It was already the fourth watch, and the county town of Dongping was silent, and the chickens and dogs were silent, but in a room in the backyard of Gu Yuantang, the girl Shen Manyao had been tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.

She is seventeen years old this year, since her father passed away, her mind has matured a lot, in the past few years of living in Gu Yuantang, whether Qin Xuan treats her like a sister or Qin Zhiguan treats her as his own, it can't replace her father's love after all.

When she was young, she followed her father to wander around, bitter and bitter, but very happy and happy; she often rode on her father's shoulder, holding a string of sugar gourds in her hand, listening to her father tell her some not funny jokes, and some things about the rivers and lakes, that was the happiest moment in her life.

"Yaoyao, is the sugar gourd so delicious?"

"Hehe, it's delicious, it's sweet, Daddy will buy me a bunch every day, okay?"

"Hey, you greedy girl, no matter how sweet the sugar gourd is, it can't be eaten as a meal, a penny and a string are too expensive, it's enough to buy a flatbread, so let's buy you a string of sugar gourds every ten days in the future, how about it?"

“...... Hmph......"

"What, are you unhappy? Hehe, girl, don't worry, when your father becomes famous in the future, I will buy you sugar gourds to eat every day." Not only that, but Dad will buy you a big house in the city, and then ask a master to make sugar gourds for his precious daughter, and ask him to make a lot of sugar gourds for you, and fill the whole yard! Haha, isn't that good?"

"Hmph, you brag again, if there are really so many sugar gourds, I can't eat them all, they will be broken. ”

"Eh, if you can't finish eating, you can put it in the yard as a flower, as long as my daughter likes it. ”

"Then when will Daddy become famous, and what is a name?"

"Well, you'll know it when you grow up in the future, you have to believe in your father's martial arts, your father's cultivation of swordsmanship is unparalleled in the world, in this river and lake, except for Cai Lanting, I'm afraid there are few people who are your father's opponent ...... me."

"I'm starting to brag again, I just said yesterday that Cai Lanting is the first knife in the world, and today I said that you are the most powerful except for him, so aren't you the second knife in the world?"

"The second knife, why doesn't it sound very good? Forget it, don't care about the number first, anyway, you just need to remember that your father is very powerful, but yet, before I become famous, I have to do a big thing, clean up the portal for your ancestor, and when this thing is done, your father and I will be able to climb the world's master list......"

“......”

"Girl, why don't you keep quiet? Fall asleep? Hey, you girl, why don't you believe it? Dad won't lie to you. ”

The past came to her heart, Shen Manyao curled up in the quilt, trembling and tears gushing all over, she choked in a low voice: "Dad, Yaoyao doesn't want sugar gourds, as long as you ......"

In a trance, she seemed to hear someone calling her: "Girl......"

Shen Manyao was suddenly alert, and immediately sat up straight, only to hear the voice sound again: "Girl?"

Shen Manyao heard that this was Mu Linchun's voice, she wiped a handful of tears, quickly got dressed, got up and lit a candle, and then opened the door.

When she saw Mu Linchun standing at the door with Hua Luanxi in her arms, Shen Manyao asked in surprise, "You, how did you get in......?" What's wrong with her?"

Mu Linchun said: "Open the room where I used to live." ”

Although Shen Manyao had many questions, she still opened the door of the next room according to her words.

After putting Hua Luan Ping on the bed, Mu Linchun said, "She is injured, you can help take care of it, and when it is dawn, please ask Uncle Qin to take a look for her." ”

Shen Manyao thought of what happened yesterday afternoon, and guessed that it must be someone from the Nine Swords Gate who caught up with Qi Hongyu, so she asked, "Where is her husband?"

By the candlelight, Mu Linchun saw Shen Manyao's red eyes and tears, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Qi Hongyu...... He's dead...... But I've already arranged for someone to collect his body. When she wakes up, you let her not worry about Qi Hongyu's body. ”

Shen Manyao was silent.

Mu Linchun said: "However, the people of the Nine Swords Gate are almost dead, and now there are still Guan Changfeng and his two or three brothers whose lives and deaths are unknown, so I have to find out where they are." Don't worry, I will definitely kill Guan Changfeng for you. ”

After that, he didn't stop any longer, walked out of the room, and flew away from the backyard of Gu Yuantang and disappeared into the night.

Shen Manyao looked at the direction in which he disappeared, stunned.

When Mu Linchun returned to Prison Niu Mountain again, the sky was already dark, and he found Gao Taixu on the top of the mountain that he had agreed with in advance.

Seeing that he was holding Qi Hongyu's sword in his hand, Mu Linchun frowned and asked, "Where is Qi Hongyu's corpse?"

"I'm buried, you can't carry a dead man around, right?" Gao Taixu looked aggrieved.

"Who told you to bury it? With so many people dead here, it will definitely alarm the government, if you bury him here, won't he be dug up and whipped by the Nine Daomen Gate?"

Mrs. Gao pursed her lips and pointed in one direction: "I just found out that there is a small tomb over there, so I threw his body into the tomb, if you are not at ease, come with me to have a look?"

Mu Linchun nodded, motioned for him to lead the way, and the two came to the halfway point of the peak where they were, and Gao Taixu took Mu Linchun into an extremely hidden cave. The hole is not large, but extremely lengthy. The two lit torches and walked about 200 steps to reach the end.

Then, Mu Linchun saw a half-open stone door, and the door was carved with the pattern of flying dragons and clouds, giving people a sense of ancient mystery.

Gao Taixu walked into the stone gate, and said in his mouth: "This tomb must have been stolen by a Tufuzi, and there are only two empty coffins left in it, so I picked a good one and put the seventh sword god in, which can be regarded as finding a feng shui treasure for him." ”

Mu Linchun walked into the tomb with Gao Taixu, and really saw two sarcophagi, one of which had been destroyed, and the other was still intact. He looked at Gao Taixu with a strange expression and ordered, "Open the sarcophagus." ”

Gao Taixu pushed the coffin lid open as he said.

Mu Linchun held a torch in his hand and stepped forward to confirm that it was Qi Hongyu before he breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did he look around, the tomb was only the size of two rooms where ordinary people lived, and the furnishings were simple, presumably a small tomb built by a wealthy family many years ago, but he still couldn't escape the fate of being stolen.

It is quite safe to place Qi Hongyu here, after all, this mountain is a few mountains away from the place where the incident happened last night, and if you go back and block the entrance to the cave, it will not be easily found.

Gao Taixu suddenly asked: "Where did you send that woman? Why didn't you kill her?" After tossing all night, in the end, none of the people who returned to the pavilion at the end of the world died, but the Nine Swords Gate was almost wiped out, and this seventh sword god was really a pity to die. ”

Mu Linchun said: "Hua Luan, like your mother, also likes the people in the rivers and lakes outside, but she is luckier than your mother, it can be seen that the Seventh Sword God's affection for her is indeed true." But in the end, it still can't stay for life. At the end of the day, she's a poor person, too. ”

Gao Taixu snorted coldly.

Mu Linchun said: "I thought about it, in fact, you don't have to find trouble with the end of the world now, you have also seen it, Hua Luanxi's methods after her crazy hair yesterday, wouldn't it be a pity if she died like this?"

"Moreover, with your current situation, if you want to survive in the rivers and lakes, you have to find a backer, and this Hua Luan is the most suitable candidate. Speaking of which, your mother should be regarded as Hua Luan's uncle and uncle, and you should take care of each other. The main thing is, if you're with her, then you don't have to be afraid that your unscrupulous father will come to trouble you, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

Mu Linchun talked eloquently, stunned Gao Taixu for a moment. The latter pondered for a long time before nodding and saying, "This sounds reasonable, and this woman is really good-looking, but will she let me follow her?" Even if she misses me and found this feng shui treasure for her husband, if she goes to Guan Changfeng to take revenge, wouldn't it be very dangerous for me to follow her?"

Mu Linchun smiled, "You don't have to worry about this, I'll tell her when I go back, she definitely won't go to the Nine Blades Gate to trouble." ”

Gao Taixu suddenly remembered something, and he said, "Mu Linchun, why are you thinking about me so much?

Mu Linchun looked at the young man in front of him, who was almost the same age as himself, and asked rhetorically, "What do you have that I can calculate?"

He paused and said sincerely: "Actually, I can understand you very well, if you talk about it in detail, the two of us can be regarded as brothers in the same cousin, no matter whether Mu Tianhua recognizes you or not, I, Mu Linchun, am willing to admit your identity." This is by no means sympathetic, but it is what it is. ”

Gao Taixu was stunned, he never expected that Mu Linchun would say these words, whether it was sincere or false, it made Gao Taixu's heart rise an indescribable feeling.

Since he was a child, he has been extremely inferior in his heart, and when he was with his mother, the people who did not return to the pavilion wanted to kill him; after his mother was forced to death by them, he came to the Red Lotus Sword Sect alone, and found the biological father who made him miss in his heart, but what he never expected was that although the man who made him born in this world took him in, he actually refused to recognize him; let him live a miserable life at the bottom of the outer courtyard of the Red Lotus Sword Sect, but he did not dare to resist, he could only practice hard, and wanted to win the attention and recognition of that man through his own efforts。

He didn't understand, it was also born by that man, why did Mu Qingfeng want everything from childhood to adulthood, but he was too high and too void to have to pick up his tail and live like a dog?

Therefore, when he used that dagger to cut off Mu Qingfeng's head, he did not hesitate at all, but had a pleasure that he had never felt before, and the resentment accumulated over the years completely dissipated with that knife.

Gao Taixu originally thought that if Mu Qingfeng died, then Mu Tianhua would pay attention to his son again, right? But he didn't expect that the unsympathetic father would really kill his illegitimate son for his son-in-law, and at that moment, he had no illusions about Mu Tianhua.

He hated Mu Tianhua, and he hated his mother, he was full of resentment towards everyone in this world, and he even hated himself. So Gao Taixu didn't want to think about the past, and spent all day in the Qinglou getting drunk and venting, he was grief-stricken and had nothing to love.

He originally hated Mu Linchun, but after seeing Mu Tianhua's essence clearly, he was no longer so resentful. Because he knew that even if Mu Linchun didn't beat him at that time, Mu Tianhua wouldn't look at him differently.

At this moment, hearing that Mu Linchun admitted that he was a brother, Gao Taixu's heart actually had a feeling like a fish in his throat. He forcibly suppressed this inexplicable emotion and said, "So, what are we going to do now?"

Mu Linchun said: "Go find Guan Changfeng and see if he is dead." ”