Chapter 40: Thirty Years Ago (2)

As soon as Yang Fan heard that Lao Chunqiu was going to talk about his experience, he immediately sat up with his feet crossed and pricked up his ears to listen.

Lao Chunqiu squinted his eyes, looking at the rays of moonlight shining from the small window on the wall, and recalled the past, "About thirty years ago, when I was only in my thirties, I was in the middle of a passionate time, at that time, how free I was. ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Lao Chunqiu's mouth turned upward, and a self-reliant and stubborn smile appeared on his face.

"I travel every day, make a living from wine and meat, and make many close friends. One of them was a brother who we were very good with, but in the morning we had no contact with him, and we had not heard from him for more than a year, so I went to his house to find him and wanted to talk to him about the old days. ”

"My brother's family lives in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, and when I found this village, I found that his house was locked, so I went to his neighbor's house to ask, and the result was also locked, the village where he lived was not big, only a dozen families, and every family was like this, so I felt a little strange. I climbed over the wall of his house and found that the yard was overgrown with weeds and had apparently been abandoned for a long time. When I went into the house, I found that my brother's wife and a pair of children were dead. ”

Lao Chunqiu said this, and slapped the stone bed he was sitting on, and the "pop" sound of the bedknob. It's a pity that his children are only in their teens. ”

Yang Fan was also angry when he heard it, he didn't expect the murderer to be so vicious.

Lao Chunqiu's tone sank, and then said: "I stepped forward to check the corpse, although it has been decomposed, but I can still see that it is not for the sword to be killed, and the sternum is directly broken, if you can have such a skill, you must also be a person in the martial arts." I started looking for my brother's body, but I didn't find anything in the yard, so I went to my neighbor's house to look for it, and guess what?"

"How is it?" Yang Fan's voice trembled, and he already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't want to admit it.

"Alas, my brother's neighbors were all killed in the same way. Lao Chunqiu sighed and shook his head.

Yang Fan was silent, not knowing what to say.

"Not only that, but I went to another house, a small village with thirteen families, and every family was like this, eighty-nine lives, and it was gone. After speaking, Lao Chunqiu's eyes were already red. "Although there are sometimes casualties in the battles in the rivers and lakes, such naked massacres are very rare. ”

"What about your brother, did you find out that he didn't?" Yang Fan asked.

"No, I searched the whole village, but I didn't find my brothers, so I buried all the corpses of the village, and when I buried them, I accidentally found a pair of fresh footprints at the edge of the village that extended to the mountain, so I followed the footprints to the mountain, guess who I saw?" asked Lao Chunqiu.

"Could it be your brother?" Yang Fan couldn't help blurting out.

"Yes, I saw my brother," said this, Lao Chunqiu's voice trembled, as if he had seen something terrible. "I'll never forget that day, as soon as I turned the corner of the mountain, I suddenly heard the sound of someone practicing martial arts in the col next to me, so I walked over to watch. ”

"As soon as I got to the bottom of the mountain, I saw my brother with an old man with long hair, and my brother stood there motionless, while the old man with long hair was circling around him, and from time to time he slapped him on his body, and my brother did not resist at all, as if the two of them were practicing some kind of kung fu together. Now that I had seen my brother, I wanted to ask him what had happened, so I called out his name, and when the old man saw me coming, he stopped, and laughed, 'Look, your friend has come to see you.' ’”

"When I heard the old man say this, I thought they were friends, so I relented and ran, but when I got closer, I found that my brother was pale with a steel needle in his head, and I smelled the smell of medicine on him. So I was amazed, and I cried out, 'What's wrong with you, sick?' and I raised my hand to touch his forehead. As a result......" Lao Chunqiu's voice suddenly became hoarse.

The story told by Lao Chunqiu made Yang Fan's heart pinch up, and he felt that Lao Chunqiu must have encountered something terrible.

"As a result, my brother suddenly opened his mouth and bit my hand, his mouth opened, and a foul smell hit me, I quickly withdrew my hand, I was already sick and a little delirious, so he beat me, but my brother used both hands and feet, and showed no mercy at all. As I dodged, I asked the old man next to him, 'What's the matter with my brother?' and the old man whistled loudly and threw his fist at me, and that's when I realized they were trying to harm me. ”

"I was suddenly hit by a pinch, and I was hit by my brother, and I fell to the ground, and the old man thought that my martial arts were not high, so he laughed and said, 'Today I was lucky, I found another man's stove, but let me practice another puppet.'" After listening to him, I realized that my brother had been killed by him, and when I looked at my brother again, I found that he was completely unconscious, and I kept shouting his name, and he didn't react at all. ”

"When the old man saw me fall to the ground, he came and reached out to catch me, so I jumped up from the ground, drew my sword and stabbed at him, and fought again, I had no scruples, so I began to gain the upper hand, and after dozens of moves, the old man was stabbed in the arm by my sword, and he knew that he could not beat me, so he flew away. I chased after again and again, so I went back to the same place, my brother was still stupid and stood still, and when I watched again, I found that my brother had changed compared to the original, his body was stiff, he still had long nails on his hands, without the old man's command, he was motionless, I had the courage to touch his pulse, and it turned out that he had no pulse at all, he was completely dead, but since he was dead, how could he still move, and still attack me? I was so amazed that I would not be used by the old man to kill my brother with my sword, and then buried him with his family. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Chunqiu was already in tears, and he muttered to himself: "Can you understand the scene of cutting off the head of your best brother with your own hands? ”