Wulin Xiaohui

After a long time, Ye Zang said: "That old man, did he come from the Wentian school like Yizhou?

Shen Yizhou shook his head: "He is a passer-by from the back mountain of the Wentian School. Speaking of which, I hadn't met him when I first knew him. I thought he was a brother in the school. We chatted many times through a wall, and finally Only then did I meet the real person. Later we often went out together. He was not from the Wentian Sect. I thought he was a disciple of a small sect who came to practice kung fu. Why. He didn’t talk about his background, so I didn’t ask, because I can also feel that he cherishes me as a friend.”

"and after?"

"Then one day, he suddenly left without saying goodbye."

"So you're looking for him?"

Shen Yizhou smiled: "I just made a mistake in the sect and was expelled from the sect. I have nowhere to go, so I can only wander around."

The silence lasted for a while, until Shen Yizhou yawned and stood up: "It's hard to be sleepy, Brother Ye, let's go to bed earlier."

Ye Zang also stood up, watching Shen Yizhou shake off the accompanying quilt, and quickly got in, and after a while, let out a long breathing sound.

Like nothing.Thinking of this, Ye Zang also lay down and closed his eyes, and fell asleep after a long time.

Shen Yizhou was woken up by Xiuxiu's voice, she was making trouble for Zhu Tang to embroider a small blue flower on her shoe.Where Zhu Tang knows how to embroider, she can only coax her in a good voice.

Opening his eyes, he saw that Ye Zang had packed up and was sitting with his back to Shen Yizhou.

Shen Yizhou stretched his waist, slowly got up to pack up, ate some white flour buns and cleared the water, and set out on the road again.

"Brother Ye, after another four or five days, we should reach Liangtang."

Ye Zang nodded: "Brother Shen, do you have a place to stay?"

Shen Yizhou thought about it, it was his first time going to Liangtang, and there was really no place to go other than the inn, so he shook his head.

Ye Zang said, "If you don't mind, there are still a few vacant rooms in my old house..."

There are many people in the inn, beautiful and eye-catching, it is indeed a good choice to live in Ye Zang's house, so he did not refuse.

Zhu Tang breathed a sigh of relief at the side, Shen Yizhou was very stingy, if he stayed in a hotel, he would definitely not give him a room.This time he was saved from living in a firewood house, which made him very happy.

Ye Zang smiled with his head down, still in that gentle and refined manner.

After being delayed on the road for a while, the group of four did not arrive in Liuzhou until dark.

Liuzhou is the closest wharf to Qingshui Town. Starting from here and going to Liangtang, there will be a long way without a market. Business travelers from all over the country will buy supplies in Liuzhou for consumption on the road.

After arriving at the inn and settling down, the four of them went back to their rooms early to rest, and they lived together peacefully overnight.

The next day, Ye Zang and Shen Yizhou went out to buy dry food supplies, and dragged Xiuxiu through the market to show off. After noon, no one came to claim it, so they took her on the road again.

Zhu Tang teased Xiuxiu while driving the car: "Miss Xiuxiu, can you sing a little song?"

"What is Xiaoquer?"

Zhu Tang sang a section of Jiangnanchun, Xiuxiu listened with great interest, and when he finished singing, she clapped her hands and applauded: "It sounds so good!"

Immediately, Zhu Tang felt like a diva singing, while Xiuxiu was like an old man listening to music.

"Forget it, it's okay, what do you like to eat?"

"Xiuxiu loves sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and there is a fairy girl printed on it."

Ye Zang listened to the chatting between the two, and suddenly thought of something, and touched Shen Yizhou's shoulder: "Perhaps Xiuxiu is from Liangtang."

“How come you see?”

"Osmanthus cake is a special product in various places, but the methods are different. Jiangzhou osmanthus cake is white in color and has a smooth surface; Wuyang osmanthus cake is brown in color, mostly with round osmanthus patterns printed; Danxi osmanthus cake is yellow in color and mostly made into a large piece. Cake shape, dry texture, local people often take a large piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and eat it with the whole family; Liangtang sweet-scented osmanthus cake is mostly square, with a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon printed on the surface, and sweet-scented osmanthus cake can be found everywhere, but it is not easy As it circulates, only local sweet-scented osmanthus cakes are eaten everywhere.

"So, Xiuxiu is likely to be from Liangtang."

Ye Zang nodded: "This little girl may be from my hometown."

A narrow smile appeared on Shen Yizhou's face: "I have no relatives in Liangtang, between the two of us, the one who is most likely to be her father should be Brother Ye."

Ye Zang followed his words and said, "If it's really my daughter, brother Shen, don't refuse the position of godfather."

The two people in the car were happily talking about this silly joke, and Zhu Tang outside insisted on interjecting: "Then I will have two fathers-in-law at once."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt four icy eyes coming towards him, he quickly covered it up with a dry smile, stiffened his neck and urged the horsewhip, speeding up his journey.

Xiuxiu didn't realize it at all, she seemed to like Zhu Tang quite a bit, she sat beside him and asked this and that.

"Your clothes are dirty."

"Ok."

"Your face is dirty too."

"Huh?...Yes."

"Didn't you take a shower? Don't you like to be clean?"

"I...I love clean ones."

Xiuxiu looked back at the remaining two people, put her hands around her mouth, and said in a low voice, "I'm secretly telling you that when we were in the mansion, my uncle always said that Xiuxiu didn't like to be clean and always took Xiuxiu to take a bath. .”

Zhu Tang's face changed slightly: "Uncle... help you take a bath?"

Xiuxiu shook her head: "Uncle asked Sister Qing and Sister Yu to take Xiuxiu to take a bath."

Zhu Tang was a little relieved, and asked again seriously: "Where is uncle when you are taking a bath?"

After thinking hard, Xiuxiu frowned and said, "Uncle has gone out, and I don't know where he went."

Having said this, Xiuxiu's face became troubled: "Actually, Xiuxiu knows that Uncle doesn't like Xiuxiu."

She curled two fingers to pat her eyebrows: "When uncle sees Xiuxiu, his eyebrows are like this."

Zhu Tang couldn't help laughing, and secretly said, "You're so cute."

Xiuxiu was very happy to hear his praise, she turned her head and shouted behind her: "Daddy, he praised Xiuxiu for being cute."

Shen Yizhou's face changed suddenly when he heard the words, and his eyes were like knives, and he attacked Zhu Tang.

Zhu Tang turned his head tremblingly, and saw Shen Yizhou stretch out two fingers, making two comparisons in front of his eyes, then two comparisons to Zhu Tang, and finally made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Zhu Tang felt his neck was chilly, and couldn't help but sit upright, wishing he could turn into a statue.

Xiuxiu was amused by Zhu Tang's appearance as if he was facing an enemy, and reached out to caress his neck, but Zhu Tang grabbed him and whispered in her ear, "Don't tell your father what I tell you in the future. "

Xiuxiu also asked softly, "Why?"

Zhu Tang said: "No reason, I will be shy, and I will die if I am too shy."

Seeing Xiuxiu's frightened look, he struck while the iron was hot: "Xiuxiu doesn't want me to die, does she?"

Xiuxiu pouted, "I don't want you to die."

Only then did Zhu Tang show a satisfied smile: "As long as you don't tell your father when I'm shy, I won't die."

Xiuxiu clenched her fists, made up her mind and said, "Yes!"

Zhu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, and peeked at Uncle Guan who was sitting beside him, still concentrating on it, as if he wasn't interested in what the two of them were talking about.

In the carriage, Shen Yizhou felt more at ease after threatening Zhu Tang, and half leaned against the wall to doze off, while Ye Zang sat opposite him and read the book that Shen Yizhou had to buy in the city before.Shen Yizhou bought a bunch of textbooks, he didn't read a few of them himself, but Ye Zang was so bored that he read them all over.

Shen Yizhou read a total of two books along the way, and spent most of the time sleeping in the carriage. Fortunately, Ye Zang was a man of few words, and he would not feel bored even if he fell asleep alone.

There was the sound of gurgling water coming from outside the carriage, Ye Zang rubbed his sore eyes, opened the curtain and looked outside, there was a stream outside, and Uncle Guan was driving the carriage to the bridge.

Ye Zang looked at the sky and said to Uncle Guan, "Just rest here for a while."

There were some stones on the flat ground on both sides of the bridge for travelers to rest. Uncle Guan drove the carriage to the side under the shade of a tree to settle down, took out the food he had brought, and placed it on the largest and flatst stone.

Shen Yizhou had already woken up when he was tethering the horse, he staggered down from the carriage, he was still yawning and wanted to reach for food, but Ye Zang blocked his hand, and said helplessly: "Wash your hands first." "

Shen Yizhou had no choice but to go to the water's edge, washed his hands, and washed his face.

The five people sat around the big pancake roast chicken brought by Dingzhou, Shen Yizhou and Ye Zang chatted one after another, and after a while, they saw dust and smoke rising on the road ahead, and several knights of the rivers and lakes were riding fast horses come.

The knights stopped slowly when they got close, and let the horses drink water by the stream.A tall knight in the lead walked towards Shen Yizhou's group, greeted them politely, and asked, "Are you going to Liangtang?"

Shen Yizhou said yes.

The knight asked again: "Since this morning, have you seen someone passing by on the road?"

Shen Yizhou shook his head, then looked at Ye Zang again.

Ye Zang said: "I met a farmer driving an ox cart since last night."

The knight thanked him, turned around and said to his companion, "I didn't take this route, put down my things and rest for a while before returning."

Shen Yizhou asked curiously: "Hero, are you looking for someone?"

The knight said: "We started hunting down the Hengdao sect traitor Sha Qinghe last night, but it seems that he didn't run this way, so we will return after a short rest."

"Sha Qinghe, isn't he the head disciple of the Hengdao Sect?" Shen Yizhou was surprised and confused, "How did you become a traitor?"

The chivalrous man said: "Master Gu passed away last night, it is rumored that his second disciple Yang Xin, Sha Qinghe defected that night carrying Duanfeng Knife, more than ten disciples of the sect were killed or injured.

Several people were greatly shocked, Ye Zang said: "In Xia Ye Zang, there is no sect, no sect, haven't you asked the hero's name?"

The knight replied: "Xu Lian, it's a pleasure to meet you."

After resting for a while, Xu Lian and his companions got up to bid farewell, and rode back on their horses.

Seeing their figures disappear at the intersection, Ye Zang approached Shen Yizhou and asked, "What did you think of?"

Shen Yizhou put down the cake in his hand, and said: "A few years ago, I met Sha Qinghe a few times, and I don't think he is that kind of person."

Ye Zang said: "Perhaps time has passed and circumstances have changed, and his state of mind has also changed."

Shen Yizhou pondered for a moment, and then said: "As the head disciple of Gu Yizhuang, Sha Qinghe has always been the default head of the Hengdao Sect in Jianghu, but now the head of Gu has unexpectedly not been announced to be him. It seems that Sha Qinghe could not accept the fact that he was not passed on to the throne, so he took the knife and defected."

Ye Zang nodded: "Indeed, this is also my first reaction."

Zhu Tang came over and said, "It makes sense."

Shen Yizhou said again: "But the Sha Qinghe I know is free and easy, he can be said to be dismissive of the position of head, and even resists."

Ye Zang asked in surprise, "Oh?"

Shen Yizhou recalled the Sha Qinghe he met when he was in the Zhengyang School that year, and said: "Sha Qinghe is highly valued by Gu Yizhuang. A few years ago, the head of Gu brought Sha Qinghe to visit the Zhengyang School. , I used to think that he, like everyone else, respected the principle of martial arts people's single-minded pursuit of excellence, but one night, I accidentally ran into a quarrel between him and his master Gu Yizhuang. Gu Yizhuang persuaded him to calm down and let him Get ready to take over the position of Sect Master and Duanfengdao."

Speaking of this, Shen Yizhou smiled: "Then Sha Qinghe got angry, and in front of Gu Yizhuang, he demoted the position of head and Duanfeng Dao as worthless, and was so angry that Gu Yizhuang beat him with the back of the knife..."

Shen Yizhou remembered how Sha Qinghe was beaten by Gu Yizhuang and ran all over the field, and he couldn't help but smile.

"That's why I thought it was weird."

Ye Zang looked at him: "People change."

Shen Yizhou looked back at him and said, "Do you want to take a gamble?"

"What are you gambling?"

"I bet there must be something hidden about this matter."

Ye Zang thought for a while and said, "Okay, what's the bet?"

"Just bet..." Shen Yizhou looked around, but he couldn't find anything that could be a bet.

Ye Zang said: "It's better...the loser listens to the winner for a day."

Shen Yizhou's eyes lit up: "Good idea, I bet."

Ye Zang: "The bet is placed, how do you know who won?"

Shen Yizhou was also distressed: "That was Hero Xu just now, with superb martial arts, if Sha Qinghe was accidentally killed by him, maybe no one would know the truth."

Speaking of this, Shen Yizhou looked at Ye Zang seriously: "Let's say it first, if this is the case, I will not admit that I lost."

"Okay, it's a draw."

Shen Yizhou said: "A draw is meaningless, let's try our luck and see if we can find Sha Qinghe."

"How to find it?"

"Sha Qinghe appeared in Liangtang. The hero Xu Lian just said that they split into two groups. Since Sha Qinghe didn't run towards Dingzhou, he must have gone to Wuzhou."

"So, we're going to Wuzhou?"

Shen Yizhou tried hard to control the corners of his mouth: "Yes."

Ye Zang sighed: "Did I fall into the trap?"

The corner of Shen Yizhou's mouth couldn't help but curl up: "Yes."

Zhu Tang shouted at Xiuxiu who was playing in the water: "Xiuxiu, get in the car, we are going to Wuzhou."

Shen Yizhou glanced at him: "You are very happy."

Zhu Tang smiled reservedly, but did not speak.

Shen Yizhou murmured to himself: "Sooner or later, I will meet the officials, so why be so happy?"