devil may cry

Chapter 24. The Big Thing

In the 119th year of the Ding'an calendar, Bei Mingyan was 18 years old.Surrounded by herbs in the solitary Asakusa Peak of Kitayama, no different from the past.

A few days ago his youngest brother, Bei Mingchen, caught a cold, and the culprit was also at Asakusa Peak, helping him watch the stove.

Bei Mingyi died of grievance: "Brother is biased!"

His elder brother carefully picked out the scum from the decoction stove, without even looking at him: "You are also an elder brother, I don't know how serious it is. If you do this again in the future, you will be punished and not allowed to go out to play!"

"I fished him out of the water!" Bei Mingyi said unwillingly.

"Why don't you say, you pushed him down by mistake?"

"Brother, you said it was a miss..."

He suddenly added a handful of branches under the stove, and the eldest brother still buried his head, which made him feel a little uneasy.

In normal times, the elder brother is the one who loves and protects him the most, and has never been reluctant to say harsh words to him, but since the birth of his younger brother Bei Mingchen, the elder brother's thoughts have turned to that little kid.Yesterday when the master punished him to copy the family law, not only did the eldest brother not intercede for him like before, but instead asked him to help Bei Mingchen make medicine today!

He really hated Bei Mingchen to death!Fortunately, he still followed behind him and called him brother Yi every day, and he could catch a cold even if he fell into the water!I also went into the water yesterday, and nothing happened!

Bei Mingyan put the medicine stove on the stove, and patted his fourth younger brother's head: "Hey, help the eldest brother to watch first, and the eldest brother will write a letter."

Holding a palm leaf fan in one hand and pinching his nose in the other, Bei Mingyi said, "Brother, will you marry Sister Qian?"

"What nonsense!" was knocked on the head.

Bei Mingyi curled his lips, fanned the stove, and said in a low voice, "Don't marry? Then why tease her."

The fourth brother said that sister Qian is the owner of this letter.Bei Mingyan held the pen and wrote the reply letter carefully.As for the other person, he has never met them before. The connection between them is correspondence. He lives on the cliffs of Beishan all year round, but this girl does not know where she lives. She only knows that the two of them communicated once. It will take more than three months for the journey to go smoothly. In the event of strong wind, heavy rain, heavy snow, or other personnel problems, it can be delayed for half a year. Even so, this girl still persists in writing to him, and it has been six years so far.

Bei Mingyan, who received the letters at first, didn't pay much attention to them, and believed that they came one by one. When Bei Mingyan received seven letters signed by "Qian Luoxue", it had been almost two years. Two years later, he Only then did I write to reply.

The matter mentioned in the letter was originally that the girl was yearning for the ritual education of ancient Shu, but she had no conditions to go to ancient Shu, so she wrote to him to ask this and that, and ask him by the way.The reason for his reply is also very simple, he likes this girl's persistence.Later, the two gradually became acquainted, and he began to admire her again, and looked forward to her letter.

Apart from the immature and irregular handwriting in Bei Mingyan's eyes, this girl has a broad mind, and the words reveal the atmosphere. The most important thing is that Bei Mingyan cares most about it. She seems to be born in martial arts. Aristocratic family, very knowledgeable about martial arts and weapons.

Apart from making medicine and playing with hidden weapons, these are the things that Bei Mingyan is most interested in, but unfortunately his family never teaches them.

The winter and summer came and went, and there were four or five letters exchanged each year, as few as one or two. Later, in order to save the time wasted on this journey, the two of them tacitly added more paper, and they would write more paper when they had anything to do. Write it down on paper, accumulate it until the letter arrives, and send it out.

When Bei Mingyan was 20 years old and crowned, what came with the envelope was a sword.The plain white sword body is slender and delicate, it looks like a girl's use, it can be so sharp that it can cut iron like mud, and it can break hair when blown.The letter said that this was a ceremony for coming of age, and it was only then that Bei Mingyan realized that his understanding of the girl Qian Luoxue seemed to be limited to her name.

It's not easy for him to ask, the other party is a girl.

And the sword distracted him, he loved it so much.

He expressed his gratitude in the letter, and the name of the sword was included in the reply letter. She said that since this sword was on Beishan and bathed in the sunshine of Beishan, she called it "Muchenjian".

Originally, if there were no accidents, this friendship would continue until a funeral was held in Beishan that year, and the connection was cut off.

One day, while Bei Mingyan was sitting in his medicine garden and got drunk again, he suddenly remembered Mu Chenjian. He took it out and looked at it carefully all night, and returned the sword the next day with a blank sheet of paper attached.At that time, he had not replied to Snow Maiden's letter for more than a year.

Not long after that, he went down the mountain.

These memories are not particularly important to Bei Mingyan, or he didn't deliberately remember them, and many details have been forgotten.Xue Luoqian suddenly mentioned the word Mu Chen, which caused a strange emotion in his heart: he seemed to have lost his soul after the death of his younger brother.

He subconsciously licked his lower lip: "Isn't it Xiao Yan's?"

The sword was on the table behind Xue Luoqian, but he was blocked by Xue Luoqian, and he still hasn't realized it yet.

"I gave you the sword, and your portrait. I also gave it to him. Please ask him to find you." Xue Luoqian turned and walked over, picked up the sword on the table, and there was only a blood drop mark on the sword : "This is also engraved by me."

In fact, it is worthy, although he has always called "Qian Luoxue" Qian girl, but the fact is that there has never been any evidence to prove that Qian Luoxue is a girl, and at the inn, when Bei Mingyan saw Xue Luoqian writing for the first time I don't think it's right, his writing really resembles my own.

When Xiao Yan came to the inn that night, he saw that Xiao Yan's breath was not stable, and he turned over the window in the middle of the night, and his clothes were a little messy. He thought he was also being hunted down, so he told him that it would be more dangerous to stay, but he took out the sword and returned it. Call yourself Bei Mingyan.At that time, Bei Mingyan believed that Xiao Yan was the one who had been communicating with him all this time, and he couldn't be kept for his safety, even though he couldn't accept the girl becoming a son for a while.It's just that Xiao Yan seems to be more cheeky than when he wrote the letter.

In addition to the somewhat different personality, there was also the time when Xiao Yan deliberately said that he would use human oil to make dinner for him, and he could talk eloquently about the method of making human oil.

But Xue Luoqian is very similar.Whether it is family background, knowledge or character.

The most credible thing is the handwriting. As I said before, Miss Luoxue... uh, now she should be called a young master, and her handwriting was a little lacking. At that time, he didn't think it was bad. If the other party came from a family of martial arts and was from the Central Plains, It's not surprising that I didn't practice calligraphy since I was a child. Now that I think about it, it's more normal if I come to Xue's family. I can even praise Xue Luoqian's handwriting for being neat and not cursive...

He didn't know how many sheets of paper Xue Luoqian had to waste before writing the letter.

Not long after Bei Mingyan started replying to the letter, he suggested that he wanted to imitate calligraphy. Bei Mingyan was right after thinking about it. He wrote because he was interested in the ancient Shu state. The children of ancient Shu had to choose a set of calligraphy to copy , so she thinks Linzi is probably the same reason.But the other party said that she wanted to practice his calligraphy because she couldn't learn the calligraphy of great calligraphers, so she started from a young age, and it was best to start simple.

Bei Mingyan seemed to be right again, and the other party also said, you teach me Linzi, and I teach you weapon spectrum. He was young and couldn't stand the temptation of martial arts, so he began to attach a lot of his own writing to his letters. The handwriting of the two gradually became later, but after a few years of effort, the handwriting of the two has become very similar.

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Thinking of this, Bei Mingyan suddenly felt his mouth dry, and said: "Ah Yun's dagger also has a small flower carved by me..." Damn it!He didn't know what he was talking about at all, and why did he say this? He couldn't leave Ye Xiaoyun in every sentence. What would Xue Luoqian think of him?But he just couldn't keep up with his brain. Speaking of that crooked little flower, he carved it secretly. The dagger is Ye Xiaoyun's favorite thing. He is usually very precious. He would rather stick his father's trident into a fish and be beaten by his father , and didn't want to take that dagger out of his bosom, after being carved with such an ugly "flower" by himself, he roared and chased him for several miles...

Damn it!Where did I go again!

He is indeed a person who is nervous, and his thoughts are like a wild horse that can't stop the brakes, but in Xue Luoqian's eyes, he looks different: Ye Xiaoyun is involved in everything, and he laughs when he mentions Ye Xiaoyun.

Seeing that Xue Luoqian seemed to be frowning, Bei Mingyan said with a guilty conscience, "Then why didn't you sign your real name?"

Having said that, it seems that he has a bit of backbone...?

As expected, Xue Luoqian was stunned for a moment, looked down at the sword, and said hesitantly: "Ye Xiaoyun said, you have never been to women..." Even so, it took two years to receive a reply, and he didn't know when he received the reply. What does it look like!She was so pleasantly surprised that the Xue family was about to be blown away!Hmm... If it wasn't for the usual indifference and grandfather watching from the sidelines.Furthermore, Xue Luoqian would not say that he dared not write his real name.

Bei Mingyan could think of what Ye Xiaoyun said even with a cucumber, his face turned red and then turned white, and he was seldom stopped in his life: "Shut, shut up! No, nothing!" Teach him what he said that was quite imposing. Said, no momentum, but cute, Xue Luoqian stared at him dumbfounded, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he shut up obediently.

"Then, what you promised Ah Yun is related to this matter?"

Xue Luoqian thought for a while, just now he said outside that he would never lie to Bei Mingyan in the future, and those who had concealed many things for him in the past, so he answered honestly: "That's not true."

He will answer whatever you ask, without answering one more question.Bei Mingyan sat down and took Mu Chen from his hand: "What is that?" Suddenly, his thoughts turned: "You just asked me who Miss Luoxue is!"

Xue Luoqian also sat down, and his expression swept away the dark clouds when Bei Mingyan mentioned Ye Xiaoyun just now: "I'm afraid you will forget."

Bei Mingyan glared at him suddenly: "Stand up!"

The martial arts leader obeyed orders like a puppy, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.Bei Mingyan was at a loss for words for a while: He seemed to have done something terrible... Then he pulled his face down again: "I just said it casually... you sit..."

Leader Xue's stunning face smiled amiably: "I'll just stand there."

"Okay..." To be honest, Bei Mingyan was a little confused: "You haven't said, what did you promise Ah Yun?"

"He told me where you were, and I was responsible for sending someone to protect you." At that time, Ye Xiaoyun had just returned to the Central Plains from Biluo. After going home, he went straight to Beishan. Yan went down the mountain, and it happened that Xue Luoqian also came to Beishan, so he asked him to use Xue's signal pigeon to send someone to protect Beimingyan. After all, Ye Xiaoyun knew how abnormal and ruthless Beiming's family was.Xue Luoqian was looking for the nearest, most trustworthy, and most powerful person, Xiao Yan, and even sent a branch of Xue's family to assist.

Where can Bei Mingyan go?Ye Xiaoyun and his younger brothers only thought about the inn left by his parents, but Ye Xiaoyun went down the mountain to Lingnan first, while Xue Luoqian stayed on the mountain for a few days and brought his two younger brothers to come later.

As for the matter of Yue's family, it was only after returning to Lingnan that his grandfather asked him to help him find it, so he helped him by the way and saved him.

It turns out that there are so many things he didn't know, and what surprised him the most tonight is definitely...Xue Luoqian...the leader of the martial arts...actually...we have corresponded with him for 11 years, more than [-] letters...

If it weren't for the pigeons trained by Xue's family, their identities would be revealed, and there might be more than that.

And it seems that the leader of the martial arts...has always been considered a girl by him!

Holding Mu Chenjian in his hand, he seemed hesitant to speak, seeing Xue Luoqian several times but couldn't open his mouth, Xue Luoqian still pressed his acupoints, and said softly: "Of course you hold the sword. "

I don't know why I suddenly think of Fengshan.

Then, Xiao Yan was sent by Xue Luoqian. He gave Xiao Yan the sword, but he had preconceptions and recognized Xiao Yan as him.Why didn't Xue Luoqian come by himself?

Just when Bei Mingyan felt his face was burning again, suddenly, there was a shrill scream from the room next door where several girls lived. There was only one sound, which looked like a man and a woman.

Or maybe it wasn't a human cry at all.

The author has something to say:

Afraid of his wife, haha ​​O(∩_∩)O