Hong Chen secretly thought about it, if it was not even the knife he was looking for, I am afraid that it would not be as good as the knife to eliminate sorrow. I remembered that night Zhongli had promised to tell me where he got the snake sword, but then he diverted the topic, and then he fled, and now he only knows that the place is about in the barbarian state of Nanyue. If you can't find the knife in Dayu, I don't know if you can find it there.

Ji Cha didn't know what Hong Chen was thinking, and said to himself: "After going to the Immortal Conference, we can go to Tianjing again, it is the most prosperous capital of the Three Kingdoms and Kyushu, I heard that just one imperial palace is bigger than many cities." When it's time to sneak into the palace and try the dishes made by the imperial chefs. If you are lucky enough to meet the dog emperor, you will go over and 'click' him with a knife, I will lift the emperor's dog head and sit on the dragon chair, tsk, the people of the whole Kyushu for five thousand years will know the name of my tea picker!"

Hong Chen was not interested in killing the emperor, so he only smiled and said, "You want to be famous all over the world so much." ”

"Isn't that famous, but it's the best thing in the world, whether it's good or not, someone will always come up with it. The more Ji Cha spoke, the more excited he became, and even his eyebrows danced, "No matter how beautiful you are, no matter how rich your family is, if you are not famous, you will only be a pinch of loess in a few decades." No matter how beautiful the tombstone in front of the grave is, if someone smashes it for you, it will become a rotten stone for other people's steps. Only by becoming famous, can your name be engraved in the annals of history and remain in legends, and after a hundred years and thousands of years, there are still people in the world who mention you. ”

Hong Chen said: "I wish no one knew about me. I'm famous now, but if I want to go to a crowded place, I either have to wear a mask or cover my face. If no one knew me, I would be able to show my real face and go to the stall and eat a bowl of somen in clear soup. ”

Ji Cha laughed: "In line with your life pursuit, it is to eat bowls of noodles." ”

"The ...... of life"

Hong Chen fell into confusion again.

No one ever mentioned it to themselves. When I was in Taoyuan, I just cut bamboo, fed bamboo rats, fertilized the vegetable patch, exchanged rice with the shopkeeper, and cooked rice for the master, and everyone in Taoyuan lived a similar life, day after day, day after day.

Before leaving Taoyuan, Hong Chen only thought that he would live the same life for the rest of his life. Until one day, the master set up a bamboo raft by the river, let himself stand on it, and then untied the rope of the bamboo raft: "When I find the knife, I will go back to Taoyuan." Standing on the raft drifting down, he asked the master in a loud voice, "What kind of knife is it?" but the master only laughed and did not speak.

So when he first heard the word life pursuit, Hong Chen first thought of looking for a knife, but then he thought about it, if finding a knife is the pursuit of life, after finding a knife, wouldn't life be without pursuit? If finding a knife is not a life pursuit, what should be his life pursuit?

Hong Chen only felt that the troubles encountered in the past few days were far more than in the past ten years. When you are in Taoyuan, you only need to listen to the master's instructions, cut the bamboo and feed the bamboo rats, and the opponents you deal with every day are probably snakes and insects. Out of Taoyuan, facing the vast world but at a loss, so that he can only steal, rob and kill with a guy who doesn't even know his real name, obviously just want to find a knife, but there are I don't know how many people hate themselves to the bone, fear themselves like tigers, and want to kill themselves quickly.

A sense of trepidation enveloped my heart, suppressing the novelty of traveling around the world these days and the excitement of taking risks. Hong Chen suddenly wanted to go back to Taoyuan and go back to continue to live a monotonous and boring life, even if he listened to the master's words for three hours every day, helped the shopkeeper cut six bundles of bamboo, and was beaten nine times by selling fish, it was much better than continuing to walk in this strange world.

However, thinking is thinking after all, if you can't find the knife, you can't go back.

One day later, before the two of them left the market inn, they changed their appearances and dressed up again. Hong Chen changed into a bearded face in his twenties, wearing a gray and blue cotton shortshirt and pants often worn by martial artists. Ji Cha pretended to be a handsome young man, wearing a white shirt under the infrared robe, and high-waisted white pants tied up with a gold-striped belt on a black background. The farther north you go, the colder it gets, and the cooler it gets in autumn, not only are your clothes much thicker than in summer, but your feet are also replaced with thick-soled black leather boots, which is convenient for walking on mountain roads full of sharp rocks.

Tianjing is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the south is the plain, and there are countless miles of nine-zhang high city walls, and at every city gate, there are heavily armed generals and sergeants to strictly check every person who enters the city, and anyone who is not clear about the origin can not be fooled. Therefore, after Hongchen and Ji Cha arrived at the Tianjing realm, they could only abandon their horses and travel through the forests of the eastern Cangmang Mountains.

The two men traveled during the day to forage for food, and at night took turns keeping vigil, walking in the mountains for seven days before they reached the foot of a bare mountain cliff in the north of the city. There was a strange bird cry in the sky, Hong Chen looked up, and saw many big birds flying by, and they were arranged in the shape of the word "human", and said in surprise: "What kind of bird is this?"

Ji Cha also glanced up and said, "You haven't even seen a wild goose?"

Hong Chen suddenly said: "It turns out that this is the wild goose." I've heard Master say that I've never seen it with my own eyes. It is said that when the weather turns cold, they fly from the north to the south for the winter. The next spring, they will fly back from the south to the north. There is also the first word, I remember that there is a sentence called 'the south and the north of the world, the old wings several times cold and summer', it seems to be talking about the wild goose. ”

Ji Cha shook his head and smiled: "You can only remember one word?" The first half of it is extremely famous, "Ask the world, what is love, and directly teach life and death? Happy and fun, parting bitter, there are even more crazy children. You should have a saying: Thousands of miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and twilight snow, to whom does the shadow go?' This wild goose is almost the most beloved among the birds, if a goose dies, the pair of geese will not live alone, often depressed, even fall to the ground and die. Among them, infatuation is better than men and women in the world. ”

Hong Chen suddenly pointed to the top of the cliff: "There is a person there!" Ji Cha looked around, but saw that there was indeed a person standing on the steep cliff, his body was dangling, and he was about to fall down at any time, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "I haven't seen the goose that fell to the ground, and there will be one person who fell to the ground soon." ”

As soon as the words fell, the man jumped from the top of the cliff nearly 100 zhang high. Seeing this, Ji Cha's body jumped, his feet kicked on the cliff wall, rushed up a few feet quickly, and then jumped sideways, and his body flew right next to the person who fell off the cliff, and his right hand pulled the man's waist, and took the man to make four big turns in the air before falling back to the ground.

Hong Chen walked over, and saw that the person rescued by Ji Cha was a man in his early thirties, with a square face and a flat nose, medium height, slightly fat, and a shirt that was stained with a lot of dirt but good satin, and he didn't look like a poor man, but his complexion was dark, and there was a layer of calluses on his hands.

Ji Cha scolded and said: "His grandmother's, she didn't pick a good place to kill herself, but when I just finished reading "Yanqiu Ci", she jumped off a cliff next to me, just like I encouraged you to find a short view." The man's face was gloomy: "Hero, what are you doing to save me? Let me die." Ji Cha spat at the mouth: "Your grandma, I'm happy today, if you fall into a pile of rotten meat next to me, won't I be disappointed when I see it?"

The man turned and walked away. Ji Cha immediately stopped: "Stop! What are you going to do?" The man stopped, turned around, and said gloomily: "I don't want to dirty the eyes of the hero, and die a little farther." ”

"I said, why are you bent on dying?" Ji Cha asked, "Is it to emulate the martyrdom of Hongyan?"

The man shook his head and said, "Although it is related to love, it is not martyrdom." ”

Ji Cha looked aware: "Then I know, it must be your wife who ran away with someone else, and you lost your adult, so you don't want to live." ”

The man said, "Not so." She is not my wife yet, but she must force me to die, and I have no choice but to die. ”

"This is strange, you are a big man, you don't look like a poor bastard, can you still let a girl be forced to death?" Ji Cha asked curiously, "It's the first time I've seen this kind of thing in my life, let's listen carefully." ”

Hong Chen opened his mouth and said: "This is someone's private matter, I definitely don't want to mention it, don't continue to ask." ”

Ji Cha thought for a while and said, "That's right, forget it, don't care." What do you like? Anyway, it has nothing to do with me whether you die or live. Then he said to Hong Chen: "Let's go, let's go, the good mood is gone, it's really bad luck for his grandmother." ”

Hong Chen said to the man: "This big brother, although I don't know what you have experienced, but I think that if a person can no longer find a trace of happiness in the world, it is not an incomprehensible thing to choose death." But before you choose to die, you should also think about whether there is anything in the world that is worthy of your nostalgia. ”

The man, who had been looking numb, listened to Hong Chen's words, and his eyes suddenly turned red: "How come there is no thing in the world that I am nostalgic for? I have parents, close friends, and many unforged weapons...... If there is another choice, where will I kill myself. ”

"What? You still forge weapons?" Ji Cha was about to drag Hong Chen away, but when he heard this, he stopped and looked at the man suspiciously, "Are you a blacksmith?"

"Blacksmith? The man laughed to himself, "In Tianjing, people like me are called Soldier Founders. I've also become a little more famous in recent years, and many military attachés come to me to forge weapons. Maybe you've heard my name—Su Liangjing. ”

"I haven't heard of it. Ji Cha said very simply, "However, since you are a forger, how about helping me build a weapon in order to repay me for saving your life just now?"

Hong Chen thought to himself: You don't pick the time and don't pick people when you want to repay him? This person is looking for death and life, are you in the mood to build a weapon for you?

Su Liangjing was stunned for a few breaths before he nodded and said, "Anyway, my people are about to die, and it is satisfying to be able to forge it again before I die." But in the deep mountains and old forests, there are no tools and materials......"

Ji Cha interrupted: "The tools will be available when you go outside and find a blacksmith shop at random." I have the material with me. But before that, I still have to go and get something, that thing is back to the White Horse Temple in Yanshan, since you are from Tianjing, you must be more familiar with the terrain in this area than us, let's help lead the way first. ”

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