Chapter 54: Parting Ways (1/2)
When many warriors gathered in the first village, Si Kou Tingfeng did not appear behind the triple gate.
He never planned to go out directly to meet the high-level leaders of various factions in the rivers and lakes.
In order to meet today's gift, she is finally no longer as simple as in the past, in addition to the original light-colored strong suit, but also covered with a layer of wide-sleeved Xuanyi, is the craftsmanship of the weaver in Shudi, the eye of the needle is fine, only the weaving workshop in the palace of Shu can have such a high level.
The style is biased towards the gowns handed down by the princes of the Central Plains, but it is different, the placket hangs down, the cuffs, the collar, the inside and outside are inlaid with a layer of jade white, and there is a dark gold ancient dragon finch pattern on it, solemn and dignified.
Si Kou listened to Feng no longer as casually as when he hit Xue Qinshuang's emotional gossip news from the side, and even the Heavenly Whip on his wrist that could be turned into various weapons had been replaced, and a wide sword hung on his waist, and the sword blade was surrounded by a spiritual charm that had reached a considerable level of degree and purity, faintly stirring the surrounding qi.
In front of the courtyard behind the triple gate, the old man with white hair has been guarding the door, standing all night, with water droplets on his shoulders, seeing Si Kou listening to Feng coming, his eyes are complicated, he stroked his beard, and took the initiative to salute:
"I've seen the owner."
Si Kou heard Feng raise his hand to support the old man and said:
"The Fourth Master doesn't have to be so ......"
The old man put down his arm silently, and the two stood side by side, looking up at the courtyard together, Si Kou Tingfeng and the old man, who were no longer the same, were silent for a while, and then walked into the courtyard together.
The layout of the courtyard is very elegant, there is a table of eight immortals under the big tree in the courtyard, and there are three men sitting or standing next to the table, the youngest is already fifty or sixty years old, the temples are all white, most of them are already in their twilight years, and the breath on their bodies is as majestic as mountains and seas, but they seem to be imprisoned and fail to break out.
After hearing Feng enter, Si Kou walked straight to the table.
There was wine on the table.
Several people in this courtyard were silent, Si Kou listened to the flick of Feng's robe, and several strangely shaped weapons fell on the table, with a loud sound, respectively, a blue Emei water thorn, a thin and almost transparent short sword, and a twisted and circling Qimen weapon, the woman raised her eyes to look at everyone, and said softly:
"Masters, three days ago, when I was in retreat, some assassins bypassed the defenses and went up the mountain and directly touched my ashram.
"Look at it, do you recognize these weapons?"
The three old men did not answer.
Si Kou heard that Feng saw that no one answered, laughed at himself, and said: "There is still a stick of incense time before the start of today's ceremony, we have a lot of time, if the time for a stick of incense is not enough, you can add another stick of incense, it's a big deal to miss this time today, then it's okay, after all, we still have to make it clear." ”
Immediately sat down, raised his hand and poured himself a glass of wine, looked at his eyes reflected in the wine, and then leaned his neck to swallow the wine, poured himself a drink, but it was not as chic as before, the white-haired old man stood behind Si Kou Tingfeng, and he could see the bitterness from the woman's back, and the other three were silent, and did not look at the two people next to the table.
There was no one in the courtyard except them.
I could already hear the movement at the triple gate in the distance.
The disciples who are a little closer to the first village in the world know that a few days ago, Si Kou Tingfeng tried to break through to the third-grade grandmaster in retreat a few days ago, but under heavy guard, he was still approached by the assassins, and immediately broke through, although the three of them were repulsed, the general trend that he had raised for a long time also withered, and he failed to step into the grandmaster in one go.
This matter is secretly very involved, and the first village has been loose outside and tight inside for several days, and I don't know how many people have been working hard to find out all the clues of those assassins.
But who can know that the reason actually appeared in the three owners who personally taught Si Kou to listen to Feng's martial arts? Even the four village owners, who are the best at measuring the heavenly machine, never thought that this was the reason, and they only thought that the other party also had a master who disturbed the heavenly machine, and he didn't care.
At this moment, the fact that he always didn't want to believe in his heart was in front of him, and the old man kept trembling with his hands in his sleeves, closed his eyes with pain on his face, and didn't say a word more.
Si Kou listened to Feng but only drank, she drank very slowly, the wine entered her throat, and she always felt that there was an unrealistic and illusory feeling, this experience was far deeper than the stories she knew about the rivers and lakes, after all, the things in the story were other people's love and hatred, and she let go of it after hearing a sigh, and she would not worry about it.
It is only when it happens to me that I know what the pain is.
The bronze bell that the old farmer had obtained from the King of Chu was struck by someone.
The timbre is low and deep, and it can't help but echo between the mountains, and I don't know how many clouds and mist have been dispersed, and how many red maples have been shaken, Si Kou Tingfeng suddenly smiled and sighed:
"It's time......"
"That's right, but as a host, you can't make guests wait too long."
He shook his head, but laughed softly:
"I didn't expect that one day I would take the initiative to walk out from here, always walk down the triple gate here, always let me remember what happened when I was a child, Second Master, if I remember correctly, seventeen years ago, it was you who carried me on my back all night and carried me up the mountain, right?"
"That year, heavy snow almost blocked the mountain road."
"You are afraid that I will move, and you will wrap me with internal force along the way, but you yourself are very cold, but I sleep peacefully, you come to hug me, and I dislike you for being cold, and even your beard is frozen."
"At that time, your beard was already so long, but it was still black, and I have almost forgotten the coming and going of the picture when I was a child, but I have never forgotten that day."
An old man's lips moved, and even his gray beard trembled, but he did not speak.
Si Kou listened to Feng looking down at the wine and said with a smile:
"Since I was a child, you have protected me the most, playing around with me on your back."
"I wanted to learn light martial arts in the first martial arts, and you took me everywhere to play harm, but the master was angry that I didn't do my job, and I didn't teach me light kung fu until the end, and everyone could get up a few feet, step on the branches and catch birds, and I was still fluttering there, like a toad, and laughed for a long time."
The white-haired old man couldn't help but chuckle, then shook his head with self-deprecation, a sad look on his face.
Si Kou Tingfeng took out a prismatic mechanism from his arms, glowing with light purple, gently placed it on the table, pushed it in the direction of the old man who was squatting on the steps, and said calmly: "This heavenly whip was given to me by you when I was thirteen years old, Fifth Master, I have always used it to fight the enemy, and I have never lost when I was fighting with others. ”
"Only now I have to give it back to you."
The old man seemed to be completely indifferent to what was happening in the outside world, and he didn't react when he heard this.
An old man with a square face accumulated his depression to the extreme, suddenly got up, shook his sleeve robe heavily, and said angrily:
"Si Kou listens to Feng, what do you want to say?"
Si Kou listened to Feng looking at the old man, the corners of his mouth hooked, but his eyes were calm, and he said:
"Third Master, you have always been strict, do you still want to look down at this time?"
The old man snorted coldly.
Si Kou listened to Feng and looked up at the red maple falling one by one, and the other was also crumbling, and said:
"In the past ten years, you have treated me the most harshly, I complained about you more than once when I was a child, but the more I grew up, the more I knew that it was also a good thing to be strict with me, although you were not merciful in punishment, but you also did your best when teaching martial arts, and there was no hiding at all."
"People say that Master Yan is like a father, and I have always regarded you as the closest elder."
The square-faced old man's palms trembled, and his teeth clenched.
Si Kou listened to Feng while talking, while drinking, a pot of self-brewed drunk spring and autumn in the first village has been drunk, turned his head to look at the direction outside the triple gate, there is already a huge qi machine outside accompanied by the sound of laughter, from the bottom of the mountain all the way to the top of the mountain, the woman got up, and said: "The wine is also drunk, and the words are finished......"
"Several masters have raised me for twenty years, and I can't say anything about the words of grace and righteousness, but after the first village, I don't have to bother the masters anymore.
The old man was still as sluggish as a Mo family organ, and he didn't react at all.
The white-bearded old man, who was called the second master by Si Kou Tingfeng, also closed his eyes, as if he had accepted such a result, and sat quietly in his seat, although the qi on his body was huge, he did not have the slightest intention or idea of breaking through the confinement.
Only the square old man raised his head suddenly, looked directly at Si Kou Tingfeng, did not open his mouth to be angry, his breathing was short and undulating, and suddenly shouted:
"You're the only one, how can you carry this burden?"
"You're still so young, let alone a woman......"
Si Kou heard that the corners of Feng's lips seemed to be hooked, but he didn't smile, and said, "I see...... Did Uncle Mingda and the Third Master say it? Or does the third master feel that I can't bear the burden that the master has given me? ”
The old man Fang Zheng was emotional and said something that should not have been said, and he no longer cared about anything at the moment, got up and took two steps forward, looked directly into the woman's eyes, and said loudly:
"Not bad! The first village suppressed the rivers and lakes, how much suffering and how much endurance was swallowed, how can you know? How many grass dragons and snakes are only looking forward to the fall of the first village, and where can a young man like you be able to support it? You're not a big brother, how many grievances do you have to suffer, and how much advantage you may have taken advantage of for nothing?! ”
"Mingda is the son of the eldest brother, his martial arts are not low, and he has much more experience in walking the rivers and lakes than you, why can't he be the owner of this village? With the assistance of four of us, it is enough to suppress the situation, a manly man, even if he suffers a little! ”
"You can do what you want to do, go to your rivers and lakes, and see your mountains and rivers."
"If you are tired and tired, you can still come back to the first village."
"It's good for you and for him!"
Si Kou listened to Feng close his eyes and sighed, and said softly:
"The rivers and lakes, the mountains and rivers, it seems that in the two years since I left the villa, the third master, you have read the letters I wrote in the past......"
"Since I was a child, you didn't like people to hide things from you."
"You say it's for me, I believe it, you say that if you feel sorry, I'll suffer, and I also believe it, Third Master, you never tell lies, but if you say who it's for after all, you don't have to answer."
She opened a pair of cold eyes and said:
"It's better for the three of you to believe in him."
"So in order to let Uncle Mingda wear this Xuan robe, I asked a familiar master to interrupt my breakthrough and prevent me from successfully stepping into the grandmaster."
"There will be great chaos today."
"You hugged Uncle Mingda to suppress the chaos together, and you happened to be in power, since you have already done such things, why bother to find an excuse to expire yourself?"
The old man retorted subconsciously, but he couldn't continue halfway through his words.
Si Kou laughed at himself when he heard Feng laugh and said:
"I see you as a trustworthy and amiable teacher, and I think there is a friendship between us."
"But I never thought that the so-called friendship can also be divided into how thick and thin, twenty years of friendship is not as good as forty years after all, the friendship of carrying me up the mountain in the snowy night, and it is not as good as watching Uncle Mingda grow up and learn martial arts since he was a child, and become a biological son."
"So I envy Qin Shuang, because of her, I know that there are really rivers and lakes in the world where you and I are not compatible, and there is a friendship in the rivers and lakes that are like old friends for the first time."
"I also envy Wang Anfeng, if I were Master's daughter or granddaughter, I wouldn't have so many things, and if Wang Anfeng was just a disciple of the master of the Shenwu Mansion, would those generals of the Shenwu Mansion be willing to die for him."
"What they trust is Wang Tiance's bloodline, or is it the belief they once had when they galloped on the battlefield as the Shenwu Mansion?"
Si Kou listened to Kaede sigh softly, and then smiled.
"It's just that I can't know, but even if I'm a blood relative of the master, I will probably be regarded by the third master as a woman who can't do things, and still don't approve of it? But that's it, what more do you have to say? ”
"A few masters are good at giving birth to their bodies."
"And I will also carry up Master's long-cherished wish back then and suppress the turbulence in the rivers and lakes, which is the responsibility entrusted to me by Master."
She stood at the gate of the courtyard, stretched out her hand to push it open, and strode away.
The old man behind him was stunned for a while, grabbed the Heavenly Whip in his hand, watched silently, his palms trembled, and suddenly with a pinch of his hands, he kneaded the chain of the mechanism of the superior blade into powder, and then covered his face with both hands, and began to cry.
PS: Today's first update
3,800 words~ It took several days to finally adjust the update time again, isn't it better?
I don't know how long it will last. (?? _??)