Chapter 1 The Swordsman of Zhongzhou

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My name is Xuanqi, and this is my current name. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoI've changed my name many times since I can remember.

In the beginning, they called me Fifty-One. When I was brought here, I was about two or three years old, and I remember living in a big courtyard with high courtyard walls, and people always called me Ning'er Ning'er.

The uncle who brought me here handed me over to the steward here, it was a man with a scar on his face, I still don't know his real name, everyone called him Hei Jiu, so I always called him Uncle Jiu. Uncle Nine arranged a place for me to live, and there were six people living in a crowded room, and I was the youngest of the six. Next door live two aunts who don't see a smile all day, who are in charge of the food and living of our room. Everyone had a narrow bed, and on the edge of my bed was written in red letters: Fifty-One. And so it became the first name I knew.

It is a valley surrounded by cliffs, and there are about 100 people living here. There is a waterfall in the north of the valley, which forms a lake with a radius of tens of meters when it flows for five or six miles. One side of the lake is close to a cliff like a blade, and legend has it that there is a dark river in the cliff. Later, I heard that my name belonged to another person, and that the original 51 was swept away from the dark river while training diving in the lake, a boy who was only five years old. Since then, the area across the lake has become a forbidden area, and no one is allowed to approach it.

I've always lived here. It wasn't until he was twelve years old that a man wearing a mask came to the valley, the kind of copper mask, making a simple human face, and the eyes under the mask shone fiercely, a light that people will never forget.

Uncle Nine brought the four of us to meet this masked man, and it is said that the top four of the annual martial arts tournament can only meet him. I was the third and second girl that year, a year older than me, with an eternally cold face, and later I learned her name was Thirty-Seven. Uncle Nine asked us to call the masked man's father-in-law, and he became my father-in-law.

"I have come to see you today because you are qualified to meet me. From now on, you will be my righteous sons and daughters. I'll have someone take you out of here. Kurojiu, you take them to prepare first, and then leave here tomorrow. Alright, let's all go down!" It was a majestic and cold voice, with a slight hint of vicissitudes.

I went back to my room and said goodbye to my friends. Then said goodbye to the envious eyes of the friends. I remember that in this room, there were seven people besides me. The only ones who came earlier than me were the fifty-two, who was two years older than me, and the forty-ninth and fifty came in later. By the time I arrived, three of them had already walked out of the room after finishing in the top four of the tournament. The only fifty who was eight years older than me was taken out four years ago, and I heard that anyone who was sixteen would be taken away from this place, and I never saw him again. Three more people are missing, and no one knows where they went. To this day, I still vaguely remember what everyone looked like, sometimes vaguely, sometimes clearly.

The next day, Uncle Nine took me to a stone house under the cliff, and there was a black-robed man standing in the room, his face covered, and the black robe on his body was a little too big to see at all. Uncle Nine and the black-robed man nodded to each other and left without saying anything.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the people finally gathered. The black-robed man made a sound like a broken gong, like the sound of two kitchen knives scraping back and forth.

"When all the men are here, tie this black cloth to your eyes, and I will take you away. When leaving, you are not allowed to talk to each other, and you are not allowed to ask questions. ”

The four of them answered yes in unison, and blindfolded themselves with black cloths. Suddenly, there was a "rattling" sound, as if something was rising, a cool wind blew, and the sound of running water was faintly heard. We were lined up and walked forward holding hands with each other. About twenty paces away, up a sloping slope, not like stepping on the ground, there is some shaking. After sitting down, there was still a slight shaking, and I knew we were on the boat. Then there is the sound of the planks dragging and dragging.

The ship finally moved. I suddenly felt a sense of extreme excitement and a sense of loss. Touching the rag doll in my arms, it was the only thing I took with me besides my clothes. When I came here, this rag doll followed me. Later I learned that I had been crying all the time, and that I would only be quiet when I was holding this rag doll, until I was four years old. The fat aunt who took care of our daily life later asked Uncle Nine to let me keep this rag doll.

The blindfolded black cloth never came down, only a hazy light came through the front, and I knew it must be the bow light. I don't know how long it took, but finally a light different from the light came in, and the sound of the water became louder. I could even hear the birds chirping, as crisp as the birds in the valley. I felt the warmth, the feeling of the sun shining on my body, warm.

It felt like the boat had been moving forward for half an hour, and we were taken to a bigger and higher boat. The big boat traveled a distance, the sound of water fought, and there was a faint sound of a torrent slapping against the wall, and a voice came, asking everyone to grasp the handrail of the bulkhead, it was the sound of the black-robed man breaking the gong. I clung to the armrest. There seemed to be a faint sound of trumpets in the sound of the water, and it was the sound of many people shouting in unison. Soon, the boat jolted, and the whole person seemed to be thrown up. The boat went up and down on the crest of the waves, and soon it slowly stabilized. I pricked up my ears, but I couldn't hear the faint sound of the trumpet.

The black-robed man finally asked us to remove the black cloth from our eyes, and at the same time told us not to go out of the cabin without permission. I rubbed my eyes and slowly opened them, finally getting used to the light in the cabin. It is estimated that this is the bilge of the ship, with wooden planks on all four walls, only a wooden door, and a dim oil lamp hanging on the bulkhead.

Counting the number of times the food was delivered, it was about two days later, and after breakfast, the ship finally stopped. In the past two days, only the black-robed man briefly told us some things that needed attention from time to time, and there was no conversation between them, which was also the requirement of the black-robed man, and everyone who came out of the valley had learned absolute obedience in the valley.

Again put on strips of black cloth, we were taken off the boat and into a carriage. When the blindfolded black cloth was removed, it was already sunset in the west, and it was nearly dusk. We were ushered into an empty hall, where the Father-in-law was already waiting for us: "Welcome my children here. This is the outer hall of our 'Dark Star Pavilion', 'Seven Star Villa'. In the days to come, you will always participate in some missions in the cabinet and gain experience. There will be 12 teachers to teach you. This seat will also teach you martial arts from time to time. You are not only the children of this seat, but also the disciples of this seat. ”

After a brief conversation, we were taken out and placed in different groups. I was placed in the outer seven group, so I got a new name, outer seven and six. The other three, including the girl on Thirty-Seven, we didn't see each other again for a long time.

So, for a long time, I had to learn different skills every day, such as body forging, stabbing, light skills, acupoints, assassination, mechanism skills, medical divination and astrology, etc., and even qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

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