This is a key question. If Ding Qi and Ye Xing are half of the tired people, and the two of them add up to the whole, then now the eight descendants of the rivers and lakes have gathered, but how long can everyone gather here?

Zhu Shanxian: "It's okay for me, just live here." ”

Ye Xing: "Mr. Fan and I are in Jinghu City, and we can come here every day." ”

Dingzi: "It's okay with me. ”

Tan Hanchuan: "I took a three-month leave. Even after three months, you can come here on weekends or holidays, anyway, it will only take two hours by high-speed rail, and Jinghu South Station is very close to here. If you don't have to worry about it, choose the right train number, in fact, you can come over at night on weekdays. ”

Shannie whispered, "It's May, I have to go back for two weeks at the end of June, and I'm free for the next two months, and there will be other things in early September." It only takes an hour and a half to take the high-speed train from me to Jinghu South Station, according to Mr. Tan, even if you go back to the holidays, you can come over, and you can rush to it if you have something to do. ”

As soon as he heard this, Ding Qi knew that she was a college student, and she was not yet in the fourth grade. She usually skips classes, but she has to go back to her exams at the end of the semester, and the next thing is the summer vacation, which will not start until the beginning of September. Ding Qi heard it, and it is estimated that everyone present heard it, but they all tacitly did not say it.

Shi Buquan: "It's the same wherever I work, don't think about me." ”

Xian Hao: "Me too, I usually work from home, and I only occasionally go out for something, so it doesn't matter if I stay here." ”

Ye Xing asked, "What does Senior Sister Xian do?" ”

Xian Hao: "I'm a choreographer. ”

Ding Qi also asked with interest: "Which choreographer?"

Xian Hao: "I do the choreographing and directing of film and television dramas and stage plays. ”

Ye Xing: "Instead of being a behind-the-scenes choreographer, Senior Sister Xian should be a star on stage, and she will definitely become a superstar!"

Xian Hao didn't answer, and everyone looked at Zhuang Mengzhou again. Zhuang Mengzhou smiled: "I am a freelancer, I come and go freely, and I don't have to think about my time." ”

Everyone reached an agreement on this important issue, so that their hearts were much calmer, and they were no longer as anxious as before. Since Xiaojing Lake can be opened, then find a way to open it, things have to come step by step, and the clues may be in the process. If according to Shi Buquan's original idea, then the next step is to wait for Shang Ni to "see" Xiaojing Lake.

Shang Ni listened to Tan Hanchuan's advice and didn't go to the backyard to sit at the door all day. After dinner that day, the backyard door position was first occupied by Zhu Shanxian, and then by Fan Yang. The scale of Xiaojing Lake is huge, and it seems that people will never get tired of seeing it. The more they were like this, the more itchy Ye Xing's heart, who couldn't see Xiaojing Lake, became, as if a cat was scratching. Of course, Ding Qi felt this way, but he tried to hold back.

Zhu Shanxian, Tan Hanchuan, Fan Yang, and Shi Buquan included Xian Hao, they had seen Xiaojing Lake early in the morning, so why did they have to go to see it over and over again? According to the descriptions of several people, the location where the gate leads to Xiaojing Lake is high in the mountain, and the clouds seem to be floating on the door beam, and the Liang Yunguan of that year may be named after this.

The drifting clouds obscure the scenery in the distance, and the extent of the small mirror lake is extremely vast, so you can see a different scenery every time. On the other hand, since no one knows how to enter Xiaojing Lake, you may be able to discover some mysteries in the process of watching, and perhaps you can find clues by looking at them.

A more important reason is based on a hypothesis put forward by Tinzi, or a summary of the observed phenomena made by Tinzi. Ding Qi himself couldn't see Xiaojing Lake, he was observing these people who had already seen Xiaojing Lake.

Ding Qi asked everyone, since you have discovered Xiaojing Lake, when you go to the gate of the backyard again, can you see it at a glance? The answer is not like this, there is still a process, to borrow Zhuang Mengzhou's words, this is a process of "entry". And Tintzi concludes from a professional point of view that this is like the process of entering a certain state, similar to hypnosis.

It takes a while for everyone to stand at the door of the backyard to be able to see Xiaojing Lake, more or less, the length is different, sometimes deliberately to see, but it is not easy to enter the state, and it is not visible for a long time, which is first summarized by Fan Yang.

So Ding Qi's question is: Can you see it in an instant? Just like the scenery that really exists in this world, push open the door and look up, it is the Little Mirror Lake. This question also contains an assumption, that is, everyone must reach this state in order to meet the conditions for opening Xiaojing Lake. Everyone thinks so, and now they are practicing.

Ding Qi still uses the hypnosis he is familiar with as an analogy, and there are instantaneous hypnosis techniques in actual operation, but there are some preconditions for instantaneous hypnosis to succeed. For these masters of the rivers and lakes, the preconditions are actually met, that is, they can already see Xiaojing Lake. The analogy is just an analogy, and the situation in front of them has long gone far beyond the scope of ordinary hypnosis, but how each of them performs the eight secret arts.

In fact, Ding Qi has a second question, that is, "Can you people see Xiaojing Lake together without being disturbed?" Now they all take turns to look at the door one by one, trying to avoid disturbing each other. However, according to Shi Buquan's idea, collecting the heirs of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes is the key to opening the world outside the square, so everyone needs to be in the same state.

But Ding Qi didn't ask this question, let's solve the previous question first.

It was getting late, and Zhuang Mengzhou had already gone back to the hotel to rest. But Fan Yang hasn't left yet, still standing at the door of the backyard, with a stick in his left hand and a bowl in his right hand. At first, it was just Shi Buquan deliberately damaging him, but later, Fan Yang himself felt that he could try it like this.

Ye Xing didn't leave, sitting in the living room and wasting time with his mobile phone, lest he miss something. Ding Qi may also have this mentality subconsciously, so he also took his laptop to the living room and was sorting out the medical records. Shang Ni walked down from the upper floor, came to Ding Qi's side and whispered, "Teacher Ding, I'm sorry to disturb you." ”

Ding Qi closed the computer and said, "You're welcome, you didn't disturb me, is there anything wrong?"

Shannie said a little hesitantly, "That's the case, I want to talk to you alone." ”

Dingzi: "Where are we going to talk?"

At this time, Shi Buquan pushed open the door of the study and said: "You can go to the study to talk, it's quiet and convenient, I'll give up the place." ”

What is this kid cat doing in the house? Shanny didn't speak loudly, he heard it. Ding Qi and Shang Ni went into the study, this is where Shi Buquan lives now, but this otaku is not sloppy, the house is very tidy, there are no pillows and quilts on the sofa, and the sundries are stuffed into the bookcase.

Zhu Shanxian didn't live here for a long time before, and there were bookcases with a whole wall in the house, but there were not many books, and Shi Buquan was used as a wardrobe and utility cabinet. Ding Qi beckoned Shang Ni to sit down and said, "Senior Sister Shang Ni, why do you think of wanting to talk to me alone?" He is also called Senior Sister Shang Ni, he is called Shun Kou with everyone, maybe subconsciously he also wants to think of himself as a person in the eight sects of the rivers and lakes.

Shang Ni replied very sincerely, "Sister Xian Hao asked me to ask you for advice. She said you're different from the rest of the people here, and sometimes a lot of things may be clear to bystanders. Later, I asked Mr. Zhuang privately why they could see it and I couldn't? Mr. Zhuang mysteriously told me that I had done one less thing than them, and asked me to go back and think about it myself—what was it?

I thought about it all night, and I thought about a lot of things, but I didn't think it was right. I just remembered that I just hadn't talked to Mr. Ding alone, and they all seemed to do. ”

What is the answer? But when Ding Qi thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case. Zhuang Mengzhou clearly instructed Shang Ni to come to Ding Qi, but he didn't say it directly, but let her think about it herself. Ding Qi has his own professional way of thinking, so he naturally started from Zhuang Mengzhou's point of view, wondering why he was pointing to Shang Ni like this, and he actually figured out the meaning.

If you want to see Xiaojing Lake, do you need to use the eight secret techniques of the rivers and lakes? The answer is not necessarily! Furthermore, it is not necessary to inherit any secret technique! For example, do you need to use the secret technique of the book? Except for Shi Buquan, no one else has used the microtechnique, but they have also discovered Xiaojing Lake. The same is true for the other mystical arts.

The secrets of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, no matter how much Ding Qi knows, but now he has heard of them, namely: the Shocking Door Spirit Rhinoceros Technique, the Tired Gate Observation Technique, the Floating Door Concealment Technique, the Book Gate Entry Technique, the Wind Gate Heart Plate Technique, the Fire Gate Furnace Ding Technique, the Juemen Wangqi Technique, and the Yao Men Xing Divine Technique.

These eight secret legends are not used on the occasion of discovering the secret realm outside the square, but they can be used to see the small mirror lake, and it can only be said that there is some kind of similarity in them.

As long as you find the similarities in them, you will also solve the key to the problem, and the eight secret techniques have their own emphasis, and they may all contain some kind of method of getting started. At present, I don't know where the key is, but judging from the summary of the phenomenon, all the people who can see Xiaojinghu have indeed talked to Ding Qi alone, this is probably the only clue, Zhuang Mengzhou is right!

So who is Ding Qi? He's a psychiatrist! Thinking of this, Ding Qi seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he suddenly found a feeling. That's right, psychologists do what psychologists should do, treat these masters as help-seekers or patients, and try to solve their problems and troubles.

When Ding Qi was a psychological counselor, there were all kinds of people, some people may be very big, and some people may have outstanding achievements in some fields, but in the psychological counseling room, they are all just help-seekers, and now the objects are just the heirs of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes. With this in mind, Ding Qi has also regained his form, so let's start with the most routine intake talks......

"Shanny, before you came here, why did you call a tricycle and go around the vicinity of Nanlan Mountain Forest Park for more than five hours?" was the guiding topic that Ding Qi asked.

Shang Ni replied: "Didn't I already say it, as a descendant of the Jianghu Fengmen, of course you have to investigate the topography of the mountains and rivers when you come here. There are heaven, earth, mountains and rivers in the heart, and then the heart can be operated. ”

From the perspective of a psychological counselor, Ding Qi felt that he was about to grasp the crux of the problem, and pointed to the bookcase and said: "Since you already have a Nanlan Mountain in your heart, then draw it out for me to see." It doesn't need to be complicated, just sketch out the outline. ”

Shang Ni sat down in front of the bookcase and drew a picture, others painted Xiaojing Lake here, but Ding Qi asked her to paint Nanlan Mountain here. It took Shannie less than two minutes to finish, and the paper was a series of arcs that arched upward, representing the peaks of the mountains. Ding Qi couldn't help but nod again and again, this little girl is indeed very skilled, and those more than five hours were not in vain.

If a different person may not be able to understand what is on this map, but Ding Qi has repeatedly studied the high-definition topographic map and satellite map of Nanlan Mountain, and can see that this is the most concise schematic of Nanlan Mountain Forest Park, the size and location of each mountain peak are marked very accurately, if there is no clear three-dimensional model in his mind, it is categorically impossible to draw casually.

Ding Qi pointed to the picture and said, "We may have found the problem." You already have a Nanlan Mountain in your heart, and no matter how you move your heart plate, what you see is still Nanlan Mountain. If you don't look at Xiaojinghu at all, if the direction is wrong, no matter how well you do it, the more outrageous it may be. ”

Shanny blinked and said, "Oh, that seems to be the case!

Ding Qi: "Do you feel that there is another scenery outside the door?"

Shanny: "Yes, but it feels like it's just a little bit closer, no matter how much I try to do it, I can't see it. ”

Ding Qi thought for a while and said, "I don't know how the heart plate works, but I can make a suggestion." So, let's start with a small goal. He tore up the piece of paper in his hand, and then said: "What you want to see is no longer Nanlan Mountain, and don't even deliberately run the heart plate, just to experience the state that you feel." If you use the secret technique of the air gate, then observe the scenery outside the door that you can't see. ”

Shannie frowned, "How do you do this?"

Ding Qi: "It's up to you how to do it, our little goal is to start by tearing off this piece of paper...... At this point, the paper has been torn into shreds and thrown into the wastebasket by Ding Qi.

Shi Buquan was sitting in the living room waiting, and when he saw that Ding Qi and Shang Ni had already come out, he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Little junior sister, do you have a harvest?"

Shang Ni nodded and said, "I kind of understand, when Fan Yang leaves, I'll try it." ”

Shi Buquan hurriedly dissuaded: "Senior Brother Tan told you to have a good rest, you can't try again today, wait until you have a thorough rest in two days." ”

Ding Qi also persuaded: "Don't worry, you have to rest first." ”

In a blink of an eye, it was the weekend again, Zhu Shanxian went to buy vegetables early in the morning, and Shang Ni had to follow, saying that she wanted to inspect the local people. As soon as the two left, Shi Buquan carried out the large dining table in the dining room and actually carried it up the stairs. Tan Hanchuan and Ding Qi hurried over to help and asked him what he was doing?

Shi Buquan replied: "Yesterday, Senior Sister Shang Ni said that it was comfortable to eat on the terrace on the second floor, but the table was a little crowded because it was small, so I replaced the big table." ”

Are you really going to use the terrace as a restaurant?, "What if it rains?"

Shi Buquan: "I'll move that table to the dining room, and if it rains today, I'll temporarily squeeze in the first floor to eat." Tomorrow will be fine, I'll go back and buy a sunshade awning online and it will arrive tomorrow. ”

The large umbrella on the terrace could only cover two rattan chairs, but not a large dining table. Shi Buquan has already taken a fancy to a steel frame-supported, UV-proof awning on the Internet, which is like a four-corner pavilion.

Ding Qi said: "Senior Sister Shangni said something, you are so concerned. Since you want to buy a gazebo online, why don't you buy another desk and install it. There is no desk in Xian Hao's house, and it is very inconvenient to work. ”

"Got it, let's do it together!" As he spoke, Shi Buquan carried down the black walnut table that had been placed on the terrace again, and he didn't want to toss.

Ding Qi whispered to Tan Hanchuan: "Ah Quan likes Shang Ni's type, I have seen this kid a little wrong in the past two days, it turns out that he is moving his heart." ”

Tan Hanchuan said with a smile: "It's the age of the object, my fair lady, good gentleman, it's normal!

Ding Qi was stunned and asked rhetorically, "What's wrong with me?"

Tan Hanchuan smiled but did not speak.

After they moved the table and sat in the hall to rest for a while, Xian Hao heard the movement and came out with a laptop, and specially said thank you, it should have heard the words that Fang had just added a desk to her room. While talking, Zhu Shanxian and Shang Ni also came back from shopping, put the things in the kitchen first, and everyone sat down to drink tea together, Fan Yang, Ye Xing, and Zhuang Mengzhou all arrived one after another.

We made an appointment last weekend to get together this weekend, but we actually got together on Wednesday. As soon as the tea was brewed, Ding Qi's phone rang, and when he heard it, it was a familiar female voice, and it was Liu Guonan calling.