Chapter 14: The First Calendar of Rivers and Lakes (text)
In a large stone house with granite walls, a pale blue shadow flickered east and west, up and down. The light of the dim oil lamp with the belt flickered.
The pale blue shadow seemed to be jumping around according to a certain pattern. The light blue shadow didn't seem to move fast, but the direction he stepped on was very peculiar, and the director's movements that didn't seem to be fast turned him into a vague shadow.
Suddenly, the pale blue shadow stopped, crouched on the ground, frowned, and gestured with his fingers to the ground. After a while, he jumped up again and began to run.
The pale blue shadow, every once in a while, stops. His slightly immature face was slightly sweaty, and his face was flickering with joy and annoyance. This expression appeared on his face, which made people feel a little funny.
In his hand, he was still holding a one-foot-long thin wooden stick, and while running, he kept stabbing the thin wooden stick in his hand. It looks very weird.
After a while, this pale blue figure seemed to have found some patterns. He stopped, scratching his ears and cheeks with some joy.
He sat down on the stone bed next to him and looked up at the granite roof, dazed.
Suddenly, he jumped to the ground again, and his feet made a strange mistake, as if he was taking a step forward, but when he took this step, his whole person suddenly disappeared from the stone house.
The flame of the dim oil lamp fell silent and stopped flickering. Suddenly, the lights flickered, and the pale blue figure appeared strangely in the dark shadow under the oil lamp on the wall.
"Haha, it's finally done. The figure let out a cheer and slowly stepped out of the dark shadow under the oil lamp. This figure is Wu Yan who started practicing all the time after getting the Fengyunbu cheats.
After nearly a month of figuring out the cheats of Fengyunbu, Wu Yan finally mastered some of the mysteries of Fengyunbu. This set of footwork is really peculiar, when he walks, he can be as light as the wind, as ethereal as a cloud, and the whole person turns into a vague shadow, making it impossible to figure out where he is running in the direction.
He hadn't fully understood the mystery of Fengyunbu, but he could already exert some of the magical power of Fengyunbu. This is a very strange set of hidden exercises. At the same time, because of the bizarre and strange direction of the movement, combined with the weird sword angle of the Fengyun Nine Swords, the combination of the two can give birth to an extremely weird hidden killing function.
This discovery reminded him of the copy of "The Art of Hidden Killing", and he didn't know if there was any connection between it. Just thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the knocking sound of pecking from the stone door, and Feng Lao's voice came faintly: "Wu Yan, it's time to go." ”
Wu Yan then remembered that today was the day that he had agreed with Elder Feng to go down the mountain to his hometown to visit relatives. The things that should be packed are almost packed up, Wu Yan replied excitedly: "It's here!" Carrying a cloth bag on the bed, he pushed open the stone door and walked out.
Elder Feng was dressed in ordinary coarse cloth clothes, standing outside the door, holding a wooden crutch with an ancient medicinal gourd hanging from it, and the whole outfit looked like a wandering man.
Wu Yan also cleaned up like a country boy, carrying a cloth bag, in addition to some daily changes of clothes and some scattered silver taels, there was only the incense burner that he had never been willing to throw away.
"Master, shall we leave now?" Wu Yan asked excitedly.
Pharmacist Feng took out a short dagger with a black sheath from his arms, threw it to him, and said, "Take self-defense." Along the way, it is rare to run into people from the Broken Knife Hall. They have always had constant friction with their own faction, and they blocked the roads in Qinggu County, so if it didn't work, they had to do it. ”
After saying this, Elder Feng stretched out his hand to Wu Yan. Wu Yan hurriedly took the booklet out of his arms and handed it to Elder Feng without hesitation.
After the pharmacist put away the booklet, he said no more, and walked out on a wooden crutch first. Wu Yan hurriedly followed. The two of them walked out of Little Lonely Mountain, Wild Wolf Valley, and walked to Lonely Mountain Town. In Gushan Town, a disciple of the Iron Sword Alliance had already prepared a carriage for the two of them.
The carriage and coachman were rented from the town's carriage and horse dealers. Elder Feng didn't say much, lifted the curtain and sat in the carriage. Wu Yan followed the coachman and sat on the wheel.
The coachman whipped his whip and set off. The carriage traveled all the way east along the official road, out of Gushan Town, and then turned north, heading straight for the border of Qinggu County.
Two days later, the carriage stopped in a small town on the border of Guxian County. The two got out of the carriage and stayed in town for the night. That night, Elder Feng called Wu Yan to his room and cleaned up again. Continue on the road on the second day.
Wu Yan had also walked this road when he fled before, and he still had some impressions. After the town and go to the northwest, it is the territory of Qingxian.
Seeing that there were three or five days to go, he could return to his hometown of Wujiagou, which had been absent for more than a year, Wu Yan was extremely excited. It's just that the two of them walked for less than half a day, and as soon as they entered the territory of Qingxian County, they encountered the investigation of the Broken Knife Hall.
On the official road, the disciples of the Broken Knife Hall blatantly set up roadblocks, strictly checking the pedestrians and merchants in the two counties, and when they encountered suspicious people, they had to be scolded and interrogated for a while.
On the wooden crutches that Elder Feng was holding, there was an old medicine gourd hanging on the crutches, two dog skin plasters were pasted on his face, and he was dressed as a wandering Fang Yelangzhong who walked the streets and villages. Wu Yan was dressed as a medicine boy in Yelang at this time, carrying a worn-out medicine bag on his back, and followed behind the pharmacist seal.
The disciples of the Broken Knife Hall who are in charge of the investigation here all have fierce expressions, either holding a big knife in their hands or on their shoulders, and they are majestically guarding the main road at the intersection. When the two appeared next to the roadcard on the official road, they were naturally interrogated by them.
Elder Feng is worthy of being an old man who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he took Wu Yan to the past with a few words.
After crossing the official road and walking out for more than ten miles, there were two forks in front of him, one east and one west. The two walked along the western fork in the road.
The fork was built along the low hills on either side, and was already somewhat barren, overgrown with weeds, and it was almost impossible to find the path. Wu Yan was more familiar with the road in front of him, and he took the lead and walked over, jumping and shouting very happily and excitedly.
After walking for most of the day, the two walked more than 20 miles. Wu Yan was in good spirits and didn't seem to feel tired at all. After all, Elder Feng was old and showed a hint of fatigue, so he stopped Wu Yan and planned to rest on the spot for a while.
As soon as Elder Feng sat down, Wu Yan obediently handed over the gourd containing water. Elder Feng received it in his hand, took a few sips, and handed the gourd to Wu Yan, then sat cross-legged on the grass and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Not long after the two of them sat down, they suddenly heard a noise in front of them. Wu Yan jumped up, stretched his neck and looked forward curiously. I saw that on the west side of the main road, four or five big men with knives rushed towards this side.
Wu Yan was slightly surprised, ran to Elder Feng, and looked at him. Elder Feng didn't seem to know that someone was forcing him over, and he was still sitting there cross-legged, with the old god closing his eyes and recuperating.
When the four or five big men with knives approached, one of them pointed his knife at the two and asked, "What are you two sneaking around here?" Lao Tzu didn't look like the people of Qingxian County, and said, where did you come from?"
Elder Feng didn't hear it, and he didn't raise his eyelids, and he didn't know if he deliberately looked down on these Jianghu thieves and ignored them, or if he didn't hear these people at all.
Wu Yan was a little worried, seeing that Elder Feng didn't speak, and he had to give him guidance before leaving, and he would come forward to solve everything, so he pretended to be stupid, squatted beside Elder Feng, and pulled the weeds on the ground to play.