The autumn rain continued all over the road, and on the morning when I was going to attend a poetry festival, it began to rain in Hangzhou.
As he walked under the raindrops, Ning Yi heard a roaring sound coming from the other side of the wall. He knew that it was the sound of a woman named Liu Dabiao practicing her sword. Every day, this was the only thing that mattered to her.
For women, it is rain or shine...
After greeting the guards and passing through the side door, Ning Yi saw the scene of sword practice. In the heavy rain, there was only one girl in the huge martial arts field. She still wore a hat and waved the giant blade.
Running on the field, her body changes like a fierce and graceful dance. The falling rain has wet her clothes, and almost every swing and rotation brings out a waterfall of water in the air like an explosion.
She has been practicing internal martial arts since she was a child, so she doesn't get sick from the rain. But every time she sees this girl dancing with a big sword, Ning Yi has a strange feeling in her heart. The giant blade is swaying with overwhelming force.
Lie, the wooden piles and small trees beside the martial arts field will break if touched, and sometimes gravel will be shoveled out on the ground, but most of the time it will look like the big knife is leading the girl forward.
Sometimes her limbs would fly out, and sometimes she would be seen stumbling and her steps would be shaky, as if she was about to fall down or be carried off the ground by the big knife. People couldn't help but wonder how she was able to swing the big knife.
, and whether she controlled the power of the knife, or her whole body was pulled around by the inertia of the knife.
However, although it looked like a young shepherd boy holding on to a crazy cow that ran away while crying, from beginning to end, she never really let the knife out of control. As for the true nature of the knife,
Perhaps only the many souls who died under the power of this sword can make a fair judgment on its power. During the battle in Taiping Lane, he had also seen it. When the girl was holding the big knife, she was spinning like
When a cannonball was thrown at it, its momentum and power were truly invincible. It is estimated that not many people could really block the fatal blow of this broadsword under the huge inertia.
Except for an ugly maid next to Liu Dabiao, the only person watching this scene at the venue was Liu Tiannan, who was the supervisor of the mansion. Ning Yi exchanged a few words with him about today's events. Liu Tiannan smiled and asked: "Master Ning, what do you think of Master Zhuang's sword skills?"
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"Too much force and too many feints. Look at Dabiao's sloppy steps and staggering. I think... uh... what is she going to do?"
From a distance, the girl wielding the sword seemed to glance here, and then the sword suddenly sank behind her. Dragging the giant blade, she rushed forward.
In the rain curtain, what exploded on the ground was a waterfall of splashing water. It was like a lotus flower was stepped out in the heavy rain with every step. I don’t know how that petite body exploded so hugely.
The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed. The girl and the giant blade seemed to be fused together. The giant blade, the human body, the giant blade, and the human body were rotating and enlarging in front of Ning Yi's eyes. They alternated four or five times in a row.
The person exploded in front of Ning Yi's eyes.
What appeared in front of Ning Yi's eyes was a picture of a young girl holding a knife in both hands, her whole body stretched to the extreme. The giant blade pointed from bottom to top, pointing straight into the sky, mixed with a loud noise, and flying stones. It should be the edge of the martial arts field.
The stone railing was cut off, followed by vibrations and roars from the eaves.
Ning Yi barely had time to react. He only felt the wind wiping his cheeks in pain. He subconsciously jumped out to the right. Liu Tiannan also flew to the left almost at the same time. His wide robe sleeves were swung out, and the tiles that fell from the eaves were blown away.
There was a sound as pebbles were thrown against the wall behind.
When Ning Yi rolled over and stood up again, there was a big hole in the eaves of the aisle next to the martial arts arena, and the giant blade was inserted into the ground not far from his side. When Ning Yi turned his head to look, the girl's figure fell
On the hilt of the knife, at this moment, the tall and graceful figure was almost dazzling. The sleeves and skirts of the robe suddenly stopped moving. The raindrops falling all over the sky seemed to be forced to open. Of course, the next moment, the heavy rain was still pouring.
Next, the girl looked at him on the knife. As her chest rose and fell, her breathing became rapid. It was obvious that this move had taken a lot of energy from her.
"Da Biao, I mean, this will definitely make others underestimate the enemy." Ning Yi spread his hands, and the girl behind the bamboo hat probably pursed her lips, rolled her eyes, and jumped off the handle of the knife lightly.
Yi smiled and put the back of his hand to his mouth, and whispered to Liu Tiannan: "How come you can hear it from so far away?" Liu Tiannan did not joke in front of the owner of the village, but put his hands behind his back, smiled and raised his head, looking at the chopped-off eaves.
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The girl stretched out a hand and pressed down on the handle of the knife, tilting the giant blade, and then used both hands to pull out the sword that was stuck in the soil. Her practice was basically completed.
"The Ba Sword was not like this originally." As he walked away, Liu Dabiao spoke, "Although the Ba Swords of previous generations were domineering, they still had their own tricks. Ah Sha, Ah Chang and the others were like this, but I don't have that kind of sword skills.
I can't pick up the sword after practicing. I can only swing it up and follow the direction of the sword. This saves effort. Of course, I can't hit a few people at the beginning, because they can't turn around for a few times before they fall. You
If you are interested, I can teach you the orthodox sword fighting technique, with moderate force and few false moves, but it is not easy to use it to deceive others."
The girl still deliberately lowered her clear voice, put the giant blade into the wooden box, and said with a smile: "Anyway, your Kung Fu of breaking the six paths is also domineering and fierce, which is consistent with the domineering sword."
"Broken Six Paths?"
"The internal strength of your body. You didn't practice kung fu when you were a child, so you missed the best opportunity. Breaking the Six Paths is the best technique suitable for you to practice, which means breaking the restrictions of the Three Realms and Six Paths... I only heard about it when I was a child.
Yes, I can’t be sure, can’t I?”
"No, I heard this is a second-rate technique..."
Ning Yi frowned, and the girl looked at him. After a moment, she turned her head and murmured: "A scholar, running to practice kung fu, it's such a mess..." I probably think that Ning Yi is doing nothing.
I'm not very focused. I probably practice martial arts out of interest. If I take him seriously, I'll be a bit stupid.
After all, she was a woman. Her clothes were soaked by the heavy rain and she walked to the door on the side. Ning Yi and Liu Tiannan walked to the other door. After a while, he waited for the girl to come to the study room where he was dealing with affairs. There was nothing wrong today.
The two chatted for a while, and the girl asked: "I heard that you are going to Sijizhai to attend a poetry meeting in the evening?"
"Well, I heard they said the place is nice, let's go join in the fun." Ning Yi smiled and said, "Are you interested?" He did know that girls are sometimes a bit arty and like to read some books. After reading them, they will speak in a formal manner.
It's a bit funny, but I've never been to such a party. Since she won't attend, she might as well invite her.
Sure enough, after saying that, the girl on the other side of the curtain shook her head in distress: "I won't go, I have something to do tonight...and...I don't know how to write poetry, uh-huh, I don't know how to write poetry..."
"Why not copy one and let other scholars write one? If Da Biao gets it and copies it... he will say that he wrote it himself."
The girl thought for a while: "But...huh?"
Ning Yi also replied: "Yes."
If other scholars heard such a conversation, they might burst into laughter and laugh non-stop, but between the two of them, this aspect is quite compatible. Liu Xigua nodded and said: "Okay, then you write a song for
Let me."
"ah?"
"You can use it to fill the scene next time. You are the most talented person in Jiangning, right?"
"That one of mine is fake..."
"I know that your strongest skill is martial arts. Brother Tu, we are all friends. Friends are just helping each other. I would like to thank you in advance..."
"……All right."
Even though most of Fang La's court was composed of military men, there were still a large number of literati after all, and it has to be said that in this era, literati still had a sense of superiority. Although Liu Dabiao also had a barbaric image in front of others,
But occasionally, of course, she also hopes that she can be more elegant. After all, she doesn't really sneer at poetry. The two discussed in the room for a while, and Ning Yi wrote several poems in different styles for her to copy. Among them, Li Qingzhao's graceful style was not for her.
I like it because I can’t understand it. The song “The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves sweep away the heroes” feels too vicissitudes of life. Although Liu Xigua likes it, he doesn’t think it’s suitable for him.
After writing several songs in this way, there was one she liked quite a lot, that was "Swordsman", because it was easy to understand and looked very domineering. However, there was a line in it: "The emperor is talking and laughing."
"In", Ning Yi changed it to "Hongtu Hegemony", but still reminded him, I'm afraid this sentence is still a bit outrageous, but the girl didn't care about it. Then he picked a song "Xia Ke Xing" that she quite liked——
In fact, she only liked one line, which was "Kill one in ten steps, leave no trace in a thousand miles." The rest were mainly because the poem was too long and had too many allusions. She didn't understand it. She even read the wrong word the first time.
Ning Yi: "Your song doesn't rhyme a bit."
In this way, after choosing two poems, Ning Yi also gave her a pair of fragments, which are very suitable for children in the world: "Peach and plum spring breeze, a glass of wine, night rain in the river and lake for ten years." In fact, this is the original poem, but Ning Yi
Yi didn't remember, and thought these two sentences were like couplets... It's a pity that he didn't remember Hengpi... He told Liu Dabiao that he could say that he had a couplet after the two poems, and test everyone's ability to use Hengpi. The girl was convinced.
Neither of them had any psychological pressure on what they were doing at this time, but the girl named Liu Xigua couldn't help but look at Ning Yi a few more times. After all, she knew that these were good poems.
"It might not be peaceful at night." She thought for a while and finally said, "If you want to go out, try to come back as early as possible, or you can ask Ah Chang to go with you..."
"night……"
"It's hard to say yet." She picked up the poems in her hand and shook her head. "We will know when the time comes. I don't know what will happen now. But... maybe these poems will come in handy, haha..."
Although she was laughing, it could be seen that the girl opposite did not really have much expectation. Something big might be going to happen, but Ning Yi did not receive much information. After talking about this, everything became normal.
It was the same as usual. After lunch, Liu Dabiao's carriage drove out from Xiliu Street. What was about to happen had little to do with Ning Yi's imagination. After another hour or two, dusk had not yet arrived, and the building was empty.
The family's carriage came from the street. Ning Yi took a knife and a blunderbuss, and after sorting them out, went out to rush to the poetry meeting.