Chapter 5 Branches
The teenagers' eloquent talk and lofty expectations came to an abrupt end because of the-for-tat confrontation between the two men.
The man in Tsing Yi went downstairs, and the old crutch went upstairs, not letting each other go.
Su Changmo was in a dilemma, the old uncle didn't seem to like the man in Tsing Yi, and Su Changmo had already felt it from the first glance yesterday. Su Changmo suddenly thought of the words of the women in the town when they were chatting: "Excellent men are born enemies" and then felt a little funny, Uncle Kidnapping, no matter how you look at it, he is faintly weaker than the man in Tsing Yi.
On the stairs, the man in Tsing Yi was condescending, with a righteous and awe-inspiring face.
The old uncle raised his head with his hands, rolled his eyes frequently, and took the lead in speaking: "Sometimes it is enough to get out of the whole body, and the gains outweigh the losses if you insist on going your own way."
The man smiled: "It is understandable to climb to the heights with one heart, but it is inevitable that human nature will gradually fade when you pass away, and you will finally draw the ground for self-appreciation." The road is under your feet, and it is difficult to walk an inch. ”
"Shopkeeper, please," the man stretched out his hand sideways.
Uncle Gui instantly blackened his face and strode out, Tang Yingsu looked inexplicable, Chu Xuan, Bai Yang and the black-clothed young man outside the door frowned thoughtfully.
After the man who had drunk the boy left, the young man in black still did not enter the house.
Su Changmo chased Uncle Gui out of the store, but a few steps away, he didn't find anyone, but a man in an official uniform looked at the store.
"Is there something wrong with the officials?"
"Is the shopkeeper here?" the accent is not local.
"The shopkeeper just left, the official is still drinking?"
"Does the government yamen know where it is?"
"Know"
"My lord has something, two hours later, send eleven jars of wine in your store to the government office, this is the wine money, less and then make up, more do not need to return. ”
Su Changmo took the money, which was more than enough, and said softly, "It must be delivered, wait a minute, the official will give you a pot of wine, and the small shop will send it." ”
The man's expression was pleased, and his chest was held high.
This is the first time that outsiders have entered the territory of the government office on the west side of the town.
After the man left, Zhong Wumei excused himself to be tired, and asked for a guest room on the second floor, Tang Ying didn't have a story to hear, and he hurried home to show his genius qualifications to his father and mother, Su Changmo wanted to let the black-clothed young man outside the door come in and rub some medicine, but the man was already quietly gone.
For a while, only Su Chang and Mo Dage stood at the door of the restaurant. The look is different.
"Sir is the same as them?" asked Su Changmo hesitantly.
The man folded his hands on his sleeves and smiled: "It's the same, it's not the same?"
Su Changmo raised his head, "Which one is the same, which one is different?"
"We are both mountaineers, but we are not fellow climbers"
Su Changmo was confident, and smiled: "I'm going to deliver wine, Mr. is at his own convenience."
"By the way, how long is the gentleman going to stay in this time?"
"Maybe" The man smiled: "I don't like Mr., you can call me Uncle Da in the future"
Su Changmo strengthened his courage and said, "Mr.'s name, it's really not a joke?"
The man sat on the threshold, his back like a mountain.
Pulling the horse to fill the wine, the busy Su Changmo was sweating profusely.
The man in Tsing Yi just smiled and never helped. It wasn't until Su Changmo was about to leave that the man got up naggingly, "The official family is exquisite, just you are unkempt, don't you think people will call you out?"
As he spoke, the man untied the boy's hair, smoothed his hands, pulled out a strip of red cloth from his sleeve, and gently pulled two strands of hair from the boy's temples and tied them tightly behind his head.
Su Changmo was dizzy and looked shy.
The town office is in the westernmost part, from east to west is the main street of the town, wide and flat, on both sides of the sycamore. A few steps out of the restaurant is the middle of the town, which used to be a large open space, and now it is a huge white jade altar, with six angles and nine layers of height.
It should be the place of heavenly sacrifice that Zhong Wumei said, the center of the formation. The boy couldn't help but take a few more looks.
Not far away, it was to the place of the government office, there were obviously fewer pedestrians on the street, and they were all dressed in brocade clothes, Su Changmo unconsciously lowered his head and stepped up his steps, there were people waiting at the door early, and he led him to the back hall and unloaded the wine.
Su Changmo finally let out a long breath, he was afraid that something would make a mess all the way, his mind was tense and too tiring. Walk through a cloister to the back door, with the carriages and horses outside.
In the pavilion next to the corridor, a man with a sword on his back sat in front of the chessboard, no one in front of him, and turned his head to look.
"You're the one who is in the clouds?"
Su Changmo bowed and said, "Lord Hui, yes" Facing the ground, his head was very deep.
"Know Zhong Wumei?"
Su Changmo's heart tightened, and he said in a trembling voice, "Lord Hui, I met for the first time in the store this morning, and I know each other."
The man was expressionless all the time, and beckoned, "Come here, my eyes haven't been very good lately, and I can't see clearly." ”
Su Changmo stiffened his feet and stood in front of the stone table.
"Do you know how to play chess?" the man picked up a sunspot.
"Back to my lord, no"
"It's okay, take a white child, just put it away, I'm going to go with myself, it's really boring"
Su Changmo was a little overwhelmed and opened his mouth.
The man suddenly stretched out his hand, brushed the top of the young man's head, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm not an official master, I'm also a guest here, don't be restrained"
In a word, such as Daigo empowerment, Su Changmo suddenly realized, took the white son and put it on the chessboard at will.
The man stared, stared at the chessboard, and waved his sleeves: "It's hard for you, I really don't know anything." ”
Su Changmo signaled to retire, and the man handed out a jade pendant, "Young Lang will eventually be ambitious in all directions, and he will go elsewhere in the future, this thing can bring you good luck." ”
"The villain can't accept it, thank you for the kindness of the adult" The longer he stayed with this man, the deeper the chill in Su Changmo's heart became, even if this person spoke softly from beginning to end.
"Anyway," the man looked at the chessboard again, his eyes playful. Waving his hand to signal the boy to leave.
When he went out, Su Changmo never looked up, drove the carriage, and left quickly. The heart is still turbulent, the man in the store today said that the janitor invited by the official family this time is not low, and when the man said that he was also a guest, the young man felt a cold breeze on his sleeves, like a man's back.
In this way, this time to send wine, suddenly encountered, it may not be easy.
The boy went all the way east, around the chessboard, and the two sat opposite each other, like twins, just with a sword on their backs and a flute on their backs. The two of them spoke at the same time, as if they were saying to themselves, "Ordinary and shallow, why is it worth betting on the Zhong family?"
"Why don't you prevent it before it happens?"
"The qi is disordered here, and it is inevitable that it will be self-defeating"
The man with the sword on his back frowned and pinched his fingers, and then smiled: "What's more, it's hard to say if he can't stand up."
The panicked and frightened young man suddenly missed the man in Tsing Yi. Be all abroad.
Not far from the government office, there is a small street on the left-hand side, less than the width of the car, and the bluestone pavement. Su Changmo looked up, I don't know if Xiao Mu is okay, there is only one family surnamed Mu in the town, and it is on this street.
The people who live here are all poetry and hairpins, and most of them are literati and ink writers, and the Mu family is one of them. Studying and asking, not allowing miscellaneous things to interfere, the official family came forward to inspect this street, Chongwen Street, cars and horses are not passable,
When the boy was worried, a figure flew out of a wall and smashed on the horse's back, and the horse overturned and became dusty.
Su Changmo fell hard, and the man spurted out a mouthful of blood, staring at the corner of Chongwen Street with a cruel look in his eyes.
"Qi Ziyin?" Su Changmo exclaimed, stepped forward to help the young man on the ground, groped around, reached out for a long time to take off the bundle of hair, and wiped the blood from the corner of the young man's mouth. "What's going on, are you okay?"
The young man supported the ground with his hands and pushed Su Changmo away, "It's none of your business, get out of here." ”
The young man's eyes were like a tiger and a wolf, staring at Su Changmo, extremely impatient, when will it be your turn for Qi Ziyin to be a little second child who has no father and no mother here.
"Either I'll report to the police for you, or I'll take you to the hospital first," Su Changmo said, and reached out to pick up Qi Ziyin.
Qi Ziyin punched Su Changmo in the waist, and there was a muffled sound, "Hurry up and get out, you will always be this virtue." ”
Su Changmo got up, but still didn't leave, and there was a faint pain in his waist.
The young man in front of him, Su Changmo knows, but he is not too familiar, Qi Ziyin is the only child who lives in Chongwen Street but does not like to read, he sneaked out of the private school in the first class, and took the cheats bought on the side of the road to stay in the mountains for a day, known as learning boxing. The more he grew up, the more crazy he became, and then his family really couldn't help it, so they let him go to school for half a day and practice boxing for half a day. has also become an outlier among the children in the small town, with a strange temper and few words, although they all play together, but the love is not deep.
What makes Su Changmo's memory deep is that Qi Ziyin always seems to be extremely targeted at himself, in his words, it is Su Changmo, a good man, who has no interest, eats and waits for death, and walks the dead. This boy has never looked down on himself. But Su Changmo has always been extremely tolerant of Qi Ziyin's sarcastic remarks, whether he is cold or cold, because this young man, fatherless, is said to have died in the officialdom of the Chifang Kingdom.
Two teenagers came out of the corner calmly, spotless.
Su Changmo took a step forward and stood in front of Qi Ziyin's right. These two people have seen it. The name, Su Changmo also remembers, the tall boy, Luo Sumu, the shorter, is called Langji.
Luo Sumu didn't seem surprised at all by Su Changmo's appearance, and said with a smile, "Hey, isn't this the person appointed by Zhong Da Boy---?
Qi Ziyin struggled to get up, "Who used a waste to save it, he is also worthy of the surname Luo, if you have the ability, you will kill me." "Grit your teeth and move forward.
Su Changmo grabbed Qi Ziyin's arm tightly, and the whole person stood in front of him, "Why did you beat him? That person said, you can't kill people!"
Su Changmo remembered that the first thing the man said in the restaurant was to let everyone not kill. No matter what their reason is, they will definitely not be able to stop them on their own, so they can only be Sima Doctor alive. Su Changmo's eyes were firm and he did not retreat.
The corners of Luo Sumu's mouth curled, "You are smart!" Before the words fell, a young man from a distance of dozens of steps appeared in front of Su Changmo like a ghost, slapped Su Changmo in the face, and said leisurely, "But how do you know if I listen or not?"
Su Changmo was like an arrow off the string, hit the wall and fell to the ground, a mouthful of blood spurted out when he opened his mouth, and the chill gradually rose from the bottom of his heart, this person has murderous intentions.
"Do you think that the kid surnamed Zhong has no fear, and I will look down on you?" Luo Sumu turned his steps and walked towards Su Changmo step by step.
"When do I do things, when do I need an ant from Lingxu Continent to say more, do you think I'm too easy to talk, or do you think you have a good way to talk after listening to a few words surnamed Zhong?"
The young man lifted Su Changmo and pressed it against the wall, stuck his hand around his neck, slowly went up, and his feet were off the ground.
This person, he wanted to kill for a long time, not only because of Zhong Wumei's nonsense, which humiliated everyone, from the first glance of the restaurant, he looked at this young man and felt uncomfortable, those eyes, looking clean and clear, but they were fortified everywhere, rejecting people for thousands of miles, for the first time, he couldn't see the mind of a teenager of the same age, which made him extremely uncomfortable. If he bumps into it today, he is looking for death!
Qi Ziyin moved towards Su Changmo step by step, and shouted angrily, "You let him go, a waste, aren't you dirty?"
Luo Sumu turned around and joked, "Hey, the countryman has a deep affection?" With a wave of his left hand, Qi Ziyin was like a heavy blow, and once again smashed on the carriage, dying.
Su Changmo's face was purple and blue, his heart was disheartened, a mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat, and his breath was dying.
"I don't know why I hurt people, you want to save people, do you say it's your fault or mine? Wrong, is there a price?" Luo Sumu's smile became stronger: "Don't worry, you will die, but he can't die, by the way, not only will he not die, but he will also be my junior brother, ascend to the immortal path, ask Changsheng, we will go forward together, is it ridiculous?"
Qi Ziyin's face was covered with blood, and it was difficult to open his mouth, staring at Luo Sumu and shouting, vague and indistinct.
Langyu, a young man who had not moved, raised his eyebrows: "Do you have to kill?"
After Lang Ji finished speaking, he walked to Qi Ziyin's side, fed a pill, and the alliance between him and Luo Sumu was completely because his family did not have elders to come, and he felt that he was a little weak, so he made this decision, but now, if a human life is involved, this cause and effect, Luo Sumu is not afraid, but he may not be able to resolve it.
"I'm afraid," Luo Sumu triumphant
"If you have to kill, make an alliance, I'll go, you can kill again" Lang Yu got up and said in a serious tone.
Luo Sumu faintly felt a trace of impatience, "Are you afraid of the revenge of the surnamed Zhong? Don't worry, the one surnamed Tang is not easy to say, kill this waste, do you think the Zhong family can come from that kid? Every incense invitation of the Zhong family is a pair of fairy money!"
Lang Ji was unmoved.
Luo Sumu's eyes were cold, his hands were tightened, killing people was not so hard, but he liked this, controlled everything, watched his opponent dying and struggling, a little desperate, take his time, and be happy.
Su Changmo had already passed out. When Lang Yu was about to stop it, a sycamore leaf, swaying, fell on Luo Sumu's forehead, fragrant and cold, blocking the sunlight in the sky.
Lang Yu stopped, thoughtful,
Luo Sumu turned around, like throwing grass and trees, and threw the young man beside Qi Ziyin, pinching the petioles, and turning them gently. The moment the leaf covered his eyes, he felt that his heart was like a drum. This heaven and earth seem to be the only one, and the heaven and earth slowly merge, and they are fragmented.
When the two teenagers were distracted, Qi Ziyin sat up, leaned on the wheel, his eyes soaked in blood, and headed towards Luo Sumu.
Luo Sumu put away the leaves, as if he could see the anger under those bloody eyes, and squatted down and smiled: "Let me ask you again, if I take advantage of your luck this time, what will you do in the future?"
"Kill" Qi Ziyin said hoarsely.
"Good" Luo Sumu clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "It is worthy of being my little junior brother, he can enter my Holy Sect, and he is bloody"
Hearing this, Lang Yu glanced at Qi Ziyin deeply.
The two tacitly turned around and walked towards the government office, between their sleeves, their hands pinched, and Luo Sumu smiled mockingly.
The wounds on Su Changmo's body were intact, but the pain all over his body did not decrease in the slightest.
Qi Ziyin got up, wiped the blood from his eyes, and there was a fire in a pair of black pupils. glanced at Su Changmo and spat blood on his side
Yin sadly scolded: "Pig brain" dragged the blood all over and moved towards the house on the street.
When Su Changmo woke up, there was no one around, like a big dream, but the pain on his body was like a knife, clear, real, turned his head, there was no carriage and horses, he should have been impatient and had already returned to the restaurant by himself, Su Changmo smiled bitterly.
Before he fell into a coma, Su Changmo saw spring flowers and autumn moons, summer rain and winter snow, his father and mother were beside him, and the teenager was in the center.
Maybe it's because of the pain and dizziness, the young man can step into the sky in a trance, and in the sea of wind and clouds, heaven and earth are free.
Su Changmo walked very slowly, long street, distant mountains, trees and autumn colors, shoulders full of fallen leaves,
It turns out that the heavens and the world are average, and if you can walk through the world, you will ascend to the sky.
The restaurant was full of people, and Su Changmo went straight to the second floor.
The man in Tsing Yi reclined on the railing on the second floor.
"Are you alright?"
"It's okay!" Su Changmo couldn't help but feel pain
"Uncle Da?"
"Huh?"
"Is it --- hard to practice?"
"Have you felt bitter all these years?"
"Okay"
"That's okay!"
Hehe, Su Chang laughed and felt pain all over his body, really, all over his body.
Branches on the moon
Starshadow Fall
A small building on earth
A light is on
Boys
The cups are endless