Jiang Shouhua, who was recuperating in the cellar all day, did not lack sleep.

She rolled over and opened her eyes.

In the cellar where she couldn't see her fingers, she could see the outlines of her surroundings clearly, and her mind couldn't help but think about Fang Zimo's words and deeds after saving herself, and after a period of sadness, she thought of Ye Yunsheng who was in shape.

She simply sat up, and found the wooden box resting on the side of the box.

A faint, black glow.

She had never seen such a sight before, and secretly wondered how the wooden box containing the sword would emit light, so she went to open it and check it.

The sword is inside the scabbard, and all you see is the pitch-black hilt, the pitch-black scabbard.

It's shiny black.

She picked up the sword, and suddenly felt that the weight was not light, and the sword body was slightly longer than the ordinary sword style.

"Did your master pass this sword to you?"

"No, this sword was given to me by a good friend. ”

"But there are rumors in the rivers and lakes...... It is said that it is the inheritance of the Guanyun Dao with you. ”

"My friend's father, who was besieged and seriously wounded in order to get this sword, died while taking it home. Therefore, I don't want to tell the origin of it in the rivers and lakes, so let me talk to the people in the rivers and lakes like this. ”

"Its name is Elven Sword?"

"Oh, it was the people in the rivers and lakes who didn't know its name, because the scabbard was made by Master Zhang Yajiu, so he borrowed the 'elf secretly taught Zhang Yajiu' in the poem to be named. It was rumored that I walked the rivers and lakes in the early years, and later everyone called me 'useless in the world', so I won't delve into the true origin of this sword. ”

"And what is it called?"

"I'm sorry, but I promised my friend that he wouldn't say his name. However, when I withdrew from the rivers and lakes, my friend was angry and gave it a willful name - 'Naluo', Nai's Nai, Nai's Lonely. ”

Jiang Shouhua gently stroked the texture on the scabbard, and when she scratched the hilt, she felt two words.

She touched it very carefully for a moment, knowing that such words must have been engraved by a woman, and even the melancholy meaning was between the sketches.

Naraku.

She couldn't help but think of the poem in her heart: Helplessly, the flowers fell.

Then comes the next sentence: Déjà vu Yan returns.

The thought turned to this, and a red glow appeared on her jade-like face, which instantly illuminated the entire cellar.

"Is that friend of yours also from the rivers and lakes?"

............

In the years when Ye Yunsheng wandered the rivers and lakes, he met many women in the rivers and lakes.

Among them, there is only one person who has the most flavor of rivers and lakes.

She was born in the rivers and lakes.

On the day when the enemy came to the door, the mother repelled the enemy, and before she even had time to enter the house, she was born next to the corpse of a person. Nursed her for three months until she died of her injuries.

She followed her father to the north and south when she was a child, and finally at the age of ten, she met Fang Zimo's parents, became friends, and settled in Fangfu. When she was fourteen years old, her father and Fang Zimo's parents went to compete for "Naluo", and they were hit by a sword in the vital place besieged by many people in the rivers and lakes, and returned home to swallow their last breath in front of her eyes.

"Qingzi, those who run the rivers and lakes, life and death are fateful, don't force it. ”

Fang Zimo's parents, who regarded her as their own, also died one by one in order to avenge her father.

She is accustomed to life and death in the rivers and lakes, she lives in the rivers and lakes, and the life of selling noodles with Ye Yunsheng is two different paths, but she still conceives a child with Ye Yunsheng in the romantic night.

She betrayed Fang Zimo, but she did not betray the rivers and lakes.

The women in the rivers and lakes dare to love and hate, and are at ease.

She doesn't care about secular etiquette, she only adheres to the rules in the rivers and lakes.

From the dignitaries to the peddlers' pawns, most of them are husbands and wives who are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes.

But the real people in the rivers and lakes will never fly separately.

To live, to live together, to die, to die together.

Friends and brothers are still like this, let alone husband and wife?

Before dawn, Zhang Qingzi had entered Chang'an and found out that Zimo was in the county prison in the west of the city. But she went east, came to Fukang Street, entered the alley, jumped on a roof, and in the light rain, looked at the men in the courtyard who practiced swords empty-handed.

There were tears in his eyes, but a smile of satisfaction and relief appeared at the corner of his mouth.

......

Even if you lose the appearance of the rivers and lakes, you lack the glory of Chang'an.

I'm still the girl who loves you.

......

When he put away the sword stake, let go of the sword trick in his hand, and looked up, the two looked at each other, and in their eyes were each other's imperfect figures.

He or she is thin and tired......

But smiles appeared in each other's eyes.

The smile that has been lost these days has reappeared.

The rivers and lakes that we have walked together, those joys and pains, those joys and sorrows, have reached the current situation, just seeing them, you can laugh.

He wanted to go up to her side.

But just now, as if he heard her refusal in his heart, she didn't speak, but he knew it clearly, the smile on his face had not faded, and his eyes had moistened.

In the endless darkness of the sky, she was dressed in white on the roof, as if she was going to ride the wind away in the next moment.

The light rain gradually stopped, and the dark clouds that did not want to leave gave way slightly, and the waning moon on the horizon showed a halo.

I'll go with you.

Don't be stupid, you still have Ah Tan, Ah Yu, you went, what should they do?

Tonight, I just want to walk with you.

But I just want to walk with Zimo...... Do you know, the way you practice swordsmanship, the same as before, I have no regrets about being able to watch it again in this life!

If you're not in Chang'an, I don't know how to live, and I can't bear this pain.

I believe you can avenge me and Zimo and kill all those beasts!

What if I can't?

You must be able to, because you are Ye Yunsheng, and you are the person I Zhang Qingzi likes and admires the most.

They looked at each other silently, and the night was quiet, silent than sound.

Ye Yunsheng has countless things to say, he wants to persuade her, and he wants to keep her.

But he knew that he didn't need to say these words, because she was Zhang Qingzi, and the one who said: "I practiced the sword, not to let go of it and live an ordinary life." I don't want to die of old age, I don't want to lie pitifully on the sickbed panting, I want to die under the sword of my opponent, my face will be shaved, my arm will be cut off, my stomach will be cut, I will be willing!"

Zhang Qingzi believes in him, even if he is "useless in the world", even if he is down, he is willing to live his own small life ordinarily, and endure all the depression after withdrawing from the rivers and lakes. She just believes - this is the strongest belief in her heart in all these years.

She smiled again, and smiled like a flower.

He knows that in this world, the most beautiful and touching smile will never be there again in the future. The pain in my heart has reached the deepest part, fear, fear, fear of losing this beautiful smile in front of me, this figure whiter than snow.

But he still smiled, and in her smile, his smile was lonely and humble.

Zhang Qingzi, as always, has never changed, overlapping with the people in countless pictures in her memory, and she can't find a single flaw. She was born in the rivers and lakes and was fearless......

You always said that I used to be chic and comfortable, but you know what, I like you because I think you are more chic and comfortable than me.

......

is still the style of the rivers and lakes, with the moonlight of Chang'an.

vaguely the original intention of love at first sight.

......

The green mountains do not change, the green water flows for a long time, and there is no chance to meet again.

If you are my inevitable existence, I would like to never leave again...... But I still have to go, because my fate has long been predestined.

Zhang Qingzi and Ye Yunsheng looked at each other for a long time, and the words of farewell were never spoken, but they already understood in their hearts.

It's like two fish suddenly seeing each other in a river and parting suddenly.

Life is helpless, and the rivers and lakes are even more helpless.

She was gone, taking with her the only moonlight in the night sky.

The heavens returned to darkness, darkness as far as the eye could see, darkness as far as the eye could see.

Ye Yunsheng stood alone in the courtyard, for more than a year in his life, there would never be a woman in white again, patting tiles on the eaves at night, walking hand in hand across the stone streets of Chang'an.

Until dawn, after a long period of darkness, the first rays of sunlight sprinkled on Ye Yunsheng's body, illuminating him, his black hair was mostly gray, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was haggard, and his body was emaciated.

The words of the Nanhua Sutra that he read when he was learning swords under the seat of the Guanyun Dao Governor of the Shangqing School came to mind.

It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

Fish forget each other in the rivers and lakes, and people forget each other in Taoism.

I still remember the old man who gave him a useless sword book, and asked the other party at that time why it was called useless sword technique.

The old man replied that Lu Xianren felt that the flying sword technique he had created was useless, so he changed it to useless.

Ye Yunsheng sighed and said to himself: "I can't imagine that after so many years, I only figured it out today, useless and useless, these nine hundred and ninety-seven useless swordsmanship, after practicing for more than ten years, I am pursuing how to break the enemy's sword moves, blindly obsessing with sword moves, and in the end, I am breaking my own sword moves, but I ignore the word useless." 'Fish are forgotten in the rivers and lakes, and people are forgotten in Taoism. It turned out that the answer was already in front of me when I first started learning swords. ”

Let go of obsession, once enlightened, the heavens and the earth are already different, and everywhere you see, there is light.

He inhaled slowly, and his breath was extremely long and long, as if there was no end...... The fatigue of many days was swept away, the essence was restrained, and the force poured into the whole body, and the "Bright Light Divine Guard" was running in the body, and before I knew it, I had gone up a step and reached an unbelievable situation.

Someone was faintly shouting in the distance, "The water is gone, the county government is out of the water!"

Ye Yunsheng raised his eyes and looked, and thick smoke billowed into the sky above Chang'an City. Just by seeing this, you can see that the fire is not small, and the direction is the west of the city...... In the county jail behind the county office, Zimo's body was placed.

He glanced at the shadow of the old locust tree in the courtyard, scooped a ladle of water from the water tank, wiped his face, and went into the side room to light the firewood under the earthen stove. After a while, the hot water filled his face, and his calm expression was blurred all of a sudden, as if he was crying.

After eating noodles, he went into the house to wake up Ah Yu, and then probed his wife's pulse, calculated the time, and drove Ah Yu to clean her face and rinse her mouth, accompanied her, and watched her finish eating the noodles and tidy up the bowl, before entering the house again to give his wife a breath.

The fatigue of the past few days seems to have been swept away, and the internal strength is even more majestic and profound, and there is no longer the difficulty after the previous exhaustion. He hugged his wife and muttered to himself, his words were light and subtle, and Ah Yu, who was playing with a wooden sword in the courtyard, didn't notice it at all.

Covering his wife with a quilt, he explained a few words to Ah Yu, and then went out of the courtyard and came all the way to the west of the city.

The endless flow of people around us, the gossip of each sentence, are like in an unreal dream, I can't remember deeply, as if we are in different worlds.

"It's burning so badly, I heard that a thief broke into the county jail. ”

"But the Jianghu people went to rob the prison?"

"What powerful characters can be locked up there, who doesn't know that the county jail in the west of the city is very shabby...... If you really have the ability, you can escape by yourself. ”

"How did it burn for no apparent reason?"

A tea shop across the street from the county government was also full of people and there was a lot of discussion.

Ye Yunsheng walked in, asked for a bowl of coarse tea, and watched the servants drive away idlers on the street, as well as those who came in and out, and those who moved objects, were disgraced, and the fire had been extinguished.

After half an hour, I saw Ning Zuojian stopping outside the tea shop to look at him.

walked out of the tea shop and followed Ning Zuojian to a secluded corner of the street. The old man clasped his fists at him and saluted, and after returning the salute, he asked, "Why did the senior come in person?"

"Xiao Si left Chang'an for something important, and the eldest lady called me if she couldn't rest assured, I didn't think you were really here. ”

"Always come and take a look. ”

Ning Zuojian was in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and there was no embarrassment, and he said directly: "Before dawn, Zhang Nuxia arrived at the county prison, Xie Ding, Lin Lao Ghost, and Wild Fox waited and fought. Zhang Nuxia poured fierce fire oil, burned three people, and when she rushed in, she was already burning...... By the time the brothers arrived, the fire in the county jail had spread to the county government in front. Because of the order, the little brother found out the news, pretended to be a soldier of the submarine fire team, and went in to see it clearly - the remains of Zhang Nuxia and Fang Daxia were hugged together, and Zhang Nuxia's sword also fell on the side. Later, Xie Ding asked people to collect the remains of the two, and I heard that they were transported to the western suburbs for burial. ”

Ye Yunsheng listened to his description quietly and didn't say a word.

Ning Zuojian saw that he was not sad or sad, but he became sad, and said with a sigh: "Then Xie Ding was shocked, and the little brother heard him say on the side, 'Fang Zimo doesn't care about it first, but Zhang Qingzi is so strong that life and death are nothing, I have to bury the two of them, otherwise what kind of people are I in the rivers and lakes?"

Ye Yunsheng smiled and said softly: "The Chang'an Sword King is pampered, but he knows that he is afraid. ”

Ning Zuojian frowned calmly, stretched out his hand and pressed Ye Yunsheng's shoulder, and asked, "Mr. Ye, do you need an old helper?"

Ye Yunsheng shook his head without hesitation and said, "Since I am still alive, there are some things that only I can do. ”

He clenched his fist at Ning Zuojian with gratitude and turned away. Ning Zuojian watched him go away, and his steps were indescribably free, and he was not as depressed and heavy as when they met a few days ago.

Before passing by the county yamen, he was waved away by two messengers and did not stop...... Many years ago on this street, he walked with Zimo and Haruko, at that time, Haruko walked briskly in front, Zimo accompanied him, as if he was telling an interesting story about the rivers and lakes, he hadn't laughed yet, Haruko, who was eavesdropping on them in front, had already laughed, and then Zimo smiled proudly, only he was still thinking about other things and didn't understand.

......

Alone on the river tower, the moonlight is like water and the sky.

Where are the people who come to look at the moon? The scenery is vaguely like last year.

......

The streets of Chang'an seem to be colder than in the past, but there are actually not many people on the streets today.

Maybe it's because of the fire, even if the fire has been extinguished, there is still an endless stream of people watching the excitement.

Knowing that the Ning family could not be involved in this matter, especially since Zimo and Qingzi did not overturn the case, Wei Xian was already in a winning situation on the surface, if Ye Yunsheng asked Ning Zuojian to help him just now, it would undoubtedly drag the Ning family into a quagmire.

In today's Chang'an, Ye Yunsheng is isolated and helpless, and he is still with his family...... Not surprisingly, next, Tinghai will do everything he can to target him.

If he is not worried, he is not afraid.

The pressure of the mountain and the sea fell heavily on his heart, but he could only walk home step by step, and then what should he do...... He really couldn't find the answer in his heart.

Unconsciously, Ye Yunsheng walked back to the alley and entered the front of the house, but he couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw the courtyard door wide open!

Could it be that Tinghai ignored the rules of the rivers and lakes and attacked his family?

He rushed into the courtyard quickly, and saw Ah Yu sitting on the steps in front of the house, holding a cloth tiger in his hand. Looking into the room again, a man turned his back to him, as if he was holding Ah Tan in his arms.

But Ye Yunsheng was not in a hurry.

Seeing the back of this man, appearing in his home, sitting on his bed, next to his wife, Ye Yunsheng was not angry at all, but looked calm and relaxed, and even a smile appeared on his face.

Because he finally didn't have to bear it alone, because the people under the world who could let him relax in the pressure of falling like a mountain and covering his body like a sea, and relaxed for it, finally rushed to Chang'an.