Chapter 9 Seventh duel

There is a small door in the corner of the back garden. Fu Hongxue came in through this door, and so did Du Lei! They didn't go over the wall. The path has been covered by weeds, if you walk straight from the grass, the distance will be much closer. But they would rather follow the winding path! They all walked very slowly, but once they started, they never stopped. In some ways, they seem to have a lot in common. But they are by no means the same kind of people.You can tell just by looking at their knives. Du Lei's knife is studded with jewels, dazzling in brilliance! Fu Hongxue's knife was pitch black.

But these two knives have something in common. ——Both knives are knives, both are knives for killing people! Do these two people also have something in common? ——Both of them are human beings, both of them are murderers! The application time has not yet arrived, but the time to draw the sword has arrived. Once the knife is pulled out, there is only death! Either you die, or me! Du Lei finally stopped, facing Fu Hongxue and the unparalleled sword in Fu Hongxue's hand. He wanted this person to die under his sword, but deep down in his heart, he was the person he respected the most!

But Fu Hongxue seemed to be still looking into the distance, and there happened to be a dark cloud covering the sun in the distance. The sun is gone, but the sun will never die. What about people? Du Lei finally said, "My name is Du, Du Lei." Fu Hongxue said: "I know!" Du Lei said, "I'm late." Fu Hongxue said: "I know!" Du Lei said: "I made you wait on purpose, I want you to wait until you are distracted, so that I have a chance to kill you." Fu Hongxue said: "I know!" Du Lei suddenly smiled and said, "Unfortunately, I forgot one thing."

He smiled bitterly: "When I want you to wait for me, I am also waiting!" Fu Hongxue said: "I know!" Du Lei suddenly sneered again, and said, "You know everything?" Fu Hongxue said, "I still know one thing at least." Du Lei said, "You say it." Fu Hongxue said coldly: "As soon as I draw the sword, you will die." Du Lei's hand was clenched suddenly, and his pupils shrank suddenly. After a long time, he asked, "Are you sure?" Fu Hongxue said, "Yes!" Du Lei said: "Then why don't you draw your sword now?"

It's just past three quarters now, the dark clouds have just covered the sun, and the wind has just had a little coolness. This is the perfect time to kill. Mingyue is in Mingyue Tower, and Mingyue is in Mingyue Lane. When Thumb and Peacock walked into Mingyue Lane, there happened to be a gust of wind blowing towards them. Such a cool wind. Thumb took a deep breath, smiled and said, "Today is a good day to kill people, and now is also a good time to kill people." Peacock said: "Oh?" Thumb said: "Now after killing people, you can take a bath in a leisurely manner, and then go to drink comfortably!"

Peacock said: "Then go find a woman to sleep with." Thumb smiled and narrowed his eyes, and said, "Sometimes I even go to find two or three." Peacock also smiled and said, "You said, Ming Yuexin is also a bitch." Thumb said: "She was originally!" Peacock said: "Tonight, do you want to see her?" Thumb said: "I don't want to." Peacock said: "Why?" Thumb didn't answer this question directly, but slowly said: "There are many kinds of bitches!" Peacock asked: "Which type is she?" Thumb said: "She happens to be the one I don't want to find!"

Peacock asked again: "Why?" Thumb sighed and said with a wry smile, "Because she is the scariest woman I've ever seen. As long as I close my eyes, she will kill me." The peacock said, "What if you don't close your eyes?" Thumb sighed again, and said, "If I don't close my eyes, she can kill me just as well." Peacock said: "I know your martial arts are very good." Thumb said: "But there are at least two women in this world who can kill me." Peacock asked: "Is she one of them?" Thumb nodded with a sigh. Peacock said: "Who is the other one?"

Thumb said: "Second Miss Ni, Ni Hui." As soon as he finished his sentence, he heard a burst of laughter, a crisp laughter, as beautiful as a silver bell. There are high walls on both sides of the alley, and there are wooden leaves on the top of the high walls. Spring is deep, and the leaves are also deep. The laughter came from the depths of the leaves! "Fatty man, how do you know I can hear you?" "I don't know!" Thumb immediately denied. "Then why did you deliberately flatter me?" The laughter is beautiful, the person is beautiful, and the body skills of Qinggong are even more beautiful.When she floated down from the wall, it was like a cloud, a flower petal.

A piece of peach blossom that has just been blown down by the spring breeze, and a piece of flowing cloud that has just flown out of the deep valley. Thumb saw her figure, and her figure disappeared again. Thumb watched her figure disappear into the depths of the leaves on the other side, his eyes narrowed into a line again with a smile. "This is Miss Ni Er." "Why did she come and leave suddenly?" Peacock couldn't help asking. "Because she wants us to know that she is higher than Mingyuexin." Thumb's eyes remained on the place where her figure disappeared, "So now we can deal with Yan Nanfei with confidence."

"Only one thing I don't understand." "Which point?" "Why do we have to kill Yan Nanfei?" Peacock probed, "Who is he? Why has no one in Jianghu ever known his background?" "You'd better not ask about this!" Thumb's attitude suddenly became very serious, "If you must ask, you'd better prepare something first." "What do you want me to prepare first?" "coffin." Peacock didn't ask any more questions.When he looked up, there happened to be a dark cloud covering the moonlight. When the dark clouds covered the moonlight, Mingyuexin was facing a patch of roses in front of the small window.

She also embroiders roses, spring roses. Spring is old. Rose is also old. Yan Nanfei lay motionless on the bed, his face was as pale as Fu Hongxue. The wind blows gently outside the window, and the wind is cold, as cold as autumn. Suddenly she heard their voices. Their footsteps are lighter than the wind, and their voices are colder than the wind. "Go and ask Yan Nanfei to come down." "If he doesn't come down, we'll go up." Ming Yuexin sighed, she knew that Yan Nanfei would never go down, and she also knew that they would definitely come up. Because Yan Nanfei didn't want to kill them, it was they who wanted to kill Yan Nanfei, so Yan Nanfei could lie comfortably on the bed, but they had to carry their weapons, cross the streets, knock on doors and go upstairs, in a hurry He hurried over, fearing that he might lose the chance to kill. —— Between the murderer and the murdered, who is noble and who is humble?No one can answer. She lowered her head to embroider again. She heard neither footsteps nor a knock at the door, but she knew that someone had already reached the door. "Come in." She didn't even lift her head, "There is no latch on the door, just push it open." It was a door that could be opened with a light push, but no one pushed it. "Since the two are here to kill, do you want the murdered person to open the door to welcome him?" Her voice was very gentle, but to Peacock and Thumb, it seemed sharper than a needle. Today is a good day to kill, and now is a good time to kill, and they were in a good mood. But now they suddenly became unhappy at all, because the people who were killed seemed to be far more relaxed than them, but they stood outside the door like idiots, and their heartbeats doubled. —It turns out that killing people is not a very pleasant thing. The peacock looked at the thumb, and the peacock looked at the thumb. Both of them were asking themselves in their hearts: "Has Yan Nanfei really been poisoned? Is there an ambush in the house waiting for them to take the bait?" In fact, they also know in their hearts that as soon as the door is opened, all questions can be answered immediately. But they didn't reach out. "When you come in, you'd better walk lightly." Ming Yuexin's voice was more gentle, "Mr. Yan has been poisoned, and he is fast asleep now, you must not wake him up." Thumb suddenly smiled, and said: "She is Yan Nanfei's friend, she knows we are here to kill Yan Nanfei, but she seems to be afraid that we will not dare to go in and do it, what do you think it is for?" Peacock said coldly: "Because she is a woman, a woman can betray a man at any time." Thumb said: "No." Peacock said: "What do you think she is for?" Thumb said: "Because she knows that the more she says that, the more suspicious we will become, and the less we dare to go in." Peacock said: "You are right, you have always understood women better than me." Thumb said: "Then what are we waiting for?" Peacock said: "Wait for you to open the door." Thumb said: "You are the one who killed." Peacock said: "You are the one who opened the door." Thumb smiled again: "Are you never willing to take risks?" Peacock said: "Yes." Thumb smiled and said, "It's really a pleasure to cooperate with someone like you, because you must live longer than me. After I die, you can at least collect my body for me." He smiled, and with a tap of his finger, the door opened.Ming Yuexin was still embroidering in front of the window, Yan Nanfei was still lying on the bed like a dead man. Thumb exhaled and said, "Please come in." Peacock said: "Aren't you going in?" Thumb said: "If you kill someone, I will open the door. My job is done, now it's your turn." Peacock stared at him for a long time, then suddenly said: "There is something I have never told you." Thumb said: "Oh?" Peacock said coldly: "I feel sick every time I see you, and I have tried to kill you at least three times." Thumb was still laughing: "Fortunately, it's not me you're going to kill this time, it's Yan Nanfei." The peacock was silent. So Thumb pushed the door open again and said, "Please." The room was very quiet and dark, and the moonlight outside the window was completely covered by dark clouds. The time is now past. The peacock finally entered the room, and when he entered, his hands had been retracted into his sleeves, and his fingertips had already touched the peacock feathers. The cold and smooth peacock feathers are unparalleled in the world. His heart was suddenly full of confidence. Ming Yuexin raised her head, looked at him, and suddenly smiled: "Are you the peacock?" Peacock said: "Peacocks are not ridiculous." Mingyue Xin said: "But you don't look like it, you really don't look like it." Peacock said: "You don't look like a bitch either." Ming Yuexin laughed again. Peacock said: "Being a whore is not a ridiculous thing." Mingyue Xin said: "The other thing is very ridiculous." Peacock said: "What's the matter?" Mingyue Xin said: "You are not like a peacock, but you are a peacock; I am not like a bitch, but you are a bitch. A mule is obviously very similar to a horse, but it is not." She smiled and said, "There are many things like this in the world." Peacock said: "What exactly do you want to say?" Mingyue Xin said: "For example, the hidden weapon on your body is obviously like a peacock feather, but it is not." Peacock laughed, laughed. A man can laugh so hard only at the most absurd jokes. Mingyue Xin said: "Actually, you have already doubted this in your heart, because you have already felt that its power is not as terrible as the legends say, so you dare not use it to deal with Fu Hongxue." Although the peacock was still laughing, it was a bit forced. Mingyue Xin said: "It's a pity that you have doubts in your heart, but you have not been able to prove it, and you dare not prove it." Peacock couldn't help but said: "Could it be that you can?..." Mingyue Xin said: "I can prove it, only I can, because..." Peacock said: "Because of what?" Ming Yuexin still said calmly: "I still have several peacock feathers like the one you wear on your body. I can give you one or two more at any time." The peacock's face changed, and so did the thumb outside the door. Mingyue Xin said: "I can give you another one right now, here, take it." As soon as she really stretched out her hand, she took out a brilliant golden cylinder from her sleeve, and casually threw it to the peacock, just like throwing a penny to a beggar. The peacock reached out to catch it, and only glanced at it twice, as if someone had stepped on his stomach. Mingyue Xin said: "Do you see if this peacock feather is exactly the same as the one you are wearing?" The peacock didn't answer, and didn't have to answer. No matter who saw his expression, he could already guess his answer. The thumb has begun to move back quietly. Peacock suddenly turned back, stared at him, and said, "Why didn't you kill me?" Thumb forced a smile and said, "We are partners, why should I kill you?" Peacock said: "Because I want to kill you. I was going to kill you, but now I have to!" Thumb said: "But I don't want to kill you, because I don't have to do it myself." He really laughed, his eyes narrowed into a line: "There is only one person in the Jianghu who knows that you are not a real peacock. Within three hours, you will become a dead peacock." Peacock said coldly: "It's a pity you forgot one thing." Thumb said: "Oh?" Peacock said: "Even if this peacock feather is fake, it is more than enough to kill you." Thumb's smile stiffened, and he threw himself up. Although his reaction was not slow, it was still a step late. The golden cylinder in the peacock's hand has been shot with a dazzling brilliance. As brilliant as a sunset, as beautiful as a rainbow. Thumb's ugly and bloated body was immediately submerged in this brilliant and beautiful brilliance, and it was like ugly sand being swept away by a beautiful wave. When this piece of brilliance disappeared, his life had also been wiped out. There was a light thunder, and raindrops fell among the dark clouds. Ming Yuexin finally sighed, and said: "You are right, even if this peacock feather is fake, it has the power to kill people." Peacock has turned back, stared at her, and said: "So I can use it to kill you too." Mingyue Xin said: "I know. You even want to kill your thumb, and of course you won't let me go." Peacock said: "After you die, no one will know whether the peacock feather is real or not." Mingyue Xin said: "Except for me, no one else knows this secret." Peacock said: "Du Lei won't go to the appointment until Shen Shi. After I killed you, I just rushed there. It doesn't matter who wins or loses in this battle. The remaining one will die in my hands anyway. inside." Ming Yuexin sighed: "Your plan was very thorough, but it's a pity you also forgot one thing." Peacock shut his mouth and waited for her to speak. Mingyue Xin said: "You forgot to ask me, how would I know that this peacock feather is fake." Sure enough, the peacock immediately asked, "How do you know?" Ming Yuexin said lightly: "Only I know this secret, just because I was the one who faked these peacock feathers." Peacock was stunned again. Mingyue Xin said: "Since I can make such a peacock feather, since I dare to give it to you casually, I am sure of breaking it!" The peacock's face turned pale, and his hands were already shaking. He can kill people, perhaps not because he has peacock feathers, but because he has a heart full of confidence and a pair of calm hands. Both have now been destroyed. Mingyue Xin said: "I asked you to find the first peacock feather on purpose. I chose you for a long time before I chose you to be my peacock, because there are not many people in the world who are more suitable than you, so I will not Let you die casually, but..." She stared at him, her moonlight-like soft eyes suddenly became sharp as a blade: "If you want to continue to be my peacock, you have to be as obedient as a peacock. If you don't believe me, you can still make a move now." Peacock clenched his hands tightly, still trembling uncontrollably. He looked at his hands, bent down suddenly, and started vomiting non-stop! There was a light thunder, and raindrops suddenly fell among the dark clouds. "I don't draw the sword because I am sure!" Fu Hongxue's voice seemed to be far away, still in the dark clouds: "When a person is going to kill someone, it is often like begging for help, becoming very humble, because he is not absolutely sure, so he will be anxious, afraid of a good opportunity miss." He rarely talks so much.He spoke slowly, as if he was afraid that Du Lei would not be able to bear it. Because he knew the words he said, every word would pierce into Du Lei's heart like a blade. Du Lei's whole body tensed up, and even his voice became hoarse: "You are absolutely sure, so you are not in a hurry?" Fu Hongxue nodded. Du Lei said: "When will you draw your sword?" Fu Hongxue said: "When you drew your saber!" Du Lei said: "What if I don't draw my sword?" Fu Hongxue said: "You will definitely draw your sword, and you will definitely draw it in a hurry!" ——Because you want to kill me, not I want to kill you! ——So the moment of your real death is not when I draw the sword, but when you draw the sword. There were blue veins protruding from Du Lei's hand holding the knife. He doesn't have a sharp knife, but he also knows that sooner or later he will draw the knife! The cold raindrops hit him drop by drop, hitting his face.Facing Fu Hongxue, this unparalleled swordsman, he suddenly thought of his humble childhood again. ——It was raining heavily, and the streets were muddy. —He ran barefoot in the mud because someone was chasing him. ——He escaped from the bodyguard because he stole a pair of boots that the bodyguard had just bought.The boots were too big, and they fell off before they had run half a street. ——But the bodyguard still refused to let him go. After catching up with him, he tied him naked to a tree and whipped him with a rattan cane. Now facing Fu Hongxue, he suddenly felt that feeling in his heart again, the feeling of being whipped. An indescribable thrill and pain, a thrill and pain he will never forget. The rain was heavier, and the soil on the ground had turned to mud. He suddenly took off the pair of soft-soled boots worth eighteen taels of silver, and stepped on the mud with bare feet. ——Fu Hongxue seemed to have turned into the bodyguard who beat him with the cane, a symbol of pain and excitement. He suddenly roared and tore his clothes. He roared naked in the muddy rainstorm, years of restraint and restraint were released in this instant. So he drew his sword! —When the sword is drawn is the time of death. So he died! Death is not only exciting, but also painful.He would never be able to obtain these two things at the same time, but at the moment of "death" he had obtained them at the same time. The rain came quickly and stopped quickly. The path was still muddy, Fu Hongxue walked slowly on the path, holding his knife tightly in his hand. The knife has been sheathed, the blood on the knife has been washed away, and the knife is pitch black! His pupils were also pitch black, deep and dark enough to hide all the pity and sorrow in his heart. There was sunshine again among the dark clouds, presumably it was the last ray of sunshine today. The sun shone on the high wall, and suddenly someone behind the wall was laughing again, the laughter was clear and clear, as beautiful as a silver bell, but with an indescribable irony. Ni Hui has appeared in the sun: "It's not good-looking, it's not good-looking at all." ——What's not good-looking? Fu Hongxue didn't ask, and he didn't even stop walking. But wherever he went, Ni Hui followed him: "You guys don't fight well at all. What I wanted to see was your sword skills, but I didn't expect you to use tricks instead." She explained again: "You asked Du Lei to draw the knife first, as if you were letting him strike first, but it was actually a trick." ——Why is it a trick? Although Fu Hongxue didn't ask, his footsteps had already stopped. Ni Hui said: "The knife is hidden in the sheath, and no one knows its sharpness and bluntness; when the knife is out of the sheath, the edge is already visible, and no one dares to grab the edge lightly. Therefore, a knife can only be used when it is drawn out of the sheath. When it is not unsheathed, it is the time when it is most worthless." She continued: "Of course you understand this, so you asked Du Lei to draw his sword first..." Fu Hongxue listened quietly, and suddenly interrupted her: "This is also a saber technique, not a trick." Ni Hui said: "No!" Fu Hongxue said: "The ingenuity of the saber technique is different from one another, and the application is all in one mind." Her expression was serious: "Is this the pinnacle of sword skills?" Fu Hongxue said, "Not yet." Ni Huidao: "Which step is the pinnacle of sword skills?" Fu Hongxue closed his mouth again and continued walking forward. sunny. The last ray of sunshine is always the most brilliant and beautiful-sometimes so is life. Ni Hui was stunned on the wall for a long time, and murmured: "Could it be that when the saber technique has not changed, is the peak of the saber technique?" The bright sun suddenly dimmed. ——If there is no change, does it mean that the limit of change has been surpassed?So does the knife itself still have value? Fu Hongxue sighed inwardly, because even he couldn't answer this question. ——Why do knives exist?Why do people exist? The sunlight has disappeared behind the high wall, and Ni Hui's figure has also disappeared with the sunlight. ——But the sun still exists, and so does Ni Hui. What disappeared at this moment is only their image—the image in Fu Hongxue's subjective mind. Fu Hongxue pushed open the small door under the high wall and walked out slowly. Just when he raised his head, he saw Ming Yuexin on the tall building. On the tall building, Fu Hongxue's head drooped instead. Ming Yuexin suddenly asked: "You won?" Fu Hongxue didn't answer, he was still alive, so he just answered. Ming Yuexin sighed, and said, "Why bother, why is this?" Fu Hongxue didn't understand: "Why bother?" Mingyue Xin said: "You know that you will win, so why go? He knows that he will die, why bother to come?" Fu Hongxue was able to explain this thought-provoking question: "Because he is Du Lei, and I am Fu Hongxue!" His explanation is also like his knife, which cuts to the heart of the issue. Ming Yuexin was still not satisfied: "Is it because there is Fu Hongxue in this world, Du Lei must die?" Fu Hongxue said, "No." Mingyue Xin said: "Then what do you mean..." Fu Hongxue said: "With Du Lei in this world, Du Lei must die!" His answer, although it seemed more thought-provoking than the question itself, was actually extremely simple and reasonable. ——Without life, where does death come from? ——Since there is life, how can it not die? Ming Yuexin couldn't help sighing again, and said: "You seem to take things between life and death very lightly." Fu Hongxue did not deny it. Mingyue Xin said: "Of course you are more indifferent to the life and death of others, that's why you left Yan Nanfei here." Fu Hongxue was silent, and after a long time, he asked slowly, "Has the peacock been here?" Mingyue Xin said: "Yes!" Fu Hongxue said, "Is Yan Nanfei still alive?" Mingyue Xin said: "Yes!" Fu Hongxue said indifferently: "I kept him, maybe because I already knew that he would not die." Mingyue Xin said: "But you..." Fu Hongxue interrupted her and said, "As long as your ideas haven't changed, I won't change what I promised you!" Mingyue Xin said: "What did you promise?" Fu Hongxue said: "Take you to the Peacock Villa." Ming Yuexin's eyes lit up: "Go now?" Fu Hongxue said, "Let's go now." Mingyue's heart beat up, she turned her head again, and said sweetly, "Do you still want me to wear that mask?" Fu Hongxue said coldly: "Couldn't you have put a mask on your face now?"