Chapter 8: Return to Yongyang
Xu Ruyu "oh" then let out a soft sound, followed by a light sigh, Liang Bao stopped when he heard it, and looked at Xu Ruyu curiously, these days Xu Ruyu is just babbling nonsense, how could he have such a normal sigh, seeing him looking at himself calmly, he didn't understand what he meant, and said secretly: How do you look at him like a normal person at this time. Three or two steps to his side, looking at his eyes, stunned for a while, only to feel that this is the most vivid eye ever seen in his life, he seems to be in a high place looking at the deep and bottomless abyssal river, clear and hidden, the eyes are like a dragon, full of vitality, a little smile ripples from the deep pupils, as if the lotus petals are endlessly unfolded, this smile is directly reflected in their hearts, extremely moving.
How could Liang Bao not understand that Xu Ruyu was not ordinary at this time, he was surprised and happy, and he was not at all unhappy that Xu Ruyu deceived him, but he didn't say anything good for a while. Xu Ruyu said: "Brother Liang Bao, I have been deceiving you these days, and I hope to forgive me." Liang Bao hurriedly waved his hand, lowered his voice to a very low level, and said, "It's not in the way, your eyes make me feel that you have absolutely no malice." Xu Ru smiled foolishly: "Liang Bao doesn't need to deliberately lower his voice, others can't hear what we say." Liang Bao felt that his voice came straight into his ears, thinking that this was probably the only way for martial arts masters, and his face naturally showed a look of envy, and secretly said that it would be good if he could do this. Xu Ruyu saw it in his eyes, smiled gracefully, and said softly: "This soundproofing technique is just a trick of the Dan Breath Technique, and you will naturally understand how to do it when you learn the Dan Breath Technique." Liang Bao couldn't hear the meaning of his words, but the things he was thinking about were put in front of him, so that he didn't know how to deal with himself, his face turned purple, and he stammered involuntarily when he spoke: "You ...... You want to take me as a disciple? Xu Ruyu said: "I am still younger than you, how can I accept you as an apprentice?" Seeing that his eyes were suddenly shrouded in huge disappointment, he secretly said that his mind really wouldn't turn around, and he felt that he was straight to his true surname, and he didn't want to tease him anymore, and said: "I'll pass on your Dan Breath Technique, but we are still brothers." Liang Bao shouted: "Don't dare, don't dare, a humble person like me, being your disciple is already a great luxury, how can you be worthy of your brother?" Xu Ruyu said: "Let me ask you, what did you think of me before?" Liang Bao hurriedly replied: "I didn't know your true face at the beginning, that's why it's like that, how dare you still be like this now?" Xu Ruyu saw that his words were humble, and knew that he couldn't screw his surname for a while, so he said: "Put this matter aside for the time being, I'll pass on your Dan Breath technique first." ”
Xu Ruyu knows that the Dan breath technique is the best in the magic trick and the Biluo trick, the trick is that the Chen family does not pass on the mastery, since he can not pass on the trick to others, although Meng Yi and others who followed Wu Chu also learned the trick of Biluo, but Xu Ruyu is the successor of this exercise, whether to pass it on or not, to whom, Xu Ruyu naturally did the master, so Xu Ruyu passed the Biluo recipe to Liang Bao.
Xu Ruyu saw that Liang Bao was also coarse with pen and ink, and secretly did not need to teach him as hard as he originally thought, let him memorize thousands of words of Biluo, and sneaked in the middle of the night, pinched his wrist veins, and transported the twisted pill breath to a very fine silk thread to explore the situation in his body, although the ancient practice breath fist deformation has lost its original appearance, but after all, it has played a little role, Liang Bao still has a faint pill breath in his body running slowly, and it is rare that its purity is not much worse than Xu Ruyu's twisting pill breath. Xu Ruyu secretly felt the subtlety of the ancient practice, but he also deeply felt that it was extremely difficult to restore it to its original appearance.
Xu Ruyu slowly used the twisting pill breath to guide Liang Bao's faint pill breath to run according to Biluojue's running route, and after a few times, Liang Bao was able to guide that inner movement by virtue of Knowledge. Xu Ruyu said to him: "The boxing method you learned is a family tradition, what is your name?" Liang Bao replied: "It has been passed down from generation to generation, and I don't know what to call it, and it doesn't work well if I practice." Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "You forget about it now, when you think about it naturally, it's not too late to practice." "I thought: Maybe you don't have to think about it, you can learn the real Gu Lian Xiquan. Liang Bao nodded yes, but he didn't know how to forget all the boxing moves he had practiced since childhood.
When the boat arrived at Jiangjin, it was already three days later, Xu Ru was so foolish that he passed on his hand, and passed on the style of "fragrance through willows" to him, but the real "starry sky fragrance" involved the water stopping heart sutra and the Qinghe rushing formation technique, which could not be passed on to him. Liang Baosan said that how could he learn so much in time, Xu Ruyu asked him to forcibly write it down, Liang Bao is not a person with good qualifications, Xu Ruyu barely remembered three or four points of what he told in the third day, and he was afraid that he would forget it for a while, so he thought about it all day, looking worried, but he didn't let others find Xu Ruyu's flaws from him.
Xu Ruyu said: "I will go down when I get to Jiangjin, and you will have to find the Youli Flower Boat in the future, and most of you can find me, and I will teach you seriously when the time comes." Originally, Xu Ruyu asked him to leave the boat with him, Liang Bao said that Shui Ruying hired the three of them to go to Yongyang, of course he would not be reckless because of personal matters, Xu Ruyu felt that what he said was very true, and he did not force him.
Liang Bao said: "Yongyang Mei's family celebrates the birthday of the old lady and invites famous artists all over the world, maybe Youli Huafang is also invited?" ”
Xu Ruyu also felt that there was such a possibility, but he was afraid that he would be involved in the East China Sea after going to Yongyang, and he decided to make a decision only after Jiangjin had found out clearly, not to mention that when he arrived in Jiangjin City, Shui Ruying would also expel himself from the boat. I thought: I'm afraid that many people are looking forward to the birthday of the old lady Mei Shilin, thinking about it like this, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Xu Ruyu turned over and went out, leaning against the side of the boat and slowly dived into the water, without making a sound. Liang Bao looked at the rippling river surface in a daze, and saw that Xu Ruyu had disappeared without a trace, and only felt that Sanyue was spending time in a dream.
When he turned around and saw Shui Ruying and his sleeves standing beside him, he was startled, thinking that Xu Ruyu's whereabouts had been discovered by them, and stood there at a loss.
Liang Bao always looked stupid every time he saw his sleeves, and Shui Ruying was also used to seeing this situation, but he didn't expect to go to other aspects, and asked him: "What about the fool, why didn't you see him?" Liang Bao opened his mouth and wanted to find a reason to cover it up, but he couldn't speak, pointing to the river under the boat, his face flushed. Sleeve frowned, and said impatiently: "You want to say that he jumped into the river and left?" Liang Bao was very sad when he saw that he was embarrassed in front of her, and secretly said that she would never look down on me again, nodded, and stood aside in a very depressed mood.
Sleeve chuckled, glanced at Shui Ruying, and said, "Fool is really stupid, dare to jump into the water on such a cold day." Shui Ruying looked thoughtfully at the secluded river, and then looked up at the prosperous lights in Jiangjin City in the distance, sighed slightly, and said: "I originally let him get off the boat in Jiangjin, so it's okay, I'm afraid this water can't ice him." ”
Liang Bao seemed to be suspicious of Xu Ruyu's identity when he heard her tone, thinking that Xu Ruyu was pretending to be crazy and stupid just to take a boat on the way, even if he was discovered, there was nothing to fear, and he really didn't need to worry about this. Thinking about it like this, the nervous mind eased, the expression returned to normal, and he stood on the side respectfully, only showing his embarrassment in the eyes of the sleeve, regretting it, but he still knew in his heart that even if he performed well, the sleeve would not look at it.
Shui Ruying saw Liang Bao standing there dejectedly, remembering how stupid he was with Sleeve in the past, he smiled at Sleeve and turned to leave. Thin sleeves scolded angrily and followed behind. Liang Bao looked at her and turned to leave, his eyes were angry, and he thought: It would be very good to see her like this every day.
Jinshui surrounds the city, it is the natural moat of the east of Jiangjin City, but when Yuanhua of the old dynasty built Jiangjin City, a canal of more than ten zhang wide was dug in the city to connect Jinshui, so as to facilitate the use of river transportation to enter the city. Jiangjin people often call the inland river Jinshui, and the real Jinshui that passes around the city is called the outer river.
Ruying Huafang entered Jiangjin City overnight, moored next to the stone steps not far from the Dongli Tea House, and everyone left the water to land, Liang Bao and two other boatmen followed.
Jiangjin deserves to be ranked among the four capitals of the world, the crescent moon is like a hook, it is hanging in the sky, the city is still brightly lit, the voices of people are boiling, and red men and green women linger on the long street. Liang Bao has been walking in the five counties of Hedong with the boat, and he has seen a lot of this situation, but he is only worried that Xu Ruyu has not found out about Youli Huafang, if Youli Huafang really goes to Yongyang, then he can learn martial arts from him again. He wasn't worried about how Xu Ruyu would go with them again, he secretly said that he was stupid, and the master would definitely be able to think of a way. In his heart, he already decided that Xu Ruyu was his master.
Yi Huaxi walked in front of everyone with his head held high, looked at the night that was becoming more and more charming, and said to Shui Ruying beside him: "Mei Renlin's birthday, my father will probably let me go to Yongyang in person, please ask the water girl to tie the boat and stop for one night, and when I see my father, how about starting with you tomorrow?" ”
Shui Ruying smiled and said: "Yi Gongzi said that he would set off on behalf of the Jiangjin Yi clan, how could he be mixed up with my little flower boat?" ”
Yi Huaxi looked at her like a flower and smiled, knowing that she was right, but how could she be willing to separate from her in her heart, thinking that she had returned home half a year ago, just when the world's floral arts gathered in Jiangjin, he saw the beautiful water like a shadow among the female artists, and he could no longer erase her gorgeous figure from his heart. In the past six months, she has traveled the world with the shadow flower boat, accompanied by her day and night, but she hated her for not having any more affection for herself. Yi Huaxi was slightly annoyed in her heart, and said, "The water girl has already met with Jiang Youli half a year ago, why are you in a hurry to go to Yongyang?" ”
Shui Ruying didn't hesitate for others to interfere with her affairs, but she didn't show it on her face, and replied Wan'er: "Half a year ago, Jiang Youli somehow didn't perform in public, and this Oiran title was fortunate to fall on the concubine's head, but after all, I couldn't listen to her peerless piano skills with my own ears, and I have regrets in my heart." ”
Shui Ruying's words did not avoid everyone, Liang Bao hung far behind but he could hear it clearly, and said secretly: Youli Huafang will really go to Yongyang, but I don't know if the master has inquired about it now.
Everyone found a restaurant, divided into two tables and had a meal, Shui Ruying said goodbye to Yi Huaxi, and led everyone back to the flower boat. Liang Bao and the other two boatmen entered the tail warehouse to rest, and heard the snoring of the other two getting louder and louder, and silently recalled the Biluo trick taught by Xu Ruyu in their hearts. In the midst of the fantasy of joy and sorrow, I heard the soft beep of the hatch. When I opened the window, I saw Xu Ruyu standing outside the window and beckoning him to let him out, suspected that it was a dream.
It turned out that Xu Ruyu sneaked into the city and inquired about the whereabouts of Youli Huafang, and no one even knew how many people asked, wondering in his heart: Half a year ago, the world's famous artists gathered in Jiangjin to seize the title of Oiran, and Jiangjin was famous for Sister Youli's peerless piano skills, why didn't anyone know? I had the heart to go to the Dongli Teahouse to inquire about the situation, and found that Liang Bao and they had also come ashore halfway, lurking on the side, and the words of Shui Ruying naturally listened to them, and said secretly: Half a year ago, we rushed from Rongcheng to Jiangjin at the expense of 2,000 miles to come to this Oiran title, why did Sister Youli give up so easily? I was worried about what had happened to Youli Huafang, and I wanted to stand up and ask Shui Ruying for an explanation. Secret Dao: This is the ground of the Yi family, although I am not afraid of Yi Huaxi, but I go out rashly, Liang Bao will definitely not be able to hide the relationship with me, I have been pretending to be crazy and pretending to be crazy for a long time, it is not good to involve Liang Baoke, now it is necessary to sneak into Yongyang City as soon as possible. Xu Ruyu originally wanted to hire a ship to go, but considering that the Puji pirates were imminent to march into the East China Sea, he might implicate the shippers in danger. It was much more comfortable to take the Shadow Boat than to walk six or seven hundred miles on foot, so he dived back into the Boat and lay on his back on the roof of the cabin.
When the other two boatmen fell asleep, they turned over to see Liang Bao, ready to call him out to explain the essence of Biluojue to him, and when he saw him tossing and turning back to the side of the bed, he was worried about the sleeves, and couldn't help but remember that he missed Sister Youli was also like this, and he was worried that everyone in Youli Huafang was coming, thinking of Youli's flower appearance and moonlight, and he stood in the dissolving moonlight for a while.
In winter, the water is slow, and the flower boat sails day and night, and it took six days of hard work to reach Yongyang on the ninth day of the lunar month. Xu Ruyu lay on the roof during the day and watched the clouds roll up, and taught Liang Bao martial arts at night, if it wasn't for worrying about the people in the Youli Flower Boat, it was also a beautiful journey.
When entering the Yongyang harbor, the sky darkened, and more than 1,000 ships of all sizes were moored in the river harbor, lighting the lights one after another, as bright as the stars of the day, densely dotted on the river surface. The waves of the river are surging, slapping the side of the ship, the sound is like a light song, the light points reflected in the water, the silver star shadow, and the red light shadow are entangled and stacked in one place, chaotic and confusing. The double-wing trestle is hung with a line of wind lanterns, and from a distance, it looks like a pearl connected in one place. On the dock of the trestle bridge, the figures are longing, and countless women in red clothes and green shirts are smiling at the male customers passing by. Xu Ruyu came to Yongyang the last time, only stayed in the middle of the night, and failed to see the Yongyang River Port, now look at such a prosperous scene, only to know that the reputation of Yongyang Port "Golden Dock, Silver Houzhu" is true.
Thinking that it would not take a few days for this place to become a dead port, his mood was extremely depressed, and his determination not to intervene in the war situation in the East China Sea was shaken for a while.
The flower boat shuttled between the boats, although he knew that there was little hope, Xu Ruyu still kept an eye on every ship that passed by, hoping to see the young Li flower boat.
Near the shore, more than 100 huge white stone walls pierced into the river for dozens of zhang, and the stone walls were separated by more than ten zhang. Under the guidance of the water diversion boat, the Ruying Flower Boat entered one of the docks and found that more than ten high-hanging flower boats wrapped in green gauze wind lanterns had been moored here, and the Youli Flower Boat was also in it.
Xu Ruyu couldn't help himself in ecstasy, he made up his mind to pay attention, and after talking to Liang Bao, he sneaked to the Youli Flower Boat. At this time, Shui Ruying and Sleeve and other musicians also stepped out of the cabin to watch the charming night view of Yongyang Harbor.
Xu Ru saw that he had no time to say goodbye to Liang Bao, so he wanted to see Youli and them first, and then plan later, and when he mentioned it, he was about to take off Qiyun and go to Youli Huafang. At this moment, I heard a young male voice from Youli Huafang: "Youli, the boat with the water like a shadow has also arrived, let's go out to meet her together, okay?" ”
Xu Ruyu heard that others called Youli's name so affectionately, his heart sank, if he was filled with lead, he was extremely unhappy, only to see Youli stepping out of the cabin lightly, a handsome man followed, followed by Jue'er, uncle and grandson Fangwu, looking at Youli looking back at the man with a smile, Xu Ruyu only felt that his heart was cracked, and he only thought in his heart: Yes, yes, Youli even gave up the title of Oiran for him, only to feel that his eyes were dark, "bang", fell on the roof of the cabin, and then rolled down to the deck with a "cluck".
Shui Ruying and the others suddenly saw a person rolling down from the top of the cabin, Qi Qi was startled, and when he saw that it was a fool a few days ago, he was shocked, and they all knew that he had been lurking in the boat for several days, and everyone would not notice it. Liang Bao was even more frightened, and he didn't know what kind of change had happened to make Xu Ruyu like this.
Xu Ruyu fell on the deck, and then he came to his senses, the pain in his heart was unbearable, and he wanted to cry to vent his depression. Sleeve came over to ask something, he didn't hear it at all, and when he saw her slap coming, his heart was sad, and he suddenly felt a wave of anger, feeling that he would split her to death with his palm, so as to vent the grief and anger in his heart.
Liang Bao saw that the sleeve slapped Xu Ruyu in the past, and Xu Ruyu's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he didn't know it well, and he couldn't care about it, so he squeezed between the two with an arrow step, and forced the sleeve away with one palm. In a hurry, "Fragrance Wears Willows" also exerted a point or two of might, sweeping all the power of the palm of his sleeve into the air, and "snapping" on her elbow.
The sleeves were forced away by Liang Bao for a while, and he staggered back a few steps before he paused, wanting to open his mouth to scold, but he saw Xu Ruyu behind Liang Bao screaming sharply, and swept towards the shore in the air, and jumped over a distance of more than ten zhang, and his figure was like a line of light smoke in the shadow of the buildings. The strange roar has not stopped, and Xu Ruyu's figure has completely disappeared into the night. Sleeve's face turned pale, and he knew that Liang Bao's palm really saved his life.
Everyone in the dock heard the terrible roar like a night owl, and they knew that something had happened to the shadow flower boat, and they all rushed to see what was going on. Youli Huafang also leaned over, and the handsome man waved at Shui Ruying and said, "Huailai Huo Qingtong has seen Miss Ruying. ”
Shui Ruying glanced at Jiang Youli, and said with a chuckle: "Huo Shizi doesn't love the style of the country and loves the beauty, no one in the world knows it, I don't want you to travel thousands of miles, follow the Youli Flower Boat to Yongyang, it seems that I will return the title of Oiran to Sister Youli." ”
Huo Huai smiled and said, "Where, Huai Wei happened to come to celebrate Old Lady Mei's birthday." ”
Where would Shui Ruying believe him, the face of the Yongyang Mei family is not so big as to let the prince of the Huo clan in Jinyang go out in person, but seeing the uncertainty in Jiang Youli's eyes on the side, he stopped dwelling on this topic, bowed to Jiang Youli, and said: "Ruying has seen Sister Youli. You Li bowed back and asked her, "Girl Ruying, who is the one who left from Guifang just now?" Shui Ruying replied: "I thought I was an idiot, but I didn't want to be a strange stranger with great skills." Youli was a little disappointed, but he didn't understand why he looked at that figure with such a familiar feeling, and after thinking for a while, he couldn't understand, and after a few words with Shui Ruhan, he turned around and returned to the cabin.
Liang Bao listened to their conversation on the side, and understood that Xu Ruyu suddenly became crazy because Huo Qingtong and Jiang Youli were together, and secretly said If my sleeves were with others, I would definitely feel so uncomfortable in my heart. I was very worried about Xu Ruyu's whereabouts, and immediately wanted to go ashore to find it.
Shui Ruying asked a musician to pay him a commission, and asked him, "How many martial arts did that person teach you?" Liang Bao saw that Sleeve Er was also on the side, and didn't want to hide it from her, so he said, "Nine days." Shui Ruying gasped and thought: Although Sleeve Er was overlooked for a while, after all, he followed him for four years, and was forced to open by Liang Bao, who had only learned nine martial arts, and that person's cultivation had reached such a terrifying status, no wonder he and Yi Huaxi had never been able to see through his depth.
Although Liang Bao was able to force the sleeve to retreat with one palm, although it was with the help of the wonderful use of "floating fragrance and willow", he took the offensive of the sleeve and guarded the royal opening, but it was also related to the fact that he had practiced the deformed Gu Lian Xi Quan for a long time, and cultivated a faint but extremely pure Dan Xi. Xu Ruyu's current cultivation is not as terrifying as she imagined, and he can't see through his depth, because he practices the Heart Sutra of Stopping Water, and his practice of the Divine Trick is very different from ordinary people, after his heaven and earth are connected, Xu Ruyu spontaneously practiced the breath and turned into essence, and has not experienced the realm of practicing the breath and transforming the god, and directly entered the realm of practicing the god and turning the void, and it is difficult to judge his Dan breath from his eyes.
Shui Ruying waved his hand to let Liang Bao leave, and he stayed there all the time, thinking back to the murderous intent that suddenly gathered when the person left, a cold sweat soaked out of his skin, glanced at the silent sleeve beside him, and said softly: "Just take it as a lesson, don't humiliate people who seem to be inferior to yourself in the future." But when he thought of the sad and bleak howl, his heart ached, and he said secretly: What made him let out such a sad howl?
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