The rivers and lakes ask the heart but not the way

Chapter 22, Empty City Plan

In the memory of Shi Qi Shao, the sixth child was also a poor man.

Most of the orphans, like Shiqi Shao, lost their parents when they were born, and had no memory of their parents at all.The sixth child is different. Until the age of seven, he was brought up by his mother alone. After the Yellow River flooded, he became a real orphan.In the first few years after joining the Devil's Cult, the other children were crying in the quilt at night, and the sixth son cried out in his dreams, "Mother, mother..." At that time, the Seventeenth Young Master felt that the sixth son was very pitiful and enviable.

The sixth child has poor health, can't run fast enough, and can't jump high enough. He is afraid that one day he will be sucked into human skin, so he devotes himself to researching poison︱drugs.Poison is actually not a good thing. If you want to use it to hurt people, you must first develop it yourself, apply it on the weapon with your own hands, and it is easy to accidentally injure yourself when you shoot.So things like poison often hurt themselves before hurting others.Some poisons are so powerful that the instructors are reluctant to touch them. Everyone has only seen them in books, and no one has the courage to practice them.But Lao Liu didn't care, he refined all the most vicious and powerful poisons, some of which he didn't even have the antidote himself.The root cause of Lao Liu's illness fell at that time. He began to cough non-stop, and his face turned yellow every year.After that, I gradually stopped hearing him calling his mother in his dreams.

Now the sixth child standing at the mouth of the mountain has long since lost the shadow of the seventh year old. The same part of his body as the Seventeenth Young Master is dead.

The Seventeenth Young Master smiled and said: "For the sake of the same family, I will spare you one last time. Get out, I won't kill you."

The sixth child snorted and said, "You're still stubborn when you're about to die." He expected that the Seventeenth Young Master had been seriously injured before, and even if he survived, he wouldn't be able to recover so quickly.

Seventeenth Young Master kindly reminded him: "Look at who is behind you."

Want to lure him back so that he can take the opportunity to plot?Lao Liu was not that stupid, he was unmoved, and just about to step into the valley, he heard a murderous voice from behind: "If you take another step forward, don't blame me for being rude."

The sixth child looked back, only to see a frost-coloured long gown, its skirt flapping in the westerly wind, a man facing the wind from a jade tree, holding an epee.He stood with the backlight, and the sixth child couldn't see his face clearly, but he still called out his name: "Wushuang Kuaijian, it's you again!"

When Lao Liu turned his head, Shi Qi Shao had a lot of time to plot against him, but now that he was seriously injured, he couldn't use his hidden weapon at all.

Wu Shuangzi was very fortunate that the sun was past noon, and the sun was behind him, which could hide his pale face and sunken temples.Whether he can swing a sword now is still a question.

The sixth child estimated the situation, this is not a good time to make a move.Just after the Beginning of Autumn, I have just recovered from the Gu poison, although I have sucked a lot of human skin, my skills have only recovered to seven or eighty-eight, which is more than enough to deal with the Seventeenth Young Master, but there is little chance of winning against Wu Shuangzi.It would be difficult if Wu Shuangzi had been by Young Master Shiqi's side all the time, so he coughed and asked Young Master Shiqi shadyly: "Yes, Shiqi, when did you make such a friend, but... he knows Who are you?" Wu Shuangzi and the others had just destroyed the Demon Cult, and they were chasing and killing the remnants of the Demon Cult, how could they make friends with people from the Demon Cult in the blink of an eye?Presumably Shi Qi must have concealed his identity.It's better to instigate dissension and borrow a knife to kill people. If it doesn't work, it would be good if Wu Shuangzi can stand by and watch.

Not to be outdone, Seventeenth Young Master threatened to go back: "I can tell him who you are first."

The corner of Lao Liu's mouth twitched, he is also a member of the Demon Cult, Wu Shuangzi will not be lenient when dealing with himself.In short, he definitely won't be pleased if he hits two.Lao Liu glanced at the dragon and tiger sword on Wu Shuangzi's waist, before the other party changed his mind, he snorted coldly and walked away.

Wu Shuangzi hurried to Shiqi Shao and asked with concern, "Are you all right?"

What he asked was not "who are you?" but "are you okay?" This kind of unconditional trust made Seventeenth Young Master both moved and guilty.

The Seventeenth Young Master smiled and said, "I'm fine." Then he showed a worried look, and said, "Lao Liu will never let it go. Although he is gone now, he will definitely come back in half a day. We have to leave quickly."

The two packed up in a hurry and set off immediately.

Before leaving, Seventeenth Young Master suddenly said: "Wait a minute, let the horse leave its hoofprints in the soft mud to the south."

Wu Shuangzi was puzzled: "We are planning to go south and leave footprints, won't we reveal our whereabouts?"

"The old sixth is suspicious by nature. If we leave hoofprints to the south, he will definitely chase north."

Wu Gezi understood, and did as Young Master Shi Qi said.The two rode together and went south to Dongting.

Along the way, the autumn leaves were colorful, the two talked and laughed, occasionally barbecued in the wild, and slept together every night, and they were as happy as traveling around the world.

But Wu Shuangzi knew that Seventeenth Young Master still had something on his mind.Different from the previous free and easy, the current Seventeenth Young Master is more passive and reserved, as if planning to withdraw and leave at any time, which makes people feel faintly uneasy.The better he treats Seventeenth Young Master, the more fearful the Seventeenth Young Master shows in his eyes.Every time he made eye contact, every time he talked about the future, the Seventeenth Young Master deliberately avoided, and such avoidance was stinging.

He didn't know what secret the Seventeenth Young Master hid, perhaps because he had not avenged his father's killing?Maybe it's the difficulties of the people who are restricted by the Gu?Maybe it's because he only likes girls? ——Grateful for your life-saving grace but tired of your endless pestering?There is a possibility that he has seen Seventeenth Young Master flirting with girls many times, but he has never seen him flirt with a man. Before Seventeenth Young Master beat himself up about Gong Yunshang, that may be what he meant.In fact, Wu Shuangzi is also straight, he doesn't like men, he just likes Ruoyu.Except Ruoyu, he didn't want to sleep with anyone, no matter man or woman.If one day, Seventeenth Young Master really falls in love with a girl, Wu Shuangzi will definitely make them happy. He can be a good friend of Seventeenth Younger for the rest of his life, occasionally drinking, chatting, and protecting him from a knife.

Wu Shuangzi thought, one day, when the Seventeenth Young Master trusts him enough, he will naturally tell him the secret, and he will wait for the day when the other party will open up his heart.

A month later, when they walked through three mountains, two rivers, and seventeen or eighteen villages, they came to a verdant bamboo forest.

This is a mottled bamboo forest, bigger than the one behind Qingcheng Mountain.

Wu Shuangzi doesn't like mottled bamboo very much, the brown spots are like insect disease, of course bamboo must be pure and flawless green to look good, but I heard that the master likes it, so I planted a large piece of mottled bamboo in Qingcheng Mountain.

Seeing Banzhu at this time, he was very kind, he thought that it was almost half a year since he left Mount Qingcheng, he wondered if his master and younger brothers are well.

In the open space in the center of the mottled bamboo forest, there is a thatched cottage.The water bags of the two were already empty, and they didn't hear the sound of the stream along the way. They wanted to enter the house to ask for some tea, so they dismounted and knocked on the door.

An old woman's voice came from inside: "Come in by yourself if you have the ability."

Hearing the hostility in the words, Wu Shuangzi was afraid that there might be some misunderstanding, so he said: "Young Qingcheng Wushuangzi, passing by..."

Before they could speak, a gust of wind swept the two of them into the house, and the bamboo gate seemed to be blown open and closed by the wind, creaking.

The two of them rolled on the floor of the thatched cottage, terrified, and a white-haired, blind old woman sat on the floor, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Who do you say you are!"