"Xiao Mo? Hehe, the name is interesting, is there any origin? What's your last name? What's your name? ”

"It doesn't matter what my last name is, what my big name is. As for my nickname, there is a reason: because I was too naughty when I was a child, I was always messing around, not only not idle in my mouth, but also in my hands and feet, and often made the family uneasy, and my parents very much wanted me to be more silent and like a lady, so they gave me this name. ”

Shu Yan smiled after hearing this: "Like a lady? Why should a big man look like a lady! ”

"Uh-" Xiao Mo smiled weirdly after hearing this, and then took another big bite of lamb leg meat and laughed: "I don't want to be a lady, hahahaha." ”

The two of them raised their glasses and touched them, and Xiao Mo asked, "Brother Shu, I have called you Brother for a few days, and I don't know how old you are?" Which of the two of us is bigger and who is smaller, don't take advantage of me. ”

"I'm spending twenty years in vain this year."

Xiao Mo said: "Ah, really, we are the same age, I am also twenty years old this year, maybe you really took advantage of me." ”

Shu Yan said: "Don't say it too early, the same age, let's compare your birthday, where were you born?" ”

Xiao Mo said: "If you want to say that the day I was born, it is not ordinary, listen to my parents, I was born on the sixth day of the fifth month." On that day, a rare seven-colored cloud appeared in the sky, and our people said that it was out of phase and a good omen. ”

"The sixth day of May?! Seven colored clouds?! Shu Yan was so surprised that he forgot to eat a leg of mutton, "It can't be such a coincidence, I was also born on the sixth day of the fifth month, and according to my parents, there were also seven-colored clouds there that day, and it was twice, once in the morning and once in the evening." ”

"Ah, it's incredible! It is already rare for this rare seven-colored cloud to appear in one time and one place, your hometown is thousands of miles away from our Xiqiang, how can this kind of out-of-phase appear at the same time? ”

"It's incredible, but it's true, there are two people in my hometown who were born on the same day as me, one of them was born with the clouds of the morning, and the other was born with the clouds of the evening."

Xiao Mo said after hearing this: "Although they were born in the same day, but you are a few hours earlier than me after all, it seems that it is right for me to call you eldest brother, because I was also born with the colorful clouds in the evening." ”

"Then you were born at the same time as Zhixin."

"Who is Zhixin?"

"Zhixin is-" Shu Yan immediately had a layer of sadness on his face when he thought of Zhixin, "Alas, if you don't mention it, it's already dead." ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know your friend was already ......" Xiao Mo saw that Shu Yan's mood had changed, so he stopped talking about this topic and raised his wine glass, "Let's drink!" ”

The two of them ate and drank from the sea, like the wind and clouds, eating up the leg of mutton, small rice, side dishes, wine, and tea, and eating so much that their mouths were full of oil. It's no wonder that in the past two days, I have eaten only dry food on the ship, and I have not eaten any serious meals. After a full meal, both sides were a little drunk, swaying, pointing at each other and laughing. The backyard of this hotel is the guest room. Shu Yan paid the bill, opened two more rooms, and went to rest separately.

When he woke up early in the morning, Shu Yan had finished freshening up, packed up, pushed open the door and came out, thinking about whether to wake up Xiao Mo and go together, but found that Xiao Mo had already packed up and was waiting outside the door. The two men then set out on the road together.

Shu Yan asked Xiao Mo: "What are you going to do in Luoyang?" ”

Xiao Mo smiled: "Who said I was going to Luoyang?" ”

"Aren't you going to Luoyang?"

"Heh, I just heard that you went to Luoyang, so I planned to accompany you all the way."

Shu Yan listened and said, "Oh, really? I'm really scared of that. ”

"Of course, the two of us don't know each other."

"After going to Luoyang, where are you going to go?"

"There is no destination!" Xiao Mo looked into the distance and smiled briskly, "Brother Shu, do you know why one of my two robes is embroidered with butterflies and the other is embroidered with fish?" ”

"I don't know, I wanted to ask you a long time ago, but I was afraid of being abrupt, so I was embarrassed to speak."

The two were side by side, Xiao Mo looked sideways at Shu Yan, "I don't have any big ambitions in this life, I just want to be free and unrestrained." Ever since I was a child, I have envied butterflies and fish the most, because they are the freest in the world. Whenever I saw butterflies flying in the air or fish swimming in the water, I would stay and watch them for a long time until they disappeared and my mind followed them, as if I had become a butterfly and a fish. When I grew up, I had my own dream, which was to wander the world, travel all over the world, and see the legendary sea that is wider than the land. There is no destination——, if there is one, it is the legendary ends of the earth. ”

Shu Yan looked at him - this young man has bright eyes and bright teeth, his face is as white as jade, delicate as fat, he lacks strength, but he looks like a beauty, but he doesn't want to have such ambitions. "Okay, Xiaomo, I admire and envy your way of living, five-body throwing, five-body throwing, it's a pity that I can't do it."

Xiao Mo said this, looked into the distance and wandered in his heart again, before he put his heart away and asked Shu Yan: "Brother Shu, what are you going to do in Luoyang?" ”

Shu Yan said to Xiao Mo that he was raised as filial piety and went to the court to try.

The two of them talked while walking, Xiao Mo led the horse and said to Shu Yan: "Brother Shu, there is still some distance from Luoyang, you can put your luggage on my horse and carry it." ”

Shu Yan said: "No need, the road is still far, you can ride a horse, I am used to walking." ”

"Hmph, are you used to walking? Can you have me walking fast? Our Qiang land is full of mountains and ravines, ten times more difficult than your Central Plains road, I grew up in Qiang since I was a child, is it not as good as you? ”

"Then we'll take a look!"

"Okay, the luggage is heavy, it's not fair, let's put the luggage on the back of the horse and walk lightly, how about it?"

"Okay, but since you're carrying a sword and a flute, I'll carry a bow on my back, so it's fair." Shu Yan said, put all his luggage on the horse's back, and said to Xiao Mo, "It's boring to walk, why don't we chase the horse." ”

"Yes, good idea, let's chase the horse, that's enough." After Xiao Mo finished speaking, he slapped the horse's buttocks, "Horse, run!" ”

The red horse listened to his master's order, and trotted briskly in front, and the two boys quickened their pace and followed closely behind. After a while, the two men chased the horse for several miles. Shu Yan thought to himself: The people who came out of Qiangdi have good foot strength, this is me, if I were someone else, I would have been thrown out of it for a long time.

Xiao Mo also thought in his heart: "This person doesn't look polite, but his physical strength is excellent." Not only is it powerful, but its legs and feet are also so good. ”

They were secretly admiring each other in their hearts, when suddenly the horses ran to a grove in front of them. At this time, the two of them were already a little out of breath. No matter how good the foot strength is, it is a human after all, and it is far worse than a horse.

Xiao Mo saw that the distance between himself and Shu Yan and the horse was getting farther and farther away, and he was afraid that the horse would lose his luggage, so he hurriedly shouted to the horse: "Horse, don't run, stop." ”

When the horse heard the call, he immediately stopped running.

Shu Yan sweated: "Don't run, don't let the horse run, let's rest in the grove in front of us." ”

Xiao Mo's breathing also increased a little: "Don't run, don't run, take a break in front, take a break." ”

Both of them are teenagers, and they try their best to compete with each other, and no one obeys anyone, and they don't know that they are tired until afterwards. When he saw that he had reached the edge of the woods, three big men suddenly rushed out of the woods and blocked the horses behind them. Each of these three men was armed with a long sword, and they all covered their heads and faces with black cloth.

Seeing this scene, Shu Yan and Xiao Mo's first reaction was that they had been robbed by robbers.

"Oh no, they must have come for my bow and luggage."

"Phew, how much is your broken luggage worth? They definitely want my horse and the purple jade flute. ”

The two of them were muttering to themselves, but they didn't expect that the three people didn't pay attention to the horse, let alone care about the luggage on the horse, but went directly to Shu Yan and Xiao Mo. As they spoke, the two sides were only a few feet apart. At this point, bows and arrows are no longer useful. The three men took a step forward, came closer, raised their swords and slashed. Xiao Mo screamed in fright, but found that the swords of the three people all bypassed him and all slashed towards Shu Yan.

Of course, Xiao Mo couldn't stand idly by, so he hurriedly pulled out his sword and said to Shu Yan: "Brother Shu, take the sword." Shu Yan took a look, it turned out that when Xiao Mo's sword was placed in the scabbard, it seemed to be just one, but when it was pulled out, it could be divided into two. The two of them each held a sword to deal with these three people, but they didn't want these three people to be swordsmanship masters, although Xiao Mo would play a few tricks, but he couldn't do it at all in front of these three masters, Shu Yan was even more of a layman, holding the sword just messing around, and there was no routine at all. The three big men are all experts, and they know that the two people in front of them are not good at swordsmanship, but their swords are extremely sharp, so they can't touch them hard, and they only use skill. Suddenly, a big man used a sword to shake a move in front of Xiao Mo's eyes, Xiao Mo parried, but another big man flew up and kicked his sword away, Shu Yan was stunned, the sword had already been kicked away, and the third big man's sword had already reached his neck.

The two big men held swords and pressed Xiao Mo step by step, Xiao Mo was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and shouted in his mouth: "I said a long time ago, I shouldn't be with you, I was injured last time, and this time I am afraid that even my own life will be lost." ”

The three big men laughed when they heard Xiao Mo's slightly crying words, and one of them said: "Young man, don't meddle in your business, we only want his life, it's none of your business, but, hehe......" After the man finished speaking, he picked up the sword on the ground, looked at it, and said, "These two swords are really good, they have to be given to us." ”

Although Shu Yan had the sword on his neck, he was still calm, he was afraid that he would affect Xiao Mo, so he shouted at him: "Xiao Mo, I am the one who has affected you." You and I have known each other, you listen to my brother's words, it is important to save your life, give them the sword quickly, run, they want to kill me, it has nothing to do with you. ”

The big man shouted: "What are you talking about, I want your life first!" After saying that, he raised his sword and slashed.

Shu Yan closed his eyes and waited for death, Xiao Mo hurriedly shouted: "Wait, three big brothers, I still have a word." ”

The big man stopped his hand: "What did you say?" ”

Xiao Mo pleaded: "You only know that my sword is a treasure, but you don't know that my purple jade flute is a hundred times stronger than my sword, don't believe you." ”

Xiao Mo took advantage of the three of them looking at each other, so he untied the flute and said, "I'll play a song, you listen to it, is it good?" He took the flute in his mouth, and the flute was aimed at the throat of the big man who was holding Shu Yan's neck with a knife, and suddenly his eyes showed a fierce light, his mouth was forced, his cheeks were bulging, and he "brushed", a white light flashed, and the big man stood on the ground, motionless. The remaining two people didn't understand what was going on, two cold lights shot head-on again, these two people deserved to be martial arts masters, they knew that something was wrong, they reacted quickly, and hurriedly blocked with their arms, and they felt that this arm was sore, and they couldn't move.

Shu Yan escaped death, surprised and delighted, and hurriedly asked Xiao Mo: "What's going on?" How did you subdue them? ”

Xiao Mo said proudly: "Hmph, Brother Shu, this is the reason why I don't let you play my flute on the boat." I have a mechanism in my flute, and no one else can play it casually. ”

Shu Yan woke up and knew that he had blamed Xiao Mo on the boat that day, and thought that Xiao Mo didn't play the flute for himself because he was too stingy.

Then the two of them took back their swords, and Shu Yan wanted to know most at this time, who was trying to kill him one after another, so he lifted their masks, but found that they didn't know each other.