When a person is most lonely, it is not sad and sad and no one to talk to.

It's a happy and proud time, and only by looking in the mirror can you see smiling faces and get feedback.

But Xiao Jinkan's apprentice is even more lonely than this.

Because he doesn't even have a mirror.

Speaking of which, Xiao Jinkan didn't even know what the name of his apprentice was.

But he doesn't do anything casually.

Since it is said that he will be accepted as an apprentice, there must be some meaning in it.

"Shall I give you a name?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

He sat the boy across from him.

And poured him a glass of wine as well.

Living alone in the mountains and forests doesn't need to have a name.

A name is just a codename, a salutation.

It's just that it makes it easier for others to call.

But the beasts and trees in the mountains and forests do not speak.

Naturally, there was nothing to call the boy's name.

So he didn't have a name.

The boy nodded.

His eyes were full of hope.

Although he didn't know what the name was for, or what benefits it would bring him.

But since everyone else had it, he wanted a name as well.

"Is it okay to call you Hua Nong?"

Xiao Jinkan said.

The boy nodded and said:

"From now on, I will be called Hua Nong. ”

"Hua Nong, do you know why I want to take you as an apprentice?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

Hua Nong blinked and looked at Xiao Jinkan.

He did not speak, and he did not move.

"Actually, I don't know. But when I met you, there was only one thought in my heart. I won't let you die no matter what, and I'm going to take you as a disciple. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"But why didn't the master take me as an apprentice at that time, but had to wait five years later?"

Hua Nong asked.

"Because there was only one thought at the time. Besides, the thought is not strong. Five years is just a casual thing I said. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"Why did the master casually say five years, instead of ten or twenty years?"

Hua Nong asked.

There is a characteristic stubbornness in him.

As long as you encounter a problem that you can't figure out, you must ask it clearly.

It's just that such stubbornness makes others seem to be a little unkind.

Whether it is walking the rivers and lakes or entering the temple, I am afraid that it is difficult for people to get close.

But Xiao Jinkan knows.

Although the temperament of Hua Nong's body is as cold as frost.

But his heart was on fire.

His heart was brighter than the sun on a midsummer afternoon, warmer than the campfire in front of the door on a snowy night.

He just didn't know how to express it.

"Because if a thought stays on for five years and doesn't stop, it proves that I really want to do it, not on a whim. ”

Xiao Jinkan explained.

With that, he picked up his wine glass, gestured slightly to the young man, then craned his neck and drank it all.

"Won't you drink?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

He saw that Hua Nong did not pick up the wine glass, but stared at the wine soup in the cup in a daze.

The glass is small, and the soup is cloudy.

But Hua Nong can still vaguely see his face from it.

Although the nose and mouth are not real, the eyes are exceptionally bright.

"I don't drink. ”

Hua Nong withdrew his gaze from the wine glass, raised his head and looked at Xiao Jinkan and said.

"But you know to buy me wine. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"Because at that time I smelled this kind of question on the master's body. I didn't know what it was, but then I knew it was alcohol. ”

Hua Nong said.

"I see...... In fact, you also have a smell on your body. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"What does it smell like?"

Hua Nong hurriedly raised his sleeve and leaned in front of his nose to sniff.

"The smell of blood. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

Hua Nong smiled.

As soon as he heard the words blood, countless images instantly appeared in his mind.

It's all the scene when he hunts in the mountains and forests.

When the prey falls in front of him, it will always be bloody.

However, this blood will soon seep into the earth.

Become the nourishment of those flowers and trees.

For others, the smell of blood always means killing and fear.

But for Huanong, it is an irreplaceable sense of security.

Bloody ground represents hunting success.

If the hunt is successful, you will be able to eat a few full meals.

What could be happier for him wandering in the mountains and forests than to fall asleep after he had eaten his fill?

"You killed someone, though. ”

Xiao Jinkan said sharply.

"I didn't want to kill him. ”

Hua Nong said.

The meaning of the words is a bit of a pity.

But there was no sigh in his tone.

Maybe in his consciousness, killing someone is no different from slaughtering a rabbit.

"So it's a kind of helplessness?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

Hua Nong groaned for a long time and nodded.

He probably didn't understand the meaning of the word helpless.

But he felt that what the master said was right after all.

"Don't kill people anymore. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"As long as no one kills me, I won't kill anyone. ”

Hua Nong said.

His mind was alert again.

Xiao Jinkan was stunned when he heard this.

He suddenly began to doubt himself.

I wonder why I took this young man as an apprentice in the first place, and why the idea of accepting an apprentice has not faded even after five years.

Xiao Jinkan is so suspicious, not because Hua Nong is not good and is not worthy of being his apprentice.

Instead, he felt that he really had nothing left to teach him.

Hua Nong's sword is fast.

I don't know how powerful it is, but it's enough to protect myself.

Hua Nong's mind is very transparent.

Although I don't understand the world.

But who can say that this world is different from the mountains and forests?

If the five kings are compared to lions and tigers, then aren't the rest of the people like the sika deer and the little white rabbit?

In general, there is no difference.

Suddenly, Xiao Jinkan's eyes lit up.

He suddenly knew what he had to teach him.

"Drink this glass of wine first. That's your first lesson. ”

Xiao Jinkan pointed to the wine glass in front of Hua Nong and said. He was going to teach Hua Nong to drink.

Huanon is a fast learner.

No matter how many drinks Xiao Jinkan asks him to drink, he will do it.

In a short time, more than half of a large jar of wine was drunk.

"Feeling okay?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

"Master, I can't tell you what it's like. ”

Hua Nong said.

"I can't say it, can I still show it?"

Xiao Jinkan said with a smile.

Hua Nong nodded.

He jerked out the broken sword at his waist.

He lifted the wine glass on the table, and then grabbed all the remaining wine soup at the bottom of the glass with his sword.

When the glass fell back to the table, he tilted his sword, and the drops of wine on it rolled off like pearls, and all of them were back in the glass.

"Good sword!"

Xiao Jinkan praised.

He could feel that although the young man had not systematically cultivated any martial arts.

But just like the three halves of wine, somehow, I realized a unique path.

"No, master. Not good at all. ”

Hua Nong said.

He pointed to a spot on the table.

Although Xiao Jinkan is a blind man.

But he saw with his heart that where Hua Nong's finger was, there was a star of wine soup smaller than sesame seeds.

Bulging dripping on the table.

But he didn't catch it with his sword.

"So your sword is slow. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"It's not that my sword is slow, it's that my eyes, my heart, and my hands are slow. The sword just showed it. ”

Hua Nong said.

He sat down again.

"Do you think it's better to be slow or fast?"

Xiao Jinkan asked.

"If it's still in the mountains and forests. Naturally, it's fast. If it's slow, it's gone. So I always have to be faster, faster. ”

Hua Nong said.

"So you've never experienced such a 'slow' feeling. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"Yes, master, so I was suddenly a little scared. ”

Hua Nong said.

He clenched the sword in his hand.

At this moment, only this broken sword can give him a full sense of security.

"This is not a forest, and no one will kill you. It's better to put your sword aside and finish this first lesson. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

Hua Nong looked at his sword, and then at Xiao Jinkan's face.

"The uncle in front said that you are blind, master, are you really blind?"

Hua Nong asked.

"A blind man who is like a fake. I never have a light in my house. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

He knew that because of this before, it was for Hua Nong to wronged Liu Ruiying.

"Blind people are slow to do things. ”

Hua Nong asked.

He doesn't seem to be very good at using tones.

Whether it's a statement, a description, or a question.

The words came out of his mouth, and they were always the same tone.

"Yes. Because the blind can't see, they will be unusually careful when they walk and do things. Be careful, and the speed will be slow. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"But I see that master, you are not slow to walk and do things. You'll always be able to reach the exact location of the jar at the touch of your hand. ”

Hua Nong said.

"The blind are also divided into high and low. I'm a bit more advanced and blind, so naturally I'm not too slow. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

"So the master taught me to drink, but in fact, it was to make me slower?"

Hua Nong said.

Xiao Jinkan smiled slightly.

I was more determined in my heart what I had thought before.

That is, he really has nothing to give him.

The first and perhaps the last lesson.

I thought that if he didn't understand enough, there might be a second lesson, a third lesson,

But now it seems that one lesson is enough.

Hua Nong saw Xiao Jinkan's expression and knew that he was right.

He gasped heavily through his nose.

Then he put the sword in his hand down on the table beside him.

His sword had just landed on the table, and his hand had not yet fully let go of it.

Xiao Jinkan took it away with lightning speed.

A backhand.

The blade is unsheathed.

The tip of the sword pressed against Hua Nong's throat.

He had a mouthful of saliva in his mouth that he wanted to swallow.

But now he only dares to take it in his mouth.

Because if you swallow it.

It is bound to drive the Adam's apple.

However, the tip of Xiao Jinkan's sword did not give him any space to interact.

Just like that, it was pressed against the softest part of his throat.

But it was only a moment of effort, and Xiao Jinkan put away the sword.

Put it back on the table.

Hua Nong didn't seem to understand what was going on.

Still holding his neck, his face nervous.

I didn't even dare to blink my eyes.

Xiao Jinkan felt very funny when he saw him like this.

slapped him on the head, causing Hua Nong to open his mouth and gasp for a few breaths, which can be regarded as relief.

The first thing Hua Nong did when he came to his senses was to grab his sword.

In the previous way that Xiao Jinkan treated himself, he reused it on Xiao Jinkan.

The tip of the sword was against Xiao Jinkan's throat.

But it was deeper than when Xiao Jinkan was to himself before.

But Xiao Jinkan did not panic at all.

He poured himself a glass of wine.

With the tip of the sword against his throat, he swallowed.

The tip of the sword rises and falls with the movement of the throat.

Although it looks extremely thrilling, there is no blood after all.

After Xiao Jinkan finished drinking, he put the wine glass on Hua Nong's sword.

Hua Nong frowned, puzzled.

After a long stalemate, he finally put away his sword.

He took off the wine glass on the sword body, put it back in front of Xiao Jinkan, and filled him with another glass of wine.

"This is the second half of the first lesson. ”

Xiao Jinkan said.

Hua Nong didn't know what to say, and he didn't understand when the first half of the class ended, and what he learned in the first half of the class.

It's just a blur.

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Liu Ruiying was still sitting in Di Weitai's room.

Both remained silent without exception.

Just drank the wine in front of me one by one.

Every time Liu Ruiying finished drinking, Di Weitai took the initiative to add a little more to it.

It's just that this wine is poured more than one time at a time.

After three or four times, it's a full teacup.

Divitai still didn't speak.

Liu Ruiying picked up the glass of wine and drank it all.

Prepare to say goodbye.

Sitting down any more is just wasting your time.

Presumably it doesn't make much sense.

"Liu Xingqi. In the capital city of Dingzhou, the person who intercepted and killed you to snatch the "Seven Absolute Flame Sword" was indeed the person from Bogulou. ”

Di Weitai said suddenly.

He saw through Liu Ruiying's thoughts.

"Lord Di Lou knows about this?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

Divitai nodded.

"I always knew that. ”

Divi said.

This sentence is meaningful.

Know, it doesn't have to be what he did.

Some people know a lot of things, but they don't do everything by themselves.

Either it's a witness or an hearsay.

Liu Ruiying is thinking about the true meaning of the word "know" in Di Weitai.

"Of course Lord Di Lou knows. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

He deliberately dragged out the tail note very long.

It's as if you can show that you're sure of it.

Divitai picked up the jar and shook it.

"There's a little bit left, shall we finish dividing it?"

He said.

Liu Ruiying did not refuse.

There was no reason for him to refuse.

He took the initiative to take the wine jar, and each of them poured the remaining wine in the jar into the glass.

"And I know who. ”

Di Weitai took a sip and continued.

"Lord Di Lou wants to tell me?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

He thought it was incredible.

Even if it wasn't done by Divitai.

But he also had no reason to tell himself.

The old hen also knows to protect her chicks.

How could Di Weitai not love the people in his Bogu Building.

"I also know it for a short time. And after thinking about it, I still think it's best to tell you. ”

Divi said.

"Listen to me. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

"Liu Xingqi can know, what is the most important thing about the way of Wendao?"

Di Weitai's words changed sharply, and he actually said off-topic again.

"I really don't know. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

In fact, he had an answer in mind.

That's the literary style.

If there is no literary style along the way, it is like stir-frying without oil and salt.

That kind of article will only taste like chewing wax when it reads.

"It's sincere. ”

Divi said.

Hearing the word sincerity, Liu Ruiying had a feeling of enlightenment.

But it's still like a flower in a mirror, the moon in the water, and the understanding is not clear enough.

"People can't stand without faith, and if they don't have sincerity, they will be wasted. If you don't have a sincere heart, the article you write will be a show-off at best. The world says that the literati are romantic, the literati are hypocritical, and the literati are unkind. But that's just personal nature. What sentence or paragraph of poetry and writing really falls between pen and paper, is it not sincere and sincere?

Divitai explained.

"Therefore, Lord Di Lou is the most sincere person among the scholars. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

"The most afraid to be ...... But it's not that low. ”

Divi said.

"If there is no sincerity, what will happen to Wendao all the way?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

"If you don't have sincerity, there will naturally be something that Liu Xingqi encountered. ”

Divi said.

Liu Ruiying knew that he was talking about his repeated interceptions.

"What Lord Di Lou means is that without sincerity, all that remains is ruthlessness. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

"Not really. Or that ruthlessness is not enough. Where does ruthlessness come from? But to find its source. ”

Divi said.

"Ruthlessness starts with jealousy. Only those who are jealous will be ruthless. ”

Liu Ruiying said.

This is not his own perception.

It's a truth that I read from books when I was a child.

Anyone who is literate will know it.

"The person who did this is the person who is jealous in Liu Xingqi's mouth. Jealousy burns out sincerity, and all that remains is ruthlessness. It's not strange for a ruthless person to do anything ruthless. ”

Divi said.

Liu Ruiying sneered in her heart.

Although Di Wei Tai Ma mouth benevolence and morality flaunt that he is a sincere person.

But he didn't believe that there was no ruthlessness in Divitai's heart.

If he didn't have a ruthless heart, what did he rely on to overthrow the Nine Clans?

Liu Ruiying didn't believe that a cowardly person would have such courage.

Ruthlessness is also relative.

Some people are cruel to others.

Some people are cruel to themselves.

Liu Ruiying didn't know who Di Weitai's ruthlessness was facing at the moment.

But at the beginning, he must have been cruel to himself first, and then to others.

If you are not ruthless to yourself, how can you practice such forbearance and determination?

Although he did not make iron casting knives in the future, he moved the iron furnace of the year to his heart.

A hammer kept pounding in the body.

Exercise your spirit and will like a piece of steel.

At the same time, I also let my heart transform little by little.

"Has Lord Di Lou done anything cruel?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

This question can be described as a one-handed one-point.

He thought he could poke at Di Weitai's pain point.

Unexpectedly, Di Weitai slowly unbuttoned his shirt.

"That's what I've done and what it has done to me. ”

Liu Ruiying saw that Di Weitai had a sword wound on his right arm.

The blood crust covers the surface of the wound and the depth is not visible.

But Liu Ruiying is also a person who uses a sword.

Judging by his feelings.

This sword wound is neither light nor shallow.

"In Bogu Building, who can hurt Lord Di Lou like this?!"

Liu Ruiying said in surprise.

Not only in the Bogu Building.

Presumably, in the whole world, the people who can make Di Weitai bleed are only a few palms.

"The only time I was ruthless, the only time I did a ruthless thing, was to want to leave one person behind. But I failed, and I still couldn't stay. I guess it's because my heart isn't hard enough. ”

Divi said.

"Who is this person?"

Liu Ruiying asked.

"If you can stay, it will be solved. ”

Divi said.

His hand was on the mouth of the jar.

Liu Ruiying took a deep breath.

He already knew the answer.