With a big yawn, the sword master walked into the sunny courtyard. He was carrying the new wine jar he got last night, which contained the first-class Nuerhong wine that the grandpa of the village had been brewing for more than ten years. It is indeed a fragrant and mellow wine that has been brewed for more than ten years. Just one sip can make a man who has sobered up a lot become drunk again. The person beside him, half clinging to him and half supporting him, was the beauty he met not long ago - Mu Haiyin.
There were two familiar figures in the corner of the courtyard. Jack was interested and staggered over. It turned out that the two brothers of the Jie family were driving piles. As the eldest brother, he lowers his waist and raises his arms as if holding a ball; while the younger brother bends one foot to look like a golden rooster.
"Yo~! Are you working so hard so early in the morning?" The drunken Jack laughed and mocked the two brothers, completely ignoring the sun hanging high in the middle of the sky.
In fact, it was not early at all, but no one dared to raise such a counterargument, whether they were awake or asleep. oh! Jack, who came closer to look at the two brothers, noticed that both of them had their eyes closed and were asleep. He was so playful that he swiped at Jie Qi's shaft.
Jie Qi, who was walking independently, didn't move at all. He just opened his sleepy eyes and looked back. "Ah~ Jack, it's you. I thought someone kicked me." His tone was very relaxed, but he didn't notice that the drunk man's face looked a little strange.
A gust of wind suddenly whipped up from the ground and focused on Jack. I saw the drunken sword master twisting his waist, turning his legs, and sweeping with all his might! Jie Qi, who had one foot free of charge, spun two or three times in the air before hitting his brother's knee. This fall was not a light one, and Jie Liang, who was still tied to his horse, woke up and looked at his younger brother lying next to him in surprise. As for the guy who mopped up the people, he had already left while drinking. Mu Haiyin, who stayed where he was, just gave the two unreasonable men a wry smile and followed Jack's footsteps.
"Who did I offend?" Jie Qi, who fell to the ground, complained as he touched the part where he fell. Jie Liang just looked at the back of the sword master who was drinking wine carelessly, his expression changed two or three times, and then he sighed softly.
The familiar loud voice attracted Jack's footsteps again. The shirtless Lu Zhong was holding a bowl of wine, sitting on a bench, and laughing with a group of bankers gathered in front of the door. The aroma of steaming goose came from the kitchen behind them, and if you looked carefully, you could see several people looking at the stove fire.
"Hey! I finally woke up. I thought you really planned to sleep for the rest of your life." Seeing the man coming, Lu Zhong smiled a little. Jack didn't reply, just stared at the various materials piled up in the kitchen. The other dealers also stopped laughing and just looked at the beautiful woman in white who was following behind Jack. If they hadn't known that some of them were on the Nine-Nine Warriors List, and were also the Taigong's benefactors, a few frivolous boys would have entangled with such a beauty, and they wouldn't have been able to let her run around.
Noticing Jack's eyes, Lu Zhong filled a large bowl of wine and threw it flatly, taking it into the drunken man's hand without spilling a drop. "Don't think about wasting other people's materials. If you want something to eat, it will be there. At most, you can take it into your own hands. Eat wine, eat wine!" Jack shook his head with a smile, and downed the strong wine in the bowl.
A few clever dealers moved a bench out and placed a few plates of beef braised on the small table in front of the bench. Jack sat down abruptly and took the beef into his mouth. Next to him, Mu Haiyin was more diligent in refilling Jack's glass of wine. The man with a mouthful of beef and a mouthful of wine had no time to speak.
"When are you going to leave?"
"Uh-huh-huh..."
"You want to wait for Qiao Wu? What are you waiting for?" Lu Zhong drank a bowl of wine and wiped his mouth casually with his hand.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"It's up to you, kid. There's no need to wait for Qiao Wu to get out of bed on his own. We'll ask him to go with us tomorrow. If we really have to wait, I'm afraid this bastard will pretend to be dead in bed for the rest of his life." Lu Zhong drank the wine filled with wine in one gulp.
"Uh-huh-huh..."
"Stop whining like that, who can understand? You can't talk until you swallow something."
Most of the people on the side listened to the strange conversation between the two people, feeling deeply puzzled. But Mu Haiyin, who kept pouring wine for Jack, was listening carefully, and the smile on her face could not hide the strange look in her eyes.
The poor Taoist moved his groans to the river. Fortunately, the simple straw awning on the boat of the Jie brothers saved him from the harsh sun. The three boats embarked on their journey together again.
We sailed for several days relying on the dry food provided by my great-grandfather. It was past noon that day, and the high sun was particularly scorching. Jack, who was wearing a big hat, frequently splashed water on himself; even Mu Haiyin, who was always by his side along the way, sat a little further away, fanning the wind as hard as he could, mumbling his sticky body. But the matchmaker just lowered her head and paddled.
Seeing a forest in front of him, Lu Zhong swung the boat closer to Jack and shouted across the river: "Boy, how about stopping the boat? Go ashore and look in the woods to see if there are any fruits that can quench your thirst." Jack hung his body halfway. At the side of the ship, I just nodded feebly, it was too hot. The three boats moved toward the bank of a creek that branched off to one side.
Once on the shore, everyone got off the boat and ran into the woods. It was much cooler under the overlapping shades of trees than on the boat. The group of people who had been tortured by the scorching sun breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. Take a walk in the forest with a leisurely mood, looking for juicy fresh fruits, and enjoying the coolness in the hot sun.
But this rare comfort was soon broken. The paths in the forest were stained with blood everywhere, and the broken branches and broken trees seemed to have just been destroyed by a fierce battle.
No one could figure out what happened, but a bloody man with a knife rushed out from the front and threw himself on Mu Haiyin. I saw the man with a crazy look on his face, holding something tightly in his left hand, looking at Mu Haiyin excitedly, muttering to himself: "I succeeded, I succeeded..." Then he died, with a trace of blood on his face. Looking at the ecstatic expression before death.
Regardless of the blood all over his body, Mu Haiyin slowly lowered the deceased in his arms to the ground with a trace of pity in his eyes. The white jade hand gently brushed the half-crazy smiling face and closed the eyes that would never be opened again. He whispered a silent prayer.
Lu Zhong squatted next to him and stared at the corpse. "This guy obviously died of excessive blood loss." He raised the knife beside him and looked at the rolled up and damaged blade. The man who was also a swordsman just shook his head. To cut a sword made of fine steel into such a virtue is not something that can be done with three swords and two swords. What on earth made him so quarrelsome with others?
After days of rest, Taoist Qiao, who had recovered a lot of energy, also squatted aside, trying to open the dead man's left hand out of curiosity. But no matter how hard Qiao Daoren tried, the left hand just couldn't be pried open. In desperation, he took out a piece of yellow paper, dipped it in blood and wrote a talisman, and a strip of gold paper was melted on the spot. After chanting a curse in his mouth, he opened the deceased's left hand.
And what the man still clung to until his death was a bronze medal marked sixty-three. When Taoist Qiao saw that it was the warrior order, his eyes lit up, sweeping away the decadent situation of the past few days. He hurriedly wiped off the blood on the bronze medal and put it in his arms.
Looking at the wretched old man looking around. Lu Zhong followed in confusion and asked, "Qiao Wu, what are you doing?"
"Hey, Mr. Lu, you don't know something about this." Taoist Qiao walked at the front and led the crowd, looking around and answering Lu Zhong's questions. "Over the years, there has been endless competition for these tokens. They can even be sold for hundreds of taels of silver. Looking at the look of this guy before he died, it seems that he was competing with others for ranking and both sides lost. This is the winner. Guy, then there should be another loser nearby."
After hearing what he said, Jie Liang touched the warrior order on his body. This treasure represents identity, but it is also the source of another kind of turmoil.
Not long after, Taoist Qiao found another corpse. Next to the corpse was a warrior order marked sixty-seven. The old Taoist man who was obsessed with money only focused on wiping the bronze medal in his hand and didn't care what the hell was next to him.
The Jie brothers stood behind Lu Zhong and inspected the body that fell to the ground. A steel knife that was broken into two pieces fell to the side, and the edge of the knife was also covered with damage. After seeing it, Jie Qi couldn't help but ask questions like "Is it worth spelling it out like this?", but no one could answer him.
"What's going on? Wow~ It's so sour, so sour, so sour and delicious~" Jack suddenly appeared, his face wrinkled and numb, but he still kept sucking the lemon in his hand.
"Where did the lemon come from?" Lu Zhong looked at the man who was screaming sour but refused to put down the lemon in his hand. Realizing that there were still a few people missing, he asked again, "Where are the others?"
Pointing behind him. "They are still picking lemons in the back. Do you want to eat?" It happened that the three beauties behind him came back. However, Jie Qi asked about something unrelated: "Jack, can you stay here for a while?"
"What's wrong?" The man biting the lemon took two more from the matchmaker. Just when he was about to express his gratitude, Mu Haiyin squeezed in from the side.
Declining the lemon offered by Yan Yan, Jie Qi looked at the messy environment and said, "I want to bury these two people. It would be too pitiful for the dead to leave their bodies exposed in the wilderness."
Putting aside the dried lemon, Jack was looking at which one of the two lemons in his hand might be sweeter. "Oh! It's up to you. It's so hot today anyway, I don't want to run out to bask in the sun right away." After that, he headed towards the river.
Seeing the others following Jack and his brother as they left, Jie Liang reluctantly handed the lemon back to Yan Yan, rolled up his sleeves and looked for any tools that could dig the soil. Jie Qi had already picked up the broken knife and was digging in the soil.
Found a thicker branch and was about to start work. Seeing Yan Yan and Matchmaker who were still standing aside, she asked, "Why don't you follow the others?"
"See if you need any help, I should be able to help." Yan Yan smiled lightly, her watery eyes also filled with a hint of sympathy. The matchmaker turned her malicious gaze to the side. Jie Liang found it hard to believe that he would see such an expression from this shy girl.
At night, the group remained on the shore. Mu Haiyin left the others and washed his blood-stained white clothes on a knee-deep stream. The stream in the moonlight is silvery white, reflecting such a high-quality beauty, which will make people obsessed with it. But the beauty herself is not so mindless.
"No need to hide, come out." Mu Haiyin called softly, still focusing on washing the white clothes on her body, but a tall girl and a short girl walked out of the woods behind. Mu Haiyin smiled softly. "There are two more." Two similar boys walked out from the other end.
The matchmaker was a little surprised by the appearance of the Jie brothers. But Yan Yan just frowned slightly and focused all her energy on the beauty in the stream.
"What's the matter?" Regardless of being wet, Mu Haiyin sat on the stream and gently rubbed his feet. The sight of such slender beauty made the two boys' hearts flutter, and they looked away with blushing faces.
It's rare that the matchmaker starts the conversation: "What's your purpose of following Jack?"
"Purpose?" Mu Haiyin repeated the word frivolously. It took a while before he laughed softly: "What other purpose would I have?"
The Jie brothers on the side were also confused. They just followed the two girls because they thought their actions were a bit weird. But I didn't expect that they would come to ask this irrelevant and irrelevant question. Isn't the answer obvious?
Stopping the matchmaker who was about to rush forward, Yan Yan said: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that your behavior is a bit strange. How can anyone be so close to someone they meet for the first time? Besides, the rumored Mu Haiyin is a A chivalrous woman, not such an immodest woman."
Mu Haiyin was not angry at all when he heard that the other party had called her by her first name with anger. Instead, he took off his clothes and put his clean white clothes beside the stream. This made the two boys present not sure whether to advance or retreat for a moment. The almost perfect body caught their sight; but in this case, they should not look at anything inappropriate.
Scooping up water and sprinkling it on her pair of breasts, which were as white as the moon in the sky, Mu Haiyin enjoyed the cool stream water in the hot season. Slowly scrubbing every inch of her body, as if to completely eliminate the unpleasant feeling of being sweaty during the day.
"Do you know who the person you are following is?" Sitting in the stream and combing her dark hair, Mu Haiyin asked the others in her seductive and soft voice.
"Isn't it Jack?" Jie Qi answered intuitively. He and his eldest brother Jie Liang were also shocked to realize that they shouldn't stare at the beauty in front of them. They quickly turned their heads away, but it was still difficult to follow rational choices in the corner of their eyes. Listening to the sound of gurgling water, both of them would unconsciously imagine the appearance of the beautiful woman in the stream.
He laughed softly and tossed his long washed hair. "He is also the victim of three hundred and ninety-seven lives. Have you forgotten?"
The words came out like thunder and struck the ears of the other four people.
"When Master Shi Er of Mingjian Villa was looking for me, he knelt down to beg for me. But I still dare not say that I came here to seek justice for those three hundred and ninety-seven lives. Following him was just... In order for me to see this man more clearly. And you who have been with him longer than me, what conclusions have you made about these? "
"He is not wrong!" The matchmaker replied categorically. But it was Jie Qi who retorted the fastest: "No! No matter who made the mistake in the first place, it is inappropriate to despise human life so much!" After being excited, he ignored the slightly angry look from the matchmaker and sighed. Long breath. "But what can I do? Fortunately, Jack won't take the initiative to cause trouble. At most, I just prevent him from having murderous intentions before things happen." I subconsciously touched the bruises I received from being kicked by Jack. The belly that still hasn't faded away.
"Well, then we all came to different conclusions."
Realizing the hidden meaning in her words, the matchmaker immediately drew out the long sword at hand and pointed at Mu Haiyin, who was standing up gracefully.
"How could you beat him...?" Jie Qi looked at the beauty who stood up from the stream with disbelief. The water droplets all over her body slid down the curves that made people think of her. Jie Qi's whole spirit was mesmerized, as if he was the water droplets swimming all over the beauty's body. But when he woke up, he quickly looked away and recited the family tradition of calming down in his heart.
He just picked up a light coat on the ground and wrapped it around his graceful body. The deliberately exposed cleavage and the two looming red spots, coupled with the bright white moonlight, Yan Yan had to admit that even she, a woman, would be fascinated by everything.
"A man is at his best when he is tipsy, and a woman is best when she has just taken a shower." Mu Haiyin lifted one of her toes with satisfaction, looked down at her fat calves, and showed a confident smile. Then he walked to the shore step by step.
Seeing that the other party was completely ignoring her, the matchmaker's sword tip hesitated and wavered up and down several times. Seeing Mu Haiyin getting closer and closer to him, he gritted his teeth and raised his sword with a clatter. I saw this one of the most beautiful women in the southeast of the mainland holding up her coat with one hand. She turned around and then bent two fingers of her other hand towards the sword.
"Zheng!" The matchmaker was greatly surprised when her sword bounced away. Before he could react, Mu Haiyin had already counted several points on himself and then slashed at the neck.
"You are probably the only person who will hinder me. Have a good sleep and the matter will be solved when you wake up." Looking at the tall beauty who fell to the ground, Mu Haiyin couldn't say it to the unconscious person. Words that hit the ears.
She smiled and glanced at Yan Yan, who was staring at the bottom of the stream, and walked slowly towards the Jie brothers. Lifting Jie Qi's hair, Mu Haiyin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There are some things that only women can do." Her delicate red lips left a mark on Jie Qi's face, which was burning, and then stepped on it. Leave with gentle steps.
Turning over the matchmaker who fell to the ground, Yan Yan sat on the ground and let the fainted beauty rest on her lap. Carefully brush away the sand and dust on the matchmaker's beautiful face.
Pressing his cheek that had been kissed to confirm that the troublesome beauty had left, Jie Qi looked at Yan Yan, who was still staying there, carefully taking care of the unconscious matchmaker. As if thinking of other related questions, Jie Qi asked: "Miss Yan, why did you stay with Jack?" As soon as he asked the question, he realized that he was too abrupt.
However, the person being questioned didn't feel dissatisfied and replied softly: "I'm just interested in Jack."
"Don't you like him?..." Ah! This time I have to slap myself in the mouth. Jie Qi frowned and thought to himself.
"Of course I'm happy. Jack can be a good confidant, a reliable partner, and a terrible enemy, but I don't think he can be a good husband."
Jie Qi, who was covering his mouth, just rolled his eyes and didn't dare to say any more. I heard Yan Yan continue to talk to herself: "My father only has a daughter like me. The heavy responsibility of passing on the incense of the Yan family is all on me, how can I just follow a man? What's more, I vaguely feel that Jack is impossible He is really happy to fall in love with me. He can only treat me as a little sister, and I can only be happy with him as an interesting big brother. Do a man and a woman who respect each other have to hook up like that? "
Gently lifting the somewhat messy hair of the matchmaker on her lap, she said in a rather helpless tone: "Perhaps she is the most affectionate among us, and she will be the one who will be hurt the most in the future. Matchmaker Sister, Sister Hong Niang, do you know that you have chosen the most difficult path?" Yingying looked at the Jie family brothers standing aside, Yan Yan cast a faint confused look, and smiled cleverly. With. "If Brother Liang or Brother Qi are willing to come into my home, then I might give it a little thought."
"Ah~ Come both of them!"
"What do you think!" Yan Yan made a face with her tongue half out, then turned away with a coy voice. "Brother Qi, I won't think about it anymore. Who taught you to always think about random things? How can one woman serve two husbands?"
When has there ever been a time when I hated my big mouth more? Jie Qi just scratched his head in embarrassment. "No...how can we, the juniors, make decisions on this matter without authorization? We still have to leave it to the elders." He quickly elbowed the person next to him. "Brother, why are you so silent? At least say something."
Jie Liang, who had been staring at the sky, shifted his gaze from his brother back to the four bright moons. "I think..."
"Do you want..." "Do you want..." Jie Qi and Yan Yan repeated Jie Liang's unfinished words at the same time.
Glancing at the two people beside him who were staring directly at him, Jie Liang coughed and cleared his throat. "Since ancient times, heroes have always had trouble with beauties. I just want to invite Mu Haiyin, one of the top ten beauties in the world and ranked second, to go out as an assassin. As long as she is willing to put down her figure and use all her skills as a woman, who can How can he be killed without being hit by an arrow? What's more -" Recalling the way Mu Haiyin pointed out the matchmaker just now, Jie Liang thought to himself that he couldn't do it so lightly. "──Her kung fu skills shouldn't be much inferior to her beauty, it's just that no one is paying attention."
"Yeah! Yeah!" "Yeah! Yeah!" The two audience members nodded in unison.
"but..."
"But..." "But..."
Looking at the two people repeating his words, Jie Liang showed a wry smile before continuing: "If you can't even deal with that man with this move, who else in the world can kill him?"
"There will still be someone stronger than him, sooner or later." Jie Qi reasoned with the simplest logic. But Jie Liang shook his head. "People who are stronger than him can only win. To kill him to avoid future troubles, more conditions are needed. The most important thing is that Jack doesn't want to escape at all, and will not escape. To be able to stop him, and be able to Killing him at the same time is not something that can be solved by just being stronger. Otherwise, we have to use a special combination of vertical and horizontal siege to kill him, but how can there be so many masters who are stronger than him. "
"Alcyon?" Jie Qi asked intuitively. He could be said to be the top six masters on the table. However, Jie Liang also directly poured a bucket of cold water on his brother. "Do you think the top six warriors on the list are really better than that man from out of town?"
The three people who were awake looked at each other. They were all interested in the question raised by Jie Liang, but they didn't dare to really explore the answer. Maybe the truth is scary.