Volume 1 The Rise of the West Chapter 50 The flesh still needs food for the heart
Outside the city of Dingzhou, in an unnamed woodland.
There is no moon tonight.
Zhao Mingming took advantage of the last moment when the city gate was closed and jumped out.
When she reached the end of the road, she paused slightly, but she still resolutely walked into the forest.
Alone, sugar-fried chestnuts are not around.
Some things are not whether they can or not, but whether they are suitable or not.
After all, it was more appropriate for her to come alone.
For this reason, she even did not hesitate to put the special drug of her red gold cangxue white-eared fox clan in the snacks of sugar-fried chestnuts, so that she fell asleep early.
"I'm coming. β
Zhao Mingming said to the empty darkness.
But apart from the occasional fluttering sound, there was nothing else.
"Isn't it good to make a decision?"
Zhao Mingming continued.
But the response to her was still silent......
She frowned, secretly puzzled, but she felt that she would not be mistaken.
After all, she used her fox clan talent to go out of the city to find someone, but she should still be holding a handle.
"I'm going for revenge, and you're sending you to death. β
A voice suddenly sounded from behind Zhao Mingming.
Who else could it be but a broken lover?
Zhao Mingming saw that he was a little thinner than last time, and it was estimated that he hadn't eaten a few full meals in this forest......
The people take food as their heaven, but this vegetable and rice only fill the stomach and body.
Compared to the vital spiritual soul of people, but it is still empty, is it possible that this heart is hungry but also wants to drink broth?
Feelings are like the essence of the human body, how easy is it to say?
Everything is born of love and hate, and everything is destroyed by love and hate.
Whether it is the rise or fall of the dynasty, or the separation of sons and wives, they can't escape these two words.
Although human ethics is often the basic relationship that everyone abides by, just as husband and wife marry a chicken and a dog and a dog, although they are not related by blood, they are also acquired relatives.
The bones are broken and the tendons are broken, and the blood is thicker than water.
This is a brand that cannot be washed away by time, and death cannot be captured.
Even if you don't become a clamor anymore, you can't really don't want you. On the other hand, even if you gamble and get drunk all day long, you have to follow your ass to pay off your debts and apologize?
The broken lover is like this, maybe he is not avenging his fiancΓ©e, or maybe he is just too timid to face reality.
So I made a small cage for myself and stayed in it day after day.
Inside the cage is the enemy, and there is a fat chicken with wine outside the cage, telling himself that after killing the enemy, he can go out and enjoy it.
But if he did, how could he eat it?
Revenge is his current bread.
When they were killed, they took revenge, but the grain was eaten up and wiped out.
Where should we look for something new?
That's why we have all these words.
Why don't you kill outsiders, you don't come to send death or something......
If you really have the heart to do something, how can you care about it?
These seemingly extremely complicated things come back to the word love and hate in the end.
Just look at the blade of the broken lover.
Whether it's a beast or a human, many of them have died.
Whether it's a beast or a human, enough blood has been shed.
If revenge can be counted in numbers, how good it would be to be like the treasurer's reckoning?
But the reality is that the more people die, the more blood is shed, and the more new hatreds and hatreds are filled.
In the end, I will not get any satisfaction.
"I'm going to die, aren't you also revenge? I want you to stop here. β
Zhao Mingming said.
"So you're here to pretend to be righteous Ling Ran, and you want to lose your life in exchange for the peace of the family?"
The broken lover said in a contemptuous tone.
It's ridiculous to say that things in the world are often like this in the world.
If you ask him how much he can give, then he will definitely say that he is willing to break through even a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, and he will not be afraid even if he is crippled and his head falls.
But if you ask him if he can settle the money for this meal first, he may have to come up with a lot of excuses.
Zhao Mingming is the body of a strange beast, but it is better than openness!
Before civilization, their world was only food and being eaten, life and death, black and white.
After enlightening the mind, it is difficult to understand where all this dust comes from in this world.
People always swear about the long-term future, but they don't dare to take responsibility in the present.
"I'm not as unbearable as you say, and my Red Gold Cangxue White-eared Fox Clan is not something you can shake. β
Zhao Mingming said with rare anger.
"The rope saws the wood and the water drops through the stone. β
The broken lover said word by word.
"Hehe, then there is a sentence in your human principle that the grasshopper shakes the tree. Even if the grasshopper pushes it for thousands of years, can the big tree fall?"
Zhao Mingming said.
"No, but neither the grasshoppers nor the trees will live that long. I just don't put down the knife in my hand until I close my eyes. β
The Broken Lover slowly raised the knife and watched quietly.
"Let's get out of the sword"
Said the broken lover.
He remembered that Zhao Mingming used a sword.
But Zhao Mingming shook her head lightly and pulled out a knife from the hem of her skirt.
Unlike the Lover's Knife, the handle of this knife is gorgeously decorated.
"Where's the knife?"
The broken lover asked.
"Borrowed"
Zhao Mingming said.
"Kill me with a knife?"
The broken lover actually smiled rarely.
"It's fair to you with a knife, and I won't show my true body this time. β
Zhao Mingming said.
"I wanted to kill the fox, but I didn't want to kill people. β
The broken lover shook his head, but the knife in his hand was put down again.
"Now that I've been able to transform into a shape, this person is so different from a fox?"
Zhao Mingming asked.
"It's hard to know people and faces, but you are really human-faced and beast-hearted. β
Said the broken lover.
This sentence made Zhao Mingming's heart just mention a trace of beauty to the world, and all of it was gone.
Although Zhao Mingming is not a human being, as long as there are sentient creatures, they will have a sense of belonging to a place.
Unlike dealing with people, it takes a while for strangers to become familiar.
But this feeling of peace of mind can be created in an instant.
At dusk that day, Zhao Mingming looked at the fireworks outside the window, and this feeling slowly germinated in her heart.
If there is no obstacle from the side, the seedling will gradually grow and become stronger and stronger.
But now, it withered in an instant.
Zhao Mingming drew the knife first.
She looked fixedly at the knife in her lover's hand.
See when he lifts it again.
"Since you have used a knife, then I will let you make three moves. β
Said the broken lover.
Zhao Mingming also smiled, but the human being in front of her was pitying and sympathizing with herself?
A flash of thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, and suddenly raindrops gradually fell.
"Today's weather is good for me. β
Said the broken lover.
He had already practiced the Thunder Sword Technique, and now he was even more powerful when he encountered this thunderstorm.
"So I'll let you make three moves!"
The broken lover emphasized again.
Zhao Mingming was not in a hurry to do it, and stood in place without saying a word.
The rain became heavier and the wind blew harder.
Zhao Mingming's hair was mixed with a little sundries due to the wind.
"In a hurry?"
Zhao Mingming saw an impatient look flashing on her lover's face, so she asked in a flirtatious tone.
"Nope. β
The broken lover denied.
As soon as the words fell, Zhao Mingming had already taken a step forward and attacked with a knife.
The rain wet her blouse, so she simply took it off, and only wore a white tight wrap skirt inside, which was unusually fragrant.
As the broken lover said, although Zhao Mingming is transformed, she is not a human after all. Naturally, I didn't pay attention to some of the habits of avoidance in this world.
Fortunately, the broken lover also has only hatred in his eyes, but he can no longer tolerate any other strangers.
In this situation, if there is a different person, I will immediately throw a knife and stop fighting......
After seeing the half-exposed chest and the two smooth arms, even if Zhao Mingming's knife was allowed to cross his throat, he felt that he had died well.
The broken lover saw Zhao Mingming slashing with a knife, and only one flashed sideways, but he didn't make a knife.
"One move!"
The broken lover shouted.
Zhao Mingming's knife was in the air, but she didn't retract it.
She simply stuck the knife in the dirt, and used it as a support point, embroidered her legs with jade feet, and kicked her lover's head hard.
"Two moves!"
Because the broken lover was wrapped in a quilt, he could only bend down slightly, but this was also a flashing of Zhao Mingming's legs.
"Smoke and Red Golden Claw!"
Zhao Mingming stopped her body, changed her claws with her two palms, and attacked alternately.
Seeing that these two claws were attacking fiercely, the cut contained thousands of changes, and he actually blocked all the directions he could dodge, and in desperation, he had to resist with a horizontal knife.
"Didn't you say three tricks? But you want to bully me, this little woman?"
Zhao Mingming deliberately ridiculed, but unconsciously used a trace of fox charm.
This is her natural supernatural power, whether it is deliberate or not, but it has long been integrated into her blood and bones.
When the envoy comes out, Rao is such a heart as a broken lover will inevitably have a palpitation.
When he came back to his senses, there were three more blood marks on his shoulders......
The broken lover took a step back and said:
"But I didn't keep my word...... Just recalculate three more moves!"
"Hehe, you have the leisure to guard me for ten years, but I have no intention of accompanying you all night!
While Zhao Mingming was talking, she pulled a knife flower and swept it towards her broken lover.
I didn't think about it, but this is a false trick.
Zhao Mingming took advantage of the gap of this knife to mobilize the Dan power in her body, condensed it on her left palm, and aimed at the negligence of the broken lover to focus on the lower plate, and slapped it towards his heavenly court!
"Poof......
This palm is a strong one.
Although Zhao Mingming did not extract ten percent of the strength, the only three or four points of red gold power had already been hit, and it was in the vital part, but it also made a mouthful of blood spurt out of the broken lover, and the brain was like five thunderbolts.
"The third trick...... I'll give you back!"
The broken lover wiped the remaining blood from his chin with the back of his hand and said.
Zhao Mingming was also a little stunned when she saw this scene.
He didn't expect that the broken lover had already seen his false move, and then deliberately fell for his real trick
He did not hesitate to be seriously injured, but in order to repay his three tricks.
For a while, she was indeed a little difficult to continue.
But the lovebreaker didn't care so much, and finally raised the love-breaking knife completely.
The blade of the knife flashed with lightning and began to gradually rise and brew.
But with Fang Cai's palm, although he resisted it with his body, the demonic energy and demonic power containing the power of red gold also entered his body...... Domineering and fierce, but also cold and evil.
The broken lover had to divide another part of his strength to press ...... As a result, the accumulation of Xuan Lei on this knife is also much slower.
Zhao Mingming knows that today's weather is very unfavorable for her!
What's more, the Xuanlei Gong method is already restraining the power of red gold......
If the broken lover gathers thunder power at this moment, it will inevitably trigger the thunder in this sky to run down......
Sure enough......
A white light suddenly broke his lover's slash, and he smiled and raised his knife to meet him.
Just when this thunderbolt was about to come into contact with the love-breaking knife, it suddenly changed from sharp to slow......
Light thunder falls.
The glow is floating and the tiles are shining.
But there was no damage.
It's not as good as the sound of firecrackers set off by children in the Yuan Day, and the fireworks are beautiful.
"You let me make three moves, but I also spared your life! β
Zhao Mingming revealed her body in a blink of an eye, and after a few wild runs, she disappeared in the darkness of the rainy night, leaving only this voice from afar.
The lovebreaker looked blankly at his love-breaking knife and the thunder that had gradually disappeared around him, and said to himself: "It turns out that you have already broken this mysterious thunder...... Why didn't you use it last time......"
At that time, the martial arts passed on by Tanting and Zhang Xuezhi were all abandoned after the betrayal.
For five years, he lived like an orc in the mountains, just to familiarize himself with the forms and laws of the alien beasts when they were not yet civilized.
Five years later, for another full five years, he was immersed in this Xuanlei Sword Technique.
For the sake of this power of Xuan Thunder, there are several powerful restraint powers against the Red Gold Cangxue White-eared Fox Clan.
But he couldn't have imagined that among the very few individuals of the Red Gold Cangxue Silver-eared Fox Clan, there were two innate races in their bodies, Red Gold and Cangxue.
Zhao Mingming is one of them.
Red gold is indestructible and fierce.
Cangxue is weak and boneless, migrating to Duti.
The two are rigid and soft, just like the yin and yang poles in the human dantian.
The thunder just now, but it was precisely by the power of the snow that it was wiped out and finally returned to intangible.
After Zhao Mingming left, the broken lover also took the knife.
The thunder and lightning in the sky seemed to have spirituality, and they all hid behind thick and dense clouds.
The wind blew the new sprouts on the trees again.
Just like a flower blooming and falling, this process will happen sooner or later.
Normally, it takes a whole year.
Although the wind just now is only a blink of an eye, it is essentially the same as a year.
This is the most common thing in heaven and earth, more common than drinking water and peeing, eating and.
The love of the lover for his fiancΓ©e may be said to be ridiculously old
But his life is as short as this world?
Isn't it just like the moment when the new sprout is hung up by the wind compared to the normal year of branching and growing leaves and then falling leaves?
No one except him cares whether a woman is dead or alive, no matter how beautiful and important she was in life, dead is just a pile of rotten meat......
Even if it was his master, the strongest court order in the past, after leaving the altar court, was not incognito and obscure.
In this world, people should go to tea and cool.
Don't say that the prodigal son hero doesn't pay attention to righteousness, but in fact, this righteousness is too high, and it is really not suitable for this world.
Even if they are all reduced to prodigal sons, blowing flutes and singing sad songs for food, isn't it the norm for heroes to sell horses to earn broken silver?
It's just that the prodigal son should be more fond of drinking than eating.
Heroes must want to kill more than to do things.
In the dead of night, when you think about the so-called injustices that you have intervened in during the day, and think about the heart that you stabbed through with a knife and stabbed through when you were drunk, and cut off the head, you really didn't feel shocked?
There are lovers......
Speaking of which, he dreamed most of not his fiancΓ©e, but a bloody fox head with a broken arm biting his own in his mouth.
No one knows about this dream.
If others know, they will inevitably talk more: "Is he really infatuated? Or is it a pity for his arm? After all, the daughter-in-law can be found again, but the arm can't come back......
Although this statement is a bit cold, it is not unreasonable.
How many people are secretly doing it in the name of selflessness?
How many people hold high the banner of morality but do some embarrassing things behind their backs?
When he was in the altar, he enjoyed all the joy and glory during the day, but then he could only lie on the weeds alone and count how many meteors were stepping by tonight, how many people could bear this kind of loss?
Zhang Xuexue also lived like this.
This master and apprentice really deserve to be master and apprentice.
One after the other left the altar, not to mention, they are all in such a living situation.
In this nature, although it is ever-changing and beautiful, it is really unblessed......
In comparison, it must be Zhang Xuezhu, who is a master, is more loyal than an apprentice.
After all, every star that crossed his eyes, he made the same wish: "May nothing happen to my stupid disciple again...... May he never find a chance for revenge...... May he be found by me before he takes revenge. β
Occasionally, Zhang Xuezhu will also recall the past in the altar court.
He's not young anymore.
Old people always like to reminisce.
I always like to point fingers at myself in this life.
Unlike young people, Liu Ruiying likes to look forward to the future.
He doesn't feel that all the time he has passed is worth remembering, so he can only hope to create more beautiful times that can be used to remember in the future.
But the future is unpredictable.
What is lost cannot be changed.
All I look forward to are illusions and reveries
The memories are all about lessons and indebtedness.
What is wrong is wrong, and no matter how far it is, it cannot be right.
If it doesn't happen, you have to wait quietly.
No matter how heavy the thoughts are, tomorrow will not come early.
Perhaps the climate of the Dingxi Kingdom is about the same in this season.
Whether it is the Dingzhou Mansion where the lover and Zhao Mingming are located, or the Dingxi Wangcheng where Zhang Xuexue is located, or the Jingping Town where Liu Ruiying is fainting in the 'potential' ancestral hall, it is raining without exception.
Liu Ruiying was still in that stone house.
He is still in the same position as when he was hit by the sword.
It's just that behind him is the wall, which is different from when he was in the middle of the sword.
The fanged ghost face had long since disappeared, and the stone room was as surprised as he walked in.
It's just that the cushion that turned into ashes is really gone.
In addition, the oil lamp on the wall in the depths, who sometime and someone added some oil to him, is now also burning.
Although Liu Ruiying was behind the wall, his back was still a slight distance from the wall......
His eyes were empty, emptier than his empty pockets.
Those who don't know will only think that he is stunned.
Only he knows how much pain he is in right now.
He complained a little in his heart about the rough man blacksmith.
Because he must know more, but he is unwilling to tell Liu Ruiying more.
He's really the last odd guy, and most of the odd guys have quirks.
Liu Ruiying doesn't know if this "not telling everything" is a quirk, but for now, she can only classify it like this.
"It's already the middle of the night, why haven't the two of them come back yet?"
The rough blacksmith had done all the work, and was sitting with Ou Xiao'e under the little shed that was left to hide from the rain, drinking by the faint light of the hearth.
"I don't know ......"
The rough blacksmith replied.
"Is that ancestral hall interesting?"
Ou Xiao'e asked.
"I don't think it's interesting. β
The return of the rough blacksmith was always very simple, so that Ou Xiao'e didn't know if it was tired of talking to herself, or if she really just wanted to say so.
The three halves of wine are also for strange people, and there are too many quirks......
No matter what he does, Ou Xiao'e will not be surprised.
It's just that Liu Ruiying hasn't heard from her for such a long time, and she is really a little worried...... But fortunately, after the battle between him and the Icicle Man, it has been very peaceful, and there are not even any townspeople coming and going.
"You're not from the Ou family, are you? β
The rough blacksmith spoke suddenly.
It was obviously a question, but it was said in a very positive tone.
"I'm the Ou family" Kenshin " "
Ou Xiao'e said.
The rough blacksmith smiled, looked straight back at her, and said:
But this sentence is true. β
"What do you mean?!"
Ou Xiao'e didn't notice it herself, and there was dodging and cowardice in her words.
"You're not from the Ou family. β
The rough blacksmith said again.
"I have a foreign surname, and I made a blood oath when I was very young and changed my surname to Ou. β
Ou Xiao'e said.
This matter is well known to the Ou family, and among the six "Sword Heart" of the Ou family's generation, in addition to her, there is also a member of the Ou family with a blood oath with a congenital surname.
"But you're different, aren't you. β
The rough blacksmith said unhurriedly.
He drank the last bit of wine from the porcelain bowl and licked the bottom of the bowl with his tongue.
"Isn't there still wine in the pot?"
Ou Xiao'e said.
The rough blacksmith knew that she had deliberately changed the subject, but he didn't break it at the moment, but just said:
"I told myself before I poured the drink that it was just a drink. Since it is a drink, it should be measured regularly, and it should not be consumed greedily. If I pour another bowl and start with it, it will conflict with my previous plan?"
The rough blacksmith said.
Ou Xiao'e laughed out loud and said:
"Senior, are you really so serious? I see that you are very ...... when you calculate the loss of that roof. You're drinking and you haven't made a bet with anyone, so why don't you just follow your wishes?"
"No one hears it, but I say it to my own heart. If every decision is as easy to change as this drinking and booze, then what is the meaning of the word "plan"? Besides, what does it matter to outsiders, and if you have to abide by the bets made by others, can you change your own plans at will? How can there be such a reason in the world......
The rough blacksmith shook his head and looked at Ou Xiao'e with some incredulity.
What a selfish person can say this?
Ou Xiao'e didn't know whether this was truth or sophistry for a while, and she didn't know what to say, so she just sat like this and pursed her lips.
She saw the look of this rough man blacksmith in the daytime who felt sorry for the rotten belongings in his shop, it was definitely not a fraud, he would definitely let Liu Ruiying compensate for it.
However, at this moment, because she whispered in her heart that she would only drink a bowl of wine and could never change it, Ou Xiao'e couldn't help but be a little confused.
But isn't it true that such a person will never have trouble with others in this life?
He seems to be resolute and strong, but he is so concerned about such a thing, and he is angry, it can only be said that he is also a person who has a lot of past in his heart.
There were so many of these pasts that he lost all interest in what happened later.
It's like striking iron, and it's such a single-minded infatuation to be obsessed.
It can be seen that he doesn't want to reveal anything about his true story, so he has to put some effort into disguise for this, but his methods are not very clever.
"Didn't you say you couldn't change it?"
At this time, Ou Xiao'e saw the rough blacksmith picking up the wine jug and pouring himself wine.
"I haven't changed it, it's still a drink tonight. It's just that I've gone from one bowl to two bowls. β
The rough blacksmith said.
This bowl was so full that a raised film appeared above the mouth of the bowl.
The rough blacksmith held his hand without moving, then leaned his head over and sucked hard, and then sighed with a pleasant expression.
"I'm going to drink it too!"
Although Ou Xiao'e didn't have such a habit of drinking, seeing him like this also aroused the wine worm in her stomach.
Helplessly, she also poured herself such a full bowl as she concocted, and then took a sip in the same way, and it was really much more interesting than the usual toast!