I lost my brother

It all started with a chicken.

Luanfeng City is located in the northern border area of ​​Yuanwu Kingdom. I don't know when it started. People say that there is a dragon vein under this Luanfeng City. There is an endless stream of famous people who come here to do business, play, and hunt for treasure.The streets and alleys in the city are bustling with people on weekdays.

Ordinary people don't care about whether they are good or not. They only know that when people come, there will be business. If there is business, there will be money to spend. If there is money to spend, they will be happy.

There is a famous brothel in Luanfeng City called Zuixianlou.The girls in the building are very talented, and the bursts of rouge fragrance wafting from the building often make passers-by be mesmerized before they can give up.

Facing Zuixian Tower and separated by a wide street is the best restaurant with a radius of ten miles. Its name complements that of Zuixian Tower, called Zuihonglou.

The two floors were looking at each other. On the surface, they seemed to be in harmony with each other. In fact, the proprietress of the restaurant and the old bustard of the brothel had a long-standing grudge—her husband was seduced by the girl in the brothel and stayed away all day. The hatred is irreconcilable.

I don't know if it was out of revenge, Zuihonglou has since developed a dish that is more heart-stirring than the girls in Zuixianlou-roasted fairy chicken.

Noon is the busiest time in the drunken red building day, the shop assistant ran back and forth without touching the ground, wishing to give birth to a pair of legs, the abacus in the hand of the accountant was crackling, and the proprietress greeted the guests with joy, thinking She said, there are more guests eating here, and fewer people drinking flower wine in the opposite building. The right is to eliminate harm for the people, and she wishes to be more busy.

Taking advantage of the bustling scene of everyone in the Zuihong Building, a little beggar sneaked into the corner of the door.

The little beggar looked young, about twelve or thirteen years old, with his bony arms grasping a small side of the restaurant's gate, and he was looking inside.

His face was fairly clean, his clothes showed that he had crawled around in all kinds of dirty corners, his dark eyes followed people's footsteps, and he looked like he was full of bad water.

The little beggar carefully observed the surroundings, waited for an opportunity before anyone noticed him, and entered the door with a low body. His body as thin as a bamboo pole was expertly pressed against the wall, and then sprinted into the back kitchen.

There were six or seven cooks in the back kitchen, each with a large spoon in his hand, the firelight reflected a ferocious red light on their sweaty faces, and everyone looked very tired.From time to time, there are a few waiter guys rushing in and out to pass food to the lobby.

Little beggar Hua's eyes lit up, he aimed at a target, and it wasn't too hot, so he quickly grabbed a steaming chicken that had just been placed on a plate, and ran away.

"Hey! It's you bastard again!" The sharp-eyed Xiaoer just caught the little beggar's escaping movement, and cursed "unlucky" in his mouth.

This daring little beggar has come to Zuihonglou to steal chickens more than once or twice. He is quite a thief. I can't even catch up -- the little beggar is like a monkey, jumping so fast that he disappears in the blink of an eye.

The more Xiao Er thought about it, the angrier she became, and she hopped her feet cursingly.

The proprietress knew the reason when she saw his bear look, and she was not angry, she still greeted the guests with a happy face, she just took the time to close the black hair next to her ear and said to Xiaoer: "Let this little thing succeed over and over again, I think you just remember it." If you don’t stop teaching me a lesson, the loss this time will be deducted from your monthly money.”

Hearing that there were sparks in his eyeballs, Xiao Er grabbed the rag on his shoulder and threw it to the ground, gritted his teeth and ran to the door, yelling in the direction where the little beggar disappeared: "Don't let me catch you! Otherwise! I peeled off your skin!" The girls on the opposite floor who were watching the fun couldn't stop laughing.

The little beggar's name was Sui Jian, and the old beggar said he was a baby he picked up at random, so he named him "Sui Cai", which sounds nice and easy to remember.

He was still an illiterate baby at that time, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. It wasn't until later that he sneaked into a private school and leaned against the wall to listen to the class for a period of time, and then he changed his name to a homonym.

For this reason, she was ruthlessly ridiculed by the old beggar: "A beggar is pretending to be serious." Sui Jian heard this and only picked out his ears, turned his back, and treated him as farting.

Sui Jian ran all the way to an empty alley before stopping to catch her breath.

He has a pair of pleasing almond eyes, and the eyeballs are dripping around. While vigilantly looking around for nosy people, he bent his back and took out the roast chicken from his arms, regardless of the oily flowers all over his body. And the chest that was flushed red, took a deep breath, and drooled at the delicious food in his hand.

"Hey, it's a big restaurant. I don't know how his food is made. Why does it smell so good?"

He opened his mouth wide to take a bite, but when it reached the edge of his mouth, he paused again.

His eyelids twitched, remembering that there was an old beggar who was sick and waiting to be fed in the ruined temple.

The old beggar has been taking Sui Jian to beg everywhere, and he has only stayed in Luanfeng City for less than a month.

He may be old and weak, just in time for autumn, the weather is not so good, he catches a cold all of a sudden, procrastinating for many days, but if he turns around and sees his long-cherished roast chicken being gnawed If you are in a mess, you can't just let go of your anger.

Sui Jian licked the corner of her mouth, and reluctantly parted with the "roasted fairy chicken" for a long time, swallowed hard, and finally stuffed the seductive oily chicken back into her arms, and finally licked the oily chicken carefully. Hua's fingers wrinkled the bridge of her nose and muttered, "I stole the chicken so hard. If the old man gets worse, he has no conscience."

Just as he raised his legs and was about to continue walking, a voice suddenly came from above his head: "That kid, are you interested in being my apprentice?"

The color on Sui Jian's face faded all of a sudden, and she thought that she was being overtaken by someone, her legs went limp, and she fell to the ground.

He looked up following the voice, dumbfounded.

I saw a man standing on the top of the rough wall at some unknown time. This man was tall and tall, wearing a light-yellow shirt that looked very comfortable, and the thin hem fluttered up and down with the breeze blowing past his feet.There was a long silver sword pinned to his waist, his brows and eyes were a little thin, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he stood there lightly, looking like a fairy who accidentally fell into the mortal world.

A pair of slightly slanted eyes on the handsome face of the "immortal" was looking at him up and down, his critical eyes seemed to be the meat on the chopping board that was waiting to be cut, and he didn't know which piece to choose.

He raised his eyebrows, and there was a sly look in his eyes, like a fox in the mountain, he said jokingly: "I wasn't very clever when I stole the chicken just now, why did I become so stupid after a while?" .”

Sui Jian came back to his senses with a jolt, and his brain turned quickly. This person has an extraordinary appearance, and he is definitely not someone he can deal with. In this case, 36 tricks are the best!

He stood up slowly, patted the dust on his pants, touched the roast chicken in his arms through his clothes, and ran away quickly!

Xie Hanzi was stunned for a moment, then touched his face subconsciously, as if he didn't expect that there were people who didn't like him so much.The corner of his mouth twitched, and he said, "Interesting." With his toes on the dirt wall, he followed the little beggar at a distance.

Sui Jian often sneaked into teahouses to listen to books. He knew that there was a place called Jianghu in the world. The storyteller shook his head and said, "Where there are people, there are Jianghu".

His biggest dream is to have enough food every day, and now there is one more thing, that is, the sick old beggar can get well soon, or he will have to rack his brains just to find food for two people every day. I don't have time to go to the wall of the private school anymore, and I don't have time to go to the teahouse to listen to books.

The thin and nimble figure shuttled back and forth in the alleys with nine bends and eighteen bends, and ran along the narrow paths with few pedestrians.Xie Hanzi followed him casually while observing his movements.

He came out to hang out in the name of looking for an apprentice. He heard that there was a dragon vein in Luanfeng City, so he came to join in the fun, but he couldn't find the dragon vein. Instead, he found a restaurant with good food, which was Zuihonglou.

Xie Hanzi noticed Sui Jian as soon as he slipped into the restaurant. This little beggar was a thief, and he disappeared in a flash. He thought he was here to steal.

Sure enough, in a blink of an eye, a series of afterimages roared past, and it took a long time before I heard the waiter shouting angrily.

It only took a blink of an eye to teach Xie Hanzi to see the little beggar's movements clearly. He is a good seedling with a clear and unique foundation.

This was the scene in the alley just now.

The closer she got to the ruined temple where she and the old beggar were hiding, the more Sui Jian's eyelids twitched.

He slowed down, adjusted his breathing, and walked into the temple at a brisk pace, holding up the tortured roast chicken and shouting: "Old man! I'm back, guess what I brought you Good thing, you guessed right, the whole chicken is yours!"

When he saw the situation in the temple clearly, his mind suddenly buzzed.

I saw the old beggar lying crookedly on the ground, there was no good place on his face, obviously he had been severely repaired.

The old beggar was lying on the ground with a bruised nose and a swollen face. When he came back, his chest began to heave violently, his cloudy eyes were full of anxiety, and there were other emotions that Sui Jian could not understand.

Sui Jian quickly ran over to help the old beggar, and asked in a trembling voice: "Grandpa, what's the matter, what happened, don't scare me, grandpa!"——Only a few serious moments, Sui Jian would call out to the old beggar. grandfather".

The old beggar was breathing in and out, and there was a bellows-like "ho, ho" sound in his throat, and he couldn't squeeze out a complete sentence for a long time, so he pushed Sui Jian anxiously.

The intuition of danger formed by discussing life abroad for many years played a role, Sui Jian turned sideways and rolled to the side, avoiding a sap behind him in time.

"Stinky boy, let me catch you." The attacker was none other than the waiter in the drunk red building who was fined a monthly fee.

Xiao Er had a hideous face, and behind him were four or five muscular men in short coats of coarse cloth.

Xiao Er spat on the ground and said, "As a result, I was fined half a month's money, you run away! Can you run away to the monk and the temple!"

Sui Jian was so frightened by their posture that his calves twisted. He could have run away, but the old beggar fell down. No matter what, he would not leave the old beggar and escape alone.

He straightened his neck and said: "One person does the work and the other person is responsible. I stole the chicken. You have no ability to catch me. What is the ability to bully an old man! You can do it even when he is so sick. You are just... really frenzied!"

The rest of the audience laughed when they heard this, Xiaoer said contemptuously: "What is this, I said that if I catch you, I will take your skin off, just bear it."

The big guys looked at each other and felt that it would not take so many people to deal with such a gadget.A big bearded man stepped forward, grabbed Sui Jian's slender arm, and picked him up like a chicken.

Sui Jian has a lot of experience in fighting. At this time, he pretended that he was unable to resist, and used all his strength to push forward when the opponent was underestimating the enemy.

Sui Jian dexterously turned over and rode on the big man, scratched his face with one hand, leaving bloodstains, and grabbed his arm with the other hand, biting his mouth and refusing to let go.

"Ah!" The big man let out a scream, and the whole process took only an instant, and the rest of the people hadn't even reacted.

Xiaoer's eyes were full of shock and anger, and he shouted at the rest of the people: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you pull them away!"

Sui Jian is considered wild among beggars, and he has been beaten by crowds countless times. According to his years of experience in beatings, he can only fight with his life at such times, even if he can't run away and is beaten to death in the end, pull him up. It's not bad to be a back pad.

His bony back was punched and kicked mercilessly, someone pulled his hair, and someone kept pushing him in an attempt to knock him to the ground.

When the old beggar saw that he was being besieged, he was anxious, and he gathered his strength to stand up and rush over, but before he could get close, he was kicked to the ground by Xiao Er, who was watching the battle, and he couldn't move any more.

From the corner of Sui Jian's eyes, he saw that the old beggar was still. An angry growl came from his throat, and he tore off a large piece of flesh on the arm next to his mouth. The rusty blood flowed into his mouth, making him pale. His face was hideous like a ghost.

Suddenly a gust of evil wind hit the ruined temple, and everyone was thrown down by this "wind". It was only later that Sui Jian knew that this "evil wind" was something that only martial arts practitioners had, and it was called internal force.

Sui Jian's stiff cheeks were pinched by a clear and strong hand, and the man said in a deep voice, "Let it go, is human flesh so delicious?"

Sui Jian didn't hear clearly at first, and then she let go dazedly until her cheeks were pinched sourly.He remembered this voice, it was the strange person he met in the alley, and he was followed to the door of the house without knowing it.

Sui Jian spat out the flesh and blood in her mouth, knelt and crawled to the old beggar in panic, only to find that the old beggar had passed away after a fight just now.

Sui Jian's mind was blank, his hands were shaking badly, and he forcibly lifted the upper body of the old beggar and leaned against him, probing his breath with trembling fingers, and said with a glimmer of hope: "Grandpa, grandpa, wake up, you look at me, look at me..."

Xie Hanzi had just been standing on the tall elm tree outside the temple gate to watch the development of the situation. He didn't notice the old beggar at first, until he was kicked to the ground before he tried to save the old beggar, but it was too late.

Xie Hanzi frowned. It's not that he didn't have blood on his hands, but they were all damned people. He boasted that he had already taken life and death seriously, but now even if people didn't die by his hands, looking at the little beggar The desperate figure felt a trace of pity for a long time.

Although Sui Jian always quarreled with the old beggar, the old beggar was the only person he was close to in this world after all. He couldn't accept that this person could no longer open his eyes to look at him, and couldn't find food for him while making fun of him. , can no longer continue to accompany him.

This person has no sense of existence in life, and he is so light when he dies. From then on, he can no longer be found in the world, and I am alone, truly lonely and helpless.

Why can a good human life be trampled on like this, is the life of a beggar not life?

Sui Jian felt an uncontrollable anger, his eyes almost burst into flames, he turned his head and stared at the twisted people on the ground, and said vaguely: "I'll fight with you, I'll fight with you Already!"

A pair of spotless shoes suddenly appeared in sight.

Xie Hanzi knelt down and asked him calmly, "Do you want revenge?"

Sui Jian nodded slowly, the man smiled lightly, patted Sui Jian's skeletal shoulder, took advantage of the fire and said, "If you want revenge, call Master, I'll help you."

Sui simply stared at Xie Hanzi's fox-like eyes, thinking that although this person looked like a human being, he was unreliable no matter how he looked at it.

He hesitated and stretched out a hand, as if he wanted to grab Xie Hanzi's sleeve, and finally slid down and grabbed the hem of his clothes. He was eager for revenge, and he called out simply: "Master."

The corner of Xie Hanzi's mouth twitched as he watched the corner of his originally spotless clothes suddenly besmeared with a puddle of unknown stains, including oil, blood, and perhaps mud.

He deeply reflected whether his apprentice had accepted him too casually.

Little Erse yelled at Xie Hanzi sternly, "Who is it, stop meddling in other people's business!"

Without looking back, Xie Hanzi threw a handful of pebbles that he picked up just now, and the wailing stopped abruptly.

Sui Jian was dumbfounded, "Is this dead?"

Xie Hanzi lied, blushing and heartbeat, "Yes, do you want to check it?"

In fact, they just tapped the acupoints to make them fall into a coma temporarily. Only Xiao Er was the most seriously injured, and Xie Hanzi hit hard on purpose.He is not afraid of children going to check, even if he does, he has plenty of ways to fool him.

Although Sui Jian was at fault for stealing the food from the restaurant, the waiter in the restaurant really wasted his life. There was a reason for the incident, capital crime is inevitable, life crime is inevitable, let him spend the rest of his life repenting in pain.

Only then did Sui Jian face up to her freshly baked cheap master, and she thought that she was indeed a man beyond his appearance, this man looked like a frail scholar, and he killed several people when he made a move!

He was not so clear-headed yet, and he never thought of going to detect the breath of those people to distinguish the truth from the fake.

Sui Jian put down the old beggar lightly, tried her best to straighten her back, knelt on the ground in a proper manner, and kowtowed to Xie Hanzi in a decent manner: "Master is here, and I will be bowed by my apprentice."

Xie Hanzi gave a dry cough, as if he was not used to it, but he accepted it happily.

The master-student relationship between the two was established very casually in this ruined temple in the outskirts.

A hole was dug under the elm tree in front of the ruined temple, and Sui Jian buried the old beggar together with the weather-beaten roast chicken.

Xie Hanzi found a long piece of wood nearby, and gesticulating with his own saber, managed to carve out a flat piece of wood to use as a tombstone.

Sui Jian engraved the words "Grandfather's Twilight" crookedly on it with the knowledge he had heard from lying on the wall, and even wrote "tomb" wrongly.

Xie Hanzi didn't have the heart to disturb him to perform his last filial piety in his own way.

Sui Jian kowtowed three times at the end, stood up and took Xie Hanzi's loose sleeves, and followed him away.

It was golden autumn, and the autumn wind gently blew off a few elm leaves, spinning and dancing in the air.

The setting sun elongated the two shadows, one tall and one short, slantingly shining on the simple tomb behind him, as if telling a safe journey.