Strange Tale of Qingluan

Back in the wing room, Su Zhongming led A Lin Tianduo, turned to the door, handed it to Ye Shuangshuang who was waiting outside, then closed the door and went back inside.Ding Xuehou was sitting at the table with a serious face, he looked a little displeased, Su Zhongming looked back at him, also puzzled, and asked him: "Why are you not convinced anymore?"

Dingxuehou was silent for a moment and didn't answer. Su Zhongming asked again, "What's wrong?" Dingxuehou opened his lips, but asked, "Where have you been? Why did you take so long to come back? You know I'm waiting here How long has it been..." Su Zhongming understood his temper, so he was as calm as a cloud of smoke, and explained: "I went to say goodbye to Murong's family. I was supposed to be back right away, but they took me to meet someone, so I was late. Come back a bit."

"Who are you going to see?" Ding Xuehou asked with great concern.Su Zhongming took the opportunity to play tricks, but he didn't tell directly, he just said, "You are so smart, guess!" After a loss, Su Zhongming had no choice but to admit defeat, and replied, "It's the Queen Mother Wen."

As soon as the words fell, Ding Xuehou was startled as expected, and blurted out: "Didn't the queen mother commit suicide when the tide rose and forced the palace? How could she be alive on Yangui Island?!" Su Zhongming touched the table The outer wall of the pot on the table, found that it was still warm, so he picked up the pot and cup, and poured himself a cup of tea, "Senior Murong told me that it was like this: the tide was rising that day, and Senior Murong was prepared for this matter. So the queen mother was given a fake death medicine in advance, and the queen mother drank the fake death medicine in front of Chao Sheng, tricked Chao Sheng and the imperial doctor, and then followed Senior Murong to Yangui Island to hide here temporarily."

After saying that, he drank the cup of tea to relieve his dry mouth, and after putting down the cup, he asked again: "How about it, do you want to let her meet too?" Ding Xuehou declined, "No need, at the beginning I promised her to take care of you, but now you are taking care of me, I'm afraid she will dislike me if she finds out."

Su Zhongming thought for a while, and felt that what he said made sense, so he agreed, "That's true, you are so inconvenient, she must think you can't control me anymore." Then he put the pot and cup back to their original place, and Turning her head to look at him, hesitating in her heart, after a while, she mustered up the courage and confessed to him, "Well... there is something I want to discuss with you."

Ding Xuehou asked curiously: "What are you discussing?" Su Zhongming hesitated for a moment, and asked cautiously: "One day, I have my own child, what will you think?" Get up, "You... What are you talking about? Did you have sex with a woman while I was not by your side? The other party has a child now?!"

Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, realizing that he couldn't explain clearly, he opened his mouth to explain, but Ding Xuehou suddenly stood up, and then pushed the chair over with force, which really shocked him.Before he could calm down, Dingxuehou was full of anger and yelled at him, "I am for you, and there is no one else, but what about you? As long as I'm not around, you'll be a surname, right? Is it!"

Su Zhongming raised his right hand to support his forehead, supported his right elbow with his left hand, and stood silently for a moment. After Ding Xuehou finished shouting, he said: "Listen to me..." Ding Xuehou was just being irritable, and capriciously interrupted: "You say What else is there to explain after exporting! Forget it, I don’t need you to take care of me, I’m leaving! I don’t need you to care about life or death in the future!”

Su Zhongmingwo tightened his head, took a step forward, grabbed the man in front of him by the skirt with both hands, and told him clearly, "Listen to me! You have completely misunderstood the matter! I have never touched a woman before." !" Ding Xuehou gritted his teeth, still angry, "How did that child get here!" Su Zhongming blurted out in a hurry, "I gave birth to the child!" Realizing that he said something wrong, he hurriedly changed his words: "Ah , No! The child is my egg!...No, no, no, the child is Qingluan's egg!...No, no, the child is..."

Dingxuehou didn't know why, so he wondered: "It's a mess, what on earth are you trying to say?" Su Zhongming was stupefied for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and then explained to him again, "I have merged with Qingluan sword, man and sword. But today, after vomiting, she spit out a strange bead. Feier said that Qingluan sword is the incarnation of the divine bird Qingluan. Excretion from the body, I have given the beads to Yan Ying, and when the time comes, the baby will come out of her stomach when the melons are ripe."

"My child... is this how he came here? You didn't lie to me?" Ding Xuehou gradually calmed down, but he was still dubious.Su Zhongming let go of his hand, "If you don't believe me, just ask Yan Ying." Ding Xuehou bowed his head in silence, and Su Zhongming added, "I plan to let him have the same surname as you, so you can choose the name!"

After hearing this, Ding Xuehou replied without hesitation, "Okay, I'll help you pick up the baby when it's born." Su Zhongming thought about it, and decided: "I think you'd better choose a good name now, or Avoid any worries." Dingxuehou had no choice but to follow him, thinking and said, "Choose a more auspicious name, I think... it's called Li Zhen (zheng), and zheng originally means auspicious."

When Su Zhongming heard the name, he thought the name was good, so he said happily: "Okay! When my Zhen'er is born, I want him to call you uncle!" Glancing at it, he said, "Why, you don't like it?" Ding Xuehou blurted out his protest, "Your Zhen'er and my surname are Li, yet you let him call me uncle!? Is this reasonable?"

Su Zhongming sat down and retorted, "Then what do you want? Do you want to be his father? You have already become A Lin's second father, do you want to be Zhen'er's second father again?"

Ding Xuehou didn't hesitate for a moment, and said frankly: "If you insist on me making a choice, then well, I'm not going to be A Lin's second father. I don't want A Lin anymore, I want Li Zhen! I want to be him father!"

"Haha, what if I don't agree?" Su Zhongming smiled.Ding Xuehou didn't say anything, turned around, and walked quickly to the inner room. Seeing this, Su Zhongming got up and followed, lifted the curtain, and said to him with a smile, "Hey, why are you so serious? I'm just kidding you!" Woolen cloth!"

Ding Xuehou turned his back to him, and said unhappily: "Sometimes you scare me, and sometimes you tell the truth, the jokes are all the same as the truth, how do I know whether it is a joke or the truth? Anyway, since I am blind From now on, you will always bully me!"

"I don't play tricks, okay? I'll let you be Zhen'er's father, okay? Don't be angry with me, I still count on you to take me to Xuanxiu Valley to detoxify the valley owner!" Su Zhongming left Go into the inner room and coax him once.Ding Xuehou turned around and said, "It's good that you know, if I lose my temper and really leave you alone, you will have to wait for death."

"Are you willing to let me die?" Su Zhongming smiled.Ding Xuehou stretched out his hand to hold him, and took his hand, "Stop talking, it's getting late, let's go to Xuanxiu Valley."

With the burden on their backs, the two stepped out of the room, left Yangui Island immediately, and set off for their destination.They boarded the boat on Yangui Island, Ding Xuehou sat in the middle, Su Zhongming stood on the bow and punted the boat. They arrived at the land smoothly, entered the river from the mouth of the river, and passed through Guangling Kingdom.

They went all the way north along the Wuhuang River, passed through Landan Kingdom, and arrived at a place called Yuncui Gorge.In this place, the river basin to the north is the territory of Geyun Kingdom, and the small river rushing westward at the fork is still the territory of Landan Kingdom. Su Zhongming followed the instructions of the man behind him and rowed the boat to the small river to the west. Go, while punting the boat, listening to him playing the familiar tune with the flute that he brought with him.

After successfully entering Xiaojiangliu, Su Zhongming turned his head and said to him, "If I don't reach the mark, I will keep going..." Ding Xuehou kept whistling, but did not answer, Su Zhongming only regarded him as acquiescing, Continue to punt.

In the clear sky with thin clouds, a sea dongqing flew by by chance, and a white feather fluttered down, and fell silently to the surface of the water, floating and not sinking. Su Zhongming caught a glimpse of it, but he ignored it and continued to row the boat. .Not long after, many empty boats floated inexplicably from behind them, and even a dozen of them overtook them and floated to the front.

Those empty boats were arranged in a row, surrounding the boats of the two of them. Su Zhongming was taken aback for a moment, stopped punting, and glanced at the empty boats. Feeling something was wrong, he said: "Li Xuan ...these empty boats..." The sound of the flute stopped abruptly, Ding Xuehou listened carefully, but before Su Zhongming could say 'strange', suddenly, many people appeared from under the empty boat, which scared Su Zhongming a lot Jump.

Hearing the sound of rushing water, Dingxuehou hurriedly asked Su Zhongming, "What's the situation!" Su Zhongming retreated to Dingxuehou's side, and said in horror: "Just now, many empty boats came against the current without wind, and then, Now there are many people coming out from the bottom of the boat! All of them are carrying swords, I am afraid that the comers are not good!"

"What do they look like?" Ding Xuehou asked again.Su Zhongming glanced at it quickly, and said quickly, "Wearing coir raincoats, they look like people from the Jianghu, but they all wear official boots." Ding Xuehou immediately concluded, "It must be officers and soldiers!" Su Zhongming subconsciously tensed up The hilt of Qiu Xuejian said strangely: "Officers and soldiers? Why did the officers and soldiers of Landan Kingdom surround us?"

"It doesn't have to be from Landan Kingdom, it might be..." Ding Xuehou replied, and before he could finish speaking, those men who came out of the water and jumped into the empty boat quickly rowed over, and the bows of the boats all bumped into Su Zhongming The boat swayed, almost making Su Zhongming unsteady.

When Su Zhongming unsheathed the sharp blades, those men had already raised their swords and slashed at the two of them. In a panic, Su Zhongming frantically blocked the sharp blades one by one, shed them back, and then slashed them one by one.Dingxuehou recognized the enemy's direction by hearing, and at the same time made moves to resist the attack. They fought back to back to protect each other.

"Hey! Are you from Landan Kingdom or Geyun Kingdom? If it's from Landan Kingdom, you may have mistaken people!" Su Zhongming held his sword and shouted at them, but no one responded, only Sha Zhao attacked one after another. Come.

Just as they were looking for a retreat, in an instant, more than a dozen figures flew from the high cliffs, all wearing masks and dressed in black.Su Zhongming took a closer look and recognized it, and shouted at Dingxuehou: "There are still masters!" Dingxuehou was slightly startled, "Officers and soldiers plus masters... which faction is this?"

Su Zhongming gritted his teeth, and asserted: "It must be Mu Fengshe, and Huang Yan must have sent them to arrest me! Damn, how did they know that we would come here alone?" He pierced through the bodies of the oncoming enemies, cut off their arms and legs, and even broke their throats and heads, but he was still invincible.

Corpses fell into the water one by one, fresh snow splashed the boat and stained the water red, but those enemies seemed to be ruthless by nature, their souls seemed to exist for this battle, regardless of the life and death of their partners, and dealt with the target wholeheartedly, Fighting desperately, they still surrounded Su Zhongming and Ding Xuehou, preventing them from having any chance of escape.

Su Zhongming raised his left hand to wipe the fresh snow splashed on his cheeks, and stared at the enemy closely. At this time, he was already showing signs of fatigue. He tightened his grip on the sword hilt even more. He didn't want to admit defeat at all. Ding Xuehou, leaning against his back, said, "It's not an option to go on like this, there are too many of them! Sooner or later our strength will be exhausted!"

Dingxuehou didn't answer, but just held on to the hilt of his sword tightly, because this time he had exhausted too much energy and dealt with too many people, the wound he had healed before burst open again, blood stained his robe, that kind of The premonition of dying once appeared in his mind, he subconsciously took Su Zhongming's left hand, and murmured involuntarily, "Don't leave me..."

Those officers and soldiers with sharp knives and masters wearing masks rushed forward, betting on the last game, vowing to catch Su Zhongming alive. Suddenly, a small boat floated down the river from the front, and the young man in white on the boat jumped up and opened up. Step by step, the oil-paper umbrella, which was as red as blood, came over the enemy's head. The enemy fell into the water inexplicably like a straw under his feet.

The young man in white landed on Su Zhongming's boat, took out a kit from his sleeve, grabbed a handful of powder from the kit and sprinkled it on the faces of the swarming enemies, and then used an oil-paper umbrella to blow a light breeze towards them, In an instant, all the seven orifices were snowing, and they fell down in pain, and even fell into the water.

"Sujin? Is that you?" Ding Xuehou asked when he smelled the medicinal fragrance.The young man in white didn't answer, but when he saw the enemy advancing one after another, he jumped up again, stepped on top of their heads, and swung long and thin iron needles at them. The speed was so fast that the enemy couldn't avoid them, and they all died in battle. piece.

Seeing this, the rest of the officers and soldiers and the masters wearing masks suddenly withdrew their hands, stepped back timidly, jumped into the cold water, and fled.Su Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief, wiped off the snow traces on the sharp blade, turned his head and saw the back of Wu Ding Xuehou's Wo Jian's hand, "We are safe." Ding Xuehou lowered his long sword, raised one hand , I live in the wound.

The young man in white put away the oil-paper umbrella, jumped onto their boat, approached Dingxuehou, glanced at his injuries, and the first words he opened his lips were reproaches, "Look at you, the master of the valley gave you a miraculous medicine, You ran out not long after you recovered, and now the wound is open again, what should you tell yourself?"