"Why haven't you come yet?" In a shantytown near the city gate in Shanshuigou in the west of the city, Ziyu asked with some worry as she looked in the direction of the city gate.
The sky had already darkened. According to the agreement, Meng Ziliang should have brought Sun Li to join them at this time. Taking advantage of the darkness, Meng Ziliang took Sun Li out of the city.
Even after waiting and waiting, Meng Ziliang and Sun Li still didn't arrive, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"I'm just saying, if you have a hairless mouth, you can't do things well! That Meng Ziliang looks unreliable at first sight!" Ziyu muttered at this time, her tone somewhat annoyed.
"Brother Meng, it shouldn't be..." Chu Qingxiao said with some uncertainty when he heard this. His heart was also a little drummed at this time. After all, Meng Ziliang sometimes had different ideas.
But at this moment, Chu Zhaozhao on the side suddenly pointed his hand not far away and said loudly: "Look!"
Chu Qingxiao and Ziyu both followed the sound and saw two figures walking slowly towards here. When they looked closely, it was Sun Li and Meng Ziliang.
"Finally here." Chu Qingxiao also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly greeted him at this moment.
The Qiankun Sword Box behind him opened, and Chu Qingxiao didn't need to summon the prairie fire sword at all. At that moment, he felt Sun Li's aura and let out a light sword cry.
The next moment, the prairie fire sword poured out of the sword box and flew to Sun Li like a stream of light.
It revolved around Sun Li, and there were bursts of sword sounds coming from its body, just like a child having fun around its parents.
Sun Li also recovered from his brief surprise. He looked happy and stretched out his hand. The prairie fire sword fell into his hands at this moment. He gently stroked the sword body and his eyes.
Somewhat reddish.
"Old man, we can travel around the world together again. This time, let's go see the Jiuqu River in Quzhou."
The blade of the prairie fire sword trembled slightly in response.
This scene is indeed somewhat touching.
Seeing this, Ziyu and Chu Zhaozhao couldn't help but smile a little.
Chu Qingxiao also stepped forward, and was about to say a few words from the bottom of his heart, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and his eyes swept over Sun Li and Meng Ziliang.
Sun Li changed into a new set of clothes.
The cyan fabric looks valuable. There is a wine gourd on his waist, and he looks very grand. Even his hair style seems to have been carefully taken care of.
It can be seen that he seems to attach great importance to this journey.
but……
Chu Qingxiao frowned, and he couldn't help but ask: "Where are the things I asked Brother Meng to prepare for Senior Sun?"
Meng Ziliang blinked his eyes when he heard this. He pointed at the outfit on Sun Li and said, "Aren't these the ones?"
"That's all?" Chu Qingxiao confirmed with a strange expression.
After hearing this, Meng Ziliang seemed a little dissatisfied. He said: "What do you mean only these?"
"These things on my senior's body are all good ones that I carefully selected."
As he spoke, he walked up to Sun Li and pointed at Sun Li's clothes: "Look, this gown is made of fine brocade cloth."
"It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Doesn't Senior Sun look ten years younger?"
"And this wine gourd, which looks ordinary, is actually divided into two layers. The upper layer contains wine and the lower layer contains water. There is a small mechanism here. When drinking, just press it lightly and the water will flow out from the lower layer. In this way,
Come on, others won’t know that you are replacing wine with water!”
"Senior Sun has just recovered from a serious illness and cannot drink. I specially found a wine gourd like this. It can not only save his face as a swordsman, but also take care of his body. Isn't this careful enough?"
"Look at this hairpin again. It comes from the lost jade dragon water carving technique. The entire hairpin is completely natural, and the carved white crane is even more lifelike..."
Meng Ziliang kept talking, becoming more and more excited as he talked, but he did not notice that the faces of Chu Qingxiao and the other three gradually darkened after hearing his eloquent talk.
Even after saying this, he looked up at everyone with pride and said, "How is it, did I do this well?"
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao stretched out his hand and held down Ziyu and Chu Zhaozhao, who were already having bad tempers.
At the same time, he took a deep breath and suppressed his desire to beat up the guy in front of him.
He walked forward, reached out and patted Meng Ziliang on the shoulder, and said sincerely: "Fortunately... your sister didn't come..."
Meng Ziliang was stunned and asked in confusion: "Why?"
Chu Qingxiao looked at him deeply and said, "I'm afraid that if she is here, she will beat you to death..."
Meng Ziliang: "..."
…
"Senior Sun has just recovered from a serious illness, so he needs a horse to travel with him, right?"
Chu Qingxiao stared at Meng Ziliang and asked. Behind him, Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu also put their hands on their chests and stared at him with unkind eyes.
Meng Ziliang felt a little guilty. He shrank his neck and whispered softly: "Is that so... I thought you meant to let me take senior to prepare the outfit..."
"Outfit?" Chu Zhaozhao on the side raised his brows, and there was a bit of anger in his eyes: "Tell me, what is the use of your outfit? Clothes, hairpins, wine gourds, which one can help? Pai
It comes in handy..."
"Do you know that we are being held with swords now..."
Chu Zhaozhao was so angry that he couldn't hold back his words for a moment, and he was about to reveal the truth of the matter.
"Ahem." Seeing this, Chu Qingxiao coughed quickly, interrupted Chu Zhaozhao's words, and motioned for her to look at Sun Li beside her.
Only then did Chu Zhaozhao remember that among what Chu Qingxiao told Sun Li, he was the one who temporarily retrieved the Liaoyuan Sword through connections. Otherwise, with Sun Li's temperament, once he knew about his affairs, he would bring such big trouble to Chu Qingxiao and the others.
Will definitely refuse.
What's more, Sun Li has been running around for Tianxuan Mountain all his life. If he knew that the sect was so ruthless to him, it would be difficult to accept it in his heart.
Therefore, everyone made up their mind from the beginning to conceal this matter.
But Chu Zhaozhao's voice became much louder because of the anger in his heart. Sun Li on the side also heard the sound and raised his head and looked over with a confused expression.
In order to prevent Sun Li from noticing anything strange, Chu Qingxiao quickly changed the subject: "Forget it, it's not a big deal. Let's go to the stables now to see if we can rent better horses."
When Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu heard this, they naturally agreed with Chu Qingxiao's decision.
But when Meng Ziliang heard this, his face turned slightly ugly. Like an angry little daughter-in-law, he reached out and grabbed the corner of Chu Qingxiao's clothes, and whispered with a twisted expression: "I'm afraid..."
"We can't rent horses anymore..."
"Why?" Chu Qingxiao frowned and asked in confusion: "Is it possible that the horse market is closed today?"*
"No...no money..." Meng Ziliang lowered his head and responded in a low voice.
"What?!" As soon as these words came out, Ziyu's eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Meng Ziliang in disbelief: "Those are thousands of spiritual iron jade, which is equivalent to more than two hundred taels of silver. You spent it in one afternoon.
Finished?"
"You know we worked hard and spent many days to earn back that money..."
"Ahem." Ziyu vented all the anger in her heart, but at this moment, Chu Zhaozhao coughed twice, looking a little embarrassed.
Ziyu was stunned when she saw this, but she realized it the next moment. She was also a little embarrassed.
After all, she thought about it carefully, and it seemed that Meng Ziliang had earned all the more than a thousand pieces of spiritual iron jade...
Her voice became a little softer: "Just...even if you earned the money, we are a collective, and you can't just spend the money alone based on your own preferences, right?"
"Then do you think that these days, we will eat and live together, and no one has said that we will settle the accounts with you..."
"Hmm... um!" Chu Qingxiao cleared his throat at this moment and winked at Ziyu.
Ziyu was stunned again, and then remembered that it seemed that all they had eaten these days were the meals ordered by Meng Ziliang at Jinyutang...
Ziyu's face couldn't help but turn a little red: "Then...even if we live on you, you can't..."
"cannot……"
She tried hard to find an explanation, but after hesitating for a long time, she couldn't find a suitable explanation in front of this "cruel fact".
She suddenly felt helpless and lowered her hand: "Okay, I really don't know how to teach him a lesson, you guys come..."
Chu Qingxiao was also a little helpless, but when the matter reached this point, it was meaningless to hold anyone responsible.
He said: "I didn't make it clear to Brother Meng at the time. Let's just think about whether we can raise enough money now."
Everyone also sighed, and Meng Ziliang seemed to realize that he had made a big mistake. He frowned tightly and lowered his head.
"Little friends, don't worry about this matter. I still have some savings. I have the money to buy these items today and the money to rent the horses." Sun Li walked up with a smile at this time.
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and handed over a money bag.
Chu Qingxiao subconsciously took the money bag and opened it. It contained several folded banknotes, each with a denomination of one hundred taels. Counting them carefully, there were seven or eight more.
"Senior, this is too much..." Chu Qingxiao said in astonishment.
"Take them all, the old man probably won't have a chance to use them," Sun Li said.
Chu Qingxiao was stunned for a moment, but then he heard the old man say again: "Don't blame Xiaoyou Meng, I'm very satisfied with the outfit he bought for me today."
"He is right. This swordsman has wine on his waist, a sword on his back, wearing a green shirt and white clothes, and wields a sword to the end of the world."
"He is the most knowledgeable person with swords that I have ever seen in my life."
With that said, the old man put the prairie fire sword back on his back, stood up straight, and smiled and winked at Meng Ziliang.
At this time, the night wind suddenly picked up.
He lifted up two strands of hair from his forehead, the gourd at his waist swayed, and the corners of his rumpled clothes were raised randomly.
That moment.
He looked high-spirited, as if he were the swordsman in blue shirt wielding the sword in the story.
There is a sword on the back and wine on the waist.
His face has wrinkles worn away by time, but in his eyes...
A fire that neither life nor death can take away.
He seems to be a sword.
Not necessarily dazzling.
But.
Straight and sharp.
Everyone was in a daze.
Meng Ziliang was also in a daze.
Something seemed to flash through his mind. He couldn't tell what it was, but it felt familiar.
Involuntarily, he opened his mouth and murmured to himself.
"A sword is like a ruler in the sky, equivalent to black and white."
That is the eight-character motto that was engraved on Tianxuan Peak.
It was left behind by one of the three sword ancestors of Tianxuan Mountain before he entered the Martial Temple.
And as the Holy Spirit of the Sword Ancestor collapsed nineteen years ago, so did the eight-character motto...
Oh, right.
After careful calculation, Meng Ziliang seems to be exactly nineteen years old this year.