When the two came to Xu Changan's small courtyard, the girl in red was long gone, leaving only an empty bowl on the table, and two bamboo chopsticks that were inserted into the table next to the empty bowl.

Fortunately, there are only two chopsticks, if only three...... Even so, the teenager who watched it was a frightened heartbeat.

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In another alley, the lazy-looking girl in red blinked a pair of big beautiful eyes, carefully looking up and staring upward, with a lot of confusion in her eyes.

Upstairs, against the alley, there is a clothes pole that looks crumbling but never seems to fall, on which some women's underwear is dried.

It's autumn, but it's a good spring.

This picture is very strange, if the man walks here and looks up, everyone will feel disgusted for him, but they will also think that it is his nature.

But this woman......

The girl in red stood there thinking carefully about something, staring left and right at the two entrances of the alley, as if looking for her prey.

After guarding for a long time, no one else entered or exited the alley, only the red dress, which was extremely positive in color.

Xu Changan pulled out the two bamboo chopsticks vigorously, a little curious about what the weak-looking girl used to insert the bamboo chopsticks into the table, and then there was a pain in the flesh, and her eyes looked at the ground under the table through the two hollows, thinking carefully about how to fill it up.

However, the young man who claimed to be Yang Hejiu was standing on the edge of the pond outside the courtyard, carefully looking at the overflowing pond and a little distracted.

After a while, the man walked into the courtyard and stopped in front of the threshold.

The young man noticed the movement behind him and did not look back, but seemed to be a little distressed lying on the table, and whispered: "This year is the ninth year of Qing'an, today is the ninth day of September, and I will just turn ten years old after today." You said your name is Yang Hejiu, it's hard for me to believe that there is such a coincidence in this world. ”

Yang Hejiu didn't reply, just listened to the young man muttering there, and at some point he had already taken off the black long box on his back, there were two swords in it, and he took out one.

It was a bladeless black sword, and it didn't look anything special, like an iron sword that couldn't be more ordinary.

Xu Changan's hearing was not bad, and he had already noticed the movement behind him, but he didn't look back.

"I've thought a lot about what happened today, and my dad left me and ran away, which hit me hard. I really feel that these things have been calculated, just like in the novel, but I don't know the ending. ”

As if summoning up a lot of courage, the young man closed his eyes and slowly got up and turned around, took a deep breath and said: "I understand, I'm not leaving, if you want to kill me, then kill me, just beg you to take Brother Liu and them away, Brother Liu's calligraphy He likes it very much, and Zhang Sanco's flat shoulder never leaves his body, those things are ...... if you feel troublesome Please be sure to bring them with you! and Yu Ming's mother. ”

Yang Hejiu looked at the black sword in his hand, and then looked at the young man in front of him who was small but looked at death as if he were at home, and said with a smile: "You don't have to go, and you don't have to die." This sword was transferred to me by my teacher, and he asked me to give it away, and I want to give it to you. ”

The young man opened his eyes, looked at the unsheathed and bladeless black sword in Yang Hejiu's hand, and asked with some surprise: "But you didn't accept me as a student, won't your teacher blame you?" And why did he let you give away this sword?"

Yang Hejiu shook his head slightly, handed the black sword in his hand to the young man and said, "The teacher said that it is useless to keep things that are useless to yourself. ”

The young man took the black sword with both hands and asked puzzledly, "Why me?"

"This sword seems to tell me that it should belong to you. ”

"Why do you feel this way?"

Yang Hejiu shook his head lightly and said, "I don't know. ”

The young man gently stroked the black sword, there was no sharpness at all, even if the originally delicate hands touched the sword body on both sides, there was not the slightest mark left, let alone hurt himself.

"What kind of sword is this?" the young man asked, puzzled.

"This sword is the sword of man. ”

"What is a human sword?"

Yang Hejiu thought about it carefully, and said as seriously as if repeating someone's words: "The sword used by a person is the sword of a person." ”

......

......

Xu Changan was speechless: "Is there still a sword of heaven?"

Yang Hejiu nodded: "There are only two kinds of swords in this world, the sword of heaven and the sword of man. ”

Xu Changan asked tentatively with a strange look: "The sword that fell from the sky is the sword of heaven?"

Yang Hejiu nodded seriously.

The boy became more and more speechless, is such a justified explanation really reasonable?

"I heard the movement just now, there should be two swords in your box, this one is the sword of man, and the other is the sword of heaven?" Xu Changan asked tentatively after looking at the black long box that had been carried behind him by Yang Hejiu again.

Yang Hejiu didn't hide it, and nodded, "The sword inside is called Star Shatter, and it is indeed the sword of the sky." ”

The boy's eyes lit up, and he had never used a sword before, and he rarely became interested in this weapon. This is also considered normal, and it is difficult for every teenager in childhood not to be interested in this kind of handsome-looking thing.

"How many swords of heaven are there, and how many swords of man are there?"

"There are only four Heavenly Swords in the world, but there should be five. Asking the moon, the stars shattering, the god falling, the sword of the Son of Heaven who is missing, and a ......"

Xu Changan couldn't help but glance at Yang Hejiu's naturally hanging right hand, and inexplicably thought that the four fingers of his right hand should have been cut off by the other four Heavenly Swords?

He came back to his senses and asked, "What's wrong with the other one?"

"There is also a sword called the Great River, which was once the head of the Sword of Heaven. ”

The young man captured a key point from this sentence, he was the head of the Heavenly Sword, and couldn't help asking, "What about now?"

Yang Hejiu had a rare trace of regret in his eyes, and shook his head lightly and said, "That sword should still be in Chang'an City now." ”

Xu Changan didn't ask more questions when he saw Yang Hejiu's reaction, he didn't know what happened to this sword called Dahe, but he also knew that it should be very important to the person who practiced the sword for them, "What about that person's sword? How many are there?"

"The swords of the world are all swords of men, and there should be countless ones. ”

Seeing the loss in the young man's eyes, Yang Hejiu smiled and said: "This does not mean that the sword of man must be very bad, the teacher told me that when the water is clear, there is no fish, and the sword of man is invincible." ”

Xu Changan's face was shocked, he had never heard of the latter sentence, but the young man who often dealt with water and fish could hear the truth and falsehood, so he even began to agree with the latter sentence, but he still felt that something was not right, and asked: "That, did you secretly change the pronunciation of a word?

Uh-huh.

......

"Does this sword have a name?"

"The teacher said that it is called Tangqian Yan. ”

Xu Changan looked at the black sword in his hand, and muttered to himself: "Tang Qian Yan, what a strange name......

The girl in red didn't know when she had returned to the courtyard, and when she heard the conversation between the two, she had always been lazy, so she rarely sped up and ran into the house, looked at the black sword in Xu Chang'an's hand and snatched it and stared at it carefully, looking at it as if she had found something terrible, and after a long time, she looked at Xu Changan with great confidence and said: "The surname is Xu! You must be surnamed Li! You must be surnamed Li!"

Xu Changan was a little confused, stretched out his hand to probe the delicate and smooth forehead of the girl in red, and said helplessly: "I don't have the surname Li, my father's surname is Xu, and my grandfather should also be surnamed Xu." ”

Who knew that the girl in red did not feel angry at this seemingly frivolous action, but stared at Xu Chang'an seriously and said more and more confidently: "None of this is important, you must be surnamed Li!"

Yang Hejiu didn't do anything when he looked at this picture, just quietly observed the two.

Xu Changan didn't care why the girl in red was sure that she had to be surnamed Li, but she didn't bother to refute it, and she looked like she would have my surname whatever you asked me to do.

The girl in red turned to look at Yang Hejiu and asked carefully, "The name of this sword was chosen by your teacher?"

Yang Hejiu nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"What's your teacher's name?"

Yang Hejiu thought about it carefully, and it seemed that he really didn't know the name of his teacher, and then shook his head lightly and said, "I only know that the teacher's surname is Mu." ”

"Where is he?"

"Beiyang City. ”

"The capital?"

"Yes. ”

The girl returned the black sword to Xu Changan, and then left the courtyard and the city.

Not long after, there was an extra touch of red in the picture of the dark clouds outside the city, which seemed extremely discordant, and the black began to swallow and surround, but the red was gradually moving away and unstoppable.

Everywhere it passed, the red spread like wildfire. A red group departed, and the red remained in the distant grass outside the city, moistening the withered yellow weedy ground under the feet of the war horse, and by next spring, this grass should grow extraordinarily thick.

One of the three strange people had already left, and the short and fat man in the south of the city stared at the red blood under his feet with all kinds of fishy smell very angrily, and his throat was already hoarse, he didn't really hate these reds, but he felt that there was some trouble.

Perhaps seeing that his body was not stained with those tricky blood, the middle-aged man was a little afraid and gently patted his chest with one hand.

Continue to carry a flat pole and wander aimlessly.

When he came to the door of one of the most inconspicuous shops, he peeked at the old man who was still drunk in the room, lightly took a bulging black cloth bag with various gold threads on the table, and then poured urine into the half-empty wine jug, and swaggered away.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to put a steamed bun in the stove room, and said to himself: "Third grandfather, I never take people's things for nothing, this is the rule!"

In the evening, listening to the shouting and fighting of the wine shop at the entrance of the alley, he shouted casually: "Cook cakes, sell cooking cakes." ”

The sound of the fight gradually subsided, and he approached an old man whose nostrils were bleeding, stared at his bleeding and loose yellow old teeth, and asked seriously: "Old man, do you want to buy cooking cakes? I will give you a discount when I bite out my teeth and grab medicine?"

The old man was furious, pointed at the man's nose and roared, "Get out!"

"Okay. ”

The middle-aged man turned to leave, the bamboo basket was slightly oblique, and the old man was slapped to the ground by him without paying attention, and his scarred old face touched the scarlet blood on the ground, and he trembled with anger.

The short and fat man was windy under his feet, and then walked towards the east gate, not looking ready to go home.