Chapter 18: Old Things

Fu Yuanyu is undoubtedly a bastard.

After leaving Wutong Town, Xue Hongbi followed him all the way to the northwest for a month, and encountered big and small troubles on the way, thinking that this famous old demon would be killed all the way to the past, but in the past twelve years, hiding in Tibet has trained Fu Yuanyu's patience that was difficult to find in the past, except for two times when he was discovered by Tingyu Pavilion and Mending Heaven Sect and joined forces to intercept and kill, so that Fu Yuanyu had to kill all of them to extinguish his mouth, and everyone else could avoid it, and try not to provoke those who hurt others and themselves.

It is precisely because of this that Xue Hongbi's heart is gradually melting away from him, putting aside the truth and fiction in the rumors and gossip, and really understanding Fu Yuanyu from scratch.

Fu Yuanyu is undoubtedly a person who is greedy for enjoyment, he is so good at wine and beauty, he never gets tired of eating and is not tired of being fine, even if he is in the end of the world, he can't change his poverty, and Xue Hongbi, who has learned to be careful since he was a child, is completely two types of people, and he is a person who is a little cool and free, no matter how good the wine and food are, he forgets the delicious wine and food, and the tender beauty is not in his heart, and he grinds with Jiao'e's ears and temples the night before, and he withdraws away without nostalgia the next morning. In the end, I didn't forget to make up for it in front of Xue Hongbi, saying that true love is priceless.

Xue Hongbi couldn't help but slander, fuck you.

On this day, Fu Yuanyu took Xue Hongbi into the Qinglou with a good skin, and the bustard mother, who was half-old but still charming, got a gentle and soft word from Fu Yuanyu, and smiled so that the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were full of bright colors, and the Qinglou did not do business during the day, so she deliberately took them to the empty yard, vacated a room for the two of them to rest for a while, and diligently asked the servants to bring hot water and hot rice.

Xue Hongbi admired his kung fu in the thousands of flowers, and said sincerely: "If you had eaten a few more bowls of soft rice, I am afraid that the gentle countryside would have bloomed." ”

Fu Yuanyu smacked him with chopsticks and said, "It's not too late to eat now." ”

After he was full of wine and food, Fu Yuanyu took out the silver money and asked the servants to buy two sets of clothes, and then took Xue Hongbi to take a bath in the house. This yellow rosewood bath bucket is very large, enough for a pair of adult men and women to play in the water, Xue Hongbi, who has just grown in size, is a little unsightly in it, and was ridiculed by Fu Yuanyu, an old man, for a few words "green bamboo shoots and bean sprouts", and wanted to push back unconvinced, but was silent when he saw that the other party was covered with scars.

It is inevitable that there will be injuries on the body of people who practice martial arts, but compared with Fu Yuanyu, it is not enough to see, his body hidden under his clothes on weekdays is covered with scars, some are old and some are new, some are deep and some are shallow, and the eighteen kinds of weapons almost performed a martial arts on him, and at first glance he couldn't find a piece of good meat.

"Scared?" Sensing his gaze, Fu Yuanyu poured a scoop of water on his back indifferently, "If you haven't been stabbed a few times when you walk and jump outside, you can't be considered a person from the rivers and lakes, if you are really afraid of pain, go back and practice martial arts and work harder, and only let others hurt in the future!" ”

Xue Hongbi felt that this was a little unreasonable: "Then your martial arts are so powerful, why are you still beaten like this?" ”

"Boy, I'll teach you two more truths, the first is 'two fists are hard to beat four hands'." Fu Yuanyu snorted and laughed, "When I was successful in martial arts, I also thought the same as you, I realized that Tian was the second and my boss, and the mountain gate of the ten major sects was kicked by me all over and over again, and I couldn't do anything with me, but when they joined forces, if I hadn't run fast, I would have been cut by a thousand knives a long time ago." ”

Xue Hongbi frowned and said: "They bully more and less, and they can't win!" ”

"Yes, but they are righteous teachers who act for the heavens, and they don't need to talk about the rules of the rivers and lakes with me, the heinous devil." After a pause, Fu Yuanyu pointed to his chest again, "But there are exceptions, this is the second truth, which is called 'There are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky'." ”

Xue Hongbi took a closer look, and saw that there was an old wound at the Tianchi acupoint below Fu Yuanyu's heart, about an inch long, as thin as paper, obviously made by a sharp weapon such as a thin sword, and because of the age, the scar had already fallen off, leaving only a thin white mark, which would be skipped if he didn't pay attention to it, but the location of this wound was too obvious, and it could pass through the heart if it was too measured, and Fu Yuanyu was undoubtedly able to survive from the ghost gate.

He thought about it, and then went around to Fu Yuanyu's back to look, and found that there was no wound position in the vest that could be opposed, indicating that the sword maker was piercing from the front, upright and unavoidable, with an incomparable sharp edge.

Xue Hongbi couldn't help but ask, "Who did this?" ”

Fu Yuanyu opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly stopped, his face showed a rare hesitation, and finally sighed and said, "It's my former best friend." ”

The word "once" was used subtly, Xue Hongbi guessed that if the person was not dead, he should have become an enemy with Fu Yuanyu's ruthlessness, he didn't ask interestingly, and instead looked at Fu Yuanyu's left wrist: "Then who left this way?" ”

Fu Yuanyu has always been a wide-sleeved robe with arrow sleeves and long clothes, and the cuffs of the inner shirt are tightly tied, this is the first time Xue Hongbi has seen his arm clearly, only to see a ring cut scar on his left wrist, it should have been many years, the scar has long been healed, leaving only the imprint of the sheep intestine left by the magic doctor's hand, the stitches are as dense as sewing clothes, it looks both amazing and terrifying, as if this hand was once broken at the wrist, and then someone sewed it back with the sheep intestine as it was.

However, Xue Hongbi carefully recalled Fu Yuanyu's ruthless and domineering hands, and he couldn't see anything different, if he hadn't guessed wrong, it should have been this miracle doctor's really good hand rejuvenation, which could make the severed limbs renew and even the tendons and veins intact.

He thought about it, and coldly heard Fu Yuanyu laugh, and said softly: "It's a woman." ”

Xue Hongbi came to her senses and said with kindness: "She must be a beautiful woman." ”

"No, no, no, it's an insult to just use 'beautiful' to describe her." Fu Yuanyu became interested at the mention of women, and raised three fingers at him, "Boy, do you know who the three beauties recognized by the martial arts were twelve years ago?" ”

Xue Hongbi said sincerely: "I'm still young, I haven't seen it, I don't know." ”

Fu Yuanyu: "......"

Half of the excitement that had just started was extinguished in an instant, Fu Yuanyu glanced at him, and said: "Generation after generation, the heroes and beauties of the martial arts have also passed one stubble after another, but with my vision of looking for flowers and willows for many years, the so-called beauties who are now famous in the rivers and lakes, no matter the chivalrous and banshees, in terms of style alone, were only enough to give the three of them green leaves twelve years ago......"

Twelve years ago, there were three beauties in the martial arts - Taisu Divine Doctor Bai Zhiwei, Clavicle Bodhisattva Jade Flawless, and Gu Shot Fairy Ji Fanshuang.

The person who once cut off Fu Yuanyu's left hand and wrist is Yu Wufang, and before this incident, no one thought that she would do this, for no other reason, Yu Wufang is not only a clavicle bodhisattva who is glamorous, but also one of the three elders of the Mending Heaven Sect in the past, she is Fu Yuanyu's henchman, even in the years when the Mending Heaven Sect was in turmoil and Fu Yuanyu was forced to flee, she did not change her original intention, and she was one of the closest people to him.

The name of "clavicle bodhisattva" originally came from the legendary story of Buddhism, which said that the Bodhisattva who turned into a beautiful woman led people to recite the Buddha and read the scriptures with color, so as to break through the lust, and it was both appropriate and ironic to put it on the jade flawless body. She is in charge of the intelligence network of the Heaven Repair Sect, in order to get the secret unscrupulous means, even her own flesh and bones can be sold in two places, and in order to build the hub, she has been the first prostitute in the Spring Manting Court, at the age of sixteen, a drum dance is amazing, as if she is born to bewitch men, I don't know how many dignitaries and dignitaries have spent a lot of money for her, and many squires have died because of her family, even after her identity is exposed, there are countless Baidao disciples who betrayed her master, including many famous heroes.

However, once a man loses his power and wealth, he will no longer be able to touch a finger of Yu Wufang, and how many lingering ties in the past have disappeared overnight, and she kicked them like kicking away the insignificant wild dogs on the side of the road, but there are still countless men who worship under her pomegranate skirt.

Yu Wufang relied on her own strength to provide the most reliable intelligence support for Fu Yuanyu, who was crawling outside at that time, and also helped weave a net of heaven and earth after he recaptured the Heaven Replenishment Sect, helping him to sit firmly in the position of the sect master in the shortest possible time.

"I brought her out of the hands of the human teeth." Fu Yuanyu recalled the past, looking a little melancholy, "At that time, I was also thirteen years old, two years older than her, her father was a bastard king, and he sold his daughter with a lot of debt...... Her mother knew that her husband had sold her daughter, and she was crazy to fight hard with a kitchen knife, but she was killed by her bastard father, she knelt in front of her mother's corpse and begged me, as long as I helped her kill that bastard, her life would be mine. ”

Killing a gambler who killed his wife and sold his daughter was easier for Fu Yuanyu at that time than killing a pig, so he didn't think about letting her pay it back. However, Yu Wuflawless did what he said, she followed him wherever he went, and she knew that she didn't know any martial arts, and she also helped him block the knife when he was too busy to take care of himself, and almost lost his life.

There are countless ungrateful people, but there are very few people who sacrifice their lives to repay their kindness, Fu Yuanyu cherishes her, and entangles himself with her fate, since then he has been plotting on the rivers and lakes, she changed her name and surname to enter the Mending Heaven Sect, soaked in the ecstasy cave with painted skin and charming bones, and squeezed dry bones and blood to raise a behemoth-like intelligence hub.

“…… She loves you. Even if Xue Hongbi was ignorant, he could hear between the lines that the woman's desperate crazy and fiery feelings, he had no doubt that Fu Yuanyu also knew this, but when he saw the indelible scar, he felt that this love was mixed with the same hatred.

"Yes, she loves me." Fu Yuanyu let out a long sigh, "But I don't love her." ”

After ascending to the position of sect master, Fu Yuanyu immediately promoted Yu Wufang to the rank of elder, making her position only below the sect master, and gave her everything he could, among which there were countless rare treasures, but there was no love.

Yu Wufang knew this, but she didn't care, she thought that she would have a long time to fight with Fu Yuanyu, and one day she would be able to get his true heart.

However, when Fu Yuanyu was no longer satisfied with the general trend of dominating the Demon Gate, he set his sights on a more lofty and profound place, where he needed a stepping stone soaked in wine-colored wealth, and there was no one more suitable to help him do the stone throwing and ask for directions than Yu Wufang.

For the sake of his ambition, he made a woman who loved him a ** again.

Yu Wufang loved him and let him get his wish again, and she hated him to the core, so at that celebration banquet, in front of everyone in the Mending Heaven Sect, she asked him for a reward, as long as she had a spring breeze with him, she would have reached the highest merit this time.

Fu Yuanyu still remembered that night when the lights were on, Yu Wufang raised his legs to wrap around his waist in front of everyone, like a soft and boneless water snake, and everyone else took advantage of the strength of the wine to applaud loudly, mixed with harsh and ugly ridicule that was more harsh than scolding and scolding, he frowned when he heard it, and instinctively wanted to push her away, but heard her suppressed whisper: "Sect Master, I have nothing else to ask for, fulfill me." ”

He looked at her for a long time, and finally picked her up horizontally, and strode away amid the laughter of the crowd.

Upside down, gentle and bone-eroding, he was drunk on her body, and it was rare to have no dreams all night.

The next day, before dawn and the smell of wine dissipated, she cut off one of his hands and escaped from the mountain gate wounded.

Fu Yuanyu was shocked and angry, hating her betrayal, until the severed palm was renewed, and no trace of the jade was found, and only then did she find the compartment from the human head box she presented at the celebration banquet, which contained a letter, which recorded everything he had given her, and everything she repaid him.

“…… Since then, she has disappeared from the rivers and lakes. ”

After Xue Hongbi heard about this past, she didn't feel terrible when she looked at the scar on Fu Yuanyu's wrist, and said unceremoniously: "You deserve it!" ”

"Your mother said the same, but I really didn't think I was wrong at first, after all, she intended me to be ruthless, so she was just my subordinate." After a pause, Fu Yuanyu sighed again, "After thinking about it, I can not love her, but I can't use her feelings to trample on her, this practice not only hurts a woman who loves me, but also destroys her respect and trust in me for more than ten years, this knife is what I deserve." ”

Xue Hongbi endured and endured, but finally couldn't hold back, and said coldly: "No wonder you are betraying your relatives now." ”

This sentence is both a ridicule and a temptation, Xue Hongbi is ready to learn a lesson, but Fu Yuanyu just glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Yes, you have to keep it in your heart, don't repeat the mistakes of the past." ”

Xue Hongbi was speechless for a while, so she simply turned her back and took a bath by herself, and stopped talking.

After bathing and changing clothes, the two of them used twilight food in the Qinglou again, and rushed to the bustard's mother before the sunset, Fu Yuanyu wrote a sour song to give away, Xue Hongbi listened to some immoral words, but the bustard's mother was like a treasure, and finally the two of them walked away in her earnest advice.

They continued to walk northwest, but no longer passed through the towns, and took those mountains, forests and wild roads, Xue Hongbi was instructed by Fu Yuanyu to find fault with his martial arts, and on the other hand, he regarded himself as a monkey jumping up and down, competing with birds and beasts for food, and taking on the heavy responsibility of keeping vigil with thin shoulders at night, so that he had to suspect that Fu Yuanyu was taking the opportunity to take revenge on his stinging words, but there were parents' tombs hanging in front of him, even if he scolded Fu Yuanyu eighteen times in his heart, he had to pinch his nose and pretend to be obedient.

Finally, on the twenty-second day of October, they came to Shui Yunze.

Shuiyunze is located in the lower reaches of the left main tributary of the Pijiang River, there is a big river above, there is fertile land and cultivated land below, it was originally a rich place, but unfortunately ten years ago the big river burst the embankment, the flood rushed all the way here, flooded the fields and washed down the village, the original lake converged into a river Daze, here was deserted, until the river dredging in recent years there was a population relocation, people on the water planted lotus root fishing, although they were far away from each other, they were happy to be quiet and comfortable.

Fu Yuanyu bargained with the boatman for a long time, bought a bamboo raft at a low price, and took Xue Hongbi to paddle into Shuiyunze.

At this time, it was already winter, the weather was cold, and the reed and lotus leaves on the water were all withered, Xue Hongbi sneezed several times before he carried that thin internal force to keep out the cold in Fu Yuanyu's ridicule, and unconsciously, in the depths of the boat, Xue Hongbi vaguely heard a burst of singing, the voice was not light and pleasant, but a little hoarse, and the singing was intermittent, I don't know if it was a bad voice or I couldn't remember the words.

The stiff hands and feet had begun to warm up, Xue Hongbi stood up, and found that Fu Yuanyu had stopped rowing, quietly looking at where the song came from.

On the shallow beach, by the dry lotus pond, under a tall water pine tree, there is a woman sitting on the bluestone singing, she is very thickly dressed, but she coughs twice from time to time, it is clear that she looks only in her thirties, her hair is white, like an old man who is withered and dull, but there is an innocent smile like a child on her face, with the singing voice and strange little movements, she looks a little crazy and stupid.

Not far from her, there was also a woman who stepped barefoot in the water, with black hair tied into a high bun with a wooden hairpin, and was bending down to touch the fish with a bamboo basket, she stared at it for a moment, without other tools, suddenly shot into the water like electricity, and in the blink of an eye, she grabbed a live fish and threw it into the basket, not even half of the scales were injured.

They were ten zhang away from each other, but the woman noticed something, and suddenly looked up and saw that she was facing Fu Yuanyu, she should not be able to see her face clearly at such a distance, but she not only recognized the person, but also laughed.

"I heard the crow this morning, and you were coming."

Her voice was very soft, but every word came clearly, as if people were whispering in their ears, Xue Hongbi was suddenly excited, and heard the sound of splashing, Fu Yuanyu actually abandoned the wooden oar, hit the back with a palm, and hit the water surface with the power of the palm, and the bamboo raft was like an arrow off the string, and it stopped in front of the water pine tree in a short time.

The crazy woman sitting on the bluestone was startled, and she stopped singing, wah-wow screaming words that no one could understand, so the woman who touched the fish washed her hands in the water, put the fish basket aside, turned around and went back to coax, and waited until the crazy woman broke into tears and laughed, she turned around, glanced at Fu Yuanyu first, and then fell on Xue Hongbi.

Xue Hongbi finally saw her face clearly, this is an ordinary-looking woman, not beautiful or ugly, ordinary enough to be just right, you can't find it if you throw it in the pile.

"You're coming, and you're a half-grown child."

She snorted meaninglessly, and reached out to brush a strand of messy hair behind her ear, only this simple action was done by her in a variety of styles, obviously the most ordinary appearance, suddenly vivid when she raised her hands and feet, as if the wood carver had a vivid beauty.

Xue Hongbi was in a trance for a moment, and suddenly had an unbelievable thought, he turned his head to look at Fu Yuanyu, the man who was used to sweet words was silent for a long time, and finally only showed a wry smile: "Long time no see, flawless." ”