Chapter 3: The Outlaw Swordsman
Li Kunlun lived in Orion's house like this, often helping Huang Orion and his wife with some housework, telling some stories and legends to the little girl, and slowly walked out of the pain of losing his loved ones.
Yellow Orion's wife didn't have a good impression of this wild boy who suddenly appeared, but it was difficult for her husband and daughter to show it. The little girl likes Li Kunlun very much, and refuses to sleep noisily every night without listening to a bedtime story from him, Li Kunlun also loves this innocent and romantic little sister very much, so he also depends on her, teaches her to read and write during the day, and tells some rumors and anecdotes that he has seen in books at night, and the two gradually begin to be commensurate with each other, which also gives Li Kunlun a lot of comfort.
Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Kunlun has grown a lot taller, because he often follows Orion to the mountains to hunt, and his physique has also become stronger, as if he is a strong guy.
One day the yellow hunter went up the mountain to hunt as usual, Li Kunlun and his wife and daughter stayed at home to prepare some firewood for winter, in the evening, the distant mountain side lit up, at first Li Kunlun thought it was the sunset and did not care, but as the sky was getting late, the mountain side was getting brighter and brighter, Li Kunlun had a bad premonition in his heart, sure enough, after a while, the true appearance of the bright light was fully revealed, and the whole mountain was like a red glowing coat, it was a mountain fire! Winter is approaching and the weather is dry, which is the time when wildfires are prone to occur. "It's not good, Uncle Huang hasn't come back yet, isn't it trapped by the wildfire," Li Kunlun thought in his heart. The Huang mother and daughter on the side also noticed an anomaly in the distance.
"Auntie, what's so bright over there?"
"Oh no, it looks like there's a fire on the mountain, and your father hasn't come back yet, what can I do" Mrs. Huang looked at her daughter at a loss, and was so anxious that she was about to cry.
"I'll take a look, you stay at home and wait for me to come back," Li Kunlun said, and ran to the side of the mountain in the distance.
When he arrived at the side of the mountain where the fire started, Li Kunlun saw that the fire was stopped by a river, but he couldn't get over, the woods on the other side of the river were almost wrapped in the sea of fire, and the billowing smoke rose to cover half of the sky, and the firelight shot out from between the branches and leaves of several rows of trees on the opposite bank that had not yet burned, and the reflection formed a dense red and yellow pillar of light in the river, and some wild deer and porcupines on fire sprang out from time to time in the sea of fire......
The scene before me is like a glorious purgatory... Li Kunlun could only watch all this, just like watching Taoxi Village being flooded, and there was nothing he could do. is such a sense of powerlessness, the important people in his life are in danger one after another, but he has no choice, Li Kunlun hates himself from the bottom of his heart...
Li Kunlun stood on the shore and stared at the sea of fire on the other side, with a cold gaze in his eyes, no one knew what he was thinking at this moment... After a night like this, "Maybe Huang Orion has gone home" Li Kunlun ran back to Orion's house with a recent bit of luck.
"Brother Kunlun, you're finally back, I'm worried about me, what about Daddy, did Daddy come back together?"
The last trace of illusion in Li Kunlun's heart was also shattered, why did God treat him like this, and the long-lost resentment in Li Kunlun's heart resurfaced.
The fire on the mountain burned for seven days and seven nights, and the surrounding mountains and forests were basically burned down except for the river, and the wood ash floating from the sky fell everywhere, and the entire valley was covered with a layer of gray, and in these seven days, the yellow hunter never appeared again...
It took seven days for Huang's mother and daughter to accept this fact, Huang washed his face with tears all day long, Huang Jingying also cried and shouted for her father all day long, and Li Kunlun fell into great grief for a while and couldn't extricate himself...
The deceased has passed away, the living still have to continue to live, the Huang family, who lost the mainstay, soon came to the situation of running out of rice to get out of the pot, on this day the Huang family said that they would take Li Kunlun out to find something to eat, and brought some dry food and Li Kunlun out of the door.
Huang took Li Kunlun out of the valley and walked down the mountain, I don't know how long, it was getting dark or there was no harvest, at a fork in the road Huang suddenly pointed to a road and said to Li Kunlun: "This road is called Meilin Road, there is a big plum forest at the end of the road, you go to pick some to bring back to Ying'er to eat, you bring these dry food, pick the plums and come back to the intersection to find me."
Li Kunlun instantly understood the meaning of these words,
"Auntie, please take care of Ying'er"
After Li Kunlun finished speaking, he bowed deeply to the Huang family, turned his head and walked on the fork in the road, never looking back......
Li Kunlun's heart was like ashes, he walked along the road, when he was thirsty, he lay down by the stream like a hare to drink water, when he was hungry, he cut some bark and grass roots in the woods, and when he was tired, he climbed to the tree and hugged the trunk to sleep.
After turning over one mountain after another, Li Kunlun didn't know where he was going, so he kept walking aimlessly, and when he came to a barren mountain, the sun was about to set, so he found a tree of suitable thickness and climbed it to prepare for the night. After staying in the tree for a long time, he suddenly felt footsteps in the distance, Li Kunlun was very vigilant and did not dare to make a sound.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Li Kunlun's heart tightened, "Who will be in this deserted mountain?"
After a while, Li Kunlun saw the appearance of the person who came, the person was wearing a black corseted robe, the neckline and sleeves were embroidered with extraordinary golden patterns, he was holding a very strange sword in his left hand, his right hand was covering his chest and mouth, and he was wearing a hat and couldn't see his appearance clearly, and he looked like a wounded swordsman. There was a rustling sound in the surrounding bushes, and the swordsman suddenly became alert.
"Your Excellency, where are you going, we have been following for more than three months, how can Your Excellency bear to leave without regard for the guests" An old voice came from behind the swordsman.
"You stinky camel, you're really ghosted," the swordsman said, turning around. After a while, the owner of the voice appeared, a camel with a bald head and a messy stubble on his face, with a thick scar on his left eye, only his right eye open, dressed in coarse linen clothes that looked like a beggar, and holding two axes with cold light in his hands, which did not match his image.
"Come out, how can the guests not bring a greeting gift to the host" After the camel finished speaking, more than ten masked black-clothed men with long knives suddenly appeared in the surrounding grass, surrounding the swordsman. The swordsman stands with his feet crossed back and forth, pushes the sword out of the sheath with his thumb with his left hand, and leans his body and head slightly forward, switching to a posture of facing the enemy. Li Kunlun hid in the tree, holding his breath, not daring to make a sound.
"Hands" The camel gave the order, and more than ten black-clothed people rushed up, only to see a cold light accompanied by the sound of swords passing over the right side of the swordsman, and the two black-clothed men fell to the ground in response. "What a fast sword
Li Kunlun didn't even have time to see when the sword was drawn. Then the swordsman pointed to the ground with his left foot, flipped the sword body with his right hand, twisted his elbow and slashed a sword, and there were a few screams, and the camel in the distance was not impatient, silently staring at the battle in front of him...
In less than half a cup of tea, just now seeing that the man in black who was still in an absolute advantage had all been killed, the camel stepped forward unhurriedly and said
"What a fierce swordsmanship, Your Excellency deserves to be the head of the three major swordsmen of my Yue Kingdom, these twelve dead soldiers are the disciples of Mr. Canggu, and they can't hurt Your Excellency in the slightest, so let my old man personally meet Your Excellency."
With that, he lifted his axe and flew up, and the swordsman swung his sword to block it, and was immediately shocked to take two steps back, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out before he barely stabilized his body.
"You were seriously injured by Yu Liuyun first, and Shicai killed these twelve dead soldiers with strong true qi, if you force a battle again, I am afraid that the oil will run out, so it is better to tie up and capture the old man to save some energy. ”
The swordsman scolded, "You stinky and shameless camel, if I hadn't been injured, with your three-legged cat kung fu, I would have become my sword soul with those miscellaneous pieces."
"Hmph, Your Excellency, don't blame me for taking advantage of others, who offended you is the one who offended you, I'm afraid no one can protect you in this Yue country, obediently go back with the old man, maybe you can live a few more days"
The swordsman ignored the camel, and gathered a stream of true qi on the tips of his left fingers, and quickly took two breaths towards his chest to soothe it.
"It seems that Your Excellency is unwilling to go back with me easily, so the old man will come to understand the demeanor of the sword head of the Yue Kingdom!"
After speaking, the two axes flew like snowflakes in the wind, flying and slashing at the swordsman, the swordsman did not take it hard, turned around to dodge, and at the same time turned the sword from his waist to his left hand, and then quickly stabbed the camel's vest with a sword, and the camel hurriedly stretched his left axe behind his back in fear and twisted slightly to block the blow, and then turned sideways and slashed at the swordsman with his right axe.
The swordsman drew his sword to block, and slid backwards to open the distance, and then lifted the sword luck as if he was going to make some powerful moves, and the camel hurriedly chased and slashed up, and the swordsman had to stop his luck and dodge.
The camel was obviously afraid of the swordsman's actions just now, and he was chasing the swordsman so hard that he could no longer distance himself.
The swordsman is obviously skilled, but he was seriously injured and couldn't use the full power of the sword move, and was frequently blocked by the camel... In this way, the two sides fought back and forth for more than 100 rounds, and the swordsman gradually lost his strength and fell into a disadvantage.
Seeing this, the camel urged the true qi of his whole body to gather to the ghostly speed of his hands, and slashed at the swordsman with all his might, but the swordsman couldn't dodge and blocked it with both hands against the sword, and the two sides stalemate and began to compete with the true qi.
After a while, the swordsman was about to lose his breath and was about to be defeated, and suddenly an unknown object from the tree next to him came out of the tree and jumped towards the two of them, followed by a terrible roar of the camel, and I saw a rusty knife stuck in the back of the camel!
The camel immediately regained his strength and sent the thing flying a few feet away with a backhand swing, and at the same time, the swordsman was also shocked by the true qi that gathered his strength and flew out. Seeing that there was no danger for a while, the camel turned around to look for the person who attacked him, only to see a beggar in tattered clothes and a cloak struggling to get up, "Where did the little beggar dare to sneak attack me, I'm impatient!" After saying that, he stepped forward with an axe to cut it, Li Kunlun was so frightened that he subconsciously closed his eyes and blocked it with his arm. After a while, he felt that the sharp axe had not been cut down, so he opened his eyes to look, and the scene in front of him frightened Li Kunlun again: he saw that the camel was cut in half by the waist, and fell in two pools of blood, and the upper part was still muttering something in his mouth. And the swordsman was still standing several feet away, staring at him without moving, and after an instant, his strength was exhausted and he collapsed......