Chapter 54 Fifty-third transaction

The girl looked at the sword in her hand with a very strange attitude, and said after a long time: "When I was seven years old, my father told me that if I want to learn swords, I must remember, The sword is a sharp weapon for killing, and it is also a murder weapon. Never draw the sword lightly unless necessary. If the sword in your hand is out of the sheath, even if you don’t want to kill someone, others will kill you because of it.” "What he said is very reasonable." Xiao Fang agreed: "A person who draws a sword easily is definitely not a person who is good at using a sword."

"The sword in my hand is out of its sheath now. Of course I was going to make a move." The girl said, "It's a pity that I can't make a move now." "Why?" Xiao Fang asked her. She still didn't say why she couldn't make a move, and there was no need to say any more, because she had already made a move at this time. At this moment between life and death, Xiao Fang suddenly remembered some things that he should not have thought about. He thought of Bu Ying again.On that dead of night, when the night was as cold as water, Bu Ying also said something that he would never forget.

"The sword in a swordsman's hand is sometimes like a bet in a gambler's hand." Bu Ying said: "A real gambler never bets lightly. If he wants to bet, he must not only bet accurately, Severely, and must endure." Tolerance is to wait, to wait for the best opportunity. Bu Ying added: "When others think you won't make a move, it's usually your best chance." This girl had undoubtedly heard her father say the same thing, and she remembered it as well as Xiao Fang. She had already made Xiao Fang think that she would not make a move, so she waited until this moment before making a move.

Quiet as Mount Tai, moving like a rabbit.If you don't send it, you will be done, and if you send it, you will hit it. This is also the principle of a swordsman, one strike should be fatal.The stab must be the opponent's vital point, and it must have a very domineering murderous aura. The sword she stabbed was not like this. Her shots are fast and accurate, and her swordsmanship is not only weird but also absolutely effective. But her shots were not ruthless enough, nor was her swordplay ruthless enough. Although Xiao Fang has never seen Dugu Chi's sword skills, nor has he seen him make a move, but Xiao Fang can imagine it.

Anyone who has seen Dugu Chi can probably imagine what his sword skills and shots look like. ——Of course not many people can see him strike, because everyone who has seen him has died under his sword. Since this girl was able to assassinate the killer of Panchaba's subordinates with a single sword, her swordsmanship is no different from the essence of Duguchi's swordsmanship.But her stabbing with the sword didn't look like this at all. Xiao Fang already felt a little strange. What was even more strange was that after she stabbed with the sword, she suddenly stopped. "Have you seen now why I couldn't make a move just now?" She asked Xiao Fang.

Xiao Fang didn't respond. She added: "The swordsmanship I learned is the swordsmanship for killing people. If I want to kill you, my swordsmanship will be effective." Xiao Fang asked her back. "You didn't want to kill me just now?" "I originally wanted to kill you and sacrifice my sword with your life." She said, "But I have changed my mind just now." "why?" "Because I want to make a deal with you." "Deal?" Xiao Fang asked, "What deal?" "Of course it's a deal that no one has to suffer." The girl said, "Only this kind of deal can be done."

It is of course very interesting to discuss a deal with such a girl that no one will lose. Xiao Fang was about to ask her: ——What kind of deal is it?What is the transaction?How should we talk about it? Before he could ask, there was a rooster crowing outside the window, and the window paper had already turned white. No matter how long the night is, there will always be light. At dawn, the rooster will crow, and the window paper will be white.No one, when he hears a rooster crow, thinks it is a terrible thing, and no one is taken aback by it. But the girl suddenly jumped up.It jumped up like a rabbit hit by an arrow, and passed through the window.

Before leaving, she said another very strange and incomprehensible thing. "I must go," she said, "but you must not go, and I must come again tonight. Perhaps as soon as it gets dark." Why is she leaving?Why did she leave as soon as she heard the sound of the cock crowing? When the rooster crows, the sun will rise. Could it be that she is like those monsters and ghosts who can't see the sun, for fear that the sun will turn her into a pile of thick blood when the sun rises. So she must wait until night to return to the world, at least until after dark. ——Is she a human or a ghost?

What kind of deal is she going to negotiate with Xiaofang?Is it a soul-buying transaction? It was dark again. Xiao Fang is waiting, waiting for her to come. It was not a pleasant thing to wait in such a cramped, dark and dank cheap hotel room, whether it was a human being or a ghost. Xiao Fang was very calm. He didn't know when the girl would come, nor where she would come from. —Whether it came from the window or from the door; whether it fell from the roof or came out of the wall. —Whether it came from the sky or came from the ground. Xiao Fang didn't think about it at all, nor did he try to guess.

He has been sitting in the room waiting.It was getting dark, it was getting dark, and it took a long time before he heard the knock on the door. Someone was indeed knocking on his door, but it wasn't the girl who left in a hurry when the sun first appeared this morning. It was a little boy who knocked on the door.The dirty little boy looked to be only eight or nine years old, and he was actually wearing a satin gown that adults wear. Xiao Fang couldn't help but feel a little strange.How could the guy in this inn let such a child in and knock on his door? What's even more strange is that the clerk in the store is right next to the child.Not only did he not stop him, but he was actually very polite to him.

——Is such a child also a person of great background? Xiao Fang couldn't help asking him, "Are you here to find me?" "Isn't it for you, who is it for?" The child said fiercely, "It's not for you, is it for the turtle bastard?" Xiao Fang was not angry. He wanted to laugh a little bit, but couldn't: "Who asked you to come to me?" The kid raised his thumb: "Of course it's our boss. He wants me to take you to see him." "Who is your boss?" Xiao Fang asked, "Where is he?" The child said: "You will know if you come with me. If you dare not go, you are a scumbag." After saying this, he turned around and ran away. Xiao Fang had no choice but to follow behind.He was not afraid of being a living turtle, but because he had already guessed who the boss of this child was. It was already dark.Even if there are stars, the light of the stars is very faint; even if there is a moon, the light of the moon is also very faint.The direction of the road ahead has gradually become less visible. The child was running ahead and suddenly disappeared from sight. But he neither flew into the sky, nor went down to the ground, but suddenly plunged into a ruined temple. Xiao Fang had no choice but to follow in. There was light in the ruined temple, as well as the smell of wine and barbecue.It looks like roasted meat. Around the barbecue fire were seventeen or eighteen little boys.These are little boys who haven't grown up yet.Wearing all kinds of weird clothes, doing all kinds of weird things. ——The things they do are neither unusual nor strange if grown-ups do them.But they're still kids. A child who seemed to be the oldest and dirtiest sat cross-legged on the altar in the middle of the temple, with big eyes rolling around. The kid who brought Xiao Fang pointed at him, and whispered to Xiao Fang, "He is our boss." Their eldest is of course the kid who plays with bugs and lives in the bird house, that is, the girl who rides a green mule and wields a long sword. The fragrant meat is no longer fragrant, because the fragrant meat has been eaten into the stomach. No matter how fragrant the meat is, it will not be fragrant after being eaten. ——It will only become stinky, and it will not be fragrant anymore. Xiao Fang looked at the children who were eating meat, drinking, and gambling by the fire, and couldn't help frowning: "Are they all your brothers?" "Everyone." The little girl who used to play with bugs, used long swords last night, and seemed to have snot running down her face tonight said, "I am their boss." "How do you get them to do these things?" "Why can't they do it?" "These things are done by adults." Xiao Fang said: "They are still young, they are still children." "So should I tell them they have to wait until they're older to do these things?" Xiao Fang couldn't answer. The girl asked him coldly again: "Should I tell them that they can do these things when they grow up?" Xiao Fang was speechless. The girl suddenly sighed: "If adults don't like to see children doing these things, it's better for adults not to do it themselves." She said: "How can adults not do what they themselves do every day? Do?" Xiao Fang smiled wryly. He felt that her words were a bit unreasonable, but he couldn't think of a reason to refute. He could only change the subject: "What kind of deal were you talking about last night?" In fact, he had many other questions to ask the little girl. ——Why did she want to leave when the cock crowed?Why does she always have to be this dirty little boy? ——Where is Duguchi?Have you mastered swordsmanship?Has the injury healed? Xiao Fang didn't ask any of these questions. Because he was suddenly interested in the deal she wanted to talk about. Most people would be very interested in the deal this girl proposed. "I will find a safe, private and comfortable place for you to live in." She said to Xiao Fang, "I will cook a few delicious things for you every day, and occasionally I will wash your dirty sheets and clothes for you." Xiao Fang smiled. He really wanted to ask the child if he was going to marry him. ——In a way, isn’t marriage also a kind of transaction? ——What this girl wants to do for Xiaofang is not what a wife should do for her husband? The girl stared into Xiao Fang's eyes, as if she wanted to laugh but didn't. "If you think I want to marry you, you're wrong," she said. "You must never think of me as a woman." "What should I take you for?" Xiao Fang asked her intentionally. "Take me as your master." "Master?" Xiao Fang suppressed a smile: "What can you teach me?" "Swordsmanship." The girl said, "I can teach you all the swordsmanship that Duguchi taught me." Xiao Fang was a little surprised at first. "Did you say that you not only want to cook and wash my clothes for me, but also teach me the secret sword skills passed down by others?" "Yes." The girl said, "That's what I said." "Are you kidding me?" "no." There really wasn't even a hint of joking in the way she spoke. Xiao Fang's attitude also became serious. "The deal is for both parties." Xiao Fang asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" "Swordsmanship." The girl said, "I also want you to teach me your swordsmanship." She added: "I want to cut off Dugu Chi's head to avenge my father, and you have to defeat him too. But with the sword skills I have learned now, I can't even cut off a single hair of his head, so it's probably not easy to defeat him." easy." Xiao Fang had to admit this. "We're only hopeful if we do this," she said. "This deal is good for both of us." Xiao Fang also admitted this. He was thinking about it, but not for long: "So I'd be a fool if I didn't agree to it." "Are you an idiot?" "I'm not." So they made this deal. The meat is already grilled.The girl shared a large piece with Xiao Fang.With a greasy and muddy hand, he patted Xiao Fang's shoulder vigorously. "Now we are not just friends, but good partners." She said, "I promise you won't regret it." Xiao Fang smiled. "Now we are not ordinary friends, but I don't even know your first and last name." The girl laughed too. "My surname is Qi." She said, "When I was a boy, my name was Xiaochong." "And when you were a girl?" "My name is Xiaoyan." "You are obviously a girl, why do you want to be a boy?" Xiaofang asked Xiaoyan. Xiaoyan looked directly at him. "Do you want me to tell the truth?" "Of course I do." "Okay, let me tell you." Xiaoyan said, "If Duguchi knew that I was a girl, I would have died by his sword long ago." "why?" "Because Dugu Chi's swordsmanship is very unique and very evil. Every once in a while, he has to vent it, otherwise he will go crazy." Xiaoyan said: "Usually he vents by killing people." She added: "If he can't kill someone, he will take it out on a woman. If he knows that I am a girl, he will definitely come to me; if I refuse, I will definitely die by his sword." She has been looking at Xiao Fang.Her eyes are clear and bright.Although what she said was an embarrassing thing, she never looked ashamed to see others. Xiao Fang suddenly felt a little admired for her. It is really admirable for a young girl to be able to express this matter in front of a man. Xiaoyan's eyes were still staring at him. "Is there anything else you want to ask me?" Xiao Fang did have a lot of things to ask her. ——Have you mastered Duguchi's swordsmanship?Where are the lonely people? But he didn't ask. He gagged his mouth with the meat he was holding. No matter in anyone's life, there will always be some sudden changes.Like anything else, these changes have had their ups and downs.Some are joyful and some are sad and depressing. In terms of emotions, love is sudden, and so is hatred.In terms of life, there are often some things that will change a person's life. Whether these changes are good or bad, there are essentially two things in common. ——In the process of change, there are usually some things that people will never forget for a lifetime. Xiao Fang's life suddenly changed, from an extremely violent lifestyle to an extremely peaceful one. Qi Xiaoyan did not lie to him.She really found a secret and comfortable place for him in a small hill, next to a winding stream, and under an old green tree, and built him a small wooden house for him to live in. The food she cooks tastes really good.The buns she steamed were fat, the noodles she rolled were thin, and the rice she cooked was delicious.The dumplings she made are like a bite of meat. She actually did wash his clothes, and more than once. In such a quiet and beautiful place, there is such a safe and comfortable hut, and there is such a capable, beautiful and talking girl to accompany him every day. This kind of life has changed too much for a rootless prodigal like Xiao Fang. He never had a home, and now he seemed to have one.It's just that he himself knows that this kind of life will end at any time. As soon as their sword skills are practiced, it will be over. In a way, swordsmanship is like calligraphy.Not only must there be "qi", "momentum" and "artistic conception", but also "skills". ——A brushstroke should focus on the brush, and a sword should also focus on the sword.The turning point among them depends on skill. Momentum and artistic conception are innate, but skills depend on hard training the day after tomorrow. So Xiao Fang practiced hard. In Duguchi's swordsmanship, there are many methods of luck and changes in sword style, which he has never heard of or thought of before. Although there are not many changes in this kind of sword technique, every change is unexpected. The change of sword style not only depends on the ingenious use of techniques, but also has a "strength". Without energy, there is no strength. The most ingenious point in Dugu Chi's sword technique is his luck method. ——Air is emitted from a place that is absolutely impossible, and a sword is shot from a place that is absolutely impossible to strike. ——The strength is in the wrist, and the sword pierces the chest. That's the trick. This skill must be practiced hard. During these days, he almost forgot about "Sunshine" and Bu Ying, and almost all those people he would never forget. Of course he didn't really forget, he just forbade himself to think about it. Learning to sword requires not only hard work, but also talent.There are not many people who are willing to practice hard, but there are not many talented people. For thousands of teenagers who want to stand out in the rivers and lakes and become famous but have not yet become famous, "sword" is not only a sharp weapon for killing people, but also a symbol of "maturity", "honor" and "status". Thousands of years ago, after the first sword was forged, there were countless teenagers who wanted to learn swords but were willing to practice hard. How many of them can be practiced? If Xiao Fang is a person who is naturally suitable for learning swords, Qi Xiaoyan is undoubtedly the same. In less than three months, she has learned all the things she should learn and what is worth learning about Xiaofang's swordsmanship. After three months, she didn't come to Xiaofang's place as much as before. When she wasn't here, someone would bring Xiao Fang food. The one who brought the food was the child who took Xiao Fang to the ruined temple for the first time to meet him. "My name is Da Nian." The child told Xiao Fang, "Because I was born in Lunar New Year, I am called Da Nian." Da Nian said he was thirteen years old, but he looked like he was only eight or nine years old at most. "I haven't had enough food and clothing since I was a child, so I never seem to grow up." Danian told Xiaofang again: "Many people scolded me behind my back, saying that my stomach was full of bad water, so I grew up. Not tall or big. But I don't care at all." His tone of voice seemed to be much older than his actual age: "As long as they don't scold me in person." "They never scolded you?" "Never." Danian said, "Because they didn't dare." Xiao Fang looked at him, at his round face, at the old-fashioned look that always appeared on his face, and couldn't help asking: "Are there many people in this place who are afraid of you?" Remembering the attitude of the guy in the inn towards him, that's why Xiao Fang asked this question. Da Nian shook his head. "It's not me they are afraid of, but our boss." He puffed up his chest and said, "I dare say that no one in this place dares to provoke him." "why?" "Because whoever messes with him will be unlucky." "How unlucky?" "Some people have their hair and beard shaved in the middle of the night; some people wake up in the morning and suddenly find that the two eyebrows are gone." Danian raised his eyebrows: "Old Shanxi, who runs a pawn shop, kicked him the night before, His foot was swollen like a pig's foot the next day." His round face was full of pride and complacency: "Since that time, no one in this place has dared to provoke us, because everyone knows that we are his little brothers." Xiao Fang smiled. "It seems that your boss is really capable. You must be very happy to have such a boss." "Of course I'm happy." Da Nian said, "He not only feeds us and clothes us, but also takes care of us everywhere." "He is so kind to you, how do you repay him?" "Although we can't repay him now, when we grow up, we will do something for him." Danian stared and said seriously: "As long as it makes him happy, we will do anything. Even if he told us to die, we would." He sighed like an adult again: "It's a pity that we are too young now, so we can only do small things for him. We can only deliver things for him, run errands, and inquire about the news on the ground." He puffed up his chest again, and said seriously: "If any strangers come around here, the first one to know must be our boss; if anything strange happens on the ground, he must be the first to know .” Xiao Fang also sighed in his heart.He suddenly discovered that this girl not only had brains, means, but also ambition. Perhaps her ambitions are far greater than anyone imagined. A few more months passed, the long night passed, and the hot weather gradually cooled down again. This is the perfect weather for sleeping. But Xiao Fang didn't sleep well. When he woke up in the morning, his lips were dry and his eyes were red. After taking a cold shower, the New Year's meal was delivered, and Xiao Fang asked him the first sentence: "Where's your boss?" The number of times they met was less and less, and this time they hadn't seen each other for two months. "I don't know where he is either," Danian said, "If he doesn't come to us, we never know where he is." "You didn't lie?" "I never lie." Danian stared, "I'm a child, and you are an adult. How can a child deceive an adult by lying?" Although Xiao Fang seemed a little impatient, he couldn't believe it. "You always see her, and if you do, tell her to come here quickly." "What are you here for?" "I have something to look for her." Xiao Fang said, "It's very important." "Can you tell me?" "Impossible." Xiao Fang also stared: "It's best for children not to ask too many questions about adults." Da Nian didn't ask any more questions, and left obediently.Like a good boy who is obedient and honest. But he himself knew that he was not obedient and honest at all.Because not only did he lie, but every word he said was a lie. He also knew it was bad to lie, but he didn't feel guilty because he lied for their boss. Their boss was waiting for him in the woods ahead. Cool autumn, quiet maple forest.Man Linfeng was as red as fire. Qi Xiaoyan sat cross-legged under a maple tree.With dirty clothes and a dirty face, even when she looks in the mirror, she often forgets what a beautiful woman she is. She herself knew that she was a woman and was no longer a girl.Of course not boys. But when she pretends to be a boy, she always has a way to make herself forget that she is a woman. She herself was very pleased with that. Her little brothers never knew their eldest was a woman.But she knew that some of them were on the verge of becoming men.Some have developed an Adam's apple and have learned to sneak around in the middle of the night to do what most men do growing up.She knew, but pretended not to know. Sometimes she even slept with them.Even when they did that sort of thing, she wasn't tempted. Whether it's a boy or a man, no one has ever tempted her.She is also very satisfied with herself in this regard. In the new year, she dug out another worm from the mud and was playing with it. She doesn't like playing with worms, not only doesn't she like it, but also hates it, no matter if it's a big worm or a small worm. But she often plays with bugs.Because she always thinks that the best way for a person to train herself is to force herself to do things she doesn't like to do from time to time.She doesn't like New Year's Eve either. She felt that this little boy was like a fruit picked before it was ripe, neither good-looking nor tasty. But she believed that Da Nian would never know that she didn't like him.Because every time she saw him, she would pretend to be very happy and happy.Because Da Nian has always been very useful, she can almost be regarded as the most useful of her little brothers. Seeing her on New Year's Eve is like seeing a cat when a mouse sees it.The naughty look is gone, and the old-fashioned look is gone.Be well behaved, standing in front of her honestly and reporting: "I have already delivered the meal, and I handed it to him face to face." "When you went, what was Xiao Fang doing?" "He's taking a cold shower again." "Yesterday afternoon, the night before, and noon the day before yesterday, was he taking a cold shower when you went?"