In the eleventh year of Tianfu, December 24.

The New Year is approaching, Huaiyang City is full of festive atmosphere, everyone has begun to hoard New Year's goods, Lou Qi walked on the way to Aquarius Lane with a resentful face, because the old man gave less and less money, from the beginning of twenty, to the later fifteen, then ten, and now five, but Lou Qi's ability has also become more and more sophisticated, a long-handled knife with flowing water, the knife seems to be a part of Lou Qi's body, even the old man is also Lou Qi's progress Su Jue is amazed.

Lou Qi staggered into the courtyard, like a drunk drunk, he lay on the stone table in the small courtyard, erected by the sweat of ice, but he still refused to stand up straight, because he was cheating, he had done this kind of thing several times, "Ahhh ”

The old man drank tea by himself, as if he hadn't heard what Lou Qi said, but the maid Xiaomei and Yan Bailu covered their mouths and giggled, Su Jingchen stood beside Lou Qi, not knowing whether to laugh or what, he opened his mouth and asked, "Aren't you cold?" ”

Lou Qi was still lying on his stomach and didn't want to get up, he looked at Su Jingchen, and said angrily, "It's cold, but it's better than not getting money." ”

Su Jingchen smiled embarrassedly, Lou Qi has made rapid progress in the past few months, the old man's so-called "life-saving" boxing method Lou Qi has already practiced well, even against the last centurion who is proficient in boxing, Lou Qi will not necessarily lose, and Su Jingchen No matter how hard he practiced, now it is only to the level of "life-saving", although Xiao Bailu always follows behind him and says, "Brother is so powerful!" But sometimes looking at Lou Qi, an inferiority complex still unconsciously swells up in his heart.

"In a few days, you can take your mother over," the old man suddenly walked out of the door and said to Lou Qi, "I have already asked Xiaomei to clean up the room, and we will be more lively when you come over." ”

"Huh?" Lou Qi got up from the table and scratched his head, "I'm afraid that my mother won't agree, and my mother's body is boneless, I'm afraid that the wind won't blow." ”

"Won't you figure it out? Is it mush in your head? The old man glanced at Lou, he was such a big person, this kid still can't learn to think about problems with his brain.

After being silent for a while, the old man said, "In addition, since you choose a long knife, and what I am best at happens to be a long knife, then I will teach you a few tricks of the long knife...... Hero. ”

Lou Qi looked at the old man, and said in his heart, Is this old man's mind broken, obviously the long knife you asked me to choose, okay? The other ones I chose at the time almost didn't kill me, and that hero? What is a hero? Can heroes eat and drink for nothing?

"Using a long knife, there are only two postures of chopping and waving, and what I taught you is only two moves, which I learned from my master, and I want to come to the old man for my whole life, and only this matter has been affirmed by the master," the old man suddenly sighed for no reason, he raised his head and looked at the snowflakes falling above his head, and his thoughts seemed to have returned to a long, long time ago.

The old man suddenly lowered his head and looked at Lou Qi again, his tone changed, he seemed to have become a gentleman who taught and educated people in a private school, and unconsciously became serious, "The name of these two moves is called, open the mountain, and surprise the dragon!" ”

"It took me five years to learn to open the mountain, and I used it all my life to learn the dragon, and until now, I still can't reach the realm that the master said," the old man smiled self-deprecatingly, "If you kid can learn it, then when the old man goes down to see my master, he shouldn't be scolded by the master." ”

"You're afraid of being scolded, aren't you?" Lou Qi muttered quietly, but he was also moved by the moves that the old man said, and the reason was probably that those two moves sounded more ...... Terrible?

The old man walked out of the eaves, stood in the snowy courtyard, and stretched out his hand to Lou Qi, "Give me the knife." ”

"Oh." Lou Qi agreed, handed over the knife, he looked at the old man, not knowing what the old man wanted to do.

The old man took the knife, as if he had suddenly changed a person, he turned the knife in his hand, and then swung it down, hovering the tip of the knife in mid-air, the snow around him was shaken by the momentum of the knife, the old man took a deep breath, did not move, grasped the tail of the knife with his left hand, and held the front end of the handle with his right hand to slash forward, and his target was the stone table.

Lou Qi hurriedly flashed to the side, he looked at the old man, and said in his heart What is wrong with this old man, he used a broken knife to split the stone table, and his brain is broken?

The old man's feet didn't move a step, Su Jingchen didn't know why, if the old man wanted to split the stone table, this posture would limit the power of the knife, if the old man added a run, or jumped up and chopped, the force would definitely be more than doubled. The old man's knife did not stop, and the blade slashed squarely into the center of the stone table, which was the hardest part of the stone table.

This old man is handsome, what is this? Lou Qi looked at the stone table that was not moving, turned around and was about to laugh at the old man, but suddenly there was a loud noise behind him, he turned around, the stone table had been neatly cracked from the middle, and half of one side collapsed.

"This ......" Lou Qi was speechless in shock, Su Jingchen and Yan Bailu also widened their eyes, and Xiaomei was so frightened that she hid behind the pillar, and it took a long time before she poked her head out and asked her, she thought it was the wall that had collapsed.

The old man put away the knife and threw it back to Lou Qi, with an indifferent expression, he raised three fingers and said, "I don't dare to say that the power of the dragon, but this knife can cut out people with my strength in the whole world, and there will never be more than three people." ”

"Master, so you are so powerful?!" Lou Qi looked amazed, and called out a rare master, saying in his heart that this old man didn't show his dew before, but he didn't expect his ability to be so big?

The old man glanced at Lou Lou, "Am I so good at using you?" ”

Lou Qi looked expectant, and the smile on his face became stronger and stronger, so he almost didn't go up and hug the old man's thigh, "Master, then don't hide it, teach me all your skills!" ”

"Nope." The old man refused.

"Why?" Lou Qi cried with a sad face, and said resentfully, "If you don't teach me the skills of hiding the housekeeper, do you want to take it into the coffin?" ”

"You can't learn it now," the old man sighed, "Back then, I also wanted to ascend to the sky in one step and learn the dragon power, and the master didn't stop me, but I haven't been practicing the dragon power like the master for a week, and I feel that something is wrong, I can't say why, I can't use it at all, every time the sword will suddenly break in the middle of the way, like ...... The bridge suddenly broke, and I couldn't cross the river, and I couldn't swing another sword. ”

"Could it be that you don't have enough strength to swing old man?" Lou Qi was rarely serious, he stared at the old man's eyes, and then looked at the old man's thin-looking body, with a worried expression.

The old man turned his hand and slapped the back of Lou Qi's head, "I'll just slap your pasty head to pieces!" Save you all day and be angry with me. ”

"Isn't it because you can't swing a knife because you have little strength?" Lou Qi looked up at the old man and smiled proudly, "You must be thin and weak, if you are like me, you will not be able to move?" ”

The old man slapped him again, "Although I am not as innate with divine power as you, but I was also very strong back then, okay!" How could it not be moved. ”

"Really?" Lou Qi scratched his head.

"Alright, now you can try." The old man suddenly became serious again, and he turned his head to look at Lou Qi, staring at the knife in his hand.

"How do you try?" Lou Qi stood up straight with the knife in his hand, and turned the knife in his hand like an old man, but he couldn't learn anything, but it seemed to be ...... Monkey play? Yan Bailu covered her mouth and tried not to let herself laugh, Su Jingchen touched her head and smiled.

It's been a while since I've been here, Yan Bailu's eating skills are no worse than Su Jingchen and Lou Qi, she has eaten white and fat in the past few months, the yellow and thin Yan Bailu has disappeared, but her smart eyes have not changed, she has mingled with several children of the same age around her, no one knows that she was alone in a dark alley waiting for death to come a long time ago, and now those stinky boys are changing their methods to please her, argued endlessly about who could stand closest to her, and even secretly fought a few times, but still no one was convinced.

But Yan Bailu only treats them as their own little followers, every time Su Jingchen comes to call her home, no matter what she is doing, she must leave without looking back, which makes those little children look resentful every time they see Su Jingchen coming, and they can't wait to rush up and fight with Su Jingchen, but they can't beat it...... And as long as Su Jingchen was going anywhere, Yan Bailu would follow behind him and hold the corners of his clothes tightly, as if he was afraid that he would suddenly abandon himself.

"You learn how to wield a knife first." The old man shook his head at Lou Qi's "monkey play" and sighed, "Remember, the knife position is very important. ”

"Oh......" The second monk Lou Qizhang was puzzled, and said in his heart, what is this knife momentum?

"Okay, you can practice slowly," the old man turned his head to look at Yan Bailu, with a doting smile on his face, and completely loved Yan Bailu as his granddaughter, "Let's go, little Bailu, go buy some New Year's goods with grandpa." ”

Yan Bailu first looked at Su Jingchen, Su Jingchen nodded, and after getting permission, Yan Bailu was overjoyed, approached the old man and said, "Can you buy the peach blossom cake from that pastry shop!" ”

"Of course, of course," the old man smiled and took Yan Bailu's hand, "but you have to eat less, eating too much is not good for your teeth." ”

"I know, I know, grandpa, you're so long-winded."

Watching an old man and a young man walk out of the courtyard gate, Lou Qi waved his fist vigorously at the old man's back, and did not forget to scold, "Why are you so eccentric, a dead old man?" So good to Little White Deer, so mean to me! ”

"Okay, okay," Su Jingchen comforted him, "If you're so cute with the little white deer, maybe people will treat you well." ”

Lou raised his head full of black lines, "Are you comforting me or hurting me?" ”