Volume 1 Loulan Secret Words Chapter 7 Borrowing the Knife
This south lane where Lu Li lives, to be precise, is the most remote place in Loulan City, last year Li Chaonan also wanted to demolish all those broken houses and build a new house, but then he kept dragging it out because of the lack of money.
Li Sansan once secretly told Lu Li that his father actually took a fancy to the feng shui of this place, and behind this alley was a low sand dune, and the black water was forcibly divided by this sand dune and flowed out along this alley.
Therefore, Lu Li could hear the murmuring sound behind the house every night when it was quiet, and the stone slab in front of the house was moved by Old Man Xu himself piece by piece. All the way to the stone bridge, the whole deep alley even has a bit of the meaning of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
It's just that the slate is full of sand, which is not as fertile as the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River in Zhongzhou.
Lu Li only heard the noise of broken tiles, and saw that the dim light on the table was quietly extinguished, and the swordsman who had been sitting cross-legged on the ground also disappeared into the darkness, the pervasive smell of wine seemed to have been evaporated, and there was only a damp feeling of autumn rain in the air.
Lu Li suddenly had an illusion, he couldn't even feel the swordsman's breath at all, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.
The dark clouds in the sky rushed south as if they were being driven.
Heavy rain stopped.
The long moon, which was covered by thin clouds, suddenly came out, completely illuminating the dilapidated pile of tiled houses.
Lu Li had never seen such strange weather, and he had a dreamy feeling. He gently took off his shoes and walked to the window on the left.
The person who had just fallen into the pile of broken tiles jumped up at this time and stood on a roof tile room, and by the moonlight, Lu Li could still clearly identify his appearance.
The long gray braids, to be exact.
The white-haired old man who was at the door of the General's Mansion and had a relationship with him would not admit his mistake, because the long braid that almost hung down on his heels made Lu Li particularly impressed.
Lu Li could still clearly remember that the old man was walking very slowly, but it gave him an inexplicable illusion of pleasure.
At this time, his braids were a little messy, and his face was also stained with some mud, which made him look very embarrassed.
On the eaves opposite the white-haired old man, there stood a woman dressed in red, with a pair of guqin under her left armpit, her right hand twisting her fingers, and her eyes sharp. Her green hair had long since fallen out of her bun and was draped behind her in a haphazard manner.
The woman turned sideways, and Lu Li couldn't see her face from this angle. But this small and delicate figure reminded him of the pair of sisters who were recruited by the red sleeves.
The woman in red grinned, raised her hand and wiped the blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.
"When did the Nine Eunuchs of Qintian fall to the point where they were so embarrassed to even catch a remnant. Lu Li was frowning and guessing the identity of the woman in red, when he heard a voice coming from the roof in another place. A woman in black armor was sitting lazily on the beam of the roof, holding the knife at her waist in one hand and a jug of wine in the other.
The old man turned his head violently when he heard this, and the shocked look on his face flashed. He narrowed his sunken eyes, and pretended to be calm: "Wearing the black armor of the Yulin Army, you can hide many pairs of eyes. Report your name, old man, I have long braids, and I never cut off unknown people!" he said, the braid behind him suddenly twisted into the old man's hand like a living thing, and Lu Li only watched the braid suddenly separate, like a weed coming out of the mound in spring, and constantly intertwined, and finally became a sword shape.
"It's just a dying body that has just touched the threshold of the cross-sitting realm, and you dare to make a big statement in front of the old lady?" the black-armored woman stood up violently and raised her eyebrows. She threw away the flask in her hand casually, raised her hand and stroked the ponytail on her head, as if she was a little uncomfortable looking at the old man's strange hair, she simply brushed it with her hand again.
The woman in red gradually calmed down at this time, but she looked at the two of them a little puzzled, and frowned slightly.
"The old man is ordered to suppress the thief, what he is doing is the way of heaven, you are a person who deliberately conceals his identity by relying on this skin, you can't see the light at all, if you really want to intervene, then you will definitely not be able to get out of this city tonight!"
But the old man knew very well in his heart that there was still a head sitting in the general's mansion, and if he really fought to the death, he would definitely know about this movement. Besides, there is also the governor of Loulan who sits in Loulan all the year round, and he is the chief secretary of the Xuanjian Division, and he has an important position, if he really dies here, he will not feel good. It's just that the crazy woman just now fought with her life, but she was negligent, and now she can only delay the time and then see the opportunity to act.
"I didn't say I was going to meddle in this kind of, I just just looked at you like this, and I kind of, I wanted to laugh. You keep saying that you are ordered to suppress thieves, why do you have to run so far away, you see that you are an old bone, stay in that prison in Luoyang, sweep the floor, and do chores, isn't it beautiful?"
"I went to taste the dim sum of the red sleeves yesterday, and the taste is really average, and I don't know how your family started this business, and it is not easy to survive in this city. What she said was light and light, and when she heard it in Lu Li's ears, it was like thunder!
Red sleeve move! Sure enough, it's a red sleeve move! Then there is a chance that the woman in red is one of the sister flowers in people's mouths. But what about the other one? Although Lu Li had gone to Red Sleeves to eat several times, he had never seen the faces of the two women. Every time they stand in front of the door to solicit customers, they are covered with veils, so that people can't see their faces clearly.
However, what do they have to do with the remnants in the old man's mouth, Li Sansan once mentioned the word remnants in his ears, but it was only a sentence, because he had never seen them, and he didn't know who the real remnants were referring to, so Lu Li naturally didn't know it either.
"I, the Nine Eunuchs of Qintian, do things in the right name, when will it be your turn to point fingers from you, a rat who doesn't even dare to reveal your identity!" The old man laid out the score, as if he wanted to use the name of the Nine Eunuchs of Qintian to save some face.
You can't beat her, but that red-clothed remnant is one of the purposes of this trip, if she hadn't gone to the East China Sea for the adult, something went wrong, and her cultivation was damaged, how could she be so arrogant!
"Don't talk nonsense, if you want to fight, don't you feel disgusted to look at you like this?" The woman in red seemed to be a little impatient to listen, and she didn't flinch at all because of the words of the woman in black armor.
"The words are nice, don't think I don't know what you did secretly, even if the master in the Luoyang Palace turns a blind eye, don't stop the paper from holding the fire and burn you old perverts!" The woman snorted lightly, took out a pot of wine from her waist, poured a sip and continued: "Okay, okay, you fight, I'll go first." Tomorrow if either of you dies, hang his head on the city gate, and I will go and have a good time. The black-armored woman did not shy away from saying a word, then turned around and jumped into the vast darkness.
Seeing this, the woman in red instantly changed her posture, she tapped her toes, sat cross-legged, and the guqin she was holding was covered by her light hand on her thigh, and her green silk fluttered without wind.
Lu Li frowned, and suddenly felt an invisible coercion spread to his face from afar, he suddenly retracted his face, and took a deep breath over and over again, this coercion came too suddenly, so that he was not the slightest defense.
In the middle of the sound, the tip of the woman's right finger plucked the strings and flung away. I saw a knife shadow coming out of thin air from the strings, and the blade whistled, and there was a few roars of air tearing.
The old man held the sword in his right hand, and with one side pick, he picked aside the blade that seemed to be a conjugation. There was only a crisp sound, and the rubble beside the old man shattered.
The woman's gestures did not stop, her fingers flicked back and forth, the momentum was like a rainbow, and the blades came out one after another along the strings, like a shadow puppet in the theater, which made people dizzy. Lu Li only heard a series of broken sounds, and watched the old man dance the long sword intertwined with braids, fighting and approaching, until the rubble on the roof was completely broken, the old man made a horizontal sword movement, he tapped his toes, suddenly jumped up, and approached the woman in red.
The woman lowered her head and stroked the piano from beginning to end, without raising a look, until this time she raised her head slightly, and the left hand that had been hanging by her side suddenly hit the strings, and the sound of the piano suddenly changed!
After a string of bass, like mountains and flowing water, it climbed in an instant, and then fell suddenly, and the tune listened to Lu Li's ears, more like a tactful and extremely sad sound, ups and downs.
At this time, the wind blew up the woman's green hair, revealing her bright face. She closed her eyes slightly, looked down and smiled, but the corners of her mouth kept oozing blood, she didn't care, as if she was just intoxicated by the sound of the piano, everything in the outside world had nothing to do with her. The hands that danced on the strings stroked faster and faster, pulling out a series of shadows.
The blades grew stronger, overlapping over the course of these few breaths.
The sound of the piano stopped suddenly, and a sharp blade superimposed by countless blades stopped for less than half a breath, and after a full bow and arrow, it shot away.
The braided sword flying in the old man's hand stopped suddenly, and the intertwined white hairs suddenly retreated, weaving into a huge net at a speed visible to the naked eye, the old man raised his head sideways, raised his left hand slightly, and flicked a finger!
I saw that the huge net of white hair shrank for a moment, and then rushed towards the sharp blade.
Lu Lihe had seen such a fantastic scene before, but he felt that everything in front of him was a little too unreal, and he was dumbfounded!
Sharp blades and nets, like spears striking shields!
"I still underestimate your strength, an ordinary piano cultivator can actually raise a little bit of mystery. The old man looked at the blood oozing from the corner of the woman in red's mouth, and began to walk towards her. With each step he took, his momentum rose a point, and the huge net that had long since dissolved the blade was woven back into a braid and connected to the old man's hair.
The woman in red's face turned pale at this time, at this distance, even if she tried her best again, it would not be possible to cause him much damage.
"If you are willing to tell your sister's whereabouts, I can spare the lives of the group of people who are recruited by the Red Sleeves, and as for your cheap life, I can also consider keeping a whole corpse!" The old man walked up to her step by step, standing with his hands in his hands, it was easy to kill her now, but this was not the purpose of this trip.
The woman in red suddenly sneered, she put the guqin to her side, looked down at the fingertips that had long been stained red with blood, she suddenly brought her fingers to her mouth and licked them gently.
She turned her head again to look at the position of the Red Sleeves, her eyes suddenly blurred, and she began to talk to herself.
"Sister, Su Jiu is sorry for you. ”
"I may never have the chance to watch the sunrise in Dongzhou again, so you must live well for me. ”
She hadn't even raised her head to look at the old man.
"Little girl, go to death first. ”
The woman in red glanced at the guqin beside her one last time and said lightly.
As soon as she finished speaking, the guqin erected on one side suddenly trembled, making a hissing sound that shocked the eardrums, and the old man saw that the situation was not good, stepped on his front foot, retreated dozens of feet, and the braided sword suddenly came out of his back, and stabbed towards the woman's face.
Lu Li has been hiding in his room, watching this competition that he has never seen before, until this time, he was suddenly startled, the momentum mixed in the braided sword, even if he is a person who has no cultivation at all, he can feel it, he looked at the woman in red sitting calmly, this is clearly the rhythm of sending death! Lu Li inexplicably gushed out a sour smell in his heart, he suddenly turned his head violently, the corner was still quiet as usual, but it was a pity that he was cheap, and he couldn't be peaceful!
He walked to the door barefoot, and was about to open the door, when he saw that the saber that had been placed on the table suddenly made a piercing metal sound, and the long knife that had been touched by Old Man Xu for most of his life suddenly came out of the sheath at this moment, and the blade pierced through the old wooden door, like an inch, and flew out.
However, after a breath, the long knife was violently folded back into the scabbard along the original path.
It's silent.
"Whew!"
Lu Li seemed to hear a low cracking sound.
The white-haired old man turned halfway through, and the head with its long braids clattered and rolled to the ground!