Chapter Seventy-Six: Against the Tide II
Today is October 22, the fifth day of my stay at Cloud Villa. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoEvery morning, I insist on getting up early to practice swordsmanship, and the swordsmanship I practice is still water-avoiding swordsmanship. Cheng Fuhai told me that the water-avoiding sword technique was transformed from the Taiyi sword technique of the Wudang faction, and it was a patchwork of several self-created sword techniques newly added by the master in the Taiyi sword technique.
To put it bluntly, the water-avoiding sword technique is a nondescript set of swordsmanship.
Cheng Fuhai is a master of martial arts, and his self-created Liuyun Twenty-One Style Palm Method is famous, and his eyes are vicious, as early as when I first sneaked into Youyun Villa, he had already seen it. However, even if the swordsmanship I practice is a set of nondescript swordsmanship, I will insist on practicing it every day, no matter how nondescript it is, this is also the swordsmanship that the master personally taught us, and this is also the swordsmanship of the Iron Sword School.
In the past few days in Youyun Villa, I have lived comfortably, and in my spare time, I followed Xiaoqing to the villa to walk around and listen to Shiqi play the guqin. If I didn't have a lot of trivial things to worry about, I really liked staying here more and more.
Youyun Mountain is located on the east side of the north and south mountain ranges, surrounded by water on three sides, only the north side is connected to the continuous mountain range, there is still a cliff between the Youyun Mountain and the north and south mountain ranges, it is said to be connected, but it is only a stone bridge that is not too wide. Like the east gate of Youyun Villa, the west gate also has a heavy village gate.
There are many barbarians living in the north and south mountain ranges, and these barbarians have a lot of contacts with Youyun Mountain Villa, and in the past few days, I have seen a lot of barbarians entering and leaving Youyun Mountain Villa. The barbarians live in caves, and in the early winter, it is also the time for the barbarians to store food, but the living environment of the barbarian land is treacherous, there are places where they can spend the winter safely, but there are also mountain cols where they are hungry and cold. The barbarian caves dug according to the advantages of the terrain can store grain for the winter, and the barbarian caves that are uninhabitable due to climate change are temporarily discarded by the barbarian people, and will not return to these winterless caves until the next spring is warm. These people may partner with others and live in the same place, or they may dig holes in the mountains and add new ones, but more often than not, they go out of the treacherous mountains and forests and run to various cities to escape the cold.
The north and south mountain ranges are Guiyang Jian and Chenzhou in the east and west, and the Great Song Dynasty court has a clear decree that local officials shall not suppress and discriminate against the barbarian people, and the barbarian people can enter and leave the city on their own and come and go freely. I am not a person from the government, but the Song Dynasty court can have this decree, but it is deeply in my heart, and I also agree with this approach of the imperial court. Guiyang Jian is the Great Song Dynasty to cast money, surrounded by many states and counties, although the imperial court has a special order for the barbarian people, but the barbarian people also have self-knowledge, when avoiding the cold will rarely choose Guiyang Jian, most of them are said to flock to Yong, Heng, Chen. I don't know what the situation is in Yong and Hengzhou, but there are barbarians in Chenzhou City to escape the cold, but in the cold winter, I have seen a lot of barbarians in Chenzhou City.
What I didn't expect was that Youyun Villa also took in the barbarian children, and those low houses were built by Cheng Fuhai to take in the barbarian people.
At first, when I heard Xiaoqing talk about it, I was still a little suspicious, but in the past few days, when Xiaoqing accompanied me to visit the huge mountain villa, I did see a lot of barbarian figures. Most of them were disheveled, with disheveled hair, much more vicissitudes than ordinary people, carrying large bags and small bags and a bunch of things, and at a glance they knew that they had come out of the mountains. I was surprised, but I couldn't guess Cheng Fuhai even more, and asked Xiaoqing about the reason, but she only said that Cheng Fuhai was kind and charitable. Anyway, this is always a good thing, Cheng Fuhai can have such a kind heart, and he also has a big style and a chivalrous way.
If I were the owner of Cloud Villa, maybe I would do the same, would?, I hung the Shadow Chasing Sword on the head of my bed, thinking silently to myself.
I couldn't help but shake my head and laugh, in fact, with the strength of my dart game, I really have the ability to relieve some barbarians and take them in for the winter, but I have never done this. Thinking about this now, I can't help but feel a little fake.
Looking up at the window, it was getting late, and the lights in all parts of Youyun Villa had been extinguished, only a few candles were still lit in the small courtyard of Sanguan. During the day, I can't even see a figure in the third level, and at night the lights are on, so I really don't know who is inside.
After blowing out the candles, lying on the bed, and getting rid of the distractions in my mind, I began to slowly breathe out my luck. I always feel that time flies quickly, and often I feel that I only vomit for an hour or two, and it is already dawn outside. Maybe when you are highly focused, time will speed up.
I don't know how long it took, but I just felt that it wasn't long before I heard a very soft sound in my ears, and I slowly opened my eyes and looked out the window. Outside the window, the night is like ink, there is no wind and no moon, and it is very quiet.
Just when I thought I had a delusion and was about to close my eyes, suddenly, a very soft voice came into my ears.
It's the footsteps of people!
I immediately rolled over and got out of bed, took off the shadow chasing sword at the head of the bed, and the person flashed to the window. Although there are a lot of actions, they are silent.
I felt a little smug in my heart, leaning against the window, looking out of the room through the gap in the window. It was pitch black outside the window, and only the darkness could be seen faintly, but the door of the tree shadow grass theater wall in the small courtyard could still be seen.
After waiting for a while, there was no sound outside the house, and not even half a figure could be seen. But I didn't leave, I still stood quietly by the window, because I was sure that there was definitely someone outside.
The window was narrow, but I could see through it the gate and the courtyard wall in the small courtyard. At this time, the dark gate was closed, there were branches and leaves stranded on the top of the gray-white courtyard wall, and the small courtyard was quiet and could smell the needle, and there was no movement.
There are definitely people outside the house, and you can't go wrong. I'm waiting for him to show up, thinking that he already knows that there is a movement in my room, but I'm afraid he's waiting for me now.
My bed wasn't far from the window of my room, it was close, and the Shadow Catcher was nearly a foot longer than a normal iron sword, and I raised it with my arms outstretched, just in time for the foot of the bed from where I was standing. My heart fluttered, and I grasped the hilt of the Shadow Chaser, and slowly raised the Shadow Chaser, the tip of the scabbard gently approaching the edge of the bed.
Then, I turned around, my eyes fixed on the window, my hand straining slightly, and the scabbard of the Shadow Chasing Sword was pointed on the edge of the bed.
I didn't use much force, but it was enough to make the wooden bed shake, and the tip of the scabbard was a little square on the edge of the bed, but I heard a slight "squeak". The sound was insignificant in the silence of the night, and I could only hear a slight sound even when I was in the room, but it was at the sound of the slight movement of the bed that suddenly, a black figure tumbled down from the gray-white courtyard wall and landed on the grass in the courtyard. Silently.
I was taken aback. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes and listened with my ears, I wouldn't have noticed that someone would climb over the wall and enter the hospital. Maybe he also knew that the two voices just now were a bit loud, so he would be more careful this time, right?
But who is this man?
I frowned, slowly placing the Shadow Chasing Sword across my chest, my right hand gently resting on the hilt. Through the crack in the window, I saw the man squatting on the ground motionless, his whole body in a ball, as if he was looking at me.
The room was darker than the outside, and I could see him from here, but he couldn't see me from the outside, even though I was in the dark with him.
I stared at him for a long time, but he didn't move, just kept the cat in motion. He acted like a jackal trying to prey.
After a few more breaths, suddenly, he moved.
But I saw him swing his head left and right, and looked around, as if to make sure that there was no one around, and then I saw the grass around his feet shaking slightly, and the others suddenly shook a few times, holding their hands on their abdomen, and the person also bent down.
I was stunned, I didn't know what he was going to do, and he acted like he was drunk and wanted to vomit. If you look closely, his whole body is still shaking, his slightly bent legs, his arched back, and his lowered head are all shaking. But he didn't make any sound, and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe that there was a person standing in my small courtyard at this time.
His body shook for a short time, only for a few breaths, and just when I was so surprised that he stopped shaking again, he stood on the grass with his head down. I don't know if it's my delusion, but when I look at it again, I vaguely feel that his body seems to be a little taller.
Just as I was looking at him, suddenly, he looked up. In the darkness, I only saw a pair of green shining eyes on his face, looking coldly.
I was so frightened that my heart almost jumped out of my chest, this man turned out to be a poisoned man.
Who is it? Look at the person, it is not Miao Jisong, this person is of medium height, not fat, not thin, not tall or short, not one of Miao Jisong's people.
Could it be someone else on the rivers and lakes?
I slowly steadied my breath and gripped the Shadow Chasing Sword tightly, just waiting for his next step. I couldn't see his appearance, but I could already imagine his ugly face. But I saw that he paused in place again, looked around, and then walked towards my room. It's slow, it's light.
When I mentioned the internal force, the warm current in my body surged, and the indescribable lightness of my body came out, and I said in my heart that if he was closer to my room, I would draw my sword first. I was staring at him, but for some reason, I had a creepy feeling that I wouldn't be so scared even if a worm appeared in my yard now. But in such a dark night, this person made me feel uneasy.
It was only four or five feet from the courtyard wall to my room, and it was only a few steps to the door of my room, but he walked very slowly and lightly, with his waist bent, his head stretched out, his arms slightly extended, and he walked towards my room.
Was he afraid to wake me up? But he didn't know that I was waiting for him at the window.
Soon he approached my room, but to my surprise, he didn't go to the door, but to the window where I was. As I got closer, I could faintly see his mantle with a black cloth covering his face, revealing only two dark green eyes.
When he was less than a foot away from the window where I was, I don't know if it was his carelessness or coincidence, but I heard the sound of a branch breaking under his feet. The sound wasn't really loud, but it was unusually loud in the silence and darkness of the night. (To be continued.) )