Chapter 50: The Butcher's Knife
On the table in the back yard, a little boy of eleven or twelve years old was asleep, covered with a thick quilt over his body. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The purple sun is rising, and the slightly cool sunlight is falling, adding some coldness.
It's the middle of winter again!
Looking at this world, the little boy's eyes were gone, and his palm brushed the quilt sewn from animal skins on his body, and his indifferent heart trembled slightly, and a warmth especially rose.
"Let me stay with you for the rest of your life!"
The little boy said inwardly, in a heavy and slow tone.
I got off the long table, folded the quilt, and brought it to the room. The boy drew some cold water from the deep well in the courtyard. Holding the well water, the icy well water hit the face, and the biting chill seeped in, expelling the last trace of sleepiness.
Wiping off the water droplets from his face with a towel cloth, the little boy walked towards the kitchen, knowing that Aunt Xue had prepared breakfast.
The room was very clean, and there was already a pot of porridge on the table of the square table, which was very thick and fragrant.
The little boy sat down and served two bowls of porridge in a bowl, one in front of him and the other at the top, where there was a bench facing the door.
Putting the spoon back into the pot, the boy sat upright, his eyes slightly closed.
"Kid, are you ready?"
It didn't take long for a crisp voice to sound in my ears. The little boy slowly opened his eyes, looked at the woman sitting at the top, smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Ready." ”
He knew what the woman was talking about, when his father died of old injuries, leaving behind a butcher's knife, he left his experience in breaking through the realm of backers and his life's skills in solving beasts in the butcher's knife.
You need to know that backing the mountains is a city... The backer of a clan, in this mortal world, the backer is the top, and the world can only look up.
Five years ago, the man died, leaving behind a widow and orphan, and if it hadn't been for the head of the guard, the butcher's knife would have been taken away long ago.
That said, the butcher knife was saved. But those bigwigs once said that five years later, Pingyang City held a big competition, and the leader gave him a butcher's knife!
This is the butcher's knife party. And today, the five-year period has arrived!
"Well, if it really doesn't work, give them the butcher's knife. ”
Bai Xue nodded and said softly. For her, that person is her heaven, and when he gives his only son to him before he dies, he will take care of this child. Bai Xue lost her mind slightly, and said, "Today you are also twelve years old, and you are already an adult." In the future, your name will be 'Stone,' which he gave you, and he wants you to be like a rock. ”
"Yes!"
Shi nodded, in this world, every adult has their name, they don't have a surname. But those who are brave have only one word in their name! They are already independent.
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"Let's go. ”
Shi stood in the backyard and whispered. He held the butcher knife in his arms, and a layer of black cloth wrapped the butcher knife tightly, but there was also a calm aura emanating, and a compelling coldness loomed.
After breakfast, Bai Xue put away the stone pots, dishes and chopsticks, washed and put them away. The stone was removed from the butcher's knife that was inserted into the cutting board and wrapped in a black cloth.
The two of them went out, walked out of the alley, and then walked along the avenue, which led to the center of Pingyang City, the City Lord's Mansion!
The butcher's knife gathering took place in the square in front of the Castle Lord's Mansion.
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Today, Pingyang City is very lively, especially outside the city lord's mansion, a dense group of people gather together, there are many stalls on the edge of the square, the smell of strong incense wafts out, the white smoke like water vapor rises, and the hope dispels some coldness.
In the middle of the square, surrounded by a long red cloth, there were more than a dozen teenagers of seventeen or eighteen years old. The teenagers looked at each other with a hostile look in their eyes, each holding a butcher's knife in their arms.
In front of them was a high platform, on which sat nine people.
Sitting in the middle was an old man in a robe, with a ruddy face and closed eyes. He is the lord of Pingyang City.
On the left side of the old man, there is a middle-aged man sitting upright, who is the head of the soldiers of Pingyang City: Shield!
All nine were silent, their eyes closed. Suddenly, at that moment, the eyes of the nine people opened suddenly, and between the opening and closing, a flash of essence flashed. Their eyes were blazing as they looked at the avenue north of the city.
In their minds, there was a fierce beast that was stepping in, with a strong killing intent, even if it was as powerful as a shield, and its complexion changed slightly.
However, the square was still so noisy, and no one noticed this evil aura, or the owner of the evil aura did not mean to harm ordinary people.
"I didn't expect that kid to have the ...... of that knife"
Shield sighed, a flash of joy in his eyes. He knew that the child had finally grown up, and his shoulders were strong enough to hold up the sky. With that knife, these teenagers in front of him were no longer his opponents.
In the distance of the avenue, two figures came slowly, Shi was holding a butcher's knife, and behind him was Bai Xue.
"Are you finally willing to see me?" ...... the old lord murmured, his body trembling slightly. His gaze didn't fall on the butcher's knife, but quietly looked at the white-clothed figure, he couldn't remember how long it had been since he saw her......
"You're here?"
"It's coming!"
"Let's start when we come. ”
Walking under the high platform, the old city lord asked, but it was Shi who answered, and Bai Xue did not walk into the red cloth, but looked at Shi with a little worry. When her eyes swept over the platform, intertwined with the loving gaze, her face turned pale, her body trembled slightly, her eyes flickered, and she turned away.
"Why don't you forgive yourself? The old city lord murmured.
Maybe it was an illusion, when Shi turned around, he felt that the old city lord had aged a lot in that moment, and his eyes were no longer as sharp as just now, but revealed a faint vicissitudes.
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In the backyard of a house, there were several long, large, thick tables, which were extremely cleanly wiped and the top was full of knife marks.
A middle-aged man stood in front of a long table, his eyes were out of focus, and he held a butcher's knife in his hand, wiping it. However, he was motionless with the rag in his hand, thinking about something.
At this moment, a beautiful woman came out of the room behind him, dressed in plain clothes. The glamorous woman looked at the middle-aged man and lost her mind, so she walked to his side and shouted softly, "Brother Shi?"
After a few sounds, the man came back to his senses, looked at his wife beside him, the man smiled slightly, and said, "What's wrong?" ”
The woman shook her head and said with some concern: "I'm fine, what's wrong with you." What were you thinking about just now? I called you a few times before I came back to my senses. ”
"I'm just thinking about the butcher's knife party twenty years ago, and thinking about the days when I was dependent on Aunt Xue......
Putting the butcher knife in his hand on the table, the man sighed and said with some sadness. The scenes of the past twenty years crossed his mind, making him a little confused.
Looking at the man's gloomy figure, the woman felt uncomfortable in her heart, and said softly: "Aunt Xue is in the spirit of the sky, and I don't want you to be like this." ”
"Aunt Xue's illness, the old city lord told me back then, but I still can't let it go, if it weren't for those people pressing, Aunt Xue wouldn't leave. ”
Twenty years ago, the butcher's knife gathering ended with the victory of the stone. It was the butcher's knife in his hand, but there were still people who were thieves who did not die, more than ten years ago, when he went out of the city to hunt animals, he persecuted Aunt Xue, intending to forcibly take the butcher's knife at home.
Because of the sudden arrival of the old city lord, those people hurriedly retreated, but he... It's still too late, and Bai Xue has been forced to die.
Shi, who heard the news of Aunt Xue's death, rushed back to Pingyang City overnight.
That night, it was a bit cold, and the sky was black.
That night, many people died, or rather many people were killed. Although Pingyang Chengshi was not one of the strongest people at that time, the two giants of Pingyang City, the city lord and the shield were on his side......
That night, Shi learned that Aunt Xue was the daughter of the old city lord, but she didn't recognize him because she thought he had killed her mother.