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Sleepless nights.

All night long, I tossed and turned, the old man's words lingering in my ears. The water god Niangniang he said in his mouth is very similar to Xiaoyue.

I also wondered if Lu Shi had other disciples.

But I quickly vetoed it.

It's only been a year since I last went to Lujia Villa, and there were no other female disciples in Lujia Villa at that time. The Lu family's swordsmanship is subtle and profound, even if Lu Shi suddenly accepts a female disciple after I leave, it is absolutely impossible to practice it into a sword throat seal move in just one year.

Moreover, listening to what the old man said, the "Water God Niangniang" passed by in a flash, and she could use a sword to seal her throat in an instant and jump onto the eaves.

I really can't think of anyone else besides Satsuki.

That night, after a few thoughts, I overturned all assumptions, and at dawn, I was extremely sure that Satsuki was really alive. The water god enshrined in the shrine is Satsuki!

When I finally came to my knees, I was overjoyed. But soon I fell into deep confusion - Satsuki is still alive, why didn't she come to see me?

There must be an answer to all this.

And this answer may only be known when you see Satsuki with your own eyes.

2.

As soon as the morning dawned, I said goodbye to the old man.

Before leaving, I gave him an ingot of gold. The old man was terrified, and he said that he had never seen so much money in his life.

I said, "I'll buy your ship with this ingot." ”

The old man still refused, and said, "How can my broken ship be worth a pengot of gold?" ”

I insisted on giving the gold to the old man, and I said, "If I meet you, I can't buy you with any amount of gold." ”

The old man asked, "Do you still want to cross the river?"

I said, "Yes." I have to go. ”

Ever since I was sure that Satsuki was still alive, there was a feeling that pulled me along - perhaps in Satsuki's heart, this lake also contained good memories between us.

Since it was a good memory, how could she tolerate this lake being defiled by cruel water bandits?

If Satsuki was still nearby, I think she would be on the other side. Perhaps at this time, she was holding the sword in her hand, shuttling through the thieves' den, maintaining the tranquility of this lake with exquisite swordsmanship.

Say goodbye to the old man. I paddled alone in a small boat to the opposite shore.

At that time, my heart was full of anticipation......

2.

When the boat docked, I felt that the shore was much colder on this side. Looking far away, there was a blank area on the waterfront, and there was no human figure.

I continued along the official road. Whenever he met someone along the way, he asked them for the news of the "water god Niangniang".

However, the people here said that they had never heard of the water goddess Niangniang, nor had they seen a woman dressed in white and masked.

Could it be that I guessed wrong? Satsuki hasn't been here?

The cold official road is sparsely populated, but there is an abrupt tea shop on the side of the road. Although I thought it was unreasonable, I walked all morning, hungry and thirsty.

Anyway, the bandits couldn't do anything to me, so I went to the tea shop and begged for something to eat.

"Guest, please take a seat!"

As soon as I arrived at the tea shop, I was greeted by a man as thin as a monkey. He led me to sit down, wiped the table, and asked, "The guest officer is from out of town, right?"

I nodded and asked, "Do you have something to eat here?" ”

The thin monkey nodded again and again, and said, "What do you want to eat?" Don't look at the small shop is just a simple tea shop, but the cooking skills of the master are very good, and you dare not say that the delicacies of the mountains and seas are delicious, and you will be satisfied with a few small dishes. ”

I said, "Whatever."

Come on. ”

"The guest officer will sit down for a while, and the meal will come immediately. The skinny monkey smiled and slipped into the shop. After a while, he brought up a few meat dishes, put them in front of me, and said, "The guest officer uses it slowly." ”

I picked up my chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat, and was about to put it in my mouth, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of the skinny monkey peeking at me not far away. I glanced at him, and he walked away and looked away, pretending to be nothing.

I felt even more weird, and my other hand quietly pressed the blood.

As soon as the chopsticks reached his mouth, he suddenly felt a cold whistle on the other side of the official road outside the tea shop, and a hidden weapon flew in. I dodged lightly, and the hidden weapon flew in front of my face and hit the banner in front of the tea shop, and with a "click", the banner was broken into two pieces.

Before I could check the hidden weapon, I heard a "clang" in the tea shop, followed by a commotion, and several figures rushed out brightly, holding swords in their hands.

They rushed out of the tea shop and looked at me, and they were all stunned.

One of them yelled at the thin monkey: "Third child, damn it, you haven't sent any code yet!"

The thin monkey was full of grievances and said, "Boss, no, it's not my code. Someone smashed our signboard. ”

The man glanced at the broken flag, and immediately became angry, scolding: "His grandmother's, who doesn't know whether to live or die, and dares to touch the banner of Lao Tzu's house!"

At this time, another man walked up to me with his body dangling, slapped his knife on the table, and shouted: "Boy, you have the money to leave, but you don't have the money to stay alive, are you rich or not?"

I said, "There's money." ”

The man's face was full of excitement.

I said, "But I don't want to give it to you." ”

A group of men thundered and surrounded me. Seven or eight swords were placed in front of me, reflecting the sunlight and barely keeping my eyes open.

"I don't know what is alive or dead. The man known as the boss threatened, "Do you see the knife in Lao Tzu's hand? Even if you hide the silver in the crotch of your pants, Lao Tzu can scrape it out for you little by little!"

"Goo-Goo......

I screamed a few times in my stomach. I ignored him and continued to put the meat caught in the chopsticks into my mouth.

At this time, there was another whistle on the other side of the official road, and a hidden weapon was actually aimed at my hand. I moved slightly, and dodged the hidden weapon again. Then I heard a scream of "ah" from a thin monkey standing not far away, and fell to the ground.

When the thin monkey sat up again, his mouth was full of blood, and with a "poof", he spat out a blood-stained stone and two bloody front teeth. The thin monkey threw the stone on the ground fiercely, stepped on two feet, and scolded to the sky: "Who, whoever fucking attacked Lao Tzu, get out of Lao Tzu." ”

There was silence all around. The thin monkey was furious and scolded: "Let Lao Tzu catch you, Lao Tzu dug up your ancestral grave!"

As soon as the words fell, there was another "whoosh" sound.

A pebble was knocked out of a small bush on the side of the official road and flew straight to the head of the thin monkey, knocking the thin monkey over several times.

This is a master!

I grabbed my bloody sword, jumped out of the tea shop, and rushed into the trees.

As soon as I entered the bushes, I smelled a strong aroma of gardenias, and my heart trembled, and I cried out in a lost voice: "Xiaoyue!"

Before he could shout again, suddenly a white shadow flickered through the bushes. My heart was overjoyed and I chased after it. The white shadow was light under his feet, as fast as a swallow.

Fortunately, my light skills were taught by Xiao Yue herself, and I didn't feel hard to follow her, but it was difficult to surpass it for a while.

In this way, I ran for more than ten miles, and when I came to an open area, I finally saw the figure of the white shadow clearly. She's a woman, a woman who is almost the same as Satsuki's silhouette.

The light work footwork under her feet is the unique light work of the Lu family.

She is undoubtedly Satsuki.

"Satsuki, I know it's you!" I shouted as I chased after me, "Why don't you want to see me?"

The white shadow finally stopped.

She turned, a white veil covering most of her face. In those eyes as gentle as water, there was a sparkle of crystals. A tear slipped down, and she hurriedly brushed it away, but then another string of tears burst out of the frame.

"Satsuki. Why are you avoiding me?"

Satsuki didn't answer, her hand reaching for the veil, but it seemed to hesitate. After struggling for a moment, she gently pulled the white veil off her face.

That's no longer the face I'm familiar with.

The face, which was supposed to be as white as snow and slid off the congealed fat, turned out to be as dry and dull yellow as the bark of a late autumn tree, and the face was covered with frightening blue spots.

"Your face!" I cried out in surprise.

Xiao Yue said: "You have seen it all. I'm not who I used to be. ”

"Why?!" my heart was cut like a knife.

Satsuki hurriedly put on the veil and turned sideways. She said: "After I fell off the mountain, I fell on a protruding rock on the cliff face. When I woke up, I was in the bottomless valley of green cliffs, and the only way to survive was a cave in the cliff wall. I climbed into the cave that day, but the cave was not another dead end. ”

She has always been alive, and I have searched all over Qingya Valley, but I have not found any trace of Satsuki. So I gave up easily, but why didn't I think of going up the cliff?

At this moment, I was filled with self-blame.

Satsuki said, "I stayed in that cave for four whole months. The cave was dark and damp, with no food, except for a large patch of blackened bats that flew out of the cave every night and covered the moon in dense areas. At first I was scared and didn't dare to go deep into the cave, but then I realized that the bats didn't hurt me, they only ate some wild fruits in the Green Cliff Valley, and they would take those wild fruits back to the cave for storage. I couldn't help but be hungry, so I had to steal the wild fruits that the bats had hidden. But...... I don't know if the bats were poisonous, or if the wild fruits themselves were poisonous fruits, but after I ate them, my body soon began to swell and have spots. It was four months like hell. I struggled because I was always worried about our daughter, and I told myself that I would live no matter how painful it was. ”

My heart twisted into a ball, and I asked her, "So how did you get out?"

"Four months later, I heard the sound of a fight outside the cave. I thought it was a hallucination, who in this world could fight on the cliff, but the sound became clearer and clearer, and I hurried to the entrance of the cave, only to see a man and a woman leaping over the cliff to compete. I asked them for help, and they rescued me and cured me of the poison. Although my life was saved, the traces left by the poison on my body can no longer be erased. ”

Moon. My little moon.

I can't stand the torment anymore, and I don't care if she becomes like her. I rushed up to hug her. But Xiao Yue suddenly took a few steps back.

"Don't come here!" Satsuki shouted.

I asked, "Why?"

Satsuki said, "There is no why. ”

The surrounding area was empty, without a single grass or tree, like a bleak desert. The wind blew, rolling up the dust, and I felt like the world was blurry in front of me.

I asked Xiao Yue, "You've always been by my side, aren't you?"

Suddenly, Satsuki's body jerked, and with a wave of her hand, a cold sword pressed against my throat.

"I shouldn't have saved you. I should have killed you with a sword!"

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