At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Shaoxing.

This year's winter has been particularly long. Bai Jingxing's death not only gave me, but also Lou Qin, and cast a heavy shadow on this Jianghu.

Soon after Bai Jingxing's death, the imperial court issued an edict.

The emperor's handwritten letter, with only a simple sentence: The rivers and lakes are the rivers and lakes of the people of the rivers and lakes.

This handwritten letter soon spread to all sects. In the midst of heavy grief, the people on the rivers and lakes breathed a long sigh of relief. Because, this sentence means that the imperial court will no longer meddle in the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

The rivers and lakes seem to be calm, but the undercurrents in them are even more turbulent.

Because, the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance is vacant, and more people are beginning to move.

On the day of Bai Jingxing's funeral, I, Li Xiaoqian, Lou Qin and Lu You went to Qingyun Mountain to mourn. In the wide hall of the Qingyun faction, there are twelve gilded giant pillars, showing the grandeur of the temple. However, the black and white gauze hanging from each giant pillar makes this golden and glorious hall look particularly solemn.

More than 200 disciples lined up on both sides, kneeling from Bai Jingxing's coffin to the outside of the hall.

Among these two hundred people, each has a ghost, and the new head of the house has long become the focus of their private heated discussions and contention.

The four Qingyun disciples walked slowly into the hall with their chariots. On the chariot sat an old man in the last years of the wind and candle, his body was thin, and his breath was in and out, as if he had reached the time when the oil ran out and the lamp dried up.

They said that it was Bai Jingxing's master.

His name is Wei Wuya. More than 30 years ago, he gave Bai Jingxing, who had a meal with him, a wooden box and a bamboo tube, and since then he has achieved the legend of the first swordsmanship in martial arts. Later, he took the position of the head of the Qingyun faction to Bai Jingxing.

Thirty years have passed.

Wei Wuya forced himself to prop up his dying body and walked tremblingly from his chariot to the coffin. He stroked the coffin, tears raining down.

"Master!"

Lang Lang's voice came from the lobby. The invisible martial arts of the divine sword stood up from the front row, knelt in front of Wei Wuya, and said, "Master passed away suddenly before a new person was established, and the Qingyun Sect cannot be left without a master for a day, and I also ask the master to choose a new head on behalf of the master." ”

The sound of martial arts refining was like a bell, echoing in the main hall.

A disciple who was carrying a chariot was so frightened that he kicked down the incense burner in front of the coffin.

"You ......" Wei Wuya's face changed suddenly, and he said, "Be careful!"

As soon as the words fell, a figure flashed in the middle of the crowd, and he bowed his head and bowed: "Thank you, Master!

All the people looked at each other, not knowing what was happening.

Wei Wuya's face turned pale, and he pointed at the man who was about to say something. Maybe the time limit had arrived, or maybe it was excessive grief, he didn't come up in one breath, but he collapsed and died on the spot.

Soon, the Qingyun Sect's prayer posts were sent to all the major sects, and then it shook the entire martial arts.

The new head of the Qingyun Sect, the head of the Southern Sect's martial arts, turned out to be a fourteen-year-old boy named Yi Caution.

An ordinary bamboo tube. It's in my hands.

The scarred surface is engraved with the years it has gone through.

The bamboo tube that others said had become the number one swordsman in the rivers and lakes is in my hands at this moment.

The windows are open. The cold wind blew into the house through the window, but I didn't feel cold. Because, the bamboo tube in my hand is burning a hot flame in my heart.

I looked out the window, at the bright moon that had just risen in the sky, and at the newly built pool in the backyard of the Louqin Inn.

The pool has frozen.

A pool of cold water, reflecting the bright moon in the sky and the lights hanging high in the backyard, looks like a dazzling mirror.

Close the windows. The cold air was kept out of the window.

I suddenly felt cold. Bai Jingxing said that when I was able to block one hundred and thirteen silver needles, I practiced his swordsmanship. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could only block one.

The first one.

The shoulder that had been pierced by the silver needle was still aching. It makes me feel cold, cold of fear, cold of despair.

Walk to the hall of the inn. Two middle-aged men, one in Tsing Yi and the other in Gray, were mysteriously discussing something on the table in the corner.

When they saw me in the hall, their voices were lowered. But on such a cold night, it was quiet enough to hear all the whispers.

"Did you hear that?" the man in Tsing Yi suppressed his voice and looked around vigilantly.

The man in gray asked, "What did you hear?"

The man in Tsing Yi said, "Bai Jingxing is not dead!"

"What?!" the man in gray cried out in surprise.

My heart was pounding, and I couldn't help but scream.

Bai Jingxing is not dead?!

It's impossible!

Shaoxing Lufu. A big day for land travel. Bai Jingxing, who had an abnormal demeanor, dried five jars of wine in a row, accidentally fell from the roof, swallowed filthy (desensitized) substances with vomiting, and was accidentally choked to death.

That scene happened right in front of my eyes.

At this time, if someone still says that Bai Jingxing is not dead. I categorically refused to believe it.

The two men in Tsing Yi and Gray looked at me suspiciously and asked, "Do you also know Bai Jingxing?"

I asked, "He's not dead? How could he not be dead?"

Tsing Yi said: "It's true. At dusk today, I had seen him at the Huaixiang Tavern in the east of the city. White clothes, white hair, white beard, he calls himself Bai Jingxing, and he must be right. ”

I couldn't help but tremble in my heart, surprised and delighted, rushed out of the door, and ran towards the Huaixiang Tavern against the biting cold wind.

"Where are you going?"

Lou Qin's voice sounded from behind him. I didn't want to stop, and while running, I turned around and shouted, "I'll go find Bai Jingxing!"

My steps were too fast, and the wind was whirring. The wind was so cold that it made me cry.

I lowered my head and kept running wildly.

Bai Jingxing is not dead!

This incident is enough to make me work hard.

However, at the moment when I had just buried my head, I only felt a blow on the top of my head, and I was bounced back by a soft mass of something that I didn't know, and one was unstable and squatted on the ground.

I looked up and saw that it was indeed Lou Qin's anxious face.

I asked, "What are you going to do?"

Lou Qin said: "People can't be resurrected after death, why do you need to do this?"

I said, "I'm going to find him!"

Lou Qin said: "With me, I won't let you take your life." ”

When did I say I was going to take my own life.

Lou Qin said: "He is dead. No matter how sad you are, he won't come back to life. ”

I said, "He's not dead." ”

Lou Qin dragged me up from the ground, shook my shoulders with both hands, and shouted, "He's dead, he's dead, he's dead." ”

I was so shaken by her that I almost threw up. I shook her hand away and said, "Someone just said I saw him." ”

Lou Qin was suddenly stunned. She asked, "Who did you listen to?"

The two men I was looking at at the door of the inn in a daze said, "What they said is in the Huaixiang Tavern." ”

As soon as the words fell, before I could explain anything more, Lou Qin's hand had already grabbed mine. The hand that was as warm as jade suddenly sent out an overwhelming force, dragging me towards the east.

Huaixiang Tavern.

The dilapidated but antique façade makes people inexplicably feel a breath of rivers and lakes.

When stepping into the tavern. The shopkeeper, who is nearly fifty years old, is skillfully calculating. In the empty tavern, only the sound of "crackling" abacus collision can be heard.

He looked up, and the horizontal stripes on his forehead became clearer. Seeing the two of us, he was stunned for a moment, and then walked towards us with a smile: "What do you want to eat?"

"What about Bai Jingxing?" I asked.

The owner of the "white ......" shop looked a little dazed, and then he seemed to remember something, frowned, and said with a resentful face: "You said that old ......" But halfway through his speech, he suddenly glanced at us from the corner of his eye, his face suddenly turned from anger to joy, and he sneered: "That old gentleman, he has already left." ”

Lou Qin asked, "Is it really him?"

The shopkeeper looked at us suspiciously and asked cautiously, "Who are you talking about?"

I said, "An old man dressed in white, with white hair and a white beard. ”

The shopkeeper nodded again and again and said, "Yes, it's him." ”

Lou Qin asked, "When did he leave and where did he go?"

The shopkeeper said: "I've been walking for half an hour, and to the east, I may have come out of Lin'an City." ”

Lou Qin and I glanced at each other, and we couldn't hide our excitement. The shopkeeper asked, "Are you two here to settle the bill for him?"

Checkout?

I said, "No." ”

The shopkeeper's expression was both disappointed and angry, and he muttered to himself, "I thought someone was coming to settle the bill, and I was happy in vain." ”

Lou Qin smiled and said, "Boss, how much did he spend in total? ”

The shopkeeper smiled like a flower, nodded his head again and again, and said, "Very good, very good! He asked for a plate of beef, a plate of broad beans, a bowl of somen noodles, and two steamed buns, a total of three taels of silver." ”

Lou Qin frowned, as if she was puzzled, she asked, "He ate a bowl of somen noodles and two steamed buns?"

The shopkeeper said, "Yes, that's all." ”

Lou Qin asked again: "He didn't drink?"

The shopkeeper thought for a moment and said firmly, "No." ”

"That's not right!" Lou Qin looked at me.

Oh, yes. That's not right. Bai Jingxing didn't even drink?

I said, "Is it because I drank too much in Shaoxing that I quit drinking from then on?" ”

Lou Qin shook his head and said, "My predecessor suffered from a strange illness and rarely ate pasta. Even if you eat it, it's just three or two mouthfuls of stool, and you definitely won't eat so much. ”

Indeed, Bai Jingxing ate a little more.

I said, "He's probably hungry." ”

Lou Qin shook her head again and said, "No." There must be something strange about this. ”

The shopkeeper interrupted us and said, "Are you going to settle the bill or not?"

Lou Qin suddenly woke up, apologized to the shopkeeper, handed him an ingot of five taels of silver, and said, "Boss, don't look for it." I have a few more words for you, and I would like to let them know. ”

The shopkeeper was so happy that he was about to jump up, and he said, "You ask, you ask." The old man knows everything. ”

Lou Qin asked, "What does that person look like?"

The shopkeeper said, "White clothes, white hair, white beard." ”

I asked, "Gone?"

The shopkeeper said, "That's all, I don't care about the specific appearance." ”

Lou Qin asked again, "Did that man say what his name was?"

The shopkeeper said, "He said his name is Bai Jingxing. ”

Lou Qin muttered, "Could it really be him?!" but in her eyes, I could see that she still had doubts.

I asked, "Why didn't he give you the money?"

The shopkeeper said: "He said that he was the leader of the martial arts alliance, and he never brought silver taels when he went out, and his friends on the rivers and lakes would naturally settle the bill for him." I saw that his eyes were fierce, and he said that he was the leader of the martial arts alliance, so he didn't dare to stop him. ”

Could it be that he?!

Bai Jingxing really didn't die?!

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