After Luo Yuanhuan left, the quiet room was truly quiet.

Abbot Huiguang must have made arrangements in advance, and the three shadow guards who left just now must have consciously guarded in the distance to prevent people from approaching, Nangong Wuji took a deep breath, but before he could speak, Nangong Wuji sighed first and said, "Second brother, you really don't let me worry." ”

Just this sentence made Nangong Wuji, the deputy commander of the shadow shirt guard who can be regarded as the most powerful in the world, ashamed, and almost wanted to kneel down and ask for guilt. This head of the Nangong family was just a respected legendary elder in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of all the people of the Nangong family, this was a living deity. Although Nangong Wuji ignored mundane matters after retiring, and never even asked about housework, the admiration and worship of the Nangong family did not decrease by half a point, this old man has done enough for the world and the Nangong family.

"After retiring all these years, I really don't want to meddle in these grievances and grievances in the temples and rivers and lakes, and I have been disturbed one after another, I have been meddling all my life, and I am really tired. I was already very satisfied with watering flowers and growing vegetables in the old house in Yuzhou all day long, teaching those children at home. Nangong Wuji glanced at Nangong Wuji. "But I didn't expect it to get to the point where I had to meddle. Second brother, think about it yourself, what have you done all these years?"

"I, I, I failed to do a good job, and I disappointed my eldest brother's expectations. Nangong Wuji buried his head, his face full of shame and guilt. He has a qiē, both wealth. Glory, status, are all inherited from this big brother. There is even the most fundamental thing, the ideal. When he was young, it was the time when the Nangong family was most in decline and embarrassment, he could never forget how this family slowly re-emerged in the hands of his eldest brother, and he could never forget the sneer and white eyes he received since he was a child, and then gradually became heartfelt awe and admiration because of the name 'Nangong Wuji'.

At the thought of letting his eldest brother, who had retired for many years, come out to work again, the guilt in his heart would not be less than that of a child who had failed his parents' expectations. If there is anything that can be remedied, he will do it immediately at any cost.

"You're wrong. Nangong Wuji said lightly. "It's not that you're not doing a good job, it's that you're doing too much. ”

"Huh?" The expression on Nangong Wuji's face became more complicated.

"Back then, when you and that little brother She were planning some heavenly plan together. I knew that you were on the wrong path, and I expected you to come to your senses on your own, but I didn't say anything, and I still let you be in charge of the Shadow Guard. Until you cultivate the Heaven Conquering Transformation Skill. I just asked the two masters of Huiguang and Huiguang to help you abolish it when they have the opportunity, but what I didn't expect was that even if the Heaven Conquering Creation Gong was abolished, you still didn't have the slightest intention of waking up" Nangong Wuji looked at Nangong Wuji, a pair of eyes that were obviously surrounded by wrinkles, but they were bright, simple and powerful, like a teenager. "Now I'm going to ask you, what are you doing this for?"

"Naturally, it is for this great world, for the rise and fall of this humanity," Nangong Wuji's answer was a little hesitant at first. But the more it came on, the more powerful and affirmative it became. "It will not be in vain to work hard for the eldest brother's life. In order to let the inheritance left by the eldest brother live forever in the world and be praised by the world forever!"

"Oh, that's why you are scheming, let Yuan Zhiyue seduce Little Brother She, send the Heavenly Ghost Strategy to him to trick him into cultivating the Ghost Heart Mantra and formulating that heavenly plan, and watch Fang Zhifang run the Divine Machine Hall for more than 20 years, just waiting to receive it in the future. That's why you went to cultivate the Heaven Conquering Transformation Skill, and collected the secret methods of the Demon Sect for the shadow guards to use, all for this?"

Nangong Wuji's voice was pure and soft, and it did sound without the slightest anger, but Nangong Wuji was a little cold sweat behind him, of course he knew that if these methods were put in the hands of the Jianghu forces, such as Tang Jiabao, there would naturally be no problem, but after all, the Nangong family was inherited from the Confucian family of the previous dynasty, although Confucianism is now in decline, but inheritance is inheritance, and all the children of the Nangong family are familiar with the Confucian classics.

What's more, Nangong Wuji's title of a national warrior is destined to have some bottom lines that must not be touched. At least that's what Nangong Wuji thinks.

Therefore, Nangong Wuji has always been a little uneasy about this, and he didn't dare to reveal the slightest thing to his eldest brother, but he didn't expect him to know. But rethinking his goal, his voice hardened again, saying, "But that's really the most efficient way to do it." That day's labor plan was indeed the genius of Brother She's idea, which was enough to fundamentally change the general trend of the world. Heaven Conquering Transformation is also the best way to improve cultivation in a short period of time, after all, although the Shadow Shirt Guard has a lot of talents, what they lack the most is top-notch combat power. Using the Haoran Qi Heart Method and the Buddhist Mudra can indeed minimize the backlash."

Nangong Wuji waved his hand, interrupted Nangong Wuji's words, and said lightly: "Then what do you think my eldest brother has worked hard all my life?"

Nangong Wuji was stunned and said: "The eldest brother is hard, endures humiliation, and works all his life, naturally in order to save the people of the world from fire and water, in order to make the saint unification endless, and in order to revitalize my Nangong family."

"No, you're wrong. I never thought about any saints in the world, I just wanted to do that. Nangong Wuji shook his head and said lightly. "Or I just want peace of mind. ”

"Peace of mind?" Nangong Wuji frowned. He couldn't quite understand that the motive behind such a world-renowned feat could not be as simple as child's play.

Nangong Wuji seemed to be able to see his confusion and smiled slightly. In the past, when I saw that the world was about to fall and the war was raging, I felt that I should always do something, so I followed Xuan Xuanzi to fight with a sword and assist the first emperor to stabilize the world. At any point, you can do what you think you should do, and as for whether you can do it, you have never thought about where you go. In the end, I was lucky enough to achieve something and win some false fame, but it was just a matter of taking advantage of the trend. That is, you think it's amazing, but I don't care much about it. ”

"The Tao is not far from people, people are the way, and those who are far away cannot be the way. The Tao is called the Tao. That is, it is not a lofty goal, but a place where you step on every step. When you only look at the target in the distance and don't care about your feet, the road is already crooked. Those seemingly gorgeous distant places are mostly just illusions of your own imagination. Nangong Wuji let out a long sigh, looking at Nangong Wuji's eyes as if he was looking at a child who was not very sensible and needed to be educated. "Just like you and that little brother She, you both want to achieve something big. But he is actually here to please Yuan Zhiyue, to show off his talents, but you are to live up to the little false name that the Nangong family and I won by luck. No matter how talented you are. No matter how much you calculate, what is the difference between you and two country boys who are fascinated by the village girl and tired by their own thin fields?"

"I don't even understand the reason in my heart, but I am just confused by such great names as the rise and fall of humanity. Do you think that you are really doing something earth-breaking? This is exactly what the confusion and delusion of humanity are. That day, the Five Strategies of the Demons, should you think that it was just a few evil exercises? That was the demonic obstacle hidden in people's hearts. It shows the trend of the torrent of the world. You didn't practice the ghost mantra, but you fell into the delusion of humanity without knowing it. What happened to the two of you in the end? One of you has a severed soul, and while harming countless people while living in a mess, the other regards blood relatives and sees their best friends as tools, and as a result, friends kill each other, and the exercises backfire, if you don't strip that body of magic skills, you can only become a crazy ghost who eats people and drinks blood. It's not that the two of you are unlucky and don't plan deeply. It's an inevitable end sooner or later. It's just that from the moment you made up your mind, the two of you were just little puppets who were moved by the torrent of humanity. ”

Nangong Wuji's face was pale. A cold sweat rolled down. At his age, in his status, he was reprimanded like a boy who was reprimanded, this is simply incredible to the extreme, and no one will believe it if it is spread out. But now he is really trained to be speechless, and he can't afford to refute it in the slightest. Not only because it was the person he respected and feared the most who reprimanded him, but also because he did understand something.

"You don't have to worry about the Shadow Shirt Guard, leave it all to the third brother. You first go back to the old house in Yuzhou with me to re-read and recuperate. As for the Shenji Hall and Tiangong plan, you don't have to fight with the Tang family anymore, you have abolished the skills of the second child of the Tang family, and you have injured the life of the eleventh young man before, so it should be regarded as compensation to them, as long as they are willing to be dispatched by the imperial court in name, then we will not interfere anymore. ”

Even though he was in deep panic, Nangong Wuji's face still changed greatly when he heard this: "Big brother, then the Tiangong Plan and Shenji Hall have already been managed by Fang Zhifang, and they can have a great effect on the world immediately, how can they all be handed over to the Tang family."

"It's just a bunch of dead stuff. Nangong Wuji said lightly. His voice was light, as if it were really just a big deal. "If you have done something wrong and owed something to others, shouldn't you pay it to others?"

"But it can't be like this"

Nangong Wuji glanced at him: "The core secret of that artificial plan is the Ghost Heart Mantra, and it is also made because of the Ghost Heart Mantra, don't you understand? What kind of waves can be set off in the world in the future is no longer up to you or the Tang family, and in the long run, it makes no difference who you hold it in. The Tang family is the first family that has stood for a hundred years in the rivers and lakes, and it seems that they are ruthless and decisive, but in fact, they know how to make trade-offs, and I don't worry much about putting them in their hands. Speaking of this, Nangong Wuji let out a long sigh. "Sidi Wolf God is about to wake up, the world is about to change, there are still many things to do for the Shadow Guard, don't focus on this little trick. ”

"Yes" Nangong Wuji could only bow his head.

"That's right. Nangong Wuji suddenly asked. "Have you asked Jin Zhi about the marriage of the girl, and where is she now?"

"Brother He said that since the girl has gone down the mountain, her affairs will be decided by herself. Nangong Wuji replied, thought about it and immediately said: "She should be in Tangjiabao now, I will immediately repair the book to let her come back." The marriage contract with the Tang family has also been temporarily suspended."

"No, I don't. Nangong Wuji shook his head. "I wrote to ask her. Jin Zhi is right, she should still make her own decisions about such matters. ”

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Shuzhou, Tangjiabao.

Balmy autumn day. Today is a rare sunny day. There is not a trace of clouds in the sky, and the autumn sun shines warmly on people, and they don't feel a little stuffy in the past. The smiles on the faces of the pedestrians and vendors in the streets seem to be brighter than ever, and the old people drinking tea in the teahouses have also moved their tables and chairs to the door, and even the endless century-old houses no longer exude a faint old atmosphere, showing a trace of novelty in this sunshine.

However, He Ji'er didn't have time to feel this rare atmosphere, walking through the streets and pedestrians, even if she occasionally met the Tang family who greeted her, she just nodded very mechanically to deal with it.

She had just returned from Tingyufang. It was a place in Tangjiabao that was dedicated to inquiring about foreign news. The news collected from all over the Tang family, whether overt or covert, was gathered here, and she had just gathered the information she needed from there.

Being able to take out the news from there shows that the people in Tangjiabao have really regarded her as their own family from a certain kind of Cheng dù. Even on the street, people occasionally greeted her, calling her 'Fourth Young Grandma'. But at the moment she was completely overwhelmed and distracted by the meaning of the title, because of a letter she had just received this morning.

The letter was written by the eldest uncle, Nangong Wuji. In addition to pointing out the mistakes that the second uncle Nangong Wuji has been doing, the letter said. What is especially mentioned is about her marriage contract with the Tang family, let her make her own decisions.

Let her be her own driver. This moment completely knocked her into a state of loss and confusion. Her former determination, her former strength, all came from her second uncle's great goals, but at this moment, these goals and directions were labeled wrongly, and she was immediately overwhelmed.

What should I do? What could I do? For the first time, she felt that these questions were so difficult to answer and difficult to face. She used to be disappointed in this engagement, but now that someone told her that she could turn back, she didn't know what to do.

In a trance. She had returned to the attic. This is the abode where Don chuckles and where she lives these days. It's just that two people live upstairs and one downstairs, and they rarely meet each other. Today is a special case, Tang Xiaoxiao actually asked her for help, and the news collected from Tingyufang was all asked for by him.

As soon as she returned to the attic, she saw an old woman pacing towards her.

This is a relatively remote place, Tang Xiaoxiao doesn't want to be servants, and it is a little too deserted, He Xi'er has never seen anyone else come here except for Second Master Tang and those disciples of the clan who have passed on the message. So she looked at the old woman with some curiosity.

It was just an ordinary looking old woman, over the age of sixties, with a slightly hunched back, dressed in ordinary linen clothes, wrapped around the head that the old people in Shuzhou were used to, holding a dry tobacco pouch in her hand, and putting it to her mouth from time to time to put a mouthful, except for the hand holding the dry tobacco pouch was a little thick, this was an ordinary old man who could not see anything strange from anywhere.

But this is Tangjiabao, and it is definitely not unusual for an old man to appear here. On the street she just passed, those old people who drank tea and listened to the play in the teahouse on the street looked the same ordinary, each of them was famous when they were young, or they had secretly made waves in the wind and clouds, so He Xi'er did not slack off in the slightest, and bowed when the old woman approached.

The old woman nodded at He Xi'er with a smile, her eyes were full of kindness looking at the juniors, and she didn't wait for He Xi'er to speak, so she nodded first: "It's hard for your child these days." Let's go, let's go up and see Xiao Si'er together. ”

The old woman's voice was very good, and the tenderness brewing in those eyes made He Xi'er feel warmer than the sunshine from the sky, she nodded quickly, and led the old woman upstairs.

There were only two simple rooms in the attic, and as soon as He Ji'er walked up with the old woman, she saw Tang chuckling. But Don chuckled but didn't see them, for he had been sitting there, stunned at the sword in front of him.

It was a slender sword with a pitch-black body and a sword body that was completely integrated, faintly as if it was swallowing dark red light. He Xi'er didn't know where the sword came from, she just felt that the sword was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it. After returning from Jingzhou, Tang Xiaoxiao was in a daze at the sword all day long.

"You're back. Is there any news?" Tang chuckled and still looked at the long sword in front of him, and didn't look back, but he already knew from the footsteps that it was He Ji'er who had returned.

He Xi'er was slightly strange. Not to mention the conversation between the old woman and her downstairs, the footsteps of the old woman going upstairs behind her even heard her, and the dry tobacco pouch in the old woman's hand still exuded the smell of fragrant tobacco leaves, and Tang Qingxiao's keen senses trained by thousands of tempers naturally detected it without a doubt, but he didn't ask at all.

She couldn't help but glance at the old woman next to her, who was still smiling, as if she didn't mind the cold reception at all. After a pause, He Xi'er still replied: "They arrived in Qingzhou safely two days ago and got off the boat in Luoshui City. Have a safe trip. ”

"Luoshui City, are they going to the sea to Yingzhou?" Tang chuckled and still didn't look back.

"I don't know. He Xi'er replied, paused and said. "Maybe. If they want to go to Yangzhou, it would be good to enter the Luojiang River along the river, and they don't need to get off the boat in Luoshui City. ”

"Well, it's okay if you go to Yingzhou. I'm relieved, too. Don chuckled and sighed, and stopped talking.

There was a strange silence in the attic, and He Xi'er couldn't help but speak: "This mother-in-law came up to see you, won't you turn around to see her?"

"Mother-in-law?" Tang chuckled and finally turned around with a frown, it turned out that he really didn't notice this old woman who walked up with He Xi'er. But when he saw the old woman, he was shocked. "Old lady, why are you here?" (to be continued......)