Inside the ruined temple.

The cold walls, rotten bricks and pillars, the huge stone Buddha statue is full of dust, cobwebs, and a dilapidated scene.

The offering table in front of the statue was empty, with rat footprints on it, and a few windows creaked in the wind, making the place look like an ice cellar in winter.

On the ground in the broken temple, all Lu Chuan's belongings were piled up, a few broken basins, which were filled with some miscellaneous scrap copper and rotten iron, and several beds of bedding were stacked randomly on the side. At that time, the few beams left over from the sale of the cart were simply erected and made into a frame that could be carried on the shoulder. Lu Chuan spread a ball of picked up straw on the ground and carefully placed the black box on his back.

The Ancient Xuanjian here had just been unsheathed, and a thick black mist was slowly emitting from the black box, as if it was on fire. Lu Chuan looked at the black box quietly, his expression solemn.

Soon after, a loud voice came from outside the ruined temple: "My God, who killed the pig outside here?" The flesh and blood were scattered all over the ground, all of which were disgusting crumbs, and Lao Tzu almost fell. ”

Chu Liusheng limped at the door of the broken temple, and the broken threshold was creaked by him.

The afternoon sun was blazing, and the scorching sun shone on the ground through the doorless doorframe. Chu Liusheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and saw Lu Chuan, who was squatting on the edge of the straw with his back to him, studying something.

"Hey, old man, what are you doing?" Chu Liusheng said angrily, "The god is mysterious, and he won't wait for Lao Tzu to run so fast." ”

He moved straight into the ruined temple, kicked the futon that stood in the way like no one else, and walked towards Lu Chuan.

"Hey, old man. Chu Liusheng said to Lu Chuan, "Have you just come here and seen a buddy who is wrapped like a dumpling on a hot day, he looks really envious, and he is dressed so well, Jinling silk, we haven't met such a lord in this place for a long time." ”

Lu Chuan ignored him, and kept staring at the black box placed on the straw seriously, at this time the black box was still emitting black smoke outward, and a sinister breath arose, as if it was steaming.

Chu Liusheng sat down beside Lu Chuan, saw the black box he was staring at intently, and said, "Eh, old man, what the hell are you doing, why are you still angry?"

Lu Chuan still turned a deaf ear to Chu Liusheng's ridicule, stretched out his wrinkled hand and gently brushed the black box.

Chu Liusheng saw that he didn't pay attention to himself, pursed his lips, didn't speak again, and looked at the black box like Lu Chuan.

The surface of the box is flat and smooth, I don't know what material it is made of, and it is so black that it seems to be able to swallow the surrounding light, which makes people feel a sense of awe.

Chu Liusheng looked at it, a little curious, but he didn't dare to move, he could only look at the black box blankly, not knowing what medicine the old man was selling in his gourd.

The two of them just squatted and sat one by one, and after looking at the black box for a while, Lu Chuan slowly spoke: "Ergou, this is the gift I want to give you." ”

Chu Liusheng was a little surprised, and asked, "You are really polite to give it to me, old man, is it possible that it is full of gold?"

Lu Chuan said very seriously: "Ergou, open it." ”

Chu Liusheng pursed his lips, looked at Lu Chuan, and reached over with some displeasure, touching the cold and smooth appearance of the black box.

"Hey, that's a good workmanship. Chu Liusheng said with a smile on Lu Chuan's hippie face, "It's worth a lot of money, it's really for me?"

Click. The black box made a crisp sound, and Chu Liusheng slowly opened it, and the thick black mist inside evaporated.

"What's the meat bun out of the cage?" Chu Liusheng said, lifting the lid, and the ancient Xuanjian lying quietly inside was undoubtedly revealed.

Chu Liusheng looked at it and was a little stunned. This sword made him feel a little ominous, and the black mist swirling on the blade gradually dissipated, and it was pitch black, looking a little like an evil aura.

"Wow, old man, where did you pick this thing up?" Chu Liusheng stretched out his hand and gently grasped the hilt of the sword, the surprise on his face was revealed.

He grabbed the hilt of his sword and lifted it up, but the sword did not move. No matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't lift it. Chu Liusheng was a little strange, he used the strength of nursing on his arm, regardless of his old injury, he exerted all his strength, trying to pick up the sword from the box.

This sword seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and was trapped in a box, and no matter how hard Chu Liusheng tried, he couldn't make it move half a step.

Lu Chuan turned his head, looked at him, and said in a low voice, "Give me your hand." ”

Chu Liusheng looked suspicious and handed his hand over.

Lu Chuan grabbed Chu Liusheng's hand, stretched out his palm to the blade with lightning speed, wiped a wound on his palm, and blood flowed straight down.

"Wow, old man, you're sick, it's not that I can't lift it, I don't need to scrap my hand!" Chu Liusheng immediately exclaimed in pain, twitched his hand, covered it tightly, and yelled at Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan turned his head, ignored him, and lowered his head to look at the sword.

The blood on the blade faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it didn't take long to be clean.

"Alright. Lu Chuan said, "You pick it up and try it again." ”

Chu Liusheng glared at Lu Chuan, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd, and slowly leaned down to hold the hilt of the sword. This time, he only needed to mention it lightly, and he picked up the sword, as light as a feather.

"Eh, it's strange, why is this so light?" Chu Liusheng said, "What kind of sword is this?"

"This is Excalibur. Lu Chuan said, "Come, come here, I'll teach you some swordsmanship." ”

Chu Liusheng's eyes widened in fright, and he said to Lu Chuan, "What? Why?"

Lu Chuan glanced at him and said, "Why, because I'm afraid that you will be killed in the future." ”

"Isn't it?" Chu Liusheng said, "Isn't it you who you want to give me a gift, why do you want me to learn any swordsmanship?"

Lu Chuan stood up with difficulty, hammered his old waist, and said, "What's the matter?

Chu Liusheng looked at Lu Chuan like a monster and asked, "Why are you so strange all of a sudden......?

Halfway through speaking, he turned his head with a sneer and said, "Come on, old man, who doesn't know what the two of us are doing, we have been fighting for so long, and I didn't stand in front of you every time." ”

Lu Chuan turned around, walked straight to the gate of the broken temple, raised the outside, turned his back to his hand, and said slowly: "In the future, what you encounter will not be a small fight with street hooligans." There may be a lot of people who will come to take your life. ”

"What?" Chu Liusheng looked at his back, his brain was a little twisted, and said, "What the hell, old man, you have fallen into the evil spirit, I can't use this broken sword, you might as well treat it as a few silver, and go and redeem the clothes first, this broken clothes are almost spoiled after wearing them for so long." ”

"Out of breath. Lu Chuan said disdainfully, "You just say if you want to learn or not, right?"

Chu Liusheng got up with a bone, limped to Lu Chuan's side, and asked, "No, you should always tell me where this thing came from, right?"

"You don't care about that. Lu Chuan said.

"Then I won't learn. Chu Liusheng casually threw the sword to the ground, turned around and left.

Lu Chuan looked back at him, his face was pale, and he scolded: "The mud can't support the wall!"

"Good tiles don't go up to the thatched roof!" Chu Liusheng replied, walked to the straw pile, kicked open the black box, lay on it comfortably, and closed his eyes comfortably.

Lu Chuan looked at him indignantly, sighed heavily, and shook his head helplessly.

He walked up to Chu Liusheng's side, kicked him with his foot, and said angrily: "Get up! Go fetch water first! You just ate my meat bun and still want to rest? If you don't want to study, just work!"

Chu Liusheng groaned in pain, he looked at Lu Chuan, and said, "Can you take care of the old, weak, sick and disabled, I have been beaten like this, and you still let me work." They also gave me gifts, which I thought were silver. ”

After speaking, he simply lay on the straw and said lazily: "Don't wake me up, I didn't sleep last night, if you quarrel with me again, I will secretly take the sword as a pawn." ”

Lu Chuan lowered his head and looked at him, and shook his head helplessly, looking like he hated iron but not steel.

Late at night.

Cicadas chirped outside the ruined temple, and the bright crescent moon hung in the sky above the ruined temple, and the five fingers could not be seen outside. There is not a single light in this kind of place, and it is pitch black.

In the ruined temple, two snorers came and went.

Outside the ruined temple, an emaciated figure, blending into the night, lightly jumped over the winding stream and quietly approached the ruined temple.

Silent, the grass and trees are quiet.

The figure was agile, and after a few turns, it approached the ruined temple and stuck to the outside of the wall, without making a single movement. The figure poked its head out softly, peering through the doorframe into the ruined temple.

It was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen. The figure knelt down and crept into the ruined temple.

Bang, a thin hand suddenly put on the shoulder of the figure, the figure was startled, and hurriedly turned around, facing the moonlight outside the broken temple, Lu Chuan didn't know when he appeared behind the figure, without the slightest notice.

The figure saw Lu Chuan's face, hurriedly bowed down, knelt down and saluted Lu Chuan, and made a slight female voice in his mouth: "See the National Teacher." ”

"Shhhh Lu Chuan put his index finger on his lips and made a silent gesture, his solemn expression looked a little unreal in the moonlight.

He looked down at the figure, lowered his voice, and said, "Han Luyao, how is it?"

The figure said respectfully to Lu Chuan: "Master Guoshi, according to your orders, the token with the dark incense logo has been sent to the Qi Palace, Han Luyao just got the herbs you wanted last night, and now he is out of Chang'an City." ”

"Let her speed up. Lu Chuan said in a deep voice, "As long as she comes out of the Western Regions, there is a risk of exposure." ”

"Yes. The figure said, "Master Guoshi, you were in the Siyun Building last night...... Did you make a move?"

Lu Chuan listened, squinted his eyes tiredly, and said: "This is also something that can't be helped, it has been more than a year one after another, and you should always get something back, otherwise you will be very passive later." ”

He let out a long sigh and continued: "Now that all countries have begun to rebuild and develop, the round-up against us will only become more and more severe, not relaxed, and we must hurry up more and more, otherwise it will be even more difficult in the days to come." ”

"Yes, Master Guoshi, I will speed up the progress and live up to your expectations. The figure said, "Ke...... Master Guoshi, Han Luyao's ......"

Lu Chuan shook his head again, his brows were tightly locked, his voice was a little hoarse, and said, "No, I still can't let her know about me, otherwise it will be easy to go wrong." I have to hide myself, I have a lot of responsibilities on my part, and no one else in the world knows about me except you. ”

"Obey the instructions of the national teacher. The figure lowered his head and said.

Lu Chuan lowered his head and looked at her, stretched out his arm, put it on the figure's head, touched it caressively, and said: "Back then, I treated you as a daughter, but now you really haven't disappointed me, you are now my most concerned relative in this world." ”

The figure clasped his fists and saluted, saying, "The subordinates dare not accept the love of the national teacher, this is just the duty of the subordinates." ”

Lu Chuan sighed, looked at the dark mass in the ruined temple, and said: "Unlike this kid, after losing his memory, he will be like an ordinary gangster on the street, without any ability, and without the power of a chicken, hoping that he can complete the great cause?" ”

Lu Chuan exhaled from his nose, helpless.

The figure turned her head as well, and in the darkness she could dimly see the center of a mass of straw, on which a man was lying asleep on all fours, snoring like thunder.

"The National Teacher doesn't need to be anxious, His Royal Highness may have experienced hardships for a short time, and now he is still like an ordinary person, the National Teacher still has to give him more time to adapt. The figure said to Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan listened and said, "That's right, maybe I'm in a hurry." But time is really running out, that sword was given to him by the king of Chu himself, just hoping that he can use this sword to point angrily at the sky and give me justice to Da Chu, but it is indeed useless to hand it over to a bastard boy. ”

The figure looked at Chu Liusheng, who was sleeping soundly in the dark, and did not speak.

Lu Chuan looked at her, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his white beard moved, and his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"If the King of Chu didn't listen to me at the beginning, but made you a concubine, then it would not be Han Luyao who got off the car to block Chu Liusheng's knife at that time. Lu Chuan laughed softly, "Pity you, I was greedy for a while, I wanted to keep you by my side when you were different from ordinary people, but I ignored your feelings for him for so many years, don't blame my godfather." ”

The figure lowered his head and said to Lu Chuan: "The subordinates don't dare." The national teacher has always been the person respected and loved by his subordinates, and his subordinates dare not have two hearts. Every time I can come to the National Teacher, it is enough to look at him from a distance. ”

After speaking, she took out a finely folded piece of parchment from her arms, respectfully handed it to Lu Chuan, and said, "My lord, this is this month's letter." ”

Lu Chuan took it and opened it by the moonlight, but there was not a word on it.

"Tsk, do you have any wine?" Lu Chuan asked. The woman in front of him took out a small wine bottle from her waist and handed it to Lu Chuan. Lu Chuan opened the wine bottle and sprinkled it on it, and slowly, some graphics and symbols appeared vaguely in the place where the wine had been sprinkled.

Lu Chuan frowned again and looked at the contents on the parchment.

After a while, he handed the parchment back to the woman, and the mustache moved again, and said, "That's it, let the people from the Tianshu Pavilion over there keep an eye on it." I'm afraid this time the matter is not so simple, warn the prince, you must avoid its edge, hide if you can, don't hit it hard. There he was alone. ”

"Yes. The woman replied.

Lu Chuan said, raised his head, sighed at the starry sky, and muttered: "Liusheng, this child, when will he grow up, I can't force him, I'm afraid that something will go wrong, I hope he can be sensible in the future, the burden on him is not light." ”

When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but look back at Chu Liusheng, who was unaware and was dreaming, and her eyes were a little shining.

Lu Chuan lowered his head, looked at the woman who had been kneeling, showed a loving smile, and said, "Go, child." ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, looked at Lu Chuan, a little surprised, and said, "Master National Teacher...... Can...... Is that okay?"

"It's fine. Lu Chuan smiled, "He was beaten last night, and he slept worse than a pig, I don't want to give him the sword, it's really not good, I want to go on it myself." ”

The woman wiped her face and said with a smile, "Master Xie Guoshi." ”

With that, she slowly stood up, turned around, and entered the ruined temple.

She walked gently to Chu Liusheng's side, and the moonlight outside the door shone on her slender and slender legs. She quietly bent down, brought her face closer, and looked at Chu Liusheng, who was half-asleep and drooling, with a gray face covered in dirt and a blue nose and swollen face, and showed an idiot smile.

"If I were in the palace, how would I dare to be so close to you today. The woman murmured in a soft voice, "Thank you." ”

With that, she bent down and lightly dropped a kiss on Chu Liusheng's forehead.