After Xu Yan said this, Gu Xueqing immediately stopped complaining, and then the two of them slowly approached a viewing pavilion on the edge of the downhill road, about a hundred zhang away from the village, in the dark night.

Originally, the two of them planned to spend the night in this pavilion and wait until the matter was over before choosing to go north, but unexpectedly, when Xu Yan saw clearly the young man who came to the pavilion first and was sobbing alone, his face couldn't help but be stunned, and he muttered to himself: "How could it be him?"

When Gu Xueqing heard Xu Yan's murmuring, she asked, "What's the matter, the little junior brother knows him?"

Xu Yan hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head, and replied: "I don't know each other, I just had a relationship, and I also had a fight." ”

When Gu Xueqing heard this, she became even more curious, and asked: "There is such a thing, but this person doesn't seem to have any cultivation." ”

Xu Yan smiled and replied, "Because his martial arts foundation was abolished by me. ”

Hearing the four words of martial arts foundation, Gu Xueqing had roughly guessed the other party's origin in his heart, and said, "He is a disciple of Chenyang Sect?"

Xu Yan nodded and said, "Well, in February, I went to Huangmaojian with my senior brother to hunt the third-level Demon Rock Fierce Tiger on a mission, during which I met their team, and later there was a conflict due to some unexpected reasons, so I had a big fight with them. ”

Gu Xueqing, who heard this, couldn't help but cast his eyes on the pavilion, the young man who looked very sloppy said with some embarrassment and some sympathy: "When he met the little junior brother, he was really unlucky, and according to his current appearance, he was completely ruined by the little junior brother?"

After Xu Yan heard this, his face was expressionless, and he just walked towards this humble pavilion step by step.

"Who!"

Just as Xu Yan and the others slowly approached, Zhang Chun, who used to be a martial arts cultivator, instinctively felt a trace of nervousness.

Who would come here like him in the dark of night?

Then, Zhang Chun saw a faint light, and with a cultivated figure, he slowly walked into the pavilion, and behind this figure, there was a slightly older woman.

"Your enemy. Xu Yan held the Night Pearl in one hand, which temporarily illuminated the darkness here, and it was not until he stepped into this pavilion that he opened his mouth to reply.

Zhang Chun, who heard these four words, couldn't help but be shocked, and when he saw Xu Yan's face clearly, he was even more shocked that his eyes almost fell.

"You...... It's you, don't ......"

After a brief period of shock, Zhang Chun fell into a huge madness, and at the same time, he was filled with deep fear.

The other party's face, he will never forget in his life, because it was the other party that destroyed the fact that he was originally a martial artist, and at the same time, it also indirectly changed the path of the rest of his life, allowing him to return to the ordinary in the world.

Avenge?

He thinks about it day and night, all the time, but he can't do it, and he doesn't dare to do it, after all, what else can he take revenge now?

Zhang Chun's eyes were full of scarlet, with his sloppy image, he no longer looked like a human being, but like a wild dog that had gone crazy, he gritted his teeth and said: "I didn't expect you to be able to find here, I want to know, who revealed my whereabouts to you, making you so indomitable, to chase me here in person to kill me." ”

Xu Yan felt funny in his heart when he saw that he had misunderstood, but he didn't deliberately want to intimidate him, but asked in a contemptuous tone: "Do you think I'm here to kill you?" Heh, you can't help but think too highly of yourself, with your current appearance, I wish you could keep you alive, so that you can experience the feeling of the walking dead more, but I'm curious, do you not dare to die at all, and then deliberately make yourself like this?"

After Zhang Chun heard this, he was full of despair, in the other party's words, he was like a sweet potato that had been stripped of his skin and roasted naked under the scorching sun, and he couldn't hide any secrets, but the shame of not daring to share it with others, or even with his own sister, was infinitely magnified. They were like sharp knives that stabbed at his pride, filling him with resentment and powerless to resist.

Xu Yan saw that he was acting like a woman, just crying and crying, with an indescribable disgust in his heart, he was too lazy to continue to fall into the well and ridicule him, but said in an indifferent tone: "Don't worry about the world here, you are just a waste person now, I am not afraid to tell you, seeing your appearance, I am afraid of dirty my hands even if I raise my hand to take your rotten life, hurry up and get away from me." ”

Zhang Chun saw that he was taunting himself, although his heart was full of resentment, but more of it was sad, so he staggered and was about to leave this pavilion, but before leaving, he suddenly turned his head to Xu Yan and asked, "Can you tell me why you are here." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and then replied bluntly: "Because the people in your village robbed us halfway, and I killed one of them afterwards, and later I heard that they came out to do this kind of deed to save a certain girl in the village, so I followed over to see if it was true, if they were lying, then I would kill the whole village." ”

When Zhang Chun heard him say this, a trace of sadness flashed in his mind, but this sadness was not because the other party would kill the whole village, but because, except for himself, everyone in Zhangjia Village seemed to be working hard to save his sister, only he locked himself in his room and didn't ask about the world, stayed at home, didn't know anything, and even let his sister take care of him and take care of his three meals a day.

Zhang Chun stopped outside the pavilion for a long time, and closed his eyes in pain, until about half an hour later, he seemed to open his eyes again, but at this moment, he stopped crying.

Zhang Chun suddenly turned around and walked back to the pavilion, then came to Xu Yan's side, fell to his knees with a thud, and said in a deep voice: "I beg you to save my sister's life!"

Seeing that the other party was like this, Xu Yan secretly said in his heart that the so-called female doctor was actually this person's sister.

However, on his face, he still sneered and was indifferent as usual, and after a moment of silence, he asked Zhang Chun coldly: "Why did I save your sister, and what does she have to do with me? Besides, there is already an indissolvable hatred between you and me, at least for you, so why should I help an enemy who has a grudge against me? And don't forget, I came to Zhangjia Village to kill people, not to save people!"

There was already a hint of despair in Zhang Chun's tone, he took a deep breath, and then said in a trembling voice: "As long as you are willing to save my sister from the sea of suffering, I am willing to be your slave for the rest of my life, and I will never dare to have any thoughts of revenge." ”

Xu Yan laughed dumbly, as if he was amused by the other party's words, but when his laughter subsided, he regained his previous indifference, and replied: "You are a slave to me? You really want to laugh at me to death, with your current appearance, what is the use of me asking for a slave like you? If your sister doesn't save herself, let me be an outsider to help you, you are really long, I advise you to die of this heart, you cowardly bastard, you deserve your current fate." ”

When Zhang Chun heard this, he raised his head sharply as if he was enraged, and asked Xu Yan sharply: "My cultivation has been ruined by you, and the rest of my life has also been ruined by you, I am just an ordinary ordinary person now, what else can I do to save my sister?"

Xu Yan saw that he finally had a little blood, so he didn't care at all, but said coldly: "You can't save her, but you can at least die for her, anyway, you used to be a cultivator, why, have you forgotten all those cultivation fruit moves?"

......

Until Zhang Chun returned to his home calmly, Xu Yan's last cold words to him still echoed in his mind.

In the wooden house, Zhang Ting, who had been waiting anxiously for more than an hour, finally couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after seeing her younger brother come back safe and sound, but seeing him look lost and depressed, she couldn't help but say with concern: "Xiaochun, no matter what the final result is, you have to live well, otherwise how should my sister explain to her father and mother in the future." ”

Zhang Chun didn't answer these words, but smiled very numbly, and asked, "Has my sister had dinner?" ”

Zhang Ting saw that he really went to live and cook, and in those clear eyes, she couldn't help but cry like rain, but she always turned her back to him.

......

Gu Xueqing had been standing silently beside Xu Yan, watching the whole conversation between him and Zhang Chun, but she didn't know what to say.

Xu Yan's previous "mean" performance was something she had never seen before, but in fact, as a bystander, what she could feel was not exactly the same as Zhang Chun.

Gu Xueqing was silent for a long time before she spoke: "I didn't expect the little junior brother to say so many foul words, I originally thought it was ......."

Gu Xueqing didn't continue in the end, so she changed the topic and said: "Why didn't the little junior brother agree to help him in the end, it should take a lot of courage to let a person kneel in front of his enemy, and you said those ugly words, isn't it also for his good?"

Xu Yan didn't say anything, but said in a low tone: "He thought that kneeling down in front of me and begging me was abandoning his self-esteem, for the sake of righteousness, and for his sister, but this is not the case." Self-esteem should be the courage to face oneself at any time, even if it is despair and death that awaits oneself in front of it, rather than becoming decadent and depressed for a long time, let alone whispering to others. ”

In this world, we all seem to have many of the same "kind", and even think that those people are so strikingly similar to ourselves? But in fact, everyone is destined to still have their own loneliness and loneliness, as well as countless helplessness and thoughts, because this comes from everyone, after all, it is just a single individual, isn't it? Therefore, it is only when a person has become tenacious enough that he can face any hardship, and only such a person will shine, and such a person will no longer need any help, because they cannot bear themselves and can no longer unilaterally receive the favor and help of others. ”

Xu Yan retracted his gaze at the night, looked at Gu Xueqing, and finally said: "I only feel the most worthy and strong disappointment with him, maybe I don't have the qualifications to evaluate him, but his cowardice is enough for me to choose to watch from the sidelines in this matter." ”

After Gu Xueqing heard this, she sighed silently, but she didn't know how to answer.

......

The night was silent.

As silent as the passing of time.

However, for the people of Zhangjia Village, this morning is probably the first time since they were born that they are so reluctant to come, because everyone knows that today is not destined to be a good day.

The time is just approaching the end of the day.

On the downhill road, there was already a boy in brocade and satin, panting and coming to the entrance of Zhangjia Village, and behind this boy brother was followed by three middle-aged men who looked like guards.

Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing were still standing in the pavilion, just calmly watching them pass by the two of them without saying anything, and this ugly-looking boy naturally saw Xu Yan and the two, but when he saw that the other party was just a poor scholar, and he was followed by a civilian woman who was only of medium appearance, he lost any interest and walked towards the village by himself.

Gu Xueqing watched the four of them walk towards the mountain, and said to Xu Yan: "Looking at that guy's appearance, he is indeed not a good person." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he shook his head with a smile, and replied jokingly: "How can Senior Sister Gu judge people by their appearance like this." ”

Gu Xueqing replied disdainfully: "Who told him to look at people's eyes so rude." ”

Xu Yan naturally also saw the look in the eyes of the boy when he looked at Gu Xueqing, naked and direct, as if he was looking at his prey, which was indeed quite impolite for any woman in the world.

Seeing that Xu Yan was silent, Gu Xueqing continued to ask, "What's next, are we just waiting here for the whole thing to be over, or are we going to join in the fun?"

Xu Yan originally didn't have any interest in this lively matter, but after thinking for a while, he still replied: "Wait a minute, if there is any movement above, it will not be too late for us to go up again." ”

......

The eldest son of the Luo family came all the way to Zhangjia Village, but there was no half of a figure, and it was not until he came to the door of the old village chief's house at the top of the village that he found the people in the village.

There is no surprise that at this moment, except for a few people, almost all the people living in Zhangjia Village are gathered together.

Luo Dagongzi came to everyone unscrupulously, and then glanced at everyone around him coldly, and saw that the beautiful woman he privately called "Little Medicine Fairy" was not present, so his face turned cold, and he said extremely arrogantly: "Zhang Ting, why is she not here, could it be that you secretly hid her, right? I can tell you, if you still can't pay back today, and hide my little medicine fairy again, then don't blame me for being ruthless and slaughtering your entire village." ”

Hearing the extremely naked threatening words of this eldest son from the Luo family in the town, the old village chief's face also became a little ugly, he didn't want to talk too much nonsense with this kind of gentleman in front of him, so he directly said to his son Zhang Chengming, straight to the point: "You go and get all the money." ”

Zhang Chengming naturally didn't have any objections to this, and then brought out all the silver taels that the people in the village had put together, and there was a large box full of them, because it contained a large amount of copper plates and broken silver, adding up to a total of four hundred and seventy-one taels.

Without waiting for the old village chief to speak, the eldest son of the Luo family saw this scene, his face was cold, and he thought to himself that when he sent a house slave to collect money last month, the other party couldn't even make up three hundred taels of silver, how could it be that even five hundred taels could be taken out in just one short month?

So, the eldest prince of the Luo family frowned slightly, and said coldly to one of the house slaves behind him: "Go, count the number of it is enough, remember, count it for me, if you count one more copper plate, I will chop off one of your fingers." ”

When the slave heard this, he trembled and went to count the money, and it was not until two quarters of an hour had passed, and after he had made sure that he had made no mistake, that he came back and said to his master, "If you go back to the eldest prince, this box contains silver coins, and the total amount is four hundred and seventy-one taels." ”

When the eldest prince of the Luo family heard this number, his face was stunned, but then a sneer appeared and asked, "Are you sure it's not wrong?"

The house slave replied respectfully: "I will never dare to fool the eldest prince in this matter." ”

The eldest prince of the Luo family was confirmed again, nodded with great satisfaction, and then said to the old village chief: "Okay, you old thing, this son said that he would give you a grace period of one month's interest, that is, to add two hundred taels of silver, and you are still twenty-nine taels less, why, are you deliberately taking a bunch of broken silver and copper plates, stacking them together to get by, or do you think that this son doesn't care about that little money?"

The old village chief replied in a cold tone: "We only have so much cash. ”

Grand Master Luo was shocked by this answer, and then laughed and sneered: "Since you don't have enough money, why don't you take out this box of broken copper and iron and embarrass people, and don't you call my little doctor fairy out for me?"

When the old village chief heard this, he wanted to take out the items in his cuffs that he had already prepared to use as collateral for the money, but before he could take it out, he and everyone present heard another extremely heavy voice, which suddenly sounded from the side path.

I heard someone say, "You don't want to beat my sister's idea, I will make up for the rest of the money for you in the future." ”