Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 149 Swords and Swords Dye the Dusk (1)
The grass in the courtyard is lush and green, the clouds are hanging low, and the flying geese are whining.
Ye Guming sat in the room with his upper body naked, took down the weapons from the wall, and wiped them carefully, his purple-red face filled with anger.
There was a knock on the door, and Ye Guming said in a deep voice: "Come in."
"Creak!" The door was opened, and Toto walked in swaggeringly, sitting opposite him with a smile.
"You look so much like your adoptive father, you just clean your weapons when you have nothing to do!"
Ye Guming said expressionlessly: "Because we all love martial arts, weapons are our favorite, and we cherish them even more than our wives and children!"
Toto didn't understand what he was talking about, so he could only scratch his scalp and giggle.
Ye Guming raised his knife on the ground, stared at Toto, and asked in a deep voice: "Toto, tell Uncle Ye, what is the purpose of the young gang leader coming here this time?"
Toto was startled, and quickly said with a silly smile: "Uncle Ye, I also met Xiaolu in Lingzhou, and she didn't say anything to me!"
Ye Guming saw that he was dull and didn't look like he was lying, so he sighed: "Yes, you are as dull as me. Even if something happens to the young gang leader, I probably won't tell you!"
After that, Ye Guming stood up and patted Totuo on the shoulder: "Come, let's compete! In order to compete with you, I have been fasting for several days and have specially improved my sword skills!"...
Toto chuckled and took off his clothes, revealing his dark and shiny muscles: "Come on, I'm still afraid of you!"
Ye Guming smiled and asked: "What are you competing for? Where is your knife?"
Toto pointed to the weapons in his room and shouted: "Uncle Ye, lend me your sword!"
Ye Guming took a knife and threw it to him, then he raised the knife to his chest and shouted: "Toto, look at the knife!"
As he said that, he held a single sword and ran straight into it.
The steel blade in his hand suddenly turned up, then suddenly fell down, then turned up again and then fell down. Several consecutive changes of the up and down sword forced Toto to retreat repeatedly.
Toto dodged and said angrily: "This is not your Ye family swordsmanship!"
Ye Guming smiled proudly and said, "You are wrong! This is my own sword technique, which was originally derived from the Ye family's sword technique."
Before he finished speaking, Toto flew into the air and kicked away Ye Guming's knife.
Immediately, he forced the Sun Moon Universe towards him with a heavy and fierce move. Ye Guming raised his eyebrows and immediately used a move of Eight Gate Golden Lock to attack.
The sword technique in Ye Guming's hand is restrained and dignified, using virtual and real elements interchangeably, sometimes virtual and sometimes real, but it is quite steady and increasingly slow.
The sword technique in Toto's hand has clear moves. When playing with the sword, the sword is long and the body is short, but the sword can't be seen when walking. With the ups and downs of the footwork, the left and right turns of the body technique, the sword technique is novel and changing, which makes
People are unpredictable.
The two of them fought from sunset to the moon rising. The more they fought, the more they agreed. Their moves gradually became more mature and became more and more refined. It was not until a heavy rain suddenly hit that the two had to stop.
Toto put away the knife, shook off the sweat on his body, and said with a heavy breath: "It seems that there is no winner between us. How about we study a few moves each and fight another day?"
Ye Guming put down the knife, patted Totuo on the shoulder, and said with a bold smile: "Forget it, let's fight another day! Come, drink with Uncle Ye!"
The two of them sat cross-legged around the square table on the couch. No one noticed that a carriage stopped at the back door.
Immediately, the car door opened, and a man in a black robe and a hood hurriedly walked into Ma Huilan's room while no one was around.
Ye Guming brought two bowls and placed them on the table, then took out a large jar of wine and opened the mud seal on it.
In an instant, the rich and mellow aroma overflowed, and before the wine even touched her lips, Toto already felt tipsy.
Ye Guming picked up the wine jar and poured two bowls, and said with a smile: "It's so refreshing to be able to test the knife skills with Totobi today! I will treat you with this hundred-year-old wine! Try it quickly, how about it?"
Toto drank a bowl of wine, wiped his mouth, and laughed: "Good wine, good wine!"
Ye Guming also drank a bowl of wine and said with a smile: "Looking at your superb swordsmanship, Gui Lichi must have been idle for so many years!"
Toto laughed loudly and said, "Of course! My adoptive father has not had a family for so many years, so he put all his energy into running the caravan and improving his martial arts!"
Ye Guming suddenly sighed and said with emotion: "When your adoptive father was young, he fought on the battlefield all day long to protect his family and country. Now that he is old, he has found a way out for his brothers who are going through life and death! Such a person
It’s such a pity that such a righteous hero didn’t leave behind a son and a half daughters!”
Toto patted his chest and said proudly: "What are you afraid of if you don't have a biological son? I, Tuotuo, will be here to provide for him until the end of his life. And Xiaolu will take care of his caravan. We are no worse than our biological children!"
Ye Guming drank a bowl of wine and said: "Gui Lichi originally wanted to hand over the caravan to you, but you were simple-minded and couldn't shoulder this important task, so we had to let Lu Ning take over the stall!"
Toto scratched his scalp and said with a smile: "I will learn from the little deer on the side. When one day I learn it, I will help the little deer take care of it!"
Ye Guming smiled and asked: "Why, don't you want to get married and have children, but you have to stay with your sister all the time?"
Toto smiled stupidly: "Don't worry, when will Xiaolu get married, and when will I get married!"
Ye Guming smiled and patted his shoulder. Then he poured two more large bowls of wine. The two of them picked up the bowls, drank them all in one gulp, took a photo of the empty bowls, laughed, and put down the bowls together.
At that time, the room was filled with a harmonious atmosphere, but after a while, both of them were drunk and slumped on the table, snoring loudly.
The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier, and the rain is beating on the window lattice, making a noisy sound. A melodious flute sound passes through the dense rain and slowly flows into the small window of the east wing.
The lights in the room were like daylight, and the faint fragrance filled the air. Lu Ning put down his account book, rubbed his temples, and took a deep breath.
She pushed open the window, leaned against the window lattice, and listened quietly to the melodious and sad sound of the flute. Her face was gentle, but her heart was filled with sadness: Is he okay? Is he still angry with himself? They will spend the rest of their lives together.
...Will we meet again?
"Ahem!" A violent cough interrupted Xiangsi, and Lu Ning covered her mouth and coughed.
After a long time, the coughing gradually stopped. Her pale cheeks were stained with an abnormal flush, and her black and white eyes were also a little moist.
Lu Ning couldn't help but secretly smile bitterly: Even though he has always been in good health, he would actually get sick!
She looked at a pile of account books on the table and frowned: these account books looked flawless, the paper was brand new, and the handwriting was neat... It looked as if they had been specially prepared for inspection.
But in Lu Ning's eyes, these became the biggest flaws - if there was nothing fishy, why bother to sort out these old accounts just for his own review?
What are they trying to cover up? What's so fishy about this?
Lu Ning was already a little dizzy, but when he thought about the troublesome things happening to the caravan, Lu Ning felt a splitting headache.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and she walked over to open the door. She saw Ma Huilan's maid Huan'er standing outside the door with a bowl of pear soup.
"Huan'er? Is there something wrong at this late hour?"
"Young Master, this is the pear soup made by Mr. Hu himself. He said it is for you to moisturize your throat." Huan'er replied respectfully.
Lu Ning looked behind her and asked, "Where are the others?"
Huan'er carefully replied: "Master Hu said that for the sake of the young gang leader, it is inconvenient for him to come so late. He will come to see the young gang leader tomorrow."
"Okay, give it to me." Lu Ning smiled lightly, took the bowl from her hand, and closed the door.
The pear soup melts in your mouth, the temperature is neither cold nor hot, and the sweetness is just right.
She suddenly felt warm in her heart and her throat felt much better.
Unexpectedly, Hu Qi is not only good at poetry, singing, playing and singing, but he can also cook pear soup. I wonder how many other shocking skills he has hidden?
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, maybe because she had just eaten, Lu Ning couldn't sleep even more. Looking at the pretentious account books on the table, she simply put on a wind robe, put on a hood, picked up a lantern, and walked out
I am going to go to the accounting room to check.
The yard was quiet, and Lu Ning was walking in a hurry under the cover of the night and the sound of rain.
The door to the accounting room was ajar, which made Lu Ning feel a little strange. She gently opened the door, held up a lantern and took a look, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of her:
Several bowl-sized holes were broken in the roof of the accounting room, and rainwater poured into the house, flooding the entire room. There were scattered papers floating on the dirty water, densely covered with writing.
Lu Ning secretly screamed, and immediately walked in with her skirt in hand to try to save her.
Unfortunately, all the account books in the house were soaked in water and turned into a mess. Almost no one was spared.
Damn it! I'm a step too late!
Lu Ning stood there angrily, frowning her slender eyebrows: Just when he said he wanted to check the account books, the accounting room was flooded. If he said there was nothing fishy here, who would believe it!
"What happened? Why don't you go to sleep?" An oil-paper umbrella was opened above his head. Lu Ning turned around and was caught in a pair of clear eyes.
Hu Qi, dressed in white robe, stood behind her at some point.
"I couldn't sleep so I went out for a walk. Unexpectedly, I found that the accounting room was flooded." Lu Ning looked at the mess in the room, his face solemn and angry.
Hu Qi put the oil-paper umbrella into Lu Ning's hand, then checked the door lock, then walked into the house and looked around. When he looked up at the hole above his head, a flash of surprise suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"This...should be man-made..."
Lu Ning also came over, looked up at the hole in the roof, sneered and said nothing - I don't know who did it, but by using such a dirty trick, he obviously regarded himself as a fool who was inexperienced in the world.
"Hey, what's going on?" Elder Yun and several gang brothers also ran out at some point.
Seeing the tragic situation in the accounting room, he immediately rushed over to rescue him.
Lu Ning and Hu Qi looked at each other, and neither of them spoke, quietly watching them continue the performance.
Sure enough, Elder Yun quickly came out with a serious look on his face and reported: "Young Gang Leader, the rain was too heavy tonight and all the ledgers in the accounting room were destroyed..."
Lu Ning stared at him deeply and asked quietly: "Elder Yun, don't you think it's strange? Just when I said I wanted to see the account books, the accounting room was soaked with water. What a coincidence."
Elder Yun, however, looked at him and said: "Young leader, you don't know. Lingzhou is not as good as Shengjing and Nanjiang. It always rains in autumn, but I didn't expect that the roof was in disrepair for a long time, and the entire accounting room was soaked in one rain."