The ancient road is a thin horse with a west wind, and the sun is setting. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the earth, and from a distance, the whole earth seemed to be plated with a layer of golden light, and in this silent courtyard, a girl held a wooden sword and waved it gently.

"Sword Technique・Kunlun—"

As the girl's seal gesture was completed, a flash of light immediately appeared at the tip of the wooden sword.

It's just that this light flashes away, which is far from meeting the requirements of swordsmanship.

The girl looked a little disappointed, threw the wooden sword to the ground, stomped on it a few times, and then ran to the table to the side, and sat down on the stool angrily, holding her chin without saying a word.

"Hotaru, why don't you practice swords again?"

A delicate-looking woman approached and sat down beside the little girl.

"Hmph—"

The girl snorted coldly, turned around, and pouted angrily with her back to the woman.

"What's the matter, Hotaru, did anyone make you angry again?" The woman asked softly.

"Mother's ......" The little girl turned around, threw herself into the woman's arms at once, and said, "Firefly has worked hard, but she still can't practice swordsmanship. ”

The woman chuckled, pulled the little girl up from her arms, tidied up her clothes, stroked her little head and said softly: "Firefly, don't you be discouraged, you have only been practicing swordsmanship for a few days, and it is normal to practice it. ”

"Mother......" The little girl pouted and whispered, "But the children laugh at me, the masters have taught swordsmanship, and I am always the last to learn." ”

"Firefly, didn't my mother tell you, there is a precedence in hearing the Tao, there is a specialization in the arts, and other children may practice a lot, so they will learn quickly, do you know Firefly?"

The little girl lowered her head and muttered in a low voice: "Mother, is Firefly really a very stupid person as they say, Firefly likes to practice swords, and wants to become a hero like her father, but she can't practice swordsmanship ......"

Speaking of this, the little girl raised her head and looked at the woman, and said, "Mother, is Firefly really not suitable for sword practice?" ”

The woman pinched the corner of the girl's clothes, and her expression suddenly became serious.

"Firefly, stand up and listen to your mother."

The little girl immediately stood up, and smoothed her two ponytails by the way.

"Hotaru, do you know when your father learned swords?" The woman said softly, "When he learned swords, he was much older than you, and it was even more difficult for him to learn swords than you are now." ”

"Other children can learn swordsmanship in one day, your father may not be able to learn it in a month, at that time everyone laughed at your father for being stupid, it is destined not to be the material for learning swords, but what about the facts?"

"Look at your father now, the head of the Sword Mansion in the largest state in the world, and who in the world can compare to his swordsmanship?"

The little girl listened quietly, her eyes widened, and her well-behaved appearance looked really pleasing.

"When your father practiced swords, no one was optimistic about your father, even their master was even more optimistic about your Uncle Gu, but your father just refused to give up, so he kept working hard, and later, his strength became higher and higher, and the only one who could fight with him was your Uncle Gu."

The little girl looked at the woman and asked, "Mother, is it Daddy or Uncle Gu who is powerful?" ”

"The two of them," the woman chuckled and said, "Let me tell you this, your father has always wanted to defeat your Uncle Gu since he was a child, but every time he fights, he loses." ”

"Even if you lose, your father didn't give up, but reflected on himself, summed up the lessons learned, and then continued to work hard, your father often said that winning or losing in kendo is a common thing, and people who really practice swords, more importantly, they must practice their hearts, light wins and loses and values affection, this is what a swordsman should do, understand?"

The little girl nodded, and said a little unhappily: "I understand the reason, but Hotaru is still a little unhappy." ”

"Why?"

The little girl crossed her hands together and said softly, "Mother didn't tell Ying'er Daddy and Uncle Gu the results of the final competition, is it because Daddy lost?" ”

The woman chuckled, as bright as a sky full of stars blooming in the mountains.

"In the past, your father kept losing, but in that crucial competition, your father really didn't lose."

The little girl immediately became excited and shouted, "Really, mother? Daddy is really so powerful? ”

"That's not it, otherwise how would he marry your mother?" The woman laughed heartily when she thought of that figure, he looked at the girl and continued: "Even though your father lost all the competitions before, he has never lost any competitions since he won that competition, so now your Uncle Gu never mentions the competition." ”

The little girl laughed out loud and said softly, "Daddy is so good, come back in the evening and add chicken legs to him!" I'm going to let my dad teach me how to practice swords! Hey hey ......"

"Hotaru ......"

The woman took the little girl into her arms, rested her chin on her head, and hugged her tightly.

"I knew that my father was so powerful, wouldn't it be okay to just let my father teach my brother swordsmanship, and now my brother went to Qiuhan Villa to learn swords from Uncle Gu, so that Firefly hasn't seen her brother for half a year, Firefly misses her brother so much......"

The woman held the girl's little hand and said softly, "Brother is going to learn skills, Firefly has to be obedient." ”

"But......" The little girl lowered her head and said in a coquettish voice, "But Hotaru really misses her brother so much......"

"Good girl, Hotaru, your brother is coming back soon, and you can see him then."

"Really?!" The little girl immediately turned around, looked at the woman and asked, "When will my brother come back?!" ”

The woman thought for a while and said seriously: "There is still more than a month, at that time, we will start to hold a new kendo conference in Yangzhou, when all the extraordinary teenagers in Kyushu will come, and your brother will definitely come back to participate in the competition." ”

The little girl was so happy at once that she jumped and jumped in the woman's arms.

"Brother is coming back!"

The little girl shouted as she hopped back into the courtyard again, picked up the wooden sword on the ground again, wiped it, and carefully held it in her arms.

"From today on, Firefly will practice swordsmanship well, and when my brother comes back, Firefly will let my brother teach me to practice swords, and Firefly will become the same master and hero as Daddy!"

In the sunset, the little girl danced the wooden sword, just like the figure of the woman next to her who practiced hard in the past.