Chapter 1 Passing the Message in the Snow
When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past. Xiaolou had another east wind last night, and the country was unbearable to look back on, in the bright moon.
The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. How much sorrow can you have, just like a river of spring water, flowing eastward.
In the ninth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, it was the middle of winter, and the north wind and snow were mixed with whistling when everything was slaughtered. At noon, the snow stopped, and the ground was thick, and pedestrians stepped on the ground, leaving deep footprints.
On the official road of Nanyang County, pedestrians also began to take advantage of the heavy snow to stop and walk around, some visiting relatives and friends, carrying cold spirits, humming a small tune, bowing their heads against the wind; there are also traveling business students who went out, taking advantage of the snow to stop, hurrying to go home for reunion before the New Year.
A white horse, carrying a snow-white man on its back, was galloping on the official road. The horse gasped, exhaling like a burst of white mist, probably after a long run, the horse was starting to get a little tired.
On the horse was a strange man: the man was snow-white, and even his eyebrows and hair were white. The strange man wears a white cape, and his eyes become more and more misty. Although he stepped on the snow, it was difficult to hide his tired face.
However, when the strange man approached on horseback, he found that the strange man's body was not pure white, and there were bright red blood stains on his clothes, cuffs and the corners of his mouth, so he looked a little scary.
The strange man looked very terrifying, and when the horse passed by the passers-by, they all ran away for fear that the terrible strange man would knock him down.
I don't know how long it took, when the horse came to a pavilion, the strange man stopped, looked at a village not far away, and spat out a mouthful of blood. The blood sprayed on the snow, like a red plum, but it did not have the beauty of a red plum, but it only added to the chill.
The strange man quickly clicked a few acupuncture points on his body, and the painful expression on his face gradually eased. The strange man grabbed the horse's belly, and the horse neighed, raised its hooves, and galloped towards the village.
The two big men at the gate of the village, each carrying a big knife, nervously watched the white horse rushing towards him, extremely nervous.
At a distance of four or five feet, the man stretched out his hand and shouted to stop: "Who is coming? Please dismount immediately and report your name." ”
The strange man ignored it, and just kept urging the horse forward, as if he had no intention of stopping or even slowing down.
The big man said angrily: "Hmph, when I am Liujiazhai, I don't look at it, is this the place where you are wild?"
After the big man finished speaking, he gave his companion a look, and the two of them slashed across their chests, and then jumped forward. The two of them slashed towards the strange man, one on the left and one on the right.
The strange man's martial arts are also very good, and he doesn't pay any attention to the big man and the two broadswords that are cut flat. I saw the strange man slap his palms on the saddle, his feet off the saddle, jumped up a few feet high, and then his feet were a little on the double knife, and his body shook in front of the two big men, and he arrived in front of the gate of the village in an instant.
Seeing that he couldn't stop the strange man, Dahan warned loudly: "Someone has broken into the village." At the same time, he and his companion immediately turned around, and the two knives turned back and slashed at the strange man's feet.
As soon as the strange man's feet hit the ground, he rose up again, and in a blink of an eye, he jumped on top of the gate of the village, and was about to continue to break into the village.
As soon as the big man shouted, the village was instantly full of people, and many people gathered in an instant, and they were about to surround the strange people. The strange man frowned, muttered something strange and slurred, and leaped over the crowd.
At this moment, a spear roared and stabbed directly at the strange man, who saw that the spear was coming, and had to leap away from the spear, and at the same time struggled to rush into the village.
What the stranger didn't expect was that behind the spear was a figure flying in the air, and the figure just happened to knock down the stranger, and the man raised his kick and kicked the stranger in the chest.
The strange man was kicked to the ground, and the man reached out, grabbed the end of the spear, and pressed the head of the spear down to the throat of the strange man.
The person who came was about forty-four or five years old, with a thick beard under his chin and a face of Chinese characters, and said angrily: "It's you? Fifteen years ago, you were not allowed to set foot in the Central Plains for half a step, but I didn't expect that fifteen years have passed, and you can't wait to find me Liujiazhai is unlucky, what about black impermanence? Ask him to come over, I want to see if your kung fu has grown in the past fifteen years." ”
The strange man turned over and got up, and when he saw the person who came, he was extremely excited, his eyes were full of nervousness, and he muttered, "Take me to see Liuqiao." ”
The person who came was Liuzhuang, the third old man of Liujiazhai, and Liuzhuang saw that the stranger seemed to have no malicious intent, and hurriedly asked, "What do you want to see my eldest brother?"
The strange man instantly said with a sad expression: "It's too late, it's too late, take me to Liuqiao." ”
Liu Zhuang was very surprised, and at this moment, there was another bustle, and Liu Qiao separated everyone and appeared in front of the strange man and said, "You are looking for me, what can you say." ”
Liuqiao is still so strong, the dragon walks the tiger, and the tiger is vigorous. His slightly gray beard and half-white hair still couldn't hide his majesty.
When the strange man saw Liu Qiao, he was very excited, and he turned around and threw himself to Liu Qiao's side, and said with a sad and choked face: "Quick, quickly inform Engong, someone came to trouble him, and my brother Hei Impermanence was also killed by them." I ran for more than ten days before I arrived here, so I went to inform Engong. After the strange man finished speaking, he fainted on the spot.
It turned out that this strange man was the white impermanence of the twin ghosts of the Western Regions fifteen years ago. Liu Qiao hurriedly ordered the villagers to carry Bai Wuchang to the hall, and after a cup of hot water, Bai Wuchang's consciousness gradually recovered.
As soon as Bai Wuchang saw Liu Qiao, he hurriedly said eagerly: "Hurry up and inform Engong that a group of masters in the Western Regions are combining with the Hu people and are coming to find a book of soldiers, and they are looking for Engong's bad luck." ”
Liu Qiao looked up to the sky and sighed, leaned over and asked, "Engong, are you talking about Xi Zhen Xi Shaoxia?" Do you know that Xi Shaoxia died fifteen years ago, and we can see it with our own eyes, how can we tell you?"
Bai Wuchang was stunned on the spot, he didn't want to believe that this matter was true, but when these words came out of Liu Qiao's mouth, he also had to believe it.
Bai Wuchang muttered for a while, everyone didn't know what he was talking about, but judging from his expression, he seemed to be very sad and sad, but he was very helpless.
Liuqiao and Liuzhuang sighed softly, and what they sighed was the battle in Fengyunling fifteen years ago. Although they won, although they stopped Qiu Lie and Guan Yue's plans, they also lost their best brother Xi Zhen.
Bai Wuchang struggled to get up, staggered a few steps to the door, and the scene of fighting here in the past was still imprinted in his mind. At that time, Xi Zhen could have killed his brother with one palm, but he let himself live. In the past fifteen years, time has flown by, the past is vivid, and here is even more of a thing.
Bai Wuchang came out, turned to Liu Qiao and said, "If Engong has it, please inform me of this, and they will definitely be able to find Engong's family." Please also tell the descendants of Engong that Bai Shaoqing has not broken his promise. ”
With that, Bai Wuchang raised his right palm, and a mournful howl came out of his mouth, and his right palm slammed into his Heavenly Spirit Cover, and he died of exhaustion.
It was too late for Liu Qiao and the others to stop it, so Liu Zhuang bowed to Bai Wuchang and said: "Jun Nian was an upright man fifteen years ago, and he was a dignified man, and Liujiazhai admired him very much. ”
Bai Wuchang's sorrow was still floating in the air, and it was not until he died that everyone knew that Bai Wuchang was originally called Bai Shaoqing, but what about the black impermanence who was killed for this matter? I'm afraid that until he dies, he won't even know his name.
Liuqiao ordered Liuzhuang to bring all the brothers back to the meeting, and ordered the villagers to bury Bai Wuchang and worship with wine. The villagers of Liujiazhai have always been grateful for Xi Zhen's kindness, and when they heard the news today, some people wanted to harm him, and they were even more excited, and they said that this matter must not sit idly by.
Liu Qiao groaned for a while, he also knew that this matter could not be ignored, Miss Feng and her two children had been thinking about it for fifteen years, but what Pei Feng said on Fengyun Ridge fifteen years ago was still in his ears.
"Thank you brothers for your help, but Xi Zhen is gone, and it is his martial arts that killed him. His children, I will definitely raise them to adulthood, but I will not let them learn martial arts again, even if they are farmers in the countryside for a lifetime, I will not let them learn martial arts. Brothers, don't come to our mother and son in the future, from today onwards, we will no longer ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes. ”
The words of fifteen years ago are still in my ears, Miss Feng and the children may be hiding in a corner, how can I find them?
When the seven brothers gathered, everyone said a word, but they all said that they were going to find Pei Feng's mother and son, but they didn't have an idea how to find it.
Liu Qiao frowned, and saw that Liu Chang had been pondering, so he said loudly: "Senior brother, you want to be resourceful, how do you think you should deal with the current matter?"
Liu Bian pondered for a long time and replied: "Brothers and brothers, Xi Zhen and my Liujiazhai have been kind, and they have been calm for fifteen years, but I don't know why there was trouble again fifteen years later. Now we can't stop those people's actions, but we can still go to their mother and son, in my opinion, they must be in Yuanzhou Mansion or Jinling City or one of the two. Our seven brothers have always been out of the rivers and lakes together, and now it seems that we have to go separately. ”
"The goal of Jinling City is small, the eldest brother and the second brother can go to Jinling City to investigate, and the third brother and I, as well as the fifth brother, the sixth brother and the seventh brother, will go to Yuanzhou Mansion to find it. Depart tomorrow, meet in Yuanzhou Mansion a month later, if you can find the best, if you can't find it, then we will discuss. ”
And when all the people were good, they went back to their own places, and they met tomorrow before they set out.