After one night, Ren Qi took a look at the dotted marks and bright red colors on the ground, and couldn't help but feel that maybe last night was too much.
However, Zhao Qian didn't take it seriously. Such trouble didn't matter to her. It only made her feel a pleasant pain and put a brighter look on her face.
She tied her clothes one by one, and the fire that crackled and burned blazingly all night finally turned into ashes. At this time, there were only sparks among the charcoal, and light smoke emitted.
"The snow has stopped." Zhao Qian said.
"I know."
Ren Qi put his sleeves away, stood up and tied the sword to his body.
"It's time for you to go."
"Where am I going?" Zhao Qian asked him.
“It’s good to go anywhere.”
Ren Qi said coldly: "If you continue to follow me, not only will you not be able to get revenge, you will also die."
"But you said you would avenge me."
"I never said that."
Ren Qi shook his head, "I just want to kill all the people in Xiandu, not to avenge you. And I also said that I will not promise you anything just because you stayed with me for one night. That's not the case with me. ”
"As expected of Leng Yu Ren Qi, who was born in Ouchi, he is indeed ruthless." Zhao Qian smiled, but was not angry.
"Do you know who I am?" Ren Qi was not surprised.
"I didn't know it at first, but after seeing you use six swords and seeing your skills, I remembered the rumors about you. Only you, the most powerful criminal in Kyushu, can have the whole world come after you. Kill you, and only you can help me take revenge.”
Zhao Qian tied her hair back and picked up the knife again.
"I also know that you won't listen to me, but that doesn't matter, because we have the same goal, don't we?"
Zhao Qian smiled, "If this matter can make Commander Ren have more trust in me, and make you relax a little, so that you can maintain a good condition when dealing with Xiandu, then I think it doesn't matter.
In other words, this is the help I think will be useful to you, without asking for anything in return. ”
"That really helps."
Ren Qi walked to the door.
"You really don't want to go back?"
"I won't go back, because revenge with my own hands or witnessing it with my own eyes is the meaning of my life."
"Don't talk about meaning."
Ren Qi said displeased: "Killing or taking revenge is just a small thing, not the whole life."
"Is this true even for you?" Zhao Qian asked.
She obviously knew about the blood feud between Ren Qi, the imperial court and the White Lotus Sect.
As soon as he reappeared in the world, some people guessed that Ren Qi reappeared in order to take revenge on the court and the White Lotus Sect, and left behind legends everywhere.
"That's how it started."
Ren Qi frankly admitted: "I spent seven years in a haze, just smoking dirt, playing with all kinds of weird potions, hanging out with all kinds of lowlifes, and occasionally doing low-level activities like licking blood for money.
When I woke up and realized that I didn't have much time, I only thought about revenge. After revenge, I stopped thinking about it, but..."
Ren Qi suddenly smiled, "Only recently did I realize that although my time for revenge is running out, my life has just begun."
Zhao Qian never expected that these words would come from the mouth of the world's most powerful imperial convict, so she asked curiously: "Is it because of women?"
"No, it was a man, or several people together, both men and women. They all told me to change my mind."
"But I heard that the thought of living will only dull the swordsman's sword." Zhao Qian was a little worried.
"That is what inferior swordsmen pursue, and it is only superficial, because the strongest is the one who has no intention and no desire."
Ren Qicheng said: "I'm different. I swing my sword just for the sake of swinging it. I don't think about all the mess."
"So that's it."
Zhao Qian admired Ren Qi a little more, squinting her eyes and said: "In this case, I will feel more at ease. Even if I am with you, you can protect me."
"You take care of your life and death, I don't care."
After Ren Qi finished speaking, he walked out of the temple door.
Zhao Qian was not annoyed, she just took a deep look at the mountain temple and the place where they were together last night, then got up and chased after Ren Qi.
They were originally very close to the mountainside. At this time, the snow stopped and the weather became clear again. The snow water slowly melted on the branches and fell on the ground in drops.
The snow water wet their shoulders from time to time. Zhao Qian only felt cold on her shoulders, but Ren Qi didn't care. He just held up a small hatchet to open the way ahead and cut off the branches blocking the road.
The two of them walked without saying a word, one behind the other, like two strangers. The only sound in the snowy forest was the sound of boots digging into the snow.
This kind of walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow makes people feel tired and boring. Zhao Qian couldn't help but lowered her head, just glanced at Ren Qi's back with her peripheral vision, and followed his route.
"Don't keep looking at your feet."
Ren Qi suddenly reminded: "You will go blind."
"Blind?"
Zhao Qian is from the south and has almost never seen snow.
"Yes, if you see too much snow, you will go blind."
Ren Qi's tone was cold, "I don't want a blind person to follow me, because I don't know how to take care of a blind person."
"Got it."
Zhao Qian looked up again, blinked with a pair of bright eyes, and then saw three people standing in an open space in front of her.
They were three iron-tower-like men, almost as tall as Ren Qi. All three of them were wearing black fox furs and felt hats. They stood with their hands on heavy knives, looking at Ren Qi and the others.
Zhao Qian held the knife and whispered: "These three people don't look easy to mess with."
"Of course it's not something to be trifled with."
Ren Qi sneered, "The three of them are my senior brothers."
"Senior brother?"
Zhao Qian took a closer look and saw that the three of them seemed to be only a few years older than Ren Qi. The eldest one was probably in his forties.
Ren Qi stood still, twenty steps away from them, and stopped moving forward.
"Three senior brothers, long time no see."
"Ren Qi!"
The one who made this angry shout was a dark man among the three, named Luo Li.
"Seven years ago, for the sake of our fellow students, we took great risks and spared your life in Jinmen. We secretly sent you to the station and watched you get on the train and leave.
You once swore an oath not to set foot in the north again in this life, but now you have broken your promise. Is this what a man should do? ”
Ren Qi sneered, "At that time, I couldn't beat the three of you who joined forces, so I naturally had to follow your advice. And you want a big master to keep his promise and be honest and trustworthy? Doesn't that mean that poisonous snakes don't bite? It's very difficult!"< br>
"Ha! I said that he should have been killed at the beginning. Master also said that Ren Qi is a born bad boy who cannot be educated." One of them said.
"I don't know why, Master actually accepted a treacherous villain like you?" Luo Li stopped his brothers' complaints and just said calmly: "Since Master accepted him, there must be a reason."
"Of course."
Ren Qi said: "It's not because of my talent or my virtues. The master accepted my father's seventeen gold bars, plus three gold bars for annual tuition, and promised my father that no matter what, he would be fine in the end. Teach me to join the ranks of great masters
My father has always believed that money can make the world go round. If a woman accepts his money, she has to lie down. If a master accepts his money, he naturally has to pass on all his skills to me. The same is indispensable. ”
Zhao Qian was stunned and took a long time to react.
She couldn't help but admire Ren Qi's magnanimity and practicality from the bottom of her heart. Even if he was exposed in front of an outsider like him about breaking his promise, he still remained calm and didn't even take it seriously.
Luo Li sighed, "Ren Qi, I originally thought I wouldn't have to deal with you today."
Ren Qi disagreed, "When you were summoned here by the Immortal Capital, didn't you just do it to fight me? What are you doing pretending at this time?
I remember the spirit and slogan of our sect, isn’t it that we have to be decisive in doing things, and we can’t be like mother-in-law and mother-in-law? ”
"Who is in the same sect as you?"
Luo Li shouted angrily, whipped up the wind and snow with his sword, and strode towards Ren Qi.
"Well done!"
Ren Qi drew out a red sword and rushed forward to meet Luo Li.
The giant force caused snowflakes and ice crystals to scatter in all directions.
Luo Li wields a heavy sword. It is not about craftsmanship or technique. He just leads people with the sword and uses his waist and arm strength to swing the long and heavy iron sword. It is powerful and heavy, suppressing the enemy.
Of course Ren Qi knew how powerful this heavy sword was, but he abandoned the advantage of the fast sword in his hand and instead used its shortcomings, that is, powerful blows to fight Luo Li.
Luo Li originally thought he had the upper hand, but after just two moves, he already felt something was wrong.
Seven years ago in Jinmen, he could fight against Ren Qizhuo alone. However, now that he only had two swords to fight, he felt powerless.
What exactly has Ren Qi practiced in the past seven years! ?
The other two people saw something was wrong and immediately stepped forward, holding heavy knives and joining the battle with the same strength and posture.
The three of them were like three black whirlwinds, attacking Ren Qi from three angles.
Although his eyes were dazzled, Ren Qi did not take a step back. He just drew his sword and fought with the three people.
Sparks flew out amid the clash of weapons.
After a few more moves, Ren Qi jumped back, looking like he couldn't withstand such an attack, so he retreated.
When one of them saw this, he followed the sword and turned the long sword in a cloak-like manner, slashing towards Ren Qi.
"Not good!"
Luo Li had a bad premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, Ren Qi's step back was false. His center of gravity was still in front. When the man bumped into him, he also stepped forward. He gently picked it up with his hand, and the heavy knife flew away and fell into the snow. In the ground.
Seeing this scene, Luo Li and the others couldn't help being shocked and angry, attacking from both sides.
Ren Qi stabbed forward, and when Luo Li turned to the defensive, his sword suddenly tilted again. Luo Li only felt the tiger's mouth tremble, and the heavy sword in his hand was lifted high and fell behind him.
Two of the three were disarmed, and the other one was no exception. With a flick of Ren Qi's hand, the man's knife was released and inserted into the snow.
Ren Qi put the sword back into its sheath and said coldly: "That's it."
"What can I do?"
Luo Li stared at him, "You don't kill us now because we let you go when we were in Jinmen, so you let us go today?"
Ren Qi couldn't help but recall: "At that time, the three of you also used this heavy knife to hold me down, like a dead dog, constantly humiliating me. However, you refused to kill me or take me to collect the reward. Let yourself get that wealth
Although I am not grateful to you for this, today, I am willing to write off that matter. You can take the knife and leave. ”
After Ren Qi said this, he turned around and left.
However, after taking a few steps, he stopped again because he heard the sound of Luo Li and the others pulling out daggers from their waists.
Ren Qi's sect is called Shen Dao Sect. It is a sect with a very tacky name. It sounds like a random name given by some idiot in the countryside who doesn't know how to name it.
However, the Shen Dao Sect is indeed a famous sect in Yujing, and even in the entire north. The imperial golden sword guards alone have more than one shot.
Their sect is of course most famous for its swordsmanship with the broadsword, but small knives and daggers are also the last resort to save life, or they represent the last dignity of their swordsmen.
"Ren Qi!"
Hearing the shout, Ren Qi turned his head with a solemn expression, and Luo Li threw a knife to him.
"If you still think you are a member of our Divine Sword Sect, this battle will have to continue."
"Does it have to be this way?"
Ren Qi frowned, "You can't beat me."
Luo Li looked solemn, "Fighting and killing are two different things."
"What did Xiandu promise to you, so that you have to pay your lives for it?"
"It's a matter of loyalty to someone who has been entrusted by someone. Ren Qi, you can be ungrateful, but we can't."
"Did Master ask you to kill me?"
There was anger in Ren Qi's eyes.
"He has always wanted to get a job in the Ministry of War, so your head is his stepping stone."
"Come!"
Ren Qi didn't say anything more, he just pulled out the short knife that was less than the length of his forearm and stabbed his eyes brightly.
The three of them looked at each other and without any further hesitation, they formed a triangle formation and attacked Ren Qi.
Ren Qi shouted angrily and dodged into the three of them.
After a mistake, blood burst out from the necks of the three of them, and they fell into the mud that had been trampled by footprints.
"They..."
Zhao Qian was about to speak, but she had no choice but to shut up when she saw Ren Qi's cold eyes.
Ren Qi said nothing, just threw the dagger into the snow and left without saying a word.
The two of them walked in tandem, even more silently than before, until dark, when they rested in a room.
Ren Qi was speechless all day. As soon as he entered the room, he lay down on the cold kang, facing the wall.
Zhao Qian lit up a fire in the cracked fire pit.
Under the firelight, Zhao Qian looked at his figure and felt that this taciturn man who had abandoned everything was burdened with too much pain.
She couldn't help but feel sympathy and put her hand on Ren Qi's shoulder.
At this time, Ren Qi suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled her over.
Zhao Qian was shocked at first, then relieved, and opened her arms to welcome Ren Qi.
She just closed her eyes slightly and allowed Ren Qi to demand and vent.
In this cold night, Zhao Qian became a selfless devotee, comforting the silent Ren Qi with her tenderness. (End of chapter)