Xianyang is an ancient city.

It stands in the middle of a loess plateau. Even in this ancient land of Sanqin, it can be regarded as an ancient city.

The night of Xianyang City is also old, like a piece of black cloth that has been dyed when it is dirty, and it will be dirty again if it is dyed, and it has been dyed countless ways.

Layers of historical smoke and blood-colored dirt are stagnant in this inexplicable black - Qin is still black, Xianyang is the hometown of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and it is normal to be black and sullen, right? What's more, there is still the legend of the Yellow Emperor on the surrounding loess plateau, and between the yellow and black, there are those Li people. They have yellow teeth and black hair, tied to the soil, and are called Qianshou, which can be regarded as a reason.

Today, the city is in ruins. The noise of history has long passed, and there are no more than 10,000 remaining households in the city. As soon as the night came, the drums rested, and the tranquility was as silent as death.

In the east of Xianyang City, there is a section of the abandoned city wall that is extremely desolate and it is impossible to tell which dynasty it was built in.

Only a section of the old city wall remains, and it is covered with weeds and trees.

At this moment a man was standing on the wall. It was a woman, and she wore a large, iron-brimmed hat. Underneath the hat is a wide cape. Under the cloak, I saw that her shoulders were slightly narrower than those of men, but they were wider than ordinary daughters. It's notable that her boots, completely man-like, are notable.

She was facing a date tree.

Under the jujube tree, there was a person standing at this time. I saw the man standing in the shadows, and he couldn't see his appearance and age clearly. I just heard him say, "Take off your hat." ”

"Why?"

The woman said angrily.

Before she could finish speaking, the man in the shadow of the tree tightened the rope in his hand—there was a horse hanging beside him, a very powerful horse. The rope was now going around the horse's belly and binding it whole. The man's hand tightened—the rope was hanging from a thick branch of the date tree, and the horse was hoisted high by him.

For a moment, at the head of this dark city, a neighing horse, with its strange four hooves hanging in the air, was hoisted into the sky.

The woman was startled, only to hear her angrily say, "What are you doing! It's just stealing my horse, and even torturing it. If you don't pay me back, be careful of my ......"

But the man under the tree on the other side seemed to admire her fierceness. Before the woman could finish her seizure, she cut off, "I want you to take off your hat!" ”

The woman was about to say "no" by the stalk of her neck. The boy on the other side let go of his hand suddenly—the horse had been hoisted up about ten feet from the ground, and then slid down half a foot.

The woman exclaimed, fearing that her precious horse would break her ankle.

But he saw that the boy had tightened the rope again, and stopped the horse from falling.

The woman was so angry that she couldn't speak, and she threw off her large-brimmed hat from her head, and was forced to reveal a black face with thick eyebrows.

Her hair is also much heavier than that of the average woman. I saw that her eyes were spewing fire: "Who are you, what do you want to do?" There is a kind of downward line, if it is a man, come at me, don't bully the horse! ”

The kid in the dark shadow on the other side saw her face, and his eyes fluttered. The hand seemed to soften, and the rope was slowly loosened, and the horse slowly landed on all fours again.

I saw that the boy tried to make a vicious voice and said, "Remember, I should ask you, not you." ”

"I just want you to answer me a few questions honestly."

The woman opposite raised her eyebrows, as if she wanted to attack again.

But the boy on the other side struck out quickly, and pulled off a mane at the back of the horse's neck.

The horse's neck shuddered slightly.

He tugged at the mane, but his eyes were fixed on the woman's bushy brow.

The woman felt only pain and anger—and the horse would not have hurt much if she pulled a hair like this, but the woman was so distressed that her eyebrows were raised. She held back her anger and said, "Okay, what do you want to know?" ”

The kid on the other side lowered his throat and said, "First of all, what's your name?" ”

His face was covered, but his eyes behind the veil kept looking at the woman brightly, as if he liked to see her strong and angry and distressed look.

The woman looked up slowly, and then, as if her waist was straightened. She declared her name - few women would report their names so solemnly as she did, that is, without the slightest affection of ordinary women, nor the slightest pretense of shame, nor the slightest arrogance.

She just had a solemn face, very weighty, very self-respecting and calmly spit out three words:

"Iron, calyx, Ying."

is a man, and when she is famous, she is afraid that she rarely has such momentum.

It seems that that name is enough to remind others of all her strength and dignity.

- "Iron Calyx? ”

The kid on the other side was stunned.

This name seems to be very familiar.

…… Could it be、Could she be the iron calyx known as "Xu Meirang"?

"Xu Mei let" Tie Calyx Ying, learn out of western Fujian. She is known as "Shaved Eyebrows", which means that she despises the men with shaved eyebrows in the world. Where the 'shaved eyebrows' meet her, she must retreat and think that she is inferior.

And all the men with eyebrows gossip about her behind their backs, but they have always despised her. Although the rivers and lakes have always been considered a place of martial arts, "De Rong's speech", for girls, kung fu is still ranked last after all. This girl, when it comes to kung fu, does deserve to be the first-class among women. But what makes her most famous is not her kung fu, but her temper. Just ask the women in the world, there are many people who learn some boxing and sword self-defense, but who dares to practice iron sand palms? And who would practice kung fu such as 'Thirteen Taibao Henglian'?

- It is said that she also shaved her hair and practiced iron head skills!

Nowadays, the rivers and lakes are mostly exquisite. Even men, there are fewer people who are willing to practice such hard and stupid kung fu. So when I heard her name, the kid on the other side couldn't stop being stunned.

But I heard Tie Caoying on the other side say coldly: "Okay, are you done asking?" ”

"Listen, whoever you are, I can only answer you three questions at most. Answer three questions, if you still dare to entangle, then I ...... I can't give up this horse, but I want to catch you, skin you, pull your tendons, and let you live to see how it boils oil! ”

"You've thought about it, I've asked one, there are two left, and you'll return my horse when you're done. Otherwise, you can kill it! ”

She filed her teeth as she spoke.

The kid on the other side stuck out his tongue in fright.

He scratched his head: "You have answered the first question, and my second question is ......."

"Why did you come to Xianyang?"

Iron Calyx seemed to have calmed down.

She lowered her head and thought about it, before she said slowly: "I'm here to find a man......"

Then she raised her head.

"Then marry him."

That kid's mind was cold, and he secretly said in his heart: Good winter! Is she here to find a man and marry him?

- What other man in this world is worth looking for?

- Who would dare to marry her!

Then after thinking about it, she secretly couldn't help but laugh: If she has a crush on someone and really wants to marry, how many men dare not marry her?

He was curious, and then he just heard him shout, "That's not good, you're not fair." I said that you should answer my three questions honestly, but your answers are too short and unclear, and I am not happy to listen to them. Didn't you tell me who the person you were going to marry, what was his name, and why did you want to marry him? Don't you look down on men very much, but why do you suddenly want to get married? You have to answer this third question in detail. Let's trade fairly, as long as you answer me to my satisfaction, I will definitely return this horse to you. If you don't answer in detail, I'll ask again, and the question will be counted in this third question. Otherwise, you'll be miserable. Think about it, such a good horse, if there is any damage, don't you feel distressed? With your temper, it is estimated that the women around you are afraid of you and look down on you at the same time, and the men are also afraid of you, so they will look down on you even more, and it is expected that you will not have any friends. Tell the horse. Otherwise, if I'm not satisfied, I'm not afraid of you cutting the oil with a knife. Hmph, I'm going to play with you to the end after struggling with this flesh! ”

Seeing him rapping like this, Tie Cao Ying couldn't help but feel slightly curious, and squinted her eyes to try to see the kid on the other side more clearly.

But the boy not only stood in the shadows, but also masked. His face was strangely veiled, and a piece of black veil that he found out of nowhere, covered from his forehead to the bottom of his nose, revealing only a pair of poor mouth and thin teeth.

His words were ruffian, but he also had a kind of enthusiasm that didn't care about it. Even Tie Caoying couldn't guess where he came from. After thinking about it, I only heard her say indifferently: "Okay, you ask." ”

The kid thought about it for a while, and then he burst out with a long list of words: "I want you to tell me why you have always looked down on men, why you suddenly want to marry someone again, and you ran thousands of miles from your hometown to the south of you to such a place where birds don't, and decided to marry the person you should tell me your name, sect, and origin." ”

He didn't add much to this string of words, and after asking these questions, he didn't think it was enough, so he added: "You have to tell me in detail." Otherwise, it doesn't matter if I'm not satisfied. ”

"Why do you want to get married?"

This sentence seemed to be asked by Tie Caoying, and it also seemed to be asked to the bottom of her heart.

yes – why?

In the darkness of the night, she suddenly fell silent.

Since growing up so much, this is the first time that someone has asked her and cared about her as an "ugly girl", the psychology of a girl who looks good and has a temperament and looks that does not fit the style of ordinary people.

She had never been asked these words, and she never thought that one day anyone would care about this.

She fell silent. Unconsciously leaned sideways towards a nearby moat. The agitated cloak hung down for a moment, and the battlements sheltered the wind outside.

Slowly taking care of her thoughts, Tie Cao Ying said slowly: "Have you heard that in the land of Fujian Bafu, there is a place called 'Mantou Nunnery'?" ”

The kid on the other side nodded.

"That's where I came from. We preach only women, not men. Most of the disciples will eventually become nuns. Even if there are those who do not leave home, most of them will die alone - because we have seen too many misfortunes. ”

"We also have a sect outside the nunnery that specializes in laity women, called the 'Concubine's Gate'. I am a disciple of this generation. Our purpose is amusing to those heroes - it is just a wish to help some orphaned widows and abandoned women, find a way to help them, and rely on a meager temple property to give those unlucky women a place to take refuge. There has never been any earth-shattering moves, but it is just a matter of saving a few women who jumped into the well and swallowed the medicine, hung the beam and swallowed gold, and were abandoned by their relatives and hated by their husbands in this world. ”

"It's just that these women under our door are either yellow-haired girls or bad chaff. Most of them won't look good, scars and carbuncles, everything. In short, it's not something to be pitied. Therefore, the rivers and lakes directly call us 'the ugly girl gate of western Fujian'. ”

Saying that, she sneered, revealing a little disdain: "This time, I am for a fellow sister, who has already been married, and ran back to our door crying two months ago, saying that her husband was disgusted with her after less than two years of marriage, and she had a new good, but unfortunately she was cheated out of all her money by Xinhao, and she couldn't catch any other new good, so she went home every day to beat her out." I was angry at her misfortune, and angry at her indisputability, thinking that his husband hadn't coveted her family background and married her! Now seeing that her mother's family is in decline, she came forward to help her settle the account. But her nest is like a bag, and she only allows me to persuade peace, and does not allow me to leave. Her husband is in that small place in western Fujian, and he is still from a famous family. I swallowed my anger, and he didn't follow him well, and in a fit of anger, I made a big fuss about their ancestral hall and humiliated him in front of their family. My sister finally brought him back. I told him to treat her well in the future, but he sneered and said, 'Lead me back, she has such a fierce junior sister as you, and I don't dare to throw her.' But whether to treat her well or not is a matter for the two of us, you can't care! Look at her ugly nest, there is no man in the world who can endure her! But if a woman like you is ugly, she will have a worse temper. Hmph, I said, as long as you find a man who is willing to treat a woman like you seriously, I will treat her well from now on.'" ”

"I was furious on the spot, and the bastard said, 'Don't worry about other people, it's undecided whether you can marry yourself or not!' In a fit of rage, I made a bet with him that I was going to find a good man. If you want to find a man like him who is ashamed of himself when he sees it, a man who is too good to treat me better, what about him then? He looked disdainful, and actually said to me: 'In that case, if you ask me to marry a sow, I will marry you, let alone treat your senior sister well.' Although she is ugly, her temper is at least a hundred times better than yours. I'll follow what she says.'" ”

When Tie Caoying said this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said angrily, "That's why I'm here." Hehe, I, Tie Caoying, have always looked down on men. But this time, I really have to find a son-in-law who is stronger than him and a thousand times stronger than ordinary men, and bring it back to show them! So that they have no room to talk about it in the future! ”

The boy under the tree couldn't help but be stunned. In vain, he has lived for so many years, and he is also known as traveling all over the land of Kansai, and it is the first time he has seen a woman dare to bet on marriage with someone like this.

I only heard him say: "Then what are you doing here in Xianyang?" Who are you looking for? That person must be a thousand times stronger than all the men in the world? ”

I saw Tie Cao Ying smile awe-inspiringly: "Of course! ”

Her tone was cut off, and the kid under the tree was momentarily agitated and disagreed: "Who is he?" Why! ”

"By virtue of him, he is."

Somehow, as soon as these words came out, Tie Caoying, who had always been heroic, also showed a little gentle admiration in her mouth.

"Who?"

"Just because he is from the oldest family in this world; Just by virtue of the fact that although the edge of a sword in his hand has never been revealed, it has been secretly promised to be alone; On the basis of his appearance and demeanor, although I have never seen him, he has been rated as 'Xianyang jade'; just by virtue of this, there have been countless red faces in this river and lake who have fallen for him, and secretly do not call him by name, only call him 'a piece of jade in the rivers and lakes'...... Isn't that enough? ”

This string of words had already made the boy's eyes glow red, and his eyes were so jealous that they were dripping from his sockets, and the more he listened to them, the more unpleasant he became.

He only felt that his stomach was churning, and he couldn't help but say sourly: "Are you talking about Gu Shan?" ”

Tie Caoying nodded: "Not bad." ”

There was a hint of longing in her eyes.

The thief on the other side only felt angry, but he couldn't attack for a while. After a long time, he sneered: "You are really good at picking people!" But no matter how good someone is, why will they marry you? ”

His words were a great hurt.

But Tie Caoying was stunned and forgot to be angry. She glanced across at the kid's masked face. Why, most of his tone, was it out of jealousy, not sarcasm? Elephant has a smell of children's indignation.

But this ...... Will it?

- Jealousy?

In her life, she has never made people jealous.

After settling down, Tie Cao Ying said, "Probably not before." ”

"But now, perhaps."

"Why?"

Because, he has been rumored all over the world to set up a special ring to compete and recruit relatives. As far as I can, isn't there a silver lining? ”

The kid who stole the horse couldn't help but be stunned.

- What a joke!

- Furusugi is a man!

- Will he compete in martial arts to recruit relatives?

- The sow is more reliable than this news!

Could it be that the competition that Huanzi inquired about to recruit relatives turned out to be a man?

He couldn't help but laugh out loud just thinking about it. But what followed was a big injustice!

——What kind of ancient cedar, known as the 'Xianyang jade' ancient cedar, the bastard gushan that can seduce countless women in the rivers and lakes just by legend, isn't it enough to squeeze the door and wait for the woman to come and post it upside down? even made a gimmick of 'competition to recruit relatives'!

He was furious for a while, and spit on Gu Shan. I can't wait to hear his name again. But disgust and anger were not enough to be curious, and I was about to ask a few more words, but I heard Tie Caoying say: "Did I answer carefully enough?" ”

The kid nodded subconsciously: "Enough, enough." ”

After saying that, he regretted it, opened his mouth, and wanted to slap himself in the mouth: how can you answer like that? There's no reason to dwell on her anymore.

But he was an optimist, and his frustration disappeared in a flash. I saw that he stretched out his hand neatly, untied the rope on the horse's body, and said with a smile: "Okay, for your honesty's sake, the horse will return you." ”

As he spoke, he slapped the horse's buttocks, and the horse ran straight for Iron Calyx.

Tie Cao Ying didn't expect him to be so refreshing.

But he saw that the boy's figure flashed, and he jumped straight under the city wall.

With Tie Calyx's temper, he shouldn't be so willing to give up on horse thieves. But she was stunned by the joy of the boy's return of the horse, and at the same time she was surprised to find that the boy seemed to have no malice at all.

But what is he doing all this for?

How can I feel like ...... in my own heart? No anger at all?

The boy was so fast that she only had time to ask the city: "You haven't said yet, why did you steal my horse?" ”

Under the city wall, there was a laugh.

"Stealing horses? What is it to steal a horse? ”

"I'm going to steal my heart......"

The latter words swayed in the wind, and Tie Caoying didn't hear it very clearly, but she was stunned by the faint word "stealing hearts".

- Stealing, stealing whose heart?

She was at a loss, this must not be directed at herself—she was not that confident in herself.

But this was the first time she had heard such a statement in her life. And these words actually came from the mouth of such an inexplicable horse thief who was very inappropriate for his own actions!