The five of them went down the mountain, entered the grass house, and saw that the dishes on the table were steaming, with color, fragrance, taste, shape, meaning, and nourishment, and they unconsciously praised Yan Luoxia and Xiao Ruoyun's cooking skills.

Cui Yongyue brought wine, poured seven glasses, raised a glass, and said happily: "You are a guest from afar, drink this cup full, and enjoy the friendship of the landlord." ”

Gu Huai, Zhang Tianhao and other five people raised their wine glasses, Jiang Qingqing accompanied them, the glass was dry, and the dishes and chopsticks started.

After dinner, Cui Yongyue cleaned up the three rooms, arranged the accommodation for the five people, made a big pot of tea, sat outside, and sipped the tea with Jiang Qingqing blowing the cool mountain breeze.

Gu Huai, Hu Yiqiu, and Zhang Tianhao washed their bodies in the stream next to them, changed into clean clothes, and sat together with Jiang Qingqing and Cui Yongyue, sipping tea and admiring the moon.

The moonlight is beautiful, the insects are chirping everywhere, the frogs are up and down in disorder, and the birds are accompanied by the sound of birds from time to time, and everyone is comfortable and happy.

Gu Huai was full of wine, and his heart was full of words, and he said casually: "Old man Jiang, back then, all the martial arts heroes were quick to get rid of Bai Yu, how could you save him?" ”

Jiang Qingqing was not interested in such a boring topic, so he didn't bother to answer, closed his eyes lightly, and lay motionless on the bamboo chair.

There was a guest, Cui Yongyue was in a happy mood, she didn't grasp the amount of wine, she drank more, she was idle, and she took over the conversation happily: "Gu Huai, in vain, you call yourself a hero, your decades of knowledge of the rivers and lakes are not as beautiful as a lie from others, you are so easy to be deceived, I don't know what you have in your head." ”

Gu Huai said: "But at that time, there were all kinds of human and material evidence, so I was easily deceived." ”

Cui Yongyue said: "This is not easy to be deceived. The obscure Zen master and the Buddhist monk, the Taoist monk of the Spring Mountain Dao, ignored the grievances and grievances of the rivers and lakes for decades, and was clean. Bai Bai Yu has no grudges with them, no enmity, and no interest entanglement, even if he Bai Bai Yu is hopelessly stupid and so bad that his bones are rotten, it is impossible to attack these two at the same time, and the Buddha and Tao are enemies at the same time, digging their own graves.

Hu Yiqiu interjected: "He is really Bai Yu, since he was wronged, why don't you explain it to everyone." ”

Zhang Tianhao chuckled and said, "Brother Hu, none of the people who besieged Bai Baiyu back then were not rushing to make a name for themselves. Even if he is willing to show weakness and say that he didn't kill people, who wants to listen. It's better to retain the heroic spirit, not argue, at least the battle in the Valley of Despair, so that those who have ghosts in their hearts have an understanding that not everyone is so easy to bully. It's right to want to be famous, but don't find the wrong person, lose your wife and lose your soldiers, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"The three of you, Zhang Tianhao has your own cognition, don't follow the crowd, like a real hero." Cui Yongyue took a sip of tea, and then said: "The reason why the people behind the scenes framed Bai Bai Yu is that he sees that Bai Bai Yu is impatient, jealous and hateful, and he doesn't care about it when he gets angry, and he never uses his mouth to tell people about the victory or defeat." ”

Hu Yiqiu said: "Brother Cui, but if you don't argue, you have to kill people, in the battle of Desperate Valley, there are enough heroes and heroes who have died." ”

Zhang Tianhao said coldly: "Brother Hu, those so-called heroes and heroes actually died unjustly and are not worthy of sympathy. Listening to and believing partially, innocently wronged others without saying anything, and stabbed the sword at Bai Baiyu's wife, who was a weak woman who didn't know any martial arts, and had never done anything bad. ”

Gu Huai whispered: "Xiao Zhang is right, those broken things are really not wronged, they just want to take the opportunity to make a name for themselves, and they don't care about the morality of the rivers and lakes at all." Now that I think about it, I was really willing to fall into the company of them back then, and I have never seen such a shameless thing. ”

Jiang Qingqing sat up, glanced at a few people by the moonlight, and said lightly: "Things are over, the damned are dead, and the unworthy are alive, what is there to theorize." ”

Cui Yongyue said: "It's true that the matter is in the past, but who created such a martial arts case back then, why did you frame Bai Tianyu, if you don't sort it out, I don't know if there will be similar things in the future." ”

Zhang Tianhao said: "Brother Cui, there is nowhere to investigate this matter. The few people who knew the inside story back then, except for Jiang Yulang, who was active in the martial arts, everyone else disappeared and was nowhere to be found. Moreover, afterwards, Jiang Yulang didn't say anything except that Bai Yu was wronged. We weren't involved, and we had no reason to ask if it wasn't, and we weren't sure to beat him. ”

Hu Yiqiu faintly felt that this matter was a little strange, and continued: "Not to mention, after the battle of Desperate Valley, most of the heroes in the rivers and lakes who participated in this matter disappeared, and half of the people who floated on the surface became martial arts scum, and they more or less did some evil things, and they still can't figure it out." ”

Zhang Tianhao said: "Brother Hu, when you say this, there is really something wrong. Like Zhao Minghao, the hero of Longchuan, Master Hong Daolong of Wuyi Mountain, Zhu Rongfeng, the head of the Nanshan faction, Huoyun Shenzhang, and Feng Shihai, the old man of the bamboo, are all famous figures in the rivers and lakes, and they all came together with Qin Haoming, and they were willing to be their eagle dogs. ”

Cui Yongyue asked, "Hong Daolong and Zhu Lao Weng also participated in the battle of Desperate Valley back then?" ”

Gu Huai replied: "Participated, they were all defeated by Bai Baiyu's sword, but they didn't attack Bai Yu's wife, and if they did that, Bai Baiyu let them go." ”

Hu Yiqiu said: "Bai Baiyu was wronged back then, forced to be cornered by his fellow people in the rivers and lakes, and was the enemy of the entire Central Plains martial arts, and the driving force behind it was the evil organization that Qin Haoming joined. ”

Gu Huai was puzzled and asked, "What is the picture?" ”

Jiang Qingqing replied coldly: "Who is Bai Baiyu, if it weren't for his wife stumbling, who could hurt him." Once someone else kills his wife and he escapes by chance, won't everyone in the future be in danger and panic. ”

Zhang Tianhao asked: "Elder Jiang, do you mean that the reason why the evil organization framed Bai Baiyu and made such a big move was to show off their strength and prepare for the surrender of the heroes of the rivers and lakes in the future?" ”

Hu Yiqiu suddenly brightened up and said, "This should be the purpose." Back then, Yu Ming was in a hurry, and no one could compete with it. The evil organization can easily bring him down and force him into a corner, not to mention other heroes. But even so, what is the purpose of killing so many people? ”

Jiang Qingqing looked at the moon in the sky and said softly: "I remember that when the man in black appeared to plague the rivers and lakes, it was the first year of Song Zhenzong Jingde, and the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty and the Liao Shengzong led a large army south to invade the Song Dynasty. Later, Emperor Zhenzong, under the persuasion of his prime minister Kou Zhun, reluctantly drove his own expedition to Lanzhou to supervise the war. The Song army's morale was greatly boosted, and they held on to the town behind the Liao army, and shot the Liao general Xiao Tzu Rin with an eight-ox crossbow under the city of Lanzhou. Due to its own reasons, the Liao State chose to sue for peace and reached a good-neighborly and friendly alliance with the Great Song Dynasty, which was about a brotherly state. The man in black also disappeared and disappeared from the world. ”

Zhang Tianhao stood up and asked in surprise: "The purpose of the evil organization is to oppose the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Gu Huai jumped up and shouted, "Yes, yes, it should be right." The dispute between Song and Liao lasted for twenty-five years, and finally ended with the signing of the alliance between the Song and Liao, and the evil organization saw no hope and disappeared. Now that the war in the northwest is tense, Li Yuanhao jumped out to rebel against the Great Song Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor of the Xia Kingdom. Those people saw the opportunity again and came out, intending to disturb the Great Song Wulin and help the evil. ”

Hu Yiqiu felt extremely undeserved, and said: "Even if they have a deep grudge against the surnamed Zhao, if they want to slaughter the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and sneak directly into the palace, why harm their fellow people in the rivers and lakes and implicate innocents." ”

Cui Yongyue said coldly: "Hu Yiqiu, you are so confused, there are so many people surnamed Zhao, if you kill the current emperor, there will be a new emperor to succeed you immediately." As the saying goes, if you eat a trench and grow wise, and then you want to sneak into the palace wall to assassinate the emperor, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. If you want to kill all the emperors surnamed Zhao in the Great Song Dynasty, you can only change the dynasty and do it once and for all. ”

Hu Yiqiu said angrily: "But the Great Song Dynasty can be destroyed if he wants to!" Moreover, once the Great Song Dynasty fell, I don't know how many people of the Great Song Dynasty would suffer, and I don't know how many families would be shattered. Is it really worth it to implicate so many innocents for your own personal vendetta? Aren't you afraid of chilling your heart? ”

Jiang Qingqing said coldly: "Hu Yiqiu, why are you so confused. Stupid and evil people think about this, they only have their own selfish desires, only their own hatred, and no other people's suffering. Rather teach me to bear the world, and stop teaching the world to bear me, how atmospheric is it. ”

Hu Yiqiu said: "Old Jiang, since this is the case, what should we do?" ”

Cui Yongyue said: "What else can we do, whoever is the enemy of the country and the nation is our mortal enemy." No matter how many high-sounding reasons he has, no matter how much grievance he has, as long as he does not repent, he must die! ”

Zhang Tianhao said: "Brother Cui is right, the evil people must die, and the evil organization must be destroyed. If you have a personal enmity and selfishness, how can you implicate the innocent and help the enemy country to harm your own people, which is a great crime. ”

Jiang Qingqing stood up, walked towards the door, turned around and said, "Go to bed early, and after breakfast tomorrow, you can go back." I don't want to lose this great place to retire. ”

Gu Huai got up and said to Jiang Qingqing's back: "Why are you so selfish!" Destroying evil and purifying the martial arts is not just a matter for a few of us, you should also have a share, right? ”

Jiang Qingqing said coldly: "I spent eighteen years abandoning the view of the door, accepting that kid as an apprentice, and letting him get the true inheritance of the pure yang real person, I have done enough, why do I need to go into battle in person." ”

Cui Yongyue said: "Old man Jiang, I also have a share in that child, but it is not your credit alone." ”

Jiang Qingqing smiled lightly: "So, you can also retire here, and you don't need to go out of the mountain." Disappeared from the sight of the four.

Gu Huai pulled Cui Yongyue's sleeve and asked, "You already knew that the evil organization would make a comeback?" ”

Cui Yongyue shook her head lightly and said, "Look at what you said, we have the ability to be an unpredictable prophet, but we have been wondering why Bai Tianyu was framed." He was a smash hit Central Plains hero back then, he walked right, sat upright, and didn't have any enemies to die with. ”

Hu Yiqiu said: "He doesn't have any life-and-death enemies in Yuzhen during the day, just because the blood sword is either not unsheathed, and the blood is seen when it is unsheathed, and the enemies are dead." Even if the descendants of the enemy come to seek revenge, it will be decades later, and it should not have happened twenty years ago. ”

"That evil organization framed Bai Baiyu, gained a lot of heroes in the rivers and lakes, and strengthened its power. You can leave traces from here, and you will find the flaws and perish from then on. It's really smart, but it can be mistaken by smart. Gu Huai took a step and walked towards the door, without looking back.

"Sleep! You two will have to be mentally strong enough to do your part to eradicate evil. ”

Cui Yongyue followed behind Gu Huai and walked towards sleep, followed by Hu Yiqiu and Zhang Tianhao.