Green Dragon Totem

It’s not a waste of time to break through the iron shoes.

Shan Chao searched all the way, but only found out that Forging Sword Village is located in the south of the Yangtze River, but he couldn't enter the Jiangnan border. Can't find out.

Fortunately, the unlucky Chen Haiping made them directly meet the young master of Forging Sword Village.

Fu Wenjie sent someone to drive the carriage, and respectfully invited Shan Chao and Xie Yun up, and then lit the stove in the carriage for the two to dry their clothes.The carriage bumped all the way out of the city. After a while, the roadside became less crowded and the scenery was beautiful. Shan Chao raised the curtain of the car, and saw a huge manor surrounded by mountains and rivers suddenly appeared not far ahead.

The setting sun in the evening reflects the ink tiles on the cornices, and it looks more and more carved and embroidered, with brilliant literary talent.

Although it is located in the outskirts of the city, there are dozens of empty carriages bustling outside the gate of the manor. Shan Chao was suspicious, frowned and looked carefully, but saw that many of the carriages had different marks on the canopy. He couldn't recognize the badges of Kongtong School, Qingcheng School, Huashan School and other famous and decent schools, and at least seven or eight others.

So many sects came to visit Sword Forging Village at the same time, is there something important going on here?

Fu Wenjie sat in a more luxurious and spacious car in front of him. When the main gate opened, the team filed in and stopped before entering the second gate.Immediately afterwards, the servant stepped forward to lift the curtain of the car, bowed down respectfully, and asked the guest to get out of the car.

Shan Chao jumped off the carriage, looked up and saw an open door with hanging flowers, thought he had arrived, and walked forward.

"—Wait a minute, master!" Fu Wenjie, who was being carried off from the previous carriage, hurriedly said, "This is not the main hall, the inner courtyard still needs to change the sedan chair, and the carriage cannot directly drive to the door..."

Shan Chao was taken aback.

The servants exchanged glances behind him, with unconcealable sarcasm in their expressions - where is the poor monk who comes to the house to play the autumn wind, and doesn't even know the basic walking etiquette of the family?

Shan Chao laughed, stroked the straight bridge of his nose, and said calmly, "I'm sorry, but the monks are short-sighted, and the master Shao laughed."

After saying that, he turned around and walked back, only to see Xie Yun also got out of the car, standing by the side of the sedan chair and smiling at him.

There was an imperceptible hint of encouragement and warmth in that smile, and Shan Chao's face moved slightly, only to see that Xie Yun had already put the hand of the maid, turned around and stepped on the green sedan chair.

Xie Yun didn't squint, and he didn't even give others half of his eyes.However, no one dared to make trouble in front of "Dragon Girl", everyone subconsciously held their breath, and even the maid did not dare to look directly at Xie Yun's face easily, and only dared to lower her eyes and stare at the ground under his feet.

The green sedan chair changed two more groups of sedan chair bearers, and finally passed through the main hall of Duanjianzhuang and came to the inner courtyard.Fu Wenjie hastily ordered someone to sort out two high-quality guest rooms for Shan Chao and Xie Yun respectively, and asked them to take a bath and change clothes, and ordered the kitchen to cook ginger soup immediately before leaving.

With a splash, Xie Yun stood up from the steaming tub, hastily dried his body, stepped on the petals he threw out of the water with his bare feet before entering the bath, and turned behind the screen.

He came out after a while, put on light gray silk satin and snow white robe, wrapped his long hair with a cloth towel and slowly wiped it, said casually: "Come here."

The window opened silently, and then three black figures rolled in and knelt down on the ground.

The three of them were all dressed up as bodyguards in python uniforms, and the leader of them was Ma Xin!

"Commander, forgive me!" Ma Xin took a few steps on his knees, bowed his head and kowtowed: "Our brothers have been searching around for several days, but we can't find any news about the snow lotus. Recently, Jianjianzhuang hosted a banquet for famous martial arts families, and there were many people there. Miscellaneous eyes, quite a lot of trouble..."

Xie Yun interrupted him: "How is Chang'an going?"

"General Yuwen sent troops to hunt down Monk Xinchao in private. He almost caught up with you several times, but his subordinates led people to wipe them out one by one. It's just that you haven't shown up in the capital. For half a month, all parties have speculated One after another, it's really hard to cover up..."

Xie Yun nodded slightly and remained silent.

Ma Xin boldly raised his eyes:

"Commander, if Chang'an really can't cover it up, can you tell the queen the truth and ask Her Royal Highness to help cover it up? As long as the Qingning Palace orders you to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to handle errands, all suspicions will disappear—"

But when Xie Yun raised his hand, Ma Xin stopped abruptly.

"I originally speculated that in order to forcefully invite me to go out of Beijing with him to look for snow lotus, Yu Wenhu would definitely help me cover up the fact that he was not in Beijing—and the shadow guard pretending to be me, at least 20 days can not be seen by Yu Wenhu find any anomalies."

"Then within these 20 days, I have completely private time to arrange the planned things."

Xie Yun let out a sigh of relief.

Ma Xin knew the meaning of his sigh: no one expected that a solo champion would be killed halfway, and everything would be stabbed in front of Yu Wenhu in an instant, and the shadow guard's pawn would be useless.

"Then why do you even hide it from the queen?" Ma Xin was puzzled: "Just ask the queen to order that you come to Hangzhou with a mighty army and horses, how dare this small sword forging village dare to kill you?" Resisting the edict and disrespecting it? When you get the snow lotus and send it to Chang'an to save the prince, the credit will still be yours, and no one can take it away—"

Xie Yun shook his head with a smile, and there was a hint of self-mockery in his eyes: "Why do I want that credit for myself?"

Xie Yun finally dried his hair, put the cloth towel aside, and walked to the round table in the guest room.On the table are several exquisite snacks sent by Fu Wenjie: one is to pick out the most plump crab roe and crab meat and put it in the steamed rolls, then cut it into small pieces and put it neatly stacked up. Cut; one is the crisp cheese poured with honey fried noodles, which is extremely sweet and silvery like snow, and the cook calls it Tianxue; there are also salty and sweet snacks such as Guifeihong, Yulu Tuan, and Crystal Dumplings, which I think Long Girl can eat even for a woman Not many, each item is three or five pieces, exquisite and lovely.

When Ma Xin saw it, he immediately exploded:

"Why is Forging Sword Village so rude, how dare you take out such a rough thing to entertain guests?! The dilapidated and impoverished Jianghu family has a dog's eyes and looks down on people!"

"Come on, brothers, follow me to the kitchen—"

Xie Yun said with emotion: "Not bad, let's just leave it at that. I ate and slept in the open on the way, and I ate tofu skin buns for half a month..."

Ma Xin burst into tears.

"It's all to blame for that wild monk. He only wanted ten taels for blackmail." Ma Xiaoye said: "After the command is completed, the subordinates will definitely tie the monk back to the capital and cut him into pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart." !"

At this moment, there was a sudden noise of people walking outside the door, followed by a knock on the door, which seemed to be very hasty.

Xie Yun asked casually, "Who?"

- Bang!

The door was pushed open suddenly, before the loud noise landed, the figures of Ma Xin and others jumped out of the window in an instant.

Immediately after, several maidservants in beautiful costumes rushed in, among them was a girl with an extremely delicate and charming appearance, wearing a pink gown with thorns and golden peony branches, gemstones on her head and pearls on her shoes, her face full of hibiscus. It was an uncontrollable anger: "Are you the woman who fell into the West Lake today?"

Xie Yun took a quick look and saw that the guards had completely disappeared, only the windows were slowly closing due to inertia.

Xie Yun turned his head, sat down unhurriedly, propped his forehead with one hand, looked the little girl up and down for a moment, and then suddenly became interested: "The girl is—"

"It's because you have no shame and seduced my cousin!" The little girl was furious: "You still slander my cousin for molesting you, why do people all over the West Lake want to moles you?! Disorderly woman!"

Xie Yun seemed to find it quite interesting, blinked and laughed:

"—Miss Fu."

The little girl was taken aback for a moment, then puffed out her chest and said proudly, "You know me too?"

"Of course I know." Xie Yun couldn't help laughing: "The number one beauty in Jianghu was almost told to go to the Commander's Mansion of the Imperial Guard in Chang'an. I... know you too well."

·

Fu Xiangrong stared at Xie Yun suspiciously, Xie Yun also looked at her with a smile, and raised his eyebrows jokingly: "No wonder you lost your temper at the matchmaker back then, so it was because of this—it's just that your cousin may not be a good man, I'm afraid Miss Fu paid the wrong price."

Fu Xiangnen blushed, and said sharply: "What nonsense are you talking about! If you talk nonsense again, you will be kicked out!"

Xie Yun poured a cup of tea leisurely, and Fu Xiangrong said angrily: "It has nothing to do with my cousin, it's all about that ruthless and evil-looking ghost named Xie, who is a big devil in the capital! I know it all!"

"You really know Commander Xie so well..." Xie Yun smiled while holding his teacup.

Fu Xiangrong looked up and down the commoner woman in front of him, only to feel that "she" has sculpted eyebrows, handsome eyes, and a leisurely demeanor, and that smile is slightly hooked on her thin lips, which is simply indescribably annoying.

Miss Fu's anger grew from her heart to evil, she couldn't hold it back for a moment, and said meanly: "I don't think you are a good person, most likely you deliberately designed my cousin to climb into my house with the idea of ​​climbing dragons and phoenixes!"

Xie Yun was drinking water from a teacup when he heard this and gave her a surprised and appreciative look.

Those eyes irritated Fu Xiangrong: "What do you see me doing? Miss Ben is prettier than you! — Disabled!"

"Xiangrong!"

Suddenly there was a loud shout from behind, Fu Xiangrong was startled, turned around and saw Fu Wenjie was being carried by someone, and appeared at the door with an angry face.

"Brother, I—"

"What are you doing here, how can you be so uneducated?"

"I'm obviously just..."

With a light ding, Xie Yun put down his teacup, and interrupted the simmering quarrel at the right time: "Master Shao, calm down, Miss Fu is just talking out loud—I don't know why the master came here?"

Fu Wenjie glanced at Fu Xiangrong slightly reproachfully, the little girl couldn't help but wanted to retort, but was quickly pulled back by the maid, so she could only grumble resentfully.

"Miss Long," Fu Wenjie turned to Xie Yun with an apologetic face, and cupped his hands on the bamboo chair: "Haiping disturbed Yujia, we must not let it go like this, I want him to apologize to the girl and Master Xinchao. Now the humble house The banquet has been set, I don't know if the girl can honor it—”

"Brother!" Fu Xiangrong couldn't help it immediately: "Cousin is so innocent, he must have been seduced by someone else, that's why he was designed!"

"...Hurry up and take the lady down!"

Fu Wenjie was furious, but his sister was yelled flatly, and the eye circles immediately turned red: "Brother, you, you...you have changed, you used to love me very much! Since last year..."

Fu Wenjie took a deep breath, and before he could get angry, the maids pulled Fu Xiangrong down in a hurry.

"It's all your fault!" Fu Xiangrong yelled at Xie Yun while struggling at the door, twisted and ran away.

Fu Wenjie turned back with a sad face: "Miss Long, forgive me. My mother spoiled my little sister since childhood, and she has been completely spoiled..."

Xie Yun looked at him quietly for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "It's okay, the master of the young village is serious, so don't worry about it with the little girl."

There was probably a hint of strangeness in his tone, Fu Wenjie was a little puzzled by that gaze, and subconsciously touched his face: "Miss Long, this is—"

"It's nothing." Xie Yun stood up, and said kindly, "Didn't you say that the house has set up a banquet?—Lead the way."

·

Forging Sword Village has stood in the rivers and lakes for a hundred years, the old owner who has passed away is still the previous leader of the martial arts alliance, the momentum is still very loud before the tea is cold.

Unexpectedly, this banquet, which only invited Xie Yun and Shan Chao, was not held in the Nuan Pavilion or the inner hall, but opened the gate, the instrument gate, and the inner three gates, and placed it in the main hall of Forging Sword Manor.When a group of people entered the door, they saw that the main seat was empty, Shan Chao was drinking tea in the guest seat, and Chen Haiping sat in the lower seat in an orderly manner with his shoulders slumped.

Fu Wenjie invited Xie Yun to the table, and he himself was helped to the chair. He sighed and said: "My cousin Haiping was born rich and noble, and the elders loved him, so he inevitably developed a frivolous temperament. Today we will swim in the lake together. I can't see it wrong, I didn't expect him to do such absurd things..."

Xie Yun listened with a smile, and caught sight of Chen Haiping out of the corner of his eye—Mr. Chen was still full of grievances, probably because he really felt that a gentle lady is a gentleman, and there is nothing wrong with it, so why is it wrong?

Fu Wenjie said a few more words, coughed, and the maids hurriedly brought soup and medicine from the back kitchen, but he only glanced at it, waved his hands and said impatiently: "Leave it alone."

Shan Chao was preoccupied, and when he saw this, he said politely: "Young Master, is your body in trouble?"

"It's just a cold, but it's really annoying to drink medicine juice every day." Fu Wenjie sighed with a smile, and asked, "Where did the master and Miss Long come from? Did they pass by to visit relatives and friends, or..."

Shanchao's Buddhist monk's beaded bead, his stature is strong, although his face is young and handsome, but as a monk walking with a rare beauty, it can't help but make people curious.Shan Chao didn't know how to explain it at the time, so he could only briefly say that he was a wandering monk in Chang'an, who accidentally rescued Miss Long who was entangled by others, and when he learned that she was an orphan, he escorted her all the way back to her hometown to find relatives...

Chen Haiping listened absent-mindedly, and suddenly said "Huh?" and looked at Xie Yun.

——This girl behaves calmly and calmly. Although she swims alone on the lake, she is leisurely and unrestrained. She doesn't look like... an orphan girl who was robbed by a bully and cried...

"Look!" Fu Wenjie's head was as big as a bucket, and he threw his chopsticks: "I haven't talked about you yet, how will the score on the lake be settled today?"

Chen Haiping was afraid of this cousin, so he hurriedly got up and begged for mercy, Fu Wenjie pointed to the tea on the table again: "What are you doing in a daze, don't you hurry up and offer tea to the girl to apologize?!"

Chen Haiping had no choice but to serve tea, got up and walked in front of Xie Yun, coughing embarrassingly.Xie Yun raised his eyebrows and looked at him, Chen Haiping inhaled and exhaled, his chest heaved for a while, finally heaved a sigh as if giving up, and leaned over to hand over the tea bowl: "I'm so abrupt today, please don't blame the girl and Master Xinchao..."

Before he could say a word, he suddenly saw the maid at the door rushing in: "Master Shao, the old lady is here!"

Fu Wenjie hastily asked someone to help him up, and then he saw a woman with gray temples, although she was old, but her facial features could still be seen when she was young, she was surrounded by maidservants, crossed the threshold, walked in The main hall.

This is obviously the widow of the former martial arts leader. Before Fu Wenjie could say "mother", she stepped forward tremblingly, grabbed Chen Haiping, and then turned to Fu Wenjie angrily: "I think something happened!" What a big deal, why blame your cousin!"

"The mansion is currently engaged in a major event, if it gets out, how about giving that black-hearted villain a joke behind Hai Ping's back?"

Shan Chao: "..."

Xie Yun: "..."

Shan Chao showed surprise on his face, while Xie Yun sat next to him and clapped his hands in relief. He finally understood who Miss Fu's style was taught by precept and example.

Fu Wenjie immediately gave up the first seat to ask his mother to sit down, and explained to Shan Chao and Xie Yun in embarrassment: "This... this is my mother. I heard that two distinguished guests came today, so... please You two don't mind..."

The corner of Shan Chao's mouth twitched slightly, and just about to say something, Xie Yun interrupted him with a smile: "It's okay, the old lady is right, so the young owner doesn't mind."

Fu Wenjie's expression suddenly turned red and white, as if someone had stuffed an egg down his throat.

The old lady doted on her son and natal nephew very much. Seeing Fu Wenjie's soup on the side, she immediately yelled for the servant girl to come and serve him; He stared at Shan Chao several times.

Fu Wenjie said in embarrassment: "To be honest, after my father passed away, the position of the leader of the martial arts became vacant, so recently the major sects have decided to hold a martial arts conference in Duanjianzhuang at the beginning of next month to elect a new leader of the martial arts and lead everyone to resist the invasion from Mobei. The gods and ghosts of the Central Plains Wulin... Kongtong, Qingcheng and other sects have all sent representatives to stay in the village, so there are so many people, my mother will..."

Xie Yunqi said: "Kongtong Qingcheng and other sects are far away from the south of the Yangtze River, so why hold the martial arts conference in Duanjianzhuang?"

No one noticed that Shan Chao's hand holding the chopsticks stopped slightly, and he seemed to glance at the "Dragon Girl" with a little suspicion.

But Fu Wenjie didn't notice any difference: "Good question, girl. In fact, the reason is not complicated, but there has always been a rule among martial arts comrades: the new leader will inherit the relics of the old leader at the meeting, and the most important thing is Long Yuan , Tai'er Sword..."

Shan Chao's attention was taken back in an instant, and he suddenly turned to Fu Wenjie.

"...Lyongyeon symbolizes high morality, and Tai'a symbolizes majesty. The combination of the two is called Tianxia Sword. This Jianghu Grand Ceremony will be held in this village."

Fu Wenjie paused, and asked curiously, "What happened to Master Xinchao?"

Shan Chao narrowed his sharp wolf-like eyes slightly, and the two long swords tightly wrapped in rags on the way south were crossed on his back muscles.

"...Young Master," he asked slowly, with an imperceptible vigilance mixed in his calm voice: "Is there any possibility that these two swords will be forged?"

In the blink of an eye, the Fu family's mother and son looked a little unnatural.

"Impossible, master is too worried." Fu Wenjie lowered his head and picked up the medicine bowl, and said with a smile: "Longyuan Tai'a is a famous sword with ancient divinity, and each will recognize its master. If someone else uses it without authorization, it will be released immediately." Jianxiao, it was shocking for several miles—how could the imitated fake sword have this characteristic? So there is no need to worry at all.”

"Are Long Yuan and Tai Ah really still in the Sword Forging Village?"

Fu Wenjie didn't expect Shan Chao to ask such a pressing question at all, and he was taken aback for a moment before answering: "That's natural." After speaking, he immediately picked up the medicine bowl and took a sip.

Xie Yun still smiled slightly, and glanced at Shan Chao out of the corner of his eye.

The side profile of the black-clothed monk has Mobei's unique profundity, straight nose bridge, slightly pursed lips, resolute and sharp jaw, and the tight lines extend to the strong neck and Adam's apple.Because of his excellent eyesight, there was a deep and hidden light in his eyes, which was scanning the faces of Fu Wenjie, the old lady and Chen Haiping one by one.

Chen Haiping didn't understand why, but the old lady felt a little uncomfortable, and took the chopsticks to pick up vegetables for her son.

Shan Chao said coldly: "I have one more thing to inquire about."

Fu Wenjie put down the bowl, swallowed subconsciously: "Master, please tell me..."

"Young Master, do you know where to find the snow lotus flower water used for refining the sword?"

Fu Wenjie forced a laugh, but this time he waved his hands and shook his head repeatedly, even begging for mercy: "What is snow lotus flower water? I really don't know."

·

The banquet finally ended in a stiff atmosphere. Although it could not be called a bad breakup, judging from the old lady's cold face and Fu Wenjie's absent-minded expression, the word "divorce" was actually almost the same.

Shan Chao originally wanted to leave after dinner, but it was already late at night, and Fu Wenjie really refused to let go, so he agreed to stay overnight.

Chen Haiping was quite happy - if this annoying monk doesn't leave, Miss Long won't leave either; if Miss Long doesn't leave, then we can meet again tomorrow, maybe after tonight, Miss Long will change her mind, and she will suddenly be willing to marry him tomorrow It's over.

It's night, the golden autumn moon shines through the window lattice, blowing the ice cream on the jade hook, and the fragrance of osmanthus seeds floats secretly in the night wind.Xie Yun got up from the couch, pulled his hair casually, pushed the door and walked out of the room while putting on his robe with his hands behind his back. As expected, he saw outside the guest room opposite, a dark and winding veranda under the moonlight, and a neat figure in a black monk robe was sitting horizontally. On the appendix.

"Master still not going to rest?"

Shan Chao suddenly woke up from his contemplation, and put down the seven-star Longyuan wrapped in rags in his hand: "...Dragon Girl."

Xie Yun stood in the water-filled courtyard, looked Shan Chao up and down with his arms folded, and suddenly teased with great interest: "Master sits alone late at night, full of thoughts, I don't know if he is thinking about someone, is it the Tathagata?" Which family's little girl is the Buddha?"

Unexpectedly, Shan Chao did not immediately defend or rush to refute, but was silent for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "No, I was thinking of someone."

He paused, and said slowly: "The one in Chang'an City... Xie Yun."