Sealing Sword

Gu Xiao tossed and turned all night, but couldn't fall asleep.

After three o'clock, he simply got out of bed, heard the movement next door, turned over and jumped out of the window, went straight to the back kitchen to touch a bottle of wine and a stack of peanuts, put down the money, went back to the yard, and looked for it on the big tree. One can not only hide himself, but also pay attention to the location of their room at all times, nestling like a monkey.

This is an sweet-scented osmanthus tree, which is said to be hundreds of years old. It grows very thick and pleasant, so the store did not move it when it bought the land. Standing in the backyard.

Right now is the autumn when sweet-scented osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and the fragrance lingers in the nostrils, almost intoxicating. Gu Xiao picked a few sweet-scented osmanthus flowers and put them in the wine bottle. Drinking is also a little tasteless.

After an unknown amount of time, Gu Xiao was a little drunk, and suddenly heard a cat-like call from under the tree: "Gu Xiao, are you here?",

Gu Xiao pushed aside the hidden flowers and saw a chubby child under the tree looking up. He was dressed a little thinly, shivering in the autumn night, sniffing from time to time.

Chu Yao muttered, "What are you doing up there?"

"Look at the scenery."

Hearing this, Chu Yao looked around, and there was nothing to see except the old inn building and the bluestone floor covered with leaves: "What scenery is here?"

Gu Xiao dragged out her voice maliciously: "Meatballs with legs, pink and white, can talk, is it a sight?"

Chu Yao: "..."

As soon as he stamped his feet, he was about to run away. Gu Xiao put the peanut plate between the branches of the tree, hooked his feet on the branches, and hung upside down like a bat. This very heavy child was picked up by the waist.

Chu Yao was caught off guard with his feet off the ground. Before he could yell out, there was a flower in front of his eyes. He was nestled in Gu Xiao's arms. The young man hadn't swallowed a sip of wine. His pair of peach blossom eyes reflected the sweet-scented osmanthus and the moonlight. Blinking is like the moment a flower blooms, and the moon is round in shape.

Chu Yao forgot to struggle for a while, children probably like pretty things, so he stretched out his hand to touch his eyes in a daze, Gu Xiao didn't hide, just blinked, the eyelashes swept across the delicate palms, crisp and itchy of.

He took the plate of peanuts, stuffed one into Chu Yao's mouth, and asked, "What are you doing here if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"

"I slept for a long time during the day, and now I can't sleep." Chu Yao moved in his arms, "Why don't you sleep? Aunt Gu said that if you don't sleep well, you will not grow taller."

It was the first time in her life that someone called her master that female bandit like that. Gu Xiao was taken aback and laughed: "That means a child, I have grown up."

Chu Yao bit a peanut and said, "But today, Aunt Gu said that you are also a child."

"In the eyes of the elders, children don't grow up." Gu Xiao ate and fed, and the little drunkenness was almost dispelled, and then he smiled and narrowed his eyes, "What do you want from me? Tell me, little Don't learn to hide your thoughts when you are young, because when you grow up, you will regret not cherishing the time when you can be honest."

Chu Yao looked at him half-understood, turned his head, and said, "You are so powerful, can you come back to the palace with me and be my master?"

He knew from Chu Xun's mouth that his identity had been confessed, and now he no longer racked his brains to hide it in front of Gu Xiao. He heard about his thrilling feat of supporting Chu Xun all the way back to Jinshui City. When he was young, he wished he could just pack this person back to the palace and be his master.

Although the national power of Great Chu is prosperous, there are countless internal and external troubles under the prosperity. Therefore, the Holy Majesty has extremely high requirements for his descendants. Regardless of the princes and grandchildren, they all learn to read and write, practice martial arts and learn to ride and shoot since childhood. When Chu Yao is eight years old, It is necessary to have a special expert in martial arts to teach him martial arts.

But at a young age, he didn't understand the difference between a master of the inside and a knight in the rivers and lakes. He only thought that what he had seen and heard with his own eyes was the best. After this narrow escape, Chu Yao made the most of the hype that he was usually hyped about. The guards all regarded it as an embroidered pillow, thinking that there is no one more powerful than this pair of master and apprentice.

However, although Gu Yaofang is powerful, he is always a little afraid of her, and even in his ignorant intuition, he always thinks that Gu Yaofang doesn't like him and brother Xun either.A child's mind is sensitive, so Chu Yao didn't want to pester Gu Fangfang in the past, but went looking for Gu Xiao at night with his short legs.

In Chu Yao's memory, that night running through the wind and rain was the warmth and support that he had never felt before.

Gu Xiao didn't answer, so he snapped his fingers and said sentence by sentence: "You saved me and brother Xun, my grandpa, father, queen, mother and concubine will definitely reward you! You can be my master, you can do whatever you want , no one dares to treat you badly, I, I also listen to you..."

"You learned how to seduce at such a young age?" Gu Xiao folded her arms and rolled her eyelids, "But I don't love money, I'm lustful, and compared to power, gold and silver, I'd rather be attracted by a beauty."

Thinking of the request that night, Chu Yao blushed a little, and murmured: "I, there are many beauties in my family..."

"Okay, thank you for your kindness, I don't want to go with you." Gu Xiao patted his head, "Look at me, I'm not big or small, I'm always braver than my brain, maybe I'll break into it someday It’s a disaster, it’s not good to go back with you.”

Chu Yao recalled this guy's nonsense for a while, but he couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while, and finally choked out a sentence: "You can learn the rules..."

"Come on, if I learn the rules, will I still be Gu Xiao?" Gu Xiao sneered, pinching his cheek, "Stop talking, it's useless."

Chu Yao: "... But I said I would repay you."

Gu Xiao shrugged: "You forget me, that's the best reward."

Chu Yao didn't understand, and for some reason he didn't dare to ask, his eyes turned red with grievance.

"It's fate to meet by chance, and it's fate to be able to meet again in our identities." Gu Xiao scratched his nose, fed him another peanut, and picked up the jug without changing the topic, "Try Do you want to taste it?"

Chu Yao looked at the guy who abducted children to drink in disbelief.

Gu Xiao: "It's not intoxicating, but it's also very fragrant. If you don't believe me, you can smell it."

Chu Yao leaned over hesitantly. There was not much wine left in the pot, but the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus took up most of it. He sniffed it for a while, then raised his eyes: "Osmanthus?"

Gu Xiao handed over the jug: "Try it?"

Chu Yao seemed to be staring at the jug out of a hole, after all, he was still not overwhelmed by curiosity. He took it with both hands and took a sip. As soon as it entered his throat, he suddenly coughed.

The little face that had been blown pale by the wind turned red, and looked at Gu Xiao with watery eyes. The inexplicable heat flowed through her hands and feet, and immediately her bones became soft, and she fell into Gu Xiao's arms without saying a word.

Gu Xiao was taken aback by him, and after catching it, he rolled his eyelids and felt his pulse, and was immediately speechless.

The sons and grandchildren of the emperor's family are actually pouring one cup at a time. This is really...

He didn't realize how shameless his behavior of filling the child with alcohol was, but he pinched and poked that chubby face for a long time before he happily picked up the child and opened it to his room. The window turned back the way it came.

Lying on the bed, with a fiery meatball in her arms, Gu Xiao smacked her lips, wrapped the two of them with a quilt, made a sandwich spring roll, and turned over to sleep contentedly.

It was a night without dreams.

Before sunrise the next day, Gu Jufang packed up her luggage and prepared to go on the road. She hired four carriages, two of which went to each side, and an hour later, she sent another one to Yuzhou.After breakfast, she let Chu Xun, who was disguised as a girl, get into the carriage with Chu Yao who was still sleeping.

Gu Xiao rolled on the ground laughing at the young man dressed in red and green, and gave Gu Yufang a thumbs up: "Master, you, you are so good! The bad-tempered mother-in-law bought a child bride to take care of the child, haha Haha... I could have laughed at this for a year!"

Chu Xun: "..."

Gu Jiefang let out a "humph", she changed her usual dress today, she changed into a sauce-colored dress, her hair was tied up in a bun, and she just hooked up her eyebrows, eyes and lips, as if she had changed her face. A mean woman.

She didn't know where she hid the Jinghong Knife, and she stretched out her fingers and scolded her face: "Go home, if you dare to make trouble again, I will break your dog's legs when I go back, three pieces!"

Gu Xiao's legs felt cold, and he quickly swore to the sky: "I must be obedient and leave immediately, otherwise the old Gu family will have no children and grandchildren!"

Chu Xun: "..."

Gu Huafang: "...you are looking for a beating, you son of a bitch."

Without waiting for Gu Yaofang to make a move, Gu Xiao quickly got on the horse and ran four or five feet in one breath, then reined in the horse and turned around, saying: "You guys, be careful."

Gu Yaofang rolled her eyes and said nothing, Chu Xun was inconvenient to move while holding the child, so she just smiled and nodded at him.

Gu Xiao's eyes paused on Chu Yao, and it was a pity that he took a sip of wine last night, so that he couldn't even say goodbye now. After thinking about it, that kid loves to cry a lot. If he is awake today, he might You have to cry again, why bother?

Thinking this way, the horse's hooves stepped on the spot twice, and Gu Xiao finally turned around, whipped the horse, and rode away.

He was humming a little song, his heart was full of worries, and he couldn't help but want to turn around, but in the end he didn't.

Going back and forth all the way, he walked not fast, but very smoothly, without encountering any danger, as peaceful as the countless ordinary days and nights before.

He calculated the distance in his mind, and in about three or four days, he would be able to return to Feiyun Peak. It would be peaceful and peaceful, and it would not be boring to stay on the mountain alone. He probably was either watering flowers and weeding, or copying scriptures and meditating.

Gu Xiao thought that when the master came back, he probably wanted to eat a meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots, so he was full of thoughts about how to find a talisman from the teacher's wife, not to escape punishment, but to ask the teacher to be gentle, so that He lay down for two days and became a good man again.

Just as he was thinking about it, a silver light suddenly appeared in front of him. Gu Xiao was caught off guard, so he could only hastily leaned back, with his upper body stuck to the horse's back, only to realize that it was a slender, tough, weird silk thread with a snake-shaped thread at one end. The silver hook was nailed into the tree, and one end was attached to a man's hand.

If he had reacted slower just now, his head would probably have been cut off by this thread.

Being stopped and killed, Gu Xiao thought it was the people from Buried Soul Palace who were chasing him, but when he looked up, by the moonlight, he saw a man who reined in his horse and turned his head back.

The man was dressed in white snow, with a simple long sword on his back, high black hair, and a silver mask carved with cloud patterns on his face. He looked clean and innocent. If it wasn't for his fierce attacks, Gu Xiao would have thought This is a banished fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world.

With a shake of his hand, the silk thread was retracted, and it was slowly rolled into a small ball and hung on the waist. The man's voice came out through the mask: "You go forward? What a coincidence, me too, you can take a detour."

Gu Xiao laughed angrily: "Everyone walks the same road, but it's just the same road. Could it be that if you walk this way, I can't?"

"Going on the same road?" The man chewed these two words, and smiled slowly, "People in the world are just a bunch of animals that are not as good as pigs and dogs. What qualifications do you have to go on the same road with me? Young man, I am in a very bad mood right now. Well, let's go before I change my mind."

Gu Xiao frowned, remembering Gu Huafang's advice, and forced himself to restrain himself, not to argue with this lunatic who seemed difficult to deal with, and said: "There is a natural moat ahead, and there is no way for cars and horses to go. , there is no sign of anyone, did you go the wrong way?"

What he said is true, there is a swamp in front, and there is a rift in the ground behind. Let Feiyun Peak in the depths of the rift hide among the mountains and forests, so Gu Xiao's words are a reminder, and also want to persuade this weird person away.

The man's black eyes peeked out from the hole in the mask, looking at him like a poisonous snake staring at its prey, he said with a slow smile: "It's okay to go the wrong way, but..."

Before he finished speaking, he jumped up from the horseback, as fast as a shadow of a ghost, Gu Xiao couldn't see his movement at all, only his back felt cold, and he subconsciously landed on his side, a stream of blood splashed on the ground. body.

The white horse he was riding fell to the ground. There was a deep bone scar on the horse's neck, as if it had been cut open by a sharp weapon.

Such a fast pace, such a spicy method!

The man in white stood in the pool of blood, he didn't mind the horse's blood staining his moiré satin boots, he just smiled softly and said, "Young man, so he is Gu Yaofang's apprentice."

Gu Xiao's hair stood on end, and the night wind blew cold sweat on his forehead. He subconsciously grasped the handle of the knife, but he always felt powerless.

The man in front of him seemed to have suddenly changed from a banishment to a ghost.

His eyes moved down slowly, and suddenly his pupils shrank, and they were fixed on the man's hand - in his left hand, he was holding a dagger.

Curved like a crescent moon, like an iron hook, the handle of the knife is engraved with a lifelike Prajna flower.

The unknown fire in Gu Xiao's heart was ignited at this moment, and the blood in his whole body suddenly boiled after cooling down quickly, and he almost asked through gritted teeth: "You...are you from the Burying Soul Palace?"

The man held the dagger lightly, threw out a few drops of blood, shook his head, and explained in a good-tempered manner: "No, the Buried Soul Palace is mine."

Gu Xiao's heart was shocked. He looked at the man, his clothes were soaked in cold sweat on his back, and he didn't show any timidity on his mouth: "You are the master of Burying Soul Palace? Then, did you do the 25 lives of Baihua Village?"

The man recalled it for a while, and said: "It seems that there is such a thing. If she was too noisy when she was skinning the woman, so I cut her tongue, I would almost forget it."

"What enmity do you have with them?"

The man shook his finger: "No, no, no, I have no enmity with them, it's just that they shouldn't have met the three of you, master and apprentice."

"Then what enmity do you have with my master?" Gu Xiao finally couldn't hold back her anger, sheathed her long knife, took a moonlight, and flew away through the wind, grabbing the man's neck.

This knife is "Bai Hong", one of the most domineering and ruthless moves in Jinghong's sword technique, pouring [-]% of Gu Xiao's internal energy into it, and thought that even if it couldn't kill him, it could hurt him.

However, the man's left hand was still playing with the dagger, and when he flicked his right hand on the side of his neck, the blade was suddenly deflected, and he was attacking head-on in an instant with his fingers turned into claws. Gu Xiao only had time to turn his head before he felt a pain in his shoulder ——Three bloody fingerprints were torn apart alive!

"The reaction is not bad. It really is a martial art of the first line. I heard from my subordinates that you ruined my big business. I planned to go back and find you." The dagger was pressed against his chin, and the man looked at him carefully. Laughed again, "You don't look like your master, nor him, I'm very happy."

Gu Xiao gritted his teeth, turned the long knife around, swung his dagger away, retreated, and suddenly reached out to untie the bamboo flute at his waist.

This is something that Gu Huafang gave him, but Gu Xiao doesn't know how to play music, and right now he just pours all his strength into blowing out a cracking sound, which splits the bamboo pipe and shakes the sky far away, startling countless birds and beasts in the forest!

The man paused playfully.

Gu Xiao felt breathless in his chest after blowing this blow, he already understood that this lunatic was going to Feiyun Peak, and the master is not here now, he only hoped that his wife could hear the warning and hide quickly.

"It's as annoying as your master." The man sneered, but he didn't care about him, and flew forward. Gu Xiao was horrified, and hurried to stop him.

Not for the sake of killing or wounding, he tried his best to stop this person for a while longer.

It's a pity that I couldn't after all.

The man was still testing his martial arts before, but now he was impatient. He grabbed his right wrist with one hand and forced the long knife out of his hand. The bone was almost crushed in severe pain!

He gritted his teeth and said nothing, but the man looked forward for a while, and suddenly said: "He has an accident."

Gu Xiao was taken aback, and then an inexplicable fear came up behind her back.

"Either he is not here, or he is trapped by something, otherwise he will definitely come to rescue you when he hears your flute." The man pinched his pulse door and thought for a while, "Forget it, I will go there now if I want to." , it should be useless, it would be better..."

Gu Xiao, who was dripping with cold sweat, understood what he had said, gritted his teeth, and tapped his Juque acupoint with his left hand, but the man slapped him away as expected, and hit his chest with his palm, and he flew upside down. He lay on the ground and coughed up a mouthful of blood, and couldn't get up anyway.

"Did I allow you to die?" The man squatted down beside him, his silver mask looked even colder under the moonlight, "Don't worry, I won't kill you, come back with me."

He kowtowed a few words on the fallen white horse with a dagger, picked up Gu Xiao and returned to his horse, then turned his head to look in Feiyunfeng's direction, shook his head regretfully, and rode away.

An hour later, the Taoist priest with disheveled hair came out of the forest, staggering, his face was as pale as paper, and there was still blood on his lips.

He was a little unstable, but he walked very fast. When he got here, he couldn't control his breathing. He supported the big tree with one hand. Finally, he walked up to the breathless white horse.

There was only a bloody sentence engraved on it, as if it was an old friend who hadn't seen him for many years, but it made people feel chills——

After a long time, will you still be safe?