Ouyang Rong was in a good mood.

One of the four joys of life, meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land.

Although he had only known this slender and dumb woman and the old man for one night, he only had a shallow friendship of handing water and chatting.

However, this was the first person Ouyang Rong saw and knew after his main consciousness came to this world.

Or rather.

He once thought that the mute girl, the old way, and the unknown master were the "fellows" who fell into the well with him.

From climbing out of the Pure Land Palace to the present, this time has passed in the blink of an eye.

Ouyang Rong's eyes were a little like a world away.

In front of the stone table, where the slender mute woman was, there was only one intact stone bench, and the other two were lying crooked on the lawn.

After the young county magistrate entered the inner courtyard, he didn't let Xiu Du and other hospital stewards follow, and walked here alone.

He rolled up his sleeves, bent down and straightened the two stone benches, wiped the weeds off the surface with his sleeves, and landed his butt on one of the stone benches.

Ouyang Rong's face showed a caring expression, and he asked softly at the delicate mute girl who seemed to be introverted and bowed her head opposite:

The girl nodded and shook her head.

"How is the food and clothing in this hospital?

"But someone bullied you?

"Is the hospital steward competent?"

The slender mute woman who couldn't see her face when she looked down made an "ah" sound, but she didn't nod or shake her head.

I don't know if I'm listening to someone.

Ouyang Rong waited for a while, but there was no response.

The table was cold, and the enthusiasm was unanswered.

His expression was not too embarrassed, and he was calm.

It's just that it's rare to meet, so I wanted to say a few more words and ask about the old way of Heqiu.

But seeing that the slender and dumb girl was a little cold and repulsive, Ouyang Rong's mouth that was about to open closed closed.

He smiled, and couldn't help but look at the slender mute woman twice.

Judging from her performance in the Pure Land Palace, she should not be deaf.

Deaf and dumb are generally symbiotic.

Because he was deaf at a young age, he lost the ability to learn language, and there was no problem with his vocal cords.

And the slender and dumb woman in front of her, since she can understand the words, is naturally not this kind.

It looks like an acquired mute, maybe the vocal cords are damaged or something.

Ouyang Rong sat aside, basked in the sun for a while, then glanced at the sky, got up and said goodbye.

Before leaving, he turned around and nagged a few words:

"The girl looks pretty good, and I shouldn't need to draw snakes to help me with anything.

"But if you have any difficulties in the future, you can go directly to the Xiu Duguan or the haired monk, and I will tell them about your ...... before leaving."

The slender mute woman buried her head in her ears and wrote down every word he said, even the slightest concern in the words.

She couldn't speak, but she had a good memory since she was a child.

At this moment, behind the slender and dumb woman, beside another stone table, Ajie's figure had disappeared.

It turned out that just taking advantage of the gap between Ouyang Rong and the dumb girl talking, Ajie, who was in a cold sweat, got up silently and retreated away from the stone table that was very close to the slender and dumb woman.

Although the qi machine is still locked by her all the time.

But Ah Jie felt that it would never be wrong to leave the absolute realm of the best sword from close to the other party.

And the farther away the better, at least to buy half a breath of reaction time.

Especially the first sword.

Sometimes the greatest advantage or disadvantage of the sword cultivation between the sword cultivators who are not much different in the spiritual qi cultivation is in this first sword.

Asking the sword is like a business with a very low tolerance for error.

In addition to the abundance of capital funds, how to reasonably allocate and use them exquisitely is also extremely important, and the latter two are on the first sword of this meeting, and the competition is high.

This middle way, Ah Jie is clear.

In this regard, it is also becoming more and more cautious, and even the baht must be compared.

Can......

Ahead, the slender mute woman turned a deaf ear.

She sat upright on the stone bench and did not move, without the slightest intention of turning back.

Ajie's face became more and more ugly.

At this moment, the stone bench where the slender and mute woman was sitting was in the shade of a small tree.

The footsteps of the man getting up and walking away were heard.

The mute girl raised her head, and her mouth looked at his back in the bright sun, and uttered a syllable that seemed meaningless:

"Ahh

Just like when Ouyang Rong climbed the wellhead in the Pure Land Palace, she raised her little face below and stared at her in a daze.

It may be that a response from the rear is heard.

Ouyang Rong raised his head above his shoulder without looking back, his cuffs slipped off, and he waved his slender wrist.

Left the inner courtyard.

The slender and dumb woman silently watched Ouyang Rong's relaxed back disappear.

She looked ahead without squinting, and in the distance behind her, the swordsman named Ah Jie silently retreated with his sword until he slowly stopped in a corner of the inner courtyard.

It's already ten feet away, and if you go any further, you're going to hit the wall with your back.

Ten zhang, almost enough to get out of the greatest danger.

However, Ajie was not happy at all.

Because he didn't discover one thing until this moment.

The slender mute woman without a sword locked on his qi machine, and it didn't seem to be used to attack with a sword, but it seemed to be ...... Warning blocking.

In addition, what made Ah Jie's face more and more solemn was that when the slender and mute girl had not been exposed before, Ah Jie had not noticed that he had been locked in at all.

And it wasn't until later that he was about to take Ouyang Rong's life, that this powerful qi machine was belatedly revealed but extremely clearly.

She didn't mean to use her sword to sneak attack or take the lead the whole time.

In other words, as long as a young county magistrate is present, the slender and dumb girl's attention is not on Ajie the whole time.

This is...... What contempt and humiliation.

The inner courtyard was silent.

Of course, this silence is relative, exclusive to a certain type of people.

In the courtyard, there are more than a dozen injured and disabled people in the Sadness Relief Home who are basking in the sun and waiting for meals, plus a bunch of childhood sweethearts who disturb from time to time.

The atmosphere was not quiet at all, it was very lively.

However, the atmosphere between the mute girl and Ah Jie, who were sitting and standing at both ends of the inner courtyard, was dead silent.

They didn't even move at all, like two statues.

Ah Jie felt that the oncoming afternoon breeze was very cold.

There was a chill on the sweat-soaked sideburns, scalp, and neck.

After watching the young county order leave, the slender and dumb woman calmly turned around.

Finally, he glanced at the one-armed swordsman.

The two looked at each other silently for a moment.

Ajie shook her head slightly.

"Yueniang" was put down from her arms and worn around her waist instead.

The remaining palm of his left hand rested on the hilt of his sword.

Then he turned around quietly, bypassed the stone table where the dumb girl was, and walked towards Ouyang Rong's departing follower.

However, the slender and mute girl stopped in Ajie's way.

The atmosphere froze again.

The slender mute woman lowered her eyes and glanced at the sword at the waist of the young man with the broken arm.

She turned her head slightly, raised her hand and beckoned to a pair of orphaned playmates who were childhood sweethearts passing by.

It was the two little boys with missing arms who played a game of riding bamboo poles and ran all over the yard and a deaf and dumb girl with a runny nose.

The slender mute woman took out a few pieces of mung bean cake from her arms, wrapped them in a handkerchief, and opened her mouth slightly "ah".

If Ouyang Rong was still here at this moment and didn't leave, he would be able to recognize the familiar shape of this mung bean cake at a glance, and even look at it from a distance, he could taste the aftertaste of the aftertaste in his mouth......

The deaf and dumb little girl wiped a handful of water and snot on the back of her hand, and looked up at this strange but intimate big sister.

It seems that she is also a dumb girl, and her heart is like a heart, and the deaf and dumb little girl understands what she means.

After a while, the deaf and dumb little girl with a runny nose and a little boy with missing arms grabbed the mung bean cake and ran away jubilantly with both hands raised.

The slender and mute woman remained in place, but there was an extra bamboo pole in her hand.

She vaguely remembers that the country children seemed to like to call it "bamboo horse".

After experiencing the accident and thrill just now, no matter what she was thinking at the moment, Ajie calmed down at this time, and her face returned to her usual complexion.

He glanced at the slender and dumb woman's left hand, which had no severed fingers, and was carrying the ordinary thin bamboo pole at random.

Also a left-hander.

Ajie shook her head at her.

His left hand silently supported the hilt of the sword of "Yueniang" on his waist.

Then the one-armed young man turned his head to look in the direction Ouyang Rong had just left, as if he was signaling something to the slender mute girl ten steps away.

He is a swordsman, and he must use his sword on this trip.

The slender and dumb woman's eyes were waveless and motionless.

She pinched one end of the bamboo pole with her left hand, as if holding it, and the other end of the bamboo pole gently dragged to the ground without making the slightest sound.

This scene fell in the eyes of others, as if an innocent girl was pinching a peach branch and playing at will, relaxing and natural.

But a certain one-armed young man did not dare to regard it as child's play, and his five fingers slowly closed on the hilt of the sword, and he quietly exhaled.

In the lively inner courtyard, there are green plums holding bamboo horses, standing at the gate of the courtyard, squinting at the swordsman.

A certain moment.

Inside the precincts, there is moonlight blooming during the day.

……

After Ouyang Rong left the inner courtyard, he found an excuse to rest and supported Xiu Du and other stewards who followed.

He went to the dry well where the Pure Land Palace was hidden.

I revisited the old place, saw the unknown master, sent some food, and then went to confirm the "return to Xi" stone carving.

Ouyang Rong breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, it is not entirely said to be relaxed, but a kind of pure firmness after clarifying the direction again, abandoning distracting thoughts, and naturally relaxing.

After a while, he climbed out of the dungeon again, left the dry well, found Xiudu, and asked for a monk's room alone.

Ouyang Rong changed into the official uniform he was carrying. After inspecting the Beitian Nursing Home, he is now going down the mountain to pick up the official.

Striding out of the room, he asked Xiudu:

"Miss Xie hasn't come yet?"

The latter shook his head: "No one came to find the adults." ”

Ouyang Rong frowned slightly, and then his eyebrows showed some worry, and on the way out, he couldn't help muttering:

"My reaction before was ...... It's a bit too much...... In this era, is it useless to be accused of being white, pretending to be stupid? Will it hurt the self-esteem of a traditional conservative woman? ”

Ouyang Rong, who was calming down and thinking about it now, was a little weak-hearted, and he sighed: "Is the little junior sister still angry and sad...... Why don't you talk to her openly and honestly when you go back...... I subconsciously ran away before, and it seems that what I did was really not right......"

In his mind, Ouyang Rong no longer stayed, said goodbye to the enthusiastic Xiudu, he quickened his pace and left the Beitian Nursing Home.

Ouyang Rong walked out of the courtyard gate, identified the next direction, and prepared to leave directly.

He had only taken a few steps, and after a pause, he suddenly turned back:

"I almost forgot my sister's skirt knife."

Before entering the Beitian Relief Home,

He deposited the skirt knife at Xiu Fa, since the little junior sister didn't come to him, Xiu Fa should still be wearing the skirt knife, waiting for someone in the waiting box in the bamboo forest next to him.

Ouyang Rong nodded, and took another ten or so steps forward.

He turned the corner of a bamboo forest and walked to the waiting shelter in front of him.

However, before Ouyang Rong could get closer, he saw a strange scene in the pavilion.

I saw that in the waiting pavilion, there was a strong man and a thin monkey-like man bending down to carry something on the ground and moving it to the depths of the bamboo forest behind the pavilion.

In the waiting box, there is no trace of the haired novice.

"Well, where are you going to be lazy again? Did you see a female bodhisattva, like her master, who also went to interpret dreams and read palmistry? ”

Ouyang Rong was speechless, his footsteps did not stop, he stepped forward, organized the language, and spoke politely:

"Annoying, do you see ......?"

In the waiting box, before Ouyang Rong approached, the sturdy man and the thin monkey man who were busy carrying it heard the movement and turned their heads vigilantly.

After seeing Ouyang Rong coming alive, their faces were stunned.

Ouyang Rong was halfway through his words, and when he walked to the pavilion, he suddenly caught a glimpse of what the two were carrying seemed to be...... Person!

Ouyang Rong's words were stuck, and he looked at it again.

This shiny little bald head, yellow monk's robe...... It's hair, and I can't run away.

It's just that I don't know if the little novice is dead or alive.

Outside the pavilion, Ouyang Rong's heart suddenly slammed and slammed on the brakes.

"It's all right, you guys go on." He nodded without changing his face, and as soon as he walked down, he was about to turn around and slip away, coming to the speed of life and death.

It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, wait for the official to shake people, and call the little junior sister and Liulang to come!

However, what Ouyang Rong never expected was.

These two men, who didn't look like good stubble, didn't rush down to kill people at the first time, they suddenly threw down the hair they were carrying in their hands, stood in place and bent down respectfully and said:

"Fairy, why are you back......"

"Ouch!"

The hair that had just been thrown to the ground suddenly couldn't help but feel pain, interrupting the words of the strong man Liu Qi and the thin monkey man Liu Liu, and also interrupting the stunned look on the face of Ouyang Rong, who had stopped running.

Ouyang Rong, Liu Liu, and Liu Qi all looked at the little bald head who was motionless and "unconscious" on the floor in the pavilion.

"......" hair.

The atmosphere inside and outside the pavilion was slightly awkward.

But in the next second, Liu Qi stepped forward with a cold face to end the embarrassment of everyone.

Accompanied by "Ah~", "Ah! There were two wails, and his hair was mended with two hand knives, and he completely fainted.

The corners of Ouyang Rong's mouth twitched fiercely.

In the pavilion, Liu Qi and Liu Liu, who had finished dealing with trivial matters, bent down and asked:

"Fairy, what about the female master surnamed Xie, sent away?"

The two Liu family slaves couldn't help but glance at the familiar jade fairy dressed in the official uniform of "Ouyang Lianghan", and Liu Liu asked cautiously:

"Is the fairy afraid that she will be suspicious later, so she will come and retrieve the knife first?"

“？？？”

Ouyang Rong's feet seemed to be rooted in the ground, he slowly turned his head, and looked at the two strange strong men in the pavilion who were surprisingly respectful to him without saying a word.

"The knife is there, it's there."

Liu Qi scratched his head and sneered first, and stretched out his hand to point at the table next to him:

"Fairy, in the tray, when we came just now, this little bald donkey didn't do enough to swear to protect it."

Liu Liu added:

"The little bald donkey is going to knock out and hide first, and after entering the hospital to move Ouyang Lianghan's body out later, we will deal with it together, and see if we want to do it too, but if he doesn't witness anything, I think it's better not to alarm Donglin Temple as much as possible."

“……”

Ouyang Rong, who was called by his name, looked at them silently.

His right eyelid jerked.

Wrong.

In fact, the gentleman also has a little element of soft rice flow (fog)