The lame white horse appeared on the street in front of Nanshu Academy that led directly to the city gate.

Two reddish horses followed.

Fifth, Tingyun led the white crane and walked on this street that had been walked countless times. The streets were still bustling, and the great turmoil that had taken place in Jiaqing City did not seem to have any impact on this distant city. The streets, the houses, and even the people here are the same as they were a few months ago.

The only difference is that many restaurants and inns have put up red banners outside. The bright colors were so bright that the Fifth Tingyun saw the contents of the banners as soon as they entered the city.

"Congratulations to our city Nanshu College for its achievements in the entrance examination!"

"Congratulations to Nanshu College on reaching new heights!"

"Congratulations to Nanshu College for its good results, and the champion of both civil and military subjects is in the bag!"

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Such a banner was almost pulled from the street to the end of the street, and the content on it was almost the same, which made Dai Qinglian very excited.

"Wow wow, fifth brother, do you feel like being welcomed by the middle of the road and returning home. ”

"Fifth brother, look, it's talking about you again. ”

"Fifth brother, why don't you say these people on the street recognize us? ”

"Lian'er knows that the fifth brother is very powerful, and Lian'er also has to learn from the fifth brother, and next year she will get the top prize in both subjects and then come back for a walk. ”

"Fifth brother, you laugh at it, look at those banners, they are all praising you. ”

Dai Qinglian, this girl, went all the way down, and her mouth never stopped. Fortunately, the fifth Tingyun has long been accustomed to her mouth, otherwise she would have to be annoyed to death. Sometimes the fifth Tingyun even thought: Lian'er talks too much, and Xiaojie doesn't speak, it would be nice if the two of them were neutralized.

Of course, he also knew that it was just a matter of thinking.

It's strange to say, now the fifth Tingyun, walking on the streets of Jiaqing City, five or six out of ten people will recognize him. But when he returned to his hometown and walked on the street for so long, no one recognized him. The people on the street shouted and shouted, and bargained, and no one paid attention to them.

The street was straight, and the three of them soon arrived at the gate of Nanshu Academy.

Under the gate, a few students from Nanshu Academy were walking outside. The two people passed by, and suddenly the students stopped, and said directly to the fifth Tingyun: "The fifth brother is back?" Without waiting for an answer, several students immediately rushed back to the academy, spreading the news of the fifth Tingyun's return throughout the entire Nanshu Academy.

Fifth Tingyun smiled slightly, and led Dai Qinglian and Bai Jie to continue walking inside.

Bypassing the front teaching building, the three of them came to the Champion Stele Forest. Fifth Tingyun looked up and saw that two new stone tablets had been erected outside the stele forest, and at the top of these two stone tablets, his name was impressive. He looked at the back of the two stone tablets again, and there were also two stone tablets with the words "Fifth Tingyun" written on the tops.

These four stone tablets are his testimony in Nanshu Academy in the past three years.

Standing under the stele, he suddenly felt a lot of emotion.

Not long after the three of them stopped in the Champion Stele Forest, people from the academy surrounded them one after another. Some of the students who were familiar with the Fifth Tingyun before happily greeted the Fifth Tingyun, as if to announce to everyone that he knew this year's double subject champion.

It made him proud.

At first, it was just the students who came around, and eventually even some teachers came.

Fifth Tingyun glanced around, and immediately found He Yueming, who was standing behind the crowd and was looking at him benevolently at the moment. He didn't care about greeting everyone around him one by one, trotted to He Yueming, and hugged him directly: "Thank you, Teacher He." ”

In moments like these, he uttered words that were hidden deep in his heart.

After the accident of the fifth clan, He Yueming's care and protection for him always kept in his heart. This time I came back to Nanshu Academy, firstly to avenge Bai Yibing, and secondly, to meet He Yueming and express his gratitude.

He Yueming stroked the head of the fifth Tingyun like a loving mother, and said with wet eyes: "Good, good, good." You are the pride of your teacher and the pride of your father!"

In the enthusiastic cheers of the students, Fifth Tingyun deeply felt that he was a member of Nanshu Academy for the first time. My own honor is also the honor of the college, and it is the honor of every student in the college......

That night, under He Yueming's arrangement, the fifth Tingyun and Bai Jie had a temporary residence.

And Dai Qinglian herself is still a student who has not graduated from Nanshu Academy, and her dormitory is still there.

Branches on the moon.

After sending off the students who did not know how many waves came to congratulate him, the fifth Tingyun closed the doors and windows and turned off the oil lamp. After waiting for an hour, the temperature outside the house had dropped, and the whole academy became much quieter. At this time, the fifth Tingyun had already changed into a night suit, and jumped out of the window with a sword in his left hand.

In the moonlight, he came to the white window and knocked three times.

After a while, Bai Jie, who had changed into night clothes, also came out with the Guanghan Sword open.

Two thin black shadows stretched out of Nanshu Academy in the cold moonlight. The two rode together, and the white crane limped three times and ran wildly, and soon arrived at the fifth city of the neighboring city. Fifth, Tingyun left the cripple three outside the city and entered the city with Bai Jie.

The streets were deserted at midnight, and there was no one else to be found on the streets, except for the occasional prodigal who had no money and was driven out of the green building to sleep on the streets, and the homeless people who had already taken the sky as their bed and the earth as their bed. The two of them took advantage of the moonlight to bypass the bright lights, and under the guidance of the fifth listening cloud, they soon arrived outside the gate of the Zhao Mansion.

Whew.

A cloudy wind blew.

The bright moon, which was originally bright, was suddenly covered by a large dark cloud at this time, and the cold moonlight could not penetrate the clouds, making the entire Zhao Mansion shrouded in shadows.

A few barks occasionally sounded in the night.

With the help of the perception of the detached sword spirit, the fifth Tingyun found that he could actually hear the heavy snoring in the Zhao Mansion. He didn't know that in addition to the perception of the sword spirit beyond ordinary people, such a keen perception was inseparable from his increasingly profound cultivation.

Under the darkness of the moon, two figures climbed over the courtyard wall of the Zhao Mansion.

The Liren Sword was slightly unsheathed, and the Guanghan Sword emitted a cold light.

It took the two of them a stick of incense to finally lock Zhao Dengke's bedroom. Two black shadows sneaked into the room, and the Liren Sword and the Guanghan Sword mercilessly cut off Zhao Dengke's neck. The second young master of the Zhao family died quietly in his sleep.

After doing what they had to do, the two black shadows returned the same way, and after leaving the city, the two did not go back to Nanshu Academy, but galloped directly to Nanshu Mountain.

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In front of Bai Yibing's grave.

Two bloody swords were stuck in front of the tomb, and the blood on the blades had not yet dried due to the temperature. The twin swords were stuck in the ground, and the blood flowed silently downward, eventually seeping into the dirt.

Fifth, Tingyun and Bai Jie both knelt in front of the grave.

Fifth, Tingyun took out a jar of wine brought from the city, opened the mud seal, poured some on the ground first, and then raised his head and drank two large sips. The gurgling sound sounded, and at this moment, the fifth Tingyun seemed to remember the happy and leisurely life that Bai Jie's grandson and the three of them spent here. Although those days were short, the fifth Tingyun could not forget it.

Bai Jie knelt beside him and didn't say a word......