Zheng Xiu thought about it and agreed.

When Xie Luohe heard this, he smiled even more, and bent one finger to his palm: "First, draw a picture for me." ”

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he opened his mouth, but he was speechless.

He would have said that in the oasis, he had painted a picture of the Xie Luo River.

However, when the words came to his lips, when Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe looked at each other, somehow, he couldn't bear to refuse Xie Luohe's "last" request, so he nodded: "Okay." ”

As he spoke, Zheng Xiu touched the Luohe pen on his waist, ready to enter the house to find paper, and immediately fulfill Xie Luohe's wish.

"There's no hurry."

Xie Luohe grabbed Zheng Xiu's clothes, grabbed him, and pressed Zheng Xiu back to his seat.

"Let's do the second thing first." Xie Luohe's eyes rolled, and he smiled and said, "Well, the second thing doesn't have much to do with you." ”

"Do you want another one?"

Zheng Xiu asked tentatively.

Xie Luohe shook his head: "But I want to." ”

Zheng Xiu sighed lightly: "Don't sell it, just say it." ”

Xie Luohe smiled: "I want to accept apprentices." ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned when he heard this.

Xie Luohe closed his eyes, as if he didn't see the consternation on Zheng Xiu's face, and said to himself: "You once said that when you are born as a human being, there are three 'deaths'. The third time is when it is completely forgotten by the world. Therefore, I want to pass on my 'Xie Clan's Bow Technique', even if only one person remembers it, it is also a proof that my Xie Luohe was born in the world. ”

An inexplicable strange feeling surged into Zheng Xiu's heart.

Zheng Xiu listened to Xie Luohe's words, and he knew that in the later life, there was indeed someone who used the "Xie Clan's Bow Technique", and that person was also gagged by him.

It is not clear whether it has been carried forward or not, but it has indeed been handed down.

Zheng Xiu didn't expect it to be in this way.

However, the reason why Zheng Xiu felt weird was not because Xie Luohe had the intention of accepting apprentices, nor because he killed the "Kui Wolf" in the later life. It's because Zheng Xiu knows very well that the experiences in the ghost snake are all illusory.

Since the influence of Gongsun Mo's memory disappeared, everything Zheng Xiu experienced in the world in the painting was born from his choice and his experience, not because of Gongsun Mo's memory.

Zheng Xiu woke up suddenly, and unconsciously, he and Xie Luohe still walked to the desert, and stayed here, Xie Luohe moved his mind to accept apprentices, and inherited her bow skills in the desert.

Everything echoes the history that Zheng Xiu knows.

It seems that there is a destiny in the dark.

But this could not have happened.

Why?

The strange sense of disobedience fermented more and more intensely in Zheng Xiu's heart.

Xie Luohe deserved to be Xie Luohe, said the first two things, the third thing was hidden, and said with a smile "Secret".

The next day.

Xie Luohe informed the Great Elder of the Burning Sun Clan of this statement.

When the Great Elder heard that there was such a good thing, he naturally agreed repeatedly.

Momentarily happy, the Great Elder even handed over an idle empty house to Xie Luohe and Zheng Xiu to take care of, saying that it was for the two of them to do some small business here, take root in Rician Town, and settle here.

The customs and customs of the cicada town are very different from those of Daqian, and occasionally merchants from various countries in the Western Regions stay here.

When the Great Elder led the two of them to the empty empty house, the two of them had just stepped over the lintel when the signboard on the beam of the house fell and broke in two.

The middle two words of the four characters on the plaque are not clear, only one end and one tail, which are the words "dragon" and "stack".

"Dragon...... Door Inn? Zheng Xiu was stunned.

When Xie Luohe heard this, he was very happy, and touched his chin to finalize the decision: "Then let's open an inn, I will be the boss, and you are the boss." I'll stay in the store and watch the store when I go to take the apprentices. ”

While looking forward to the small day, Xie Luohe was dripping beautifully.

"Wait!"

Xie Luohe's acceptance of apprentices, thinking about it carefully, made Zheng Xiu inexplicably feel that he didn't want to continue to follow Xie Luohe's wishes.

Xie Luohe's puzzled gaze glanced at him with an inquiring meaning.

"I don't care about the inn, but don't call it 'Dragon Gate Inn'."

"Why?" Xie Luohe asked, tilting his head.

"Unlucky."

"Why is it unlucky?" Xie Luo could not understand.

"I'm good at naming people." Zheng Xiu thought for a moment and cautiously put forward his thoughts: "Why don't you open a painting boat?" ”

"Painting boats?"

Zheng Xiu nodded: "It takes a lot of time for your disciple to be a disciple, I can take advantage of these times to continue painting and practice...... Improve my danqing skills. There are few customers in Cicada Town now, and we all have to drink the northwest wind to simply open an inn. ”

The Great Elder heard the discussion between the two on the side, and said that all their food and lodging expenses in the Sun Cicada Valley would be borne by their Scorching Sun Clan, so there was no need to worry.

Every day, young and middle-aged people go out to hunt and carry water, and women grow cereals and mulberry hemp in the oasis, so that food, clothing, shelter and transportation are not a problem.

"Look."

Xie Luohe pointed at the Great Elder, indicating that Zheng Xiu was too worried.

With her prestige in the Valley of the Cicada, she will not die of hunger.

Zheng Xiu gritted his teeth and decided to do what he liked: "Why don't you call it 'Mohexuan'?" ”

When Xie Luohe heard this, his expression was slightly stunned, he squinted and smiled, his lips opened lightly, and he didn't refuse again.

"Okay, you have the final say."

Day 3.

The Great Elder gathered the young men and young men of the tribe, formed a group, and set up a fence in an oasis closest to the Cicada Valley, and set up many grass men and wood men to serve as targets.

There was a lot of strength in numbers, and a rudimentary shooting range was built in just two days.

Xie Luohe didn't just talk about it, she seemed to really want to pass on her "Xie Bow Technique".

In fact, Xie Luohe and Zheng Xiu are very clear that her bow skills can only be passed down to the skin, and her Xie family's bow skills cannot exert real power without "thaumaturgy" auxiliary left.

It's just that Xie Luohe was very interested in this, and after the shooting range was built, she rode the camel "Xiao Mo" with a new bow on her back and left the town before dawn every day.

When Zheng Xiu woke up, he saw a hot steamed bun and goat's milk on the table, and he was nowhere to be seen.

"Leave it to her."

Zheng Xiu became more and more unpredictable about what Xie Luohe was thinking.

Taking advantage of Xie Luohe's absence, Zheng Xiu spent a few days cleaning the "Mohe Xuan" thoroughly. In the town, he chose a high-quality poplar wood, peeled and flattened it himself, and carved the words "Mohexuan" on the brand-new plaque with a knife.

"Gongsun Mo...... Chelot River ......"

Zheng Xiu looked at the words "Mo" and "River" on the plaque, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, laughed at himself, and brought a ladder to hang the new plaque.

At noon, the brand-new "Mohexuan" appeared in the cicada town.

The Great Elder didn't seem to understand the etiquette and customs of the opening of the new store, so he didn't care if he didn't follow the etiquette, and deliberately accidentally took a group of bare-bottomed children to toss around in the store, leaving a soak of urine in the corner.

Angry and funny, he blasted the children and elders away.

As there was less and less paper left, Zheng Xiu didn't plan to waste paper and ink, and after thinking about it, he used a basin to take a basin of fine sand outside the Cicada Valley and moved it back to Mohe Xuan.

When the Xie Luo River returned from outside the Cicada Valley, he carried a few dead vultures with him.

"Add dinner tonight!"

The courtyard where they lived was not far from Mohexuan.

When he came back, he saw a sand basin in the courtyard, and he drew water from the well, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"Sand paintings."

"Isn't it interesting?"

"Here, I'll show you some new tricks."

Seeing that Xie Luohe seemed interested, Zheng Xiu stretched out his finger in front of Xie Luohe and played with it on the sand.

On the soft and flat sand, as Zheng Xiu's fingertips played, several small swords took shape on the sand.

“…… Ugly. ”

Xie Luohe honestly gave a comment.

"Huh."

Zheng Xiu sneered and waited for Xie Luohe to say this. He slapped his palms on the sand, and the small swords trembled slightly on the sand, and they stood up strangely.

"Huh?" Xie Luohe stretched out her hand curiously, flicked her fingers and flicked them, directly shattering several small swords, she shook her head with a smile: "Vulnerable to a blow." ”

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Zheng Xiu looked at the big sword that was smashed by Xie Han, frowned, and secretly said that it shouldn't be. He rubbed another small sword, grabbed it and threw it at the wall.

Bite!

The great sword made of sand castrated like the wind, nailed to the wall. It took a while for the sand to fall again, leaving a sharp pit in the wall.

Zheng Xiu nodded with satisfaction, it seemed that it was not his big sword that was not good, but that Xie Luohe was too strong.

Whether the sword is good or not depends on the person.

He trotted over and picked up the sand from the ground, revealing a look of pain.

Looking at Zheng Xiu's miser-like movements, Xie Luohe snorted and asked, "How did you do it?" ”

Zheng Xiu didn't hide it, smiled, casually sprinkled the sand in his hand back into the sand basin, and said, "The sand is mixed with my blood." ”

When Xie Luohe heard this, she was surprised for a moment, and she reluctantly pulled Zheng Xiu's wrist hidden under her sleeve and covered it with layers of gauze. Xie Luohe's eyes were a little distressed: "Don't make your 'thaumaturgy' in the future, it will be in vain." ”

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he was silent and did not answer.

He actually wanted to say that it was all fake.

After Xie Luohe finished speaking, he was stunned and didn't continue.

Xie Luohe seemed to know what Zheng Xiu wanted to say, but he didn't say it.

Next, Xie Luohe took apart the gauze on Zheng Xiu's wrist, took out the wound medicine he had prepared, and carefully applied it to Zheng Xiu.

A month later.

The desert residents of Ricicada Town were already familiar with the existence of "Mohexuan", and Zheng Xiu began to do business in earnest.

He used the strength of ten painters, painted a few satisfactory works, and exchanged a batch of spices, tea, and wine with merchants in the Western Regions.

After the first batch of goods arrived, his works flowed into foreign countries, and his Mohe Xuan began to be impressive, gradually attracting many foreign merchants to stay.

Cicada Town is a very strange place, obviously there are only the scorching sun tribes stationed here, there are no troops and soldiers, but this place is like a paradise, there are no disputes and fights, quiet and peaceful, and there is no dispute with the world.

At first, Zheng Xiu thought about returning to the Central Plains to find the traces of the "candle" and explore the truth hidden in history. But as the business got bigger and bigger, there were more and more gold leaves in the box, and they became heavier and heavier, and Zheng Xiu gradually suppressed the idea of going out.

Xie Luohe searched for a lifetime, but found nothing. "Candle" was hidden in the cracks of history for a thousand years, and it was not until two hundred years later that he created "Night Weiyang" as the "Night Lord", and now in the world of painting, Zheng Xiu wants to find a "person" who deliberately hides himself in the vast sea of people, which is as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zheng Xiu decided, while going deep into the doorway, he first fulfilled Xie Luohe's three wishes.

Two months later.

Zheng Xiu has a resounding title in Cicada Town: Boss Gongsun.

And Xie Luohe is: the proprietress of the hostess.

In fact, Zheng Xiu later learned that Xie Luohe had tricked him again unconsciously. When Xie Luohe first entered the Cicada Valley, he claimed that Zheng Xiu was a "prisoner", but it was actually false.

What is it, the desert residents looked at him strangely one by one, but they refused to say more.

Zheng Xiu also knew that the residents of the Lieri Clan, including the Great Elder, seemed to treat them as husband and wife.

Not really.

Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe did not break this relationship.

The Chelo River is busy.

During the day, Xie Luohe would go to the shooting range to take his apprentices and return at sunset.

From time to time, he would be taken by Xie Luohe to Sunset Mountain, take advantage of the scorching sun tribe to observe the murals, hunt vultures and crows on the top of the mountain, blow the wind, watch the sunset dyed the sky red, watch the starry sky and the moon, and sit for a night.

Finally, the two sat side by side on the sarcophagus and watched the sunrise quietly until dawn.

Gradually, they became a part of the place and integrated into the life here.

Time passed quietly.

A year later.

"Mo! Road! Come with me to the shooting range! ”

Xie Luohe happily found Zheng Xiu in Mohe Xuan.

In Mohe Xuan, there are three or five tables of tea guests sitting at this moment, some people are drinking tea, and some people are drinking, and Zheng Xiu has cut a few pieces of dried wild boar leg meat for snacks at each table.

The appearance of Xie Luohe made regular customers shout "boss lady".

Xie Luohe responded one by one.

Dealing with the enthusiastic tea guests, "Gongsun Mo" took off the towel on his shoulders and wiped his hands clean.

"What did you just say?"

Xie Luohe looked excited: "They have finally learned!" My Hsieh's Bow Technique! ”

Zheng Xiu was stunned.

The promise made a year ago is like a lifetime away.

If Xie Luohe hadn't suddenly mentioned it now, Zheng Xiu would have almost forgotten about it.

"Actually learned?"

Zheng Xiu was a little unconvinced.

Xie Luohe pulled Zheng Xiu out of the door and went straight to the valley.

"Brother Di! Brother Di! Help me look at the stalls! ”

The inhabitants of the Lieri tribe have a one-character name and no surname. Or rather, their last name is "Day".

Opposite Mohexuan is a small shop selling animal skins, a hearty desert resident, and his name is "Di".

Usually Zheng Xiu would affectionately call him "Brother Di", and his full name should actually be called "Ridi", but Zheng Xiu was not embarrassed to call him that.

Leaving the stall, Zheng Xiu was half-pushed and half-pulled by Xie Luohe to reach the Cicada Valley.

"Xiao Mo" and "Xiao He", a couple of camels, are frolicking in the valley of the cicada. When the camel couple saw the male and female masters running over, they excitedly spread their legs to meet them, and opened their mouths to lick Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe's faces, leaving wet marks.

After a while.

The two walked through a stretch of desert to an oasis.

Hundreds of people were shooting arrows at the target in the range, and the sound of the bowstring plucking and the arrow breaking through the air could be heard in the distance.

When Zheng Xiu approached the shooting range, he saw a bare-headed child about thirteen years old, shooting an arrow.

In the distance, two straw men form a line.

The arrow bent strangely in mid-air to form an arc-shaped trajectory, bypassing the first straw man and shooting precisely into the second straw man's eyebrows.

Zheng Xiu witnessed the "turning arrow" appear in the world.

He hurriedly asked Xie Luohe how he did it.

"It's actually quite simple." Xie Luohe pulled out an arrow from her quiver in front of Zheng Xiu, she opened her mouth to bite off part of the arrow feather, stretched out her tongue and moistened it slightly, and plucked the arrow feather into a strange shape.

Before the arrow was fired, Zheng Xiu vaguely understood Xie Luohe's method: "Yes...... Wind? ”

"It's you."

Xie Luohe inserted the arrow back into the quiver, looked at the shooting range, all the desert residents who could be called her "disciples", his face was full of relief, and he raised his head and let out a hearty smile.

"yes, they're talented."

"They're done! It's all done! I have given them the skill of the 'Twelve Beads', and I hope that one day, they will pass on my bow skills to future generations! ”

"Maybe 10 years, 50 years, maybe 100 years."

Smiling and smiling, tears welled up in the corners of Xie Luohe's eyes.

"You, you've seen it, right?"

Before Zheng Xiu could savor the meaning of Xie Luohe's tears, Xie Luohe turned his head, and the tears disappeared from the corners of his eyes, as if they were delusional.

Zheng Xiu looked away and said calmly: "I've seen it." ”

Xie Luohe smiled: "Enough." ”

The two returned.

Xie Luohe rushed to bring Zheng Xiu to the shooting range, seemingly just to prove to Zheng Xiu that her efforts this year were not in vain.

On the way, Xie Luohe rode on "Xiao Mo", upside down, and suddenly raised a finger: "Then, there is only one last thing left." ”

The silent Zheng Xiu asked rhetorically: "What about the painting?" ”

"We can do it together."

Xie Luohe said with a grin.

The sun sets in the west.

The figures of the two were long projected on the blood-red sand.

The wind and sand blew, and the footprints left behind the two were instantly hidden.

As if they never came.

"Say."

Xie Luohe raised his eyes and looked into the distance, his eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth hooked.

"When is the happiest time in the life of an ordinary woman?"

Zheng Xiu chuckled in his heart.

"The third thing, if you don't do it, I'll go to someone else."

Xie Luohe snorted: "In the end, I, Xie Luohe, want to be like an ordinary woman, with a phoenix crown and a red candle and satin, and send it for ten miles!" My Xie Luo River is gone, and I want to be beautiful! ”

In Zheng Xiu's stunned gaze.

Xie Luohe looked at Zheng Xiu meaningfully and said, "The third thing, I want to get married!" ”

Winter!

The dumbfounded boss Mo on the back of the camel fell from the back of the camel and fell into the sand pit.