Ninety thousand miles of wind

Chapter 34 [Qiu Fei] The Fallen Leaves Gather and Scatter

Leaves Gather and Scatter

一

Qiu Fei met Ye Xiu when he was 12 years old.At that time, Ye Xiu was still called Ye Qiu, and he was known as the world-famous God of War with a single weapon—even though the first time Qiu Fei saw Ye Xiu, he was not holding his famous weapon in his hand.

At that time, Qiu Fei would enter Excellent Era as a registered disciple of the outer sect, and every day he would only squat on horseback and punch long fists with the instructor, most of the disciples came here to keep fit.After all, no matter how you say it, not many people really decided to bet their lives on this life-saving career from the very beginning.Because of this, Qiu Fei, who is obedient and obedient, stands out especially. He does what his master tells him to do, and he never refuses to be lazy.

So that evening the other disciples went to sneak away, and he was still reviewing the routines he learned today one by one.Halfway through the fight, he saw someone standing on the sidelines watching him.Qiu Fei didn't care about it either, and continued to punch until "the tiger descended the mountain" when he heard the man say, "You are using the wrong force for this move."

Qiu Fei stopped his momentum and glanced at the man - the man was also wearing an ordinary double-breasted short jacket, which seemed no different from his daily teaching.So Qiu Fei asked for advice, "How should I use my strength?"

"If you're like this, you don't have strength in your waist, and you can't pass the strength from your legs and feet to your fist." The opponent came over and stretched out his hand to correct him in a few places. "This way, the waist is backward, yes——do it again."

Qiu Fei tried it, and it really went much more smoothly than before.The man nodded and said, "That's right, you still have a bit of dexterity. ——A new outer disciple?"

"Remember the name for now."

So the other party nodded and said, "Not bad. With your aptitude, it is not difficult to enter the outer sect."

Qiu Fei became happy: "Really?"

Hearing what he said, the other party raised his eyebrows: "—Are you really planning to enter the outer door?"

"Naturally. I don't have any money in my family. Apart from becoming a registered disciple step by step and taking part in the assessment, there is no other way to enter Excellent Era."

The man was silent for a moment after hearing this, and said: "Tomorrow night, you are still waiting for me here."

The next night, the man really came again, giving Qiu Fei some advice as usual.It was still the same on the third day, and it has become a routine ever since.Qiu Fei couldn't see the depth, but only knew that this person was indeed much smarter than his teacher, and he was more serious when receiving instructions, and his progress was naturally rapid.The instructor saw his progress during the day, and praised him greatly, and specially called the head of the outer sect, Chen Yehui, to see his progress.

Chen Yehui watched Qiu Fei perform a set of punches, and asked him: "You have good skills, are you willing to join my Excellent Era's outer sect?"

"Of course I would." Qiu Fei blushed after punching.

"Not bad." Chen Yehui was amused, and asked him why he didn't apply for the outer sect in the first place.Qiu Fei explained that the family had no money, and Chen Yehui waved his hand, which also saved him from repairing outside the house, and it went smoothly unexpectedly.

That night Qiu Fei was waiting for that person on the training ground again, but that person showed up much later than usual, wandered over and asked, "How is today's assessment?"

"You know?" Qiu Fei was a little surprised.

"I know." The man smiled, "Chen Yehui must have chosen you."

"Yeah!" Qiu Fei was young and couldn't hide his excitement, "I will work hard in the future."

Seeing his excited expression, the man also laughed and asked, "Why do you want to come to Excellent Era?"

Qiu Fei hesitated for a moment before saying: "My father's life was saved by Excellent Era Villa."

The man was stunned, but Qiu Fei summoned up his courage and continued: "At that time, strange beasts were flourishing, unlike the peace now. That day my father went to the mountains to collect firewood, but he encountered a man-eating strange beast—it happened to be at that time in Excellent Era. The disciples were also chasing it, and saved my father from the mouth of the strange beast. From then on, I wanted to enter Excellent Era Villa."

"For repayment?"

"I also want to. But I want to save more people."

The man laughed when he heard what he said, stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, and said, "Excellent. If everyone is as determined as you, why are they afraid of strange beasts? I will give you a day off today, and tomorrow night I will meet you as usual." Wait for me."

Qiu Fei cheered up and said, "Yes!"

two

The two of them taught like this until a year later, Jiashi Villa suddenly said that they would specially select a group of young talents from the outer disciples to train in the inner sect.As soon as the news came out, everyone was excited. Qiu Fei met that person at night—he only called him "Master" in his heart, but he had never performed the ceremony of worshiping a teacher, and the two talked about martial arts when they met again, and they were always so vague. After going down—his master said: "You are very hopeful this time."

"I don't believe that other people can teach better than you." Qiu Feiji said seriously.

His master laughed and pointed to the spear in his hand: "Don't you ever think about being a direct disciple of 'One Autumn Leaf'?"

"Since learning the art of warfare, it's naturally because of admiration for masters." Qiu Fei still said very seriously, "It's just that I still think you teach well."

His master didn't say anything else, and said: "Teach me the routine taught yesterday."

The second day is the day of selection.A group of young disciples from the outer sect gathered together, each of them put on a lot of energy, and wore the latest and cleanest clothes, just wanting to win face so that they could be spotted by Jiashi Keqing.As a result, it was Qiu Feiping's nonchalant attitude that caught the eye, which attracted many people to mutter inwardly.After a while, Cui Li, the steward of the inner sect, really came, with two men and a woman behind him - among them, the one who was dressed as a shooter was naturally Su Mucheng, guest minister of Jiashi Villa; the other one was wearing a long sword Some young disciples had seen it before, and before Cui Li could introduce him, everyone had already said it was Liu Hao.Only the last one is wearing a simple green dress and doesn't wear any armor or weapons. Who is this person?Everyone bit their ears to discuss, but they didn't come up with an idea.

Only Qiu Fei was stunned.How could he not recognize his master?But, why at this moment, here——?

But at this time, Cui Li stepped aside his master, and raised his voice: "Everyone, this is my famous God of Fighting in Excellent Era, 'One Autumn Leaf' Mr. Ye Qiuye."

Standing in the crowd, Qiu Fei saw the man looking towards him, and felt all kinds of feelings in his heart, which he couldn't get rid of.

On that day, Qiu Fei and a few others were naturally selected and became inner disciples.He followed the steward and moved his things back to the disciple's room in the villa—one room per person, much more spacious than before.He lay on the bed, turned over a few times, and when he couldn't fall asleep, he heard a few knocks on the window, and a familiar voice called his name: "—Qiu Fei?"

He sighed silently, got up and went out the door—it was indeed his master, still in such a simple dress, saw him smiling, and said, "Are you angry?"

"How could you be angry?" Qiu Fei said hurriedly, then paused for a while and said again, "Actually, I should have thought that you are so powerful, and it's good to teach others."

Ye Qiu stretched out his hand to rub his hair: "How dare you be lazy when you know I'm good? Come, follow me to the martial arts arena."

Qiu Fei took two deep breaths to calm down, and said, "Okay, Master."

After Ye Qiu heard this address, he gave a wry smile: "It's not easy to be my apprentice, especially in this villa."

Qiu Fei was startled, but Ye Qiu stretched out his hand to rub his hair: "If you want, you can call me that."

Qiu Fei only felt a warmth in his heart, and said: "—Yes."

three

It was only later that Qiu Fei understood why being One Autumn Leaf's disciple was not easy.Li Rui, Bai Shengxian and his fellow disciples are all envious of him being able to climb into Ye Qiu's gate, ridiculing him openly and making trouble secretly, this kind of thing is broken.But these, Qiu Fei has always been broad-minded, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't take it to heart.Instead, what worried him was the state of the master - although he didn't understand how the undercurrent was turbulent in the door, he could also see that Ye Qiu's eyebrows were always a little tired.

However, he always believed in the master and his hand.Just like what Ye Qiu taught him—the method of warfare is to go forward bravely, those who are taboo are indecisive, indecisive, and hesitant, and those who are not fearless should not be passed on.If Ye Qiu could provoke Excellent Era back then, how could such a mere setback make him give up?

He believed in this, and was ready to stand behind the man at any time and together provoke Excellent Era.

Until one day, he was suddenly summoned together with the disciples of the villa. The owner of the villa, Tao Xuan, had a gloomy expression on his face, and said, "Ye Qiu asked to resign for some reason.Since then, Excellent Era has no one like Ye Qiu.

There was an uproar among the crowd.Tao Xuan was still talking on stage, but Qiu Fei didn't listen to a single word.In the end, he just went out with everyone in a daze. Standing on the steps, he saw that the leaves of the sycamore trees in the courtyard had already fallen halfway, and they scattered in all directions as soon as the wind blew.

He couldn't describe his sorrows and joys, but suddenly felt that this villa was so big—and so small.

four

Seeing Ye Qiu again—no, he was already called Ye Xiu at that time, but after the rumors about Happy challenging Excellent Era spread widely.

In fact, since Ye Qiu left, Qiu Fei's position in the village has been extremely embarrassing.Although it is not enough to be regarded as a traitor, it is still different from before.He has a stable face, he only practiced his spear every day, and people only laughed at him, "Don't you still dream of picking it up, but you can't do it?" Qiu Fei didn't answer, but his spear was faster, more stable, and sharper.Among the inner sect disciples, there is absolutely no one who can compare to him - although this makes everyone extremely jealous, there is nothing they can do about him.

Until that year, there was a small Xingxin Villa in Jiangzhou, which was aimed directly at Jiashi, the top ten sects in Jianghu, and was about to trample Jiashi Villa under its feet.As soon as this news came out, the world was really blown up. For a while, there were those who laughed at Xingxin for being overwhelmed, some who laughed at Excellent Era's current decline, some who seriously commented on the strength of the two companies, and some who were cynic and indifferent , there are really different opinions at the moment.Among the many rumors, there is another one:

Xingxin's current owner, Mo Xiao Yexiu, is Ye Qiu, the God of War who was chased by Excellent Era.

As soon as this piece of gossip came out, it suppressed all the rumors. Even in Jiashi Villa, disciples couldn't help spreading it from word to mouth. The master Tao Xuan avoided talking about it, and only Cui Li said two or three empty words like "don't care about it", how can we resist the different opinions?

After hearing the rumor, Qiu Fei didn't show it on his face, but turned around and went to find Su Mucheng.

Su Mucheng is practicing arrows in the archery field.When Qiu Fei entered, the sharpshooter was holding a longbow with ox horns, the string stretched like a full moon, and it was as quiet as a painting.As soon as Qiu Fei stepped into the threshold, he held his breath when he saw this, and saw that Su Mucheng let go of his hand, and a shooting star of a white-feathered arrow seemed to shoot out—he turned his head to look at the arrow target ten feet away, but saw that the arrow was hitting the target. On the first tail, split it in half.

Qiu Fei was amazed at himself, but saw that Su Mucheng had already retracted his bow and glanced at him: "Qiu Fei? Come in."

"I hope you will forgive me for disturbing you." Qiu Fei said and walked over.

"It doesn't matter." Su Mucheng said lightly, "You came to see me, what's the matter?"

"Have you heard the rumors in the village?"

"Which one are you talking about?"

"Xingxin Lord Mo Xiao is my master."

Su Mucheng looked at him quietly, then smiled suddenly: "If I say yes, what about you?"

Qiu Fei's heart sank, and he said, "He won't do that."

"He won't? Qiu Fei, that person protected you so well that he didn't let you know anything." Su Mucheng shook her head, with a smile on her lips, "He only told me about you once. He said, Jiashi is the biggest thing in your heart, so there is no need to say anything to you. Even though he is gone, Jiashi will never fail with you and people like you. "

"——I don't understand." Qiu Fei was confused when he heard this, "If he still has Excellent Era in his heart, why did he do such a thing? If he took away the gold medal——"

"So what if I take it away?" Su Mucheng sneered.

Qiu Fei opened his mouth, but couldn't find any words to refute.

"Apart from the top ten sects in Jianghu, there are also Hewuzhuang, Yueyunling, Zhaohua Pavilion and other Jianghu forces. Which one has a gold medal, but still can't keep one side peaceful?"

Qiu Fei muttered twice, only to see Su Mucheng raised his bow again: "You go ahead. Just take a good look, what Excellent Era looks like in your eyes."

五

Qiu Fei came out from the archery field, and walked back to the house with his head down—but he was stopped by Cui Li just halfway there: "Xiao Qiu? I've been looking for you for a long time.——Come, come, I entrust you with something."

Qiu Fei was startled, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"If you think about it, you've heard about Jiangzhou Xingxin. I discussed it with the owner, and I think it's better for people to find out first. This is a delicate matter. It's not easy for Ke Qing to take action, and the strength of the outer disciples is not enough. After much deliberation, it would be best to teach only a few of your disciples. If they can’t even beat you, it’s time to stop this embarrassing idea.” Cui Li said it very naturally, without embarrassment at all, “—— I have already agreed with the rest of the people, they are all waiting at Chen Yehui's place, you just go there."

Qiu Fei didn't nod, but asked, "Master Cui, how do you know that the outer disciples are not strong enough?"

"Ah?" Cui Li was taken aback for a moment, then hesitated, "This, this, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Qiu Fei felt better, so he didn't ask any more questions, and went to Chen Yehui's place.When they arrived, they saw that Li Rui, Bai Shengxian and others were all there. Although they usually didn't deal with each other, they still didn't make faces, so they greeted each other and went towards Jiangzhou awkwardly.

It turned out that after arriving in Jiangzhou, they found that the number of martial arts people in the small town had doubled—more than half of them were there to see who dared to challenge Excellent Era in Xingxin Villa. It was really troublesome to join in the fun.They stayed with Chen Yehui for a long time at the Xingxin Inn, and finally a tea doctor kindly told them: The proprietress had already moved to the villa with Xingxin and others, and they couldn't wait for anyone here.

Chen Yehui was extremely embarrassed. Behind him, Li Rui sneered and asked the doctor directly, "How can I get to Xingxin Villa?"

"Are you looking for someone to fight?" Dr. Cha looked at their respective attires and hesitated.

"Naturally. If they dare to pick Excellent Era, they have to prepare for someone to pick them." Li Rui said.

"There are quite a few people who think like you. Well, let me show you the way. Turn left when you go out and go straight west, and you will find the Martial Arts Field in our city."

"Martial arts arena?"

"That's right, Xingxin has always had someone there in the past few days, just waiting for you to come and challenge me like this."

Bai Shengxian burst out laughing: "Then you won't be beaten to shame?"

"Disgraced?" Dr. Cha also smiled, "Go and have a look, until now, no one has passed the first test."

Several people looked at each other, stopped talking nonsense, paid the tea money and went to the martial arts arena.As a result, I went there to take a look—there really was a little dwarf standing on the ring, and a little hooligan standing below him was yelling: "Don't miss it when you pass by, come now if you want to challenge us Xingxin, don't wait when it's over—" "

The person on the stage was almost crying, and said, "Baozi! Stop talking nonsense!"

As a result, Li Rui laughed, walked away from the crowd, and said, "Accept the challenge, right? Count me in."

"Hey, this little brother seems to have a very kind face." The hooligan was quite happy, "Our arena is only about sparring, so we can't play hard hands. However, even if we accidentally hit a hard hand, we There are also disciples of Xinglin, to protect you from worries—"

The person on the stage turned pale when he heard this, and quickly cut it off, saying: "My friend from the stage, please come up, please."

Li Rui thought about where all this mess came from, and immediately swung his spear, causing Ling Yun to leap onto the ring.After all, he has kung fu there, and his posture is very good-looking, and anyone who knows the goods in the audience will immediately say hello.Satisfied in his heart, he cupped his hands: "Brother, I'm asking for advice."

The little dwarf hurriedly returned the salute and said, "Please, ask for advice."

"Don't you use a weapon?" Li Rui asked as he put on a posture.

"Ah, this" said the little dwarf on the opposite side, first made a hand formula, and said "sickness".Li Rui knew that the other party was a talisman cultivator, so he hurriedly waited for it.But he didn't expect the other party to look at him with strange eyes, and said, "Aren't you attacking?"

Li Rui thought to himself what kind of talisman repair was this, and he specially asked someone to fight him personally?He was about to take a few steps forward, only to find that his feet sank and were caught by something.He lowered his head in shock, just as he saw countless vines winding up, he heard the other party say: "You're welcome." Before he finished speaking, he saw three ferocious beasts rushing out from behind him, immediately knocking Li Rui to the ground .

The audience burst into laughter immediately.However, Li Rui suffered from being dumb, and couldn't tell what he was suffering - but he had no place to reason in front of everyone, so he had to walk away in despair.Chen Yehui saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly said: "Qiu Fei, you go, and be careful that the other party is a summoner."

Qiu Fei nodded, stepped onto the ring, cupped his hands and said "ask me" before attacking with a spear.The opponent hurriedly commanded the three beasts to besiege—the Tang Zhihua rolled around under his feet, trying to catch Qiu Fei.However, Qiu Fei's gait was weird, like water waves, and the tangled flower was always one step behind.After walking away, the opponent's weakness became very obvious, and within a few rounds, the ice wolf was knocked to the ground by Qiu Fei's spear.The other party groaned, obviously distressed.

Qiu Fei didn't pursue him either, and said, "You can't do it. Let someone else do it."

The hooligan under the stage was eager to try, but he heard a voice from the corner: "Baozi, Luo Ji, come down."

Qiu Fei shook all over, and saw a person walking out from the crowd, still dressed in ordinary green clothes, looking sluggish, nodded to him, picked a spear from the weapon rack, and jumped onto the stage: "Long time no see. Call me See how you get in."

Qiu Fei was hit by an unknown fire, he took two deep breaths, and then suppressed the fire: "Thanks for your guidance, I am very grateful." After finishing speaking, he did not hold on to the disciple's ceremony, and a sky strike struck towards him.

On the opposite side, Ye Xiudao said "Well done", and he also joined in with his spear.The routines of the two of them are very familiar, and it is dazzling to see the tricks.Qiu Fei held his breath, thinking that at least he would teach Ye Xiu that he was not the Amon under the Wu in the past, but that he was firing out consecutive spears, and the Chaser was dazzlingly bright.Ye Xiu only parried, saying: "Sure enough, I have made progress."

Qiu Fei thinks it's up to you to say?Immediately, he made a move to break the army with the dragon, and rushed towards Ye Xiu with the spears together.With this move, he consciously took advantage of people's unpreparedness—but he didn't expect Ye Xiu to dodge him completely with a few slippery steps.

"This move of yours took too long to take off." Ye Xiu said, "——Again!"

This speech was exactly the same as when they practiced martial arts in Excellent Era.Qiu Feizheng turned around with his spear in hand, and was startled when he heard this.However, Ye Xiu still said, "Come on!"

Qiu Fei shouted loudly, and followed up with another set of offensives.While parrying, Ye Xiu said: "—the connection here is not tight enough—it's wrong!" After all, it was a blow to the sky, breaking Qiu Fei's accumulation of Chasers just now.As soon as Qiu Fei gritted his teeth, he attacked with Luohua Palm again, still playing at a fast pace as always; but every time Ye Xiu broke his attack, he could always say that it was his weak point - all of this was because Ye Xiu left. After this year, he can only hone it by himself and cannot ask for advice.The people below only saw that the two played well, but they still cheered along; it's a pity that the few people from Excellent Era couldn't see that this was the master's apprentice at all, and one or two just turned pale.

In the end, Qiu Fei also held the spear in his chest, and stopped attacking, only asking: "Why?"

These two words were asked endlessly, but how could Ye Xiu not know what he was asking?He sighed, and rarely said seriously: "Above Excellent Era, there is still a layer of justice. Qiu Fei, what did you ask for when you entered Excellent Era's gate?"

"With this body, keep the peace of the world."

Ye Xiu nodded slowly.

"—I think so too."

Qiu Fei stood on the stage for a long time, and then performed a disciple salute, saying:

"Please be taught."

六

That day's trip of Excellent Era's inner disciples ended hastily because of Qiu Fei and Li Rui's two consecutive defeats.Qiu Fei originally thought that he would be reprimanded when he returned to the door, but he didn't know what happened. Instead, he was found by Cui Li, who said that he was very capable, and asked him to appear in the duel with Excellent Era.

Qiu Fei was praised inexplicably, and walked out confused. He saw Su Mucheng standing opposite him waiting for him. When he saw him coming out, he asked, "Did you see him?"

Qiu Fei nodded: "Yeah."

"Is he all right?"

"I still can't beat Master no matter what." Qiu Fei said, only to find that the word "Master" is not a problem at all.

Su Mucheng smiled: "You are still young. However, he won't win so easily."

Qiu Fei didn't know how to answer, but Su Mucheng asked again: "Do you understand?"

"Understood." Qiu Fei replied, "My heart is in Excellent Era—whether Excellent Era has a gold medal or not, I will always be here."

Su Mucheng looked at him, and the smile gradually faded from her face. She had a serious expression that Qiu Fei had never seen before.She didn't say anything more, just saluted him, then turned and left.

Qiu Fei took a long breath and raised his head to face the afterglow of the setting sun. Even though the battle was ahead, his heart was extremely stable.

After that, Excellent Era really lost.

The old affairs between the owner of the villa, Tao Xuan and Ye Xiu, were suddenly brought into broad daylight. For a moment, Excellent Era was accused by thousands of people, and Tao Xuan was also disheartened. He didn't even say a word, and they just gave each other money.A group of disciples saw that nothing could be done, so they also scattered like birds and beasts.

Only Qiu Fei remained in his room.Although people said that the whole villa was being demolished and sold, no one came to chase Qiu Fei away—not to mention chased away, not even a single person.As usual, he got up early to practice martial arts every day - after half a month, only a few disciples from the outer sect he knew before came to him, saying that there was a strange beast in the south of the city, and now there was no one to deal with it.

Qiu Feichuo picked up his spear and said, "Let's go."

Those disciples were shocked: "Are you willing to go?"

"Learning this skill, if you don't use it now, when will you use it?" Qiu Fei said, "You guys help me to plunder for a while."

"—Of course!" They thought it would take a lot of talking, but now they were naturally happy, and quickly called other acquaintances to go with Qiu Fei.That strange beast was not a powerful guy, but Qiu Fei had no experience after all, so it took a lot of effort to clean it up.But everyone was very happy, surrounding Qiu Fei, they couldn't help but praise.Until the end, a person suddenly said: "But if this is the case, the villa is gone, what will happen in the future?"

After saying this, everyone fell silent.

Qiu Fei raised his hand to wipe away the blood splattered on his face, and said, "What happened before is what it is now."

That evening when he returned to the mountain villa, he had just climbed the stairs when he saw someone standing in front of the mountain gate with his hands behind his back, looking at the four big characters "Jiashi Villa" drawn on a silver hook and iron, he turned around when he heard him coming, and raised his hand — but never seen it.Qiu Fei was puzzled, he returned the salute politely, and then asked, "Sir?"

"In Xiaxia Zhongtian, he is a tea merchant in Hangzhou City." The visitor said, and looked at Qiu Fei up and down, "You are Excellent Era Qiu Fei?"

It would be fine if it was placed on him, but now that "Excellent Era" is added in front of the name, most of the people probably would avoid it.But Qiu Fei nodded, and said frankly: "Not bad."

A smile floated on Xia Zhongtian's face, and he said: "I bought this place from Master Tao, but I don't want to lose the reputation of Excellent Era, let alone see it become a place where people walk away. Excellent Era family soldiers, I have already invited you back Nine out of ten; as for the guest, my first choice is you, Mr. Xiaoqiu."

Qiu Fei looked at him quietly for a moment, and said, "Why did you choose me?"

"With this body, guard this place." Xia Zhongtian said softly, "—I just believe that Mr. Qiu is the same as I think."

Qiu Fei clenched the spear in his hand.He was even stained with the blood of a strange beast, and his hair was disheveled in the fight just now—he looked more like a defeated soldier than a master; It shows a bit of the style of One Autumn Leaf in the past.He looked at Xia Zhongtian and the plaque on the mountain gate behind him, and only answered one word firmly:

"it is good."