beg for chivalry

In retrospect, that was not known how many years ago.

At that time Xu Fan was still an ignorant dude who spent his days wandering around Huajie and Liuxiang, and loved to drink some wine in his free time.One day, he was coaxed and tricked by his father into getting into the carriage bound for Tianshan Mountain. As soon as he got on the carriage, he was tied up and gagged by several aunts.Amidst the sound of cars, he hurried from Bingzhou to Tianshan in a daze.

The ice and snow in the Tianshan Mountains are crystal clear, like silver fragments glowing brightly all over the ground, but it is bone-chillingly cold.Here, Xu Fan changed into a plain white outfit in a daze, took an iron sword, and practiced hand-shaped footwork every day.But he couldn't change the lazy and lazy nature of his temperament. He either stayed in his room sleeping soundly after three strokes all day long, or sneaked down the martial field when he saw Elder Dong Qing turn around.

One day, Elder Dong Qing clicked on the name book, raised his head and asked, "Where's Yu Yiwei?" Looking around the martial field, he found that no one answered, and his brows that had been locked before were frowned a bit.

The disciples smiled and replied: "Elder, he is not here."

"When are you not here?"

"Not at any time." The disciples said, "He hasn't been to the martial arts field for three days."

Elder Dongqing was so angry that his long beard trembled, "...well, just asking for flaws is enough to annoy Tianshanmen, you bastards are really getting more and more misbehaving!"

On this day, Xu Fan was sleeping soundly in the room, but he felt a little uneasy. When he opened his eyes, he saw a figure in front of the bed.There was a shadow behind the tent, but it was sticking like a block of wood, motionless.

"...you...who are you!" Xu Fan was startled, and jumped up while holding the quilt.

Suddenly a scabbard came into the tent and pushed the gauze aside.The snow-white sky reflected in, dazzling and cold.Xu Fan squinted his eyes and blinked a few times, only to see a Tianshan Sect disciple standing outside the tent.The man was dressed in plain white clothes, neatly arranged, as if there was not a single wrinkle to be seen, his brows were handsome and cold.

The man spoke, his voice flat.A face is also expressionless, reminding Xu Fan of a lake with no wind and no waves, "I am the foreman, and I am here to call you to school."

Xu Fan was silent for a while, he didn't expect the creditor to chase him so soon.He turned over and covered the quilt, and said sullenly, "...don't go."

The scabbard of the sword penetrated into the quilt, and the quilt was lifted quickly, and the cold wind gushed in. Xu Fan was shivering from the cold, jumped up and shouted angrily: "What are you doing again!"

"Send you to school." The man said calmly but stubbornly.Xu Fan only felt a headache. It seemed that this time he had bumped into an iron plate.He saw that the foreman looked like a sculpture made of ice and snow, and his face and demeanor were quite inhumane. This time he felt better.

Xu Fan frowned, and raised his legs aggressively on the bed, "Why do I have to listen to you? I don't even know what a foreman does, and I don't even know your name."

The man answered simply: "Yu Zhixu."

"Is this your name?"

"Yes."

A sour feeling welled up in Xu Fan's heart.He always felt that the names given by the elders when he entered the Tianshan Gate were very casual, and he picked a random number from the heavenly stems and earthly branches, and even picked a second one for himself. "Yi" means that the grass and trees are wronged when the yin energy is still prevailing, and "Wei" has the meaning of insufficiency. The combination of the name Yu Yiwei seems to mock him.

On the other hand, those people who are favored by the four elders, such as "Yu Qiuxia", "Yu Xie", and the jade executive Xu in front of him, all have names that are as good as one another.He vaguely remembered that Zhixu meant that the sting was revived, but there was also a hint of vitality in it, and this thought made him feel even more sour.

"That's great, you are the foreman, you are a big shot among us disciples." Xu Fan raised his head from the bed, propped his chin and said in a hesitant manner, "It's my luck that you call me to go to the martial arts field to practice. .”

Yuzhi Xu said: "The gate of Tianshan has gate rules. From the time of mao, go to the foot of the mountain to practice swords. I came to call you, but I just followed the gate rules."

Xu Fan rolled his eyes, but some cunning thoughts arose in his heart, and he said, "Will you obey every one of the gate rules of Tianshan Gate engraved on the mountain wall and written in books?"

"Yes." Yuzhi Xu didn't understand why, and nodded solemnly.

Hearing this, Xu Fan grinned at him, and pulled out a hemp paper booklet from under the pillow.On it is the Tianshan Gate Rules, which is stuffed on the disciples on the first day of entry. Hundreds of Gate Rules are densely written on it, making it hard to see.Xu Fan hastily flipped through a few pages before, and used them to cushion the pillow.

"Tianshan Gate Regulation No. 90, you are not allowed to leave the inner room of the disciples without permission." Xu Fan turned to the end and read triumphantly, "Foreman Xu, you have violated the rules. How about I punish you?"

Yuzhi Xu Muran was speechless, but his hand holding the scabbard loosened a little.

Xu Fan pillowed his arms on the bed, and said leisurely: "You want to persuade me to go to school, but I won't go! I'm not good at learning swords, so it's okay to play truant. If you are really a foreman who strictly abides by the school rules, you must not only be able to Advise me to go back to the martial field to practice swords sincerely, and I can't step into this inner room, this is the ability of a foreman."

He thought about it again, and thought of a few sneaky ways.If Yuzhi Xu wanted to take him to the martial arts field by force, he would pretend to fall on the ground, with a few bruises on his body, and then use the school rule of "don't hurt fellow disciples" to crush the leader again.

After all, Elder Xi Xun, who was in charge of the punishment, was extremely ruthless, and never asked the reason when using the punishment.As long as there is a disciple who violates the rules of the sect, he will be arrested by Elder Xi Xun and sent to the torture hall to beat him up.Xu Fan thought to himself, even if he was going to be questioned, he would have to drag this foreman named Yu Zhixu into the water.

Yu Zhixu took a deep look at him, put the sword back on his belt, turned and left.

Xu Fan was very proud, but he greeted him: "Foreman, foreman Xu! Why are you ignoring me? Didn't you want me to obediently follow you to school?"

"I'll wait for you outside," Yuzhi Xu closed the door, "come out quickly."

This guy is really very rigid, if he says he doesn't violate the rules of the house, he will obey them honestly.Xu Fan sneered in his heart, he saw that most of the Tianshanmen were fools, probably because they were foolish in learning swordsmanship, or they were foolishly frozen by the extreme cold in this barren land with snow falling all day long.I heard that Yu Jiachen, who ranks third among the disciples, is considered one, except for running after the ass of the sect master Yu Qiuxia, he can't make up his mind about anything.

Seeing Yu Zhi go out slowly, Xu Fan simply fell on the bed, stretched himself, and rolled into the quilt.Regardless of his foreman and sword practice, Yuzhi Xu can't come into this room anyway, so he'll get a good night's sleep first.

After closing his eyes for a while, there was a "duk-duk" sound on the pane.Xu Fan woke up suddenly, opened his eyes and saw a hazy shadow outside the window pane.

Yu Zhixu stood outside the window, calmly said: "Come out, follow me to school."

"...I'm changing my Taoist clothes!" Xu Fan yelled casually. "I still have to wear a plain crown, tie a scarf, wear boots, and polish my beloved bamboo hand..."

The people outside paused for a moment, then said, "You don't need to change it, just come out."

Xu Fan was silent for a while, could this person really want to force him to go out naked?He turned over on the bed irritably, and Yu Zhixu would knock on the window every once in a while, disturbing him so much that he couldn't sleep.

He had no choice but to reach in through the hole in the quilt, pick two balls of cotton and stuff them into the ear holes.Then he wrapped himself in a quilt and fell asleep comfortably.

When he woke up, it was late afternoon, and the snowy light shone into the inner room, making the room transparent and bright.Xu Fan got up and pushed open the pine-patterned window, and the snow and cold wind rushed to his face in an instant, bringing a refreshing coolness.Yu Zhixu was still standing in front of the window, holding a sword in his arms, with snow on his shoulders, and his face was expressionless.

"Why, you're still there." Xu Fan leaned against the window and smiled at him, turned around and took out a small porcelain jar and a wine cup from under the bed, and poured clear wine into the cup.This wine was brewed with sorghum and snow water from Tianshan Mountain. Xu Fan bought some from the foot of the mountain and hid it all the time and couldn't bear to drink it. Now he is interested in drinking a cup in front of the foreman. "Do you want to drink? This thing is alive, and it will make you happier than going to play with flower girls."

Yuzhi Xu stared at his wine cup, "Alcohol is forbidden at Tianshan Gate."

After hearing this, Xu Fan sighed: "Hey, you are so rigid. Then I won't drink it, and I won't drink it in front of you." After saying this, he shrank his neck from the window and poured out the glass of wine behind the wall. After drinking the liquid in one gulp, he poked his head out, "How about it? I'm not breaking the rules, am I?"

The handsome Taoist was speechless, standing in the wind and snow like a statue of a god sitting in meditation.Xu Fan thought he had fallen asleep with his eyes open, but he didn't want him to suddenly reach out with a scabbard, brush it and knock the cup in his hand to the ground.The bright wine was splashed on the snow, and it turned into ice after a while.

Xu Fan yelled sadly: "My good wine...!"

Yuzhi Xu said: "I don't know how to drink, but you don't want to drink either." Then he retracted his sword, still standing motionless in the snow.

This man is so rude and eccentric, Xu Fan hates him so much, but there is nothing he can do about it, he can't beat this guy.After Yuzhi Xu, he didn't say a word. Seeing that he was dull, Xu Fan also made fun of himself, closed the window with his hand, and continued to roll back to his bed to lie down.After a while he fell into a dream again and fell into a drowsy sleep for a while.

When he woke up again, he saw a golden glow in the pane, and it was already dusk.Xu Fan stared at the zenith, blinked, and when he stood up, he felt a pang of hunger in his stomach.On the table was a cover to cover the leek porridge left over from lunch, half of which had been frozen.Xu Fan had no choice but to scrape it into a small pot and melt it before forcing his mouth.

Barely filling his stomach to a third, Xu Fan swayed to the window, thinking that the weird foreman should leave too, and pushed the window violently.

I saw the rugged mountains in front of me, and the white snow was covered with a layer of light red sunset, shining like agate.A thin clamshell purple appeared on the horizon, as beautiful as if it was blooming in the water.The strange thing is that the wind and snow has not abated, and the snow like goose feathers spreads all over the sky and falls on the window panes.

There was no one outside the window, and it was empty.

Xu Fan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Although he had expected that the foreman named Yu Zhixu would leave, after all, it is impossible for someone to stand outside the window in the wind and snow from morning to night. If there is, then it should be The stupidest fool in the world.

But in his heart, there was some expectation.He himself is a coward who is always despised and scolded by others, especially after entering the Tianshan Gate. Everyone thinks that his original family background is low, and his swordsmanship is not as good as that of someone who has money to practice martial arts since he was a child, and his knowledge is mediocre.Rather than being mocked by others, it is better to be happy here.

"Alas..." Xu Fan stared blankly at Bai Xue outside the window, and sighed, "It seems...even the foreman doesn't like me."

As soon as he blurted out the words, he felt a little regretful.

He was the one who stayed in the room and refused to leave, and he still blamed others for this crime, which can be described as extremely inferior.Thinking of this, Xu Fan became more and more frustrated, wishing to slap himself a few times immediately.

But at this moment, a flat voice came from the snow.

"...It's not that I don't like you."

Xu Fan raised his head suddenly, and saw the snowdrift in front of the window squirming suddenly, and the snow flakes fell off, revealing a handsome face after a while.

"...Cough." Xu Fan was embarrassed, he heard all the words of his feelings just now, and coughed lightly, pretending to be calm, "Why are you still here?"

That face belonged to the foreman named Yu Zhixu, and when he moved just now, Xu Fan realized that the snow pillar standing in front of the window turned out to be a person.A layer of ice crystals hung on Yuzhi Xu's eyebrows and hair, and his whole body was buried in the snow, only his face was exposed.Maybe it was snowing heavily, and he stood there for a long time, and after a while, he was covered by snow and turned into a snowman.

It was supposed to be a ridiculous scene, but Yu Zhixu's expression was so serious that Xu Fan couldn't even laugh.

Yuzhi Xu said: "I'm waiting for you to come out. Haven't you put on your clothes yet?"

Xu Fan stared at him for a while, and suddenly laughed loudly: "If I say it's not good, what will you do?"

"Wait until you get dressed." Yuzhi Xu said, "But before that, I will stand guard in front of your door, and you don't even think about having a bite of porridge in East Kitchen."

"Hey, why are you staring at me?" Xu Fan propped his elbows on the window lattice, with a self-deprecating and bitter smile, "I'm just a rotten piece of wood that can't do anything, how good it is to teach other students Yeah, let me go."

Yuzhi shook his head slowly, and the snow fell from his head: "No, as the foreman, every student has to be taken care of, and you can't fall down."

Xu Fan was helpless.He wanted to just agree and go to the martial arts field with Yu Zhixu obediently, but there was always a lump in his heart.So he thought about it, and said:

"Foreman, I lost my sword! I don't have a sword, so I can't learn anything. If I go to lectures, I can only listen to it, gesture to the northwest wind, and get beaten by others for nothing."

He wanted to say something more nonsense, but he saw Yu Zhi slowly shaking the snow on his body, untied the sword from his belt and threw it to him:

"Give you."

Xu Fan: "..." He took the sword clumsily, "Then you don't have the sword, what should you do?"

Yuzhi Xu said: "I don't have a sword, but I can still beat you."

These words were extremely arrogant, but for some reason, if they were placed on Yu Zhixu, they would only feel ordinary, even humble.

But Xu Fan still didn't give up, and said again: "But the moves taught in the martial arts are all the same. Even if you learn them, you can only fight birds and steal chickens. The three thousand disciples all learned the extremely old-fashioned swordsmanship, and everyone can use it well. Same, what else is there to learn?"

"The swordsmanship is the same, but if you compare it, you will be judged. Even if it is the same sword move, anyone can use it differently, and it can be said to be ever-changing." Yuzhi Xu said, "Why don't we compete on the spot, If I win, you have to obediently follow me to school every day at midnight."

Xu Fan didn't want to be fooled by this. It would be a surprise if he beat Yuzhi Xu.So Dang even waved his hand suddenly: "No, no, no! I don't compare, I don't compare!"

Seeing Yuzhi Xu walking towards him slowly from the snow, he shouted, "Chief Zhixu, did you forget the door rules? You are not allowed to step into the inner rooms of other disciples. If you violate the door rules, I will sue you." Elder Xi Xun, let us bear the wide plank together!"

Yu Zhixu looked indifferent, calm as Mount Tai in the violent wind and snow, said: "It's nothing. If I don't go in, you can come out."

In an instant, his figure dissipated like flying snow, bringing gusts of wind.Xu Fan was so frightened that he wanted to shrink his neck when he screamed, but Yu Zhixu was even faster, he rushed to the window in an instant, and grabbed his lapel with his five fingers.

"Yiwei, how rude you are."

Xu Fan could only hear Yu Zhi whispering, and immediately felt an iron force like a collapse of mountains and rocks coming from his neck, no matter how he ran from east to west, north and south, he couldn't break free.This is Shaolin's movement method, but it also blends very well with the Tianshan Gate's method.Xu Fan felt dizzy and dizzy, and was thrown out of the window.

He fell in the snow and gnawed mud, and turned around a few times, his buttocks hurt as if they were split.

Standing in front of Xu Fan, Yu Zhixu slowly drew his sword out of its sheath, and the cold light shone across their faces.

He draws his sword extremely slowly, every time he utters a word, he draws it a little bit.

"Now, would you like to go to school with me?"

Xu Fan wanted to cry but had no tears. What kind of weird guy is this guy who can do such weird things.It seems that if he doesn't go to the martial arts field for a day, Yuzhi Xu will stand outside his window for a day, and will take him out when he is close to the window, and throw him upside down.

Those who know current affairs are Junjie.Xu Fan immediately nodded quickly, and said humbly: "Yes, yes, don't say you are the one who escorted me from tomorrow, I will wait in front of your room early in the morning!"

Yuzhi Xu walked up to him, with a smile in his eyes.When this person is not smiling, he looks stiff and stiff, but when he is laughing, he is like a gentle breeze, which makes people feel refreshed.Xu Fan thought bitterly, this guy must be an attractive person, a white face.

A cold hand grabbed him and pulled him up from the snow.Xu Fan raised his eyes and bumped into Yuzhi Xu's calm eyes.

"Then it's settled, Yiwei." Yuzhi let go of Xu's hand and said calmly.

-

On the second day, when he came to the inner room again, he saw that the lacquered wooden door was closed tightly without any sound.

The rest of the disciples hurried out and gathered in front of the mountain wall, and the sound of the blade breaking the wind was like waves.Yuzhi Xu glanced at the snow field, and saw Xu Fan's house was clean and white, without a single boot mark.

No one ever came out.

Yu Zhixu was silent for a long while, then stepped forward to knock on the window, his voice was still clear and indifferent, without any emotion, "...Didn't it be agreed yesterday that you are going to go to school?"

In the room, Xu Fan huddled up on the bed, laughing triumphantly, with cotton stuffed in his ears.This time he made up his mind to fight the foreman to the end, Yuzhi Xu asked him nothing but remained silent.Yesterday he was careless and dangled by the window, that's why Yu Zhixu threw him out with every chance.Now that he is huddled deep in the inner room, this time he just doesn't believe that Yuzhi Xu can force him out.

After a while, the shadow on the window pane gradually faded away and gradually faded.When Xu Fan heard the rustling of snow treading, maybe Yuzhi had already left.

But this time he didn't dare to be careless, maybe it was Yu Zhixu who was treading snow on the spot, deliberately making the illusion that he had traveled far, so he still huddled under the bed tent and ignored the outside.

Tang Pozi in her arms became cold, holding her like a piece of cold iron.The charcoal brazier in the room was also extinguished, and the last bit of dark red was extinguished from the charcoal ashes, and the room was as cold as an ice cave.

Xu Fan's teeth were shaking, and he got up to search for charcoal, but found that the bamboo basket filled with charcoal was empty.He spent a whole day with Yuzhi yesterday, and the bamboo basket that was already stored in a shallow place was emptied faster and faster.He glanced at the small plate of tofu and fresh bamboo shoots on the table again. These foods prepared for today seemed to be covered with frost and hard like stones.

"Unlucky...it's really unlucky today...I can't even sleep comfortably..." Suffering from hunger and cold, Xu Fan murmured.He couldn't help being terribly cold, so he fumbled on the bed again, wrapping himself tightly with a quilt.

After a while like this, the hunger in his stomach became more and more intense, like a whirlpool rolled up, sucking all the inner organs into it.But the food on the table froze into ice water again, so I couldn't eat it no matter what.

At this moment, a burst of mouth-watering aroma suddenly floated out of the window, and it got into the nose like a bug.Xu Fan felt itchy, got up wrapped in a thick bag, followed the scent to the window, and opened the window a little.

He looked out, only to see a figure still standing outside the window, it was the lingering foreman Yu Zhixu.But what is different from the past is that this Yu Zhixu is actually carrying a food box in his hand.This person was sitting cross-legged on a spot with little snow at this time, opened the lid of the food box, and a golden crispy vegetarian duck was revealed from inside.

The food at Tianshan Gate is extremely light, without any meaty smell, Xu Fan has already been so hungry that his chest was stuck to his back during the few months of practicing here.The vegetarian duck is wrapped in soybean oil skin, wrapped with bamboo shoots and mushrooms, and sprinkled with sesame oil, it makes people move their index fingers.Although vegetarian, but also attractive.

"Hey, why did you bring this thing to my window! Do you think I'm a hungry and consumptive ghost who only cares about appetite?" Xu Fan could only watch but not taste, resentful in his heart, and rubbed his head angrily. "Even if you hold a banquet in front of my door with one hundred and eight official dishes, I will never step out!"

Yuzhi Xu solemnly said: "Who said this is for you?" He took out a pair of chopsticks from the food box, put a piece of oily vegetarian duck into his mouth, and chewed it with a flat expression.

"Here's my lunch."

Seeing that he ate deliciously, Xu Fan gritted his teeth with hatred.It's a pity that he is not allowed to take a step out of this inner room, if he goes out from here, he will be caught by Yu Zhixu and turned to the elders, so he can only stand here and watch this person eat.

Finally, a plate of vegetarian duck was used up. Seeing the servant tidy up the dishes in an orderly manner, Xu Fan felt a little relieved, but saw him move the food box to another level, and took out a plate of diced duck from inside. Bamboo shoots are mixed with mushrooms sprinkled with sesame oil, and eaten together with white porridge.The food in the box is not from the usual handicrafts of East Chef, everything is exquisitely cooked.

"...Why haven't you finished eating yet!" Xu Fan said helplessly, angrily.He wanted to keep his eyes out of sight and his mind out of trouble, so he closed his eyes and didn't want to eat, but his nose was different from his eyes, and he couldn't close it.Fragrance gradually penetrated into the room, dragging his empty stomach back and forth.

Yuzhi raised his head slowly, and said calmly: "I eat mine, so what does it have to do with you?"

Xu Fan touched his growling stomach, and said, "You are eating in front of my door, of course it has a lot to do with it. You make my eyes feel greedy, what should I do?"

To be able to see but not eat is undoubtedly a great torture in the world.At this time, Xu Fan's belly seemed to be full of greedy worms biting here and there, making him even more hungry.

"If you want to eat, you can come out of the room. These are just some rough tea and light food, nothing special." Yuzhi Xu said, "I think it's not bad to just drink the northwest wind in your room."

Xu Fan cursed in his heart, good guy, this one looks like a straight bait, but it can really teach people to take the bait.After all, no one can resist a full meal under a hungry stomach.Moreover, the foreman looked rigid and serious, but his mouth was quite vicious.

The two stared at each other, speechless for a while.But maybe it's because the stomach is really empty, after all, the appetite has the upper hand, Xu Fan looked at Yu Zhixu, and murmured.

"Foreman, please do me a favor. Get out of my door and let me go to Dongchu."

"No."

Yuzhi Xu Yingde resented simply, "If you go to Dongchu, wouldn't I have been waiting here for nothing? Unless you don't play tricks at all tomorrow and go to school with me obediently, I will start from here." Get out of the way, and let you feast in the back kitchen."

After finishing speaking, Yuzhi Xu looked at him calmly, his cheeks still moving slightly.When Xu Fan saw him eat a few mouthfuls of good food, eating deliciously, he became more and more itchy.

After dawdling for a while, Xu Fan finally couldn't go on shyly, wiped the saliva from his mouth, and said ruthlessly: "...OK."

"Shouldn't you not renege on your debts this time?" Yuzhi Xu just lowered his head to pick from the food box, picking up the delicious bamboo shoots.

On the white porridge, it is slowly delivered to the mouth.He moved slowly and gracefully, but Xu Fan looked as if he had been tortured, and wished he could rush out the door and poured all the things in the food box into his stomach.

"……Um."

After hesitating for a long time, Xu Fan nodded heavily and as if death was at home.

-

The dawn bell rang, and the loud and melodious sound of the copper bell resounded through the mountains, startling a group of white birds of prey, and the snow feathers fell like rain.The sky is as blue as washing, and the snow under the mountain wall in the morning is so thick that it can reach your knees when you step on it.

The two trudged through the snow. Xu Fanfang was picked up from the bed, his limbs limp and limp, his collar was grabbed, and a long mark was drawn on his body in the snow.Yuzhi Xu grabbed his clothes quietly, and dragged him to the martial field involuntarily.

"Foreman, foreman, dragging people up so early, don't you all sleep?" Xu Fan squinted his eyes, avoiding the white light in the snow, dragging his voice and crying mournfully. "Or, do you like keeping people from sleeping?"

"It's time for morning class, Yiwei." Yuzhi Xuzhi said plainly.

"So what if the time comes? Do people live to attend classes? Anyway, life is short, why don't you teach me to have fun in time..."

Yuzhi Xu grabbed a ball of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, which silenced the noisy bastard.

The sky is dyed with red clouds, and the dull sound of drums shakes the mountains.The ice and snow are dyed a magnificent pale pink, as gorgeous as a peony.The passing shadow of the tired bird cut across the snow, cutting the figures of the returning Tianshan disciples in twos and threes.

Xu Fan jumped three times from the stone steps, rolled down like a ball, shouted and rolled in the snow, like a drunk who had drunk several large tanks of wine.Yuzhi Xu walked silently behind him.

"Let's go! Being trained by Elder Dongqing for so long, grandpa and I are exhausted, my shoulders and legs are standing stiff!" Xu Fan was elated, holding the snow all over the place, "I actually went to the hospital today. After studying all day, I have to rest for three days to celebrate!"

Behind him, Yuzhi said quietly: "There is still class at Maoshi tomorrow, I will see you off."

Xu Fan's laughter stopped abruptly.

Although there is light snow in the Tianshan Mountains in spring, the mountain scenery is much clearer.The sky is clear blue, like a soft silk.The water color of Jianzhong Ice Pool is like emerald, embedded in the surrounding amber-like soil bank.The blind girl's boat sometimes drifted in the thawing ice river, and disappeared like a lone leaf in an instant.

On the way to the martial field, the two walked side by side.Xu Fan glanced sideways and saw the faint shadows of fish under the ice pond, and suddenly became playful, shouting and running to the ice surface on the pond.I don't want the spring to be warm and the ice and snow to thaw.As soon as he stepped on it, the ice surface cracked like a spider web, and a gap was made, allowing him to fall straight into it.

Xu Fan shouted in embarrassment, "Help me...help me!"Yuzhi Xu took his time, picked up a long branch from under the plum tree, and held it out to Xu Fan.

When he was pulled ashore, Xu Fan was just like a dog in the water, with his wet head drooping and he followed behind Yu Zhixu. After a while, under the cold wind, his whole body was covered with ice edges, which looked ridiculous.

Yuzhi Xu walked ahead, without even looking at him, he just said calmly: "From now on, you are not allowed to make detours without authorization, so as not to cause any complications."

"Hmm..." Xu Fan replied listlessly.

In summer time, many Tianshanmen disciples went to the plum grove to pick up the fallen plums after school, and many disciples crossed their legs under the tree to adjust their breath, recited the heart method, and even laughed a lot.Xu Fan went for a walk in the plum grove by himself after leaving the martial arts arena, hooked up with a few disciples who were close to him, and talked about interesting things recently.

Yu Jichou had always had some quarrels with Xu Fan, now seeing the steel sword thrown to him by Yuzhi Xu hanging from his waistband, he said in a strange tone, "You borrowed this sword from the foreman for several months, why haven't you returned it? "

Xu Fan laughed and said, "The foreman said he can beat me without a sword, and it's heavy for him to carry, so let me put this sword here!"

Hearing this, Yu Jichou showed injustice on his face.It turned out that Yuzhi Xu was a respected and loved foreman among them. Everyone admired him for his strong swordsmanship and noble conduct. Seeing that Xu Fan always made the foreman troublesome, he secretly complained to Xu Fan.Seeing Xu Fan's nonchalant expression now, Yu Jichou pursed his lips and said:

"You took the foreman's steel sword, causing him to have to wear the mahogany sword. You still need to use the steel sword to learn the Tianshanmen swordsmanship, otherwise the moves will be unreal. You are harming the foreman. Afterwards, you will have to spend more time to improve the swordsmanship Go through it again!"

After hearing these words, all the disciples glared at Xu Fan fiercely.Seeing that the situation was not good, Xu Fan ran out of Merlin, his eyes kept glancing at the steel sword hanging on his waist.

Since that day when he lied that his sword was lost and Yuzhi Xu threw the sword to him, maybe he wanted him to go to the martial arts field to practice obediently in the future, Yuzhi Xu never asked him for the sword again.

But hearing what Yu Jichou said just now, Yuzhi Xu actually gave himself his only sword!And during the hard and harsh training afterwards, the foreman unexpectedly bought a mahogany sword from the city of Yamashita and wore it by his side.

Thinking about it carefully, Yuzhi Xu is an unusually frugal person. It was unprecedented to eat a good vegetarian dish such as vegetarian chicken and fish in front of his window that day. He warned Xu Fan not to be extravagant and wasteful, so Xu Fan often scolded him behind his back for being a poor man.

Now thinking about it in his heart, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable for some reason, and his heart felt sour like eating a bitter fruit.He pursed his lips and glanced at the steel sword, suddenly became irritable, and simply untied it and threw it in the snow.

But after walking a few steps, Xu Fan walked back reluctantly with his head down, grabbing the sword in his hand again.

Time is like water, and the summer heat is over in a blink of an eye.The jade and snow on Tianshan Mountain are rugged, but at the foot of the mountain, there is light smoke like white gauze. The fiery red maple forest is spread for ten miles, and the meadow is golden.

Although the wind is sunny at this time, it is the time of the martial arts test in Tianshanmen. The body and mind of Tianshanmen's disciples are like tight strings. Going to practice lightness skills on the mountain wall, everyone feels like facing a big enemy.

Xu Fan is at ease, although he has been forced by Yu Zhixu to get up in the morning to go to the martial arts field to practice swords these few months, and he followed everyone to the Golden Gang Formation, but his swordsmanship is still mediocre. He was beaten like a pig's head, but he didn't care about the martial arts exam.If a person is so bad, it doesn't matter if they are a little bit worse.

So when it was time for a lunch break, he had a good time, went to take a nap in the plum blossom forest, and occasionally pulled out the small wine he had hidden from the bushes, regardless of whether the elders noticed it or not, he got drunk every time.

When he opened his eyes that day, he saw a blue sky, sparse plum branches, and a snow-white figure sitting beside him.That person was silently wiping his sword with a buckskin, it was Yu Zhixu.

As soon as Xu Fan turned over and sat up, he was still drunk and shouted with his tongue out, "Zhi...Zhi Xu."

Yuzhi Xu still looked down at the sword, and said calmly: "There is an exam in the afternoon, why don't you go?"

"It's the same whether you go or not. Why do you want to go? I'm afraid that my sword dance is really ugly. If I want to make Elder Dongqing angry, it will be very bad."

Still drunk, Xu Fan said in a dizzy voice.He is really not good at learning arts, he knows almost nothing about mind, body and sword in the martial arts test, if he goes to the martial arts field, he will only anger the elders and be ridiculed by others, so it is better not to go.

After a moment of silence, the blade of the sword moved slightly, reflecting Yuzhi Xu's slightly sinister eyes.He stopped wiping his sword, and his words were slightly cold.

"Aren't you afraid to embarrass your clan with your idle appearance?"

Xu Fan was squinting his eyes to look at the sky in a daze, when Yuzhi Xu blurted out his words, it immediately woke him up from his drunkenness by a third.He was used to Yuzhi Xu's calm daily life, but he had never seen the foreman so cold and hard.

"Well... my father didn't even expect me, a scoundrel, to do anything earth-shattering, saying that I was not born to be a dragon, so I had to be a worm." Xu Fan scratched his head and said, "But he warned me that even if If you want to be a worm, you have to be a beneficial worm, and you can live without harming others."

He thought for a while, and then said, "My mother died early, and there is no one in my family. There is a branch in the clan, but they are all poor enough to grow sunflowers in the fields. Father just hopes that I can be in the Wumeng. Looking for a seat, but I think it’s better to be a merchant to make more money. When I go down the mountain, I will buy a cart and go around to sell some things. There is a big Shanxi merchant gang in my hometown, and I will go in and out It seems that there is a lot of money to be made inside and outside the customs.”

"What I want to say is..." Xu Fan was a little incoherent, and finally muttered, "The Zongmen doesn't expect much from me, at most they hope that I will make a fortune. But can this matter be rushed? If you want me to make it come true Is it sure to be possible? Even if the sect tells me to seek revenge, and asks me to take over the entire Houtianlou, if I can't do it, I can't do it. Why should I be depressed because of their words. It's better to have a meal Dish, get a good night's sleep, and forget about it all!"

Yu Zhixu listened silently.The sunlight scattered from the ice pool, making his face pale as frost, with sharp edges and corners.A long time, he said.

"Yes, you are right."

After saying this, he suddenly became much more relaxed, as if a burden had been lifted from his shoulders.Xu Fan stared blankly at him, and saw that his black eyes turned back to calm, the ripples that appeared in his eyes just now disappeared, and the calm and self-sufficient Yuzhi Xu returned in the past.

Xu Fan said blankly: "Then what... you are not being pressured by people from your sect to do something, and that's why you told me what you said just now?"

"That's right." Yu Zhi said quietly, folded the deerskin and put it back in the box.He looked up at the scattered yellow leaves all over the sky, and there were tiny leaves falling on his forehead and the tip of his nose, which looked a bit playful.Yu Zhi Xu Chang breathed a sigh of relief.

"But now...it's time to let go."

Xu Fan stared at him blankly without making a sound.These days, he often hangs out with his disciples, and has heard a little about Yu Zhixu's deeds.Someone said that this person was once a disciple of the Yongding Gang of the Northern School, and he was the successor of the world-renowned Chaos Mountain Sword. If he hadn't entered the Tianshan Gate, then Yu Zhixu would be a shocking and upsetting figure in the Northern School at this time.

But everything turned upside down four years ago.A black-clothed woman named Zuo Buzheng broke into Daxing's mountain road, went in and out among the mountains of knives and arrows, and threw the Chaos Mountain Knife into Li Kuteng's neck and twisted it bloody.Later, the Yongding Gang declined, and Yu Zhixu lost his place to stand, and trekked to the Tianshan Mountains to pay his respects.