Chapter 20: The Master Not Far Away
"Wang Zheng, how can I trust your words? Liu Ye closed his eyes slightly, not wanting to look at his appearance.
How can you be trusted? What can you not trust in the presence of those who are bent on revenge?
Wang Zheng understands this truth, otherwise he would not have come here.
"I don't have to worry about it, you better hurry up and find your helper, declare in advance, I don't need to make a move then. Wang Zheng smiled and shook his head, slowly looking at the sword in Liu Ye's hand.
He heard his father say that this sword was said to be an heirloom passed down from generation to generation by the Li family, and when his father was very young, he was very envious of this sword.
Later, I heard that the sword of the Li family represents the etiquette and affection of their clansmen, and cannot be borrowed from outsiders.
Twenty years ago, Master Wang deliberately kept this sword, not because he liked it when he was young, but because he felt that the sword that could make the Li family regard it as an heirloom should not be buried with the disappearance of the Li family.
Who knows, many years ago, Liu Ye came here, and Master Wang saw something at the first sight of Liu Ye.
It is said that the old man's eyes are very sharp, and he will think more about what is important or not.
From that day on, no matter what Liu Ye did in the ancient city, Master Wang was silently supporting him in the back, no matter what, no matter what others thought, some things should be returned or had to be returned.
Wang Zheng looked at the sword and wanted to ask, but the sword in Liu Ye's hand was a little out of the sheath, and he had no choice but to stop at this time.
Of course, Wang Zheng looked away with amusement and looked at the clouds in the sky.
The clouds in the sky are far and near, big and small, just like some people and some things. I can't catch it, I can't see it, just like that, a lifetime of confusion will pass.
Wang Zheng said unexpectedly: "Although I can't beat you, as long as you don't use the breathing method, let's have a game one-on-one, maybe you are not my opponent." ”
Liu Ye opened his eyes and said calmly: "That's true." ”
A breeze blew, and the two teenagers sat there, their sleeves swinging back.
Wang Zheng stopped talking, leaving Liu Ye alone there to meditate, and he walked to the three tombstones in front of him and bowed seriously.
Squinting at the three corpses not far away, he said to himself: "The breathing method is really a good thing." ”
Lin Xi returned the same way, but he walked slower than when he left, not because of anything else, he couldn't let go of some things in his heart, walk more, take smaller steps, maybe he can think about it for a while.
After walking for a long time, and not much road, Lin Xi stopped and looked at the movement in front of him.
The aura around the body slowly rose.
"Is it you?" it was Dong Hao who spoke, and beside him were Dong Yihu and the second son of the Dong family.
Dong Yihu wanted to speak when he saw Lin Xi, but was stopped by Dong Hao next to him.
In this way, three people left, one went back, and the four looked at each other in silence for a long time.
Dong Hao couldn't wait any longer, and asked, "Your name is Yu Feng, right? If it's not something to do, please ask Brother Yu to make a way out." ”
Where does Lin Xi have time to care about what they do, looking at Dong Hao's panicked appearance, Lin Xi asked, "Is there something going on in the ancient city?"
Dong Hao was a little surprised, and when he heard the other party ask, he always felt that he knew something.
"No, but Brother Yu still don't go back, something should happen soon. ”
Lin Xi snorted and made a gesture of please, Dong Hao hurriedly left after understanding, and the four of them passed by.
There must be something going to happen in the ancient city, otherwise the two members of the Dong family left, and their father did not follow, indicating that there is something that they can't be mixed with, and it is likely to be about Liu Ye.
Before leaving, Liu Ye told Lin Xi that if he came back in the future, he would take his sword with him, if it was still there.
Lin Xi has always taken these words to heart, just talking about Liu Ye's skills, few people in the ancient city can keep him, ordinary people, Lin Xi doesn't have to worry about it.
However, Miss Zhang told him that there was a monk in the ancient city who died in the ancient city twenty years ago, and in Miss Xueqing's codeword, the death of the monk would not be caused by the people in the ancient city, and the disappearance of the fourth family was even more ambiguous, and the two things must be related.
In less than half an hour, an old man in front of Lin Xi walked over, his steps were very steady, and he looked like a middle-aged man from a distance.
When the old man got closer, Lin Xi and the old man glanced at each other, but neither of them seemed to notice anything strange, and they each walked away in opposite directions.
Lin Xi found a big tree to lean on the side, and said to himself, "That old man is not an ordinary person?"
"Where did you see that?" the soul inside asked rhetorically.
Lin Xi said softly: "The distance between his steps is not too big or small, just the same, and his breath is very regular, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the same as me, putting these aside, he came to these places alone as an old man, it won't be a walk." ”
"That person is indeed not an ordinary person, but it is not as mysterious as you say, his cultivation is not very high, you have the breathing method in your body, as long as you don't take the initiative to show your aura, or provoke him, he won't do anything to you. ”
Lin Xi exhaled, fortunately, Lin Xi used the breathing method to hide the aura in time before, otherwise, the old man should not let himself leave easily.
When he returned to the ancient city, there was still no one in the Liu family's mansion, Lin Xi found a place to put sundries in the Liu family, and lay there quietly waiting for Liu Ye to come back.
A day has passed, and no one from the Liu family has ever come in, but when he went out to walk around, he found that the three people from the Dong family had returned, and I heard from the people here that the people of the Wang family had left the ancient city early, except for Master Wang and Wang Zheng had not left, and the Zhang family had not left anyone.
The people with vision in the ancient city understood that something was going to happen soon, and it was all analyzed by an uncle who sold noodles to Lin Xi, and Lin Xi asked him before, since something happened in the ancient city immediately, why did everyone do the same as usual?
The noodle seller just smiled and responded to them, no matter how big things happened, it was estimated that they would not be in their turn, unless the sky fell.
Thinking about it now, after Lin Xi came back, none of them in the Wang family knew that as long as Lin Xi left the Liu family, he would hide his breath extremely much, and only returned to the Liu family every day when no one was around.
Another two days have passed, and the ancient city is still calm, but Liu Ye has not come back yet.
That night, Lin Xi closed his eyes and felt the breathing method, the light blue aura around him filled the entire room, and his breathing became steady, and the interval between exhalation and inhalation was very regular.
After a few hours, Lin Xi found that someone was approaching this side, he carefully looked at the situation outside, the person who came was not Liu Ye but the old man he met today, followed by Wang Zheng and Chu Yichuan.
"This is where the boy lives?" the old man began.
Wang Zai replied, "This is it, but he has something to do." ”
The old man's eyes were closed, and one hand grabbed Wang Zheng's neck, "Boy, although we are masters and apprentices, as long as you dare to lie to me, you still have to die!" The old man's words were cold, and he didn't mean to lie at all.
His fingers didn't mean to let go, but they got heavier and heavier, but he didn't move the killer and threw him on the ground.
Wang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and without any expression of resentment, he said calmly: "He will not leave, he will definitely come back, we will wait for him here." ”
Chu Yichuan also said: "Senior Brother Wang is right, he will definitely come back." ”
The old man sneered and withdrew his hands into his sleeves, "Are you sure?"
Chu Yichuan said: "He likes a woman, and both of them have been in love privately since childhood. I'm going to marry that woman in a few days, and I'm sure he'll be back. ”
The old man was noncommittal.
These words were taught to Chu Yichuan by Wang Zheng in advance, and there was no other thing mentioned here, such as why Liu Ye really wanted to come back.
Lin Xi heard it very clearly inside, he didn't expect that this old man was actually the master of the king robbing them, and judging from his face, he was very unkind.
The old man took out a yellowed piece of paper from his clothes, and in the process of robbing the king, he had already read the contents of it.
"Master Lao has made a move. Wang Zai said.
This piece of paper was handed over to his son by the master of the Dong family and asked them to take it away, as for what was written on it, Wang Zheng didn't look at it, it was his father who confessed.
"This method is very unusual, and it may be of great help to your future cultivation, but this method is useless to me, so you don't have to worry about me snatching it. The old man spoke.
Wang Zai said respectfully: "If the master likes it, just take it." ”
The old man looked at him and said no more, and the three of them walked into the hall together.
The moment they left Lin Xi's sight, Lin Xi's breathing method worked, concealing his breath to the lowest level, and left here as quickly as possible.
Fortunately, no one on the other side found him, and after he walked a few streets, no one in the ancient market at night was open, Lin Xi decided to go outside to rest on the mountain for a while, after all, he knew that Liu Ye would come back, and it was very likely that something would happen on the day he returned.
Lin Xi was not afraid of the king robbing them, but the old man Lin Xi beside them really couldn't see the depth at all, and he had to know how much his breathing method could see the other party's aura.
According to the other soul in his body, the old man did not have a breathing method, so there was only one reason why Lin Xi couldn't see his aura, and that was that the old man's strength was very high.
In fact, Lin Xi didn't know that when he jumped out of Liu Ye's house, there was a young man holding a sword not far away who could see it clearly, he wanted to call Lin Xi, but in the end he held back, and he didn't turn his head and leave until he saw Lin Xi disappear into the mountain in front of him.
However, that person did not leave the ancient city as soon as possible, but went to Zhang's house and placed a hosta by the window of Miss Zhang's room without anyone noticing.
The morning vegetable market is very lively, people say that they can buy fresh vegetables at the earliest, but everyone comes out to sell vegetables early in the morning, and there are all kinds of shouts in the vegetable market.
In a place with a steaming smoke and a few benches and tables next to it, a fat man wiped his sweat with a towel around his neck.
"Why is this scallion pancake so expensive? One man complained.
The man didn't pay attention to it, his scallion pancake is famous in the vegetable market, but his price is twice as expensive as elsewhere, others say him, he doesn't pay attention, but there are still so many people who buy it, and there are so many people at the stall every morning.
The man couldn't help it, the temptation of scallion pancakes was really big, he couldn't help but take out a few money taels, counted them clearly and put them on the man's table, walked a few steps and complained that his stomach was not angry.
The man just came to sell scallion pancakes in the morning, and the rest of the time he went back to play with his daughter, who was a few years old, and his wife just washed and cooked at home every day, and the man did everything else, but he still thought his wife was too tired.
After a while, there were fewer and fewer people in the vegetable market, and the man was about to close the stall, when suddenly a young man in front of him came over with a chicken called Huaji, and without saying a word, he put the chicken on the table, and then helped clean it up by himself.
The man glanced at the rooster on the table and then at the young man, and said unprecedentedly: "They're still at home, so let's talk about anything now." ”
The young man put the sword in his other hand on the table, no longer busy, and whispered, "I have to ask you to help." ”
The man was stunned for a moment, then wiped the grease stains on the table and said, "Then it's okay, let's go have a meal together, they miss you a lot." ”
The boy was silent, and cleaned up the mess, the tables and chairs were neatly arranged, and everything was so skillful.
The lady on the side of the street saw this scene and whispered to the person next to her: "Look, look, the illegitimate son of that man has returned." ”
"It seems that he didn't drive the boy away a few years ago, why did he come back again?"
"Hey, if you don't have any money, you can't come back, this man looks honest, actually. ”
Before she could finish speaking, the man walked past them with something to eat, and the boy followed with his sword hidden in his clothes.
After a few turns, the two of them walked for a long time before they stopped at the door of a small house, and there were Spring Festival couplets from a long time ago posted at the door, and Liu Ye was a little distracted.
"Why are you stunned, let's go in first. ”
Liu Ye nodded, the courtyard was still the same as before, and he stood there refusing to move.
The man did not speak, and went to the back room on his own.
I only heard a few words inside, and a woman walked out, and the moment she saw the willow leaves, she was a little sad, but she quickly wiped away her tears and walked over.
Liu Ye whispered: "Master." ”
The woman hugged the willow leaf and murmured, "I have grown taller and become handsome." ”
The woman happily led Willow Leaf into the door, told a lot of what had happened after he left, and then pulled Willow Leaf to her daughter's side, and the little girl looked at the young man in front of her with some fear, but after the woman had said a few words to her, the little girl took one of her favorite sweets and gave it to Willow Leaf.
Liu Ye accepted it with a smile and sat down calmly, eating sweet and bitter, not daring to say another word.
After the man took the chicken to the kitchen, he cut and cut, looked inside, and couldn't help but stop, watching them talk and laugh, a little distracted.