Chapter 7 Descending the Mountain and Entering the WTO

The master's words sounded quietly in this cold night, the sound was in his ears, the words were like knives, like a mountain that pressed him out of breath, aroused his yearning for home, and also like a bird returning to the nest, deep in his heart he also wanted to see the places his parents walked and left traces, even if it has been 16 years.

After being silent for a long time, Qiu Xin finally raised his head and said firmly, "The disciple is the son of man, although his parents have been dead for a long time, but he has to go to their graves to pay tribute to them, in order to fulfill his filial piety, according to the master's words, the disciple will go down the mountain in the near future", after speaking, he also breathed a sigh of relief, as if he let go of the heavy burden in his heart, with a calm smile on his face, and listened to the master again.

"What happened back then, I was also sorry for Shi Yun and Xiaoyue, and now I have raised you as an adult, which is considered that I have made up for some of the debts I owe to them, and you will go down the mountain to Mount Tai in three days. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a letter from the table, which had already been sealed with a wax seal, and pointed to a stack of books on the table and said, "Here is a letter, after you go to Mount Tai, you will hand it over to the head of Mount Tai, and he will inevitably accept you as a disciple of Mount Tai after reading it, and some of the kendo classics I have copied these days are all things that were destroyed in the original sword hall, and they were also handed over to him after arriving in Mount Tai." ”

When Qiu Xin saw the master say this, he said loudly, "The disciple has already worshiped the master as a teacher, a teacher for one day, and a father for life, how can he re-enter Mount Tai as an apprentice?"

When the master heard this, he said, "It's not that you are expelled from the masters, firstly, if you are not a disciple of the Hidden Sect, you will not be able to go to the Mount Taishan Hanging Cliff Peak, and secondly, you have learned the swordsmanship of the Sword Hall, and you are also half a disciple of the Hidden Sect, so it can be regarded as returning to the sect and asking the ancestors, the master was also a person of the Hidden Sect back then, and it is not a bad thing for one more master to teach you, so you don't have to care about those etiquette systems." ”

Hearing what the master said, Qiu Xin also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The disciple understands, so he is ready to go down the mountain, and after the disciple has worshiped his parents, he will come back to meditate and practice swordsmanship." ”

Hearing this, Master nodded lightly and said, " After going down the mountain, don't fight with others, people who practice martial arts must be upright, don't pollute your eyes, self-destruct your future, and don't be gullible, after all, the world, the most difficult to understand, these days you will slowly understand, and the most important point, until the last resort, must not use the martial arts on the sword spectrum, so as not to be seen by people with a heart, and attract the disaster of killing, and do not mention my name in front of outsiders, there is so much for the teacher to explain, and everything else, you have to make a personal decision, okay, you go to prepare, for the teacher is a little tired" , Qiu Xin nodded yes, and then got up and retired.

After Qiu Xin left, he was the only one left in the room, looking at the green smoke wafting on the incense burner, thinking to himself, all these years with Qiu Xin, but he didn't feel too lonely, now he is going down the mountain, I don't know when he will be able to come back, he is really alone, and Qiu Xin has a simple and kind personality, and is as stubborn as his sister, I am afraid that this time the descent will not be too smooth, but don't go astray like his poor father, and bear the infamy of the ages.

The candle flame flickered, his hands gently stroked the sachet, looked up at the non-stop wind and snow outside the window, as if everything back then resurfaced in front of him, his lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to try his best to shout out the names of familiar people, but after all, he didn't speak, I don't know when, his face that had been carved by the years of countless scars, quietly shed two lines of turbid tears, the lamp oil burned out, and the room was dark, together with his thoughts, sinking into this cold night.

After coming out of the master's room, Qiu Xin went directly back to the grass hut next to him, and countless feelings welled up in his heart, thinking about saying goodbye to the place where he had lived for many years, and leaving the master who had raised him for many years, he was reluctant to give up, and there were still those parents who had no memory, and the distant Mount Tai, but there were still people who remembered? The master who was smug on weekdays might take care of himself? Thinking of this, Qiu Xin secretly said, I must make some good dishes for the master to eat these days, and the next time I eat it, I don't know what year and month it will have to wait for.

There was no sound in the house, and for a moment the wind was cold, and the night was deeper.

Three days later, the sky was getting clearer, the sun reflected a dazzling light on the snow, early this morning, Qiu Xin got up and packed his luggage, and then went to the master's room to knock on the door, but the master didn't seem to be there, no one answered, maybe he didn't want to see himself, so he knelt down in front of the door and kowtowed, and said, "Master, the apprentice is going, Master must not worry about worrying", so he got up and picked up the package and walked to the mountain pass. At this time, the people in the room finally looked up at the window, and said softly, "Go, master and apprentice, we must say goodbye in the end", and after speaking, he closed his eyes and sat quietly.

Although he has lived on the mountain for so long, Qiu Xin has never come down the mountain, firstly, he does not want to go down the mountain, and secondly, because of the fire poison in his body, it is suitable to stay in a cold place, he also wants to find Xiaobai to lead the way for himself, but he didn't see him when he got up in the morning, so he could only go down the mountain alone.

Although Qingsang Mountain is steep and steep, more than a thousand zhang high, it is not enough to face the people who practice martial arts, and now that the fire poison has been resolved, Qiu Xin can also use the internal force freely, and it is naturally not a problem to go down the mountain, and finally take a look at the beautiful scenery in the mountain, he jumped up, flew down, and stepped on the mountain stone steadily every few zhang, borrowing strength, letting the mountain wind whistle through his ears, and arrived at the foot of the mountain in a short time.

Before he settled down, he was shocked by the scene in his eyes, looking up at the bottom of the mountain, the whole Qingsang Mountain became taller and straighter, thousands of feet high from the ground, there was the momentum of sweeping Wanfu, and the scenery on the top of the mountain was completely different, and it was also very different from his imagination.

Wake up from the scene in front of him, Qiu Xin found himself in the dense forest, there is no end in sight, the sound of birds and beasts in his ears is not good, before going down the mountain, he forgot to ask the master how to get to Mount Tai, and how to get out of the forest is also a problem, so he is in trouble for a while, I don't know how to be good, so I have to try to walk in one direction, the more he walks, the more he finds that something is wrong, he has walked for more than an hour, has not yet walked out of the forest, and seems to have been going around the same road, flying up to the top of the tree to see the end, he had to sit down and think slowly.

Just when he was frowning, he heard the sound of the leaves of the Suo Suo tree shaking not far away, and he was curious, so he followed the sound, thinking that it was not a beast, and he was getting closer and closer to the sound, as if the thing that made the sound also realized that someone was approaching, and the sound slowed down.

Qiu Xin hid behind the tree and waited for a long time, the voice sounded again, and a white animal came out of the bush, it was Xiaobai, Qiu Xin was overjoyed, and walked out from behind the tree, Xiaobai saw the master, and ran to the master's side happily, making a squeak.

It turned out that Qiu Xin told Xiao Bai last night to take it down the mountain together, and Xiao Bai said goodbye to his group of mountain partners early this morning, but when he returned to the house, he didn't see the master, so he hurriedly went down the mountain, thanks to Xiao Bai who knew the owner's breath, and this was all the way to here, Qiu Xin seemed to understand Xiao Bai's voice, and roughly understood the various reasons, so he gently touched Xiao Bai's body and said.

"It's that I didn't think it through, and I made you feel wronged, it's my fault", Xiaobai heard this, and then shouted happily twice, so Qiu Xin said again, "You have followed the master down the mountain, can you recognize the way out?" Hearing this, Xiao Bai took a step forward and motioned for the master to follow, Qiu Xin saw this, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, so he followed.

This forest is much bigger than expected, and although it snows on the mountain for days, there is no scene of deep winter in the forest, he followed Xiaobai all the way to turn left and right, and encountered several beasts on the way, but they were all detected by Xiaobai in advance, and cleverly avoided it.

When they came out of the forest, it was getting late, and there was no village around them, Qiu Xin thought, I am afraid that I will have to sleep in the wild tonight, so I found some dry branches, ready to make a fire to drive away the cold, but also to drive away the beasts, I don't know where Xiaobai also caught two hares, Qiu Xin washed and peeled them by the water, roasted them on the fire, and gave them to Xiaobai to eat.

After eating, Qiu Xin took out the wooden sword and began to practice the sword, since he mastered the thirty-six swords, although he insisted on practicing every day, but there was still no progress, or stayed at the level of the thirty-six swords, but now he can use two sword moves, only then will there be a situation where the internal force is not good, and he found that his ability actually has a trace of scorching fire and poison, which is very wonderful, and the internal force of meditation every day is running more and more smoothly, and the dark injuries caused by the hour poisoning are also getting better a little bit, and the internal force seems to be deeper than before.

After a day's routine work, Qiu Xin took some protective measures around him to prevent wild beasts from harassing him in the middle of the night, and then fell asleep by the fire, exhausted by the day's fatigue, although he was resting in the open air, he also slept very peacefully, making a thin snoring sound, accompanied by the crackling sound of burning branches, echoing under the clear night sky.

There was nothing to do all night, when the sun sprinkled on the earth in the early morning, Qiu Xin opened his eyes and enjoyed the fresh air, although the surroundings of Qingsang were not as cold as on the mountain, in this deep winter, but it was also a little cold, Qiu Xin couldn't help but tighten his clothes, wake up Xiaobai, and walk all the way to the east, along the way, the scenery on the mountain really opened Qiu Xin's eyes, Xiaobai also showed great excitement, smelling left and right along the way, with Xiaobai's company, the journey did not feel so boring.

On this day, a master and a servant finally arrived at the boundary of Qingzhou, full of mountains and hills, but you can vaguely see the populated villages built next to the mountains, Qiu Xin used the scattered silver given by the master to buy some dry food from the local villagers, paused for a while, and then went on the road, down the mountain has been more than ten days, Xiaobai has long since lost the joy when he first went down the mountain, Qiu Xin also feels that there is no difference with the mountain, except that there is no thick snow on the mountain, not as sinister as the master said.

All the way to the east, until the evening, there is no place to settle around, Qiu Xin said, I am afraid that I will sleep in the wilderness again tonight, at this moment, there was a noisy sound, as if someone was arguing about something.