"Ming Blood Pill, the martial arts hall master gave it to you?" Cao Tongyun's voice sounded in Wei Lai's ears.

Wei Lai's thoughts were pulled back, and he looked back at the drunken and hazy old man carrying the wine gourd and nodded: "Hmm." ”

It was getting darker and darker, and the rain was still falling.

The rain beat on the roof paved with mandarin duck tiles and fell on the waterlogged courtyard, and the sound of dripping rain was like firecrackers, but for some reason, the night was a little quieter.

"This thing is not good. Cao Tongyun said slowly, put down the hand holding the wine gourd, the yellow dog at his feet was quite spiritual, raised his forelimbs, stood on tiptoe, bit the gourd, and then shook his head hard, and the gourd was thrown high by it, and then landed firmly on his back.

After saying this, Cao Tongyun leaned against the wooden pillar that was soaked by the rain and looked at Wei Lai with interest.

"Oh. ”

But as with every conversation with Wei Lai in the past, Wei Lai always had a way to end their conversation in a way that he didn't expect.

Wei Lai replied like this, and turned around to return to his small room.

Cao Tongyun, who was leaning on the wooden pillar, had muscle twitches on his face, and his anger stopped. He hesitated for a while, but when he thought of some of Chen Guzi's rotten sesame past, Cao Tongyun had to suppress the resentment in his heart, and said cheekily to the boy who turned to leave: "The old man knows that with the condition of your current body, you can't condense the blood of Wuyang Divine Blood, but this is not a big deal, as long as you are willing to go back to Tiangang Mountain with me, and you will be able to recuperate for four or five years, and most of the hidden diseases on your body will be better. ”

"Why rush for quick success, take such an elixir, and destroy your future?"

I don't know if Cao Tongyun's words touched Wei Lai's heart, and the foot that the boy had already stepped into the wing room stopped in the air. Seeing this, Cao Tongyun secretly said that there was a play,

He was about to strike while the iron was hot, but Wei Lai suddenly looked back at him. At that time, the boy's face was half bright and half extinguished under the light of the candle flame in the house, and the calm and calm were a little terrifying, so that Cao Tuyun, who had been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for decades, couldn't help but be stunned.

"Seniors. ”

"When I was six years old, someone said that my body would not live to be sixteen years old without entering the Wuyang Realm. ”

"Today, seventeen days are left until my sixteenth birthday. ”

In a few words, the tone of the statement is a shocking fact, and this shocking thing happened to the speaker himself. It was hard for Cao Tongyun to imagine what kind of state of mind Wei Lai was in at this moment under Wei Lai's calm appearance.

His Adam's apple squirmed, and he subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, opened his mouth and asked, "Who said that?"

After saying these three words, Cao Tongyun realized that his voice was a little dry for some reason.

"Jiang Huanshui. Wei uttered the name.

A very special and thunderous name. If he made such a conclusion, Cao Tongyun could not find any reason to doubt this conclusion.

His mouth opened again, this time his throat was even more dry than before, so much so that he could hardly make a sound—in the face of such a fact and such a calm boy, Cao Tongyun realized that any relief seemed so insignificant.

Wei Lai just looked at the old man in silence for a moment, then turned around and walked to his room again.

But Cao Tongyun thought that there was always something missing to end this conversation like this, so the moment Wei Lai walked into the door, he still used his not excellent chat skills to say something like this: "Ahem." Actually, it's also very good, it's better to die than to live, there is wine to drink, and meat to eat meat......"

But before he could finish speaking, and the olive branch that he wanted to throw again at the end had not yet had time to be thrown, Wei Lai's body that had already stepped into the door suddenly stopped. Inexplicably, this old pimpy who made the Northern Sword Cultivator frightened was actually nervous, and subconsciously pondered whether his words were inappropriate.

At this moment, Wei Lai's left arm, which was facing away from him, suddenly threw it back, and something flew in the direction where Cao Tongyun was.

"Seniors don't have to worry, Wei Lai has already figured out this matter ten years ago. ”

Bang dang.

With that, the door shut.

The thing that was thrown by Wei Lai also happened to hit the ground, rolling on the wooden corridor floor, just touching the cloth shoes at the old man's feet, and slowly stopped.

The old man looked at it, but it was a pill as white as jade.

......

In the early morning of the second day, when Wei Lai pushed the door open, it was still raining outside.

On the wooden post facing the door, a dagger was inserted into the wood, and a folded letter paper was inserted on it.

Wei Lai stepped forward and grabbed the wooden hilt of the dagger, and a coolness rushed to Wei Lai along the hilt at that time, and the sleepiness that Wei Lai had awakened in the morning immediately disappeared, and he realized that this dagger was not simple.

He looked at it carefully, but saw that the blade of the dagger was snow-white, even in this drowsy rainy day, the light refracted from the knife surface made Wei Lai feel dazzling, and there was a long black line running through the entire knife surface on the right side of the blade, as if embedded in the blade. Wei didn't really know what it was, he just thought that line was extremely special.

Wei Lai tried to use his strength, but the dagger did not move. He frowned, gritted his teeth and increased the strength in his hand, but it still had little effect. He did not give up, and tried this several times, and finally pulled out the dagger in a very embarrassed posture when he was sweating profusely.

Wei Lai, who had fallen on his back, rubbed his buttocks and grinned, stood up, walked to the wooden pillar, and picked up the piece of letter that had fallen to the ground and was wet from the corner.

"Boy, yesterday my family Ah Huang was cheap and ate your elixir. ”

"Cao doesn't like to owe favors in this life, this dagger is called a black python, and the thing I stole from the Imperial Palace of the Ghost Rong Kingdom seventeen years ago is regarded as compensation. ”

"Anyway, your kid won't live for a few days, so it's easier to dig a pit for yourself when the time comes. ”

"Well, that's right. ”

"When I went to Jiuyou Yellow Spring and saw your father, don't forget to tell him that it's not the ungrateful surname Cao, it's your kid who doesn't get in the oil and salt. If you want to drink with me in a dream, Cao will accompany you, and if you want to ask for your life, you will find another culprit. ”

"Hehe, I think the old man surnamed Jiang is good. ”

Wei Lai read the contents of the letter carefully, and then looked at the dagger for a moment. It wasn't until a muffled thunder sounded overhead, and the rain began to rain heavily, that he came back to his senses.

He stuck out his head and looked out of the house, and the gloomy sky saw no daylight, allowing him to tell the exact hour, but he guessed that it was already the hour. He put away the letter paper, put the dagger in the old wooden box under his bed, and then walked down the corridor in the Lu Mansion to the kitchen.

The last servant in the Lu Mansion was sent away by Lu Guanshan yesterday, and if he wanted to satisfy Wei Lai, he had to do it himself.

It rained for too long, and the firewood in the kitchen was a little damp, so in order to light the stove with some effort, I worked hard for a long time, boiled a pot of porridge and two eggs in white water, and twisted out two sour radishes from the jar in the corner of the room, cut them into cubes, and carried them to the main house of Lu Mansion with a wooden table.

Lu Guanshan, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was sitting at the dining table in the room, flipping through an ancient book, Wei Lai glanced at it, and wrote the four characters of "Xia Shi Tongjian". Wei Lai rolled his eyes, and secretly wondered when he still had the heart to look at these things. But he stepped forward quickly, put the bowl of porridge in the wooden case one person and one bowl, and put the chopsticks in front of Lu Guanshan, and said in his mouth: "Master, it's time to eat." ”

Lu Guanshan seemed to be a little fascinated, and his mouth responded with a "hmm", but he was still flipping through the ancient books in his hands.

Wei Lai didn't care about him, he peeled the eggs by himself, then took the eggs in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, and wiped out the rice porridge and sauerkraut on his plate like a whirlwind.

Until he drank the rice porridge in the bowl with a big bowl in his mouth, and when he put down the big bowl, Lu Guanshan still maintained the posture before Wei Lai entered the door, motionless, as if time stood still when it was on his body.

Wei Lai cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on his side, wiped the rice grains at the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and then looked up at the Confucian student.

Cao Tongyun is gone. He said, and the letter in his arms was taken out by him and handed down the table to Lu Guanshan.

"Got it. Lu Guanshan nodded, his eyes still on the book.

The rain trickled down the cracks in the roof of the main house of Lu Mansion and fell like a beaded curtain at the eaves.

The boy in the room was not in a hurry or angry, looked at the man and continued: "You don't have to be angry either. ”

"You're going to go your way, I'm going to go my way, I figured it out, I won't stop you anymore. Well, I can't stop you either. ”

"I want you to accompany me to a place, and when I go, I promise you to move back to the old house. ”

The man's hand flipping through the pages stopped at that moment, and he paused before turning his head to look at Wei Lai and asking, "Where?"

Wei Lai squinted, smirked, and said, "You'll know when you go." ”

The man was in a trance at that moment, and the way Wei Lai laughed and spoke in that tone were very similar to the scholar who had a long talk with him at night......

......

The place where Wei Lai wanted to take Lu Guanshan was not far away, and the two of them carried umbrellas, walked through Luoguxiang, walked along Ruilong Street to the end, and went out of Wupan City. After a quarter of an hour's walk along the path that deviated from the official road, I arrived there.

It was a small desolate hill, and because it had rained for too long, the road up the hill was so slippery that Wei Lai simply took his umbrella and threw it deep into the grass that no one should be able to see, and after looking at it a few more times to make sure that he did not forget where Fang was, he began to climb up the muddy path with both hands and feet.

Lu Guanshan behind him walked lightly, holding an umbrella but walking leisurely, in stark contrast to Wei Lai, who was full of mud in front of him.

But he seemed to have guessed where he was going, his face was a little cloudy, and he was silent all the way.

Wei Lai obviously came to this road often, and even on such a rainy day, he quickly climbed halfway up the mountain.

It was a relatively flat place, with a few small half-dead trees, as if they had been moved here by someone to bury them, and the weeds on the ground were surprisingly uniform in height, as if they were thought to have been pruned.

And in the middle of the hill, two small mounds stand out.

Obviously, whose grave it was, but for some reason it was so shabby that there were no two tombstones left.

Lu Guanshan's face became more and more gloomy, he walked to the two mounds, was silent for a while, and then looked at Wei Lai, who was calm and his clothes were full of dirt, and asked, "Bring me to see your father, do you want them to come out and scold me for being unfavorable, or tear up the marriage contract?"

Wei Lai shook his head and pointed to the clearing around the two mounds.

"The feng shui here is good, condescending, and sitting in the south and facing north, you can see Wupan City and see the Wupan River. In the words of Mr. Feng Shui, this is a good place to shelter your children and grandchildren. ”

The boy said to himself, paused slightly, and then looked up at the middle-aged man who was a little puzzled, and said again seriously.

"You pick a place. ”

"In six days, I'll help you collect the body. ”