Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 97 Tired of trivial matters (two in one)

After talking about the main branches, Gu Xun started to worry about the details again:
  "Speaking of which, tomorrow is thirty. Does that fat pig like the Emerald Tiger have to adjust this day to pay?"

"What, isn't it appropriate to trade at thirty?" Zi Nu was a little confused, what happened to thirty?
  "Thirty, the first day of the Lunar New Year is two days before the New Year!"

Zi Nu said curiously: "I noticed that you seem to attach great importance to the Chinese New Year."

"It's just that you don't pay enough attention." Gu Xun retorted.

Zi Nu shook her head, "Sir, for the common people, the so-called Chinese New Year is no different from other days. Living in such an era, it is not easy for them to survive. Everything else... is not important."

In troubled times, people's lives are like nothing. The people of Xinzheng are better than people in other parts of Korea, but only a little bit.

Zi Nu added: "Originally, the streets would be more lively these two days, but with today's snow, everything is in vain. In such a cold weather, people will not go out unless they have no choice."

Gu Xun had nothing to say. The situation was like this. What could he do? In the final analysis, social productivity is low, and no one can solve this problem. Compassion for others is not his style, so just live your life well.

"Would you like to celebrate the New Year at my house tomorrow?" Gu Xun put aside his distracting thoughts and invited Zi Nu.

It would be a bit deserted if it was just me, mother and daughter. During the New Year, it would be more lively.

He spent the last Chinese New Year with the Seven Heroes, one person and seven animals. It was very lively. Hongmao, Daben, Doudou, Tiaotiao, Dada, and Gu Xun were so drunk that they almost demolished the Ice Palace. , and then the Blue Rabbit inserted them one by one into the snow outside to make living snowmen...

It was really cold that winter, especially the snow outside the Bingpo Palace, which was freezing...

Zi Nu's heart trembled after hearing Gu Xun's invitation.

What a big dog!
  How dare you openly ask me to go to your home to celebrate the New Year with your wife and children?
  Zi Nu sneered and squinted at Gu Xun.

"I told you what a shameful expression you have, just don't go if you don't want to go!" Gu Xun turned his head away, avoiding Zi Nu's gaze, and shouted with a slight guilty conscience.

We are all friends, so why not spend the New Year together? After all, we are all fatherless and motherless.

Although the relationship is a bit subtle in theory, haven’t I done nothing yet?

Thinking of this, Gu Xun suddenly acted again, turned his head back again, straightened his chest and raised his head, becoming confident.

"Are you going or not?"

Seeing Zi Nu's expression, Gu Xun thought it was probably out of the question. However, who had Zi Nu been afraid of?
  "I go."

"Hmm...huh?" Gu Xun nodded subconsciously at first, wanting to express that I knew you weren't going, but then he discovered that the content seemed to be the opposite of what he expected.

"Are you willing to go?" Gu Xun asked in surprise, with a little joy in his voice. In his heart, he still hoped that Zi Nu would accompany him during the New Year.

Zi Nu couldn't help but smile when she heard the joy in his voice. No matter what, he did invite her sincerely.

"It's rare to have some fun together, why don't you go? It's been cold these days anyway, and Zilanxuan's business is average, so there's nothing to be busy with."

"Then it's settled, you can come to my house tomorrow night, um... Of course, you can come at noon if you want."

Gu Xun scratched his head and said, "Actually, you can come anytime you want. If you have nothing to do, you can also go to the hospital to chat with me."

Zi Nu smiled, tilted her eyes to one side, and changed the topic without commenting:
  "With your money, do you want me to send someone to your house?"

Gu Xun pondered for a moment, "Well, send them all to me."

In fact, it's okay to leave it here with Zi Nu, and take the time to collect it all into the system. However, sending it to the medical center openly can attract the firepower of the Emerald Tiger, so as not to implicate Zi Nu and Zi Lanxuan.

"Okay, that's it, I'm leaving." After saying what needed to be said, Gu Xun stood up to leave.

Zi Nu held back for a moment, "You won't leave until you have eaten?"

"No, it's still early at noon, so I won't eat at your place today. I just want to go back and talk to Chen He."

When Zi Nu heard that Gu Xun was going to find Chen He to ask about Qi State's affairs, she didn't keep him any longer, "Well, we really should find out Qi State's purpose as soon as possible."

After Gu Xun walked to the door, he paused and said again:
  "By the way, remember to ask Wei Zhuang if you want to come together tomorrow."

"Him?" Zi Nu thought of Wei Zhuang's cold face, "Forget it, he won't be interested in this kind of thing."

Zi Nu felt that he would definitely give her a boring answer.

"By the way, he said we should forget about him later."

"it is good."

Wei Zhuang: Have you two forgotten me enough?
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  After Gu Xun left Zilanxuan, he went straight to Chen He's home.

Every time he left the hospital, he would ask Chen He to get off work.

Chen He knew that this was because Gu Xun was on guard against him, but... he didn't mind, and was even quite happy. He really didn't like staying in the medical clinic handling medicinal materials.

Gu Xun didn't want to compete with him in martial arts, so he would rather stay at home and think about the truth of martial arts that Gu Xun expounded (as Chen He thought).

While walking on the road, Gu Xun looked up at the sky. There was no sun, but under the reflection of the bright white ground, the sky and the earth were bright. The wind was blowing faster and the snow was falling hard (Lin Chong:...).

At this moment, Gu Xun suddenly heard a female voice above his head, "Hey!"

Then there was the sound of a sword cutting through the wind:

"Whoosh~"

Needless to say, someone sneaked up on me from the roof. However, hearing this movement, the person who made the move was too weak and too slow to be threatening at all.

According to Gu Xun's general way of dealing with it, he would just shoot it to the sky like a Rizhao Kyushu, but... this voice sounds a bit familiar?
  When he looked up, he saw that it was Honglian. He didn't know what kind of monster he was making.

Dressed in white, he held a sword in his hand, with a silly smile on his face after a successful sneak attack, and the sword pointed directly at his face.

It was too late to say, it was fast then, everything actually happened very quickly, but that was for ordinary people. For Gu Xun, of course it was almost the same as slowing down 32 times. He raised his right hand unhurriedly and stretched out his hand. The index finger and the middle finger clamped the tip of the sword that was just stretched out in front of him with a "噌~" sound.

Hong Lian's ordinary fine iron long sword was tightly clamped between her two fingers by Gu Xun. She could neither pierce it in nor pull it out. Her face was so red that she couldn't use these two fingers, and she became angry. Stomping his feet, he let go of the sword and said, "No more fun!"

Gu Xun shook his two fingers, and the sword body suddenly turned around with his clever strength. The hilt fell straight into his hand, and then with a flick of his wrist, he inserted the sword back into the scabbard in Hong Lian's hand.

"So, what are you playing at?" Gu Xun asked helplessly.

This girl didn't know where she saw Gu Xun from a distance, and she lurked on someone else's roof early. It happened to be cold today, so she wore a thick velvet hooded cloak, pure white, and snowy. The same color, the cat was on the roof, and Gu Xun didn't sense his surroundings carefully, so he really let her ambush him.

I almost got slapped to death by myself.

"I haven't been practicing the Jade Girl Sword Technique you gave me for a few days. I want to try it with you... What's that on your waist?" Honglian replied in a brisk tone until she saw Gu Xun's waist. The bulge caused the attention to be momentarily diverted.
  Sure enough, the erhu is the real thing, which attracts attention.

"A musical instrument called Erhu." Gu Xun explained casually, and then warned Honglian.

"Don't do this kind of thing next time, it's so dangerous!"

"No." Honglian's attention was immediately turned away. Putting aside the problem of the instrument, she replied with a confident look on her face, "I am controlling my strength. Even if you can't dodge or block it, I will eventually do it." The one who deflects the edge of the sword.”

You are so confident!

Gu Xun didn't know what to say to her, "I'm talking about you being in danger, not me!"

"Me? What danger can I be in?" Hanhan still looked confident and didn't know anything about his dishes.

Yes, you can. Gu Xun had nothing to say, so he could only warn in an emphatic tone:
  "You... forget it, remember not to attack anyone next time!"

"Okay, I got it." Upon seeing this, Honglian pouted and agreed. But for a young man, ideas come and go quickly, and she immediately asked about other things happily:

"By the way, that move you made just now where you clamped my sword in one swish looked very cool. Please teach me."

"Want to learn?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Honglian nodded his little head crazily.

"I can't teach you." Gu Xun spread his hands and showed a helpless smile.

"Why!?"

"That's not a martial arts move. It's purely about infusing the two fingers with true energy and using brute force to clamp the enemy's weapon. As long as your internal strength is high enough, you can't even clamp a door, let alone a sword. If your internal strength is strong enough, you can't even clamp a door. question."

"Then how many years do you think I need to practice before I can do what you just did?"

"Hmm... about six or seven years."

Gu Xun gave him a not too long time, but this time was very long for Honglian, "It takes so long!"

"Cultivation of internal strength is a process that takes time. Internal masters often spend decades working on it. A few years is not a long time."

"Okay." Honglian could only accept the reality with disappointment.

However, what Gu Xun told her was the time it would take to practice enough to be able to clamp the sword that fell from the sky just now, but what she thought was that it would take six or seven years to practice to a level similar to Gu Xun's current level. The difference...

It's pretty big.

Hopefully she doesn't feel cheated.

"Then what do you think of my current strength training?" Honglian was still the energetic princess and immediately started asking other questions.

This question made Gu Xun stunned, "How is your practice?"

"Martial arts!" Hong Lian said in a dissatisfied voice, "This princess has been diligently practicing the Jade Girl sword technique you gave me these days. What do you think of my current strength? Have I become stronger? Just now I almost sneaked up on you."

Then he looked at Gu Xun expectantly, waiting for his answer, or should be said, waiting for his affirmation.

Gu Xun:? ? ?
  You said this as if you also have a plug-in.

The reason why you were able to sneak attack me just now was because you were too weak and couldn't arouse my instinctive alertness.

It's a pity that Gu Xun is not an idiot like Wei Zhuang who doesn't understand the charm. Faced with the girl's high expectations, he is really embarrassed to speak too... bluntly and directly.

"If you compare it with before, it can be said to be a huge improvement."

From one to two, it has doubled, which is of course a huge improvement.

"Yes!" Honglian got a satisfactory answer and smiled proudly.

Gu Xun could only laugh a few times, "Hehehe..."

"Hehe, where are you going now?"

"Oh, I have something to do and I have to go find Chen He."

"That's it..." Disappointment appeared on Honglian's face.

She originally wanted to follow Gu Xun. After all, there were not many pedestrians on the street today, so there was no value in wandering around. She left the palace just to find Gu Xun, but in the end, he wanted to go to Chen He's place.

Honglian hated Chen He very much. The last time they met, the way he looked at her was particularly unpleasant, full of contempt and even contempt.

How could she, Princess Honglian, be treated like this?

Chen He: What kind of look can you use to look at a rookie? It would be nice if I was willing to take a look at you.

"Forget it, there's nothing fun today. I'll go back to the palace directly." Honglian kicked her foot in displeasure and said in a reluctant tone.

"It's okay, it's still snowing now, and it won't be good if you get typhoid fever." Gu Xun was surprised that this noisy little princess was willing to go home by herself.

"Well, when I go back and continue training hard, I will defeat you sooner or later."

"Uh... Honglian, this martial arts training is step-by-step. Jade Girl's swordsmanship emphasizes energy rather than swords, so you have to spend a lot of time practicing internal skills. This must be a long-term process and cannot be accomplished overnight." Gu Xun felt I still need to persuade him to prevent this child from seeking death everywhere.

"What do you mean?"

"It means that your journey of martial arts training has just begun. It's best not to get involved with anyone else except me."

If you encounter a ruthless person, everything will be fine, Wong Lo Kat's good luck.

"you……"

"Alas... alas, it's not that you are weak, it's just that the world is too sinister, you are too simple and easy to be plotted, blah blah blah..."

After all Gu Xun's lies, Hong Lian finally happily agreed to his request.

After sending Honglian away, Gu Xun was not delayed by others and arrived at Chen He's residence smoothly.

It is also on South Street, at the end of the street. There is relatively little traffic, but it is not far from the hospital, and it is not a big courtyard. It is very small, just suitable for Chen and a bachelor to live.

"Deng...deng..."

Gu Xun stepped forward and knocked on the door. Soon, Chen He came and opened the door.

After all, he is a small house with only three rooms - the main room, the bedroom and the hut - and with his hearing, he can't escape even the slightest movement.

"Sir!? You have something to do with me...?" Chen He was surprised to see Gu Xun.

Since he entered the hospital, Gu Xun has only been here twice - plus this time.

The first time was to identify a door. In Gu Xun's words, it was just to prevent him from being unable to find someone when he needed to find him.

He never came again after that, not even passing by.

"Won't you let me in first?"

"Oh, please come in." Chen He was not good at socializing, and he also knew that it was not good to block the guests from the door, so he hurriedly turned aside to give Gu Xun a little way.

The two of them entered the room and sat down in the main room, which was the living room. Don't expect Chen He to provide any tea or wine, there was nothing.

Gu Xun didn't wait for Chen He to ask questions and said straight to the point:

"I'm asking you something. If I can answer it, you answer it. If I can't, you don't answer it."

An unknown Jagged Alliance cannon fodder: The meaning of these words sounds very familiar.

Seeing Gu Xun's serious attitude, Chen He said seriously:

"Excuse me, sir."

　Sorry, I didn't post until now. I have something going on at home.

　　Sorry, sorry, (bow)

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)