Dangyang Case Chapter 21 Walking on the snow with a sword on his back
"Why did Sister Yue leave? Ji Feiyun muttered.
He really couldn't understand why Chenyue just said goodbye like this, he didn't show any signs last night, he leaned on the kang in despair, trying to recall every detail of last night, and thought that all the way from Luofeng City to here, she didn't tell herself that she was leaving, and said that she would go to her hometown together.
Ji Feiyun jumped up from the kang again, searched the room carefully, and on the bed, he found the package that Chen Yue had been carrying, he opened it and saw that there were some items that women had groomed, and some silver taels, all of which had not been touched.
"Why didn't Sister Yue take her things away?" Ji Feiyun couldn't figure it out.
He picked up Chenyue's sword again, looked at it carefully, and then compared the handwriting on the table again, making sure that it was carved with this sword.
"Could it be that she encountered something urgent and didn't have time to inform me, so she left me a word with her sword?"
"But why do you say that she is gone and ask me to take care?"
The more Ji Feiyun thought about it, the bigger his head became, and suddenly he pulled out the sword in his hand and slashed it hard at the table on the kang, the table was instantly split into two, and after venting, he instantly felt that all the spirit in his body was gone, and he fell on the kang and fell to the ground with a clatter.
At this time, the guy in the store heard the noise and ran over, and saw that the table on the kang in the room had become halved, Ji Feiyun fell on the kang, and hurriedly shouted, "Childe, what's wrong with you?"
Ji Feiyun, who was originally blind, saw the shopkeeper who was helping him, grabbed the shopkeeper's shoulder, and asked eagerly, "Do you know where Sister Yue went?"
The shopkeeper was grabbed by him and his shoulder hurt, his hands tried to break away, and he said, "I don't know, what's wrong with you, Childe?"
Ji Feiyun came to his senses suddenly, let go of the hand that grabbed the guy in the shop, looked apologetic, and said, "I'm sorry, little brother, do you know where the guests who live in this room go?"
"Childe, I don't know, the guests in this room didn't come to check out. The shopkeeper said while rubbing his arm that was scratched by Ji Feiyun.
"You don't know. The gleam in Ji Feiyun's eyes dimmed again.
The shopkeeper looked at the table that had been split in half, and the sword on the ground, and asked, "Childe, is this...... What's going on?"
Ji Feiyun turned his head to look at the table that had been split in half by himself, as well as the wind lantern that fell to the ground, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'll accompany you." ”
The shopkeeper shook his head, cleaned up the broken table and broken wind lamp, and then said a word and left.
After the shopkeeper came in, Ji Feiyun recovered from his extreme loss, he picked up the sword on the ground, put it back in its sheath, and then walked to the side of the bed and picked up the package left by Chenyue, looked around again, took a deep breath, and turned around and walked outside.
He went to the inn counter to settle the bill, and asked the shopkeeper to buy some flatbread for food, and then walked out into the street, and stopped again when he reached the door, he thought about it, turned back to the counter, and asked the shopkeeper if he could make a pot of wine.
The shopkeeper used a delicate wine jug to give him a jug of wine, Ji Feiyun paid for the wine, took the jug and looked at it, and then walked outside.
Heavy snow overnight, the streets, roofs, trees are covered with heavy snow, people who get up early spontaneously begin to clear the snow on the street, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household gets up early to say hello to the New Year, children have begun to play in the snow in groups of three or five, firecrackers from time to time.
Ji Feiyun looked at the lively and festive scene in front of him, and felt even more lonely and lost in his heart. He walked past the crowd clearing the snow from the streets to the river, where the lanterns had been placed last night.
There were no people here, the roads and flats by the river were covered with snow, and the trees by the river were bent over by the snow. Ji Feiyun stood in the place where he put the lanterns with Chenyue last night, staring blankly at the river, the clear river water was flowing slowly, he seemed to think of Chenyue's voice in his ears again, and he was still playing the lanterns together last night to tell jokes, but today he was the only one left alone in a daze at the river.
Ji Feiyun stood quietly in the snow by the river for a long time, and finally, he sighed deeply and said, "Sister Yue, I will definitely find you." After saying that, his eyes became extremely determined.
Ji Feiyun came out of Blackwater City, walked along the road in the south direction, the wine jug was pinned to his waist with a rope, and the sword was inserted in the package on his back, diagonally on his back, the wilderness outside the city, covered by snow, a white expanse, at this time the sky has disappeared, showing a blue sky, the east of the mountain, a golden-red glow shines out, after the reflection of the snow, suddenly the vast field becomes a gorgeous and blurred world, very beautiful.
"If Sister Yue can see this beautiful scenery, she must be very happy. Ji Feiyun thought to himself.
On the snowy field, a young man dressed in gray clothes and holding his hair walked forward on the snow with a sword on his back, which is indeed a very poetic picture, but no one knows that the young man who walks on the snow in the painting actually has no direction in his heart, but with a belief in his heart, he is moving aimlessly, he does not ask for anything else, as long as there is a road ahead.
When he was hungry, he ate a few bites of the flatbread he brought with him, and when he was thirsty, he grabbed a handful of snow from the trees on the side of the road and put it in his mouth, fortunately, he had followed Chenyue to practice for a few months, and he was not very afraid of some cold, but he really felt a little cold, so he untied the wine jug on his waist and took a small sip, at first, he was choked by the liquor a few times, and then slowly began to get used to it, and the liquor warmed up and made him more powerful.
All the way to the mountain, he didn't touch anyone, too, this is the New Year, not to mention the heavy snow blocking the road, who wants to go out to suffer, the family gathered on the kang, eating hot wine and rice, chatting about happy things, isn't it for this to be busy all year round.
Ji Feiyun went all the way to the south, during which the sky was drifting snowflakes, he walked through the mountains, passed by the village, and then the bread on his body was finished, and the wine was drunk, and he met the village on the way, he went into the village to find someone to exchange some silver for some food, the mountain people were hospitable, seeing him such a young man, disgraced, and walking outside alone during the New Year, he was very pitiful to him, and gave him a hot water bath, and found clean clothes for him to change into.
Then he was dragged to the kang to keep warm, and the hot meal was already on the table. The family is two old, in their fifties, and originally had three sons, all of whom were arrested by the government, and they have not come back for several years, and their life is very bleak.
Seeing Ji Feiyun's appearance, they felt very sorry for him, most likely because they thought of their sons.
Ji Feiyun ate a hot meal, tears flowed out at once, and the old couple sitting opposite saw Ji Feiyun crying, and the old woman hurriedly said: "Child, why are you crying?
Ji Feiyun nodded with tears in his eyes, in the past few days, he has been walking alone in the mountains and wilderness villages, thinking in his heart, the world is big, but he doesn't know where to go, Sister Yue left him and left, and the master doesn't know where he went, his father's life and death are uncertain, in this world, he has no place to stay, and there is no one around him to speak.
He wanted to find them, but he didn't know where to look, and the feeling of being alone made him almost collapse.
Suddenly, someone took him in, boiled water for him to bathe, changed him into clean clothes, and now prepared a hot meal for him.
"Eat more, kid. The old woman said with a smile.
Ji Feiyun nodded, said 'um', and began to eat in large gulps.
Seeing that he had eaten a bowl of rice, the old man sitting opposite him smoking a dry cigarette asked him, "Son, where are you going?
Ji Feiyun put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with his hand, and then said, "I'm looking for me...... Sister's, I don't have any other family members. With that, he lowered his head.
"Poor child, where is your sister?" the old woman sighed.
Ji Feiyun looked sad, the tears in his eyes began to flow again, he calmed down and said, "I don't know where she is." ”
"Then how do you find it? The old woman said in surprise, and the old man next to her smoked a cigarette and sighed.
"I've got to find her. Ji Feiyun wiped his eyes and said firmly.
The two old men shook their heads, and the old woman said, "Child, eat more." ”
Ji Feiyun nodded in response, and then picked up the bowl and ate again.
The two old men wanted to stay with him for a few more days, and let him go when the snow melted and the weather improved, but Ji Feiyun was in a hurry and was in a hurry to leave, so he only stayed for one night. In the end, the two old men had no choice, so they baked some cakes for him, and took a suit of her son's clothes for him to bring, Ji Feiyun took out some silver taels and gave them to the two old men, the two old men refused to accept it, and finally they were angry, Ji Feiyun had to put it away, knelt down and kowtowed to the two old men.
The old woman took Ji Feiyun's hand and told him to pay attention to safety on the road, in case he couldn't find his sister, then go back to the village, they would take care of his food, and the old man was silently smoking dry tobacco on the side.
Ji Feiyun agreed with tears in his eyes, and finally said thank you, then turned around and walked towards the outside of the village, walked a long way, and turned around to see the two old men still looking at him at the door of the house, he waved his hand at the two old men again, and the moment he turned around, the tears in his eyes flowed out.
He went all the way over the mountains and mountains, walked through the villages and towns, inquired about the geographical direction while walking, and heard that if you go to the southeast, you can reach Liangzhou, which is a big city, he thinks that there are many people in the big city, maybe you can meet Chenyue there, so he walked in the direction of Liangzhou.
Along the way, in the morning and evening or when he was resting, he would practice Qi cultivation techniques, practice the flying shadow technique and swordsmanship that Chenyue taught her, in addition to missing his father and Chenyue, he could also persist in this kind of day, and slowly began to adapt.
As for the supreme secret book of the Zhuangmen "Nanhua Zhenjing" passed on to him by his master, they were all remembered in his mind, but it was too broad and profound, and he couldn't understand it for a while, so he didn't think about it, just concentrated on practicing the Qi cultivation technique and the kung fu that Chenyue passed on to him in the shadow gate.
On this day, he walked in a valley, the valley was very large, but there were not many trees, all were deep dead grass, and he looked around as he walked, and was looking at the terrain and scenery around him, when suddenly the sound of horses' hooves and shouting was heard in the distance, as if a group of men and horses were galloping towards this side.
He stopped, and was thinking about whether to avoid it, when he saw a big yellow sheep running towards him from the mountain range in front of him, and he was happy in his heart, if he could catch it, then there would be something delicious, and he hadn't eaten much in the past few days.
He tightened the package on his body, and rushed forward, like an arrow from the string, running towards the yellow sheep quickly, with a gust of wind around him, his body has changed a lot in the past few months of hard cultivation, and practicing the Qi cultivation technique has also made him have a clearer and clearer perception of the breath of the body.
Almost instantly, he threw down the oncoming yellow sheep, then grabbed the yellow sheep's head, and with a twist, he broke the yellow sheep's neck.
He was happy, a team of people and horses had already rushed towards him, he hurriedly got up, stared at the horse team that had come to his side, a total of more than a dozen, they quickly surrounded Ji Feiyun, and they all looked at Ji Feiyun and the yellow sheep on the ground coldly.
Ji Feiyun also looked at these people, his face was calm, and he was thinking about how to deal with it.
"Little brother?" one of them, who seemed to be the leader, looked at Ji Feiyun and wondered.
He drove the horse closer and looked at Ji Feiyun carefully, then turned over and dismounted, came to Ji Feiyun, and laughed, "You are the little brother from the Luofeng Tavern. ”
The others dismounted, led their horses and waited.
Ji Feiyun also carefully looked at the man in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became, and suddenly remembered, isn't this the good man who drank with him at the Luofeng Tavern that day?
"You're that big brother!" Ji Feiyun also said with a laugh.
"Oh, I met you here. The big man stretched out his hands and shook Ji Feiyun's arms hard.
It turned out that the big man in front of him was Liu Yuanhai, who invited him to drink at the Luofeng Tavern that day, but he didn't expect to meet him here.
"Little brother, why are you here alone?" asked Liu Yuanhai.
Ji Feiyun said with a look of loss: "Falling Wind City was hit by a storm, and I came out to find someone. ”
"Looking for someone?" Liu Yuanhai looked puzzled.
"Well, look for my sister, oh, it's Yueniang from the Luofeng Tavern, we came out together, and then we got separated. Ji Feiyun explained.
"So that's the case, little brother, you come back to the city with me, go to my place first, and slowly look for your sister, how about it?" Liu Yuanhai said.
"Okay, that's for Brother Xie. Ji Feiyun nodded.
Liu Yuanhai laughed, patted Ji Feiyun with his hand, and said, "My brother is polite." ”
After speaking, he stared at the yellow sheep on the ground and asked in surprise: "Little brother, you beat the yellow sheep on the ground?"
Ji Feiyun turned to look at the yellow sheep on the ground and said, "Just now it crawled over from there, and I grabbed it and broke its neck. ”
Liu Yuanhai stared at Ji Feiyun, laughed and said, "Good boy, you can actually hunt yellow sheep with your bare hands, it's amazing." ”
Ji Feiyun was embarrassed by Liu Yuanhai's praise, touched his head and said: "This yellow sheep was driven by you big brother in a panic, so I took the opportunity to catch it." ”
Liu Yuanhai nodded and said, "Well, there is a way to use soldiers in your words. ”
Ji Feiyun smirked on the side.
"Do you know how to ride a horse?" asked Liu Yuanhai.
"Yes. Ji Feiyun nodded, Chen Yue taught him to ride the country before.
"Come here. Liu Yuanhai beckoned to one of them, and the man came over with the horse, Liu Yuanhai took the reins, and then handed them to Ji Feiyun, then turned around and took the reins of the horse handed by the other person, and turned over on the horse.
Ji Feiyun also turned over on the horse, and the person who gave the horse to Ji Feiyun got on another person's horse, and someone put the yellow sheep on the ground on the horse.
"Let's go, go home. Liu Yuanhai said with a smile.
"Good. Ji Feiyun replied with a smile, he was in a cheerful mood at this time, and he actually met the eldest brother he admired here.
The group crossed the mountains, entered a plain, and galloped towards a mighty city in the distance.