The bright winter sun shone through the snowflake curtains into the small room, and the contents of the room were coated in a layer of snow-white fine powder. I looked at my phone, and it was already past eleven o'clock in the afternoon. Yesterday, I accompanied Tao Yao to go shopping until late at night. originally wanted to stay with her, but she was determined to sleep with Xiao Xi. I came back from the sanatorium in the cold and windy night. It was past two o'clock in the morning.

As soon as the curtains were opened, the winter sun flooded into my room, and I looked at the tiny dust in the square-shaped sunlight, exactly the same as when I came here two years ago.

That's when the phone rang, and the vibrating sound of the phone brought me back to reality, and I picked it up.

"Hey, isn't it?" a male voice with a Beijing film.

"It's me, who are you?"

"I'm Xia Shi, you can't hear my voice. The other party's tone was a little arrogant.

"What's the matter with me?"

"What's the matter with you? Aren't you going to come to my house to see a point master, he happens to be here today. "He gets straight to the point.

I just remembered that it was last month, and I had told Hua Han and Xia Shi before that I was attacked by the white-faced man who was good at pointing. Who didn't expect it to be a month later.

"Okay, I'll come over now, where is your house?"

"No. 3997 West Avenue in the city, call me when you arrive, and I'll come down to pick you up. ”

The delicate winter sun emerged from the blue sky, and was instantly obscured by dark clouds. When I went out, the sun was still warm, and when I reached the city, it was covered in gloom, and the invisible winter cold came out of the street corners, tree roots, eaves, and shadows, and invaded every inch of people's bare skin.

You came very quickly, just called, Xia Shi said, the elevator is broken, call someone to repair it, it has not been repaired for three days, so we can only take the stairs.

It doesn't matter, I said

Consultant Bai has been very busy in the past few months, in fact, I have made an appointment with him a long time ago. He came to see my dad today, so I called you over. If there is any martial arts related to the point point, you can just ask him, and you're welcome. He's fine.

What does he do? I asked

I heard my dad say that he was engaged in trade a long time ago, that is, to sell some precious Chinese herbs, animal skins, and jade from the Hammo Empire to the Central Plains. But that's also a nice way to put it, but it's actually smuggling, because the two countries have banned the smuggling of these rare goods. As for what he's doing now, I don't know. However, he is very knowledgeable about the underground trade between the two countries, and may still do this. That's why my dad hired him as a consultant.

We arrived at the spacious hall, on the right was a full wall of smooth floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and on the left was a snow-white wall with a closet for a white jade statue of Maitreya Buddha. The statue was the size of an adult's palm, but it was white like mutton fat. My heart is cold, this is the Tianshan Snow Jade. However, the Tianshan Snow Jade is invaluable, how could it be placed in such a conspicuous place. Or rather, it's just a fake that's real enough.

You wait for me here, I'll go up and see if they're done. But don't worry, I'll tell you whether they're done or not, and I won't let you wait in vain.

Although Xia Shi speaks arrogantly, he is always thoughtful, which is very similar to Hua Han.

Half an hour later, Xia Shi came down from the stairs with a displeased face. They don't think they will be able to get down for a while, and I should have asked you to come later, and he said, do you have anything else to do today? If you go first, when they are done, I will let him wait for you here.

Nothing rushed. I say.

That's good, it's too boring here, let's go to the garden, where the flowers are evergreen, we can go and enjoy the flowers. By the way, there's heating too. I had lunch brought to us so we could enjoy the flowers and eat at the same time.

Can you still see peach blossoms in winter?

Sure, you like peach blossoms? Our garden is actually a big greenhouse, and we can see anything out of season if we like it. Although this is a bit against the natural ecology, this is the power of technology, which can do anything. Xia Shi had an intoxicated look on his face.

Technology can't improve people's cultivation, I said.

Technology can't improve a person's cultivation, but he can do the same thing as martial arts. It can even be more convenient than martial arts. Doesn't martial arts speed up the speed of killing?

The original intention of martial arts was to stop disputes.

Yes, yes, but aren't all the means already capable of threatening the lives of the other side, whether it's to prevent disputes or wars?

I sighed, he had a point, I thought.

But now if the state lifts the ban on guns, people will no longer need martial arts, and martial arts will become a legend.

What guns are banned?

Don't you know about guns? He stuck his head out.

I shook my head.

But it's not surprising that you don't know, I only heard my dad talk about it some time ago. I've tried that thing once, and the power is terrifying, at a distance of 400 meters, it can blast people into flesh with a single shot.

You're exaggerating.

Xia Shi sneered, I am not exaggerating enough, what is even more exaggerated is that this gun does not matter whether you have practiced or not, even if you are just a little child, as long as you can pull the trigger, you can blast people into flesh.

Since he is so powerful, he is not needed to protect the country.

Xia Shi suddenly whispered in my ear and said, I think this is a conspiracy. This is the reason why those core interest groups deliberately do not make this kind of power public to the world in order to safeguard their own interests. When he finished speaking, his body jumped very tightly, as if a rope had tightened him, so that he could not breathe.

At this time, we walked to the garden, surrounded by the fragrance of birds and flowers, the garden basketball court is large, a total of four floors, is standing in the middle of the summer home. The middle of each garden is cut by the "abundance" of its own ridges. Colorful competition to open, vulgar unbearable.

We walked on the ridges.

According to you, the core interests of the ** now control the strongest force in this country. Because they have guns?

If there is no martial art that can fight against guns now, this is the case.

What do you mean by conspiracy?

It's when they take back their guns, that's what you just said. When they took back their guns, they formed an absolute domination over the secular world.

Then why do you want to publicize the practice of martial arts, and the people who are unarmed and have no cultivation are not better managed?

You would be wrong, unarmed civilians are easy to manage, but they are also cowardly and incompetent. What's more, propagating martial arts is conducive to diverting the attention of civilians, forgetting that there is such a thing as guns. At least not many people know about guns anymore, and almost none of our generation know about it.

Does Hua Han know about this? She is well-read.

Don't mention it, because I told her about the guns, I haven't seen her for almost a month now. I called you this time to ask if you know where she went.

I shook my head, I've been in the mountains these days.

I heard Hua Han say that your girlfriend is in the sanatorium of Tianma Mountain?

yes

I'm relieved.

What are you relieved of?

Ah, no-

That's when the phone rang in summer time. It was Hua Han calling, he was very happy, and hurriedly pressed the answer button. He said that he was far away from me, afraid that my heartbeat would interfere with Hua Han's voice.

Ten minutes later, Xia Shi came back and told me that he was going to send something to Hua Han.

Hana wants to see the guns, and I may have to leave the meeting. I'll go up and tell Advisor Bai right now that you wait for him here, and you can talk to him then."

I nodded.

Shortly after the summer time left, a well-dressed maid brought the meal. She was followed by a pale man in white, and when I recognized him, I immediately lost my appetite.

If it's you, I said.

Do you know it's me? The white-faced scholar unceremoniously drank the milk the maid gave me.

I saw that the Maitreya Buddha statue and the bracelet on Xiao Xi's hand were also heavenly snow jade. I think the master of the acupuncture point mentioned by Xia Shi may be you.

That Buddha statue was a gift from our king to the Minister of Security, but unfortunately our Minister did not seem to know much about the dignity of the Tianshan Snow Jade.

Since the so-called acupoint master is the culprit I'm looking for, then there is nothing to talk about between us. I drew the soft sword from my waist.

I'm not going to fight you here, the white-faced scholar grabbed a piece of cake and stuffed it in his mouth.

Are you afraid of losing your job?

My job is a trivial matter, but it's a pity that your girlfriend's life has been lost.

You put Xiao Xi next to Tao Yao just to threaten me.

Otherwise, to be honest, I still have lingering feelings about the strange martial arts you used that day. You're a tricky guy, and I can't guarantee that I'll beat you 100 percent. Grasping your weakness is a foolproof solution, and it won't do me any good to have one more enemy like you.

Bastard!

In this world, you have to learn some bastard's ways. I'd love to know what kind of martial arts you used that day, it wasn't like decent martial arts.

Don't want me to tell you.

I didn't think you'd tell me. Then goodbye. By the way, your meal is good.