Chapter 107 – Waving Hands

Approaching prosperity, the stagecoach road widened, Xu Fengyen and the woman with the broken face rested in a small town without a wall to cover it, still three days away from the state capital.

She was wearing Xu Fengyen’s scribe’s clothes, slightly loose, four scars on her face began to callus, the unfortunate fortunate, in order not to reveal traces, so that her injuries are good with the synchronization of the death of seed gui, to be able to apply the ointment, a small acceleration of the progress of the healing, only the desert sands coarse, after the brush, even wrapped in a headscarf, to protect the face that the show is no longer, the other day, she is also often blood and flesh, suffered from the pain of the cones, and the pain is not as bad as the dagger. Must not be easier than the dagger face, she did not how to cry, Xu Fengyen has never spoken to comfort, two two silence, but Lu Shen will occasionally take the initiative to ask about some of the jianghu things, Xu Fengyen also have a say a, are serious warm words, perhaps for fear of teasing her, and then to suffer.

Xu Fengyen and her only into the city, the sky suddenly changed, dark clouds cover the sun, obviously midday, gloomy dark as night, a sandstorm will come, Xu Fengyen and Lu Shen only had to enter a humble inn, the innkeeper took advantage of the fire, to the death to raise the price, Xu Fengyen was intended to be slaughtered a few silver does not matter, there is a place to land on the line, but I do not expect the Lu Shen and the drilling of the bulls-eye, tugging at his cuffs, how are unwilling to be taken as an ingrate pit of money, it seems that she said the way to keep the family, but also the way of the family. It seems that she said that the family has a way, it is true. Xu Fengyen can do nothing about it, in the shopkeeper white eyes turn around, thinking of going to change a store with a little more conscience, not yet crossed the threshold, I saw the narrow street merchants and travelers swarming, look at the situation, do not live in this, it is possible to have to sleep on the street, hiding in the alley to avoid the wind and sand, Xu Fengyen smiled at her, she no longer insisted on it, the owner of the inn is careful, but also deliberately make things difficult, the price doubled upwards, Lu Shen shoulders shivering in anger, Xu Fengyen ride on his shoulders, and he was not able to get out of his way, but he did not want to be taken as a fool. Trembling, Xu Fengyen put on her shoulder, shook his head, honestly paid the deposit, received the wooden plate key to the backyard residence.

The headscarf to cover the face of Lu Shen is a bit stuffy, Xu Fengyen opened the wood door, a room of musty smell, after closing the door, took off the book case and the Spring and Autumn Sword, on the table there is a ceramic pot, shook, dripping, Lu Shen quietly sat on the stool, unraveled the headscarf, gently skimmed his head, not to meet with Xu Fengyen’s eyes, just asked: ”With the Gongzi’s out-of-this-world stature, why do you want to talk to these marketplace peasants Why do you have to talk down to these commoners, you don’t even need to unsheathe your sword to scare them out of their guts.”

Xu Fengyen closed the two leaky windows tightly, sat down at the table and smiled, “Do you think that an expert has to have a pair of eyes that shoots cold rays? Either they are born with a tiger’s back and waist, so they can’t wait to hang two pieces of tiger and leopard corpses behind their backs? Either hanging all over the body with swords, guns, clubs and spears, to go out to wander in order to look grand?”

The corners of Lu Shen’s mouth hooked up a bit, hearing the flirtation in her words, her mood improved a few points.

Xu Fengyen bent down and flipped out a few secret books from the bookcase, placed them in front of her eyes, sat on the stool with his knees crossed, his attitude was idle, and said softly, “I flipped through them when I had nothing to do these days, and practiced according to the styles in them, and realized that it was very fun.”

She softly said, “Play with it?”

Xu Fenian waved his hand and said, “That won’t work, what if the sky falls apart.”

Not waiting for her to speak, Xu Fengyen softly said, “Don’t laugh.”

She really boarded her face.

Xu Fengyen picked up the tea clay pot and said, “I’ll get some water and food, wait.”

Lu Shen nodded and picked up a shoddy secret book and flipped through it with his hands, Xu Fengyen didn’t take long to return to carry the tea pot filled with cool water, Lu Shen looked up and asked, “Spending money again?”

Xu Fengyen laughed: “I can’t help it, the kid is difficult to deal with, a pot of water half a taels of silver, later on we will drink it as agar jelly. By the way, the meal will have to wait a while.”

Lu Shen lowered his head to read and said, “I can afford to wait.”

Without knocking on the door, an innkeeper pushed the door in with a big grin, Lu Shen hurriedly grabbed his turban and turned his head to wrap it in a panic, the fellow was carrying a big wooden plate with one hand, holding a few kinds of sloppy and rough meals, he inadvertently saw Lu Shen’s face, he was shocked and almost smashed over the plate, he put down the food in a hurry and ran out only to cross the threshold, then he yelled, “Come and see come and see, there’s an ugly monster in the house. , there’s an ugly monster in the house, I’ve seen a ghost during the day.”

Lu Shen tugged at Xu Fenian’s cuffs, but Xu Fenian gently shook, striding out the door, kicking that mouthy unlucky bug into the courtyard wall, living and dying. After returning to the house, Lu Shen said grimly, “I was already ugly.”

Xu Fenian calmly said, “Yes, it’s unattractive. It’s weird to look good when your face is painted. But whoever dares to say it out loud, into my ears, I’ll let him ……”

She interjected, “Go to hell?”

Xu Fengnian said in a serious manner, “How can I, I’m not a devil, I always like to convince people with my looks, and only when I really can’t will I convince people with my virtue.”

Lu Shen stared at this scholar who couldn’t say whether he was a good or bad person, pursed his lips, seemed to be smiling, shook his head and said, “It’s not funny at all.”

Xu Fengyen laughed it off and distributed bowls and plates of meals before burying his head and devouring them. Lu Shen covered her face with one hand and chewed slowly, a picture of a lady who eats without saying a word, putting down her chopsticks at the same time as Xu Fengyen, she hesitated and said, “Just now I thought you would say some pretty words to comfort me.”

Xu Fengyen saw that she still had leftover rice, so he didn’t be polite, and moved it to his eyes together, and said as he ate, “Didn’t you say that you hated when others lied to you the most, believe it or not, in my eyes, you’re still the same showy woman, not good looking, but not hard to see anywhere.”

Lu Shen asked, “Really?”

Xu Fenian nodded as he lowered his head to eat.

The storm filled the small half of the afternoon, gradually tend to calm, Xu Fengyen pushed open the window to look out, the sky has not delayed the trip, and Lu Shen out of the yard, touched the mold of the inn fellows have been carried away, also did not see any provocation of retaliation on the part of the inn, Xu Fengyen in the street to help her purchase a drape hat, steering the horse slowly. Perhaps knowing that the end will come, Lu Shen speech lively a few points, also began to be happy to take the initiative to ask Xu Fengnian some anecdotes about the jianghu, from the Wu family of nine swords to break the ten thousand riders spread out to say, there is no temptation to try, a pair of men and women are intentionally or unintentionally faded heart of the city, Lu Shen itself is also the inner nature of the woman jumping off the hook, or else it would not have been with the species of Gui travel excursions alone.

There is a get together and then there is a break up.

Near the state capital, the width of the stagecoach road is no less than that of several main roads in Northern Liang.

Lu Shen looked toward the behemoth of a majestic city lying on the yellow sand, his heart palpitating, biting his lip, lost in thought. For a long time, looking back, wanting to look at the man, say goodbye or not.

But he is no longer in sight.

She smiled, can not see people, still turn the horse, waved his hand.

In the distance, seeing this scene, Xu Fengyen slowly leaned back, lying on the back of the horse, took a stalk of wild grass.