Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 11 Misfortune (7)
An Xingmian's martial arts were mainly joint techniques, and he didn't carry any weapons with him. After being attacked by Bai Qianyun, he could only retreat step by step in the narrow corridor.However, such a small space is also not suitable for using long weapons. After a few more attacks, Bai Qianyun was excited, and the iron crutch swung a large arc in the air, accidentally hitting the wall, and the head of the crutch got stuck all of a sudden. In the stone wall.When he pulled out the crutch, An Xingmian took this opportunity to take out something from his pocket and put it on his right hand.

It was a nearly transparent glove, which looked like silk, but it faintly reflected the luster of metal under the candlelight.Regardless of Bai Qianyun's disregard, he swung his head again with a crutch, but this time, An Xingmian did not dodge, but stretched out his right hand, and grabbed the head of the stick.There was a light snap, and the crutch was firmly grasped by him. This was undoubtedly the weirdness of the glove. Not only was it very tough, but it could also greatly neutralize the strength of the enemy.

An Xingmian took advantage of the situation to fight back, grasping the crutch tightly with his right hand, stretching out the index finger of his left hand, and slapped Bai Qianyun's throat quickly, forcing the other party to withdraw his hand and let go of the crutch.Bai Qianyun didn't expect a glove to have such a big effect, and An Xingmian reversed the situation in just one move. However, this person's temperament seemed to be really brave and staunch, and he was not discouraged even if he lost his weapon. He was about to punch again, but An Xingmian's words made him stop his fist abruptly.

"Stop hitting, or your two artificial legs won't be able to support you anymore." An Xingmian said sincerely.Bai Qianyun was startled, before An Xingmian had time to speak, An Xingmian had already slowly handed back the crutch.

"I'm just concerned about the whereabouts of these long-door monks, and I don't want to be your enemy." An Xingmian took off his gloves and put them back in his arms. "Actually, I also have a headache about how to protect them. Your method may not be impossible. OK. I suggest we sit down and talk first, okay?"

Bai Qianyun was silent for a while, then pointed to the entrance of the rockery in the corridor, and made a "please" gesture.

Soon, the two returned to the inner room where An Xingmian was drinking tea just now. The guy had just woken up rubbing his neck, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the two of them appearing together.However, he is also a well-trained person. Seeing that the master was not hostile, he went out without saying a word, and soon brought refreshments himself.

"My two legs were deformed when I was born. The ends of the two legs were glued together like fish tails," Bai Qianyun said. I was also completely unable to support walking, so my mother chose to have both of my lower legs removed from below the knee, and then fitted me with Heluo's special hardwood prosthetics."

"From the sound of your feet hitting the ground just now, I guessed that both of your legs are artificial limbs, but I think you were able to move freely just now, why do you usually walk with a cane?" An Xingmian asked.

"Because of the pain," Bai Qianyun patted his leg, "a slight movement of the joint between the prosthetic limb and the body would cause a painful pain, and before that, due to my growing body, I needed to get a new pair almost every year. I have been exercising since I was ten years old. From the very beginning, when I took three or five steps, I would fall down. Now I can walk one or two hours at a time, but the pain has never been relieved. So it is not necessary , I try to rely on crutches to walk, so the pain can be greatly relieved."

An Xingmian couldn't help feeling deep sympathy from the bottom of her heart.No wonder this man in his thirties has so many gray hairs and deep wrinkles. It turns out that he has been suffering from pain since birth.Now he can talk about his legs in a flat tone, but in the past 20 years, he may have had countless tears, countless blood and countless curses.Compared with that kind of life, I am afraid that the monks who pursue asceticism can be considered happy.

"However, you are really brave enough." An Xingmian changed the topic, unwilling to talk about the suffering of others, "Go against the emperor, and if you are found out, you will be beheaded."

"That's why I had to lock them all up," Bai Qianyun said, "You long monks are really not afraid of death, but they are not afraid, I am afraid."

The two laughed together, and Bai Qianyun continued: "Actually, I don't like Nagato Monk, quite a bit. In this world, one must live happily and comfortably, like Nagato Monk, use it all day long. Torturing yourself through self-cultivation, restraining yourself with all kinds of messy rules, you are obviously full of knowledge and capable of making money, but you still want to live a life of eating chaff, I really think you have a sick mind."

"Although I should refute you logically, I actually agree with you in my heart." An Xingmian patted the table lightly, "If it weren't for my persistent old father, maybe I'm traveling around now, with endless fun. "

Bai Qianyun glanced at him: "How do you say it?"

An Xingmian didn't hide anything, and told her experience of how she had to join Nagato because of her father's death, and then asked, "What about you? Could it be that you were also forced by someone, such as your parents, to be forced to join Nagato?" Not helping Nagato?"

Bai Qianyun shook his head: "No, actually, I don't even know who my real parents are, but I have been seriously ill since I was a child, and this life was saved by the Nagato monk; my legs were also healed by the Nagato monk. Method. Although I don't like the style of life of the Nagato monk, if I don't repay my kindness, wouldn't I become a bastard?"

"Well said!" An Xingmian raised her voice, "You are a good guy, I like you!"

Bai Qianyun stared, and suddenly shouted: "Bring the wine! I want the best! Bring me those two jars of 30-year-old Yebei 'Zuizhongxiang'!"

An Xingmian was drunk.

He hadn't been drunk for a long time, and even in the past few years, he had only drank once—that is, when he lived in Huai Nanju not long ago, when his mentor Zhang Haoge was not paying attention, he secretly replaced the tea with drink.Zhang Haoge was very tolerant of his life. He didn't force him to dress plainly or eat a simple diet. He only restricted his drinking, because drinking alcohol would make his mind either overexcited or overly anesthetized, so that he couldn't complete the Nagato monk. Daily compulsory course - meditation.

And after leaving Zhang Haoge, although no one supervised him anymore, out of deep respect for his mentor, he did not indulge himself in drinking. On the contrary, he spent more time in meditation every day than in the past, expressing Respect for my pedantic but brave and firm mentor.

But right now, he suddenly met such a rude but bold-tempered Bai Qianyun who suited his appetite very much, and he really couldn't suppress his drunkenness.The two of them met each other with wine, and drank up two jars of Yebei's famous wine "Zuizhongxiang", and their tongues grew big in the end.An Xingmian lost her usual steady demeanor, and began to speak freely under the stimulation of alcohol.

The two of them hooked up shoulder to shoulder and called each other brothers, vomiting out all the old things hidden in their hearts.An Xingmian told about how he was forced by his father to join Nagato, and how he was not a pure Nagato monk in his bones, and also told about his determination to find out the truth about the arrest of Nagato.

"You are also a man!" Bai Qianyun raised his thumb, "I just want to do my best to protect the long-door monks in Yunzhongcheng, but it's not as far as you think."

"No, you are truly admirable." An Xingmian shook her head, "If I were you... with legs like this, maybe I wouldn't even have the courage to stand up."

"That can't be helped. My mother was born with a congenital disability. My two legs were connected together. I was a deformed child." I threw it away. As a result, I was lucky enough to be picked up by a kind-hearted Heluo, who raised me up and tried to ask the head monk to heal my legs. So I always call her mother, even though this It's a bit uncomfortable to call her."

"Damn, so your mother is Heluo." An Xingmian shook the empty wine glass, "No wonder your blacksmith shop let Heluo make weapons... Don't look at me so surprised, you can figure it out with your toes Come out, I'm a smart man!"

"Come on! To the wise!" Bai Qianyun refilled An Xingmian's wine, and the two drank it all in one gulp.

"You're right, the swordsmith behind this shop is actually Heluo," Bai Qianyun put down his wine glass, "I grew up with Heluo, and I have a temperament like Heluo. I have suffered a lot in dealing with people. Later, I thought, I am also a human being, so why should I let other people lie to me? So I gradually learned to deceive others, and opened this restaurant with a few of my Heluo brothers. The blacksmith shop has made a lot of money. Heluo weapons have always been very popular, but in the current Cloud City, there are very few people like me who dare to sell Heluo weapons. My business even attracted I won’t be able to spend all the money I’ve earned in ten lifetimes without the barbarian and feather guests from the Northland.”

"But I can tell that you've earned all this money, but you're not happy." An Xingmian looked at Bai Qianyun.

Bai Qianyun slammed the wine glass to the ground: "Of course I'm not happy. No matter how much money I earn, I can't get back my parents and my real background. In fact, the biggest thing in my life is My wish is to stand in front of those who have abandoned me, look into their eyes, see into their hearts, and ask them loudly, looking at my current appearance and my current achievements, do they regret it?"

"Then do you know who they are?" An Xingmian asked hurriedly, "Have you ever looked for them?"

Bai Qianyun leaned back in his chair like a deflated ball: "I only know that I was picked up on a mountain road in Beiman Mountain. Beiman Mountain is so vast that many travelers pass by every day. , I can’t even tell whether the person who abandoned me is a local mountain dweller or one of the countless passers-by, how can I find it?”

"I'll help you!" An Xingmian blurted out with a burst of enthusiasm.

"What did you say?" Bai Qianyun seemed unable to believe his ears.

"I said I will help you!" An Xingmian stood up, "If you want to find your parents, I will help you find them together; if you want to question them face to face, I will stand by your side. If you don't, I'll accompany you to drink away your worries. As long as I settle the matter with Nagato, I'll go to Beiman Mountain with you right away."

"Actually, you don't have to do this," Bai Qianyun said after a moment of silence, "I protect the head monk just because the head monk has once done me a favor, so that I can stand up. You don't owe me anything."

"It's not 'our' business, it's just mine." An Xingmian stared at him, "It's not because of something that can never be counted, who is kind to whom, who owes whom, but because we are friends! We're fucking friends!"

Bai Qianyun didn't speak for a long time again. Finally, with a sudden wave of his arm, he swept the two empty wine jars on the table to the ground, and then yelled towards the door amidst the cracking of the wine jars: "Take another bottle!" Come drink!"

But this time, the guy who has always been obedient and obedient never showed up.Bai Qianyun yelled twice more, but still no one responded.He and An Xingmian glanced at each other. Although they were drunk, their eyes were a little more wary.Bai Qianyun stood up slowly while supporting her crutches.

Just when the two were about to rush out to check what happened, the door was pushed open, and a man walked in with a wine jar in his arms.But this is not that guy, but a stranger, a strange man that Bai Qianyun has never seen before.This person was tall and thin, with blue eyes and golden hair, he was clearly a feathered man.After entering the door, he almost didn't even look at Bai Qianyun, he just stared at An Xingmian firmly, that dark and long thin face was as cold as a piece of iron.

Bai Qianyun was about to ask about this person's identity, but found that An Xingmian beside him seemed to have a different expression.Turning his head slightly, he saw that An Xingmian had already clenched his fists, his face was tense, as if he was facing an enemy.

"It seems that today either you die or I live..." An Xingmian sighed, and rushed towards the strange stranger with a punch.

(End of this chapter)