Ji Cha picked up a piece of rope and felt very strange: "This camel, obviously injured so badly, and he hasn't eaten much, can he break the rope with his internal strength?" and then said: "Forget it, this camel ran away, and the Daotai in Tianwei City let us kill it, where to exchange it for silver." ”

Hong Chen was silent. Ji Cha turned around and asked, "Are you still thinking about killing?"

Hong Chen suddenly said, "Have you ever killed someone?"

Ji Cha immediately said: "Who do you look down on your grandmother? I have never killed anyone? I am a dignified tea picker, grinding my teeth and sucking blood, killing people like hemp, and the souls who died under my hands are not 100,000, but 99,999 and a half." ”

Hong Chen said: "Don't deliberately brag, you haven't killed anyone at all." ”

Ji Cha was silent for dozens of breaths before he spoke again: "I killed it." The tone was somber, not as usual.

"Who have you killed?"

"Many, I can't count. ”

"What about the first person killed?"

"The first person I killed was a person I didn't even know. ”

"Why did you kill him?"

"My master told me to kill him. ”

"Your master?" Hong Chen was stunned for a moment, "You never mentioned your master to me." Is he a man or a woman? Why would you kill someone you don't know?"

"Master said, to train my courage and my ruthlessness. If a person can't kill people ruthlessly, he can't stand in the rivers and lakes. ”

"So you killed him?"

"Yes. ”

"When I was in Purple Cloud City, I saw murder for the first time. Huang Zhangmen killed his wife, and Lu Xingwei killed his senior brother. At that time, I thought that killing people was just an ordinary thing, and after decades of acquaintance, I could kill if I said kill. But today, when I killed someone for the first time, I realized that killing people was a very difficult thing. A person, who has relatives and friends, kills him, and some people will be sad because of it, and some people will be resentful because of it. When you close your eyes, you will still have the corpse of that person in your mind, and you will imagine a dead body with a hideous face and say, 'Why did you kill me, why did you kill me?'

"Yes. Ji Cha nodded, "I stabbed that person to death with a sword, and I dreamed of him for many days later." Even if Master later told me that the man was a villain who bullied men and women, and that he had committed many crimes, and he couldn't kill him a hundred times, I wouldn't be able to feel at ease for a while. ”

"And how did you finally settle down?"

"It's not like that, I see a lot of things, I get used to it, I become numb, and I think it's natural to kill people. I'm different from you, you grew up in Taoyuan, but I'm wandering the world. If you raise bamboo rats and cut bamboo, you can live happily. But I have to do many things with Master and kill many people. ”

"Are you killing all the bad guys?"

"Most of them are dog officers and bandits, as well as their subordinates who help and abuse. But no one can say for sure whether there are relatively innocent people among them. But I don't think too much about it, because in order to accomplish certain purposes, killing people is sometimes unavoidable. This is not a peaceful and prosperous era, there are officials and businessmen colluding with snakes and rats to oppress the people, and there are sects and gangs that dominate one side and bully the weak. Master told me one thing and taught me not to be soft-hearted when I should be ruthless. ”

Hong Chen was curious: "What's the matter?"

"When Master was young, he was determined to be chivalrous in all directions, and once rescued a poor woman who had been snatched and bullied from a bully's house, and wanted to kill the bully, but the bully had an eighty-year-old mother, who knelt down and pleaded with Master, saying, 'My son will definitely change his ways, how can I live if he dies?' When Master saw that she was pitiful, he let the bully go, sent the girl home, and left after having a meal. But the next day, Master found that he had a small burden left at the woman's house, so he went back to get it, guess what Master saw?"

Hong Chen asked, "What?"

Ji Cha said faintly: "When the master rushed to the woman's house, he saw that the bully was frantically knocking the woman's head with an iron rod, and the whole head could not be seen, and the woman's parents also fell in a pool of blood, and the bully's pitiful-looking old mother, with a hideous face, pinched the neck of the woman's five-year-old brother with both hands, and choked the child!"

Hong Chen couldn't help but say: "What a ruthless person! Even children are killed!"

"Master didn't show mercy this time and killed the bully and his mother. Since then, Master has never shown mercy and killed the wicked, because he knows that letting the wicked go will often lead to greater cruelty to others. Ji Cha said this, and let out a long breath, "Master told me this story, and I'll tell it to you again." I hope that when you kill people in the future, you will never hesitate as much as you do today. ”

"I hope so. ”

Hong Chen listened to the story told by Ji Cha, only to feel that the depression in his heart was immediately relieved, and he was finally able to breathe and pant freely.

Since Zhong Huozi escaped, Ji Cha and Hong Chen had no intention of staying in Tianwei City, so they left the courtyard and headed north. When they reached the gate, they were stopped by a number of soldiers. Hong Chen took the snow drinking knife, the first knife split all the soldiers in front of him, and the second knife cut off the big lock of the city gate.

Ji Cha snatched two war horses, and Hong Chen opened the city gate. The two got on their horses and went out of the city, galloped on horseback, the wind whistled in their ears all the way, and ran straight out for dozens of miles, and only stopped to rest when they reached a village. Ji Cha found a farmer's house to spend the night, although the farmer was a little scared when he saw the two men with swords and swords, but when he saw Hong Chen take out a shiny ingot of silver, he immediately happily beckoned his wife to come and cook for the guests.

The next day, the two continued northward on horseback, loaded with jerky pancakes they had bought from a farmer's house and two skins of water. After three days of wandering through the wilderness, he came to a market, where he bought new clothes and found an inn to rest for a while. On this day, Ji Cha and Hong Chen turned the newly acquired snow wind cut, iron hitting Jiangshan fan and snow drinking knife into Tiantie, but Zhong Huozi's sword was unsuccessful no matter what, so they had to give up.

"This sword is of such high quality, with my current 'Fire God Technique', I can't even refine Heavenly Iron. Ji Cha wrapped the snake sword with strips of cloth and carried it on his back, "It's better to keep it first, and when I see the master later, let the master hand it." ”

Hong Chen looked at the piece of paper spread out on the table in front of him and said, "Where we are now, how long will it take to get to the place that Mrs. Dai told us." ”

Ji Cha pointed to the text on the paper and said: "You see, it reads 'north of Tianjing City, back to the foot of Yan Mountain, in the White Horse Temple, next to the statue of the general'." If Mrs. Dai hadn't deceived us, the 'sorrow' would be in a white horse temple in Huiyan Mountain. We are still more than 100 miles away from Tianjing, and when we arrive in Tianjing, we also need to travel from the Dongfang Mountain Range to Huiyan Mountain in the northeast, which is estimated to take seven or eight days, or even longer. ”

Hong Chen sighed: "It will really be a long journey. I hope this is the knife I'm looking for. ”

Ji Cha said, "I really don't know what kind of knife you're going to find." Eliminate sorrow is a long-disappeared famous knife, for the previous generation of Yunwu Mountain Knife Emperor invited the world's six famous knife craftsmen to create, the name is taken from 'raise a glass to eliminate sorrow and sorrow, draw the knife and cut off the water more flowing'. Legend has it that he once used this knife to cut a river. ”

Hong Chen was surprised: "So powerful!"

Ji Cha waved his hand and said, "Listening to the disciples of the Yunmo Sect bragging to him? The heroes on the rivers and lakes are probably overfamous, and if they do something, they have to ask people to tout wildly, so as to use them as social capital. As for the pair of 'Immortal Sword' and 'Goddess Sword' that I saw in the General's Mansion last time, the two of them set up a 'Fairy Villa' in the northern boundary of Tianjing, and regularly held a 'Fairy Conference', inviting young knights from the rivers and lakes to compete in martial arts, and then giving them a ranking or something, so as to attract the attention of various sects and gangs and collect money. ”

"Hmm. Then let's take away our sorrows, and we can also go and have a good time. Hong Chen said, "Since there are so many knights who go there, there must be many magic weapons." ”

Ji Cha patted Hong Chen on the shoulder and said, "Yo! You kid is still good at learning! You know where there are many people, where you can make a fortune." Not bad, yes, there is growth. This immortal conference is held every four months on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the fifteenth day of the fourth month, and the fifteenth day of the eighth month. Let's finish the sorrows, just in time for the trip on August 15. ”

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