The smoke is across the forest, the mountains are sinking and shining, and the bells and drums are at dusk.

On 19 April, Ye Shuying and Li Shuhua rode into Yunnan-South territory.

Ye Shuying was worried that the Yintai Sword was too eye-catching, so she wrapped it in coarse cloth and carried it on her back, and the two of them each had a new sword. The journey was peaceful, with no obstacles or accidents.

On this day, because they were in a hurry to miss the night, and the sky was about to change and they were afraid of rain, the two decided to settle in a long-abandoned grass hut in the deserted suburbs. Ye Shuying put down her bags, found some dry firewood and grass, lit a fire, and ate some dry food.

Ye Shuying has always been not particular about eating, if you miss staying overnight in the wilderness, you can eat some birds and beasts and eat a meal of meat, if you are unlucky, you can eat some dry food or pick some melons and fruits and dig some wild vegetables to satisfy your stomach; if you live in a store, you will order some signature dishes when you are entangled for a long time, and if you are shy in your pocket, you will eat some steamed buns.

Although Li Shuhua is pampered on weekdays, she wants to walk with Ye Shuying herself, and when she sees Ye Shuying like this, she will also eat dry food.

It didn't take long for it to get dark, and it was raining outside. The climate of Yun~Nan was originally colder than that of Jiangnan, and now it is night, it is raining, cold, and there is a feeling of early spring.

Although the rain was not heavy, it didn't look like it was going to stop in a short time, so Ye Shuying took out the hole flute and played it. The sound of the flute and the sound of the rain are also tactfully heard.

Li Shuhua sat quietly and listened.

Ye Shuying is not ignorant of music, but she usually doesn't want to carry extra things on her body, and even a small musical instrument feels cumbersome, and because she has seen the music skills of the Le Xian School and Shen Yuhong, she is ashamed, so she has never shown this skill in front of Shen Yuhong.

When he played this time, he still missed Shen Yuhong at first, but later, his thoughts returned to the place where he and Xiao Shu lived since childhood, and remembered a memory from his childhood.

It was an autumn thirteen years ago, and suddenly a large flock of birds and finches three or four times more than in previous years suddenly came to the valley where they lived, and within a few days they ate a lot of persimmons and other wild fruits from several nearby mountains. He and Xiao Shu mainly relied on these persimmons for the winter in previous years, and saw that the food was taken by the birds, so they thought of a way, and slaughtered nearly half of the birds on the mountain in five days, except for the large birds and birds were picked up as food, and the thin ones were abandoned in the barren mountains, and the corpses of birds and birds could be seen everywhere in the mountains for a time.

A few days later, their master came to see them in the valley, and found the mountain full of dead birds, and when he asked the reason, he was furious and scolded them heavily.

"It's just a seven or eight-year-old child, and his temperament is so cruel and murderous, and he has no compassion, so when he grows up, shouldn't he kill innocent people like hemp! If I had known today, I shouldn't have brought you back in the first place......

The two brothers knelt in front of the old man, Xiao Shu still felt aggrieved at that time, and plucked up the courage to say: "Many fruits on the mountain were eaten by them, and they robbed us of our food, so they ......."

The old man was so angry that he almost slapped Xiao Shu to death, and after a while, he eased his emotions and said: "Do you mean that the persimmons all over the mountain are yours? There are only two of you brothers in this valley, and the flowers and trees in the whole valley are yours, aren't you?"

The two brothers fell to their knees and did not dare to speak, and the old man continued: "You only know that they have robbed you of your food, but you do not know that you have robbed them of your food." Let me ask you, before you came, whose mountain belonged and whose trees did it be, and which grass and trees did you plant on this mountain?"

The two brothers trembled and did not dare to answer.

"The Tao gives birth to all things, all beings are equal, and all things are blessed by heaven and earth, although there are categories of distinctions, but they all have their own meaning and value of existence, and all things have spiritual ......"

The old man said a lot of truths that day, and although Ye Shuying and Xiao Shu heard it in a fog, they also knew that the master was telling them not to kill innocent people and mutilate living beings for their own selfishness. After that, the old man taught them a lot of survival skills, how to distinguish what kind of wild fruits can be eaten, what kind of fungus is poisonous, what season a certain wild vegetable is the most delicious, and how to take refuge in case of some natural disaster......

When the old man came to see them again, he brought a few enlightenment books and a few musical instruments, and taught them to read and write, play the piano and play the flute, so as to cultivate their temperament. But the two brothers were stubborn in nature, and the old man was honest when he was there, and when the old man left, he became restless again, and fought all over the valley, and although he did not dare to kill casually, he took out the bird's nest and honey, and made one of them stung in the face by a wasp, and the other was bitten by a poisonous snake, and almost died. After the injury was healed, they took revenge on the poisonous snakes and wasps, and "cleaned up" a lot of the poisonous snakes on the mountain, and the hornet's nest also burned a lot, until it caused a fire and burned a large area of woods......

Later, when the old man found out, he beat and scolded them again, and said: "If you two are so stubborn and don't change, you will never want to see a teacher again in the future." ”

The two of them were honest for a while, but when the old man came to see them again, he put on his mask.

More than ten years have passed, and Ye Shuying has long been unable to remember the face of his master. He will no longer slaughter living beings indiscriminately as he did when he was a child, but he will also not deliberately avoid killing, everything will just be natural. It's just that in his heart, he thinks that the master is still not satisfied with their current character and deeds, so he doesn't let them see his face.

Fortunately, now that Master is finally willing to show his true face, he is looking forward to Master coming to him, and he can see Master's dignity as soon as possible.

"Don't kill for me......"

"You've changed!"

Shen Yuhong's words and Xiao Shu's words echoed in his mind almost at the same time. But he still killed someone for her, and if someone from the Lexian Sect wanted to hurt her, he would still draw his sword for her.

In his heart, Master may really no longer be the most important person. But Shen Yuhong and Master have some common characteristics.

Although they were still not very satisfied with their performance, he did not abandon them because of the deep love between master and apprentice, but taught them carefully, and later fulfilled their wish to learn martial arts, guided them to practice the "Qiankun Mind Method", taught them light skills and hidden weapons, and also acquiesced in their "sword practice".

"You two brothers were born in death, and it is inevitable that you will be tainted with murderous and ferocious, since nature is like this, and the will of heaven is difficult to disobey, then go and kill those who are full of evil and deserve to be killed......"

The old man told them what morality was, how to distinguish between good and evil, and gave them a sword.

But what about Shen Yuhong, will she also tolerate his mistakes like this?

Ye Shuying's heart was heavy, and the sound of the flute became a little melancholy and heavy, not as light and soft as before, and his thoughts and the sound of the flute were finally interrupted by a series of footsteps.

"Childe, can you lend me your flute?"

The first to come was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in a purple shirt, her voice was crisp and pleasant, her clothes were obviously wet, the curves of her figure were exposed, and her hair was also half-soaked and messy, but her handsome face looked a little anxious.

Ye Shuying only glanced at her, then looked away and added some firewood to the fire.

Seeing that he didn't react, the girl looked at Li Shuhua next to her, and begged again: "Childe, girl, I have no other intentions, I just want to borrow the hole flute, and return it in a moment, it won't be broken, and I will thank you again......" It seemed that she was very anxious.

Ye Shuying glanced at her again and handed over the dong flute. The girl smiled, quickly took the hole flute, and said, "Thank you." ”

At this time, a few people in the back also arrived at the door, and saw that there were two people in the thatched hut in addition to the purple-shirted girl, so they stopped at the door and hesitated, not daring to enter rashly.

Ye Shuying raised his eyes and looked, only to see that there were five men in their thirties and forties outside the door, holding knives in their hands, and their faces were not good. The leader Chong Ye Shuying said: "Hey, friend inside, do you recognize this woman?"

Ye Shuying shook his head, and the man at the head said again: "It's best if you don't know, this woman is the runaway concubine of my master, and we were ordered to come to arrest ......"

Before the man could finish speaking, the purple-shirted girl scolded, "Bah, who is the runaway concubine? I don't know you at all." You don't have to make up these nonsense to bluff people, I don't need their help and I'm not afraid of you. ”

It turned out that in order to prevent others from seeing them bullying the weak and doing bad things for them, they deliberately made up some nonsense to dispel the idea of others meddling. However, the reason for "arresting the fugitive concubine" is well found, if it is a private family matter, it is reasonable for others to interfere, so as not to cause gossip, even if the lawsuit enters the government, the fugitive concubine will not be reasonable.

The man at the head sneered and said, "Why are you so bold here, you're not afraid of us......"

The purple-shirted girl hurriedly said: "Stop, all go out, don't come in." ”

The five men only laughed, and one of them said, "You said just now that you weren't afraid of us, why did you change again so quickly?"

The purple-shirted girl said, "I'm just afraid that if you damage this room, this boy and this girl will have no shelter from the rain, so you are not allowed to come in, I will go out." ”

The man at the head smiled darkly: "Yo ho, the little lady will feel distressed, no wonder my master wants us to take you back, you might as well go back with us honestly and enjoy the blessings......"

The purple-shirted girl ignored them anymore, moved the flute to her lips, and began to play.

Ye Shuying listened to the sound of the flute, at first he felt light and pleasant, but after a while, the rhythm became more and more compact, the melody became agitated, and his heart also jumped up excitedly, and gradually forgot where he was, and the past came to his heart one by one, as if he had returned to a certain fragment of the past.

Outside Zhou Yueyang's house in Feisha Village, he saw Zhou Yueyang stand up and frame Xiao Shu for killing the brothers in Feisha Village with the "Meridian Soul Search Finger", saw the people in Feisha Village punching and kicking Xiao Shu, and saw Zhou Xiang stabbing Xiao Shu in the chest with a sword......

At this time, Ye Shuying quickly flashed into the room, snatched the sword in Zhou Xiang's hand, and wanted to kill all the people in the room, but he only killed Zhou Xiang alone......

Ye Shuying stood up suddenly, his right hand unconsciously rested on the hilt of the sword, and he was conflicted in his heart: "Kill, kill them...... No, you cannot...... Why did I suddenly think so, so long has passed since this incident, why did I not forget it......" The hand gradually let go again.

He shook his head, wanting to forget about it, but it seemed to be back in the broken leaf forest, Lin Chenxin used a grappling technique to buckle his veins, Lin Zhiyuan used the "Soul Devouring Needle" on him when he pointed to the acupoint behind him, his first reaction at that time was to turn around and give Lin Zhiyuan a sword, but he couldn't move, and could only helplessly bear Xie Dongsheng's knife and Sun Heng's stab......

His right hand rested on the hilt of the sword again, and a voice in his heart said: "Lin Zhiyuan, Sun Heng, Xie Dongsheng, I will kill you, kill you......"

As soon as his mind moved, these three people appeared in front of him, with mocking faces and defiant eyes, which made him angry.

With a soft sound, the sword shot out three inches.

"He is Miss Lin's brother, I can't kill him, not to mention that I owe him a life, and I will give it to him...... Sun Heng is already dead, not to mention that Xiao Shu ruined his face at the beginning......"

There was another soft thud, and the sword was still in its sheath.

"What's wrong with me, is it really as Master said, I am a murderous person, so I always think about these things, I am always indignant and want to take revenge, I want to kill people...... No, it's not like that...... Master, I was wrong, forgive me......"

Ye Shuying closed his eyes, and Shen Yuhong's figure came into his mind.

"Brother Ye, I don't want you to kill for me...... Brother Ye, don't kill for me......"

He calmed down. When he opened his eyes again, he saw Li Shuhua's sword stabbing towards him. He hurriedly reached out and grabbed Li Shuhua's sword and said, "Shuhua, what are you doing?"

Li Shuhua's hand holding the sword froze in the air, looking at Ye Shuying with some dementia.