Chapter 33: Kindness
Shui Qishan continued: "It's just that the teacher really wants to confirm whether the person who taught you martial arts is my benefactor?" I've been looking for him for years, and I haven't heard from him yet! Even if the person who taught you martial arts is not a benefactor of the teacher, it is possible that he has a great relationship with my benefactor. Apprentice, would you like to help the master and tell me where the person who taught you martial arts is now? ”
Seeing that the master's expression was sincere, the little beggar couldn't pay attention for a while, and said, "I, I ......" Shui Qishan's eyes were full of anticipation, waiting for the little beggar to wait for her to tell her the whereabouts of that person.
On one side is the respected master, and on the other side is the grandfather who promised first, the little beggar struggled for a long time and said, "I'm sorry master." I, I promised him, can't say it! ”
Shui Qishan's hope was disappointed again, his face was sad, and he said to the little beggar: "You are a good boy who keeps his promises, and I don't blame you for being a teacher!" ”
The little beggar was both entangled and guilty, and when he heard that the master did not blame himself, his heart was even more uncomfortable. Seeing that she was about to walk towards the door lonely, she stopped and said to herself: "However, I don't want to give up as a teacher, you think again!" "Then he got out of the Extremely Cold Palace.
After the master left, the little beggar thought about the whole thing again and again, missed his grandfather more and more, his heart was sad, and his body felt even colder, remembering the mantra that Xue Qiufeng taught her to resist the cold, he immediately sat down cross-legged and tried it.
This mantra is used in a place that is not cold, and it is not magical, but when I try it in the ice cellar-like extremely cold palace, the little beggar feels that his palms and feet are faintly hot. After two hours of luck, the heat hidden in the hands and feet has begun to slowly flow into the rest of the body, and the abdomen, heart, and head are all flowing with hot air.
Although this heat could not let her get rid of the cold immediately, it flowed in her body, like a lit fire, and it was very promising to burn. The little beggar said secretly: "This mental method taught by Senior Xue to resist the cold is really useful. The next time we meet, I'll have to thank her! ”
Shui Qishan didn't want the little beggar to starve to death in the Extreme Cold Palace, and the meal per day did not decrease. After the senior sister who delivered the meal left, the little beggar picked up the food, picked out a few clean clothes from the stone box, opened the mechanism on the mirror platform, jumped into the secret passage in the stone box, and went to see Xue Qiufeng again.
While running, he shouted: "Senior Xue, I've come to see you, and I'll bring my food to eat with you." The little beggar divided his meal into two and gave half of the meal to Xue Qiufeng, Xue Qiufeng saw the meal handed over by the little beggar, was silent for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears.
The little beggar was extremely hungry when he saw the food, and he wanted to swallow it in one bite, but Senior Xue cried inexplicably, scratched his head and couldn't understand the reason, and asked, "Senior Xue, what's wrong with you?" ”
Xue Qiufeng's face was full of tears, and he replied, "I haven't seen such delicious things for a long time. ”
Xue Qiufeng cried sadly, and the little beggar felt the same way, and said secretly: "Although this is not the best food, it is really rare to be locked up here and still be able to eat these." But why did she cry so sadly? Then he said: "Senior Xue, will the people who locked you up here also bring you some food?" What do you usually eat? ”
Xue Qiufeng said: "Every few days, they will send me some food, but those meals are things that dogs refuse to eat, I, I haven't seen such clean food for a long time!" ”
The little beggar suddenly had a slightly sour nose, and slowly sent the food in his hand into Xue Qiufeng's mouth. Xue Qiufeng sniffed the white and tender steamed bun in the little beggar's hand, only took a sip, and kept crying, refusing to move for a long time.
The little beggar comforted: "Senior Xue, you eat quickly, otherwise it will be cold." From now on, I'll share the food with you every day! ”
Xue Qiufeng chewed the cold steamed buns, the sweetness in his mouth, swallowed slowly, as soon as he opened his stomach, he felt that his stomach was like an abyss, and no matter how much he wanted, he couldn't fill it, gobbled it up, and gave the little beggar half of his own food, and immediately ate it.
The little beggar squatted on the ground, just about to eat his own half, when he looked back and saw that Xue Qiufeng's eyes were about to fall out, he endured his stomach, gritted his teeth and gave her his food again.
After eating, the little beggar patted his head, remembered something, and said to Xue Qiufeng: "Senior, I also brought some clean clothes, the clothes on your body are too torn, I'll help you change them!" ”
After speaking, the clothes he brought were brought to Xue Qiufeng and wanted to change them for her. But Xue Qiufeng's limbs were locked, how could he get it?
The little beggar held up his clothes, unable to find a way to get dressed, and sighed, "How stupid am I! Xue Qiufeng saw that she was kind, and suddenly her hands shook hard, and the iron locks on her two wrists were immediately broken.
The little beggar heard two "snaps", and Xue Qiufeng's two hands could move freely, and he exclaimed: "It turns out that the seniors can open the ...... by themselves."
Xue Qiufeng shouted, "Aren't you going to dress me?" Come here! This voice is very cold, and it is completely different from Xue Qiufeng, who saw the cold steamed bun and burst into tears.
The little beggar walked over and changed the clothes he brought to Xue Qiufeng. When she was changing her clothes, the little beggar saw that the scars on her body were dense, new and old, all parts of the body, and there were injuries on the wounds. Some were left behind by whipping with ropes, some were burned by red-hot shovels, and some were apparently caused by sharp weapons!
The little beggar put on new clothes for Xue Qiufeng, and helped her straighten her hair again, revealing a face that looked old. The little beggar looked at Xue Qiufeng and said secretly: "She is so pitiful, but her martial arts are so powerful, why don't you run away?" ”
Xue Qiufeng saw that she had something on her mind, and said, "Do you have something to ask me?" ”
The little beggar said, "Since the seniors can break free from the chains, why don't you run away?" ”
Xue Qiufeng exhaled and said, "Don't you want to run away?" It's just ......" the little beggar hurriedly asked, "just what?" Seeing her fierce face, she was slightly afraid.
Xue Qiufeng said: "Although I can break free from the chains, I can't escape from the Extremely Cold Palace. The little beggar rushed and said: "I understand, the seniors must not know how to escape from the secret passage, so they simply don't escape." ”
Xue Qiufeng said: "Yunshui Palace is extremely good at making organs, don't look at this room, it's unremarkable, as long as I break free of an iron chain and lock up my people, I will know immediately!" Sometimes when I was thirsty, I would break free from the chains and go to fetch water to drink, and they would come and beat me, curse me, and torture me. If I break free from the five chains and escape, there are many traps here, and before I can escape the mountain, I will be caught! ”
The little beggar said loudly: "In this way, you know that you will be tortured by those people, why do you still want to break free from the chains?" Aren't you afraid of them? ”
Xue Qiufeng said: "Afraid of them? I, Xue Qiufeng, will be afraid of them? It's a joke! I see that you are kind at heart, and I don't want to live up to your kindness! And I've been locked up here for more than 20 years, and I want to have the opportunity to wear such beautiful clothes again before I die. ”
The little beggar said: "I hurt you!" You've broken two chains, when will those who come to torture you come? I'm going to beg them to let you go. ”
Xue Qiufeng said: "Don't be too stupid, you're just a child, how can they be willing to listen to you?" And you ...... yourself, they're coming soon, you get out of here and don't be found out by them. You hide in the secret passage where you came at the right time, and they will come from another secret passage, and they don't know that there are actually two secret passages here! ”
The little beggar said, "But I ......," and before he finished speaking, he faintly heard a few people running towards him.
Xue Qiufeng is not as good as the little beggar's hearing, and she hasn't heard that anyone is coming, but she has been tortured for so many years, and based on experience, she can guess that those who are going to torture her are coming. Hurriedly said: "You go quickly!" When they find out, both of us will have a hard time! ”
The little beggar had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll come to see you again when they're gone!" With that, he was about to go out. Xue Qiufeng said: "Take the bowl out." Then he took off his clothes and gave them to the little beggar.
The little beggar walked to the secret passage, about a foot away from Guan Xue Qiufeng's house, and stopped again, thinking to himself: "Senior Xue said that those people who locked her up don't know that I have a secret passage here, I just need to keep quiet here, and they won't know that I am hiding in the dark." ”
The little beggar sat on the ground, played with the bowl in his hand, and after a while, he heard the footsteps of Shicai getting closer and closer, and the little beggar said secretly: "It turns out that there is really a secret passage in the place where Xue's predecessors are located, I don't know where it is?" ”
Then he pricked up his ears to listen to the direction of the footsteps of the men, trying to hear where the other secret passage was! The footwork of those people was fast, and the sound of landing sounded, and the little beggar could tell that another secret passage was in the southwest direction of him. Listen carefully, there should be three people who came and ran into Guan Xue Qiufeng's house together.
When the three of them arrived at Xue Qiufeng's house, they heard a woman's voice shouting in the room: "Call me!" Hit hard! Fight hard! After the woman finished speaking, there was a whip that swung up, and it fell heavily on Xue Qiufeng's body.
The little beggar listened to the woman's voice, which was extremely familiar, and whispered in surprise: "Isn't this the senior sister?" "After thinking about it, I never expected that the person who was Guan Xue's predecessor here was actually Senior Sister Shi Kezhen.
The mystery in his heart was reborn: "Why did Senior Sister Xue lock up Senior Xue here?" What is the enmity between them? Maybe it's a misunderstanding! Thinking of this, the little beggar could not think calmly at all, and ran to the stone gate of the secret passage, wanting to go in and ask what was going on.
The whip fell on Xue Qiufeng's body with a whip, and she didn't see her crying out for pain! Suddenly, he shouted, "Go farther!" Go a little further! The little beggar knew that she was talking and listening to herself, so she stopped.
I heard the senior sister ask inside, "What go farther?" Who are you talking to? Xue Qiufeng ignored her, but still shouted: "Go farther!" Go a little further! ”
Shi Kezhen said to the two who were whipping: "Go and find it, see what's so funny?" The two men answered, "Yes." The little beggar also recognized these two voices, the two senior sisters who often served by the master's side.