beg for chivalry

When looking at Jiulong Mountain at night, strangeness, fear and timidity all rushed to him.In the daytime, the vast forest forest suddenly disappears and disappears into the vast night.Mole crickets made loud noises in the soil, like eerie whispers surging in the wilderness, and the night wind blew pathetically among the leaves of the persimmon trees, like iron horses roaring wildly.

Wang Xiaoyuan stood on the edge of the cliff, a zigzag line stretched out in front of his eyes, which was the outline of the winding peaks.But I saw strange peaks rising, and the turbulent flow at the bottom of the cliff.The sky is dark, and the mountains are a deeper layer of darkness.He stood quietly for a long time, still not clear why Jinwu asked him to come here, but he felt that this place was familiar, and it didn't seem like it was his second visit.

He tied a rope around his waist as before, and went down the cliff, only to be surprised to see a cave hidden among the grass blades.So he stepped on the pine branch and drew his knife to cut the wild elm leaves, and rolled into the cave on the Selaginella.It was dark inside the cave, but things could be vaguely seen. It turned out that there was a long and narrow cave in the depths.

He walked into the cave, his breath was cold, making people shiver.Small figures fighting with knives are drawn obliquely on the rock wall, as if someone has studied the art of knives here; a chessboard is engraved on the ground, and stones are piled up in a mess.Wang Xiaoyuan was in a daze for a while, picked up a stone and put it on the chessboard, then felt it was funny, got up and walked around lightly.

But in the depths of the cave, there is actually a slope of earth and rocks.He was surprised when he saw it, because there was a card made of stone inserted in it, and he could see the words engraved on it by the light of the sky.

——The Tomb of Yu Qiuxia.

Wang Xiaoyuan stared at it blankly for a while, and finally stepped forward heavily, like lead.

If he remembered correctly, there was only one person with this name.And this person is the person he most wants to see.

Yubai Swordsman.The number one in the world sitting in the northwest.One sword is astonishing, three swords are world-class.Even all the good words in the world can't say enough about this person, nor can they say enough about this person's goodness.

It's just that he never thought that Yubai Swordsman is really dead, and this character who has always only appeared in the mouths of storytellers still has a grave here.That person was originally as illusory as a floating light and moon shadow, but this humble earth cave made his existence extraordinarily real.

He stepped forward in doubt, touched the stone tablet with his finger, and traced it several times along the engraving until he touched a handful of dust.

"tombstone?"

Only the dead erect monuments.Thinking of this, Wang Xiaoyuan felt a chill in his heart.

He suddenly felt that the handwriting engraved on the slate was familiar.The strokes are as fine and delicate as Feihong, elegant and graceful, which shows that the engraver is good at writing lowercase script.He stood dazedly looking at the word for a long time, until the cold dyed through his clothes and his back trembled uncontrollably, then he slowly took out a piece of paper from his arms and unfolded it.

It was a prescription for picking medicine written by Jinwu, and the characters on it were also written in lower script with aura.Taking a breath, Wang Xiaoyuan compared the handwriting on the paper with the inscription on the stone tablet back and forth, and finally became convinced of one thing:

The same.

His head seemed to be hit by a hammer, buzzing, and at the same time his heart was throbbing with pain.This place is not the place where he set foot for the first time. He has been here before, but his mind is empty and he has long forgotten it!The snowstorm in the deep winter, the circling birds of prey, the turbulent river as frozen as silver, the snow-capped mountains, and the man in black under the plain silver suit, everything is like a glimpse. The light disappeared in an instant.

Wang Xiaoyuan dwarfs/comes up.He sat curled up with his head in his arms for a long time, staring at the mound of earth and rocks with bewildered eyes.He suddenly felt that he had made the right choice to follow Jinwu's words and come to the edge of the cliff. There was a strange cave hidden by the edge of the cliff. In the cave was the tomb of a jade swordsman, and the writing on the tombstone was exactly the same as that of his young master.

His head was throbbing like it was cracked, so he simply found a place to sit against the stone wall, closed his eyes and rubbed his head.Although he had suffered from headaches more than once, this time it was painful and dizzy.So Wang Xiaoyuan thought foolishly: Maybe it's because he didn't sleep last night and his eyelids were heavy.

In a trance, there seems to be a dream in the mind, and the scene in the dream is very similar to this place.While sleeping and waking, he suddenly couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality. When he was drowsy, he traveled freely in the world of mortals, but when he was slightly awake, he was blown cold by the night wind, and went back and forth repeatedly, like sinking and floating in a sea of ​​drunkenness.

……

three years ago.On Jiulong Mountain.

This day is the beginning of winter, the sky is gray and white, the clouds are lingering, and the rolling mountains are covered with snow blankets.It was quiet and cold all around. Although there was no wind, the sky was extremely cold.The withered grass, bare branches and low thatched huts are all solidified in a chill.

"Don't move." Jin Wu said.

He was wrapped in black lamb fur, his whole face was huddled under the wide brim of the snow-covered hat, and his two leather-covered hands were hidden in cotton muffs. His whole body was wrapped like a tight and heavy rice dumpling.Pressed by the heavy snow falling from the branches, it seemed that a hole was about to be sunk in the ground.

When he said this, his voice was muffled, perhaps because his mouth was covered by the collar and fur, but his eyes in the shadow of the brim of the hat gleamed fiercely, deep and green, like the eyes of a beast.

But I saw two figures, one black and one white, standing on the edge of the cliff.The other person was wearing a gauze hat, and a long knife was tied to the belt buckle around his waist. Although his white robe was thin, he didn't say he was cold.

Yu Qiuxia glanced at Jin Wu, and took a step towards the edge of the cliff, but was suddenly grabbed by his sleeve and pulled back hard.So the man in white asked suspiciously: "You let me not move, how can this be done?"

"Why not?" Jin Wu asked ferociously.

Yu Qiuxia said earnestly: "Stand here, while the clouds are floating around, if the clouds are still, then your body is moving; if you don't move your body, but your heart is moving, your thoughts are moving, all in all it's still not worth it. 'Do not move'."

Jin Wu's ears were broken, he picked up a stone and threw it at him, but the opponent easily dodged it.As soon as he took off the cotton muff, the cold immediately poured into the cuffs, so Jin Wu shivered and withdrew his hands, looking at the person in the thin coat who was still alive and kicking in the cold.If he hadn't been afraid of the cold, he would have gone to Tianshan Gate to clean up this guy long ago.

After thinking for a while, he cut half the hemp rope he had begged from the herb pickers at the bottom of the mountain, coiled it on the ground, and pointed to the rope circle, "Come in."

Yubai Swordsman tilted his head and looked at it for a while, but followed his words and stepped into the rope circle: "What is this?"

"Tie it for you."

Saying that it was too late, Jin Wu pulled back the knot abruptly, tied him up as if he was hanging from the mouth of an altar, wrapped the two rope ears around the sharp stone, and tied a few knots firmly.After tying up Yu Qiuxia, the person who was wrapped up like a meat dumpling finally said coldly: "...you can't move like this."

Then Jin Wu began to slowly peel off his clothes. Every time he took off a piece, his face showed a rare expression of pain as if a layer of skin had been peeled off.Finally, he took off only a thin, pitch-black military uniform. At this time, not only his teeth were chattering, but his whole body was shaking like chaff.

Yu Qiuxia saw that he had tied a hemp rope around his waist, and walked towards the edge of the cliff step by step, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Picking medicine."

"What medicine?"

Jin Wu pointed to his eyes and said, "The medicine for eye diseases."

"I didn't expect you to be blind..." the man in white began to talk poorly.

"It's the medicine to cure your illness!" Jin Wu shouted, rubbing a ball of snow from the ground and hitting him, this time it hit him.So Yu Qiuxia lost her head and turned, shaking her head but laughing with a good temper as usual.Jin Wu was even angrier when he heard that, but his fingers that touched the snow were too cold to move, so he had to carefully breathe hot air into his palm.

The man in white glanced at the rope wrapped around his body and asked. "Why are you tied down?"

"Because you will follow up with a dead skin." Jin Wu said.

"Isn't it good to keep up?"

"What good is it for me to bring a blind man down a cliff?"

Yu Qiuxia sighed, "With such a rope, even if you don't have a knife in your hand, you can break free in the next half an hour."

"Then you just wait here for half an hour." Jin Wu looked at Yu Qiuxia who was bound by five flowers, and there seemed to be a sarcastic smile in his indifferent eyes, "If I haven't come up after half an hour, you will Go home with a big swagger."

The cliffs are dangerous, and the birds of prey are flying around. Even an old herb picker may not be able to retreat unscathed every time.If it is too late to return after getting off the cliff, it is likely that something unexpected has happened.

Yu Qiuxia shook his head and said, "Wait here."

"A fool. If an hour passes and I still haven't come up, what should you do?" Jin Wu said in a bad tone.

"Then wait another hour."

"How about a day later?"

"Wait another day."

"January, so what about a year?" Jin Wu was a little impatient, "If I can't come up again, are you just waiting here?"

The man in white smiled complacently: "I am the best at waiting for others, not to mention a month or a year, even a lifetime."

Jin Wu threw the lamb fur that had been thrown on the ground at him, and said coldly, "What good is this? It's clearly a dead brain and a lump of elm. I think your eyes have been healed, but your brain is so stupid." There is no cure." He thought for a while, then cursed unhappily, "Fool."

"Really? But the world always needs some fools, otherwise everyone is smart and quite boring." Yu Qiuxia smiled and said, "I am such a fool, and I will believe everything you say. So if you say one day, I will wait for a day, say a lifetime, and I will wait for a lifetime."

"It won't take so long." Jin Wu was at a loss. He tightened the hemp rope around his waist, covered his face with the Rakshasa mask, and said sullenly, "Just half an hour."

"Then I'll just wait here." Yu Qiuxia blinked, looking at the white birds of prey flying all over the sky, "It happens that there are quite a few fat and strong birds..."

He thought: If half an hour had passed, he would build a fire here, just as the mountain stream was frozen and there were a lot of clean mangy thorns that could be caught and eaten.

Before leaving, Jin Wu suddenly said: "If I really can't come up, I will build your grave under the cliff."

"Why are you here?" Rao Shiyu Qiuxia also began to frown.

Jin Wu said: "If I don't see your grave, I won't die with peace."

……

So Yu Qiuxia waited for the golden five or three days.

On the first day, Yu Qiuxia untied the rope, and after sitting for half an hour, he really started to light the fire.While apologizing sincerely, he ate all the birds on the top of the mountain, feeling happy and at ease.

On the second day, he was a little worried about Jin Wu.Because the man tied the rope and went down the cliff without making a sound, he wanted to investigate, but found that the hemp rope that Jin Wu had tied to the giant tree before had been loosened at some point, and the rope in his hand was not enough to let him go down the cliff take care of.So Yubai Swordsman began to find some hemp grass and kneaded the strands of the rope. He had bad eyesight and often made mistakes, so he had to break up and re-knit the strands. After spending a whole night, he finally twisted a long rope.

On the third day, when he was wrapping the noose around the tree, he suddenly couldn't remember how to tie the inner knot.So Yu Qiuxia pondered for a long time, and finally tied a simple knot according to memory.He thought that the knot would probably unravel as soon as he jumped down, and then let him die at the bottom of the cliff.

But Yu Qiuxia has always been courageous enough, so naturally he is not afraid of whether there is a rope tied around his waist, or whether his life is in danger after jumping off the cliff.

So he stood on the edge of the cliff, took a breath of the cold wind, looked at the frozen and deep bottom of the cliff, which seemed to be more than a thousand feet away, and decided to jump down to save Jin Wu.