Yesterday there was a heavy rain, the ground has not yet dried, but today's sun is very hot, although in the forest, it is still a little hot.

Liang Xie didn't feel hot, on the contrary, he even felt a little cold, to be precise, a little cold in his heart. In two years, even if you have a dog, you should establish enough feelings, but you are full of deception and deception when you get along with people day and night. Maybe self-deception is the true meaning of the world, compromise and collusion can survive, and people with self-standards always end up so miserable, such as the 'Guyu School' Lin Lan who was empowered by Xu Chunzhi, the 'Golden Guard', with iron nails, and Chen Beichen, who was branded, and even Lord Jing, the number one master in the Ouchi, was just loyal to his duties and remained neutral, and he was also murdered.

Thinking of Jing Xihuang, Liang Xie touched the invitation card in his arms, today is the day of Jing Xihuang's burial, he had no intention of condolences when he received the invitation yesterday, but now he suddenly wanted to meet this person, this person who is famous in the capital and even the whole world, a person who is very admired by the government and the public, a person who can adhere to self-standards, even if he looks at the corpse. Maybe everyone has a yearning and admiration for justice in their bones, and they all have the idea of adhering to self-standards, but it is really difficult to do it, and if you don't do it, you will become Lin Lan, Chen Beichen, Jing Xihuang, and those who were brutalized by the 'Guyu Party'.

It is said that Jing Xihuang has only one wife and one mother in the family, and he treats them very well. Jing Xihuang has remained neutral all these years, only protecting the safety of the palace and the imperial city, ignoring all party disputes, perhaps because he wants them not to be implicated.

When I returned home, it was already noon, and I was just in time for Jiaxian and Xiaolan to eat, so I immediately sat down and ate a few bites. Because he thought that he had fallen out with Yun Lao and Xiao Wangye, he didn't want to leave at this time, and I was afraid that they would not be willing to do so, and Lang Zhong, who treated Jiaxian, naturally didn't take long to replace, so he didn't have much appetite, and he stopped after a few bites.

After eating, Jiaxian went to bed to take a nap, Xiaolan also put up the dishes and chopsticks, Liang Xie and Jiaxian chatted for a while, and when Jiaxian was sleepy, she quietly went out of the house and came to the tofu workshop.

Due to his special identity and his disgraceful status, Liang Xie has basically not made friends in recent years, and his only friend in the capital is only the old Wang of the tofu shop. As Liang Xie's only friend in the capital, it is natural for him to inquire about Langzhong for Liang Xie and find a suitable place to live.

When he arrived at the tofu workshop, Liang Xie made up a reason and informed Lao Wang of the entrusted matter, and Lao Wang agreed. Liang Xie didn't dare to stay longer because of the assassination of Wu Jingguo yesterday, and after entrusting the necessary things, he said goodbye to Lao Wang and walked out.

The afternoon sun was particularly scorching, arousing how many pedestrians to be sleepy, but Liang Xie was as cold as ice, and his arms hurt even more when the sun was sunburning, but the cold in his bones was even stronger.

Liang Xie came out of the tofu factory, walked into the forest, jumped on a willow tree, leaned on the branch, and stared at the sky with his eyes open. He is too lazy to go home but he doesn't know where to go, for some reason Liang Xie has become more and more like to be alone in recent years, and his temperament has gradually become withdrawn, withdrawn, and even a little autistic. It wasn't what he was hoping for, but he thought it would be more comfortable.

In this world, whether it is friendship or love, or the love of co-ordination, it is all difficult to establish, but it is much easier to destroy them, the pain of betrayal, the indifference washed by time, and sometimes even an inconspicuous angry word can push such a relationship into a catastrophe. When he turned his face, he was resolute, Liang Xie only felt that no matter what he did, it was better than following Yun Lao and Xiao Wangye, but he was quiet at the moment, but he felt confused and helpless, although he could still take some murderous deeds on the black market through intermediaries as before, but this was exactly what he was afraid of, afraid of a life that went round in place, afraid of a fatalistic reincarnation, and even more afraid of this feeling of powerlessness. Liang Xie sighed, and slowly realized that no matter what he did, he couldn't seem to get out of this circle, and it seemed that it didn't matter whether he turned his face or not.

Sometimes we are faced with a lot of choices, and sometimes we don't have a choice, or we don't have the ability to choose, just like what you have in front of you right now is a piece of chicken shit or a piece of dog shit, which one do you choose to eat? Liang Xie is facing such a choice at the moment.

In fact, the choice is important, but what is more important is what kind of choice you participate in.

Killing, seeing a doctor, seeing a doctor, killing someone, a disease that can never be cured, a person who can never be killed. He was afraid, he was afraid that he would have to live like this for the rest of his life, and he didn't dare to think about it, because the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, and the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became. The determination that had just been made was gradually lost under such an impact. He wanted to have Bao Wushi scattered at this time, so that he could forget all this, even if it was only for a moment, even if it was just an illusion, at least he could relax for a while.

Liang Xie had a headache, and he slowly closed his eyes, trying not to think about it.

In a daze, it got dark, and the dark sky seemed to be at night, and before Liang Xie could think that it would get dark so quickly, the heavy rain poured down. Liang Xie was soaked, I don't know when there was an extra mountain in the west, the flood on the mountain was surging down, Liang Xie ran desperately, but his clothes were wrapped around his body, and he couldn't take a step. "Run, are you waiting to die here?" The senior brother appeared at some point, pulling him to run desperately. When Liang Xie looked back, the flood had washed down, the third senior brother, the fifth junior brother, and the seventh junior brother were struggling desperately in the water, the sixth junior brother, and the eighth junior brother stood by and watched and laughed, and suddenly, the eighth junior brother kicked the sixth junior brother into the flood, turned around and ran away with a smile. The third senior brother slammed into the stone with a miserable scream, and he was unrecognizable, and black blood splashed everywhere. The senior brother turned around to save the senior brothers, and suddenly the second senior sister stood in the middle of the flood, her face was sad, and she waved her hand and said, "Don't you want me anymore?" Liang Xie exclaimed loudly: "Second senior sister, fifth senior brother ......" Seeing everyone go away in the flood. The flood suddenly became smaller, and the yellow-green, viscous water surged from the ground, and Liang Xie tiptoed over, but then jumped into the latrine. Two stone slabs were on top of each other, and there was an unknown number of deep dung pits at the bottom, and the feces in it were almost overflowing, and the maggots wriggled and slowly crawled out, piece by piece, layer by layer, forcing over, making people have nowhere to dodge. Liang Xie didn't know when to squat, but his legs were sore and weak when he thought about it at the moment, he saw that maggots were about to crawl onto his legs one by one, holding his pants in one hand and the rafters on the toilet roof in the other, stepping through the pit step by step, his legs were like lead, and he was almost about to step on the dung pit. I looked at the small latrine, but there was a pit that could not be crossed. He grabbed the rafters, his heart rose to his throat, and he walked carefully step by step, when suddenly, his feet slipped, the stone slab flipped over, and Liang Xie stepped into the dung pit......

"Ahh But seeing the green willow leaves in front of me, where is there any flood dung pit?

Shocked in the dream, Liang Xie was already soaked with sweat, he calmed down, wiped the sweat on his head, his hands and feet were sore, and he could barely grasp the branches. Nan Ke dreamed, and I don't know how long it was, but at this time the sun was much westerly, and it seemed that it would be dark after a while. Liang Xie breathed for a while, and then gradually gained some strength, and immediately slid down the tree, chose a vacant land, practiced a knife technique, and lifted his spirits a little.

'Eight Desolations Shenwu' Jing Hui Jing Xihuang has been killed for several days. Jing Xihuang's master, Zhong Bayin, the valley master of the 'Eight Desolation Valley', led eight disciples to enter Beijing yesterday, inviting fellow martial artists from Beijing to pay tribute to Jing Xihuang, and planned to be buried tonight.

Generally speaking, if there is a deceased person in the family, it is necessary to bury it first, and then stop the coffin or seven days, or the number of seven or seven, and it is very rare to stop the coffin for three days and be buried, and it is unheard of to bury it at midnight. Although the customs are different in various places, there are burials at noon, or burials before the sun sets, because the funeral contains yin, the burial time should be carried out during the day, if the burial is at night, it is afraid that the yin will not disperse, which is not good for the living. Therefore, there is no reason to be buried at night, let alone buried at midnight. Liang Xie also heard that the customs of the 'Eight Desolation Valley' were very strange, and if his disciples died properly, everything would be as usual. If it is killed, there is a practice of stopping the coffin for three days and burying it, so that the soul of the dead will not be dispersed, and the master will be blessed with revenge, and then the grave will be moved and reburied after the revenge is completed. Therefore, in the 'Eight Desolation Valley', the burial of the son is equivalent to taking a poisonous oath and not sharing the will of heaven with the enemy. This time, the valley lord personally presided over it, and the determination of the 'Eight Desolation Valley' is self-evident.

Calculate the time, Jing Xihuang really seemed to be killed for more than three days, but the 'Eight Desolation Valley' has its own customs and algorithms, and it is difficult for outsiders to say anything. Liang Xie and Jing Xihuang did not have any friendship, only met by chance a year ago, that was when Liang Xie went into the city to buy some New Year's goods during the Chinese New Year, he met Jing Xihuang buying lanterns, the two didn't even say a word, if it weren't for the street vendor boss praising Lord Jing for being kind, Liang Xie couldn't recognize Jing Xihuang at that time, but he had an inexplicable good impression of this person.

Jing Xihuang is a person, no matter how great his martial arts are, he is a person after all, a person of flesh and blood. Different from the dragon god's daring to fight and kill, adventurous and radical, Jing Xihuang is steady and indifferent, he needs to be responsible for the old lady and his wife;

To a certain extent, Jing Xihuang and Liang Xie are very similar, they have no friends and value their family the same, the difference is that Jing Xihuang insisted on his bottom line, while Liang Xie did not do it. So Liang Xie admires this person very much, and he likes this person very much, or he aspires to be such a person - a person who can always insist on himself no matter how treacherous and changeable the situation is, such as Jing Xihuang, such as the senior brother, and even more like the master Uncle 'Knife Maniac', there are very few such people, so they are very worthy of respect.

It was getting dark, and Liang Xie went to Jing Xihuang's house under the cover of night, Jing Xihuang's home was in a village in the east of the city, and because of its fame, everyone knew it, and it was not difficult to find. He didn't care whether there was a road in the forest, he only went east, and thought in his heart: "Jing Xihuang was killed by the 'Rootless Party' at the request of the 'Immortal Evil Venerable', Yun Lao can take the opportunity to mislead the layout, it seems that the people of the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' and the 'Golden Guard' should not go today." For the sake of safety, he is still simple and easy to face, and he may not be able to recognize him if he is blind and dusty in the face of the three catchers. I'm afraid that the 'rootless party' has plans to encircle and suppress Jing Xihuang's party.

Liang Xie really hopes that the people of the 'Rootless Party' will do that, so that the people of the three gangs, eight factions and one family in the capital will unite to confront the 'Rootless Party', and those who could not avenge Jing Xihuang will have to be inseparable from the 'Rootless Party', such as the Dragon God's 'Six Dragons Gang', Mo Youfan alone is enough to give the 'Rootless Party' a headache for a while; The 'Hundred Miles Flying Shuttle' is ruthless and vicious, and it is impossible to prevent it; the master of the 'Ten Miles Tower' is like a cloud, and his whereabouts are ethereal, and it is extremely difficult to deal with it once it is entangled......

After walking for a while, the trees gradually became scarce, the barking of dogs gradually became louder, and the number of people gradually increased, but they had arrived at the small village in the east of the city. Liang Xie came to the front and saw a middle-aged woman kneeling in the mourning shed wearing filial piety, getting up from time to time and limping to receive the guests who came to pay their respects. On the woman's side, an old woman sat on the edge of the mourning hall without saying a word, neither howling nor crying, nor receiving guests, these two people thought to be Jing Xihuang's wife and mother.

On the way, Liang Xie kept wondering why Jing Xihuang didn't place his mother and wife in a place that no one knew, but many people in the capital knew where they lived, and when they arrived at Jing Xihuang's home, Liang Xie suddenly realized. In fact, the reason is very simple, Jing Xihuang is poor, and his income is seven or eight percent less than that of Liang Xie. He can't afford to hire a maid, his mother is old, his wife is a cripple, life here is more convenient, there are neighbors to take care of, and the two live in a more remote place, and no one can help them if they have an accident, and they always have to save some money for emergencies.

If you don't steal or rob a martial artist, if you are an official and don't ask for it, if you don't cheat for a businessman, if you are conscientious and conscientious, and if you accumulate every penny, how easy is it to talk about it? Therefore, Jing Xihuang has always maintained neutrality and has always been unwilling to offend people, especially villains. It's difficult, it's really difficult, Liang Xie still has a maid, and he still has a secret residence, but Jing Xihuang doesn't, even so, he can still stick to the bottom line and protect his wife and mother, if it's easy to say, it's standing and talking without backache.

Eight men on both sides of the mourning shed knelt on both sides of the coffin, thanking the guests, yesterday's Zhou Bing was among them, these eight people are naturally the disciples of the 'Eight Desolate Valley', Jing Xihuang's junior disciples. The valley lord Zhong Bayin personally received the guests, and the two disciples helped to run away, completely treating themselves as Jing Xihuang's close relatives. At this time, most of the guests are neighbors, because it is not a wedding or funeral, there is no banquet, only noodle soup is used to entertain the guests. The people bowed a few times, said some words of comfort, some left some money, some gave some things, and then they went away. The Jing family is scarce, although there are a few uncles and close relatives, but they only care about three or five groups of idle chatter, chattering endlessly, all about the amount of some gift money, family suffering and other problems, children and so on are even more happy, but I don't know that some people are heartbroken. The closest relatives are like this, and only the people and neighbors of the 'Eight Desolation Valley' help to take care of it.

Liang Xie saw that a few young people in their twenties had hired two crying spirits out of nowhere to make trouble for a long time, but instead they were chatting in groups, talking and laughing and bragging, and couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart: "Do you even have to lie to a dead person?"

The crying spirit called for heaven and grabbed the ground, and it hurt more than his father when he died, and he mispronounced Jing Xihuang's name as like: "I like it, why did you go so early, how do you let us live?......" Liang Xie couldn't help laughing, it was really more money than his father.

The crying spirit caused Jing Xihuang's wife to fall to the ground, and she couldn't get up from crying. Zhong Gu was afraid that this trouble would cause his mother to be too sad and make a mistake, so he helped the old lady back into the house, turned around and came out again.

The two weeping spirits cried for a while, got up, took the silver, and walked away. "There is actually a deal to do this kind of thing!" Liang Xie laughed, and when the crying spirit was far away, he looked around and looked at the people who did not have two places in the palace and guard, and then walked to the spirit. Zhong Bayin hurriedly greeted him, leading Liang Xie to bow in front of the spirit, Liang Xie kowtowed and got up, and the eight people in the Eight Desolate Valley kowtowed to Liang Xie to thank him, and Jing Xihuang's wife also kowtowed to Liang Xie to thank him. Liang Xie was unprecedentedly generous once, and gave him a gift of ten taels of silver that made him feel extremely painful, and everyone saw that this person was disgraced, and his face was stained with a lot of mud, and he was so generous, and he couldn't help but be impressed. When the recipient asked Liang Xie about his name, Liang Xie said that he was a fellow martial artist and refused to reveal his real name.

Zhong Bayin bowed to Liang Xie and asked, "This friend is Hui'er's friend before his death?" Liang Xie heard someone call Jing Xihuang like this for the first time, and his heart warmed, and he replied: "There was a relationship between one side, admiring Lord Jing as a person, and I came to mourn." Zhong Bayin said: "'Eight Desolation Valley' Zhong Bayin thanked this friend on behalf of Hui'er, please have dinner over there, and look at Haihan if the hospitality is not good." Liang Xie said politely, and he didn't need to eat, and turned around to leave.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a group of people walking over with lanterns in the distance, about seven or eight people, all of them brightly dressed and walking briskly, and they were actually dressed in plain clothes of 'Golden Guards'. Liang Xie chuckled in his heart: "It's still here!" He originally thought that since Jing Xihuang's death was instructed by Wu Jingguo, the people in the two places of the Fuwei would inevitably move as far away from Jing Xihuang as possible in order to avoid making Wu Jingguo unhappy, in case he disagreed with any of his peers in the future and was removed from the old account and put on some charge. I don't know that there are really a lot of people here, so there is no need to ask, this is naturally the 'rootless party' who wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. "Seeing that the person of the 'Golden Guard' was about to arrive, he, the criminal who had just assassinated Wu Jingguo, had a ghost in his heart and didn't have time to avoid it, so he hurriedly stood beside Zhong Bayin, simply as Jing Xihuang's family.

"Lord Zhonggu, I'll help you fight. Liang Xie said in a low voice. Zhong Bayin nodded and didn't speak.

In the blink of an eye, the 'Golden Guards' and everyone came to the front, and Zhong Bayin was expressionless and greeted him like an ordinary guest. The person who was the leader reported his name and rank, and went straight to the front of the spirit and kowtowed, and it turned out to be a thousand households of the 'Golden Guard'. Among these seven or eight people, there is one person from a thousand households, one from a deputy thousand households, two from a hundred households, and the rest have official ranks.

"Thousands of households and deputy thousands of households have been dispatched, I'm afraid that at least one of the fourteen 'Golden Guards' has come to the nest, and this battle may not be easy to fight. There are very few gangs in the capital to come to mourn, and I am afraid that I will suffer a loss if I start at this moment, I don't know what the strength of these people in the 'Eight Desolation Valley' is, the valley master Zhong Bayin is Jing Xihuang's master, and his martial arts must be not bad. Liang Xie estimated the combat strength of the two sides, and peeked at Zhong Bayin, but seeing that Zhong Bayin's face was as usual, he received the 'Golden Guards' one by one, and he couldn't see the slightest clue.

After the 'Golden Guards' finished their condolences one after another, they exchanged a few words of greeting and turned to leave. Liang Xie became more and more suspicious that the 'Golden Guard' had been secretly arranged.

After a while, the people of the Inner Governor's Mansion also came in several waves intermittently, including the three arresters. The lights in front of the spirit were dim, relying on the cover of the night, Liang Xie was simple and easy to pass, the three arrests had only met Liang Xie once, and they didn't deliberately recognize each other, but they didn't recognize him, Liang Xie secretly called luck.

In just a few moments, seven or eight waves of the Governor's Mansion and the 'Golden Guard' came one after another, and there were no less than dozens of people who showed up, and most of them had official ranks. Judging from the current situation, among the guests who came to mourn, there were only a few dozen friends of the Jianghu knights and Jing Xihuang, even if Liang Xie and the people of the 'Eight Desolation Valley' were only more than 20 people, but judging from the identity of the 'Golden Guard' and the people who came to the Governor's Mansion to mourn, at least hundreds of people could be mobilized. If you really want to make a move, you can't fight it anyway, and even if you escape, I'm afraid it won't be easy. peeked at Zhong Bayin, and saw that his face was as usual, and there was nothing unusual about him, receiving guests as usual.

After a while, Chang Laojiu of the 'Jiuyuan Blacksmith Shop' took his two sons Chang Xuebin, Chang Xuechen also brought people over, although this Chang Laojiu's martial arts did not know, but the hidden weapons he created were extremely powerful, 'Jinyiwei' and 'Tan Men', 'Qianxiu Pavilion' and other hidden weapons had a lot of hidden weapons from his subordinates, it is said that Chang Laojiu also has a firearm called 'Throwing Spring Thunder', which is very domineering and can not be resisted by flesh and blood. Immediately afterwards, the two brothers of Tan Xingde, the head of the 'Tan Gate', one of the eight factions, Tan Xingcheng and Tan Xingye, led their disciples to come to mourn.

After a while, Yun Niang, a member of the 'Qianxiu Pavilion', arrived with more than a dozen female disciples, holding cloths, paper fires and other things. After all, she is a woman, think carefully, and bring all the things that can be used.

In less than half an hour, three of the eight factions in the capital arrived, and since they were brain figures, they must have taken precautions to avoid being caught off guard by the 'Golden Guard' and the 'Inner Governor's Mansion'. Liang Xie's heart is slightly wider, as long as the top ten masters of Ouchi do not come, and the guards do not use firearms, they will probably still be able to compete. Liang Xie secretly glanced at Zhong Bayin, only to see him smile slightly, it seems that his thoughts are not much different from Liang Xie.

Liang Xie Fang stopped thinking about it, and suddenly, a chill appeared on his back, and the killer's acuity told him that a master had arrived, and it was not an ordinary master. Zhong Bayin also seemed to feel something, and looked at Liang Xie in unison, only to see four people coming together on the west side. Zhong Bayingong gathered his eyes, although at night, when he saw things like day, but he saw that the person on the right was tall and carrying a spear, the person on the left was wrapped with a steel whip around his waist, and the two people in the middle were both swordsmen. What is even more astonishing is that there is a depression several zhang square, the water has not dried up, and the four of them step in without dodging, and when they get up, none of the soles of the four people are wet! Liang Xie is conceited and has first-class light skills, but he has not reached such a state.

Such a master is extremely difficult to deal with, but this is four, Liang Xie saw Zhong Bayin's eyebrows jump, his face changed slightly, he can't beat these four people in his normal state, I don't know where these four people come from and what their purpose is.