Chapter Twenty-Four: The Incident Suddenly Stopped
Li Yuqi's parents' former home is located at the foot of a beautiful mountain, which is sparsely populated, but it can be called a very ideal place to live.
Seeing that they were about to return to their long-lost homeland again, the Li family's sisters and brothers had mixed feelings in their hearts, they were both excited and scared, and they didn't know how to face what was about to happen.
Looking at the extremely heavy expressions on the faces of the Li family sisters and brothers, Liu Ruotian and Mei Yuchen's hearts were not a good feeling, after all, everyone had been together for so many days, so they naturally knew how complicated and changeable their mood was at the moment.
In stark contrast, Mei Jiaxing, who has been concentrating on enjoying the charming scenery in front of him without distraction.
I heard him sigh involuntarily: "Oops! Brother Yuqi, I didn't expect your parents to really enjoy it, you see that the clouds and mist here are full of birds and flowers, it is indeed a very ideal place to live! ”
Mei Jiaxing saw that no one responded for a long time, and then said: "What's wrong with you, why are you all sad?" Hey, why don't you speak! ”
Mei Jiaxing always likes which pot is not opened and which pot is not mentioned, the parents of the Li family sisters and brothers have passed away for more than ten years, and this revisit to the old place has already made the two of them sad, where is there still leisure to take care of these.
I saw Liu Ruotian walking over quickly and covering Mei Jiaxing's heart and said to him: "Alas, Jiaxing, I said that you have a long heart, wow?" ”
"Brother-in-law, why do you have such a question?" Mei Jiaxing felt a little inexplicable at Liu Ruotian's questioning.
"Didn't I warn you not to call me brother-in-law again! No, that's not the point. Why do you still ask me? You tell me? ”
Mei Jiaxing replied: "Brother-in-law, are you okay, is your brain broken?" ”
"How is that possible, how can it be seen?" Liu Ruotian asked Mei Jiaxing in surprise.
"If you don't have a broken brain, why would you ask me such an outrageous question? And ask me if I have a long heart, of course I have a long heart, if I don't have a long heart, can I still stand here and talk to you alive? If you don't believe it, you're still pounding! Mei Jiaxing completely misinterpreted Liu Ruotian's words.
"Well, what more can I say to people like you? You've won! Liu Ruotian walked away very helplessly.
Soon, Liu Ruotian and his entourage of five people came to the door of the Li family's ancient mansion.
I thought that this place had been uninhabited for a long time and would become dilapidated, but it turned out to be the opposite, and at first glance it seemed to be inhabited.
The Li family's ancient house is generally composed of five wooden houses, and the main house of the wooden house is built on the north and south side of the mountain. On the outskirts of the five wooden houses is a fence wall surrounded by leafless bamboo, which is nearly two meters high. In the center of the fence wall are two gates made of thick bamboo poles, which are composed of two parts, the gatehouse and the gate, which are slightly higher than the surrounding fence wall. Through the gaps left by the fence wall, a path made of small stones connects the courtyard gate to the main house, and on both sides of the path is a meadow and several scattered vegetable gardens.
Just when everyone was puzzled by the scene in front of them, they happened to meet a local woodcutter passing by here, and he was about to go into the mountains to cut wood. Liu Ruotian and the others saw that someone was here, so they took the initiative to ask.
According to the woodcutter, the name of the owner of the hut is not yet known, and to this day outsiders are limited to his gender and approximate age. The owner of the cottage is a middle-aged man who has been living here for about seven or eight years.
In addition, the owner of the wooden house is extremely eccentric, and he rarely interacts with people outside on weekdays. He usually feeds on the vegetables he grows in the yard and all kinds of rare game in the mountains. He never told people where he came from or why he was here. People from the outside world deduced from his clothing and behavior that this person was probably a madman, and if it weren't for his helplessness and mental abnormality, who would want to live in an ancient mansion where someone had died?
After Liu Ruotian and the others learned about the bizarre experience of the owner of the wooden house from the woodcutter, everyone's hearts were full of curiosity and questions about him, and everyone wanted to see what kind of person this "madman" in the eyes of outsiders was.
At this moment, the door of the main room of the wooden house was slowly opened, and a middle-aged man about fifty years old walked out of the room.
This person is Su Changshuo, who has been retired to the rivers and lakes for many years and has hidden the "strange way of the world", and he is also the only person in this world who knows the whereabouts of Yingdie's sword so far.
I saw that Su Changshuo's hair was unkempt and gray-headed, and the surface of the clothes he was wearing was even more patched. After a closer look, I found that his sloppiness was far more than the above points.
Under Su Changshuo's messy hair, a thin and withered face was covered. This is a face full of sorrow, this is a face full of wrinkles.
His eye sockets have been deeply sunken inward because of the thinness and fleshlessness around him, which makes Su Changshuo's eyes particularly prominent. His nose was straight, but it didn't have much flesh. Both ears were blocked behind their hair and they did not see the light of day. On the entire face, only the lips that were cracked by dryness still had a slight hint of blood. And the beard on the chin is still messy, as if it hasn't been taken care of in a long time.
Looking at Su Changshuo's clothes and appearance, it matches his face very well.
I saw that he was wearing a hundred clothes similar to a waistcoat on his upper body, and the clothes he wore inside were old. Although there were not many patches on the pants worn on the lower body, they were deliberately torn open a few times, and the length of the cuff extended from the ankle to the knee. Looking at his hands, which seemed to have not been washed for years, and the pair of broken shoes on his feet, which had several toes exposed, really did not look like what a normal person should be.
Don't look at Su Changshuo's body, there doesn't seem to be any merit on his body, but the strange cane he holds in his right hand is quite special, and it doesn't seem to be extraordinary.
As Liu Ruotian and the others expected, this was not an ordinary cane, but a cane sword with a sharp blade inside.
The cane looks like any other cane on the outside, but there is something else to it inside.
The handle at the top of the sword is rounded, the entire scabbard is made of fine rosewood, and the top and bottom of the sword are protected by a thick metal shell. The length of the sword is about 90 centimeters, the length of the blade is about 70 centimeters, and the style of the blade is similar to that of a Tang knife. Its blade is slender and extremely sharp, with both sides of the blade already open.
When they first looked at Su Changshuo from a distance, everyone felt that he was living so hard, and they couldn't help but want to help him do something. But when they slowly pushed open the courtyard door of the wooden house and walked into the courtyard, and then saw the cane sword in Su Changshuo's hand, which was somewhat inconsistent with his identity, everyone's hearts were a little uneasy, and they always felt that something big was about to happen.
Sure enough, when Su Changshuo suddenly saw Li Yuqi and Li Shuqi, his temperament suddenly changed and his face was fierce.
When everyone saw that things were not good, they hurried to the door, but it was too late.
Su Changshuo first used internal force to close the courtyard door of the wooden house, and then jumped into the air with both feet, landing steadily with a clean front flip, blocking the way of several people. Then he used his palm force to grab both the Li family sisters and brothers into his hands, and the speed was so fast that he didn't have time to react at all.
From this point of view, the situation of Liu Ruotian and others is not optimistic.