The afternoon sun looked a little lazy, just like Yang Xiaoxi's lazy mood. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the old tree, which has been somewhat decayed, there is a small stone table, and at this moment, Yang Xiaoxi is lying on the stone table in a daze.

The stars and broken sun sprinkled down from among the leaves, making people feel a little inexplicably lost.

"Big brother ......", she muttered softly, looking up at the distance with some sadness, just as a breeze blew on the girl's young face, beautiful and even a little green.

thought that after the reunion, she would be able to go back to Qingshui Villa with her eldest brother, but with her eldest brother here, she would feel at home again.

It's just that she didn't expect her eldest brother to stay in Luoxue Valley, and she was going to marry her sister-in-law so soon, although she was very happy for her eldest brother, but the longing for her relatives that had been suppressed in her heart for more than ten years became more and more intense. At this moment, her mind was like a flood that burst the embankment.

Father, mother, second brother, as well as the old housekeeper Uncle An and so many clansmen and disciples of Qingshui Villa, almost everyone's face flashed clearly from their minds.

After the tragedy of that year, she would be awakened by nightmares every night, so that she did not dare to sleep for a long time, even though her second brother had been by her side, she still felt that she was surrounded by endless fear.

However, every time she saw the face of her second brother, she would have an inexplicable sense of security in her heart. It's just that she clearly knows that the second brother was only fourteen years old that year, and he himself is not much better than her.

For as long as she can remember, her father has often been away from home, and as the head of the first family of martial arts at that time, her father always has something to deal with. And the mother also has to help the father run such a big family business, so naturally there is not much time to accompany their brothers and sisters.

In my memory, it seems that only the eldest brother takes her to play with the second brother all day long. When she was younger, she watched her two older brothers study and practice swords all day long, and later she became one of them.

It's just that at that time, she always asked her eldest brother to make some strange things for her to play with.

Yang Xiaoxi suddenly smiled sadly and muttered, "The good times of childhood."

It's just that everything came to an abrupt end on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival when she was twelve years old.

The experience of being a child, as well as the life of relying on her second brother for the past eleven years, made her feelings for her two brothers more important than others.

Thinking about it, there was a little more misty water vapor in her eyes.

Yang Xiaoxi, who was immersed in memories, suddenly felt a hand gently rubbing her hair from behind. She immediately turned around, smiled sweetly, and said, "Big brother."

Yang Xiaofeng's eyes were full of pity, gently rubbed the back of his sister's head, and said with a smile: "Xiaoxi, no matter what time it is, the eldest brother will always protect you, now and in the future." This will not change for anyone or anything. No matter who is around me in the future, no matter who I become, the relationship between our brother and sister will never change."

Yang Xiaoxi smiled lightly, but she had already laughed out of tears. She suddenly got up and threw herself into Yang Xiaofeng's arms, and couldn't help sobbing in a low voice anymore.

It turns out that in addition to the unswerving love between men and women in this world, the intensity of brother and sister love is not inferior to that of any pair of infatuated men and women.

Luo Qingxue on the side suddenly had a hint of resentment in her eyes. Although it is not jealousy, a woman will never allow the man she loves to have another woman in her heart, even if that person is someone's own sister.

Actually, this idea is somewhat absurd, but it does exist.

However, Luo Qingxue is not the kind of woman who doesn't know what to do, now that Yang Xiaofeng's brother and sister have been reunited, she is both a wife and a sister-in-law, so she really has to be generous.

"Uh......", Luo Qingxue coughed dryly, and said with a marginal smile: "Xiaoxi, are you still used to living recently?"

"Hehe......", Yang Xiaoxi stopped crying, immediately smiled again, leaned over and joked: "Sister-in-law, are you thinking about it in your heart at this time, why did my brother rob me of this arms that belong to you." Don't worry, I'm a girl, but I'm just a sister, so you don't have to worry."

Yang Xiaofeng hurriedly tilted his head to the side in embarrassment, and at this time he still pretended to be deaf and dumb. If nothing else, the two girls will be pinching each other next.

Sure enough, Luo Qingxue's face was full of black lines, and she said speechlessly: "Little girl, don't talk nonsense, see if I don't tear your mouth, and then ask you to chew your tongue."

Saying that, he stretched out his hand and pretended to catch Yang Xiaoxi.

Yang Xiaoxi hurriedly flashed behind the eldest brother and exaggerated: "Big brother, look, your wife is going to bully your sister, and you don't care."

Yang Xiaofeng pretended not to hear anything, and immediately flashed to the side again. The two girls made a fuss in the courtyard.

In this situation, he suddenly remembered Li Muqing's words in his mind.

"The strong are not to be invincible in the world, let alone to defeat others. The sword swing in their hands is not to kill, but to stop the killing. The strong is able to protect those who are weak, to protect those around them from harm, and to bring her love and light. A strong person should feel warm and safe......".

In a small courtyard in Luoxue Valley, looking at the two women frolicking in front of him, Yang Xiaofeng finally fully understood the meaning of Master's words.

He thought that he was practicing swords like self-harm, desperately thinking about becoming stronger, because of hatred, in order to avenge his family, but until today he knew that he was wrong. It turned out that being strong meant guarding, and that was the reason why he was desperately trying to become stronger.

"Ah Xue, Xiaoxi, let's go back to Qingshui Villa in a few days......", Yang Xiaofeng smiled and said lightly: "Presumably for so many years, Xiaoxi must also miss his father and mother and the relatives of Qingshui Villa."

Luo Qingxue smiled and nodded, she could see that in the past, Yang Xiaofeng always had an inexplicable sadness when he mentioned Qingshui Villa, but this time, she saw a little long-lost calm in his eyes.

The innocence that had passed away in the years seemed to have returned to him.

Is it possible that the years will go back and that time will not grow old?

Everything seems to have gone backwards.

At this moment, he is still the same boy he met when he first met in Qingshui Villa.

The memories of my childhood came back to my heart again, and they were so clear.

"I know that brother, you love me the most, let's go, let's fly a kite and ......."

In the courtyard of Tingxue Pavilion, a little girl in a fiery red dress carved in pink was holding her eldest brother's hand and shouting to go out to fly a kite.

"Kite, what kite, is it the season for kite flying"?

The girl's eldest brother is laughing and teasing his sister.

Now, the little girl at the beginning has already become the big girl in front of her, and her brother's temples have also grown a little white. However, although people have gone through many vicissitudes, some things have never changed.

For example, the brother-sister relationship between him and her is thicker than water.

The night was dark and sultry.

A few sparse starlights weakly peeked out of the clouds, but they only added some more loss to the hearts of the downcast.

Under the dim starlight, Yang Xiaoling stood up, silently staring at the deep valley in front of him, and his lonely figure was somewhat untouched.

After a long moment, he turned his head to look at the place beside him, which was empty.

"Xiaoxi, are you and your eldest brother okay?"

Who knows, in the long nights of ten years, he always likes to run here in a daze, and every time, his sister will follow him.

Only here, the two of them will pour out some thoughts about their relatives to the empty valley in front of them.

But now, he is the only one left.

"Big brother, Xiaoxi, when I find out the truth and settle this matter, I will go to you to ......", he clenched his fists, his knuckles clucked because of the force, and he said to himself coldly: "Don't worry, everything will end in the end."

In the deep valley beneath your feet, there seemed to be a faint sigh.

Not far away, on a cliff face slightly higher than here, is overgrown with dense vines, and it looks like nothing unusual at a cursory glance. However, a closer look reveals that in the shade of vines and a few clusters of bushes, there is a hole that is as high as one person, but the hole is narrow enough to allow two people to pass at most.

The next moment, Yang Xiaoling got up and took a step and slowly stepped into the cave.

It was a long passage, surrounded by rock walls, and the further you went inside, the dimer the light became. Neither the sun nor the moonlight can ever shine in, except for a few candles lit at sporadic times, and the atmosphere feels dark and damp.

Along the way, it was full of twists and turns. Walking in such a place is like being in a maze, and it is easy to make mistakes. However, Yang Xiaoling walked all the way down, but it was not difficult, but easy and easy, because he had walked this road for eleven years.

The further you go inside, the colder it gets, but it's getting more and more spacious, and there are already many stone chambers on the rock walls on both sides of the road, all of which are hollowed out of the mountain, and most of the people living in them are the killers under my father.

Yang Xiaoling turned back and forth a few times, and finally stopped in front of a stone room, which was the stone room where he lived. However, he did not enter his stone room, and after slowing down, he walked into another stone room next to him.

Gently lifting the curtain at the door of the stone chamber, he took a closer look at the place by the dim light of the passage outside. A pair of stone tables and benches, and a small bed surrounded by pink curtains.

Taking a deep breath, he slowly closed his eyes, and it seemed that he could still feel his sister's breath. This is where Xiaoxi has lived for the past eleven years.

However, now all that remains is the empty room in front of me.

A man in black stood still behind Yang Xiaoling, but he didn't want to disturb him for a while.

"How's it going", it took a long time before Yang Xiaoling asked. He was asking, of course, the man behind him.

"Tell the young master ......", the man in black bowed down and said respectfully: "After coming out of the Black Stone Mountain that day, your sister went back with the people from the Falling Snow Valley, and there was no accident here."

"I know ......," Yang Xiaoling smiled slightly. Finally, he was relieved, waved his hand to the man behind him, and said, "You go first."

The man turned around and walked a few steps before suddenly speaking again: "There is one more thing to tell the young master."

"What's the matter", Yang Xiaoling didn't look back.

"Your eldest brother Yang Xiaofeng and Luo Qingxue are about to officially get married, and the date of marriage is set for the tenth day of November."

After a long silence, Yang Xiaoling asked, "Does my father-in-law know about this?"

"The subordinates didn't report to the master", the man seemed to have expected Yang Xiaoling to ask this question.

"Hehe......", Yang Xiaoling smiled coldly, looked back at the man under him, and said indifferently: "Now you can report this news to your father-in-law."

"The subordinates understand", the expression on the man's face could not be seen clearly in the dark passage. He walked to the innermost part of the crypt, and his figure was submerged in deeper darkness.

"Big brother ......", Yang Xiaoling withdrew his gaze from the darkness in the distance, with a smile of expectation on his face, and said in a low voice: "My brother wishes you here, and I hope you and your sister-in-law can live happily in this life."

The rain falls, the moon is full, and the passage of time inadvertently, some scenes are always repeated in life, and then evoke people's familiar memories of the past.