Chapter 42 Chapter 42: Waiting for the Man in White

The man in black said: "Have you heard of the 'Dragon Killer' in the 'Shaolin Three Great Hands'? Have you heard of the 'Pangu One Ax Opening the World' by Liu Daxia in the past?" The little princess said: "I heard that these two moves are the most domineering moves in the world's martial arts world, but... what do these two moves have to do with your move?" The man in black didn't answer, but continued: "Have you ever heard of the 'First-Class Taidao' taught by Beichang Gujiao, the three major schools of martial arts in Dongying?

The little princess said coldly: "Although I haven't heard of it, this move must be the most powerful and sharpest move in Dongying martial arts, isn't it?" The black-clothed man said: "Yes! The move I used just now is the one of the three moves that the white-clothed man merged into one... The power of that move, if you are not as sharp as it is, how can it I can imagine the eventuality." He struggled to say these words, obviously exhausting the remaining potential in his body, and when he stopped talking at this moment, he was gasping for breath. He didn't speak, neither did Baoyu and the little princess, and Tiewa had nothing to say, but the three of them were all looking at him helplessly.

Baoyu looked at his broken sternum with a regretful and sad expression, while the little princess looked into his eyes with a suspicious expression, as if she wanted to discover something. But Tie Wa was looking at something tied on his belt, his eyes were straightened, and his face was full of curiosity. This thing is also a bit strange, at first glance it looks like a kettle filled with water, but there are countless small holes like pinholes in the kettle. There was silence all around at the moment, but from time to time there was a slight sound of "thump, thump" coming from this kettle-like thing.

What is ringing?Tie Wa searched her mind but couldn't figure it out. Suddenly, the little princess called softly and said, "That's right, it must be him!" Baoyu said, "What did you say? Who is he?" The little princess didn't answer, but suddenly bent down and lifted the mask of the man in black, revealing his bloodless face. Baoyu cried out, "It's you...how could it be you?" This man in black is actually an iron sword who has been separated for many years and has never been heard from! Although Baoyu had realized that his figure and expression looked like a person, he had never seen this person since the Yueyang Tower meeting in the past, so naturally he couldn't think of him for a while.

Yueyang Tower, that was six or seven years ago, and Baoyu remembered the past when he and the little princess peeked at the "Huangzhou Crouching Tiger Knife" behind the curtain in the five-color sailboat and asked Zi Yihou to teach him martial arts, it seemed like a lifetime ago. The little princess looked at the iron knife and said, "Is it strange? I can recognize you." Tie Jindao smiled bitterly and said: "I'm really a little strange... Although I know that the girl is the daughter of Lord Ziyi, I really can't remember how many times the girl has met me."

The little princess smiled and said, "I'll tell you, that day when Sister Zhu'er taught you the move 'Heaven Breaking the Heaven and Earth Style' to break the Panlong Hook, me and...he saw you behind the curtain." Tie Jindao sighed: "I don't want the girl to still remember." The little princess said: "Naturally I remember, as long as I glance at people, even if they turn to ashes, I will still recognize them." Glancing at Baoyu sideways, he continued with a sneer: "Not just a person, even a sentence, I will never forget it." Baoyu couldn't help asking, "What are you talking about?"

The little princess raised her face and ignored him, but whispered in her heart: "Others say that I will never be as good as you, am I really not as good as you? Sooner or later, I will have you die by my hands!" Just for this sentence, everything is for this sentence, although she would not want to live if she killed Baoyu, but that is another matter. The two most entangled and insoluble things in the world are love and hate. Baoyu sighed, looking at the iron and gold knife, looking at the man who was about to die under his hands, new worries and old things came to his heart unconsciously.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say, so he could only smile wryly: "I will never forget, Tie... Tie Hero and that Panlong..." Tie Jindao smiled miserably, and said: "So that Fang Shaoxia can know that the matter of Tie and that Panlong hook is finally over now." Baoyu said: "It's over? Could it be that the two have resolved their hatred?" Tie Jindao said: "The Panlong Hook has finally died under Tie's hands!" Baoyu moved and said, "You...you..." Tie Jindao closed his eyes, and said word by word: "Tie killed him with that move just now, but he didn't want to die by this move himself. This move killed him and also killed me. ...This...This...isn't it wonderful. If there is no such trick in the world, he will not die, and I will not die either. "

Having said this, the muscles on his face twitched, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Baoyu said sadly: "It turns out...it turns out that you accepted the trick of the man in white because you wanted to defeat the Panlong Hook." Thinking of the conflict between the spirits of the Jianghu people coming to this point, he couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart. . Tie Jindao sighed: "The prince in purple is gone, there is no good teacher in the world, so I went to Dongying, searched for half a year, finally found the man in white, and asked him to teach me the art of winning."

Baoyu said, "It's unexpected that he would agree to you." Tie Jindao said: "Not only did he have no intention of agreeing at first, but he taunted and scolded me in every possible way, but for some reason, he changed his mind in an instant." Baoyu said, "Changed his mind in an instant? What made him change his mind?" In the rivers and lakes, everyone is like duckweed. They meet by chance and then separate suddenly. Meeting and separating are often not in their own hands. Although Baoyu and Tiejindao's reunion and reunion are strange, they are also common in Jianghu. However, in Baoyu's and Tiejindao's hearts, they always feel something else.

Especially Baoyu, who hurt an old friend, can he not be sad? But Tie Wa didn't care about anything, didn't hear anything, his eyes were still staring at the box, suddenly he bent down and tore the box off. Tie Jindao's complexion changed suddenly, and he hissed, "Put it down... put it down..." But Tie Wa ran away and said with a smile, "Don't be stingy, I'll pay you back after I see." Tie Jindao said: "I can't see... this box must not be opened!" Tie Wa said: "What's the point of taking a look? I won't miss the things inside here." While talking and laughing, he opened the box. Before he finished his sentence, the box was opened, and just after he finished his sentence, there was a sound of "flapping wings", and the things in the box really flew. This time Tie Wa was really stunned, looked up and saw a white shadow shooting up into the sky like an arrow, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Tie Wa exclaimed: "Bird! A bird, this man has a bird on him!" Tie Jindao was full of panic, and tremblingly said: "This... this is not a bird, but a pigeon." Tie Wa said: "It's nothing to be surprised if the pigeon flies, at most...at most I will pay you one." Baoyu and the little princess saw that Tie Jindao was so pale for a pigeon, and they didn't feel very surprised. The little princess couldn't help but said, "Is there something supernatural about this pigeon?" Tie Jindao said: "No... Alas! No." The little princess said: "Is there any treasure on this pigeon?" Tie Jindao said: "No...not at all!" The little princess said: "Since they are not, why are you nervous?" Tie Jindao's eyes seemed to have protruded, looking at the direction where the white dove flew - Dongfang, his face was full of sadness and gloom, and he murmured: "As soon as the dove is gone... the man in white is coming." The little princess frowned and said, "What is this?" Although she didn't understand Tie Jindao's words, she already saw an ominous omen in Tie Jindao's eyes, and her complexion couldn't help but change. Tie Jindao said: "Before I left, the man in white gave me this pigeon, and told me that if I meet someone who can break that trick, I should put the pigeon back... Once the pigeon is gone, he will take it away." coming." Baoyu said, "What if the pigeon doesn't go?" Tie Jindao said: "If the pigeon doesn't go, it means that that stance is invincible in the Middle Earth, and the stance he passed on to me can be used all over the world. So, why is he here? If he doesn't come, the martial arts will be destroyed. Saved the catastrophe." Baoyu was moved, but the little princess said: "In order to save Wulin from this disaster, even though you agreed to the man in white, you decided not to let the pigeon back...is that right?" Tie Jindao sighed and said: "In this way, although I have lost my trust in the man in white, I can save countless lives of my comrades, and it is worth it." The little princess sneered and said, "If you really have such kindness, why did you bring this pigeon with you? You should have killed it and eaten it a long time ago. The fried pigeon tastes pretty good!" Tie Jindao smiled bitterly and said, "I thought that if I died, what would other people's life and death have to do with me? What's the harm in letting the men in white come to wash the Central Plains with blood? But...but at this moment, I am really going to die. At the moment before I died, my mind suddenly changed for some reason." The little princess stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed softly, looked back, nodded slightly, and said quietly: "Yes, before a person dies, his thoughts often change. An evil person will do a good thing before he dies." Tie Wa had been listening blankly, but at this moment she slapped her face suddenly with a backhand, tears streaming down her face, and she said loudly, "Brother, I deserve to die, I deserve to die..." Kneeling down in front of Baoyu, he hissed, "Brother, Tie Wa deserves to die, just kill Tie Wa." But Baoyu shook his head and sighed, "I can't blame you." Tie Wa said: "Why can't you blame me? If I don't let the pigeon go, the man in white will..." Baoyu cut off and said, "Even if you don't let the pigeon go, the man in white will still come." Tie Jindao said: "Could it be that Fang Shaoxia, you still can't trust me?" Baoyu sighed: "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I have seen through the intention of the man in white." Tie Jindao said: "What is his intention?" Baoyu looked up at the sky and said slowly: "After he created this move, he still doesn't know whether there is a flaw in this move, and he is not sure where the flaw is. He wants to use you as a touchstone. That's why he taught you this move. Intention, otherwise, with his withdrawn nature, how could he teach you a trick he created with his painstaking efforts?" Tie Jindao said silently: "Not bad... not bad..." Suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: "Not bad... not bad!" Baoyu said, "What happened to you again?" Tie Jindao said: "When he handed the pigeon to me, he tied a piece of silk paper to the pigeon's foot. I accidentally glanced at it and saw two words written on the silk paper." Baoyu asked anxiously, "What word?" Tie Jindao sighed: "Xiaoxia, what he wrote is the word "Xiaoxia." Baoyu was silent for a long time, looked up to the sky and sighed: "That's it. After all, this man is indeed a peerless genius in martial arts. He has already figured out that the flaw of this move must be under his threat, but he is still not sure." Tie Jindao said: "As soon as the pigeon returns, he will be sure." Baoyu smiled bitterly and said, "That's right, that's why he asked you to put the pigeon back... He has already told the book that the flowers will come, so how can he break his promise? If the pigeon doesn't go back, he will come too." .” Hearing this, Tie Wa broke into tears and laughed, and said: "In this case, I really don't blame Tie Wa." He has a straightforward personality, crying when he wants to cry, and laughing when he wants to laugh, but no one else has such a magnanimous heart like him, they all feel heavy and silent. He only heard Tie Jindao's breathing getting heavier, and hissed: "Since he already knows that the flaw of this move is under his waist, with his wisdom, he will definitely be able to figure out a way to break it, but I... I did him in vain. The touchstone, I... I not only harmed myself, but also harmed others, I... why did I do such a thing that harms others and myself..." The more he spoke, the more his voice cracked, and the more he spoke, the more sad and indignant his expression became. Speaking of this, he suddenly beat his chest with his hands and shouted: "I died so wrongly...so wrongly..." With a "bang", he slapped himself on the chest with the last remaining strength... With just this "bang", his life was cut off! Why did he want to die? It's just a matter of arrogance and a false name... In the remnant night, the world was filled with the breath of death. The little princess stared at Fang Baoyu, and suddenly asked: "Is there really only one flaw in his move?" Baoyu said: "That's right, the only flaw in his move is under his waist. I have no way to break this move, until the knife light is close at hand, I already thought I would die..." He let out a long sigh, and continued: "In that unbearable moment, all the eyes of my eyes were white knife light, and the knife light seemed to have surrounded my whole body." The little princess said: "Then how did you finally break it?" Baoyu said: "At that moment, I suddenly found that the place where the knife light was the most prosperous, there was a dark green color mixed with the white knife light... That obviously means that there is a flaw in the place where the knife light is the most prosperous, so it will appear. Revealing the color of the green tree behind him... There is a flaw in the brightest part of the sword, I was hesitant and strange in my heart, but how could I think about it carefully at that time, I had to take a risk." The little princess said: "After a trial, it succeeded." Baoyu sighed: "At that time, I really didn't expect that I would succeed after trying it. It was like closing my eyes and rushing to the place where the sword light is most prosperous. In terms of the situation at that time, my move was no different from Moths to the flame." The little princess said: "It's such a move of moths to the flames, it really mirrors the ingenious move of 'Binding Yourself in a Cocoon' by Qi Mie Shitai, the master of Huashan Sword School in the past." Hearing that she actually praised him, Baoyu couldn't help smiling slightly and said: "At that time, I only felt a chill all over my body, as if my whole body was bathed in cold water, and then suddenly I had a strange feeling." The little princess asked: "How does it feel?" Baoyu didn't answer, but sighed: "If it weren't for that strange feeling, even if I could avoid that trick and survive, I still wouldn't be able to crack it." The little princess couldn't help asking: "How do you feel? Tell me!" Baoyu said: "At that time, I was forced by the murderous aura of the knife light, and my whole body was cold, but there was only one place where there was some warmth. Where did the heat come from under the knife light?" The little princess said: "Yes, where does the heating come from under the knife light?" Baoyu said: "That's obviously the body temperature from Tiejindao's body - he had accumulated energy for a long time at that time, and he was also nervous, so the temperature of his body inevitably rose." The little princess nodded and said, "Not bad." Baoyu said: "This kind of body temperature is naturally difficult to feel at ordinary times, but at that time when the knife was cold, the body temperature was very obvious... There was body temperature passing through the knife cold, and I immediately knew that there must be a flaw in the knife light. And the place where the body temperature leaks out must be where the flaw is." The little princess couldn't help showing approval, she nodded and said, "That's right." There was a slight pause in the voice, and then he laughed again: "This palm of yours is directed towards Nuan again, it's called 'Moths to the Flame', it's really indescribable." Baoyu said: "So I didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately swung my palm back... Alas! In that case, although I didn't mean to hurt anyone, it was inevitable that I had to do my best with this palm." The little princess said: "That's why Tie Jindao didn't hate you when he died, but said that the reason why you hurt him was because you were forced by the murderous intent of that move... Sigh! Such a murderous intent!" Baoyu sighed: "If this move wasn't too murderous, how could I feel that warmth at that moment? If I can't feel that warmth, how can I defeat that move?" The little princess was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Only you can defeat that move. Besides you, who else can see that dark green color in such a powerful knife light?" Baoyu said: "As far as I know, there are at least seven or eight famous hidden weapons in the country. Their eyesight is definitely not inferior to mine, and they must be able to see it." The little princess said: "Even if they can see the dark green color in the light of the knife, who else has the courage to rush to the place where the light of the knife is the strongest when they are not sure? ?” Baoyu said: "That's not necessarily the case. Don't talk about others, just say my second uncle Jin and my second brother Tiewa. Their courage is beyond my reach." The little princess said: "Even if other people have your courage, but besides you, who else has such a sensitive sense, and can feel that warmth at that moment?" Baoyu laughed and said, "How can I compare with you in terms of sensitivity?" The little princess said: "Others are more sensitive than you, but besides you, who else can grasp the timing and judge the position as accurately as you, and can penetrate the only opening with a single shot?" Baoyu said with a smile: "A person with a keen sense can judge the timing and judge the position: it will never be bad... I have seen you make a move, so you don't have to be too humble." The little princess smiled sweetly and said, "Okay! Even if someone has better eyesight than you, someone is braver than you, someone is more sensitive than you, and someone even has stronger palm strength than you, but besides you, who else can Have all these advantages in one body? If you want to break this trick, you can't lack any of these things." Tie Wa clapped her hands and said, "Yes, there is no one else except my elder brother." The little princess said: "Yes! Who else is there besides you?" Baoyu stared at the little princess and said with a smile, "Why are you praising me so suddenly?" The little princess smiled and said: "Could it be that you have been flattered?" Baoyu said: "Yes, I am flattered." The little princess smiled even sweeter, and said: "I praise you so much only because you are not long to live. If I don't praise you now, I'm afraid I won't have the chance in the future." Tie Wa said angrily: "What are you talking about? If you say it again, I will..." But Baoyu laughed and said, "It's okay to let her say it. I already knew that if she touched someone's house, she just wanted to wipe the place clean so that she could take a bite." The little princess giggled and said, "By the way, you still know me. There must be poison in the candy I give people." Tie Wa was still angry, and said loudly: "Why do you say my elder brother won't live long? Tie Wa wants to listen." The little princess smiled and said, "The only flaw in the move made by the man in white is the underside, isn't it?" Baoyu said, "Not bad." The little princess said: "But the white dove flew back, he proved the flaw here, he will try to make up for it, and with his wisdom, he will definitely be able to come up with a way to make up for it, right?" Baoyu said, "Not bad." The little princess said: "If he makes up for the only flaw in this move, this move will be flawless, right?" Baoyu sighed: "That's right, if he makes up for this only flaw, then in the whole world, I'm afraid there will be no one else who can break through this trick." The little princess said: "Even you can't?" Baoyu said, "Of course I can't." The little princess smiled sweetly and said: "That's it. Sooner or later, you will have to fight with the man in white. Since you can't break this trick, next year Hua Chao will definitely die under his hands, right?" Baoyu was stunned for a long time, and finally he had to sigh a long time: "That's right." The little princess giggled and said: "The Flower Dynasty will come soon next year, and your death will also come soon... Even if you can come back alive from this trip to the White Water Palace, you won't live long." Tie Wa shouted: "My elder brother is going to die, why are you happy?" The little princess ignored him, still looked at Baoyu, and was about to speak, but Baoyu's body flew out like a bird. He moved squarely, and said softly in his mouth: "Friend, please stay." After finishing these five short words, his figure had already disappeared into the dark forest. The little princess and Tie Wa followed naturally. Sure enough, there was a figure in the dark forest flying forward desperately, but although his skill was not too slow, how could he escape Fang Baoyu. He hadn't escaped a few steps when Fang Baoyu grabbed his collar with his palm, turned his head and said, "This man has been hiding here for a long time, it's ridiculous that you and I didn't notice...My friend, you should have been peeking here for a long time. Let us see the true face of our friend on Mount Lu." Baoyu didn't use any force, but the man fell to his knees and said in a trembling voice, "I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything, sir, please do me a favor and let me go!" Baoyu said, "my friend's surname is Gao. What are you doing here?" The little princess cut off coldly: "Do you know that since you have fallen into the hands of our hero Fang Baoyu, if there is anything wrong, you should say it obediently. What are you pretending to be?" The man said: "The villain can neither pretend to be onions nor to pretend to be garlic. The villain is just a woodcutter who collects firewood. Uncle, Uncle Fang, please spare this villain!" Seeing that he was really dressed as a woodcutter, Baoyu let go of his hand and frowned, "Is this man really a native here?" The little princess pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled, without answering, but walked over slowly, stretched out her hand and patted the man's shoulder, and said softly, "Turn around." The man said: "Little... villain dare not look back." Tie Wa said: "Just turn around, and she won't eat you, what are you afraid of?" The little princess said: "Yes! I won't eat you either, what are you afraid of?" But the man refused to turn back, he just said repeatedly: "The villain dare not, the villain dare not..." The little princess smiled and said: "Okay, if you don't want to turn back, I'll go ahead and have a look at you." Before she finished speaking, the man quickly covered his face with his hands. The little princess said: "Hey! You're not a little daughter-in-law, why are you so ashamed, come on, let go of your hand. If you don't let go of your hand, I will come to hold your hand." When she actually tried to pull, the man let out a cry of surprise, and threw himself down, his whole face buried on the ground, refusing to raise his head. Seeing that he was really afraid to see people, Baoyu couldn't help feeling suspicious, but Tie Wa had already grabbed the man's collar, lifted him up abruptly, and said, "A man, how can you look like a big girl?" Yes, aren't you afraid of being ashamed?" The man exclaimed, and wanted to cover his face with his hands, but the little princess flicked lightly with her slender hand, and he felt his elbows go numb, and he couldn't raise his hands anymore. He couldn't move his hands, but his body still struggled desperately, but in Tie Wa's hands, he was like a chicken caught in the claws of an eagle, how could he break free. Tie Wa held his head with one free hand, and said with a smile: "Brother, look at this fellow, he has a face full of pockmarks, he dares not be seen by others." Baoyu stared at him intently—even though the forest was dark and the man's face was covered with sand, Baoyu recognized him and couldn't help laughing: "General Li, why are you here?" This man dressed as a woodcutter is actually the "White Horse General" Li Mingsheng. Tie Wa was stunned for a moment, put him down, and laughed loudly: "General Li, Li Mingsheng, it's you...haha, it's you! Where did your white horse go? Why don't you ever ride it for others to see?" See?" Although this "White Horse General" deceives people all the time, Baoyu and Tie Wa don't hold any grudges against him, instead they think he is very funny. Li Mingsheng said with a mournful face: "My white horse has been sold long ago, and the name 'General White Horse' has long been abandoned...Master Fang, Mr. Niu, just pretend you have never met me before." Baoyu said: "Why did you sell the white horse? Could it be that business is not good recently?" Li Mingsheng said: "I've given up on deceiving people a long time ago. I'm just a woodcutter now... Mr. Fang, Mr. Niu, let's... see you later!" run. Tie Wa had already grabbed him and said with a smile, "Why are you going? Let's talk." Li Mingsheng said: "One of you is a prince among swordsmen, and the other is a princess among martial arts. I, a little woodcutter, what can I talk to you about?" The little princess suddenly said: "How do you know who I am?" Li Mingsheng was startled, his color changed, and he said, "I... I don't know, I just guessed randomly." The little princess sneered and said: "You are old friends with them, they have no malice towards you, nor any enmity with you, but you run away as soon as you see them, what is the reason?" Li Mingsheng was sweating profusely, and said, "I...I didn't..." The little princess said: "What you have, could it be that you heard some secrets, saw some secrets, but didn't want to tell them, you have evil intentions, so..." Li Mingsheng hissed loudly: "I didn't...I didn't see anything, I didn't know anything." The little princess raised her hand suddenly, slapped him on the face seven or eight times in a row, and said, "Do you know?" Li Mingsheng said: "I don't know, I..." The little princess raised her hand and punched Li Mingsheng on the nose, and said with a soft smile, "Don't you know?" Li Mingsheng's face was also red and swollen, his nose was also swollen, tears and snot flowed down his nose, he shook his body twice, finally sat down, covered his nose and said, "I see."