Chapter 1: The Swordsman with a Story (1)
The man rode a brown horse and walked down the road slowly, humming a border herdsman's tune. He was wearing the most ordinary coarse cloth clothes, carrying an old scimitar with a scabbard in his left hand, his beard was scummy, unkempt, and his eyes were bright, this was really an ordinary Jianghu man.
This is a swordsman, a swordsman who looks second-rate.
This is a dart master, a dart master who does not look into the stream.
The young man's name is Mu Chun, twenty-eight years old, a person from Longcheng, and what his family does is to go south and north to give people darts for a living. When Mu Chun was young and vigorous, he preferred to run from south to north.
This time, he came back from sending darts from the northern grassland, and happened to receive a letter from his brother Song Bocheng. Song Bocheng invited him to come to Shengzhou to get together, and he had important things to entrust. Song Bocheng was vague in his letter, and did not clearly say what happened to him in Shengzhou.
Song Bocheng had a lifelong friendship with him, and Song Bocheng said that there was something, even if it was a matter of going up the knife mountain and going down to the sea of fire, Mu Chun would not hesitate.
According to Song Bocheng's letter, Shengzhou is the only place to go from Western Xia to Phoenix. Mu Chun went to Shengzhou, and heard a lot about Kunlun Jade in Phoenix City along the way. For a long time, Mu Chun couldn't help but feel itchy, and wanted to wait for Song Bocheng's matter to be completed and go to Phoenix City to see each other.
It is said that this Phoenix City stands at the junction of the Liao and Song dynasties, and belongs to the boundary of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are many Liao people who settle in the city. However, Phoenix City has been operated and held by the Gongsun family for generations, and is not directly subordinate to the Great Song Dynasty, so Phoenix City is nominally a Song land, but in essence it is a place where the two countries are neutral.
The relationship between the Gongsun family, the ruler of Phoenix City, and the inner court of the Liao and Song dynasties is also complicated. Gongsun Xiang, the ruler of this generation, is a reckless and reckless figure who eats both black and white, and under his management, Phoenix City is not only a neutral city between the Liao and Song Dynasties, but also a gray area in the rivers and lakes, all of which also makes Phoenix more prestigious.
Because of the relationship between the Mu Chun family and the Gongsun family, they are also fortunate to be able to get involved in such a thin in-law relationship. Therefore, when it comes to the grandson of the city lord, Mu Chun can barely call him uncle.
The appearance of Kunlun jade in Phoenix City has been passed on by word of mouth, and it has long been the same in Mu Chun's ears. Mu Chun could only rely on his past experience to piece together a person from the Western Regions with Kunlun jade in Phoenix.
The legend of Kunlun jade, which has existed in ancient times, is nothing more than the ability to make great progress, and even more so to be able to heal the flesh and bones of the dead. However, because of the immortality of Kunlun jade, these are just legends in the mouths of the rivers and lakes.
Now Kunlun jade, which has such a legend, has been born, which makes the rivers and lakes that have been silent for a long time not make waves.
Although Mu Chun has retired to the rivers and lakes for many years, he also has a great interest in Kunlun jade.
Mu Chun traveled this way, and he received news from many friends one after another, including Sun Boyu, the young city lord of Phoenix City. No matter how close they were, they all mentioned asking him to come out of the rivers and lakes again and plan Kunlun Jade together.
In this way, Mu Chun had to laugh at himself. He is now outside the rivers and lakes, and he should avoid such disputes in the rivers and lakes, and it is not appropriate to get involved in them. For this reason, he gradually lost his initial interest in Kunlun Jade, and he was quite excited.
Not to mention the matter of Kunlun Jade, Mu Chun urgently needs to find a wine shop and eat some satisfying meals, if he can add a few catties of wine, it would be great - his wine gourd has been empty for several hours.
Mu Chun remembered that there was a small wine shop passing by in this area, but he didn't remember walking a few miles to get there. In his memory, the liquor store was not very eye-catching, but it was close to the edge of this official road, and the business was prosperous.
He walked for a while, and suddenly he saw four or five men gathered in front of him, and he didn't know what was happening.
When he walked forward for a short while, he saw that the four or five men in front of him were actually trying to do something wrong to a woman in broad daylight.
In Mu Chun's impression, this area has always been peaceful, and he has never heard of any villains. Those men were probably also temporary, so they surrounded the woman in purple clothes.
At this time, Mu Chunshang was quite far away from them, he couldn't see the woman's demeanor clearly, and he could only see from a distance that it was a graceful young woman.
The woman in purple was surrounded by several tall men in the middle. But I don't know what she said, but it annoyed those people all at once. She is such a soft and weak woman, and she does not have the slightest cowardice in the face of a strong man who wants to behave badly.
Mu Chun couldn't see others bullying the weak like this, and at this time, he saw that the woman in purple was not afraid, unlike those who needed help from others.
On a whim, he also wanted to see if the woman in purple was naïve and didn't know the height of the sky, or if she did have the ability to match her boldness.
When Mu Chun saw the woman in purple make a move, he had to admit that he had greatly underestimated the woman's ability like several strong men: no one could have imagined that such a delicate little lady would have such a neat and even ruthless skill.
The woman in purple made a pair of green lotus emei thorns, and her face did not change in the face of several strong men, and her moves were aimed at the vital points of several people. But with the momentum of the knife falling in her hand, the purple-clothed woman's hand blade avoided the fatal place of the strong man in the blink of an eye, and stabbed several big points such as Shoulder Well and Taiyuan with the blade.
Several big men were forced to retreat again and again under the attack of the woman in purple, and they were powerless to parry.
Mu Chun didn't expect the situation to turn so quickly, and for a while, the relationship between the strong and the weak was actually overturned. He thought to himself: Sure enough, there are talents in the country, and there are such powerful women on the rivers and lakes.
Seeing that the purple-clothed woman's sword was about to stab the strong man's key point, this time Mu Chun jumped from the horse without hesitation and jumped in the air to block between the two. He used the scimitar to resist the blade of the woman in purple, and said loudly: "Little lady, leave three points of leeway." ”
Seeing this opportunity, the three strong men didn't dare to delay any longer, so they only hugged their fists and thanked Mu Chun and left in embarrassment.
The woman in purple swept her eyes coldly towards Mu Chun, she was naturally resentful of Mu Chun's meddling. Because of the disparity in strength between men and women, the woman in purple is subject to Mu Chun at this time.
But when Mu Chun was found to be lax, the woman in purple turned around and stabbed her blade at Mu Chun with a clear twist.
This sudden change made Mu Chun surprised, he never expected that he would be a peacemaker, and the woman in purple would attack him.
When he reacted, he leaned to the side. This can avoid the sneak attack of the woman in purple, but the woman in purple reacted very quickly, and when she saw that a move failed, she seemed to know that this move would not succeed and turn over to make up for it.
When she beckoned to Mu Chun with this second move, Mu Chun reflexively took a few steps back. Rao is Mu Chun dodged in time, but his arm was still scratched by the blade.
Mu Chun glanced at the bleeding arm, and secretly looked at the purple-clothed woman holding a sharp blade on the opposite side again, only to see her: her eyes were angry, her lips were lightly opened, and her face was three points better.
Mu Chun said secretly: What a femme fatale.