Four days later, Xiaoyaozi took Xiong Qiang to Cangwu Mountain, but what Xiong Qiang didn't expect was that Cangwu Mountain was actually full of green bamboo.

Stepping on the thick and dry bamboo leaves, the air in the forest has a warm feeling, the freshness of the bamboo leaves, the eyes are full of emerald green, and occasionally the forest wind shakes the bamboo sea, rustling, that trace of coolness, which makes people have a kind of pleasure of enlightenment.

In the shade of the bamboo forest, a simple firewood is revealed. It was a very simple thatched house, surrounded by a small courtyard surrounded by wood, although it was simple, but it was full of poetry in the midst of the greenery.

Looking at this thatched hut, Xiong Qiang seemed to be touched by sadness, and a trace of bitterness appeared in his heart. He remembered the night he was with Bai Lan in Jiudao Villa, and Bai Lan said in his ear: After we escape, we will find a remote and uninhabited place, build a small thatched hut, surround a yard, I will raise some chickens, you will go to open the field, I will bring you food at noon, and I will rub your shoulders at night.

This used to be the happiest day in Xiong Qiang and Bai Lan's hearts, and it was the simplest and most beautiful wish of the two of them, but even such the simplest and smallest wish, God refused to give them it. Thinking about the bits and pieces with Bai Lan, Xiong Qiang's eyes were unconsciously filled with tears again.

"What's wrong?" Xiaoyaozi asked, a little puzzled.

Xiong Qiang hurriedly wiped away his tears and said, "Master, I'm fine!"

Xiaoyaozi glanced at Xiong Qiang inexplicably, shook his head, pushed away the firewood, and said, "Come in! ”

Pushing open the courtyard door and opening the door of the house, there was a faint musty smell in the house, and the tables and chairs were also covered with dust and cobwebs.

"Master, I don't have a sword yet?" After watching Xiaoyaozi come in, he put his sword full of gems on the scabbard on the table, Xiong Qiang also realized a serious problem, he came to learn swords, but now, he doesn't even have his own sword.

Xiaoyaozi didn't make a sound, walked to an old cabinet, opened the door, and took out a sword from inside.

It was a sword four feet long and two fingers wide, the scabbard was also inlaid with nine red and green gems, and there seemed to be dried blood stains on the hilt, which showed that the owner of the sword was not only a swordsman but also a rich man during his lifetime.

"Wow! This sword is very beautiful, and its value should not be cheaper than Master's, right?" Master, you are so rich, you actually have one with you and hide one!" Xiong Qiang took this sword and played with it carefully.

"I didn't buy this sword, but it belonged to a killer named Starry Sky. Xiaoyaozi said.

Xiong Qiang was surprised, as if he thought of something, and said, "Master, you killed Xingmantian and then took his sword?"

"Many people think that I killed Xing Mantian, but in fact, only I know that the killer Xing Mantian, who ranked twelfth on the killer list that year, was not killed by me, but by the hands of a woman, and he died under the woman's sword before he had time to draw his sword. Xiaoyaozi said in a sneering manner, when he said this, he seemed to be caught in a memory, and there was tenderness in his eyes.

Looking at Xiaoyaozi's expression, Xiong Qiang knew that the woman must be related to Xiaoyaozi, and suddenly he thought of the woman Xiaoyaozi had told him about when he was in Bailuoshan, and said, "Master, that woman is the woman you loved, right?"

Xiaoyaozi smiled bitterly, looked at the somewhat broken roof, and said, "It's a pity that she never seemed to love me." ”

"Why?"

"Because he doesn't like killers, especially the killers of the 'Dark River', in fact, I tried to change for her, and even I have betrayed the 'Dark River' for her, do you know what happens to the killers of the Dark River betraying the Dark River? They will send a large number of killers to hunt you down, once I was almost killed in the hands of Ding Wanqi, and Ding Wanqi used to be the killer of the Dark River, but fortunately I still survived. ”

"Listening to Master, this woman seems to be very cold and ruthless. Xiong Qiang said.

"I can't blame her! In fact, she is also a hard-working woman, and the master who raised her since childhood, Mrs. Wumei, died under the killers of the dark river, and I heard that she also has a child, but I have never heard her talk about her husband, and I have never seen her child. Maybe it's because her life is so miserable that she never laughs, but if she laughs, it should be more beautiful than not laughing. ”

Listening to Xiaoyaozi's words, Xiong Qiang's heart trembled slightly, and he didn't know why, he felt that the woman the master said seemed to have some kind of relationship with him. "Could it be that I'm that woman's child?" Xiong Qiang's heart was shocked by such a thought.

"Master, where is that woman now, can you take me to meet her?" Xiong Qiang suddenly became extremely earnest, there was no shadow of his mother in his memory, but if that woman was really his mother, when she saw herself, she would definitely be able to recognize it at a glance.

Xiaoyaozi shook his head and said: "I don't know where she is, the last time I was with her was a few years ago, in order to investigate Ding Wanqi, I went to Tangmen with her, and when we came back from Tangmen, we met a master on the road, a very powerful secret weapon master. She said that the man was the murderer of her master, Mrs. Wumei. So she chased after it desperately. I haven't seen her since then, and I don't know if she's still alive now. ”

"Master, then why don't you catch up, you know that master is very powerful, what if she dies in the hands of that person?" Xiong Qiang listened to Xiaoyaozi's story, and he was also very worried.

Xiaoyaozi smiled bitterly and said: "Why didn't I want to catch up? But she had already caught my acupoint at that time, I couldn't move at all, she just entrusted me with one thing, and then left, I still remember clearly, when she left, it was the only time she showed tenderness to me, but her tenderness at that time made me feel frightened, as if it was life and death. ”

Speaking of this, Xiaoyaozi sighed faintly, and then the corners of his mouth raised a smile, but the smile was extremely unnatural, with too much sadness, he said: "It seems that I have talked too much today, when have I become so sentimental? It is you, the little rabbit cub, that make me think of the old love, fall into a state where I can't extricate myself, and tell the secret hidden in my heart." ”

Listening to Xiaoyaozi's rare ridicule, Xiong Qiang didn't have the slightest intention of laughing, he really felt that the woman came out of Xiaoyaozi's mouth, a bit like the taste of his own mother, otherwise why would he be so good to himself? But he didn't dare to ask, he was afraid that the flawless mother in his mind was really the hard-working woman in the master's mouth.

His own life was already very bitter, and he didn't want to have another hard-working mother, let alone the hard-working woman in his master's mouth, who would sell him to Jiudao Villa. His heart was full of contradictions.

This contradiction made Xiong Qiang's heart unable to calm down for a long time.

Xiaoyaozi also seemed to be aware of something, but he didn't ask.

"Tomorrow we will start practicing the sword, and now, you clean up this place, we will live here for a long time. Xiaoyaozi said.

Listening to Xiaoyaozi's words, Xiong Qiang also shook his head, threw out those distracting thoughts, and began to clean up.

The next day, Xiong Qiang got up before dawn, today is his first day of learning swords, this day, marks the first day of Xiong Qiang's rebirth. He was full of confidence and full of pride.

Xiaoyaozi has also gotten up at this time, seeing Xiong Qiang get up so early, the corners of his mouth are also showing a smile of relief, this eighteen-year-old boy has gone through too many tragic stories, his heart is as tough as iron, and his willpower is already very strong, which is a very important capital for him.

"Master, you are the tenth ranked killer in the rivers and lakes, so who is the number one killer?" Before practicing the sword, Xiong Qiang asked such a question.

Xiaoyaozi also looked at him a little stunned, and said, "Why did you suddenly ask this question?"

Xiong Qiang looked at the sword in his hand and said, "Because I want to become the number one killer in the future." ”

"You are very confident and very combative, but now you are not even a killer, the killer's rivers and lakes are full of passion, blood, and loneliness, the killer is like a lone wolf walking in the dark night, their blood is cold, they have no feelings, because once the killer is emotional, it is easy to be bound by love, a killer who is bound by love, he is not far from death. And you are an amorous person, so you are not destined to be a qualified killer. Xiaoyaozi looked at Xiong Qiang and said.

Xiong Qiang was silent, although when Bai Lan died, his heart also died, but it was precisely because of Bai Lan's tragic death that the weak woman inspired the blood in his heart, in the years when he was a slave in Jiudao Villa, he had seen too much death, too much injustice, in the eyes of those superiors, these slaves were not even as good as the lives of pigs and dogs.

It is precisely because of this death, one by one injustice, those deaths and blood, not only did not make him insensitive, but made him breed infinite sympathy and pity for the weak, he knew very well how miserable the life of these miserable people was, if he was still a slave, he could not do anything about these miserable people, but if he had great power, then when he saw injustice, he would definitely take action.

"If I really can't be a killer, then I'll be a swordsman!" Xiong Qiang said silently in his heart.