On Changle Street, Jasper Teahouse......

The rain was murmuring outside the curtain, and looking out from the carved window lattice, a rain curtain was woven between the sky and the earth, and the rain was very heavy!

Ye Du sat by the window in the teahouse, and now he was supporting Yi with his right hand, looking out the window. Whenever it rains, Ye Dui's mood is not too good, because he thinks of a lot of things......

I still remember that in the spring of last year, Ye Duan met Old Man Zhang who was listening to music in this teahouse.

Old man Zhang is actually not old, he looks like he is about forty years old at most, his forehead is high, his beard is very long, his hair is dirty and messy, he has been wearing a tattered gown for many years, and strangely, he has always smelled of rose dew on his body.

That time was when Ye Du was the most depressed, with no money on his body, no wine in his hands, and no meat in his rice.

Ye Du remembered that Old Man Zhang had invited him to drink wine many times and eat many meals. Because Old Man Zhang has a special habit of collecting sword records! Coincidentally, Ye Duan is a person who uses swords, so they have a lot to discuss.

In Changle Street, the most expensive wine Ye Du ever drank was Zhu Yeqing, three taels of silver and one catty, of course Ye Du couldn't afford to drink it, it was Old Man Zhang who invited him to drink, and it was also the last wine they drank, and Ye Duan never saw him again.

Late spring is the time when the peach blossoms are blooming brilliantly. There are not only peach blossoms in the Peach Blossom Forest, but also wine and meat, because the Peach Blossom Forest is the best restaurant on Changle Street.

That night, Ye Du drank a lot of wine, the bamboo leaves were green in the jade wine cup, green like a pool of autumn water, he looked at the peach blossoms falling in the wine glass, his eyes were full of tears, because he remembered the days in the Nine Dragons Palace, he thought of Gu Manman, the girl who liked to follow him. However, Ye Du couldn't cry, because over the years, he had learned to protect himself, a person had to be strong, and he couldn't shed tears, so he dried these tears again.

"Xiao Ye, I'm going to go on a long trip tomorrow," Old Man Zhang drank the wine in his cup in one go, poured the wine glass to the brim, and drank three glasses in a row.

"So, you invited me to drink in the Peach Blossom Forest today and feast for you?" Ye Duan raised his head to drink, but his expression was a little gloomy, because he didn't have many friends, and he didn't expect to part again.

"Xiao Ye, I want to tell you a secret" Old man Zhang wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, and looked at Ye Du with shining eyes.

"Okay", Ye Du replied in a low voice, he was not a person who liked to inquire about people's secrets, but it didn't hurt to listen to it.

Old man Zhang cleared his throat and said slowly: "Start from the He Ji bun shop on Changle Street, go due east, turn right after passing the City God Temple, and then cross fourteen streets, three bridges, and a forest, and you will find a temple." ”

"Why do you have to start from Changle Street, why do you have to go to that temple?" Ye Du asked.

Old man Zhang lowered his voice: "Starting from Changle Street, there will be no stalkers, because on this road, there are always officials patrolling day and night. I told you to go to that temple because there is silver in the temple, a lot of silver, but young man, don't be too greedy!", after the old man Zhang said this, he got up and walked towards the counter, he was obviously going to pay the bill.

Ye Du stood up and said word by word: "When, I'll invite you to drink!"

Old man Zhang suddenly froze his footsteps, and said in a low tone: "We, maybe we won't see each other again, because, tomorrow, there will be death and no life!"

Ye Dui looked excited: "Can you not go?"

Old man Zhang said: "Can't!"

Ye Du said, "Why?"

Old man Zhang said: "Take people's money and eliminate disasters for others!"

Ye Du shook the long sword in his hand and said word by word: "This time, I will invite you to drink!"

Old man Zhang said: "The only valuable thing on your body is the sword in your hand, do you want to exchange it for wine?"

Ye Dui said in a firm tone: "Yes!"

Old man Zhang was silent for a long time, because he knew that what Ye Du had been holding in his hand was the life of a swordsman, and if a swordsman did not have a sword in his hand, it would be more uncomfortable than asking for his life. Old man Zhang sighed and said with a heavy expression: "The man is heavy-minded, why use the money knife!"

Although it was said that the Longquan Green Sword in Ye Dui's hand had accompanied him for eleven years and five months, he still exchanged it for ten taels of silver and paid for the drink. Because, Ye Du has always believed that friends are hard to find, and love is worth a thousand dollars......

In that mountain temple, of course, there is silver, a lot of silver, but there is a corresponding price to pay.

On the first day of the new year of every month, Ye Duan would go to the mountain temple once, and every time he went, the offering table in front of the temple was full of large and small envelopes, and each envelope contained more or less silver tickets and large and small tasks. In the past two years, Ye Duan's life has been very simple, drinking in a restaurant, listening to music in a teahouse, and sleeping in an inn, all of which don't cost too much silver, so he has always only picked white envelopes. Ye Du had written many touching letters to his family for those wanderers and merchants who had left his hometown, and he had also taught self-defense techniques in the courtyard of the deep house, and he had also overwhelmed darts in some little-known dart games......

The golden and blood-red envelopes that Ye Du had never seen before. He didn't know what was in the envelope, but he still wanted to live, because he still wanted to see Old Man Zhang again, so he picked the blood-red envelope.

The envelope was opened by Ye Duan in the guest room last night, and there were 100,000 taels of silver tickets neatly stacked in the envelope, each of which was covered with the flower charge of Jin Shirong, the big shopkeeper of Liyuan Shop, these silver tickets were of course circulated in the market, and they were the most authoritative one. Ye Du was a little frightened, generally speaking, the more rewarding the task, the greater the price to pay, and the greater the possibility of death. Pressed under the 100,000 taels of silver ticket is a purple gold flower paper folded in half, on which a cupola white crane and nine official characters are outlined with gold leaf - "August 13, Chenshi, White Crane Tower".

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools! When everyone is working hard, they will want to live. Twilight is no exception. So he needs a sword that can be used, and the most famous sword village in the Blue Moon territory is the Tiger Hill Sword Village in Luochuan, because only the Tiger Hill Sword Village has the masterpieces of the Eighteen Sons!!