"I heard that you held a sword washing ceremony yesterday."

"Hmm."

"I heard that the Fang priest who called himself the 'Jade Fairy' came down the mountain yesterday and was with you."

"That's the thing, big brother."

"I also heard from someone that a female spike worker was lost in the sword spike workshop yesterday."

The Liujia mansion, a waterfront viewing pavilion, is surrounded by a rockery of gray and white rocks.

At this moment, there were three people standing or standing in the pavilion, and the conversation of two of them stopped at the right time.

The air was quiet.

Liu Zi'an didn't reply again.

Liu Zilin was silent on the side and did not interject.

Liu Ziwen turned his head, looked at Liu Zi'an and asked, "Is this the idea of the Jade Maiden?" ”

"Big brother, that's the case, Yu Wei came to me yesterday and asked me for a favor, it happened that the sword of the Jiasan Sword Furnace was practiced, I thought that she had also helped us a lot before, and it was inconvenient to refuse, so I should go down, and only help her this time."

Liu Zi'an looked up at the expressionless eldest brother, sighed, and bowed his head slightly:

"I thought it was a trivial matter, 'missing' a female spike worker, so I didn't come to disturb my eldest brother's purity."

"Before? And now. ”

"Now I find out that I was wrong, the movement seems to be a little big, somehow, I startled the snake, big brother, this time I was careless, and I am willing to admit punishment."

Liu Ziwen stared at the second brother who humbly bowed his head for a while, and looked away:

"In the past, it didn't matter if a few people were 'missing' in the sword shop, I turned a blind eye, but now what is the situation at this juncture, don't you know?

"Any wind and grass may provide a grip for Ouyang Lianghan to intervene in the sword shop, and our Liu family can't let the county government find a handle and become the target of public criticism.

"Have you forgotten the matter of checking the accounts in the East Treasury last time, it's only been a few days, and you take it lightly and despise the enemy!"

Liu Zi'an didn't say a word, bowed his head and knelt down: "Big brother, it's me who didn't think it through." ”

Liu Ziwen looked coldly at the strange-shaped rockery outside the pavilion: "Okay now, Ouyang Lianghan is alert and has removed the idle chess in the sword shop." ”

He frowned and looked back: "When you choose the sacrifices, do you have a hand on the spike worker named Ah Qing?" ”

"No, she didn't move."

Liu Zi'an shook his head, and his face was confused:

"This Ouyang Lianghan doesn't know where he got the warning, so he found an excuse to take the person away at noon, and he doesn't know what he was afraid of."

Liu Ziwen shook his sleeves: "You are blatantly doing that kind of thing, can they not run?" ”

Liu Zi'an wanted to speak and stopped.

He wanted to say that this ceremony was very hidden, and it should not have been discovered by Ouyang Lianghan, otherwise it would be calm now.

But Liu Zi'an knew that this was the eldest brother's angry words, and he couldn't pick up the stubble.

So he chose to shut up.

Liu Zilin has been standing on the side silently, he didn't sit down, his butt is not good now, he walks with a limp, let alone sitting, he sleeps on his stomach these days, and occasionally accidentally turns over at night is a sad story.

Liu Zilin couldn't help but interject and asked: "Big brother, now that I accidentally startled the snake, what should I do?" ”

Liu Ziwen was silent for a while, and then turned his back and said:

"I'll deal with it, I've already sent someone over, the top priority is to stabilize Ouyang Lianghan, we might as well show some more sincerity, let him relax his vigilance first, and then the beheading can be clean and neat."

"Big brother is amazing."

"Big." Liu Ziwen snorted coldly, turned his head and asked the silent Liu Zi'an:

"You haven't said yet, what did the Jade Maiden do with this sword washing ceremony?"

Liu Zi'an stared at the ground under his feet, and replied:

"It's the same as the last time, to improve her spiritual energy cultivation, her immortal skills are strange, and it seems to be a little different from the orthodox immortal magician's Dao lineage, and I don't know very well."

Liu Ziwen didn't doubt it, and sneered: "What about returning the immortal arts, the last time about the Longshou Bridge, she swore an oath, and she saw the result." ”

Liu Zi'an nodded: "What the eldest brother said is true, but she said that she would go to retreat in the past few days, and when she comes out, she will prove it to us, by the way, she also needs us to provide some precious materials related to qi practice." ”

"What do you want all this for?"

"She said that she needed to create another mask, and the bronze mask from the last time was intercepted by the Xie family girl."

"Wait to find Liu Fu and go to the treasure house to get it."

Although he was dissatisfied with the jade fairy similar to the Liu family's worship, Liu Ziwen did not refuse, and replied casually.

The accumulation of the Liu family over the years, coupled with the support of the Wei family outside, over the years, there have been many good things hidden in the Liu family's treasure house, but there is no shortage of this one.

In the pavilion, the young head of the Liu family looked up at the sky, and stretched out his hand to the back without looking back.

"What about the new sword that came out yesterday? And a portrait of the guy. ”

Liu Zi'an took out a golden silk nanmu sword box, and Liu Zilin held a painting scroll.

Liu Ziwen didn't pick it up in person, and took the lead and left the pavilion.

"Let's go. At this point, the young man should be sober. ”

The three brothers of the Liu family went to the Nanxuan courtyard not far away.

Admission.

The white slate floor was full of wine jars.

Empty, full, overflowing.

Roll to the ground.

The three brothers of the Liu family avoided the wine jar at their feet and walked towards a pavilion on the west side of the courtyard.

There was no one in the pavilion.

There was only one table of cold dishes.

There are people at the top of the pavilion.

Because from time to time a wine jar rolls down from the top of the eaves.

Liu Ziwen behind his back, leading the two younger brothers to stop appropriately under the pavilion, he suddenly reached out to catch a black lacquer red paper wine jar that rolled down, checked it in his hand, raised his head and asked with a smile:

"Ah Jie Shaoxia, are you full of wine and food?"

Someone in the kiosk burped and didn't reply.

Liu Ziwen said loudly:

"The so-called sword gift to heroes, Ajie Shaoxia is young and promising, and he has everything, but unfortunately now he only lacks a good sword."

A drunken voice suddenly came from the pavilion: "Fart, the master is still missing an arm." ”

Liu Ziwen choked and said with a smile:

"It doesn't matter, Ah Jie Shaoxia is a hand for the heroes of the world, they can't beat Shaoxia, Yun Mengze just lost that time, and the eldest lady has a good inheritance with a sword...... As long as the young man takes this new sword, which is no worse than them, he will definitely be able to climb the mountain again......"

"Don't blow it to the master."

Liu Ziwen's words were interrupted by the man at the top of the pavilion, and a drunken curse came:

"The bully hires a killer, it's such a simple thing, you supply the sword, the master sells the sword, a deal, don't be verbose."

Liu Ziwen was dumbfounded, he nodded, said "yes", and turned his head to the eyes of the two younger brothers behind him.

Liu Zi'an, who was holding the golden silk nanmu sword box, and Liu Zilin, who was holding the painting scroll, were ready to step forward, but before they could take two steps, they found that the objects in their hands had disappeared.

The two brothers couldn't help but glance at each other, their eyes surprised.

On the gazebo, there is a one-armed young man stepping on the golden silk nanmu sword box and taking the lead in opening the painting scroll.

Liu Ziwen narrowed his eyes and said, "Ajie Shaoxia, this is the son." ”

The one-armed young man looked at the person on the scroll, was silent, and suddenly asked:

"Is he?"

"Prefectural order."

The one-armed young man was not surprised, but just asked, "Is there a slight scar on his right forehead?" ”

Liu Ziwen looked surprised:

"There is indeed a very faint scar on his right forehead, which is left by the serious injury he was injured when he fell into the water, and it is not complete, but if you don't look carefully, you can't see it."

After a pause, Liu Ziwen couldn't help asking:

"Shaoxia shouldn't know him, right?"

The one-armed young man was silent for a moment and spoke:

"This is a good officer."

"Perhaps." Liu Ziwen nodded.

"He invited me to drink, twelve copper plates."

"Oh?"

Liu Ziwen's eyes showed some surprise, and he glanced at the two younger brothers, and the three of them were suddenly a little nervous.

Because they stood within ten steps of a middle-grade Qi Sword Cultivator, they couldn't run away.

Up and down the pavilion, fell into a dead silence for a while.

Liu Ziwen squinted his eyes and whispered:

"What does Shaoxia mean...... Well, if it doesn't work, we won't be reluctant, Shaoxia's drinks and accommodation these days, our Liu family will pay for it, so we should make a friend......"

The one-armed young man suddenly said, "I have to increase the price." ”

The three brothers of the Liu family were stunned.

The one-armed young man took a sip of wine, drunk and smoked, repeated:

"Kill him, you have to increase the price. An ordinary sword, you can't buy his life here, his life is expensive. ”

Liu Ziwen said quietly: "Then the young man might as well take the time to take a look at the sword in the box." ”

The one-armed youth did not reply.

However, there was a click above the eaves of the pavilion, which was the sound of the sword box opening.

A long, long silence followed.

At this moment, if someone on the top of the mountain in the distance looks at the direction of the Nanxuan courtyard here, they can be surprised to find:

During the day, there will be a full moonlight.

Under the gazebo, just when Liu Ziwen's faces changed from their original confidence to some hesitation.

"Correct."

With the sound of a sharp sword entering the box, the voice of the person in the pavilion came down:

"Don't call me a young man, I'm a swordsman, not a hero."

"Okay." Liu Ziwen breathed a sigh of relief, heard the sound outside the strings, and smiled again: "But Your Excellency don't do it for the time being, and when we are ready, we will come back to inform Your Excellency." ”

"Okay, but you have to remember that this sword is only enough to buy his life, and the rest of the matter, the master doesn't care, you deal with it cleanly, otherwise you will bear the consequences."

"No problem!"

Just as the three brothers of the Liu family turned around and wanted to leave, the swordsman lying on his back on the pavilion suddenly asked:

"Who forged this sword?"

Liu Ziwen stopped and asked rhetorically: "Could it be that the swordsmen of Chang'an have to ask this when they take the sword to kill people?" ”

As soon as these words fell, no one spoke again.

Liu Ziwen and the three left the courtyard.

The Nanxuan courtyard regained its tranquility.

On the gazebo, a one-armed young man, stepping on the sword box, holding cinnamon in his arms, turned his head to look north.

Raise your eyes to see the sun, but not see Chang'an.

……

Liu Ziwen, Liu Zi'an, and Liu Zilin are rare to get together.

After leaving the Nanxuan courtyard, they did not immediately separate, but walked out of the Liu family's mansion and tacitly went to the Guyue Sword Shop on the other side of Xiaogu Mountain.

On the mountain road.

Liu Zi'an, whose face was sick, took the lead in asking, "Big brother, is this swordsman reliable?" Shouldn't you be soft-hearted and change your hexagram? ”

Liu Ziwen, who was dressed as a rich and idle officer, shook his head:

"If you knew the environment in which this person grew up, as well as his deeds and reputation in those gangs in Chang'an, you wouldn't ask this question."

He sighed: "It is indeed a swordsman, he does not pay attention to feelings when he comes out of his sword, and the trade is fair, as long as you can afford his price...... There are no boring chivalrous courage, for the country and the people. ”

After hearing this, Liu Zilin couldn't help asking: "But big brother, isn't it too cost-effective to accept such a valuable sword and kill a powerless scholar as a result?" ”

He is also a sword lover, and his face is still a little painful when he is greedy for the new sword just now.

Neither Liu Ziwen nor Liu Zi'an answered this stupid question, and Liu Zilin smiled.

Not much.

Liu Ziwen and the three of them came to the halfway point of Xiaogu Mountain.

At that hour, just after the morning and close to the morning, the early sun shone on the green lawn, and the sun was just right.

The three brothers of the Liu family waited for a while in the open space in front of the Jiayi Sword Furnace, and after a while, they met the old man in Mai who had returned from eating breakfast and buying wine.

He had a bad complexion, or rather, he didn't have a good face in the morning.

Liu Ziwen, Liu Zi'an, and Liu Zilin respectfully greeted the old man who was only wearing ordinary craftsman's clothes.

The old man passed by the three of them without looking.

Liu Ziwen took the initiative to take a step forward and said with a smile:

"Sir, I came here this time to tell you about the little lady who often buys wine for you."

Liu Zi'an on the side quietly looked at the old man's face, in fact, they first paid attention to this little female worker named Ah Qing, not because of her brother Liu Ashan, but because of this old gentleman, who often frequented the breakfast stall and only had a little intersection with the little female worker who bought wine every day.

Although the Liu family doesn't care about the old gentleman's affairs other than forging swords, they can't take it lightly and pay attention to the people he comes into contact with.

The old swordsmith stopped when he heard this, but he didn't look back.

In his hand, in addition to carrying a pot of wine at this time, he also grabbed a blue paper butterfly flower.

It seems that it was supposed to be going down the mountain to return it to a certain girl, but in vain.

Liu Ziwen explained the matter of Ah Qing being picked up by the young county magistrate in a rough and simple way, mainly to clarify the involvement of the Liu family, which is not a matter of the Liu family's unauthorized assertion and deliberate breach of contract to interfere with the old man.

This point should be made clear.

After saying this, Liu Ziwen then had a somewhat cold warm greeting.

In the end, Liu Ziwen said broadly: "Old man, our previous agreement is the same, you can cast the sword with peace of mind." The water level of Butterfly Creek will not rise in the short term, and those who dare to disrupt the situation already have a way to deal with it, and ...... On the day of the sword, we also have arrangements. ”

The old swordsmith didn't reply the whole time, listened silently, and glanced back at the three brothers.

He nodded imperceptibly, walked into the sword furnace alone, and with a "bang", the door closed again.

seems to have eaten half of the closed door, Liu Ziwen and Liu Zi'an, Liu Zilin was not depressed about this, as if he had long been accustomed to the old man's withdrawn character, and even felt that this time he could patiently listen to their explanations, and he was already in a good mood for the old man.

The three brothers sighed and turned to leave.

And behind them was in the armor and sword furnace.

The old swordsmith was standing beside a quiet sword-forging furnace, looking down at the paper blue butterfly flower left behind in his hand, his face was slightly regretful, and he sighed lightly:

"He's a good seedling, and he helped me a lot...... Let's take a look at it when we have the fate. ”

The old man turned around, faced the huge sword furnace room, raised his head and took a sip of rice wine, and muttered to himself:

"It's a good Longcheng Liu family, and the three sons are all interesting...... Liu Ziwen Feiwen, Liu Zi An Fei'an, Liu Zilin Fei Lin......"

Suddenly I know a hot knowledge: all women over the age of fourteen are women! (Ah Qing, Wei Lai: Say it earlier!) ）