Tanuki stood there very puzzled, he didn't understand why, when he asked that sentence, not only the person who was pulled by him, but everyone around there turned their heads to look at him.

This makes this little demon very puzzling.

He carefully watched the expressions on everyone's faces.

But he felt that he might not be able to see anything himself.

It wasn't until someone looked at him, probably hesitated for a long time, and then said, "What are you looking for her?" ”

Tanuka thought for a moment, took out the letter from her bosom, showed them the rat head sign on the letter, and said, "She asked someone to bring me a letter, so I want to come and see her." ”

It is not only the twilight that is silent, but also the big river, the long street, and then the pedestrians who stand there with complicated thoughts.

So some people felt that something was too cruel, and that it was better not to see it than to see it, so she went out of the city this morning, and did not know where she went.

Some people also think that many stories must of course have a beginning and an end, life, old age, sickness and death, love and hate, life will always meet, so she is here.

The people were gossiping, and after hearing the answers of others, they fell silent unusually tacitly.

The expression on Tanuka's face was still very calm and indifferent, and he looked at those people with a smile and said, "So, should I go out of the city to find it, or should I stay?" ”

It's just that the voice is a little choked.

There are also tears in the corners of the eyes of the smile.

So people probably understood something, and in silence, slowly gave way to a way.

When something is disguised with lies, embellished with silence.

In fact, the truth of the story is already very clear.

The corpse of the rat had been dragged up, and it lay quietly in the snow by the railing of the riverbank, and the boy's sword had been drawn.

The blood flowing everywhere was like a bright red flower in winter.

The rat lay on it, his face blurred, but his eyes were open.

Those demonic powers are slowly dissipating, and when the demonic powers are gone, this story may not be so cruel.

What was left in the snow was just a small mouse.

When the people got out of the way, Tanuki saw the rats lying there.

He didn't cry or laugh.

No madness, no hysteria.

Just stood there, holding the letter tightly in his hand, and said softly, "So you are here!" ”

So everything seemed to be waiting for the little demon's words.

When these words fell, the twilight began to fall completely, and the night fell like a fall.

People were there with sighs and sorrows, wiping their tears.

Tanuka still watched quietly, thinking quietly.

Are you Feihong, or slush?

Are you a thousand piles of snow, or a long street?

Maybe nothing.

It's just a little demon who wrote two letters in Tanuka's life.

Start with the first letter and end with the second.

It's just a long and boring wait.

And so the story ended in a hurry.

......

The death of the rat soon spread throughout Nanyi City.

People sometimes think that this mouse demon wanders on the Nanyi River every day, maybe one day when he sleeps, he will accidentally overturn the boat, and maybe he will drown in it.

It's just that no one thought that she would die in the hands of the Human Sword Sect in the end.

Mei Quming, who was playing cards, was also stunned for a long time when he heard the news, and then hurriedly put on his clothes, walked out of the door in the snowy night, walked to the ferry at the gate of the Sword Sect, and untied the cable - because of this heavy snow, he had not crossed the river for a long time, and the ropes and pennies that tied the boat had been frozen on the wooden beams and the side of the boat.

So before Mei Quming could untie the ropes, he saw a bloodstained beard, dragging his sword, and walked back with his head bowed in the snow.

Mei Quming stopped in a daze, looked at the blood on the young man's body, and then believed the words that people were talking about.

The young man probably also heard the not calm breathing sound at the Sword Sect ferry, raised his head, looked at Mei Quming, and called out with tears streaming down his face: "Senior brother......"

Mei Quming let go of the untied cable in his hand, walked quickly to Hu Lu's side, looked at him with a complicated expression for a long time, and then sighed, raised his hand to wipe the blood on the young man's face.

"Why did you kill her?"

Hu Lu looked down at his sword, and also at his hanging hand, there was blood on the sword, and it was also on the knuckles, and the blood had seeped into the fingers, and maybe it would not be wiped clean in the future.

"I don't know." Hulu raised his hand, wiped his tears, and just muttered.

"I don't know, brother."

"What should I do?"

Hu Lu let go of his sword at the door of the Sword Sect, hugged Mei Quming tightly, and cried loudly.

Mei Quming sighed, grabbed the fifteen-year-old boy with one hand, and slowly patted him on the back with the other.

The senior brothers who were playing cards in the gatehouse also heard the cry and ran out, standing under the eaves of the Sword Sect's door, looking at this place in a daze.

Naturally, they all heard the story of Nanyi City.

But none of them were taken seriously.

In their hearts, Hu Lu is still just an ignorant little boy, he doesn't play cards and loses, he honestly shaves his head, how could he kill the rats?

Naturally, they didn't believe it.

But looking at the scene in front of them, looking at the young man covered in blood, they all fell silent.

In the distance, there were quite a few people in the snow watching this side.

For such a thing, it is natural to give Nanyi City an explanation.

But before that, even the senior brothers of the Sword Sect also need to know what caused Hu Lu to take such a step.

So a group of senior brothers hurriedly brought Hu Lu back to the Sword Sect, while another senior brother, Jiang Ye, walked out and walked towards the place where the incident happened in Nanyi City.

There's too much movement here.

When Mei Quming and the others returned to the Sword Sect, Cong Xindu was standing on the garden path, tilting his head to look at the young Hulu.

"What happened?"

Hu Lu sat on the steps with his sword in his arms and said nothing.

Mei Quming said softly: "Hu Lu killed the rats. ”

Cong Xin was stunned for a moment, and looked at the young man Hu Lu who was with his head down and his face covered with blood.

Although Cong Xin rarely leaves the Sword Sect, he also knows the story of the mouse demon on the Nanyi River, probably because when Chen Huaifeng had not yet entered the world, he had a good relationship with rats and rats - Chen Huaifeng once entrusted rats and rats to record the annual income from doing good deeds.

The crowd looked at the young man Hu Lu in puzzlement.

It was a long time before the young man's cry slowly lowered, and he sat on the steps with his legs open, silently looking at the snow in the Sword Sect, those paths that were once covered with snow, and there were many footprints scattered in a messy manner.

So the young man told him what he knew, the story of a certain night.

It was an ordinary night in Nanyi City, where the world was in turmoil.

The fog in Osawa has not yet lifted.

The senior brothers in the Sword Sect are still addicted to playing cards.

"Senior Brother Huaifeng killed Liu March who came back from Dazeli."

"The rat knows about it. The senior brothers have always been curious about why the rats and rats have been fighting against the Sword Sect these days, and it is also because of Liu Yueyue's death. ”

"I didn't think she would tell the people of Qingtian Dao about that."

Hu Lu said in great pain.

"But Senior Brother Huaifeng told me in the afternoon that the people from Qingtian Dao are here, and they are in Lingnan."

"I'm probably crazy."

Hulu hung his head and lay on his knees.

There was silence in the Sword Sect.

"Did Liu March die at the hands of Senior Brother Huaifeng?"

Mei Quming said a little stunned.

They really didn't know about it.

It's something that even these Sword Sect brothers don't know, but Hu Lu knows.

Perhaps this is exactly why this tragedy happened.

"Senior Brother Huaifeng did leave the Sword Sect this afternoon. But I don't know if it's because of this, I thought he was just going to go to the twilight of the world as usual. ”

Jiang Hehai, who had been playing cards in the concierge, said softly.

"In this case, Senior Brother Jiang Ye's side may indeed be in some trouble."

The senior brothers looked at the young Hu Lu sitting on the steps in silence.

At this point, they also understood why Hu Lu would suddenly do such a thing.

The fact that Liu March died in the Sword Sect can be known by Qingtian Dao, but it cannot be known by the world.

Qingtian Dao naturally knew that if he was truly entangled with the Human Sword Sect, it would only plunge the north and south of the human world into turmoil.

So even if you know, you won't really have any drastic actions.

Just like when Qin Chu came to play cards in the small town under the view of mountains and rivers.

It is naturally best to be able to solve the affairs of the cultivation world according to the cultivation world.

But if the world knows, the general trend of the world will force Qingtian Dao to stand up and stand on the bright side to confront the Human Sword Sect in this matter.

The Human Sword Sect is naturally at a loss, but if it is so soft, there will be many gaps between the Sword Sect and the Dao Sect in the world.

After all, the sword cliff is not out today, and the human sword sect represents the face of the sword sect to a large extent.

They may be able to succumb, but the Sword Sect will inevitably have complaints in their hearts.

Liu March's death can only become a story that both parties know.

And it can't be known to the world, but it is known to the world.

Chen Huaifeng left a big problem for the Sword Sect.

And Hu Lu also left one - how to explain today's events to Nanyi City.

Mei Quming sat down beside Hu Lu, looked at Hu Lu for a long time, and then said slowly: "Do you know when the rat told the people of Qingtian Dao the news about this?" ”

Hulu shook his head in silence.

Mei Quming frowned, but didn't say anything, just patted Hu Lu's shoulder, looked at Cong Xin who was not far away, and said, "Cong Xin, you take him to a pond of streams to wash first." ”

Cong Xin nodded and took the Hu Lu to a pond.

Mei Quming frowned and looked at the back of Hu Lu leaving for a long time.

Nan Dequ and a few people were on the side, looked at Mei Quming and said, "Do you think there is a problem?" ”

Mei Quming nodded, looked at Nan Dequ and said, "Senior brother should have dealt with rats and rats in the first place." ”

Nandequ said softly, "Yes. ”

Although the rat looks like a little girl, she is a little demon in the world, so she naturally lives for a long time.

As she said to Nandao at the beginning, she has been floating on the Nanyi River for twenty years.

The rat rat is just a girl of the demon clan, not a girl of the world, and these senior brothers of the Sword Sect have naturally dealt with that mouse demon.

"If she really wants to take revenge on the Sword Sect, she won't wait from April to November."

Mei Quming said slowly.

"But we know too little about the story." Nandequ said softly.

Qu Shaming on the side was also at a loss.

The snow in the Sword Sect's garden was thick.

Some of the stories are also buried deeply.

Mei Quming and the others didn't listen to the wind in the past, so they couldn't see the leaves that fell to the world in the past, so they could only look at the footprints on the snow and guess a lot of things.

"Maybe we won't know what happened until Senior Brother Huaifeng comes back." Although Jiang Hehai leaned on the edge of the gatehouse, he was no longer interested in playing cards, and looked at the sparsely traveled path leading to Yichi, "I am mainly worried that this kid Hulu will be hit hard by this, in the final analysis, this is our dereliction of duty as a senior brother." ”

Compared with Mei Quming, a senior brother who is in the world, Jiang Hehai, a senior brother who often plays cards in the concierge, is more familiar with Hu Lu.

When Nan Dequ heard this, he said calmly: "People will always do many wrong things in life. No one can guarantee that they will be able to take every step correctly for the rest of their lives. Only by being able to come out can we complete the transformation. ”

"It's just that this metamorphosis may be too cruel."

All the senior brothers fell silent.

"If something happens to the junior brother, the senior brother will naturally be to blame." Mei Quming said softly, "During this time, let's play less cards." ”

"Hmm."

......

Jiang Ye carried his sword through the bloody night of Nanyi City, and when he walked to the bank of the river, people were still talking about it.

The body of the rat is gone, and I heard that it was taken away by a little demon from Lingnan.

After the demon power was exhausted, it was just a small one, so naturally there was no need to make any more effort, the little demon just held it in his hand and left here.

All that remained on the banks of the river was some frozen blood in the snow.

Jiang Ye crouched on the guardrail of the river, and looked not far below, where there was a small boat, and an overturned stove, a charred roast chicken, a flask that had long been spilled, and then a large field of blood, pouring from the bow of the boat to the ice by the river.

And then there was the blood-stained ice.

Jiang Ye thought about the blood on Hulu's fist and the blood on the sword, and maybe he had guessed the direction of this story.

Hulu should have once laid down his sword. Only at last he was perhaps enraged, and he raised his fist - among the blood, there was a dented crack, and it must have been there, and the boy shook his fist with a fist.

What did the rat rat say at the time?

Jiang Ye can also guess some.

He knew that Liu March died at the hands of Chen Huaifeng.

Jiang Ye stood quietly by the river with his sword on his back, watching the people over there discuss today's events.

After a long time, someone probably finally noticed the disciple of the Sword Sect who was carrying the sword on his back over there, so his voice gradually became quieter, and he looked at Jiang Ye and said nothing.

Jiang Ye walked towards everyone with his sword on his back and stopped on the bank of the river. Look down at the place where the rat's last demonic power has dissipated.

It's bloodstained too, but it's peaceful compared to the ones below.

The little demon who marched on the Nanyi River was here, quietly dissipating her demon power, and truly ended her life.

Jiang Ye watched in silence for a long time.

The people of Nanyi City did not speak, but just looked at themselves cautiously.

A thousand gazes naturally have weight and power.

So Jiang Ye stood there with the sword on his back, feeling very heavy in his heart.

If the Human Sword Sect is a place where you can do whatever you want and do evil, then such a story can naturally cover up the past at will.

But the Human Sword Sect is not.

Maybe in the spiritual world, they do get some edges.

But not in the human world.

In the human world, in the eyes of the world, the Human Sword Sect is a symbol of stability and peace.

It should represent a lot of justice that shelters from the wind and rain.

Jiang Ye was silent for too long, and finally someone asked a little uneasily, "Senior brother, what happened today?" ”

The beginning of a lie begins with the first lie.

Jiang Ye also wants to tell the world that today is because the rats are crazy.

But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.

This senior brother, who used to often mingle in the vegetable market of Nanyi City, squirmed his lips for a long time before he finally said softly: "There is something wrong with the Sword Sect, Hu Lu is uncertain, maybe he has seen something wrong-this matter....... The Sword Sect will give an explanation to the world in the future. ”

People probably still believe in the Human Sword Sect.

This Sword Sect has been in the human world for more than a thousand years, spanning almost half of the history of the Great Dao.

So when Jiang Ye walked out of the Sword Sect with the sword on his back, took the story from the young man who killed people, and gave some explanations, the people of Nanyi City did not question anything.

It's just that when I think about it in the future, there will be no more people holding a boat and smiling at the sad people who come and go and say that you look a little troubled when the girl demon still sighs.

There was some movement in the river behind him.

People looked into the river, and the small boat, which was stopped by the ice by the river, was probably blown by the night wind and was slowly drifting downward.

With the extinguished stove, with the burnt roasted chicken, with the boiling wine jug, with the dull sound in the cabin, and the still unspent lot of money, slowly drifted towards the lower reaches of the Nanyi River.

"The Sword Sect does do things wrong sometimes."

Jiang Ye's voice sounded by the river again.

Everyone looked back, only to see that Jiang Ye, who was supposed to be in the world peacefully and steadily until no one remembered, just like those disciples of the Sword Sect, quietly looked at the boat that went with the current, and there seemed to be some light flashing in his eyes.

People can't see it very clearly, so for the time being, it's called some kind of light.

"In this matter, maybe it was indeed the Sword Sect that did something wrong."

Jiang Ye's voice is gentle and serene.

The people of Nanyi City listened quietly.

"If one day, you find that the Human Sword Sect has deviated from its proper path."

Jiang Ye took another sword from behind him.

He always carried two swords.

One is his own green vegetable sword.

One is Huaimin's sleepless sword.

The sleepless sword was removed, unsheathed, and stuck on the bank of the river, where the rat had died.

In that crisp sound of swords, Jiang Ye walked towards the world.

"The world can draw its sword against us."

The river is silent.

The word "sleepless" on the sword glittered in the night.

The world may not sleep tonight.