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Gao Ya's first reaction was that this person was crazy, and even thought of whether the duel the day before yesterday and even the conflict in the Xinxin Building were a cover, and Xu Liangcai and Feng Huanyuan had some ulterior motives. "When did the sect master know Feng Huanyuan?"

"I received a letter from the Huashan faction ten days ago."

"That is to say, before that, you didn't even know there was such a person as Feng Huanyuan."

"Now I know." Xu Liang said calmly. "Three days ago in the Xinxin Building, some of my unscrupulous disciples bumped into him, and learned his identity through a quarrel. The young man is full of blood, and he is about to act for the sky. He is in a mess. He has a very good shot. When I received the news and rushed over, no one was injured."

Gao Ya didn't bother to show that she was there at the time, and echoed: "He is in a difficult situation now, and he doesn't want to make any more troubles."

"I'm not very clear about which is right and which is wrong, but the Golden Whip Gate has been slapped in the face, and I have to give everyone an explanation." Xu Liang's words are full of helpless sense of responsibility. "So according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, I made an appointment with him to fight, and life and death are up to fate. To be honest, even if he dies under my hands, I will not have any regrets."

Gao Ya said: "But now you feel it's a pity."

Xu Liangdao: "Because I discovered an interesting thing. The sword Feng Huanyuan carried."

Gao Ya recalled whether Feng Huanyuan was wearing a sword, but found that she couldn't even remember what clothes Feng Huanyuan was wearing.He had given up on his ability to observe details a long time ago, and heard Xu Liang continue: "That sword is the legendary treasure of Mount Zhonghua, named Huwei, and only the head of the sect can wear it. It may be more symbolic, because None of the Huashan sect masters in the past relied on this sword to make their way through the rivers and lakes... Maybe I am ignorant. But there are many frightening legends about this sword."

Gao Ya made a look of interest: "Will you turn into a dragon and fly away at night?"

Xu Liangdao: "That's not possible. I heard that this sword has too much killing karma. I heard ghosts crying at night. It can't be controlled by ordinary people. It is also spiritual and can recognize its master. If it is not its master, it will die violently. But this sword is now But on an abandoned disciple who deceived his master and destroyed his ancestors."

An extremely awkward silence came from Gao Ya's obvious distrust.After a while, Gao Ya said with a dry smile: "The sect master believes in such a statement?"

Xu Liang smiled and said, "It's just a rumor."

Gao Ya said: "Aside from the rumors, it may also be killing people and seizing property."

"However, this matter was not mentioned in the letters of the Huashan School."

"Or maybe they forgot to write it."

Xu Liang looked at him with great interest, like an adult looking at a child who insisted on arguing with him.The sky outside the window was already bright, the candles inside the house were still on, the white flame lost its ability to illuminate, and stood alone and bored.Gao Ya tried her best to make her tone less provocative: "The sect master seems to have made up his mind."

Xu Liangdao: "It's not a fixed opinion, it's just an intuition. If you don't fight, you don't know each other. I don't hate Feng Huanyuan. His temperament is not like an ordinary sect disciple, let alone someone who would commit such evil deeds. But Then again, I thought you'd agree with that instinct."

Gao Ya said: "If the head of the sect wants to help him, it's up to you. It's not bad that I didn't settle accounts with him."

Xu Liang responded frankly: "I am powerless. It doesn't matter whether he is innocent or not. Firstly, the sect has a feud with him. I can't ignore the disciple's emotions. Second, Huashan will have a new master soon, so I really can't do it." To offend the entire Mount Hua for one Feng Huanyuan. So even though I thought it was suspicious, I just sent a confidant disciple to pay attention to his movements——Huang Da’s martial arts is not very good, I made you laugh—but I found that you actually After taking Feng Huanyuan in for a night, I wondered if things would turn around."

Gao Ya: "... What's wrong..."

Xu Liang sighed: "I think his experience may remind you of something."

Gao Ya also felt the shame of being stripped naked, mixed with a feeling of hatred for such a simple and unbearable self, and did not dare to startle the snake, so she could only try her best to understate: "Master, I am really not worth it." You're wasting your time like this."

Xu Liang was silent for a long time, and said: "I offended, sir, forgive me."

He waved his hand to extinguish the candle, and suddenly said, "Why do you think Feng Huanyuan left without saying goodbye?"

Gao Ya said: "Maybe he suddenly remembered something urgent."

Xu Liang said: "Maybe he didn't do it voluntarily, but was invited."

Gao Ya said: "Hua Shan can only kill him now, and there are people who want him to be a guest?"

Xu Liangdao: "Naturally, it's because there are still things worth seeing on him."

It was already daylight when he walked out of the Golden Whip Gate.The market in the morning is very lively, the sound of hawking is endless, the shops along the street have been cleaned, and the fragrance of fresh breakfast can be smelled everywhere.The dry air indicated that the day was also cloudless.Gao Ya only felt that her head was about to explode, and her throat was dying of thirst.He felt that his hands and face were covered with dirt; although he had never touched anything particularly unclean.

"Actually, I envy you very much." Xu Liang said as he sent him away. "In my current position, I can no longer do whatever I want. If it were ten years ago, I would be single-handedly, and I would go anywhere as long as it was something I recognized. Of course, I made a choice. ; But it is human nature to have to look at Shu in Longlong."

Gao Ya refrained from asking what the other party envied her, selling paintings for a living alone, but sighed: "I am envious of the sect master, who can trust so much a person who has known him for less than three days and has done it before."

Xu smiled with a good temper. "There are few quicker ways to get to know a person than by doing it."

Because a man can lie, but a sword cannot?

Even though the meaning may be extremely profound, Gao Ya doesn't think about anything else, just intends to hurry up and buy a few freshly cooked steamed buns, have a bowl of steaming fermented glutinous rice eggs, and then run home to catch up on sleep.When he was struggling to squeeze towards the popular bun shop, he turned around from the end of the street to ride a few horses.

Although the morning is vivid, the streets are narrow after all, and it is absolutely impossible to turn a blind eye to such a mighty crowd.Pedestrians fled under the eaves on both sides one after another, Gao Ya glanced at the crowd, and only got a rough impression that a man and a horse were neatly organized, but it was not much worse than nothing.He turned his head to see that there were still a few people in line in front of him, and suddenly looked away as if he woke up suddenly.

The four horses were only trotting, all swift and even.There were three black horses scattered, with a white horse sandwiched between them, and Feng Huanyuan was sitting on the saddle.This Feng Huanyuan is very different from when Gaoya met yesterday, and even when Xiangxinlou unilaterally met for the first time.Not only had he washed his face and shaved his beard, revealing his well-defined and well-defined eyebrows, he had also changed into a very neat suit of clothes, no wonder Gao Ya couldn't recognize him immediately.

But even that is secondary.Sitting on the horse, Feng Huanyuan's posture was serene and indifferent, his waist was thin and straight, and the hand holding the rein seemed to be planning a strategy. The other three people almost surrounded him, and there was no sign of danger or coercion.Maybe Gao Ya's eyes were too hot, he even looked back at Gao Ya.

Gao Ya's stomach convulsed unexpectedly.

The four horses galloped all the way out of the city gate, and after only half a moment of galloping, they slowed down and walked along the river, and came to a small courtyard after a while.The red sun was just rising, and there were old patterns on the wooden door, and an iron lock hung on the door.The three riders on the black horse all looked at Feng Huanyuan, Feng Huanyuan pointed falsely at the whip, and said, "This is the place."

One of them dismounted first, drew out the dagger at his waist and swiped it, the lock split in two and fell to the ground.The four tied their horses to the stone pillars outside the door and filed in.During the day, the persimmon trees in the courtyard don’t feel as huge as at night. When you look closely, there are still a few crumbling persimmons hidden among the yellowed branches and leaves.There is also a pomegranate tree behind the house, but there is not a single pomegranate left.

Standing in front of the pomegranate tree, Feng Huanyuan raised his head to see the roof from the sky, slightly lost in thought, as if he was moved by the radiant tiles.The three of them stood patiently with him for a while, and finally the biggest one stepped forward and stabbed him in the waist.This person was dressed in black, with a strong physique and a rough face, but the voice he spoke was that of a woman: "Is it just buried under this tree?"

Feng Huanyuan said: "Exactly, Miss Yun, please go ahead."

Miss Yun stretched out her foot and stomped the ground around the roots of the tree, saying: "The soil has not been touched for at least half a year."

Feng Huanyuan sighed: "Oh, is that right? No wonder the tree looks so shabby. Then maybe I remembered it wrong. The night is dark and the wind is high, and the shock is still undecided. It's normal to remember it wrong."

Miss Yun asked suspiciously: "Are you really buried under the tree?"

Feng Huanyuan swore: "It's absolutely true."

Another person interjected after deliberation: "There are only two trees in this courtyard. If it's not this tree, it must be that tree."

The man was short and shriveled, thick in the middle and thin at both ends like a date stone, with two small eyes that rolled around.Everyone thought it was true, so they went around the house and turned back to the front yard.The persimmon tree was shivering under the colorless sunlight, suddenly a ripe persimmon fell to the ground with a bang, revealing its bright inner flesh.The little man picked it up, wiped it with his sleeve, let Feng Huanyuan first, then Miss Yun, and happily took a bite after being rejected.The third person was a tall man with a sickly yellow complexion, a serious hunchback, and looked pitifully thin. He said angrily, "Why don't you let me?"

The little man said: "Because I know you like to eat persimmons."

The tall man flew into a rage and was about to explode when Miss Yun shouted: "Enough!" The sound was like a bell, and the tree shook twice.The two immediately stood up respectfully.Miss Yun walked around the tree a few times, stood still in the southeast, probed the surrounding floating soil with her toes, and said to Feng Huanyuan: "Dare to be here."

Feng Huanyuan said: "Exactly, I also remember it was here. I was upset at the time, and I was not buried very deep."

Miss Yun said: "Aren't you afraid that the owner of the house will find out?"

Feng Huanyuan said: "He found out that it's his, so what does it matter? If you said you want it, I'll bring you here right away."

Miss Yun's clay-sculpted and wood-carved cheeks loosened a bit. "You are very generous."

The short man no longer knew where to get a shovel, so he patted the tall man on the arm naturally. "dig."

The tall man showed a look of grief and indignation, but he didn't protest anymore, and dug up vigorously one after another.The short man stood leaning on a hoe, and smiled at Feng Huanyuan: "You are easy to talk to. According to the price offered by your elder brother, we all think you are a very difficult person. Arranged the highest standard of reception, such as ecstasy incense, Wangyou San, I didn't expect it to be useless, I only asked you to exchange your life with a sword, and you readily agreed."

Feng Huanyuan's expression seemed to be glad that he didn't use it: "It seems that I gave you a false alarm."

The short man waved his hands and said: "No, no, this is good, this is good." He moved closer to Feng Huanyuan, almost tiptoeing and whispering in his ear: "But you are too credulous, you never thought about it." We may have taken the sword and killed you?"

Feng Huanyuan was moderately taken aback, then smiled and said, "I can see that you are not such perfidious people."

The short man patted him proudly on the shoulder hard. "Of course, the three heroes of my Sheng family are all one-on-one, hard-to-get-together characters. They take money to do things, and they are innocent. Your senior brother has a good-looking talent, but his eyes are not flattering. Such a big matter of killing and seizing property is actually handed over to you." Giving it to that stupid dumb person really hurt the reputation of the three great masters of the Sheng family. Fortunately, we caught you by surprise, secretly, and found you before the dumb guy, and this time we will definitely make him regret it."

He said a word, Feng Huanyuan nodded, and finally asked: "I don't know what to do with the brothers and sisters after getting the tiger tail? Should I hand it over to my senior brother to convince him, or keep him angry?"

The short man hesitated and said, "I really haven't thought about it. Let's see what Sister Yun said——Sheng Yuan, did you not eat enough in the morning? Why did you dig for so long?"

Sheng Yuan raised his head, with bitter hatred on his face: "You eat ten pancakes alone, what's the use? I dug more than three feet deep, and I didn't see a hair on the tiger's tail. It's clear that this Feng is playing tricks on us." , you are still calling him brother and brother!"

Feng Huanyuan interjected: "Brother Sheng Fang, I've been a little concerned since just now, I don't know if brothers and sisters are born from the same mother—"

The short man named Sheng Fang shouted together with Sheng Yuan: "Who was born to his mother!"

Miss Yun had been concentrating on observing the soil dug out by the shovel, and now she glared at the two of them rather dissatisfied.Sheng Fang quickly calmed down, and said with a smile on his face again: "Brother Feng misunderstood. The three of us are not related by blood, but most people in the village have the surname Sheng—but to be honest, Brother Feng, did you remember something wrong again? Location?"

Feng Huanyuan murmured thoughtfully: "I was wondering just now, would I be in the well..." He hastily denied the possibility of playing with fire before the three of them changed their colors: "That's right, that's right, Huwei is here It's right to be buried here."

The corners of Miss Yun's eyebrows twitched, and her tone was sonorous: "Dig for another quarter of an hour. If you still can't find it, Feng Huanyuan, don't blame us for being rude."

She called Feng Huanyuan's full name very bluntly, but it was conceivable that she would be just as blunt even if she called her son Shaoxia. This was just a frank threat, and there was no particular malice in it.Before Feng Huanyuan could answer, he suddenly heard a clear and cold voice: "Everyone came here uninvited, why are you so polite?"

The voice suddenly came from behind, and everyone was completely unprepared. The short man exclaimed, jumped forward, turned around and swung the hoe around his waist.The tall man reacted faster than him, and the shovel smashed head-on with a head of dust, but it hit the handle of the hoe with a bang.

The person who spoke just now was no longer there, not even a shadow left.

Miss Yun's claw-shaped right hand stretched out suddenly.

Can she catch the shadow?

Already she heard the hiss of nails on the fabric, felt the cool air in her hands.

Miss Yun's shoulders and neck suddenly felt sore, and she involuntarily withdrew her hand, and Feng Huanyuan supported her exhausted body in time.Sheng Fang and Sheng Yuan also fell backwards at the same time, and no one came to help them. The back of Sheng Yuan's head was still on the persimmon tree, and she rolled her eyes and passed out.

Gao Ya didn't look down at them, she went straight to the point and gave Feng Huanyuan a gouging look. Feng Huanyuan smiled sincerely: "I can explain."

Gao Ya said: "Please don't explain here." He walked away, ignoring Sheng Fang's scolding from behind.Feng Huanyuan helped Miss Yun to sit by the tree, and walked with him outside the door. "I have already returned to my home, why are you leaving again?"

Gao Ya turned her head to look at him in pain. "Are you sure this is my home?"

Feng Huanyuan's scalp was numb from the sight, and his eyes wandered to the horse that was grazing with its head down.He patted the saddle of the white horse. "At least we can ride."

"As you please." Gao Ya said. "I don't like riding horses."