Volume 1 The first foray into the rivers and lakes Chapter 45 The Four Styles of the Sword Sutra
The three of them didn't say anything all the way, and they were in a hurry for half a day.
It wasn't until the dark clouds were left behind and the scorching sun was about to set westward that he rushed to Lanyan City.
Now that he has appeared, there is no need to follow him secretly, Gu Sihai simply followed Xu Zhaonan and the two into the city together.
At this time, Su Yurou was no longer as embarrassed as she was just now, and her soaked dress had already been steamed dry with internal force with the help of Xu Zhaonan.
And Gu Sihai, as a first-class master, is naturally not exposed to wind and rain.
Therefore, except for Xu Zhaonan and Su Yurou, who seem to be stained with some dust, on the whole, they can be regarded as in good spirits.
Lanyan City can only be regarded as a small city, naturally it is not as prosperous as Mojuan City and others, the city wall is not too high, and there are not as many pedestrians as the county town.
After the three of them entered the city, they easily found an inn and stayed first.
Since it is an inn in a small city, the conditions are a lot simpler, there is no independent courtyard, the three of them had to ask for three upper rooms, after freshening up in the room, Xu Zhaonan and Gu Sihai took Xiaobai downstairs first, found an empty table casually, asked for some wine and food, and sat and waited for Su Yurou to go downstairs.
It always takes a little longer for a woman to groom up.
The waiting time always seemed extraordinarily long, Gu Sihai was addicted to alcohol, and he drank it before he could serve the food, Xu Zhaonan had to accompany him, and by the way, he also poured a big bowl for Xiaobai.
After two glasses of wine, Gu Sihai looked at Xu Zhaonan, and suddenly said: "This girl of the Su family looks quite standard." ”
Xu Zhaonan didn't know what he meant, and smiled: "Well, it's true." ”
Gu Sihai glanced at him and said, "It doesn't look very old, so I want to be unmarried." ”
Xu Zhaonan thought for a while and said, "I've never heard of this. ”
Gu Sihai raised his glass and took a sip, sighed for a good wine, and said lightly: "If I remember correctly, her father seems to be the county guard of Jiangnan, if anyone marries her, I am afraid that he will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future." ”
Xu Zhaonan nodded and said, "That's nature." ”
Gu Sihai raised his eyebrows and said: "I think that girl is good to you, she actually came to save you regardless of her life, could it be ......"
"Uncle Gu!"
Xu Zhaonan understood what he meant, and couldn't help but be embarrassed, so he couldn't care about being rude, and hurriedly interrupted: "It's not what you think, Miss Yurou just thanked you for saving their Su family's life...... Besides, after all, she is the daughter of the county guard, how can you look down on a wild boy like me. ”
"Oh?"
Gu Sihai responded lightly.
Xu Zhaonan was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he hurriedly told everything about his acquaintance with Su Yurou, including the encounter in Jiang Yuecheng.
It's just that he concealed the night talk under the moon in the Yijian Pavilion that day.
Gu Sihai shook the wine jug on the table, and in this moment, he had bottomed out, and drank "Xiao Er's wine!", and then slowly divided the remaining bit of the pot into the two's cups before saying, "I didn't say anything about you, you see that you are in a hurry." I just talked about her, but I didn't talk about you, but you kid stared at others for a long time. ”
Why did you bring it up again? Didn't you say you wouldn't mention it?
For Xu Zhaonan, there are three fears in this life, one is Granny Sun's poison, the second is Bai Chu's smile, and the third is Gu Sihai's old mention.
The first point is because I have suffered from poison for two years, even if I have cultivated to be invulnerable to all poisons now, I will still recall the terrible feeling at that time when I dream back at midnight; Senior sister is angry, but it is much more scary than poison, and the third point is that Gu Sihai uses this matter to make fun of him when he has something to do, and he is ashamed to blush, but he can't refute it, if you want to blame him, you can only blame him back then, and he really took a look at it.
Xu Zhaonan said shamefully: "Uncle Gu, this kind of thing is not easy to talk nonsense, after all, Miss Yurou is a woman who has not been out of the cabinet, if there are some rumors, after all, the impact is not good." ”
Suddenly, Gu Sihai's expression moved, and he sat there drinking quietly and silently.
Xu Zhaonan was still unbelieving and was about to continue to explain, when a soft voice of accusation came from behind him.
"Senior Gu, let the two of you wait for a long time. ”
Xu Zhaonan stopped his mouth suddenly, looked back, and saw Su Yurou, who had been freshened, still dressed in a green shirt, with slightly wet hair draped behind her head, tied with a cyan belt, standing quietly behind Xiaobai like a hibiscus out of the water, smiling.
Xiaobai stopped the wolf kiss of drinking, turned his head and arched Su Yurou with his snow-white head.
It can be seen that Xiaobai, who looks like a human spirit, has a good impression of this woman who saved her master.
Su Yurou also bent down, stretched out her plain hand and rubbed Xiaobai's pair of fluffy ears, and Xiaobai squinted her eyes comfortably.
Gu Sihai waved his hand casually: "It's okay, let's take a seat." ”
Su Yurou did as she said, sat opposite Xu Zhaonan, and said with a smile: "Yurou saw that the two of you were chatting happily just now, I don't know what you are talking about?"
Gu Sihai silently picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
Xu Zhaonan said embarrassedly: "No...... Didn't talk about anything. ”
Su Yurou glanced at him with a smile, her eyes fluttering, full of charm.
"Ahem......"
Xu Zhaonan coughed to hide his embarrassment, then got up and put chopsticks and braised beef in her bowl, and said, "I've been hungry for a day, and I haven't eaten a serious meal, so you can eat beef to cushion your stomach first." ”
"Thank you. ”
Seeing him behaving like this, Su Yurou didn't continue to ask, and thanked him with a smile.
"Hmmm......"
I don't know if he choked on drinking, or if he coughed as if he was contagious, Gu Sihai coughed heavily.
Xu Zhaonan glanced at Gu Sihai with his spare eyes, the corners of his eyebrows were slightly raised, and he didn't dare to make a sound.
Su Yurou's red lips opened lightly, and she fed the braised beef that Xu Zhaonan gave her into her mouth, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly when she bit it.
With Su Yurou joining, Gu Sihai didn't talk to Xu Zhaonan anymore, and after a while, the three of them ended the meal in the silence of the water.
In the meantime, there was only the sound of Xiaobai biting the braised meat.
After the meal, the three of them went back to their rooms to rest.
Xu Zhaonan went back to the room, and after playing with Xiaobai, who had eaten and drunk enough, he sat cross-legged on the bed and began to cultivate.
Today, instead of cultivating the Liuhe Sword Duel that never stops on weekdays, he has practiced the mental mantra contained in the Sword Sutra.
I saw Xu Zhaonan sitting cross-legged on the bed, his whole body relaxed, his eyes drooping, his hand pinching the sword technique, silently reciting the sword meridian in his heart, and quietly settled.
The moon had risen outside the window, and the cool moonlight sprinkled on Xu Zhaonan's body.
Suddenly, Xu Zhaonan buzzed in his head, and there seemed to be a figure, holding a three-foot Qingfeng, appearing in his mind.
The figure stood with a sword at first, and after standing still for a while, he raised his sword and danced lightly.
The illusory sword shadow kept flying in Xu Zhaonan's mind.
One-style sword-cut.
A dangerous sword.
A one-style sword.
A one-style sword.
Xu Zhaonan observed carefully and found that the illusory figure used was the Four Styles of the Sword Sutra!
There are four sword scripture styles, one type of thirty-six sword moves, a total of one hundred and forty-four sword moves, which are constantly demonstrated repeatedly in Xu Zhaonan's mind.
Xu Zhaonan, who has practiced sword training for several years and practiced the sword scripture for several months, has encountered this situation for the first time.
I think that at the beginning, in order to hide his identity, he practiced the four styles of this sword scripture day and night, and he was already familiar with the one hundred and forty-four sword moves.
But for some reason, this mantra has not been able to make an inch.
Under the comfort of Bai Chujian, and the fact that his identity had been exposed, Xu Zhaonan originally planned to give up the Sword Sutra and concentrate on practicing the Liuhe Sword Duel instead.
But he didn't expect that today, under the moonlight, he suddenly had an epiphany, and Xu Zhaonan's heart was suddenly ecstatic.
"A clever move to intercept the sword, weaker than a strong enemy to win or lose,
The trapping sword is waved lightly, like a flying insect sticking to a spider,
The internal force is strong and the sword style is slaughtered, and thousands of enemies are slaughtered with one sword.
The absolute swordsmanship is not to be said lightly, and it hurts others and hurts oneself. ”
The sword scripture and the mantra of the heart method, the fifty-six character general outline, with the illusory sword dance, repeatedly hovered in Xu Zhaonan's mind.
When the sword shadow flickered, the four-style sword technique was already in Xu Zhaonan's mind, and he demonstrated it ninety-nine and eighty-one times, and then the phantom suddenly turned around and collected the sword and stood in the void.
As the phantom was still, Xu Zhaonan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were full of light, and the momentum on his body continued to rise.
Xiao Bai, who had already fallen asleep on the side, suddenly felt a biting cold, opened his eyes vigilantly, and Huo Ran got up and looked around.
After glancing for a moment, he suddenly realized that the terrifying chill was actually coming from Xu Zhaonan, turned his head to look, and saw Xu Zhaonan looking at it with a smile, Xiaobai blinked suspiciously, and always felt that something seemed to have changed in him.
But Xu Zhaonan is still Xu Zhaonan, and the change doesn't come from nowhere.
However, after all, there is no smart Xiaobai like a human being, and when he encounters something that he can't figure out, he doesn't want to bother that god anymore, and when he saw that Xu Zhaonan was unharmed, he continued to bury his head in his forelimbs and fell asleep.
Xu Zhaonan, who has improved his skills, is sleepy at the moment, and he only feels a surge of pride in his heart, and he does not vomit or feel unhappy.
At that moment, he no longer bothered Xiaobai Qingmeng, Xu Zhaonan waved his hand, and the affection placed on the pillow suddenly fell into his hand, and he jumped from the wide-open window.
At the back of the inn was a small courtyard, and in the corner was a small hut full of firewood, like a kitchen, and it was empty.
At this time, most of the people in the inn have fallen asleep, and in the entire backyard, there is only an old locust tree with few leaves, rustling in the breeze.
Xu Zhaonan, who floated down with the fallen leaves, stood in the courtyard with a sword, and silently recited in his heart: "A clever move to intercept the sword is a skillful move, and it is weaker than a strong enemy to win or lose......"
The phantom in his mind immediately appeared, just like Xu Zhaonan, standing quietly with his sword.
A moment later, the phantom handed out a sword, making it the first form of the Sword Sutra, the sword cutting style!
Xu Zhaonan's eyes froze, raised his affection, and followed the phantom in his mind to dance with a sword under the moon.
The clear sword groan, the cold sword light, the withered old trees, and the sword dancers.
witnessed this scene, in addition to the bright moon, there were also the eyes cast in the rooms on both sides of Xu Zhaonan.
Gu Sihai looked at the sword in Xu Zhaonan's hand, raised the wine jug and floated a big white face, laughing happily.
Su Yurou looked at the person in the courtyard, didn't know where to think, lowered her head slightly, and the corners of her lips were rising.
Xu Zhaonan followed the phantom in his mind, dancing from the bright moon to the bright moon in the west.
Dancing profusely, he stopped moving.
The deep affection that was obliquely mentioned was still trembling slightly, and it was like a dragon's groan, as if it was celebrating Xu Zhaonan.
As his movements stopped, the phantom in his mind also stopped moving in an instant, and at some point, it dissipated into nothingness.
Xu Zhaonan closed his eyes and felt with his heart, and found that although his hands and feet were tired and numb, the true qi in his body was like a turbulent wave, surging in his limbs.
............