The hut was full of bones, except for a wooden table with a barrel on top of it, and the only two things in the whole room were made of wood, and the rest were all bones, and in the barrel were arrows made of bones. The four walls of the room are hung with skulls of various animals, including human skulls, and the skulls of various animals are neatly lined all over the walls. The owner was sitting on the skull of a man with a sharp knife sharpening a leg bone, which was much shorter than an adult's thigh bone, the thigh bone of a child. The door was suddenly pushed open, and the owner of the house wore a necklace made of dog's teeth around his neck, looking very clean but looking uncomfortable, and his eyes were extremely sharp, when his eyes swept over Ma Hong's face. Ma Hong felt as if his face had been slashed by a sharp knife, cold and a little painful.

"Xu Qing, why did you suddenly bring someone to see me." The master spoke slowly, obviously speaking very slowly, but his voice was very sharp, and the voice seemed to be able to tear open one wound after another in his ear, which made people extremely uncomfortable.

Xu Qing is Ma San's previous name, and Ma San is the cousin of Xu Liu, the owner of this house. Ma San smiled and said, "Brother, this is my master, Nanyang Juncheng." ”

Xu Liu glanced at Ma Hong again, and said slowly: "I don't care who he is, just don't disturb me." ”

Ma San smiled awkwardly at Ma Hong and said, "Childe, my cousin has this temper, don't be surprised." ”

Ma Hong said: "Did you just take me to see your cousin who likes bones?" Or look at the bones made by this cousin of yours? ”

Ma San smiled: "I brought my son to see my cousin's hand." ”

Ma Hong asked, "Hand? ”

Ma San said: "My cousin has a pair of skillful hands, as long as he has a knife in his hand, he can carve exquisite crafts for you, but five years ago, my cousin suddenly changed his temperament and likes to play with bones......"

Xu Liuleng snorted and said, "Aren't the bones beautiful?" You laymen, how do you know the true beauty? ”

Ma Hong smiled and said, "It's not that the bones aren't beautiful, but because your hands don't make it a beauty that attracts us." ”

Xu Liuleng snorted, stood up and walked towards Ma Hong, holding a knife carved into bones in his slender and beautiful right hand. Ma San hurriedly stood in front of Ma Hong and said, "Brother, what are you going to do?" ”

Xu Liuhan said, "Don't worry, I just want to discuss with your master what is truly beautiful." ”

"Is it really beautiful?" Ma Hong smiled hesitantly, pulled out the sword tied to his waist with his right hand, and pressed the sword against Xu Liu's throat with a smile and continued: "Your hand is beautiful, but do I want to cut him off?" Of course you can't cut it down, and if you cut it down, you won't be able to show your craft. These hands of yours can be used not only to carve, but also to kill, what is the point of you carving the bones of dead people all the time? Why don't you follow me, follow me, and I'll let you carve living people, carve living people, how about it? ”

Xu Liu glared at Ma Hong angrily and shouted a little frantically, "Do you think I haven't carved a living person?" Have I ever made a plum blossom grow in the throat of thirty-seven robbers overnight, and you say that is beautiful? ”

Ma Hong nodded and smiled: "I think about that scene, it is indeed beautiful, the robbers covered their throats and wanted to cry but couldn't make a sound, blood was swaying wantonly, life was passing, it was indeed beautiful." ”

Xu Liuleng snorted and slowly used the knife in his hand to resist Ma Hong's sword, wanting to remove Ma Hong's sword, whether it was a madman or a fool, it would always feel uncomfortable to be held by the sword against his neck, but Ma Hong pushed the sword forward slightly, and the sharp sword made Xu Liu's throat overflow with blood.

"You don't like the living, you don't like the dead, you just like the time when the living become dead, and you think it's the most beautiful time, right?" Ma Hong curled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.

Xu Liu smiled, a little hideous, he smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's a pair of eyes!" I saw my true nature at a glance. ”

Ma Hong smiled and said: "Then you will surrender to me, I will let your knife swing the most beautiful arc, and I will let you enjoy the beauty of the world." Whether it is a pretty face like a peony in the morning sun, or a strong arm like a poplar at noon, or a waist like a soft willow branch, you can admire and cut off these unscrupulously, can you be tempted? ”

Xu Liu smiled, laughing even more hideously, and he said to Ma Hong: "You seem to be very funny." ”

Xu Liu swallowed and spat when he said this, Ma Hong withdrew the sword of the plot, and then quietly looked at Xu Liu and asked, "Then are you willing to follow me and serve me as your lord." ”

Xu Liudi smiled hideously, took a step back, and knelt on the ground to buckle his head to Ma Hong.

In the middle of the night, a fire suddenly broke out in Xu Liu's house, and the fire was fierce, and the fire burned everything clean, including the smell of rotting corpses. By the early morning of the next day, the crow's favorite house was in ruins. Xu Liu's neighbors were only slightly surprised and went on with their lives as if nothing had happened, and in their eyes, it was not strange that Xu Liu, a madman, committed suicide by setting himself on fire.

The name Xu Liu disappeared this night, and he changed his name to Li Yu to follow Ma Hong, only carrying a few knives that never left his body, and became Ma Hong's secret power. He has more slender and beautiful hands than most women in the world, his knife is fast and silent, and his body always exudes the smell of decay.

"Childe, don't you think that person is abnormal? Even if that person is Ma San's cousin, his subordinates think that Childe should not use him, that person is too dangerous. Ma Er poured a cup of tea for Ma Hong, and finally couldn't help but speak.

Ma Er was not a talkative person, if he spoke, it would mean that he really felt that Li Yu was very dangerous. Ma Hong smiled slightly: "Isn't there a shortage of people now?" I'm afraid that man's martial arts are extremely high, and he can just use it for me. ”

Ma Er stopped talking, because he knew that what Childe had decided, it was impossible for him to change it.

Ma Hong gave Li Wu sixty orphans and asked him to train them in swordsmanship, Ma Hong clearly knew what he needed now, and he needed to cultivate the power of the dark. However, Li Wu only picked two boys and one girl from them, and the rest were rejected, and Li Wu also named the organization he created as Thorn Plum. And the rest of the orphans were secretly trained by Ma San, and they will all become Ma Hong's secret power.

After Ma Hong woke up last night, he suddenly found that he had a piece of paper in front of his bedside, and five words were written on the paper: See you at Liu Ji Restaurant.

What kind of person can sneak into Ma Hong's bedroom quietly and put a piece of paper at the head of Ma Hong's bed, if such a person wants to kill Ma Hong, it is simply easy. Ma Hong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, it seemed that he still had to transfer Li Mo over to protect himself. Such a dangerous person should not have been seen, but it happened that Ma Hong knew the handwriting, because this person had written a word in Ma Liang's tavern: thick.

So Ma Hong went to see the writer alone. As soon as Ma Hong arrived at the tavern, he was led to a private room by the shopkeeper, which was just a room blocked by a bamboo curtain, and then Ma Hong saw Shangguan Qian.

Shangguan Qian was holding wine in his mouth when he saw Ma Hong, and after he swallowed the wine in his mouth, he said slowly: "What, didn't you expect us to meet again?" ”

After Shangguan Qian finished speaking, he took another sip of wine, and he didn't swallow it, but just put the wine in his mouth and waited for Ma Hong to speak.

Ma Hong sat down on the seat opposite Shangguan Qian, poured himself three glasses of wine in a row, and after drinking three more glasses of wine, he said: "I've waited for a long time, I punished myself with three glasses to apologize." ”

Shangguan Qian swallowed the wine in his mouth, and smiled at Ma Hong: "The first time we met, it was still a cold winter, and when we met this time, it was already spring, and time passed so fast." ”

Ma Hong said: "Last time Zhiyuan, you didn't say goodbye to make me sad for a long time, I thought Zhiyuan disliked my family's wine, which was not good?" ”

"The wine is good, but I forgot to take two jars with me in a hurry last time."

Shangguan Qian smiled, his eyes smiled first when he smiled, and then the smile flowed in his eyes, flowing from the corners of his eyes to the corners of his mouth, and then the corners of his mouth slowly lifted upward, revealing his white teeth.