"Dementors? Is this true? Shirtless leaned in with a frown.

"What are you so nervous about?" I asked with a smile.

"Hongyun'er is afraid that you also used the soul dementoring technique on him that day." Bruw looked very clear.

"When? Which day? ”

Bo Lu coughed twice and said with a smile: "Uh-when, isn't it the first time he saw you in the Qin Kingdom and said that he wanted to bring you back!" ”

I laughed, "Hongyun'er, I didn't use any soul tricks on you at the banquet that day, but you want to bring some suffering kabuki and maiko you like to see!" Tell me, how many are hidden in your yard now? ”

As soon as Beru heard me, he coughed more and more. I hurriedly poured him a bowl of water and said angrily, "I laughed at him, why are you so excited?" ”

"My yard is very empty, if you wish, you can go and see for yourself someday." After speaking, Wuxian stood up, "Do you still have the medicine of the prince, I will bring it back and let people fry it for him to drink, so that he will not come to you every day." ”

"You're leaving?" I got up and looked at him puzzled, didn't you have a good conversation just now, how can you just go?

"Tonight, Father Qing is going to have a banquet at home for Wei Sect Master Wei Luxury, so he should go back early. On the day of your apprenticeship, we will definitely come to watch the ceremony! You should have a good rest in the next few days! Beru stood up, his face flushed strangely, perhaps the wind that had been blowing in the courtyard with us for too long had burned again.

"Then go back quickly! When Hongyun'er is driving, don't talk, you don't have to drink the cold wind. I handed the small jar of medicine to Zhao Wuxian and instructed, "The medicine here can be drunk three times." If there are better, come back and ask me. ”

"Okay." Wuxian took the medicine jar and helped Beru into the carriage.

After they left, I carried the rattan raft to the bamboo forest by the muddy water. There will always be some yin-loving herbs growing in the bamboo forest near the water, and if you find something more valuable, maybe you can sell it to save some money for yourself.

The bamboo forest on the edge of the muddy water is a place that the master has been thinking about all his life, it is only ten steps away from the river bank, and no matter how small the wind blows from here, it will trigger the bamboo forest and the flowing water to sing in unison.

At this time, at noon, the dazzling sunlight sprinkled on the ground through the emerald green bamboo leaves, turning into large or small, constantly rippling and beating spots. I knelt on the ground and happily cut out a heavy building by the roots and threw it into the rattan basket behind me.

"Luan?" An old trembling voice sounded behind me, and I turned around to wipe the sweat with my hands, and Shi Mo stood less than ten paces away from me.

Master, he is still here......

"Ah Shi has seen Taishi!" I stood up and walked over to him.

"What are you doing here?" Shi Mo put away the sadness on his face and asked in a cold voice.

"Yu Taishi, collect medicine." I pointed to the Fuji Sho behind me.

"That's what he taught you, too?"

I shook my head and looked silently at the frost-covered old man in front of me.

"Since you are so resentful that I drove away your master back then, why do you still worship me as a teacher now?" He flicked the sleeves of his robe and walked towards the bamboo forest.

I moved lightly and followed: "Before his death, the master instructed me that if I have the opportunity to come to the Jin Kingdom in the future, I must learn the art of yin and yang witchcraft from Taishi. He said that these were the things he couldn't teach me, and they were the ones he always regretted. ”

"Yes, it's time to come, it's always coming." Shi Mo gave me a deep look, and walked slowly to the muddy water with his back hand.

With white hair and a long beard, his waist and back were erect, and the inky robe embroidered with gold and cloud patterns on his body was blown high by the river wind, floating like a fairy. How could I have thought he was like the Master back then? The master's back is always crushed by the years, don't say that he is a person who is reluctant to use even a silk belt with such a silk robe embroidered with gold patterns......

"He Cai Shu is so confident, I will take you as an apprentice?" Shi Mo looked at the flowing river and said in a deep voice.

"No, the Master gave me anything. He said, "If I give it to you, you will definitely agree to take me as an apprentice." ”

"What's it?"

"The fetal hair that has been there since the birth of a child and the gray hair that a woman has when she is in her prime." After I finished speaking, I quietly looked at Shi Mo's face.

Shi Mo stared at me tightly, his two snow-white eyebrows tightly twisted together, the corners of his mouth began to tremble involuntarily, and a few cyan tendons burst out under the dry skin of his neck.

"Where?" He held out his hand to me.

I rolled up my sleeves and took out a half-opened bone ring from my left arm: "This bone ring is empty inside, Taishi only needs to melt the pine resin at both ends to see what is hidden inside." ”

Shi Mo reached out and took the bone ring, and stroked it carefully with his eyes: "Since you have this thing, why didn't you take it out in the first place?" ”

"This is the most precious thing of the Master, and I know what it means to Taishi. If I take it out that day, in Taishi's eyes, it will become a thing that the master begs for you. You may take me as a disciple and accept it with peace of mind, or you may feel angry that the two things in this bone ring should be yours. However, in Ah Shi's opinion, when Taishi ruthlessly drove the master and the woman named Ah Luan out of the Jin Kingdom, this was no longer your thing. The person who should beg the master is Taishi, and the one who should be grateful to the master for this thing should also be Taishi. ”

Shi Mo was stunned for a long time when he heard my words, he looked back at the bamboo forest behind him, and said with a wry smile: "He did accept a good disciple...... I've taken the things, so let's go! ”

I saluted Shi Mo and left, and when I walked far away, I turned my head and saw the white-haired and green-clothed old man standing alone by the Hushui River.

Master, maybe he will still be the all-conquering Jin Kingdom Taishi tomorrow, but at this moment, he is missing you, the child who died early and the woman named Ah Luan.

People always think that the time of life is very long, long enough to give themselves the opportunity to make mistakes, miss a confession, miss a love, miss a person. But when everything has passed, you will suddenly find that life is so short, so short that you can no longer find the person in your memory, say what you once wanted to say, and do what you once wanted to do. You want to go back in time and get back what you missed, but it's too late......

In the next few days, neither Bolu nor Wuxian came back, and I went to the bamboo forest to collect medicine and did not meet Shi Mo again.

On an early summer night, with a soft warmth in the coolness, I drank a bowl of refreshing fruit wine and lay on my back on the bed.

On the white gauze window lattice, the shadows of the trees and the delicate and gentle sound of the muddy water swayed slowly in front of my eyes. Tomorrow is the day of apprenticeship. I touched my empty upper arm and suddenly felt relieved. Regardless of whether it was right or wrong to come to the Jin Kingdom this time, at least I fulfilled my master's last wish.

This night, I dreamed of a verdant bamboo forest, and I dreamed of my young master. Half-asleep and half-awake, it was as if I heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the muddy bank. The sound of the regular beating wrapped in the misty night from far and near, all the way to the gate of my courtyard. I rolled over with a mutter.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped at the door, and someone jumped over the wall.

With a squeak, the courtyard door opened.

I woke up with a thud and crawled to my feet.

Who's coming? I pulled out my dagger and held it to my chest, cautiously walked to the door, and peeked out through the crack in the door.

Under the bright and clear moonlight, a man carried two hibiscus flowers, one white and one purple, from his black steed into the courtyard. He glanced into the room, then gently took off his robe and hung it on the tree on his right. There were insects chirping softly in the bushes, and a grass warbler that had been perched in the treetops was awakened by him, squeaked twice, and then flapped its wings and flew away. The man rolled up the sleeves of his robe and squatted in the corner of the wall next to the gate of our courtyard to dig up the earth, and the moonlight cast a blurry halo on the red cloud on his brow.

He didn't sleep in the middle of the night, what did he do in my yard? Grow flowers?

Wuxian planted the two hibiscus, got up and patted the soil on the hem of his clothes, then put on his robe again, locked the door from the inside, and jumped over the earthen wall.

"You're leaving?" I slammed the door open.

Standing on the courtyard wall, he laughed: "Or did it wake you up?" ”

I glanced at the two hibiscus trees in the corner and smiled at him, "I've been busy for so long, do you want to come in and have a drink?" ”

"This flower I saw on the way back to Xinjiang from Anyi, white and purple are quite rare, I thought you would like it, so I dug it up. I haven't been back for five days on the road, and if I have any wine to drink, I'll ask for a bowl to wake up, and I won't drink water. Go to sleep! I will apprentice tomorrow. When he had finished saying this, he turned to leave, and I hurriedly called out to him, "Wait, I have new wine here, pour you a bowl to quench your thirst." ”

"You've only been in the Jin Kingdom for a few days, and you've already brewed new wine?" Shirtless jumped off the wall with a smile.

I hid the dagger, turned around and poured a small bowl of fruit wine from the house and walked out: "This is not the wine I made, I made a new blend of wild berries and the sake in your house, if you want to drink it, you can barely eat it." ”

"After drinking your bowl, you still owe me a pot of peach blossom stuffing." Shirtless walked up to me with a smile.

I handed him the bowl, but he didn't take it, just spread out a pair of dirty hands, looked at me with hooked lips and smiled.

I chuckled, stood on tiptoe and brought the wine bowl to his lips: "A gentleman who plants flowers in the middle of the night, it's good to drink." ”

Shirtless lowered his head and took a sip of my hand, then lifted two feather fan-like eyelashes and stared at me with a smile. I frowned in confusion, he pursed his lips, swallowed his wine, and said in a dumb voice, "You know, I never drink sweet wine." ”

"Then why didn't you just say that?" I glanced at him and withdrew my hand. But the person in front of me was faster than me, and with a hook of his long fingers, he snatched the wine bowl in my hand, drank it all with his neck up, and then stuffed the empty bowl into my arms with a smile.

If you don't drink sweet wine, why do you drink it all again?

I took the bowl with my head down, and when I looked up again, the person in front of me was gone.

In the corner of the wall, two clumps of newly blooming hibiscus flowers danced under the caress of the night breeze, and the grass warbler that had flown in a circle returned to its beloved tree. I stood in the courtyard in the middle of the night, and the moonlight above my head and the whisper of grass insects made me feel as if I had fallen into another dream.