Chapter 30: Hot Spring Encounter
Hearing Nie Binghe's words, Xingluo ran towards the end of Merlin.
Xun'er, we haven't seen each other in four years, Xingluo said all the way.
The path leading to the hut was covered with cold frost, and he almost fell several times because of the slippery road.
There are three wooden houses built on the hill, and the blue exterior walls are covered with moss accumulated over the years, and under the outer walls, there are neatly arranged piles of dry firewood.
Xingluo circled around the wooden house several times and didn't see any figure, just when he wanted to push the door and enter to find out, a girl's curling song suddenly came from the stream not far from the wooden house, the song was like a yellow warbler out of the valley, round and jade, intoxicating.
Following the direction of the song, Xingluo searched all the way, and after passing through several winding paths, the temperature around gradually rose, and it turned out that there was a natural hot spring next to the stream.
The water of the hot spring was crystal clear, and it was from the hot spring that the singing came out, and Xingluo's heart beat faster, and his intuition told him that the girl who sang was the person he was looking for.
Xingluo took a few more steps forward, and in order to make Asa Xun'er recognize him at first sight, he didn't use the disguise technique again.
In the hot spring, a young girl is bathing in the water, her long legs, thin waist, and light blue hair scattered over her shoulders.
Xingluo looked at the girl for half a cup of tea, the back, the voice, it was clearly Qianxun'er.
Xingluo was excited for a while, but he didn't notice that he was stepping on a talc, and with an "ah" scream, Xingluo stumbled and fell directly into the hot spring water.
"Who's where?" The surprised girl immediately became alert.
Xingluo stood up from the hot spring drenched, and at that moment, his gaze met the girl's.
The girl's skin was as clear and soft as water, her face was pointed, her eyebrows were slender, and she wore nothing but a pink and white belly pocket.
After being stunned for a moment, the girl suddenly screamed, "Hooligans!! Who are you! ”
Xingluo was also startled, and hurriedly covered his eyes and turned his back, "Xun'er, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's me, I'm Xiao Luo." ”
The girl didn't stop hearing Xingluo's name, but shouted even louder, "You stinky rascal, how do I know my name!" ”
"Of course I know your name, I'm Xiao Luo, don't you know me?" Xingluo turned his head and said.
Seeing Xingluo turn her head, the girl hurriedly immersed her body in the water, and then picked up a stone in the water and threw it at Xingluo, "Stinky rascal, you dare to look at it!" ”
The stone hit Xingluo's left forehead impartially, and suddenly a huge blue-red lump popped up.
"Kaoru'er, I really didn't mean to peek, I heard that you were here, so I couldn't wait to come and find you." Xingluo explained.
The girl didn't listen to Xingluo's explanation, and continued to shout: "Stinky rascal, I don't know you at all, and besides, don't call me Xun'er anymore, this name is not your name!" Don't get out of the way yet. ”
Xingluo's eyes became gloomy, and his soaked figure was stained with a layer of distressing loneliness, he didn't understand why Xun'er didn't know him, just when the stone hit him just now, she didn't show any mercy.
"Why are you still stupid, why don't you go away quickly!" The girl shouted again.
Xingluo touched the beaten forehead and climbed ashore from the hot spring, and the girl also took the opportunity to leave from the other end of the hot spring.
About a stick of incense passed, the girl who had changed her clothes returned to the wooden house, and near the dry pyre, the girl saw Xingluo waiting outside the house at a glance, and he was still wearing the soaked clothes.
"You... What's the matter with you? Why did you still chase me to my house? The girl picked up a stick of dry wood and defended herself.
Xingluo leaned against the outer wall of the wooden house, looked at her slowly, and said, "You injured me, do you want to end it like this?" ”
When the girl heard this, she instantly became angry, "You stinky rascal, you obviously broke in and peeked at me taking a bath, but now you bite back!" ”
"Girl, I'm not called a stinky rascal, I have a name, you can call me Xingluo, or Xiaoluo, and besides, I just broke in by mistake just now, and I didn't mean to offend."
"How do I know if you mean it or not!! You've been staring at people for so long, throwing you a stone is light, if my parents found out, they would have gouged out your eyes!! ”
Xingluo smiled faintly, and then slowly looked at the girl from top to bottom, "You live alone in this wooden house, right?" ”
Hearing Xingluo's question, the girl immediately became alert, and the dry firewood in her hand also tightened: "You...... What do you think, my family of three lives here, and my parents just went hunting in the mountains, maybe they will come back soon. ”
Xingluo smiled again: "You don't lie to me, there are only traces of your life here, where did you come from?" ”
The girl was a little panicked, she didn't know what the young man in front of her wanted to do to her, this wooden house was indeed the only one she lived in. The year she was born, her parents disliked her as a daughter, and left her in Dongmian Mountain when she was not yet a full moon, fortunately, her luck was not so bad, on the day she was discarded, an old mother-in-law picked her home, this wooden house was also left by her mother-in-law, two years ago, her mother-in-law died of illness, and only the girl lived in the huge wooden house.
"You...... What do you really want? The girl glanced at Xingluo Dao again, although the other party looked about the same age as herself, but he was a head taller than herself, if he really wanted to be strong, he was not his opponent at all.
"You don't have to be nervous, I won't eat you!" Xingluo said slowly: "Dry the clothes on my body for me and I'll leave, in this kind of weather, I will definitely be infected with the wind cold if I go out wet like this." ”
"You...... You're really uninteresting, it's your own rudeness first, and now you're embarrassed to ask to stay, you're wet and you're also asking for yourself, what are you doing with me. ”
Xingluo unhurriedly straightened up his clothes: "Is the girl really so ruthless? ”
"I ......" Xingluo's words made the girl speechless for a while, and seeing Xingluo shivering in the cold wind, the girl couldn't help but agree to his request.
"I'll make a fire, you take off your coat and give it to me, and when it's dry, you'll leave immediately."
Xingluo thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Taking off his coat, Xingluo threw the clothes to the girl, and the girl looked at Xingluo again before turning around and entering the house: "It's cold outside, you go to the firewood room and wait first." ”
"Then there's Miss Lao." Xingluo smiled.
The firewood room was very simple, there was nothing in it except firewood and straw, and when he pushed the door in, Xingluo shivered firmly, took off his coat, and he was only left with a close-fitting single coat, in order to resist the cold, he had to conjure up a protective barrier around his body.
The girl in front of her is exactly the same as the shallow Xun'er in Xingluo's memory, whether it is her voice or appearance, or even her age, the only difference is that the shallow Xun'er in her memory exudes the fragrance of imperial flowers, and the girl in front of her only has a faint fragrance of plum blossoms.
Just when the girl was baking clothes for Xingluo, Xingluo couldn't help but use the mind-reading technique on the girl, from the girl's memory, he saw all kinds of things that happened to this girl in the past, and he also understood that this girl was not the Xun'er he knew in Diling Academy, despite this, Xingluo was still very puzzled, this girl's name is also called Qianxun'er, even if it is the same name, it is impossible to have a coincidence that the two people look and age exactly the same.
The girl in front of her is just an ordinary person, she is even so ordinary that she has no cultivation at all, then, the only possibility is that Qian Xun'er of Diling Academy has been using the disguise technique in front of her, thinking of this, Xing Luo's heart chuckled, recalling that for more than a year, Qian Xun'er has never cultivated with herself, nor has she ever talked to herself about anything about cultivation, it turns out that this is the reason.
Half an hour later.
The girl walked into the firewood room with the clothes that had been dried, and she choreographed a lot of words that wanted to reprimand Xingluo, but when she saw Xingluo sleeping soundly against the straw, she swallowed all the words again.
The beautiful young man in front of him, with a smooth and fair face, compared to the somewhat annoying appearance just now, at this moment, he with long eyelashes hanging down and sleeping quietly touched the girl's heart, and for a moment, she suddenly had a desire to possess him.
She from memory, there is only an old mother-in-law around, her name is also given by her mother-in-law, from childhood to adulthood, she has no relatives, no friends, all year round with the flowers, birds, fish and beasts in the Dongmian Mountains as companions, after the mother-in-law left, she is even more helpless, hungry, on the wild fruits on the mountain to fill the hunger, thirsty, directly drink the stream water of the mountains and forests, now finally a person broke into her world, how can she not be moved.
The girl put the dried clothes on Xingluo's body, and then gently opened the door and went out.
Seeing the girl go back to the room, Xingluo slowly opened his eyes, just now he was pretending to be asleep, and when he performed the mind-reading technique on the girl, he found that he had an inexplicable pity for her, maybe because she had a face similar to that of Qianxun'er, or maybe she looked more gentle and considerate than Qian'er, Xingluo had accepted her existence from the bottom of his heart.
Throughout the afternoon, the girl did not come out of the room, and while no one was disturbing, Xingluo practiced illusion cross-legged in the firewood room for two hours.
Winter gets dark earlier than ever, and just after the unitary hour, it's already half dark outside the hut, and snowflakes are beginning to drift in the overcast sky.
Xingluo suddenly remembered Nie Binghe, in order not to disturb him, when he came out of the hot spring, he used the intention control technique to leave Nie Binghe outside the merlin, if it was late today, and it was snowing again, he must have been frozen to death.
Thinking of this, Xingluo hurriedly got up and opened the door of the firewood room, and just as he was about to go out, he saw the girl standing outside the door with a bottle of medicinal wine, "You...... Are you leaving? The girl asked with a red face.
"It occurred to me that my friend was still waiting for me, and I had to look for him."
The girl lowered her head with an "oh", and after a while, she asked in a deep voice, "Then will you come back?" ”
Xingluo smiled slightly, "Didn't you just murmur that I should leave immediately?" What's the matter, now you are reluctant to let me go? ”
The girl shook her head lightly, turned to face Merlin behind her, and said, "I don't learn well at a young age, I just think I was too heavy before, and I want to take some medicinal wine to wipe your wounds......"
Before the girl could finish her words, she felt a sudden gust of wind behind her, and when she turned around, she found that the firewood room was empty.