The world is not peaceful.

Fortunately, Hu Ji City is an important town in the north of Aquarius, because it has not been affected by the fire of the war in full swing, and there are many Gaomen Paste Clans who have rushed up from the south to the north, but Hu Ji City has shown a sick prosperity. The fall of the Southern Dynasty is imminent, the North Court is mostly nomadic in the grassland, and the household system of the Northern Mang Dynasty has collapsed for the most part, and it doesn't matter whether there is a road guide or not, in the troubled times, carrying real money and silver is more effective than anything, and if you want to enter a city to seek refuge, no matter what your identity, you have to honestly hand over a lot of tolls, and the amount of tolls is often directly linked to the height of the city wall. At this time, a man who looked like a scribe of the Southern Dynasty walked slowly in the flow of people, without the escort of the powerful servants and strong men around him, the ivory-colored white satin robe had already turned dusty, and the pedestrians on the road were not surprised. The scruffy man had neither a sword nor a sword, but if he had the leisure to look closely, a woman of a certain age who was more familiar with the affairs of men and women might have seen that the man had shaved off his beard and had a very handsome and weathered face.

Nowadays, the north is full of a kind of atmosphere of joy in time when the great disaster comes, and by the east wind of the fall of the family of the Southern Dynasty, many rich and noble women in the North Court who like to raise their faces have gained a lot, and I don't know how many young people in the Southern Dynasty have become their playthings. Just like at this time, a carriage pulled by two majestic war horses lifted the curtain, revealing a woman's face that was not even a middle-aged person, her eyes wandering, like an eagle falcon catching prey, and she circled down, and selected two weak scholars who were walking together, and as she stretched out her finger and pointed, the stout maid in the carriage quickly went to "solve problems" for the master, and called the leading knight among the eight horsemen, and whispered a few words.

The knight nodded, rode his horse and galloped, and broke up the crowd without any scruples, and when he reached the two young men who were in a hurry, the burly knight sat on the back of his horse and gently rotated his sword, which frightened the two people's faces white, and waited until the knight bluntly said the identity and intentions of his master, and then pointed at the carriage with the tip of the knife, and the two young men hesitated slightly, and the knight sneered and drew his sword, rubbing the tip of the knife with two fingers. The two quickly accepted their fate, followed the knight of the general's mansion to the carriage, and after sitting in the carriage, they were both embarrassed and relieved to sell their lives for safety. The woman who was still carrying the curtain glanced at them, the corners of her mouth were upturned, and her thin arms and legs were thin, although her arms were not necessarily as thick as hers, but after all, this was the taste of a scholar. She retracted her gaze and looked at the slender back that she couldn't let go of at a glance, hesitating whether to include another male pet, but the carriage that was already slightly crowded at the moment made her dispel this charming thought, and when the carriage that continued to move forward exceeded the person again, she thought for a moment, since she had lost that mind for the time being, she always felt that she couldn't be cheap The few girls in the city who always like to compete with themselves and be jealous, in case this person accidentally became their guest in the scene, how awkward would it be?

So she asked the sturdy maid to give a message to the team of servants to slaughter the man who had looked quite comfortable a moment ago.

In troubled times, life is not as cheap as a peace dog, and life and death are only between the thoughts of some people. As the wife of a powerful general, she lowered the curtain and pricked up her ears for the pleasant sound of a sword stabbing into her chest or chopping off her head altogether. If it was just because her husband was a member of the Aquarius State, she naturally wouldn't dare to behave like this, but when her man sat in this position because of her family's noble surname, then few people in Hu Ji City would dare to make irresponsible remarks because she had abducted a few refugees on the street and "mistakenly killed" a few untouchables.

But she waited for a moment, and did not hear the expected wonderful sound, and lifted the curtain in confusion, and the centurion of the guard returned to the window, bowed behind him and said with a shocked face: "Madam, that guy is suddenly gone!"

The woman was annoyed, "That guy can still have two legs faster than the four legs of a war horse?!"

The centurion's fear was not due to the woman's anger, but to his own treacherous experience, and he explained in a panic: "Madam, my subordinate has rushed to the man just now and slashed at him, but that guy just disappeared out of thin air!"

The woman frowned and muttered: "What the hell is it in the daytime? Could it be a hidden martial arts master? It doesn't make sense, our masters of the Beimang rivers and lakes have almost fought the Beiliang side, even if there are fish that slip through the net, they will either continue to serve in the army, or they will be absorbed by the Southern Dynasty clan as a guard." ”

Although the woman and her family are the best in the local forces of Aquarius, they are not arrogant enough to provoke those strange people who are flying around in legends, and the pinnacle battles of the masters of both sides on the Liangmang border are not too detailed, but they also let the world finally understand a bloody truth, a 10,000-strong enemy on the battlefield may not be able to determine the direction of a large-scale battle, but two or three, or even more than a dozen martial arts masters appear together, Beimang's 20,000 or 30,000 iron cavalry is not enough to kill, even if the 200,000 army wants to push further, it will be difficult to climb to the skyIt can be said that the woman who was as prosperous as the Beimang country had a gloomy face, and cursed a few words of the stubbornness of the Beiliang barbarians, especially the King of Beiliang who made Beimang suffer a lot, and was scolded by her a lot.

When the woman decided to settle the matter, she waved her hand to signal that the loyal centurion did not need to pursue the man, lowered the curtain, and suddenly noticed an unreasonable breeze blowing on her face, not only the woman, but also the sturdy maid in the carriage and the two scholars who were in the mouth of the tiger were dumbfounded, and the woman found that she was sitting next to an uninvited guest, her chest rose and fell violently, the waves were turbulent, and she turned her head with difficulty, looking at the strange man who was the previous dusty servant but could not hide his temperament, and the woman sitting on the embroidery pier was worthy of being a woman from a wealthy family, even if her fists were clenched and trembling slightly, but her face was still squeezed out of a smile, and raised his hand to stop the maid from coming back to her senses, and said with a smile: "This master, is it a robbery of wealth or a robbery of sex? No matter which one it is, the courage and courage of the master that deeply impressed the slave family is both robbed, and the slave family has also accepted their fate." ”

The man laughed at it and said softly: "I disappointed Mrs. Shentu, I only want a map of the two cities of Hu Ji Stone Tablet, the kind that is very detailed." ”

The woman smiled coquettishly and asked, "Ye is a spy of Beiliang?" The slave family is timid, if he is charged with colluding with Beiliang, he will destroy the nine clans." ”

The man's expression seemed to be a little impatient, but his tone was kind, and he said: "My time is precious, and I believe that Mrs. Shentu's life is also precious, and I don't mind if I can't get a map in half an hour, I don't mind......"

The woman patted her chest in a pretended to be a little woman, interrupted the man's words, and said pitifully: "The slave family is afraid of death, you are a hero who stands up to the sky, why do you want to go with a weak woman......?"

The next moment, his woman could no longer say a word, because her head and body were stuck to the back wall of the carriage, like a tissue paper nailed into the wall, and the whole person's face quickly turned from ruddy to pale and then to iron, like a fish that has been pulled ashore, and her life hangs by a thread.

The maid had already fainted, and she was paralyzed to the ground like mud, not knowing whether she was alive or dead. The remaining two young men who had finally fled from Longyi Prefecture to Huji City were silent and forced to shut up, for fear that every breath they could take would annoy this demon of unknown origin.

They saw that the man was a little "absent-minded" and "stunned", as if he was feeling something, and then a little disappointed, and after coming back to his senses, he calmly said to the woman: "Maybe I didn't make it clear before, but my time is actually much more precious than Mrs. Shentu's life. In the blink of an eye, when Madame promised to hand over two maps, I counted three times, and if I didn't get an answer, then Madame would be carried into the General's Mansion today. ”

The woman, who was about to suffocate to death, blinked her eyes with the last of her spirit.

She didn't know until today that it was so difficult for a person to blink.

The truth that made her feel desperate the most was another thing, her real life-saving talisman was not the high-spirited eight-horseman on the surface, but the old horseman who was not visible, the real second-grade little master, but the change in the carriage, the horseman was not aware from beginning to end, during which she intentionally or unintentionally raised her voice and "flirted" with the man around her. Could it be that this man, who should be less than 30 years old, is a first-class master? Is there such a number one person in Beimang Jianghu? Beimang Jianghu is no better than Liyang Jianghu where Jiaolong is dormant and far away from the imperial court, and there is no secret to speak of.

The man sitting cross-legged did not make any movement, and the woman, who was the concubine of the Shentu family, was able to regain her breath, and the man said calmly: "Mrs. Shentu, your horseman used to be a martial artist in the second-grade consummation realm, and he used a left-handed knife, but unfortunately he was severely traumatized in his viscera around the age of forty.

The woman's face was cloudy, and she regarded him as the enemy of the Shentu family who had been lurking for many years, and she knew her family well, otherwise how could she tell the old groom's background in one bite?

The man said with a slightly sarcastic smile: "The reason why I am talking about this is to tell Mrs. Shentu one thing, if there are extraneous branches, delay my time, and let a small general's mansion chicken dog not stay, it is really not difficult." ”

The woman gasped.

She sat upright, took off all her disguises, turned her head and asked in a deep voice: "This son, do you really only need two maps, and you won't kill me or kill people indiscriminately in the city?"

The man nodded, then closed his eyes.

The carriage stopped outside the general's mansion, and Madame Shentu had planned to let the old groom get the map, and she remained in the carriage as a hostage, but the strange man was so conceited that he let her get off the car, and even had to ask the servants to bring the map, so that she did not need to show up again. The woman was speechless and told the two weak scholars who were supposed to be the new leaders to get out, and she walked into the mansion in silence, and in less than a stick of incense, she retrieved the two-axis Beimang military map, and respectfully handed it to the man who was still sitting in the carriage, who opened the map and looked through it carefully.

Mrs. Shentu had the courage to look at this man secretly, his face had a softer outline than that of the man in Beimang's Beiting, but compared with the man in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, it was more angular, so it could be called handsome but not feminine, especially his beautiful double Danfeng eyes, when he squinted and looked at the map, it was particularly fascinating. After reading the map, the man closed his eyes and went through it in his mind, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he opened his eyes and handed it back to the woman, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Shentu is very trustworthy, and more than 40 private soldiers in the palace have not made hidden movements. I don't have anything to thank Madame for borrowing the picture now, but I believe there will be an opportunity to express my gratitude in the future. ”

The woman was afraid for a while, but fortunately when she left her man's study, she decided that it was better to have more than one thing, otherwise I am afraid that today would be the death day of many people in the house.

Just as she was overwhelmed with emotion, the man suddenly disappeared like a land fairy.

The woman suddenly smiled and said, "It is said that the King of Beiliang is not only one of the best masters in the world, but also very handsome, I think this brother is not too far from the King of Beiliang, right?"

If she knew that this person was Xu Fengnian, the king of Beiliang, she would definitely be scared to death.

Xu Fengnian was looking for a needle in a haystack in the territory of the Northern Mang Southern Dynasty at first, but soon realized that he and the sweet potato child may not have chosen to go south directly to avoid trouble, but did the opposite, first entering the north courtyard, and then patiently waiting and looking for an opportunity to go to the cool in peace, so he quickly went north. But even if the child was really in the North Garden, he didn't know whether the child was on the prairie or in a certain city. Xu Fengnian could only rely on his remaining instincts to search, and it was very likely that everything was in vain, in fact, if he searched Hu Ji City Stone Tablet City, even if he still couldn't find it, he would have to set off and return.

Maybe the child is no longer alive.

But this kind of "maybe" is actually the most possible, Xu Fengnian didn't dare to think about it at all, and he didn't dare to think about it.

One moment he may be watching the people on the street under the eaves of a secluded restaurant, the next he may be in an alley with the sound of a child's laughter, and then he will be standing on the roof of an inconspicuous high-rise building.

From the scorching sun at noon, to the beginning of the sun's westward setting, and then to the approaching of dusk, Xu Fengnian sat on the steps of a dilapidated ancient temple in a poor market in the northwest corner of Hu Ji City.

Along the way, he expected thousands of times and disappointed thousands of times, but even so, he never gave up.

Xu Fengnian told himself that his children must be waiting for him somewhere, waiting for his father, who is sorry for their mother and mother too much.

The ancient temple behind it has been abandoned for many years, and it does not show the Buddha's spirit, only a gloomy light remains.

There is a large open space in front of the temple.

Xu Fengnian was about to stand up, when he saw a group of children running not far away, some were three or four years old, and some were seven or eight years old, all of them were the most ordinary clothes and decorations in Beimang, they were carefree, and most of them were pulling inferior bamboo bone paper kites made by their fathers and mothers. Seven or eight children played kite-fighting, in the Jiangnan area of the Central Plains, regardless of wealth or poverty, children also like to fly paper kites, but they are all kites, unlike the current group of children playing with kites, which shows the kind of blood flowing in Beimang's bones. The paper kites in the hands of the children are all long and square thin boards, strung into tiles from the back, the painting is simple and vulgar, not tied to the tail and tied to the strings, with running and strong wind into the air, buzzing, rushing left and right, colliding with other paper kites to fight, if they are entangled, they have to cut the thread from each other, and the loser can only watch the paper kite fall into the distance, and then go to pick it up. Xu Fengnian looked up at the picture of the kite fighting in the sky, stunned, there were already a few kites broken and fell, and a childish child cried out and ran to find it.

Half an hour later, when it was time to eat, the children dispersed one after another at the shouts of their parents, and the winners of the kite fights were like victorious generals on the battlefield, and the losers were discouraged, thinking of going back to steal some more silk threads from their parents.

In the twilight, Xu Fengnian was stunned at a large open space.

Then the silence was broken by the sound of shredded footsteps.

In the distance, a short, thin figure jumped up, carrying a small, slightly damaged paper kite in his hand.

Seven or eight feet away from the steps, the sloppy child stopped, it turned out to be a little black charcoal girl about four or five years old, with a dirty face, in addition to paper kites, there were also some withered yellow cabbage leaves picked up from nowhere, most of them were a beggar, she stared at the roadblock sitting on the steps, revealing a fleeting vigilance, but soon returned to a cheerful and jumping posture, stepped up the steps from Xu Fengnian's side, and was about to enter the ancient temple. Xu Fengnian smiled, she may be sitting at the "door of the house" of others, no wonder she is a little unhappy.

At this moment, four or five children came running in the distance, the first one was eight or nine years old, leading the previous child who was hanging on the branch after the defeat of the kite fighting in the open space, after seeing the little black charcoal behind Xu Fengnian, he immediately made a noise, the child behind Xu Fengnian was vigilant enough, and almost immediately threw the paper kite into the courtyard, but unfortunately it still fell into the eyes of the children, and the children rushed up the steps with a bang, and the oldest one smashed on the shoulder of the little girl, snorted coldly, and threatened:" Thief, go and pick up my brother's kite, and then get down on your knees and beg for mercy!

The girl who was punched hard stumbled and almost fell, puffed up her chest and sneered: "Who is the thief? Your whole family is the thief! The paper kite fell on the tree, I climbed up to retrieve it, and I didn't see your name written on it!"

The much older boy slapped him, and the little girl tilted her head to dodge, and kicked the boy in the crotch with her foot, kicking him to roll on the ground immediately. The rest of the children who formed a gang began to beat this girl who had always been very annoying without saying a word, and as a result, they were entangled all the way, and they all beat her very lightly, all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and her wrists were bitten by her teeth for blood, of course, the skinny little girl was even more uncomfortable, and she was beaten and kicked all over her body, but in the end she still stood proudly at the gate of the broken temple, neither running nor crying, and continued to fight with them in a posture of no surprise.

Those children are not as good as her barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, scolding the "cheap species" and "beggars" and leaving in a huff, not forgetting to put all kinds of cruel words.

Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the little girl and waited for everyone to walk away, and then twitched painfully on the immature face that was oozing blood from the corner of his mouth, and then opened his mouth vigorously, stretched out two fingers, and pulled out a crumbling front tooth

Come, hold it carefully in the palm of your hand.

She glanced at Xu Fengnian with a surprised expression, rolled her eyes, patted her buttocks, turned around and jumped over the threshold with her feet together.

Xu Fengnian smiled dumbly.

Xu Fengnian stood up and continued to search in Hu Ji City, looking for a child who could vaguely see the moving woman's face, it could be like her eyes, like the bridge of her nose, like her lips, no matter what, as long as there was a resemblance

Good.

In the dead of night, Xu Fengnian found nothing, stood at the head of Hu Ji City, sighed, and prepared to go to the last city, Stone Tablet City.

For some reason, the expression of the little black charcoal pulling out his front teeth appeared in his mind, Xu Fengnian couldn't help but smile, and asked himself, why don't you go to see her again?

The gloomy temple, the dilapidated room with window railings, the narrow wooden bed, the crooked wooden bench, and a small pot on it, plus the small bag of grain hidden in the ground, would be one of her belongings.

But she was still very happy alone, and the dinner was a small pot of vegetables and leaves that she had picked up from the market during the day, and she thought it was very rich.

She sat cross-legged on the small wooden bed farthest from the window, looking up at the starry sky, with a quilted cotton doll resting on her lap, and this was the only little friend she could talk to in the world.

She sniffed suddenly, jumped out of bed with a swish, pushed open the door with a squeak, stood there and squinted, she saw a strange scene in the courtyard, the guy sitting on the steps in the evening was squatting in the yard to barbecue meat!

She didn't step forward, she just stood in the doorway and looked at the guy.

Xu Fengnian set up a fire and roasted a chicken, although there was no condiment, he was also tossed with golden butter oil, which was enough to make people's appetite move.

The little girl swallowed her saliva, but she just gritted her teeth and didn't move, and when the guy tore off a chicken leg and stuffed it in her mouth, she still held back.

Until the guy ate half of the roast chicken, she was still fighting between heaven and man, and when she saw that the man was going to attack the last fat chicken leg, she slowly walked to the fire and stretched out a hand, the meaning was very clear, I want to eat the chicken leg, you give

I.

Xu Fengnian ignored her, took a bite of the chicken leg, and his mouth was full of oil.

Little Black Carbon took a step forward and stretched out his hand again.

Xu Fengnian squinted at her and bit the chicken leg one by one.

The girl's eyes rolled, revealing an aura of cunning, and said, "This is my home!"

Xu Fengnian said vaguely: "It's just to borrow a place, and I'll leave after eating." ”

The girl said angrily: "Give me chicken legs!"

The girl hurriedly added, "There are only half of them left!"

Xu Fengnian glanced at her, "Shouldn't you add an invitation to ask for someone?"

The swarthy, thin little girl spat hard at the fire, then walked back to the steps and sat down.

Xu Fengnian threw away the chicken bones, wiped the greasy five fingers casually, stared at her wide-eyed, and didn't forget to burp on the ground.

The stubborn little girl sulked and the cool breeze was blowing, and although her hair was dirty and stiff, the sparse bangs were still swept by the breeze, revealing a high forehead, which looked particularly fair and smooth compared to her muddy face.

In the end, it was the little girl who was the first to be defeated, and went back to the house to sleep.

Xu Fengnian sat in the courtyard, like an old monk in his meditation, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Several times she stepped on a small wooden bench and peeked through the window without curtain, until late at night when she crept back to the cot.

At dawn, the little girl gently pushed open the door, but saw that the annoying guy was still in her house and did not leave, and she did not dare to drive away, so she simply treated him as if he did not save zài, and did not look at the heart and was not upset, carrying the broken paper kite and following one by herself

The old tree climbed up and jumped on the roof, lifted the paper kite high above his head, and ran around like a tireless little wild cat.

Xu Fengnian stood up, stretched his waist, and looked up, the little black charcoal was looking at him condescendingly, with indifferent eyes, and full of scrutiny that was extremely inconsistent with her young age.

Xu Fengnian and Yan Yuese asked, "Your father and mother are gone?"

The child was like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, and said angrily: "Your father and mother are dead!"

Xu Fengnian was a little helpless, "Then you don't go out to beg yet, the early birds will have worms to eat, otherwise you won't be afraid of starving to death?"

The little black girl sneered: "You want to take care of it?! Also, you are a beggar! I! no!"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "If you don't beg for a living, can you still steal and rob?"

The little girl scoffed, "You know a fart!"

Xu Fengnian didn't speak, the child on the roof who was struggling to survive in the bottom floor market was obviously very good at observing words and feelings, this is a keen intuition that is almost instinctive, she can fight with those children who are a few years older than her, because once she shows her timidity, it means that she will always be bullied by them, last year her cotton puppet was stolen by them while she was not at home, her small pot was also hidden by them, and they often threw stones into the window, but she obviously didn't dare to really anger the adult man in the yard, her habit of knowing advance and retreat may be an innate talent, but it was forced out little by little by the situation of loneliness and helplessness。 She was willing to steal and pick up leaves, but she just didn't want to be a little beggar on the street setting a bowl, and she didn't know why. This year, she was able to go to the knee-high creek outside the city and try to use a sharp wood to spin fish, or in the wild to use a dustpan to buckle birds and dig wild vegetables, and she felt that when she was older, she would definitely be able to do more.

Anyway, she can live well alone, and she can slowly wait for her to grow taller before going to do that big thing.

Xu Fengnian saw that the little girl with a stubborn temperament suddenly sat on the edge of the roof, put down the paper kite, shook her little legs, and looked south with her cheeks.

Xu Fengnian swept to the roof and sat down, and after half an hour, she suddenly woke up, turned her head and asked with a puzzled expression, "Hey, why did you climb the tree too?"

Xu Fengnian was silent.

She moved her buttocks, as if she wanted to move farther away from him, but in fact, she gently lifted two broken tiles with her right hand and clenched a small wooden knife, but she never let Xu Fengnian see it.

Xu Fengnian still looked into the distance and asked with a smile: "What are you doing hiding a small wooden knife on the roof?

Her face changed suddenly, and she stood up suddenly, facing Xu Fengnian, holding the knife in both hands.

Xu Fengnian couldn't cry or laughed, and laughed at himself: "Whether you believe it or not, I'm not a bad person, well, to be precise, maybe a bad person, but I definitely won't have any bad intentions for you, you can calculate it yourself, what is worth it to me."

Is it a wooden knife, is it a small broken pot, or is it a broken house?"

She smiled innocently, saying yes, yes, and waving the wooden knife a few times. But Xu Fengnian didn't need to look at it, and he could clearly feel that she was still tense.

Xu Fengnian wondered a little, was this child bullied miserably by being displaced over the years, otherwise how could he be so "sophisticated"?

She sat down again with a smile, and took out a blunt blade from under the tiles, and took the initiative to shake it at Xu Fengnian, as if showing off her might, saying I have a knife.

She saw that Xu Fengnian hadn't turned her head, she relaxed a little, and began to sharpen the knife, the small wooden knife was still a semi-finished product, and she had to continue to "refine the knife".

Xu Fengnian found that this little girl would be quite meticulous after focusing on one thing.

Xu Fengnian couldn't help but smile, remembering what he was like when he was a child, probably like her at some times?

He chatted with her without a word, asking and answering, and she didn't speak for the most part.

"What's your name?"

No response.

"Do you have any friends?"

"Of course!"

It's the cotton puppet who lives on each other.

"How old are you?"

"Why are you asking this?"

"You made this little wooden knife yourself?"

She rolled her eyes, displeased with his knowingly questioning.

"Your wooden knife is too different, it is straighter than the Mang knife, narrower than the Liang knife, and thinner than the famous Hao Da Ping of the Southern Tang Dynasty......

"Hey, hey, why are you babbling like a?"

Xu Fengnian was silent.

However, for the first time, she took the initiative to ask, "What kind of knife is Nantang Hao's strong peace?"

Xu Fengnian smiled and patiently explained: "It is a saber that resembles a large-scale battle array slashing sword, which was once very popular in the Southern Tang Dynasty royal family, and several famous war knives in the world have been used for reference. ”

The little brunette glanced at her mouth, her face full of disdain.

Xu Fengnian asked curiously: "With your skills, it is enough to deal with those children yesterday, and you still need a wooden knife to defend yourself?"

The little girl hid the blade, rested the wooden knife on her lap, and the more she looked at it, the more happy she became, and she couldn't put it down, and hummed, "It's my birthday, this is a gift for myself." ”

Xu Fengnian quipped: "Little girl, you don't treat yourself badly." ”

The little girl was furious, turned her head to look at Xu Fengnian, and grinned: "What a little girl!

Xu Fengnian stroked his forehead and was speechless.

The little girl suddenly said: "By the way, don't blame me for not reminding you, my father is the most powerful master and hero in the world, killing people without blinking, if you dare to provoke me, I will let him beat you to death when I turn around!

This secret!"

Xu Fengnian smiled and asked, "Is your father really so powerful?"

The little black girl's whole little face was full of pride, and she sighed: "Ten stories are so high! No, it's a hundred floors! Are you afraid?"

Xu Fengnian was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "I don't believe it, if your father is such a high master, you will stay here and not even eat a chicken leg?"

She was silent for a moment, and then word by word burst out from between her teeth, "No, Xu, you, say, I, Dad!"

Xu Fengnian turned his head and looked at the extremely stern immature face, he was in a trance for a moment.

She confronted him.

Xu Fengnian smiled and admitted defeat, stood up, walked to her side, and wanted to reach out and touch her little head, but she dodged it.

Xu Fengnian said softly: "Little girl, I'm leaving, I'm going to Stone Tablet City to find a child who is about the same age as you, she must look as good as her mother." ”

She waved her hand in an old-fashioned manner, smiled and said, "Go, go, let's meet again." Don't be so stingy next time you meet, otherwise you will be angry and be careful that you can't find your daughter-in-law. ”

Xu Fengnian was afraid of scaring this little girl, so he didn't go straight to the Stone Tablet City in a flash, but gently jumped into the courtyard, pushed open the courtyard door, and waited until he reached the dark corner of the alley before suddenly disappearing.

The little girl with black charcoal who didn't know her name didn't have any sad feelings, and when Xu Fengnian left, she breathed a sigh of relief, slowly squatted down and pouted her little buttocks to hide the short wooden knife, and said in pieces: "Draw the knife and cut off the water."

Flow, pull out the knife and cut off the head, the blood is even more ......"

With the paper kite on the roof, she slipped back to the yard along the tree and started her day.

It is not always easy for a helpless orphan to survive, so she first went to a courtyard two blocks away to help an elderly couple clean up the house and clean the courtyard, and with some difficulty helping them carry water

The tank was filled with clean water, and the couple's son and daughter-in-law were cart vendors who often traveled long distances, returning home once every ten years, and would settle more than a dozen copper coins for her when the time came, and sometimes even give her credit. When she was done with her work, she was going to go all over the streets

Wandering, hearing which family will have a red and white wedding in mind, can secretly rub a meal is a meal, the two markets in the middle of the month, often have a bumper harvest, the best luck, she also picked up in the Lantern Festival lantern market in early spring

She had seen a bulging cotton money bag, and that was the first time she had seen silver, broken silver, a very small one, not as big as her fingernails, but it still made her happy to this day. But if you don't get anything in the city, you have to go to the city

I remember that at the end of last year, the river froze, and I saw someone chiseling ice and fishing out a lot of fat fish, which looked relaxed and comfortable, and only needed to squat on the ice, so she also went to try

Once, she almost froze to death, but she was rescued by a kind passing vendor, and that unforgettable lesson let the child know a truth, her luck is not good, so don't expect God to be generous to her.

A skinny little black girl just spread her feet and ran happily in Hu Ji City.

Back to the deserted ancient temple in the twilight, she had some more vegetable leaves in her hand and a bag of knowledge caught from the tree, today God opened his eyes, and at noon in the east of the city he sneaked into a wedding banquet for her, she felt that her mouth was now full of that small piece of pork

It's a pity that she is already very fast at the speed of cooking, but she still didn't wait for her to finish eating a whole bowl before she was carried out and thrown out of the door.

In the night, Xu Fengnian stood at the window and saw the little girl frying a pot, humming a little song with her back to him, "Cut off the head to hold the wine, dig out the heart and liver to braise it, cramp and peel the skin to steam, it tastes beautiful."

Ah, but it's not as crispy as it is fried...... As the days go by, I'm growing up day by day......"

Xu Fengnian couldn't cry or laugh, but when he watched the little girl carefully grab a fried and put it in her mouth, looking at her thin back, imagining that she was probably very satisfied at this time, and he was not soft on others or himself

I started to feel sad.

People live for a lifetime, and when they become adults, whether they are suffering or blessings, they can't complain about their parents in heaven and earth.

But she's only that age.

Xu Fengnian sighed, he still didn't find anything in Shibei City, it stands to reason that he should return to the Beiliang Army immediately, but on the way back, the ghost made the gods think of this small black charcoal, and inexplicably returned to the ancient temple of Huji City.

The little girl turned her head suddenly, saw Xu Fengnian outside the window, was stunned, and then continued to move her cheeks, eating delicious fried knowledge.

Gluttony and gluttony all pay attention to a non-seasonal food, but poor families have to eat in season. If it rests in the high-ranking valve, fried is also a partial dish that is not on the table but is also quite vulgar and elegant.

The little girl asked curiously, "You didn't go to Stone Tablet City?"

Xu Fengnian nodded.

She hesitated for a moment, obviously distressed but pretended to be generous and said, "Are you hungry? Have you eaten?

Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "Okay." ”

The little girl obviously wanted this guy to answer that she had eaten, but she couldn't change her words, so she had to beckon to Xu Fengnian bitterly, there were still seven fried in the pot, she dialed four to her side, and glanced at the guy out of the corner of her eye

and gave him another one.

Xu Fengnian squatted face-to-face with her, picked up a fried and put it in his mouth, not to mention the tastelessness, there was a kind of earthy smell without seasoning, but Xu Fengnian remembered for no reason that he had walked the rivers and lakes with Lao Huang, no

Before you know it, a smile appeared on your face.

She proudly asked, "Delicious, isn't it?"

Xu Fengnian nodded and said, "It's delicious." ”

She patted her stomach and pretended to be heroic: "I'm full, and I'll give you the rest." ”

After Xu Fengnian ate the four fried ones, he shook his head and smiled: "No, I'm more hungry than you." ”

She tilted her head and asked, "You really don't want to eat it?"

Xu Fengnian snorted, and looked around while she was eating the fried food, while the little girl took the opportunity to look at him.

She clapped her hands and asked, "Do you want to cool off?"

Seeing that Xu Fengnian did not object, she took this guy who was neither hated nor afraid in her heart, climbed a tree and climbed onto the roof, and lay down together and looked at the starry sky.

She whispered, "Don't you have a home?"

Xu Fengnian put his arm on his head and said with a smile: "Yes, and it's bigger than your home." ”

She pouted and said, "Hey, hey, don't brag, my family is still small, such a big land, it's all mine." ”

A meteor streaked across the sky.

The little girl quickly closed her eyes and made a wish.

Xu Fengnian said softly: "Make a wish, what wish?"

The little girl rolled her eyes and said, "Didn't your father and mother sue you, and it won't work if you say it!"

Xu Fengnian looked at the incomparably gorgeous summer starry sky and said softly: "Sue you, in fact, whether you make a wish or not, whether you say it to others or not, it doesn't work." ”

The little girl quickly snorted a few times, and turned her head to glare at the crow-beaked fellow angrily.

Xu Fengnian smiled apologetically, "That's my own experience, maybe you're different." ”

The two were silent for a long time.

She suddenly asked, "Have you ever ridden a horse?"

Xu Fengnian said: "Of course, I have ridden a horse at a very young age. What, you want to ride a horse?"

She lowered her voice and said mysteriously: "I'll tell you a secret, my father has many, many horses, my father has 10,000 horses, no, 100,000 horses!"

Xu Fengnian laughed and teased: "Little girl, do you know how many 100,000 horses there are? If you let the horse run next to the horse, you can see it from a high place, and the horse's back is like the earth." ”

She muttered, "That's right." ”

Xu Fengnian lay on his side, looked at her and said, "You invited me to eat four fried chickens, I can promise you four wishes, for example, you can say let me invite you to eat a chicken leg, let me give you a tael of silver or something, I will try my best to satisfy."

How's it going for you, am I a decent guest?"

The little girl shook her head and said seriously: "My mother said that she should treat people with sincerity, but I gave it to you to eat, not to sell it to you." Besides, if you really sell it, you can't sell a copper plate. ”

Xu Fengnian reached out and pinched her cheek.

The little girl didn't refuse, but she didn't give Xu Fengnian a good face, she suddenly sighed, "I ...... when I was a child"

Xu Fengnian couldn't help but interrupt her words, "You are also very young now. ”

She glared and continued: "When I was a child, my mother said that it was very southern, and every summer, there would be something called fireflies, flying around, but it was beautiful!"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Yes, the poets over there like to call them night candles, night light or sedum or something like that." ”

She blinked her eyes, shiny and shiny, and asked curiously, "Do they really glow? Why? I asked my mother, and she didn't tell me, saying let me ask my father, but my father ...... Don't sue me. ”

Xu Fengnian replied very seriously: "That's because the firefly tail has a light sac, which emits yellow-green fluorescence. ”

Xu Fengnian added with a smile: "Your father is really stingy enough, and I won't tell you about it." ”

She raised her fist and put on a posture like I'd hit you if I said anything bad about my father.

The little girl sighed.

Xu Fengnian sighed for no reason.

The two continued to remain silent.

Xu Fengnian cocked Erlang's legs and enjoyed this rare peace.

Since the beginning of the war, in the past four years, there have been endless battles and smoke, endless war drums and horses' hooves, endless battles, and countless people.

Maybe in the future, history books will use the words "spectacular" to describe this war, but as the authorities in it, no one can really take a breath.

Xu Fengnian has always felt that he is much worse than Xu Xiao.

That's how it is to lead troops into battle.

When you are a father, this is even more so.

Xu Xiao's father, left him a hereditary king of Beiliang, 300,000 iron horses, and gave him Xu Fengnian a full twenty years of youth and frivolity, in Beiliang, his Royal Highness the prince used to be more carefree than being a prince.

This is the so-called house of goodness, and there will be afterglow.

And when it's his turn to be a father, where are his children?

Is this the aftermath of the house of evil?

A soft voice came from my ear, "Homesick?"

Xu Fengnian said with emotion: "Yes." ”

The little girl imitated Xu Fengnian and lifted Erlang's legs, swaying and shaking, humming a temporary new tune intermittently, "Fireflies, fireflies, follow me home obediently......"

Anyway, it's upside down, just a lyric.

I don't know how long it took, Xu Fengnian, who couldn't hear the singing, found that the little girl had fallen asleep.

Afraid that she would catch a cold, Xu Fengnian took off his robe, moved softly, and covered her.

Xu Fengnian looked at the sky, and it was dawn all night.

The little girl, who had been huddled in a warm robe all night, woke up yawning, and when she saw the man sitting cross-legged, she didn't know what to say for a while.

Xu Fengnian turned his head and asked with a smile: "Little girl, do you want to go to my house to play, take care of food, clothing and sleep?"

She said with a look of disdain: "No." ”

Perhaps she was afraid that it would hurt someone to refuse other people's kindness so neatly, so she grinned and said, "I'm sorry, I can't mess around." ”

Xu Fengnian reached out and rubbed her messy hair like a little chicken nest, "It's okay, I'll come to play with you in the future." ”

"Next time you come, can you bring chicken legs?"

"Yes. ”

"Retractor?"

"Okay. ”

Adults and children pull the hook very solemnly.

Xu Fengnian's smile remained unchanged, but he quickly got up and looked in the direction of the city gate.

The little black girl first followed her line of sight, then looked around, and suddenly her face was bloodless.

Hundreds of black dots flew directly on the rooftop, jumping forward, straight to her little home.

Xu Feng explained in a young voice: "Don't be afraid, those people are looking for me." I'll definitely help you find a safe place to keep the chicken thighs to eat every once in a while. ”

Previously, he roamed rapidly in the territory of several states in the Southern Dynasties, and even if Beimang was watched by qi practitioners, he would not be able to seize the opportunity to mobilize troops and horses to intercept it for a while, but the Aquarius Prefecture in the hinterland of Beiting was different.

Looking at the situation, not only did the cobwebs be dispatched, but also several elite iron horses galloped over.

It's just that the little girl's lips trembled, and she said in a trembling voice: "No, they are all looking for me." ”

She suddenly pushed Xu Fengnian and shouted sharply: "Run, you run!

Xu Fengnian looked stunned, looked down at the child who was in a hurry for some reason, she grabbed his cuffs, raised her head and choked with red eyes: "My mother is gone, Uncle Xu is gone, Brother Tong Guan broke an arm for me, I hurt it...... Let's go, let's go......"

Xu Fengnian was struck by lightning.

The little girl let go of her hand, hurriedly pulled out a long and narrow wooden knife from under another tile on the roof, hurriedly stuffed it to Xu Fengnian, raised her arm to wipe her tears, squeezed out a smile and said: "You can run as far as you can, if,

I mean, if you can find my dad one day, tell him that this is a gift from me, and my name is Xu Nianliang, and my nickname is Little Sweet Potato. ”

She grinned brightly, "My father's name is Xu Fengnian, he is the King of Beiliang, it's very powerful, isn't it, I didn't lie to you, right?"

Seeing that the black dots were getting bigger and bigger, she pushed the fool who was holding the wooden knife and didn't move, and said angrily: "You are not leaving?!

Xu Fengnian slowly squatted down, his forehead pressed tightly against hers.

At that moment, he hugged her, and he not only burst into tears, but also whimpered and sobbed.

The cobweb spies who entered Hu Ji City with a certain death mentality settled on the rooftops nearby, and seeing this scene, this large group of cold-blooded dead soldiers were also a little dumbfounded.

The King of Beiliang who made the entire Beimang Dynasty tremble, the invincible man in the world who seriously injured the martial god Tuoba Bodhisattva and has not yet recovered, is crying?

The encirclement was accumulating layer by layer, and it became thicker and thicker, but everyone in the cobwebs of the dead knew that in front of this man, they were just pawns who used hundreds of lives to delay time slightly.

The little girl named Xu Nianliang had a resolute look in her eyes and clenched the short wooden knife in her hand.

Xu Fengnian let go of her and did not wipe the tears on her face, but reached out to help her wipe her dirty cheeks.

"I'm sorry. ”

The two spoke in unison.

The little sweet potato means that she has involved him, a stranger who is not bad.

She just didn't understand why he had to say sorry.

But if you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, anyway, it looks like the two unlucky eggs are going to die here.

She didn't want to cry in front of those northern barbarians, stared at his face, and smiled: "It's okay, don't worry, I won't laugh at you, everyone is afraid of death, you see I cried just now." ”

Xu Fengnian stood up, lowered his head, and carefully put on the narrow wooden knife carved out by the child one by one according to the shape of the cool knife, and hung it on his waist.

He said softly, "I found you, little sweet potato." ”

Inside the city are cobwebbed dead soldiers.

Outside the city, there was a cavalry army of about 10,000 men.

The sun rises in the east, and the eastern glow is slowly advancing like a tide.

Xu Fengnian put one hand on the head of the little sweet potato, looked into the distance, and said softly: "Little sweet potato, my father failed to protect your mother, but he will definitely protect you." Today, we go home together. ”

The child stood beside Xu Fengnian in a daze, and then cried.

This is the first time since she was sensible that she cried so heartbreakingly.

Even when she left Dunhuang City separately from her mother, she was very sensible and did not cry, even if she saw Tong Guan's brother being cut off his arm, she just covered her mouth and did not dare to cry.

She cried loudly: "You didn't protect your mother, so I don't call you father!"

"I miss grandpa, if grandpa is here, I will definitely let him beat you. ”

"You're the biggest villain in the world, give me back the wooden knife, I won't give it to you!"

"I don't want to make a wish to grow up and find you soon!"

Xu Fengnian's eyes were cold and he looked at those spider web dead soldiers, listening to the angry words of the sad child, this world-famous King of Beiliang, his lips trembled slightly, he wanted to speak and stopped, and finally did not say a word.

He clenched his fist with one hand, and the palm of the other hand rested against the rough handle of the long, narrow wooden knife.

At this moment, even if ten Tuoba Bodhisattvas at their peak blocked the way, even if all the first-class masters in the whole world appeared here to be his enemy, even if Beimang could still have a million iron horsemen in front of him.

Xu Fengnian is not afraid!

Xu Fengnian still burst into tears, but his smile became more and more.

Little sweet potato, I found you.

Elder Xu Feng exhaled and was about to let go of his hands and feet to fight, when he was suddenly pulled by her cuffs, and he squatted down, his eyes full of doubts.

She sniffled, lifted her little hand, and helped him wipe away his tears.

Xu Fengnian stared at his daughter, the little sweet potato in his eyes was swarthy but more beautiful than all the children in the world, and smiled: "You are not bragging, your father Xu Fengnian is really a master as tall as a hundred floors." ”

After saying this, the vision of heaven and earth suddenly rose.

Hu Ji Cheng.

Except for this temple.

It's a whole city of Huji.

High-rise buildings are torn and soaring, stone walls are torn upward, and trees are uprooted and floating.

Mixed with all the weapons in the city.

Almost all dead things rise into the sky.

Then on this small roof, he wore a long narrow wooden knife at his waist, and a small sweet potato carried a short wooden knife.

This is a father and daughter.