After entering May, it has entered the height of summer, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter every day.

At this time, the sun was already rising, the sun was strong, and the trees on the roadside were slightly wilting in the sun, knowing the desperate hissing in the shade of the trees.

On the official road leading from Qinghe Town to the county seat of Pheasant County, four fast horses are coming at a rapid pace.

At the head was a middle-aged man, dressed in gray burlap clothes, with an old and dignified face, followed by two soldiers wearing cloth armor on the waist of the tiger-backed bear, and the three horses were bound with bulging luggage, and there were swords hanging next to the saddle.

And in the middle of the three horses was a group of tall maroon horses, and on the horseback sat a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a light blue linen skirt and a hat on her head to block the sun.

The four horses rushed through Qinghe Town like a gust of wind, leaving only a puff of dust, and when they reached a fork in the valley, the girl on the back of the jujube red horse suddenly pulled the reins, and the jujube red horse suddenly let out a neighing hoof and stopped, and the two soldiers behind also quickly reined in the reins.

"Xiaoyue, we must rush to Wancheng before sunset, don't delay!" The middle-aged man who ran in front ran out for more than ten zhang before he reined in his horse and turned around and shouted.

"Uncle Liu, I want to go and get my sword back!" The girl bit her lip and said.

The middle-aged man turned his horse's head and came over and said, "Don't be willful, just a short sword, after returning to Xianyang, I will ask someone to help you build a better one!" ”

"Uncle Liu, it's only twenty miles to Xiaohe Village here, and it takes less than an hour to go back and forth, when I get my sword back and hurry up, I won't miss the time, you just let me go, I will definitely listen to you on the way back to Xianyang!"

The girl seemed to beg, but in fact threatened, the middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his eyebrows a few times and sighed and said: "Okay, let's go and go back quickly, if the young man doesn't give it, you must not be rude and willful, remember your father's words, otherwise I won't be able to help you if you get into trouble!" ”

"Don't worry, I promise not to rob!" The girl nodded happily.

"Let's go, don't waste time!" The middle-aged man was the first to rush into the narrow path leading into the valley, and the girl and the two soldiers quickly followed with their whips, and the four horses disappeared into the rugged mountain road in an instant.

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"Drink a bowl of wine to pee, the man in the mountains loves his sister......"

In the quiet and quiet village of Xiaohe, under the strong sun, two teenagers in ragged clothes are building a pergola out of bamboo.

One of them, wielding a golden dagger in his hand, shouted an extremely vulgar slang song while chopping bamboo.

This song was learned in Chen Xu's favorite martial arts movie "New Dragon Gate Inn", but the lyrics were slightly changed by him to make it more appropriate.

Suddenly, he stopped singing and listened, and then turned his head to look at the mountain road at the entrance of the village.

"Brother Xu, why don't you sing, sing quickly, sing quickly, I'm listening to it!" Niu Dashi couldn't help but shout.

"Shhh Chen Xu said with a frown.

Niu Dashi also quickly stopped what he was doing, and sure enough, he heard the sound of horses' hooves, and said with a hesitant face: "It's not time to collect the field tax, how can someone come to our village on horseback, could it be that Brother Erdan and they have an accident?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, when the people arrive, they will naturally know, you hurry up and inform Uncle Ma!"

"Huh, good!" Niu Dashi dropped the firewood knife and hurriedly ran along the path to the east end of the village.

As the sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer, in less than three minutes, he saw that four fast horses had rushed into the village, and soon stopped in front of Chen Xu's house.

I'm going, how is this little!

Looking at the four people who rode over slowly, especially the girl riding on the back of the jujube red horse, Chen Xu felt a little toothache.

When the girl saw him, she couldn't help but tense her little face, bit her lip tightly, a pair of big eyes shot an aggressive cold light, and slowly walked to a position less than three meters away from Chen Xu and said condescendingly: "You...... Give me back the sword! ”

"Ugh!" Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, raised the short sword in his hand and said, "Are you talking about this sword?" ”

This short sword is exquisitely made, and the bronze used is also the best, and the craftsmen who create it are also exquisite, not only beautiful, but also sharp, and the bamboo is much more refreshing than the wood knife, so these days to build toilets, make furniture and build pergolas are all used as tools, a sword down, the bamboo with the thickness of the arm will be broken.

However, no matter how good the bronze sword is, it is still a bronze weapon, and the strength is not high, and the purpose of this sword is not to be used for fighting, let alone for chopping wood, so after a few days, the edge of this beautifully made short sword has become pitted, so Chen Xu used a whetstone to polish it a few times, the blade has been bent and curved, and the red fine hemp rope wrapped around the hilt of the sword has been broken and scattered, and at this time, it is indiscriminately wrapped with a piece of black and black sackcloth covered with mud. The entire sword has been unrecognizable except for its size and length.

"You are talking nonsense, how can this be my sword!" The girl looked at this sword that was bent and deformed like broken copper and iron, and felt that she had been greatly insulted, and pointed at Chen Xu angrily.

"This is really your sword! There's an inscription on it, don't believe I can read it to you! Chen Xu shrugged his shoulders helplessly, looked at the name of a craftsman engraved on the blade of the sword, and looked at it several times before he could barely recognize the Chinese characters in the official script on it, and then read out a few words Xianyang Ram Xi Zao.

"Satsuki, this is really your sword!" The middle-aged man next to him was also suspicious of this short sword, which was almost impossible to see the shape, but after Chen Xu read out the words on it, he confirmed that Chen Xu was not lying.

The girl was stunned for a moment, her eyes stared directly at the short sword in Chen Xu's hand, and then her little face began to turn white, flames began to rise in her eyes, and the horsewhip in her hand slowly raised, pointing at Chen Xu and gritting her teeth: "What did you do with my sword?" How did it come to be like this? ”

Chen Xu turned his head and pointed to the pergola and the back of the house that was being built and said, "I see that your sword is quite sharp, so I used it to cut bamboo to build a pergola, and I also built a latrine by the way......"

"You...... You...... I'll suck you to death, you shameless man in the mountains! The girlish body trembled, her pale little face began to redden, and the silver tooth clenched the horsewhip in her hand and pulled it down with a whirl.

Chen Xu was startled and quickly dodged, but it was too late, under the strong sun, he could only watch a black shadow slash down at him.

Nima is a gourd scoop, why is it so unreasonable!

Chen Xu could only barely make a defensive move...... Cover your face with your arms.