Chapter 33: The Strange Pine Forest
Eight years ago, that day eight years ago...... Li Xuan muttered incessantly. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoEight years ago, everything that happened that day came to mind.
In retrospect, that day was really weird. For some reason, my father went out early in the morning and did not come back, and my mother continued to recite Buddhist scriptures in a lonely room as before, and did not leave the house. And Li Xuan has long been accustomed to the life of his parents in one room and no one in the river. He patiently read the book that should be read, and when he got tired of reading, he practiced the 'Streamer Snow Moon Knife Technique' taught by Master Wang in the courtyard. Who knew that a set of sword techniques had not been practiced, but Master Wang entered over the wall.
Master Wang is a strange master. He had never been to his house during the day, and he had taught him the sword technique at night.
Li Xuan was overjoyed when he saw Master Wang entering over the wall. However, what surprised him was that Master Wang was carrying a little girl behind him. The little girl seemed to have just woken up, she looked cute and beautiful, especially the big eyes, although there were unwiped tears, but the dark eyes with psychic light were looking at Li Xuan. Master Wang seemed to be very tired, and he didn't talk to Li Xuan, because he had just put the little girl on the stone bench in the courtyard, and a man in black entered over the wall. The black-clothed man has yellow hair and big eyes, is eight feet tall, and has a pair of big palms like a fan.
The man in black is not only tall and thick, but also has high martial arts. He crossed the wall, and before he could hit the ground, he slashed at Master Wang with one palm. Master Wang seemed to be a little afraid of him, and kept fighting him with the 'Streamer Snow Moon Knife Technique' as he retreated. After more than 20 moves, Master Wang gradually lost his strength, and was hit by the man in black with a palm on the narrow knife. The narrow knife turned into a curved ruler, and he was wounded and fell to the ground.
Master Wang was injured, and the little girl burst into tears. For some reason, Li Xuan suddenly had a belief that the little girl could not be hurt. But why do I have such thoughts? Probably because she is the person brought by Master Wang, and the people who are with him are his friends! Li Xuan took advantage of the vicious fight between the man in black and Master Wang, and ran to the cellar of his house with the little girl in his arms.
Although the cellar is very secret, Li Xuan often plays in it. He liked the cellar even more because there was a magical bronze mirror in the cellar. In the cellar, through the small bronze mirror, you can clearly see everything that happens in the yard.
Li Xuan hid the little girl, and saw that Master Wang outside got up again to fight with the man in black, but after a few moves, he was knocked to the ground again. How could he watch Master Wang being bullied! Although he was weak, he still bravely took the short knife from the knife holder that he usually practiced the 'Streamer Snow Moon Knife Technique' and slashed at the waist of the evil thief. The thief was so good that he didn't see how he flickered, and kicked himself away. At this moment, the thief took the opportunity to slap Master Wang's chest with a palm. Li Xuanhao was afraid that Master Wang would die, and although they had never bowed to each other, he was the only master who really taught Li Xuan's martial arts. Therefore, Li Xuan didn't care whether he had a knife in his hand or not, he flew straight up, but he was kicked away by the man in black and hit the stone bench in the courtyard, and he didn't know anything...... I don't know how long it took, Li Xuan woke up. He lay on the bed, and saw that the house was in disarray, and his nose was full of the smell of burnt wood. Did there be a fire in the house? He looked at his mother, who had rarely come out of the house, and asked her, "Mother, is there a fire in the house?" There is a wicked person who is going to kill Master Wang...... Mother's pale face never showed any expression, just stroked his swollen head lightly, and turned away. Thinking of this, Li Xuan sighed secretly. Although he didn't know why Master Wang would carry Ah Ying to his house, he understood why Ah Ying and Shen Wuxing had come to his rescue several times. It turns out that I have such a fate with them! It seems that people have already made arrangements for acquaintances and encounters!
Li Xuanzheng was stunned, feeling that someone was gently patting him on the shoulder, and while he was surprised, he looked back and saw Duan Xiaotian's face was blue and gray, shaking, and he was looking at himself with one hand holding the giant pine under the wind and rain. Zhuge Dongfang's palm contained an extremely spicy cold air, and Duan Xiaotian had never recovered since he was attacked by him with a sneak attack. Now, I fled in panic, and I was delayed for many hours in this wind and rain pine forest, so that the previous jujube red face turned blue and gray, and he had long lost his shrewd, capable, bold and flamboyant look in the past.
Seeing him like this, Li Xuan sighed secretly and said, "Brother Duan has suffered. Duan Xiaotian smiled faintly and wried slightly, gasped for a while, and said, "Anyone who walks on the rivers and lakes will not be his own life for a long time, and he can throw it away at any time." Hey...... This bitter ...... Who makes our skills inferior to others!" After speaking, he looked at Li Xuan with a smile and said, "When the guest came to Xi, I saw that Miss Ah Ying had other thoughts about you, and now it seems that it is true......! It's a good girl, brother to cherish!"
Li Xuan understood the meaning of his words, and hurriedly shook his hand and said: "Brother Duan is joking, a good girl like A Ying, only a talented hero can be worthy of her, how can I be a frog at the bottom of a well." Well, I'm self-aware of that. β
Duan Xiaotian laughed, because of his weak body, he couldn't breathe when he laughed, and when he coughed heavily, he said slowly: "She is indeed a good girl, but it's a pity that she fell into the big dye vat of the rivers and lakes!" Li Xuan said: "The rivers and lakes in the world are indeed a place where ordinary people can hardly predict right and wrong." However, although everything is not the same, human nature is inherently good, and the grass and lotus can still be stained without staining the mud, Miss Ah Ying is so different, she will be good to herself, clean herself, why is Brother Duan a pity?" Duan Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Brother Li treats people and things like me many years ago, but unfortunately, human nature also has an evil side, and it is evil, and he doesn't even know himself...... The world is like chess, and it changes very much, and it is always undesirable. Hey...... Only after time deduction and change, can you speak of good and evil!" said and looked at the sky where the wind and rain gradually stopped, and said to Li Xuan with a straight face: "If you have a fate, if you encounter a square chivalrous environment, it will be a different life." This is what we often debate, whether people change with their environment, or whether the environment changes them!"
Li Xuan knew that Duan Xiaotian suffered a lot when he was young, and after joining the Heavenly God Gang, he was tricked by Su Feiyan into taking chronic poison, and he suffered a lot of pain and torture for several years. Who knows, the sky did not fulfill his wish, and he was hit by Zhuge Dongfang's cold ice palm, so he was naturally full of resentment towards the sinister and impermanent rivers and lakes. When he thought of this, he did not argue with him, and said, "This is very true of my brother. β
Duan Xiaotian saw that his heart did not belong, and knew that it would be useless for each other to fight for nothing, he was already seriously injured at the moment, and he was no longer sure whether he could complete Hou Gongzi's entrustment, including the evil intentions that sprouted before because he saw Li Xuan carrying the Devil May Cry Sword, and there was no trace of it. He looked at the misty pine forest, sighed, and said, "Good brother, let's go!"
Li Xuan looked around the black pine forest, and saw that the rain had stopped, the birds and insects were singing again, and the whole black pine forest was like a layer of new green, although it was extremely fresh, but it was covered by a light mist, and people couldn't help but feel confused. When he saw Duan Xiaotian's will to be depressed, he looked tired, so he said: "Brother, where are we going?" Duan Xiaotian pointed to the direction where Ah Ying went, and said: "The original way is not going back, since Miss A Ying is going over there, if we follow, it is also bad to meet Miss Yuan Si and the dumb Jin Shui, it is better for you and me to go in the opposite direction, it is estimated that we will always find a way down the mountain." "Li Xuan first set foot in the rivers and lakes, and he didn't have a better idea in his heart. Since he was brought here by Duan Xiaotian, he has been in danger repeatedly, and his biggest thought at this moment is how to go down the mountain, hearing Duan Xiaotian's words, he stretched out his hand to help him walk towards the depths of the pine forest.
After the rain in the mountains and forests, it was very muddy. The two of them walked deep and shallow into the pine forest, and before they knew it, they had walked four or five miles.
This mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and from a distance, although the peaks and peaks are abrupt, and they are all intimidating mountains that are cut straight into the sky with knives and axes, in fact, the peaks are still closely connected to each other. Li Xuan saw that he had been walking for most of the hour, and he had not yet walked out of this pine forest, so he was surprised in his heart, and observed the pine forest carefully while walking. When he was a child, he had followed the 'Tianji Old Man' Sha Banyan Sha who lived in seclusion in Taiyuan City to study the Yin and Yang Bagua figures, and when he saw the situation in the pine forest, he suddenly became faintly uneasy. Gradually, he found that the pine forest and black pine he was in seemed to grow naturally, straight or curved, and looked chaotic, but in fact it had been carefully laid out, and it had been adjusted and planted according to the changes of the Five Elements Bagua Array and the rules of heaven and earth, yin and yang.
Sha Banyan, the 'Tianji Old Man' who taught Li Xuan to study gossip, his real name is Sha Anzhi, and he is called Sha Banyan because of his small eyes that are half-open and half-closed all year round. This person is no more than five feet tall, thin as firewood, and his appearance is not amazing, but he has extraordinary skills that know the world, and he is especially good at manipulating and cracking the mystical maze of the past dynasties. It is said that this person had been a heavenly machine official in the previous dynasty, in charge of all major events related to the imperial court, such as worshipping the heavens and divination, and later due to the coup d'Γ©tat of the dynasty, the power changed, so he resigned and went into hiding, and became a hermit who was hidden in the city incognito. And Li Xuan's father and Sha Banyan used to be old acquaintances, and often took him to play in Yehezhai where Sha Banyan lived. For some reason, Sha Banyan likes him very much, and often teaches him to be familiar with the Fuxi gossip formation on the sand table in the backyard. Therefore, Li Xuan can see that the pine forest is strange all the way.
The two of them walked cautiously for a while, and saw that the mist in the pine forest was thick, and they were even more confused, knowing that if they walked like this, it was a small matter to get lost, and if they accidentally fell into the forest mechanism, it would be a fatal event. Li Xuan observed for a while, took a long breath, and muttered: "This pine forest is weird! Brother Duan, if we go on in such a daze, I'm afraid we will be so tired that we won't be able to walk out of the pine forest!"
Duan Xiaotian didn't know the yin and yang gossip graphics, so he naturally couldn't see the mystery in it, but he also felt that the pine forest was strange, and said strangely: "Why did Brother Li say this?"
Li Xuan pointed to the direction where Ah Ying left and said, "Do you still remember that the direction of Ah Ying's departure is sparse and low and abnormal, and it is estimated that the edge of the pine forest must be the edge of the pine forest." And the position we are in now, the pine is tall and the forest is lush, the path is winding and confused, and it is intricate, we should have fallen into the mystery of the forest!" Duan Xiaotian looked confused, and said, "Brother, this is incomprehensible, can you explain it in detail?" Li Xuan circled around a tall black pine beside him, and said to Duan Xiaotian: "Brother, please look at this black pine, is there anything strange?" Duan Xiaotian looked up, shook his head, and said, "What's weird, why can't I see it?" Li Xuan gently pulled him, walked to the other side of the black pine together, pointed to the root of the tree and said, "You still don't understand here?"
Duan Xiaotian followed the direction pointed by Li Xuan, looked fixedly, and saw that there was a hole in the thick root of the black pine, although the hole was not big, but it could accommodate it, and when he thought about it, he suddenly woke up and said, "Isn't this cave similar to the previous hiding place?"
Li Xuan nodded and said, "Exactly." Do you remember the path we took into the pine forest? If I'm not mistaken, it's the edge of the pine forest gossip pattern. Hey, that's a way to live. Duan Xiaotian said with a strange smile: "What is the way of life for the cadres in the Songlin gossip? Brother Li doesn't want to sell Guanzi, let's talk about it quickly!" Li Xuan smiled slightly: " Brother Duan can know that in the Yin and Yang Bagua, the earthquake is thunder, woody, located due east, Dui is Ze, is golden, is located due west, Li is fire, is fire, is fire, is located due south, Kan is water, is water, is located in the north, Kun is the earth, is earthy, is located in the southwest, Gen is the mountain, is earthy, is located in the northeast, Xun is the wind, is woody, is located in the southeast, and dry is the sky, is golden, and is located in the northwest?" Duan Xiaotian nodded thoughtfully and said, "If you look at the position of the sun, the direction of Miss Aying's departure is northwest. But I don't understand why there is a way out of the edge of this cadre position?" Li Xuan muttered, "Do you remember the location where we hid in the tree hole before?"
Duan Xiaotian couldn't help but nod and said, "Of course I remember." If it weren't for that tree hole, the three of us would probably not be able to escape the swallow ...... Yan is invincible!" Li Xuan said: "Yes, the reason why we were able to avoid Yan Invincible and not be discovered by him is because the tree hole is used to defend against the enemy, so the hole is not facing the road in front of the tree." On the contrary, if the person hiding in the tree hole is mainly attacking and defending secondary, he will never turn his back to the path. Duan Xiaotian said 'ah', as if he came to his senses, and pointed to the tree hole in front of the two of them and said, "According to Brother Li, the path under our feet is opposite to this cave entrance, and this road should be a dead end?" Li Xuan nodded and muttered to himself: "It should be like this! Even if this is not a dead end, at least it is a road to hide and kill." As he spoke, he brushed aside the long grass that was hidden outside the tree hole with the Devil May Cry Sword in his hand, and saw that this tree hole was the same as the tree hole where he had been hiding before, except for a small stone bench and a stone table, there was nothing else. Duan Xiaotian couldn't help but be anxious when he saw Li Xuan concentrating on everything in the tree hole and stopped talking, and was about to ask a question, but Li Xuan frowned and said, "Since this road is a dead road or a killing road, we should be in the earthquake position at this time." Duan Xiaotian looked at him stunned, puzzled, and said, "What about the earthquake position?"
Li Xuan said: "Brother Duan must know, dry is the sky, for the golden nature, and the shock is the thunder, for the wood nature, in terms of mutual growth and mutual restraint, Jin Kemu!" Duan Xiaotian was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "What should be the good then?" Li Xuan closed his eyes for a moment and thought about the previous way one by one. Fortunately, he has excellent mental power, and after such a long time, he can still reconstruct the scenes along the way in his mind. After a while, he said to Duan Xiaotian: "Gold gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, and earth gives birth to gold." Since the earthquake position is the road of fighting, we might as well go to the position and take a walk, or there may be a way to live. As he spoke, he looked up at the position of the dim sun in the sky above the pine forest, and after planning the path in his heart, he pointed to his side and said, "Leave the position here." The two did not dare to hesitate, and hurried forward, about a few hundred paces, but the road forked in the road under a tall ancient pine. Duan Xiaotian looked at the fork in the road in front of him, suddenly stood still, turned his head and asked Li Xuan, "Brother Li, I have a question, can you answer it?" Li Xuan somehow said, "Brother, it's okay to say." Duan Xiaotian said: "Since you said that the earthquake position is a dead end, why did we go from the cadre position to the earthquake position, and from the earthquake position to here, without encountering any organ killing moves?