Ye Qian still regretted it a little after coming back from the neighboring house, she didn't know why she had to die at that time and choked with Song Yu, but now it's good, Song Yu's belongings she checked one by one and there was no trace of fragments, who knows if he hid the objects attached to the fragments elsewhere or gave them to others, promising never to see them again, but don't ask him how she wants to find the fragments? Lying on the couch with her eyes open, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, when did she become so naïve that she had to see it like a child? I thumped my head in distress, this is good, what should I do, how can I talk to the master? Ye Qian struggled for a long time, and didn't know when he fell asleep......

On the tenth day, Qingyin really returned as scheduled, and Ye Qian got up in the morning to freshen up and go out to see Qingyin sitting alone in the pavilion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The apricot blossoms by the pond, half pink and half white, are silent and silent. The clear water surrounds the apricot tree, the petals by the pool, and the shadow of the flowers in the water, the two are intertwined, each showing its own beauty. In the pavilion not far from the water's edge, there is a pineapple wood chessboard on the polished and smooth stone in the middle of the pavilion, and the jade chess pieces on the chessboard are staggered in black and white. Looking closely at the chess game, the black and white seem to be evenly matched and have entered a stalemate, but in fact, they contain each other, killing opportunities, if they are the masters of the game, only one son can turn the situation around. In other words, once success or failure is determined, whoever gets the first opportunity in black and white will be the winner. Qingyin sat aside, but he didn't fall for a long time, so he simply let the chess game freeze there. Dressed in white, he sat leisurely in the pavilion, his head slightly bowed, his side face was as flawless as jade, and a small part of his long black luster was tied up by a silver-white hairband, and the rest was scattered to his waist. Frowning slightly, his beautiful and slender fingers carefully selected the bamboo rice in the celadon bowl, and threw the shriveled and incomplete particles into the other empty bowl.

"Huh? The old immortal is back?! ”

Ye Qian was full of joy when he saw Qingyin, deliberately took a long detour, went around behind him, and crept over while tiptoeing over as he signaled to rush over. Standing behind Qingyin, he covered his mouth and smiled secretly, then deliberately raised his voice and suddenly shouted: "...... Shi"

"Shallow, and naughty." The voices of the two rose almost at the same time, but Qingyin's light and breezy voice obviously overshadowed Ye Qian's voice.

Ye Qian was really taken aback, her words were choked, her cheeks were puffed out, and she was a little lost, she was obviously very cautious, how could she be found again? He walked to the opposite side of Qingyin and sat down, and asked thoughtlessly, "Master, how do you know it's me?" ”

Qingyin couldn't help laughing, looked at her with a light smile, and asked rhetorically, "Is there a third person here?" ”

Ye Qian was stunned, she obviously asked how Qingyin found her standing behind her, but Qingyin was deliberately answering the question, but she didn't mind, nodded with a smile, held her cheeks with both hands, and looked at the celadon cup in Qingyin's hand, "Master, what is that?" ”

"Bamboo rice." Qingyin said as he handed the celadon bowl to Ye Qian.

Cheng Huang listened to the conversation between Qingyin and Ye Qian on the side, how awkward it sounded, tilted his head and thought about it, but there was nothing wrong, he was indeed not human. Hearing Qingyin mention bamboo rice, Chenghuang suddenly pricked up his ears full of curiosity, his eyes moved from Qingyin's hand to Ye Qian's hand, and he couldn't see the things in the celadon bowl at all, he jumped anxiously and jumped directly onto the chessboard, and suddenly messed up the chess game, and the black and white children were smashed by him a lot.

Ye Qian was taken aback by Chenghuang, afraid of being hit by a chess piece, she quickly turned around and properly protected the celadon bowl containing bamboo rice in her arms. However, the smashed chess pieces did not hit the ground, but were thrown into the wooden box containing the chess pieces in black and white, leaving a big fat cat on the chessboard. Ye Qian breathed a long sigh of relief, and then slowly turned around, she didn't feel strange when she saw too many things.

Legend has it that the phoenix does not inhabit the sycamore, and does not eat the bamboo, but this bamboo rice looks no different from ordinary rice. Ye Qian put the celadon cup on the chessboard, put one close to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, there was a faint fragrance, peeled off the skin and stuffed it directly into his mouth and chewed it, it was astringent and dry, and he quickly spit it out, "Phew, phew!" It's unpalatable! ”

Cheng Huang stretched out his tongue and licked his pink little nose, stared at Ye Qian with round eyes, and then roared: "Stupid, it will be delicious when it is cooked!" ”

"But aren't all phoenixes eaten raw?"

“…… They are as stupid as you, no, no, they are confused by you, why should they compare with the phoenix, you are not of the same race! ”

Qingyin looked at Ye Qian and Chenghuang, who were arguing constantly, angry and funny, and sighed helplessly. "Bamboo will only bloom every 100 years, and after the flowers bloom, they will bear bamboo rice, which is the way that bamboo continues to descendants, and it is precious to eat, and it is inevitable that it is a pity to eat it."

Cheng Huangcai doesn't care if it's precious or not, he only cares about whether it's delicious or not, since Qingyin doesn't eat it, he doesn't care, anyway, Xiao Yezi said it's not delicious. Turning his head and jumping off the chessboard, he swaggered out of the pavilion, he had to steal the jade pendant for the small dried fish.

"Does Master want to plant it?"

Qingyin bowed slightly, "Planted in the open space behind the house." ”

Ye Qian blinked, and then remembered that she had talked to Qingyin about being worried and didn't know what to plant in the clearing, but today Qingyin made up her mind for her, and suddenly felt warm and moved, and her bright eyes were shining, and she murmured: "It turns out that Master still remembers." ”

Qingyin reached out and touched her head, faintly feeling a little sorry and unbearable, "Master will naturally remember." After a pause, he said again: "But at least twenty years later, bamboo shoots will grow, and the master will take you back to Yingdu in the future." ”

Ye Qian lowered his head and bit his lip, silent, his heart was mixed, and there were tears in his eyes.

Qingyin was slightly stunned, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Master, why are you so good to me?"

The smile froze, and the color of his eyes gradually became darker, and in an instant, he returned to a light breeze, and Qingyin smiled lightly and did not answer. Ye Qian hung his head and said, "Master, I'm sorry, I seem to have done something wrong......

"Doing something wrong?" Looking at Ye Qiandai's eyebrows locked and her face serious, Qingyin's eyebrows were slightly relaxed, and she looked at her with a light smile: "Tell Master, did you break the tea cup, or accidentally burned the kitchen, or torn up a few bamboo slips?" ”

Hearing Qingyin say this, Ye Qian couldn't help but think of when she was a child, she really got into trouble, and said with a slight smile: "Master, that's a mistake I only made when I was a child...... pursed her lips, and her smile gradually froze, Ye Qian didn't know how to face Qingyin's expectant gaze because of guilt in her heart, lowered her head, and choked up a little: "Although I know that the fragment is on Song Yu's body, I can't find it...... Master, I'm sorry! Biting his lip, there were tears glistening in his eyes.

"Shallow, that's not your fault." Qingyin sighed lightly, couldn't bear it, frowned and reached out to touch Ye Qian's head, comforting her: "You are just doing the master a favor, and finding the fragments is not a responsibility you have to bear, there is no need to have such a big pressure." ”

Hearing Ye Qian say this at this time, Qingyin realized that he had invisibly put so much pressure on her. In the five years since they left Jimo City, they have been to many places, but they have never carefully appreciated the scenery and customs along the way. Ye Qian once said that her life was extended, and she would see many people and things, but Qingyin always imprisoned her by her side in the name of protecting her, and her life seemed to be the only goal of life from the moment she left Jimo City was to find and collect the fragments.

Ye Qian looked up at Qingyin, his bright eyes were as clear as washing, "But hasn't Master always hoped to resurrect your friend?" ”

"That's true." Qingyin smiled bitterly, his anxious mentality also imperceptibly affected Ye Qian, in this life he only lived for responsibility and commitment, and he already owed her a lot, how could he bear to let her go his old path again? I took a deep breath, smiled warmly, but my deep eyes seemed to hide infinite secrets, revealing helplessness and sadness: "I have searched for two thousand years, and there is no trace of the Six Realms, and then even I began to suspect that it was just a legend, and the hope was almost slim. After a brief pause, he continued: "If it weren't for that momentary kindness that saved you, maybe I would not have been able to collect all the pieces with all my life's strength." ”

I had never heard Qingyin say these words, and today he seemed to be different from the past as gentle and peaceful, indifferent and free, even Ye Qian could feel the fluctuations of his emotions and the faint sadness that lingered around him. In the ten days since he left, what happened to Master and who he has met? After many years of tacit understanding, she never asked more, at this time Ye Qian pursed her lips, a little worried, and couldn't help asking, "Master, ...... you Where did you go in the days you left? ”

Qingyin smiled but did not answer, gently flicked his sleeves, and the chessboard in front of him disappeared into the streamer, he looked at it in a daze for a while, and then asked her: "Shallow, if you know that you will experience the pain of parting, are you still willing to get along with others?" ”

Ye Qian was slightly stunned, and also understood what Qingyin was asking, because she would not grow up or get old, so she could not have deep friendships with people, and at most in three or four years, she would need to change to a strange place where no one knew her to start her life again. And every parting is like a wound in the heart, she longs for contact with people but is afraid of parting after deep friendship.

Ye Qian blinked, casually hiding the loneliness in his eyes, and grinned: "Is Master confused?" In the human world, how could I not be in contact with people, and I just experienced a little more than ordinary people, and it was not a big deal. ”

Ye Qian didn't think it was big or small, Qingyin didn't mind, and continued to ask: "Now, do you still think that immortality is a good thing?" ”

"Of course it's a good thing!" Ye Qian paused for a moment before replying, suddenly as if he had thought of something, looked at Qingyin fixedly, looked at him with an unbelievable expression, and asked, "Master, you won't ask me to marry again, will you?" ”

Seeing that Qingyin frowned and didn't refute, Ye Qian thought that he seemed to have guessed correctly, let out a long sigh, and said innocently: "Master! Can we not bring this up and argue about it every few years? I don't want to get married, I want to always be by my side with Master and Rhubarb, I used to be, and I will always be! Ye Qian was a little helpless, she was obviously admitting her mistake, why did it later become a question of discussing whether she wanted to marry or not? She really couldn't guess Master's thoughts!

Qingyin raised her eyes and stared at Ye Qian's eyes, as if she remembered the distant past through her eyes, as if she was looking for a swimming fish at the bottom of the clear spring in the bay. After a long time, he sighed lightly, and swallowed back the words to his mouth, he can be so indifferent that he ignores the life and death of others, but he is not a ruthless person after all, and he can do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. got up, paced to Ye Qian's side, patted her shoulder gently, and said gently: "That's it, since you can't choose, then do whatever you want, as for the result...... Go with the flow! Obviously he was talking to Ye Qian, but it was more like saying it to himself, and then he turned around and walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest in the backyard, and his tall and jade back added a little helplessness and sadness.

Qingyin has never left Yaqu since he came back, as he said at the time, but no one knows where he went or what he did when he left. However, for Ye Qian, the days seem to be back to the way they were in Jimo City, they no longer have to run around to find fragments, they can slow down and enjoy the time quietly.