The morning sun in winter, always accompanied by a cold wind, reflects on the low bushes on both sides, cutting away the last vestiges of the ice toughness from the thick frost.

"Come out. Ghost Lian said sharply.

Yan Mubai appeared and said: "Senior, junior didn't mean to follow you, but I listened to the conversation between the two of you last night, and mentioned that you seem to have an eighteen-year agreement with someone, and the same is true for the family teacher, and I am just..."

"Senior, you call the woman so old, that's what your master taught you. The tone was Lingran, but there was a hint of nonsense.

Yan Mubai was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the woman in front of him to come here, and immediately hugged his fists and said apologetically: "Before... No, it's a girl. ”

Ghost Lian snorted and covered his mouth and smiled: "Girl, I don't dare to take these two words, I am now thirty and six, if I can be called a girl, then it is not a generation lower than your master, I will not do it." ”

She suddenly straightened her waist, turned her back to Yan Mubai and scolded, "If you don't keep up with me, you won't be able to see your master." ”

Yan Mubai hurriedly opened his legs and chased after him.

"That's... Then I would like to ask you, where is my master now?"

"My name is Ouyang Ying, you still call me Aunt Ying. ”

"Yes, Aunt Sakura. Yan Mubai hurriedly clenched his fists and shouted, sighing with relief in his mouth, Ghost Lian smiled and said: "You are really similar to your master, and you are the same restraint towards women." ”

Yan Mubai was puzzled in his heart, and asked directly, "Aunt Ying and my master have known each other for many years?"

At this moment, the cold wind was sipping the light of the morning sun, cold accompanied by brilliance, the shimmer held the cold, her eyes instantly seemed to fall into the deep sea void valley, far away without boundary, "Yes, it's been almost twenty years, when the six of us were still drinking tea in the Sword Villa, comparing martial arts, and now so many years have passed in a flash." ”

"Sword Villa?"

"Yes, I'll talk to your master, Brother Su and Sister Baishuang, and..." she turned her head to look at Yan Mubai and didn't continue.

Yan Mubai raised his hand to block a dry branch rolled up by a cold wind for her, and said, "Aunt Ying, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, let's find a place to hide." ”

Ghost Lian squinted his eyes and looked forward, it wasn't far anyway, so there was no need to worry, he pointed to a room in front of him and said, "It's right here." ”

The two pushed the door in, entered a deserted house, and looked closely, as if no one had lived in it for a long time, a few spider silks could be seen everywhere in the beams and windows, and the tables and chairs were also dusty and worn.

Ghost Lian watched him take out a sweat towel, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then put it back and wiped the stool clean with his palm, stretched out his hand and asked, "Aunt Sakura, please sit." ”

She thought for a moment in her heart, raised her feet and walked over, and smiled in her heart: "What's the matter? This sweat towel was given by her sweetheart?"

Yan Mubai's face turned red, and the thought of wiping Su Luhuan that day for Su Luhuan came to mind, she bowed her head shyly, and her heart suddenly flowed like a hot spring, dispelling the severe cold all over his body, he scratched his head embarrassedly, and also sat down, and gently placed the fire on the table.

Ghost Lian squinted at it, stretched out his hand to pick up the fire break, stretched it out, and said with a smile: "I should have thought of it, this sweat towel was given by the phantom girl of the Su family!"

Seeing that his heart was guessed, he still resisted stubbornly: "It's not." ”

"But your sweetheart must be her, right?"

Yan Mubai said in surprise: "How does Aunt Ying know?" As soon as the words came out, he suddenly regretted that he had answered too quickly and recklessly.

Ghost Lian smiled, his eyes were full of tenderness, and he replied: "Otherwise, this fire break will never reach your hands." No, I should say that it can't be returned to your hands. ”

"Do you say that you are going back to the time before this fire breaking sword has something to do with me?" Ghost Lian's smile suddenly froze, and he coughed lightly, his face was a little uncomfortable, as if a wrong word came out of his mouth, he paused and turned his head to the other side. Yan Mubai was willing to let go of this opportunity, and continued to ask: "Aunt Ying, if you know anything, please tell me." ”

Ghost Lian turned a deaf ear, his brows furrowed, and he still didn't speak.

Yan Mubai's heart suddenly seemed to be crawling with thousands of ants, he couldn't lift it in one breath and couldn't put it down, he was a little restless, he couldn't help but stand up and paced around the house, and said anxiously: "Aunt Ying, you won't tell me, is it because of ..... Because... Is he the one who killed my parents?" his voice was staccato and trembling with fear, both seeking the truth and fearing that it would be as he remembered.

He was afraid of this answer, and seeing that Ghost Lian turned around, his lips were about to open, and he didn't know where he got the strength to reach out and grab the sword from the table and walk outside.

"This fire break is a dowry!" Ghost Lian shouted anxiously.

Yan Mubai was stunned, his heart seemed to have collapsed, and the answer he was afraid of did not come as expected, but added a new puzzle, he stopped and turned around and asked, "What dowry?"

Ghost Lian stood up and walked to his side and said: "This fire broke should have belonged to you, it should be exact, it belonged to your father, you were only five years old seventeen years ago, and you were a guest with your father in the Sword Villa, Brother Su had not inherited the villa at that time, his wife, I called her Sister Baishuang, she was just pregnant at that time, and I still remember that you were so old." As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to compare the height of a child, and the softness in her eyes almost turned into water, "You were playing in the water at the time, and when you saw Sister Baishuang's happiness, you ran over and hugged people and said that you want to have a little sister, and Sister Baishuang also teased you: 'You like your little sister so much, how about waiting for her to be your daughter-in-law?' Guess what you answered at the time?" she said, suddenly becoming naughty, her bright eyes staring at Yan Mubai, with a lively look.

When Yan Mubai heard this, his heart fluttered, he didn't expect Ghost Lian to say what happened when he was a child in such a playful way, although he didn't have any impression, but this matter involved Su Luxuan, his heart instantly seemed to be a little warmer in this windy and cold night, a little embarrassed, a little shy, but he shook his head after all.

Ghost Lian smiled and said: "You say okay, okay, let my little sister be my daughter-in-law! Because of this, so the two families immediately formed this baby kiss, and your father promised that he would use Huopo as a dowry and congratulatory gift when the child was born." Later, a lot of things happened, and by the time your master really sent the Fire Breaking Sword out for you, you would be seven or eight years old. ”

Yan Mubai said solemnly: "Then I will have arrived at Sanssouci Island." ”

"Yes, so this dowry was given by your master for you. ”

After hearing this, Yan Mubai didn't know whether it was true or not, and stammered and asked, "That.... So how... Master didn't mention it to me. ”

Seeing that his expression softened a little, Ghost Lian smiled, and raised his chin diagonally with a smile, a little stubbornly indifferent, "It's just because this marriage involves your life experience, if you mention it, I'm afraid you will definitely ask, so your master will never mention it." ”

Yan Mubai lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said firmly: "Yes, I must be asking who my parents are, and whether they died in the Ninety Thousand Mountain." ”

Ghost Lian sighed slightly and nodded slightly, "You can say that." "Then what are they called?" Ghost Lian slowly paced to the previous seat and sat down, a layer of fog suddenly appeared in his eyes, which was very inconsistent with her hearty and indifferent temperament, "I can only tell you that your mother's surname is Yan, and her name is Yan Jia." ”

"My mother's last name!" Yan Mubai said in surprise.

"Yes. ”

"It's... Is my father denying me?"

"Of course not, your parents were a decent union. ”

The fear that sprung up in Yan Mubai's heart disappeared slightly, he walked over, sat down and continued to ask, "Where is my father?"

"I can't tell you, if you have to know, why don't you ask your master, anyway, in a few hours, when the wind weakens, we can see him when we go out of the city!"

Yan Mubai took a long breath, nodded, and said in his heart: "This Aunt Ying seems to be the sweetheart that the master has been waiting for for seventeen years, since I can't ask about my life experience, I think it is because the master has already instructed me, so I can always ask the Sword Villa." Thinking of this, he said, "Aunt Ying, you know my master, and you once intersected with the Sword Holding Villa, what's wrong?"

Ghost Lian said: "Why did you enter the Divine Ghost Gate?"

"Yes. ”

"I'm not a ghost gate who entered later, but a ghost gate person from the beginning. ”

Yan Mubai was very surprised, according to her, his master knew that the other party was a person of the Demon Dao and still fell in love with him. He respected his unobtrusive master a little more in his heart, and at the same time admired the ghost refining in front of him a little, the other party was frank and open, neither hiding his identity, nor did he have any inferiority or arrogance because of this identity, as if it was an ordinary identity, nothing special.

"The ghost burner just now has no blood with me, but he has grown up together since he was a child, and he has a good relationship, so he is called like this. Ghost Zhuo was originally an orphan in a small Han village at the foot of the 90,000 Mountain, because he was bullied by the Miao people, so he went to the Ghost Gate, and then the three of us gradually grew up, and the kung fu became better and better, and gradually had today's status in the door, in fact, the credit is all for the two of them, I just took advantage of them, this is the infinite scenery, after I met your master, I didn't want to live such a life of fighting and killing, just quitting the cold door, how easy it is to say!" her tone was stiff and cold, as if full of deep hatred.

"Then when my master knew you back then, he knew that you were a member of the Divine Ghost Sect?" he asked.

"Naturally, I have never concealed that your master has always been pretentious, so he will not care about the eyes of others. Her tone suddenly turned to playfulness, and even her eyes were full of smiles, "He is a lone hero who claims to be my go, so I am here, but later..." She was a little hesitant, and the conversation changed: "Back then, the six of us had a good relationship, and we used to drink and compete day and night, and we were ambitious, and we wanted to exchange the martial arts for peace with the strength of a few of us, hum." She snorted mockingly: "It's really naïve! It's just that I didn't think so at the time, and I always felt that a real chivalrous warrior should be like us, slashing injustice, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, walking in the rivers and lakes, walking in the rivers and lakes, what righteous path, what ghost door, all can stop making peace and share peace! Her eyes were full of infinite grief, and if she had been with the spirits at this moment, she would have been drunk.

"Do you know Master Su Zhuang and how is he a person?" Yan Mubai lowered his head, his voice a little low.

"Brother Su has a noble character, like your master, he has never had a view of the door, treats people sincerely, divides good and evil with character, and does not draw white and black with good and evil, when he left the Sword Villa, Brother Su also gave each of us sisters a white rainbow sword, well, this is this sword, you are also willing to believe me when you see this sword, right?"

He said in his heart: "Such a good sword, if you are not really a friend, you are afraid and are not willing to give it away, it seems that this Su Zhuang owner is indeed not so insistent on the view of the portal, not as rigid and narrow as ordinary people, when the good and evil were almost as powerful as fire and water, in this case he is still not afraid of the situation, and only looks at the character when intersecting with people, but it is very admirable." ”

She smiled and stared at the darkening sky outside the door and said, "It's going to snow." After a while, the snowflakes like white flowers were scattered, falling down one after another, and after a while, the dead branches and leaves outside the door were covered with a thick layer, as if dancing and drunk, leisurely.