Du Jie got up very early the next morning, and after he went downstairs, the family downstairs hurriedly greeted him: "Little boy, you got up really early, do you plan to have breakfast or do you want to go out for a walk, do you need a villain to accompany you?" ”

Du Jie said no trouble and walked out of the welcome building, it rained heavily in the middle of the night last night, and the air outside was excellent. The big and small families have already started to get busy, and when they saw Du Jie walking over, they hurriedly turned around to give a salute, and Du Jie also nodded in response. Those who practice martial arts in the morning are nothing more than breathing and breathing. Du Jie looked left and right, trying to choose a quieter place. And at this time, I saw a thousand-year-old cypress not far from me.

This cooper was washed by the rain last night and looked alive. Du Jie felt that this Gu Bai Xia was good, so he drew a place here, and began to think about things while spitting. Wait a while, I will have to compete with the young master of the Huai family, although the master said that he is an excellent gun, but he really does not have much bottom in his heart, if he really loses like this, then he must give up the gun, and he must not hand over the gun that his grandfather handed over to him in vain. And he also heard Master say that the reason why the Huai family is so eager to want the Nine Dragons Soul Chasing Gun is nothing more than that the Huai family is now in decline and urgently needs a big tree to rely on, and Master and Tianjimen are this big tree!

He thought of this and patted the ancient cypress beside him with his hand, but when he took the first shot, he found that the bark of this ancient cypress seemed to have traces of being crushed by gravity, he felt curious, and carefully touched it with his hand, to make sure that it was crushed by someone and reconnected, to see the extent of the bark dry was obviously last night, and it seemed to be more than this, Du Jie looked along the trunk little by little, and found that there was a half-cut rope left on the crown of the ancient cypress branches.

Du Jie looked left and right, and saw that no one was looking at him, so he tapped the trunk of the tree with his foot, and landed lightly on the ancient cypress, because it was early in the morning, and the ancient cypress was luxuriant, and the light was not particularly good. Du Jie couldn't see clearly for a while how the half of the rope was broken. He held the trunk of the tree with his hand, trying to take the rope over and take a closer look, but as soon as his hand touched the trunk, he felt that he felt a sticky liquid, Du Jie put his finger in front of the light in front of him, and found that the roll was some dry blood, and he took it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it.

"Sure enough, it's blood, I don't know if it's human blood, but unfortunately it doesn't have a nose like the sixth one. It's really strange, it must have been not so long ago that the blood clotted, what happened at that time? ”

Du Jie wanted to continue his search to see if he could find anything, but suddenly he heard footsteps not far away. He thought about it for a while, felt that it was better to be silent for the time being, and flew down from Cooper. After a short while, a family member ran over in a hurry, and saw Du Jie shouting happily: "Master, you are here!"

Du Jie pretended to collect the credit, looked back at the family Ding, the family Ding also seemed to be anxious, and said without waiting for Du Jie to finish the posture: "Master, the old gentleman has already gone to the front hall for dinner, are you going together?" Let the villain bring it to you. ”

Du Jie muttered in his heart: This Huaijia's breakfast is really early enough. He said to the housekeeper, "Don't bother, I'll go to the front hall by myself." After saying that, Du Jie glanced at the half-cut rope on the ancient cypress out of the corner of his eye, and then left here.

Leaving the welcome building, going out of the middle hall into the front hall, and happened to meet his teacher on the way, Du Jie ran over and said, "Master, I found something interesting in front of our welcome building. After speaking, he told him what he had seen.

Tianjisuo was also stunned after hearing this, thought about it and shook his head and said, "The rain was too loud last night, and I also seemed to hear something. Forget it, this is in Huaijiabao after all, don't mix it with other things. With the master, he went to see Huaichou and discussed the matter of the next competition. ”

This little episode passed like this, the two walked to the front hall just to see Huai Chou sitting in the front hall and didn't know what he was thinking, his lady accompanied him to sit on the right hand, Huai Chou and his lady saw Tianjisuo hurriedly greeted him and said loudly: "I was saying that I was going to send someone to find the old man, but I didn't expect the old man to come over." ”

Tianjisu smiled and said to the head of the house: "I am already uneasy to disturb the master of the Huai family for a day, how can there be any reason to wait for the master's family to call." ”

Huai Chou also smiled: "Then invite the old gentleman and the young knight to dinner, and then discuss the competition after the meal." ”

"Excuse me."

The big families along the river generally eat some seafood in the morning, not to mention the owner of the bad fort. The silver crab soup with a table of side dishes also made Du Jie happy. As far as food is concerned, Du Jie is really not particular at all. There were really not many days when there was wine and meat during the northwest march, and even if there was really wine and meat, there could be any good cooks in the army, and naturally they would not be able to make any taste. When I returned to the Central Plains, I didn't have much chance to taste the delicious food. Although the vegetarian dishes in Garan Temple were good, the list was tasteless. Only when you arrive at Huai's house can these two meals be considered a delicacy.

was eating, a little guy ran over in a hurry, lying on Huai Chou's ear and whispered something, Huai Chou was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and then whispered with a sinking face: "What you said is true?" The little guy nodded again and again, and waved his hand to let him go down.

After the little guy went down, he smiled ugly and said to Tianji, "The old gentleman eats first, I have something to deal with, so let Neiko sit down with you first." ”

Tianjisu said: "The master of the Huai family has something to do, just take it easy. ”

Huai Chou nodded, got up and ordered his wife to go out, but this walk lasted almost half a day. When he finally waited for Huai Chou to come back, he was still ashamed and apologetic. When he entered the door, he hugged his fists and said to Tianjisuo: "I'm really sorry for the old man, because Huaibi is a little unwell, I went to take a look." It's a shame to delay for so long. ”

"Oh? What happened to the young master of the Huai family? It's not a big deal, I also know some Qihuang techniques, do you need the help of the old man to take a look? Tianjisu said politely

"Oh, don't bother the old man, the doctor has already seen it and taken the medicine, it shouldn't be a big deal, but I'm afraid I won't be able to compete today, I want to be cheeky and want to ask the old man to stay for a few more days, and when Huaibi's body recovers, how about arranging for them to compete immediately?"

"This ......" Tianjisu touched his beard with his hand, and after thinking for a long time, he nodded and said: "Okay, it seems that this is the only way, then I will beg for mercy in your mansion for a little longer." ”

"So, thank you old man."

Du Jie listened carefully next to him, knowing that he didn't seem to be able to compete today, although he was a little pity, but the master said to wait, then wait a little longer, anyway, grandpa said that he would listen to the master for everything.

Tianjisuo and Du Jie came out of the front hall and returned to the welcome building, and along the way, Tianjisuo kept persuading Du Jie and said that he should wait patiently for a few days, and now the competition is a little invincible. I'm afraid that this little young master is a little too stressed, and he has crushed himself to the sick.

Du Jie nodded indifferently, he was now anxious to go to the ancient cypress to take a look, Du Jie and Wu Qi's temperament is very similar, he likes to find trouble very much, if he encounters something and does not intervene, he will definitely be uncomfortable.

When he returned to the welcome building, Du Jie walked under the ancient cypress again. Looking up, "Huh? What about the half-cut rope? It's not good......" Du Jie screamed in his heart, and hurriedly flew up and climbed up again. After looking carefully, there was still any trace of the rope, even the sticky blood stains were long gone, and all parts were brushed clean with water.

Who's going to get this thing away? What do you not want to see because you are afraid of being discovered by yourself? Could it be that his every move was seen, or maybe it just happened to hit a time gap? This place is so close to the welcome building, will it have something to do with us? What the hell is going on.

Du Jie squatted on the tree and thought about it, and unconsciously passed the time of a stick of incense, and then Du Jie really felt that there was too little news, so he had to give up.

At this time, it was already three strokes in the day, and Du Jie stayed in the welcome building and was bored, so he took a leave of absence from Tianjisuo. Tianjisu also knew that his apprentice was a little wild, so he nodded helplessly and agreed. In this way, Du Ming's family went to the market to visit the bustle.

Leave Huai's house and turn right, and soon come to the market. At this time, it was the time when the crowd was boiling, all kinds of cries and selling were endless, Du Jie came to this kind of place for the first time, and he had been listening to Wu Qi say how fun and lively the market was, and when I saw it today, I felt that it was really the case, Du Jie was still a child's heart, and after a while, he was attracted by these many things.

A large part of the market along the river sells seafood, and some fishermen who eat by the river get up early to sell the fish and shrimp at this time, and Du Jie is here now.