Although it is early summer, the sight of this place is still covered with snow, and it is like silver at a glance. On this snow-capped mountain, there are three black dots moving rapidly downward, which looks a little abrupt in the white sky. If you look closely, you can see that these three black spots are three women riding three white horses running down the mountain.

Among them, the first one was dressed in white and snow, and there were no extra ornaments in his hair and ears. And the face is covered with white veil, so that the appearance is not very clear, and you can only guess one or two from its graceful body, but it has a little more mysterious beauty. The two in the back, one wearing a blue shirt and a white waist-length skirt, held a hole flute in his hand. The other was dressed in a green shirt and a green dress, holding a piccolo in his hand. Both women each carried a long sword on their backs, and the scabbard was as blue as snow. Both of them are only seventeen or eighteen years old, they are as beautiful as the moon, and they have "sideburns", dancing lightly in the wind, and they are very good-looking.

The two young women looked very happy at this time, and one of the women in the green shirt asked, "Senior sister, senior sister, do you say it's fun outside the snow mountain?"

The blue-shirted woman laughed, "Where did I know? ”

The woman in the green shirt asked again, "I wonder if there is such beautiful snow outside?"

The woman in the blue shirt raised her head and said, "I don't know if it's good or not, but if you say that the snow is so big, it will be Yanshan." ”

The woman in the green shirt was puzzled: "Is the snow in Yanshan bigger than ours here?"

The woman in the blue shirt glanced at her and said angrily: "If you don't want to read, don't you know that there is a poem that says, 'The snowflakes in Yanshan are as big as a seat, and the pieces blow down Xuanyuan Terrace', do you say it's not big?"

Unconvinced, the woman in the green shirt pursed her lips, opened her arms and gestured, and said, "How can there be such a big snow in the sky? ”

These words made the woman in the blue shirt cry and laugh, and the woman in white in front also laughed: "After going down the mountain, you two don't just care, the rivers and lakes are the most dangerous, people's hearts are unpredictable, and you should pay more attention to everything." ”

The green-shirted woman asked, "Master, why did we go to Caozhou, where is Caozhou, it's not far away, is there a snow-capped mountain there?"

Seeing that the woman in the green shirt asked a few questions in a row, the woman in white was not angry, but only said: "There is a lively scene in Caozhou." ”

Sure enough, the woman in the green shirt was overjoyed when she heard this: "Ah, that's great! The ice gate is so unfun, it's suffocating me!"

These three people are the people in the ice gate, the woman in white is the door master Ye Shuxue, the woman in the blue shirt is the senior sister Yun Feifei, and the woman in the green shirt is the senior sister Yun Feifei.

The gangs on the rivers and lakes are large or small, good and evil, and many widows are not assigned, which can be hundreds or thousands. And there is one sect that is the most mysterious, and that is the Ice Gate faction. Because no one in the rivers and lakes knows when it was born, no one knows how many disciples it has, and no one even knows where its mountain gate is located.

What I know is that this Bingmen faction has extraordinary martial arts and is blessed, and the mountain gate is hidden in the vast snow-capped mountains. And every ten years, one or two disciples come down from the mountains to save the danger and help the weak, each of whom is amazing and gorgeous.

Ten years ago, Ye Lianxue, a disciple of the Ice Gate, came down from the snow mountain, but he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in white, covered with white veil, and fluttering like a fairy. One person and one sword slashed more than a dozen green forest scumbags such as the Seven Kou of Mengshan Mountain and the Nine Monsters of the Yellow River in one year, and he was also a slasher of dozens of martial arts scum such as Shaolin rebel monks and Confucian rebels.

Ye Lianxue became famous in the rivers and lakes in just one year, and her temperament was extraordinary, and her demeanor was like a fairy, so that admirers were like clouds, whether they were masters in the rivers and lakes or children of the family, they all flocked to it and went crazy for it. Unexpectedly, a year later, Ye Lianxue suddenly closed her sword and returned to the door, coming and going like smoke, and never appeared in the rivers and lakes again. It is said that a few years ago, she had become the owner of the Ice Gate.

Counting the year, this year is the year when the disciples of the Ice Gate go down the mountain.

The three of them came down all the way from Bingmen, and Ye Lianxue had to watch the mountains and rivers while hurrying for the stubbornness of the two disciples. Of course, do not forget to show chivalry, the road will be uneven will be a little rescue, so after several delays, even if the three white horses are strong, in January they also arrived in the Central Plains Xiangzhou area.

Although the mountains in this area are low and low, the grass is deep and the forests are dense. The three of them were walking on the forest path, only to see that the leaves in the forest fell without wind, at first only one or two, and in a blink of an eye, the fall became more and more urgent, there were hundreds. Yun Feifei and the others saw that there was no wind or rain, and even the branches on the tree did not shake for half a minute, and there were so many leaves falling, and they knew that it was a superior means. The two of them unconsciously took the reins, and both swords were in their hands, and they were all on guard. It's just that although the hundreds of leaves fell quickly, they avoided the three people and three horses, and plunged into the adjacent soil one by one, and the leaves were more than half in the soil.

The leaves fell, and a few feet away from the three of them, stood an old man with gray hair, his hair and beard were slightly messy, and his old face vaguely had the outline of his young and handsome time, dressed in an old robe, with a pine striped long sword behind him, and no dust, and a bare wine gourd tied around his waist.

Ye Lianxue recognized this trick "no wind and green rain", and naturally recognized the person, so he instructed the two disciples: "You go to find an inn to settle down first, I have an old man to meet." ”

Although Yun Feifei and the others wanted to know who this old man was and what he had to do with the master, they didn't dare to disobey the master's orders, so they had to leave first.

When the two of them walked away, Ye Lianxue looked at the gray hair and vicissitudes of life of the old man, and sighed: "You are so old." ”

The man listened to Ye Lixue speak, maybe he hadn't heard this voice for too long, and he was in a trance, and after a long time, he smiled bitterly: "I'm almost not confused, but I'm old." ”

Ye Lianxue was silent, and the man looked up at the sky, as if he had a memory, and said: "You and I, it has been nine years since we parted last time, and I thought that this year I should go down the mountain with the people in the ice gate, and I will wait for you here." ”

Ye Lianxue's voice couldn't hear the waves, and she asked, "What if I didn't come down?"

The man's expression was no longer as sad as before, so he said, "It's a big deal to wait for another ten years, if you don't come down the mountain, I will keep waiting, twenty years, thirty years...... Until I died. ”

Ye Lianxue sighed: "Why are you so troubled?"

The man's heart was warm, but he said sadly: "In exchange for seeing you today, I am not bitter at all." ”

Ye Lianxue saw that his expression was downcast, and he had no former demeanor, and remembered that the number and strength of the leaves falling from Fang Cai's trick "Windless Drifting Green Rain" were not much different from those back then, so he said: "You are a rare martial arts wizard, at that time, you were majestic and heroic, and your style and charm were the same for a while." The martial arts you have practiced are also accumulated steadily, if you have practiced hard so far, you will be second to none in the rivers and lakes, and where will it be the turn of Lei Yuan Lingxiao and the two of them to dominate the north and south? Why are you willing to degenerate, reckless in your skills, and have not made an inch of progress in ten years?"

The man said: "What if I practice martial arts to the extreme, even if I am the best in the world, don't I still can't go to the ice gate and see you?"

Ye Lianxue sighed again: "You should know about me." ”

The man said, "I will be like this if I know your temperament." But if you refuse to see me, I will never see you. Although you are always friendly to others, you are hot on the outside and cold on the inside, and no one can always enter your heart. ”

Ye Lianxue was silent again, the man took off the wine jug on his waist, put it to his mouth and drank a few sips, and said again: "Although I have been drunk every time over the years, I still can't help but think of the first time you and I met in Xiangzhou that year, and they walked side by side, swept away all the thieves, and all the heroes in the world were envious, and it became a beautiful conversation. Just when I was about to give you my heart, but you suddenly returned to the door. I spent several years searching for it, and finally found the location of the ice gate, but you refused to see me, and I couldn't break through the 'snow into ice array', so I could only use wine to drown my sorrows......"

Ye Lianxue suddenly said coldly: "Okay! Don't mention the things of the year again." Thinking that you and I have met once, I am willing to see you today. ”

This voice was cold to the bone, and the man listened to the endless sourness in his heart, and he had been waiting for nine years, which was not worth mentioning in the eyes of others. After a while, the man said, "Because I feel that I can't live without you, I forgot about you through wine, and now you have not forgotten, and even wine is inseparable." I have no regrets when I see you today. ”

So saying, the man turned away and went somewhere else. He drank and laughed wildly, but the laughter was full of sorrow and melancholy. When the laughter was far away, there was a faint singing: "Gather horns and cornices, connect the heavy green, hide the ancient view in the deep mountains, the walls are broken, and the barren ...... and chaos."

The two of them rode for an hour, and only then did they arrive at a larger market, and the two of them looked around, and finally found an inn that looked good, so they tied their horses in front of the door and entered the store.

The two of them found a table next to them and sat down, and when Yun Hail arrived at the store, he was instinctively thirsty and tired, and hurriedly shouted: "Dr. Wine, come and have some good food and drink, and prepare two more upper rooms." ”

The wine doctor answered, and went to prepare. Where have you ever seen such a wonderful person among the diners who are resting and satisfying their hunger? It's just that these people saw that these two women were dressed in rivers and lakes, and they didn't dare to make a mistake, and they were offended. Yun Fei Fei Yun Fei and Yun Fei Fei are young and ignorant, and they don't know about accidents, so they don't pay attention to this diner.

When the wine and food came up, the two drank slowly and chatted to relieve their fatigue. Yun Hail asked, "Senior sister, who do you say that old man is, is it a friend or an enemy of Master?"

Yun Hail thought for a while, and replied: "That man's method of falling leaves is very clever, but he has never hurt anyone, and the master said that he is an old man, so he must be a friend." ”

Yun Hail felt justified when he heard it, the two were talking and laughing to themselves, and another guest entered the store, and they could hear the footsteps as light as a wild goose when they lifted, and the landing place was as steady as a rock, so they knew that it was a master in the rivers and lakes. The two looked up and saw a young man in Tsing Yi coming in, glanced at them, and sat down on the table beside them.

PS: For convenience, the titles between some characters will not be completely in accordance with the names of the Tang Dynasty, such as "X Lang" and "X Niang", but will continue to use the more commonly used "son" and "girl" and the like.