After Nandao left, Chen He had a dream on the counter on the first floor.

In my dream, I was in a bustling town, and I woke up in a tea shop by the window with a book in my arms.

Outside the window, the sound of pedestrians' footsteps and conversations shone into the window where the curtains were half-rolled up with the warm sunlight, and then sprinkled on the table on which he was lying on his stomach.

"The grass is a firefly, is the wine brewed last time okay?"

A rough voice asked not far from the window.

Then a gentle voice like a teenager replied, "It's a little burnt, but it's much better than before." ”

The gruff voice laughed, as if it had gone away.

The young man's gentle laughter kept approaching, and then he lifted the curtain of the tea shop and walked in.

There were not many people in the tea shop, and there were many empty tables, but the young man in blue clothes came in and looked around for a while, but he walked directly to Chen He's table.

Chen He raised his head with the scroll in his arms, and found that he was still drooling, and with some embarrassment, he tore off the line of crystal liquid under the spring sun, picked up his clothes and wiped them.

Cao Weiying sat down across from Chen He's table, and then looked at the book in Chen He's hand very curiously, and asked softly:

"What book are you reading?"

Chen He looked down at the book in his hand, he had read a biographical novel before, thought about it, put the book on the table and pushed it over.

The boy picked up the book, turned the first page, and looked at it very earnestly.

It seems to have forgotten that there is a blank person sitting opposite.

Chen He looked at the young man at the table strangely, and then turned his head to look out of the window, as if he had slept for too long, his head was a little heavy, and he couldn't remember what he was doing before for a while, so he looked at the spring-filled long street outside the window in a daze, and was in a daze for a long time.

Outside the window, there was an old dog sleeping across the street, and a child led by a woman stepped on it as he passed by, so he barked miserably, barked for a while, and then stopped awkwardly, changed his position, and lay down on his front leg and continued to sleep.

Chen He looked at the lazy old dog, and always felt that it was a little familiar, could it be that he had seen it somewhere?

A tanuki cat with a cyan bird in its mouth jumped in from the window, stepped on the table with cat's steps, and stared at Chen He vigilantly.

There was the cry of a child outside.

"Mother, that stupid cat took my finch away again, woo wow wow ......"

Cao Wei Hotaru finally raised his head, looked at the cat at the window, knocked its forehead with the scroll in his hand, the tanuki cat whined aggrievedly, let go of the bird in his mouth, the bird was reborn, and flew out with a sigh, the tanuki cat reluctantly glanced at the bird outside the window, walked to the grass for the firefly, stretched out his head and arched the boy's hand.

Cao Weiying stroked the cat, put down the book in his hand, looked at Chen He, smiled and said, "It has always been a little naughty. ”

Chen He didn't know why he explained this thing to himself, but he still nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Then he looked around and asked, "Where is this?" ”

Cao Weiying picked up the teapot on the table, poured it, did not pour out the tea, looked back, the counter shopkeeper behind the curtain was not there, so he took off the wine gourd on his waist, raised his head and drank, took a big sip, turned his head and squinted out of the window, thought for a long time, and said: "I forgot too, why don't you come and name it?" ”

Chen He thought for a moment and said, "Then let's call it Old Dog Town." ”

The grass squirted out of the wine in a sip, and the cat in her arms was so startled that she jumped out of the window.

Chen He looked at the young man innocently and said, "Didn't you want me to take it?" I don't know where this is, but when I opened my eyes, I saw an old dog outside the window, and it couldn't be called Old Cat Town. ”

Cao Wei Hotaru wiped the wine on the table with a smile and said, "Then let's call it Old Dog Town." ”

"Is this in a dream?" Chen He gradually remembered what he was doing before, and after Nandao left, he sighed a little, so he went downstairs and took a book on the shelf to read, but he was inexplicably sleepy, so he fell asleep on the counter.

Grass tilted her head for Hotaru and thought for a while, and said, "What you think is what you are." ”

Chen He looked at the grass for fireflies silently, turned his head to look out the window, and said, "Then why did I have such a strange dream?" ”

Cao Weiying laughed softly and said, "Maybe it's because you've encountered some problems that are difficult to solve, so you want to come and see them in your dreams?" ”

"That's right." Chen He sighed and said, "How good it is in dreams, everything you want comes true, and everything you never forget will always echo in your dreams." ”

"Instead of sighing, find someone to ask." Grass said with a smile, "Like me." ”

Chen He looked back at Cao Weiyi and said, "Ask you to be useful?" ”

"Of course it works."

So Chen He asked, "When will I be really carefree?" ”

Cao Weiying raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen He and said, "I thought you would ask about that friend of yours." ”

Chen He was stunned for a moment, looked Cao Weiying up and down for a long time, and said, "You even know about this, it seems that this is really a dream." As he spoke, he turned his head to look out the window, "Actually, this is also asking him about it?" ”

"Tell me about it."

"People will inevitably make a few friends when they are alive, and if a friend suddenly tells you that he is going to die, so he goes out with a sword on his back to settle his regrets, you will definitely not be happy." Chen He said, sighing, "So the question I asked included his affairs, but I was more greedy for the happiness of life, so I asked a big question." ”

Cao Weiying also sighed and said, "I don't know the big problem, but I do know the smaller one." ”

Chen He looked at the grass for fireflies in a daze, and said, "This can also be done?" ”

"This one really works."

The young man drinking by the window was very sincere.

So Chen He felt that he should believe him.

"But he's dying."

"I know, I've met him a few times."

"Then why didn't you tell him yourself?"

"He didn't ask me, and as soon as he came in, he sighed, and I didn't even want to pay attention to him."

Chen He looked at the young man in front of him for a long time and said, "Why do you want to help him?" ”

Cao Weiying stood up with a wine gourd, walked to the door of the tea shop, lifted the curtain, and the spring light came in, and the young man stood there for a long time, looked back at Chen He and said, "Because I saw something very interesting." ”

Chen He sat at the table with a blank expression, and Cao Weiying had already walked out.

A teenager's voice came from outside the window.

"You bring him here, and I'll help you."

Chen He stuck his head out of the window, watched the young man walk farther and farther on the moss long street, and shouted loudly: "How can I bring it here?" ”

Cao Wei Hotaru thought for a while, turned around and said: "The book you read is quite interesting, when the time comes, you can find a few such books at will, find a wine word in the book, or find a sword word, and then shout, I want to go to Old Dog Town!" The grass turned back, her shoulders swaying, not knowing what she was doing.

"Remember to be louder, or I might not be able to hear, and then you can come in."

Chen He wanted to say something, but his figure gradually became illusory.

Cao Weiying walked up to the old dog, held it for a long time, and then laughed insolently.

Touching the old dog's shrugged ears.

"Now you're the mayor."

"Woohoo!"

.....

Chen He woke up from a dream, looked at the sky, and hurriedly drove out of the Hanging Courtyard in a small wheelchair, but he went out, but he didn't know where to find Nandao, so he happened to meet Zhang Xiaoyu who was holding a scabbard by the river and looking at the world. Although he is not very familiar with Zhang Xiaoyu, Chen He has also heard Nandao mention him, not to mention that Zhang Xiaoyu, as a disciple of the Human Sword Sect, will naturally be more familiar with the affairs of Nanyi City.

"Mr. Little Fish?"

Zhang Xiaoyu was looking at the river and thinking about something, when he heard someone behind him calling him, although he didn't like others to call him Xiaoyu or something like that, but he still turned around, Chen He was sitting in the small wheelchair where they and Yun Hu had been tinkering, and he was looking at himself in a hurry.

"Is there something wrong?" Zhang Xiaoyu felt that his ability to ask questions knowingly still needed to be strengthened.

"Does the sir know where the South Island is?"

Zhang Xiaoyu was silent for a while, and said, "Maybe it's in the east of the city, you can go over there to find it." ”

"Thank you." Chen He got the answer, didn't think much about it, hurriedly activated the small wheelchair, and headed towards the east of the city.

Zhang Xiaoyu stood there, looking at Chen He's back, then looking down at the river and the scabbard in his arms, and thought quietly for a long time.

What's in the Hanging Courtyard?

Zhang Xiaoyu put the scabbard on his back and walked towards the courtyard.

All the way to the stop in front of the library.

Nandao has been living in the library since then, and Zhang Xiaoyu naturally knows about it.

Standing in front of the library and looking up at this courtyard that looked extremely ordinary in the night for a long time, Zhang Xiaoyu pushed open the door and walked in.

At the beginning, Zhang Xiaoyu also stayed here in order to earn money playing cards, so he was naturally very familiar with it. I went straight up to the listening platform on the third floor.

Although Zhang Xiaoyu walked very calmly, as if he was going to play cards as usual, on the scabbard behind him, there was always sword intent, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

Listening to the wind platform is very quiet, there is nothing, the door to the lounge is open, I don't know if it was blown open by the wind or forgot to close it, it is very ordinary inside, except for the bed and chair is a biographical novel that Chen He has read.

Zhang Xiaoyu glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze, stood by the listening platform, and looked at the world silently.

The bamboo leaves of the forest are rustling in the spring night wind.

Nothing.

How could there be nothing?

What is it about that that let his sword disappear from the world for so long?

Zhang Xiaoyu was silent for a long time, turned around, and was about to leave, but he caught a glimpse of a peach on the table next to the teapot and wine glass, which was about to dry up.

Nanyi City has been selling peaches recently.

But how can there be such a big March peach?

Zhang Xiaoyu looked at it for a long time, walked to the table, raised his hand and touched it.

The scabbard behind him hummed incessantly, as if something extremely terrifying had happened.

The moment Zhang Xiaoyu's fingertips touched the peach, there was an even more hideous crack on his face, as if a sword had fallen on the front door, which looked extremely terrifying, and the scabbard behind him suddenly cracked at the same time.

With a muffled snort, Zhang Xiaoyu hurriedly took a few steps back, the cracks on his face slowly subsided, but a trace of blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth.

"Diagonal bridge?"

Zhang Xiaoyu seemed to hear a puzzled voice, which came from nowhere, but soon the voice disappeared from the listening platform.

The building is full of breezes, and the green bamboo is swaggering.

It's as if nothing had happened.

But the horror in Zhang Xiaoyu's heart was far from stopping.

It's not because his scabbard is cracked, or because he has suffered internal injuries under that sword intent.

It's those two words.

Diagonal bridge.

Of course, the diagonal bridge is not only the name of the sword intent realm.

He is the person who once sharpened the sword cliff, and the fourth disciple of the sword saint Qingyi.

He is also his ancestor.

The first generation of the Sect Master of the Human Sword Sect.

Zhang Xiaoyu knew that his sword might not appear for a long time.