heart pole

In the deep valley of Yiling in the middle of winter, the cold wind howled all day long, and two people supporting each other staggered out of the dead wood.

They were in diametrically opposite states to each other, but at the same time they were both extremely weak. The young man in Tsing Yi closed his eyes lightly, his face was pale, his lips were pale, his whole body exuded the same coldness as Su Dong, but his expression remained calm.

His left hand was held by the white-robed young man beside him, and his whole body was supported by the latter; the white-robed young man's cheeks were flushed, and they looked a little purple when the winter wind blew by, his whole body was like a candle in the wind , burning himself to fight against the cold, the wound on his right wrist had festered.

"The loss of physical strength is getting worse and worse, and I can no longer walk." Although Ning Jingyuan maintained a calm expression neither humble nor overbearing, he was also very clear about the current situation. "Forget it, don't even think about it. There will be no caves, no fires, and no ruined temples for us to stay in this kind of place."

"Pfft, it's a pity that there are obstacles in the way." When Jing Jingyuan was thinking about the problem, Li Qingzhou suddenly laughed.

The sky was already dark, and the mountain road could barely be discerned by the stars and moon in the dark night, but in the darkness, the dozens of pairs of eyeballs that reflected the moonlight and kept dancing could still be clearly identified. "It's really raining all night." Li Qingzhou's tone seemed to be sarcastic. Of course, if he wasn't an insider, he might have said it more sarcasticly.

"What is this?" Tranquility was born on the shore of the sea, and he had never seen such a scene at all. There was doubt in his blue eyes.

"Little wolves in Yiling." Li Qingzhou turned his face to the side with great interest and smiled at Ning Jingyuan, which made the latter have an illusion that "once the wolves pounce, this person can run away immediately".

"Little wolf? I've never seen a 'little wolf' longer than eight feet." As the pack of wolves approached, Ning Ningyuan had already estimated the leader wolf's body with his eyes.If he could complain at this moment, he really wanted to say: what kind of wolf is this, he is clearly the wild wolf king!

"You can still make robes after cutting wolf skins. It's cold." Li Qingzhou continued to speak leisurely, ignoring his doubts.

Those wolves seemed to understand the malice in Li Qingzhou's mouth, and there was the sound of tearing their teeth in dissatisfaction from the darkness.

Ning Jingyuan must have an idea at this moment, that is to take out the sword from behind and cut off Li Qingzhou's sarcastic mouth first.

Of course, Tranquility would first recite all the martial arts, the way of the sword, and the way of a gentleman taught by his master in his heart, and then continue to remain calm and composed.He coughed and said, "Brother Qingzhou." His tone sounded very sincere.

"What's the matter?" Li Qingzhou smiled happily, without the slightest bit of nervousness.

"Can I ask you something."

"You said."

After all, Ning Jingyuan's face couldn't be stretched anymore. He has maintained calm and calm all this time, just forcing himself to judge the situation rationally.But he always felt that Li Qingzhou was completely looking like he could settle everything without any problems.

He felt the need to correct Li Qingzhou's wrong thoughts, so he forced a smile and said sincerely: "Brother, you are more familiar with this area than I am. After cleaning them up, please show me a way to rest." In the meantime, two hungry wolves leading the battle had already rushed over. Of course, all this was far from being seen.

"No." Unexpectedly, Li Qingzhou simply rejected Ning Jingyuan's request, even though the situation was critical.

Tranquility almost jumped up when he heard this, he meditated calmly, and then said: "Why?" At the same time, he clenched the long sword in his hand and swung a silver light, causing the two wolves to retreat immediately.

"Too troublesome." Li Qingzhou replied calmly, without even looking at the wolves.

"What's the use of you?" Tranquility said secretly in his heart.He has been brought out by his master for so many years to have a calm personality, but has been repeatedly broken by this person in front of him.But when he thought that standing here with him today was completely... self-inflicted, he wanted to scold himself even more.It's a pity that, apart from the various schools of thought and swordsmanship, he has never studied "Cursing", which is a worldly masterpiece.

Fengyang, also known as Fengzhou, is located in the North Valley of Yiling, Shannan Road, and was an important town before entering Shu.Fengyang City in the ugly winter night, at this moment, only the sounds of patrolling guards changing guards and beaters can be heard quietly, until these two strange teenagers came here.

"Where is this?" Tranquility was inflamed due to the wounds of fighting on the river during the day, and was disturbed by wolves at night, and he was already groggy and hot all over.

"How do I know..." Li Qingzhou's body was already chilled due to falling into the water and being frozen. In addition to his previous illness, his speech now seemed lifeless, as thin as a mosquito's silk.

"Li Qingzhou."

"how?"

Ning Jingyuan stopped slowly, his blurry vision focused on a four-story building with white as the main tone in front of him. Stopped and fell to the ground.

"Okay." Li Qingzhou calmly listened to the sound of him falling to the ground, and then replied softly.At the same time, he also calmly leaned forward and fell slowly.At this moment, he was already unable to keep standing, so he calmly chose to be with the other party, with the white Yaoqin still on his back.

However, when he was about to let go of Tranquility's hot palm, even though the latter was unconscious, he seemed to instinctively hold his hand again.

"Is your fiery hand caused by internal fire, or..." Li Qingzhou took one last look at Ning Yuan, and closed his eyes peacefully.

On the fourth floor of the white building, there was a window that was half open and quietly closed.

After a while, the door of the white pavilion opened, and three people, one woman and two men, walked out.

"Oh, why are there two homeless children lying in front of my shop in the middle of the night. Ah San Ah Si, come out and have a look!"

"This piano is not bad, Miss Shuangji will definitely like it."

"But the kid with the piano on his back seems to be dying."

"Both of you hurry up and take him away, go to the mound on the other side of the North City, find a place to bury him, and don't let anyone find out."

The white-clothed boy on the ground felt that someone had kicked him on the neck, and vaguely heard in his ears: "Take this away too, hurry up, it will be troublesome if someone dies here!"

The boy just raised one arm of the white-clothed boy, when the proprietress squinted at the gray cloud cross sword pattern embroidered on his chest, she was startled, and shouted repeatedly: "Yunxuanmen, people from Yunxuanmen!"

The light was dim, but the stars and the moon could not be seen at all when looking up, even the whole dome was black.

"This bridge is so narrow that only one person can pass through it. No matter what, there are no other travelers." He walked on the dark bridge, overlooking the orange-red yellow spring water under the bridge. , There are also bones that have been washed clean.

It was a man in Tsing Yi, holding a broken sword with dark blue luster in his hand, walking unsteadily towards the middle of the bridge, where an old woman stood.

"The world is too bitter, no one can accompany me to the end." His tone was full of tiredness.

"Yes." The old woman smiled kindly while holding a bowl of decoction in her left hand. "He's been with you the whole time."

"Who? If there is an afterlife, can we meet each other?" Suddenly there was a glimmer of expectation in the tiredness.

The old woman took out a small pill with her right hand and put it into the soup, "Drink this bowl of soup. In your next life you will have a tear mole, and that mole will definitely grow old with the one you love."

Without hesitation, I drank it all in one gulp.

The old woman still smiled kindly. She said to the deep blue broken sword that fell to the ground: "Did you hear it? It has been his only saber for two consecutive lives. In this life, he will be a swordsman. How are you?"

The old woman bent down, holding a bowl of soup, facing the broken sword.What was reflected in the soup was a dark blue eye.

Deep blue eyes.

dark blue eyes...

"Gudong!" Ning Jingyuan rolled over and fell off the couch in an instant when she woke up startled, her left forehead hit the ground hard.He covered his groggy head and slowly got up, looking around, it seemed like a woodshed.

He found that his pale long sword "Fengse" was placed on the edge of the bed intact. It seemed that the person who took him in did not have any malicious intentions.Pulling out the colorful long sword, the sword body reflected the pair of deep blue eyes, which made him fall into a moment of contemplation.

Opening the door of the firewood room, what greeted his eyes was a vast expanse of white. It took him a while to realize that it was a small courtyard made of white bricks and tiles. With white bamboo and wood as the main carvings, it looks cool and elegant from a distance.

"White." At this moment, he recalled the pattern embroidered on Li Qingzhou's white underwear earlier - it was a crimson waning moon and a horizontal line drawn underneath, the logo of Jiangyuelou.The building flag of Jiangyuelou is embroidered with a white pattern of "Jiangtian Wanyue" on a red background. When the buildings wear light-colored clothes, they embroider the red river-moon pattern, and when they wear dark-colored clothes, they embroider the white river-moon pattern.

At this time, the back door of the building opened, and two men walked out, dressed like handymen. Behind them was a middle-aged woman with heavy makeup. Her gaudy appearance made people easily think of the brothel boss.

Of course, Tranquility is far from the world, and obviously did not think of this level.The woman was stunned when she saw Ning Jingyuan, and the two servants also stopped, looking at each other.

The woman's expression was a bit secretive, but she tried her best to cover it up and said: "Young man, yesterday you passed out in front of our shop, so Auntie, I asked someone to carry you back to rest, after all, it's so cold... Right." Her eyes were evasive, and every time she touched Ning Jingyuan's cold gaze, she couldn't help avoiding it, and she seemed extremely afraid of Ning Ningyuan.

The two handymen were also respectful and did not dare to say anything.

"Is that so? Thank you." Ning Jingyuan solemnly bowed to express his gratitude after hearing this, and then asked, "Excuse me, Ma'am, where is the boy who is walking with me now?"

The woman seemed to have guessed that Ning Jingyuan would ask such a question, and quickly replied: "Oh, young man, I only saw you last night, you must know, how many pedestrians are there in Fengyang at night... ...But what kind of person is the boy you mentioned, and what does it have to do with you? A Niang can help you ask."

"It doesn't matter." Ning Jingyuan still had an expression neither happy nor sad, just sighed slightly, and then walked towards the main hall of Qingshuang Pavilion.After hearing this, the woman also let out a long sigh of relief.

When Tranquility walked away, the burly handyman asked inexplicably: "Boss, we saved this kid's life, why didn't we force him to stay as a handyman?"

"Oh, can you give me a snack! We secretly took another boy's piano, and let Ah Wu and Ah Liu secretly carry that incurable boy to bury him. It is already a serious crime! If he Stay here, and if he finds out by accident, our Qingshuang Pavilion's memorial archway will collapse!" The proprietress of the brothel had an earnest expression for fear of causing trouble.

"Besides, the one in that kid's hand is a real one, and he may have some tricks." Another thinner handyman said.

"Go do your work! In order to please Shuang Ji, I really put my life on the line!" The proprietress waved her hands impatiently.