The dark clouds were tangled, and a thin moon with a faint red light loomed in the dark night, like a blurred and sad eye, shedding blood and tears.

Duanjiazhai, sleeping deep in the valley, is already a peaceful place compared to Fenghuoling, which is secretly noisy.

The cold chess pieces silently knocked on the stone table, leaking more and more.

The west wind was strong and howling incessantly. The guards on night patrol could not bear the draft in the corridor and hid without a trace. But in the roar of the wind, the two of them faced off by the stove. Between the black and white, Bai Zi's

The defense was completely shattered.

Chu Tao smiled lightly, gently put the chess pieces in his hands back into the box, skimmed the tea powder, drank the cold tea, wrapped himself in a white fox fur, stood up and went to the stove to warm his hands, which were so cold that they were almost stiff.

: "Young Master Qin has extraordinary chess skills, and Chu is willing to be defeated."

Qin Shi's eyes were almost shining with joy, but he didn't dare to be too proud: "Losing three games in a row is really not what Head Chu did."

Ye Xiaosheng, who was watching the battle silently, suddenly interrupted: "I asked someone to play chess, but I didn't want to play chess, and I made frequent decisions. I really don't know what I was thinking!"

While pouring hot tea for Chu Tao, Duan Shiyu rolled his eyes and said loudly: "Headmaster Chu has always been magnanimous. When it comes to chess games, he is just giving in. Why should he be more serious? Who can be as aggressive as the young master!"

Ye Xiaosheng had just picked up the plum blossom cake on the table and took a bite. Suddenly, he was speechless. He felt that half of the cake was stuck in his throat and he felt uncomfortable. He coughed for a long time and still couldn't regain his breath.

Chu Tao raised his eyes and looked back at Duan Shiyu, sighing: "Miss Shiyu's snacks are becoming more and more exquisite..."

The sharp edge he had just now was instantly restrained, his shy eyes flickered, and he lowered his head.

Qin Shi smiled faintly: "With such beauty, it's no wonder that Master Chu has failed again and again..."

"Young Master Qin, this is such a joke..." Chu Tao watched as Shiyu took away the snacks that he had not had time to take a bite of, took the tea bowl, put away the fruit plate, and headed deep into the night, unable to hold back.

Mentioning the word "beauty" in front of Duan Shiyu, Qin Shi suddenly felt that he had gone too far. The age when she was as beautiful as a flower was the time when she loved the most beauty. The nightmare-like scars on her face locked her youth in a world surrounded by the light of swords and shadows.

Duanjiazhai. The inferiority complex caused by the fire can no longer be erased from her heart. "Her face... is really a pity..." Qin Shi shook his head slightly. I don't know how many passers-by have commented on Duan Tingyuan's daughter like this.

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"But she is Duan Tingyuan's daughter after all." Chu Tao stood in the wind, looked at the direction in which the beautiful figure left, and said with a smile, "Young Master Qin only knows one of them."

"Oh?" Qin Shi and Ye Xiaosheng were immediately intrigued, waiting in panic for Chu Tao to say the second thing. Unexpectedly, Chu Tao put his hands behind his back and looked up to the sky with a smile, and actually stopped answering, which made the two of them feel uncomfortable.

tight.

"I'm just curious, why are the scars left?"

"Fire, the study caught fire inexplicably. Shiyu, who never went to the study, was trapped in it inexplicably. Fortunately, compared with the Song family fire scene, the only one who did not come out of the fire was Mrs. Duan. In order to rush into the fire scene, she carried herself out

However, her daughter was trapped by the thick smoke and fell by the door half a step away from her life. At that time, everyone could not hear the child's cry and thought that there was no possibility of Shiyu surviving. But unexpectedly, she was only injured.

Face - After this fire, Uncle Duan put down his sword and kept the word 'God's punishment' on his lips. I also heard what my father said."

Qin Shi sighed softly: "Did Mrs. Duan's eagerness to save her daughter move God?"

Chu Tao suddenly sneered inappropriately and said to the miserable moon on the horizon: "If God were so easily moved, Fenghuo Ridge would not be what it is today!"

However, the night is still silent, and nothing will be changed by the resentment of the world.

The silence was so anxious and absent-minded - Qin Shi used these four words to comment on Chu Tao, who was silently tapping the chess pieces and counting more leaks. It was unimaginable that Chu Tao, who could advance and retreat freely in Fenghuo Ridge, would be defeated miserably by him on the chessboard.

.Unless he has no intention of playing chess at all - but if he has no intention of playing chess, why would you ask him to play chess?

"If I'm not mistaken, Head Chu is waiting for news from Xie Daxia, right?" Qin Shi suddenly spoke, trying to trick him.

"That ruffian? There's really no need to worry. I haven't seen anyone who can deal with him." Chu Tao said calmly, "There is something in my mind that I still have doubts about. I'm just thinking about how to get Young Master Qin to speak."

Unexpectedly, the question was kicked back with such a clean and crisp kick that it really made Qin Shi and Ye Xiaosheng confused. They could only pretend to be generous and said: "Master Chu, it's okay to ask."

"The Lihua Sword can be said to be the most ruthless in the world, but back then the Qin family was able to kidnap Jiang Shaoyun's master and threaten him to commit the crime. Then in the next two or three years, the powerful Lihua Sword sect was completely disintegrated. Why did it happen?

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Qin Shi was really unhappy when he was asked, and his face was as stiff as frost on the roof.

Ye Xiaosheng said impulsively: "Could it be that Master Chu thinks the Qin family has something to hide?"

"I'm just curious about how the Qin family defeated the Pear Blossom Sword..."

"Perhaps the answer will disappoint Master Chu..." Qin Shi sighed and stopped Ye Xiaosheng's rude anger, "The Qin family's methods are sometimes really shady. At least on the North Bank, I have never seen any sword skills.

Better than the pear flower sword."

"After all, it is a means." Chu Tao said calmly. He was already used to it.

"At that time, no one in the Lihua Sword Sect or the Qin family and the Tang family approved of the marriage between Jiang Shaoyun and Tang Yafu. Of course, including Jiang Shaoyun's master. Originally, this was just a cooperative method to force Jiang Shaoyun to return to the north bank, but the old man did not expect that the Qin family would

The fake show came true - the alluring Pear Blossom Sword Book is the dream of many people in the world. Under the unwarranted frame-up of the Qin family, the disciple was charged with betraying Bei'an, and voices of condemnation suddenly arose from all sides. The old gentleman overnight

He became the target of public criticism on the North Bank and was submerged in the tongues of people in the world. Kong relied on his talent and arrogance, but in the end he could not withstand the rising power of the heroes. When he was in exile, it was a good opportunity for the Qin family to secretly do something. As for the Lihua Sword Sect, it was easy to deal with it.

Much more: kill three soldiers with two peaches in one move, and use support to succeed as the head of the family as bait, which is enough to beat them to death." Qin Shi said a few words in an understatement, as if he was talking about what happened to other families,

He dealt with everything Chu Tao wanted to know.

After saying that, Ye Xiaosheng sighed in agreement: "The Qin family has no choice but to sleep peacefully with a tiger on the pillow."

Chu Tao laughed secretly: "The Qin family is really familiar with these methods. Attacking the enemy's key points without sending a single soldier is a power strategy, and it is difficult to meet an opponent. However, in the end, the Lihua Sword disappeared from the world, and the Qin family finally never got its true inheritance."

"That's right, it's just a futile effort -" Qin Shi changed the topic, "How does the head of Chu know that what he did today was not in vain?"

Suddenly, Chu Tao's face was shrouded in dark clouds. In the haze, the corners of his sharp mouth were still raised, but he expressed a bit of sadness: "Maybe it's in vain, but I know it's in vain and I have to do it - just like when Jiang Shaoyun knew that Qin

The family is eyeing him, and he must go back to the north bank to fight - he is not entirely wrong. Not everyone in the world can calculate the pros and cons. Not everyone in the world is like Mr. Qin.

What you want..."

It was Qin Shi who was shocked. He didn't understand that Chu Tao, who was as bright as the sun and made his opponents think he was omnipotent, would actually answer in such a sad tone. "You know you can't do something but do it?" He tried to answer, but clearly couldn't.

superior.

The white pigeon whizzed past his head, circled down, and stopped at the courtyard wall. Chu Tao frowned inconspicuously, then relaxed: "That's it, it seems that today is not a good time to play chess.

.In the future, I will let Mr. Qin know that everything Chu Tao does is not in vain." The haze on his face did not know when to dissipate, and his eyes were so bright that Qin Shi did not dare to look directly.

"Has the news arrived, Master Xie?"

"Haha!" Chu Tao laughed loudly, "If that scoundrel touches my pigeons in a hurry, he must be greedy."

When Qin Shi left the courtyard, he saw Wang Hong's solemn figure standing at the entrance of the courtyard. He couldn't help but be filled with anger: Never try to get out of Chu Tao what he didn't want to say! But the details of the Qin family were revealed by this man.
Chapter completed!