The torches on the stone pillars smoked, and the pine oil from the boiling soup fell down one by one, dripping onto the damp and rotten stone slabs, giving off a pungent smell. The big firebird retracted its wings and shrank in the dark corner, its huge body was like a desolate ancient beast, and its red eyes were as red as blood, but it looked at Yu Lie innocently. "Coo," it cried pitifully, and pushed the wolf corpse under its paws in the direction of Yu Lie.

Angry and amused, Yu Lie walked up to it, stretched out his hand, and the big firebird lay down and made him pat it on the head. A man and a bird looked at each other quietly in this dim, blood-soaked room.

The heavy footsteps outside the house have disappeared, Zi Che Yu and Xing Luo have left, before leaving, Zi Che Yu took away the old wine, Xing Luo swept away the remaining roast wolf legs with a red face, under the known situation, both of them can still maintain their due composure, which makes Yu Lie very satisfied, as if it is Xing Luo, this young recruit is worthy of being a hero, given time, the hero does not dare to say, but he must be an outstanding character.

"Immortal hum, immortal hum ......"

The sound of the piano came at this time, intermittently, as if the person playing the piano was trying the strings, Yu Lie stroked the thick and hard feathers of the big firebird, and loved the sharpness like an arrow, the big firebird lay on the wolf corpse, stretched its neck and arched up, as if scratching Yu Lie's palm. It's like a naughty boy who has done something wrong, and is deliberately trying to curry favor, even though it doesn't know what it's doing wrong. Yu Lie smiled, scratched the fluff on its neck with his hand, and said, "It has nothing to do with you, it's me who was too careless." ”

"Goo." The big firebird screamed aggrievedly, but opened its wings comfortably, and its body was as hard as gold and iron, except for a piece of soft hair under its neck.

The tuner is still trying the piano, and the sound is quite crisp and pleasant, as if water droplets are falling into a clear water pool. Yu Lie rubbed the big firebird's huge head, took the sword from the wall, and strode outside the house. As far as the eye can see, there are no stars in the sky, only a hooked moon hanging obliquely in the dark galaxy, under the soft moonlight, the snow peak mountain is hazy, the fortress is as quiet as water, only the sound of the piano is tinkling dong.

The torches on the turret swayed in the wind, and the stone giant cast a huge shadow that enveloped the entire fortress in it, obscuring even the misty moonlight in the sky. A dozen or so armor soldiers were patrolling along the stone wall, several young soldiers were gathered around the fire, listening to Cai Xuan's piano, and a few others were sorting out stacks of books by the firelight next to the carriage, and the old man stood at the door, caressing his long white beard, staring at Yu Lie.

Yu Lie saluted him.

The old man smiled and returned the salute, but beckoned to Yu Lie.

Yu Lie walked towards the old man, the old man was very majestic, with broad shoulders and broad back, even half a head taller than Yu Lie, the light in the room came out from behind him, reflecting his shadow on the ground, Yu Lie walked in his shadow. A night wind blew, and the slave trader tightened his sword at his waist.

The old man smiled: "Meeting is fate, and come with me to drink a cup." As he spoke, he turned and walked into the stone chamber, where he was so tall that he had to bow his head when he crossed the threshold.

Yu Lie kept a distance of seven steps from the old man, and somehow, he always felt that the wise old man was not as gentle and thick as he appeared. Maybe it's because the old man also carries a sword on his waist, the sword is extremely long, I'm afraid that there are not two feet seven or eight, and the hilt of the sword is inlaid with jade and jade, the gentleman is like jade, and the gentleman is like bamboo. Nowadays, Zhongzhou is still martial and reverent, and the sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, so both literati and warriors like to hang a sword around their waists.

The stone room is quite narrow, no more than ten steps in length and width, but it is very clean, there is a black peach dwarf case in the center, and the bronze goose fish lamp on the case spits out a non-blazing light, illuminating the room in a bright yellow. In front of and behind the case, there are half-new and half-old green reed mats, there is wine but no meat on the case, and the Yanta orchid incense burner is blowing a few aromas. These things were obviously brought by the old man himself, and the stone fortress was so poor that only the stones and the moon in the sky were left, and a group of hungry robbers, but there were no such things that were quite exquisite.

The old man walked to the back of the desk and sat down, took off the sword with his hand, put it horizontally on the desk, and beckoned to Yu Lie again: "Come and sit down, drink a cup with me." As he spoke, he unsealed the mud on the wine jar, and the cold aroma of wine instantly overflowed the room.

Wine.

Yu Lie sniffed it and knew that it was good wine, walked to the old man and sat down, picked up the wine bowl on the table, and then poured the wine from the old man.

The old man looked at Yu Lie with a smile while pouring wine, and there was a faint meaning in his eyes that he could see through the prosperity of the world. Yu Lie was looking at the sword that the old man placed on the table. After the old man finished pouring the wine, he poured another cup for himself, took a sip of the wine bowl, his face was a little flushed, and he smiled: "I don't know my brother's surname?" ”

"Xue Lie, a native of Longshan in Yan Kingdom, has been doing business all year round, and is now going to Jimo, the capital of Qi State." Yu Lie blurted out subconsciously, but his eyes were still looking at the sword, and the expression on his face was serious and light. Slave traders are slave traders, and they maintain a high and natural vigilance at all times. Perhaps, even if someone asked him in a dream, he would answer like this.

The old man smiled meaningfully, put down the wine bowl, and pushed the sword in front of Yu Lie: "If you like it, you might as well take a look at it." ”

"In this way, Xue Lie is disrespectful."

The slave trader has never been a hypocritical person, he did not have the slightest prevarication, he took the sword in his hand, smiled at the old man, and then pulled out the sword obliquely at the old man, and suddenly, the candlelight penetrated the cold edge, and a tactful glow flowed on the blade of the sword, the glow was like a river torrent, reflecting Yu Lie's face, and he knew that it was extremely sharp without trying the edge, however, Yu Lie didn't care about its sharpness, his eyes were fixed on the sword.

The old man watched Yu Lie's expression change, and said with a smile: "This sword is called Eagle Evil, and it is forged by Ou Xie, a swordsmith in the south of the Great River. In the base, the reputation of the eagle evil and the tiger evil is the strongest, the eagle evil and the tiger evil are born together, and they are male and female double swords. Little brother, guess whether this sword is male or female? ”

"Female!" Yu Lie returned the sword to the sheath inch by inch, the style of this sword is exactly the same as the Tiger Evil Sword, but the Tiger Evil Sword does not have such a gorgeous and fancy decoration as it, you don't have to guess to know that the Tiger Evil must be a male sword.

"Oh, little brother is so sure, could it be that he has ever seen a male sword and tiger evil?" The old man picked up the wine bowl, took a sip, and looked at Yu Lie for a long time.

Yu Lie put the sword back in its original position, raised the wine bowl and drank it in one gulp, and said with a smile: "The elder said that he was joking, Xue Lie just guessed casually, and he had never seen the tiger evil sword. Now that the wine has been drunk and the sword has been read, it is late at night, so Xue Lie will resign. As he spoke, he saluted the old man, got up and left, walked to the door, but turned his head again, looked at the old man who was sitting like a mountain, and said in a deep voice: "The night moon is lonely and cold, tomorrow is a sunny day, the elder should rest early, and he can set off after he has enough spirits." The last four words, biting quite hard, finished speaking, and walked out of the house without looking back.

"Wait."

Yu Lie's front foot was about to cross the threshold, and the old man's indifferent voice sounded behind him, and the slave trader turned around, only to see the old man smiling slightly, his eyes flashing with indescribable light, so he listened to him: "Thank you little brother for your kindness, the evil of the wicked, the evil in the heart, the good in the heart, the evil in the heart, the evil in the good, the evil in the good, the good in the good, the good in the good, the evil in the good, the good in the good, the evil in the good, the good in the good, the evil in the good, the good in the good, the good in the good, the evil in the good, the good in the good, the good in the good, the evil in the good, the good It's just that the old man has a word for the little brother. ”

Yu Lie thought to himself, I have already warned you, if you must insist on going your own way, to treat evil with good, and to seek your own death, then it is no wonder that I am not guilty, at the moment, I am a little impatient: "Elder, but it is okay to speak." ”

The old man said with a smile: "A few days ago, passing through the city of Yanguo Zhong, the old man had heard that there was a divine bird in Yanjing City, which was raised by the tiger of Yanjing, a disciple of General Yan, and it was heard that the bird spread its wings and frightened the clouds, and the king of Beidi was killed under its mouth. According to the old man, it is somewhat similar to the little brother's bird. If the little brother doesn't want people to misunderstand, why don't you temporarily send the bird next to him away? It is necessary to know that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill. ”

"Thank you." The slave trader took a long breath and gave the old man a deep squeeze.

The old man returned the salute.

……

Coming out of the old man's room, Yu Lie's heart seemed to be pressed with a layer of dark clouds, a thousand cares, all careful, but only forgot the big firebird, in recent years, it followed himself on the expedition, in the source of the glacier is a mouth pecked the king of Beidi's heavenly spirit cover, yes, Yanjing City is well known to passers-by, and it has been repeatedly heard of outside Yanjing City. And he went to the fortress with such an obvious sign. Isn't that dark under the lights? Can't see your own shadow? Yu Lie, Yu Lie, what a fool!

Thinking, thinking, Yu Lie's brows furrowed tightly, pressed the sword on his waist, and hurriedly walked towards his room, he thought to himself, I have to let the big firebird go back to Yanjing, don't follow me again. Luck is often the same path as death.

"Hey!"

At this time, a petite figure suddenly burst out, Yu Lie was walking quickly, and she couldn't stop her steps for a while, and the person couldn't hold her feet at all, her eyes widened, and she bumped into her in a daze.

"Is that you?"

"Yes, it's me."

Xiaochan blinked her big eyes and looked up at Yu Lie with a delicate little face, she didn't come back to her senses in a daze, and Yu Lie was holding her waist and staring at her with a frown. Suddenly, the two of them came back to their senses, and the delicate little maid exclaimed "ah", struggling like a frightened little rabbit. However, the slave trader was infinitely powerful, and he was afraid that she would fall, and his right hand was tightly wrapped around her little waist, and she struggled a few times, where could she break free, her face was crimson with shame, and her mouth screamed: "Let go of me, you let go of me quickly." ”

Who knows, it's okay that she didn't scream, but this cry immediately attracted the attention of the group of scholars who were listening to the piano by the fire, and those scholars turned their heads to look at the two of them, and they were also stunned by the scene in front of them.

And the sound of the piano stopped abruptly at this moment.

The slave trader was stunned, suddenly let go of his right hand, and with a "snap" sound, Xiaochan fell straight to the ground, and fell firmly, she stared at Yu Lie, as if she was blinded by this blow, and after a long time, she got up from the ground quietly, turned around and ran into the darkness, and cried.

Hook the moon and flow, everything is unfavorable.

Yu Lie stood under the stone giant, and the hooked moon in the sky was like the half-squinted eyes of the great god Haotian, with the charm of scrutiny and sneering.