Chapter 14 Shooting Arrows and Playing the Flute
As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Bu An and Su Su cleaned the small dilapidated house briefly, and solemnly closed the door.
The two stood in front of the mottled wooden door, and said reluctantly: "It's a pity, a good house will be empty from today onwards." She had only stayed in this room for one night, but because it was the first time she had experienced the life of a man with tiles on her head, she had a different affection for this cottage.
Bu An didn't have as much sentimentality as her, turned around and looked in the direction of Yuezhou City, and said with some pride: "From now on, I will follow Gongzi and me into this ten-zhang red dust, how about it?"
Su Su grinned and said, "Energetic!" seemed to have forgotten all the sorrows and farewells just now.
Both of them had nothing to do, so they went to find Song Qing to join them empty-handed, and set off to Yuezhou City to catch ghosts as agreed.
From Tianmu Mountain to Yuezhou City, it only takes half a day to ride a horse, but Bu'an and Song Qing don't even have horses, and they can't even afford a donkey. So Zhu Xiuqi, Lou Xinyue and Fang Fei'er also accompanied them on foot. A group of six people bought some dry food in the town of Rudai and went on the road.
Regarding the origin of Su Su, Bu An repeated it again as he said to Song Qing. The name Su Su is too feminine, and Bu An said it vaguely, so everyone takes it for granted that this boy is called "Su Su".
Fang Fei'er obviously liked this handsome and poor little boy very much, and asked Su Su long and short questions along the way, making her difficult to handle, but Lou Xinyue quietly stuffed some food for Su Su, and pulled Fang Fei'er aside, and reminded softly: "This kid doesn't seem to want to talk about those sad things, so don't ask, junior sister." ”
Except for the extra backpack on each of them, the other outfits were the same as when they were in the academy, but Zhu Xiuqi carried a conspicuous longbow, but he didn't carry an arrow bag with him.
This day is a bright spring, the grass grows and the warbler flies on the roadside, but there are few cars and horses on the official road, and the few small towns passing by also seem a little depressed.
While resting on the side of the road at noon, Bu An asked Senior Brother Zhu why he only carried a bow on his back and no quiver. Song Qing rushed to say: "Senior Brother Xiu Qi is practicing archery, using spiritual power as an arrow. ”
This opened up the topic, and Bu An learned that Lou Xinyue came from a family of calligraphy in Yuezhou and was good at calligraphy, and Fang Fei'er was the daughter of a military attache and specialized in art.
Song Qing said: "You haven't seen it yet, Senior Brother Xiuqi can shoot through thigh-thick poplar wood from a hundred meters away, the words written by Senior Sister Xinyue are more effective than Taoist runes, and Senior Sister Fei'er can use spiritual power to retrieve things in the air." ”
Bu An couldn't help nodding and asked again, "Then what are you good at?"
Song Qingshen replied mysteriously: "What I have learned is even more subtle. ”
"Hey!" Fang Fei'er suddenly interjected with a smile: "He's a flute!"
Everyone laughed, but Song Qing pouted and said, "What's wrong with playing the flute? It's also a skill to play the flute well!" Seeing that everyone didn't react, he said angrily: "Just the last time I gathered spirits through Bu'an's poetry, I saved some spiritual power, so I'll play a song for everyone!"
As he spoke, he took out a bamboo flute from his waist and put it to his lips and played it. He played the flute, like a leisurely shepherd boy, but he was dressed like a scholar.
As soon as the music sounded, Bu'an felt something strange, there seemed to be dandelion fluff flowers flying in the surrounding air, the tiny fluff was illuminated by the spring sun, and the flowers and plants beside the official road, and the young leaves on the branches of the trees also swayed gently with the sound of the flute.
Zhu Xiuqi, Lou Xinyue and Fang Fei'er listened to the song with a smile while drinking water and eating dry food, but Su Su ran after the dandelion, like a kitten aroused by a living thing, innocent and splendid.
After blowing the song, Song Qing took the bamboo flute from his lips and said with some conceit: "If I blow this flute at night, all the evil spirits in the vicinity will be scared away." ”
Bu An saw the vision just now, and was a little impressed by this round-headed and round-headed guy. was about to praise a few words, but saw that Su Su was still running around, chasing a flying little yellow flower, looking serious and devoted.
The yellow flower went up and down, and she was almost caught by Su Su several times, but every time she was able to touch it, she flew away again.
Bu An was afraid that others would see her identity as a cat demon, so she quickly coughed a few times, and Su Su realized that something was wrong, and stopped with a red face.
"Chase...... Why don't you chase it?" Fang Fei'er asked with a smile.
Su Suguang shook his head and didn't speak, looking at Bu An, as if he was afraid that he would scold himself. Bu An'an thinks that I usually don't murder you, you look like a child daughter-in-law now, and I don't know how I think I abuse you.
He knew that the little yellow flower was controlled by Fang Fei'er, so he quickly avoided Su Su's pitiful eyes, shook his head and sighed, "Senior Sister Fang is really amazing. ”
"Is this okay?" Fang Fei'er seemed to be interested, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Bu, look at this again!" As he spoke, the metasequoia tree with a thick bowl mouth around him suddenly shook and shook off the leaves in the sky, and the leaves did not fall directly, but swirled and flew in the air a few times with Fang Fei'er's gestures, before he flew away with a snort.
Bu'an was dumbfounded.
"Senior Brother Bu!" Zhu Xiu Qi shouted loudly, "Senior Brother is also here to perform for you!" As he spoke, he pulled the longbow from his back in a dashing manner, turned his posture half a circle, knelt on one knee and half kneeled, pulled the bow like a full moon, and then released the bowstring with a "bang".
Bu An looked in the direction pointed by his longbow, only to see a tree slowly falling down in the miscellaneous woods dozens of meters away, he looked fascinated and muttered: "I wish my senior brother good skills......
Song Qing walked over with a smile and said, "Of course, the senior brothers and sisters are all gentlemen of the Mingde realm!"
Zhu Xiuqi put the longbow back and said with a smile: "Compared to the master, it is still far behind." He looked sincere, obviously worshipping Tu Yao to the extreme. Bu An remembered that Tu Yao could dump a pool of lake water with a slight bend, and he also felt that his words were not false at all.
Fang Fei'er said to Lou Xinyue: "Senior sister, we have all sacrificed our ugliness to Senior Brother Bu, and you are the only one left." ”
Lou Xinyue had a smile on her face, and her voice was still soft, "Everyone knows how to write, so there's nothing to look at." ”
Fang Fei'er and Song Qing both shouted in disappointment, but Zhu Xiuqi persuaded: "This time I went to Yuezhou City to catch ghosts, I can always see Xinyue's stunt, and I don't need to be in a hurry." ”
Bu An was tickled by the craftsmanship of several of them, and when he was in a hurry in the afternoon, he pulled Song Qing to ask questions.
Although the six of them did not ride horses, they did not walk slowly, and by the end of the evening, they had already traveled halfway. The evil moon was coming, and there were many evil ghosts in the wild, and Zhu Xiuqi didn't dare to hold it up, so he took a group of people to stay in a small town called Liudian.