Chapter 375 Several Meanings (Two in One)
After listening to Fan Xian's words from afar, Haitang Duoduo was stunned for a moment with her mouth slightly open, then looked at Mei Chengan with a smile, but said nothing.
"Forehead…"
Mei Cheng'an smiled awkwardly, clenched his fist to his mouth, coughed lightly, and decisively chose to avoid this embarrassing topic.
"What? Miss Duoduo is here?"
Haitang turned a deaf ear and spoke with a smile.
"Mei Cheng'an, I've heard of your name, but I didn't expect you to have such skills, and your skills..."
As she spoke, she looked Mei Cheng'an up and down, and paused when her eyes passed over the long sword in his hand.
“Still so good.”
Mei Chengan was calm and modest.
"Of course I can't compare to Miss Duoduo."
"Good with sword?"
"Well, it is."
“Nice needle throw.”
"It's okay, girl, are you here to kill Sean?"
Mei Cheng'an suddenly got to the point, causing everyone who were listening to the two people's ordinary conversation to pause slightly and feel a little awkward.
Haitang Duoduo was also stunned for a moment, then she smiled, raised her little hand, and held it upright horizontally, shaking it left and right in front of her body.
"Please move aside."
The tiger guards naturally stood still.
Haitang looked at Mei Chengan, who smiled and waved behind him.
"Spread out."
The tiger guards responded by putting some distance between themselves.
"Thanks."
After Haitang thanked him loudly, she looked away at Sean, who was slumped on the ground with his back against a boulder in the distance. She bowed to him slightly, her posture was very stiff and not very graceful.
"I am here on the orders of my master to escort Senior Xiao back to the capital!"
……
Fan Xian looked at Sean in surprise.
"I'm not here to kill you but to pick you up?"
Sean narrowed his eyes and looked at Haitang in silence.
Fan Xian got himself into trouble and turned around and shouted over there.
"He hasn't left the country yet. Hai...Miss Duoduo came a little too early. It is still our job to escort him now, so you don't have to worry about it. If you really want to escort him, please go to the border and wait."
Haitang glanced at him from a distance without responding. Instead, she looked at Mei Chengan who was nearby and asked in a low voice.
"That person is Fan Xian, the poet of Nanqing?"
Mei Chengan smiled and spoke.
"Exactly."
Haitang nodded and her voice returned to normal, neither too loud nor too soft but just loud enough for people on both sides to hear.
"Aren't you going to set a trap to kill him?"
Fan Xian, who was far away, immediately stretched out his hand and spoke loudly.
"Wrong! It was the Northern Qi rebels who intended to kidnap Sean and undermine the peace agreement between the two countries. In the chaos of the battle, Mr. Sean was unfortunately shot and killed."
Haitang was stunned for a moment, then smiled unhappily. She put the hand that was holding the basket on her waist, raised her other hand and pointed her finger at Fan Xian in the distance. The finger was raised a little high, and if it was closer, it would have been pointing at Fan Xian's nose. Her action was very much like a village woman cursing in the fields.
"You, the poet of Nanqing, are truly shameless. You are calm and composed when you are in a panic, and you are openly throwing dirty water on the head of Beiqi. I didn't expect that at your young age, you are so sinister and vicious. You are really not a good person!"
"..." x9
The corner of Fan Xian's mouth twitched. Why did the dignified Saint of Northern Qi suddenly start swearing? Didn't she care about her image at all?
Sean glanced at Fan Xian and curled the corners of his mouth.
Mei Cheng'an burst out laughing and nodded as he laughed.
Haitang glanced at him.
"What do you mean by nodding?"
Mei Chengan smiled.
"I agree with the girl's evaluation of him. It's a bit harsh, but it's insightful. He is indeed not a good person."
"..." x10
Fan Xian's head was full of black lines. This bastard is so cool!
Haitang hissed and looked at him as if he was looking at something rare, with surprise and speechlessness, and contempt in her speechlessness.
"You are not a good person either. I heard everything. You two planned to kill people and throw dirty water on the head of Northern Qi."
"..."
When Fan Xian heard this, his expression suddenly turned from cloudy to sunny and he started laughing. He felt relieved and even wanted to make another move.
"That's right, the girl is absolutely right. He and I are birds of a feather. Neither of us is a good person, haha."
"..." x10
Mei Cheng'an rolled his eyes at him from a distance, ignored his barking, looked at Haitang, and smiled slightly.
"Don't pretend. Do you think we don't know that your teacher Ku He doesn't want Xiao En to return to Northern Qi alive? Are you here to kill him?"
Haitang's expression changed slightly, and the scene suddenly fell into a slightly weird silence.
After a moment, Haitang giggled and stuck out her tongue.
"So you all know. If that's the case, then I won't pretend anymore. I did kill him on the orders of the teacher. But since you guys also want to kill him, then I'll let you do it and I'll just watch."
Mei Cheng'an nodded and waved behind him.
Gundam took a step forward.
"grown ups."
Mei Cheng'an motioned for him to come closer and gave him a quick instruction in a very low voice. Gaoda glanced at Haitang, turned around and waved his hand, then turned around and walked quickly towards Sean with a few tiger guards.
Taking advantage of this gap, Mei Cheng'an gently kicked the scabbard that was propped up on the ground, then grabbed the sword in mid-air. His movements were smooth, graceful and natural, as if he did it casually, so it did not attract Haitang's attention. At the same time, he asked casually.
"You don't want to do it yourself. Have you never killed anyone before?"
Haitang glanced at him while holding the basket, then turned her gaze back to Sean and said "hmm" lazily.
“It’s the first time I’ve carried out this kind of mission.”
Mei Cheng'an smiled and nodded.
"Then let's have a fight."
"Okay, huh?"
Haitang looked at him in surprise with her eyes wide open, her mouth slightly open and her tone full of confusion.
"why?"
Mei Cheng'an grasped the hilt of the sword slowly, and gently swung the scabbard with his left hand. Without any effort, the scabbard shot out rapidly. There was a dull bang, and stone chips flew everywhere, and a small cloud of dust was swept away. When the smoke and dust dispersed, the scabbard had been deeply inserted into a piece of medium-sized rock. Mei Cheng'an made a sword flower and swung it to the side.
Haitang glanced towards the source of the muffled sound. There was no panic in her eyes, only suspicion. She quickly stretched out her hand to block Mei Chengan.
"Wait, don't do it yet. If you want to fight with me, there must be a reason. Is it necessary..."
As she spoke, she seemed to realize something and subconsciously glanced at Sean. Then her voice stopped abruptly and she was stunned.
I saw that Gundam and his group had reached Sean's side, but they had no intention of taking action. Instead, they scattered around him, looking at her warily as if they wanted to protect him.
Haitang was a little confused about the situation. She pointed at Mei Chengan and asked in a daze.
"What does it mean?"
Mei Cheng'an smiled without saying anything. Fan Xian in the distance also curled up the corners of his mouth quietly. Sean's eyes were full of amusement and he spoke lightly.
"Haven't you figured it out yet? If they didn't want to kill me, they would have done it a long time ago."
Haitang glanced at him, put down her hand and asked Mei Chengan.
"why?"
Mei Cheng'an was neither anxious nor impatient and spoke with a smile.
"Why should we kill him?"
"..."
Haitang opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment. She felt very depressed. After a moment of depression, she spoke.
"Before you weren't..."
Mei Chengan interrupted directly and said lightly.
"The past is the past, and the present is the present. The reason why a conspiracy is called a conspiracy is that it can only be carried out in secret. It would be fine if you didn't show up, but once you show up, it means that the matter has been brought to the surface. Since the conspiracy has been exposed, it naturally no longer exists. Our responsibility has naturally transformed into protecting every member of the delegation to prevent thieves from destroying the agreement between the two countries. As for what kind of people are thieves..."
After a pause, Mei Cheng'an looked Haitang up and down, then twisted the hilt of the sword in his hand and smiled slightly.
"At this point, whoever wants to kill him is a thief!"
Mei Cheng'an openly told the story of conspiracy and covert scheme, the reason and process of the instant change of mood and stance.
It was ridiculous, absurd, but also very reasonable, so reasonable that Haitang was speechless. "..."
Her mouth opened and closed for a long time, and then two words came out of Haitang's lips, which were her comments on this matter and Mei Chengan.
"ill!"
Looking at Haitang with a drooping mouth and a depressed look on her face, Mei Chengan smiled.
"Now you know why we have to fight, right? You must follow your teacher's orders. If you want to kill him, you have to get past me first. To get past me, you have to fight."
Haitang was very upset. She thought that if she had known it would be like this, she should not have gotten so close. Maybe the teacher's task would have been completed long ago. But now, she had to keep bothering him endlessly. How annoying!
"I don't like fighting."
Mei Chengan was amused by her pouting, like a little girl complaining coquettishly. He looked at her with interest and smiled.
"To be honest, I don't like it either. It's very tiring, but isn't there anything I can do about it? How about you stop doing the mission?"
Haitang immediately shook her head when she heard this.
"That won't work!"
Mei Cheng'an shrugged and twisted the hilt of the sword. The straight sword blade engraved with dark patterns flashed brightly in the morning sun and emitted a faint chill. He pointed his toes and instantly turned into a ball of black light and rushed towards Haitang. The long sword in his hand stabbed out instantly, and the sword's sharp force went straight to Haitang's throat.
The two were not far apart to begin with, and Mei Cheng'an's move was extremely sudden, his figure was as fast as a ghost, and in the blink of an eye, he was already in front of Haitang. Haitang's eyes were fixed, but she was not panicked at all. She stepped lightly on the ground and retreated gracefully. She retreated in time and at a fast speed. Mei Cheng'an's sword was even faster. Looking at the sharp light that was approaching her in an instant, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, and she leaned back in the air to avoid the fatal sword. The sword light pierced her chin less than an inch away, and the airflow attached to the sword scraped her chin It was a little painful. Haitang was extremely surprised and reacted very quickly. She swung her arm, grabbed the handle of the bamboo basket and pushed it upwards, as if she wanted to use the bamboo basket to block the sharp sword light. However, the strange thing was that she actually blocked it. The bamboo basket and the sword light intersected and suddenly made a crisp sound like metal hitting stone, and sparks flew. Mei Chengan exclaimed, increased the coverage of his true energy, and pressed down hard. The bamboo basket finally couldn't hold on, but a second before it broke, Haitang changed the way he exerted force, swung the sword an inch, and dodged the sword that tore the air sideways.
The bamboo basket shattered, and the mushrooms inside were not spared either, being cut into countless pieces by the sword light and scattered all over the sky. Under the rain of mushrooms, the two figures separated and stood face to face again, a dozen feet apart. Neither of them was in a hurry to continue their previous confrontation.
Haitang glanced at the mushroom fragments scattered all over the ground, bouncing back and forth, and felt a pang of pain in her heart, as this was her lunch ration.
Looking at his deeply regretful expression, Mei Cheng'an was stunned for a moment and then asked.
"what happened?"
Upon hearing this, Haitang glared at him.
"You still have the nerve to ask? If you want to fight, just fight. Why did you destroy my mushrooms? How did they offend you?"
"..."
Mei Cheng'an glanced at the mushrooms on the ground and was speechless.
"I thought it was something else. It's just some mushrooms. There are plenty of mushrooms in the dwarf fir forest next to us. I'll pick some and give them back to you later."
Haitang said angrily.
“Can the mushrooms there be the same as the ones I picked?”
Mei Cheng'an was a little confused as this touched upon his blind spot in knowledge.
"Uh…what's the difference?"
Haitang said angrily but seriously.
“The mushrooms I picked taste the best!”
"..." x10
After a moment of silence among the people watching from afar, Fan Xian was the first to burst out laughing, and Sean also curled the corners of his mouth, unable to hold back his laughter.
Mei Cheng'an was a little helpless. The mushrooms on the ground were broken into small pieces, and there was no chance to pick them as they were.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help you. You'll have to go back and pick some more of these mushrooms yourself."
"This kind of mushroom is very rare and hard to find. Otherwise, why do you think I only picked so little?"
"..."
Mei Chengan took a deep breath.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
Haitang stretched her hands behind her back, quietly grasped the handles of the two exquisite short axes that were crossed and stacked in the leather sheath, and spoke in a muffled voice.
"Nothing! I'm just saying this to tell you that I'm going to get serious because I'm a little angry!"
Mei Cheng'an let out a cry of pain and swung the sword by the hilt.
"You should have said it earlier. I'd love to have it."
Before he finished speaking, the two of them attacked at the same time, rushing towards each other at high speed, almost becoming two phantoms, and collided with each other in an instant. There was a loud bang, and Haitang's two axes crossed and raised up to block the lightning-fast sword, sparks flying everywhere.
Mei Cheng'an's eyes flashed, and his sword moves suddenly changed. In an instant, heavy sword shadows attacked Haitang like a violent storm. Haitang stepped lightly, his body was agile, and he swung his two axes tightly, either chopping or slashing. Each move carried a thousand pounds of force, and collided violently with the sword shadows in the sky, and the sound of metal clashing was endless.
In the fierce battle, Mei Cheng'an spotted a flaw in Haitang and stabbed her ribs with his long sword like a poisonous snake out of a hole. Haitang reacted extremely quickly, dodged to the side, and swept out with an axe at the same time. Seeing this, Mei Cheng'an tapped his toes and suddenly jumped back a few feet to avoid the fierce attack. Haitang took advantage of the situation and leaped up, raising both axes high, drawing an arc in the air, and suddenly chopped down with a whistling sound. Mei Cheng'an blocked with his sword, but his arm was numb from the tremendous force. Fortunately, the sword body was made of special material and was extremely flexible, which resolved a lot of the huge impact force. Mei Cheng'an swung the sword, and although he did not completely swing away the axe blade, he also blocked its offensive. Then he floated and dodged to the side to temporarily avoid the edge. He had to avoid it. Although Haitang was not very old, her strength was amazing, even divine power. He couldn't withstand it, really couldn't withstand it, as could be seen from the huge rock that was shattered into pieces by her axe after he dodged.
Mei Cheng'an, secretly frightened, clicked his tongue, shook his head, and raised his sword to meet Haitang who was rushing towards him. The sword shadow and the axe light intertwined again, and the two of them fought back and forth. In a blink of an eye, dozens of rounds had passed. Countless stones in the stone forest suffered the damage, and broken stones flew everywhere, raising dust. The huge rocks that were fortunately preserved were also covered with scars and cracks due to the powerful energy stimulated by the two men. The destructive power was astonishing.
Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss... seven consecutive sounds of breaking wind rang out in a very orderly manner. Just above a meadow, the morning breeze seemed to be cut into countless fragments by the sharp sword light of the long sword. The fragments of true energy flew like countless broken blades and enveloped Haitang's little head.
Mei Cheng'an was extremely satisfied with his seven-hit lightning-fast combo. Facing the most outstanding young man in the world, after a fierce battle, his sword skills, which had not improved for a long time, finally made a new breakthrough. In a breath, he thrust out these extremely dazzling swords, like seven silver lotus flowers about to bloom, blooming one after another beside Haitang's hair.
Haitang's head was naturally fine, if the hairband that was blown away and the few strands of hair that were cut off were not counted.
Mei Cheng'an put away his sword and turned around, reaching out to stop Haitang, who was rushing towards him in anger with two pocket-sized Xuanhua axes in her hands.
"Stop! No more fighting!"
Haitang paused and said angrily.
"Why do you say you don't want to fight?"
Mei Chengan looked at her with a strange expression and wanted to complain.
If she really wanted to continue beating her, she shouldn't have been so obedient and stopped. If she didn't want to continue, why would she ask this? So, does she want to continue beating her or not?
Of course, he only dared to ask this in his heart, because the girl opposite had her hairband pulled off, causing her long, thick black hair to flow down her shoulders and face like a waterfall. Her country girl temperament was gone, and her face was puffed up like a bun, like the Queen Mother of the West. She was so angry that she was about to explode, and he didn't dare to add fuel to the fire.
After secretly looking at Haitang with admiration, he asked curiously.
"Why do you feel angrier than before?"
Haitang looked at him with her teeth gnashing. Since she became an apprentice, she had fought countless masters, but had never encountered such a weird opponent. Obviously, he was only at the beginning of the ninth rank, but with his swift sword and ghostly body movements, she, a ninth rank master, could not do anything to him for a while. Of course, she believed that if she was given more time, she would be able to defeat this man, but none of this mattered. What mattered was that this bastard in front of her was not the strongest among all the people she had fought, but he was the one who made her the most embarrassed!
"hair!"
Mei Cheng'an was stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter. He moved and floated to the battlefield where the two had just been. He looked around, took a few steps to the side, bent down to pick up a hairband from the ground that had only a few cuts on it but was not broken. He turned and walked towards Haitang, and handed the hairband to her when he got in front of her.
"Sorry, it was an unintentional mistake. Your hair is thick and black, so it's actually totally unnoticeable if there are a few missing strands."
Haitang glanced at the hairband in Mei Chengan's hand, and with a swish, she inserted the two short axes into the holsters on her back. She angrily pulled the hairband into her hand and tied up her hair directly, rolling her eyes and speaking unhappily while tying it.
"How many strands are those? Those are strands! Do you know how important a few strands of hair are to a woman?"
"Forehead…"
Mei Chengan scratched his head.
"Sorry, sorry. My bad."
Seeing that he admitted his mistake with a good attitude and apologized in a timely manner, Haitang's anger dissipated a lot. She tied her hair very skillfully and quickly, and quickly tied her hair. At the same time, the light gradually faded and she returned to her previous appearance as a village girl.
Haitang used her fingers to fiddle with the bangs on both sides of her forehead, then touched them carefully and asked about Mei Chengan.
"Really can't tell?"
Mei Cheng'an observed it carefully and shook his head.
"I really can't tell, it's exactly the same as before!"
Hearing his sincere tone, Haitang said "oh" and felt relieved. She flicked her bangs with her fingers and waved her hand carelessly.
"Okay, I won't bother with you about this."
Mei Chengan smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"Miss Duoduo is generous."
Haitang snorted and pinched her waist.
"That's right! By the way, you just said you didn't want to fight anymore. Did you change your mind and plan to kill Sean?"
Mei Chengan shook his head.
"That's not it."
Haitang was stunned for a moment, then silently lowered her hands, as if she was about to reach behind her to get a weapon and start fighting in the next second.
"Then why don't you fight?"
The reason why Mei Cheng'an suddenly didn't want to continue fighting was actually very simple. First, he had gained some success in this battle with Haitang. Second, since Haitang had already arrived, Yan Xiaoyi and Shangshan Hu must be here soon. Those two were not as easy to talk to as Haitang. He had to keep enough strength to deal with them, and it was right to stop while his true energy was not consumed too much.
Turning his head to glance at Fan Xian and Xiao En in the distance, as the two of them had been moving around in the city during the battle just now, they were now getting farther and farther away from that place. Mei Cheng'an retracted his gaze and waved to Haitang.
"Come on, let's go over there first, and I'll explain it to you slowly on the way."
Having said that, without waiting for a response, he raised his sword loosely and walked slowly towards that direction with the gait of a dragon or a tiger.
Haitang looked at his handsome back and felt that this man was incomprehensible. The most important thing was that he just turned his back to her. Wasn't he afraid that she would suddenly attack him from behind?
I don't know him well, why does he trust me? Or is he so confident that he doesn't take me seriously at all, thinking that even if she launches a surprise attack, he can easily deal with it?
Haitang's mind raced as she became more and more confused the more she thought about it, so she simply stopped thinking about it. She was a person who was too lazy to use her brain, so she came to a simple and rough conclusion: this person was mentally ill!
After thinking about it, Haitang felt refreshed immediately. She smiled not so sweetly and followed him.
……
"Hiss~ What's going on with this guy? It's fine that he stopped fighting and suddenly started chatting with the girl, but now he wants to bring her over here. What does that mean?"
Looking at the two people walking towards them from a distance, Fan Xian put down his arms and muttered to himself with a puzzled look on his face.
……
(End of this chapter)
