Back Off, Let Me Come

He thought he could pick the flowers without anyone noticing, but when his fingers were about to touch the petals, the little red flowers moved away with the wooden stick. Shaochong seemed to feel something, and raised his head. The owner of the wooden staff was looking at him with lowered eyes, and their eyes met.

The young man frowned: "What are you doing?"

Shaochong looked at the little red flower eagerly. Even though he tried to steal the flower and was caught by the owner, he did not feel guilty. He smiled and raised his eyebrows: "How much does this flower cost? How about you sell it to me? How much does it cost?" I can afford it, so you set a price!"

Chao Lian couldn't help but make trouble: "I can't afford it."

The young man's clear eyes paused for two breaths on Shaochong's face, then moved away and turned around, looking like he didn't want to talk to a stranger. He took out a small money bag from his sleeve and checked the price with the vendor in a low voice, looking reserved and shy. Probably because he seldom communicated with others, the whole process was just the vendor calculating how much each item would cost, telling the boy the total price, and the boy would then count the money and deliver it.

"You look so poor." Shaochong couldn't look away from the little red flower. Seeing that the boy paid the bill mostly in copper coins, he planned to use money to make the boy relent, "Just sell me this flower, one or two." ?Two taels? If not, I'll give you five taels..."

The boy ignored it.

I took the packaged items from the vendors, which contained daily necessities, such as salt blocks, corn, needlework, and cloth. This is the first time that I have gone shopping alone since I have grown up. Fourth Uncle Lin is usually in charge. The teacher told him not to be nervous, he just had to buy what was written on the slip. With the remaining money, you can buy yourself some candy...

"Thank you. Does the store know where I can buy candy?"

The boy was thinking about candy, but he didn't know where to buy it.

Seeing that he was being ignored, Shaochong increased the price again.

"How about twelve liang?"

While Chao Lian was cooking, he broke the news again: "Thirteenth brother, your brother and I don't have Shiliang by my side. It's just a small red flower. You want it. When spring comes next year, brother will take you out of the city to pick as many as you want." , don’t disturb others.”

The young man still ignored Shaochong.

I just thought about how many pieces of candy I could buy with the little money I had left.

"Hey! Look at me!"

Shao Chong didn't listen to Chao Lian's words. Instead, he made a thunderous move and grabbed the boy's left shoulder. He swept away the enthusiasm of the boy before, and his voice became low and sinister. A string of thin and strange grunts escaped from his throat, like some kind of beast. growled.

Looking at his eyes again, the pupils were flashing with an unknown red light.

Chao Lian was very familiar with Shaochong in this state.

How can I take the last bite of corn porridge?

He threw the pottery bowl away and wanted to step forward to stop Shaochong from going crazy.

"Thirteenth brother, you must calm down, this is not a place for you to go crazy! Brother wants to know, be careful of getting beaten!"

Chao Lian also had doubts in his heart.

I didn't find the crux before. I only knew that Thirteenth Brother would go crazy when he saw blood. However, after several years of care and restraint, the influence of the Gu worm in Thirteenth Brother's body gradually decreased, and even his stagnant mind It also begins to grow slowly with age. Except for the night of the full moon, when the Gu insect is particularly manic, it will force Shaochong to passively enter a state of madness, which is usually normal.

Shaochong turned a deaf ear.

The hands on the young man's shoulders continued to tighten.

Chao Lian subconsciously held his breath and did not dare to disturb him anymore, for fear of irritating Shao Chong and the young man's shoulder would be scrapped. Unexpectedly, the young man remained motionless and turned to look at Shaochong: "That flower is not for sale, please let go of it."

A strange smile escaped from Shaochong's throat: "What if not?"

The young man looked confused and embarrassed.

He said, "But I don't want to kill anyone."

The young man's calm voice reached Chao Lian's ears clearly, and Chao Lian was extremely anxious when he heard the words. Of course he is not worried about his thirteenth brother, he is worried about the young man. In his crazy state, Shao Chong was like a firecracker that could explode at any time. The boy's provocation only added fuel to the fire, and he would most likely be cut into pieces with his bare hands, and his blood would be spilled on the spot.

The boy repeated it again.

"I don't want to kill you." When he said this, there was no murderous aura around him. His eyes were as clear as a clear spring, and the warmth between his eyebrows was like a breeze in the world. "The teacher also said that doing more is worse than doing less. Killing is easy. , but it’s troublesome to deal with corpses, and Teacher hates trouble the most.”

The young man added: "I hate it too."

Chao Lian couldn't help but remind him in a low voice.

"Stop irritating Thirteen..."

Doesn’t this kid know Shaochong’s illustrious reputation? Didn't you see the people on the street running and hiding when they saw Shaochong's posture?

Many people have seen Shao Chong's face, and some have seen him killing people with their own eyes. That scene once became a lingering nightmare. Even folk women use words like "If you cry again, the red-eyed monster will come to eat you" to scare children. This young man dressed in an exotic costume is a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers. Why does he have to stroke the tiger’s beard?

"Bring it!"

Shaochong's eyes had been replaced by scarlet, and the voice coming out of his throat didn't sound like a human voice. He raised his hand into a claw, and with lightning speed, he grabbed at the young man's face. Among the brothers, Shaochong has the strongest finger strength. Even without using any force, breaking a rock with his bare hands is no more difficult than breaking a piece of tofu. If he caught him right now, the boy's skull would be split in half!

"Thirteen!"

Seeing Shaochong actually taking action, Chao Lian was so anxious that his voice broke.

He didn't even have time to form his weapon, and was about to stop Shao Chong with his bare hands. However, he was still a step too slow, and at such a short distance, the young man turned sideways to avoid the attack, then bent his elbow to fight back, and waved out a green breeze with his right palm, forcefully forcing Shao Chong back.

Although it was only a foot away, it was enough to make Chao Lian stunned.

This young man...

Judging from his appearance, he is definitely younger than Shaochong.

"Run away!"

This was not the time for shock.

Chao Lian grabbed the air and formed a weapon. He thrust his two guns diagonally in front of Shao Chong, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the way and buying the young man time to escape. Just because he can force Shaochong back doesn't mean he can escape Shaochong's attack. It is against the laws of nature to harm innocent people and increase the number of killings.

The young man said to Chao Lian: "Thank you very much."

But he didn't turn around and run away.

"I can save his life!" His palms turned into seals, and he held out the wooden staff inserted diagonally behind his waist. The mysterious lines and the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper spread from the feet to all directions. The young man's robe moved automatically in the wind, and the little red flower on the top of the wooden stick swayed from side to side.

Chao Lian: "..."

This, what kind of power is this?

It is not like the literary spirit or the martial spirit, but it can communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth. Intuition told Chao Lian that the boy was safe. The reality also confirmed his guess. The young man did not use the wooden stick to say hello to Shaochong's head, but moved it a little closer to the ground. A streak of blue Qi broke through the sky like a meteor and went straight to Shaochong's eyebrows. Chao Lian raised his hand to stop him, but who knew that the thing could pass through his palm.

"Thirteen!" Chao Lian turned his head and saw the young master's energy disappearing between his eyebrows. He stepped forward and caught him.

The young man stepped forward with a wooden stick in hand.

Half squatting down, he raised his finger and poked Shaochong between his eyebrows.

"There's something in his body that won't obey me."

Chao Lian was shocked.

"Who are you? What did you do to Thirteen?"

"Now be obedient."

Chao Lian grabbed the young man's wrist and refused to let him go.

"Is it obedient? What do you mean by that? You said... that thing in Thirteen's body is obedient? How did you do it?"

"Let it fall asleep and it will obey."

Isn't this kind of thing easy to do?

The young man straightened the little red flower on one side, inserted the wooden stick back into his waist, and kindly reminded Chao Lian: "Don't let your brother eat bugs randomly. If people eat bugs randomly, the bugs will eat people. Not only will they If your stomach hurts, your brain will also hurt. The teacher also said that people who eat bugs and have brain pain will have a short life."

"Is there any way you can get rid of the bugs?"

The young man shook his head: "The teacher hasn't taught you yet."

The teacher only taught how to make the bugs sleep.

Chao Lian seemed to grab the driftwood and hurriedly asked: "Your teacher? Does your teacher know? This is my thirteenth brother. As long as he can be cured, I can pay any price. Whatever your teacher wants, as long as it does not violate Morally and righteously, we brothers can do it for him!"

The boy shook his head again: "I don't know."

Chao Lian found that the boy's reaction was the same as that of Shaochong, and seemed to have the mind of a child. He secretly took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and asked in a coaxing tone: "Then do you know where your teacher is? I want to visit you."

The boy refused to tell: "The teacher said I couldn't tell."

"Then -" Chao Lian still wanted to ask, but the young man frowned impatiently and stood up to leave. He quickly changed his words and said, "Can Xiaolang help ask the respected master?"

"Why? He wants to steal my flowers. He is a bad person."

Chao Lian made a mistake and said: "How about Xiaolang doing this favor and asking Thirteen to buy a lot of candies to apologize to Xiaolang later?"

The young man was struggling, as if he was weighing whether it was worth it.

In the end, I succumbed to the temptation of sugar.

"Okay, I'll come back to you when I get a reply."

Chao Lian was overjoyed and was about to coax the young man to meet somewhere and then follow the clues to find the young teacher. Unexpectedly, his right hand was empty in the next moment. He looked up again, and a fallen leaf fell leisurely from mid-air to the young man's position. Where could he be?

When Gu Ren learned about this, he immediately closed the city to find someone.

The young man who caused the commotion appeared at a roadside tea shop outside the city with something in his arms. In the corner, a man dressed as a commoner lowered his bamboo hat and quietly sipped tea. The young man called him: "Fourth Uncle Lin."

"Bought?"

The man known as "Uncle Lin" raised his head.

Then he asked, "Have you taken action with someone?"

"He robbed me..."

Fourth Uncle Lin asked: "You didn't kill anyone, did you?"

The young man shook his head: "I didn't kill him, I just let the bugs sleep."

Fourth Uncle Lin didn't ask what "letting bugs sleep" mean. Anyway, after the young man practiced martial arts on weekdays, he liked to squat in the corner and toss things like toads, centipedes, scorpions, and ants. Considering the age of a young man, playing with bugs is quite normal.

"Have you bought everything?"

The young man nodded nervously: "Well..."

His fingers were trying to hide something unnaturally.

Uncle Lin checked it and made sure it was correct. He stood up and paid for the tea and said, "Let's go, your teacher is still waiting for you."

Halfway through, he whispered a reminder.

"Even though you look like a teenager, you still have cavities. Eat less candy. If your teacher catches you, don't make me suffer."

The boy said oh.

Actively admit mistakes and never correct them despite repeated admonitions.

The young man's teacher is an old man with white beard and hair. He has aged very fast in the past few years, and a sense of aging has spread from the inside out. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he will not live long.

Seeing the young man and Fourth Uncle Lin come back, his face as dry as a tree became alive. The three of them had a simple meal, and the old man said: "Everything is ready, let's continue going south..."

Fourth Uncle Lin: "Leaving again?"

This seclusion felt like a war, hiding here and there, but he didn't see anyone coming to chase him, so he didn't understand why the old man was moving so madly.

The old man said: "Well, for Shaobai's practice."

The young man was stunned for a while before he realized that it was himself that Shaobai was calling, and he said distressedly: "Teacher, I am Ayan."

He didn't like the unfamiliar name Shaobai.

Fourth Uncle Lin just wanted to roll his eyes.

"Where does he practice differently?"

The old man said: "Of course it's different. The countries in the northwest are busy fighting wars and have no intention of holding a selection. Even if there are, they will refuse foreign scholars to participate. Shaobai needs to go to the Holy Land of Mountains and Seas. By then, I will be completely relieved. "

Fourth Uncle Lin didn't say anything after hearing this.

The young man was restless: "Teacher..."

"What's the matter?"

"Teacher, do you know how to kill bugs?"

"insect?"

"Today I met someone with a bug in his head. His brother promised that if I help them kill the bug, then..."

The final words were slurred.

The old man understood instantly and sneered: "Those who abuse them will not regret death. I know the method, but I can't do it. You can do it, but you are not strong enough. Of course, if that person's life is big enough, it will drag you until you are strong enough." also……"

"Well, Ayan knows."

"Also, eat less white food and less sugar."

The young man covered his mouth with both hands: "Ayan didn't eat!"

The old man pointed with his chopsticks at the tooth stuck with candy in the boy's bowl and said, "You have lost all your teeth, so why are you still so stubborn?"

juvenile:"……"

Those eyes that looked like mountain ink paintings were stained with mist.

What's missing is a front tooth

A few days later.

Gu Ren and his brothers couldn't find the young man after digging three feet into the ground. It seemed as if there was no such person in the world. Even Chao Lian couldn't help but wonder if he had made a mistake. On this day, I returned empty-handed again. Chao Lian was anxious, but he saw a familiar face.

He was overjoyed and stepped forward to stop the person.

"Xiao Lang, please let me..." When he saw the man's face clearly and saw the look in his eyes that looked like a fool, Chao Lian almost coughed and said in shock, "Gong Xiqiu, how could it be you -"

"Oh, it's you, Gu Ziyi's brother, what's wrong?" This person is Gong Xiqiu who left Xiaocheng. He went on the road alone, and his efficiency on the road was very high. Gong Xiqiu greeted him calmly, as if he wasn't the one who almost killed Shaochong back then.

His reaction was magnanimous, but Chao Lian was confused.

"you……"

Gong Xiqiu said: "I was passing by."

A few days ago, the clan pattern on my shoulder blade became inexplicably hot.

He ran all the way in the direction indicated by the clan emblem.

As a result, there was no movement again halfway.

Chao Lian asked hesitantly: "Then...have you ever seen a young man who looks like you? His outfit..."

As he spoke, he paused.

His eyes were completely glued to the lines on Gong Xiqiu's collar.

This pattern is similar to the boyish style.

Obviously they come from the same source.

Gong Xiqiu didn't have much patience. Seeing that Chao Lian still didn't follow up, he planned to pay and leave, but Chao Lian grabbed his arm. Gong Xiqiu sneered and threatened: "You don't want this hand anymore?"

"That man looks very similar to you." Chao Lian was afraid that Gong Xiqiu wouldn't believe him, so he took out the pattern he drew based on memory from his arms and almost slapped Gong Xiqiu on the face, "Have you seen him before?"

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Let Ayan come out for a breath and continue diving.