The gentleman hides the front [Comprehensive]

Chapter 7.I don't know how many people will return by the moon.

In the next few days, Gong Jiu really did what he said, and often came to chat with Ye Qiege.Ye Qiege would always go to the back kitchen to cook two side dishes, and chat with Gong Jiu while eating.It's a pity that she is still too young to drink alcohol, so she always feels that she is not enjoying herself enough.

When chatting with Gong Jiu, Gong Jiu told her a lot of interesting things about the Central Plains, and also mentioned many taboos and points of Ye Qiege's walking in the rivers and lakes.The most important thing is that in trivial words, Gong Jiu told Ye Qiege all the distribution of forces in the rivers and lakes.

Ye Qiege has lived in the South China Sea for a long time, so he doesn't know anything about Central Plains martial arts.And now, it's not the prosperous Tang Dynasty that she was familiar with "one teaching, two alliances, three demons, four families, five swords and six schools". Gong Jiu's teaching is really what she needs most.

It's just that when Gong Jiu said, "Among the merchants in the world today, Yan Tieshan of Zhuguang Baoqi Pavilion and Jiangnan Huajia are considered to be the best. Zhuguang Baoqi Pavilion started from a coal mine, and it can almost be said to be rich overnight. And the Hua family, the original It was time to sell salt and run banknote and bank shops, accumulated over many lifetimes, and now he is the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River." At that time, Ye Qiege was a little surprised.

Leaving aside the bank's ticket number, shouldn't the sales of coal mines and salt be controlled by the imperial court since ancient times?It is always inappropriate to hand over their sales to merchants, right?

Regarding Ye Qiege's question, Gong Jiu chuckled lightly.He reached out and tapped Ye Qiege's head, Gong Jiu said with a smile: "This kind of thing, I'm afraid that the person above is powerless, don't say anything else, let's take salt as an example, the Hua family monopolizes the sale of well salt, and you Baiyun City, but Haiyan is in control of Anqing."

Ye Qige covered his head, but his phoenix eyes were wide open, obviously quite shocked by Gong Jiu's words.

However, Gong Jiu withdrew his hand, turned to resting his chin, and said with a rare seriousness: "Nowadays, the Jianghu in Anqing is far more powerful than you imagined. Whoever underestimates the people in this Jianghu will be punished." This river and lake is swallowed by water."

His eyes were as black as ink, and his bright red lips curved slightly, which made Ye Qiege suddenly startled - she just thought of her brother."Xia Yiwu breaks the ban." This was the first sentence her brother taught her to write.And at that time, what my brother wanted to tell me was the current situation in the Jianghu?

Lowering his head to peel off a edamame, Ye Qiege concealed his unnecessary shock.And Gong Jiu also put a piece of chopped stewed beef into his mouth, and sighed as if nothing happened just now: "I've been at sea for more than ten days, I'm really tired of eating fish and so on, I still make it from Aye." The beef is delicious."

"Then you eat more." Ye Qiege stuffed the edamame into his mouth, took a sip of the hot sugar water egg, and then used an unused chopsticks to pick up a few slices of stewed beef for Gong Jiu and put it on the table. in his bowl.

The two chatted while eating, and quickly changed the topic just now.

In the early morning of the 15th, the Ye family's merchant ship finally docked at the side of the largest dock between the Central Plains and the South China Sea.Ye Qiege packed his luggage, carried two swords, one light and one heavy, and went to the deck to bid farewell to the old helm.The final destination of her trip was a town on the edge of the desert, where it was said that refined iron ore was produced. Although she didn't know if it was suitable for sword practice, Ye Qige always had to go there.

In this way, Ye Qiege must traverse the entire Central Plains before reaching the border of the desert.Although the journey is far away, Ye Qige also wants to go and see more.

Back then, her master, Ye Ying, retreated for several years and gained the enlightenment of the Heart Sword.And Ye Qige knew that she did not have the same mind and state of mind as her master, so she would not succeed in being born, so she planned to enter the world to experience it first, and maybe she could find an opportunity for breakthrough.

Therefore, the trip to the Central Plains is very necessary.

Gong Jiu was going to the capital, and after knowing Ye Qiege's plan, he did not propose to go with Ye Qiege.However, before he parted, he confessed to Ye Qiege that he was the heir of Prince Taiping.

Everyone has their own secrets, and Ye Qiege understands this.But regarding the matter of his little friend "deceiving" him, Ye Qige still decided... he must not let him go.

So, in the jungle by the pier where they were about to part, Ye Qiege made an appointment with Gong Jiu.Well, Ye Qiege admitted that, in fact, she just wanted to see how far her martial arts was compared with this little friend who she intuitively felt was not weak from the beginning.

Gong Jiu readily agreed - after all, he also wanted to see how this little girl, who was a head shorter than himself, wielded the big sword that looked heavier than her.

That's right, the little girl.Although Ye Qiege is still young, she still looks indistinguishable, but she did not deliberately pretend, and secondly, martial arts practitioners are sensitive to breathing and footsteps, so Ye Qiege's youthful attire, Apart from deceiving the crew on board, I am afraid that even the old steerer would have doubts, but he did not say anything.

Now they are in a relatively prosperous wharf in the Central Plains, even if they are deep in the jungle, they will inevitably be seen.Gong Jiu and Ye Qiege are not afraid of being seen clearly about their moves, it's just that Ye Qiege doesn't want to disturb the people too much.

Knowing Ye Qiege's thoughts, Gong Jiu didn't say much, and directly took out a long sword from the baggage.

Seeing the long sword in Gong Jiu's hand, Ye Qiege raised his eyebrows.It was an extremely sharp long sword, the blade was two fingers narrower than Ye Qiege's light sword, and with a flick of Gong Jiu's wrist, the blade was filled with inner strength, making the handle as soft as a knife. The sword-like long sword flashed a burst of cold light like mercury pouring down.

"I didn't expect you to be a sword wielder."

Ye Qiege brushed every inch of Gong Jiu's sword delicately with his eyes. As a good swordsmith, Ye Qiege has to admit that the sword in Gong Jiu's hand is not only in terms of material, sharpness, but also the blade. The pattern formed by repeated folding and forging of the steel on it is so exquisite.Moreover, what surprised Ye Qiege the most was that from some details, it can be seen that Gong Jiu's sword was clearly made by a woman!

Regarding Ye Qiege's exclamation, Gong Jiu just smiled gently, and moved the sword in his hand closer to Ye Qiege, his voice was filled with joy, and some... strange excitement.

Putting the sword in front of Ye Qiege, Gong Jiu asked, "Do you like it?"

As a swordsman, Ye Qige knows that touching other people's swords rashly is extremely impolite and extremely dangerous.So she just narrowed her eyes and looked at every detail of the sword in Gong Jiu's hand more carefully, but she didn't reach out.

After watching it for a while, Ye Qiege praised: "The sword body is thin and tough, cool as water, shining like a star, light and graceful like a ghost's axe, sharp and windy to deceive the gods, it is really a good sword." Qie Ge asked softly: "The person who made the sword is probably a young girl with a clear mind."

Gong Jiu's eyes became brighter, and his slender, fair fingers caressed the blade of the sword, with an expression of gentleness.He gave a soft "En" before continuing: "A Ye is right, this was made by my mother when she was a child."

Saying that, Gong Jiu blinked his eyes mischievously like a teenager, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, only Aye can see it."

Hearing this, Ye Qiege couldn't help yearning for Gong Jiu's mother's heart. After all, a person who can reach such a state in the forging process, now... what kind of situation should it be?

"Auntie, can you still forge swords now? I have dabbled in forging techniques. If you come to visit me someday, Ah Jiu, please don't turn me away." It was rare to meet a good sword, and Ye Qiege's eyes almost moved away. not open.She was full of thoughts about asking for advice from her senior, but she didn't think about it, but heard Gong Jiu's voice suddenly lowered.

"Mother, she passed away very early. This is a relic she left to me." Gong Jiu lowered his eyes, and there was a touch of sadness in his expression, which made Ye Qiege instantly realize that he had said something wrong.

He opened his mouth, but Ye Qiege didn't say a word of apology.She also knows that this kind of apology after poking someone's pain is the most hypocritical and useless.

Taking a deep breath, he turned his hand and pulled out the sword in his hand. Ye Qiege took a few steps back and said to Gong Jiu, "It's getting late, Ah Jiu, let's start quickly."

Gong Jiu also smiled slightly, and said to Ye Qie, "Okay."

As he spoke, his figure flashed, and his whole body seemed to disappear in the air.That weird movement made Ye Qiege feel like he was fighting Mingjiao's brother Miao for a moment.

But soon, she knew that it was just her own illusion.What Gong Jiu used was not Mingjiao's Dark Dust Dispersion, but an extremely fast lightness skill.

Has Ye Qige ever seen such a quick lightness kungfu in his life?Gong Jiu moved quickly, his snow-white clothes turned into a hasty afterimage against the backdrop of the remaining snow on the ground.

If it weren't for the moment when the long sword approached, and Ye Qiege's instinctively tense muscles, she could hardly catch Gong Jiu's figure with her naked eyes.And that sword was stabbed right in front of her, but because the person who used that sword moved so fast, no one could notice his movement at all.

What a fast sword!

It was Ye Qiege who almost remembered the knife pierced through his chest by the Spike rebels in his previous life.However, she quickly came to her senses, her waist leaned back at an unbelievable angle, her legs kicked sideways, forcefully forcing Gong Jiu out of shape.

Just when Gong Jiu's footsteps were disturbed by Ye Qiege's two kicks, Ye Qiege did not hesitate to replace his admiration with a heavenly sacrifice, and slammed Gong Jiu's waist with a generous sword go.

Gong Jiu raised her eyebrows, as if she couldn't believe that a little girl could make such a simple, rude and unsensual move.

He didn't dodge, because he was confident that he could swing this move with the thin long sword in his hand.However, he underestimated Ye Qiege.Also because of his support, this duel of equal strength ended early.

Gong Jiu's inner strength filled the rapier, and he blocked the sword against his waist with his backhand.But he didn't expect that the sword he expected to be able to swing easily would not be slowed down by half because of his blocking.

Ye Qige really felt sorry for the sword in Gong Jiu's hand. When the epee swung in the gap, she drew out the light sword at her waist again and flew the rapier in Gong Jiu's hand.Then, the wide blade of Tianji Sword hit Gong Jiu's waist with a "Peng", knocking him down to the ground.

Until Ye Qiege took away his two swords, one light and one heavy, Gong Jiu was still in a somewhat dazed state.

Ye Qige shook his head and smiled lightly, reached out to lift him up from the snow, patted the snow on his body casually, and said with a smile: "The strength of my epee is not something ordinary people can block, Ah Jiu, why don't you go back?" Take a good look at your waist, that's right, apply some of this, and it will be fine soon."

With that said, Ye Qiege handed a thin white porcelain bottle to Gong Jiu.

Gong Jiu reached out to take it, but her eyes were still a little dazed.His lips moved slightly, but he finally bit a byte into his lips and teeth.

Ye Qige didn't hear it, the word he said was...Mother.