Time flies, and another three years have passed.

This year, Xu Shaofeng was ten years old and Qiao Zhiye was thirteen years old. The height gap between the two has narrowed significantly, and Qiao Zhiye is only half a head taller than Xu Shaofeng.

One day, several children came running with blue noses and swollen faces, crying to Qiao Zhiye: "Brother Ye, we were beaten by a little madman!"

"I've told you, don't always provoke him, you can't beat him. Qiao Zhiye frowned.

"But that kid is too blind, too annoying!"

"Brother Ye, you must seek justice for us!"

Several of the children were not convinced.

"Okay, then I'll take a look. Qiao Zhiye nodded, assuming the style of a big brother.

On the side of the mountain stream, Xu Shaofeng was practicing his sword.

Qiao Zhiye stepped forward and said, "Hey, little madman, I heard that you bullied my brothers again today?"

Xu Shaofeng glanced at him indifferently and continued to practice his sword by himself. A sword was danced by him like a dragon.

After watching it for a while, Qiao Zhiye was bored, so he said again: "Hey, little madman, what's the point of practicing alone, do you want to compete with me?"

Xu Shaofeng's eyes lit up, he turned to face him, raised his sword to concentrate, and a faint blue light gradually lit up on the blade.

Qiao Zhiye was taken aback, when did this kid learn such a profound martial art?

Xu Shaofeng finished condensing and attacked with one move. Qiao Zhiye hurriedly flew to dodge, and the light blue sword light grazed his body, striking a long thin mark on the snow.

Qiao Zhiye was secretly frightened, and hurriedly shouted, "Wait a minute!"

Xu Shaofeng was ready to start, looking at him puzzled.

Qiao Zhiye put on a serious look, "I said little madman, you see that Senior Sister is working so hard to feed us, we only know how much we fight all day long, which makes her sad." Why don't we make a meaningful comparison?"

Xu Shaofeng was moved by what he said, and couldn't help asking, "What is a meaningful comparison?"

"We're more than anyone else. Whoever earns more will listen to whomever he is. This can also help the senior sister, the most meaningful!"

"How do you make money?"

"Senior sister is to catch the thief, and then go to the government to receive a bounty to earn money. Let's go catch the thieves too!"

Xu Shaofeng thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Qiao Zhiye said again: "If you lose, you have to call me senior brother." ”

"I'll win you!" Xu Shaofeng was full of confidence.

That night, the two secretly went down the mountain and came to the city to check the official reward. One of the latest inscriptions reads that it was discovered that the great thief Ma Lianliu had fled to the city. Those who report their traces will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, and those who are arrested will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver.

Qiao Xu and the two glanced at each other and acted separately.

In an abandoned house outside the city, the big thief Ma Lianliu is sleeping. Suddenly, he woke up alertly, and there was movement outside the door!

He picked up his knife and cautiously walked to the door. Opening a crack in the door, he looked out. But I saw two children whispering in the corner of the house.

He listened closely, only to hear the tall child say angrily: "I found him first!

Another short child said coldly: "You can only get ten taels when you report to the official, but I can get one hundred taels when I go in and catch him." Let's talk about it, whoever earns more is the senior brother. ”

"No, I found out first, I said that if I go to report to the official, I have to report to the official!"

"You go and report to the officer yourself, and I'll go in and catch him. I'm the one who wins in the end! You have to call me a senior brother. ”

"Obviously, I found it first, and I will catch it first!"

"It doesn't matter if you arrest someone or find out, whoever catches it counts!"

......

The two children argued, and their voices grew louder and louder.

The big thief Ma Lian's six heads are beating violently, and these two children don't take me seriously!

He picked up the knife and was about to kick the door out, thinking that it would be bad if there was some master behind these two children. He secretly jumped out of the back window, and when he looked around, there was no other figure, and then he was relieved.

He quietly walked behind the two children, intending to kill the two crooked and dream-disturbing little cubs one by one.

Before he could get closer, the tall kid suddenly spotted him, "The thief is coming!"

The short kid looked back and immediately his eyes lit up, "Just in time!"

He drew the long sword at his waist and raised it to concentrate. A faint blue light slowly lit up from the blade of the sword, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

Sword Qi! This child, who seemed to be no more than ten years old, could actually emit sword qi! It was incredible, we must kill him as soon as possible! Ma Lianliu slashed at him with a knife.

The short child was undaunted to meet him with his sword, and his sword moves were so subtle that Ma Lian Liuyan surprised himself.

However, others were small and too lacking in actual combat experience, and after a few moves, they were deceived by Ma Lian's six false tricks, and slashed the front chest with a knife, and immediately bled like a note.

Ma Lianliu kicked him to the ground, smirking and about to make up for it again to end his life. The tall kid watching the battle next to him suddenly flashed, quickly snatched the short kid from under his knife, turned around and ran.

Ma Lianliu was stunned for a moment, then picked up the knife and slashed at the tall child's back.

A sword stabbed out diagonally, striking him in the wrist. This sword god is haunted, and Ma Lianliu is so frightened that he hurriedly returns to the sword to save himself.

The tall kid took advantage of this opportunity and ran out of the way.

After the shock, Ma Lianliu found that the sword was actually stabbed by a short child in the arms of a tall child!

The short boy was not unconscious after being stabbed in the chest, but he had the strength to block his knife! Ma Lianliu showed hideousness and chased after him closely. Can't leave that short kid behind!

The tall child hugged the short child and hurried towards the depths of the snowy mountain. He was on his tiptoes and fluent, and Ma Lianliu suddenly noticed another strange thing: there were no footprints of tall children on the snow!

Could it be that this twelve or thirteen-year-old child can still step on the snow without a trace while carrying a single person? It is so unbelievable that we must kill them! Ma Lianliu thought fiercely, and chased after him fiercely.

After a journey, the child lacked strength after all, and the tall child's pace gradually slowed down.

Seeing Ma Lianliu chasing closer and closer, the tall child suddenly shouted: "Senior sister, help!"

Ma Lianliu looked around and saw no one, only as a tall child bluffed, and continued to chase after with a knife.

Suddenly, a red light fell from the sky, and Ma Lianliu hurriedly raised his knife to parry. With one move, his arms were so shocked that he could barely lift them.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in red flew down from a snow-capped mountain and stood firm with the power of a knife. She had a magnificent face, as dazzling as the rising sun, and held a long red knife several inches taller than her.

Ma Lianliu was shocked: Isn't she the newly rising rookie in the rivers and lakes - "Flame Knife" Ai Li!

Red flame parting, slash when you encounter evil!

The girl raised her knife mercilessly and swung it down. The red long knife carried the flames of the dazzling eyes, and he was under the hood of Ma Lianliu.

What kind of world? How can all these children be so strong!

The great thief Ma Lianliu fell in grief and indignation.

......

In the hut, Xu Shaofeng was lying on the bed, his body wrapped in messy bandages.

A six-year-old girl came in through the door, holding a bowl bigger than her head. When she came to the bedside, she lifted the sea bowl with great difficulty, and said softly, "Senior brother, it's time to take medicine." ”

Xu Shaofeng turned his back and turned to the bed. The little girl timidly put the bowl on the small table beside the bed and withdrew.

After a while, Senior Sister Ai Li's voice appeared above his head, "Why don't you take medicine?"

Xu Shaofeng faced the bed, motionless.

Ai Li picked up the sea bowl on the table, tasted it, and couldn't help but stick out his tongue, "It's really bitter." This little rain must have put too much coptis again, and cooked such a big bowl. ”

She thought about it, took out a small bottle from her arms, poured out a round thing, and stuffed it into Xu Shaofeng's mouth.

Xu Shaofeng's back trembled, his eyes widened, and he slowly turned his face.

Ai Li winked at him and whispered, "Sweet, right? This is a jelly bean, and it won't be bitter if you take medicine with it." ”

Xu Shaofeng looked at her in a daze, and the water in his cold and gloomy eyes gradually rose.

"Why are you still crying?" Ai Li frowned.

Xu Shaofeng choked up and said, "Senior sister, I lost." ”

"That's why. Ai Li frowned and smiled slightly, "What does it matter if you lose a few times, keep working hard, there will always be a time to win back." ”

Looking at her firm smile, the ice mist in Xu Shaofeng's eyes evaporated like the scorching sun and snow melting. He nodded vigorously, the corners of his mouth raised in a nice arc.

"It's like. Ai Li muttered to himself, and couldn't help but reach out in distraction and gently caress his cheek.

"Senior sister?" Xu Shaofeng called softly in confusion.

"Take your medicine well and grow up quickly. Ai Li came back to his senses, admonished, and turned his head to leave.

Xu Shaofeng was stunned for a while, and slowly sat up with sugar in his mouth. Picking up the sea bowl, he drank the medicine with a grunt.

The door opened again, and a figure flashed in.

Qiao Zhiye appeared in front of him angrily, stretched out his hand and pinched his face, "Hey, little madman, it's all because you are too poor in ability, so I didn't get the reward." When you see me in the future, you have to call me senior brother!"

Xu Shaofeng lowered his eyes and looked at the medicine residue at the bottom of the bowl, and raised his head for a while.

Qiao Zhiye thought that he was unwilling to admit defeat and was waiting to talk about it.

He calmly looked at him and shouted, "Senior brother." ”

Four years later, at the age of fourteen, Xu Shaofeng had already comprehended the realm of "people are as cold as swords, and swords are as cold as people".

He was ordered by his master to go down the mountain to capture the big thief Ma Demon Jiu, and became famous in a battle. Known as a rare sword wizard in a century, the people of Jianghu gave him the nickname "Cold Sword" Xu Shaofeng.

After returning to the mountain, the first thing he did was to find Qiao Zhiye, who was lazily lying on the bed.

In front of him, Xu Shaofeng took out three ingots of one hundred taels of silver, put them on the table one by one, and said coldly and arrogantly: "This is the reward I earned this time!"

Qiao Zhiye kicked an inconspicuous wooden box at the foot of the bed, and said listlessly: "This is what I earned." ”

Xu Shaofeng opened the wooden box curiously, and inside was a whole box of silver taels.

Qiao Zhiye narrowed his eyes and smiled triumphantly: "I won again this year, you still have to listen to me, call me senior brother!"

This year, Qiao Zhiye was seventeen years old and officially took over the affairs of Kunlun Wudongmen.