Chapter 46: The Death of the Dao
The water and light move on the shore, and the flowers and trees blow together.
It's a good season, it's a good time, but it's also the time when Gongyi Fei set off to leave Yecheng.
"Mr. Yu......" Sitting in the carriage, Gongyi raised his hand and lifted the curtain, glanced at the people who came to see him off, he whispered to Yu Qinglin, but he didn't know what to say.
And Yu Qinglin was holding a foot-long rosewood box in his hand, and when Gongyi Fei hesitated, he directly raised his hand and stuffed the wooden box into Gongyi Fei's hand.
"Hmm...... It was Xuanyuan that kid who asked me to hand it over to you, probably as a dowry for you, haha, have a good trip. ”
Listening to Yu Qinglin's teasing, the official ceremony who took over the wooden box was also a pleasure. At this time, the coachman also raised his whip.
And Yu Qinglin took out an osmanthus candy from the purse on his waist and threw it into his mouth, smiled, turned around and waved his hand at the carriage that had been galloping.
Since the people in the house can't bear to come to see him off, then he comes, this farewell, not goodbye, he naturally has to smile and see it, not to mention, he is also here to drink wine today, but he has never drunk alcohol, and it is only right to come for a cup of tea.
Although it is a wedding banquet and a marriage gift from the new emperor, in the end, Liu Chu and Mrs. Yan are not princes and nobles, and they do not want to celebrate in a big way, because the guests invited are nothing more than those who are extremely familiar with each other on weekdays: Mrs. Xie's family, Xu He, Wang Xiaoliang and Yu Qinglin.
At the beginning of the auspicious time, when a couple of newlyweds have worshiped heaven and earth for the first time, because of their identity, they should worship the high church. And Liu Chuyuan was a victim of the disaster who was included in the palace by King Xiankang since he was a child, and the names and surnames of his biological parents have long been unknown.
Liu Chu took Mrs. Yan's hand and walked into the main hall of King Kang's Mansion, and the guests who came to watch the ceremony, including Xuanyuan Qi, all sat on the seats in the courtyard one by one.
Although Yu Qinglin's position was at the end of the day, not close to the main hall, this distance did not prevent him from staring directly at the portrait hanging in the main hall.
One is Xuanyuan Qi's own father, holding a scroll in his hand, elegant and gentle; One is Xuanyuan Qi's biological mother, who leaps with a sword and dashes out of the dust.
This portrait is delicate and unique, even if he Yu Qinglin has never seen King Xiankang and the princess, but he can still see the demeanor of the two who died early from this wonderful pen Danqing, and most importantly, this law, this charm......
It's clearly her handiwork!
In addition to being good at refining, Yu Qinglin's senior sister is particularly skilled in painting, but she rarely knows how to paint portraits, let alone for these two people?
Xu was aware of Yu Qinglin's rare gaffe, Mrs. Xie smiled, holding the beard on his chest with one hand, and taking some white petals from a white jade cup on the wine table in front of him with the other, and threw them towards Yu Qinglin. After all, on weekdays, Yu Qinglin either reclines and closes his eyes, or squints and tastes tea. Now this wide-eyed appearance is rare.
But the petals are light things after all, neither buds nor handkerchiefs thrown out, after all, they fall down one after another in mid-air, as if, like a rain of flowers.
This rain of flowers is obvious to all.
"Hmm...... Ahem, stinky boy! Wedding ceremony, how can you be so nonsense?! ”
He didn't dare to look back at his wife, but Mrs. Xie could really feel the sharp knife that was slashing at him, so he turned around slightly, raised his hand, and slapped Xie Jin on the back of the head who was laughing with Xu He.
"Hahaha!" At the table, there was a lot of laughter. was beaten by his own father for no reason, although he didn't know why, Xie Jin didn't need to ask and guessed what the old man in his family did just now, take him out of the bag.
When everyone's laughter gradually subsided, the master of ceremonies also finished the ceremony for the couple, and it was time for the guests to congratulate them.
Mrs. Yan's legs and feet were not very convenient and she walked slowly, so only Liu Chukuai walked to the seats one by one to toast in turn, and then was sprinkled all over her body by the petals in the jade cup. However, when it came to Mrs. Xie, the petals in the jade cup were only the lone petal.
Mrs. Xie smiled awkwardly, endured the soreness of Mrs. Xie's two fingers twisting his waist, stood up slightly, and put the only remaining petals on Liu Chu's head.
"Together and together, a hundred years of good together." Mrs. Xie said, he thought, Liu Chu shouldn't mind.
One seat after another, Yu Qinglin waited, and finally held a cup of tea in his hand and waited for Liu Chu. He should have said something auspicious, but after hurriedly saying a casual word, he hurriedly asked Liu Chu: "I don't know who this portrait is from?" ”
"This ...... This portrait was originally brought back by the prince after a trip on a certain day, as for who wrote it, I really don't know below. ”
Yu Qinglin listened, so he had no choice but to nod, his eyes narrowed, and he inadvertently noticed that Mrs. Xie glanced at him. Perhaps, Mrs. Xie knows.
After watching the ceremony, Yu Qinglin should have stayed in the mansion to make up for Xuanyuan Qi's homework on the art of war that fell during the time when she broke her leg and he asked for resignation, but he didn't go back to the guest room to rest, and second, he didn't go to the first-class Xuanyuan Qi in the study of the palace, but directly dragged away Mrs. Xie who was being taught by Mrs. Xie with her ears.
"Master Taifu, you had a different look in your eyes at the banquet just now, I guess you know who the portrait came from?"
The two came to the flower garden in the backyard of the palace, and naturally, as they walked, they walked to the pavilion and sat down. Yu Qinglin also couldn't wait to ask this sentence immediately, in fact, he already knew who the portrait came from, what he wanted to know was how his senior sister could be so generous to paint the portrait of King Na Xiankang and the princess.
"Hmm...... I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I don't know......" Mrs. Xie pondered, rolled his eyes, and said slowly, and when he saw Yu Qinglin hanging his head slightly in disappointment, he slowly said the rest of the sentence that he had not finished.
"I don't know the man's name, and I've only seen him once."
Yu Qinglin listened to Mrs. Xie talking slowly, looked up, and just saw Mrs. Xie stroking his beautiful hair with a smug face.
"Ha, Lord Taifu, the noble man is late, it's me who lost my temper."
Yu Qinglin smiled, and took out two osmanthus candies from the purse on his waist, threw one in his mouth, and held one in front of Mrs. Xie. Mrs. Xie didn't push politely, and threw the chess-sized osmanthus candy into his mouth.
"It's a long story, I and another person were close friends with King Kang, one day, he and I were invited by King Kang and the princess, and took a boat down the Jinhe River, and found a place to relax in the northern suburbs, drinking together, writing poems and paintings, watching the princess and that person learn martial arts, it was really enjoyable. Halfway through the wine, there was a handsome scholar wearing a moon-white robe, he came uninvited, stuck a spear in his hand on the ground at will, came up directly, picked up a jar of good wine on the case, and drank it with his head up......"
Although the story is not over yet, hearing this, Yu Qinglin probably guessed what was going on, his senior sister, used to like to dress up in his costume and cheat around drinking.
At that time, the prince was not annoyed, he just thought that the scholar was a hermit in the vicinity, eclectic, free and easy, as a matter of course. But then we didn't expect that the scholar had a good amount of wine, and when he drank it all, not only did he not see any drunkenness, but he also tried a fist and kick with the man, and when he won, he threw away the spear he had brought with him. Then, because he came uninvited, he drank the good wine cleanly, so he painted a portrait of the prince and the princess on the spot, and then he decided to go, refusing to mention even a word of his name and surname. ”
After the story was told, Yu Qinglin also finished eating the osmanthus candy in his purse. He paused, thought for a moment, and put the other question aside.
The other person, the person who competed with the princess, who would be General Xu if he wasn't Xu He's father?
Because of the wine, it is no wonder that when he was teaching martial arts in Wuya Pavilion, he inexplicably felt that the little silver in Xu He's hand was a little familiar.
It's no wonder that his senior sister would actually give away the divine weapon she had obtained for many years with extraterrestrial iron.
Speaking of which, since the unhappy break up of Lingfeng Temple back then, he hasn't seen her for a long time, at this time, but he was drunk in the bamboo courtyard of Zhishui Peak, found a bamboo tree at random, and reclined in the top of the void, a big dream?
At the beginning, she said that she was going to kill Xuanyuan to prevent future troubles, but she couldn't bear to do it after all.
Yu Qinglin thought that he was going to visit, but for some reason, he had a strange feeling that today, he must meet his senior sister.
"Eh, eh! Yu Qinglin! You still have to make up for the homework that His Royal Highness King Kang has missed! ”
Seeing Yu Qinglin turn around and walk quickly, but it was not the direction of King Kang's Mansion, Mrs. Xie kindly reminded him.
"Then please ask Master Taifu to do it for me first, just say that I am sick again, and save Mrs. Xie from having to bother to work on your ears......
After hearing this, Mrs. Xie said that Yu Qinglin had already walked away, leaving him a little helpless.
The road from King Kang's Mansion to Zhishui Peak was not far, and Yu Qinglin's footsteps were much faster, but in half an hour, he arrived at the entrance of the enchantment in the mountains and forests in the northern suburbs.
One step lightly, there is no trace. It was early spring outside the barrier, but after the barrier, it was like an autumn scene. The most water-stopping peaks are green bamboos, but there are many maple trees at the foot of the mountain. In the past, because of the enchantment, the four seasons in the water stop peak did not follow the way of heaven, and now the maple red in front of you is really rare.
After passing the enchantment, Yu Qinglin resumed his doorway dress, and even the ability of the Heavenly Eye, which he had deliberately concealed on weekdays, reappeared at the center of his eyebrows with a trace of red water. Suddenly, Yu Qinglin threw down his sleeves, squatted down, and picked up a red maple from the ground.
The bright color is like blood, and the edge is still a little golden like the withered bamboo leaves, and there is no black flaw on the maple leaves.
He still remembered that when he was brought back to this water-stopping peak by his senior sister, he was in a daze, as if the water-stopping peak at that time was also the scene of autumn like it is now.
Later, he went to the teacher in a daze, and in the first few years, in addition to practicing, he liked to pick up a few pieces of red maple he liked here and bring them back. Whenever his senior sister saw it, she always raised her head and teased him with a "childlike innocence".
With the red maple in his hand, Yu Qinglin walked towards the mountain step by step, and today's mountain protection array was also withdrawn, but he was not worried about what would happen to his senior sister.
However, when Yu Qinglin walked to the periphery of the bamboo courtyard at the top of the mountain, he only felt an unexpected silence, so silent that he thought of the bad word - death when he thought of it.
Sure enough, the next moment, a strong and agile black shadow immediately rushed out of the house when it sensed his breath and stopped in front of Yu Qinglin, it was Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei was half-squatting, constantly scratching the corners of Yu Qinglin's clothes with his claws, and gently tearing them with his mouth, as if urging him to enter.
Without thinking much about it, Yu Qing jumped in a few steps, and as soon as he entered, he saw a person lying on the ground, with a little vermilion on the corner of his mouth. Yu Qinglin hurriedly hugged the person to the couch on the side, and only then did he recognize that she was Fei'er.
Although she hasn't seen her for a few years, because she grew up in Zhishui Peak, it seems that she is only the same age as Xuanyuan Qi, and her appearance is still so handsome and cute, but now there is a bamboo leaf-like blue mark on the center of the eyebrows on her forehead, which makes her a little cold.
"Huh? Why did Fei'er's cultivation suddenly soar, could it be that her senior sister passed it on to her? For no reason...... "Yu Qinglin probed Fei'er's pulse, and opened the heavenly eye in the center of his eyebrows to take a closer look, except for the churning of the sea of qi caused by the sudden increase in cultivation, and the blood did not return to the meridians, there was no major problem.
But it was precisely this careful thinking that Yu Qinglin seemed to have noticed something, and before Fei'er could wake up and ask clearly, he ran again and rushed out of the door.
He had an ominous premonition.
The dust in his hand suddenly seemed to have a sense, and he took off Yu Qinglin's hand on his own, and returned to his original sword body, and flew towards the place in the depths of the bamboo forest. Yu Qinglin hurriedly mentioned Nei Yuan, and the wind was in a hurry under his feet, and he followed closely behind.
But in a moment, Yu Qinglin's sword fell to the ground, and slammed diagonally into the soft soil beside the female crown it was looking for.
The female crown was still wearing her usual dark robe, and she sat by the mountain stream, leaning softly against a maple tree behind her. The hair was scattered, but it was like a wash of white practice formed by thousands of stars, smeared with the glow of the dawn at this moment, which was completely different from the heavy robe on his body at night.
In this way, it is just like the first time Yu Qinglin saw her, and she was brought back to the water stop peak again.
Knowing in her heart that the person who came was none other than her, the female crown did not look back, she was still leaning on the maple tree, and her left hand, which had faded her brocade gloves, picked up a maple leaf in the palm of her hand, and from the palm of her hand, the blood gushed out of the maple leaf to dye the maple leaf even more vermilion.
"Back then, it was my momentary anger that cut you off from reincarnation and brought you back to this water stopper, and it was me again, who didn't want to use bamboo and jade, but wanted you to inherit it and abandon the medical way. Brother, have you ever hated me? ”
The female crown said, her voice was low, giving people a feeling of anger.
"Back then, you lied to me, lied to me that you could see my father and mother when you came to Zhishui Peak, lied to me that I was not used to using a sword, and lied to me...... I even went to Lingfeng Temple alone to seal the evil thing, you know, what I hate most in my life is deception! ”
Knowing that the female crown in front of him had successively dispersed all her cultivation, and she had used the Taiyi forbidden technique in vain before, snooping on the heavens, and harming her longevity, and now, she still had a breath left, just to wait for him to come.
The flames of life were about to be annihilated, and the female crown even had her eyes blurred to the point that she could not see the surrounding scenery at all, but she suddenly felt that her shoulders were being grabbed and hugged in a warm arm.
"I left a few books in the bamboo garden, you can read it, or you don't read it, cough cough...... It's a pity that I can't see Fei'er grow up, Xiao Hei ...... It's demonic again, you have to remember to feed those stupid fish in the lotus pond every day, and ...... And also...... Green dragonfly, you still owe me a thousand jars of good wine......"
Miscellaneous thoughts, whatever comes to mind, full of reassuring obsession, and his voice is getting weaker and weaker, Yu Qinglin hurriedly put his ear close to the mouth of the female crown, but there is no longer any life there.
Even the body in the crook of his arm that had lost its temperature began to disappear little by little, turning into countless phosphorus fireflies, and he grabbed it, but there was nothing left.
Later, it wasn't until the sky was gloomy and the sky was full of stars that Yu Qinglin returned to the bamboo garden in despair.
"Uncle, uncle, have you seen Master?"
Blinking her hazy sleepy eyes, Fei'er, who had just woken up, rubbed her eyes with one hand and kept shaking Yu Qinglin's hand with the other.
A blood-stained maple leaf quietly fell from Yu Qinglin's hand and landed on the corner of his moon-white robe.