The sky was faintly bright, and the bright chirping of birds rising in the morning to feed was everywhere.

When Lin Gongyu woke up, she found that she was sleeping on Xue Ling, and the whole person fell into her arms. Xue Ling was staring at him with Shui Lingling's big eyes.

Xue Ling smiled and said, "Brother Lin, you're awake!"

Lin Gongyu sat up and said with a smile: "Why did I fall asleep with you on my pillow?"

Xue Ling said: "You must be tired these days. I've never seen you sleep so deeply. ”

Lin Gongyu could hear that Xue Ling's words were full of distress, his heart fluttered, he took her hand, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it's all over." ”

Xue Ling smiled: "I'm so hungry! You see that the birds are all out looking for food, let's also go find something to eat!"

Lin Gongyu said: "You wait for me here, I'll catch two birds!"

Xue Ling hurriedly said, "Don't." ”

Lin Gongyu said strangely: "What?"

Xue Ling said: "These birds must come out so early to feed the children in the nest." If we catch them and eat them, won't those children starve to death!"

Lin Gongyu was amused in his heart, couldn't help but smile, and said, "Then what are we going to eat? Aren't we going to starve to death?"

Xue Ling said: "Let's go to the woods to look for it, maybe there are wild fruits to eat!"

Lin Gongyu had no choice but to follow her, and walked towards the woods with her hand. After searching for half an hour, I found only one tree that bore fruit, and I didn't know what kind of fruit it was. Lin Gongyu picked one, wiped it and took a bite, frowned and spit it out again, and said, "I can't eat it, I'm dying of bitterness!"

Xue Ling clapped his hands and laughed, and said, "This is called bitter fruit!"

Lin Xue and the others had no choice but to ride on their horses and endure hunger to hurry. At noon, they came to a town, and the two hurriedly found a restaurant for a full meal. After eating, the guy in the store served tea, and the two were drinking tea leisurely, when suddenly two martial arts hawkers came in from outside the restaurant.

The two martial arts high-rollers sat down, and one of them shouted: "Good wine and good food should be served to Uncle Lu!"

The shopkeeper hurriedly ran to the back kitchen to pass the dishes, and when he came out, he had a pot of tea in his hand, and he was busy pouring tea for the two high-rollers.

The man who called himself "Uncle Lu" said: "Brother Chen, we have been oppressed for so many years, and we have not had the opportunity to cut Dongfang Bai with our own hands, but we finally slaughtered that kid from Dongfang Jin, and we also calculated the bird's spirit of the past!"

Lin Gongyu couldn't help but be moved when he heard "slaughtered that kid from Dongfang Jin" at first glance, and Huo Di stood up. Although he had no good impression of Dongfang Jin, Dongfang Hong was dead, and he died under his sword, and he was naturally shocked when he suddenly heard that Dongfang Jin was in trouble.

When the two men heard the sound, they glared at Lin Gongyu in both directions. Xue Ling hurriedly sat Lin Gongyu down, and said with a smile: "Isn't it eighty yuan, so stingy!

When the two men saw that Lin Xue's table was full of big fish and meat, and Xue Ling's words were confirmed, they thought that Lin Gongyu was ashamed because the meal was too expensive and because he was shy in his pocket.

The man surnamed Lu looked disdainful, snorted, and said to the other man: "This time thanks to Lin Daxia, the leader of the Five Lakes Alliance, otherwise we will probably all be slaves of Dongfang Bai in this life!

The surnamed Chen Hanzi smiled and said, "What are we?"

Xue Ling's eyes smiled, and he pouted at Lin Gongyu. Lin Gongyu's face turned red and he smiled awkwardly.

The man surnamed Lu said: "This is not the case, I heard that although the master of the Lin League is young and has strong martial arts, he is humble and courteous, and he has always treated his fellow people in the rivers and lakes equally. ”

The man surnamed Chen said: "Although Dongfang Bai has a blood feud with him, but Lin Daxia and Dongfang Bai's second son are sworn brothers, let's kill his sworn brother's whole family, do you think he will be humble and polite to us?"

The man surnamed Lu couldn't help but be stunned, and muttered, "Is there such a thing?" He took a sip of tea, smiled awkwardly, and continued: "That's still not good." This time, let's burn the Dragon Villa to ashes, wouldn't we be flattened by him when we see Lin Daxia!" said and laughed.

Lin Gongyu glanced at Xue Ling, Xue Ling saw that his face was not good, and knew that he heard the two people say that he had burned the Royal Dragon Villa, and he was unhappy, so he still took a handful of copper coins on the table and pulled Lin Gongyu out of the restaurant.

Xue Ling saw that Lin Gongyu was sullen, thinking that it was the words of the two men who made him unhappy, and said with a smile: "Brother Lin, are those two rough people annoying you? I'll go back and teach them a lesson for you." ”

Lin Gongyu knew that Xue Ling would do whatever he said, but the two of them were not Xue Ling's opponents, so he hurriedly said, "No." I didn't annoy them. ”

Xue Ling shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, so why are you making a bitter face?"

Lin Gongyu said: "I think of the past, in Luque Mountain, the three of us married brothers, and it was only two years, and now the eldest brother and second brother are dead, he... Or die in my... Under my sword—" he said and sighed, his brow furrowed even tighter.

Xue Lingwen said: "Brother Lin, everyone has their own fate, and the number of days dictates it, so it's no wonder who is it." Do you think, why are some people born rich and noble, while others are born poor? Why do some people do nothing in their lives, while others are extremely noble? Some people are born with a good life and have a smooth life, while some people are born with a hard life and constant ups and downs?

Lin Gongyu recalled Xue Ling's words in his heart, as if he understood it or not, as if he understood it in an instant, and then seemed to be even more confused.

Xue Ling said again: "The things in this world are the most strange, and they all have their own providence in the dark. Uncle Gao loves your mother so much, but your mother only has your father in her heart, if Uncle Gao can empathize with other women, why should he be lonely all his life? But Uncle Gao is that kind of person, you say this is not the will of heaven, how can it make sense?"

Lin Gongyu said: "Of course what you said is right, but my father is also very good to my mother?"

Xue Ling smiled: "So I said it was God's will! God must have arranged it like this, otherwise why did you let your mother meet Uncle Gao and then meet your father?"

Lin Gongyu remembered that he had heard his master say that his grandfather and maternal grandfather married his father and aunt, but his father was happy with his mother, and he couldn't help but sigh that it made people, so he felt that what Xue Ling said was very reasonable. Therefore, he thought of the grievances between the Lin family and Dongfang Bai, and thought of Dongfang Hong crashing into his sword, and couldn't help but sigh: "God is really strange, it's just a matter of arranging anything, but if you don't make it complete, you have to leave some leeway." ”

Xue Ling saw that he had figured it out, and said with a smile: "This is called a fly in the ointment, my father often said that the facts in the world are difficult to complete, and they are often good things and grinding!"

Lin Gongyu took Xue Ling's hand and said, "I hope that the two of us will be happy, but there is no fly in the ointment!"

Xue Ling smiled: "This is natural, God has already given you and me a lot of tribulations, and it is time for us to consummation!"

Lin Gongyu said with a smile: "We haven't gotten married yet, and we haven't entered the cave room yet, how can we call it consummation?"

Xue Ling's face turned red and he scolded: "Brother Lin, you are becoming more and more improper! In the past, I said that you were an upright hero!"

Lin Gongyu smiled and said with a smile: "Then don't you want to marry me and enter the cave room?"

Xue Ling chased for a while, but couldn't catch up, and suddenly stopped. Lin Gongyu knew that Xue Ling couldn't catch up with him, so he must come up with some tricks, so he stood in the distance and secretly observed. After a cup of tea, I saw that she was still standing in place, smiling but not smiling, as if angry but not angry,

Lin Gongyu was cautious and asked, "Ling'er, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Ling still didn't speak. Lin Gongyu was a little anxious, hurriedly went over and shook her arms, and said with concern: "Ling'er, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Ling suddenly flipped his hands, clasped the veins of Lin Gongyu's hands, and said with a smile: "I caught you!"

Lin Gongyu smiled dumbly and said, "I'm so stupid, I know it's your trick, but I'm still fooled!"

Xue Ling let go of him and said with a smile: "Where did I use some tricks! I stand here, you will definitely come over." ”

Lin Gongyu was right to think about it, but in the end, Xue Ling was smart, so he couldn't think of this.

The two of them had had enough of playing, so they went back to lead the horse, mounted the horse and continued on the road. After walking for a long time, they came to a barren mountain, and it was getting late, so the two of them were ready to sleep here. When he had tied his horse, he went to gather dry branches for the night to make a fire.

The two of them walked around the woods for a while, picked up a lot, and were about to go back, when they heard the sound of horses' hooves on the other side of the mountain. Then someone laughed and said: "Little lady, Lao Tzu has seen you, come out quickly and accompany the uncles to be happy!"

Lin Xue and the others were shocked in their hearts, and said in their hearts: "Who is doing evil here?" The two put down the firewood, quietly dived to the height, and looked towards the side of the mountain, only to see three men holding steel knives around a cave.

Another said, "If you don't come out again, the master will go in and be happy!" he said, and went into the cave.

Suddenly, I heard an oops, and the man rolled out, covering his scalp and screaming. Another man said, ", you dare to commit murder, Lao Tzu will set fire to you!"

Lin Gongyu didn't dare to stay longer, jumped out, put his feet on the ground a little, and jumped in front of the three people to stand still. Seeing that the three men were all in their thirties, dressed in gold and girded at the waist, sturdy and burly, they thought they were robbers from the nearby cottage.

The three men were startled and shouted, "Where did you come from?"

Lin Gongyu said sharply: "Who are you?

One of the men said angrily: "You stinky boy, you dare to take care of the old men's affairs?" Suddenly his eyes lit up, and his face was full of salivation.

Lin Gongyu looked at the two of them again, and he was wondering to himself, when he suddenly heard a silver bell-like laugh behind him, and knew that Xue Ling had come out. He was angry in his heart, and suddenly leaned in front of the man in the middle and slapped him on the shoulder. The man groaned and fell backwards.

Lin Gongyu made a successful move, and immediately slapped the man on the left, and the man's steel knife was vertical and slashed over. Lin Gongyu's palm was upward, and he suddenly grabbed the man's steel knife and turned the blade to press it to the man's chest, the man was shocked, and hurriedly let go of the steel knife, kicked out his right foot, and went straight to Lin Gongyu's lower abdomen.

Lin Gongyu also kicked out his right foot and kicked the man's foot, and the man screamed, and the whole person flew backwards.

The other man had already raised his knife and slashed over, Lin Gongyu skimmed the steel knife he snatched in his hand towards the man, and the man hurriedly waved the knife to knock it down, shaking his arm numb. He saw that Lin Gongyu beat the two of them with one move, and the level of martial arts had never been seen before, and he was already afraid of death in his heart. But at this time, there was no other way but to rush forward with a knife.

Lin Gongyu knew that the martial arts of these three people were mediocre, but he didn't want to hurt their lives. When the man's steel knife came over, he suddenly grabbed the back of the knife, grabbed the steel knife with a slight pull, and then kicked the man to it.

Lin Gongyu stretched out three fingers with both hands, grabbed the handle and tip of the steel knife, and broke the steel knife from it with a slight force. The three men were suddenly frightened and their faces were bloodless.

Xue Ling pointed at Lin Gongyu and said with a smile: "This is the terrifying Lin Daxia in the martial arts, nicknamed 'murderous as hemp', why don't you stretch your neck over and die!"

Lin Gongyu was amused in his heart and forcibly held back.

The three of them had never heard of the name of "killing people like hemp" Lin Daxia, but they thought that this person's martial arts were so strong that even if the whole village came over, it would not be enough for him to kill, so they hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy again and again.

Lin Gongyu said to Xue Ling: "How many people have we killed today?"

Xue Ling pretended to be pretending, pretending to calculate in his heart, and said, "Kill ninety-seven, and there are still three full hundred." ”

When the three of them heard this, their souls flew away, and they kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Xue Ling suddenly patted his head and said with a smile: "Ah, I miscalculated, I have killed a hundred today." It would be unlucky to kill again!"

Lin Gongyu said: "Okay, I'll spare you, if you do this kind of immoral thing again, you must take your head." ”

As soon as the three of them heard that they had escaped, they kowtowed again and again, and couldn't stop thanking them.

Xue Ling said: "Don't get out of here." ”

When the three of them heard this, they hurried out of here happily. Hurriedly got up, did not dare to pick up the steel knife, limped to the horse, mounted the horse and fled.

Lin Xue and the others laughed heartily, and after laughing for a long time, they suddenly remembered that there were still people in the cave. Xue Ling said: "Girl in the cave, come out, those robbers have escaped!" She shouted three times before she heard a slight sound of footsteps.

I saw a woman in white, holding something in her arms, moving out of the cave step by step. She lowered her head, the long hair on her forehead hung down to cover Lian, and her snow-white dress was scraped by the branches.

Lin Gongyu said: "Girl, are you okay?"

The woman shook her head, and suddenly there was a cry of a baby in her arms, and it turned out that she was holding a child in her arms.

Xue Ling walked up to her and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are good people, not some kind of 'murderous hemp', that's to scare those three bastards!

The woman still didn't say anything, and let the child in her arms cry. Xue Ling saw that this person was dumbfounded, and said in his heart: "Are you scared stupid?"

Suddenly, Xue Ling saw that the woman's long hair covered a few tears and fell on the quilt of the baby in his arms, and hurriedly asked, "Why are you crying?"

The woman slowly raised her head, the hair on her forehead spreading out to her temples, revealing a face. When Xue Ling saw it, he was surprised and delighted, and shouted, "Sister Leng, why are you?" It turned out that this woman turned out to be Leng Qingshuang.

When Lin Gongyu heard this, he was also pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly said, "Miss Leng, is it really you, why are you here?"

Leng Qingshuang just cried blindly and didn't answer. Lin Xue and the others knew that she had suffered a lot of grievances, so they stopped pressuring her, took her to the place where the two of them rested, and took out the dry food and water they brought with them to her.

Xue Ling knew that in front of Lin Gongyu, Leng Qingshuang had something inconvenient to say, so he glanced at Lin Gongyu. Lin Gongyu excused himself to pick up dry firewood and walked away.

After Lin Gongyu left, Xue Ling reported Leng Qingshuang's child over and said, "Sister Leng, you eat something and drink some water, don't be afraid, we are here." ”

When Leng Qingshuang heard this, she cried even more sadly. After crying for a while, the tears gradually stopped, and only then did I eat something and drink a few sips of water.

Xue Ling saw that the child's eyebrows were clear and beautiful, and he was very likable, so he teased him for a while. She quietly looked at Leng Qingshuang, and when she saw that she had eaten, she was stunned, looking preoccupied, and had some pity in her heart, so she said: "Sister Leng, you have to look away from everything, don't get up!"

Leng Qingshuang said: "Sister Xue, you are a blessed person, you don't know the pain in my heart!"

Xue Ling said: "Sister Leng, didn't you recuperate in Puji Temple, why did you come here?"

Leng Qingshuang said: "You already knew that I had this child, didn't you?"

Xue Ling nodded and said, "I knew it when I checked your pulse, but I didn't dare to tell you." Sister Leng, don't blame me!"

Leng Qingshuang said: "I know you have good intentions, how can I blame you! What's more, it's my own miserable life, who is to blame?" She sighed leisurely, and said: "I knew that I was pregnant and left Puji Temple, I am unknown, Buddhism is a pure place, isn't it disrespectful to the Bodhisattva to stay there?"

Xue Ling asked, "Why didn't you come to us?"

Leng Qingshuang said: "Where do I have the face to come to see you." At that time, I just wanted to die, but I thought that this child was a life after all, how could I let him kill him before he came to this world! But who knew that he was born, but I was afraid that he would be alone in this world. ”

Xue Ling thought to herself: "She is alone herself, naturally she knows what it is like, and naturally she doesn't want her children to be alone." ”

I only heard Leng Qingshuang say again: "I originally wanted to take him away from the rivers and lakes and find a secluded place where no one recognizes him to live in seclusion, but who knew that I met a robber here, fortunately you and Brother Lin, otherwise... Otherwise... I had no choice but to die. It's not a pity for me to die, but isn't it a pity that this child is less than a year old and dies like this?"

Xue Ling said: "Sister Leng, don't be sad, tomorrow we will go together to pick their cottage and give you anger." ”

Leng Qingshuang shook his head lightly and said, "Then why bother?"

Xue Ling smiled: "Sister Leng, you have such a good heart, good people will definitely have good rewards!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Leng Qingshuang's mouth, but this smile was fleeting, she took the child back from Xue Ling's hand, and gently stroked the child's face with her hand, her face was full of love. Leng Qingshuang's lips opened slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say a word.

Xue Ling's eyes were sharp, seeing her like this, she must have something difficult to say, and she understood it with a slight thought. Leng Qingshuang is in love with Li Qingshi, but Li Qingshi is her father-killing enemy, she has no relatives in this world, and Li Qingshi is the only one in her heart. Li Qingshi was already a monk at this time, and Xue Ling didn't know whether to tell her the truth for a while.

When Xue Ling hesitated, he only heard Leng Qingshuang say: "I heard that Brother Lin killed Dongfang Bao on Hushan Island and avenged the destruction of the door, this is a good person who is good to repay!"

Xue Ling said with a smile: "It's a pity that Sister Leng, you weren't there at the time, Brother Lin showed his might, and the Dongfang White Piece Armor he killed was not left." She added fuel and vinegar, and attributed all the credit for defeating Dongfang Bai to Lin Gongyu.

Leng Qingshuang said: "Brother Lin is a hero, a hero admired by everyone, a senior disciple of the Shangqing Sect's Lingxu Daoist, and the leader of the Five Lakes Alliance, the two of you are heart-to-heart, and he is even more single-minded to you, sister, you are really a blessed person! Unlike me!" Leng Qingshuang sighed leisurely.

Xue Ling couldn't help but be very happy when he heard her praise Lin Gongyu, thinking that I was really a blessed person, but when I thought of Leng Qingshuang's life experience, I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, and I couldn't help but sigh.

Leng Qingshuang heard her sigh, and thought that she also had something on her mind, and said strangely: "Do you also have something unsatisfactory?"

Xue Ling said: "Where do I still have unsatisfactory things! I feel sorry for Sister Leng!"

Leng Qingshuang said: "Thank you sister! I have a hard life, who will complain?"

Xue Ling couldn't help but ask, "Sister, don't you want to know where Li Qingshi is?"

Leng Qingshuang naturally wanted to know in her heart, but she said: "The matter has come to this, what can I do if I know it?"

Xue Ling stopped talking when he heard this, thinking about Leng Qingshuang's thoughts in his heart.

Seeing that she didn't say anything anymore, Leng Qingshuang was anxious, and couldn't help but say, "He... He... Are you alright?"

Xue Ling asked and said, "He has become a monk." ”

Leng Qingshuang exclaimed in surprise and said, "What... Miscellaneous... He's a monk, where's he?"

Xue Lingdao: "Shave in the White Deer Temple." ”

Leng Qingshuang let out a light breath, and the whole person was like a stone on top of a bag of cotton, and he collapsed.

Xue Ling said: "Sister Leng, there are some things I have to tell you. Brother Qing Shi, that person, is like that, even if he didn't kill your father, he wouldn't be good to you. ”

Leng Qingshuang was about to say something, but saw that Lin Gongyu had already picked up dry firewood and came back, and a fire was lit in the clearing.

At night, Lin Gongyu found a tree outside Sanzhang to rest, leaving Xue Ling and Leng Shuang to rest by the fire.

Leng Qingshuang said: "Sister Xue, it's cold at night, please come over here and sleep!"

Xue Ling nodded, and went over to invite Lin Gongyu. After a while, he came back and said, "He's already asleep, let's just sleep ours!"

Early the next morning, Lin Gongyu woke up from his sleep and came over to visit Xue Leng and the others, who knew that only Xue Ling slept against a big tree, but there was no cold frost. He woke up Xue Ling and asked, "Ling'er, why don't you see Miss Leng?"

Xue Ling said: "Sister Leng left before dawn!"

Lin Gongyu said: "Do you know he's gone?"

Xue Ling said: "I'm not wood, so I naturally know." ”

Lin Gongyuqi said: "Miss Leng is alone, why don't you stop her?"

Xue Ling looked at Lin Gongyu's eyes and asked, "What should I do after I keep her?"

Lin Gongyu only thought that Leng Qingshuang was alone and alone, and he was alone with a child, there were really many difficulties, but what to do after keeping her, he had never thought about it, so when Xue Ling asked, he was speechless.

Xue Ling smiled: "Brother Lin, I know your thoughts. You're nice, you're kind-hearted, and you always want to keep everyone around so you can take good care of them, but how can you get it?"

Lin Gongyu was told the central matter, and her heart suddenly became dazed, and she couldn't help asking: "What can't I do?

Xue Ling said: "It's good, but have you ever thought that if Uncle Gao also lives in your house, he can often see your aunt, and he will often think of the past, how can he be happy?

Lin Gongyu said quietly: "But Brother Qing Shi would rather be a monk, and Miss Leng would rather live alone with her children than follow us." ”

Xue Ling sighed and said, "Brother Lin, if you are Sister Leng, are you willing to follow us?"

Lin Gongyu secretly thought: "No matter how good others are, they are not their own people after all, if I change places with Miss Leng, I will also leave by myself." Thinking of this, he said, "Then let her go!"

Xue Ling smiled: "Let's go!"

Lin Gongyu smiled: "You are in such a hurry, are you in a hurry to let me marry you?"

Xue Ling flicked his chin with a smile and said, "I'm afraid that your aunt will be in a hurry!"

Lin Gongyu laughed and said, "Okay, let's go!"

The two turned over and galloped. The morning light was faint, the horse's hooves were flying, and it was far away in an instant.

(End of book)