Chapter 124: A Pot of Wine in the Wind and Snow
This year is the most interesting one in the history of the martial arts conference.
Almost everyone in the entire city of Guangzhou was talking about all kinds of strange things about this martial arts conference every moment.
Ten thousand years at the bottom of the final.
The unruly rookie, the Yellowces Gang, made it to the top four despite making it to the finals.
Emperor Daming participated in the competition and sent a serious illness to surround Wuzong's Mansion, almost causing a big battle with the Snake God Sect.
Shocking anecdotes one after another, without giving people the slightest respite.
However, the most talked about is the sudden appearance of the Grand Priest of the Snake God Sect, and the young man who was grabbed by the Great Priest and retreated.
"His name is Mu Fan, and he is a disciple of the Nangong Sword Sect. โ
For a while, Bai Ma Xiao and Nangong Sword Sect were famous in the entire city of Guangzhou, and even in Guangdong Province, and tomorrow's final was enough to make everyone think about it.
In the finals, it is bound to be more turbulent, and everyone is convinced.
Nangong Yu led the disciples to officially move into the Yangui Building.
This is not what she wants to open, and it is not her willing, before the finals, both parties must live in the Yangui Building, which is the rule of the Martial Arts Department over the years.
The first is to show the encouragement and attention of the imperial court to the provincial champion and runner-up of the Wuzong Conference; the second is to arrange the opponents to live together, highlighting the spirit of meeting friends with martial arts; and the third is to facilitate centralized protection, after all, there has been a bad situation where one party participating in the final bought a murderer to assassinate the other party.
For reason, public and private, they all have to live in the Yangui Building.
But Nangong Yu's initial wish was to be eliminated immediately after passing the audition, and then lead his disciples to travel around Guangzhou City, and this Martial Arts Conference was considered a successful conclusion.
Such an idea, although unremarkable, can at least be uneventful.
Today, this unconscious second apprentice was caught by the great priest, which really made her tremble.
Hidden in the crowd, she was almost about to make a move, and almost caused a catastrophe.
As for the origin of the transmission note, she believed his words as much as the Grand Priest, but she still couldn't help but blame him for being willful and reckless, and actually using such extraordinary things to eavesdrop.
But this is nothing compared to tomorrow's final, after all, it is a thing of the past.
No one can say what the future holds, and that's the most frightening thing.
In the evening, as usual, on the eve of the finals, the Martial Arts Division will set up a banquet in the Yangui Building, and the two sides of the finals and the commander of the Martial Arts Division, Yang Ming, went to the banquet together, which was considered a grand march for both sides.
Over the years, it has been the Hanmo Sword Sect and the Tiancheng Sword Sect that have gone to the banquet together, but today it has broken this convention, not only the Tiancheng Sword Sect has been replaced by the Nangong Sword Sect, but even there are two more guests.
The emperor and the queen went to the banquet together, which is unprecedented.
And this atmosphere is also lifeless.
Not to mention that the two sides have enmity against each other in this final, this Zhu Jihua still had this affair with them today, not to mention how embarrassing it was at the banquet.
Except for Yang Ming's opening greetings, everyone was immersed in eating, and this atmosphere lasted until after the five flavors of the dish, Xu Tianying raised his glass to break the silence.
"Sect Master Nan, you're so happy tonight, why don't you have a drink?"
It's strange to say, when I drank with Bishop Ding that day, it was not difficult to see that Nangong Yu was obviously very good at drinking, but after that, she was rarely seen drinking, and even when she went to the banquet with Zhu Jihua and Nan Suxuan, she didn't drink a drop of wine.
It's the same tonight, she smiled and waved her hand, "Tomorrow is an important day for the finals of the inferior guys, Gong Yu doesn't dare to have a hangover and slack, please forgive me." โ
Xu Tianying seemed to be able to speak, and after a few teases, he smiled, "Since it's so important, why don't you have a drink to celebrate?"
Nangong Yu looked at him and squeezed his eyebrows, and began to hesitate.
After a while, a wine glass touched Xu Tianying's cup, but the person who raised the glass was not Nangong Yu.
"Master Xu, I respect you, congratulations on teaching these two such powerful apprentices. โ
Looking at this uninvited white horse, although Xu Tianying was dissatisfied, the so-called stretch out his hand was difficult to hit the smiling person, and what he said was also a compliment, and when he clinked the cup, he also consciously put the mouth of the cup under to show "respect", which can be said to be leaky, and did not give him the opportunity to turn his face at all.
After thinking about it again, he held back a smile, "Mu Fanxian's nephew praised it falsely." โ
Bai Ma Xiao drank a cup and said with a smile, "It's not a bad praise at all, you, a high disciple, defeated the Foshan Volunteer Gang alone, and won a reputation for your family through the ages, where is the false praise, I only hate my lack of academics, lack of rhetoric, and clumsy words are difficult to modify the disciples, I am very ashamed!"
His words were obviously very bitten, and Nie Jianfeng and Jianyin, who were looking at him directly, were dumbfounded, but they had to say that they were very relieved.
On the surface, he praised Xu Tianying's apprentice, but in fact it was full of sarcasm, firstly, his so-called high apprentice obviously referred to Xiao Kui, but everyone knew that this Xiao Kui was not his Xu Tianying's apprentice, but just a snake god sect priest named under the Hanmo Sword Gate, but in fact it had nothing to do with Xu Tianying.
And he said that Xiao Kui defeated the Foshan Yiyong Gang and won the "good name" for the Hanmo Sword Gate, but in fact, in the eyes of the audience, it was the disciples of the Hanmo Sword Sect who killed the highly popular Yiyong Gang, but in fact, he affected the reputation of the sect.
This sentence contained a lot of irony, but Xu Tianying couldn't reply, and almost choked back his internal injuries.
"What a good nephew is...... Won the prize......"
Seeing that his smiling face had turned iron blue, Bai Ma Xiao was scheming, secretly snickered, and then pointed the finger at Xu Youcai beside Xu Tianying, "Brother Youcai, I heard that you were transferred by the assassin, are you not injured?"
At this time, Xu Youcai's face was bruised, obviously he was knocked unconscious by the assassin's punch and hid somewhere, Bai Maxiao obviously asked knowingly and deliberately humiliated him.
Xu Youcai didn't have the bearing of his master, as soon as he heard this, he was about to attack, but was interrupted by Bai Maxiao, "That's right, how can it be hurt? After all, the apprentice of the respected master is so powerful, how can you, as a senior disciple, be hurt so easily?"
His words can be said to have reached the peak of yin and yang, even though Xu Tianying was very well recuperated, and he couldn't bear it, but he couldn't bear it, and he wanted to scold on the spot.
The emperor and the queen were sitting at the table, and if they scolded at this time, they could only be blamed by his Hanmo Sword Gate.
After all, what Hakuba has said so far is "good things".
Of course, Xu Tianying would not allow his eldest disciple to damage the reputation of the sect, so he immediately took action to hold him down, and said calmly, "The little disciple is injured, and it is inconvenient to stay outside for too long, so as not to suffer from the wind and cold again, so I will leave here, and please forgive me." โ
After saying that, he gave Zhu Jihua and Nan Suxuan a salute each, and dragged Xu Youcai off the table.
The rest of Xiao Kui and Ding Ling didn't leave when they saw this, but snickered with Bai Ma Xiao and them.
After all, strictly speaking, the two of them are not from the Hanmo Sword Sect.
And Zhu Jihua and Nan Suxuan were also very relieved, even including that Yang Ming.
The imperial court has always looked down on this Hanmo Sword Sect who is willing to be a dog's leg for the Snake God Sect.
However, judging from the attitudes of Xiao Kui and Ding Ling, the Snake God Sect did not look down on them.
A typical traitor character, not pleasing inside and out.
After the master and apprentice left, the atmosphere seemed to be a little relaxed, only Nangong Yu kept his eyebrows tight, not knowing what he was thinking.
......
At night, the whole Yanguilou has fallen asleep deeply, and even the city of Guangzhou outside the building has fallen into silence, and hundreds of people have canceled the habit of visiting the night market in the past, just to be able to raise their spirits tomorrow and watch the war of the century.
In the dead of night, the wild goose returned to the building, and there was only a snow-white shadow, wandering slowly outside the guest room.
She held a long sword that did not belong to hers, and came to a guest room that did not belong to her, and at this moment, it seemed that nothing belonged to hers.
Including her body.
And her heart.
Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard a very soft man's voice from the back room, "Please come in." โ
She hesitated for a moment, but pushed the door open.
In front of the round table in the middle of the guest room, Xu Tianying was holding a yellowed old book, reading at night.
He slowly raised his head, looked intently at the uninvited young woman, and said with a smile, "Sect Master Nan, I don't want to come here." โ
Nangong Yu looked at the Xu Sect Master in front of him, and pursed his lips slightly, as if he was a little reluctant to come.
"Gong Yu is here with the intention of returning the sword of the Xu Sect Master. โ
This sword, Xu Tianying stayed in Nangong Sword Sect, Bai Ma Xiao and Jian Yin made a special trip to return it, but they were refused, and asked Nangong Yu to return it in person.
Now that I have come to this point, I finally have a chance to return it.
Nangong Yu presented his sword with both hands, but he didn't glance at the sword at all, but stared at the beautiful fairy in front of him tightly, and said slowly, "Sect Master Nan personally came to return the sword, doesn't there be anything else to say?"
"It's late at night, and it's inconvenient to disturb the rest of the Xu Sect Master, so Gong Yu will retire. โ
She didn't want to delay any longer, and was about to put her sword on the table before leaving.
"Isn't Sect Master Nan here for the sake of your three disciples?"
These words seemed to hit a clear spring in her heart, causing a thousand ripples.
Her hand froze in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, never letting go of the sword.
"Sit down. โ
Nangong Yu frowned, hesitated slightly, and sat opposite him obediently.
As soon as she sat down, the master of the Xu Sect looked at the face that flickered with the swaying lights under the light, and the smile on his face gradually rose.
He stood up, came behind her, closed the door, looked at her sitting with his back to him, and said, "Tomorrow's battle, what is the fate of your three disciples, Sect Master Nan has already counted it in his heart, right?"
Nangong Yu took a deep breath and muttered, "If Heaven's will is like this, what can be done?"
"Providence...... It's violated, but it's not disrespectful. As Xu Tianying spoke, he slowly paced behind Nangong Yu.
Sensing his approach, Nangong Yu didn't react, but continued, "That'...... But the person who goes against the will of heaven is the master of the Xu Gate?"
Xu Tianying smiled, "That's natural, although Xu cannot go against the wishes of the Divine Sect, as a master, I can still restrain my own disciplesโincluding nominal disciples." โ
She smiled wryly, "That'...... It's time to ask the master of the door. โ
The corners of Xu Tianying's mouth opened more and more, extremely demonic.
He leaned down, slowly approached, stretched out his hand from Nangong Yu's back, gently picked up the saber from her hand, and slowly placed it on the table.
At this time, he was already very close to Nangong Yu, so close that his breath and breath could make the back of her neck feel the hot and cold breath.
"Then it depends on how much 'respect' I am to Fairy Nan. โ
Nangong Yu didn't speak, but slowly closed his eyes.
In the last moments before losing the light, she saw endless sadness.
"Don't be restrained, you and me...... It's not the first time. โ
After speaking, Xu Tianying seemed to be unable to resist some kind of impulse anymore, and suddenly grabbed her waist from behind.
The brutal gesture caused her to let out a muffled grunt, and then stopped his hands from making further moves.
"Wait......"
"Huh?"
"Do you have any wine?"
"Hehe, wine...... Enough to ......"