22. Growing pains
"Little mute:
How have you been doing?
I heard you say, you followed the old man Yang Beihan and went back to the foot of the Snow Mountain, this is good, don't always play with Zhang Chu, that's a bad person, I don't like him.
And the senior brother and sister both said that he has done a lot of bad things and will continue to do a lot of bad things.
I know the past story between you and him, and I also know that you are bent on repaying your kindness, and you always say that without Zhang Chu, you might have died in Broken Leaf City a long time ago.
People in the rivers and lakes of my generation do want to repay this kind of life-saving grace, but you can't just follow him and do bad things together.
But in addition to being loyal and filial, there are many ways to repay kindness.
I'm not as good at speaking as my brother.
But at least I know that if Zhang Chu's so-called 'hegemony' really comes to fruition, then there will be no peace in this world.
You told me last time that you don't like to kill people, and you don't like the feeling of blood splashing on your body, but after learning the Blood Sea Demon Skill, and having a magic knife is evil, you can't avoid that fate.
I, frankly, don't understand it, but my sister told me that everyone has a life, and yours shouldn't be like this.
Senior brother said that you are a simple person.
My sister said you weren't a bad person, you were just being taken advantage of.
As for me, I prefer the sloppy little beggar in Luoyang City to you when you are holding the evil hand, I don't want to force you, follow my heart.
But if you really regard me as a friend, you would better leave it early and leave from Zhang Chu's side.
You have done so many wrong things for him, and you have stained your hands with blood for him.
You don't owe him anything.
My sister also asked me to ask you, do you have an answer to the question she asked you in Luoyang City?
She said you don't have to answer, as long as you know the answer.
That's it.
I'm going to practice, and I have good news.
The missing swordsmanship of the dragon-binding skill has been found, but the swordsmanship is so difficult to practice, and the white monkey's bamboo stick hurts to beat people.
The master who taught me swordsmanship always told me that I had to move my sword according to my heart in order to get the true meaning of swordsmanship.
He also said that I have been staying with my brother for a long time, and I have also contracted the problem of liking to think too much.
If this is still the case, the swordsmanship will not be able to be learned.
Alas, it's really annoying. ”
The words on the letter paper end here.
is like a girl with a broken mind, confiding her troubles face-to-face, and the fly-headed little letters on the letter paper also seem to represent her unsettled mood now.
This kind of mood, conveyed through words, can make the person who reads the letter also perceive one or two.
With a silly smile, Wu Wuming looked at the words on the letter.
He was sitting on a big rock, on the endless grassland, and the wind that came in the evening always touched people's hearts, as if all sorrow could be blown away from his mind.
The young man was dressed in a long blue-gray robe, and there were ink writing on the clothes, and the lines were embroidered.
He is still as thin as before, but he has grown taller, and now he is more like a thin bamboo pole, this set of clothes personally selected by Zhang Chu should have been chic and handsome after wearing it.
But it will be put on him, but it will look empty and ill-fitting.
But no one dared to laugh at him.
Because the young man had a knife in his hand, a handle like white jade bones, like a knife with the sharp thorns of an animal's teeth, a strange blade, a slender straight blade, set in a crimson quaint scabbard.
There was a hint of red light, spilling from the scabbard.
It looks very evil.
Most of the people who had seen the knife unsheathed were dead.
Those who are lucky enough to survive will spread the story of this knife like a horror story.
It's called Evil.
A magic knife, killing people and drawing blood, devouring souls.
But at this moment, beside the young man, the knife was very quiet, as docile as a sleeping cat.
"No life, what are you laughing at silly?"
A voice came from behind itself.
Frightened, he hurriedly turned over the letter in his hand and hid it in his sleeve, his movements were quick and skillful, obviously not the first time he had done such a thing.
He stood up and took the evil in his hand.
Looking back, Brother Zhang Chu, dressed in black, was walking towards him with a smile.
is still that leisurely look, with a touch of gentleness and relaxation in the two-color pupils, as if chatting and laughing with his own family, opening his heart.
This is not normal.
Because people like Zhang Chu never really open their hearts.
"It's nothing, big brother."
Seeing Zhang Chu's smiling eyes, he immediately lowered his head, like a child who had done something wrong, trying to cover it up with bad lies in his mouth.
Zhang Chu shook his head and didn't break it.
There are some things hidden from him, he knows, and Elder Beihan seems to be involved, helping this kid hide the truth.
But Zhang Chu did not delve into it.
There are not many people he trusts, Wu Wufang and Yang Beihan are the ones he trusts the most, who doesn't have a little secret?
As long as it doesn't affect your career work, it's just a little secret, and it doesn't hurt.
"You've had a hard time."
Zhang Chu stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, he glanced back behind him, in the endless grassland, there were large camps standing, and there was mist cooking smoke.
He said with satisfaction:
"Bringing these demon soldiers thousands of miles into the grassland and joining me is really like a charcoal in the snow. No, you really won't let me down. ”
"It's Uncle Beihan, who instructed it."
When he was worried about his life, he still looked anxious, and he said to Zhang Chu:
"Uncle Beihan, say, big brother has to do it, big things, these demon soldiers, accumulated for many years, good steel, used on the blade. I also, breaking through the knife technique, can help the eldest brother and achieve a career! ”
"You kid, lately, you've been very energetic."
Zhang Chu looked at the worry in surprise, and said:
"Haven't you always thought about that? Why are you so dedicated to helping me these days? Isn't it enlightened? ”
"Hey, hey"
Worried and innocent, he smiled.
There was no answer.
His idea was simple.
He wants to help Zhang Chuge achieve hegemony and defeat the strong enemies who are hindered, so as to fulfill the biggest dream of Zhang Chuge's life and repay Zhang Chuge's life-saving grace.
Then, when Brother Zhang Chu's hegemony is achieved, he can also retire, resign to his eldest brother, and live his own life.
His pen pal asked him in the letter, do you remember that when he was in Luoyang City, Yaoqin asked him a question.
Of course I remember it.
The question that the big sister asked him made him entangled for a long time, and he couldn't ask Brother Zhang Chu.
With his simple thoughts, he thought about it and thought about it, and in the end he could only find this solution that was barely "both".
"I'm glad you put so much of your heart."
Zhang Chu stood under the boulder, stretched out his hand and patted the cold stone, he sighed, and there was a touch of tiredness in his two-color pupils.
He said:
"There are too few people available to me, and the only ones who can be entrusted with big things are you and Uncle Bei Han. Now that I think about it, when I was in Luoyang City, it was as simple as I thought.
If I could have been more firm at that time and maintained a good relationship with Yang Tao, there would not be so many troubles now.
But God helped me and gave me such a great opportunity.
No life, you and I have to wait patiently, and wait for the best opportunity to appear, that is, the day when you and I will chase the Central Plains and sweep the world. Did you use that flame I gave you? ”
Zhang Chu asked.
Shaking his head, he pointed to his tent and said:
"It's still on the lamp. Big brother is good to me, I know, but, I can't use it. ”
The young man helplessly raised the scarlet red blade in his hand and said to Zhang Chu:
"But it's evil, I don't like it."
"Is there such a big rejection?"
A hint of disappointment also flashed in Zhang Chu's heterochromatic pupils.
He lifted his finger, looked at the finger that had been completely healed, and said:
"This holy flame is really strange, just when it is incorporated into the body, it has all kinds of miracles, as if it can burn the potential in the body, release it completely, and fill it with real power.
It has only been a few days since I took the Holy Flame, and I have already broken through the Great Zhou Heaven of True Qi, and in a few months, I will be able to enter the half-step Heavenly List, and in a year or two, it is not impossible to find a trace of opportunity in the Heavenly Ranking. ”
The Lord of the Seven Peerless Sects said:
"It's a pity that you have such a talent, but you can't use the holy fire."
"It's fine."
Sorrowless shook his head and said:
"I can't use it, big brother uses it, don't waste it."
"The wisp I used is enough."
Zhang Chu shook his head and said:
"No matter how much you use it, it's a waste, if you don't have a life, you can't use it, I want to use that wisp of fire on Hongchen Jun."
"No!"
Worrying Wusheng hurriedly dissuaded:
"Big brother, that old ghost, don't be trusted!"
"I know."
Zhang Chu waved his hand with a smile, signaling that there was no need to worry about his life.
He lowered his voice and whispered:
"This fire can not only help people succeed, but also incinerate all things.
Nothing in this world has a value for existence, but once the value is used up, it's time to dispose of it. With the power of evil, it is difficult to hurt the soul, which is really regrettable.
If you want to deal with immortals, you can only use the things of the immortals, and I can't wait to kill the ghosts, but this holy fire is added to the body, and it is the wonder of the soul, and I can't escape. ”
A hint of clarity flashed in the blue eyes of the worried and lifeless, and he was relieved.
Brother Zhang Chu's plan was to use the holy fire to completely burn the old ghost.
This made him worry in vain.
He was afraid that Brother Zhang Chu would be tempted by the old ghost, but now it seems that Brother Zhang Chu is still very sober. The Red Dust King pretended to be a happy corpse to live in the world.
It is a rebel.
Every time I saw his smile, I felt the urge to draw a knife and hack him to death.
However, Zhang Chu's words made Yaoqin's question that day once again float to his mind, he pursed his lips, glanced at Zhang Chu, and an impulse surged in his heart.
Then he asked softly:
"Brother Zhang Chu, after you take the world, you don't need it, I will support it again, at that time, I..."
Having said that, I don't seem to know how to ask.
A simple teenager felt a sense of guilt in his heart.
felt that he had betrayed Brother Zhang Chu, who treated him very well.
And Zhang Chu, as if he also noticed the abnormality of worrying about his life, he looked at the boy he had raised since childhood, and said:
"Wufang, do you have anything you want to say to me?
You... Do you want to abandon me like Zhang Lan?
I have your help, even if I really take the world in the future, do I still want to follow the example of those emperors and lords, go to the dragon chair, and be a lonely person? ”
Zhang Chu let out a sigh of relief, patted his worried shoulder, and said:
"I did all these things just to complete my father's unfinished business, so that my Zhang family would be glorious again, and I wanted to make this chaotic world have a peaceful future that can be seen.
When the big thing is done, you will naturally follow me to change the treacherous situation in the world for thousands of years.
You and I are brothers, I will not forsake you, you will not forsake me. ”
"Hmm!"
Worrying nodded vigorously, he said:
"I will definitely do my best to help my eldest brother and make it happen! Repay, big brother, life-saving grace. ”
"Okay."
Zhang Chu laughed, withdrew his left hand, and said to Wu Wufang:
"Go and help me patrol the demon camp, and let those restless people calm down and lie dormant, before it's time for them to show their minions."
Worry is lifeless and takes the order.
Looking at the back of this tall and thin young man leaving, the smile on Zhang Chu's face dissipated, and there was also a trace of doubt and seriousness in his heterochromatic pupils.
Lifeless changes.
It's a bit big.
He had never thought about this before, and that simple child seemed to have some growing pains.
Listen to the meaning of lifelessness.
Could it be that the bond between him and Zhang Chu is only this cold "life-saving grace"?
It seems that the little secret he hid, the little secret that Zhang Chu thought was harmless, was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
Uncle Beihan is also old and confused.
Such a big thing, I actually helped to hide it!
Zhang Chu's heart was full of turmoil, he couldn't help but think about it, to consider, what is it, or rather, who is it?
What can make the lifeless change so huge?
I was worried about leaving, but I didn't think about it so much.
As he walked into the chaotic camp of the demon soldiers, he spread the aura of the evil sword, quieting down the demon soldiers who had been confused by the true qi of the life and death contract, and who were powerful and restless like beasts.
Most of these demon soldiers have the characteristics of the people of the Western Regions.
It is a group of poor insects attracted by power, like moths to a fire, but immersed in power and unable to extricate themselves.
They are the vicious sores and tumors that have bred in the chaotic Western Regions, learning the life and death contract techniques from various channels, and indulging in violence, which is very similar to the Hundred Battles Army of the Southern Kingdom.
But despite all these shortcomings, they are also the most powerful force in the hands of the Seven Peerless Sects, which was accumulated by Zhang Chu more than ten years ago after he took over the position of the Lord of the Seven Peerless Sects.
The Seven Peerless Sects were able to compete with the Holy Fire Sect in the Western Regions, relying on this fierce and fierce demon soldier.
Zhang Chu, using this power, means that he is going to put his life on the line.
I don't care about these things.
He shocked the demon soldiers, but what he was thinking about was, how to reply to the letter this time, should you bring some grassland specialties with the letter and give Qingqing a taste?
It's a pity that the crested eagle flies long distances and can't take much with it.
Well, let's be selective.
Pick the best and the best ones.
So decided!
After a while, when Brother Zhang Chu's breath is really angry, he will take the time to write a letter.