Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 24 Sometimes, life and death cannot be ignored
"Cough cough." Tang Qingao stood up on the bluestone slabs of the street, covering his mouth and coughing.
"Mad man." He cursed in a low voice and looked in the direction where Tie Muyi left, with determination in his eyes.
Just wait, in a few years, I will definitely reach the first-rate level, and then I will compete with you again.
In this world, there is a huge gap in talent among people. Some people can become famous masters at the age of a few dozen, while others cannot make a breakthrough until they die, and are still lingering in the second-rate realm at the age of more than 200..
Tang Qingao doesn't want to be the latter, and he is confident that he will be the former.
"Let's go." He looked at his men who were standing up supporting each other, turned around and said, then limped away along the street.
…
Tie Muyi was looking for Li Si. When he heard that Li Si was being hunted by the court, he had already started looking for him. However, Li Si's whereabouts had always been erratic, so he had not been able to find him.
But unlike most people, he was not here to capture Li Si, but to help Li Si .
The reason was that Li Si had done him a favor, that was ten years ago.
At that time, his father had just passed away, and his enemies came to make trouble at the funeral. If it weren't for Li Si, his father probably wouldn't have been buried properly.
Moreover, back then, it was because of Li Si's secret help that the Iron Sword Sect was able to survive until now.
Otherwise, there might be no Iron Sword Sect in the world.
He once asked Li Si why he helped them in this way. He remembered that Li Si just replied with a smile.
Because your father once helped me.
But Li Si did not elaborate on the specific content, and Tie Muyi did not ask in detail.
Almost everyone knows what happened afterwards. During these ten years, his martial arts skills improved rapidly.
But almost no one knows that in order to help him practice, Li Si obtained notes from many famous masters for him.
Among them, there is even the sword manual of the Sword Demon Dugu Bufu.
You have to know that this was the sword manual of the world's number one swordsman. Many people in the martial arts world would give up everything just to have a look at it, yet it was handed into his hands so easily.
Although Li Si always had a chuckle on his face every time he gave him those famous notes, Tie Muyi knew that the way to obtain these things must not be so simple.
So from then on, he had made up his mind that he would repay this kindness with his whole life.
Anyone who wants to be Li Si's enemy must first step over his sword.
In order to help Li Si, he practiced sword skills day and night. Finally, a year ago, he broke through to the level of a famous master.
Afterwards, he challenged famous masters from all over the world, and everyone in the world knew him, Tie Muyi.
Now he should be able to help Li Si.
Tie Muyi thinks so.
So this time, he came with a sword on his back.
Even if he wanted to make the entire martial arts world his enemy, he still came.
…
It was noon when the people of Changle Gate woke up in front of the inn.
The city's detectives have arrived and are ready to put them in jail.
Because he was in a hurry when he went to find Bai Yaoer in the morning, Li Si used a bit too much force when he knocked them unconscious.
They were stunned for a long time and blocked the main road.
The police arrested them all on charges of gathering a crowd to cause a disturbance and put them back in jail.
At night, the head of Changle Gate squatted in the cell in prison clothes. The straw on the ground was dry and smelly, and his face was cold and dark.
Looking at the crescent moon outside the prison cell window, he thought bitterly:
Li Si, don't think this matter is over.
After all, this time it wasn't just him who was involved in this matter, but the entire Changle Gate.
When he gets out, he will pass the news to his superiors and ask them to send people to arrest Li Si. They will never let Li Si have an easy time.
Just when Changle was thinking about how to report to his superiors after leaving.
There was suddenly a commotion outside the cell.
“Who are you!?”
"stop!"
There was a sound of swords clashing , and then it quickly became quiet.
The constable was knocked unconscious to the ground.
An iron sword with its sheath flew in from outside the prison and stabbed into a wall with a bang.
A young man in a green robe walked in at a leisurely pace. He pulled out the sword from the wall, glanced around the cells in the prison, and asked the prisoners.
"I heard there are people from Changle Gate here. I came to ask for directions. Where is Li Si?"
The light in the cell was dim. On the boy's back, the six remaining iron swords flickered brightly in the candlelight.
…
Beside the campfire in the dilapidated house, Li Si clasped his hands together and warmed them by the fire; the yellowish light of the fire illuminated his face.
Next to him was Bai Yaoer, who was wolfing down a skewer of grilled food.
"How is it?" Seeing Bai Yao'er's mouth full of oil, Li Si smiled faintly: "Is it delicious?"
"Hmph." Bai Yaoer paused in her feasting, glanced at Li Si, and snorted.
Then he turned his back and continued eating without caring about his image.
Knowing that the other party was still sulking, Li Si smiled helplessly, propped up his neck, turned his head and looked out the door of the dilapidated house in a daze.
I don’t know how long this dilapidated house has been abandoned. There are many spider webs on the walls, but no spiders can be seen on the webs. There is thick dust accumulated between the bricks on the ground.
How to put it, if it were a little cleaner, this place would be somewhat similar to where he lived as a child in this life.
At that time, he lived alone in the valley, and there was only a small shabby house like this one to shelter him from the wind and rain.
It was also at that time that he learned wood carving and carved the wooden sign in his hand now.
Thinking of this, Li Si unconsciously took out the wooden sign from his arms and looked at it in front of him.
The woman carved on the wooden plaque was his wife in his previous life.
The two knew each other since they were young and have been together all their lives.
His wife stayed by his side until he was about to die in his previous life.
This was the only concern he had left. He had no children in his previous life, so he didn't know how his wife was doing later.
Will she be able to spend her old age in peace, and will there be someone who can accompany her for the rest of her life.
Maybe she is dead now. Was there anyone with her when she died?
Whenever he thought that she might die alone in loneliness, Li Si couldn't help but blame himself for not living longer in his previous life.
If he had sent her away first at that time, he would have been able to let it go now.
In front of him, engraved on the wooden sign was her appearance when they first met.
Li Si remembered this look for the rest of his life.
Maybe, I will remember it for a lifetime.
