(i) Molting
The first light of dawn finally spilled into the dark martial arts practicing field, and the long night, at last, passed.
Outside the wall of the withered tree on the crows suddenly “Ya Ya” high call up, this call, but it is the Yanhong woke up from unconsciousness, her heart steeply shocked, subconsciously to the waist of the pants to touch, touching the hand is the cold skin. She remembered last night that a pair of greedy eyes, a pair of obscene hands, Yanhong barely shifted her body, forcefully extracted last night on her last blow of the bamboo stick, bear the pain, climbed to the nearest one of her corpse.
“Lao Li…” called Yan Hong softly, he used to be the best under Master He Zhuang, but now it was a sharp sword through his heart, to Yan Hong’s naked and delicate body, which used to be his dream, but now he could only stare at his eyes that had turned gray, fulfilling his dream, Yan Hong took out the gold wound medicine from his pocket and applied it on the wound, a coolness made Yan Hong more lucid clear.
Yan Hong quickly organized her thoughts and barely managed to pick up one of the spears scattered around, and walked towards the main hall with a dangerous trembling.
The main hall door has been shattered, the door in and out of the scattered corpses on the ground, most of them are the remains of the hands and feet, blood splattered around, visible at the time of the battle of the gruesome, Yanhong has long expected that Hejiazhuang has no one alive, and do not hesitate to go straight to the guest room where she usually lives, but fortunately the guest room has not been damaged too much, Yanhong will be the body to clean up a little bit, and pick up a servant’s coarse clothes to wear, and then want to leave.
At this point, Yanhong as if she heard a moan, she would not have paid attention to, a walk away, but a trace of child compassion, let Yanhong search for the sound and finally found in the pile of corpses in the eight-year-old He Yiyi.
“Young master” Yan Hong exclaimed, rushed up to help him up, his chest was cut a sword, perhaps because it is a child, the murderer’s strength is also lazy, but also enough to He Yiyi, Yan Hong will be the first to put the medicine in the wound, and then for him to dress. He Yiyi although small age, but also can bear the pain, did not say anything to let Yanhong for him to order everything.
“Sister, where are we going?” He Yiyi finally couldn’t help but ask. Yanhong really do not know how to answer, she really wanted to leave early to avoid trouble, who knew that it was due to a moment of compassion, dragged a baggage, think He Zhuangzhu treats her although good, after all, only as she is a plaything, there is no need to take this risk, but the child after all, the innocent, threw him here, in the event that the enemy to go and come back, will not let him in vain to die?
Yanhong sighed, “Alas, one step at a time, let’s take one step at a time, we have to say goodbye, if you don’t listen to me, my sister will beat you up!” He Yiyi hmmm, walked to Yanhong side, pulled her hand, said: “Thank you sister, Yiyiyi will definitely filial piety to you in the future.”
Yanhong could not help but laugh, it seems that the big family also has its own difficult place, young, not moving is filial piety, sister, a faction of the old-fashioned, Yanhong laughs at the other side, can not help but also self-inflicted injuries life, the eye frame can not help but red up. Her family was originally a prominent family in Jinling, but her father’s good gambling, not a few years of work, the large family fortune to lose all, Yanhong natural is one of his gambling capital, when the Yihong Yuan to collect gambling debts, he knew that the reason for the loss of a step earlier and his mother, “run away”, the poor Yanhong ten years old to enter the House of Youth, fortunately, she was born with a beautiful face, the pimp has been taking care of her, sixteen years old before letting her formally under the sea, and then she was not allowed to go out. Sixteen years old before letting her officially under the sea to receive customers.
He Zhuangzhu is naturally one of the benefactors, in the jianghu he called “Jinling Warrior” under the hand is quite solid, but “Warrior” is mostly those who rely on him to eat meat and drink friends for him to add the title, several generations of accumulated wealth is really quite a lot, I’m afraid that this is also the reason why today’s I’m afraid this is also the reason for today’s disaster.
He Shouli – this Jinling Warrior widow has a disease, especially like like Yanhong this kind of fine skin and tender flesh of the little girl, three days to Yihongyuan run, Mrs. He did not dare to control him, Jinling Warrior is even more unscrupulous, opened up the guest room in the manor, the pleasure of the moment, sent the old Li to the Yihongyuan to let Yanhong out of the game.
It’s about time that a guest came to Jiangyin and asked for Master He Shouli by name. As soon as He Shouli saw the visitor, he knew it was bad. It turned out that this person’s portrait had appeared in the bounty list, and He was no match for him.
“My name is Jiangyin Yang Liang, dare I ask how is He Warrior?”
“I wouldn’t dare, could it be that Your Excellency is Double Sword Yang Liang?” He Shouli was also calm because of his many men. Yang Liang then changed his words “It is rumored that He is the richest man in Jinling, I dare to borrow 10,000 taels of gold, I hope He will fulfill my wish.”
So straightforward, but let He Shouli froze for a moment, he thought for a long time, slowly said: “Not to say that I do not have 10,000 taels of gold,” he put his arm around the side of Yanhong, “even if there is, I have a wife and concubines, as well as inside and outside of a hundred or so guards are dependent on the life of my younger brother, but also can not be complete brother Yang, it seems that I have to let Brother Yang down.”
Yang Liang also turned around and quickly left without saying anything. He Shouli like a victory, I did not expect this kid so good to deal with, a few words to scare away, the side of the gatekeeper is praising the master of the village wise and mighty, put a He Shouli praise over the sky.
That night, He Shouli was about to pull off the red bib, suddenly the martial arts training ground came from a sorrowful voice: “He warrior great pleasure, death still do not forget to flirt a bit, hahahaha.”
He Shouli was shocked, a push away Yanhong, copied the long sword rushed to the hall, at this time all the family guards and Yang Liang’s men have been exchanged hands, the whole manor boiled up, He Shouli also do not care about the safety of his family, and the long sword and rushed into the front hall of the thugs fought up, finally he was skilled, and stabbed over a few murderers, the eyes of the murderers in the house is about to be cleaned up, but turned to glance at the Yang Liang is laughing and hugging Yanhong wantonly! He Shouli held his breath and said: “We have no past grievances, no recent enmity, why do you want to wipe out my family?”
Yang Liang threw Yan Hong out of his hand and called out: “After killing all the chickens and dogs, this girl will be yours.” After Yang Liang finished speaking, he turned back to He Shou Li with a sinister smile: “Is it possible that you don’t know that I never accept rejection? In the daytime, Master Zhuang can be a hero, now, it’s time for my little brother to show off.”
He Shouli looked around, saw the family members and guests fell one by one, but he was unable to save, the heart of a miserable, he points out that he will die, but also unwilling to lead the neck to be killed, lifting the long sword stabbed at Yang Liang, not to wait for the old style, a pain in the chest, Yang Liang’s long sword has already pierced through the heart and over.
Yanhong most worried about is not back to the Yihongyuan, like her kind of woman, as long as she is willing to sell her body, no worries about food and drink, but she is really tired of this life, take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of the old bawd control, is also not a bad idea, the idea is finalized, she urged the small Yiyi Yiyi on the road, He Yiyi as if he remembered something like Yanhong said: “Sisters, Dad has some things hidden in the back of the narthex, I do not know that the people I wonder if those people have taken them?” Yanhong opened the center hall, and there was indeed a secret compartment behind it. She took out the brocade box inside and opened it eagerly. Inside was…
(ii) Change
Zhou Pingzhi by bridle slowly, just around a rocky area, suddenly heard the sound of swords and knives, occasionally came a few shouts, Zhou Pingzhi intuition that there are mountain thieves robbing money on the road, hurriedly steered his horse forward, only to see a woman in white is panting and a black boy entangled in a fight, young people’s age is small, but the strokes are exquisite, killed the woman in white back step by step, Zhou Pingzhi was trying to go up to solve the siege, but heard the boy shouted:. Zhou Pingzhi was about to go up to relieve himself, but he heard the young man call out: “Sisters can lose this time, right?”
Zhou Pingzhi sigh of relief, the original is a sister brother practicing sword, he was laughing, since the art into the mountain, a few years down the road has not encountered the three will, the whole body seems to be suffocated in the body, would like to find an opportunity to vent out, but this opportunity seems to be out of the question.
Zhou Pingzhi was about to ride away, but a sudden alarm, he drew his back hand on the back of the long sword rushed up to tease, but teased an empty, thought not good, force sharp horse, the horse can not afford to him a leash, hooves up high, Zhou Pingzhi rolled down the horse, but saw the black boy has stood in front of the sword.
The young man said, “Who are you? Why are you spying on our sword practice?”
Zhou Pingzhi although he knew that he was in the wrong, but because of the young man’s bad breath, just now ate his backstabbing, the heart can not help but be angry, so he coldly said: “Counted in the enthusiasm of the over-excessive influence on the virtuous sister disciple sword practice, but your sword is too venomous, in case it is an ordinary person, you do not hold a regret for the rest of your life?”
The young man raised both eyebrows, was about to reply, the woman in white has also arrived, she first reprimanded said “small Yiyi, do not stand down!” A side to Zhou Pingzhi salute: “He is still young, what things do not understand, warrior do not and his general understanding.”
Zhou Pingzhi saw the white woman Zhu Lip Yao Nose looks like heavenly fairy, gas early eliminated half, hurriedly cupped fists and said: “In the next there is not right, if I had known that your brother kung fu is so exquisite, in the next do not have to rush to present the ugly.”
Hearing Zhou Pingzhi praising him for his good kung fu, the young man was delighted and asked, “Is my kung fu really good?”
Zhou Pingzhi pondered for a moment and said with a straight face, “Just based on that sword just now, it shouldn’t be that bad.”
“But how is it better than Zhu Shuangjian Yang Liang?” The young man pursued.
Zhou Pingzhi said with a slight smile: “How could you mention this person? Yang Liang is at best a third-rate character, and although his sword moves are fast, I’m afraid he’s not as good as you.”
The teenager turned his eyes to look at the woman in white, both of them showed joy, eight years of hard practice, finally not in vain, finally to clear the account.
The young man and the woman in white is naturally He Yiyi and Yanhong, when they found in the dark compartment of the martial arts characters dreamed of the secret manuals of martial arts “Nine Turns of the Divine Power”, just want to learn a little self-defense, in case of emergency, after all, He Shouli although it has it, but still is not the enemy of the Yangliang a move.
Fortunately, Yanhong and He Yiyi are tough people, a few years down not only light and fit, martial arts seems to have made great progress, they studied for a long time, they think it must have been He Shouli patience is not good, Zhenzhi only want to wine and beauty, simply do not want to learn martial arts, so that a crossroads that can not protect themselves.
Yanhong sold the jewelry in the dark compartment, in Suzhou near the purchase of a hut to live, renamed Qiu Ruizhen, from then on, and He Yizhen day to day practice, eight years do not dare to stop a little.
Eight years are enough for Ho Yik and Qiu Rui Zhen to learn good kung fu, but the tragedy of that night’s killing has left the two of them with lingering fears that they might not be able to hit the target and be killed by Yang Liang.
Zhou Pingzhi saw the two of them looking at each other with excitement, and with a slight realization in his heart, he asked, “Could it be that the girl and your brother are looking for Yang Liang’s bad luck?”
He Yiyi couldn’t help but say aloud: “This thief Yang Liang killed my parents, I… I… I will never share the same fate with him.”
Zhou Pingzhi heart secretly sighed, from his debut so far, similar stories have seen a lot, but with the strength of one person, how many robbers and bandits can he kill? Not many years down the mountain, he has already experienced the master’s state of mind to avoid living in the mountains and forests, now this young man? How many more years will it take for him to realize it?
Zhou Pingzhi turned his head to look at the woman in white, but saw her looking up at the sky, not knowing what she was thinking. He Yiyi ran over in a huff and took Qiu Ruizhen’s hand and said, “Sister, let’s go take revenge now, okay?”
Qiu Ruizhen will gaze from the sky back, look a little lonely, faintly said: “also not busy in a moment, Zhou warrior know a lot of knowledge, may know Yang Liang landing place, let’s first ask clearly, so as not to blindly run around in the jianghu.”
(to be continued)