Liu Pingye was dressed in white, and on a cold night when the snow was falling, he suddenly knelt down in front of Fang Bei without warning.

It's something that no one can think of.

Fang Bei didn't have the slightest slack in him, and still looked at the withered man in front of him quietly: "What does this mean?" ”

Fang Bei asked quietly.

"Simply thanks." Liu Pingye said, and after finishing speaking, he slowly stood up from the snow.

The Demon Sword was back in his hand.

"There is no contradiction between gratitude and revenge."

When he said this, Liu Pingye's eyes flashed countless pictures of the past in an instant.

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……

When did you know Ruqing?

If you think about it, it was seven years ago.

The peach blossoms bloomed just right that year.

As usual, he traveled to Hedong and then happened to encounter a group of bandits.

The people in the academy have always drawn their swords to help when they see injustice, and at that time, the name of Liu Pingye's invisible sword had spread all over most of the rivers and lakes.

It was easy for him to take out the bandits, and then, as is customary, as long as he found the six gates in the area, he was able to properly house the homeless people.

And Ruqing is among those who are homeless.

At that time, she called herself Xiaoru.

"Sir, can you take me back?"

She seemed to say that at the time?

That unkempt little girl, who would have thought that she would be a big man in Luojiao.

He still remembers his laughter.

"I'm almost ready to be your father, I'm ashamed if you don't feel ashamed, don't say stupid things, where is your home, if you stop by, I can send you back."

He said to the woman in front of him.

Because she looks really small.

He looks like he's only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Was he thirty-two or thirty-three at that time?

In short, the man is thirty years old, and he is really old.

There has never been a shortage of legends on the rivers and lakes, and the people in the academy are well-read, personable, and able to enter the official career through the imperial examination, and pay homage to the prime minister, which has always been a high-risk group of people.

Xiao Ru is not the first person to say this.

It certainly won't be the last.

"Sir, I don't have a home anymore." That's what she looked up at and said to herself.

Those eyes were really bright and a little foul.

"If you don't save me, this will be my home, and I will become a bandit mother-in-law, and maybe give birth to a bunch of little thieves."

"But you saved me, I don't have a home, I will only have some skills to serve people with tea and water, if it is home everywhere."

"So I want to follow him, is that okay?"

Did I know at the time that she would be a problem?

I guess I know.

But even so, he brought the other party back to Egret Academy.

Anyway, there are so many handsome young people in the academy, and the girl always loves to be pretty, maybe she can make a wonderful couple?

Of course, if to blame.

It's no wonder that Ruqing's eyes were too bright at that time.

The road from Hedong to Jiangxi is actually very long.

He walked most of the time, occasionally on a boat, but the little girl followed him silently.

Not a single step away.

It wasn't until that day that he looked back and saw her crying and walking, tears dripping down, but he didn't make a sound, that he asked her what had happened.

She said nothing.

She cried that day and walked the day.

When he stayed at night, he forcibly took off the other party's boots, but found that the socks had been glued to his feet, and he couldn't take them off.

If you walk too much, you will grind out blisters, and when the blisters are worn out, you will have calluses.

But if you keep walking, then the blisters will turn into blood blisters, and the blood blisters will bleed when they wear out.

If the blood and socks stick together, you won't be able to take them off.

Looking at the other party's tearful face at that time, he asked this guy very seriously - why didn't you tell him if his foot was worn out?

Why do you have to keep going?

Xiao Ru's answer at that time still remembers it very clearly.

She whispered with tears on her face, "If I say it, you'll dislike me, won't you?"

"Originally, you were so reluctant to take me back, if I still have so much trouble, then you definitely don't want me, right?"

Since Liu Pingye has never married a wife, of course he will not have a daughter, but at this moment, he is really distressed.

"So I'm not going to want you."

He said as he hugged the other's head.

Feel her tears wet her chest.

The next part of the road, most of the time, was Liu Pingye who walked behind the other party's back.

There is no other reason, just because of this stupid foot, he really can't walk anymore.

Liu Pingye has always felt that this guy who calls himself Xiaoru is really stupid and stupid.

When he took her hand and walked to the gate of the academy that day, almost the entire academy squeezed out to look at the two of them.

Even if he said that he had already written to Bai Qian in advance, he told Xiaoru about the situation.

It's just that for most people in the academy, the fact that the senior brother who originally admired suddenly brought back a girl was a big bolt from the blue.

After all, the name of the invisible sword is well-known, and Liu Pingye himself is also the hottest backbone teacher in the Egret Academy, and everyone believes that he will be the most powerful contender for the dean.

Moreover, Bai Qian himself also has high hopes for him.

That day, he took her hand and introduced Xiao Ru to everyone, but when Xiao Ru was just his sister, the whole hall resounded with good-natured laughter.

So Xiaoru stayed in the Egret Academy.

Liu Pingye's life in the academy was very boring, he read books and practiced swords every day, supervised the students' schoolwork, and sometimes read other people's articles by the way.

I wake up early in the morning and go to bed late at night.

Hardly a day will not say a word to her.

There's probably nothing to say.

Just like Xiaoru said herself, she will only do some shallow work such as laundry and cooking, and every day Liu Ping comes back at night, she asks the other party for clothes, and brings him food by the way.

This is the case almost every day.

Many brothers and sisters laughed at Liu Pingye and his golden house to hide Jiaojiao, but they couldn't explain it clearly.

After all, he brought the people back.

I live next to his house every day.

Men are not married, women are not married, what is there to be embarrassed about.

But Liu Pingye felt that going on like this was not a way after all.

Finally one night.

He called Xiao Ru, who was flushed, to his room and asked her if she was used to living here, if anyone bullied her, if she was bored, and if she wanted to go out for a walk.

After so much gossip, he asked.

Have you met anyone you like at Egret Academy?

If there is, tell him that he will hire her as a matchmaker and handle the marriage.

At that moment, Xiao Ru's face turned pale, and then tears flowed down.

She asked Liu Pingye if she was not good enough to cause trouble for him, so she must be driven away.

Liu Pingye seriously explained that he didn't drive her away, but there are so many young and handsome students with innocent family backgrounds in the academy, and there will definitely be a good match for her, and he is thinking about her lifelong events.

Before Liu Pingye's words were finished, Xiao Ru ran out of the room crying.

The next day.

No one left food for Liu Ping at night.

Of course, the clothes were certainly not washed either.

It happened that Bai Qian asked him to read the article together that day, and he told Dean Bai about it by the way, Dean Bai was stunned for a long time and looked at him: So you are really stupid to read your brain?

He asked the dean what it meant to read a book and read his brain stupidly.

Dean Bai smiled bitterly and said: The whole academy knows that Miss Xiaoru likes you, but you still want to marry Miss Xiaoru, is there a stupid person like you in the world?

At that time, Liu Pingye's whole person was blinded.

"Why would she like me?"

Although Xiaoru was unkempt and dirty like a clay doll when they first met, after grooming and dressing up, even if they were clothed and dressed up, they already had a bit of the beauty taste of clear water and hibiscus natural carving.

Besides, she was seventeen or eighteen, and she was thirty-three.

"I didn't save her and bring her back for her beauty!"

Liu Pingye said loudly.

It's just that because the girl's eyes are bright, he doesn't want to leave her and make her suffer.

"So let's take a break." Bai Qian said this when he looked at himself at the time.

"If you are seventeen or eighteen, trapped in the bandit's den, and you are about to become a bandit's mother-in-law, and when you give birth to a bunch of dolls to the bandits, someone stands up and saves you, don't you feel grateful to him?"

Bai Qian asked.

"Thanksgiving." Liu Pingye nodded and said.

At that time, Xiaoru was also very grateful.

So she wanted to make a promise.

"But even if you are grateful, the other person will not accept your thanks." Bai Qian continued: "He also plans to throw you on the road and leave you to fend for yourself. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Liu Pingye fell into hesitation.

He had never empathized with Xiao Ru's feelings.

It is really difficult to send the Buddha to the West.

"You have nowhere to go, you can only grab the life-saving straw in front of you and let him take you with you, because no matter what, he is the best person you have ever met along the way, even if he is a little older, but he has high martial arts, good cultivation, and is very particular about the style of a gentleman, and he is polite to others."

"Even for yourself who has nothing, you treat each other with courtesy as if you were a lady, and a gentleman is a gentleman."

Bai Qian looked at Liu Pingye and said.

"Not really!" Liu Pingye retorted.

He still hasn't forgotten that he didn't want to take Xiaoru back to Egret Academy, so half of it was forgot, and half of it was deliberately walking back to Jiangxi with the other party.

"I heard that you carried her back to Jiangxi, is there such a thing?" Bai Qian asked.

"That's because she couldn't walk on her feet at the time." Liu Pingye retorted.

"Men and women don't kiss, so they kiss when they go back to Jiangxi with other girls?" Bai Qian said jokingly.

"After carrying it back, I put it aside, and I thought that I would quickly promise my mother-in-law's family to let the family go away." Bai Qian looked at Liu Pingye: "If it were you, what would you do?" ”

Liu Pingye was stunned for a moment.

He looked at the dean in front of him: "Then sir, how do you teach me how to do it?" ”

"What is wrong with a manly man, standing between heaven and earth, marrying a wife and having children?" Bai Qian said lightly: "I would have persuaded you ten years earlier." ”

"You say that if you haven't completed your studies and your martial arts, what's the use of starting a family."

"Now that ten years have passed, your knowledge is one of the best in the academy, and your articles and martial arts are also among the top in the world."

"You said again that you are old and don't want to delay other girls' families."

"You have all the emotional reasons?"

Liu Pingye was silent for a moment.

"Do you like little girl?" Bai Qian then asked.

Liu Pingye shook his head at first, and then nodded.

"Then let's marry." Bai Qian looked at Liu Pingye and said.

"I'll marry you."

If the marriage had been done at that time, would things have been different?

Liu Pingye sometimes asked himself.

But there are no ifs in this world.

Liu Pingye finally refused.

He has always been such a stubborn person, how stubbornly he chose Egret Academy in the first place, and how stubbornly he rejected the dean's proposal now.

He came to Xiao Ru's room by himself and talked to the other party for another night.

The two of them talked a lot that night.

Xiao Ru stopped talking many times.

But in the end, a conclusion was finally reached.

Xiaoru is too young, and Liu Pingye is too old.

Now Liu Pingye may still be in the prime of life, full of energy, but in another twenty years, he will be about to be sixty.

And Xiao Rucai is only thirty-seven or eighteen.

Now Xiaoru likes herself, just out of gratitude and a momentary impulse.

If you wait until two or three years later, Xiaoru is over twenty years old, if she doesn't have a new favorite person by then, let's talk about marriage.

Xiaoru was silent for a long time and agreed.

She only said - in that case, in two or three years, you can't force me to remarry.

Two or three years, probably quite fast.

But the unexpected happened.

After two years of such a peaceful life, when everyone slowly got used to Liu Pingye with such a younger sister, when Xiaoru herself slowly began to learn to read, read, recite poetry and paint.

An uninvited guest came to the gate of the Egret Academy.

He is Shuqing, the king of Luojiao.

He was still wearing his scarlet lama robe, and he dared to block the mountain gate of the Egret Academy alone, and just by volleying his palm, he made several senior brothers who shot fall to the ground and vomit blood.

Everything is like a withering and decaying.

He smashed the gate of the Egret Academy with a single punch and shouted loudly.

"Ruqing, how long are you going to hide here?"

Almost no one in the academy could defeat this Luo Sect King, and Liu Ping's night shot was almost defeated in ten rounds.

After all, the other party is almost the top master in this world.

Sometimes the distance between a product is greater than imagined.

And at that time, Liu Pingye knew the true identity of the weak woman he had taken in more than two years ago.

Her name is Xiaoru, and she is also Ruqing.

She is one of the mountain gate protectors of the Luo religion.

Her full name is Ding Ruqing.

is the biological daughter of Ding Kuyu, the leader of the Luo Sect.