twin moon

Chapter 51 Scene [-] Undercurrent Part [-]

Yuansui ten years, the third day of February.The spring plums are in full bloom, and the snow is clear at the beginning.

The beginning of spring has just passed, and the snow on the branches of the grass has not yet melted, and there are only a few paths swept by the palace people in King Ye's palace to walk through.However, before it was time to eat, the gate of Guihong Garden was knocked.

Wan Shi, who was still sleeping in his cage, rubbed his sleepy eyes, thinking that some ignorant guy had disturbed his lucid dream.He opened the vermilion door a crack, but saw a man wearing a crown and a black robe with a red belt, surrounded by his followers, standing outside the door, he lost all sleepiness and became panicked and bewildered:
"My lord, why did you come here suddenly?"

"I want to see my beloved son, what's wrong?"

Ye Guogong smiled and did not blame the guards for their rudeness.Jinghai Hou Qi Shouyu also followed in the team, but he gave Wan Shi who was standing there in a daze a hard look: "The lord is here, hurry up and report to Young Master Ziyin to know!"

"Young master, he is a little inconvenient at the moment..." Wan Shi replied with trepidation, but he still had no intention of attracting visitors into the garden.

"What? Yin'er hasn't gotten up yet? The widow came here unknowingly. It's still early, so let him sleep a little longer. It doesn't matter if we enter the garden and wait for a while."

Qi Heyin didn't care about this, so he stepped across the threshold and walked straight towards the inner garden.Wan Shi had no choice but to lower his head and follow behind.However, when a group of people meandered into the main hall, they saw four pairs of bowls and chopsticks, several dishes of delicacies, and a cup of cold wine on a small red sandalwood table.

Seeing the mess on the table, the king finally frowned:
"Guard Wan, Yin'er, isn't he already awake? He already had breakfast, why did you say it was inconvenient just now? Could it be that he sneaked out of the palace with that black-eyed guard again?"

Jinghaihou also made a gesture and stared at his eyes, forcing him to ask:
"Wan Shi! Do you know that bullying the emperor is a serious crime? Besides, my nephew is not yet old enough to drink, so who brought this jug of spirits here?"

Wan Shi was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed and explained: "I dare not! The young master has not left the palace, but at this moment—"

But before he finished speaking, he heard a burst of applause from the depths of the garden, which attracted the king's piercing eyes to return to Wan Shi's face:
"It seems that Yin'er is not as lonely as I imagined in Guihongyuan. Please ask the guard Wan to lead the way, and let's go and see what's going on together?"

The young guard didn't dare to shirk any more, so he nodded and led the group of people towards the Wang Mingjing pool behind Guihongyuan.

At the same time, Qi Ziyin, who was dressed in white, tied his robe around his waist, was following Xiang Baili's instructions, and was facing off against General Yan, who was dressed in black and black armor, in the open space by the pool.Apart from the general in blue and green robes, there was also a red-haired girl watching the battle from the sidelines.The girl kept cheering for Qi Ziyin, which made Jiang Yan on the field feel a little annoyed.

"Yue'er, you are really eccentric, you only know how to cheer for Ziyin!"

Three years later, the sixteen-year-old black-eyed boy was running straight up, and at first glance he seemed to be on par with the Tsing Yi general on the sidelines.And Qi Chi Mo Dao, who was much taller than him, no longer looked so clumsy.

"Not only is your weapon longer than Ziyin's, but your attack is also unambiguous! How long has Ziyin practiced sword skills? How could he be your opponent? Put some water and you won't die!"

Ning Yue puffed up her cheeks and responded loudly, arguing for the boy in white.While speaking, her pair of blue eyes kept staring at the battle situation on the field, rubbing the corners of her skirt nervously, for fear that her reckless and strong companion would get hurt and she had already retreated to the corner of the open space. The young lord of Ye country with the power to parry.

"Of course I know it!"

Seeing that the girl questioned him, Jiang Yan immediately stiffened his neck, and raised the black-gold long knife in his hand again, but did not continue to attack, but took a half step back.

Qi Ziyin, who was half a head shorter than him, had a chance to catch his breath, and praised out of breath: "Jiang Yan, you are really powerful, how can you play so fast with such a long Mo Dao?" ?”

At this time, the young man in white was holding Xiang Baili's Saber Yin Ya.He has already practiced this set of five swordsmanship with both left and right bows, but he still can't compete with the black-eyed child on the opposite side in terms of strength and speed.

"Because I once said when I taught him the sword technique that when fighting in battle, you can only be invincible if you are as fast as you can! There will be plenty of time to talk about gossip, unless I tell you to stop, otherwise the two of you will be invincible!" The weapons are not allowed to stop!"

General Tsing Yi, who had been silent on the sidelines, suddenly interjected, allowing General Yan, who already had the upper hand, to continue his fierce attack.

"Why are you fighting! Ziyin's body is clearly not as strong as Jiang Yan's. It is very difficult to defend the strong with the weak!"

Seeing this, Ning Yue became more and more anxious, stomping her feet fiercely and going to pull the sleeve of General Tsing Yi.Xiang Baili waved his hand, signaling the girl beside him not to say too much, so as not to distract the people on the field:
"Defending the enemy on the battlefield is not an easy task. No matter how strong a martial artist is, he cannot guarantee that he will not encounter a stronger enemy in this life. What's more, it is difficult to defend the strong with the weak. The normal state of a warrior on the way forward. Since Young Master Ziyin asked me to teach him, he must go through such honing."

The more the other party is like this, the more fiery girl can't bear it anymore:

"Uncle Baili, how unreasonable are you! What you taught Xiao Jieba were fierce and aggressive attacks, but what you taught Ziyin were only passive defensive moves. Even if he could try to block all the attacks, he still always You can't change the situation on the court, you can only be beaten passively!"

"Who said that defense can only be passively beaten? There is a saying in the art of war that the strong must turn weak, and the weak will be strong. Using defense instead of attack is to defend the weak and accumulate strength to wait for good opportunities. Just wait patiently. It’s hard to say who will win and who will lose in the competition.”

"Hey, I will talk about things that people don't understand. Today, the two of them are not happy to lose the girl. I planned to cook some delicious dishes in the evening. Now I am sure that you will not have your share, uncle!"

Ning Yue was still relentlessly threatening, but seeing that General Tsing Yi no longer paid attention to her, she could only turn her attention back to the field.Just as he turned his head, he happened to see the black-armored boy raising his knife and launching a fierce attack on Qi Ziyin again, which made him unable to help shouting again:

"careful!"

Jiang Yan also knew that his physical strength was limited, and if he couldn't break through his companion's defense, he might be dragged down. He roared loudly and rushed forward, and focused all his energy on Xiaotianmo, intending to defeat him in one fell swoop. .

However, this time, the boy in white did not blindly dodge and defend like in the previous fight.I saw that he avoided Mo Dao's edge in a little embarrassment, but he stood still and did not retreat.

The sword technique named Chuishan pays attention to coherence, so that no flaws can be exposed if the moves are coherent.The black-eyed boy happened to be in the last pose at this time, and immediately wanted to attack again when he saw this.The continuous high-intensity slashing is very exhausting even for an adult, let alone a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.

The speed at which Jiang Yan drew his sword was obviously much slower than the previous few times, and the fighter plane was also lost in this imperceptible instant.Without waiting for him to attack again, Qi Ziyin used one of the five imperial sabers to move his heels. With a flash of his body, he accurately grasped the extremely difficult gap, and deceived the opponent's unsuspecting body. side!

There was only a muffled sound, and the white-clothed boy slammed the red saber spine in his right hand between the knee socket of Jiangyan's right leg.The unsuspecting black-eyed boy immediately lost his balance and knelt down straight to the ground.

But being victorious, he didn't admit defeat so easily, he immediately turned the knife head, and sent the weapon in his hand against the direction of his body's fall, using Xiao Tianmo's strong resilience to stabilize his body.But in doing so, his back was completely exposed in front of Qi Ziyin, and the door was wide open.

In the blink of an eye, the offensive and defensive sides have switched roles.Unexpectedly, Qi Ziyin finally ushered in the opportunity, but he did not continue to attack the opponent with the black long blade that had been protecting his vitals.After a moment of hesitation, the strength and weakness changed again, and Jiang Yan had already turned around.

"Okay, stop—"

Finally, Xiang Baili slapped his hands and announced loudly that the competition was over.As soon as his words fell, Qi Ziyin immediately dropped the weapon in his hand to his feet, and lay down on the ground relieved, refusing to move again:

"No more fights, no more fights, I don't have any energy left."

"No, I was careless just now, I have to do it again! I guarantee that if I can't defeat you within five moves, I will admit defeat, how about it?" Jiang Yan walked to the side of the white-clothed boy holding Xiao Tianmo upside down, He stretched out his hand to pull the opponent up to fight again.

Xiang Baili stepped forward and pressed the black-eyed boy on the shoulder:

"Let's stop here today. You two, one is good at attacking and the other is good at defending. This confrontation is to let you see your weaknesses clearly so that you can make up for them in the future. Always keep in mind that a strong crossbow will inevitably end and a weak one will lose Only then can we be undefeated."

"But I can obviously win!"

Jiang Yan still stuck in his neck.Seeing his unwillingness, General Tsing Yi shook his head:
"Do you know why I was unable to break through for a long time?"

Jiang Yan was stopped by the other party's question, he hesitated for a moment, and then nodded slightly.

Xiang Baili couldn't help but smile slightly, and earnestly and kindly said:

"It's good to know. On the battlefield, if you just blindly attack and don't know how to be flexible, every time you make a move, you think about how to subdue the opponent as soon as possible, and it won't take long before you will be impatient and unstable, and the power of destroying mountains will naturally be reduced." Discounted."

The young Mo Lingwei lowered his head in embarrassment, and bowed deeply to the man:
"Remember the general's teachings, today I lost!"

"You are not defeated either. Fang Cai Ziyin's young master obviously took the lead, but he failed to continue to attack. He wasted a great opportunity to control the enemy. Both of you must remember that whether you lead an army to fight, or enter personally In the battle formation, even if there is a trace of mercy, it is cruel to oneself and to the soldiers under one's command."

"Students remember!"

Qi Ziyin also got up from the ground, saluted Baili respectfully, and immediately picked up the black and red double blade named Yinya from the ground, and handed it back to General Tsing Yi.

"So, today's competition is a tie? Huh, it's not too bad! Now we can go out of the palace and go shopping?"

"I still want to watch "The Chronicles of the Dragon Slaying". Yue'er, you and Ziyin should go first, and I will come to see you later when we have lunch."

The black-eyed boy shook his head, took out a tome that had already been turned over from his pocket, and shook it in front of his companions.

"Tsk, you guys are really boring. How many times have you read the story of Emperor Baijiang beheading monsters, don't you feel tired? If you don't want to come, forget it, Ziyin, let's go to Nanxunmen to eat fried preserved meat! "

The red-haired girl made a playful grimace, pulled up Qi Ziyin who was beside her, turned her head and left.They were worried that they would be discovered by the people in the palace, so they didn't go through the front door, but used a few rocks from the rockery to climb over the courtyard wall with ease.

"The little demon girl is simply too presumptuous! The minister sent someone to chase the nephew back! And that Xiang Baili actually asked two children to compete with real swords. If you hurt the young master, you will be able to pay back!"

After witnessing all this, Qi Shouyu was furious and ordered the followers behind him to chase after him, but Ye Guogong pressed his right palm hard to signal the other party not to use it:
"Brother Wang, children are playful by nature, so let them go. When you and I are at their age, aren't they the same?"

"But--"

The chunky Marquis of Jinghai wanted to argue again, but before he could finish speaking, Qi Heyin asked back:
"I don't know what Brother Wang thinks, how well Ziyin's martial arts has been practiced in the past three years, has he improved?"

"With General Baili as the teacher, he has made rapid progress. But after all, he didn't practice martial arts since childhood, and his physical strength and foundation are still a lot worse. He couldn't exert the power of this set of five royal swords..."

"The widow thinks that Yin'er was not in a hurry or panic, neither angry nor discouraged, neither arrogant nor impetuous, neither greedy nor ruthless in the confrontation, quite a bit of the character of the former king Dehuan."

Never thought that Lord Ye would actually praise his youngest son in public and give such a high evaluation.Watching the figure of the young man in white disappear behind the courtyard wall from a distance, a faint smile appeared on his face, "I am very pleased to be able to teach Ziyin to be like this. Come on, pass on the decree." , Reward a hundred ingots of gold and a hundred horses of silk to General Baili. In addition, let him not come to court this morning, so that he can rest."

After the king's order was issued, Qi Daoxian and Jun Shengming followed him left and right, and even Jinghaihou swallowed the words that had come to his lips, and put his iconic smile on his face again.

However, that night, a black crow took advantage of the moonlight to fly out of Jinghaihou's mansion, heading straight for Xiyin City dozens of miles away.According to the history of later generations, it was night, and the eldest son Qi Zixiu lost his temper in the government office and stayed up all night.And this time the ink crow sent a message, which was also considered to be the fuse that caused Ye Kingdom to decline and fall into years of fierce battles in the future.

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