The south of the capital is a willow forest within a radius of dozens of miles, this forest was originally a village, there are more than 100 families living in the village, all of them make a living from farming, there are diligent people who like to plant some willow trees around the house in their spare time, when the willow grows up, build a new house and beat furniture, or cut it and sell it to make up for some household use, everyone looks at this method is good, do not need to take care of it too hard, and can sell some money, so they all follow suit, every household begins to plant willow trees, willow trees are planted more and more, the price is getting cheaper and cheaper, and the transportation cost increases year by year, so things like willow that the rich are not rare to use and the poor are reluctant to spend money are becoming less and less cost-effective。 The capital is not a rainy place, it is normal for a month to not rain when it is dry, and the freeze is early, and the agricultural materials can only be harvested once a year, so it is often planted five or six acres of land is not as good as the harvest of one acre of land in 'Gumengzhou'. The capital is the capital of the 'Tianmang Dynasty', with a large population under its jurisdiction, and it is relatively easy to do business, such as silk, porcelain, horses, This kind of big business of car dealership, that is, renting two zhang square of vacant land to build a shed to sell tea or helping big businessmen run errands as a guy is better than farming this kind of livelihood by the sky, especially in recent decades, the rich businessmen from all over the world have gathered here, and the wages of the guys have also risen, so young people from all over the world are crowded into the city, and there are more and more vacant yards in this village outside the city, and there are fewer and fewer people, but the willow trees are growing more and more densely, and gradually becoming a forest of dozens of kilometers, and the woods are sparsely mixed with some dilapidated courtyards。 Now in recent years, it has gradually become difficult to do business, and the price of willow has gradually risen back, but the willow trees in this forest are rarely pruned, and the branches and branches have long been unsightly, or the tree is too old to grow into a hollow heart, and there are very few that can be used.

There is a house in a clearing in the depths of the forest, this house is quite old, the mud wall of the courtyard has fallen off a little, it is a long time, even the courtyard door is not very tight, the yard is covered with two main houses, two side rooms, also the mud wall and mud roof, very dilapidated. There is a small road in front of the courtyard gate, which winds and extends out, until it is not in the forest, a man of about thirty years old is walking from the path, this man looks mediocre, the skin on his face is quite rough, and his expression is slightly tired, the man is wearing a coarse linen coat, wearing a knife around his waist, and carrying a cloth bag in his hand, which is Liang Xie.

Liang Xie walked to the front of the house, stretched out his hand to push the door, the courtyard door squeaked, swayed open, the people in the house heard the sound, opened the door to welcome out, but it was a woman in her twenties, dressed as if she was a maid, the woman saw that it was Liang Xie, hurriedly put her index finger between her lips, made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "Uncle lighter, don't wake up Miss." ”

Liang Xie asked in a low voice, "Is Miss asleep?"

"Hmm. The maid said, while taking the cloth bag from Liang Xie's hand, and said, "Uncle, this trip has been gone for several days, and he must be tired, so hurry up and rest." ”

Liang Xie said: "I can't rest, I have to go out for a while, you can help me mend my clothes first." As he spoke, he took off his robe and handed it over.

The maid took it, looked for the damage, and suddenly found a few faint blood stains on the placket of the clothes, which were covered by dust and could not be seen, and said in a stunned voice: "Uncle fought with someone?"

Liang Xie's eyebrows moved, and then he squeezed out a smile and said: "Those who walk darts are all face-to-face friendships, and rarely do their hands, you still think of me a few years ago, and you fight and kill at every turn." This blood may have fallen from the nosebleed yesterday, and it is not in the way. ”

The maid smiled and walked away with her robe.

Liang Xie yawned, put away the shirt, and did not go back to the house, but went to the well in the yard to get a bucket of water, washed his face beautifully, and the time was not long, the maid took the mended robe, Liang Xie changed into a robe, and went out with a knife and a hidden weapon.

Out of the courtyard, Liangxie headed straight west, where he often went—a place he lived, a place he didn't like but couldn't live without, a place that ran counter to his ambitions.

Thinking of this place, Liang Xie couldn't help but smile bitterly, life is always quite helpless, and the ambition of his youth is getting bigger and bigger, and he doesn't even dare to mention it. He vaguely remembered the scene when he first joined the school, that year, when he was ten years old, his parents were robbed and killed by bandits, his grandfather died of illness, he lived on the street begging for a living, often for two or three days without a meal, how he wished that someone could give him a meal. Later, he met his master and had the best and most satisfying meal in his life. After that, he was no longer an orphan without a father or mother, and he would never go hungry again.

"I want everyone to have something to eat and no longer go hungry. The childish voice echoed in the bottom of his heart. When the master asked him why he wanted to practice martial arts, he replied. At that time, the master smiled, the second senior sister also smiled, and the third senior brother was the same age as him, but he also smiled, he blushed and said, "Also, whoever wants to bully others, I will do him." The senior brother touched his head and praised him for his promising, and he would definitely be a hero in the future.

What a naivety! Liang Xie shook his head, casually broke a willow branch and bit it in his mouth, the willow branch was very bitter, but he felt comfortable, felt real, at least bitter is bitter. I don't know when he started to like this taste, I remember when I was a child, when the senior brother was unhappy, he would often bite the willow branch and not speak, he learned to break a branch and put it in his mouth, but the bitter spit came out, so the senior brother laughed.

"Half a life of leisure is now over, and one step is endless. Liang Xie smiled again, when he first entered the master's sect, he thought that as long as he practiced martial arts diligently, there would be no more hungry people in the world, and when he grew up, he realized that his martial arts function had not changed so much, and he was waiting to enter the rivers and lakes...... Enter the rivers and lakes......

He took a deep breath, and a pain in his heart hurt, "It turns out that even if you become a hero, many things are still out of your control." ”

Ten years, since the private agreement with Jiaxian for life, he has not seen the brothers for ten years, I don't know how the eight junior brothers have done in the past ten years, I don't know how the second senior sister who has become a wife has lived, he only knows that he has never been favored by the master, and the senior brother who is loyal and honest to some stupidity is now a first-class figure in the world, and the 'Yangdao League' he founded has also become a first-class big gang in the world, only ranked in the 'Juntian Jiuding', 'Dayu Tiancheng', 'Six Dragons Gang', and became the fourth in the world. The elder brother has such an achievement, but what about him? From a chivalrous man who has been riding the world day by day, month by month, year by year, he has become what he is now, he does not like this change, but he is helpless. Time flies quickly, so fast that people don't have time to savor life, so fast that it's hard to breathe. All this seems like yesterday, and it is difficult to look back.

Liang Xie held the knife tightly, the sword was the life of a warrior, and he couldn't put it down for a moment.

The two bird calls of 'squeak' pulled Liang Xie back from his memories, Liang Xie cleaned up his mood, the hand holding the knife tightened again, and his palm gradually sweated. A small courtyard appears in front of us - and it has finally arrived!

The courtyard wall is more than one person high, the vermilion lacquer gate, and there is a plaque hanging on the door, on which is written the four big characters of 'Xingyuan Dart Bureau', and the lower right corner of the plaque is written with five small characters of 'Beijing Second Bureau'. On both sides of the gate, two men in green clothes stood on the left and right.

"Liang Daxia. The two men in green spotted him and said in unison.

It's a kind of irony, but he, a dart master on the bright side, is always called a hero, Liang Xie smiled reluctantly, and asked, "Is Yun Lao here?"

One person replied: "Yun Lao's old illness has relapsed, and he hasn't been here for several days. ”

"It's relapsed again, is it serious?" Liang Xie asked, this was a word of concern, but Liang Xie felt false after he said it.

The man nodded and said, "Coughing up blood every day, the affairs in the bureau have been taken care of by the young master these days." ”

Liang Xie nodded and walked into the courtyard.

But in the courtyard of more than ten zhang longitudinal and horizontal, there are several dart carts parked, each dart cart is inserted with two dart flags, in the corner of the yard, there are some neatly stacked goods, as if they are going to be escorted, or they have just been escorted back, and they have not been delivered. Everything seems to be that the business of the dart bureau is too good, and it has to open another branch in the capital to store and distribute the goods, but who knows that the owner of this branch is actually an old man and a young man who should have nothing to do with the dart shop?

Liang Xie knew that he not only knew who the owner of this branch was, but also knew that the branch in front of him was just a cover to cover people's ears.

Passing through the courtyard, the familiar house was in front of him, but the door of the hot heavenly house was closed, and the footsteps of Liangxie paused slightly, and then pushed the door into the house with resistance and boredom.