Jing Yuluo shook his head and laughed: "Brother Xian, the name of the sword is engraved on the sword, and anyone with a little common sense can guess who your father-in-law is." I'm a little tricky and can bluff you so easily. Ling Zun was actually relieved that you ran out of the mountain alone, which is not counted, and it is really bizarre to rest assured that he will hand over his sword to you. ”

Liang Tiehan was still puzzled: "However, my father has been living in seclusion in Yanshan for seventeen years. ”

Jing Yuluo said: "Ou Yezi has been dead for two thousand years, but who doesn't know Zhan Lu and fish intestines today; Not to mention the Xuanyuan Sword four thousand years ago. ”

"This ...... Can this be compared? ”

"Actually, even without this inscription, I can still see some clues." Jing Yuluo said, his eyes did not take off the long sword in his hand for a moment.

"This sword is so beautiful, like a god descending from the heavens, and yet so contradictory, I have never seen a sword with a more complex temperament. The streamline is gentle, but the edge is exposed, and the iron is sharpened like mud; Narrow blade and thin heart, but generous, heavy and solid; The sword is like a mirror, soaked in blood but not stained; The inscription is deep and golden, and bloodthirsty. Cold as ice, but blazing; Restrained and aggressive, gentle and cruel. Man is like his sword, and his sword is like his man. Facing this sword, it seems that he is facing the master who shook the world and swept through the United States - a personable, handsome and charming amorous swordsman, and at the same time, he is also a ruthless, cruel, and vicious murderer. As soon as this sword came out, the millions of troops were terrified, and the heroes of the world could not compete. It's a pity that the evil desire is too heavy, and it can eliminate violence but not peace; is to cut off the evil in the world, but in the end it is inevitable to lose to one's own pride and vulnerability; I'm afraid that one day, this sword will break without a fight. ”

Liang Tiehan was terrified when he heard it, and he didn't know what was going on at all.

"Well...... Brother Jing, are you kidding? ”

Jing Yuluo stopped laughing, retracted, stared at the inscription on the sword again, and read it softly:

"Kindness is like water, and the sword is in the autumn wind."

He put the sword back into its scabbard, returned it to Liang Tiehan, and sighed:

"Brother Xian, the great name of Lingzun, I have been like thunder since I was a child when I learned swords. It's just that this thunderous name may not necessarily be a good name, which you must have experienced after five years of travel. I don't care what kind of person your stepfather is; After all, he has been in seclusion for seventeen years, and he has never had anything to do with me. No matter how heinous he is, you are a kind and honest person by nature, completely unforgiving, and there is a world of difference from the legendary him. I can't imagine how you father and son have known each other over the years. But one thing I am sure of is this: the autumn wind has never been your sword, and it will never be your sword. Although you hold him now, sooner or later, he will leave you and return to the one to whom he truly belongs. ”

Liang Tiehan nodded and said, "My father-in-law said that this sword was just lent to me. When I get home, I'll give it back to him. My task is to ensure that people are in the sword and that the sword is not separated. This is also the vow I made before leaving, in front of my godfather, before the spirit of my godmother. Sooner or later, the sword will still have to be returned to the father-in-law. ”

Jing Yuluo said lightly: "I only said that the person he really belonged to, not that person must be your father-in-law in the future." ”

Liang Tiehan was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Jing Yuluo suddenly realized something, stood up suddenly, poked his head out of the window, and looked down the street below.

"It's strange, it's almost time, why hasn't there been any movement?"

It was almost noon, and it was time for the execution in the notice. Sanshan Street is the only way from Jinyiwei Prison to the Xishi Execution Ground. According to common sense, at this time, the officers and soldiers should have withdrawn from the bazaar and sealed the intersection. However, at a glance, the streets were still full of traffic, and there was not a single official to be seen, and there was not the slightest sign of imminent execution.

"It can't be any other way, is it?" Liang Tiehan also stood up and looked down the street with him, asking uneasily.

Jing Yuluo sat down, pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice:

"Presumably when I inquired about the news of Jinyiwei two days ago, I leaked the news. They temporarily changed the time and place. Now it's in trouble. ”

Liang Tiehan only felt that his mind was blank, he had no idea, and looked at Jing Yuluo blankly.

"That'...... Now what? ”

"There are only two possibilities." Jing Yuluo calmly analyzed: "One, the execution is changed to Nanshi. The other is changed to the Drum Tower. There are only four places in the capital: West Market, South Market, Drum Tower and Noon Gate. At noon, only the court officials who were pushed out of the palace were executed. Ordinary people like them can only be beheaded in the downtown area. In terms of time, if the execution time is advanced, it is impossible for us to have no movement here, and no matter where the execution is carried out, there will be people with good deeds running to tell each other, attracting the people of the whole city to watch. If the time is delayed, they are again at risk of leaking. I can conclude that the time of the execution was not changed, but at noon, but the location was changed so that we were caught off guard. If it is changed to Nanshi, from Jinyiwei Prison to the execution ground, Sanshan Street is still the only way to go. This location, it now seems, can only be the Drum Tower. ”

He jumped to his feet and grabbed the burden and sword from the table.

"Hurry up; It's too late! ”

The two of them rushed out of the private room, jumped down the stairs, rushed out of the restaurant in a blink of an eye, and ran out into the street. Jing Yuluo's analysis is not bad at all; As soon as they rushed into the street, they heard someone shouting in the distance:

"The Drum Tower has killed people! Let's go and see—"

Ancient and modern reason, good deeds never lack appeal. In an instant, Liang Tiehan found himself and Jing Yuluo together, mixed with the powerful flow of people, rushing towards the direction of the Drum Tower Law Field together; Even if there are people who don't want to go, it is impossible to get out of this flow of people at this moment.

Drum tower fork. The onlookers had already blocked the area around the court. On the high platform, there are five people in a family: the man in charge, his wife, and an old man; Two children - a girl in the prime of cardamom, and a boy about ten years old. All five people had wooden plaques tied to their backs, and a chopping word was clearly written in the red circle at the top of the wooden plaque.

The girl who was about to be executed had a beautiful goose egg face, brown skin, peugeot features, and big black eyes full of desperate fear, and watched as the three axemen brought their parents and grandfather to the stage and pulled out the wooden signs behind them. She turned her head and saw her brother beside her with his eyes wide open, motionless looking at his loved one who was about to fall to the ground. The warden sat high in the back, looking majestically at everything on and off the stage.

A small Wrigley was silently thrown onto the stage. The flash of the knife was particularly dazzling. A piece of crimson splashed everywhere, a little splashed on the girl's face, warm and warm. The father and grandfather in front of him fell like three pockets, and their shoulders were empty, only the crimson things were still gushing outward in puddles. The girl had no idea, she just felt a paralysis on her body and fell down. The crowd of onlookers in the audience looked at everything on the stage blankly, and the white faces couldn't see what expressions they were. The execution ground was extremely quiet, hundreds of people, three heads fell to the ground, blood gurgled out of a red patch the size of the bowl—everything was silent.

Someone picked the girl up and poured a scoop of cold water on her face. She came to her senses and looked at the still crowd watching the execution; As if a ghost had sent a god, she suddenly remembered once again that a year ago, the young man with a purple face, sincere eyes, and an upright face, whispered in her ear through the iron fence of the cell, word by word, all clearly sounded in her ears at this moment:

"With me here, don't worry; I'll always figure it out. If you really can't do it, even if you rob the prison, I will also save you. ”

Where did he go? Has he come to rob the prison? Or did he really come, just didn't work out, and if so, what is he doing now?

She has always held on to this hope and this belief for a year; What now? In a moment, her father and grandfather were already separated from her. She and her brother were both brought to the stage by the axeman, and her heart became a blank, no sadness, no despair, no hope, nothing she could feel, only waiting, waiting with all her heart.

The axemen removed the wooden signs behind the two children, and the machetes were raised high. In the dead silence of the execution ground, all life was waiting for the muffled sound of the landing and the gushing torrent.

The knife fell hard. Suddenly, there was a piercing crash, followed by a terrible scream overhead; The knife bounced out of the hands of the two axemen, slashing into the axiemen's own abdomen. The girl looked up in horror, and two masked men leaped out of the crowd of onlookers, jumped onto the torture platform, and the ropes on their bodies were loosened by a gust of wind in their ears. The younger brother also loosened his tie at the same time, and the wooden sign behind him fell to the table with a snap. Before she could see what was going on, several of the jailers who rushed up had already fallen with their swords. The crowd of onlookers dispersed in an uproar, screaming, and running in panic, and the flowing water leaked in an instant.

Liang Tiehan grabbed the girl and the little brother with one hand, jumped off the execution platform, and killed the jailers who kept surrounding him with the other hand. There was chaos around him, and he couldn't see where Jing Yuluo was. The government was obviously prepared, and in the blink of an eye, a large number of pro-troops were outflanked from all directions. Liang Tiehan cut down the last two jailers, looked at the pro-army rushing over, and was looking for a way to retreat, when two horses suddenly jumped in front of him, and Jing Yuluo shouted on the horse:

"Come up!"

It turned out that he had robbed the warden of the horse. Liang Tiehan grabbed the two sisters and brothers, jumped on another horse, protected the sisters and brothers in front of him, and followed Jing Yuluo to break out. The pro-army is a well-trained army, which is far different from the average jailer patrol. Seeing that the two of them were strong in martial arts, they grabbed their mounts again, immediately changed their spears, made a siege, trapped the two horses, and could not advance half a step. The two of them only had swords in their hands, but they had to have a large number of pro-troops, cut off a batch of spears in front of them, and immediately replaced another group of soldiers to attack, and they were about to be trapped to death. Jing Yuluo opened the package he brought with him, took out two jet-black round balls, and shouted to Liang Tiehan:

"Learn a little!"

He picked up a ball and slammed it against a black oppressive pro-army in the distance ahead, and then another. There were two deafening loud noises, the smoke dispersed, and the violent impact shook the horse under the crotch in panic and jumped up. The girl held her younger brother tightly in her arms, Liang Tiehan's arm tightened around her, her other hand firmly grasped the reins, and her legs clamped the horse's back so that she was not thrown off. When he sat down, he found that the soldiers in front of him had been killed and wounded, and the road had been cleared. Jing Yuluo got two thunderballs out of nowhere; It turned out that the treasure hidden in his package was this thing. Liang Tiehan was not ambiguous, and when he saw Lu Qing, he kicked the horse's belly and rushed forward violently. The soldiers who stopped were knocked down by their horses and trampled over them. The pro-army behind saw them break through the encirclement and rushed out, and chased after them. A cold wind whistling in their ears flew in their ears, and the soldiers began to fire arrows. Dense arrows rushed over, Liang Tiehan swung his sword to block the rain of arrows, while riding his horse hard, galloping along Gulou Street, and rushing towards Jinchuan Gate. Jing Yuluo followed closely behind him.

From a distance, I saw that the Jinchuan Gate was still open, and the people were going in and out as usual, and only a few soldiers were there to investigate. Obviously, the news of someone robbing the Dharma Farm has not yet arrived. Liang Tiehan stabbed the horse's buttocks with his sword, and the horse went crazy and went straight to the city gate. Before the guards at the gate could intercept him, he had already rushed out of the city, and soon he left the capital far behind.

There was no more sound of horses' hooves behind him; Jing Yuluo didn't follow. Liang Tiehan didn't dare to stop; Brother Jing repeatedly told himself that he would definitely not leave the capital, and asked Liang Tiehan to just hurry up, cross the river as soon as possible and escape for his life, and leave him alone. Liang Tiehan continued to run and soon came to the riverside; Sure enough, everything was as well arranged, and a small ferry boat was already waiting by the river, with a strip of blue cloth tied to the bow. When the boatman saw him galloping towards him, he did not ask a word, but helped them lead the boat to the boat, propped them off the shore, and soon crossed the middle of the river. From a distance, I saw officers and soldiers chasing them to the shore, looking at the boat that was speeding away, and scolded and was helpless. Liang Tiehan's heart was always hanging high. The two children just hid behind him, clutching at the hem of his clothes all the way, trembling all the way.

The boatman sent them to the other side, but without saying a word or asking for money, he went away. Liang Tiehan didn't dare to delay, and took the two frightened children on the horse to continue to flee for their lives. Jing Yuluo said before that when robbing the law field, the horses of the officials and soldiers had to be robbed to facilitate escape; However, as soon as he left the city, he immediately abandoned his horse; Because every official horse has a record, it can only be used for a while, not for more than a day, otherwise the crossing will be arrested and brought to justice. He rode to a village and bought a horse from the villagers with no characteristics to replace it with and continue on his journey. However, horses without features also have a big drawback, which is that they do not run fast. Within a few days, he found that everywhere he went, he had set up a checklist for a masked robber and two escaped young criminals. He had no choice but to take his sister and brother around the city, taking the small road, and did not dare to stay in other people's homes, so he had to sleep in the wilderness. It took two months to go all the way to Beiping.

This Beiping is the domain of Zhu Di, the king of Yan; Liang Tiehan came out of Yanshan, and when he was a child, he followed the patriarch to play in Beiping City, knowing that King Yan governed his domain in an orderly manner, and it was a stable and prosperous atmosphere from the inside out; And the army under King Yan is also famous for its strict military discipline and bravery. He didn't dare to make a mistake on the territory of Zhu Di, the king of Yan; However, there is one person in the city of Peiping who may be able to help him. After thinking about it, he hid his sister and brother in a deserted earth temple outside the city and entered the city alone.

The time was in the cold winter of the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu. The wax moon has entered. In his memory, he has been to this Beiping City four times, each time it is close to the New Year, and at the same time as now, the patriarch uncle came to this city to buy New Year's goods, and at the same time visited an old acquaintance who lived here. Since his father-in-law retired and returned to his hometown, he never came out of the mountain; The third uncle never came to Beiping. He could only follow the uncle out, and also went to the old acquaintance's house to live for two days, buy New Year's goods in the market, eat Laba porridge, and then go back to Yanshan for the New Year. When he was eighteen years old, that is, five years ago, he left Yanshan and went outside to explore the world alone, looking for his enemies, and the first stop was the mansion of the old man in Beiping. Now, he couldn't remember how the road went, but fortunately, he still remembered the name of the man, so he inquired all the way and found Yao's mansion.

He explained his identity, and was invited to the door and taken to his master's yard. Soon, an old man with a thin face and gray hair greeted him.

"It's iron-cold; You're back? ”

"Uncle Yao, are you okay?"

The owner's name is Yao Biao, who works in the Yanwang Mansion, and is also a figure with a head and a face in this Beiping City. Hearing that Liang Tiehan still called himself as before, he smiled happily:

"I'm fine; How have you been in the past five years, have you taken revenge? ”

"It's been reported, I'm worried about Uncle Lao."

"That's good," Yao Biao said with a smile: "You kid has a good heart, staying outside for a long time is not suitable for you; The revenge has been avenged, and it is time to hurry home. You're here just in time today, and your uncle is here with me. You're finally back together. ”

Liang Tiehan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Really? Uncle here? ”

"No, it's the New Year. You didn't come to see me for five years. Your uncle still comes to see me every year. Today is a big day, your uncle and sister are at my house, and you are back, we have to have a good reunion. I'm going to ask someone to clean up another upper room and come out, and we'll finally get together again, and you're going to stay with me for a few more days this time. Tonight, let's get drunk. ”

"Uncle Yao, don't be so polite, I-I've already arranged a place to live, I can't disturb you, and I still have important things on my business, so I can't stay too long-"

Yao Biao raised his hand to stop him: "What are you talking about?" If you come to Beiping, where can you live if you don't live in my house? In front of me and me, you still see each other like this? Don't say anything, just listen to my arrangement. - Yao Gui, you personally go to the guest house to arrange more rooms to come out, so that the three of them can live together; It should be cleaned carefully, and the stove will be thriving. I'm going to invite my wife again, and she's going to have to take charge of it herself tonight." Take out all the best wines we have in the cellar. Tell the three little masters that they don't need to read today, and they all come to accompany the guests. Then go to the shop and find the eldest and second child back. Today, there is a reunion banquet at home, and the shop is handed over to the people to greet them. ”