(v. 169)

"The rain was scattered. Ling Muyu looked at Wang Bo'an and said word by word.

Wang Bo'an was puzzled and said, "What is this? I've never heard of it." ”

Ling Muyu explained: "I gave my own name. I searched around Taihu Lake for nearly 100 days and found nothing, but when I was discouraged, I accidentally found a broken sword of my Uncle Songheng on a fishing boat in the lake. I heard the fisherman say that he fished it out of the lake while he was fishing, and that the broken sword was broken by a strong internal force, which is nothing special. Strangely, after I took the broken sword, I studied it carefully, and finally found that the sword was stained with a drug that I had never seen before. The sword had been soaked in water for an unknown amount of time, and many of the marks on it were no longer visible. So I couldn't really find out what it was, but I found that some of the ingredients were somewhat similar to the rumored bathere. ”

Ling Muyu explained to Wang Bo'an: "This hundred dry grass is said to be a necessary medicine for the configuration of the five poisons and the five poisons, and the five poisons are said to have the wonderful effect of controlling people's hearts. ”

Wang Bo'an speculated: "What does Brother Yu mean?"

Ling Muyu shook his head: "Although this is the case, I don't think that the two divisions I sent to the division commander and Emei were too injured by the five poisons to be scattered and attacked by sneak attacks and unable to resist." First, the prescription for the five poisons has been lost for hundreds of years, and it is also hearsay that the must-have medicine is the must-have medicine, and no one knows about the other drugs required for the configuration. Even the paraquat herb, which has not been seen for decades except for its medicine, is probably extinct. Second, if the Ferris Alliance had really mastered such a powerful poison, the reputation of this thing would have spread throughout the martial arts in the past ten years. ”

"Therefore, I speculate that the Ferris Alliance should only have a small number of blandweeds, and based on this, another medicine was concocted, perhaps similar to my 'Whisk Qingfeng', which is a medicine that makes people's martial arts damaged, otherwise, with the momentum of my martial arts back then, as soon as my master's True Martial Seven Formation came out, there should be no opponent in the world. Ling Muyu continued: "Because I'm just speculating, no."

Any evidence, so I can only investigate on my own, I will tentatively name this medicine 'rain scattered' to take the meaning of rain drifting, in the past two years, I have been in contact with the Emei faction's senior sister Cheng countless times to any people in the Ferris Alliance who have the opportunity to come into contact, and even went to the place where the poisonous weeds, poisonous flowers, and poisonous insects are full of poisonous weeds and poisonous flowers in the Great Snow Mountain of the Ferris League, but I have always found nothing. ”

"What about your other brothers?" asked Wang Bo'an.

Ling Muyu shook his head: "I also told them to listen, and everyone really believed it." However, this kind of thing is indeed too illusory, and there is no evidence, after all, whether it is a hundred dry grass or scattered rain, it is my own speculation based on the records of ancient medical books, so except for Senior Sister Cheng of Emei, who is willing to continue to explore with me, others. ”

Wang Bo'an listened thoughtfully, but after all, he didn't continue to ask. Just said: "I believe in Brother Yu." ”

Ling Muyu listened, and looked at Wang Bo'an fixedly, his eyes were full of emotion and gratitude for being understood. He didn't want to say more on this topic, after all, Wang Boan was just an outsider, and he just wanted to find someone to talk to. Wang Ling and the two of them live in the same rivers and lakes and a temple, and they are people from two worlds completely, but because both of them are a little strange, one is good at martial arts, and the other is good at books, with such a common intersection, they have become close friends. The reason for all this is not to seek any concrete solution, but to talk and listen.

Ling Muyu shook his head vigorously and said, "It's a pity that the eldest brother's luggage was lost in the previous fight. The only one that's still there," Ling Muyu looked at Wang Bo'an's sword that was placed aside, "It's also the eldest brother's sword." ”

Wang Bo'an nodded and said, "It's okay, those external things don't matter, as for this sword, it really has some additional meaning and is more precious." ”

"I just listened to the conversation between my eldest brother and that Yu Qingjun, was this sword used by the late General Wang during his lifetime?" Ling Muyu asked. Wang Bo'an explained: "I'm ashamed to say that when I was twenty-eight years old, I took the scientific examination for the third time, and I was on the list and won the Jinshi. But after that, I was not directly granted an official position by the imperial court, but was sent to the Ministry of Industry to observe the government, and it is a coincidence that during that period, I was in charge of supervising the tomb of General Wang. Fortunately, the 'Shiwu Law' shortened the construction period and the tomb was magnificent. At that time, Werningberg's family made a special gift of gold

Silver thanked me, but I politely refused, and when they found out that I was obsessed with the art of war, they gave me the general's sword, and I accepted it. ”

"I see, I didn't expect my eldest brother to dabble in the art of war. Ling Muyu exclaimed, and then said something and stopped. Wang Bo'an saw it in his eyes and said: "Brother Yu has any questions, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it, anyway, it's been tossing for half the night, I'm afraid we won't, don't need and don't want to sleep tonight." Ha ha. ”

Ling Muyu looked at the moonlight and dim stars outside the cave, and said with a smile: "I have been curious since I found the letter that my brother misses his friend, and then I saw that characters like the eldest brother appeared here, and were chased and killed by Liu Jin's people, and then I was even more puzzled after learning some of the situation of the eldest brother from the mouth of that Yu Qingjun, how did the eldest brother fall here, and the eldest brother's martial arts, the art of war, Confucianism, and Taoism are all excellent. Therefore, the younger brother is really curious about the eldest brother. ”

"Why don't you dare to open your mouth, since the virtuous brother wants to hear it, and has this question, I should be clear and clear. Wang Bo'an pondered for a moment, as if he was wondering where to start.

"Scholar Fang and Taifu Yu," Wang Bo'an looked at Ling Muyu and asked, "That is, Fang Xiaoru and Yu Qian, can the virtuous brother know about these two people?"

Ling Muyu said: "Such a saint and a hero, although the younger brother is only a little learned, he still knows a little bit about it. ”

"If the fall of the sage Fang Xiaoru is the beginning of the tragedy of the literati of the dynasty, then the death of the sage Yu Qian is the beginning of the fall of the common people. Wang Bo'an said this, his eyes seemed to contain tears faintly, "The twilight is sinking, the thrilling spirit of Taizu's founding of the country has long been gone, and at this moment, all that is left is helpless weakness." When I was fifteen years old, although I had lived in the capital for more than four years, my father repeatedly urged me to study hard so that I could gain fame in the future. But I could not read the books of the sages in peace of mind in that situation. Finally, one day, I stole a fast horse from the stable, and my heart was so excited that I rode all the way out of the gate. ”