"Little Joe!" Qu Xia ran down the doorstep and shouted, "It's really you kid! ”

Qiao Cui squatted down, but he was squatting on the courtyard wall, he didn't mean to jump down, he looked at Qu Xia and called out a little timidly: "Uncle Qu, long time no see." ”

"You know it's been a long time since we saw each other?" Qu Xia walked to the base of the wall and stopped, raised his head and said, "Why, your problem of being uncomfortable if you don't stay in a high place hasn't changed?" ”

Qiao Cui grinned: "A lifelong stubborn disease, I'm afraid it will be difficult to eradicate." ”

"What kind of stubborn disease, you can still find a reason, obviously it is a bad habit you have developed early, it is good to steal food when you climb high......" Qu Xia paused when he said this, and then asked: "Is lunch delicious?" Otherwise, you stay, let's have dinner together, and I'll go and prepare, I haven't seen you for years. ”

Putting together a few paragraphs with incoherent meanings, Qiao Cui looked at Qu Xia's old face, and suddenly remembered the experience of coming to Qu Xia's place to eat and drink in the past, and his eyes suddenly became hot.

"Nope." After being silent for a moment, Qiao Cui smiled a little reluctantly and said, "Uncle Qu, I still have something to do with Brother Lin, I'm leaving, I'll come to see you next time!" ”

"Oh......" Qu Xia's eyes showed a hint of amazement, and then said slowly: "Then you should be busy first!" Stay safe. ”

Qiao Cui nodded and stood up without saying anything more. He was about to jump off the wall to leave, but when he turned around, he glanced back at Lin Shan, who was standing in the courtyard, and after hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Lin, why did you come here for this trip?" ”

Lin Shan was silent for a moment before he said, "I can answer you, but not at this place, this time. ”

A hint of clarity appeared in Qiao Cui's eyes, and after a few dry laughs, he finally turned around and left.

……

"Qiao Cui is one of the former Shuangyan in the second group."

For Mo Ye and Jiang Chao's eyes full of doubts. While eating dinner, Lin Shan finally took the initiative to speak.

"Group two?"

After Jiang Chao listened to Lin Shan's explanation, he became more and more puzzled.

For Qiao Cui, Qu Xia, who was sitting at the dinner table, was only very familiar with his appearance and personality, and did not know his position very well, Mo Ye had heard Lin Shan mention the matter of the two groups before, but the concept was also very vague. The two of them knew Qiao Cui inaccurately, but Jiang Chao didn't know anything about it, so he was even more confused.

"Before the emperor entered Beijing, a total of five groups were established. The allocation power of these five groups is directly in the hands of His Majesty, but it does not interfere with the government of the court, and its characteristics are very secretive. Lin Shan stopped here. After glancing at Jiang Chao, he continued: "Because you were still within the scope of camp training before and had not been on a mission, Li Gai didn't tell you these things. In fact, it's normal for him not to say it now, these five groups will be incorporated into the big inner sooner or later, and the original number will naturally not exist at that time. You don't need to know. ”

Jiang Chao hurriedly said: "If it involves forbidden secrets, Jiang Chao doesn't dare to ask more." ”

"It's okay, it's that I'm still immersed in old memories, in fact, you may be in the four groups now, and it's not a big deal to know about the past of your group." Noticing the surprise in Jiang Chao's eyes, Lin Shan smiled slightly. Then he said: "Of the five groups of people back then, His Majesty handed over the first and second groups to me for expansion, and the remaining three groups. In recent years, when he was appointed as the commander of the garrison, two groups were also given one after another. ”

Jiang Chao groaned and said, "I heard a few people in the team say that the emperor, Lord Li and Brother Lin are sworn brothers, and Lord Li also admitted this matter when he drank with me alone. It is rare for a man to encounter such a righteous friend in his life. Jiang Chao couldn't help but be envious. ”

"It's hard to put into words." Lin Shan smiled and didn't say anything about it.

If it weren't for the decay of the previous dynasty. There are not so many suffering people in the world who can't survive, and Li Gai, one of the poor people, will not compete with the tiger and wolf for the life of the winner every day, and practice an iron-clad foundation. Now he may be an ordinary hunter, living his own small life.

If it weren't for the exploitation of military resources, the border guards to which the Wang family belonged would not have survived, and they might not have changed their flag to resist entering Beijing, and they are still stationed far away in the north. Maybe now he has been promoted and returned to Beijing to serve, and he is also a military general of the Zhou Dynasty, which is far from the monarch of Zhao.

As for myself, it may have been a minor accident.

Even if he is still as the fortune teller said, his parents are destined to be weak in numerology, but if he hadn't met that woman, he wouldn't have met Wang Chi at that special time and made friends.

If the world is prosperous and the Ye family's business is going well, the woman should have already found a good husband and a husband and children. He may become an artist in a few years, find an idle errand, and marry an idle wife. In the second half of his life, there will be times when he meets Wang Chi, but most of the encounters at that time are sitting in the corner of the teahouse, and he watches the general's mighty way from a distance, not to mention the wine and joy between brothers.

A qiē seems to be created by the times and forced by troubled times. In those turbulent days, there must have been many brothers with different surnames, but the three of them were the highest among the surviving people.

But the ups and downs in it are gains and losses, how can they be approached in words? Others may not be able to understand it.

Mo Ye on the side listened to the conversation between the two people, and a somewhat strange look appeared in her eyes, but she didn't say anything, just buried her head lower, and the speed of the rice became faster unconsciously.

As for what Lin Shan said, Qu Xia felt that there was nothing new. He wasn't interested in any of the five groups, and now he was able to control his curiosity very well. He didn't know where those people were, but he knew very well that when those guys used to come here often, they were like evil ghosts reincarnated, and the kitchen could never find a whole pot of rice, a basket of steamed buns...... This may also have something to do with their life experience!

Now the old mansion is too quiet, but it makes him miss the busy days before.

……

After eating, Qu Xia took care of the dishes again as usual. The addition of Jiang Chao and Mo Ye in the past few days has made him much more leisurely, but he has become accustomed to busy work, so he feels uncomfortable when he is too idle.

Jiang Chao beckoned a few housekeepers dressed as domestic servants to go outside, not knowing what to do.

Mo Ye circled around the front and back courtyards, and soon returned to the house. It's still early before the time to go to bed, and when I was in Xingjia Village before, this time of eating was always spent in a mutual conversation with Ma An. Now that Ma An is not here, although Mo Ye no longer misses him as much as he did when he first separated, when he thinks of that Uncle Ma, he will still feel lonely in his heart.

Mo Ye, who had just stepped on the doorway, looked at the light that was obliquely reflected on the ground from the study, and she paused before walking over.

Standing at the door of the study, Mo Ye saw Lin Shan sitting at the desk, his eyes drooping slightly, and he fixed himself on the box placed on the table.

"Master." Mo Ye called out first, and then continued to approach. As early as in the afternoon, after Qiao Cui left, the master had checked the box, and there was no shortage of things inside, but now he was still staring at it and was stunned, why?

When she walked to the table, she realized that there was a sword on the table. The standard of that sword was nearly half shorter than that of ordinary sword weapons, and it was even thinner to the extreme, so that when Mo Ye stood at the door just now, his eyes almost ignored it.

When Mo Ye really noticed the sword, the sharpness of the edge almost stinged her eyes.

Mo Ye's gaze shrank back for a moment, then stopped looking at the sword, and raised his gaze just in time to meet Lin Shan's gaze.

Lin Shan looked at Mo Ye's face and stopped talking. He lifted his hand hanging from the side of his chair, and threw a piece of silk cloth on the table casually, covering the tip of the sword, and sighed.

The faint coolness on the sword seemed to have diminished a lot after being covered by that cloth. Mo Ye glanced at the silk cloth, only to know that Lin Shan was wiping her sword, this was the first time she had seen her master do this, and she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

Both swords and kitchen knives have sharp edges, but people unconsciously use kitchen knives to cut food, and swords are used to cut lifeblood.

Listening to Lin Shan's sigh, Mo Ye asked with some fear: "Master, what are you doing with your sword?" ”

"This sword is not mine." Lin Shan noticed the cowardice in Mo Ye's eyes, his face softened, and he said warmly: "A deceased friend's portable sword, I haven't wiped it for a long time. When I saw it, I couldn't help but think of him again. ”

"Oh......" Mo Ye's heart was a little wider, and when he looked at the sword again, there was much more kindness in his heart than just now, "Master has kept it in this box all the time, that uncle must be your very good friend, right?" ”

"Well, he saved my life." Lin Shan's words paused for a moment, "But he gave up himself." ”

Hearing this, Mo Ye's hand hanging down his sleeve tightened.

"It has been said that the eyes of a child can see the soul attached to things." Lin Shan suddenly changed the topic, held the sword on the table in his hand, raised the blade of the sword and pulled half of the sword flower. His eyes fell on the blade of the sword that trembled slightly, and he asked again, "Ye'er, what can you see on this sword?" ”

Mo Ye thought for a while and shook his head and said, "I can't see anything other than feeling its sharpness." It's just that when I saw it for the first time, I thought it was a little intoxicating, but I think I'll get used to it after a few more looks. ”

"Well, Qin has a heart and a sword, and what you see and feel is normal." Lin Shan still held the sword as he spoke, and did not put it down. After staring at the blade of the sword for a moment, he suddenly spoke: "But the owner of this sword has always felt that there are many souls living on his sword, and they are all the undead under his sword. So, as he killed more and more people, he felt that the sword was getting heavier and heavier. ”

Mo Ye's eyes contracted for a moment, and he lost his voice: "Has this sword killed many people?" ”

Lin Shan nodded, "Regardless of the broken siblings, what can be counted is a total of seventy-seven lives." ”

Mo Ye gasped, only to feel a cool air surging up from the soles of her feet, she calmed down, and asked again, "Why did you kill so many people?" ”