"I know you're good at swordsmanship, I saw it on the side of the road two years ago."

"How does the gentleman know this? At that time, it was just a blind man touching the dark. ”

Mr. Su smiled. "Xichu is not very peaceful, I hope you can teach the children one and a half moves. If something really happens to him in the future, they can also be around. ”

Xu Jinxin was stunned for a moment, and then clenched his fists and was a little ashamed. "I'm really sorry about this, I'm afraid the younger generation won't be able to help."

"Why? Little Brother Xu complained that I didn't let you enter the school in the first place? ”

"No, Mr. didn't catch up with the younger generations back then, and he was already grateful, how dare he complain about Mr. It's just that I have a favorite person who has gone to the south, and I'm afraid I'm going to look for her. ”

"The person you like is the one who drank the poison for her."

Xu Jinxin nodded and said. "It's all old, I didn't expect Mr. to know."

As he spoke, his face was a little far-fetched.

"The storytellers in the restaurants are all preaching, they are all good stories!"

Xu Jinxin thought it was funny, it was nothing more than drinking poisoned wine for her back then and almost dying, and he was said by everyone to be amazing.

"Actually, when I came back that day, I also heard it in Drunken Xianzhai, and I still have a nose and eyes to say it, but it's mostly an exaggeration. I have warned the storyteller to stop fabricating right and wrong. ”

Mr. Su was a little relieved and said. "I see, if you have something, then let's go! It's just a pity for such a good person. ”

Xu Jinxin arched his hand and said. "I can't help with a big favor, but I can do a small favor, the younger generation still has some private affairs in the city, and during this period, you can take the time to come over and teach them some skills to practice swords, not to mention whether it can be effective, but if you really meet thieves in the future, you can also protect yourself."

"In this way, thank you little brother Xu."

Mr. Su said, stood up and bowed to Xu Jinxin.

Xu Jinxin hurriedly supported him, to be honest, he really couldn't afford this gift, after all, it was just a small favor in the past.

He agreed to Mr. Su, and the next day, he stood under the tree in the courtyard of the school early and taught the children swordsmanship hand in hand.

Mr. Su watched all this in front of the window of the school, but he was pleased. "It would be nice if I was still young and could move my legs! After all, I am old, and the past is unbearable! ”

In the words, there is a lot of helplessness and bitterness.

Xu Jinxin gently slapped a boy on the arm and said. "Straighten out, the sword must be powerful, don't hesitate, if it is really a battlefield fight, you are afraid that you will not live long."

Afterwards, he and Mr. Su said goodbye and left.

Mr. Su smiled and said. "It can be seen that you have a very deep understanding of the sword."

Xu Jinxin nodded and said. "After all, I have been thinking about it seriously in the past two years. Speaking of which, it is not in vain. ”

He left the school, came to the door of Yangcheng Zhu's house, and stopped.

Hearing a report, Zhu Zhizhi, who had met before, greeted him and said. "I knew that Brother Xu would come back, and I had been waiting for good news for a long time."

"Thank you for your love." Xu Jinxin said, arching his hand.

"What about the outside world? I heard that the southern beauties are like clouds, all of them are delicate, but is it true? ”

Zhu Zhizhi is the sixth eldest in the generation of the Zhu family, with three older brothers and two sisters in front and two younger sisters in the back.

Zhu Zhizhi doesn't know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and doesn't know the Four Books and Five Classics, so he is a complete loser.

If you don't learn anything, you don't talk about it, and you are still mixed with the three sects and nine streams at the bottom. Over time, I don't know anything about things at home.

In this regard, the head of the Zhu family was extremely distressed by him, shouting that he had offended people by doing evil in his previous life.

Zhu Zhizhi didn't care, he still went his own way, as if he didn't make his father angry, and he was unhappy.

Xu Jinxin came here, not because he had eight friendships with Zhu Zhizhi. The relationship is good enough to come and see an old friend.

But when he ran away to travel the rivers and lakes two years ago, he bought a horse on credit from Zhu Zhizhi.

So, he's coming over with something to pay it back now.

But Zhu Zhizhi was very hospitable, hooking his shoulders and welcoming him into the Zhu family's mansion.

The two of them sat in the living room, Zhu Zhizhi poured him a glass of wine and poured a glass himself.

Zhu Zhizhi didn't ask him about the horse on credit, as if he had no impression of the horse.

He commanded the people around him. "Go get some food for Ben Gongzi and Xu Gongzi."

"Yes!"

The subordinate responded and withdrew.

Zhu Zhizhi saw that the next person had withdrawn, and asked with some excitement. "You haven't answered my question yet! What's the outside world like? ”

"It was wonderful. But when you go out of town, you may see corpses. From Yangcheng to the south, corpses are everywhere. ”

This sentence is a bit exaggerated, but it is indeed an indisputable fact that there are many corpses.

"I know this, the last time I went out of the city for spring, I saw a lot of them outside the city."

He was not wrong in what he said, he had only heard that Xichu was a purgatory on earth, and the people were not happy.

Since that time when he saw a few corpses and no one cared about them, he had never gone outside the city anymore, and he couldn't bear it.

"The south is prosperous, to the south of Quling City, there is a river that runs through the east and west, and finally at the junction of Jincheng and Quling City all the way to the south, into the southern Xinjiang, and finally into the South China Sea. So, the south is not as short of water as the north. ”

Zhu Zhizhi nodded. "At first, they also told me that there is water in the south, no one is afraid of hunger, and there is enough food to grow, and it has not rained in the north for many years. Most of the crops will die in the fields, and the north is bitter! ”

Xu Jinxin was stunned, he really didn't expect Zhu Zhizhi, who was known as a gentleman, to have such feelings, he really didn't understand.

Could it be that the person he knew before was not him, but someone else?

Xu Jinxin didn't bother to pay attention to this, took out a jade pendant from his body, and said. "This is something I picked up in the Taiping Ruins. I don't know much about this business, I don't know if it's true or not. However, thinking about it, it is something left over from the previous dynasty, and it can be kept as a thought if it is not valuable. ”

Zhu Zhizhi heard him say this, looked at the sword on the side, and said. "This is the Taiping Sword, right?"

"In the Taiping Ruins, I was lucky, so I got it, and it was also considered the favor of God."

"Can I take a look?"

Xu Jinxin nodded.

Zhu Zhizhi walked over and pulled out Taiping in the scabbard, even if he didn't usually use a sword, he felt that this was a good sword.

"In the past, the Taiping Sword Immortal relied on this to deter Xiping, but it's a pity, he is a senior who would rather die than give in."

He waved it and said again. "It seems that you are lucky, I used to see you practice swordsmanship with all your heart, but now that you have this good sword, I am afraid that your cultivation will go to the next level."

"There is a senior who has a very high evaluation."

Can it not be high? In Xichu's generation, you are the first.

As he spoke, he pulled out a small bag from his body. Along the tabletop, together with the jade pendant, it was pushed towards Zhu Zhizhi.

"What is this?"

"The horse I bought on credit with you two years ago died, and I gave it to the victims in that area, which is considered compensation."

Zhu Zhi opened it and took a look. "There were several pieces of gold in it. That's right, pure gold that hasn't been worked yet. ”

"This one is too precious."

He knew that what he gave to Xu Jinxin two years ago was just an old horse, and it was not worth the money at all.

What's more, he didn't want to get the money back, he just wanted to make friends.

Now that Xu Jinxin has given him so many things, he is at a loss.

He was about to push something back to Xu Jinxin, but Xu Jinxin shook his head and said. "Everyone in the world says that you are a loser, and you are indeed a loser. But you have a good heart, and if you really don't want it, take it and do some good deeds, buy some grain, and give it to those in the city who don't have enough to eat. ”

Zhu Zhizhi clenched his fists and said. "Thank you."

When Li Yi left, Zhu Zhizhi sat on the table and looked at him with a smile, but asked. "It's not far to the southwest, and the news is very exciting. It is said that there was a haunted and swordsmanlike man in that area, who called himself Xu. It has spread in the inn, restaurant and even the book club school, do you know what Xu looks like? ”

"Yes."

"In this way, I will look forward to the day when Xu will come to the door again."

Xu Jinxin didn't respond, but he didn't deny it, everything was silent.

After leaving the Zhu family, he went to the place where he had lived before.

The dilapidated house had been demolished, and someone had bought the land to build a better one.

Although he is from Yangcheng, he has been lonely since he was a child, and he has been growing up in a beggar heap, and he has no home, or rather, this is his home. Now! This dilapidated home is also gone.

He was a little sad, but he was just sorry.

Just then, someone came from that side and hurried to the other side of the street.

It was a seven or eight-year-old boy with a rice bowl who ran over.

It's a little like me at the beginning.

He smiled, walked over to the little beggar who was crouching on the side of the street, and crouched down to say to him. "Come with me somewhere, I'll treat you to something good."

"Is there really something good to eat?" The boy asked him, a little happy, his face flushed, and he was visibly shy.

He smiled and said. "That's nature."

"But they said don't believe what other people say, or you might be eaten."

War broke out in Western Chu in recent years, and it has not rained, and there are countless people fleeing the famine outside, some of whom eat their children, and some of whom eat corpses. These have been performed countless times in the mouths of those book gentlemen in the city. It's really a human tragedy.

In this way, it is not for nothing that the little beggar is wary of him.

He said. "But do you think I'm a bad person?"

The little beggar shook his head. "It doesn't look like it."

"Let's go!"

Xu Jinxin said and walked in front.

He was dressed in green clothes and danced with the wind, and the little beggar was a little stunned, and he couldn't say what he yearned for.

The little beggar caught up with him and looked up to ask. "Brother is a hero?"

"My brother is a hero, and I will be the sword fairy in the future."

However, he was already a sword immortal, but he couldn't tell a seven or eight-year-old child.

They sat down in front of a noodle restaurant and ate two bowls of noodles.

Walking to a place where there was no one, Xu Jinxin stuffed the little beggar with a heavy small bag.

He laughs. "Brother is a good man, it's all silver here, take it back and share it with your brothers and sisters."

He patted the little beggar on the shoulder, and the little beggar did not hesitate, and ran to the end of the alley.

In the days that followed, he spent the next few days teaching the children in the school swordsmanship.

The children are also serious, but they have learned some moves, and they wield them in a good way.

Mr. Su was very pleased and nodded.

He invited Xu Jinxin to teach the children, not so that the children could become sword immortals and gun immortals in the future. Instead, let them know that the world is difficult, even if they read and study literature, they should not forget to strengthen their bodies.

He gave the children a word of advice. But he walked to the side of the room, closed the door, and opened the letter in his hand.

The letter had just arrived, but he knew who it was as soon as he guessed.

There are not many words on the creed, and he explained all the matters of the Southern Book Society, and he felt that he was incompetent and couldn't help Mr. or something.

Mr. Su put down his creed and sighed. "After all, it's okay!"

As soon as he walked out of the house, Xu Jinxin was already in front of the school.

He walked over, and Xu Jinxin, as a junior, arched his hand to him. "Sir."

He nodded. "Say it! It's here, or they'll cry when they see you. ”

"Sir knows I'm leaving?"

"Guess."

"Things in the north have been done, and we can't stay too long."

"Hmmm! Everyone has their own pursuits, I have been teaching and educating people all my life, although I have not achieved anything, and I have not taught a few decent disciples, and there are very few above the temple. ”

Xu Jinxin looked at him, but he didn't care about drinking a cup of tea.

But it really didn't work out? God knows.

Mr. Su continued. "But! I'm still living at ease, after all, it's my life's pursuit. I have a good friend who is just like me, but unfortunately, he is very sick. It may not be long before I'm left alone. ”

Xu Jinxin smiled and looked at him, not wanting to know who his friend was, nor caring if he was accomplished. Instead, he spoke. "Sir can see it, unlike people like me who have entered the WTO, so I have to fight and kill sometimes."

Mr. Su smiled and said. "That girl must be beautiful. How could you be like this? ”

"For others, she may be ordinary, but in the hearts of younger generations, she is the best woman in Xichu and even in the world."

"That's something to cherish!" Mr. Su said.

But he seemed to remember something, and his eyes revealed regrets from the past.

"I will, if I have the opportunity to come back, I will definitely come again to teach the children, at least so that they can protect themselves in troubled times."

Mr. Su waved his hand. "Go, go, go."

"Mr. Wang, take care."

He turned, jumped onto a horse outside the school, pulled the reins and drove away.

On this day, Mr. Su stood in the sunset, looked at Xu Jinxin in the distance, and recalled a lot of past events.

The person who married into the imperial capital Pengzhou City, is she okay? Are you just like yourself, your temples are gray?