CHAPTER XXIII
The laurel moon has arrived, the osmanthus is beginning to bloom, and the faint cinnamon fragrance is wafting with the wind. The sky is light, and the autumn breeze is blowing in the afternoon, which is a good time to hurry.
"Okay, okay, don't send it." Yan Shu waved his hand again and again. Behind him were a group of men, all standing with their sleeves crossed under the sign of the wine sleeper, laughing and laughing.
"Childe, have a good trip."
"I have time to come back and sit down, Childe, and Fairy Gu!"
"Go slowly, don't send it hahaha."
With a burden on his right shoulder, he looked back as he walked, and after looking at it, he turned his head and said to the side: "Just left?" ”
"Or else?" Puzzled, "I've got enough of the entanglement." ”
"......," he said, "I mean, don't you tell them a few more words?" ”
"No, no, no." "They're not children anymore. I think I saved them from an idiot Taoist priest at the beginning......" The tone was abrupt, he stuck out his tongue, glanced at the expression, and confirmed that it was okay before continuing, "At that time, they all had just cultivated their human bodies, and they all looked like children, and they were not even up to my waist!" I brought them to Yaohe Town, which seems to be inhabited by people, but in fact, there are many demons who are hiding from the world. At that time, I paid for the opening of this wine sleep inn and let them take care of it themselves. Hundreds of years have passed, and some of them are gone, and some of them are willing to stay, so they have stayed here to live. ”
After listening quietly, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said strangely: "They have been staying in Yaohe Town? Didn't anyone in the town find out that they had lived for hundreds of years? ”
"You don't have to worry about this," Yan Shu said, "they still know how to fool mortals with this little spell." Besides, I'll come back to see them every once in a while. Hey, what kind of eyes are you, I'm not here to get money! ”
Tilt Xu smiled: "How good is this, no matter where you go, Jiumian is your home, always for you to rest and eat tea." ”
"That's right. Aside from here and Mount Lisan, there doesn't seem to be much for me to stay in for a long time. Yan Shu recalled, "Speaking of which, the last time I was here, it seems to be ...... Was it twenty years ago? You weren't born at the time, were you? ”
After listening quietly, he smiled and said, "Yes." I wasn't there yet. ”
Yan Shu said: "Sure enough. How old are you? ”
"Seventeen." After saying that, he asked him, "How old are you?" ”
Yan Shu raised his fingers and looked at the sky: "Two thousand three hundred and seventy...... Seventy...... Seventy-something? Alas, I can't remember exactly. ”
Tilt: "......"
The two walked slowly and talked softly, and before they knew it, they had walked a few miles through the mountain road.
When they talked, they didn't realize that the time was fast, and when they looked up, they felt that it was getting late, and the two walked to a river, ready to leave again overnight.
Yan Shu caught a fish from the river, roasted it on the fire, and sat silently on the side to nibble on steamed buns.
At this time, Yan Shu did not speak.
Neither did it. She wasn't a talker, and she wouldn't feel embarrassed even if she sat quietly with strangers all the time. On the contrary, it seems that he is afraid that the world will be quiet, and he will not stop talking.
Qian Xu felt that Yan Shu should not be called Yan Shu.
He should be called Yanmi.
He glanced at the words of the grilled fish, and said silently in his heart, one, two, three.
"Hey, it's lifelike." Sure enough, he said, "Can I ask you a question?" ”
"You ask."
"The night I rescued you," Yan Shu hesitated for a moment and said, "Why did those Taoist priests of Qianyunguan kill you at that time?" ”
Qian Xu was stunned, he didn't think that what he asked was this, and he paused before replying: "I secretly learned the forbidden technique of Guanli, the dream control technique." Before, I was the memory of Chunqi who used the Dream Control Technique. ”
Yan Shuqi said: "What kind of forbidden art is this?" How I've never heard of it. ”
"Dream control is an evil spell, and excessive use is harmful. The caster uses the life span of the caster's essence to tamper with or experience related dreams, and if the spell is overcast, the caster's essence will be depleted, and the yang life will be depleted. To put it simply, the dream master uses the essence of others to create dreams in others, and this dream can be the past, present, and even reflect the future. That's when I used this technique to see her dreams about memories on Junqi, so I knew where her home was. ”
Yan Shu casually turned the branch that was inserted into the fish, added another firewood to the fire, and said: "Talking a lot, isn't it just taking someone's essence and making dreams on him?" It's not an evil spell, it's not a curse, as long as you don't use it on the same person all the time, you won't kill anyone, right? Besides, who would have nothing to do with peeping into other people's dreams all the time. ”
Silence was silenced.
After a while, Yan Shu asked tentatively: "Then, you...... How many people have been killed? ”
"No one was killed."
"That'...... How many people have you hurt? ”
"One."
"Then they're going to crush you to ashes?!" Yan Shu said angrily, "This group of Daoist priests still put up shelves all day long, saying everything all day for the sake of compassion for the common people, and they don't even let go of a child." ”
Tilt Xu felt the need to explain: "I'm seventeen, not a child. ”
"Seventeen years old is not a child? Tsk, in my eyes. ”
He smiled and stopped talking.
Yan Shu roasted and roasted, and said again: "Then, you had an accident at the time, why didn't anyone come to save you?" What about your master and brother? ”
"Master and Senior Brother went out to hunt ghosts at that time, and they weren't in the Thousand Clouds Temple."
"So it just so happened that I came to save you. Hey, it's providence. Yan Shu said, "But before I rescued you that night, I saw a masked man in black on the roof of Qianyunguan, who seemed to be coming to save you." ”
Tilt Xu's heart jumped suddenly, and he could barely suppress the tremor in his voice: "What? Do you see what he looks like? ”
"No, he's masked. Who cares about him, anyway, in the end it's my hero who saved ...... Fish! The fish is mush! "Words are scrambled to save the grilled fish.
Pouring out his tears and laughing, trying to calm his beating heart.
The two were busy tossing the fish and left all the words behind.
During the night, the torches were all burned out, and Tilt was still not asleep. Yan Shu didn't turn over a single one on the side, probably asleep.
He stared at the stars in the sky.
The man, the one who came to save me.
It had to be him.
It must be.
She closed her eyes, and the messy and blurry images in her mind were one moment a hug that greeted her, and another a vague cold touch on her forehead.
In the dream, a white light slashed at him, and he opened his eyes violently, and one rolled over to avoid the sword blade that was slashing at the side of his head, and he got up from the ground with a bone.
Leaning Xu stabilized his body, looked up at the three people in front of him, and suddenly felt cold all around.
In front of him, there were two white-clothed Daoists and a gray-clothed Daoist with a jade immortal wind bone. The two in white are the people who have been with her for seven years in Qianyun Temple, but the white-bearded old man in gray is the elder of Yuan Qingguan, the first Taoist temple in the world, Yuan Feng.
I didn't expect to be found by them.
The gray-clothed Yuan Feng Dao Chang rushed up to cut her with his sword, but the two in white didn't move.
Tilt took a few steps back, avoiding the blade of the sword, and flew to the branch behind him.
Yuan Feng stood under the tree, raised his sword and pointed at her, and scolded sharply: "Demon girl, you are going to die today!" ”
Qian Xu smiled coldly: "What a master who walks for the sky." ”
"Demon girl, you have harmed countless people, and we will never spare your life again this time."
"Oh, how have I harmed so many people? It's just that you hurt Yuan Yu, the eldest disciple of your Yuan Feng Daoist, you are so ruthless and want to kill me, and you actually threaten my temple in the name of the first Taoist temple, forcing the head to kill me to calm the anger in your heart, what a trick to kill people with a knife, what a first Taoist temple! ”
"Presumptuous!" Daoist Yuan Feng roared angrily, "You demon girl, you use forbidden techniques to harm others and you don't repent!" Behold, the old man will get rid of you today! ”
Yuan Feng flew up, and his five fingers formed claws and strangled at his throat.
Suddenly, a slender hand intercepted Yuan Feng's attack in the air, and the owner of the hand fell steadily on the branch, grabbed it with one hand, and hit Yuan Feng with the other, and actually hit Yuan Feng back to the ground with one palm.
Yuan Feng was shocked, he didn't expect that a seemingly young hairy boy would be able to easily take his full blow.
Yan Shu yawned leisurely, and said lazily: "Ha~ What kind of noise you made early in the morning woke me up." Turning his head and asking, "Why don't you call me if there's something?" ”
He said: When I saw them just now, I was so scared that I forgot that there was another one you sleeping here......
Yuan Feng cautiously probed under the tree: "Who is Your Excellency, why do you want to protect this demon girl?" ”
"Enchantress?" Yan Shu pinched his face casually, "It's not a demon." ”
"You know her ......"
"I don't know!" Yan Shu said impatiently, "If you want to fight, come and beat me, if you don't fight, get out of here, don't be an eyesore here." ”
Seeing that he couldn't make sense with him, Yuan Feng turned to the two white-clothed Daoists who had not moved all this and said angrily: "You two, just let the evil obstacles of your Thousand Cloud Views go out and harm the mortal world!" ”
The two white-clothed Taoists still didn't speak, just looked at Qian Xu in silence.
He bowed his head slightly, and said softly, "Master, senior brother." Don't come unharmed. ”
The younger of the two was the leng Xiao senior brother, who was long and jade, his face was cold, and he nodded imperceptibly.
The older one is the lifelike master, who is lonely. Elder Qianyu sighed deeply, and his snow-white eyebrows were deeply twisted into a knot: "Lifelike girl." Come back with me. ”
He didn't speak, but shook his head. She knew that Master was trying to protect her.
When Qianyunguan was burned at the stake, Qianzhu and Leng Xiao were out of the house, missing the time when Qianyun had an accident, and when they came back, they learned that they had been burned at the stake and were rescued by a person who flew over.
It just so happened that Yuan Qingguan heard that Dump Xu was still alive, and Yuan Feng came to the door to get an explanation, so Qian Lonely simply pushed the boat down the river, and proposed to go forward with Yuan Feng to arrest the criminal, but in fact, he wanted to find Dump Xu and bring it back to Qianyunguan, leaving her by her side to protect her.
But it can't.
If she returns to Qianyunguan, even if the master protects her from worrying about her life, how should the master face the world in the future, and how will Qianyunguan explain to Yuan Qingguan?
"It's not a good apprentice, and I've made the master angry again." Suddenly he flew down from the tree.
Yan Shu was startled, and hurriedly jumped off the treetops.
"From now on, only the senior brother will accompany the master. The apprentice lost the face of the master, and this time he has been expelled from the master's door, and he does not ask the master for forgiveness, but only asks the master to take care of himself in the future. The last time, I will call you Master. ”
He knelt heavily on the ground and kowtowed three times to Qian's loneliness.
Qian Zhu couldn't bear to look at her anymore, turned around to leave, and glanced at Yan Shu lightly before leaving, frowning. Tears flashed in Leng Xiao's eyes, he looked deeply at Qian Xu again, turned around and left with Qianxi.
Yuan Feng on the side was furious: "Qianzhu, what do you mean by this!" ”
Qian Yu Lonely didn't reply: "I can't take this scoundrel away, if you want to catch her, catch her yourself." The wind still scattered his words, "Life, after all, you can't hide from it......"
Yuan Feng looked at the words beside him, but he couldn't do anything in the end, so he threw his sleeves very unwillingly, and drove away in anger.
Yan Shula's sleeves were tilted: "They're gone, you get up quickly." ”
Tilt was still on her knees, her forehead pressed against the dirt.
It wasn't until Yan Shu pulled her up that she saw her red eyes and tears on her face.