A crescent moon emerges from the eastern mountains, and it is seen both distant and ethereal, as if it is hovering among the stars. The night breeze on the mountain blew Ling Liu's hair and clothes, sending endless coolness, and the heat of the day escaped without a trace because of this moment. Ling Xiao and Lu Jingxing sat side by side on the bluestone on the mountain, and there were bursts of sound in their ears

Insects chirp, the nose smells wisps of flowers, and the eyes see a little firefly. Ling Xiao played with the piccolo in his hand and listened carefully to every word Lu Jingxing said. Lu Jingxing told her that if she wants to play a moving tune, she must not only be proficient in fingering to the point that it is like her own instinct and become her own subconscious, but also

Practicing more than a dozen types of ornamental sounds to the extreme, Ling Xiao suddenly felt that it would be difficult to learn this without spending a few years.

"You start practicing from the calendar, the fingers rise and fall in the blowing should be affirmative, decisive, and not miss a note, so that every note experienced is very clear, smooth, and appears step by step like a rapid step up and down." Lu Jingxing explained and demonstrated, and the flute sound was rapidly moving from low to high

The stage ascended from the flute hole, with a crisp and neat finish.

"Playing the flute horizontally and blowing the flute vertically, it doesn't seem to be simple." Ling Xiao couldn't help but sigh when he saw that he was blowing very easily, but it was very laborious to blow it himself.

"Do you mean pan flute?" When Lu Jingxing heard Ling Xiao mention Xiao, he thought it was a pan flute.

"No, it's about the same as a flute, just blown vertically." Ling Xiao explained.

"Ordinary flutes are blown vertically, and few people can blow horizontally, this is the blowing method of the Western Regions, and it has not spread." When Lu Jingxing said this, Ling Xiao remembered that the flute was also blown vertically before Qin, and Ling Xiao remembered that it was recorded in the history books that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian only introduced the horizontal blowing to the Central Plains when he went to the Western Regions

In the later historical evolution, Xiao and Di were separated.

"So how did you learn it?" Ling Xiao asked casually.

"It's just that it hasn't spread, but not everyone can't, not to mention that Jianghu people like to wander around, it's not difficult to learn this, the most important thing is that this kind of horizontal piccolo is easy to carry." Lu Jingxing's words fluttered in the wind, adding a little movement to the silent night.

Ling Xiao looked up at the night sky in the east, and saw that at this moment, the crescent moon had broken free from the shackles of Dongshan and hung high in the starry sky, from far and void to close and solid, this is the time passed from the sound of the flute.

Standing here, Ling Xiao could not only see the entire Lu Mansion under the moonlight, but also see the street sleeping in silence. Tonight's curfew, the whole city of Huizhou has sunk into a dream, only the breeze and the sound of insects seem to have no sleep, and they will never leave the lonely night like snow. Ling Xiao practice

After a long time, Lu Jingxing's voice sounded again: "It's not early, let's go back." Practice again tomorrow. The sound of the flute stopped, Ling Xiao nodded to him, got up and walked down the stone ladder path down the mountain, the dew on the leaves wetting Ling Xiao's dress.

Soon after getting up the next morning, Ling Xiao went in the direction of the kitchen, accompanied by the early morning birdsong, the swallows flew like hide and seek, Ling Xiao wanted to ask Yu Niang what was going on with yesterday's meal.

A beam of sunlight slanted in front of the kitchen door, obviously a summer sun, but it looked extraordinarily soft and tranquil.

The aroma of vegetables wafted from afar from the house, and the sound of pots and spoons colliding was orderly and urgent. Ling Xiao walked in, and in an instant, white steam enveloped Ling Xiao, and the entire kitchen was covered with white mist, like an immortal's residence. The blank fog on the steamer does not recede, as if it has encountered dry ice in the water, creating an ethereal fairyland that is not easy to disappear.

Ling Xiao could only vaguely see Yu Niang's figure and voice. Yu Niang saw her come in and said to her, "Breakfast will be good soon, are you hungry?" ”

"I'm not hungry. Yu Niang, did you forget to deal with the dishes I made yesterday, and they served them wrong. Ling Xiao said the purpose.

"It's a pity that you worked so hard to make these dishes, and they didn't make the mistake." Ling Xiao couldn't see Yu Niang's expression when she said this, but she already understood what was going on, Ling Xiao thought that if she knew this, she should have disposed of those dishes herself.

"Yu Niang, I really don't know what to say, even if it's a pity, you can't give it to Lu Jingxing." Ling Xiao looked helpless.

"The lord of the house will not dislike it, he eats the dishes you cooked, and his heart is happy." Yu Niang is here again, Ling Xiao really doesn't know what they think in their heads for a day.

"Forget it, don't talk about it." Ling Xiao felt that he had to be careful in the future, otherwise he would have to look foreign, Yu Niang This is a typical rhythm of the mandarin duck spectrum.

Ling Xiao silently walked out of the kitchen, stood beside the wooden pillars in the cloister, and looked at the flowers bathed in the morning sun in the garden, golden and dazzling.

"Why are you standing here in a daze? It was breakfast. Lu Ci tapped Ling Xiao's shoulder with the hilt of the sword in his hand, and Ling Xiao glanced back at him: "Enjoy the flowers." ”

"Can you have a full stomach when you enjoy the flowers?" Lu Ci joked.

"Let's go." After saying that, Ling Xiao didn't care about him anymore and walked down the long corridor.

The steaming steamed buns were steaming hot on the table, and the steam enveloped the surrounding delicate side dishes, as if they were about to devour it. Ling Xiao held a jade bowl in his hand, and inside was a thick and suitable bean porridge.

"Why don't you eat vegetables? Today's dish is not to your taste?" Lu Jingxing saw that Ling Xiao was just drinking porridge, looked at her and asked.

"No, it's very good." Ling Xiao said that, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up a vegetable and fed it to his mouth. She didn't care about yesterday's incident, and she was also a little worried that the people in the mansion would misunderstand the relationship between her and Lu Jingxing more and more.

"I've never seen a silent woman like you, not at all like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman, if it weren't for your appearance, I would really think that you were older than Yu Niang! Besides, other women are either gentle as water or innocent, but you are a bit like a plague god. Lu Ci made no secret of it

The actor published his understanding of Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao really admires him now. Lu Jingxing gave him a look on the side, and he immediately understood and closed his mouth.

"I'm twenty-five years old now." Ling Xiao said. In fact, even if she is twenty-five years old, a twenty-five-year-old woman will not be like Ling Xiao, she should be thirty-five years old.

"Don't be angry, it's me who didn't speak properly, how about you stab me with two swords to relieve my anger?" Lu Ci thought that Ling Xiao was angry, and as he spoke, he handed the sword next to the bamboo mat in front of her.

"I'm not angry, I want to change myself, but I can't change it for a while." Ling Xiao didn't know why she suddenly explained this, she felt strange to herself.

"Take your time, there is time, and one day you will open your heart." Lu Ci was blaming himself for what he said just now, and when he didn't know how to say it, Lu Jingxing said it first.

"Hmm." Ling Xiao nodded, and then drank the porridge in the bowl again.

The only people who ate with Lu Jingxing were Ling Xiao and Lu Ci, and now the three of them didn't speak, and the only thing that was quiet in the room was the sound of Lu Ci drinking porridge.

After dinner, Lu Ci went out, and only Ling Xiao and Lu Jingxing were left in the study, relatively speechless, only the scenery outside the window could make her intoxicated. She held her head in her hands and looked at the butterflies flying outside the window, sighing at its beauty. Butterflies covet the beauty of flowers, but they don't know that they are already suffocating and pitiful

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"What kind of martial arts do you want to learn?" Lu Jingxing's voice sounded.

"I want to learn light skills and swordsmanship, is that okay?" Ling Xiao didn't think about it, she said it directly, and after learning light skills, she could climb the treetops or rooftops to enjoy the most beautiful night sky and stars; After learning the swordsmanship, she can use it for self-defense and live independently. She doesn't need any advanced martial arts cheats, as long as she can

Learn as soon as possible and deal with one or two ordinary people.

"There are two volumes of cheats here, which one do you want to learn?" Ling Xiao didn't expect that there was also a bookshelf on the back of the bookshelf, inlaid on the wall with exquisite calligraphy and paintings. Lu Jingxing took out two rolls of bamboo slips from them and asked her seriously.

"What's the difference?" These two volumes of bamboo slips are thick and thin, and the content of Ling Xiao's coarse thinking must be more.

"This volume is easy to learn, most people can learn it, but it takes as little as ten years." Lu Jingxing pointed to the thick roll and said.

"What about the other volume?" Ling Xiao felt that ten years was too long.

"There are very few people who can learn this, and there is no one in the past hundred years." Lu Jingxing said.

"How so?" Ling Xiao had doubts. "There are not many people who have him, and now only the volume of Lu Fu exists in the world, which is learned by women, and it was not easy to learn a hundred years ago, and now there is only this one volume, and no one has the opportunity to learn it." Lu Jingxing's eyes were not shocked, such a precious cheat

, to tell him to come, but it is very common.

"How long will that take?" Ling Xiao guessed that such a difficult cheats would take longer.

"Two years as fast, six or seven years as slow, or forever." Ling Xiao thought for a moment after listening to it, and finally decided to try this difficult volume, she felt that it didn't matter if she gambled once, as long as the time was short: "Then I'll learn this short time." ”

"Have you thought it through? Although this volume is more powerful, I have already told you about the difficulty. Lu Jingxing's face was full of seriousness.

"Think it through." Ling Xiao was very determined.

"Okay, you memorize the content of this in the past few days, and ask me if you don't understand the place. After that, I'll teach you how to practice internal forces. Lu Jingxing handed the bamboo slip to Ling Xiao.

"The Heart Sutra of the Cold Heart?" Ling Xiao took the bamboo slip and opened it, there was a picture of animal skin in it, on which were painted with various actions, the first line of the bamboo slip was written with the four words "Cold Heart Sutra", followed by dense small seal characters.

"Yes, there are five layers of the Heart Sutra of the Cold Heart, after breaking through the two layers, you will have the ability to learn light skills, and then you only need to master some basic methods of light skills, and I will explain them to you at that time. Once you have reached the fourth level, you will be able to use the Ice Spirit Palm. When the last layer is reached, the internal forces can be turned into points

The ice needle of Li, that is, the ice needle of the jade spirit, kills people invisibly. Lu Jingxing said slowly.

"This book is amazing." The first time Ling Xiao heard that he could turn internal force into needles, he was a little surprised.

"This is a cold exercise, and the body of a person who has cultivated to the third level or higher will be cold all day long, and he will not be afraid of the severe cold and heat. And the person in the palm is as if his whole body is frozen, and the cold invades. If he was hit by the Jade Ice Needle, he would be killed on the spot, and his whole body would be covered with white frost. ”

"Can the man who is slapped be saved?"

"Yes, yes, but it's very difficult. And as the power deepens, the power of the Ice Spirit Palm becomes stronger. On a hot summer day, Ling Xiao didn't feel a little heat after listening to his words, she thought that there must be many people who were crazy about this volume of exercises a hundred years ago.

"Although this is powerful, it also has weaknesses, and there is a detailed explanation in the bamboo slips, so I won't talk about this." Lu Jingxing paused for a moment and spoke again.

"Okay, I'll take it back and study it carefully, and then memorize the mental method inside." After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he got up and prepared to go back to the courtyard to study it carefully, and also wanted to see what its weaknesses were.

The chirping of cicadas in the trees adds to the fun of the already vibrant summer season. When Ling Xiao came out of Lu Jingxing's study, she felt a wave of heat coming, and she almost ran back to the yard, sweating profusely, and felt relaxed after entering the house.

A noon time, the volume does not leave his hand, Ling Xiao carefully looked at every word on it, and occasionally wrote it down if he didn't know it, and practiced the small seal for a few months, although it is not a plenary meeting now, but most of it has been mastered. She also basically understands the weaknesses that Lu Jingxing said, and she can only practice with a virgin body

If you become pregnant, then your skills will be reduced to three layers during the period. Ling Xiao felt that these weaknesses were not weaknesses for her, and she still had some confidence in practicing this.

Time passed by the scrolls, but Ling Xiao didn't notice it at all, now her mind was all about this martial arts method, and she felt that everything else had nothing to do with her.