Early winter twilight.

In an iron shop on the eastern outskirts of the ancient city.

Zhang Fan used a pair of tongs to pick up his masterpiece in the water tank, he was carefully admiring, he was satisfied with the cloth hanging around his chest, and put it on the table next to him, this iron case was full of long swords and short knives, and a half-moon scimitar hung on it.

The scimitar was bright, like a mirror, shining through everything in the room.

This is Zhang Fan's masterpiece of refining for seven days and seven nights, he looked at the iron hand in front of him, his eyes showed self-admiring admiration, this is a perfect iron hand.

The fire in the stove was red at the moment, reflecting on Zhang Fan's face, he walked to the table in the corner of the room, and took a pot of wine, this is the strongest burning knife in the Western Regions, Zhang Fan likes the fierceness of burning knives.

Zhang Fan took a sip, but in an instant, the wine in his mouth sprayed on the iron hand, and the hot iron hand instantly ignited a blue flame, and in the blue flame, Zhang Fan saw a friend's face.

"Are you satisfied?" asked the friend in a sable coat.

"This is the masterpiece of my life!" Zhang Fan looked at the iron hand on the tongs with great confidence.

"It has no faults?" his friend asked again.

This friend Zhang Fan is very familiar, he is a swordsman, his reputation is very high, he has a lot of stories in the Western Regions, and he also knows Zhang Fan's story.

"No sharp weapon can be perfect, unless it is a sword in the hands of your senior brother, it is the most perfect sword in the world," Zhang Fan's eyes were full of expectation, this is a unique sword. Owning this sword is every swordsman's dream.

"You know a lot?" his friend asked again.

Zhang Fan raised his head and glanced outside the door along the scimitar, and at the moment when his eyes crossed the scimitar, he saw a pair of terrifying eyes, which were now full of murderous aura, but the chaotic sound of horses' hooves outside the door, this murderous aura disappeared in an instant.

Zhang Fan's heart lifted, he knew his mistake, there is a legend about the sword of his friend and brother, and anyone who knows this news has only a dead end.

There was soon a constant knock on the door.

"Is this story good?" Li Qing heard a question.

"Sounds good!" Li Qing said, and now he knew that the old man in front of him had a very young name, and his name was Zhang Fan.

"Sounds good!" said the sensible Ah Chen, he knew that this old man named Zhang Fan must be telling his story now.

"It's a pity that the owner of this story, his fate is not good at all," Zhang Fan sighed, already immersed in his memories.

The ancient road in early winter, covered with ice and snow, a fast horse gasping for white air, in the desperate hurry, it felt tired, the moment it came out of the Western Regions, it did not stop its hooves.

Immediately, the young man, feeling the fear of hunger, opened his package, and saw not a trace of dry sacs, and the sun of the ancient road shone on the frozen pavement, and the sky began to spin.

It was already dark, and when the man woke up, he saw a room in which candles had been lit, and he was lying on a wooden bed, which he felt was soft.

The cold wind blew in through the crack in the door, and Zhang Fan heard a voice outside the door, it was a woman's voice, she was talking to a child.

"Qing'er is not afraid, this uncle, my mother knows. This woman's words surprised the man, who could she be in this distant ancient road in the Western Regions?

"This woman should be my mother," Li Qing, who listened to the story, understood the story, and he interrupted Zhang Fan's memories.

"So a man who fled for his life, accompanied a poor woman, came to Guzhou with a child who had just become sensible," Zhang Fan added.

"My mother didn't tell this story, this story is hidden in my mother's heart," Li Qing looked out the window with Zhang Fan's gaze, and the willows outside the window were very crisp.

"Why don't you stay in the bloody gate?" Li Qing asked.

"I came to Guzhou and didn't stay, I am a person who is running for my life, I don't want to affect the mother and son," this is a man's excuse.

"You went to Dayang Mountain, to find the secret you know?" Li Qing asked again, at this moment he wanted to know everything about Zhang Fan, although this answer was cruel.

Zhang Fan didn't answer Li Qing's question, he turned around and came to the corner of the room, opened a cabinet, took out a half-moon scimitar from the cabinet, and gently wiped it with his hand.

Li Qing saw that this scimitar was very bright and could shine the shadow of a person, this was Zhang Fan's weapon, this weapon was very strange, Li Qing remembered the sickle that cut rice in the rice field.

This sickle-like scimitar can also kill? The sensible Ah Chen was very curious, he saw Zhang Fan wrapping the sickle-like scimitar in a piece of linen, and his movements were very serious.

"Are you going to leave?" Li Qing saw Zhang Fan's movements.

"No, I just want to bring it back to the Western Regions and give it to one person," Zhang Fan thought about this person in his heart, it was this person who changed the rest of his life.

"He didn't come to hunt you down?" Li Qing thought of the crux of the matter.

"Hahaha, I'm a piece of his heart, how can he forget me as a friend," Zhang Fan put down the package in his hand and looked up at Li Qing, he laughed a few times.

"We only lived in the post station of the horse gang, and there was no way to survive the winter in the Western Regions, at this time we met the merchants of Guzhou, they took us in, and we came to Guzhou together. ”

"Later?"

"I thought there was an escape here, but I was wrong, there were always many strange people coming to me. ”

"Later?"

"I had no choice but to escape, I fled to Dayang Mountain, far away, and it was the people from the Ghost Gate who took me in, and they were not afraid of the people who were chasing and killing. ”

"Later?"

"There is a secret in Dayang Mountain, the person who guards it is the ghost gate, one day someone came to crack this secret and took away something?"

"What is it?" Li Qing changed his words this time, he wanted to know what this thing was.

"A box," Zhang Fan's tone began to become mysterious.

Li Qing remembered his box, this box turned out to be from Dayang Mountain, he rarely carried this box, it was placed in the secret room of the bloody clothes door, and there was a bloody bloody clothes in this secret room.

"Are you here to find this box?" asked Li Qing.

"No, let's find a lost book, this book records a bizarre story, do you know this book?" Zhang Fan looked at Li Qing, he felt that this young master knew everything, as if he didn't know anything.

"We should go," Li Qing didn't want to ask again, he said to the sensible Ah Chen, and he saw that Ah Chen was about to get up and get out of bed at this moment.

"Ah Chen, thank you for saving you!" Ah Chen, who had just gotten out of bed and put on his shoes, heard a curious word, he raised his head and looked at this Zhang Fan, who could strike iron, this person saved himself?

"There is a herb in the Western Regions, called Tianshan Snow Lotus, which can cure your elixir, and I happen to have this herb. Zhang Fan is explaining.

The sensible Ah Chen smiled, and he smiled at Zhang Fan, a grateful smile.

Li Qing also smiled, he thought of the pig-headed Wang Song in Ping'er's mouth, and he also gave Ping'er the elixir made of this herb, but Ping'er didn't wake up.

At this moment, Li Qing heard the sound of a horse bell outside the blacksmith shop, this was not the sound of a fast horse, it should be a carriage. The carriage stopped outside the blacksmith shop, and soon Li Qing heard the footsteps of a person.

The footsteps soon came to Zhang Fan's house, and it was the guy in Zhang Fan's shop who pushed the door in, he looked at Zhang Fan and only said, "Master, the carriage is ready." ”

"Young Master Li, you can go," Zhang Fan ordered the eviction.

"Many of my questions have not been answered!" Li Qing looked at Zhang Fan, this Zhang Fan was very mysterious, and his words always left a trace of concealment.

"You can go to someone, he can tell you all the answers," Zhang Fan mentioned a person, but this person Li Qing didn't know.

"Who is he?" Li Qing asked.

"He has a nickname called 'Jianghu Know-it-all', no one has seen his true face, no one knows where he lives, but I know that he likes Guzhou Xiaoqu. Zhang Fan looked at his apprentice, who quickly left the room.

On the carriage back to the city, the sensible Ah Chen felt depressed, today's story was very bizarre, but Li Qing in the carriage did not speak.

"Young master, do you believe his words?"

"Believe!"

"I think he's hiding something?"

"I know!"

"Young master, have you already guessed?" The sensible Ah Chen suddenly stopped the carriage.

"Young master, you should ask clearly, does he really exist in Zhang Fan's mouth?" Ah Chen wanted to return immediately, he didn't believe Zhang Fan's words, this person must be hiding something?

"Ah Chen, let's go back, let's go find someone, this person must know this 'know-it-all in the rivers and lakes', he is a person in the rivers and lakes," Li Qing urged Ah Chen.

"Young master, who is he?" Ah Chen shook the whip, and the horse's bell rang again.

"'Longfeng Dart Bureau' big dart head!" Li Qing said the last sentence, he remembered Ping'er, who arranged for this unlucky Ping'er to rob her? This fickle Yang Chun belongs to a ghost? Or is it a ghost?

Seeing the carriage leaving, Zhang Fan's apprentice quickly returned to the room, Zhang Fan looked at his apprentice with strange eyes, and his apprentice slowly removed a piece of face from his face, revealing his true face.

"You're right, they're coming," said the apprentice.

"I've fulfilled our agreement, I know he's going to come, and he's going to bring that girl," Zhang Fan looked at this face, he felt a little disgusted in his heart, why did he have to hide his identity?

A living person should live a decent life, always give others a false face, and it must be very tiring to live like this!

"Our cooperation has just begun, why are you in too much of a hurry?" the apprentice's words were full of gloom. Zhang Fan walked to the table, picked up the curved package, and looked at the apprentice with gloomy eyes.

"Abin, this is not the place you should stay, please go!" Zhang Fan gave the order to evict the guests again.

This face is very familiar to Li Qing, and this name is also familiar to Li Qing.

It's a pity that Li Qing, who was far away, didn't hear this conversation!