It was late at night, and the snow was a gray veil in the moonlight.

There are secrets hidden in the snow, which can only be seen more clearly in the dark. You only know that there is a secret, but you don't know what it is. Maybe it's a dead secret.

Qi Ying'er woke up, but she didn't know what to do when she woke up.

In winter, the nights are longer.

There are no windows in the room, so you can't see the snow in the night, and you can't see the secrets hidden in the snow.

Qi Ying'er looked at his sword, since this sword was played, he hadn't pulled it out and looked at it. He picked up the sword, felt the cold scabbard and hilt, and never pulled it out. Qi Ying'er knew that this sword was the best sword in the world, he had only seen it once, but he seemed to see himself. The sword belonged to him, so why did he always draw it?

The secret in the snow is only known to people who like to do things at night, but Qi Ying'er is not such a person.

There were a jumble of footprints in the snow, some heavy, some light, all pointing towards one place, the hut tavern.

Downstairs in the tavern, flickering candlelight dispelled the darkness around them, revealing the darker conspiracy.

Around the candlelight was a face that was even more eerie than in the daytime, and it was Sun Qu. There were three other faces around the candlelight, one blind in one eye, one with a big beard, and a face that looked as white as a corpse even in the candlelight, with a scar on his face, from the tip of his brow to the corner of his mouth.

Sun Qu said: "That kid is upstairs, sleeping soundly." ”

One-eyed man: "Are you sure it's him? What if you kill the wrong person?"

Sun Qu said: "Are there still fewer people you killed by mistake?"

The bearded man was about to curse loudly, but the one-eyed dragon covered his mouth with a palm.

The one-eyed dragon whispered angrily, "Are you trying to wake that kid up?"

The bearded man didn't speak, just glared at Sun Qu, Sun Qu smiled sinisterly, and said proudly: "It's okay to wake up, I deliberately gave him a room without a window, and if he wants to escape, he can only walk in front of us." ”

The scar-faced man said, "I'm afraid if you keep talking, we're going to have to kill another person by mistake." The voice was far more terrifying than his face, he didn't raise his eyes to look at Sun Qu, and he didn't need to stare at him like that bearded man, because his voice had already made Sun Qu break out in a cold sweat, as if there was a knife against his heart, which could be stabbed into it at any time.

The one-eyed dragon asked Sun Qu, "How do you know it's him?"

Sun Qu's face became also very pale and pale at this time, and there was cold sweat on his forehead, and he said: "I talked with him for an afternoon, and I know that his master is Mu Wuya, and he is now looking for Mu Wuya." ”

Hearing Mu Wuyawu's name, the other three people all had murderous aura in their eyes.

The bearded man said: "Since it is really the apprentice of that old thing, then let's kill him now!"

The scar-faced man didn't speak, a pair of dead gray eyes looking somewhere in the darkness, maybe he didn't see anything, it was a pair of eyes that didn't look like a living person at all.

The one-eyed dragon said, "No, what's the use of killing him? killing him will cheapen him, and with him, we will be able to control that person, so we will ...... too."

Before the one-eyed dragon could finish speaking, Scarface interrupted him: "You've talked enough today. The voice grabbed the one-eyed dragon's neck, and the bearded man stopped talking. No one spoke, only the candle flame spoke, flickering and dimming.

Sun Qu said: "Three, I helped you find the person and help you keep it, so the one we said before?"

The scarface man said, "You are indispensable, as long as you hand him over to us, you will be able to get ten gold bars immediately." Not a single cent will be missing yours. ”

Landlord Sun Qu's whole face was distorted together, and he said with a smile: "Okay, okay, he is in the third room on the left hand upstairs, and I will lead you up now." ”

The cold wind was mixed with the breath of death, and a few people were just about to get up and go upstairs when they heard the sound of the door opening upstairs, the one-eyed dragon picked up an iron crutch in his hand, and the beard also clenched his fists, Sun Qu was just full of horror on his face. Could it be that kid heard it? Sun Qu looked at the scarface man, but he still didn't have any expression, just like a dead man.

Several people looked at the darkness of the stairs vigilantly, and there was a sound of gentle footsteps from above, and a graceful figure slowly walked down, it was Sun Qiao'er. When a few people saw that it was a woman, they relaxed their nerves, and Sun Qu went over and pulled her hand and said, "What are you doing here?"

Sun Qiaoer's hair was messy, there were tear stains on her face, and there were faint bruises on the corners of her mouth, but she still made men ecstatic at first sight.

I only heard her say word for word: "You don't have to go up, that person is already gone?"

Sun Qu lost his voice and said, "What?

The one-eyed dragon gave the bearded man a look, and the bearded man jumped up, and when he saw the lamp, there was no one in the room. He turned around like the scar-faced man downstairs and said, "The man ran away." Suddenly he felt a chill coming from his right, and when he went over it, there was another room diagonally opposite the room, and the door was open, and there was a window in the room, and the window was wide open, and from there the cold wind was pouring in.

The bearded man shouted, "He ran from here!"

Sun Qu knew that it was Sun Qiao'er's room, and said, "It's you, it's you?"

Sun Qiao'er said: "Yes, it's me, it's me who let him go." ”

Sun Qu was so angry that his eyes were bloodshot, and he raised his hand to hit her, but before he could fight, Sun Qiao'er had already flown out and broke the handrail of the stairs.

An iron crutch lay across in the dark, and in the candlelight, it was impossible to see what color it was.

Sun Qu saw Sun Qiao'er lying on the ground, turned around and scolded the one-eyed dragon: "Who the hell let you beat it? My woman has to be beaten by me!"

The scar-faced man said coldly, "You hit too lightly. ”

Sun Qu didn't dare to speak, because he saw those dead man-like eyes, there was no killing intent in the eyes, some were just death.

The one-eyed dragon snorted, walked up to Sun Qiao'er on iron crutches, hunched his waist, pulled Sun Qiao'er's hair, and said, "Who told you to let him go? Who are you?"

Sun Qu was about to say something, but before he could say anything, he swallowed back, because he had a pair of dead eyes looking at him.

Sun Qiao'er smiled bitterly: "I let him go, kill me." ”

The one-eyed dragon let go of Sun Qiao'er, walked up to the scar-faced man and said, "The person is gone, shall we still chase it?"

The scarface man said, "Chase." The bearded man had already climbed out of the window and followed the footprints in the snow.

The scar-faced man slowly took his eyes off Sun Qu, who wanted to be untied, but he still stood in place and didn't move. The one-eyed dragon said, "Since we didn't get the people, then you can't get the gold bars." ”

Sun Qu sweated all over his body and said tremblingly: "Okay, good." "How dare he make any requests, in front of those eyes, it is like announcing his own death, it is good to have a life, what gold bars to talk about?

The scar-faced man walked to the door, didn't look back, only said coldly: "Kill it." ”

Sun Qu exclaimed: "What's ......?"

He only said one word "Shi", because he could no longer say the second half of the word, an iron crutch had pierced his chest, and Sun Qu fell, his eyes still open, and his eyes were full of hard to believe that he was dead.

The one-eyed dragon said, "What about this woman?"

The scar-faced man said, "Take it away." ”

The cold wind was mixed with snow, and even so, it was not as cold as Qi Ying'er's heart.

He ran in the snow, his feet were soaked, and his toes were frozen unconscious, but he couldn't stop, and to stop meant death, and he didn't want to die, he couldn't die. His mind didn't stop, it kept running, thinking about it. Why did that person kill me, why did she help me, where did I flee?

At that time, Qi Ying'er woke up, holding her sword in her hand, thinking about something. I brought the wooden sword to my eyes again, thinking about my master, thinking about my grandfather, and thinking about my second uncle.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, very soft, so light that the man knocked on four times before Qi Ying'er went to open the door.

When the door opened, it was a woman, her hair was messy, and her clothes were a little rotten, but she was still charming. It's Sun Qiao'er, the woman who makes Qi Ying'er's heart beat faster. Qi Ying'er wanted to ask questions, but Sun Qiao'er gently pressed her index finger against her mouth. Qi Ying'er smelled the fragrance, and the fragrance emanating from that fingertip made his chest feel like a gas fire.

Sun Qiao'er slowly pushed him in and said, "You have to go." ”

Qi Ying'er suppressed the fire in her chest and asked, "Why?"

Sun Qiao'er said: "If you don't leave, you will die." ”

Qi Ying'er exclaimed, "Who wants to kill me?"

Sun Qiao'er had tears in her eyes: "Sun Qu." ”

Qi Ying'er couldn't believe that Sun Qu, who was also a lonely friend with her, wanted to kill herself, and said, "Why did Second Brother Sun kill me?"

Sun Qiao'er said: "I can't explain it to you, you are still young, believe me, I won't lie to you, because, because of ......"

Qi Ying'er looked at her, waiting for her to finish speaking. Sun Qiao'er's face flushed and said, "Because I like you." ”

Although Qi Ying'er didn't understand what it was, he knew that it was a special feeling, and he also had that feeling, so he couldn't help blushing.

Sun Qiao'er said: "So you go quickly, otherwise you will really die." ”

Qi Ying'er looked at this beautiful woman with tears in her eyes, he believed her, but he had an urge to go, an urge to take the woman in front of him with him.

Sun Qiao'er picked up his sword, blew out the candles in the room, and pulled him gently to his room. I don't know why, Qi Ying'er was also pulled by Sun Qiao'er.

Sun Qiao'er took out a bag from the secret compartment under the bed and handed it to Qi Ying'er, and said, "This is some entanglement, you take it." ”

Qi Ying'er took the burden, he knew that the woman in front of him would never harm himself, but he couldn't bear to leave like this, he knew that if he left, it might be Sun Qiao'er who died.

Qi Ying'er finally said, "Can't you go with me?"

Sun Qiao'er burst into tears, but there was a smile on her face, and it was a happy and sweet smile that would only show when a woman found a belonging. Sun Qiao'er shook her head and said, "I can't." ”

Qi Ying'er's eyes also flashed with tears, and he didn't understand why he was crying, for the woman in front of him, or for himself?

Sun Qiao'er opened the window, and a cold wind swept in, Sun Qiao'er said, "Quick, escape from here." ”

Qi Ying'er slowly moved to the window, and out of nowhere did he get the courage, he took Sun Qiao'er's hand and said, "You really don't want to go with me?"

Sun Qiao'er's face turned even redder, and she couldn't stop crying, she threw herself into Qi Ying'er's arms, leaned on his strong chest, raised her head and kissed Qi Ying'er's chin gently. Her lips were moist and gentle, and Qi Ying'er's tears couldn't help but flow out. Sun Qiao'er heard movement downstairs, so she pushed Qi Ying'er out of the window and turned to leave.

The wooden house was not high, and there was thick snow outside, Qi Ying'er did not fall and hurt herself, only her heart.

He wiped away his tears and ran off into the distance.

Woods.

There were no leaves on the trees, but layers of snow were pressed, and the whole forest became white.

Qi Ying'er ran into the woods, couldn't see the edge of the woods, and didn't know if she was running in the right direction.

But who's to say which path is the right one?

Qi Ying'er only knew that Sun Qu was going to kill him, but she didn't know that Sun Qu was dead. He slowed down because he was crying, but he couldn't cry anymore.

Why did you want to be hunted down? Why did you leave Sun Qiao'er behind? Why did you always be alone?

He clenched the sword in his hand, and the cold wind blew, like the sword was talking, laughing at his cowardice.

Don't you want to be a top swordsman? You hold a sword, but you don't know how to pull it out, you only know how to escape.

Qi Ying'er clenched her fists and slammed it heavily on a tree, and the snow on the tree was also shaken down.

He did learn, he learned not to trust people easily. This was the first thing he learned when he first entered the rivers and lakes, no one taught him, but he taught it more profoundly than anyone else. He believed that Sun Qu was wrong, and Sun Qu wanted to kill himself. But that's because he believed in Sun Qiao'er, but who can tell him if it's right or wrong?

A voice came from behind him: "You can't run away!"

Qi Ying'er exclaimed, "Who are you?"

I saw a tall black shadow slowly walking towards him, like a bear. Through the moonlight, Qi Ying'er saw that this was a bearded man.

The bearded man said, "You don't know me, but I know you." ”

Qi Ying'er said, "How do you know me?"

The bearded man said: "You don't have to know this, you just need to know that you don't have to run away." ”

Qi Ying'er said, "You're here to kill me?"

The bearded man suddenly laughed, laughing like thunder. "Kill you? That's too cheap for you. ”

Qi Ying'er said, "Then what do you want?"

The bearded man said, "We're going to make your life worse than death." ”

Qi Ying'er didn't know why he was so calm, but his legs couldn't move half a step, and said, "You guys, there are other people besides you?"

"Not bad. A darker, but even more chilling business rang out behind him.

Qi Ying'er slowly turned sideways and saw two figures, one crippled on an iron crutch, and the other in the moonlight, like a dead man. The cripple still carried a man, a woman, on his shoulders. Qi Ying'er saw that it was Sun Qiao'er!

Anger suddenly burned in his heart, but the fire seemed to be suppressed by something intangible, and it couldn't be released.

The moonlight poured down on the forest, and it turned white. Qi Ying'er's hands were shaking, whether the hand was shaking, or the sword was shaking, or the heart was shaking.