Zeng Kui is an excellent hunter, he can prostrate in place for two days without eating or drinking, just waiting for the best time to give his prey a fatal blow. Gu Boqing is obviously not a good material for being a hunter, but Zeng Kui still likes to take him with him when he goes out hunting, if nothing else, because he has saved his life. The two are close friends who talk about everything.

Gu Boqing likes to paint, especially good at painting birds and animals, in fact, he prefers to paint people, but there is no one to paint when he is young. The Gu family has been passing on painting skills for generations, and among them, portrait painting is a must. The ancestor of the Gu family was a great painter in the world, and Gu Boqing had an ancestral album in his home, which was made by that ancestor. The works in this album are all portraits, and all of them are women. The women in the painting have different looks, thousands of manners, each with its own taste, and each with its own beauty.

Gu Boqing likes to depict the women in the ancestral picture album, he paints very well, but he lacks some spirit, which always makes people feel lifeless. Gu Boqing is often sad about this, he has not seen many women, and he can't imagine the charm of the women in those paintings. However, Zeng Kui can't care so much, in his opinion, Gu Boqing's beautiful picture deserves to be vivid, and it is really a tyrannical thing if such a beautiful painting is not sold. So, under Zeng Kui's repeated coercion and temptation, Gu Boqing's beauty picture was reluctantly sold......

At this point, the story takes an unexpected turn. At this moment, Gu Boqing sat cross-legged, and with the help of the faint light of an oil lamp, he seriously copied a portrait, which was the side face of a woman. After a long time, Gu Boqing looked at the painting he had just completed, frowned, lifted it from the table, and then tore it to pieces.

Gu Boqing looked at the shredded paper all over the ground and was stunned, he never expected that he would have the opportunity to see his clansmen outside. When the woman named Gu Jiali found him, he thought she had recognized the wrong person. And when she said that she had seen the characters painted by Gu Boqing in a facsimile of an ancestral picture album, he was sure that this woman was undoubtedly his own clansman. According to Gu Jiali, the ancestors of her lineage moved out hundreds of years ago because they could not bear the lonely life in the valley. After the old ancestor moved out, he didn't say a word about the location of the valley, and after a hundred years, no one in their vein knew where the ancestral land was.

For Gu Boqing, who has always been alone, although Gu Jiali's branch has nothing to do with her for a long time, everyone has the same root after all, and her family has also inherited the painting skills of her ancestors, so Gu Boqing naturally has a good impression of her.

Gu Jiali is the favorite concubine of Li Shibi, the general of Chaohuwei, and her status in the Li family is extremely high, and even the mother of the Li family has to give her three points. Since then, Gu Jiali has invited him to the house many times. Gu Boqing thought that she really wanted to befriend him for the sake of the same sect, after all, he had nothing and nothing to gain. So, when she asked about the location of the ancestral land, he told her directly without any concealment. It wasn't until she asked him if there were any offspring left in the tribe that he became vigilant, and his mother's last words before she died were, "Whoever asks about the white fox in the clan, don't tell him." After I die, there will be no second person in this world besides you who knows about the white fox. ”

Even Zeng Kui never knew that the white fox in the valley was not those ordinary demon foxes in the outside world. Gu Boqing was vague and only told Gu Jiali that "there are indeed foxes in the valley, but those are the descendants of the little fox he rescued from the outside world, he lived in the valley when he was a child, and he has never seen a white fox in the valley." Since then, when Gu Jiali invited him to be a guest again, Gu Boqing always shirked it for various reasons.

Whining......

A childish whisper interrupted Gu Boqing's thoughts, a little flower fox with mixed fur rubbed his thigh, Gu Boqing picked up the little flower fox and gently stroked its forehead, the little fox squinted with great enjoyment. Gu Boqing looked at the little fox on his thigh, and his heart was a little complicated. Gu Jiali had repeatedly knocked on the side to ask about the white fox, but he had prevaricated.

He always remembered that when he was a child, he had no playmates, and it was the white fox in the valley that accompanied him throughout his childhood. His mother had always been weak and sickly, and she didn't have much energy to take care of him, but the eldest white fox in the valley had been taking care of him, and often brought some wild fruits or monsters to the mother and son. And the little fox in his arms is the child of the white fox. If there is anything special about the white fox in the valley, Gu Boqing can't say, but he has a feeling that the white fox in this valley is by no means an ordinary demon fox.

Gu Jiali tried many times but failed to get the information she wanted, and finally once she showed her true colors. It turned out that she had already sent someone to Gu Jiazu to investigate, but due to the fog on the periphery, she was never allowed to enter. Once she invited Gu Boqing to the house for tea, Gu Boqing didn't go, but Gu Boqing was attacked that night. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, Gu Jiali always thought that Gu Boqing was just a weak scholar who was powerless, but she didn't expect that he was still a young monk at the peak of martial arts.

That night, Gu Boqing killed for the first time. He wanted to spare the Assassins, but they wouldn't let him go. Since then, Gu Boqing has not set foot in Anping City, he has at most gone to Zeng Kui's small village for a walk, and most of the time he stays in the valley or follows Zeng Kui to hunt.

However, Zeng Kui suddenly disappeared a few days ago. Gu Boqing went to his village to look for him, Zeng Kui's parents said that they had not seen him for several days, and he did not say that he was going to go into the mountains to hunt, and the two elders were very worried about him. Gu Boqing knew Zeng Kui, he would definitely greet his parents when he went out, but now that he disappeared for no reason, then he must have encountered something. Thinking of what happened to him recently, Gu Boqing was like being struck by lightning. He rushed to the Li family like crazy, but he had just walked through the city gate when he met the dejected Zeng Kui.

Zeng Kui's clothes were ragged, and the torn parts of his clothes exposed open flesh, and the congealed blood formed patches of black stains near the wounds. He drew strange glances from many passers-by along the way, but his eyes were blank and his steps were hobbled, lifeless like a walking corpse. Gu Boqing was instantly petrified when he saw this scene, and a monstrous killing intent surged in his heart. He trembled and called out Zeng Kui's name, Zeng Kui's body suddenly stiffened, he raised his head, and his eyes instantly turned red.

"Brother, I'm sorry for you......"

......

Gu Jiali didn't get what she wanted from Gu Boqing, so she found Zeng Kui. She wanted to get some information out of Zeng Kui's mouth, but Zeng Kui never believed this woman. In Zeng Kui's world, there is only one possibility for dignitaries and nobles to take the initiative to have a relationship with a small person like them, and they have what the other party wants or something that the other party wants to know. Zeng Kui didn't think that he had anything worthy of the other party's plot, so it could only be related to his mysterious friend. Gu Jiali couldn't get anything out of him, she was so angry that she directly sent someone to arrest him and force him to tell him how to enter the Gu family's ancestral land, which is the so-called Qingqiu Mountain.

Zeng Kui was a righteous person, and even if he was tortured extremely severely, he did not divulge any information. Unfortunately, bullies have countless sinister methods.

People will always have weaknesses, and Zeng Kui's weaknesses are his parents. Zeng Kui had no choice, he didn't know what Gu Boqing was going to face, and he didn't know what Gu Jiali wanted, he only knew that he had betrayed Gu Boqing, betrayed his best friend and benefactor.

Zeng Kui couldn't face Gu Boqing anymore, and Gu Boqing didn't want to affect Zeng Kui's family anymore, so let's break off the relationship, and everyone will be cut in two from now on. In this way, it is good for everyone. Gu Boqing doesn't blame Zeng Kui, he is a filial son and a friend who is angry, and he has done enough.

Squeak ......

The sound of the door opening interrupted Gu Boqing's thoughts, "Who!" He stood up suddenly, his eyes staring sharply at the door. The little flower fox fell off his lap and snorted twice with some grievances.

Dugu Zhishui gently pushed open the door of the room, and saw a tall and handsome young man wearing a green coat in the room, and said with a smile: "Friend, I broke into here by accident, and when I saw that there was a light in this room, I thought about coming over to take a look, and I apologize for disturbing me at night." ”

Gu Boqing's expression was flat, and he said, "You are one of those people, what's the matter, everyone has already come to my valley?"

"Myself, I accidentally broke in. ”

"People like you are not welcome here, if you leave right now, I will save me. ”

"A person like me?" Dugu Zhishui was a little puzzled, "What kind of person am I?"

Gu Boqing sneered, "The Li family's dog, isn't it?"

"You misunderstood", Dugu Zhishui said seriously: "I'm just a hunter, and I have nothing to do with the Li family." However, this time I took on a task, and the employer seems to be indeed the Li family. ”

"Is there a difference?" Gu Boqing's eyes became much colder, "Didn't you just come to my valley to grab things?"

"It looks like you were the one who attacked the three of us earlier. Dugu Zhishui suddenly realized, "Actually, I don't know much about the task, I just want to earn some bounty." I don't know what grievances you have with the Li family, and I don't mean to offend you. ”

"You have too many words! If you really don't want to offend, then please leave now, and I won't be far away!" Gu Boqing made a gesture of please.

"I said, I'm here to earn a bounty. Dugu Zhishui not only didn't leave, but also took a few more steps into the house, "You attacked us before, and now you want to drive me away, you must always give me a reasonable explanation." ”

"Say?" Gu Boqing smiled and pulled out the long sword from the sheath, "You want to explain it to me?" haha...... You want to talk to me when you break into my place?" Gu Boqing was angry, and his momentum suddenly went out.

"You're no match for me. Dugu Zhishui said.

"Don't be too arrogant!"