beg for chivalry

The cold night was deep, and the pale moonlight fell on the gray tile roof, casting a gloomy shadow on the ground.A girl in a wide-waisted red dress was galloping along the East Street of Mengyang Town, her footsteps showing eagerness and fear.The wooden door in the eaves was dark and locked, and there was no life in the surrounding area.

She ran to the gate and shook it vigorously a few times, but only heard the heavy crash of iron chains.Under the hazy moonlight, one could see the big characters "Donghuang Mu En" written on the top of the door, and a copper round lock was hung between the iron bars, which was making a slight sound with her shaking.

A figure gradually protruded from the stone-paved street.

The moonlight elongated the man's shadow, twisting and spreading in the crevices of the stone, like a wandering poisonous snake.The person walked a few steps, and the snake letter licked the corner of the girl's skirt.

The figure of the man was dark and cold, with a hideous ghostly face under the wide drapery hat.There are a few strands of cold silver thread wrapped around his fingers, just a slight flick can cut iron like mud.

"Why did you run in such a hurry? Ah Yao, don't you want to see your mother?"

After hearing what the man said, the girl was terrified, but couldn't stop her thoughts of running away.The person who came was holding a round head in his hand, the facial features were squeezed together stiffly, dripping blood dripping down.It was expected that no matter how much she cared about her mother's safety, seeing this scene, fear still prevailed in her heart, and she had no choice but to run away.

"You... where did you take mother?" Ah Yao asked in a trembling voice.

"Before that, tell me the whereabouts of that boy in white." Yan Jiubian's malicious laughter came from behind the Rakshasa mask.

Ah Yao murmured. "He...he lives in the inn on Cuihu Street."

Yan Jiubian smiled meaningfully: "What you said...is it all the truth?" With a movement of his finger, a slight cold light wrapped around Ah Yao's neck. "I have told far more lies than you, so I am most familiar with lies, lies, and jokes, and I can tell who is guilty at a glance."

After hearing this, Ah Yao was really terrified. She grabbed the muddy red skirt in fear, and after a long time whispered, "He's on... North Street."

The smile in Yan Jiubian's voice deepened, "Ah Yao, you are such a good boy." The girl Fang breathed a sigh of relief, but heard him say, "You are a good boy who...like me...can lie!"

After finishing speaking, the silver thread flew out and brushed against Ah Yao's face.The girl only felt a pain, and immediately something fell to the ground with a thud.Hot blood gushed out and fell to the ground like bright red beads.Ah Yao took a closer look, only to find that the silver thread cut off half of her ear!She first touched the piece of flesh that was separated from her body, and then she screamed in pain, covered her ears and cried.

Yan Jiubian said: "Do you think I don't know? As early as when you left, I was sticking behind you like a shadow, and I could see every move clearly. They settled down at the Guangyuan Inn on Xijing Street, and they were friends, okay?" Enviable."

The girl fell to the ground pitifully, her blood-colored lips moved slowly.Yan Jiubian smiled: "What do you want to say?"

"Mother... where is my mother?"

"You told me a lie, wouldn't it be unfair for me to tell you the truth?" Yan Jiubian turned his head easily, "But I am a kind person with a gentle heart, so naturally I want to repay my kindness with kindness." He went to After fumbling around in the cloak for a while, he suddenly pulled out a soft and wrinkled face. "Here, this is your mother."

Ah Yao was shocked: "This, why is this my mother?"

"Why isn't this your mother?" Yan Jiubian narrowed his eyes slightly, "Can't you even remember the woman who gave birth to you? Or do you think this is not a 'person', but a 'thing'?"

With a spare skin and no limbs, how can you be called a person?However, Ah Yao looked at that limp face, and seemed to vaguely see a familiar face.Her mother was supposed to be a beautiful and enthusiastic woman like a peony, with a smile like a flower, instead of being empty-featured like this time, being held by Yan Jiubian.

Ah Yao burst into tears: "You said that if I listen to you, mother will be able to come back..."

Yan Jiubian said with a dark smile: "I mean you can see her, don't you just see her 'one side' now? If you want to see the rest of her flesh and blood, you can go to the grave to look for it. The dregs that the wild dogs have not chewed up, the second is to go to the underworld to meet, I am happy to send you mother and daughter to reunite."

He looked at the girl, indifferently considering whether he wanted to kill someone.The blood stained on his hands could no longer be washed away, and he never minded a few extra lives.

Yan Jiubian glanced at the dark night sky.The pale jade plate hangs in the sky, hazy, so he decides to count how many clouds pass by the moon. If the number is positive, he will use the cruelest and most painful method to cut the girl in front of him into a shape that cannot be discerned. The ball with rotten limbs was kicked in front of Jin Wu.

While thinking about the surprised and disgusted expression that person will show, Yan Jiubian became very excited and eager to try, even stretched out his bright red tongue to lick the white teeth, tasting the bloody taste from the tip of the teeth tearing the surface of his tongue .

He can't wait.

Before making a move, Yan Jiubian said with a smile: "That's right, I have something to ask you. According to my mood, this may be the last question."

Ah Yao looked at him with tears in his eyes.

"Why are you lying to me? Could it be that you intend to cover that kid?"

The girl sobbed for a long time, and Fang said: "I heard from my mother that there are all villains in Houtianlou. He is righteous and you are evil. Even if I die today, there will always be heroes who will knock you down..."

Yan Jiubian suddenly laughed like a maniac: "What villain? Where is the villain you are talking about?" He grabbed Ah Yao by the hair and lifted it up, gnashing his teeth. "It's your blindness. Everyone in the world thinks that Houtianlou is doing all kinds of evil, but how do you know that the Zuozhuzhu is so painstaking! Is the Wumeng righteous? Houtianlou is evil? Who made the rules to distinguish everything in the world? "

He held Ah Yao's neck with one hand, and gradually tightened his palm mercilessly, but whispered in her ear like a whisper. "The so-called 'houtianlou' means to wait for the sky and follow the will of heaven."

"The landlord on the left is our will of heaven! Have you ever seen 'heaven' bound by secular etiquette? Since she is heaven, we are the people of destiny..."

Yan Jiubian suddenly stopped talking because he felt that the person in his palm had no pulse.It turned out that he was so angry that he strangled Ah Yao to death.

The girl's eyes are protruding, her red tongue sticks out, foam and saliva drip from the corner of her mouth.Her expression was distorted and painful, and her limp body seemed to have its bones removed, swaying slowly.

Rakshasa in black stood dumbly holding Ah Yao's body for a moment, "Dead?" He murmured to himself in disbelief, and broke the girl's fingers one by one, but there was no sound.

So he was finally convinced that she was dead, threw it on the ground, stepped on her head and rubbed the soil on the side of his boots, and then said innocently: "Dead!"

Yan Jiubian kicked Ah Yao aside, and within half a day, people would find her dead body.Neither robbing money nor sex, presumably everyone will be puzzled by the cause of this girl's death.

Thinking of this, a sinister smile gradually appeared on his face behind the mask. "...Look, those who defy the fate of heaven are going to die like this."

On the side of Xijing Street, in the Guangyuan Inn.

In the crowded back hall, long benches with missing legs or loose tongues and grooves, white paper lanterns with holes, unfastened bamboo shelves, and iron kitchen knives with gaps are placed randomly. piled together.There is a long table in the utility room, and there are two people sitting opposite each other on the table, they are Jin Wu and Wang Xiaoyuan.

Wang Xiaoyuan was even more disturbed and uneasy after hearing his young master's words.

Jade white swordsman, black-clothed Rakshasa, words that could only be heard in Jianghu rumors in the past, all appeared together, but he had no way of distinguishing the truth from the falsehood.

He now felt his fingertips were a little hot, and he didn't know if it was the heat from Jin Wu's body that stained his fingers through the brocade clothes, or if he had a fever from embarrassment.So Wang Xiaoyuan flusteredly rubbed his hand to the hem of his short jacket and hid it behind his back.

He really cared in his heart, and asked again: "Just now..."

"It's all nonsense, don't take it to heart." Jin Wu drank a glass of wine, although his face was reddish, but he didn't look drunk, "It's because I didn't lie to you enough times, so you believed me?"

"I sincerely want to believe you once." Wang Xiaoyuan said, "Just tonight."

"I also sincerely want to play tricks on you once." Jin Wu yawned and said with a smirk, "Tonight counts as one time, and I don't know if I will play tricks on you again in the future."

Wang Xiaoyuan was very puzzled by his words. "Why?"

Jin Wu looked at the sky in a daze, thinking how many days were left in his life, but said: "Because I'm tired of playing, you idiot, idiot, every time you react the same way, it's so boring." He thought for a moment, But he didn't bring up the topic just now, but took out the paper with various medicine names written on it from his bosom, and threw it on Wang Xiaoyuan. "Go and help Sanniang find these medicines."

Seeing that the young man in white was confused, Jinwu gave him a weak look again, "I don't want your Snake Tea, and you would not be so kind if you even thought about finding medicine for me. But Sanniang still has to help, here, you I searched for everything according to the names written on it. This place is not far from the Valley of Wanyi, and there are many rare and rare grasses growing on the edge of the cliff, it would be a pity not to pick them."

Wang Xiaoyuan picked up the paper in a daze: "Do Sanniang a favor...?"

Jin Wu propped his chin, his eyelids drooped, but the corner of his mouth curled into a sly smile. "Don't you like her and fall in love with her, and wish to have a tryst with her every night in the firewood room. Now I'm giving you a chance to be courteous, why don't you thank me, young master?"

The young servant rolled his eyes in his heart, and felt that it would be inappropriate to ask what he said before, so he clasped his fists sternly: "Thank you very much." He was upset, but smiled and said, "In this case, it's better to let the young master make us both happy." thing, she and I are exactly the same family and match very well."

For some reason, Jin Wu suddenly turned his face, and mocked sullenly. "That's right, you two had better go wandering around happily. A pair of broken bowls and chopsticks are dangling in front of me, and I don't care about it."

Wang Xiaoyuan just laughed.He thought: He likes Sanniang, she is smart and has a deep knowledge of medicinal herbs.In the past, after he was beaten by the Golden Crow for a while, it was inevitable that he would suffer some small losses. Sanniang took good care of him every time, and he was naturally very grateful for a long time.

But somehow an idea popped up in his mind: What is his feeling for Jinwu?When sitting opposite this person, Wang Xiaoyuan only felt that his mood was complicated like hemp, like love and hate, like a mix of five flavors, joy and dissatisfaction.Such an entangled mind can't be called liking, nor can it be considered extremely disgusting.

He was in a state of restlessness when he suddenly felt the Golden Crow's gaze quietly cast on him.

There is a long table between them, separated by scattered wine jars and a set of broken chess pieces, the smell of alcohol is overflowing, cheers come from a distance, and the inn is filled with auspicious atmosphere, but the two of them are silent and quiet And everyone has their own thoughts.

Wang Xiaoyuan couldn't guess what Jinwu was thinking, and Jinwu didn't know what Wang Xiaoyuan was thinking.They sat quietly for a while like playing charades, and finally it was Young Master Jin who spoke, still in his usual high-spirited manner.

"Clean up quickly and roll to the edge of the cliff." He said triumphantly, "You are not allowed to come back until you have finished picking the herbs, and it is best not to come back for the rest of your life."

Wang Xiaoyuan glanced at the dark night sky and said, "It's getting late now..."

Jin Wu slapped the table and said angrily, "Go when I tell you, why are you so evasive?"He was still playing and talking just now, the bench was not warm, and he was going to drive Wang Xiaoyuan out to find medicine again.

Seeing Wang Xiaoyuan's troubled expression, he sighed, and suddenly suppressed his publicity. "Are you holding back something to ask?"

The young servant nodded vigorously.

"Then go to the cliff and find all these medicines," Jin Wu said, "I will tell you when the time comes." He said this with complicated helplessness, although his tone was tough, but Wang Xiaoyuan vaguely felt that it was Some kind of pleading language.

"Is it enough to just go to the edge of the cliff? I see this kind of snow lotus ginseng...it doesn't seem to be something born on the edge of the cliff."

Jin Wu shook the wine cup and said calmly. "You will know when you go."

This conversation has no beginning or end.Wang Xiaoyuan was confused and knew that his young master was a liar who loves to play tricks, who knows what tricks he would come up with to trick himself?

But for some reason, he thought: Just believe it again.

Wang Xiaoyuan sat with his mouth pursed for a while, and finally made up his mind to stand up.He held the paper tightly, put it in his arms but was afraid of wrinkling, took it out repeatedly, and folded it several times.His steps seemed to be stuck together, and he hesitated, making Young Master Jin frown.

"Then... I'll go first." He whispered, and glanced at the Golden Crow. "See you tomorrow."

The man ignored him, just fiddled with the wine cup sleepily, turning his fingers lightly on the rim of the cup.When Wang Xiaoyuan walked to the door leading to the vestibule, he suddenly heard a crisp sound coming from behind him.He hurriedly looked back, only to realize that it was his young master who accidentally broke the wine jar.

Jin Wu was frowning and looking at the broken wine jar, seeing Wang Xiaoyuan turning his head back in a daze, he waved his hands in disgust, and said.

"Goodbye, goodbye, never see you again."