Chapter 126: The Past Is Like Smoke
Xu Zhi, Li Cunxiao, and Xue Atan saw that Wang Jin had lost too much blood and was very weak, so they persuaded one after another: "Grandpa, you can rest for a while!"
Wang Jin shook his head and said, "Grandpa knows that his time is running out, don't interrupt grandpa, grandpa still has something to say!", Xu Zhi and the others didn't dare to interject anymore, and they all stood respectfully by Wang Jin's bedside.
Wang Jin said intermittently: "The old man is eighty years old, and he is still so confused, not only saved the three evil wolves, but also brought them into the taiga valley, and as a result, he not only harmed himself, but also hurt many innocent villagers! You have to apologize to the villagers for your grandfather!", as he spoke, tears rolled out.
Wang Jin paused for a while, then took Xu Zhi's hand again, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the old man passed the elegant sword spectrum to Xu Zhi back then, if there was a trace of the gateway at that time, then the treasures passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors would be taken away by these robbers, then the old man will really become the sinner of the dance school through the ages, I hope the old man is not wrong, Xu Zhi, Jingsi, you have to work hard to carry forward the swordsmanship of the ancestors!"
When Xu Zhi and Li Cunxiao heard this, they both had tears in their eyes and nodded in agreement.
Wang Jin was relieved a lot when he saw that Xu and Li both agreed, and said: "Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth, don't forget the deep hatred of your ancestors, you must go to Jiang Mountain for your grandfather, defeat Jiang Wangshen, and avenge the deep hatred of sixty years ago!"
Li Cunxiao saw that Wang Jin said miserably, and said with tears: "Grandpa, don't worry, we will not only kill the Jiang family's father and son, but also kill Yun Feiyang and Jiang Chengfeng, and avenge your revenge today!"
Wang Jin paused for a while, suddenly thought of something, and said softly: "Xu Zhi, you are still shouldering the heavy responsibility of finding the "Tui Bei Tu" and the Ziqing Sword, in fact, Grandpa has also been thinking about it for a long time, maybe they are not as people say? Maybe they are right under people's noses and ignored by everyone!"
Wang Jin saw that Xu Zhi nodded as if he didn't understand, so he was relieved, looked around with great effort, and pleaded: "Jingsi, sit down next to grandpa and tell grandpa about your exit from the valley, right?"
Li Cunxiao cried while telling about his various adventures and experiences with Xu Zhi, Xue Atan, and He Mengjiao after they got out of the valley, and how everyone was misunderstood by King Huang and how they were excluded from Chang'an by Zhu Wen. Wang Jin listened and closed his eyes with a smile.
The next day, Xu Zhi, Li Cunxiao and others visited the injured villagers of the Taiba Valley, and with the help of the villagers, buried Grandpa Wang on a high post in the depths of the Taiga Valley, hoping that his old man could look down on the winding stream and bless the people of the village.
Xu Zhi, Li Cunxiao and others built a few grass huts in front of Wang Jin's tomb, and practiced martial arts hard while keeping filial piety for Grandpa Wang. After Xu Zhi gave Wang Jin incense every day and finished the memorial, he led Li Cunxiao alone and came to the coniferous forest where Grandpa Wang often came, and taught him the elegant swordsmanship one by one.
Li Cunxiao had previously learned from Xu Zhi some basic skills of the flowing sword such as "dancing with the wind", "glimpsing the sky", "looking back and smiling", but because Li Cunxiao was young and undetermined, he rarely used a sword when facing the enemy, and used more hidden weapons, so although he had learned swordsmanship for a long time, his progress was very slow, and Xu Zhi was secretly anxious about him.
Since Li Cunxiao was killed by his grandfather, he has learned from the pain, changed his original lazy habits, and practiced the fluttering sword day and night, and even Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao, Xue Atan and others were impressed by him.
Xu Zhi saw that Li Cunxiao had practiced swords for a month, and he had mastered the basic moves of the Piaoyi Sword very skillfully, and also taught him the sword moves of "Phoenix Dance Nine Days" and "Light Song Man Dance" one by one. Due to Xu Zhi's limited comprehension of the essence of the Flowing Sword, the two often had differences in their understanding of one sword and one style, so they had to look at the Flowing Sword Spectrum left by Grandpa Wang, but the sword score was full of some unclear words, and they discussed it until late at night, and they did not understand the mystery.
Until one day, Xu and Li were practicing swords in the taiga again, and a whirlwind swept by, blowing away the sword score that the two put on the ground, and then He Mengjiao's melodious flute sound came from the edge of the woods. Xu Zhi looked back and saw that the words on the sword book were swinging back and forth in the whirlwind, like a swordsman swinging a sword to assassinate, and like a singer jumping and dancing.
Since Xu Zhi understood the mystery in the sword spectrum, he carefully studied the sword moves in the sword spectrum, which Grandpa Wang had not taught, and these moves have gradually been lost because the inheritors do not understand the words in them, such as "Hundred Birds and Phoenix", "Stars and Moon" These moves are used in the sword formation of many people, one person is the main attack, many people assist, one person is real, many people are virtual, and the last "high mountains and flowing water" and "clear wind and bright moon" at the end of the sword spectrum These swordsmanship seems to be plain, but it emphasizes that an invisible sword is higher than a tangible sword, even if everything in the world flies flowers and leaves, it can also be used as a sharp sword, killing people in the invisible, and rejecting the enemy outside the ten zhang, in fact, the invisible sword is the most brilliant sword move. Xu Zhi passed on his gains to Li Cunxiao without reservation.
Xu and Li learned from each other and communicated with each other, and their elegant swordsmanship improved greatly in a short period of time, especially Xu Zhi began to learn to use internal force to control sword qi, and used flying flowers and fallen leaves to block and attack Li Cunxiao's tangible sword moves.
After the mourning was over, it was early winter. One day, Li Cunxiao saw that the weather was still warm and everything had not yet withered, so he suggested: "Brother Xu, we have delayed a lot of time for our grandfather's funeral, and I am afraid that they have already arrived in Jiangnan." We can't stay in the Coniferous Valley for a long time, we also have to go to Jiangnan to take the book of wonders, and go to Jiangshan to avenge grandpa!"
Xue Atan also said: "Yes, we have been in this coniferous valley for several months, and now the weather is getting colder and colder, we must take advantage of the heavy snow to close the mountain and go out of the mountain as soon as possible, otherwise we will have to wait until the beginning of spring next year!"
Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao and others also agreed to leave the Coniferous Valley immediately and go to Jiangnan. Xu Zhi and Li Cunxiao led everyone to say goodbye to the villagers in the coniferous valley, and then took a bamboo raft and followed the stream to the gorgeous coniferous valley.
In addition, Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao and others left Da Xian Mountain, all the way to the south, and came to the ferry port on the north bank of the Ru River.
Xu Zhi and the others with the crowded crowd, finally squeezed onto a ferry, the boatman saw that there were still people behind him to climb onto the boat, and hurriedly beat with a bamboo pole: "Folks, please wait for the next boat, otherwise the boat is overwhelmed, and everyone can't cross the river!", but the boatman's words still can't stop the people who are eager to cross the river to escape, especially those whose relatives are already on the boat, but they are lagging behind.
The boatman waited for everyone to stand firm before breaking away from the boat, and the boat was full of people, and there was no place to move. He Mengjiao looked at the rolling river and said with a smile, "Brother Xu, Brother Xue, do you remember when we met in this Ru River?"
Before Xu Zhi could speak, Xue Atan replied first: "Miss He, you are embarrassed to say that you made me and Brother Xu miserable back then!"
When Zhou Yuanzhi heard this, she was very surprised and asked, "Brother Xue, how can Miss He harm you if she is such a good and frank girl?"
Li Cunxiao was also curious: "Xue Aniu, you are talking nonsense again, when did Sister He deceive you?"
Xue Atan smiled proudly: "Everyone doesn't know, right! Miss He was originally Jiang Chengfeng's daughter-in-law, she was deceived by Jiang Chengfeng, and always thought that it was Brother Xu who killed his fellow brother, so she teamed up with Jiang Chengfeng to kill Brother Xu on the Ruhe boat, Brother Xu, do you say?"
Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Brother Xue, it's been so long, why are you still mentioning it!"
The idiot asked, "Brother Xue, what happened?"
Xue Atan saw He Mengjiao looking at him angrily, he gave He Mengjiao a grimace back, and continued: "Later, Jiang Chengfeng saw that the boat was about to capsize, so he abandoned the boat and fled, and he didn't even want his own daughter-in-law, thanks to me and Brother Xu, who saved Miss He's life in the stormy seas!"
He Mengjiao was proud when she saw what Xue Atan said, and deliberately scolded: "This girl has been able to work underwater since she was a child, who let you save it!"
Xue Aniu saw He Mengjiao arguing with him, and said unrelentingly: "We saved Miss He, but we knew that she would take revenge, but she used a secret signal to contact Jiang Chengfeng and assassinate Brother Xu, until Later, Miss He recognized Jiang Chengfeng's villainous face, so she abandoned the secret and joined us!"
After listening to this, he clasped his hands together and recited: "Amitabha, it is very rare for Miss He to let go of evil thoughts and be good with all her heart, why should Brother Xue dwell on his previous grievances?"
Li Cunxiao also scolded, "Xue Aniu, you are too careful, besides, Sister He also helped us in Chang'an and saved our lives, have you forgotten?"
Xue Atan saw that everyone unanimously accused him, he admitted that he was at fault, and he didn't dare to speak anymore.
Everyone while enjoying the scenery in the river, while talking, at this time the ferry has reached the center of the river, the river wind and waves are high, a wave hit, the boatman quickly used a bamboo pole to stabilize the hull, but the boat still shook violently, and a child standing on the side of the boat fell into the river.
The people on the boat shouted that the boatman stopped the boat to save people, and the boat boss sighed: "The heart of this river is deep and the waves are high, and people fall into the water, where can they be saved? We sail here all the year round, and many people die every year, and these people can be regarded as paying tribute to the dragon lord and buying a peace charm for other passers-by!"
The people sighed when they saw that the captain of the boat was very indifferent, and when they saw the child who had fallen into the water, he stretched out his hands and struggled desperately.
He Mengjiao said to Zhou Yuanzhi: "Sister Zhou, let the little sister go down and save the child!"
As soon as Zhou Yuanzhi said "Sister be careful", she saw He Mengjiao pick up a wooden plank, throw it in the water, and in the midst of everyone's exclamations, jump into the water, swim to the child's side, and drag him from behind.
At this time, the boatman saw a beautiful girl who went into the water to save people regardless of her own danger, and suddenly found that her conscience found that the ferry stopped in the headwind in the river, and the people on the boat also cheered for He Mengjiao.
He Mengjiao ignored the turbulent waves that did not pass over her head again and again, and always firmly dragged the child's arm, dragged him to the stern of the boat, and then threw a flying tiger from her arms and hooked it firmly to the stern. He Mengjiao grabbed the child with the help of the flying tiger, and jumped out of the water and jumped on the ferry less than a foot away from the ferry.
When everyone saw He Mengjiao like a dragon girl in the water, they all bowed down to her one after another, shouting "Great mercy, great mercy, save the suffering!"
Everyone crossed the Ru River, Xu Zhi saw that the sandbar by the river was still the same, but it was covered with withered yellow reeds, Li Xiuyun Lingbo treading the waves, and the scene of playing "Wangjiangnan" on a moonlit night seemed to happen yesterday, but the past was like smoke, and the Yiren were no more.
Zhou Yuanzhi saw that everyone was tired of walking, so he led them to the deserted White Pavilion, which had not been visited by passers-by since it was burned by fire, and was overgrown with weeds, and even the tall tear monument was buried in the thorn bushes. Xu Zhi saw that it was getting late, and Bai Ting could no longer stay, so he had to ask everyone to prepare some dry branches and dead leaves, raise a few fires, and sleep in the open for one night.
Zhou Yuanzhi saw that the Bai Pavilion under the moonlight was extremely quiet, and couldn't help but recall the difficult time with Xu Zhi, and asked, "Brother Xu, do you remember the scene when we fled to the Bai Pavilion back then?"
Xu Zhi replied, "How could the eldest brother forget?"
Zhou Yuanzhi sighed: "If Sister Yingying hadn't been sick back then, and Brother Hui hadn't left us, maybe the result would have been different!"
Xu Zhi heard Zhou Yuanzhi mention Huifeng and Cheng Yingying, and said with tears in his eyes: "Yes! The world is unpredictable, when the four of us made a big fuss in the Zhu Wen Mansion and fled to Baiting, although it was thrilling, we have never been separated, but now Senior Brother Hui has stayed in Bianzhou, Miss Cheng can never come back!"
Zhou Yuanzhi also sobbed: "Brother Hui and Sister Yingying have a miserable life, the two really love each other, but they can't be together forever!
Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan saw Xu and Zhou talking about their sad past with Huifeng and Cheng Yingying, and they couldn't help but think of the scene when Huifeng and Cheng Yingying treated each other warmly and sacrificed their lives to save each other in Dengfeng Prison, and couldn't help crying.
He Mengjiao saw the sadness that Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi said, and persuaded: "Brother Xu, Sister Zhou, brothers, people's fate is determined by heaven, if you want to blame this dark world, if you want to blame it, blame that Zhu Wen is despicable and shameless!"
The next day, Xu Zhi and others left Baiting, bypassed Caizhou, and went all the way to the south to the riverside on the north bank of Ezhou, which was already approaching the New Year. It was the first time that they had seen such an open river, and they sighed one after another: "Is this the Yun Mengze in ancient poetry?
Li Cunxiao had never seen a big river, and said with a smile: "Where is this river, it is originally a river and a sea!"
Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile: "You don't have to guess, this is a river that is wider than the Ru River! By the way, Brother Xu, why is there not a single boat coming and going on such a wide river for half a day?"
Xu Zhi looked at the empty river, and said helplessly: "It's really a coincidence that we came! It can't be that the New Year is approaching, and the fishermen have all collected their nets and gone home for the New Year, right?"
He Mengjiao said: "Mengjiao has lived here since she was a child, and there is no custom of fishermen closing for the New Year in Jingchu! Something must have happened! But Xiaomei has a way to let everyone cross the river!", after speaking, she took out the jade flute in her arms and imitated the call of a river bird.
Xu Zhi suddenly understood, and after waiting for a long time, he saw a gray man, driving a bamboo raft, towards He Mengjiao, He Mengjiao said a few secret words to him, the man quickly nodded respectfully, and invited everyone to the bamboo raft, and then rowed towards the south bank.
He Mengjiao asked: "This little brother, why don't there be any boats coming and going on the Yangtze River, is there something going on in the gang?"
The man who drove the boat shook his head and said: "Girl, my brother is just an ordinary disciple under the Ezhou Branch Shunfeng Hall, and I don't know what big things are happening in the gang, but I heard that the deputy gang leader came to our Ezhou Fengling ferry in person, and I don't know anything else!"
Everyone crossed the Yangtze River and came to the Fengling Ferry, when a bright moon had already risen into the night sky. Xu Zhi saw that thousands of fishing boats and bamboo rafts had gathered at the ferry, and the fishermen looked nervous and discussed something with each other. Suddenly, from a distance, there was a loud, hurried bird whistle, and the fishermen stopped talking, and all stood respectfully in the bow of the boat, waiting with their heads in wait.
He Mengjiao said to everyone: "This is the secret signal for the disciples of the Changjiao Gang to contact each other, and the whistle is loud and urgent, indicating that there is something important to discuss, and I am afraid that there are also disciples of the Changjiao Gang among these fishermen! We might as well listen to what bad things they want to do?"
After a while, a middle-aged man in gray and white clothes, led several disciples, on a surfing boat, came to the wind, and several fishermen led by him saw the middle-aged man, and knelt on the ground one after another, shouting: "Deputy Gang Leader Hong, according to your orders, my subordinates have gathered all the fishermen disciples in the Eyue area here, and I also ask the deputy gang leader to give instructions!"
He Mengjiao pointed to the middle-aged man and introduced to everyone: "He is Hong Tao, the current deputy gang leader of the Changjiao Gang, and his kung fu of "turning over the river and turning the sea" is very powerful, and he once killed more than a dozen good hands in the rivers and lakes overnight, and he immediately became famous all over the world! The man who knelt on the ground at the head was Wang Yang, the helmsman of the Changjiao Gang's Ezhou rudder, and he was also a good hand in the water!"