seven relics

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Lian Jiangyue was awakened by the ringing of her mobile phone. He answered the phone in a daze, and the other party asked him directly: "Why are you looking for Shangguan Yuzhan?"

Hearing the name "Shangguan Yuzhan", Lian Jiangyue woke up a little, sat up, turned on the light in the room, and asked politely, "Hello, are you Shangguan Yuzhan's family or a friend?"

The other party asked him aggressively: "Then what is your relationship with Shangguan Yuzhan? Who are you to her? Tell me! What do you want to do with her?"

It is impossible to tell whether the voice is male or female, old or young, and it seems that a voice-changing device is used.Lian Jiangyue looked at the phone screen, and the screen displayed: Unknown number.

The other party obviously wanted to hide his identity, and Lian Jiangyue wanted to set a routine, at least to find out the other party's location, so he said: "You saw my missing person revelation and my contact information from the Minshi Evening News Right? Are you in Minshi?"

His voice fell, and a series of busy tones came from the phone.The call was cut off.He dialed back, but couldn't get through.

Lian Jiangyue couldn't sleep anymore, it was getting late, it was almost six o'clock, he looked outside, the sky was blue outside, the room was dry, his throat was itchy while breathing, Lian Jiangyue poured a big glass After drinking the water and washing up, I went downstairs.

The young man sitting behind the front desk in the lobby was the young man who helped him register yesterday. Seeing Lian Jiangyue, the man stood up, pointed to an aisle next to the front desk, and greeted him warmly: "Have breakfast? The meal ticket is fifteen One ticket, buy a ticket here, and there will be a restaurant, buffet, and everything at the end of the walk.”

Lian Jiangyue smelled it, and his sense of smell is now very keen. Standing at the end of the aisle, he can smell mustard, soy milk, and tea eggs wafting from the restaurant.He was not very interested in these, shook his head, turned and went out.

The man called him again, and said, "Where are you going to go today? Or call a chartered car for you and find a place to accompany you? Yesterday's old Shen, do you think it will be okay?"

Lian Jiangyue refused with a smile. When he walked to the door, he turned around and asked the man: "Is your evening paper published in this city?"

The man smiled and said, "Where can it be published?" Then, he clapped his hands, blinked his eyes cleverly, took out a colorful travel brochure from the drawer at the front desk, and ran over to give it to Lian. Jiang Yue: "It's free, with a map attached, take a look."

Lian Jiangyue accepted the manual that seemed to have more than 50 pages, walked outside the door, and flipped through it casually.The first three pages of this brochure introduce the scenic spots around Min City, and indeed a map is attached. The last dozen or so pages are full of discount coupons for restaurants in the Western Regions, admission tickets for the Maijishan Laser Show, and models of Feitian bars. Shows, coupons for a free drink—coupons like that stuffed the brochure into a thick volume.

He smiled and looked at the street. The morning in the northwest was much quieter than in Beijing. It took a while to see a car passing by. There were not many pedestrians on the road. It was May, but it was still a bit chilly, and people all huddled neck, in a hurry.The sun has risen to a high place at some point, erasing all the blueness between the sky and the earth. The pale sunlight shines on the asphalt road and the low buildings with yellow brick walls. There are no tall buildings in the city, and the street trees on the side of the road are all ashamed. , bent over, thinner and more sluggish than the fruit trees on Platinum Mountain.There are only a few sporadic dark green leaves on the branches, crumbling in the cold wind.The morning in Mingshi can be described as deserted.

It is very rare to sell breakfast, and they sell pancakes, soy milk and fried dough sticks. It is rare to come to Mingshi, and Lian Jiangyue really wants to try the local breakfast, so he Although I was a little hungry, I was still looking for it on the road.After searching like this for a while, he suddenly smelled a scent of chestnuts. Following the smell, he came to the door of a small shop, and saw a woman in a short-sleeved flowered shirt standing in a semi-finished building made of red bricks. He was tall, behind the wood-burning oven, and was sticking a piece of bread in his hand into the oven.

Years of forging experience made Lian Jiangyue especially sensitive to fire and temperature. He speculated that the temperature in this brick furnace was at least [-] degrees, and the woman just put her arms into the furnace with her bare hands without changing her face.After pasting the pancakes, she grabbed two golden pancakes from the oven and put them in a bamboo basket.Her movements were smooth, but unhurried. Her hands were already red from the heat, but she acted as if nothing had happened.Seeing Lian Jiangyue, the woman pressed the switch on the wall behind her, and the shop became brighter. While she was kneading the dough on the chopping board by the stove, she warmly greeted him to come in and sit in the shop.

A half-grown boy was stuffing firewood and chestnut shells into the burner under the oven.The chestnut fragrance is stronger.Lian Jiangyue got a little excited, entered the store, looked up, and saw three wooden signs on the wall, which read: special double noodles, beef rice, and beef steamed buns.

It turned out that this is a special noodle shop, you can try something new when you come here, and you can eat a bowl of warm hands and feet when it is cold, just like Lian Jiangyue, so he found a seat and sat down.There is also a back kitchen in the small shop. The kitchen is steaming hot. After Lian Jiangyue sat down, a man with a white cap poked his head out from the back kitchen and asked him, "What do you want to eat?"

Lian Jiangyue asked: "What is Beef Rice? Which Shuangpin is it?"

The man smiled and gestured in his hand: "The noodles are cut into rice grains, double-packed, beef and mutton combined, local cattle, local goats, all delicious."

"Then a bowl of noodles and a bowl of rice."

The woman making pancakes outside smiled and asked, "Young man, it's so delicious. Would you like a bun?"

The chestnut fragrance floated over again, and Lian Jiangyue nodded again and again: "Come one, come one."

After a while, the little boy who burned the firewood brought him a steamed bun, and he took a bite out of it. The little boy looked at him, burst out laughing, and ran back to continue burning firewood.Lian Jiangyue chewed the warm pancakes, looked around the shop carefully, there were only two customers in the shop, one was an old man in a gray shirt, and he was breaking the buns into a bowl, every time he broke them like that. A small piece, moving slowly and meticulously, the other is a young man, with a mobile phone and a noodle bowl in front of him, wireless earphones on his ears, and his two hands are also breaking buns into the bowl, his movements are faster than those of the old man. His eyes were fixed on the phone, and he smiled from time to time.

Lian Jiangyue looked at their movements of breaking the buns again, and laughed herself, and took another big bite.He eats happily and satisfactorily, regardless of whether other people make jokes or not.

Shuangpin noodles and Xiaofan were put on the table together, and the meat was fragrant. Lian Jiangyue took the chopsticks out of the chopstick holder before she wanted to eat the noodles, but she saw three men and a woman walking in the shop. They were all quite old. Short, thin, with shiny black hair, wearing a satin Tang suit, when he saw Lian Jiangyue, he stood still.Among the other three people, a man wearing a flat hat went to talk to the woman who made the pancakes. The woman's expression changed, she took four steamed buns, and first said a few words to the old man who was silently eating steamed buns Whispered, gave him two buns, then said something to the young man, gave him two buns, and the two got up and left.There was still a lot of soup and buns left in the bowls on the table between the two of them.No one went to clean up the two bowls of leftovers. The woman hurriedly closed the store door, and the boy who was pulling the firewood went to the back kitchen. When Lian Jiangyue looked back, she saw the woman leading the man and the child in the back kitchen. Disappeared behind a door in the back kitchen.

Lian Jiangyue picked up a pair of noodles with chopsticks and blew on the hot steam on the noodles, only to hear a man questioning him loudly: "Lian Jiangyue, are you still in the mood to eat?"

Lian Jiangyue ignored it, but a chopstick flew in front of him suddenly, and "slapped" the chopstick in his hand, Lian Jiangyue dodged in time, and wiped the broken chopsticks with a "whoosh" His neck flew past and landed on the wall behind him, and the noodles returned to the noodle bowl, splashing a few drops of hot soup.Lian Jiangyue wiped her face, and looked at the man who spoke, he was the tallest among the three men and one woman, with his hands hanging by his sides, fingertips reaching knees, in his 40s, with a flat face.

Lian Jiangyue knew this person, because of his unusually long hands, he was also good at snake fist, and liked to use a pair of silver hooks, so he was known as Jiang Jue of Silver Snake Hook Hands.

Jiang Jue was quite proud at this time, raised his chin slightly to look at Lian Jiangyue, put his right hand on the chopstick holder at hand, and said, "Zhao Youzhi made you so amazing, I don't think so."

Lian Jiangyue took another pair of chopsticks and said: "The murderer still has a comfort meal before he dies. You are looking for revenge in the Jianghu, and you won't let me do it after breakfast. Isn't it too unreasonable?"

The man in the flat hat took a stride, stepped forward, and said through gritted teeth: "What's wrong with a bastard like you who betrayed the teacher and killed innocent people indiscriminately? I'll send you to see the king of Hades right away." The best!"

As he said that, the man in the flat hat tipped his right foot, jumped onto the dining table in front of Lian Jiangyue, and kicked that side and Xiaofan towards him.Lian Jiangyue's eyes were quick and her hands were quick, she dodged aside and saved half a bowl of noodle soup.But the beef rice, half a steamed bun, and some beef and mutton were all scattered on the ground.The porcelain bowl containing the small rice was shattered all over the floor.

Seeing the miserable situation on the ground, Lian Jiangyue felt distressed and angry, the hunger in his belly turned into a bad breath, and he had to let it out, he said to the man in the flat hat: "Ma Zun, you hit me What's the point of smashing other people's jobs?"

That's right, he also recognized the man in the flat hat. He was the famous Thunderbolt Ma Zun from Lanzhou.

The remaining man and woman are also familiar faces, the one in Tang suit is Foshan He Xiaoshu, and the woman is Wujiang boatman Zhong Xiaoyan who is known as Tangqianyan.

The four of them are old friends of Bian Rugou, and they still have some friendship with Lian Jiangyue. The pair of silver hooks that Jiang Jue ordered a few years ago were made by Lian Jiangyue, and Ma Zun gave them to his eldest son. A pair of saddles were also made by Lian Jiangyue. Zhong Xiaoyan parked in the three-story luxury fishing boat hotel on the shore of Taihu Lake. Love pulls Lian Jiangyue and gossips about Qi Kuo.

At this time, He Xiaoshu stopped Ma Zun and said, "Brother Ma, come down first, I think it's best for us to change places."

Ma Zun patted his chest and said, "My cousin owns this store. Don't worry, if you break the table and chairs, I will pay for it."

Zhong Xiaoyan also said: "That's not very good anyway, you come down first."

That Ma Zun looked at her, scratched his ears, looked at Lian Jiangyue, got off the table, and then snorted coldly: "See, you can't escape today."

Zhong Xiaoyan said to Lian Jiangyue: "We originally made an appointment to meet at your hotel, but when we found out that you were not in the hotel, we wanted to eat something to fill our stomachs, but we didn't expect to meet here."

Jiang Jue sneered, and said, "If you ask me, you are brave enough to publish your address in the evening paper."

Lian Jiangyue said: "I agree with Master He's suggestion. I want to fight. I know your reason for coming. Bian Rugou passed away. You blamed me for all the crimes. You came to justice and revenge for Bian Rugou. here."

Jiang Jue slapped the table, his eyebrows flew high: "Why, you want to run away again?"

Lian Jiangyue laughed out loud: "Want to run again?"

Jiang Jue leaned forward, glared at him and said viciously: "After you and Wuzangtong killed your master, didn't you just put oil on the soles of your feet and run away? You also ran down the mountain and killed an innocent villager !"

Lian Jiangyue sneered: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Jiang Juedao: "What Zhao Youzhi told me, can it be false?"

But He Xiaoshu said: "It's true, but she told me that Mr. Bian's father died in depression. She only hated herself for not being able to be a good senior sister, and not caring enough for other people in the division, so that the division broke up..." He Xiaoshu Sighing, "Also told me not to go to Lian Jiangyue," he looked at Lian Jiangyue, "She said he also has his difficulties."

Jiang Jue said: "That's not because his good apprentice colluded with outsiders to cheat him of gold!" He waved his hand, "Anyway, Master Bian's father is gone!"

That Ma Zun looked at Jiang Jue and said, "I said it clearly, because Lian Jiangyue, a traitor, hated Mr. Bian for wanting to let Shizhen take over the family business. He is not convinced. How can there be any gold?"

Zhong Xiaoyan joined the discussion suspiciously: "Xingshan said it has something to do with an evil sword, and said that Wuzang used that sword to control Lian Jiangyue."

Jiang Jue smiled and said: "Zhong Xiaoyan, it's hard to say if there is such a person as Wuzangtong in the world, anyway, Zhao Youzhi said that he just heard the movement of the fight, and it was too late to rush over, and he saw a puff of black smoke, so pity Jiang Yue Guan’s black smoke called Wuzangtong, Wuzangtong. It’s hard to guarantee that it’s not a character he casually mentioned in order to shirk responsibility! I don’t know where he heard the story of the rivers and lakes, and heard such a name. I think This person does not exist at all, I think killing Bian Rugou is all the idea of ​​Lian Jiangyue!"

Zhong Xiaoyan frowned, and said, "Why are you angry at me? I also heard what Xingshan said."

Ma Zun said to Jiang Jue: "Jiang Jue, are we here today to deal with this bastard or to quarrel?"

He Xiaoshu interrupted and said, "Wuzangtong is indeed someone. I have inquired everywhere, and I think Yiyi can testify."

In so many stories about his betrayal of the teacher, Xiang Yiyi, who was also present at the time, has been absent. Hearing her name appear at this time, Lian Jiangyue was curious for a moment, and asked He Xiaoshu: "Want to Yiyi? About Wuzangtong , did she say anything?"

He Xiaoshu said: "She only said that there must be such a person in the world, and she didn't say anything else."

Lian Jiangyue smiled, it seemed that Xiang Yiyi didn't intend to connect homesickness with a mysterious killer in the Jianghu, and a notorious bully of teachers and ancestors.

When homesickness had no heirs, she wanted to come to him and ask him to return to homesickness, but now that something happened, she was anxious to get rid of him.Lian Jiangyue felt that this matter was ridiculous and hateful.He just laughed, clenched his fists, and hated it.

Jiang Jue frowned, his features on his flat face wrinkled into a ball, angry and courageous, he pointed at Lian Jiangyue and said, "Are you still laughing?! Your master is dead and the Bian family is devastated. You can still laugh!"

Lian Jiangyue looked at Jiang Jue, his black eyes were cold and cold, and Jiang Jue was speechless, and he stepped back a small half step, and took a horse gait - this was all caused by martial arts practitioners. Danger vigilance and awareness of self-preservation.

The other three also suddenly held their breath and became silent.Their eyes were fixed on a white wall behind Lian Jiangyue.

They stopped talking, and Lian Jiangyue started talking.He said: "I didn't kill my master, I didn't collude with any outsiders, and I don't know what bullshit gold is. When I left Bian's house, I gave them back all my skills. I do have an evil sword in my hand now."

Unsheath, unsheath...

The weird voice encouraged him and encouraged him in Lian Jiangyue's ear again.

Lian Jiangyue pressed his right hand to the edge of the wooden table, swept away the silent crowd, he had nothing to say to them, so he stopped talking.But his hatred couldn't be stopped no matter what.These people had just quarreled, and the content of the discussion was still rolling in his mind:

Only people who only think about money interests think that others will commit crimes because of money interests, and they will make up stories about me doing things for gold. The sound of fighting, it's too late to rush over, making up such a story is just to cover up my incompetence.

Mrs. Mingming, bah!Do you think Bian is really useful at this time?Do you think Bian can really inherit the family business?Don't you sigh for a long time, is Bian really not as good as me?

Bian is true... why are you pretending to be pitiful and noble at this time?

There are also these people, what kind of righteous people, knights of the rivers and lakes, after hearing a person's story, they take it as true, and they want to eradicate him as a treacherous person, and get rid of him as a villain.

absurd!

Lian Jiangyue clenched her right hand tightly.

Unsheathed...unsheathed...!

The voice next to his ear kept urging him, and he actually felt that the voice sounded so sweet and gentle.He couldn't help but want to follow its meaning.

At this time, the group of four masters who were staring at Lian Jiangyue with tense spirits and expressions were shocked, and Ma Zun even exclaimed: "Look, his shadow..."

He Xiaoshu looked intently, and saw Lian Jiangyue's shadow, a black, sword-like thing suddenly appeared on his right hand grasping the edge of the wooden table.But look at Lian Jiangyue himself. He is sitting behind the wooden table and in front of the white wall, with dark clouds in his eyes, a handsome face with a gloomy look, and his black hair hanging behind him, which seems to be in harmony with his rich and inky black hair. The shadows are connected as one.

He held nothing in his hands.

Faced with such an incredible scene, the four of them seemed to be a little timid. He Xiaoshu opened his eyes wide and looked carefully again. That's right, Lian Jiangyue's shadow was indeed holding a sword in his right hand.He couldn't help taking a deep breath, holding it in his dantian, not daring to let it out easily.And the three people around him also dared not show their air.Undoubtedly, they all felt an indescribable sense of urgency.

It seemed that the sword in the shadow's hand would be unsheathed at any time, and no one was sure to escape this unsheathing.

But Lian Jiangyue was a rebellious person who betrayed his master, killed his master, and killed innocent people. They must seek justice for Master Bian and those who died innocently under his sword!

He Xiaoshu didn't want to wait any longer, his intuition told him that if he waited any longer, the breath that was tightly oppressing him, and the feeling that was almost suffocating him would only get worse; moreover, he knew that Lian Jiang Yue was physically flawed since he was a child, unable to practice martial arts, not to mention internal strength, it was difficult to even put on a fancy posture. Although he was domineering, he didn't necessarily have much real ability in his hands, so He Xiaoshu summoned up his courage, Leaped onto the wooden table, flying straight to grab Lian Jiangyue's throat.

Lian Jiangyue saw that He Xiaoshu made the first move, and said bitterly: "A few days ago, you still talked and laughed with me, but now you listen to other people's one-sided words, and you want my life?"

He couldn't take it any longer, he just got out of the sheath!

Thinking in this way, he saw his right hand suddenly swung towards the wall behind him, grasped, grasped, and pulled out a pitch-black long sword, and saw a black light drawn towards He Xiaoshu, and Zhong Xiaoyan shouted: " careful!"

A puff of black smoke passed in front of his eyes, and Lian Jiangyue couldn't see what happened, but he heard the sound of someone falling to the ground. He was feeling satisfied. Then he thought, if he killed the four of them here, he would He may not be able to stay in Minshi any longer, but he still has unfinished business.

Thinking of this, the black smoke dissipated in an instant, and the four men and women fell to the ground with astonished and panicked faces. There was a bright red bloodstain on each of their necks.Zhong Xiaoyan covered her neck and looked straight at Lian Jiangyue, trembling all over.

Lian Jiangyue said: "I still have something to do in Min City, let me spare your life for now, you know now, fight, you can't beat me, so don't bother me, if someone still wants to die, don't If you are so anxious for a while, you can wait for me to finish my work in Minshi, and we will fight again."

After finishing speaking, he pressed the black sword in his hand against the wall, and the black sword obediently blended into the shadow of his right hand.Lian Jiangyue was satisfied again, got up and walked out.

No one chased them out.

Lian Jiangyue continued to wander on the street, planning to find another early shop to eat something, so when he reached an alley, he heard someone shouting behind him: "Little brother wearing black gloves in front, wait a moment .”

Lian Jiangyue looked back, and it turned out that it was the old man in the gray shirt who was sitting in the noodle shop breaking buns who was yelling at him.

Lian Jiangyue stopped, looked at the old man with a smile, and said, "What? You also came to avenge Bian Rugou?"

He had never seen this old man in Bian's house, but seeing him approaching from far to near with light steps, he must also be a practicing family member.With the experience in the noodle shop just now, Lian Jiangyue didn't pay attention to any masters she encountered at this time, and just stood there waiting for the old man.

The old man approached, clenched his fists at Lian Jiangyue, and said, "Little brother, I just peeked outside the noodle shop for a long time, I think you are a very capable person."

Lian Jiangyue also clasped her fists, not without surprise: "Mr., you have been watching us outside the noodle shop for so long, but I didn't feel the breath of you as the fifth person at all. You are also a capable person. "

The old man waved his hands and smiled all over his face. He has a kind face and looks more kind when he smiles.Pointing to the alley, the old man said: "I see talented people, and I feel a little eager for skills. If you want to, find a place with me, an old firewood, and make gestures?"

The old man said again: "I am old, I have lived to this age, half of my foot is in the coffin, if I can die by your sword, I will have no complaints or regrets."

"What about your family? They will be sad." Lian Jiangyue said.

The old man smiled again, but said nothing.

There was only one sword in the noodle shop, and Lian Jiangyue was feeling a little bored, and wanted to try the sword again, so she followed the old man into the alley.When the two walked to the bottom of a bridge, the old man stopped, discussed with him and asked him, "What do you think of this place?"

Both sides of the bank are full of half-demolished buildings. Under the bridge, the water is calm and there is no one around.Lian Jiangyue nodded: "Very good."

The old man said: "Thousands of years old, please enlighten me."

Lian Jiangyue was just about to register her name, and her phone rang loudly.He hurriedly gestured and looked at Qianbaisui apologetically: "I'm sorry, usually my phone is rarely called. Yesterday I published a few missing person notices in the evening paper. I'm afraid someone has a clue to find me. I have to take this call."

Qian Baisui was reasonable, and said with a smile, "You answer it, alas, Old Chaihuo is looking for death, and I don't need the time for this call."

Lian Jiangyue picked up the phone, this time the number was displayed on the screen, it was a landline, and there was a woman on the other end of the phone, she answered and shouted: "Lian Jiangyue, if you want to know about Lian Wu's hate! Come to the pedestrian street immediately Vientiane Winery! Bring the money!"