Today, in front of a dilapidated courtyard in Jixiang Lane, an unusual "uninvited guest" came.

Therefore, whenever a neighbor walks through this alley, it is inevitable that they will look sideways, some people are amazed by the person's appearance and bearing, some people point out that the widow of the Mu family still can't bear the loneliness after all, some people wonder if the woman is climbing the high branch to fly on the branch to be a phoenix, and some people are glad that the orphan and widow finally have something to rely on.

There are also elderly people who live in this alley and come over to join in the fun:

"Hou Sheng, look at your dress and be a scholar, you are thin-skinned, don't worry, the old neighbors in the neighborhood will help you knock on the door, and you can ask for a glass of wine afterwards."

The middle-aged man with a dusty temperament and a slight stubble on his face just smiled and said gently: "Thank you, uncle, I didn't mean that." ”

The old man was interested, and asked, "Then why don't you linger in front of someone's house?" Don't you know how many widows are right and wrong at the door? ”

The man smiled and replied, "Just wait for one person, there are many widows in front of the door, and the heart does not move with it." ”

The old man who knew the family situation of this family suddenly lost his temper, "Hey, you are in this later life, you can let the storm beat you violently, stand still, and finally pat your ass and leave, but the orphan and widow A little breeze and drizzle is the last straw that crushes them, have you ever thought about it?!" ”

The man laughed: "I thought about it, that's why I stopped outside the door, at least nothing can be that straw when I stand here!" ”

The old man sneered unceremoniously: "It's really the old dragon king yawning, are you the Huangzi Gongqing, or the king and grandson!" Young people, don't know the sky is high and the earth is thick! ”

didn't give the man any chance to speak, the old man turned his head angrily and left, and didn't forget to throw out a sentence:

"Even if you really like a widow, what is it, Dafang admits it, it's a big deal to take the mother and son away from home, so pretentious as a seven-foot man."

The man was speechless, unable to laugh or cry.

Suddenly, there was movement behind him, the man turned around, and looked at each other, it was the woman who had come to the courtyard gate, and the man could only smile apologetically, but he couldn't say a word, because the neighbors were still watching how his good show of going to the widow's door would end in the end.

There are many bullshit and gossip like swords.

As the old man said, he could pat his ass and walk away, but the woman still had to live in this alley, and the country neighbors looked up and did not look down, although nothing happened, but others did not know, a hundred stories would run out of a hundred people's mouths, and gossip would grow wildly and scatter everywhere as long as it took root.

When the woman stepped out of the courtyard door, she also happened to hear the last sentence of the old man, and laughed at herself, who would like a rural village woman who was already old, she was sure that she and the middle-aged man in the Confucian shirt with her hair tied in front of her had never been masked, maybe it was just a scholar who passed by by by chance, and she suffered this unwarranted disaster for no reason, and after bowing slightly, she closed the courtyard door again and returned to the house.

Just left the man alone in the alley.

The man smiled heartily, knowing what the woman's scruples were, probably because he was dressed as a scholar, and the reputation of the scholar was important, just as a woman valued her innocence, as long as she spoke, she couldn't wash it by jumping into the Yellow River, he looked up at the sky, it was already twilight, and thought that Mr. The new little disciple should be back soon.

Sure enough.

At the other end of the alley, a thin boy appeared in his field of vision, as the boy approached, the smile on his face gradually dissipated, frowning slightly, no wonder Mr., a little disciple who has never been absent, did not go to the school villa for the first time today.

And that young man is Xie Qiao.

The young man also saw the middle-aged man standing in front of the courtyard gate, with a slender figure, a hairpin in his hairpin, and a mutton fat jade hanging from his waist, as if engraved with the word "Jing", and a rare small cylindrical seal, one up and down, complementing each other, but as he got closer and closer, Xie Qiao couldn't really see the man's appearance, like a hidden dragon in the clouds, the shadow was full, the head was not the end, close in front of him but it seemed to be far away in the sky, what a strange feeling, is it because of his injury? Hallucinations? He quickly shook his head, trying to sober up.

But the man who blocked his way took the lead in asking, "You are Xie Qiao, right?" ”

Xie Qiao's mind turned for a while, he didn't speak, he subconsciously took two steps back, staring at each other cautiously with his eyes, could it be that the helper that the two people found came to cut the grass and eradicate the roots? He was sure that he had never seen this person in the town, and his mother had never said that he had any poor relatives in his family!

But the man's next sentence shocked Xie Qiao beyond words, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is five thunders.

"Hello, my name is Shentu Xinfang, and I am your senior brother."

Although Xie Qiao could no longer believe what he had seen and heard with his own eyes, now that a big living person was clearly standing in front of him, it really explained everything.

For the young man, Shentu Xinfang is a person who can only exist in legends, he is more ethereal and unattainable than the fairies and monsters that Mr. Storyteller talked about, not to mention that he also claims to be his senior brother!

Shentu Xinfang looked at the young man who was stunned for a while, and asked jokingly: "Could it be that there are many people in Pingyang who have the same name and surname as me?" ”

Xie Qiao finally came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's just you, I just feel that everything I see and hear seems so unreal." ”

Shentu Xinfang smiled warmly: "What you see is indeed not the original me, and what you hear is indeed true!" ”

Xie Qiao felt that the clouds were obscuring the fog again.

Shentu Xinfang smiled slightly and explained: "I just deliberately changed my original face, so don't be surprised, as for what you think is very bad in front of you... It's true, that's what I did on purpose. ”

The young man suddenly realized, it turned out that he was not hallucinating just now, and he suddenly remembered another prominent identity of this person, as for him who said that he was his senior brother, just listen to it, and was about to hurry up to see the ceremony, so that he was unbelievable things one after another, first the body could not move, such as being immobilized, just wanted to speak, and couldn't help it, the young man could only helplessly look at this "cheap senior brother" who taught him a lesson when they first met.

Shentu Xinfang, who was an unknown prophet, laughed at himself: "Don't care about those false courtesies, in front of you, I am just Shentu Xinfang, my senior brother, not a great general!" Remember? Otherwise, the gentleman knows... I'll be trained! ”

The boy could only blink because he had "nothing to say".

After that, a pair of brothers with very different identities went to the school villa together, and on the way, Shentu Xinfang asked casually: "Who injured you?" ”

Xie Qiao was surprised: "Big..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Shentu Xinfang just looked at the boy with a harmless smile.

Xie Qiao had to quickly change his words, and said sullenly: "Senior brother... How do you know? ”

It's just that as soon as the words came out, he instantly understood what kind of nonsense he asked, I am afraid that in front of this senior brother who seems to have fallen from the sky and has to admit it, there is no secret at all, the gap is like the light of a grain of rice and the light of the bright moon, he doesn't know that it is a strange thing!

Shentu Xinfang waited for the following.

Xie Qiao can only recount the passage one by one.

After hearing the ins and outs, Shentu Xinfang's face was calm, and he just asked with a smile: "Do you want Senior Brother to help you fight back?" ”

Xie Qiao suddenly stopped, looked ahead, clenched his fists, his eyes sparkled, and said in a deep voice: "I want to fight back by myself!" Even if I am an ant, I can't allow others to trample on it and take it away. ”

Immediately, the young man looked lonely again, and he stopped talking.

Shentu Xinfang followed and stopped, knowing in his heart, "I know that my time is short, even if I have more than enough, I am afraid that my strength is insufficient, and those two people are not idle people, how can martial arts be achieved overnight, and it is definitely not an overnight effort to easily defeat them!?" ”

The boy nodded helplessly.

Shentu Xinfang repeated again: "Do you want me to help you fight back?" ”

Once it was "Senior Brother", and once it was "I".

The difference is a world of difference.

He waited for the boy to decide.

Xie Qiao said without hesitation: "Senior brother is senior brother, I am me, I want to do this by myself, I don't want to borrow the hands of others!" Even if you can't do it, then you will honestly rot in your heart, and there are some things that you can't step out of in one step. ”

Shentu Xinfang nodded lightly: "It's not bad." ”

The man continued to move forward and said slowly: "The woman who hurt you should be from the north, and the exercises she practiced belong to the extreme yin and extreme cold, and the two palms on your chest are equivalent to forcibly helping you "open your mind", and at the same time inject a cold force into your heart, the heart belongs to fire, how can ice and fire be compatible, the heart is the source of blood, the switch of the pulse, this is opened, causing your spirit and spirit to slowly drain all the time, and you will only feel a little uncomfortable at the moment, such as a faint pain in the chest, That's because the two forces in your body are now evenly matched, in the fight, the more obvious it will be, especially in the winter, one will lose the other, the other force will grow rapidly, then you will feel like falling into an ice cellar, extremely cold, so that you are riddled with pain, day after day, year after year, the body is getting worse, the condition continues to deteriorate, the foundation is good for five years, and the foundation is not good for three years. ”

The young man listened to every word in his ears, and only then did he understand that his physical condition was so bad, Uncle Li said that there were still five years, obviously he had reservations, he knew that with his ordinary foundation, his body leaking on all sides, it was a miracle to be able to survive three years, he smiled with relief and asked, "Is there a way?" What does it cost me? ”

Xie Qiao didn't think that this "senior brother" who was just a nominal "senior brother" for the first time, and a coach with 200,000 soldiers in his hands, would give him a free lunch.

"Yes!"

Shentu Xinfang glanced back at the young man and smiled indifferently: "The price? You can make your own choice after listening to me explain the three ways to cure it! ”

"First, find a kind of exercise cultivation that can restrain the power of yin and cold, and cultivate to the fullest, and it will naturally be solved, as for whether you can succeed or not, it depends on whether you have the ability and qualifications! Time aside. ”

"Second, there is a thing and a medicine that can save you, the medicine is in the southern peach forest, and the thing is in a hidden hanging temple in the northern ice field, both of which you have to ask for yourself, the former can restore you to the beginning, and the latter Buddha relics are the treasures of Buddhism, which can allow you to reshape your body and wash the scriptures."

"Three."

Shentu Xinfang suddenly stopped talking, smiled slightly, and pointed to himself.

Go without saying.

Xie Qiao quickly weighed the three ways to survive, and after a long time, he asked, "How many percent of the first one is?" ”

"Life and death."

Xie Qiao: "The second one? ”

"The South Peach Lost Forest is dead for ten years, and the Northern Ice Plain is dead for nine lives."

It stands to reason that the third option is the best option, but the teenager no longer asks.

Shentu Xinfang said at the right time: "Foolproof." ”

Then he added: "First, I can find the exercises, second, I can find a famous doctor, and third, you just need to nod your head, and you don't have to pay anything, of course, you can choose all three, and you can't do it!" ”

Xie Qiao shook his head, and suddenly asked solemnly, "Can I give Senior Brother the final answer later?" ”

Shentu Xinfang seemed to have guessed the young man's thoughts, and he didn't break it, and said with a smile: "Yes!" ”