After the beginning of spring, Xiangzhou City Rui Mansion.

All the dead in the Yuanji Dart Bureau have been buried in accordance with custom.

The weather was a little humid when it was close to the rain, Rui Yurong came to the sunny hillside, sat on a large rock, and tender green shoots appeared faintly in the surrounding soil.

In the distance to the west, a slender and ethereal cloud was drifting slowly, and the ever-changing breeze was blowing, carrying a cool gust of coolness.

Rui Yurong breathed a long sigh of relief, put her hands behind her head, and lay down relaxedly.

A pair of slender feet rustled gently on the ground mixed with dead grass and new leaves.

Rui Xue quietly walked up to her daughter and sat elegantly on the stone.

Seeing that Rui Yurong's worried face in the past few days was finally stretched, Rui Xue smiled, lightly tapped her finger on her eyebrows, and slowly rubbed it to the sides.

"Rong'er, it's been years since I've been with you like this."

Rui Yurong stretched and closed her eyes to enjoy her mother's touch.

"It's been many years since my mother sent me to Emei......

Rui Yurong still remembers that when she was a child, her mother often took herself to put paper kites here in the spring.

Painted with swallows, depicted with cats, embroidered with flowers, it is not the same every year.

When he was playing, he forgot his feet, and often threw himself on the ground, stained with grass clippings, which provoked his mother's pampering reprimand.

At that time, carefree.

"Mother, the rivers and lakes are ......" Rui Yurong wanted to speak and stopped.

"Huh?"

"Has the fighting, killing, and killing on the rivers and lakes always been like this?"

"Hmm."

"I ...... I don't like this......" Rui Yurong opened her eyes and looked at her mother's face as gentle as it was back then.

Rui Xue's age has grown, and there are wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, but the bearing on his body has not lost at all, he is always so calm and peaceful.

It seems that raising a daughter for seventeen years, worrying about her and thinking about her, has never changed this woman in the slightest.

She sighed lightly and said, "Rong'er, do you think that the rivers and lakes are not what you thought before?" ”

"Hmm...... If this is the case on the outside, I seem to know why the hatred in this world will never be extinguished......" said the woman who once angrily scolded Lin Chengyong, the girl who wanted to be chivalrous and righteous in the world.

In just one day, Rui Yurong has experienced too much. Life and death, good and evil, loyalty and treachery, grievances...... made her heart that originally wanted to break into the rivers and lakes shaken a little.

Fang Tai was kind to Tai Feng, and Tai Feng alchemy cured Fang Tai's master, but Tai Feng was the culprit who attracted the roe deer owl. The roe deer owl is the enemy of himself and Brother Yong, but because Fang Tai is subject to Taifeng, he can't take revenge on them for a while.

In the time of this life, the Shushan Sword Sect, the Xiangzhou Rui Family, and the Yuanji Dart Bureau have been fighting with the Wutian Pavilion endlessly.

But what if you can't do it in your life?

Will your descendants still spend time in endless fights and killings?

Although Rui Yurong still had a bitter hatred for the roe deer owl and the Wutian Pavilion in his heart, after thinking about it, he felt that everything in this world was entangled in cause and effect, as if there was no end.

couldn't help but make her worry about her future.

Because this is indeed not the future she had imagined when she first came down the mountain.

"It would be nice if there was an earliest knot in the world that was untied and ended. Everyone can live happily ever after, happily and at ease......"

Rui Xue listened to her daughter's stupid words, and said with a smile: "If there was really that knot, my mother would have found a way to untie it, where would it be your turn." ”

"Mother, have you ever had a grudge against someone else?"

Rui Xue was stunned, raised his gaze and said faintly: "Then there is naturally a ......."

Rui Yurong sat up curiously, she didn't ask her mother about her young age since she was a child, could it be that she also has an unknown past?

At least for Rui Yurong, as a daughter, she never took the initiative to mention what happened before her mother gave birth to her.

Even if he asked his father, he just smirked and vaguely passed, and his eyes always looked at his mother with a smile, as if stars were about to emerge from it.

Rui Xue seemed to remember something, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, but he shook his head again.

"That was all years ago, so what?"

When Rui Xue was a little girl, she always combed her hair beautifully, so that she wanted to join the small group of her peers.

But those children in the township always frowned at her, calling her a mourning star who had a mother but no mother.

It wasn't until her father died drunk in the river that she seemed to be relieved, and cut her hair almost straight to the roots, cool and loose.

That day, she beat the children up and left her hometown with all her belongings.

In the course of the journey, she gradually put aside the constraints of the world and became like a real, cheerful boy.

Catching chickens and dogs, petty theft, everything is to be able to continue to live and walk away from that place.

But when she was young, she was inexperienced after all, and was arrested by traffickers as a boy, intending to sell it to make money.

Like when she was a child, she had to stay with her father, who drank all day, and once again lost her freedom.

This time, she deeply felt what it means to be powerless.

There is no strength to resist, no strength to break free, no strength to leave.

So she seized the opportunity to have power.

When the woman with the sword hanging from her waist appeared, she knelt in the middle of the trafficker's corpse and begged the woman to take her with her.

The woman agreed, she said that her name was Xue Ruomei, and she was a swordsman on Mount Emei.

On the day of going up the mountain, a line of geese flew over in the sky, and Xue Ruomei named her Xue Hongxian.

Xue Hong is now successful in learning and art in the mountains, and has traveled down the mountain.

Because of the resentment in his heart, Xue Hong was now jealous and hateful, and did not choose to join the Lingling Water Pavilion where the master was born and become a wind medium, but became a ranger.

As soon as she got off the mountain, Xue Hongxian picked several bandits to gather, just like her master, who shot ruthlessly, and there was no return from the sword.

Within a year or two, she became famous in the rivers and lakes.

At that time, there was always a faint red in the blood groove on Xue Hongxian's sword blade, so the Jianghu people called her "Red Line Sword" in the name of her master.

If he continued to kill like this, Xue Hongxian felt that he should be like his master, lonely and old.

After all, the old man surnamed Bai still couldn't stand the murderous nature of the master and chose not to go back.

Since that day, Xue Ruomei has never descended the mountain again.

But fortunately, Xue Hongxian met Rui Boyan.

At that time, she rescued him during a routine operation to kill a bandit.

Indescribable, Rui Boyan's honest and clean smile left a deep impression in Xue Hongxian's heart.

Of course, in the face of a person covered in blood, it is indeed impressive that he still has the courage to come forward and talk.

Rui Boyan, who has not yet inherited the family business, is polite, handsome, and talented.

He sincerely invited Xue Hongxian to his home and made fish soup for him as a token of gratitude.

Somehow, she stupidly responded and ate silently.

That bowl of fish soup was delicious.

Afterwards, Rui Boyan sent another invitation to Xue Hongxian, who had finished grooming, and asked her to come as a guest every year, and he would definitely sweep the bed and wait.

Xue Hongxian can't remember how he agreed, and he can't remember how he left, only the taste of the bowl of fish soup is endless.

A year later, she temporarily accepted her murderous intentions, and with her outstanding skills, she found a job as a wind medium in the Lingling Water Pavilion.

Although there are fewer fights and kills, wind media, like rangers, have to run back and forth on the rivers and lakes.

Sometimes when I get tired of running, I think of the bowl of fish soup.

So on the same day of the second year, Xue Hongxian arrived as promised.

There was still nothing superfluous, Rui Boyan put aside his business and once again renovated a table of delicacies for him.

This time, Xue Hongxian stayed for an extra day.

In the third year, Xue Hongxian went to the appointment again, but found that the thief he killed that year was left alive, and gathered a group of people to find the Rui family based on his own experience.

At that time, Xue Hongxian's first reaction in his heart was not anger, but chagrin.

Why did he implicate him?

Rui Boyan tugged at her sleeve and stood in front of her.

She resisted her murderous intent and struck again to subdue all the intruders.

For the first time, she had doubts about the power she had.

Afterwards, when she was drinking fish soup, she asked why this person who had no martial arts skills would protect her in front of her.

Rui Boyan thought for a while and said: It's really not beautiful to let a woman like you have blood on your body, but it still looks good in plain clothes.

Inexplicable, but with a stubbornness.

Xue Hongxian looked at the white clothes he was wearing, and his hem was covered with mud and dust from the hurry, and he burst out laughing.

In the next two years, Xue Hongxian's subordinates killed less and less, and with his clever style and careful thinking, he reached the point of being the first person below the master of Lingling Water Pavilion.

But every year, she can't forget to go to Ruifu for an appointment.

Before meeting Rui Boyan, he was like a paper kite held by no string, flying around with the wind, but the thread was still caught in his hand after all.

When she really succeeded to the position of the Pavilion Master of Lingling Water Pavilion, she was surprised to find that the previous Pavilion Master turned out to be her master.

When the master was about to take the jade pendant with her, she asked without a clue.

When he succeeds as the cabinet master, will he still be as uncertain as he is now?

Master said with a straight face: The wind is endless, and the flowers are endless.

Xue Hongxian thought for a while and said: Then I won't do it.

The master said with some unhappiness: Then what's the use of you practicing martial arts for many years?

Xue Hong replied: If you can use it, you can use it, and if you don't use it, you can put it away.

Master frowned.

Xue Hongxian replied: I want to try to take a different path from Master.

Master pondered for a long time and nodded.

In another year, Xue Hongxian came to Rui's Mansion and said to Rui Bo, who was already the head of the family: Stay longer.

There were still no superfluous words, Rui Boyan killed the fish and cooked with a smile.

That's more than 20 years.

"Mother, what are you thinking?"

Now, Xue Hongxian looked at Rui Yurong's face that was faintly similar to himself, and was speechless for a while.

If he hadn't made that decision, where would he have killed?

Now her daughter is about to step into the rivers and lakes, but unlike back then, as a mother, she already has the power to protect her, just like her father who saved her that year.

Perhaps for myself, this is the most suitable place for that power.

Xue Hongxian grabbed his daughter's shoulders and said softly: "Rong'er, my mother asked you to practice martial arts, not to let your hands be covered with blood and fall into endless grievance entanglements, but to let you have the power of self-preservation, the power to pursue the life you want, and the power to cut off cause and effect." ”

"So, Rong'er doesn't have to worry, just go ahead. If you are tired, you will come home, and your mother will be there. ”

Rui Yurong looked at her appearance, and her heart was not martial arts, so she couldn't help but be a little slanderous about this sentence.

Just as he was thinking, a paper kite suddenly floated in the sky, as if it had broken a thread, swaying and fluttering with the wind.

Rui Yurong only felt that there was nothing around him, and a white shadow shot straight into the sky, and in an instant, he pinched the thin line.

In the blink of an eye, the mother sat down beside her again, put the paper kite on her lap, and smiled softly.