Chapter Seventy-One: The Eight-Year Covenant

This poem was written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a portrayal of the mood of spring amusement! During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a relatively fixed Shangsi Festival was formed in the Central Plains. According to "Han Poem": "When the peach blossom water is in March, Zheng Guo's custom is on the top of the two rivers in March, and the spirit of the orchid is renewed, and the ominous is removed." …… The Continuation of the Han Book of Etiquette says: On the first day of March, the officials and the people are clean on the east flowing water, and it is said that washing and purifying the dirt is a great clean". This is the spring that has been handed down from ancient times to the present!

Originally, the weather in February was pleasant, especially today, when the sun was shining and suitable for travel, but after noon, the weather suddenly changed, and it gradually became rainy and difficult to move.

Among the small shops on the side of the Yangtze River, there are a lot of people who travel, although many people go out today, it is also a happy event. But the store is not at ease, and several parties have become opposed, but they have been deadlocked. The man in black seemed to be quite confident, but he didn't move, and only after a long time did he say, "Senior girl, is Lingtang okay?"

"Huh!" Master Li couldn't help but wonder: "Do you know my mother?" The man in black seemed to fall into a memory, and after a while, he snorted coldly and said, "Naturally, I know!" Yu Xuan approached the master and said in a low voice: "Senior sister, it seems that something is wrong! This person has a fierce tone, and his words are resentful, as if he has some deep hatred with your mother, isn't it the enemy of your family?"

Master Li thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, my mother has never been out of Nanjing City, if you have a grudge, I'm afraid it's my father or grandfather, right?"

"Okay, since you met today, don't go, everyone stays. When the man saw that they were whispering, he interrupted them again. Yu Xuan raised his head and said, "Oh, why?" The man gently picked up a little food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and laughed in a low voice: "What's the matter, Jiu'er, don't you know me?"

Yu Xuan heard his familiar voice, and couldn't help but feel more and more strange, but he couldn't remember who it was. "You ......" He was suddenly surprised: "It turned out to be your ......" The man in black laughed and said, "I remembered it!" Master Li was confused when he heard this, grabbed Yu Xuan's arm, and asked, "Who is he?"

"Hey!" Yu Xuan said hatefully: "He is the "ghost doctor" Yan Ning, if it weren't for his "Jiu'er", I wouldn't be able to remember." Seeing Yan Ning bowing his head, Master Li was even more worried about the Lan family, and he was already unwilling to delay any longer, so he slapped the table suddenly, and the person had already vacated away, and said softly: "No matter who you are, you can't stop me." ”

Yan Ning raised his head suddenly, and saw her suddenly soaring into the air, a long sword was withdrawn from her waist and backhanded, and she immediately stretched out her right hand and slowly opened it from her chest. Master Li saw that he was holding a pair of bamboo chopsticks in his hand, which were wrapped around like two small snakes, but he didn't care, and the long sword still hit him directly. Yan Ning's internal force poured into his right hand, and a pair of bamboo chopsticks clamped Master Li's long sword when he landed, only to hear a soft sound, and everyone obviously noticed that the sword momentum suddenly slowed down. But in just a moment, a sword qi suddenly shot out, and the bamboo chopsticks suddenly broke.

It's a good Yan Ning, I saw him turn sideways, but the change of moves was very fast, the two broken chopsticks together, gently pushed up and then slashed along the sword body. Master Li's long sword lost momentum, the sword body leaned up, and the person also leaned forward, and suddenly felt a pain in his fingers holding the sword. But how can she be a person who easily admits defeat, just looking at her glass sword slashing downward, but her left hand flicked on the chopsticks on Yan Ning's table, but the person turned around and jumped back. When she landed, she raised her hand to see that there was already a faint blood mark on her food, middle and ring fingers, and there was faint blood pouring out.

Everyone saw her graceful posture and swaying movements, like a dance, and their hearts were shocked. "Yuxuan, you take them out of here first, I'll stop them. Master Li knew that it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat in the eagerness, and he hated it in his heart, and said with a wave of his glass sword. Yu Xuan shook his head hurriedly and said: "No, this person is scheming, cunning and resourceful, proficient in poison, my sister and brother-in-law were careless back then, and they were almost caught by him! ”

Master Li was shocked, frowned and asked, "The city lord was almost captured by him back then?" As she was talking, she suddenly felt dizzy, her limbs were sore, and she almost couldn't stand. Seeing that her expression was different, Yu Xuan hurriedly supported her, connected her with a few big holes, and complained: "I said just now that he was a "ghost doctor", you are still so reckless, and now you are poisoned, right?"

"How could it be? I saw it just now, the blood from the wound has not changed color, how can it still be poisoned?" Master Li said strangely. "I don't know, but I sealed your heart and stopped the poisonous gas invasion temporarily!" he said and handed her a pill, and said, "Take this pill first, and you will be safe for at least three hours!"

The two of them were busy for a while, and finally looked at Yan Ning together, but they saw that he had been expressionless, and they didn't stop the two, but Yu Xuan raised his head when he took out the pill, and a light flashed in his eyes.

Yan Ning also had a bamboo chopstick nailed to his left shoulder, and there was faint blood flowing out. It turned out that Master Li knew that the opponent's martial arts were strong and could not be defeated in a short time, and when she slashed down with her sword, she took out a bamboo chopstick from the chopsticks on the table, but this time she calculated the direction and timing of Yan Ning's dodge. Yan Ning dodged the glass sword, but unexpectedly, when this girl was close, she suddenly sent a hidden weapon, and when she couldn't dodge, she had to use her luck to protect her body, and it was no luck for the bamboo chopsticks to hurt her body, but fortunately, the injury was not deep, and it was no big deal. He pulled out the bamboo chopsticks with his backhand, and after a pause, he asked again: "Since you are here, what about Feng Linyuan?" Master Li and Yu Xuan looked at each other, feeling very strange, this Yan Ning did not care about the injury, but cared about other things, so he asked: "Why did you ask my master?" Yan Ning stared at him, and also asked: "He is your master?" Yu Xuan raised his head and said: "Naturally! Master saved me back then, and you also saw it!" Yan Ning thought about the past, nodded and said, "Yes, I did see it." No wonder there is a shadow of him in this girl's sword moves, so as long as I kill you, he will come?"

"Huh?" Yu Xuan said strangely: "I haven't looked for you to avenge the revenge of the year, why did you still find me? Why do you look like a bitter enemy with everyone? Besides, provoke my master, aren't you looking for death?" But it's no wonder that Yu Xuan has such a question, this Yan Ning is strange everywhere, and he doesn't know what medicine he sells in his gourd. When Yan Ning heard this, the corners of his mouth actually smiled slightly, and he was not angry at all, but said, "This has nothing to do with you!"

Yu Xuan couldn't help but feel surprised when he saw him smiling strangely, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. When he was feeling strange, everyone in the store actually fell down one by one, even Master Li and Yu Xuan were not spared, they only felt that their limbs were sore, and their internal strength could not be lifted.

This sudden change made everyone a little shocked and inexplicable for a while, and they didn't know what to do. Master Li remembered what Yu Xuan said just now, and his heart was turbulent, although he knew that everyone was poisoned, but he didn't know how the other party poisoned him.

"The "ghost doctor" really lives up to its reputation, and his poisoning skills have not diminished in the slightest!" Yu Xuan said casually, but he was secretly frightened in his heart. "Huh, you kid is also hard-pierced, and you can still exhale and open your voice when you get into my "Hades tears", but now I can't let you leave alive. After saying that, he walked over slowly.

When Yu Xuan saw him coming, his mind was full of thoughts, and he suddenly said urgently: "Can you answer me a question? How did you poison me, and please let me die to understand!" Yan Ning smiled: "It's okay, do you know that when Liu Zhu came in, he brought in the rain?" Yu Xuan frowned and said, "So what? This rain is just an ordinary thing, how can it poison us?"

Yan Ning shook his head and said, "Rain is naturally an ordinary thing, but before he came in, I had poisoned him, so he was my medicine man." Master Li said suddenly: "You have been in the store for a long time, how can you poison him before he comes in? Besides, no matter how much rain there is, you can't poison everyone, right?" Yan Ning nodded and said: "What the senior girl said is good, early this morning, I asked someone to hand him a letter, which was written by an important member of the court, so he naturally did not dare to slack off." By the time he opened it, he had been poisoned. The medicine I use is very toxic, but it is colorless and tasteless. When he came in, the shopkeeper wiped his face with a towel, and then it was contaminated with poison, and the shopkeeper put the towel on the bonfire to dry it for convenience, and then the poison gas drifted around unconsciously, and you will all be poisoned!"

Yu Xuan turned his head to look at it, and saw that the catcher had been poisoned deeply, and he was lying on the ground at the moment, his face was already dark, his limbs were twitching, and the corners of his mouth were foaming at the mouth, obviously he was unlucky. Master Li snorted coldly: "You are so ruthless, in order to kill us, you didn't even let go of your companion!" Yan Ning suddenly laughed, as if he had heard something extremely funny, and after a while he said: "Senior girl, you have misunderstood, where are these mediocre talents worthy of being my companions, to me, they are just chess pieces!"

He slowly walked towards Yu Xuan, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "The Ninth Prince understands now!" he said that he made a claw shape and grabbed Yu Xuan's neck. Yu Xuan sighed and said, "I see, no wonder you didn't stop me from healing my senior sister, but you didn't take us seriously at all, is it the chance to win?"

"How can a little ghost like you stop me!" Yan Ning said proudly: "Didn't you say it just now, your sister and brother-in-law are not my opponents, let alone you!"

Suddenly, Yan Ning's eyes widened, and his body flew backwards like a broken kite, hitting the wall straight into it, and it actually broke through the wall, revealing a large hole.

This change was unexpected by everyone, and everyone didn't know why for a while, so they were stunned on the spot. The corners of Yan Ning's mouth were bleeding, and when he looked up, Yu Xuan actually got up slowly, as if he was no longer under the control of the poison, and couldn't help but be surprised: "You, how can you move?" Yu Xuan spread his hands and said proudly: "It seems that I forgot to tell you, although my master is the wind in the abyss, but my martial arts are taught by the master master and the senior brothers in Guiwang City, although your poison is violent and abnormal, it is a cold poison, I have both yin and yang strength, although I can't resolve your poison, but as long as I give me some time, it's no problem to suppress it temporarily!"

"You doll, you are young, but your martial arts are so profound, I am afraid that in time, you will be another evil god!" Yan Ning sighed: "It seems that I can't let you leave alive today." ”

Yan Ning slowly supported the broken wall and walked in. At first, everyone was worried about their lives, and they had no time to look at Yan Ning's figure, but at this moment, when they saw him slowly entering, they suddenly saw it very clearly. I saw that his face was scorched, pitted, extremely ugly, and he looked even more weird in a black shirt, but his five fingers were like green onions, and his skin was as white as jade, and he was no worse than a woman, with a Hanyu wrench between his fingers on his chest, and a three-foot-long horse whip inserted in his waist, which was full of the appearance of a prince and grandson.

"Huh!" Yu Xuan said with a smile: "I see that you have an extraordinary bearing, just like a royal prince and nobleman, but you are so narrow-minded, you are really worthy of your dignity!" Yan Ning was not angry when he heard this, and said slowly: "Ninth Prince, I can let go of the three members of the Lan family and everyone in the store, and I can also give you an antidote, but there is one condition!"

Yu Xuan's eyes rolled and asked, "Do you want me to tell you, where is my master?" Yan Ning nodded and said, "Yes, you tell me, and I will give you the antidote!" Yu Xuan groaned slightly, and then said, "It's okay, but how can you guarantee that the antidote is not fake?" Yan Ning said: "You can find someone to try one pill, if it is fake, you will know if it is fake!"

Master Li grabbed him and said strangely: "Jiu'er, how can you tell him?" The corners of Yu Xuan's mouth raised slightly, and he whispered: "This guy is proficient in poison, and you and I have no antidote to poison, so we can't let everyone in this shop die here." Besides, if he goes to find Master, he will be killing himself, so why should you and I stop him!" As soon as Master Li heard this, he nodded violently in his heart, and then he didn't pay attention to it.

Yan Ning took out a porcelain vase from his arms and stretched it out to the two of them. Yu Xuan saw that his meaning was clear, so he said, "You give me the antidote first!" Yan Ning knew that he was worried that he would regret it afterwards, so he threw the porcelain bottle over. Yu Xuan took the porcelain bottle, opened it and saw that the bottle was full of red pills, and asked, "How to take it?" Yan Ning said: "Only one pill, warm wine to take!" Yu Xuan poured out one pill, picked up a bowl of wine on the table and took it.

Master Li couldn't stop it, and said angrily: "Why don't you take it without distinguishing it?" The concern in his words was overflowing. Yu Xuan smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, if something happens to me, I will only die anyway!" He was a little lucky, feeling that he was not abnormal, so he said: "You give them the antidote first." He stepped forward and said to Yan Ning, "My master is in the store at the moment!

When Yan Ning heard him say this, he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly looked around, but there was nothing unusual in the store, all of them were ordinary people, I don't know how he could say this. Master Li saw Yan Ning bowing his head and pondering, but his face was full of joy, he patted Yu Xuan on the shoulder, and said angrily: "No wonder you have no fear, it turns out that Uncle Feng is here!"

"Feng Linyuan, get out of here!" Yan Ning didn't see anyone for a long time, his heart was restless, he shook his sleeves, and said loudly: "Get out of here!" Everyone saw that his face turned blue, and they were extremely hideous, and they were all scared for a while, and hurriedly retreated.

After a long while, Yan Ning never saw anyone answer, and turned to Yu Xuan and said, "Boy, what you said just now is true?" Yu Xuan naturally nodded and said, "Of course it's true, Master and I agreed to meet in the store at noon today, and then return to Wangcheng together!" Yan Ning frowned and thought, "Isn't he here yet?" Yan Ning slowly walked towards Yu Xuan and said sharply: "If you don't come out again, don't blame me for slaughtering this kid!"

One of them looked up from the table and saw that his face was covered in indentations, apparently asleep and had just woken up. Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see him still yawning to himself, as if he didn't know anything. When Yu Xuan saw him, he hurriedly ran over, grabbed his arm, and complained, "Master, why did you go just now? I was bullied so badly!"

"You kid will cause trouble in one day, don't you want to go back, why are you still delaying here!" Feng Linyuan gently knocked Yu Xuan's head. The three members of the Lan family were stunned, it turned out that they had already met this person in the morning, but he was the scholar who recommended the "knife fish" to them in the morning, and they never thought that he was the Feng Linyuan mentioned by Mrs. Mu.

Mrs. Hu saw things very quickly, she saw the situation at this moment, and knew that this Feng Linyuan was the chance for her family of three to live, and hurriedly said: "Please also ask Mr. to save us!" Feng Linyuan smiled at her and nodded, then glanced at Yan Ning, and said with a smile: "After two years, the "ghost doctor" is still the same!"

Yan Ning looked at him stunned, and after a long time, he came back to his senses and said in a deep voice: "Now that Mr. is here, we can settle the old score." Feng Linyuan stretched out his right hand to support his chin, and said with a smile: "Yes? Settle accounts or something, I like it the most, let's calculate it in a while! But the "Confucian Immortal" is seriously injured, but you are entangled with us here, aren't you afraid of going back and being scolded?"

"Hmph!" Yan Ning snorted: "If he is seriously injured, Mr. is afraid that it will not be much better!" Feng Linyuan nodded and said: "Yes, I fought with him, and both of them were injured lightly, but I was only three hours and I was fine, I am afraid that he will have to spend seven days to dissolve the true qi in his body, otherwise the true qi is not pure, once he fights with the master again, the true qi will be devoured, and he will suffer misfortune!"

Yan Ning heard what he said seriously, but he didn't care at all, he just said: "No matter what else, I want to teach you a good lesson today!" Feng Linyuan suddenly smiled, and actually stood up on the table, and walked out of the door with Yuxuan and Master Li, and said: "When you come to Japan to heal and your martial arts are complete, come back to Wangcheng to find me!"

"Eight years later, when my martial arts are complete, I will go to Guiwang City to receive the teachings!" Yan Ning was silent for a while, and said with his hand.

Feng Linyuan ignored him anymore, led everyone out of the shop in the rain, and disappeared into the rain and fog!