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Chapter 11

Xi Cang watched the hero Mo leave.

A girl in green came in at the right time and whispered something to Ziqiao.

After hearing this, Ziqiao said politely to Xi Cang, "Young lady is free at the moment, and I want to invite you to come over."

Xi Cang nodded, and followed her back to yesterday's back garden.

Ziqiao led her to the place and retreated.

Hua Ruomeng was cooking tea with plain hands in the flower hall, when she saw someone coming, she smiled gently, raised her delicate chin slightly, and signaled him to sit down.

Xi Cang sat down opposite her, sniffed lightly, and said, "What kind of tea is this? It smells so fragrant."

"This tea is called Guzhu Zisun. This tea is a royal tribute. I specially asked a friend to get some. You are lucky today, let's try it together!" Hua Ruomeng said and poured a cup for him.

Xi Cang didn't know much about tea, he only saw the clear color and strong aroma of the tea soup.After taking a sip, the taste is fresh and mellow, with a sweet aftertaste, which is many times better than the coarse tea he usually drinks.

"How?" Hua Ruomeng asked.

Xi Cang nodded, "It tastes really good."

"Is that all?"

Xi Cang was slightly startled, and thanked him in a daze.

Hua Ruomeng couldn't help covering her lips and smiled, "Didn't I ask you to say thank you, haven't you tasted anything special about this tea soup?"

Xi Cang thought for a while, but shook his head and said, "Sorry, I really don't know how to taste tea."

"You are really sincere." Hua Ruomeng gradually stopped smiling, and poured a cup for herself. She held it up with her jade hand, sniffed it lightly, and said lightly, "I personally poured the water for making tea on the plum petals. A little bit of collected snow water."

It's no wonder that the tea soup tastes so frivolous, Xi Cang only said, "The girl is elegant and elegant, and she cooks good tea, but it's a pity that I, a layman, don't know how to drink tea."

"Ordinary?" Hua Ruomeng laughed at herself, took a sip of tea, and said, "I'm not an ordinary person! Others cook fragrant tea just for their own liking, but I do it for other people's liking."

Xi Cang heard that there was something deep in her words, so he followed her words and asked, "Did that other person mean Long Zhan?"

Hua Ruomeng raised her eyes to look at him, and said with a smile, "Master, you seem to be very interested in him?"

Xi Cang shook his head, "I'm not interested in him, I'm just interested in your story."

"Why are you so interested in this story of mine?"

"I want to... get to know you better."

"So what if you understand?"

Xi Cang was stopped by the question, but he couldn't tell the truth, so he frowned for a while and remained silent.

When Hua Ruomeng first saw him showing such a hesitant attitude, she thought it was funny, so she felt teasing, so she stretched out her slender fingers, and purposely slid a light touch on the back of his hand resting on the table, "You ,like me?"

It was the first time for Xi Cang to be so intimately teased by the opposite sex, his handsome face could not help but blush, he shrank his hands uncomfortably, recalling what his master had explained before, gritted his teeth secretly, and then said calmly, "I like it. "

"Since you like it, why don't you look at me directly?"

"The girl is beautiful, I'm just a layman, I dare not blaspheme."

Hua Ruomeng withdrew her hand, sat upright slightly, and snorted softly, "Yinu's family sees, my son, your liking it is a bit fake."

Xi Cang was slightly startled, and finally raised his eyes to meet her, and said calmly, "This is true."

"Since it's true, tell me, what kind of liking do you have for the slave family?"

"Like as a friend."

Hua Ruomeng looked at him quietly, and after a while she smiled and said, "That's a good point."

Xi Cang heaved a sigh of relief, picked up the milky white tea bowl with thin porcelain body and plum blossom shape, and slowly drank the tea.

Hua Ruomeng picked up the pot and poured another cup for him, "You said you are a layman, but I don't think you are like those laymen."

"Then what am I like?"

"gentleman."

"Thank you."

Hua Ruomeng smiled again, "Sometimes you really look like him."

"Dragon battle?"

"That's right." Her gaze drifted out of the window, looking at the blooming plum tree outside the house, her expression slowly faded, "I have expressed my love for him many times, but he is as indifferent to me as Liu Xiahui At first, I thought he was a gentleman, but I didn't realize until later that he was just a hypocrite."

"Because he likes that man named Xi He?"

"No, he likes men. I have nothing to say. If he sticks to that man, maybe I will leave gracefully, and I can even bless them, but..." Hua Ruomeng's mouth twitched when she said this. Sneered, "In the end he married a well-matched woman for the sake of power, and that's why I have a glimmer of hope for him."

Xi Cang thought for a while and said, "But you were only eight years old 20 years ago."

"That's right, I already had a heart when I was eight years old." Hua Ruo dreamed that he frowned, and then explained with a smile, "It's only after I grow up that I confess to him. There is no charm at all for a man. And he is also sensitive to my thoughts, so after he got married, he sent me here. Only when the plum blossoms are in full bloom every year, he will take time to see Look at me."

"Then what about that man named Xi He?"

"Xi He was also a famous person 20 years ago. Although he is a man, he has the title of the most beautiful in the world. Before Long Zhan got married, I met him a few times in Zhuangzi by chance, and I was shocked every time. , He is indeed so beautiful that he is not like an ordinary person in the world. It's just that I was young at that time and knew little about him, and when I wanted to know him, he had already disappeared in the world."

"Where did he go?"

"I don't know. At that time, there were rumors in the Jianghu that he was dead, and some said that he had retired. I asked Long Zhan, but he didn't allow me to mention the name Xi He in front of him again."

"Is this the story of 20 years ago?"

Hua Ruomeng nodded, "Not bad."

"And what about ten years from now?"

"Ten years later, I was already slim and beautiful, and Long Zhan's wife had been dead for many years. I thought I could finally keep the clouds open, so I went to him with hope, but I didn't expect him to see me. There was no reaction, and I was still not seen in his eyes that made me sink, and he didn't even allow me to step into that manor again."

Xi Cang listened quietly.

Hua Ruomeng continued, "But his refusal made me obsessed with him even more. I didn't give up, and became more obsessed with him. He began to use me to recruit heroes and power for him, and I was Although my heart is bitter, I am willing. I naively thought that as long as I am useful to him, he will find out that I am good one day, and will eventually imprint me firmly in his eyes." She said I paused here, gave a wry smile, and sighed, "Looking back now, it turned out that everything was just my wishful thinking, and in the end it was nothing more than a bamboo basket fetching water."

Seeing that she was tired from talking, Xi Cang offered to pour her a cup of tea.

Hua Ruomeng said thanks.

Xi Cang said, "I once saw such a sentence in a book, 'Ask the world, what is love, and teach life and death?'"

"A life-and-death promise?" Hua Ruomeng was slightly startled, holding her teacup as if to ask herself, "Is it true that loving someone can be repaid by death?"

Seeing her wandering mind and seeing that it was getting late outside the window, Xi Cang got up and said goodbye, only to come back tomorrow.

When I arrived at the front garden, I met Ziqiao and Cuizhu who were waiting there again. Ziqiao was holding a needle and thread to make a female celebrity by the stove. ?”

Xi Cang nodded.

Ziqiao said again, "Young master told me earlier that she will stay here for dinner, and I have ordered the kitchen to prepare some food and wine. Young master, please come with me to have dinner."

"Thank you for your kindness, miss. You don't need to trouble yourself." Xi Cang thanked, turned around and left.

Seeing this, Cui Zhu blocked his way with a dodge, and said coldly, "It's just kindness to keep you for dinner, not to let you go to Daoshan, you are too disrespectful to my girl, right? "

"Sorry." Xi Cang said, "I still have something to do, so I can't stay here for a long time."

Hearing what he said, Ziqiao felt that she couldn't force her to stay.

But Cui Zhu said, "It's just a meal, how much time will it delay you?"

Zi Qiao tugged at her sleeve, signaling her not to make things difficult.

Cuizhu ignored her, instead she raised the sword in her hand, "I heard that your swordsmanship is good, why don't you and I have a contest, if you win, I will let you go, if you lose, just stay obediently How about dinner?"

Ziqiao frowned when she heard this, and said in a low voice, "Cuizhu, don't be reckless!"

Cuizhu said, "Sister Ziqiao, don't worry, I just want to ask Mr. Xi about swordsmanship."

Ziqiao knew her aggressive nature, so she probably didn't come up with this idea on a whim, and she might not be able to stop her now, so she said to Xi Cang, "Forgive me, my lord, Cui Zhu has always been a girl who doesn't know how deep she is. If something happens, I won't be able to stay with you, so I ask you to go slowly."

Unexpectedly, Xi Cang just took a step, and Cui Zhu's sword was out of its sheath, and the blade gleaming with cold light went straight to attack his lower body.Xi Cang retreated a few steps, not wanting to fight her, but her sword pressed her tightly, and Ziqiao was so anxious that she couldn't help screaming.

The sky was getting darker, and Xi Cang was anxious, but there was no way to avoid it, so he had to draw his sword out of its sheath.Seeing this, Cuizhu's face turned pale, and she thought in her heart, he is nothing more than that, but with this carelessness, the opponent's sword is like a lightning meteor, coming in the blink of an eye.

Because Xi Cang was thinking about his master, he showed no mercy in his hands, but after only three or four moves, only a "clang clang" was heard, and the sword in Cuizhu's hand came out, and it was firmly nailed to the pillar in front of the house. superior.

Seeing the iron sword less than an inch away from her throat, Cuizhu was horrified. She never thought that this person's kung fu was so high. Before, she thought that it was just a coincidence that he won Jiangnan's sword. Now it seems that Jiangnan Yijian's title should change hands.

"Offended!" Xi Cang retracted his sword and returned it to its sheath, turned around and performed lightness kung fu to leave.

Cui Zhu looked at his figure that had disappeared in the blink of an eye, and was taken aback for a moment, it turned out that he was really in a hurry!

Ziqiao walked over with a dark face, "How does it feel to be wiped out?"

Cui Zhu scratched her neck, "Not bad."

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