The sword examination came to an end, and the twists and turns that occurred swept through the entire Jingfu Academy like a storm, and countless disciples were shocked and discolored, and some disciples applauded.

Shocked that there was no sword disciple in the outer courtyard this year, Wu Heng, a tyrant in the outer court, was cut off, and Hua Ziyi, the seven-star son of the sword gate, did not dare to come out of the sword, and the face of the inner disciple was crooked by Gu An again, and this time a Yu Mocun was added, this sword gate seems to be at odds with Gu An since Lin Qubai's incident, and he has made a mistake, and he has been deflated on his hands every time, and now he has fallen into such a humiliating situation, which is really ugly.

The turmoil continued, when the ranking of the sword list was announced, Yu Mocun, who was Li Wu Heng, was unexpectedly nameless, and many disciples had a lot of discussions, saying that it must be the person who registered on the roster of the sword gate to secretly make Yu Mocun famous on the sword list, and also slandered Gu An for killing his fellow disciples with a brutal temperament, and he would definitely use his defeat to repay such a shameful humiliation.

For a while, Jingfu Academy was full of discussions about the government examination competition in late winter and early spring a few months later, and Jianmen was afraid that he would try his best to stop Gu An.

Although it is a cold winter now, the rumors outside are in full swing, and after the sword exam that day, Gu An and Yu Mocun seem to have disappeared in the Jingfu Academy, and very few people know their whereabouts.

The party in the center of the heated discussion is indifferent to live in one of his own houses, ignoring the things outside the window, and watching the wind and snow in front of the porch.

"Hey, you're dumb, you're talking!"

Gu Suxi leaned forward with one hand on the low table top, her pair of apricot eyes came to Gu An's face, her eyes were slightly angry staring at this black-clothed young man with his eyes closed like an old monk in a calm place, her cheeks bulged slightly, pursed her lips, and said angrily.

"What's wrong with you. ”

Gu An slowly opened his eyes, as if he was used to this sometimes gentle and gentle and sometimes rude and willful sister, he gently raised his hand and rubbed her head, feeling a little funny and puzzled.

"Oh, I know how to touch people's heads all day long!

Gu Suxi pouted, her cheeks were slightly red, pink and lovely, she hurriedly put aside Gu An's big hand, frowned and muttered, she looked at the strands of hair hanging down from her forehead, and Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly.

Gu An looked at Gu Suxi, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly.

"I said, the news outside is crazy! You're fine, you're still here like nobody, you don't worry, I'm worried about you!"

Gu Suxi clasped her hands slightly and sat back in her place angrily, but her eyes were a little red and she looked at the black-clothed young man opposite.

"It's okay, people talk a lot, so why care. Gu An smiled comfortingly, noncommittal.

"But I care!"

Gu Suxi hurriedly spit out the words without thinking, and the rebuttal that became a little loud in the hurry made Gu An's expression stiffen. She looked at Gu An's stunned expression, and her tone lowered again, she hung her head slightly, and her lowered gaze fell on the hand of the slender man who was entangled, and there was a trace of frustration and grievance between her eyebrows.

Although Gu Suxi grew up with Gu An since she was a child, she actually didn't know Gu An as well as Gu An knew her. He was always used to being alone to bear things he didn't need to endure, to accomplish goals that she didn't want him to accomplish at all, she felt that he was tired of living, but this teenager who loved her so much would only say "it's okay".

Since fleeing from Dongtu, crossing the Nanling countries, moving to other lands, and coming to Nanyu five years ago, she has become more and more unable to understand Gu An, the brother who can be hugged with a stretch of hand in front of her, but it seems to be getting farther and farther away from her, and she doesn't complain about anything, she knows that this is the responsibility he thinks she should have and the persistence in her heart, but this is too unfair to him,

Gu An came back to his senses, his eyes narrowed slightly, he shook his head lightly and smiled, reached out and leaned over to gently tuck Gu Suxi's falling hair behind her ears, and stroked her cheek with his thumb before he said softly: "Really, it's okay." ”

Gu Suxi raised his hand and removed his hand, and gently wiped a trace of crystal from the corner of his eye with his hand, and his voice was muffled.

"You've always been like that. ”

She tilted her head slightly, her nose snorted softly, and she didn't look at Gu An, but the low mood in her heart had not dissipated.

"I just want you to be nice to yourself, you're tired and I don't want you to continue to suffer so much. ”

Gu Suxi got up and walked a few steps outside the door, then looked back at Gu An, his black hair like a waterfall slid down his shoulders, and his white hooded cloak was like a quietly blooming Yujiu flower in the darkness of the inner room, like a snowflake in the wind.

He suddenly asked, "Tomorrow, you're going to enter the peak, aren't you?" ”

Gu Suxi's eyes lowered, and she said softly, "Hmm." ”

"How's it going?"

Gu Suxi was silent for a while: "Senior Sister Xue will be my protector"

Gu An looked at her flawless face, pursed her lips like a red line, her eyes contained worry, and her heart couldn't help but twitch slightly inexplicably, he deviated from his left body in the opposite direction and stopped looking at her.

Gu An was silent for a while, and said, "That's fine." ”

"Actually, I really don't want to go back. Gu Suxi said softly.

Gu An closed his eyes.

She added, "It's good that you're here." ”

Gu An listened to the sound of her footsteps, and went away, his slightly tense body gradually relaxed, he slowly opened his eyes, and his gaze passed through the snow in the wind and fell on the courtyard wall.

He suddenly remembered a lot of things, a lot of things that he should have forgotten and not cared about. He thought back to what he had experienced and felt in the past five years here, and he thought that he could ignore many things, but in fact, in the end, he did not avoid the things he had to go through, and now it seemed that he was going to go back to the path he did not want to tread, facing the strife that he could not avoid, but these trajectories that had been set by him as soon as he was born, he could not avoid them.

A bright moon was rising from the wall, and Gu An didn't know how long he had been pondering, only to feel that the sky was dim, the moonlight was scattered, and this piece of heaven and earth was covered by the black curtain from far away, like a stream of ink entering clear water.

The sound of footsteps and the creaking of wooden planks sounded in the inner courtyard, and then the lights in the house were lit up as a light like the lights of thousands of houses in the dark night.

Gu An didn't look back, stretched out his fingers and knocked on the table on his side, and the thick steps came towards the corridor again, obviously the two of them knew each other very well.

Gu An watched Liang Pang sit down opposite, took out a few small stir-fry dishes in the food box and put them on the table, probably because of the cold weather, the food was cold quickly, and the taste also had some effect, Gu An sighed, drank a glass of cold water, and felt that his body was fine, before he said: "Fatty, I didn't say you, Xiao Yuzi's cooking skills are much better than yours, how can you be someone else's senior brother." ”

Liang Fat supported the edge of the table with his elbows, he had eaten in the medicine pavilion before he came, and he kindly delivered food to this guy and was still damaged, and he pouted a little dissatisfied: "It's your mouth carving! If it weren't for the fat man, I would be a good person and a good person, so I don't care if you guys are going to starve to death!"

Gu An smiled and asked again, "What about Xiao Yuzi?"

"You think people are your special chefs!" Liang Pang glanced at him, holding his cheeks with one hand, and gesturing with the other: "But that kid is afraid that he was poured some ecstasy soup by you, so he went to the ink bamboo forest every day to cut bamboo, saying 'Senior Brother Gu's cultivation plan', when he cut enough hundred, he can get started." Didn't you say you're messing around? The ink bamboo in the Ink Bamboo Forest is a spirit plant! Spirit Plant! Even if he learns a few sword techniques from you, if he doesn't have more than ten levels of cultivation in the entrance, he will not even cut down one of them. I don't know if you expect too much from him or what, if you let him be dusty, you are the culprit. ”

Gu An smiled and said, "You are underestimating others." ”

Liang Pang rolled his eyes, and then seemed to think of something, he gestured: "Hey, tomorrow's Qimen's entrance test will be held, your family Suxi, it seems that this year's list is on the list." ”

Gu An's hand paused for a moment, and then nodded lightly.

Liang Pang glared and gestured, "You don't want to be her peak protector?"

Gu An put the bamboo chopsticks sideways next to the bowl, shook his head, and said, "She has already arranged it, I heard her say that there is a Senior Sister Xue in her door who will be her protector, I don't need to worry." ”

"Oh......"

Liang Pang was thoughtful, he frowned again, rubbed his fingers on his three-layer chin, and said secretly in his heart: "Senior Sister Xue of Qimen? Senior Sister Xue Senior Sister Xue...... How does it sound familiar..."

A graceful and graceful woman suddenly flashed in his mind, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Could it be...... Xue Ningxiang??"

Gu An raised his eyebrows slightly: "Who is Xue Ningxiang?"

Liang Pang hesitated for a moment, and after sorting out his thoughts, he gestured: "Take the sword gate that is not right with you as an example, the sword gate is divided into three levels of sword inheritance and sword identity, the lower, middle and upper are in order, the higher the talent of the disciple, the stronger the strength, the higher the identity, the greater the power." I remember the old man told me that Qimen, as one of the eight inner gates, has a relative disciple hierarchy, which is also divided into levels like the Sword Gate, but their grades are divided according to the musical scale, the highest is Yu, and the lowest is Gong. And that Senior Sister Xue Ningxiang Xue is a Hui-level disciple. ”

Gu An sandwiched a piece of tofu: "Qualified to serve as a road guard, what's so surprising?"

"What if I say she's Wu Heng's cousin?"

The tofu Gu An was holding suddenly fell on the table, and his brows furrowed slightly.

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Gu An broke Wu Heng's arm for Yu Mocun, which did not cause a storm outside Jingfu, but for the inside of Jingfu, especially the Sword Gate, the impact of this battle made many inner disciples feel uneasy, Wu Heng was cut off, and Hua Ziyi did not dare to use the sword in a cowardly battle, in addition to once again proving Gu An's deterrent power, it also made a lot of eyes focus on the first person in the outer court.

"Although Hua Ziyi only has the cultivation of the entrance ten times and is a disciple of the Chengjian Sect, as the heir of the city lord, he is not without the ability to press the bottom of the box, even if he is facing Lin Qubai, he will not only use the sword and not make a move, you can imagine how powerful Gu An's sword intent was on his sword heart at that time. It seems that since his cultivation was lifted, he has made rapid progress, and in time, it will be an extremely difficult existence to deal with, and you just have a bad relationship with him, you want to take someone's life, and he cuts off your arm, this is indeed a very fair thing. ”

In a somewhat dimly lit room in the courtyard of the Wu family in Dongling County, Xue Ningxiang, who was dressed in a purple dress, looked at an arm soaked in potion in the spirit crystal long box, but the direction of her words fell on the lifeless figure holding the bed.

Wu Heng opened his eyes and looked up, his bloodshot eyes were dull and hollow, his face had not been cleaned for a long time, and the dirt and mud and messy hairs made his face look embarrassed.

Xue Ningxiang glanced at him quietly and said, "You are so good to recuperate from your injuries." In ancient times, there was a one-armed sword cultivation avenue, although you lost an arm, it may not be that you have embarked on another broad road. ”

She paused, as if sensing that she was not convincing in saying this, and added, "Although it seems to me that both sides are wrong, you have paid enough price, and accordingly, they should also 'reciprocate' so that it is fair." ”

"Then you help me. ”

The dead face said indiscriminately.

"What do you want?"

"Isn't he protecting his shortcomings?" Wu Heng said sluggishly: "If you remove his sister's arm, you should repay my Wu family's kindness to you over the years." ”

Xue Ningxiang frowned, there was a faint murderous intent gushing out between her eyebrows, her qi flowed, and her long hair rose without wind, but after she was silent for a moment, the fluctuations in her body calmed down again.

She turned and walked to the door, stretched out her hand and pushed it open, the cold wind blew in from outside the door, and the wind and snow blew on her face, she sank her eyes, thought about something, and then lifted her foot over the threshold and closed the door.

“.. ... Deal. ”