In the fourteenth year of Tianshun, the eleventh month of winter.

Chen Tangji has already begun to prepare the raw materials for Chinese New Year's snacks and snacks, otherwise he will be busy as soon as he enters the wax moon. Wuxiang Zhai also began to select chicken, duck and fish meat, and raised, and when the New Year approaches, the price of these things will rise to a jaw-dropping height, and you must take precautions, so as not to ruin the reputation accumulated over the years. Even Master Sun at the mouth of Gualiu Hutong began to count the accounts of the year, calculating how much money he made this year and whether it was enough to add a few new clothes to his grandson.

It was not a special day, and there was nothing noteworthy, the students went to school as usual, the shops were open as usual, and the soldiers made routine rounds...... Ning Du was no exception, and went to Qingteng Garden to attend classes as usual.

"Young master, what do they see you doing?" Hu Ran hadn't experienced being watched by people for a long time, and now that someone suddenly looked at her, it was inevitable that she was a little uncomfortable.

"Nothing. Ning Du knew why the people around him were looking at him. The fact that he opened the sword Qixin should have been worn very widely. For some reason, there were obviously so many challengers before, but Jian Qi was particularly eye-catching this time.

"Oh. Master, I'm leaving. Hu Ran walked to the intersection and turned to the green pear orchard.

There are many times I have come to Qingli Garden, and everyone up and down here knows that the cold Bian Shihan Sect has accepted a closed disciple on weekdays. Bian Jiaoxi didn't do anything every day, so he specially taught this disciple, which attracted the envy of many people.

"Have you memorized the meridian acupoint diagram that you memorized?" asked Bian Shihan with a glare.

"Almost......" Hu Ran said a little timidly, in fact, she still hadn't remembered most of it, and the places she remembered were all vague.

Bian Shi was so angry that he directly slapped the table with his hand, and all the things on it jumped up.

"How many days have it been? Why can't you remember? If you go on like this, when are you going to learn, um?

"The Year of the Monkey and the Month of the Monkey are the Year of the Monkey and the Month ......of the Monkey," Hu Ran whispered, not daring to confront Bian Shihan head-on. She felt that she really didn't have the talent to study medicine, and she couldn't stuff so many things into her brain, but in comparison, the veins seemed simpler.

"What did you say?!" Bian Shi slapped the table again in a cold rage. "Why don't you understand the importance of what you're learning? You have to know that once you learn these things even the slightest bit off, they will kill people! You study medicine to save people, not harm people!"

"I don't open a medical clinic to treat diseases and make money...... Hu Ran whispered stiffly, she didn't expect this to do anything, or she didn't know what to do in the future.

"You, you!" Bian Shi was so angry that he almost jumped up, raised his hand to hit Hu Ran and withdrew his hand, turned around in place three times, and sighed again and again. The apprentices who have to be accepted by themselves, even if they are difficult to teach, can only bite the bullet.

Hu Ran glanced at Bian Shihan, picked up the book to block his vision, and whispered: "You can't learn two days in one day, you can't learn three days in two days, I just learn ......"

"You!alas! Sooner or later, when you watch others die in front of you, but you can't save them, you know how much you regret it!" said Bian Shi with hatred, and walked out of the room with a flick of his sleeves.

Hu Ran put down the book, squinted outward, confirmed that Bian Shihan was gone, and exhaled a long breath.

"What's wrong with the old man today, inexplicably angry at me? Forget it, it doesn't matter, anyway, he's gone, I'll take a little rest first, and I'll start studying hard in a while." Well, yes, just for a moment. ”

——

People come and go on Yulong Street, like a river, and it will never stop.

Here, anyone can be a secret, anxiously or calmly waiting for someone to meet them. If you pay attention, everyone's small movements can be a code.

So many people are obviously in the same world, but they are so far away from each other. The trajectories of life are almost together, but they can never intersect.

"I want to inquire about someone. ”

"The price is still the same. ”

Two people in very different costumes seemed to be standing in the same corner at random, but they talked as if they had known each other for many years.

"Sword Seven. ”

"Why are you inquiring about this person?" the speaker's tone was full of doubt.

"Inquire about him a lot?"

"Many, you're the eighth. ”

"Tell me, what's the news. ”

"Legend has it that Jian Qi can only have seven swords, so he is called Jian Qi. He only used one sword to run rampant in the world, the second sword was only seen by a few people, and only Shang Chonggu, who was the strongest in the way of the sword, had seen the seven swords. It is rumored that the last sword is a sword with a body, and the sword kills people. At that time, Shang Chonggu had already achieved great swordsmanship, but he was still hit hard, and it can be said that he was the first person under Shang Chonggu. ”

"Anything else?"

The other smiled mysteriously and held out four fingers.

Say. ”

"The one named 'Sword Seven' is in Fangyuan City at this time, and it should be the heir of the Sword Seven back then, and now he is here to challenge the heir of Shang Chonggu. ”

“......”

A beggar huddled in a corner, with his unkempt hair, watched everyone who came and went, and sometimes frantically threw himself in front of one or two people, begging for mercy.

"Get out. "Most people shy away from it, even kicking the beggar away. Of course, there are also people who will give a little silver tael.

"Uncle, uncle, have mercy on me, have mercy on me, I haven't eaten for three days......" begged the beggar bitterly, and his knees were bleeding from his quick kneeling.

Bell!

The three coins fell to the ground, and the beggar immediately picked it up with both hands, but was unexpectedly stepped on by the other party.

"If you want money, you have to stand the step!"

The beggar hurriedly stretched out his other hand to pick up other money, and both hands were trampled on by the other party, and in a moment they turned purple and red.

"Hahahaha......" After the other party made fun, he walked away, without any guilt for his actions. And the people around him also turned a blind eye and only took care of their own business.

The beggar shrank back into the corner, and the hand hidden in his sleeve gently groped for the mark on the copper coin, revealing a puzzled expression.

"Winter Moon Thirteen, Fangyuan City, Sword Seven?"

......

Shunji sat on the fourth floor of the stairs, looked at a sealed letter, and threw it into the brazier.

"There are 30,000 people in Fangyuan City, half of them are cultivators, there are 3,000 in the mountain realm, there are more than 100 in the Xuan realm, and there are seven strong people in the five realms that can be known. The rest of the cultivators who are hidden everywhere are innumerable, and no one can say with certainty. It's easy to kill people in this place, and it's easy to escape. This is true for anyone, though. To kill one is to be prepared to be killed. ”

Shun Er put a booklet into the brazier, and the fire was suppressed for a moment and then burned rapidly.

"With the current ability of Yulong Street, he can summon three Tongxuan, forty-eight mountains, and one hundred and five difficulties. Such a force seems to be very strong, but when it is invested in Fangyuan City, it will disappear. At present, there are four million taels of silver that can be used......"

The accounts in the entire booklet, all the books in the second year are all familiar by heart, and now they are burned, only he knows. With so many people and such a large amount of money, Shun Er needs to use it all, and I have to say that this is a brain-draining thing.

Making money is a difficult job, and spending money is not easy. If you want to give full play to the value of every penny, not everyone can do it.

"This matter is very important, who should be handed over?" Shun Er frowned, and the secret letter in his hand was not put into the furnace for a long time. "You have to be a trustworthy person, you have to be a practitioner, and you have to have a good identity. ”

Shun Er's mind flashed too many figures, all of which were not suitable, and in the end he chose the most suitable one from all the inappropriate.

"Can you be trusted, Yuan Sui from Tsing Yi Lane?"

——

It was dark early, and Ning Du made Hu Ran wait for a long time because he had delayed too long in the Forgetting Pavilion to return to the Pavilion.

"Young master, I've heard that someone named Jian Qi has given you a challenge book!" Hu Ran didn't complain about waiting too long, but said excitedly as if he had discovered a new world.

Ning Du looked at Hu Ran like a fool and said, "Are you stupid?"

"Of course not, everyone is looking forward to it, and I'm looking forward to it. Hu Ran didn't know how he was infected like this by the people around him.

"What are you looking forward to? expecting me to be beaten with missing arms and legs, expecting me to be beaten and paralyzed in bed?" Ning Du said angrily.

"Of course not!" Hu Ran couldn't help but be startled when he thought of the young master's miserable situation, and he still needed to take care of the young master day and night. "Young Master, you can't really beat the other party, right? What kind of Southern Kingdom Li Xiu was so powerful at the beginning, didn't he still be defeated by you! Could this Sword Seven be even more powerful than that Li Xiu Xi?"

Ning Dubai glanced at Hu Ran, didn't intend to explain, and walked straight home.

"Hey, young master, you wait for me! You haven't told me if that sword seven is really powerful!

Along the way, Hu Ran chattered like a big horn, and was finally gagged by Ning Du's words.

"What did you learn from Bian Jiaoxi today?"

At the mention of studying, Hu Ran had a headache, she already felt that she had suffered too much, and if she was forced again, she would collapse. Not to mention such a thick book, he has to be flexible to master, and he has to take into account the learning of the instrument, he is not a genius, where can he do it.

When he got home and had dinner, Hu Ran ate snacks for a while and carved three spring breeze swords before falling asleep. Now that the carved spring sword has become a matter of handy, Hu Ran is willing to carve a few more, so as not to have it when the young master uses it.

Without Hu Ran's chatter, Ning sat alone in the courtyard, not disgusted with the cold, just stared at the sky in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking. After a long time, he let out a long white breath.

"It's another quiet day!"