Under the parched peach blossom tree, a woman in red sat at a stone table with a sword, a pot of cooled tea, and an empty white porcelain cup stained with dust.

Xue ...... Elder Xue? The girl opened her mouth cautiously, lest she disturb the time she spent alone.

The woman in red raised her head and glanced at her nonchalantly, "New disciple? "Didn't recognize her.

The girl nodded and replied, "Yes." The disciples who came this time wanted to ask Elder Xue to accept the disciples as disciples. ”

Xue Ling was not surprised, she thought of it as early as when the head urged her to come back, but it stands to reason that the process is not like this. In the past, when a new disciple wanted to worship her, he would first record it in the register and inform her, and then choose a day to bring it over.

She didn't hear anything.

Xue Ling pondered for a moment and asked, "Who brought you here?" ”

"It's the direction that Mr. Wen pointed me to. He said that there was only one candidate suitable for disciples to apprentice this time, Elder Xue, so he made a few more remarks. The girl replied honestly.

Xue Ling had just returned to the mountain gate yesterday, and a lot of information was not well-informed, so he was very surprised when he heard this, "Why is this?" What about the other elders? ”

The girl repeated what Wen Duzhou said to Xue Ling.

Xue Ling listened and did not speak for a long time.

Over the years, her resistance to accepting disciples has eased, but when she came back, the head asked her, she still shook her head, and the head only let her see before deciding, at that time she thought, so she followed the old routine to make it difficult and pushed it to the other elders, but now, the other elders are no longer willing to accept it, although the big elder is also a place to go, but it is the best choice.

Xue Ling suddenly felt embarrassed.

She used to care less about people's future and care about her own happiness, but after a few years of being out of the home, she saw a lot of jealousy in the world, but she developed a little soft-heartedness.

But accepting an apprentice is a serious matter, she can't do it like other elders, and there are no disciples around to help, if she accepts this apprentice, she can't leave Nanhua Mountain in a short time.

Xue Ling looked up at the girl and found that she was secretly looking at herself, and as soon as she met her gaze, she quickly lowered her head as if she were a thief. Xue Ling felt funny for a while, but the child was a little shy, and he also felt strange that the child's eyes looking at her were not like the first time.

"You seem to know me?" Xue Ling asked.

The little girl raised her face, nodded crampedly, and said with a smile: "If you are not mistaken, Elder Xue, you are the life-saving benefactor of your disciple." ”

"A lifesaver?" Xue Ling frowned, carefully looking at the girl's appearance, she was indeed a little familiar.

The girl prompted, "Just last month, in the woods, you saved me from a man in black. ”

As soon as she said it, Xue Ling suddenly realized.

Immediately, she frowned again, "Do you know that strange man?" Why did he arrest you? ”

"This ......" the girl smiled bitterly, "The disciple doesn't know, in the memory of the disciple, there is no enmity with him recently, no grudges in the past, and I don't know why he wanted to arrest me." ”

The girl seemed to be honest, but Tong You felt that she was talking in a panic, and even started acting when she met Xue Ling, she was deliberately currying favor with Xue Ling, and deliberately introduced the topic to arouse Xue Ling's sympathy for her.

Sure enough, after a few words, Xue Ling said: "Put aside the matter of apprenticeship for the time being, and I'll go see Wen Duzhou first." ”

"Yes." The girl said obediently.

Xue Ling stood up, paused, and beckoned the girl to come and sit down, "You wait here for me to come back." ”