The mountain rain in Yunci Valley hit, and the weather in other places became a little unpredictable.

The people of Qinzhou City, once in the deep flood disaster, the city was almost destroyed, so that later the people of Qinzhou, when they saw the rain, they felt afraid, the drizzly scenery of Qinzhou is the most moving, but on the contrary, there are not many people who even open shops to do business.

All of this was caused by a heavy rainfall. And what reversed all this was still a rain.

It's just that the people of Qinzhou don't know that the rain that destroyed the winter fire and the rain that almost destroyed Qinzhou City back then were the same person's means.

This is a strange story in Qinzhou City many years later, and it is not a good story.

Among the anecdotes that happened in Qinzhou City, there is another one that is also not a good story. All right and wrong can only be left to future generations to judge.

Ding Qiliang's injuries were actually not lower than those of the shopkeeper. When Qi Linya rescued Ding Qiliang, Ding Qiliang, who was dying, had already lost consciousness and might die at any time. Zhong Yunxiu wanted to be treated at that time, but he didn't have any strength. Dante survived.

Qi Linya hired a carriage, but did not call a doctor.

On the way from Nansha to Qinzhou, he did not take the official road. Because the patrols of the empire have been very strict lately. And Ding Qiliang is a wanted criminal with a bounty of tens of thousands of taels, so Qi Linya took the path. After a bumpy ride, Ding Qiliang's injuries should have worsened, but in the end, the brute bull survived.

Qi Linya was amazed, but sighed secretly.

The Ding family was wiped out in the hands of the Qi family.

But the descendants of the Qi family are not as good as the descendants of the Ding family.

The rise and fall is only three generations, or even faster, and as the first knife in the world, Qi Linya has already seen the possibility of Ding Qiliang's future. Saving Ding Qiliang is contradictory. But he owes the inn too much.

There are such strange things in this world. Obviously, he has never asked for help from the inn, and he obviously has a slightly hostile position, but on the contrary, Qinzhou City was saved by the inn twice, and the water is deep and hot. And the Qi family was also saved by the inn once, during the martial arts conference.

When Qi Linya received the scholar's letter, he did not hesitate. After the passage of the year, he was unheard of in the ghost knife building for more than ten years, and finally let go, originally with the qualification of the world's first knife, he should have stepped into the extreme intention after the big comparison with Ding Xu's kitchen that year, but he was forced to be more than ten years late, because the knife heart was dusty. Although he finally found the opportunity again, the person who was able to create the era of swordsmanship with him had already died under his own knife and died of poison.

Qi Linya has no regrets, if he is wrong, he is wrong, he has thought everything clearly in the retreat for more than ten years, even if he heard the news of the Ding family's descendants challenging the door after leaving the customs, there was no turmoil in his heart.

Even after seeing Ding Qiliang, Qi Linya secretly rejoiced that he and Ding Xuchu were already famous swordsmen at this age. And Ding Qiliang used a kitchen knife, full of oily smell, and his realm was even inferior to those elders of the Qi family. Such a descendant of the Ding family, where is it worth paying attention to?

All this should have been like this, but when facing Ding Qiliang, from the moment Ding Qiliang took out the knife, he knew that he was wrong.

This kid does not have the realm of cultivation, but for the comprehension of the sword technique, I am afraid that in the world, he is only below himself. He thought that Ding Qiliang's comprehension in swordsmanship was very high, but his comprehension in the realm of vitality perception was very low. Rao is like this, Qi Linya is still pitiful, and the third knife is just a superficial taste.

He was looking forward to Ding Qiliang becoming stronger, although he thought in his heart that the process was still a little early.

But he soon realized that he was still wrong.

Ding Qiliang's realm has improved very quickly, and even in terms of sword comprehension, it is far stronger than he thought.

When he saw Ding Qiliang at the martial arts conference, he could be said to have made rapid progress, although for himself, he was nothing more than a weak person who could be defeated with a sword, but he had to admit that Ding Qiliang was a martial artist who could be described as a genius in both the cultivation realm and the sword technique.

It's just that Ding Qiliang's previous life was delayed by cooking, or it can't be said to be delayed.

If you want to cook a good meal, what you need is not rote memorization, the knife technique is strong and subtle, just like cooking, Ding Qiliang can achieve the ultimate in cooking everywhere in the world, which shows that this young man is not unable to break through in cultivation, but the previous life is a spiritual cultivation for Ding Qiliang.

To make a meal delicious and aesthetically pleasing, it takes care and patience. It is extremely inconsistent with the face of this burly man who is five big and three thick, but Ding Qiliang is really different from Ding Xu's kitchen. Ding Qiliang has the innate divine power of the Ding family, and the appearance of him wielding the Nine Butcher Knife is no different from Ding Xu's kitchen, but in terms of carefulness, Ding Qiliang is also the extreme.

What this means, the sword ghost knows, and it was also after the martial arts conference that Qi Linya began to lament the future of the Qi family.

Of course, he could kill Ding Qiliang, but he really couldn't bear it.

Because Ding Qiliang is a person who will not be bound by any school of knife art. He can perform the overbearing knife technique, and he can also perform those knife techniques that are feminine and dexterous. So he really wanted to see if Ding Qiliang would be able to show the true side of the Ding family's ox-solving knife method.

Cooking's solution to the cow is a dual embodiment of strength and skill, but this is something that he and Ding Chef can't do.

After hesitating and struggling for a long time, Qi Linya finally moved. He wanted to know who was the initiator of the incident that year, and he also wanted to save Ding Qiliang. Qi Linya went to the south, and he didn't know what kind of enemy the inn group was facing. But he knew that there were not many people in the world who could threaten him.

This is the pride and confidence from the first knife in the world.

And when he saw Nie Wuxian, Qi Linya suddenly felt a trace of gratitude in his heart, maybe the existence of this person, as well as the crisis of the Molou Inn, would be a turning point for the Qi family in the future.

……

……

Ding Qiliang woke up quickly.

Qi Linya couldn't feel the holiness in Ding Qiliang's red sword, but he always thought that Ding Qiliang's red sword might have a slightly similar effect to Liuyun Jue. Ding Qiliang's body definitely has a mastery that is comparable to or even surpasses the method of solving the cow knife.

The rest of the matter, everything did not surprise Qi Linya. Ding Qiliang was resistant, but he couldn't help it. He didn't want to be saved by the Qi family, but he had to work harder to live. When he was told that the shopkeeper had died in the Moon River Tower, this man who had never retreated all his life also shed tears.

Ding Qiliang, who was making a fuss a few days ago, slowly stopped making trouble after being told of the death of the shopkeeper by Qi Linya.

Ding Qiliang sat quietly for a whole day, not being able to move is one thing, and not wanting to move is another thing.

He just looked at the big tree in the courtyard of the Qi family in a daze, looking at the color of the leaves, and knew that autumn was coming.

Just the day before, Qi Linya told him the death of the shopkeeper, and also told him that the scholar of the Shen family would be beheaded by the Empress Qiu.

Ding Qiliang sighed in his heart, he has never been a smart person, when the shopkeeper is there, he asks the shopkeeper, and when the account office is there, he asks Mr. But now, the master is gone, and it seems that the husband will not live long. For the first time, Ding Qiliang felt that as a swordsman, he could not protect the person he wanted to protect.

It was all like a dream.

With his shackles, he went to the secret realm of Nanban, and he should have died, but he was saved by the shopkeeper.

It was a clear summer night, and he was eating the worst meal he had ever eaten since he was born, and in the middle of nowhere, as the son of the former Sword Emperor, he was recruited by that man to be a cook.

He has been protected by the man ever since.

When he was at Qinhuai Bridge, he endured three swords and ghosts without dying, but that was not something to be proud of, because if there was no shopkeeper, he would still die in Qinhuai Bridge in the end. At the time of the martial arts conference, he was so desperate, and in the end, he could only defeat Xiahou Du, who was the weakest in that group. It is still the shopkeeper who saves the entire martial arts.

I have heard the scholar say more than once that he should become stronger and stronger, because next time, maybe the shopkeeper will not be so lucky......

I didn't expect it to become a prophecy now.

At this moment, Ding Qiliang realized that he had not once blocked the shopkeeper, and now, it seems that there is no such opportunity.

After grieving for a long time, Ding Qiliang called Qi Linya.

Qi Linya has also been waiting for Ding Qiliang.

He didn't kill Ding Qiliang because he had a deal, and he admitted that this deal was a bit of a danger, but the things in the world were to take what they needed, and he was not the Qi family, but he was still a Qi family.

"What I said, what do you think about?" Inside the guest house, Qi Linya's voice sounded.

Ding Qiliang could feel that there were many people outside the guest house, and Qi Linya did not hide it at all.

"Now you are still very weak, but if you don't try to protect them once, every time you are protected by them, and in the end they die in front of you, you will regret it for the rest of your life, won't you?" Human words are like knives, and the words spoken from the mouth of the knife ghost are extremely sharp and direct to the hearts of the people.

Ding Qiliang was silent, and his eyes showed a look of struggle.

"I will summon the best doctor in Qinzhou City to cure you in the shortest possible time, and even during this time, if you have any doubts in the sword technique or even the realm, I can teach you to solve your doubts. The strongest form in the Ox Knife Technique, although you know it in your heart, but you can't use it, that is, you have never seen it, but I have seen it. I know what this knife should look like, and I know how different your knife should be, and I know you better than you think. ”

Qi Linya saw that Ding Qiliang was silent, but he never stopped talking. Ding Qiliang also knew that what Qi Linya said was the truth. He is very weak, he is eager to protect his companions but is always protected, and he wants to practice the technique of solving the knife, but maybe there is still a gap with Qi Linya in terms of knowledge.

"Inn, without the shopkeeper, the strongest person is you, but now you are too weak. There will always be many choices in life, you don't want to be saved by me, but you should know that if you die there because you don't want to be saved by the enemy, or rather, because you don't want to accept my conditions, let the people who are waiting for you to save die...... Although I can't experience that feeling, I have experienced guilt, it has tormented me for ten years, that kind of feeling you don't want to experience, and this is also a kind of escape and retreat, no retreat and no regrets, it's not just as simple as giving up and retreating in battle, this time, do you want to advance, or retreat? ”

Ding Qiliang never spoke, not because he didn't want to talk to the Qi family, but because he ...... was speechless by Qi Linya.

Because every word of Qi Linya is true.

Can the scholar not be saved? In fact, there is no other answer in Ding Qiliang's heart.

If there was no scholar's arrangement in Qinzhou City, maybe he wouldn't have been able to see Qi Linya at all, in the final analysis, he was just a martial artist who had just gotten a glimpse of the Ye Realm, and it was difficult to parry the palace guards. If there are no scholars, how can the Jiutu Reconciliation Cattle Knife Method be recovered?

If there were no scholars, the shopkeeper might have died under the poison of the ink fox

If you don't save the scholars, how will you face the dead shopkeeper? I won't know Zhong Yunxiu, and the trip to Nanban may be the end of the inn. After learning about the tragic life of the scholar in Ye Yang City after the martial arts conference, Ding Qiliang no longer had any dissatisfaction with the scholar, and his title was changed from scholar to sir. A person who has never retreated in his life rarely admires others, but Ding Qiliang really admires Chen Hui and scholars.

If you don't save the scholars, how will you face the people in the inn in the future, and how will you face Xiao Liuli?

Of course, if you want to save it, you must save it, even if you die in the Dharma field, you must definitely save it.

It's just that how to save yourself now? Dragging a broken body with the strength of the four-leaf realm? If you can't even get to the court, you will be caught by an empire like Tie Xun, how to save it? How can it be saved?

Qi Linya's conditions are very simple, give up revenge on the Qi family, and he will provide the greatest help, a favor from the world's first knife, which is naturally extremely weighty. A trip to the Moon River Tower is a prime example of this.

Ding Qiliang leaned back and sighed. Love and family feud, how to choose?

The deceased is gone, and revenge was originally his life's long-cherished wish, but at this moment, he realized that this long-cherished wish, I don't know when, slowly changed.

For more than a year, under the influence of the shopkeeper, I don't seem to be so obsessed with revenge, maybe I don't have that ability, or maybe it's because I waited for those good things in my life?

At this moment, Ding Qiliang thought of Ah Xiu, thought of the ruffian Fengzhan, and thought of Mr.'s sister who also had a miserable childhood...... Want to protect them. But I can't do it with my current self.

Tears of humiliation swirled in his eyes, but he was still endured by Ding Qiliang.

Qi Linya looked at Ding Qiliang's reddened eyes, knowing that he was making an extremely difficult choice, and he already had an answer.

After a long time, Ding Qiliang spoke:

"Three years."

"Oh?" Qi Lin was puzzled.

Ding Qiliang took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out, he said in a deep voice: "Within three years, I will challenge you, if I can't defeat you, what I promise you to do, if I defeat you......"

Ding Qiliang raised his head, looked directly at Qi Linya and said, "Within ten years, I won't make a move against the Qi family." ”

Qi Linya suddenly smiled.

This was not the answer he wanted, and he also knew that Ding Qiliang would not bargain with himself over the life and death of the innkeeper.

"That's not what I offered." Qi Linya said slowly.

Ding Qiliang was silent.

For a while, the atmosphere was a little depressing.

Qi Tianhe outside the house said in his heart, or the eldest brother's means are clever, in this way, he will not offend the inn, but also calm the hatred of the Qi family, as long as the eldest brother adheres to the principle and does not change his words, a righteous person like Ding Qiliang will finally agree.

But to Qi Tianhe's surprise, Qi Linya changed his words.

"Even so, there is still a gap between what I asked for, but I still promise you that later, I will summon the best doctor I can find, and after you are able to act, I will also pass on to you my experience in using knives over the years."

Qi Tianhe outside the house was speechless, he naturally wouldn't worry about Ding Qi being able to go from a weak person in the four-leaf realm to a person who could defeat the first sword in the world within two or three years, but why did the eldest brother have to take this risk? Everything is afraid of a what if...... What if Ding Qiliang is really ...... Qi Tianhe didn't dare to continue thinking about it, he just felt puzzled, and there was even a little anger in his heart, but in the end it didn't show on his face.

It was clear that Ding Qiliang could make a more compromising promise, but instead, he agreed to a request that seemed to give up revenge, but in fact it was like a delaying tactic.

Ding Qiliang also looked at Qi Linya with a complicated expression, Qi Linya smiled, lowered his voice and said, "I know that even if I offer more excessive conditions, in order to save that person, you will agree." ”

Ding Qiliang nodded, from beginning to end, what Qi Linya said was not a lie. That's what puzzled him.

"The so-called three-year covenant, or ten-year covenant, as far as I am concerned, I don't care, all I want is an attitude, the descendants of the Ding family, although you have extraordinary talent for swordsmanship, but your knife is too straight."

Ding Qiliang was still puzzled.

"Like your people, you don't have a city, unlike my brother, your eyes have told me how far you can go for your companions. You are a real man. ”

Qi Linya thought about it, but he didn't expect that only a year later, he would say such words to Ding Qiliang.

"I admire you. Now you are qualified to be my biggest opponent in the future. I can not let you take revenge, but I cannot trample on the dignity of a man. So I agreed to your request, if I win in the future, it will be the luck of the Qi family, and if I lose in the future, I also hope that you can still have the current situation. ”

Some people say that the best person in this world who knows you is your opponent. At this moment, Ding Qiliang felt like this, he would not be grateful to Qi Linya, because he finally understood what Qi Linya wanted in his heart.

It is an opponent who surpassed Ding Xu's kitchen back then.

Qi Linya left, and when he left, Ding Qiliang glanced outside the door, and the Qi family's faces were puzzled, confused, and surprised, but no one was indignant.

He also suddenly understood why Qi Linya dared to give Qi Tianhe the position of head of the family.

This world has not changed, only its own strength is the real capital to gain awe and sweep away gossip.

Ding Qiliang didn't think that he would be saved by Qi Linya, but now, he had to put aside these thoughts, and among the many major events that would happen in the entire rivers and lakes, he only cared about one thing......

Rescue the scholars.

(Finish the work, all the foreshadowing is over, and it should be written tomorrow on the eve of the execution.) It's cold, I really don't want to turn on the computer, I don't want to go to work, I hope the state stipulates that you are not allowed to work in winter. By the way, about the chapter title, it will be in tomorrow's chapter. ）

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