"Jiangcheng...... What a great place. ”

Xia Zhicicada sat on the horse and tightened the reins in his hand, and the horse under the seat slowed down and began to spin in place.

He looked at the towering river gate that was gradually moving away, and inevitably sighed in his heart.

This place can be described as a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and rivers. From the perspective of feng shui metaphysics, this place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, forming a rare pattern of gathering wind and storing qi, and it is the most easy to produce rich and noble people.

But as the saying goes, no matter how good the feng shui pattern is, it is impossible to keep future generations promoted and rich forever, so you still have to rely on your own efforts.

"Such a nice place, are you willing to leave?"

Xia Zhician smiled and asked.

On the horse beside him was Nan Er, who was still dressed in black, and the latter heard the question, but did not answer directly, but groaned for a while.

Jiangcheng is a place, even if Xia Zhicia stays here for a month or two, he is just a passerby after all. But for Nanji, who was born here, it is a real hometown.

During the day, the official roads of Jiangcheng were always full of traffic, and even the terrible events before the incident did not stop the businessmen.

Accompanied by the autumn wind, the sound of horses' hooves mixed with the squeak of wheels, watching the caravans walk in the direction of Jiangcheng.

Hometown......

There is no wanderer who is not homesick, misses the water of his hometown, misses the food of his hometown, no matter how far and how long he goes, the only place in his heart is his hometown.

Nan Er's emotions towards Jiang Cheng are also very complicated, he was born here since he was a child, and he dared to run around Jiang Cheng when he was a few years old, but those are all vague memories, and he can't remember them clearly.

The most memorable thing is the yard and the relatives in the yard.

After so many years of traveling in the rivers and lakes, whenever he heard others talk about Jiangcheng, inexplicable emotions would rise in his heart, both happy and sad. For many years, whenever he was in a foreign land, he would yearn to return to Jiangcheng and return to that big courtyard.

to listen to my father's angry scolding, to see the smile of my eldest brother, and my sister-in-law who I am most afraid of......

How many times did he wake up at midnight and look at the soaked pillow, stubbornly refusing to admit that he was crying, and could only insomnia until dawn.

By chance, he returned here, and he once again set foot in that courtyard, and there were no smiling faces of relatives, only the ugly faces of enemies.

These days, Xia Zhicicada is very busy, but Nan Er is very idle.

In his spare time, he pursued his vague memories and wandered around Jiangcheng, some familiar streets were still there, some were gone, and the high walls that used to be difficult to climb were now only half a person high.

Nan Er sighed, it can be said that it is true that things are wrong.

"Jiangcheng is fine, I ...... How many times have I come here in my dreams. But even though I'm here now, I still can't find the feeling in my dreams. ”

The man thought for a moment and tapped his fingers on the scabbard around his waist a few times, making a beeping sound.

"I finally figured out that the place I miss is not Jiangcheng, but my home in Jiangcheng."

"But now home ...... Nope. Even if I stayed, I wouldn't feel even the slightest bit happy, or even better than going somewhere else. ”

Nanji's voice trembled when he said that his home was gone.

Xia Zhician looked sideways slightly, since he knew this person, he had seen Nan Er's timid and scared appearance, and he had also seen his free and easy appearance with bruises all over his body but still laughing, and sometimes he was a little funny and bad-hearted.

But he had never seen Nan Er's side so vulnerable.

At this moment, the person in front of him is no longer a cold-faced knight who dares to kill all enemies in the world with a knife, but an orphan who has lost his way.

Alas......

Sometimes, fate is really unspeakable.

Xia Zhician also had a ruined family, and he also left home with a blood feud, but he was luckier than Nan Er to have a master and three senior brothers, and when he didn't grow up, the enemy who killed their family was rectified, and he could be regarded as a big revenge.

"Master told me when I was alive, don't be blinded by hatred. Besides, I promised my eldest brother that I would live well. ”

There were no tears in the corners of Nan Er's eyes, but even if the autumn wind was urgent, he didn't blink, and looked at Jiangcheng, which was gradually unclear in the distance, and remembered the last glimpse of his hometown.

"And where are you going next?"

"It's up to you......"

"Huh?"

Xia Zhician blinked his eyes, he hadn't gotten rid of his sadness yet, but he saw that Nan Er was already like no one.

"Are you still going to travel with me? It's dangerous...... You and others are likely to see green mountains and green waters, and what you see with me are demons and monsters. ”

Naner's martial arts are good, but in front of monsters, martial arts are almost not worth mentioning.

But Xia Zhicicada took out any monster he met, and Nan Er couldn't deal with it at all.

"Demons and monsters are so interesting. I've been wandering around the rivers and lakes for a long time, and I've seen all kinds of strange mountains and strange scenes, but I haven't seen many demons and monsters. ”

Nan Er quickly adjusted his mood, he seemed to be determined that Xia Zhicicada had to follow the other party to see more demons and monsters.

"Since I met you, I met a water monster on the river, killed people and bandits in the inn, caught monsters in Zhao's house, and then met a female ghost in the deserted house......"

"Well, when have you ever seen a female ghost?"

Xia Zhiciao's attention was very strange, Nan Er muttered a lot, and his ears seemed to only hear the word female ghost.

"Ahem—you need to take care of it."

"No, you met a female ghost, could it be that you still had an affair?"

"Ahem, ahem, no...... No, don't talk nonsense! ”

Nan Er coughed a few times hurriedly, he hid the look on his face, and involuntarily recalled the woman under the peach blossom tree and the special little peach in his mind.

"No, it won't. Are you still with a female ghost...... Well? ”

Xia Zhician glanced at the meaningless smile that appeared on Nan Er's face, although he quickly covered it up, but he still saw it.

With the reins of the horse in his hand, he tilted his body and looked at Nan Er with a curious expression, his eyes couldn't stop looking up and down, and that kind of look made the latter's heart furious.

"No, don't talk nonsense. I don't have a ...... on horseback."

Nan Er waved his hand vigorously, trying to deny Xia Zhiciao's question.

"Of course not, if you really sleep with a female ghost, you-if you don't die, you'll lose half your life."

Of course, Xia Zhician could see that if Nan Er really had a spring breeze with a female ghost, then he could see it at a glance. After all, ghosts are incorporeal things, and female ghosts are the most cold, which hurts the body very much.

"That said, how can I be like a female ghost."

"Okay, but I always feel like you don't have the right look on your face when you mention that female ghost."

"Not at all, you have too much heart."

As soon as Nan Er urged the horse, he opened up the distance between the two.

"Hehe, whether there is anything wrong or not, you know best in your heart."

Xia Zhician followed behind, just muttering a sentence in his mouth.

The two galloped on the official road.

"Eh, I want to know how you learned my trick, I learned that trick for three months. How can you learn it after a few glances. ”

"I cheated with my true anger."

"Xia Zhicicada, you step on the horse ......"

……

"Lord Wang, the soldiers are here to report. said that Xia Lingguan rode out of the city this morning, and I also sent someone to Jiangcheng Post Station to inquire, and Zhang Yueban, the post man, said that Xia Lingguan had indeed left Jiangcheng. ”

The blind man held up the knife in his hand, and his invisible eyes looked at the haggard Lord Le on the bed, who was not only pale in face, but also full of bloodshot eyes, and seemed to be very sick.

"Okay, they're all gone......"

Lord Le's voice was very soft, and he thought about it, and the people from the Buddhist Dao Sect and the Lingguan lineage all left.

"Lord Wang, it's time to drink medicine."

The butler's voice came from outside the door, and then the door was opened, and the boiled decoction was taken by the blind man, and then put it in the hand of Lord Le.

"Ahem, ahem...... Butler, have you done what I was told? ”

Lord Le turned his gaze, looked at the respectful butler who was standing at the door without entering the door, coughed a few times and asked weakly.

"Please rest assured, I have already done everything."

The butler said, wiping the sweat from his forehead with some fear.

"Good. Ahem, thank you, go down and rest. ”

Lord Le showed a rare smile happily, and the housekeeper hurriedly nodded in fear, and said a few words of compliment and obedience before he was ordered to leave.

"Lord ......"

Lord Le waved his fingers, he picked up the soup bowl in his hand, looked at the dark medicinal soup, and smelled the extremely unpleasant smell of Chinese medicine.

He handed the bowl of soup into the shadow of the bed, as he had done countless times before.

"Gott~"

It's still the same sound.

Lord Le took back the empty bowl and put it aside, and he took out a white square handkerchief from under the pillow, and sprinkled some potion on it.

Rubbing it vigorously on his face, he wiped off all the disguises, and his originally pale face returned to normal, and the bloodshot in his eyes disappeared.

Lord Le stood up as if he was not sick at all. No, it shouldn't be said like, but that he is just a person who is not sick at all.

Although he was really frightened when he first saw the big catfish, he was relieved after a few days, but at the same time, he also found that someone was actually poisoning his decoction, so he simply pushed the boat down the river and pretended to be sick.

"It's almost ...... time"

Lord Le squinted, he had deliberately let out all the power in his hands these days, as if he was spilling a handful of fish food in the lotus pond, and he just had to wait for the fish to emerge.

"It's time to close the net."

The blind man on the side heard but did not speak, he turned away with the knife in his hand, and in a short time heard several screams.

Lord Le pushed open the window, looked at the soft and warm sunlight outside, and closed his eyes feeling a little comfortable.

Outside the window, on the steps of the pavilion, a blind man held a knife.

Heads were rolling under the steps.

In the middle, the butler, who had been sincerely frightened just now, stared at the open window on the second floor, his eyes widened that had lost his vision.

The eyes of the living are closed.

The dead man has his eyes open.

Jiangcheng is a place with a story.