Chapter 124: The post station chats between the breaks
Ning Ke turned his head to look at the short-shirted young man behind him, looking at him dressed, he couldn't help but wonder if the clothes and accessories in his baggage were all the same?
Except for the color and some traces of stitching, nothing has changed. Ning Ke originally wanted to sigh that she had so many burdens when she was young, looked at Lin Manliu's clothes, and then looked at her appearance, so she had to say helplessly: "Seeing the clothes that Brother Lin is wearing, I can understand why I am wearing this body now...".
"The purchase of these clothes is just to test the reality of these people, if Brother Ning wants some scribe's robes, you can go by yourself" Lin Manliu also looked at her.
When Ning Ke heard this, he slapped one hand on the window frame, got up suddenly, raised his hand and pointed at the short-shirted young man in front of him: "Brother Lin really treats me as a good brother...".
"Now Brother Ning's legs and feet are also convenient, I will take the opportunity to leave tomorrow, Brother Ning can wait for the wind to go here, and then set off" The short-shirted young man didn't answer Ning Ke's words at all, just glanced at her who got up, and then paced by himself for a while and said.
"Don't you want to escape by yourself first, so that you can use me as bait so that the Jiang family and Sword Casting Peak will have no time to take care of you?" Ning Ke said with a smile, but she naturally understood that whether it was the person who came to besiege or the Jiang family, the target was only the short-shirted young man in front of her.
"You can also think like this, leave first, I will stay in Juzhou for a few more days to find a chance to leave" Lin Manliu looked at Ning Ke's face and thought for a moment and said.
"Now I'm having trouble with my legs..."Ning Ke sighed and sat back in the chair, turned around and continued to look out the window, his left hand hammering his left leg from time to time.
"Looking at Brother Ning's footsteps before, the injury must have improved a lot, and it will be convenient to walk later..."Lin Manliu looked at Ning Ke by the window suspiciously, and suddenly noticed her movements, secretly remembering the time when Ning Ke changed his dressing by himself in the past few days, as well as the scene of the fight tonight.
When Ning Ke was not seriously injured, whether it was force or body technique, it must be above himself, only when he was defending against the enemy, he was able to breathe and rest, and he didn't see how Ning Ke moved, and even when he chased that Qianjing smile later, he was walking in front, and Ning Ke was slower than later... Maybe it's because it has nothing to do with Ning Ke, she just wants to return her life for a life, and she doesn't have much idea about chasing and killing Qianjingxiao to save herself... The young man in the short shirt stopped in front of the couch, looking at Ning Ke who was wearing a coarse linen dress that he had purchased at will, the brim of her scholarly hat was broken by herself, and now she still tried her best to comb her hair in a bun, just like a scribe in a green shirt.
Ning Ke looked out the window, but she had actually been listening to the words of the short-shirted young man, but Lin Manliu didn't finish speaking, Ning Ke, who had his back to Lin Manliu, frowned, and secretly thought to herself in her heart how this person could talk halfway, why didn't he continue to speak... What the hell is he trying to say.
After waiting for a long time and not hearing the young man behind him continue to speak, Ning Ke cautiously looked back at Lin Manliu, Lin Manliu has also been thinking about the changes in Ning Ke on the road in the past few days, as well as the strangeness of the enemy tonight, and it happened that he had just raised his head, and the two of them saw each other together.
"You... Look at what I'm doing, cough... Brother Lin hasn't always regarded me as a brother, don't you act like this, don't you have that broken sleeve? Ning Ke was the first to speak, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the scholar's tone that he was holding was gone, but Ning Ke quickly noticed it, and immediately changed his words again and mocked Lin Manliu.
And Lin Manliu didn't seem to hear Ning Ke's question at all, and asked before Ning Ke finished speaking: "The leg injury is not healed yet?" ”。
Ning Ke was stunned, and after a while, he hummed, and then he didn't say anything more. Lin Manliu walked in the direction of his salute, rummaged for a while, then brought some bottles and cans and cloth rolls for bandaging, and then walked towards Ning Ke.
"Lin Manliu, what are you going to do!" Ning Ke said out loud again, this time directly calling out the name Lin Manliu said before burying the Sword Valley, and her voice was a little louder than before, and it was her original voice just like what she spoke before.
"Raise your feet" Lin Manliu ignored Ning Ke and grabbed Ning Ke's ankle directly. Ning Ke also felt very strange after the young man's words, so he listened to Lin Manliu's words and raised his left foot in front of Lin Manliu.
Then Ning Ke's trouser leg was rolled up by Lin Manliu, and what caught the young man's eyes was the left leg that was roughly bandaged and had some bruises oozing out, Lin Manliu looked up at Ning Ke, Ning Ke also kept looking down at the young man, seeing that Lin Manliu had some meaning to speak, she waited for the young man to speak with a puzzled face.
But Lin Manliu didn't say anything, so he continued to lower his head, dismantled the blood-stained cloth scroll, and then carried the clean water used for washing in the room to the window, and began to help Ning Ke wipe his wounds.
"Brother Ning hasn't suffered any flesh injuries in the past?"
"I'm a scholar like a wanderer, why don't I have to find someone to fight wherever I go?" Ning Ke stood up and said, but from the beginning of Lin Manliu's questioning, she silently began to think that after she traveled out of the master's sect, it seemed that she did not have these days, and she had really faced the enemy, and in the past, she had encountered some people who began to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy when she saw the enemy.
"If you take medicine and bandage like you in the past few days, you can be cured in the future, but the time will inevitably take longer... Afterwards, it must be necessary to leave a scab or scar," Lin Manliu began to apply medicine to the wound on Ning Ke's left foot.
The young man in the short shirt was sprinkled with wound powder, and suddenly he only felt that his head was patted, and Ning Ke's voice followed: "Lin Manliu, why didn't you say it earlier!" ”。
“... Brother Ning's knowledge, experience, and martial arts are all higher than mine, I would have known that you didn't understand this" Lin Manliu raised his head and said suddenly, and then met Ning Ke's face again.
I saw Ning Ke's face full of shame, even if he tied the man's hair in a bun, he could no longer see that he looked like a man, and when he saw the young man looking at himself again, Ning Ke reached out again and slapped it on Lin Manliu's head: "Look at what I'm doing...".
Lin Manliu had to continue to bow his head and be busy with the medicine at hand, thinking of the somewhat tongue-twisting name that Ning Ke said before, the short-shirted young man said: "By the way, my name is Lin Manliu, not Liu."
"Brother Lin is really called this name, I thought this name was also fake, at most the surname is Lin... Your fake name, I think you still have to change it, Liu Manlin... Lin Manliu, what will happen in the future, it's too easy to guess" Ning Ke's words came from above the head of the short-shirted young man.
"Then Brother Ning's name is Ning Ke?" Lin Manliu seemed to have nothing to say.
“... Just call Ning Ke," Ning Ke said awkwardly.
"Then Brother Ning is not better than me," Lin Manliu said, and at this time, he was already preparing to use the curls to help Ning Ke re-bandage.
Immediately afterwards, another palm was slapped, but this time Lin Manliu seemed to be alert, and his head tilted and directly dodged the palm slapped by Ning Ke.
"Hey, I can't beat it" Lin Manliu saw that Ning Ke didn't hit him, so he said with a laugh directly. Ning Ke saw the laughter coming from the young man after he slapped his palm into the air, and secretly thought in his heart that this person would still laugh in front of him?
But how dare he hide ... No, what was I thinking... Ning Ke immediately said out loud: "How old is a person, how can you still be so childish."
"Sixteen! It's seventeen in the next year... In the future, I will gradually get older, and then I will get rid of my childishness" Lin Manliu's laughter did not decrease, although Ning Ke could not see the smiling face of the young man who was bowing his head and bandaging, but from his words, he could hear Lin Manliu's youthful spirit.
In the subsequent bandaging process, the two were in front of the window, chatting about some things, Lin Manliu talked about interesting things about his childhood, and Ning Ke always picked out some things and practices in the words of the short-shirted young man that she felt incomprehensible.
In these conversations, Ning Ke never picked up his scholarly tone again, and Lin Manliu didn't have a cold tone in the past few days, like two people who had known each other for a long time, and then told each other the interesting anecdotes they had seen and their opinions on some things.
"It's bandaged, it's not too early, Brother Ning rest early, I'll keep vigil tonight," Lin Manliu said, and after finishing speaking, he went to the table and pulled a chair and leaned against the door.
"Hmm" Ning Ke didn't shirk, and went directly to the couch to rest. Lin Manliu leaned on the door, sat on the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, just like that, he didn't say anything all night.
...... On July 4th, Ning Ke woke up from her sleep in the early morning, and on this long journey, she seemed to have slept without scruples last night, without paying attention to any movements around her.
She sat up, and saw the young man in the short shirt, already standing in front of the window.
"When are you leaving?" Ning Ke said out loud.
"Maybe I'll have to stay for a few days" Lin Manliu turned his head to look at Ning Ke, with some worry in his eyes. It was the first time that Ning Ke saw the gloom in the young man's eyes, whether it was in the Buried Sword Valley or in the dense forest yesterday, he had never had such a look before.
Lin Manliu stood in front of the window, holding the mountain field on his waist with his left hand, and pondered for a moment before he spoke: "Something may happen to Sword Casting Peak recently... Last night, I didn't talk carefully about Li Junce, and why Jiang Xu appeared here."
"Even if the Sword Casting Peak starts today, change the court, what do you have to do with it..."From yesterday's chat, Ning Ke was able to confirm that Lin Manliu, who would make the sword of the Sword Casting Peak, have nothing to do with the Sword Casting Peak here.
"This sword is called Mountain Travel, it was given to me by Senior Sister Qiao when I passed through here on my eastward journey before," Lin Manliu said, and once again clenched the short sword at his waist.
What Ning Ke thought in his heart was, this kid is not young, and there are many confidants in Hongyuan? What do I think of this?
"Joe... Plum... Do you mean that Li Junce and Jiang Xu wanted to make an incident at Sword Casting Peak last night? Ning Ke stopped his cranky thoughts and said.
"Probably so," Lin Manliu replied.