Late at night, the banks of the Nanyi River are extremely silent.

Of course, there will be people in the world who have thought about letting Chen Huaifeng and them die.

But probably no one will say it so openly in Nanyi City.

So the young man standing with a sword by the river was probably shocked for a long time, and looked at the mouse demon sitting quietly by the tent in the night wind and snow for a long time.

The beard stood for a long time, until the snow covered his shoulders and his brows were covered with flying flakes. The young man came back to his senses and said slowly: "I don't know if what you said is right or wrong, but since I am a member of the Sword Sect, I naturally have to stand in the position of the Sword Sect - if you are unreasonable, there will naturally be unreasonable reason." Maybe sometimes in the world, there is really a need for some such unreasonable people to cross the sword and let everything return to its proper trajectory. ”

The young man whispered. "And you're going very far, for me, I just want to know one thing—what did you say to that little kingfisher named Qingqing?"

The rat sat calmly on the bow of the boat and said slowly, "I didn't say anything, I just asked her to help me deliver a letter." ”

Hu Lu frowned and asked, "What letter?" Where to send to? ”

"Lingnan."

Hu Lu was silent for a while, and said, "For whom?" ”

Rat Mouse sneered and said, "What does it have to do with you?" ”

This probably does not have anything to do with the suffocation.

But not everyone has heard of the rat story.

So the sword in Hu Lu's hand was loosened, suspended in the wind and snow, and the sword seemed to be unsheathed at any time, and the young man with the melon skin on his head looked at the mouse and said slowly: "If it has something to do with the Sword Sect, it has something to do with me." ”

The few pedestrians on the road watched in astonishment at the tense scene on the snowy river, and then avoided them in the night.

Rat just said calmly, "If you don't believe me, then please." ”

The sword was suspended for a long time, and finally subsided in the wind and snow.

Hu Lu regained his grip on his sword, headed towards the riverbank, turned over and jumped onto the guardrail, and quietly left along the long snowy street.

"If not, I'll definitely come and kill you."

The boy walked away in the snow with his sword.

The rat sat quietly on the bow of the boat, leaning on the snow-covered canopy, quietly watching the snowstorm.

Maybe it was because it was a little cold, so the rat rat stretched out his legs and hooked the small stove.

It's just that the bottom of the boat is not smooth.

So in the stumbling of the stove, the half pot of wine on the stove rolled down.

It didn't burn the rat's feet, but just spilled a large amount of liquor on the bottom of the boat.

Things in the snow always get cold quickly.

The rat was probably a little sad too, so he raised his hand to wipe the corner of his eye and hid in the black pen.

......

The rat did see Qingqing, and did ask her to send a letter to Lingnan.

The letter was addressed to a little demon named Tanuka in Lingnan.

The letter arrived in the afternoon.

Maybe sooner, maybe later.

In such a heavy snowfall, it is easy to lose your direction and tell the time.

Even if it is a little demon like Qingqing who runs around in the world, when he arrived in Lingnan in the wind and snow, he didn't find his direction for a long time.

She flew dizzily in the snow for a long time, and finally heard a surprise sound on the snowy branch path somewhere below.

"Qingqing!"

"Qingqing!"

Even though it was snowing heavily in the world, the orange-clothed young man who was still sleeping on the branches under the mountain gate jumped down at this time, running and shouting while carrying his sword on the mountain road covered with thick snow.

Qingqing had already flown over the mountain because of the heavy snow, and it was not until the wind was quieter that she heard the voice of the young demon.

So it took a long time to identify it before falling into the snow-capped mountains below.

It snowed heavily for several days, and even Tanuka couldn't tell where he had run.

But after all, it is still in Lingnan, and the footprints behind him are still there, so that I won't be able to find my way back when the time comes.

When Qingqing fell, the young man's surprise had slowly faded because he saw him, and he stood under the tree on the side of the mountain road with his sword on his back, a little hesitant and apprehensive.

I wanted to ask something, but I didn't dare to ask.

So he just stood quietly.

Qingqing saw this young demon, and didn't take out the letter, but just looked him up and down for a long time, and then asked, "You have always been in Lingnan?" ”

Tanuki nodded and whispered, "That's where you sent that letter in the first place." ”

Qingqing looked at the young man in a daze, and after a long time, she whispered, "Why don't you go outside to find her?" ”

The tanuki sat down under the tree and said slowly, "Because I am afraid that when I leave, the rat will come, and if she does not see me there, she will think that I did not wait for her, so she will go away in anger and never come back." ”

Qingqing listened to the raccoon's somewhat childish words, but she was a little angry and wanted to laugh, but when she saw the sad appearance of the young man sighing, she still didn't laugh.

He just sighed, and then found a stone in the snow and sat down.

Maybe he can't be blamed.

When the rat asked her to deliver the letter, she was coaxed by the fortune operator on the Nanyi River because she caused trouble. So I regretted that I missed the appointment.

Later, probably because of guilt, I didn't dare to ask about it.

So, just as she said to Nandao, she just floated on the river, wondering if the boy had waited or not.

Did he hate, or didn't he hate?

Rat Rat was indeed a girl demon back then.

So some of the minds are immature and stupid.

I think this teenager is like this.

It is clear that one of the two people is in Lingnan and the other is in Nanyi City.

But neither of them heard from the other.

I always thought that maybe there were some stories that I didn't dare to hear.

One is afraid that he will not come, and the other is afraid of changing his mind.

Qingqing is just an outsider.

She hadn't thought about these stories either.

The two of them were silent for a long time beside the windy and snowy mountain road.

After a long time, Tanuki looked at Qingqing again and said softly, "What are you going to do when you come to Lingnan this time?" ”

"Send a message." Qingqing said slowly.

Tanuki was silent for a moment, and then said, "Did you give it to me?" ”

"Yes."

Qingqing took out the letter written by the rat from her bosom and lying on the bow of the ship after drinking some wine with her.

Tanuka looked at the letter quietly, as he had done back then, and did not reach for it.

"What is in the letter?"

That's what he asked back then.

"I don't know."

Qingqing also replied the same way back then.

Probably the only difference is that it was a warm and soft spring morning, and now it is a snowy evening.

Qingqing stretched out her hand, and the letter lay in the palm of her small hand, and from time to time snow fell on it.

"Rat was just drinking with me, but didn't say anything, and suddenly thought of writing a letter, and asked me to send it."

Qingqing said, but suddenly remembered a certain spring a long time ago.

At that time, the rat and rat were still at ease, holding a pot of wine and taking a sip, holding her hand and walking along the field path where some wild flowers had just begun to bloom somewhere in the world.

So as he walked, he suddenly said that he wanted to write a letter, saying that he was going to give it to a young demon he had met.

So the rat and mouse proudly finished the jar of wine, put the jar upside down in the field, I don't know where to find the pen and paper, while facing the spring breeze that blew through the yellow and white flowers in the field, he smiled, and began to write the dragon and snake.

scribbled a letter and sent it to Lingnan with Qingqing.

It is probably the willow tip on the moon, and the person is about after dusk.

It's a pity that the rat didn't make it, and the rat who planned to groom and dress up was backhanded to the head of the missing divination operator.

And then, as she said – and then there was no then.

Tanuki didn't take the letter, but just tilted her head and thought about it, and said, "Actually, I also thought about writing a letter to her at the beginning, that is, after she wrote that letter and said that she was coming, but after she didn't come, I stayed in that twilight for several months, and then one day, I suddenly thought, why don't I write a letter and ask." ”

Qingqing looked at him and asked, "Then did you write it?" ”

Tanuki smiled and said, "I wrote it, but I stopped after writing a few words, and there were many reasons, such as the stone I was lying on was too hot by the sun, and I was sunburned out of its original shape at that time, and even the hair on my paws was burned." For example, after I got over the problem of being too hot, I wrote a few more words, and then I remembered what if she really didn't want to come? I was so sad thinking about it that I lay on my stomach in the tree for a long time, and then I finally mustered up the courage to continue writing. ”

The young tanuki stopped at this point.

Qingqing frowned and looked at him and asked, "What happened later?" ”

Tanuka sighed softly and said, "I don't know where that letter should go. ”

The mountain slopes are as quiet as the snow is white.

"Although the Listening Wind Sword Sect has scattered pavilions that can send letters, even if it is Tianya, as long as they can deliver it, they will also help you deliver it, and the fee is not expensive, although I don't have much money, but it is enough." Tanuka laughed softly, and was also very melancholy. "But no one can be sent to a place where I don't know where."

"There's no way I'm going to tell them I'm going to send a letter to a cute little demon called a rat."

Naturally, the mistakes in a story do not come from one side or the other.

"So I didn't write about it." Tanuki whispered, and then took the letter from Qingqing's hand. "Maybe I should be like a rat, drink some wine, and then write it first, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one. As long as you write it, you can always find a chance to send it out - some time ago, I saw the old man of the Tianya Sword Sect coming down the mountain, I asked him where he was going, he said to go to the world, I thought, should I let him help bring a letter? He probably saw my hesitation and asked me if I wanted to bring something to the world. But I didn't write it at the time, it was getting dark, and I didn't want to delay his time, so I said I didn't have anything to bring. ”

Tanuki looked down at the letter in her hand and whispered, "I know I'm saying these things are a bit too low. ”

"Yes."

Qingqing said softly.

Tanuka smiled and said, "But when you sent that letter, I asked you what you wrote, and you said you didn't know, but you actually knew. So this time you must know that too. ”

"Yes." Qingqing said, looking down at the snow on the ground.

"When you came that time, your eyes kept rolling, and you kept looking at me, full of curiosity, such an attitude, even if you don't read the letter, you can probably guess the content of the letter."

Tanuki flipped the letter in his hand from front to back, back to front, back to front, and turned it over and over again, but he didn't look at it, just looked at the rat head on the envelope.

"It's the same this time, when you came, you asked me if I had been in the mountains all along, and there was a sense of blame in your tone, and your expression was a little regretful and a little sad."

Tanuki looked at Qingqing, laughed softly, and said, "So this time, I can probably guess what is written in the letter." ”

Of course Qingqing knows.

On the Fengxue Nanyi River, rats and rats actually said a lot of things.

For example, when she looked around the north of the city, she was just looking at Lingnan.

For example, why was the teenager waiting or not?

That's why there is such a letter.

If Qingqing came to Lingnan and didn't see such a waiting teenager, there would naturally be no need to send this letter again.

The love of rats and rats is probably just two letters from spring to winter.

Tanuki put the letter into her arms, then looked at Qingqing, and said, "I won't read the things in the letter, I will go to Nanyi City to find her." ”

The little demon in orange stood up and waved his hand to Qingqing.

"I'm going back, the wind and snow are too strong, otherwise the footprints that I waited for would be flooded by the snow, and it would be difficult to find my way back."

"Hmm."

Qingqing nodded, didn't say anything, turned into a little blue bird, and flew into the wind and snow again.

The young demon walked quietly on the mountain path, not looking back to see where the blue bird had flown to, nor really looking at what was written on the letter.

It's just that he is carrying a sword on his back, and like all the Terran sword cultivators of the Lingnan Sword Sect, he walks step by step in the snow like a person in the world.

until they walked under the familiar mountain gate that had been waiting for many years.

The young demon fox's face changed, and he suddenly pulled out the sword behind him.

In the Lame Deer Sword Sect, from the mountain gate upwards.

Mountains full of wind and snow.

It is also full of blood.

......

When Zhang Xiaoyu left the Tianya Sword Sect with the sword on his back, it had been a long time in the night.

That hot pot was eaten all night before I knew it.

Although he was already full, when he was walking on the road and blowing the snow, Zhang Xiaoyu still inevitably missed the huge hot pot.

Although because of the reason to take care of Le Chaotian, the soup base is not thick, only some light red.

Zhang Xiaoyu thought about it, so he turned his head with some sighs, crossed many snowy mountains, and looked at the place where he came, but the small building in the mountain canyon was very deep, even if there was no wind and snow, it was invisible.

When Zhang Xiaoyu turned around, he saw a figure standing in the snow.

Zhang Xiaoyu thought to himself, why are you here again, do you also want to eat a hot pot with a fiery stove?

That figure was naturally listening to the wind.

Listening to the wind and chanting, you will naturally love to eat hot pot.

Sometimes I will pull some old sword cultivation friends from the small Taoist realm on the listening wind stream, and have a drifting hot pot happily.

It's the kind of people sitting by the stream, each holding a small hot pot, and the ingredients float in the stream, and they can eat as they go.

This way of eating is actually quite famous in the cultivation world, called Qushui Liuguo, which was first produced in Lingnan.

As for the reason why it is not popular in the world, it is because the vegetables in the stream sometimes drift too far and are not easy to take, so practitioners have no worries about this.

In such a snowy winter deep mountain, no matter who wants to eat a fiery hot pot.

But listening to the wind and standing here, it is naturally not because I smelled the smell of hot pot on Zhang Xiaoyu's body that will fade for several days from the wind and snow in Lingnan.

"Senior brother, you're leaving?"

Listening to Feng Yin, standing on the windy and snowy mountain road, he looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and said.

Zhang Xiaoyu raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you still want to keep me for a meal?" ”

Listening to Feng Yin, he said slowly: "If Senior Brother wants to eat, it is fine, but before that, I have some things I want to ask Senior Brother." ”

Zhang Xiaoyu looked at him quietly and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Maybe it was because the wind and snow were too big, this sword cultivator with white hair on his sideburns narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked, "When Senior Brother went to the Tianya Sword Sect before, did he ever go to the Lame Deer Sword Sect?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said, "That Demon Cultivator Sword Sect? ”

"Yes."

"Haven't been."

There was silence on the mountain road.

After a long time, I heard the wind and whispered: "Senior brother's sword has blood and demonic power. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu raised his eyebrows and looked at Tingfeng Yin, and said slowly: "It seems that something happened to the Lame Deer Sword Sect." ”

Listening to Feng Yin, he looked at Zhang Xiaoyu quietly and said, "Hundreds of demon cultivators of all sizes have been killed cleanly. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu calmly pulled out the mountain and river sword behind him, the blood on the sword body had been wiped clean, but there was no one on the hilt.

The blood stains had solidified in the winter snow, like red oil that had accidentally dripped after eating a hot pot.

But tonight's hot pot is really not too popular.

Both of them looked at Zhang Xiaoyu's sword in the wind and snow.

"The people of the Heavenly Hell also have demon cultivators."

This is a phrase that is rarely spoken in the human world.

Heavenly Hell does not allow people on the twelfth floor to think about becoming immortals, but it allows them to turn into demons.

No matter how you look at it, it's a very strange thing.

So people in the world generally don't say such things.

Listening to Feng Yin said softly: "Yes, but senior brother, such a thing is a bit of a coincidence. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu looked at the mountain and river sword in his hand for a long time, and said calmly: "That's your business." ”

Listening to Fengyin, he was silent for a while, and said, "This is not a matter of Lingnan. That was the place where the demon lord died back then, no matter how it declined, it would eventually involve the two clans. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu calmly returned the sword in his hand to the scabbard behind him, and calmly watched and listened to the wind and groan.

He had been in Nanyi City and the Human Sword Sect for a long time, so he naturally knew what the Lingnan Lame Deer Sword Sect, a not powerful place of demon cultivation, represented.

At that time, the demons in the world crossed Yunmengze and came, and the demon lord took the soul as a guide to worship the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, so that many demon clans successfully crossed Nanyi City and returned to their homeland, and then the lame elk died in Lingnan.

Something happened in such a place, naturally, it is not a trivial matter.

But Zhang Xiaoyu just said calmly: "That's still your business." ”

"The world doesn't think like that, senior brother."

Zhang Xiaoyu calmly walked towards the bottom of the mountain road.

"That's your business after all."

Zhang Xiaoyu passed by listening to the wind, this sword cultivation that was considered extremely high in Lingnan did not stop him.

It was impossible to stop him.

Of course, no one in Lingnan can stop Zhang Xiaoyu.

"So is this really not related to Senior Brother?"

Listening to Feng Yin, he stood on the mountain road, looked back at the white-clothed sword cultivator who was far away, and asked.

Zhang Xiaoyu did not answer.

Maybe it's a stupid thing to think it's a matter of folly to answer such a question.