He thought he could pick the flowers without anyone noticing, but when his fingers were about to touch the petals, the little red flowers followed the wooden stick and moved away. Shao Chong seemed to feel something and raised his head. The owner of the wooden stick was hanging down
Looking at him, their eyes met.
The young man frowned: "What are you doing?"
Shaochong looked at the little red flower eagerly. Even though he tried to steal the flower and was caught by the owner, he did not feel guilty. He smiled and raised his eyebrows: "How much does this flower cost? How about you sell it to me? How much does it cost?"
I can afford it, so you set a price!"
Chao Lian couldn't help but make trouble: "I can't afford it."
The young man's clear eyes paused for two breaths on Shao Chong's face, then moved away and turned around, looking like he didn't want to talk to a stranger. He took out a small money bag from his sleeve and checked the price with the vendor in a low voice.
Shy. Probably because he rarely communicates with others. The whole process was for the vendor to calculate how much each item would cost, tell the boy the total price, and the boy would then count the money and deliver it.
"You look so poor." Shaochong couldn't keep his eyes away from the little red flower. Seeing that the boy paid the bill mostly in copper coins, he planned to use money to make the boy relent, "Just sell me this flower, one or two."
?Two taels? If it doesn’t work, I’ll give you five taels…”
The boy ignored it.
I took the packed items from the vendors. They were packed with daily necessities, such as salt, corn, needlework, and cloth. This was the first time I went shopping alone at this age, and Uncle Lin was usually in charge. The teacher told me
He doesn't need to be nervous, he just needs to buy what is recorded on the letter. With the remaining money, he can buy himself some candy...
"Thank you. Does the store know where I can buy candy?"
The boy was thinking about candy, but he didn't know where to buy it.
Seeing that he was being ignored, Shaochang increased the price again.
"How about twelve liang?"
While Chao Lian was cooking, he broke the news again: "Thirteenth brother, your brother and I don't have Shiliang. It's just a small red flower. If you want it, when spring comes next year, brother will take you out of the city to pick as many as you want."
, don’t disturb others.”
The young man still ignored Shaochong.
I just thought about how many pieces of candy I could buy with the little money I had left.
"Hey! Look at me!"
Shao Chong didn't listen to Chao Lian's words. Instead, he made a thunderous move and grabbed the young man's left shoulder. He swept away the young man's previous enthusiasm and his voice became low and sinister. A series of thin and strange grunts escaped from his throat, like some kind of wild beast.
growled.
Looking at his eyes again, the holes were flashing with an ominous red light.
Chao Lian was very familiar with Shaochong in this state.
How can I take the last bite of corn porridge?
He threw the pottery bowl away and wanted to step forward to stop Shaochong from going crazy.
"Thirteenth brother, you must calm down, this is not a place for you to go crazy! Big brother wants to know, be careful of getting beaten!"
Chao Lian also had doubts in his heart.
I didn't find the crux before. I only knew that Thirteenth Brother would go crazy when he saw blood. However, after several years of nursing and restraint, the influence of the Gu worm in Thirteenth Brother's body gradually decreased, and even his stagnant mind
It also begins to grow slowly with age. Except for the night of the full moon, when the Gu insect is particularly manic, it will force Shaochong to passively enter a state of madness, but it is normal at ordinary times.
Shaochong turned a deaf ear.
The hand pressing on the young man's shoulder kept tightening.
Chao Lian subconsciously held his breath and did not dare to disturb Shao Chong anymore, for fear of irritating Shao Chong and the young man's shoulder would be scrapped. Unexpectedly, the young man remained motionless and turned to look at Shao Chong: "That flower is not for sale.
Yes, let go of your hand."
A strange smile escaped from Shaochong's throat: "What if not?"
The young man looked confused and embarrassed.
He said: "But I don't want to kill anyone."
The young man Dan Ding's voice clearly reached Chao Lian's ears. Chao Lian was very anxious after hearing this. Of course he was not worried about his thirteenth brother, he was worried about the young man. In his crazy state, Shaochong was like a firecracker that could explode at any time. The young man's provocation
To add fuel to the fire, there is a high probability that the body will be cut into pieces with bare hands and blood will be spilled on the spot.
The boy repeated it again.
"I don't want to kill you." When he said this, there was no murderous aura around him. His eyes were as clear as a clear spring, and the warmth between his eyebrows was like a breeze in the world. "The teacher also said that doing more is worse than doing less. Killing is easy. , but it’s troublesome to deal with corpses, and the teacher hates trouble the most.”
The young man said again: "I hate it too."
Chao Lian couldn't help but remind him in a low voice.
"Stop irritating Thirteen..."
This kid doesn’t know Shaochong’s illustrious reputation? Didn’t he see the people on the street running and hiding when they saw Shaochong’s posture?
Many people have seen Shaochong's face, and some have seen his murderous appearance with their own eyes. The scene once became a lingering nightmare. Even folk women used to scare children with "You cry again"
, the red-eyed monster is coming to eat you" and the like. This young man dressed in a foreign land is a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers, so he has to stroke the tiger's beard?
"Bring it!"
Shao Chong's eyes had been replaced by scarlet, and the voice that escaped from his throat did not sound like a human voice. He raised his hand into a claw, and with lightning speed, he grabbed the young man's face. Among all the brothers, Shao Chong's finger strength was the strongest.
Even if he doesn't use any force, breaking a stone with his bare hands is no more difficult than breaking a piece of tofu. If he catches him right now, the boy's skull can be split in half!
"Thirteen!"
Seeing Shaochong actually taking action, Chao Lian was so anxious that his voice broke.
He didn't even have time to form his weapon, and was about to stop Shao Chong with his bare hands. However, he was still a step too slow. The young man turned sideways to avoid being caught at such a short distance, then bent his elbow to fight back, and waved out a green breeze with his right palm, forcefully
Force back and rush less.
Although it was only a foot away, it was enough to make Chao Lian stunned.
This young man...
Judging from his appearance, he is definitely younger than Shaochong.
"Run away!"
This is not the time to be shocked.
Chao Lian grabbed the air and transformed into a weapon. He thrust his two spears, one on the left and one on the right, in front of Shao Chong, blocking the way and buying time for the young man to escape. Just because he could force Shao Chong back did not mean he could escape Shao Chong's attack. He killed innocent people.
To increase the number of killings is against the laws of nature.
The young man said to Chao Lian: "Thank you very much."
But he didn't turn around and run away.
"I can save his life!" His palms turned into seals, and he held out a wooden staff inserted diagonally behind his waist. Mysterious lines were like the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, spreading in all directions from his feet. The young man's robe automatically moved without wind, and there was a small red flower on the top of the wooden staff.
It also swayed from side to side.
Chao Lian: "..."
This, what kind of power is this?
Not as literary or martial, but able to communicate with the energy of heaven and earth. Chao Lian's intuition told him that the young man was safe. The reality also confirmed his guess. The young man did not use the wooden stick to say hello to Shao Chong's head, but went to
At a certain point on the ground, a green energy shot through the sky like a shooting star, heading straight for Shaochong's eyebrows. Chao Lian raised his hand to stop it, but who knew that the thing could pass through his palm.
"Thirteen!" Chao Lian turned his head and saw the young master's energy disappearing between his eyebrows. He stepped forward and caught him.
The young man stepped forward with a wooden stick in hand.
Half squatting down, he raised his finger and poked Shaochong between his eyebrows.
"There is something in his body that disobeys me."
Chao Lian was shocked.
"Who are you? What did you do to Thirteen?"
"Be obedient now."
Chao Lian grabbed the young man's wrist and refused to let him go.
"Is it obedient? What do you mean by that? You said... that thing in Thirteen's body is obedient? How did you do it?"
"Let it fall asleep and it will be obedient."
Isn't this kind of thing easy to do?
The young man straightened the little red flower on one side, inserted the wooden stick into the back of his waist, and kindly reminded Chao Lian: "Don't let your brother eat bugs randomly. If people eat bugs randomly, the bugs will eat people. Not only that.
If your stomach hurts, your brain will also hurt. The teacher also said that people who eat bugs and have brain pain will have a short life and will not live long."
"Is there any way you can get rid of the bugs?"
The young man shook his head: "The teacher hasn't taught you yet."
The teacher only taught how to make the bugs sleep.
Chao Lian seemed to have grabbed the driftwood and asked hurriedly: "Your teacher? Does your teacher know? This is my thirteenth brother. As long as he can be cured, I will pay any price. Whatever your teacher wants, as long as it does not violate
Morally and righteously, we brothers can do it for him!"
The young man shook his head again: "I don't know."
Chao Lian found that the boy's reaction was the same as that of Shaochong, as if he had the mind of a child. He secretly took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and asked in a coaxing tone: "Then do you know where your teacher is? I want to come and visit you.
"
The boy refused to tell: "The teacher said I couldn't tell."
"Then -" Chao Lian still wanted to ask, but the young man had already frowned impatiently and stood up to leave. He quickly changed his words and said, "Can Xiaolang help ask the respected master?"
"Why? He wants to steal my flowers. He is a bad person."
Chao Lian made a mistake and said: "How about Xiaolang helping me with this, and asking Thirteen to buy a lot of candies to apologize to Xiaolang later?"
The young man was struggling, as if he was weighing whether it was worth it.
In the end, I succumbed to the temptation of sugar.
"Okay, I'll come back to you when I get a reply."
Chao Lian was overjoyed and was about to coax the young man to meet somewhere. Then he would follow the clues to find the young teacher. Unexpectedly, his right hand was empty in the next moment. He looked up again, and a fallen leaf fell leisurely from mid-air to the young man's position. Where could he be?
When Gu Ren learned about this, he immediately sealed off the city and looked for someone.
The young man who caused the commotion appeared at a roadside tea shop outside the city with something in his arms. In the corner, a man dressed as a commoner lowered his bamboo hat and quietly sipped tea. The young man called him: "Fourth Uncle Lin."
"Bought?"
The man known as "Uncle Lin" raised his head.
Then he asked: "Have you made a move with someone?"
"He robbed me..."
Fourth Uncle Lin asked: "You didn't kill anyone, did you?"
The young man shook his head: "I didn't kill him, I just let the bugs sleep."
Fourth Uncle Lin didn't ask what "letting bugs sleep" mean. Anyway, after the boy practiced martial arts on weekdays, he liked to squat in the corner and toss with toads, centipedes, scorpions, ants and the like. Considering the young man's age, playing with bugs was quite normal.
"Have you bought everything?"
The young man nodded nervously: "Well..."
His fingers were trying to hide something unnaturally.
Uncle Lin checked it and made sure it was correct. He stood up and paid for the tea and said, "Let's go, your teacher is still waiting for you."
Halfway through, he whispered a reminder.
"Even though you look like a teenager, you still have cavities. Eat less sugar. If your teacher catches you, don't implicate me."
The boy said oh.
Actively admit your mistakes and never correct them despite repeated admonitions.
The young man's teacher is an old man with white beard and hair. He has aged very fast in the past few years, and a sense of aging has spread from the inside out. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he will not live long.
Seeing the young man and Uncle Lin coming back, his face as dry as a tree became alive. The three of them had a simple meal, and the old man said: "Everything is ready, let's continue going south..."
Fourth Uncle Lin: "Leaving again?"
This seclusion was like fighting a war, hiding here and there, but he didn't see anyone chasing him, so he didn't understand why the old man was moving so madly.
The old man said: "Well, for Shaobai's practice."
The young man was stunned for a while before he realized that Shaobai was calling himself, and he said distressedly: "Teacher, I am Ayan."
He didn't like the unfamiliar name Shaobai.
Fourth Uncle Lin just wanted to roll his eyes.
"Where does he practice differently?"
The old man said: "Of course it's different. The countries in the northwest are busy fighting wars and have no intention of holding a selection. Even if there are, they will refuse foreign scholars to participate. Shaobai needs to go to the holy land of mountains and seas. By then, this old bone of mine will be completely relieved.
"
When Fourth Uncle Lin heard this, he said nothing.
But the young man was restless: "Teacher..."
"What's the matter?"
"Teacher, do you know how to kill bugs?"
"insect?"
"Today I met someone who had a bug in his head. His brother promised that if I help them kill the bug, then..."
The last words were unclear.
The old man understood instantly and sneered: "Those who abuse them will not regret their death. I know the method, but I can't do it. You can do it, but your strength is not enough. Of course, if that person's life is big enough, it will drag you until you are strong enough."
also……"
"Well, Ayan knows."
"Also, eat less white food and less sugar."
The young man covered his mouth with both hands: "Ayan didn't eat!"
The old man pointed at the candy-covered tooth in the young man's bowl with his kuaizi and said, "You have lost all your teeth, so why are you still so arrogant?"
juvenile:"……"
Those eyes, which were like mountain ink paintings, were stained with mist.
What’s missing is a front tooth???
A few days later.
Gu Ren and his brothers couldn't find the young man after digging three feet into the ground. It seemed as if there was no such person in the world. Even Chao Lian couldn't help but wonder if he had made a mistake. On this day, they returned empty-handed again. Chao Lian was very anxious, but when he saw
See a familiar face.
He was overjoyed and stepped forward to stop the person.
"Xiao Lang, please let me..." When he saw the man's face clearly and looked at him like he was looking at a fool, Chao Lian almost coughed and said in shock, "Gong Xiqiu, how can it be you -"
"Oh, it's you, Gu Ziyi's younger brother, what's the matter?" This person is Gongxi Qiu who left Xiaocheng. He went on the road alone, and his efficiency on the road was very high. Gongxi Qiu Pingdan said hello, as if he almost killed someone back then.
He is not the one who rarely rushes.
His reaction was magnanimous, but Chao Lian was confused.
"you……"
Gong Xiqiu said: "I was passing by."
A few days ago, the clan pattern on my shoulder blade became inexplicably hot.
He ran all the way in the direction indicated by the clan emblem.
As a result, there was no movement again halfway through.
Chao Lian asked hesitantly: "Then you... have you ever seen a young man whose appearance is similar to yours? His dress..."
As he spoke, he paused.
His eyes were completely glued to the lines on Gong Xiqiu's collar.
This pattern is similar to the boyish style.
Obviously they come from the same source.
Gong Xiqiu didn't have much patience. Seeing that Chao Lian still had nothing to say, he planned to pay and leave, but Chao Lian grabbed his arm. Gong Xiqiu sneered and threatened: "You don't want this hand anymore?"
"That man looks very similar to you." Chao Lian was afraid that Gong Xiqiu wouldn't believe him, so he took out the pattern he drew based on memory from his arms and almost slapped Gong Xiqiu on the face, "Have you seen him before?"