain, was nowhere to be found.

More than half a year passed in a short time, and it turned out that Shangqiongbi fell into Huangquan, and the two places were all gone. "It's not easy to find the two of them." Hearing that his subordinates came back empty-handed, the heads of the various sects in the Dingjiange frowned, but the old leader Yan sighed and shook his head with his beard. People, if they want to deliberately hide their tracks at this moment, with their abilities, it may not be easy to find these two people from the world." "So what if I find it, I can't beat it anyway..." Someone in the hall said softly, and everyone followed the sound, but it was Yan Linger, the granddaughter of the leader who stayed aside.The girl looked disdainful, and looked at all the heroes of the Central Plains in the hall with her mouth tilted.

"Ling'er, don't be rude!" Old leader Yan scolded angrily, Yan Ling'er snorted, and closed her mouth obediently, but her eyes rolled around, still full of dissatisfaction. Although the martial arts people in the hall did not speak, they were shocked in their hearts, knowing that what the girl said was true, but if they did not find out those two people and ask them clearly, and arrest the young master of the Demon Palace, the face of the Central Plains martial arts would be changed. Where to put it?In everyone's mind, they still thought that it would be good if they could not find it all the time. If they really found it, they still don't know what would happen.

"Ahem, everyone, this time the old man summoned everyone to the Dingjiange, and there is really something important to discuss." In the silent and awkward atmosphere, he coughed slightly, and the old leader Yan opened his mouth, looking at the ten sect masters in the hall. The door—as soon as he opened his mouth, he immediately drew everyone's attention away from this matter: "The old man will be sixty next year. At such an advanced age, it is already too much for him to be the leader of the alliance. Therefore, I want to wash my hands and retire on my birthday next year-but the Jianghu alliance cannot be without a leader for a day, before I take off this burden next year , I want to find a suitable candidate in the martial arts, and pass on the position of leader to him."

Inside the Dingjian Pavilion, there was a sudden silence, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.There was a cold light in the eyes of all the heads, and they couldn't help but clenched the teacups in their hands—the old leader Yan Lei has been in charge of the Jianghu League for more than 20 years, leading the Central Plains martial arts through countless calamities, and his prestige is growing day by day.If he doesn't say anything, no one in the martial arts would dare to think of replacing him.However, at this time, the old man bluntly abdicated, and the desire to fight for power suddenly raised his head in the hearts of the heads like a poisonous snake.

"Everyone, please pay attention to this old man when you go back, and see which faction in the rivers and lakes is talented enough to take the big job - if everyone agrees, on November 15th next year, this old man will give up the position of leader." Slowly , Said such an important decision, the audience was silent.After coughing a few times, Old Leader Yan's eyes showed exhaustion, while Yan Ling'er observed his words and expressions, he jumped up to the hall and climbed onto Grandpa's seat: "Okay, Grandpa is tired, and the business is over. Let's eat."

"Nonsense." The old leader Yan patted his granddaughter's hand away with a smile, but his eyes were doting, and he really seemed tired. The heads of the various factions bid farewell one after another, each retreated with their own thoughts, and looked at each other. Although they said goodbye verbally, they were already fighting for the position of next year's leader in their hearts. For a while, only the grandparent and grandson were left in the Dingjiange, and it was surprisingly quiet. "Ah, grandpa, you are so smart, let them go to heaven and earth, and never would have thought that Fang Jie is in this tripod sword pavilion!" Holding grandpa's hand and walking to the inner room, the girl in purple croaked and shook her head while laughing. , very proud, "However, Grandpa, why did you suddenly propose not to be the leader? If you don't become the leader, it will be difficult to cover that kid in the future!"

"Little girl, what do you know?" The old man stroked his beard and touched his granddaughter's head with a smile. "I won't retire until next year. In this year, let those people fight for it—so that they can I won't be thinking about finding someone. Next year, your Big Brother Shen and Big Sister Xie will return to the Central Plains from the Western Regions, and I will feel relieved when I hand over Xiao Jie to them." "Ah?" Although Yan Ling'er is smart, she has no plans for this kind of scheming. Only now did she understand, and she clapped her hands and laughed, "Jiang is still old and spicy——Grandpa is so powerful!"

"What are you talking about!" The old man laughed, touched his granddaughter's head, and sighed slightly, "However, grandpa is really old, and he can't protect many people with his strength...Little girl, you have to learn from Miss Xie." The Tianxinjue I taught you when I left—if you learn half of her skills, Grandpa will be relieved." "Well, I will work hard!" For the first time, Yan Linger restrained her mischievous and self-willed expression, looked up at her grandfather, and put her arms around the old man's neck, "Grandpa, I want to become as powerful as Sister Xie as soon as possible. No one dares to bully me—even that brat can’t beat me!”

"Okay, okay, let's go, let Xiao Jie come to eat." As he walked, he had already arrived in the inner room of the backyard. The old leader Yan looked at his granddaughter with kind eyes, and patted her on the head, "He was depressed all day, and It's not a problem, you can talk to him more when you have time." "I see..." Yan Ling'er said while running towards the bamboo house in the backyard. When he was very young, as the youngest son of the Fang family, he once dreamed of the Tripod Sword Pavilion—that is the holy place of martial arts in the Central Plains, only the leader of the Jianghu League can live in it, and others, even as talented and beautiful as his eldest brother, cannot step in.However, Fang Jie never thought that one day he would live in the Tripod Sword Pavilion under such circumstances.

On that day, he only thought that he was going to die.Even if he didn't die under the swords of those Central Plains Wulin people, he would still be driven into madness by the backlash of the heavenly demon Dafa. However, after floating in the death-like darkness for an unknown amount of time, when he woke up, he would actually be in this place. In the Dingjian Pavilion. "Grandpa, look, what Sister Xie said is right, he woke up after three days!" Opening his eyes, the first thing he saw was the little girl in purple, and he greeted Grandpa to come and see him in surprise—he Recognized, that is Yan Lei, the leader of the Central Plains Wulin and the leader of the Jianghu League—is it Xiao Xie, Xiao Xie who handed him over to the Jianghu League? Shocked, he struggled to get up, and suddenly found that the energy channel could not move at all. "Son, don't mess around with your luck—Mr. Shen already sealed your air when he left," the white-haired old man looked at him, but his eyes were filled with kindness and no overlord's murderous look. "He and Miss Xie It took a day and a night of hard work to save you, I'm afraid that if you wake up and forcefully practice the Heavenly Demon Dafa, you will go crazy, and when the two of you leave, your energy channels will be sealed." "Let's go! Little sister Xie, where did little sister Xie go?" The young man got up from the couch, not caring that he was in the enemy's stronghold at this time, but asked anxiously, "She and Shen Xun left?" "I'm going to find an antidote for you." Although he didn't ask much, the old leader Yan looked at the young man with a piercing light in his eyes. It was obvious that Shen and Xie had told him the whole story. The old man smiled, "She was very worried about you, and was afraid that you would have the same accident as your brother, so she couldn't wait for you to wake up, so she went to the snow-capped mountains of the Western Regions with Mr. Shen to ask for elixir. I entrusted you to the old man, so that you can rest assured here. After a year, they will definitely find a way to cure you." "Entrusted to you?" The young man was startled, looking at the leader of the Central Plains martial arts in front of him, he couldn't believe it. "When your senior brother came to the Central Plains, I was the one who concealed it for him for ten years..." The old man laughed, twisted his beard, and explained the young man's doubts in one sentence: "Although the old man is old and dim-witted, he can't see people, Misunderstood. I can trust the person Shen Xun entrusted with the matter." "No, I don't want to stay in the Tripod Sword Pavilion to receive your favor...let me go!" The young man was still stubborn and struggled to get off the ground. "Ah, do you think we are willing to keep you as a troublesome child?" Suddenly pushed heavily, the young man fell back on the couch, and the boy who had no resistance saw that the one who did it unceremoniously was actually the one who had been humiliated by him before. A girl in purple.Yan Ling'er curled her lips, looked at him, and sneered: "But now you have lost all your martial arts, and you were dismembered by those people within three steps from the gate of the Tripod Sword Pavilion! - I don't know what to do... And, if you Let’s go, Brother Shen, Xie Sister, what shall we explain when she comes back?” "I don't care how you explain it." Fang Jie also sneered, and propped himself up again, "You don't have to worry about my life or death!" Just as he stood up, he was pushed heavily on his shoulder again, and the boy staggered and fell back on the couch, hitting the back of his head heavily against the wall.Yan Linger got angry, crossed her hips, and tapped his forehead with one hand: "Tell you, if you didn't sell brother Shen to thank your sister for your face, do you think I would give you a good fruit today? — Brat, you have the ability You have defeated me now and go away by yourself, otherwise, just stay obediently in the Tripod Sword Pavilion and wait for the two of them to come back!" Extremely angry, the young man struggled to get up with a pale face, but the blood in his body was churning again, and his hands and feet were weak. The old alliance leader on the side just watched with a smile on his beard, but he didn't stop his granddaughter from doing anything wrong. Watching Yan Ling'er beat the young man who was about to leave back to the couch again and again, and finally took out a booklet. Copy the scroll and put it in front of Fang Jie: "This is what Mr. Shen told me to give you when he left - he knew more or less about the disadvantages of martial arts in the Great Bright Palace before, and he has also summed up some methods to eliminate them in the Central Plains for ten years. , I hope you can take a look, at least you have to wait until he and Miss Xie come back." However, this wait lasted for more than half a year... There was no news from the young lady Xie in the middle. In his spare time, he flipped through the book, and was amazed by Shen Xun's deep thinking and knowledge in martial arts. He suddenly felt that, even in martial arts, how far apart was he from the other party? Since Zhan Bilou abandoned his sword in the first battle, he couldn't even look up.It was at that moment that he really felt hopeless, right? He sighed for a long time, closed the book, and suddenly heard a crisp voice next to his ear: "Don't sigh...it's hard work, isn't it? Yes...it's hard work to like old women and old men." The boy turned his head and saw the purple-clothed girl bouncing in——Yan Linger's kung fu has improved very fast recently, and many times she came in without him noticing.The girl sighed, and there was a gloomy and unwilling look on her brows: "I saw Sister Xie come to rescue me alone on Mount Hua, that kind of demeanor... I knew that I couldn't compare to her. At least, within three to five years Not as good as thanking my sister..." "But it may not be the same in a lifetime!" Fang Jie answered her words for the first time, with a stubborn and unwilling expression on his brows. Yan Ling'er nodded, with a flash of light in her eyes, but then she lowered her head and sighed: "However, wait until I am as good as Sister Xie, Brother Shen is also getting old... There is no reason for him to wait for me to grow up, Isn’t that right? Didn’t it hurt him? So—” The girl suddenly laughed, the light in her eyes was as innocent as the first snow: “So now I’m working hard to practice Tianxinjue, and at the same time I’m begging Bodhisattva to bless Brother Shen and Sister Xie to be happy .” Hearing those words, the boy was stunned for a moment, as if he had been hit in the heart by something, and was speechless. Sometimes, the words of the girl in front of him who had been so despised by him shocked him. Although she was unruly and willful, but because she had such a pure heart, when she looked at the same thing, she didn't know how to compare her with the gloomy heart. How much higher - he is not as good as her. "Let's go, it's time to eat." Ling'er was stared at by him for a long time, a little embarrassed, and pulled him, "After eating, let me see if my Tianxin is right—hee, this year you I can't practice martial arts because my internal energy is sealed, but I'm working hard every day—maybe when sister Xie and the others come back, I won't be much worse than you!" Fang Jie smiled slightly, and raised the corners of his eyes—this twenty-year-old boy is usually not serious, but no matter how he smiles, there is always a hint of gloom in his eyes, but at this moment, his smile is clear: "Little girl, how could I lose to you?" Another drizzle, another late autumn, and another Double Ninth Festival. From the Zhanbi Tower, I can see the autumn scenery outside, misty rain and hazy sky, water clouds and sparse willows. With horses hanging from the willows, in the mist and rain, two guests came upstairs in a hurry.Xiaoer welcomed the guests who went upstairs to the seat, felt that they looked a little familiar, so he took a second look.However, the woman in it was wearing a veil, so she couldn't tell her face clearly. "A box of plum blossom crisps, half a cage of pine needle soup dumplings. A few more hot dishes... Longjing shrimp, lotus leaf steamed meat, shrimp roe and bamboo shoots, fish head tofu... Well, lastly, a sea bass soup with water shield." Very cooked and flowing After reporting the names of a bunch of dishes, the veiled woman brushed her temples, and then remembered to ask the man opposite, "By the way, Shen Xun, what do you want?" "A pot of Mingqian Longjing." The man in white who was seated opposite her nodded to Xiao Er, and only added one sentence. Xiao Er wrote down the name of the dish, bent down and asked again: "You two guests, what song do you want to listen to? We are upstairs in Zhanbi..." "Is Zhulianxiu still singing here?" The woman is indeed a regular customer, and before he finished speaking, she interjected, "I don't know what good songs she has played this year-just pick her best and stand outside the curtain Just sing it." Xiao Er sang "Okay" and then retreated. "I ordered so many dishes as soon as I came back. I have a good appetite." After waiting for Xiao Er to retreat, Shen Xun laughed and looked at the woman in plain clothes in front of him, "Xiao Xie, we have been away for too long this time. Make up for what I haven’t eaten for more than a year.” "Well, but—who pays the bill?" Xie Hongying laughed, and patted the sword on the table, "Should we decide by comparing swords again?" "They are still open for business, so they are not afraid of scaring others." Shen Xun smiled lightly, but his eyes looked at the raindrops outside the eaves, and there was a little tiredness in his eyes, "Why does it rain every time we come here? A few years passed in the blink of an eye..." "As soon as I returned to the Central Plains, I felt a lot of emotion—where did the pride in the snowy mountains and deserts go?" The woman in plain clothes suddenly had a hint of desolation in her eyes, but she forced a smile.She was nearly thirty years old, and when she smiled, there were already slight marks at the corners of her eyes: "Uncle Yan and the others must have been waiting for us for a long time. After eating soon, let's go to Dingjiange to give the snow clams to Xiao Jie, which can be regarded as the completion of merit. " "After that, I'll go boating on the five lakes." Shen Xun laughed, and poured two cups of Longjing for Xie Hongying and himself. Hearing the sound of the rain outside, he lowered his head and took a sip, "I heard that Old Man Yan is going to retire at the end of the year— —Everyone, don’t care about the entanglement in the martial arts grievances, let’s go to the mountains and forests together.” "Don't move." The moment he raised his head, he heard a soft cry from the woman next to his ear, and then a slight pain in his temple. "Look, they all have gray hair." Looking up, she saw Xie Hongying looking at a half-white hair in her hand, and sighed, "Really, we have to hurry up and explain what we have to do—this life, It’s really like a white horse passing by. I don’t come here every year to listen to the rain, and ten years have passed before I know it..." "Look, and said that I have a lot of emotion." Shen Xun smiled, snatched the white hair from her hand, and threw it out of the window. "The young man is listening to Yuge upstairs..." The two were about to say something when suddenly a wisp of Qingge appeared from the bottom of the outer curtain.Even though the voice was a woman's, there was no sense of femininity, it was strong and dignified, and there was a faint sound of gold and stone at the turning points. "It's been more than a year, and Zhulianxiu's singing style has changed like this?" He blurted out in surprise, but after hearing that singing voice, Xie Hongying's heart quieted down in an instant, and the noisy foreign objects suddenly disappeared. There is only the sound of rain dripping outside the eaves.Shen Xun also heard the singing, suddenly, I don't know what kind of emotion came up, he didn't care about being in the restaurant, he just leaned over slightly, and put his hand on the back of hers lightly. Holding hands and looking at each other, temples are like frost.The two looked at each other and smiled, heard the neighing of the horse downstairs, and turned their heads to look outside the building - only three riders came under the weeping willows of the Baidi in the rain, the old man and two young men got off their horses downstairs, tied to weeping willow. "Oh, it's your little brother Xiaojie—" Shen Xun smiled slightly when he saw the young man in Tsing Yi riding first, and looked at Xie Hongying, "It seems that he has been doing well this year, and he has grown up a bit." "Isn't your Linger here too?" The plain-clothed woman smiled without showing any weakness, watching the purple-clothed girl downstairs lightly leaping from the horse's back, landing gracefully at a turning point, and nodding her head in approval, "It seems that the art of heaven and man I have achieved a little bit of learning—after all, she is a smart girl, so I can be relieved." "When they have the ability to snatch these two swords from our hands, they will be really relieved." Shen Xun nodded slightly, looking at the pair of young men running downstairs, with a gentle smile in his eyes meaning. For a while, he was speechless again.Just listening to the bottom of the curtain, the actress singing is powerful and dignified, accompanied by red teeth, listening carefully, it is Jiang Jie's "Poppy": "A young man listens to Yuge upstairs, and the red candles are dimmed. A middle-aged man listens to the rain in a boat. The river is wide and the clouds are low, and the broken wild goose is called the west wind. Now listening to the rain under the monk's hut, there are already stars on the temples.The joys and sorrows are always ruthless, and the first step will last till dawn. " The two held hands on the Zhanbi Building and looked around, only to see misty waves on the lake, which was boundless. Raindrops fell from the eaves continuously, as if singing slowly to the beat of the song.