12. Chapter 12
When Su Xian and Yaolan were about to return to the house, Xiao Chu was still sitting at the only table in the room, slightly lowering his eyes, quiet and peaceful.
Yaolan looked at this situation and couldn't help laughing: "His docile and wooden appearance really looks like a bride who is waiting for her husband to return home." ”
Su Xian looked at her smile and guessed her thoughts in his heart.
Sure enough, Yao Lan shook her head and made a few strange looks: "When was you in the Xuanyue Sect, when did you see Chu Qingjiu so well-behaved?" ”
"He's not Chu Qingjiu." Su Xian corrected Xiao Lan's thoughts, sat down in front of Xiao Chu, they had already eaten before they came back, but they brought some back, and then put the food in front of Xiao Chu, and said to Xiao Chu: "Eat it while it's hot." ”
Xiao Chu obediently buried his head in eating, his eating movements were also very meticulous, chewing and swallowing slowly, if it weren't for the emptiness in his eyes, he looked like a son of a beautiful family.
Yao Lan couldn't help but be stunned: "He still needs to eat?" Do you really raise him like a living man? ”
"What's the difference between Xiao Chu and a living person?" Su Xian replied casually.
Yaolan didn't speak, she knew that Su Xian saw that she had something in her heart and specially talked to her, but there were some things that she would rather die than hide in her heart. She sighed, cleaned herself up and collapsed on her little bed, put her head in the quilt and whispered, "Goddess." ”
Su Xian's movements were slow, and he looked at her and said, "This title should be changed." ”
"It didn't change all of a sudden." Yaolan also knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly changed her words, "Su Xian, you said that if you really like someone, and in the end you find out that person has been lying to you and using you, what will you do?" ”
Su Xian understood it immediately, and suddenly said, "Shu Wuzhi took advantage of you? Or are you taking advantage of Shu ignorance? ”
Yaolan opened her mouth, her face suddenly became wonderful, she waved her hand and was ashamed and annoyed: "No, no, no, how can you say it directly, can't you pretend not to understand!" ”
Su Xian is as good as a stream: "Your friend? ”
Yao Lan was stunned again: "What? ”
Su Xian answered seriously: "Aren't you talking about your friend's business?" ”
"......" Xiaolan followed her seriously, sat in front of Su Xian, and whispered, "You haven't answered me yet, if it were you, you were used by someone you liked, what would you do?" ”
Su Xian stared at Xiaolan tightly, as if she was thinking seriously, Xiaolan looked at her nervously, her hands were gently tugging under her robe, as if she was really asking about herself. After a while, Su Xian said: "I think that if your deceived friend really likes someone, he should be able to see whether that person is true or false." ”
"If he can't see it, it can only mean that he doesn't know each other well enough and doesn't like each other enough."
Yao Lan frowned slightly, hearing Su Xian's words, she seemed to think of something, but the sorrow between her eyebrows became even stronger.
Su Xian raised his hand and gently rubbed the wrinkle between Xiao Lan's eyebrows.
Xiaolan looked at her blankly.
Su Xian couldn't help laughing: "I haven't been in love with anyone, and it's just speculation to say so much, if you really can't let go of your heart, you might as well try it." ”
"That's good." Yao Lan nodded lightly, "I'll go...... I'll try it for my friend. ”
Su Xian responded, and in a blink of an eye, all the food in Xiao Chu's bowl had been eaten, but Su Xian didn't stop him, and he still acted like that. Su Xian hurriedly stopped, and then wiped Xiao Chu's face and hands to tidy up his clothes. The sky darkened, Xiaolan looked at Su Xian and the others for a while, and then went back to the bed and lay down, but she couldn't sleep for a while, and after thinking about it, she finally couldn't help but stop Su Xian and said, "Su Xian." ”
"Huh?" Su Xian sorted out the plum blossoms in the vase and responded in a low voice.
The candles in the room were dim, and through the dim light, Yao Lan said in a low voice: "Will you go back?" ”
"Where to go back? Xuanyue Sect? Su Xian said lightly, "No." ”
Two words, it cut off the next qiē dialogue......
The next day, Xiaolan didn't go to Zhimingzong with Su Xian, she said that she still had some things to do, so she buried herself in the quilt, Su Xian didn't say much, put on a mask for Xiao Chu, and led him to the main hall of Zhimingzong.
It was only when she arrived at Zhiming Sect that she found that only Shu Wuzhi was waiting in the hall, and the rest of the people didn't know where they went.
Shu Wuzhi drank wine to himself, heard footsteps, lifted his eyelids and looked at her, and he didn't mean to get up, just pointed to the chair in front of him and said, "Sit." ”
Su Xian was also not polite, Shu Wuzhi prepared two chairs, and it happened that she and Xiao Chu sat alone.
Shu Wuzhi raised his head and poured a sip of wine, and he didn't know if he was drinking too quickly or what, so he couldn't help choking and coughed a few times. Su Xian watched his movements, and persuaded in a low voice: "Master, drink slowly." ”
Shu Wuzhi laughed strangely, looked at her and said, "Shouldn't you persuade me not to drink?" ”
"Wine is your life, I don't dare to persuade you not to die." Su Xian saw that he had almost drunk a jar of wine, so he opened another jar and handed it to him.
Shu Wuzhi took the wine, but this time he didn't drink it, he just looked at her funny, and after a while, he took out something from his arms and threw it in front of Su Xian: "Look at it." ”
"What is this?" Su Xian picked up the mirror, only to feel that the tentacles were extremely heavy, and the mirror was made of no known material, and if the face was covered with a layer of hazy frost and mist, it was a little unreal at a glance.
Shu Wuzhi raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Xuanyang Mirror, some people also call it the front dust mirror." ”
"It's a treasure." Su Xian said affirmatively.
Shu Wuzhi laughed and coughed twice, "If you look at it, you can see, where do you have so many words, you little girl is not very old, but she has a lot of thoughts." ”
Su Xian was stunned, after so many years, it was the first time that someone had spoken to him in such an elder's tone, and he held the mirror in his hand for a while, and he was a little distracted. was distracted for a moment, revealing some innocence that matched his age, which made Shu Wuzhi even more interesting to watch, and his voice was a lot softer: "Look." ”
But in an instant, Su Xian sorted out her thoughts, she listened to Shu Wuzhi's words, and looked towards the mirror.
At a glance, it is still vast.
"Nothing." Su Xian said truthfully.
Shu Wuzhi's hand lightly covered the mirror, his expression was slightly solemn, but he said in a low voice: "The front dust mirror looks at your own past, great joys and sorrows, big ups and downs, everyone always has something that they can't forget, what they want to see the most, or what they don't want to see the most." If others look at it, I'm afraid they are already crying at this time, you are thinking too deeply, but you are forcing yourself not to look, right? ”
Su Xian didn't respond, only asked in a low voice, "This is the way of the heart?" ”
"To cultivate the mind, it is natural to cast the heart." Shu Wuzhi laughed again, this time the laughter was mellow like the warm breeze of March, he removed the hand placed on the mirror surface, and said gently, "Look, don't worry, I'm guarding you." ”
This time, the mirror is no longer as empty as the white clouds cascading.
Su Xian saw a mountain cliff in the mirror.
It was a long night, the moon was hanging high, and there were two people standing on the top of the cliff.
The tall man was a burly man, wrapped in a dark robe, and his figure was almost disappearing, except that his silhouette was like a knife, his eye sockets were deep, and his golden eyes were especially bright in the night. He looked down at the bottom of the cliff, there was a raging fire burning under the cliff, and he could still hear the flames burning the dead trees in the forest and crackling at a short distance, and the blazing flames were rushing towards him, but the man was unconscious, and only said to the person beside him: "How?" ”
He was holding a little girl beside him. But about five years old, with a jade-like appearance, she opened her eyes wide and looked at the qiē that happened under the cliff, biting her lower lip lightly, and her eyes were slightly tearful.
Hearing the man's question, the little girl moved slightly, and threw herself into the man's arms, she was still too small to even reach the man's waist, only tugging at the hem of his robe, burying her face in his black robe.
The man couldn't help but laugh, gently stroked the little girl's head, and leaned over to pull the person up from his body.
The little girl still had tears on her face and looked at him suspiciously.
The man leaned into the little girl's ear, his voice low and hoarse, like the cold wind blowing through the snow on a winter night, and he said, "Remember, they died and lived because of you." ”
"You are one of them."
Su raised his head envially.
Shu Wuzhi was sitting opposite Xiao Chu, with a smile on the corner of his lips, but he didn't speak, and when he saw Su Xian's movements, he smiled approvingly: "Yes, you can tell the difference between reality and illusion, and you can still let yourself come out of the memories when you enter the memory, you really give people a lot of surprises." ”
"If you don't like something, you'd rather be an illusion." Su Xian laughed, but his face was still a little pale, "I have done this dream thousands of times, so I naturally know how to wake up." ”
"Looks like a nightmare." Shu Wuzhi nodded, pointed to the mirror and said, "Look at it again." ”
Su Xian frowned, she really didn't want to see this thing, but she had never been afraid of anything, and if she wanted to say that she was afraid, it was just trouble.
She looked over again, and this time the scene quickly appeared in the mirror.
With the experience of looking in the mirror last time, Su Xian looked at the past this time, and did not put himself in it again, but looked at it like an outsider.
What appeared in the mirror was a small building, with peach blossoms in front of the building, the warm breeze was smoky, and the spring was strong.
Su Xian recognized that she had lived there, and for a long time, her life was only in that small building, not like a captivity, but even more helpless than being imprisoned.
On the windowsill of the attic sat a person, holding his cheeks, watching the flowers bloom in the warm sun.
Su Xian saw that the person was herself, and the thirteen-year-old Su Xian seemed to be even younger and older than she is now, always frowning, as if she could see the sorrow when she looked at a flower. Living in the high pavilion all day long, there is indeed no joy in her life.
However, when he saw this in the mirror, Su Xian also guessed something.
This is the scene of her first encounter with Chu Qingjiu, or it won't be long before the thirteen-year-old Su Xian will see Chu Qingjiu dressed in white falling from the sky and falling on her window, and the sixteen-year-old boy's eyebrows and eyes depict the most magnificent scenery, suppressing all the peach blossoms outside the window.
However, Su Xian found that memory can still deceive people, it will leave behind the most beautiful and best things, and forget all other shortcomings.
For example, now seeing the reunion scene from the mirror again, Su Xian couldn't help laughing.
To be precise, Chu Qingjiu didn't actually fall from the sky, he slipped under his feet, and stumbled to Su Xian's window.
The fallen petals on the windowsill were startled and floated up again, scattered messily on the top of his head. He just held a messy head on top of it, raised his face and showed a proud smile to the frightened Xiao Su Xian.