The sun sets in the west, the moon rabbit rises in the east, the small courtyard is silent, and the sound of small insects is heard from time to time in the grass.

In the house, Li Yuanzhan and his wife were lying side by side on the bed, and they talked about some gossip before going to bed.

"Brother Li, what do you think of Zhao Zheng's child?" Ouyang Susu leaned on her husband's strong arm, spat out Fanglan, and asked softly.

"This kid is talented, chivalrous, very talented, and willing to endure hardships, which is really commendable." Li Yuanzhan said as a matter of course.

"I also think this kid is very good, good in every way. Our family Zhenzhen seems to be very close to him, and when he was in a coma today, you can see how anxious Zhenzhen is. ”

When Zhenzhen ran away from home, thanks to Zhao Zheng's care, the two dated for many days and had a deep friendship. Seeing that Zhao Zheng had an accident, she would naturally be anxious. ”

"I think it's not just a friendship between the two of them. Opposites attract, young men and women interact with each other, how can there be any pure friendship. ”

"You mean to say that Zhenzhen has a crush on Zhao Zheng?" Li Yuanzhan rolled his eyes and looked sideways at the lady in his arms.

Ouyang Susu nodded with a smile and said, "I see that these two children are eyebrows, and they have a little meaning, but they can't erase it." Zhenzhen is sixteen years old this year, a man is married, and a woman is married, so it's time to find her a home. Zhao Zheng, this child has good looks and martial arts, he is a rising star in the rivers and lakes, he is really a good candidate, the only drawback is that his background is not very good, his parents are gone, there is only one righteous sister, and the person is a little withered. ”

"It doesn't matter if he has a bad background, his future as a child is limitless, and he doesn't need to rely on his parents to help him get ahead in the future. And he has no parents. It is just right to stay with us in the future. You don't have to let Zhenzhen marry far away. lest we be thinking all day long. Li Yuanzhan didn't care.

"yes, that's what I thought!" Ouyang Susu agreed.

"Since our family is optimistic about Zhao Zheng, let's match these two people and try it. Tomorrow, you go to find out Zhenzhen's tone and see what she says, if she also has this intention, I will call Zhao Zheng, the child, and talk to him. If both children agree to this, the marriage can be decided. Once the two choose a date to get married. I passed on the gentleman's swordsmanship to Zhao Zheng and asked him to form a pair with Zhenzhen and practice the mandarin duck swordsmanship together. We are Mandarin Duck Wind Chaser, isn't it beautiful for the two of them to be a little mandarin duck couple? ”

Ouyang Susu was amused and giggled: "After you say this, this marriage is really good, I will ask Zhenzhen's opinion tomorrow." I'm afraid that she will be shy and won't be able to wipe away her affection and agree. ”

"The good daughter you have born is stubborn and bold by nature. It's like a boy. Other girls will not be able to erase their love, she will never be indelible. ”

"You're wrong. No matter how rough a girl is, she will be shy when facing this kind of thing. ”

The husband and wife discussed this matter for a long time, and they talked until late at night before falling asleep.

After breakfast the next day, Ouyang Susu took a lotus step, knocked on the door of her daughter's room, asked her daughter long and short questions, and chatted about homely things. Speaking of the halfway, Ouyang Susu said seemingly casually: "You are twenty-eight years old this year, and you are just at the age of talking about marriage, what kind of husband do you want to find in the future?" Tell your mother about it, and if I meet someone similar to you in the future, I'll pay attention to it for you. ”

"Don't talk about Miao Ling Twenty-eight, even if I am Miao Ling Forty-eight, I won't marry." Li Zhenzhen nibbled on a big red apple and bit off a large piece.

"Look at you, kid, what stupid things are you talking about. Miao is forty-eight years old, but he is thirty-two years old, at that time, don't say that you don't want to marry, even if you want to marry, no one wants you, a half-old. ”

"If no one wants it, no one wants it. I can just stay with you and Daddy for the rest of my life, and you two have a lot of money anyway, and you can't starve me. ”

"If you're too old to get married, the two of us won't want you anymore." Ouyang Susu smiled and made a face.

"Mother will scare me, why are you willing not to want me." Li Zhenzhen sprinkled her coquettishness, leaned sideways on her mother's soft and warm arms, and rubbed gently.

Ouyang Susu couldn't stand her daughter's coquettishness, so she hugged her daughter in her arms and kissed her gently. The mother and daughter are both beautiful, sitting side by side, like two blooming flowers.

Li Zhenzhen soaked it for a long time, and waited until her mother agreed to raise her for the rest of her life before she retracted her body and continued to nibble on the crisp and sweet red apple.

"Zhenzhen, my mother didn't joke with you just now, but really asked you this question. You're not young, even if you don't get married now, you should worry about marriage. Ouyang Susu hugged her beloved daughter's fragrant shoulders and said softly.

Li Zhenzhen saw that her mother said solemnly, so she replied seriously: "Mother, I don't want to get married so early, so let's mention this matter two years later." ”

"According to your wishes, I don't force you to marry so early, this time I just want to ask what kind of Langjun you want to find, so I should prepare early."

"We are a martial arts family, of course, we have to find a man who knows martial arts, if we find a wine bag and rice bag, he will be bullied to death by me after getting married."

"You're self-aware." Ouyang Susu covered her mouth and snickered, her beautiful eyes bent into crescent moons, "What other requirements do you have besides martial arts?" ”

"In addition to being better than me in martial arts, his character must also be good, and his appearance must be pleasing to my eyes." Li Zhenzhen thought for a while, and her beautiful eyes lit up, "By the way, it would be better if he was good at using a sword, just to inherit my family's mandarin duck swordsmanship." After I learned the lady's swordsmanship, I haven't tried to combine two swords with others. ”

The more Ouyang Susu listened, the more happy she became, and said with a smile: "Zhenzhen, you said so much, it reminds me of a person, and he just meets your requirements." ”

"Who meets my requirements?" Li Zhenzhen asked.

"This is a man you know, friends with you, and you have a good relationship. He's far away, he's close at hand, and he's been here yesterday. As for his name, I don't need to tell it. Ouyang Susu smiled and observed the changes in her daughter's demeanor, figuring out the complicated thoughts of her daughter's family.

Li Zhenzhen immediately guessed that the person her mother was referring to was Zhao Zheng, and two red clouds immediately appeared on the snow-white face of the frost and snow, don't add a touch of coquettishness. She turned her face in shame. Dulicitous: "Where is he doing?" I won't marry him. Besides, I'm just friends with him. Not so many ideas. ”

"You have to be friends before you can be a couple. Back then, I and your father were also messing around in the rivers and lakes together, had feelings, and then made a private decision for life. It's always better to marry a man you know and have a crush on than to marry someone you've never met. In the future, if you wait until the matchmaker comes to propose, it is likely that you will marry a strange man. Ouyang Susu persuaded.

When Li Zhenzhen heard her mother say this, her heart moved secretly, and Zhao Zheng's figure popped up in her mind. This sprout once it grows. But it's out of control. She was young and didn't think about this before, but now that she was asked by her mother, she found that she had a good impression of Zhao Zheng in her heart, and she didn't seem to be resistant to marrying Zhao Zheng.

Ouyang Susu saw that her daughter was blushing and didn't speak, knowing that she had already skimmed this matter. She didn't want her daughter to be embarrassed, so she whispered into her daughter's ear: "I understand your intentions, everything is wrapped up in my mother's body." Our family Zhenzhen is so good, he will definitely agree. ”

"Don't mess around, in case he doesn't agree. I'm a big loser, how can I see people when the time comes. Li Zhenzhen was so ashamed that even the roots of her ears were red.

"No in case. If this is done, you will have to wait for your wedding dress and hijab. Ouyang Susu said with a smile.

"No, this is too abrupt, if it doesn't work, I won't even be friends with him." Li Zhenzhen usually speaks and does things very simply, but this kind of thing is simply not up, obviously she has this meaning in her heart, but she still disagrees with it half-pushing, which seems very twisted.

Ouyang Susu coaxed her daughter for a while, asked her daughter to put her heart in her stomach, waited for her good news, and then ran to tell her husband her daughter's heart. Li Yuanzhan was also very happy after hearing this, Zhao Zheng's child was the fast son-in-law of Chenglong in his mind, if he could let Li Zhenzhen marry such a child, he would be relieved to be a father.

Li Yuanzhan is a straight man, and he wanted to call Zhao Zheng immediately and tell Zhao Zheng about it, but Ouyang Susu next to him stopped him and persuaded: "Brother, don't worry, Zhao Zheng, this kid is going to participate in the martial arts competition in a few days, if you mention this family matter to him now, he will be in a mess, and he will probably be affected by this." In my opinion, it would be better to wait until he is done fighting. ”

Li Yuanzhan nodded and said, "That's right, that kid is about to go on stage to fight, and he can't let his children's personal affairs affect him, so let's talk to him later." Thanks to you for reminding me, if I hastily told him something, wouldn't I have done something bad with good intentions? ”

"It's good to say it later, but I'm afraid your baby daughter will be in a hurry."

"Doesn't she often say that she is not in a hurry to get married?"

"Of course, if you don't have a sweetheart, you're not in a hurry to get married, but after you have a sweetheart, it's different. Thinking about it for a long time, looking forward to it, this is the most difficult thing in the world. ”

"So, of course you think so of me?"

"Phew, shameless." Ouyang Susu glanced at Xianggong and said with a smile.

……

At the foot of the hill of Sword Forge Villa, a convoy was jogging, and the total number of carriages was more than twenty, including carriages dedicated to pulling people and carriages carrying goods.

On the roof of the carriage at the head sat a thin and shriveled old man.

The old man's hair was almost gone, and only a handful was left fluttering in the wind, and on his bony back was a huge sword box disproportionate to his body, and a large wine gourd pinned to his waist like a firewood stick. He looked at the hometown he hadn't seen for many days, with an excited smile on his face, and couldn't help but grab the wine gourd, pull off the stopper, and take a sip beautifully.

This shriveled old man is not an outsider, he is the second-ranked swordsmith sword slave in the Sword Casting Villa. He led the convoy and rushed here from Luoshu Villa. In the carriage behind him, sat the father and son of the Baili family, several guests with heads and faces, and several beaters who broke through the sword formation and captured the token.

After this group of people arrived at the Sword Casting Villa, they would choose a good day and an auspicious day to hold a battle for the first sword.

This ring has already been set up, at the beginning, everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, but now even the east wind is blowing, and there is no shortage of anything.

"Zichujian, I finally brought this group of young men back to you, and it won't be long before you can have a satisfactory user." The sword slave looked at the giant sword gate of the villa, and secretly sighed in his heart.

It is really not easy to prepare for this Zichu Sword Competition. It took a long time before and after. And it alarmed the whole rivers and lakes. There was a lot of uproar, and some people even took their lives!

A few days ago, an accurate news reached the ears of the sword slave, among the many fighters, one of the fighters was killed on the road, and even his head was cut off.

This brutal method of killing was clearly the work of the Assassins. The Assassins took orders to kill people in order to prove themselves afterwards. It is customary to cut off the victim's head and bring it back to ask for credit.

The person was killed, either because he had a vendetta against someone else, or because he was eliminated in advance by the other fighters, both of which are more likely than the latter.

This is just a case of accurate information, and it is not yet possible to determine how many fighters actually died.

Of the twenty-three fighters who received the token, it would be nice to have twenty of them make it to Sword Forged Villa.

Thankfully, even a few fewer people are out of the way. This kind of sting. It was already within the expectation of the sword slave, otherwise he would not have set the number of twenty-four.

Twenty-four men were caught and violated. The first few games are easy to do, and when the last game is left, there will be three people left, and it is impossible to make a pair at all. If you really wanted to make up a whole number, you should have set the number of thirty-two people at that time. There are various reasons why thirty-two people were not chosen.

First, there are not so many young people who meet the standards, and it is very time-consuming to get together thirty-two people, and it is inconvenient for this screening time to drag on too long, so it can only reduce the number of people.

Second, before the fight, Zi Chujian should conduct a preliminary inspection of the beater, and once there is an inconspicuous beater, he will be eliminated. Even if you struggle to get the right number of people, you may still be cut back then.

Thirdly, the fighters may encounter danger on the way to the Sword Forged Villa, and there will be casualties, resulting in the inability to participate in the fight, which may also lead to not being able to make up the number.

With so many variables, no matter how many people are set, it is difficult to get together a perfect number of fighters, and there is no need to waste effort.

When it is time to fight, if the fighter has an odd number and cannot catch the fight, it is enough to temporarily use the draw bye to compete.

The Giant Sword Gate slowly grew larger in the eyes of the Sword Slave, and the convoy finally came to the Giant Sword Gate.

The sword slave jumped off the roof of the carriage and landed firmly on the ground.

The doormen hugged and bowed down to salute, and some people said that they would go back to report to the owner and organize people to line up to greet them.

The sword slave waved his withered hand and said impatiently: "I brought this group of hairy boys here, and I have completed my mission, and the rest of the things will be handed over to you." I'm anxious to see my Zichu Sword, but I don't have time to grind with you here. After speaking, he flew up, his feet were in the air, and in the blink of an eye, he flew far away and passed through the middle of the giant sword gate.

Many guards didn't have the ability to stop them, so they could only let the sword slave fly away. They turned around, and didn't have time to think about it, and rushed forward to help settle the carriage and receive the guests.

The coachmen pulled the reins, and the motorcade came to a halt, and people stepped out of the car one after another. These people are all kinds of people, there are all kinds of people, some have been to Sword Forge Villa, some have not, and their attitudes are different.

Press these people not to mention, let alone the sword slave, this shriveled little old man flew all the way in the air, and when he reached the halfway point of the mountain, he fell to the ground due to the rules of the villa, and instead flew forward. There are many places in the lodge where volleys are prohibited.

When the Zhuang Ding servants on the road saw the sword slave coming back, they bowed down one by one, not daring to lose their manners. But the sword slave regarded these people as nothing, and ignored none of them.

The sword slave ran wildly all the way, and only slowed down when he reached the gate of the sword mound in the mountain behind the villa.

There is a complex sword formation here as a guard, and the sword formation is held by two masters of the mountain villa.

The sword slave greeted the two of them, and used the method of sound transmission to say the secret code, proving his identity.

The two masters confirmed that this was a sword slave and not someone else in disguise, so they agreed to let him go.

This inspection process is set by the owner, and no one can disobey it, let alone a sword slave, even if the owner comes in person, he must pass the two masters first.

The sword slave jumped into the sword formation, passed through it according to the complex rules of the five elements and gossip, and arrived at the stone gate of the sword mound. There is also an ambush on this stone door, which cannot be opened casually, and requires a dark force to touch the mechanism in the door. The sword slave pressed his hand in a specific direction on the door, and the palm of his hand swallowed the palm force several times, touching the stone gate mechanism.

The stone door rumbled and slowly retreated to the side, flashing a dim cave passage.

The sword slave slipped into the cave, stepped over the potholed stone floor, climbed a staircase, and finally reached a platform.

This platform is located in the center of the sword mound, and there are hundreds of swords inserted on it, and the Zichu Sword is mixed in these swords, inserted near the middle of the platform. The three zhang around Zichu Sword were empty, and the sword spirit of this sword forbade the rest of the swords to approach.

When the sword slave saw Zi Chu Jian, it was like a grandfather seeing a little grandson who had not seen him for many years, jumped over with an arrow step, landed in front of Zi Chu Jian, stretched out his dry hand, and gently stroked the blank sword body of Zi Chu Jian.

"I'm back, I haven't seen you for days, I miss you to death...... Well, don't worry, there are a lot of fighters in the villa, and there are even six heavenly warriors among them, there must be something that can satisfy you...... I'm going to hold the ring as soon as possible and won't keep you waiting too long, no more than three days at the latest...... Hehe, don't thank me, these are the things I willingly did for you......"

The sword slave muttered to himself alone in the sword shrine. (To be continued......)