Chapter 9 The City Bridge on the Cloud
The moment he took over the dagger, Yunqiao fell into a trance, feeling like an unreal dream, as if it all came too easily.
The city bridge above the clouds is ethereal and ethereal.
A person's name is often related to a person's life.
Yunqiao is just a name, her actual surname is Chu, and the moving Chu is also the Chu of Chu country.
She comes from a country that hides in graves.
The world in the tomb is no different from the world we live in now. There are also mountains and rivers.
But there is no sun, and there is no king as high as the sun, because their king has long been lying in another tomb.
Anyone who has been in the dark for a long time longs for light, and so does she.
So ten years ago, she followed Tao Niang out of the grave, only to find that the world with the sun is darker.
She used to dream that when she came to this world, she could live a more exciting and exciting life, eat the spiciest dishes, have the truest love, and venture into the world in the story.
But when she came here, she realized that her world had become a building, and she couldn't eat the spiciest dishes, let alone be emotional.
But she is not decadent, her eyes are still bright, and her smile is still heart-warming. In the past ten years, she has not abused herself at all. She knows what kind of clothes to wear on what occasions, and what kind of words to say to what kind of people.
I also learned how to pair what kind of wine with what kind of food, and how to recite poems in an elegant way.
If you live too well, you will be envied by others, and if you live too poorly, you will be looked down upon by others, so she chose a middle-of-the-road approach to life, which was just right.
Many people are very satisfied with her, and so is she, except for one thing, which is loneliness.
No amount of gold, silver and jewelry can fill the loneliness.
No one truly loves her, and she has no one she has truly loved.
She wants a sincere love.
She wants a pure and wonderful love.
She wants a vigorous, uproarious love.
Because she is a living woman.
But she is Chu Yunqiao, so if she wants to get all this, she must kill someone first.
She had been looking for that person for ten years, and finally found out that the person was in the same city as her. She had been searching for him for thousands of times, but when she suddenly looked back, she found that person in a dimly lit place.
After ten years of hard work and ten years of wasted effort, she was finally only one sword away from that person. As long as one stab of the sword struck her, she would be completely free and could truly live her life.
With a sigh, Chu Yunqiao calmed down, closed his eyes, held the dagger in both hands and raised it high, hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and stabbed Shen Xiaojia who was lying on the ground.
There is a saying that change happens late. Just when Chu Yunqiao hesitated for a moment, the change suddenly happened.
A slovenly middle-aged man suddenly appeared at the edge of the spring pool, leaning against the trunk of a weeping willow beside the pool, holding a small wine jar, taking a big sip of wine, and said lazily, "Don't look at anything inappropriate, don't treat anyone inappropriate."
Listen, don’t do anything if it’s inappropriate. I advise you not to do anything, otherwise I will scream that it’s inappropriate!”
Tao Niang, who was standing aside, turned to look at the slovenly middle-aged man, her face turned cold, her eyes narrowed and she asked, "Who are you?"
"The lonely shadow on the spring river, the strangers in the world, how can we meet each other before..." The sloppy middle-aged man rubbed his nose, broke off a willow leaf, held it in his hand, looked sideways at Tao Niang and Chu Yunqiao, and said lightly, "The people from Yanyu Tower
When did you learn to kill?"
Chu Yunqiao froze, bit his lip, and a trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes. He ignored the threatening meaning in the sloppy middle-aged man's words and stabbed him with his sword.
The moment the sword tip was about to touch Shen Xiaojia, a willow leaf shot out from the slovenly middle-aged man's hand, and in the blink of an eye it crossed Chu Yunqiao's wrist, leaving a deep blood line.
Chu Yunqiao screamed in surprise, feeling pain in his hand. The dagger slipped down and was inserted diagonally under Shen Xiaojia's crotch.
Tao Niang immediately turned pale in horror, because she had been looking at the sloppy middle-aged man since just now, but she did not see how the willow leaf flew out. She tightened her hand holding the other dagger under the guqin and frowned at
Chu Yunqiao shook his head and whispered, "I can't beat him...he is a master. With his willow leaf flying knife just now, he can at least be ranked among the top ten knights in the world."
Chu Yunqiao sighed helplessly, but soon his face regained its cheerful look. He bowed slightly to the slovenly middle-aged man and said, "Just now, the little girl has eyesight but cannot recognize Mount Tai. How dare I ask my senior's name?"
Name?"
"You don't have to be so polite," the slovenly middle-aged man picked his nostrils with his little finger and replied casually, "It doesn't hurt to tell you my name. We will meet sooner or later, and I'm not afraid of your revenge... My name is Laoqu, Zuiyue.
An old song from Lou Pao Tang.”
Chu Yunqiao heard the subtext of the old song and said with a sweet smile, "It seems that the senior is also a patron who often visits Yanyu Tower, so he is one of his own... The little girl dares to ask," pointing to Shen Xiaojia who was lying on the ground.
, "What is the relationship between you and this person? Father and son? Master and apprentice? Or uncle, nephew, relative?"
"None of them..." Lao Qu took another swig of strong wine and smacked his mouth and said, "I can only be regarded as roommates living under the same roof."
"Good friends?"
"Not really, this kid always makes me angry. We have a small quarrel every three days and a big one every five days."
"What kind of kindness did he have to you?"
"Do you think a master like me will owe others any kindness? Those who can repay have already paid back, and those who cannot repay will find a way to repay. There is no kindness between me and this kid. Some of it is just a blood feud."
Chu Yunqiao was stunned for a moment and said with confusion on his face, "Then why don't you let me kill him? Do you want to do it yourself?"
"How can you let weak women like you do such a rough job as killing people?" Lao Qu poured the last drop of wine from the jar into his mouth, licked his lips and said, "Go back and play the piano and flute in a down-to-earth manner.
Well, he will die naturally when it's time to die, so you don't need to worry about it."
Tao Niang suddenly interjected with stern eyes, "But we want him to die now!"
"There are many things that go against your wishes in the world," Lao Qu stared at the empty small wine jar in his hand and said in a calm tone, "I don't miss this one of you... Let's go quickly, while I have burned a jar of knives for nothing today, and I am still in a good mood at the moment.
Not bad, get out of here quickly, otherwise when I get drunk, there’s no chance that this wine jar will fall on you.”
Chu Yunqiao bit his lip and calculated for a moment. No matter how he calculated, he and Tao Niang had no chance of winning. He reluctantly glanced at Shen Xiaojia who was lying on the ground, bowed to Lao Qu again, and dropped it coldly.
With a "goodbye", she took Tao Niang away with a livid complexion.
After Chu Yunqiao and Tao Niang disappeared at the end of the road, Lao Qu stretched his body, tilted his neck and looked at Shen Xiaojia, who was looking peaceful, and said with a flat mouth, "There is no one else here, there is no need to pretend."
Chapter completed!