The next day, Mei Yingxue went north alone, and Xu Ruyu was inconvenient to ask her which route to choose, so she stopped in Wanling for three days before she shirked the affairs of the country. In order to avoid Chen's suspicions, Fang Su had to find a reason to leave after a while.

When I left Wanling, it snowed heavily. The water of Huaishui is turbulent, and it is not frozen for the time being, but from time to time there are ice cubes from the upstream that block the river and move downstream, and the ice drifts through, the sound is terrifying, and the large and small boats above the Huaishui are all avoiding the river bends or the lakes.

Xu Ruyu walked along the Huai River for a while. Running alone, only observing the water potential of Huaishui, walking extremely fast, only two days to the bank of the Jinshui River. Go along the Jinshui until you reach Qianyi, and then turn around and walk down along the Huaishui, and follow the road of the year to Bayang.

At this time, it is almost the end of the year, and it is the coldest time of the year, and the Bashui has been completely frozen. People and animals did not dare to trample on the ice, and the snow on the ice melted very little, and now it has accumulated another layer, which is even more crystal clear compared with the white and yellow grass on both sides.

Xu Ruyu walked to the ice, pushed away the snow, stretched out his thumb and pressed it on the ice, slowly increasing his strength until cracks appeared on the ice, and tried a few places in the center of the river, and found that the ice was strong, and he could cross tens of millions of iron horses, and his face was more melancholy, and the tributaries on the north bank of the Huaishui were almost the same as Bashui, all of which were completely frozen, thinking: If the cold between heaven and earth accumulates, the Huaishui will also freeze.

The palm of his hand was attached to the ice, and the Dan breath was revealed, and the whole piece of solid ice was silently embedded deeply, revealing the green water, the water flow was extremely slow, Xu Ruyu took a handful of water and splashed it on his face, and drank a few sips, and transported the cold breath to freeze the water in that place, and piled up some snow on it, which was no different from other places at a glance, and then left with interest.

Four years ago, Yi Hanwen was forced to cede the border to the Chen clan due to the situation, and then fought for power with his brother in Qingzhou, and had no time to pay attention to the affairs of Yongning, so Zhang Jidao successively took away the entire Yixing Mansion. After Xu Ruyu left the East China Sea, Zhang Jidao's reputation gradually became apparent, and he became the commander of the North Line of the East China Sea.

The night is like thick ink that can't be dissolved, only the reflection of the stars and snow, but it is enough for Xu Ruyu.

The gate of Bayang City is closed, the wind lanterns of the city tower are hung high, the soldiers defending the city hold halberds and hold their guns, and the scattered shadows are cast in the empty snow.

Yi Hanwen relieved himself in Yizhou, and with the help of Yi Shide and Zheng Weijiong, he completely controlled the situation in Qingzhou, and raised troops to recapture the two cities of Bayang and Suining. The situation in this Bayang City is getting tighter day by day, and the city gate is only half open during the day in case of a surprise attack by the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry.

Xu Ruyu didn't dare to tell Zhang Jidao about his whereabouts, so he dived in Bayang for two days to make sure that the defenders of the north gate did not hide a master, so he sneaked to the city and took a handful of soil to worship a little far away from the city gate. I had the intention to bring the handful of soil back to Jiangning to set up a mound for my father, but thinking of this, there were traces, and Chen Yu might find out the intelligence network laid by Jiang Ning in the East China Sea, and thought: Thousands of rivers and thousands of soils have different origins, and there is no need to stick to the form, so he gave up.

For a while, Xu Ruyu couldn't notice the passage of time, and suddenly felt a sense of distraction, and looked up slightly, seeing three extremely faint figures rushing towards him. But looking at the faint shadows left behind the three of them, it is known that they are running fast.

Xu Ruyu thought to himself: Chen pre-invited the elders of the clan, but he would not be able to hide it from his godfather. Wandering away, he found that the defenders above the city tower did not move, and there were no ambushes outside the city, so he secretly thought: Chen Zhenzhen will not send only three people if he wants to stay in trouble, and it is estimated that he will meet the right people. lost his mind for a while, and couldn't avoid it, so he had to hold his breath and pretend to be an ordinary person standing in the same place, and made up his mind that if something changed, it would not be too late to leave.

The three of them surrounded Xu Ruyu, and one of them raised his palm to attack, so that one person next to him stopped him: "Gongzi sacrifices Xu Xing at night, and he doesn't like blood." ”

"What are you going to do?"

The man said, "Stay until tomorrow and then kill." ”

Through the faint light of the star, Xu Ruyu saw the person who was going to kill him as soon as he stepped forward with thick eyebrows, about his early forties, with a messy short mustache on his upper lip and a short halberd in his waist. ”

The man was dressed as a Confucian scholar, with a scholar's scarf wrapped around his head, his temples were frost-dyed, about the year of the Mandate of Heaven, his right hand pressed the long sword hanging from his waist, his eyes were narrowed, the fine lines at the tails of his eyes were densely gathered, and he stared at Xu Ruyu suspiciously and asked, "Why are you here in the middle of the night?" ”

Xu Ruyu said: "Your son-in-law came to worship Shoujun, why can't I come?" ”

The third person snorted coldly, stared at the ground bulldozing the grave, snorted twice, and did not speak.

The halberd chuckled: "Childe came to sacrifice, I don't understand it in any way, there are idiots like Childe in the Central Plains." ”

Xu Ruyu carefully discerned their appearance, the person with a short halberd on his waist had a nose with deep eyes and brown pupils, and he was really not from the Central Plains.

Xu Ruyu listened to their conversation, shamed their behavior, and said: "Your son-in-law may not be qualified to come to worship Shoujun. ”

The Confucian sneered and said, "Killing people is our business, what do we have to do with our son?" ”

The third person said, "You have a long life." ”

The Confucian priest said: "The people who came to worship Xu Xing have a few taels of bones, you stay here, and I will pick up Gongzi." Before the words fell, the human tracks had disappeared into the night.

After a while, the Confucian scholar followed the two of them slowly. Xu Ruyu looked over there, like an extremely faint shadow swept over the Sea of Knowledge, without Xu Ruyu's own stimulation, the five senses immediately rose sharply, and the appearance of the person on the left fell exactly under his eyes.

The man stood close to age, with a thin face and a handsome face, but between his eyebrows and eyes, he had a bit of a resemblance with Wu Chu, and the gun bag tied on his back was picked out diagonally from his left shoulder, and from the shape of the bulge, it should be two short guns in the gun bag. The snow-white crown was put on the top of his head, two streamers hung in front of him, and the green robe of Ge Bu was different from ordinary people, stirring up a monstrous wave in Xu Ruyu's heart: the righteous father was also dressed like this when he assassinated Zhang Dong.

Wu Chu once said: "My ancestors used the Qinghe River to rush to the north to reject the Hulan fierce clan, not decorated with armor, Eguan Bo belt, Ge cloth green robe, black ink giant ge, pointing to the sky and the earth, and the fierce clan did not dare to peep south for the next thirty years." "Only the descendants of the Wu clan know such a dress, but the seventeen clansmen who escaped from Boling City with Wu Chu died on the battlefield one after another, and there may be survivors, but he is only a year old now, when Boling City fell, he was just a seven or eight-year-old boy, how did he cultivate this martial arts after he was exiled? Seeing that his eyes are slightly red, giving people the feeling of being like the sunset of the flowing pill in the blue sky, it can be seen that his Biluo recipe is almost complete.

Xu Ruyu thought to himself: Ten years ago, his father-in-law became famous, if he is really the widow of the Wu family, why don't he go to his father-in-law?

Seeing that the three of them were getting closer, Xu Ruyu hesitated in his heart whether to leave and stay to find out.

That person's cultivation is strong, which is rare for Xu Ruyu, even if he is weaker than himself, he is extremely limited, plus the other three masters between the first and second grades, if he wants to besiege himself, if he wants to get out without damage, he is afraid that it will be impossible.

Xu Ruyu was hesitating, only to hear the man in the middle say: "Mr. Wen, where is the person who worships Xu Xing?" ”

Xu Ru listened to the fact that the man could not see through the glimmer of light, and when he looked at the past, the Knowledge of the Five Senses really could not reflect his qi. Chen Ang's martial arts reached the peak, and it was said that it was far away, and there were traces in Xu Ruyu's sea of knowledge, Xu Ruyu thought to himself: This person is less than ten zhang away from himself, and even the three great grandmasters can't completely cover the qi.

The man was about the same age as himself, with a green shirt and body, his hair tied into a bun, and a wooden hairpin inserted. His face is handsome, his eyes are like hidden stars, and he has a dark light, and his words show that he is earnest, but his demeanor is calm and calm.

The cultivation of the snow-white crown person was almost the same as his own, Xu Ruyu had to take the risk of closing the sea of inner knowledge, and his vision was suddenly limited to a few feet in front of him, and he looked at the sound in a daze, waiting for the three people to come over.

The man walked closer, bowed long, and said, "Long Night Snow Festival, Brother Tai is really a person with a heart. He looked at the ground and said, "Why is Brother Tai piled up earth as a grave?" ”

Xu Ruyu naturally wouldn't say that the handful of soil was taken from his father, and said: "Picking up soil for graves, planting grass for incense, this is the custom of subordination in the Central Plains, you can naturally pick up snow as a grave." ”

The man laughed and said, "Brother Tai really voted for me. Then the halberd bearer said, "Montu, you raise some snow, and I will personally build the snow as a grave, and sacrifice the true and famous people with my brother." ”

Xu Ruyu heard him praise his father as a true celebrity, and the anger at the beginning had disappeared, and when he saw him leaning down to pile the grave, he also squatted down to help.

The Confucian scholar also wanted to come over to help Tim, but the man stopped him and said, "Mr. Wen doesn't like Xu Xing's style of acting, so he asked you to build a grave together, didn't he wronged you?" ”

Mr. Wen smiled and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." Standing there, he didn't move, but his suspicious gaze didn't move from Xu Ruyu's body.

Although Xu Ruyu closed the sea of knowledge, he still felt like a thorn in his back, and he turned his head in disgust to look over.

Seeing Xu Ruyu like this, the man asked, "Does Brother Tai have a feeling of thorns in his back?" Haha laughed.

Mr. Wen glared at Xu Ruyu, but he was helpless against the man, and turned to look at the periphery vigilantly.

Xu Ruyu was curious about the identity of this son, the person wearing the snow-white crown was very likely to be a descendant of the Wu family, and his cultivation was so high that he could calmly travel the world, but he and the other three masters seemed to be only to protect this son who was not familiar with martial arts.

Xu Ruyu was surprised in his heart, but he quietly piled snow for a grave with the son, and knelt down to worship.

After the ceremony, Xu Ruyu pushed the snow grave, the man stretched out his hand to stop it, and said, "Just stay here with this snow grave, you go with me to drink a pot." ”

Xu Ruyu said: "If the snow grave is left here, it may not be able to be dissolved, wouldn't it hinder people who are as sneaky as us in the future?" ”

The man smiled: "There are a few more interesting characters like Brother Tai in this world, so that they will not be lonely." He pointed to Eguan and said with a smile: "Brother Wu has always had no more children in his eyes, but looking at this brother's platform, can he enter Brother Wu's eyes?" ”

Eguan smiled: "How dare Mengli be so frivolous? ”

Xu Ruyu thought to himself: His original name was Wu Mengli.

The man said: "At this time, more than two months have passed since Xu Xing's sacrifice, and Brother Tai is also on the way? ”

"Traveling here, worshipping along the way, if you come here, Shoujun knows in God, and he may not be happy."

"Yes, yes, I also think so in my heart, but I came here on a special trip, and I have traces, I am less than my brother, and it seems that drinking a pot tonight is also insufficient. Brother Tai came with us, and our carriage stopped behind the woods. Stretched out his hand and took Xu Ruyu's hand and walked towards the forest.

Xu Ruyu saw that he didn't ask his name, probably because he didn't want to reveal his name, and he didn't want to deceive himself with a fake name.

The man left Xu Ruyu outside the car, climbed into the car, took out two skins, threw one to Xu Ruyu, pulled out the cork himself, raised it between his eyebrows, and said, "Brother Taiwan, please." ”

Xu Ruyu pulled the cork, the crisp aroma of wine lingered on the end of his nose, raised it to his eyebrows, and said, "Please." They looked at each other and smiled, tilted their heads and poured the wine into their mouths, and poured a breath.

Meng Tu lit the wind lantern next to him, and Wu Mengli, Mr. Wen and another person surrounded that person and Xu Ruyu in the middle.

The man said with a smile: "I wanted to sacrifice Xu Xing and pick up the snow along the way and return home, but now I see Brother Tai, I know that there are such outstanding people hidden in the world, the wine is fragrant and the snow is beautiful, and returning home is just a lonely way." ”

"Picking up snow? Haha, there are thousands of hills and ravines in my brother's chest? ”

The man smiled again: "There are traces in front of the brother's platform." The probe swept a pinch of snow from the leaf beside his shoulder into the skin, shook it, and said, "This wine needs to be chilled by ice and snow to show its quality." He took a sip and said, "Heroes, take advantage of the situation, I think Rong Yanmen, Xun Zhuwu, and Xu Ruyu are just like that, and now when I see Brother Tai, I know that there are many mistakes in what I thought in the past, and I am interested, and I want to have a meeting with Rong, Xun, and Xu." ”

Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "I'm just a busy person, I want to be vulgar, but I am wrapped in mud in the world, although Rong, Xun, and Xu are the heroes of the world, I think it's almost like this." ”

The man laughed, and then fell on the wheel and began to cry, and after a while, he stopped crying and said, "Every time Brother Tai can say the hidden words in my heart, it really makes my heart hearty." Looking at Wu Mengli and the four of them, he looked over and said with a smile: "I don't deliberately meet them, even if they are separated, they can never forget." ”

Wu Meng's head gradually became murderous, although he didn't know who the person in front of him was, but looking at his behavior, he was almost the same as Gongzi, since it was not now, as long as the situation was convenient, it would also be a very powerful person, so it was better to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Mr. Wen thought: This kind of character recruits his subordinates, and he should be a big help, just watching the son and the man drinking and laughing, and there is no intention of soliciting in the language, which is strange in his heart.

But the man thought: If you are not a swimming dragon, you are the hero, how can others be able to recruit you? Thinking like this in my heart, the regret in my heart became more and more obvious, and the madness sprouted more and more between talking and laughing. Later, the two of them moved to the carriage and drank bitterly, and traveled far away, and when they arrived in Siye, the man took out the guqin and played it:

"Aoxi Road. Chic green cliffs, ancient vines and tall trees. The apes and birds in the forest are happy, the old people are hidden, and the streams and mountains are beautiful. Long and long. It looks like a peach garden, with white cloud windows. In front of the lamp, Su Se Qingzun, just happy, even the bed night talk. It should be the mountain spirit to stay guests, the snow is flying and the wind is rising, and the long pine is dancing. Whoever is tired of meeting each other, pouring the same as before. A song of Yangchun, always concerned about the sentence ......"

Xu Ruyu only thought to himself: I thought I had a heart and no intention, and my behavior was already inferior to him. and drinking, and when he sang "Who is tired of meeting on the road, pouring the cover is the same", he couldn't stop crying, and sang along: "... A song of Yangchun, always concerned about sentences. Why don't you make a total of appointments, and Mei Bian Xu Bu. I'm afraid to go in a hurry. In the dream of the old garden, there is a long goodbye. Lonely idle needles. still miss me, floating in the rivers and lakes. Broken intestines. ”

That voice of "I still miss that I am floating in the rivers and lakes, the smoke and rain are broken, and the intestines are broken" is really devastating.

Wu Mengli and the three of them saw that Xu Ruyu was also crazy, and the doubts in their hearts were gone, and they just thought: They are really crazy and fierce characters. It's just that Wu Meng's killing machine has not disappeared.

Wu Mengli rode a horse to guard, the carriage gradually went north, the whole day was only in the slow movement of the four fields, near the big city before sending one of the four people to the city to comprador food, the wine in the car hidden a lot. The man seemed to have enough wine to drink all the way, but he didn't expect to meet Xu Ruyu.

Xu Ruyu didn't mention leaving, only drank and talked with the man in the carriage, and he was never in such a good mood. Xu Ruyu inherited from everyone, and with the assistance of Shao and Yi, the depth and breadth of his knowledge can be said to be unparalleled in the world, but that person's knowledge is not weak at all, and he knows a lot about the rivers, mountains, characters, and rich products.

When the river was crossed to the territory of Wuyang, the wine was empty. Xu Ruyu was suggesting to replace him with wine, and the man said: "After parting with my brother, there is no taste for drinking this wine, so why can't you not use your surname?" He raised his hand to a carriage in the distance and said, "Someone has prepared wine there, and let's go and bring it up together." ”

Xu Ruyu said at a glance: "You expected us to drink so much wine? ”

The man laughed and said: "I have a weak meridian, because of the constitution of the Great Zhou Tian, I can't practice martial arts, but it doesn't matter if I drink, I know how much wine I drink, and I didn't expect you to be the same." It wasn't too late to deliver. ”

Xu Ruyu was stunned for a moment, and thought: Is it the same disease as when I was a child? At this time, the pain of lack disappeared, but I was also so lonely as I was a child, thinking that I had eliminated this disease by chance, but the pain was unbearable, my eyes were red in a daze, and I said: "It's not too late, it's not too late." "Drove the carriage to the front of the wine preparation car, and there was no need for Wu Mengli and others to help, the two only moved a jar of wine to the car, opened a jar, and poured two skins to drink.

Along the north bank of the river to Jining, Dongjun, and then turn north, along the west foot of Taihang, over Yanmen, until Mayi did not stop.

Ma Yi used to be the Heavenly Domain.

The man took out the guqin and said, "Play another song for my brother, and after the Mayi, this qin cannot be played, and the wine cannot be drunk." Bending his fingers on the strings, the sound of "Qiang", tuned the tone, and the sound of "Qiang", raised two keys, and sang: "Several people meet in the world, a hundred years of laughter, can get a few times and ......" just sang here, the voice has been sad, "What year is this hatred in the world, stay and shake hands, Changting once shared a glass of wine." The wine is far away from the pedestrians, and the long pavilion willows are not broken, and the head is gradually white..."

Xu Ruyu stood for a long time, listening to the fading singing, but he couldn't say anything about "the old love is hard to suppress when I say goodbye", and stood there, the snow particles blew all over.

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