Chapter 20: The Petite Man in Black
Longzang Village, located on the east side of the Ranshi Valley, is named after the Longzang Peak of Qinshan Mountain, and there are 12 families in the village, all of whom make a living by farming, raising cattle, sheep and poultry.
Mo Xiaoshuang is from the Mo family, which is famous for casting swords in Shushan, and has a good understanding of the Tai Chi Liangyi, the four phases, the eight trigrams, and the twenty-eight constellations. At the beginning, when Mo Xiaoshuang first moved to Longzang Village, with the help of his neighbor Qiao Sange's family and some villagers, he built three thatched huts facing north and south. Soon, Mo Xiaoshuang led all the villagers to select tens of thousands of flat bluestones of all sizes in the Troubled Stone Valley, and paved a winding bluestone path on the right side of the village, leading directly to the Qinshan Ancient Road; Villagers irrigate their fields, and they no longer have to go to the rocky river beach to fetch water.
The ancients: the place where mortals live, the left green dragon, the right white tiger, the former Vermilion Bird, the rear Xuanwu, for the auspicious treasure land.
For a while, the village with its back to Longzang Peak was filled with aura.
"Brother Mengyi!Brother Mengyi!", when Qin'er came to Longzang Village, it was already late, passing through the bluestone path full of fiery autumn leaves, standing outside the fence gate, Qin'er couldn't wait to shout.
No one answered.
As soon as he turned around, a man came over with a coulter on his shoulder,
"Third Uncle Qiao, isn't Brother Meng Yi at home?"
Yi'er told your Sanniang (Qiao San's wife) this morning that you must help your mother dig up a large piece of sweet potatoes in the field and take them back to the cellar at home in the past two days!"
Qin'er's eyes flickered: "Why?"
Third Uncle Qiao looked down at Qin'er, like a face covered with earthworms, full of love, blinked, and said with a smile: "I don't know! It's just that when Yi'er came to borrow a hoe this morning, there were tears in his eyes! However, Yi'er seems to have quietly told you Sanniang that he is going to leave his hometown after a while, and he is going to a far, far away place!"
"Ahh
"Thank you, Third Uncle! Qin'er is going to find Brother Meng Yi!"
Before Third Uncle Qiao could raise his head, Qin'er, who was wearing a purple skirt, flickered and disappeared.
On the western slope of Longzang Peak, on a large clean red and yellow stone, a wooden dragon knife was placed on top of a square stack of clothes.
Although Meng Yi only wore a white short coat, stepping on the soil barefoot, his red face was still a dense layer of fine sweat, holding the hoe high again and again, falling again and again, the earth under his feet showed smiling faces, grinning at this thin and thin, but so filial, so hard-working, so brave and strong young man.
Mo Xiaoshuang and Qiao Sanniang turned around and saw Qin'er tiptoeing over, waiting to greet her.
"Shh
Qin'er put her index finger on Yinghong's little lips and motioned to Erniang (Mo Xiaoshuang, because Meng Khotan is the second oldest in the family) and Qiao Sanniang to keep silent.
Mo Xiaoshuang and Qiao Sanniang were not far behind the young man, picking up and sorting out the sweet potatoes that had been dug up.
Qin'er pinned the meridian mandarin duck sword behind her, squatted beside Erniang, brushed the cuffs of the crimson ruffles, exposed her snow-like wrists, and began to pick up piles of sweet potatoes on the ground:
Wipe off the soil on the sweet potatoes, tear off the excess fibrous roots, and put them in the vegetable basket and stack them neatly.
Mo Xiaoshuang looked at the young girl in front of her, beautiful and lovely, and beautiful like a fairy, and looked at her slender hands like snow covered with black soil, and smiled slightly, she was not surprised at all.
For many days, Qin'er often accompanied Mengyi's brother up the mountain to chop firewood, dig potatoes in the field, and sometimes go to the market to sell vegetables!
Although Qin'er's white little hands are slender, her movements are extremely neat, with a shallow smile on her little pink face, she looks back at Erniang and Sanniang from time to time, and sometimes picks up a big sweet potato and puts it on the tip of her nose, "Uh-huh!"
Qin'er used both hands and kept picking up sweet potatoes......
"Huh!"
Qin'er, who was squatting on the ground, lowered her head and exclaimed, slightly surprised, why did this sweet potato grow so strange, stained with black soil, and actually grew five tender red little heads, Qin'er used her hands to plan, pull, "Oh my God!
Qin'er looked up and saw that Meng Yi was looking at herself with a wicked smile,
"Hey, hey, you're done!"
Qin'er stood up, opened her arms, stood up, shook the soil on her hands, smiled, and her little face instantly looked like a blooming pink lotus.
"Brother Meng Yi~!"
"Qin'er, you're done!" Meng Yi emphasized again.
Qin'er didn't care, she quickly ran to the stream next to her to wash her hands, poured three bamboo tubes of tea in a crockpot on the edge of the ridge, and held a small case together, first to Erniang, Sanniang handed a cup each, and then gave Brother Mengyi a cup, while gently wiping the sweat beads for the young man with a handkerchief, while playfully saying, "It's over, it's over! Just move your toes! What do you want to do?"
Qin'er glanced at Brother Meng Yi with disgust, straightened a few strands of green silk on her ears and temples, her eyes were bright, and her smile was like spring breeze and rain.
Under the sun, the silver ornaments on Qin'er's head shimmered with faint starlight.
Meng Yi: "Hey, hey!"
Meng Yi pretended to be stupid, drank all the tea in one gulp, smacked his lips, shook his head and said:
"The ancients said: Men and women don't kiss, let alone my feet...... Hey, hey, you're done~"
Before the words fell, Qin'er blushed, grabbed the cup, twisted her little body, and ran away.
Meng Yi looked at it in a daze.
Erniang and Sanniang glanced at each other, looked at each other and smiled......
In the evening, Meng Yi and Qin'er held hands all the way and jumped to the market to buy a piece of pork. After coming back, Qin'er and Erniang worked together to make chive cakes, made a pot of cabbage and pork stewed sweet potato vermicelli, and invited Brother Qiao and Sanniang to eat a room full of steaming and laughter.
It wasn't until the housekeeper Wei Changqing came to urge that Qin'er got up and reluctantly prepared to leave.
Qin'er likes Brother Mengyi's home, likes to stay with Brother Mengyi and Erniang, and she doesn't like to go back to the empty and cold big house in Yanfu.
Meng Yi took Qin'er's hand, "Uncle Wei, you should go back first! I'll send Qin'er home immediately!"
"Well, there is Young Master Lao!"
In Tianmen Town, the heroic and heroic courage of Meng Tian is already deep-rooted, like Wei Changqing and Zhou Hengtang, a few servants who used to work under General Meng Tian, will still habitually call the young Meng Yi the young master.
The twilight of early winter came early, Qin'er and Meng Yi walked slowly, holding hands, and when they walked to the Qilin bolt horse stake at the gate of Yanfu, it was already dark.
The two stood still, Qin'er turned around, raised her little face and looked at the young man, her eyes were bright, full of reluctance, and she seemed to have some desire to say something.
The young man was still holding Qin'er's hand, and suddenly said, "Thank you Qin'er! Don't go to the dangerous Longzang Peak to pick fairy spirit grass in the future!"
"Ahh
"Of course I do! Who hung a fairy grass on my doorring last night?"
Meng Yi stretched out his hand and gently scraped the tip of Qin'er's small nose.
Qin'er was shocked and said, "Ah! But~ I have been on Longzang Peak, but I haven't found the fairy spirit grass twice!"
Meng Yi pinched Qin'er's nose again, and said with a smile on his face, "You want to trick me again!
Qin'er: "I~"
"Come on, let's get inside, don't worry your dad!"
Meng Yi looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and said with the dragon knife on his back.
The young man turned around and waved his hand back, "Goodbye Qin'er!"
The boy walked into the twilight, his steps firm and determined, and soon disappeared into the boundless darkness of the night.
"Fairy Spirit Grass~" Qin'er muttered to herself, a little stunned, "Who will give it to Brother Meng Yi?" Listening to Brother Meng Yi's tone, it seems that it will be sent more than once!"
Fairy spirit grass, also known as Huixin grass in Qinshan, only grows on the sunny side of the dangerous cliff, blooms in four seasons, a flower plant, bright crimson, since the date of picking, fragrant from the ground, the fragrance is peculiar, rich and lush, light and elegant and slightly scented, awakening and refreshing, can make people quickly concentrate on wisdom, no distractions, the initial foundation of soul power cultivation, return the soul to the yuan, have a strong auxiliary effect.
Although the fairy spirit grass has such a miraculous effect, it will be from the date of picking, after the fifteenth day, the effect is exhausted and withered, and the flowers that have always bloomed beautifully will suddenly bow their heads and wither.
In Qinshan, only the peak of Longzang Peak in Tianmen Town and the Qifeng Baiju Rock two hundred miles away have found fairy spirit grass.
"Who could it be?"
"Whatever! As long as it's good for Brother Meng Yi, it doesn't matter!"
Qin'er turned around, a hint of sadness flashing in her eyes.
In fact, Shicai Qian'er always wanted to ask the young man if he was going to travel far away, but he was a little scared, so he never said it. I'm worried that if it's true, will I face a heart-rending separation? Brother Meng Yi didn't tell himself, there must be his reasons, if he didn't say it, I wouldn't ask.
There was a flash of sadness in Qin'er's eyes, and she curled her mouth slightly, and walked towards the west corner gate of Yanfu.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the east wall of Yanfu, and a petite black shadow flickered out, lightly on the head of a unicorn bolted to a horse pile, and flew away in the direction of Wangtianmen Bridge.
"Huh, who could it be?"
Qin'er turned around, hesitated slightly, took a moment, touched the meridian mandarin duck sword on her waist, tapped her toes, jumped on the top of the blue and black bolted horse pile, and twisted her thin waist with only one hand, flashed left and right, jumped vertically, and quickly chased after the black shadow.
Qin'er changed her shape, her body was as light as a feather, and her speed was obviously much faster than that of the black shadow, and as soon as she arrived at the Tianmen Bridge, Qin'er caught up with the man in black.
Seeing the man in black squatting down suddenly, Qin'er was startled, her feet froze, one flipped forward, her small body fell gently, and she was quietly hidden in the shadow of the white jade marble bridge railing on the bridge in an instant.
On the wide Yanwu Ping in front of him, the young man was striding forward, with an oversized wooden dragon knife on his back, which reflected a little light in the moonlight faint.
The man in black squatted in the corner of the ring, obviously not expecting to meet the boy here.
The man in black quietly looked at the back of the young man, his expression was focused and affectionate, although he was more than ten meters away, Qin'er seemed to see the tears flashing in the eyes of the man in black.
The black-clothed man is as tall as Qin'er, dressed in tight-fitting black, with only two eyes exposed by the black veil, and the figure should be a woman.
Qin'er felt a little strange, who would be a petite woman of this size in the Yan Mansion, she was curious, and she didn't realize that she half-squatted and moved a small step forward.
"Ding~"
The small tourmaline amethyst hilt of the Meridian Mandarin Duck Sword touched the stone railing, making a slight noise.
The man in black was obviously startled, shrunk down, squatted down, touched his right hand on his waist, hesitated, took out a short sword, his eyes were full of alertness, and looked at the railing of the stone bridge.
Qin'er's body was lowered, but her eyes were still on the young man in the distance.
If you don't look at it, you can just look at it, and when you see it, you almost jumped up.
But seeing that the young man had already stood still, at the same time as the man in black pulled out his short sword, a crimson golden light flashed under the young man's feet, and the Burning Sky Sword and the Three Realms Against the Wind Slash had risen into the air. Around the boy, one left and one right, suspended in the air.
The man in black was obviously surprised, he was stunned, he didn't pay attention to Qin'er's direction anymore, put away the short sword in his hand, leaned back into the ring, and took a step forward, as if he wanted to look more carefully.
The young man stood still, but he didn't look back, just silently looked at the place where the wind spirit stone had been lying and was distracted.
...... But the sound of two men quarreling,
Yu Qiao: "Boss, why are you so shocked? How can there be a killing machine? How can there be a sword energy?"
The headwind slash flashed, and it flickered side by side with the Burning Sky Sword: "Wood! Just a moment ago, I heard the sound of the sword breaking through the sky with the blade out of its sheath! I thought that someone would be unfavorable to the little master! Of course you can't feel it!"
Yu Qiao: "If you call me wood again, I won't let you be my boss!"
Xiao Bai's inherent stubborn disposition gradually appeared, and said: "You are originally a piece of wood! As a sword, although the young master can pull you out, you have no absorption ability at all! The little master can't force the soul power to your sword body, so he can't face the enemy in battle, and he doesn't have any spirituality, what is the difference between this and a piece of wood! Hehe! It is also said that it is taken from the blast furnace cave mountain, and fused into a high-grade otherworldly light and dark spirit bead, and refined for 7749 days, I bah!"
Yu Qiao: "Hehe! You are amazing! I can still let the young master hold me in his hand to practice offensive and defensive moves, you are as heavy as a pig! The young master can't even lift you stupid pig!"
Xiaobai was anxious: "I can flash the Savior! I~"
The young man turned around, his expression was slightly solemn, his voice was calm, and he said slowly: "Xiaobai, Wei Qiao, don't quarrel with the two of you! It's all because Meng Yi's cultivation is shallow, making you two bored for no reason, like a dragon trapped in a shallow, and your heart is aggrieved!"
"No!
"No, little lord, we don't mean that!"
Xiaobai and Qiao Qiao hurriedly explained,
"Let's go, tonight, maybe Master will come back!"
The boy turned around, his expression looking a little sad.
"Master?" Qin'er lowered her head, slightly puzzled.
The Three Realms Defiant Wind Cloud Yang slashed his body slightly, knocking the Fierce Sky Sword several meters away, and the Fierce Sky Sword flew back in an instant.
As soon as the young man took a step, the light of the headwind slash and the scorching sky sword suddenly retracted, and they both escaped and went to the ground.
Everything around them returned to infinite darkness.