The first rays of sunlight in the sky pierced the barrier of night, and almost everyone who practiced martial arts would wake up at this moment to soak up the first rays of the morning sun, and they were superstitious that this was the best time of the day to practice martial arts.

Of course, except for Chengjiu wine, the happiest thing for her besides drinking is to sleep comfortably until she wakes up naturally.

The sun shone on her face, she frowned and rubbed her heavy eyelids, turned over and was about to go back to sleep, but she could not calm down from a loud shout.

"You can't even lift a sword, that's how Shen Yushan taught you? Let's just go to the countryside and farm......"

Cheng Jiujiu sat up a little dazedly, grabbed a stone and threw it at Li Xiaoyu's head, and scolded: "What are you howling there this morning?" ”

Li Xiaocao's head dodged slightly, the stone flew past his ear and smashed into the head of Shen Ying, who was holding the heavy sword, Shen Ying lay on the ground with a wail, and the heavy sword fell to his stomach again, and Shen Ying was almost fainting in pain.

Li Xiaocao picked up the heavy sword with a copy of his hand, and shouted at Chengjiujiu: "Auntie, what time have you seen this, there is that person who practices martial arts who sleeps like you?" ”

"Roll on, roll as far as you want, don't come and bother me." Cheng Jiujiu scolded, unscrewed the wine gourd used as a pillow and was about to take a few sips, when he suddenly remembered that the wine had been drunk by Shen Ying yesterday, and scolded angrily: "This bastard is thirsty to death, he should really be hacked to death with a sword......"

"This aunt has a pretty big temper." Li Xiaowu covered one ear and muttered, looked down and saw that Shen Ying was still lying on the ground, so he kicked over: "Hurry up for me, you still want to take revenge for your virtue?" I really don't know how Shen Yushan taught you......"

Shen Ying's face was red when she was scolded, and she got up and glared at Li Xiaocao as if she was going to eat someone, Li Xiaowu was a little happy, and threw the sword at Shen Ying: "Don't be unconvinced, stinky boy, when you have your Lao Tzu's ability, come and fight with me again, and hold it up to me honestly now." ”

Although Shen Ying was a little angry, she also understood Li Xiaocao's intentions, took the heavy sword and gritted her teeth and raised it above her head, Li Xiaocao's eyes flashed with a hint of approval, and she sat on the ground humming a little song and closed her eyes and breathed.

Cheng Jiu scolded for a while, stretched and lay on the ground to sleep for a while, but the onset of alcohol addiction made her feel a little itchy all over her body, she scratched her head and turned over and walked to Li Xiaocao, and asked, "Do you still have wine?" ”

Li Xiaocao pointed to his tattered clothes: "How can I look like a person with wine?" ”

"You were as drunk as a dead pig yesterday, where did you get the wine?"

"Yesterday I passed by a town and stole it there."

Cheng Jiujiu waved his hand: "Then you come and lead the way, let's go to that town to eat something, and buy a new dress for each person, I still feel ashamed that you are bare-chested now." ”

Li Xiaoyu was furious, and a carp got up and pointed at Chengjiujiu and scolded: "You still have the face to say!" ”

Cheng Jiujiu ignored him, whistled lightly, the little donkey ran briskly from the mountains, Cheng Jiujiu took out a rag from the luggage on the donkey's back and threw it to Li Xiaocao to let him cover his buttocks, and said to Shen Ying on the side: "Don't hold that thing, you still have injuries on your body, you come to ride a donkey." ”

Shen Ying was relieved to let go and threw the heavy sword on the ground, the heavy sword fell to the ground and smashed it with a muffled sound, Cheng Jiujiu picked up the heavy sword with a light pick on his toes, held it with one hand and turned his head to Li Xiaocao and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Sword."

"It doesn't look like a sword at all." Cheng Jiujiu waved it with one hand, this heavy armor was almost wider than her waist, but it was as light as a feather in her hand, Cheng Jiujiu reached out to uncover the rags on the sword, and the wide black sword body was carved with mountains and rivers, and a slight wave gave birth to a thunderous sound of breaking the air.

Shen Ying looked a little obsessed on the back of a donkey, he had never seen this kind of heavy sword thicker than a human waist, and he had never seen a record in the hundred sword spectrum, he asked Li Xiaocao, "What is the name of this sword?" ”

Li Xiaohua said: "It's just a sword, without a name." ”

Shen Ying said: "This sword is absolutely extraordinary, he must have his own name, I'm afraid you just don't know." ”

Li Xiaohua said: "I don't know what others call him, I will call him a sword in my hand, and it is no different from the sword in your hand." ”

Shen Ying said: "The name of this sword of mine is Xiaoxiang, and it was passed on to me by my father. ”

Li Xiaowu smiled: "You are wrong, in your father's hands it is indeed a Xiaoxiang sword, but in your hands it is just scrap metal." ”

Shen Ying was about to argue again, Li Xiaocao didn't wait for him to speak, he shook his hand and slapped it on the donkey's buttocks, the donkey was frightened and opened his legs and carried Shen Ying forward, and jumped out of the distance in the blink of an eye, Li Xiaocao asked Chengjiujiu: "This kid is really Shen Yushan's son?" His sword was not the one Shen Yushan used. ”

Cheng Jiujiu threw the giant sword in his hand to Li Xiaocao, and said: "It won't be wrong for him to use Shen Yushan's swordsmanship, as for his sword, we don't have to care, he will say it himself sooner or later." ”

Li Xiaocao took the heavy sword, rewrapped it in rags and carried it behind him, and asked, "I want to know, how many moves did Chengjiu use to kill Shen Yushan?" ”

Cheng Jiujiu said with a smile: "When I drink the wine, I'll tell you again." ”

The place where Li Xiaoyu said is not far from here, the three of them walked for less than an hour to the outside of the town, this town is bigger than the city Jiujiu thought, the tall city gate wall is engraved with the four big characters of "Qishan Outer City", looking at the four words on the high wall City Jiujiu is a little stunned, Qishan Outer City, this is the border of Qizhou.

"What's the hair?"

Li Xiaocao shook his hand in front of Cheng Jiujiu's eyes, Cheng Jiujiu came back to his senses and asked Li Xiaocao: "Where are you from?" ”

Li Xiaoyan looked left and right, and whispered in the ear of Chengjiujiu: "Cangnan." ”

Chengjiujiu also responded in a low voice: "From Cangnan to Luoyang, no matter how you go, you can't pass here." ”

"Before going to Luoyang, I went to the capital."

"What are you going to do in the capital?"

"I visited a friend and took some silver from him by the way."

"Where's the silver?"

"It's a clean time before I get there, otherwise I wouldn't have stolen wine."

"You should have gotten more money with your friend." Cheng Jiujiu helplessly held her forehead, and she only now thought that she couldn't take out a single child on her.

Li Xiaoyu said: "That friend gave me a lot, a thousand taels of silver. ”

Cheng Jiujiu exclaimed: "One thousand taels didn't go to this place, so it was spent?" You've been spilling money all the way? ”

"As soon as I left the capital, I met an old lady who fainted on the side of the road with hunger, and the old man had no one under his knees but to beg for food to live, so I spent five hundred taels in the capital to buy a house and land for the old man."

Cheng Jiujiu nodded: "Then what about five hundred taels?" ”

"When I passed by Longhu Mountain, I came across a bandit's den, where I found two children who had been taken captive up the mountain, their parents were killed by the bandits and had no one to rely on, so I found a family to adopt them and gave them a few hundred taels of silver."

"No wonder you're dressed like a beggar." Cheng Jiujiu suddenly realized, and the two of them turned their heads to look at Shen Ying who was leading the donkey at the same time.

Shen Ying was stunned for a moment, and asked the two of them: "What do you think of me like this?" ”

Li Xiaohua said: "Don't tell me, you don't have any money." ”

Shen Ying flipped in her arms, shrugged her shoulders, and Li Xiaoxiao scolded angrily: "Why can't even a young master like you take out the silver, should we steal it again?" ”

Shen Ying also scolded: "No is no, or you cut off my head and go to Tianlu Mansion for silver!" ”

Li Xiaowu scolded: "Do you think Lao Tzu wouldn't dare? As long as there is a person from Tianlu Mansion here, I will immediately take your head and ......change it" Li Xiaowu stopped in the middle of speaking, and looked directly behind Shen Ying, Shen Ying looked back and half of his soul was frightened, and not far behind him, there were really seven or eight men in black Tianlu Mansion clothes, who were walking with the pedestrians entering the city.

Shen Ying was about to slip away, Li Xiaoyan hooked Shen Ying's neck with a wave of his big hand, and said with a smile: "It's really the child who is short of milk and came to the mother, you stand up, I'll cut off your head for some wine money." ”

Cheng Jiujiu was a little anxious and kicked Li Xiaocao's ass: "Have you two made enough trouble?" If there is no silver, there is no silver, and the living must not let the wine die of hunger, and it is a big deal to steal it again. Shen Ying broke free and said, "Aren't we thieves who have to steal?" Can't find a way to get some money? ”

Cheng Jiujiu said strangely: "Do you have a way?" ”

Shen Ying pointed to the donkey and said, "This donkey is very valuable, we can take it to the butcher to exchange for some silver." ”

"I'd better cut off your head." After Cheng Jiujiu finished speaking, he went to the donkey's back to get a sword, and suddenly stared at Pear Blossom and was silent, Li Xiaocao's eyes suddenly widened: "Grandma, you don't want to exchange Pear Blossom for money, right?" ”

Cheng Jiujiu turned around and smiled at Li Xiaocao: "This can't be done, but your iron pimple can." ”

Li Xiaocao jumped far away, pointed to Chengjiujiu and scolded: "Don't even think about it, I have this ...... handed down by my grandfather."

The eyes of the two lit up at the same time, and they looked at Shen Ying at the same time, to be precise, at the sword in Shen Ying's hand.

In an inn in the outer city of Qishan, the shopkeeper Jin Fat Man was fiddling with the account book at the counter and counted one side after another, sighing that today's business was sluggish, and he could only hear shouting outside the door: "The gold shopkeeper!" Serve your best wine to five or six jars, and then roast a lamb and serve it! ”

The sad face of the golden shopkeeper who was originally piled up together instantly relaxed, and hurriedly beckoned Xiao Er to serve the wine, and was about to welcome the guests, only to see Li Xiaocao walk in with a woman in red and a crying and sad face, and saw that it was Li Xiaocao, the golden shopkeeper's eyes were as wide as bells, and he pointed at him and scolded: "You, you stinky beggar who steals things, dare to come back!" ”

"Stealing? Stinky beggars? Shopkeeper Jin, why can't I understand what you're saying? Li Xiaoyu threw ten taels of silver on the dining table: "Did the golden shopkeeper just wake up and his eyes were not very good, and he recognized the wrong person?" ”

"Oh, look at my dog's eyes, I'm really looking at the wrong person." The golden shopkeeper instantly changed his face again, sat down with a smile on the three of them, and poured a cup of tea for Li Xiaocao with his own hands, Li Xiaocao slapped the table and shouted: "What are you doing here?" How many of us seem to be here to drink white water? ”

"Hurry up and bring our daughter Hong, who has been in the cellar for twenty years, and pour it for the masters!" The fat hand of the golden shopkeeper put away the silver on the table like lightning, and smiled at Li Xiaocao: "Uncle, you are waiting here, I will personally go to the kitchen to urge you a few dishes." After saying that, he twisted his fat body and ran to the kitchen.

Twenty years of daughter red? Cheng Jiujiu touched the saliva on the side of his mouth and gave Li Xiaocao an inquiring look, Li Xiaocao grinned: "Don't listen to that fat man's nonsense, how can his daughter be red for twenty years if she is not as tall as this table, at most four or five years, but it is better than nothing." ”

When Xiao Er brought a few jars of wine, Cheng Jiujiu couldn't wait to pick up a jar and pour it into his mouth, Li Xiaocao even stuffed almost his head into the jar, which scared Xiao Er and thought where did this come from, seeing that Shen Ying beside Li Xiaocao was still stunned and couldn't help asking, "Son, why don't you drink it?" Don't you look down on our daughter Hong? ”

Shen Ying sighed, picked up the wine and took a sip, and saw that there were only three guests in the entire inn, so she asked Xiao Er: "Why don't you see anyone else coming at this hour?" Could it be that today is a special day? ”

Xiao Er saw that the three of them didn't have any, so he sat down and said, "Haven't you heard of it, guest?" ”

"What did you hear?"

"Just yesterday, the famous Dugu family on the rivers and lakes announced that the Dugu Sword Saint was dying, and these people who had no head and face rushed to Jinling to see the excitement."

Li Xiaocao and Chengjiu Liquor stopped at the same time, and Chengjiu Liquor put down the wine and asked, "Dugu Sword Saint died yesterday?" ”

"That's right, that's what the Dugu family's notice says."

Li Xiaoyu glanced at Chengjiujiu and asked Xiao Er: "The death of the Sword Saint is a big mourning event in the rivers and lakes, how can you say that you are going to see the excitement?" ”

Xiao Er said: "Guest officer, you don't know, in five days it will be the day of the funeral of the Dugu Sword Saint, and it is said that the new head of the Dugu family will be announced on the day of the funeral." ”