The next morning, we crossed the Zhuma River to the east, and the river was only an arrow wide and there was nothing to see. The boatman was very stubborn, and he leaned the ship on the east bank, and he was willing to sail over until he was ready, and he would not spare any strength.

The ferry boat was not very large, and the four people and six horses had to cross it in two boats, and it took more than an hour to cross the river, and all the cool was consumed on a small river.

Qu Lingyu smiled and said: "King Xiang is also a person who grew up near the water, can he still swim in the water? How can this small river stump him? Won't he swim over? The person who wrote the book can't make it up, so he has to say that he refuses to cross the river." ”

Chu Qingliu said: "Don't talk about the river, it's a big river, and you can swim through it if you have good water quality." If you carefully study and talk about dead reasons everywhere, then there is nothing to do in ancient times, and the book will no longer be able to be read. ”

At the end of March, it should have been hot around noon, but I didn't want it to be unusually hot today, and most of the empty pedestrians on the road were already wearing single clothes, not to mention those carrying carts. Qu Lingyu felt sorry for the white fox, so he refused to hurry under the sun, rested at a tea stall early, and refused to leave.

Chu Qingliu rubbed his way like this for a while, and said: "If you don't leave at this time, when you get to the town in front of you, I'm afraid you won't be able to find the upper room." Qu Lingyu said: "If you can't find it, you can't find it, what's the matter if you don't go to the house? I have also been in the barren mountains and mountains, and I am afraid that the heat will spoil your white fox." ”

It wasn't until the heat had passed that he was back on the road. As soon as he walked out of more than ten miles, there was a gust of north wind behind him for no reason, Chu Qingliu looked back at the sky and couldn't help laughing. Qu Lingyu raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't it going to rain, what's so funny? It's hard to say whether it can be successful." Having said that, he still urged the second maid to beat the horse and hurry.

The north wind followed the men and horses closely, and the sky was full of black clouds in a blink of an eye, but fortunately, the wind and rain were not in a hurry, and not a drop of rain fell.

In the middle of the rush, an intersection flashed ahead, and even better, there was a large temple at the intersection. The four of them were overjoyed, and they rode to the front of the mountain gate, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

This temple is quite small, there are also three courtyards, but there is only one left in the mountain gate, the east courtyard wall collapsed in two places, and the west side fell and I don't know whether it is three or four. After shouting for a long time, two monks, an old man and a young monk, came out. The two monks are in shabby clothes, their faces are hungry, one does not salute, the other does not greet the donor, and it is clear that they can only stay overnight, but the guests have to go to the kitchen to make their own food, the two of them don't care, and they turn around and leave. This place is densely populated, and the two monks act like this, so it is no wonder that the incense is declining.

Although the rain has not fallen, it is not easy to go on the road again. The second courtyard is the main hall, and the second courtyard has two monks to live, and the two maids clean out the three wings at the head of the courtyard, go to the kitchen to boil water, and each person eats some dry food, and stands under the corridor, waiting to see the rain. There was no horse shed in the temple, and a few horses had to be tied to the corridor of the main hall of the second courtyard.

It wasn't until the tea was drunk enough that it rained sporadically, and when it was dark, the rain gradually became a reality, and everyone was satisfied. The second maid took out her own candle and lit it, and took the white fox back to the room, and Chu Qingliu Qu Lingyu chatted with the lamp.

As he was talking, he suddenly heard the horses in the backyard scream. For no reason, someone must have come, Chu Qingliu said: "I'll take a look." "Find the tarpaulin to protect your head and face, grab your sword, and go out and rush to the backyard hall.

There was no one under the porch, and there were many horses, and they did not seem to be hurt. With such a heavy rain, who will come and leave again after encountering this great hall to avoid the rain?

Chu Qingliu came to the door of the main hall and said, "Friends who are traveling, I am also traveling, and the horses are tied under the corridor, so it is inconvenient for you, I can't help it." ”

One of the people in the hall replied, "No need to be polite. If I had a horse, I would have tethered it like this if I had come early. ”

Chu Qingliu said: "There is neither food nor tea in this temple. I've got hot water in the front yard, would you like some of it?"

The man said, "No need, it's raining so hard, I've already drunk on the road, please go back." He spoke in a false voice, sounding like he was not ambushing by the door, but he didn't know if there was anyone else at the door.

Seeing that Chu Qingliu was delaying and not leaving, the man said, "If you don't worry, I'm afraid that I will steal your horse in the middle of the night, then come and watch it." It's hard to know people's hearts, and it's always good to be careful. ”

Chu Qingliu said: "If you say so, then you will be offended." Tomorrow and tomorrow I will give you attestation. As he spoke, he held the stone in his left hand, held the sword in his right hand, stretched it out in the door, and then stabbed his right, and the person also flashed in. Seeing that there were no hiers behind the doors on both sides, he put his sword into the sheath and said with a smile: "I'm too careful." The man didn't respond.

It was raining heavily in the dark night, and they were in the old hall, and the two of them were only five or six steps apart, but Chu Qingliu couldn't see the face of that person clearly, and that person should be the same when he thought about it.

The man took off his coat and put it back on. Climbed up to the offering table in front of the Buddha and lay down, turned his face to pretend to sleep, apparently unwilling to pay attention to people.

If it is delayed for too long, Qu Lingyu in the front yard will definitely be anxious, this person is like this, Chu Qingliu does not want to waste time with him, and turns around and walks towards the palace gate. After a few steps, a lightning bolt struck down, followed by a rolling thunder that exploded the ears, and then a few quick flashes of muffled thunder.

The man was tired and lay still, and although he could not move, he did not turn his face to look at him, as if he was blind and deaf in both ears, which was obviously very impersonal.

Chu Qingliu also saw clearly that this person's left leg was wrapped in a placket, which was obviously injured, and there were also a few cuts on his robe.

Regardless of whether this person is right or evil, even if it is really heinous, it is very unbearable for people to see it. Chu Qingliu said: "There are antidotes and knife wounds in the wing room in my front yard, if you need to use them, just go and get them." So saying, he left the temple gate and rushed into the rain.

As soon as he took a few steps, he saw a person walking briskly on the other side, much taller than Qu Lingyu, with a broken umbrella on his head. Chu Qingliu was about to dodge obliquely, but the man didn't stop, said "It's me", and rushed down the corridor, it turned out to be Qu Lingyu.

Qu Lingyu used a short sword to split the wooden plank, tied it with a cloth belt, put on his old clothes, made an ugly umbrella, tied the wooden block to the sole of his shoe to make clogs temporarily, and then set off.

Qu Lingyu put the strange umbrella very carefully, untied the sole of the shoe, and then said with a smile: "What about the horse thief? People are also passing by, listening to you say this, if I talk to you, see what you have to say?" Qu Lingyu said: "Then I will give him a horse for nothing-----

As soon as he said this, there was a muffled sound of "coo" in the hall. The two men rushed into the temple, and when they looked closer, they saw that the man had fallen from the offering table, and was struggling on the ground, but could not get up again.

Chu Qingliu stretched out his palm and pressed his big vertebral point firmly to prevent him from cheating, and then tried his wrist vein. I only feel that the pulse is coming and going, and it is slippery and elusive, if it is not poisoned, it is also affected by wind evil. But there are few lights and no fire in this temple, how to treat it?

Chu Qingliu picked up this person and walked out of the main hall, ignoring the heavy rain, and walked to the wing room in the front yard. When they returned to the room, as soon as they lit the candle, the two of them were shocked, it turned out that this person was Deng Qingxu, who had fled because of the great incident caused by Miaoyiguan in Hengshan. In just a few months, this man has become much darker and thinner, and has added a lot of gray hair.

The sword wound on Deng Qingxu's left leg was about three inches long, but it was only a drag cut, not a bone injury, and it was not fatal. There was a bruised palm print on his chest, and the entire chest was flat and swollen, and it was like touching a hard stone when pressed, which was obviously a poisonous palm from someone else.

Chu Qingliu fed him a Blue Water Shark Gall Pill, fed him some hot water, and slightly lost a little internal force plus medicine to open it, so he waited for Deng Qingxu to wake up with peace of mind. After the master passed away, it is unknown when he will go to the far sea again, and this shark gall pill will be less than one pill, and it is not easy to use it in vain.

Deng Qingxu's breath gradually stabilized, and then he snored loudly, but fortunately, he didn't sleep for long this time, but he just took a nap.

Deng Qingxu opened his eyes, looked at the two people in front of him, and didn't thank him, just closed his eyes and lowered his head, as if he was very faceless. Chu Qingliu poured him water and brought dry food, Deng Qingxu ate it and said, "If you two have anything to say, just ask." ”

Qu Lingyu said: "I'm just curious, since you committed a sin and fled, why didn't you stay away, but ran to this crowded place?"

Deng Qingxu said: "After leaving Hengshan, I realized that I had nowhere to go. For a person like me, at this age again, no family can keep me anymore, even if I go to the dart game, I am afraid that I will have to change my name and surname. It's not difficult to earn a bowl of rice to eat, but if you want to live well, you also need to have a little fame, and it is not so easy to be able to overpower Gu Qingyu. If I shrink my head and hide, no one will come to me for trouble, and if I want to use Hengshan martial arts and the sword technique of the courtyard to do something, they may not be able to ignore it. "This they naturally refer to Miaoyiguan.

Qu Lingyu said, "Didn't you want to go to a foreign land?"

Deng Qingxu said: "Things are expensive to leave their hometowns, people are cheap to leave their hometowns, and I don't go to foreign countries." When I was desperate, I heard that Ruan Yi had set up a special detective department, and it was said that not only did he not dislike people like me, but he also valued him very much, so I went to Bianliang. ”

"I really met Ruan Yi. This man doesn't have much of a fight, but I always feel that I am not on the same path as him, and I feel that he must dislike me in his heart. That being said, I wanted to borrow his power after all, so I joined the Detective Division. ”

"A few days later, Ruan Yi's student Jin Jingxian, when he heard that he had also won a martial arts champion, called me to go and used a set of one-armed sword techniques on me. said that this set of knife techniques was newly compiled by Ruan Yi, and he had not been tempered, and asked me if I could make any progress. This is obviously trying to question my martial arts, and I am so stingy that I hate it. ”

Chu Qingliu said: "This must be just Jin Jingxian's own meaning, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Ruan." ”

Deng Qingxu said: "I joined the Detective Division, I just wanted to rely on my skills and ability to do things, and I never thought of betraying Hengshan Martial Arts and Nursing Knife Technique, they treated me like this, and this Detective Division didn't have to stay any longer." I also heard that no one was severely punished in the Hengshan incident, so I wanted to go back to Hengshan. When I came to the south, I met a group of people in Chuzhou yesterday, and I was also not good at myself, I didn't know how to avoid it, and I did it, and I was injured by two, but I was also injured. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Didn't they chase after them?"

Deng Qingxu said: "How can you not chase it? Chase five or seven miles away, and the rain will get heavier and heavier." I was trying to save my life, so I didn't care about the rain and the rain, and I didn't want to run for my life, but they didn't want to suffer this crime, so they didn't chase it. When I ran here and saw this temple again, my heart was weak, and I couldn't run anymore. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Is the courtyard sword technique passed on to you by Qu Dingxiang?"

Deng Qingxu said: "Yes or no, I really don't know." That year, Jianzhou Haihai guest Chen Deputy Shanchang died, and the Mao Qingyu Prison was not happy to be lively and did not want to go, Gu Qingyu saw that the Mao Prison was not going, so he did not want to go, and this mission fell on my head. On the return trip, the four of us lived in two houses and kept vigil in shifts. Unexpectedly, someone still came into the room in the middle of the night, ordered the sleeping hole of three Taoist friends, and passed on my set of knife techniques. At that time, he only said that it was a rare set of nocturnal knives, and if he wanted to say that it was the courtyard knife technique, I would not have learned him. ”

Qu Lingyu said, "What kind of person is it?"

Deng Qingxu said: "This person seems to be only a little over sixty years old, but his hair and beard are all white, and he is wearing a white dress, and his complexion is also pale. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "If you know that it is the Guardian Knife Technique, you won't learn it, why is this?"

Deng Qingxu said: "Those who can make the whole courtyard knife technique, everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that there is only one Qu Dingxiang, if he is preaching the courtyard knife technique, it must be related to Qu Dingxiang." I won't say what kind of person Qu Dingxiang is, but this person has always been unprofitable and doesn't get up early, and his advantage is not so easy to take advantage of. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "You are a monk, what advantage can you take advantage of him?"

Deng Qingxu smiled bitterly: "Some words, if they were put in the past, if they were to others, I really didn't want to say them, and it didn't matter at this time." You think, just in case, I mean just in case, if I become the master of Miaoyi Guan in the future, whether I borrow the power of this set of courtyard sword techniques or not, Qu Dingxiang will come to the door. It is reasonable to be reasonable, I have to be kind to the Yixue Hall, I can't see him, if it is delayed for a long time, maybe I will do something unfavorable to Miaoyiguan. I, as a person, will fall into his hands. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "You are quite sensible. However, that person didn't say that it was the knife technique of the courtyard, what kind of nocturnal knife was the pretend, in case you became a problem, Qu Dingxiang would still come to the door, as long as he made the past clear, he would not allow you to disown this account, and you would also fall into his hands at that time. Even if you don't be the master, you have this set of knife techniques to strengthen your courage, with your temperament, you will still come out to stir up, so that Miao Yiguan can kill each other, and you still do something for him. ”

Deng Qingxu said: "This layer, I also thought about it recently. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Didn't you think of it at that time?"

Deng Qingxu said: "First, the situation was urgent, and there was no time to make people think about it, and secondly, the old man had another statement, which I didn't believe it." He said that in his early years, he also became a monk in Miaoyiguan, but he was not liked by the master, and he could not learn advanced martial arts, so he went down the mountain. Later, due to fate, he learned martial arts, but he would also pay attention to the things of Miaoyiguan. Knowing what happened to me, I felt sympathy for the same disease, and wanted to help me. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "You never thought that he borrowed your hand to stir up Miao Yiguan or had other plans?"

Deng Qingxu shook his head and said: "He only said that it was a very rare set of nocturnal knives, I was only happy at the time, how could I still be suspicious? Miao Yiguan has never forbidden people to learn martial arts from other sects, and it is not a crime to learn swords from him. After returning to the temple, if I can explain to the old master, there will be nothing to do, and if I have selfishness, I will not be enlightened. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "You escaped from Hengshan, why didn't you go to Qu Dingxiang of the Righteous Blood Hall?"

Deng Qingxu said: "At that time, Qu Dingxiang was courting relatives on the mountain, and later Su Yiyue Ji Qinghan went to Hangzhou again. The two of them are so close, if I send them to the door, even if the person who passed the knife is really sent by Qu Dingxiang, he hates that I can't do anything, and in order to get rid of himself, even if he doesn't kill me, he will send me back to Hengshan, didn't I throw myself into the net?"

Qu Lingyu said: "Deng Daochang, you have seen things thoroughly, and if you really have the talent to observe the master, I am not making fun of you." ”