Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang!

The two wooden swords collided with each other with a thudding sound. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info is sometimes relatively long but silent, and sometimes the sound of impact is as dense as a torrential rain, high and low, continuous.

It was in the Zhujia family in the south of Suzhou, on the martial arts training ground of the bluestone slab, a pair of seven or eight-year-old male and female children, holding wooden swords, were competing.

On the embroidery chair on the side of the field sat a woman in a blue silk shirt, holding the embroidery pattern in her hand, staring at the gestures of the male and female children, occasionally looking down at the embroidery pattern in her hand. The faint sunlight fell on the blue-tiled eaves above her head, casting a shadow on her. She looks extremely beautiful, she looks no more than in her early twenties, with cloudy sideburns, loosely holding her hair in a bun, with a purple jade hairpin inserted in her sideburns, and three pearls embedded in the hairpin, each bead is the size of a little finger, emitting a soft light, and her skin is better than snow, and her complexion is beautiful.

Suddenly, the girl's right wrist trembled on the martial arts training ground, and the wooden sword in her hand slashed ten swords in a row, one sword was faster than the other, forcing the boy to use the sword to defend himself, and finally was slapped on the wrist by the tip of the sword, and the wooden sword was thrown with an "ah". The girl put away her sword and said with a smile: "Yuheng, can you admit defeat this time?" The boy's cheeks were red like a fiery cloud in the sky, half hot, half ashamed. He was unconvinced: "Qingheng, you peeked at the sword book in your mother's study again." Mom, Qing Heng peeked at the sword book again, bullying me for being obedient and obedient, you didn't punish her? When he said the last sentence, he faced the woman outside the court.

The girl's small nose wrinkled slightly, and the corners of her mouth pulled up a hint of ridicule: "Hmph, Yuheng, you will only find your mother to cry your nose after losing, which is a bit of manly mind." Then the girl rushed to the woman, threw herself into her arms, and said coquettishly: "Mom, don't listen to Yu Heng's nonsense, I am open-minded, where is the word 'peeking'." ”

Mrs. Xi put down the embroidery, nodded on the girl's forehead, stood up and said, "You two can disassemble within thirty strokes, but the next five strokes, where is there still half of it?" Although Qing Heng relied on the novelty of the move and the urgency of the attack, he forced Yu Heng to lose his sword, but this move 'Boundless Falling Wood' does not say what it means, even if it is shaped, you will only get one point at most. Yu Heng's moves are very stable, and he is very familiar with every move, but he is too regular and lacks flexibility, and your sister will not be able to deal with it if she doesn't follow the routine. Although the 'Boundless Falling Wood' is exquisite, it can deal with a half-hung person like your sister, even the 'Zixia Sword Technique' that I taught you at the beginning. ”

Zhu Yuheng stood aside with his hands tied and listened carefully. Zhu Qingheng clapped his hands and said happily: "Mom, can you demonstrate this trick 'Boundless Falling Wood' to us?" Mrs. Xi looked at her with a smile and said, "You naughty ghost, don't you know that learning swords should be gradual, if you blindly covet new moves, the foundation is unstable, but it will have an impact on the future?" ”

Zhu Qingheng said in his heart: "Mom only asks us to learn some sword moves on weekdays and play at will, and after the age of nine, she sends us to Yunjimen and then learns systematically, why are you so serious today?" Yes, I have always learned swords faster than Yu Heng, and I have a lot of pride and complacency in my heart, she is afraid that I will go to Yunjimen to learn spells in the future and look down on people like this, so she specially came to warn me. Thinking like this, she was moved spontaneously, and pulled Mrs. Xi's sleeve and said, "Mom, I naturally know that it's just that Yuheng and I will leave home next year, and I'm afraid that I won't have much chance to watch it in the future, so I want to read all my mother's sword books before leaving." ”

Mrs. Xi smiled slightly and said, "You are going to Yunjimen to learn some spells, and you can come back for the New Year's holidays." Where is it so pitiful as you say? ”

Zhu Qingheng said: "What if we meet a strict master who only forces us to practice all day and is not allowed to go home?" Mom, just show us. She rolled her eyes and pointed at Zhu Yuheng and said, "Yuheng has been lazy in learning swords these days, so I should show him more wonderful sword moves." ”

Zhu Yuheng hurriedly said: "I'm not lazy, but I just saw that the uncle's pill was interesting, so I said a few more words." ”

Mrs. Xi said: "There is never only one way to ask for immortals, what kind of path you will take in the future, it is all based on your natural interest, and neither I nor your father will interfere." However, I selfishly still hope that you will follow the path of sword cultivation. Okay, let me show you what this trick 'Boundless Falling Wood' looks like. ”

Mrs. Xi flipped her left wrist and drew a circle with her index and middle fingers together. Zhu Qingheng and the others only heard a clear whistle that suddenly resounded through the manor, and a water dragon seven or eight feet long came out of the pond full of lotus leaves in the yard, and flew towards them with an angry roar. Zhu Yuheng shouted: "Mom! Mrs. Xi was not in a hurry, drawing a seal with her right hand, the wooden sword in Zhu Qingheng's hand suddenly flew up in the air, and the sword light stabbed towards the dragon body, as fast as lightning, like thunder, a sword was as fast as a sword, and finally it was like thousands of sword shadows flying in the air. Mrs. Xi was single-minded, fighting left and right, silver light was flying, and the water was splashing all over the sky, and the eyes of the two of them were dazzled. In the end, the water dragon fell apart on the top of the three people's heads, falling down like a scoop, Zhu Qingheng and Zhu Yuheng hugged their heads and exclaimed, but saw that the speed of the wooden sword was faster than just now, and the tip of the sword pierced every drop of water, and actually sent all the water droplets back into the pool.

Madame withdrew her hand, and the sword fell from the sky and plunged straight into the ground. Zhu Qingheng stepped forward to pull out the sword, but heard a banging sound incessantly, and pieces of wood that were inches long fell at Zhu Qingheng's feet, and only a wooden sword hilt remained in Zhu Qingheng's hand.

Suddenly, a person chuckled and said, "I haven't seen the third sister use this trick for a long time, and it's really as wonderful as before." Everyone turned their heads and saw a young man in Tsing Yi walking in, with a beautiful face, a clear spirit, and a bright light in his eyes. Zhu Qingheng and Zhu Yuheng said happily together: "Daddy! Mrs. Xi smiled: "Second brother, don't laugh at me, I haven't used a sword for a long time, and I can't even control my strength." "When they were young, they married Jin Lan and traveled to the great rivers and mountains together. I was used to it when I was young, and after I got married, I was still a brother and sister.

Zhu Xiyan said softly: "How can I laugh at you, I just hope that you can let go of the knot as soon as possible, and our husband and wife can still learn from each other as in the past, and discuss the way of swordsmanship." The muscles on Mrs. Xi's face moved slightly, and the faint smile suddenly disappeared, she lowered her eyes and said lightly: "Second brother, didn't we say that we wouldn't talk about this anymore." ”

"Third sister, I'm ......" Zhu Xiyan didn't finish his sentence before he was cut off by Mrs. Xi. Now that you're back, I'll go and order dinner to be brought to the kitchen. The children were hungry. After saying that, he walked to the inner courtyard, and after a few turns, his figure disappeared behind the wall.

Zhu Xiyan looked at the courtyard wall where his wife's shadow was hidden, and felt a sense of melancholy and disappointment in his heart. He swept his gaze to the wooden sword that Zhu Yuheng had fallen to the ground, and then remembered where he was, looked down at the pair of children gathered around him, and said in his heart: "Although the third sister is obsessed with the things of the past, she is willing to give me children, which does not mean that her heart is still towards me." The two of us have respected each other like guests all these years, and the third sister is a stone that should be covered by me, so why should I force myself to compare myself with a dead man. Thinking of this, his depression and melancholy in his heart decreased slightly, and he said to Zhu Yuheng and Zhu Qingheng: "In the past half a month, have you two made the elders angry? ”

Zhu Yuheng shook his head and said loudly: "No." He was still ignorant, but Zhu Qingheng understood it and knew that the couple was only afraid that they would bury the estrangement from the time they got married.

asked them what they had learned in the past half a month, and Zhu Qingheng and the others answered one by one. Zhu Xiyan smiled, put his hand on the shoulders of the two and said, "You two also go back to the house, it's getting dark, it's time to wash your hands and eat." After saying that, he himself walked to the inner courtyard, still dressed in green clothes, but his steps were completely different from the cheerfulness when he came.

Zhu Qingheng was looking in the direction of Zhu Xiyan's departure, thinking about what had happened to them in the past, and asked Mrs. Xi to put down her cultivation and stay in the Zhu family as an ordinary woman like several aunts, rather than ask about the world affairs of the rivers and lakes. Suddenly, I heard Zhu Yuheng beside me shouting: "Mom is really amazing, that water dragon has been sent back to the pool, and not a drop has leaked!" ”

Zhu Qingheng turned his head to look, only to see Zhu Yuheng's hands propped up on the jagged rocks by the pond, half of his body leaned forward, carefully examining the waterline and the location of the moss on the stones. Zhu Qingheng said: "Yuheng, you fall carefully, you will become a soup chicken." ”

She swept aside the broken sword on the field, and put the wooden sword that Zhu Yuheng had fallen on the ground back on the weapon rack next to the martial arts training ground. In fact, she had already discovered this, not to mention the ground, even the wooden sword that fought with the water dragon did not have a single drop of water on it.

"Got it." Zhu Yuheng waved his hand, bent down and rescued a frog with one foot in a hole in the rock and threw it onto a green lotus leaf still swinging in the wind by the pool.