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Although Ruan Kuang didn't say anything to Cen Chi immediately, in fact, there was already a warmth in his heart.

After he was placed under house arrest by Uncle Hongdao in the Yuwang Mansion in the northern country, it was Senior Brother Lin who made the fastest rescue action, and he did his best as soon as he made a move. And after leaving the division, although his little junior brother had nothing to rely on and was extremely distressed, when he cleaned up his mind, not only did he not blame himself, the senior brother who indirectly brought him trouble, but also kept thinking about how to go to the north to save himself. This kind of affection made him not know what to say for a while.

In the end, he just reached out and shook Cen Chi's forearm, and then the two of them walked back to the small temple together.

After walking for a while, the green bamboo forest that surrounded the small temple was left behind. A few feet away from the wall of the small temple, there are three rows of cedar trees. These cedar trees have lived for more than ten years, and their straight trunks pierce the sky, bringing a lot of shade to the small temple in the summer, and giving people a quiet and soft feeling of silently guarding this low temple in the visual landscape.

Looking at the eaves of the main hall of the small temple that was getting closer and closer to him, Ruan Kuang's face gradually appeared with a look of wanting to speak and stopping.

Cen Chi felt that the pace of the senior brother beside him slowed down, he turned his face slightly, and saw the hesitation in Ruan Kuang's eyes, he subconsciously slowed down his steps, but he didn't say anything.

Waited quietly for a while, and sure enough, Ruan Kuang's voice came.

"Senior brother, have you thought about it, as the successor of the ion, you have the freedom to choose the country you want to support and serve, and there is no time limit for this power to get the support of all the descendants of the Northern Fence." Ruan Kuang paused hesitantly when he said this, and then continued: "So Uncle Hongdao's choice can't be considered completely wrong. ”

Cen Chi did not immediately deny Ruan Kuang's point of view, but instead nodded in agreement and said, "This senior uncle of ours went to the northern country more than twenty years ago. At that time, although Zhou Guo had not fallen, it was already rotten to the extreme, and it was indeed not wrong for him to choose to go to the north at that time. A single Northern Fence faction alone could not reverse the situation of the collapse of the empire, and this was also the natural period when the inferiority accumulated by the Zhou Imperial Court for hundreds of years reached a peak, and it was necessary to reap the consequences. ”

Despite Cen Chi's words, Ruan Kuang could hear the taste of negativity from his affirmative words. But Ruan Kuang didn't interject, just waiting for Cen Chi to continue.

After the first affirmation, Cen Chi really began to speak negatively, and his tone suddenly became a little cold: "But more than 20 years have passed. Zhou Zhaoli and gradually improved, which is because his master and nephew are stronger than him. Or is he, as the twenty-first generation, simply not doing his duty and doing nothing? ”

Ruan Kuang suddenly opened his mouth at this time: "A person's ability is always limited. As you just said, no sect can reverse the collapse of a country, so it's just one person......"

Without waiting for Ruan Kuang's words to finish, Cen Chi said, "According to common sense." Maybe it's because I'm too impatient in my evaluation of this twenty-generation ion. But now that the facts are in front of us, the problems that have been piled up for hundreds of years within the Northern Royal Court are about to follow in the footsteps of the previous week. Judging from the news sent back by some spies in the Northern Kingdom, the Northern Imperial Court is now fighting for power. Not to mention what he can do if he stays there any longer, I don't think he'll ever come back. It is likely to become a tool for the Northern Court to fight for power. ”

"I am still the same sentence, reduced to a tool for self-interest, this is not the will of the Beili family passed down from generation to generation." Cen Chi paused at this point. After taking a slow breath, he continued in a slightly calm voice: "Our senior uncle not only did not retreat in the face of such a situation, not only was he willing to embark on this road to become a tool, but he also coerced the next generation of ion heirs of Beili to continue to do so. Isn't that right, it's just ridiculously wrong. ”

Ruan Kuang frowned.

After a sigh. Cen Chi quickly said: "I remember that when the Beili line was passed on to the sixteenth generation, the sixteenth generation of ion inheritors had no choice because they couldn't make their own choice. He just wandered in the wilderness, learned from Beili for more than 20 years, and only wrote nine books in his life, and finally sent all these painstaking accumulations back to the sixteen generations of Beili elders. This ion seems to have done nothing, but he has left his own experience, plumped up the wings of the sect, and hopes that the next generation of ions can realize these ideals at the right time, and I admire this ion senior. ”

Ruan Kuang suddenly laughed when he heard this, and said: "It's strange to say, when we were still in the grass house before, you and Senior Brother Lin couldn't be interested in the 'Nine Scrolls of the World', but after many years, the two of you have a high opinion of it. ”

As he spoke, his face became a little heavy again, and he sighed lightly: "A few years ago, Senior Brother Lin went back to the grass house, and he went there specifically for it. It's just a pity that when Senior Brother Lin had just returned the 'Nine Scrolls of the World', before the master could put it back in the study at the bottom of the mountain, the grass house was suddenly hit by a fire. If you want to read it again in the future, you may have to ask Senior Brother Lin for it, and with his habits, it is likely that he has left a copy......"

"Fire?" When Ruan Kuanggang said that the grass house was on fire, Cen Chi suddenly burst out in shock and lost his voice: "Master, are you okay?!" ”

Ruan Kuangyan looked at Cen Chi and stared at him, but he didn't say anything.

As soon as the words came out, Cen Chi had already come back to his senses, a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he lowered his eyes as if talking to himself: "Naturally, it's fine, otherwise you wouldn't care so much about my attitude towards him in that matter." ”

"You left, and then I also left, and soon after, Senior Brother Lin also went down the mountain to follow Wang Chiyuan to the northern frontier, he was worried that it would not be safe for Master to live alone in the mountains, so he left people on the mountain to secretly take care of and protect Master." Ruan Kuang talked about this past, and there was a faint sense of melancholy between his words. It seems that he also doesn't like this kind of melancholy and powerless to improve it, so when it comes to the latter, he deliberately adds some humor in his subtle consciousness, "So this fire only burned down the grass house, destroyed a few works, and burned all the master's hair and beard." ”

"If you don't have a beard or hair, isn't that almost like you?"

Listening to Ruan Kuang's words, it seemed that the fire really didn't hurt the master, and Cen Chi's mood was much lighter. Thinking back to what Ruan Kuang said, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"It should have grown by now." Seeing Cen Chi smiling, Ruan Kuang himself finally couldn't help laughing. At the end, he smiled playfully, and then he continued seriously: "After Senior Brother Lin rescued Master, he arranged for his old man to live in a secret place, and even I didn't tell him. ”

"I agree with Senior Brother Lin's approach." Cen Chi groaned and said, "Sticking to your own ideas will always offend people. Senior Brother Lin helped Wang Chi and came to this point together, I don't know how many people I have offended, I only said that the remnants of the former Zhou are considered to have offended. With Uncle Hongdao kidnapping you and coercing Master in the past, he will definitely not watch a similar situation happen again. Since the Great Wilderness Mountain was no longer safe, he simply hid his master and did what he wanted to do with all his heart. ”

"If you want to hide it, he will hide it long ago." Ruan Kuang looked at Cen Chi and said word by word: "If it weren't for that fire that made him resolute, maybe Master would still be living in the Great Wilderness Mountain. He waited there just afraid you wouldn't find your way home. ”

Ruan Kuang's last sentence made Cen Chi stunned. After a moment of silence, his eyes couldn't help but become hot and wet, and he suddenly didn't dare to look at Ruan Kuang's calm gaze. He slowly lowered his eyes, like a child who had made a mistake in hiding from his family and felt guilty in his heart.

"Now I can get a rough idea of what you mean. For Master, you are gradually learning to forgive. I haven't seen you for many years, you have grown a lot, as a disciple of Beili, you have left the master for more than ten years, but the initial idea in your heart is still persistent, presumably the master is also happy to see this. And the most important one is that no matter whether you will become the twenty-second generation of North Fence in the future, the one you choose must be Zhaoguo. Ruan Kuang's face became more and more stern, and his tone gradually rose to a sense of rebuke, and after a slight pause in his words, he emphasized his tone and said, "That being the case, why haven't you been in contact with Senior Brother Lin?" ”

Without waiting for Cen Chi, who was full of hesitation, to speak, Xixin paused and then said, "Don't tell me, you don't know how to find him." He's been looking for you all these years, and you've probably met his men who have sent you to find you, but he still doesn't know where you are, why? I don't want to believe that you're running away from him, he's the last person you should be suspicious of, why are you doing that? ”

"When I first left the division, I didn't believe anyone, so naturally I didn't see anyone." Cen Chi buried his head even lower, and after being silent for a long time, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "I lived in this temple intermittently for almost a year last year, didn't Senior Brother write to him to mention it?" ”

"I'm waiting for you to see him yourself!" Ruan Kuang flicked his sleeves and said, "I don't know your attitude, I'm afraid that it will provoke your bad temper, and you will disappear in a blink of an eye." ”

"Actually, I'm just preparing to see Senior Brother Lin this year, and it's also thanks to you that you have been talking to me about the Buddhist scriptures for a year, which has made me think through some things, but I'm still a step slower." Cen Chi sighed, and finally condensed and said: "In short, this Qingchuan walk, I must have something to gain, find someone or undertake something, and I will get one of them." ”

"I'll do my best to help you." Ruan Kuang raised his palm and gently placed it on Cen Chi's shoulder, smiled slightly and said, "I would rather do this than talk to you about Buddhist scriptures." ”

The expression on Cen Chi's face softened, and he said, "I see that you often look very dedicated, is it all pretending?" ”