The woman took the money with great gratitude, remembered the name of her benefactor, and left.

The afterglow of the setting sun dissipated, and the teahouse was lit up inside and outside, this is not a bustling city and township, just a tea shop on the side of the road, and it does not provide a rest, so there are no customers as soon as it gets dark.

The shop guys began to clean up the tables and chairs, and the door panels.

Gao Xiaoliu sat in front of the screen, leaning on the back of the chair, throwing a dice cup with one hand to catch the repetition, and looking at the lanterns in the teahouse.

A shopkeeper laughed and said, "Our lights are beautiful, right?" ”

Gao Xiaoliu smiled: "General." ”

The other shop guy was a little unconvinced, pointing inside and out: "How bright it is, like a star in the sky." ”

Gao Xiaoliu sighed and explained sincerely: "I'm not saying that your lights are not good-looking, I mean, I've seen better-looking ones, and your family is really not eye-catching." ”

This sincerity is better than insincerity, the shop guys are angry, and they looked at Gao Xiaoliu again, and saw that he was young but looked down, but he was down, and he was wearing a pair of gold-inlaid straw sandals

The shopkeeper behind the counter finished the calculation, drove the store guys away, and asked Gao Xiaoliu with a smile: "What do you want to eat today?" ”

Gao Xiaoliu knocked on the bowl on the table, and the shopkeeper stepped forward to open it, and saw that there were broken silver scattered under each of the three bowls.

"Lao Er will cook for you personally." The shopkeeper said with a smile, but he didn't take the money, looked at Gao Xiaoliu and said meaningfully, "Where can my family ask for money for food." ”

Own family.

Gao Xiaoliu looked at him, lifted his feet and put them on the table, and shook his shoes.

"You're mistaken." He said, "I wear straw sandals, but I have been used to it since I was a child, I am not an ink person, and I am not a family with you ink men." ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, misunderstood? It's impossible, even if you don't wear straw sandals, this kid's every move, word and deed is clearly an ink maker.

Could it be that he admires the ink saint and learns to be an ink master?

"Master." The shopkeeper smiled more kindly, "Do you want to eat our food?" It's not like it used to be now, you won't be arrested by the government if you eat this bowl, and we're also upright—"

Before he could finish his sentence, the young man looked at him with a smirk.

"Do you know why you eat this bowl of rice so honestly?" Gao Xiaoliu said.

The shopkeeper was stunned again, this young man spoke really. Elusive.

However, it seems that this does understand Momen.

"It's because we're in charge of nine needles," the shopkeeper said with a smile.

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Gao Xiaoliu frowning: "Nine needles? How is this called? It's ugly. ”

The shopkeeper also frowned, this young man is not very polite.

"A name is just a pronoun, whether it sounds good or bad, you-" said the shopkeeper.

But being interrupted again, Gao Xiaoliu waved his hand.

"You can eat this bowl of rice with dignity." He smiled and said, "It's because my father was killed." ”

No matter how good the shopkeeper's temper is, he can't hold it down, and this is becoming more and more unspeakable!

But before he could speak again, Gao Xiaoliu stood up, raised his foot, and a bamboo cane next to him flew up and landed in his hand.

"Gone." He said, pointing to the money on the table, "I've sent it to you." ”

The shopkeeper was displeased and said, "We are not short of money, you should take it." ”

"I'm not short of money." Gao Xiaoliu glanced back at him, "I'm sick." ”

Sick? What disease? The shopkeeper looked at this young man suspiciously, although he had some ruffianism, but his skills were not ordinary, and he could see that he was not an idle person with his footwork just now.

"I'm sick when I want to vomit when I see money." Gao Xiaoliu said, stretching out his hand to cover his eyes, "Because I see too much money." ”

He said as he covered his eyes with one hand and banged the ground with a bamboo pole with the other, and walked out.

The shopkeeper was stunned, what kind of nonsense is this!

"This kid is indeed very sick." The guy who heard the conversation said, "It's crazy to talk." ”

The shopkeeper looked at the back of the young man walking out, and sighed slightly: "Maybe there is an experience that ordinary people have never had." "But he does act like an inkman." ”

It's a pity that it's not, and it seems to know Momen, but it doesn't have the intention to get started.

"You're narrow-minded." The owner behind him walked out and said, "It's not a pity, it's a good thing." ”

The shopkeeper and the shopkeepers all looked at the owner.

The proprietor was short and stocky, holding a teapot and sitting slowly in the place where the young man had been sitting.

"In the past, the government promoted our Momen skills, but never mentioned Momen, and some Momen people were dissatisfied, thinking that it would ruin the inheritance of Momen." He went on to say, "The head of the family specially issued an order that the true inheritance is not marked separately, for people to offer, for people to look up, but without a trace. ”

He pointed around the teapot.

"In the world, there is no trace among the people, but everyone can use it, everyone knows it, and it is everywhere, so that it will last forever."

"For example, that young man, although he is not an ink master, what he does is the way of the ink master."

"Treat everyone as the righteous of the ink man, the way of the ink saint is everywhere, so why care if it is my ink door."

"Isn't this what the ancestors wished back then?"

The proprietor laughed when he said this.

The shopkeeper and the shop guys also laughed.

"Let's not talk about anything else, the owner has really laughed every day in the past two years, and he is happy to see everything."

The teahouse lit up in the night was like stars, blinking with laughter, Gao Xiaoliu looked back and shook his head: "I know silly music all day long!" ”

He retracted his gaze and looked ahead.

The night lies ahead.

"Nine needles." He read the name again and shook his head, "The new name is not as good as my nameless." ”

As he spoke, he took out the dice cup in the sachet hanging on his waist, turned it around in his hand, and stroked the words seven stars on it.

"It's better to listen to Seven Stars."

He looked at the stars scattered in the sky.

Falling from the cliff that night, it fell into his life.

The Seven Stars are his memories.

Gao Xiaoliu smiled, threw the bamboo pole behind his back, and strode in the night with the dice cup.

With the cold wind all the way, I finally saw the shadow of the city in my sight.

Liang Liuzi took a sip of water and threw the water bladder on the ground: "It's finally here!" Why is it so far, it's really exhausting to me! ”

Liang Sizi smiled in the back: "I'm tired after walking a little, the north is so hard, can't you stay for a day?" ”

Liang Liuzi spat out: "How can we have Hexi bitterness in the north!" ”

The passers-by who avoided next to him heard it and pointed and discussed, "Soldiers and horses from Hexi." "Where is Hexi?" "Far away in the middle of nowhere."

Liang Liuzi became even more angry when he heard this.

"Hey, see who I am!" He shouted to the people on the side of the road.

The crowd was startled by his loud voice.

Liang Erzi scolded Liang Liuzi: "What are you crazy about!" ”

Liang Liuzi said aggrievedly: "It's only been a few years, and they don't recognize us anymore." ”

Liang Sizi smiled and said: "You look at the military robe you wear and the military flag behind you, how can you recognize you?" ”

The truth is also the same reason, what Liang Liuzi was going to say, the people on the side of the road were in an uproar, and at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded behind him, the ground shook, and obviously a group of people and horses were rushing.

"General Huo is back!"

"It's General Huo!"

The people also immediately set off a commotion, looking behind on the side of the road, and some people urged Liang Liuzi and others standing in the middle of the road to "Get out of the way." "Don't get in the way of General Huo!"

Liang Liuzi stared motionless, looked at the rear, saw the soldiers and horses getting closer and closer, and first saw the military flag like a cloud, familiar with the military flag of the Northern Navy, and unfamiliar with the general flag.

The flying black background moire will shine with the gold on the flag.

Seeing the men and horses on this road, their speed slowed down and quickly separated, and a horse jumped out of it, and the armor and weapons were dense, and the black cloak slipped off the horse's back.

It was Huo Lian, who I hadn't seen for a long time.

More lively cries rang out on the side of the road.

Liang Liuzi snorted, turned his gaze away, and heard Huo Lian's voice.

"You're here."

Liang Erzi nodded with a smile: "Just arrived." He added, "There is a war on the eldest brother's side, and it is inconvenient to leave." ”

Huo Lian nodded: "I know, I hope that the eldest brother doesn't need our support." ”

Liang Erzi laughed: "Not yet." ”

Huo Lian didn't say much anymore, and said, "Let's go, go home." ”

This sound made Liang Liuzi's head turn again, straighten his back, and said loudly to the people on the side: "I can't recognize the sixth master!" It's really unbelievable! ”

Some people on the side of the road squinted, especially the elderly, and said a few times, "This is not General Liang Liu!" "Oh, this is General Liang Er!"

The former name was once again evoked, mixed with warm greetings.

"Second General, I thought you were in prison."

"I'm still alive."

"Why are you here?"

Hearing this, Liang Erzi changed his previous silence and laughed: "Of course we are going home!" After that, he raised his whip and urged the horse, and the horse took the lead and ran towards Xuanning City, followed by Liang Liuzi Liang Sanzi and Liang Sizi, and the dust and smoke were rolling.

Although they left the Northern Navy, the North is still their home.

No matter where you are, having a home and being able to go home is a happy thing in life.

But when they entered Xuanning Mansion, Huo Lian did not follow.

"General Huo has something to do and wants to go to the Great Wall in the north." The adjutant general said respectfully.

Liang Liuzi sighed: "What's the matter, go see the master, right?" That sentence is really true, when you marry a daughter-in-law, you forget your brother. ”

The lieutenant general smiled but did not say a word.

Liang Erzi scolded him: "Miss Seven Stars is not just a bride. ”

is still the head of the family of Momen.

If you really want to compare, she has more people and horses than Huo Lian, and she has more things to do than Huo Lian.

Since Huo Lian is allowed to pass, there must be something important.

When Huo Lian came to the Great Wall in the north, it was already night, and the city wall was dotted with lights, as if a galaxy had been built.

In two years, the Great Wall of the North has been repaired, and a large number of craftsmen are no longer gathered here, when he saw that the entrance of the Great Wall of the North was open and the lights were on, Huo Lian couldn't help but speed up his pace and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a woman's figure standing in the hall, carefully studying something.

When he looked over, she noticed it and turned back.

There are no bright lights in the hall, only a few torches, but the surrounding walls are dotted with night pearls, making the room bright.

The woman was wearing her usual cyan dress, her black hair was pulled up high, no powder, no hairpin jewelry, and when she saw Huo Lian walking in, a smile bloomed on her face, and she instantly shined.

"Huo Lian." She shouted, lunging at him as she pounced on him.

Huo Lian hurriedly stretched out his hand and hugged the person who pounced.

The man in his arms looked up at him and said happily, "I have found the best ironstone!" ”

She had always wanted to reforge the six-foot sword, but she was not satisfied with the existing material stone, and she had traveled to many places to find it in the past six months, and now she finally found it.

"That's great." Huo Lian said with a smile, "I thought that when I got married, the bride would not be able to come back." ”

The wedding date is set in advance, because there are too many people to be notified, scattered all over the place, and it is necessary to give everyone time to prepare.

Luckily, she came back before the wedding.

She smiled: "Even if I don't find it, I will rush back to get married, looking for iron and stone can take a lifetime, but"

She looked up at Huo Lian.

"You only get married once, how can you miss it?"

Huo Lian looked at her: "Luo Jiuzhen, what new drama did you learn from on the road?" ”

Luo Jiuzhen laughed and hugged Huo Lian's waist: "Even if you learn it, if I say it myself, I will tell the truth." ”

Compared to the beginning, she is really good at talking now, what a smart child, if she was a child. Huo Lian shook this thought away, it was already good now.

"And." He thought of something, pulled the nine needles away from his front and asked her to stand up, "Since you have learned so much, why haven't you learned not to hug people casually?" ”

Jiuzhen looked at him with a wink: "I didn't take it casually." ”

"From the first time you saw me, it was casual." Huo Lian said, looking at her.

When they first met, she ran away covered in blood, and undressed in front of him.

Not to mention that she was tied up by him in prison later, and she actually fell asleep with his arm in her arms.

Of course, many puzzles in the past have been answered, she is his sword, with him, she is used to it, and the sword is naturally to be held and carried on her back, which is nothing to her.

So, apart from him, if anyone else wants to hug her, she won't just do it.

Jiuzhen smiled: "Huo Lian, that was the first time you saw me, but it wasn't the first time I saw you, if I was really casual, you wouldn't see me." ”

It is precisely because she knows him, understands him, and believes in him that she will appear by his side so casually.

Huo Lian was stunned, smiled, and said, "Now it's because I can't speak." ”

"I know." Jiuzhen looked at him and smiled, "You are always ruthlessly annoyed by being affectionate." ”

Smart and smart, but smart messy, Huo Lian smiled, put away his smile again, and nodded: "Yes, you are indeed ruthless." ”

If you say you are hurt, you will be injured, if you say that the sword is broken, you will break the sword, and if you don't see it, you will be gone.

Not even a word was left.

"Have you ever wondered what will happen to me if you're gone?"

Jiuzhen looked at him and said sincerely: "I didn't think about what would happen to you, at that time, I was still very happy when I returned to the sword." ”

Happy?

In fact, since they woke up again, they didn't talk about the past, especially about the sword spirit.

Because it involves Luo Gong and Seven Stars, it is a topic that neither of them wants to touch.

This was the first time she had directly mentioned returning to the sword.

Huo Lian looked at her quietly.

"Actually, I don't know who I am."

"I don't know what I am."

"Is it the sword that gives birth to the spirit, or the spirit that gives birth to the sword."

"Ever since I realized it, someone called me Nine Needles and said I was a daughter."

"I have a home in my mind, a father, a mother, and a sister."

"But I also know that these are not real homes, and I am not really human."

"I thought I would always be like this, until you took me and met my sister, I became a person, I became a sister, I also saw the real you, and experienced the real world."

"Although in the end I left."

Jiu Zhen held Huo Lian's hand and looked at him.

"But because I remember the real world and the real you, you will always be with me, and I am no longer alone in the vast illusory world."

She never complained like this, life and death were simple, free and wanton, Huo Lian looked at her, what else could he say, not to mention that he didn't really complain about her, those grievances were all because of reluctance.

He hugged her in his arms again.

"I'm more greedy than you." He said, "I still want to hug you more really." ”

Okay, this matter was revealed, and it was pasted on Huo Lian's chest, Jiuzhen thought, what was sung on the stage was really right, as long as she showed weakness and coaxed first, the man would be fine, she reached out and patted Huo Lian's back and stood up straight.

"Come and see the iron stone I found." She said, excitedly, "You can reforge a six-foot sword, and it's sharper!" ”

Huo Lian was a little helpless and a little funny.

As before, after saying one thing, she immediately said another, superfluous emotions, nothing.

"Is it still forged as a six-foot sword?" He asked, looking at the piles of iron and stone on the ground.

Nine smiled at him and shook his head: "No, I'm going to forge two swords." ”

Huo Lian looked at her and whispered, "One is called Nine Needles, and the other is called Seven Stars." ”

Eventually, their sisters will be together.

Sword forging is not something that can be done in a day or two, the most important thing in front of us is to hold a wedding.

Although she didn't care about the wedding nine needles, Huo Lian always cared, she couldn't be too casual with him, hug him casually, and sleep with him casually.

When you have a wedding, you can do it.

Back in Xuanning City, the people and things to congratulate the wedding from all over the world have arrived, and the two of them are busy again and can't see each other.

Huo Lian pushed everything he could, and the brothers of the Liang family were here, and he pushed them out to entertain guests, but when the people from the Metropolitan Inspectorate arrived, he still saw them in person.

Zhu Chuan did not come.

"Congratulations to General Huo." Ten guards were in the hall, and they all bowed down to salute.

Huo Lian nodded.

But the guards in front of them did not get up, but knelt down on one knee and saluted in unison again.

"Congratulations to the Governor!"

Huo Lian looked at them, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he raised his hand: "Get up." ”

The guards got up, and the leader had the two boxes carried over.

"Zhu Dudu said that this is a congratulatory gift to the general." He said that he opened one with his own hands, revealing gold, silver and jewelry, and another another, revealing stacks of letters, "This is the gossip about the general in the past two years." ”

Huo Lian looked at the two boxes and nodded: "Thank you for me." ”

The guards leaned over again and saluted: "Governor Zhu said, in the future, please take care of the general." ”

In other words, Zhu Chuan will no longer block these for Huo Lian in the future, as the governor of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, except for His Majesty, everyone else is the same in his eyes.

Huo Lian smiled again: "Go back and tell Zhu Chuan that I, Huo Lian, have not yet reached the point of living by him." ”

Huo Lian saw the old man here, and Jiuzhen was also looking at the congratulatory gifts sent by the old man.

"The pheasant was just delivered." Chen Shi sat on the chair and said, "Lao Lu is retired now, and she is in the account room in the West Hall, and she is very busy, and she can't leave." ”

Jiuzhen nodded, opened the baggage, and was slightly stunned.

"The wedding dress." Chen Shi was also surprised, "It's pretty good-looking." ”

It should be said that it is very beautiful.

Nine needles hang the wedding dress on the hanger, and compared with the original wedding dress, you can see the different embroidery skills.

"This girl said in the letter that this was embroidered by the young lady on the way back to Xucheng." Chen Shi took the letter attached to the wedding dress and read, "But in the end I couldn't finish the embroidery, I have been practicing my skills for the past two years, and I was finally able to take out my hand, continue the needlework of Miss, and finish this wedding dress, I hope Miss you like it." ”

He finished reading and scratched his head again.

"How does it sound weird?"

I looked at the nine needles again, with a bit of mixed emotions.

"What did you do when you went back to Xucheng? You were thinking about marrying someone surnamed Huo at that time? ”

Alas, it's really heart-wrenching, his little female sister, why did she fall in love with Huo Lian?

Jiuzhen took the letter and read it through, looked at the wedding dress again, nodded and hummed.

"Why do you like him so much?" Chen Shi still sighed, "When did you like him?" ”

It can't be when he was kidnapped by Huo Lian and imprisoned in the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Division, right?

Jiuzhen thought for a moment and said, "This starts when he hugged me and cried—"

As soon as he spoke, a heavy cough sounded outside the door.

Huo Lian also pushed the door in.

In fact, this was the first time he heard Jiuzhen say that he liked him, and he wanted to hear more, but he had to start talking about it when he was crying.

"Lady, let's just talk about these things." He said, glancing at Chen Shi, "Don't tell outsiders this." ”

Chen Shi glared at him: "What an outsider, who is an outsider!" He sneered again, "If you haven't married for a day, you are all outsiders!" ”

Nine needles laughed on the side.

Huo Lian smiled at Chen Shiyi, and suddenly raised his hand and saluted: "Brother hard work." ”

This time he really became an uncle, Chen Shi couldn't help but touch his nose and flicked his sleeves: "I married my sister, what is the hard work!" ”

After that, he hurriedly walked out.

As soon as he stood outside the door and was about to exhale, Liang Liuzi's loud voice came from his ears.

"Oh, my uncle is hiding here."

Chen Shiyi was annoyed and immediately rushed at him.

The door was closed, isolating the noise outside, and Huo Lian also stood in front of the hanger, looking at the wedding dress.

"Is it pretty?" He asked.

Jiuzhen nodded: "Good-looking." ”

Huo Lian looked at her: "Lady, I'll put it on with you." ”

(End of full text)

Good morning.

That's all for this book.

Although the book was released on September 10 last year, I actually started writing it in August, so it's been a whole year.

I am very happy and excited to go through another year with you.

It's hard to chase more, and I've been saying thank you, because the reading experience is not too good, but for me, it's you who have given me data, grades, and companionship, which are very important for a serial author, very important, very important, thank you again.

Also, I love this book and am glad that I was able to write it.

The next book, I hope you and I can still enjoy it.

See you in the next book, my friends, you are the light of the lonely author's creative career.

Radiant.