Ling Xiao and Lu Jingxing walked side by side, Lu Jingxing under the umbrella was a little cold, the four eyes between the side of the umbrella were facing each other, Lu Jingxing showed his face slightly, lonely and charming in the background of the rain. That Lu Li sword is like his life, he always keeps the sword in his hand when he goes out, and he must hold the sword in his hand.

Either because of the rain or for other reasons, there are not many pedestrians on the street, and there are not many people like them who come to shop in twos and threes. Ling Xiao and Lu Jingxing were speechless all the way, walked for a long time, and finally stopped at a teahouse, Ling Xiao looked up, and the plaque was on

It is written with three big characters of "Qi Ming Lou", the words are golden, and the plaque is black.

"Go in and have a cup of tea, it's good tea." Lu Jingxing turned his head sideways and said to Ling Xiao.

"Okay." Ling Xiao followed him in, and the junior second in the building welcomed them to a private room on the second floor.

The quiet and pleasant layout decoration, the smoke is slow, the carved windows are hidden, and it is best to sit here to listen to the rain.

"Childe, please wait a moment." Soon after Xiao Er went out, a man in plain clothes came in, holding a tea set in his hand, with light steps like a woman, tall and thin.

"Brother Lu also brought a friend today." When the man saw Ling Xiao, a trace of surprise flashed on his face, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Can't you?" Lu Jingxing asked rhetorically.

"Of course you can, but I'm a little more curious." The man sat on Lu Jingxing's side.

"What's the girl's name?" The man's tone was gentle.

"Ling Xiao." Ling Xiao replied lightly.

"This is the owner of Qi Ming Building, Ning Yan." Lu Jingxing said.

"Why do you have time to come to me for tea today? The case is closed?" Ning Yan put water into the teapot that had been placed.

"It's strange to say, I haven't had a clue for so long." Lu Jingxing said.

"In the vast rivers and lakes, there is open and secret fighting between various forces, and it is not easy to find out." Ning Yan said unhurriedly.

"I'm here for tea today, so I'm not going to talk about that." Lu Jingxing reminded.

Ling Xiao didn't care about the content of their conversation, his ears listened to the sound of the rain outside the window mixed with the sound of the teapot water boiling, it was a beautiful sound. What I watched was Ning Yan's method of making tea, step by step and methodically.

"Miss Ling, try this tea." The tea was poured into the jade cup, the brown was turquoise, constantly steaming, and finally dissipated into the air.

"Thank you." Ling Xiao didn't use to serve the tea, Ling Xiao was curious about how the two of them drank such hot tea, she couldn't do it anyway.

"What is Miss Ling thinking?" Ning Yan asked.

"Listen to the rain." This kind of rain is the most intoxicating.

"I didn't expect Miss Ling to have such a Yaxing." Ning Yan said with a smile, and then added another one to himself.

"I learned from Lu Jingxing." Ling Xiao pointed at Lu Jingxing with his eyes.

After hearing this, Lu Jingxing smiled helplessly: "Sort of." ”

"You two are so much fun." Ning Yan looked elegant, and his tone was also gentle.

"Doesn't Miss Ling like to drink tea?" The two of them had drunk a few cups in a row, but Ling Xiao's one was still not moving, and Ning Yan couldn't help but be a little curious.

"No, it's just not used to drinking such hot tea." Ling Xiao said truthfully.

"The tea is cold, and the taste has changed." Ling Xiao saw that Ning Yan had said this, so he could only pick up the teacup and taste it.

The entrance of the tea is an elegant aroma, and the taste is sweet and mellow. Ling Xiao drank it all, the teeth and cheeks were fragrant, refreshing people's hearts, and the aftertaste was sweet.

"Good tea, the taste is very mellow, and the aroma is very quiet." Listening to the rain outside the window and sipping the tea, Ling Xiao thought that it was nothing more comfortable.

"Miss Ling likes it." Ning Yan added another lamp to Ling Xiao.

Tea needs to be drunk slowly one by one, and the rain needs to be listened to carefully. So when they returned, it was almost noon, but the rain was still like morning rain, neither too big nor too little.

"Ling Xiao, follow me." As soon as he put down the dishes and chopsticks, Lu Jingxing asked Ling Xiao to go out with him, Ling Xiao didn't know why, so he had to hold an umbrella all the way and follow him. Finally stopped in front of a stone door in the backyard, Lu Jingxing gently touched a mechanism next to him, and the door opened by itself, and inside was a

A naturally occurring cave, dark and cool, but not damp at all.

"The most important thing about the Heart Sutra is to break through the first layer, this place is a place of retreat, and no one will come without my permission. From today onwards, you will be practicing in this retreat. Lu Jingxing said as he took out a fire fold and lit the oil lamp on the stone wall.

At this time, Ling Xiao saw clearly that there was a stone bed here, and all the things to use were available.

"Good. Then you go back first. Ling Xiao felt that this place was really good, quiet, and it would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

"Well, I won't bother you, you practice well, I'm leaving." After Lu Jingxing went out, the stone door was automatically closed.

In addition to Ling Xiao in the cave, it was her shadow, with the shadow as a companion, she did not feel lonely, she thought that the top priority was to reach the first layer as soon as possible. She didn't waste any more time, and immediately sat cross-legged on the stone bed, recalling the exercises and graphic content, and began to close her eyes and exercise. The internal force wanders through the meridians

In the veins, it finally turned from a trace to a wave that filled all parts of her body, and it was a feeling that she couldn't speak, and it forced her to speed up her movements.

Ling Xiao couldn't remember how many times the food delivery person had come here, and she didn't know how long she had been here, her internal force had finally converged more, supporting the meridians as if they were about to explode, and the pictures and texts were flashing in her mind, and finally it was as if the internal force had dissipated in an instant, and her body instantly felt relaxed. Again

Luck, there is still internal force swimming in the body, but there is no feeling that the meridians are about to explode just now. She was excited, which meant that the first layer had been practiced.

Ling Xiao remembered that it was still raining when he entered, but at this time it was a clear sky. The sky is deep and blue, there is not a trace of clouds, some of the flowers and plants in the garden have begun to slowly wither and turn yellow, and the stone road is paved with scattered fallen leaves, which are gently blown away by the wind.

Ling Xiao walked through the stone road and passed through the rockery corridor, and the scenery he saw indicated that it was now autumn.

"How's it been in there for the past two months?" Lu Jingxing saw Ling Xiao appear in front of him.

"The first layer has been trained." She hadn't thought she had been in it for two months, no wonder it was autumn.

"Not bad. You have a good rest these days, and after the first layer, you need to take your time, step by step, and don't rush it. ”

"I see."

"You go back to your room and get a good night's sleep, and I'll teach you a set of swordsmanship tomorrow." The heat has dissipated, and the autumn breeze blows Lu Jingxing's clothes, which looks exceptionally refreshing.

The white figure of the gardenia in the courtyard has disappeared without a trace, leaving only a dark green leaf, perhaps because of their resistance to autumn. Only half of the pear leaves of the tree were left at the moment, and they were all over the court. The swing is still the same swing, except that it lies quietly on it

A fallen leaf, looking even more lonely.

The room was spotless, as if Ling Xiao had never left the house. These days, her heart has been tied to the exercises, and now that the most important thing has been achieved, she is also trying to get a good night's sleep. Ling Xiao was lying on the bed, Luo Hao saw more and more hazy, and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep.

The second day just dawned, Ling Xiao woke up, sat by the window, supported his head with his hands, looking at the deep blue sky, a few stars faintly flickering, the crescent moon became transparent, and it was clear that a big and shining star was always inseparable from the moon, Ling Xiao seemed to remember that it was the morning star,

The embodiment of love and beauty in the eyes of Westerners.

The phantom of Yue'er finally disappeared with the morning star, replaced by the golden light of the sunrise, the sky changed from dark blue to light blue, and the sound of birds outside the window was light, Ling Xiao couldn't help but sigh, only birds can be so happy and live carefree.

Ling Xiao left the window to freshen up and then walked out of the courtyard, the morning breeze was slightly cool, the air was exceptionally refreshing, and it was very comfortable to inhale it in his nose instantly.

At this time, Lu Ci was practicing his sword in a vacant space in front of the garden, his movements were brisk and orderly, and he was so shocked that the leaves in the garden flew with the sword like butterflies spreading their wings.

Seeing Ling Xiao standing here, Lu Ci stopped and put away his sword, and walked over with a look of concern. For Lu Ci's character of being a hanger, Ling Xiao was used to it soon after she entered the mansion, otherwise if someone else looked at her like this, she would definitely beat the person looking for teeth all over the ground.

"The woman is out of the customs?" Lu Ci stood still in front of Ling Xiao.

"Speak well." Ling Xiao's tone was deliberately a little colder, and Lu Ci smiled when he heard this: "I heard that you have broken through the first layer of the Cold Heart Sutra, congratulations." Such a difficult exercise did not stump you, a person who has no foundation, the lord of the mansion said that you are a martial arts wizard, and I didn't believe it at first. ”

"How difficult is this set of exercises?" Ling Xiao thought that it had taken her two months to practice to the first level in retreat, and the secret note said that the rest would be even more difficult.

"This set of exercises was created by Xiang Qinghan, a strange woman from the Xiang family, a royal nobleman of the Central Plains Kingdom a hundred years ago. Although Xiang Qinghan came from the royal family and nobles, he pretended to be all the rivers and lakes in his heart, and he was even more obsessed with martial arts, and no one in the rivers and lakes at that time did not know her name. This volume of "Cold Heart Sutra" is her life's work, and of course it is difficult

Not to be underestimated. ”

"Then how can it be in the Lu Mansion?" This made Ling Xiao very curious.

Xiang Qinghan has never been married in her life, and she doesn't want to see her life's hard work disappear with her disappearance, so she made several copies of it and passed it on to the rivers and lakes, hoping that someone who is destined can learn it. But what she didn't expect was that a secret book caused a dispute in the rivers and lakes, and she could learn it after getting it

There are only a few, because there are very few people with outstanding talents like Xiang Qinghan. Later, with the passage of time, this secret book was gradually lost, and this volume in the collection of Lu Fu was brought out by a doorman when the Xiang family was destroyed more than 20 years ago, and the doorman was rescued by the master of the first mansion, and the secret book was

The doorman stayed in the Lu Mansion and went to take revenge alone, but never returned. Lu Ci seemed to be telling a story.

"Does anyone else know about it?" Ling Xiao asked.

"Of course I don't know, otherwise there will be another dispute." Ling Xiao thought that Lu Ci was right.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a story about the exercises Lu Jingxing gave me." Ling Xiao sighed.

"You have also seen this, and there are many constraints to learn it." Lu Ci said.

"Have you read the above?" There are many restrictive factors in this exercise, and it is only one of them that you must be a virgin to cultivate, and even if you refine it, you can't easily give birth to a child, which will greatly damage your strength.

"Although it has been lost for a hundred years, these are also things that everyone in the rivers and lakes knows. Besides, I'm a big man who has nothing to do to see what this does. Lu Ci gave Ling Xiao a roll of his eyes.

"You want to learn and no one stops you." This is probably the first time that Ling Xiao has scolded people, and it is people like Lu Ci who have been scolded.

"I feel like I've changed a lot compared to when you just entered the house, and I'm going to turn around and curse." Ling Xiao laughed instead.

The sunlight is moving towards the shadows, golden where it hits, and shade where it doesn't. Ling Xiao thought that he had to go to Lu Jingxing to learn swordsmanship, and he couldn't finish his gossip with Lu Ci for a day.

"I'll go first, you can practice your sword slowly." After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he didn't care about Lu Ci anymore, and turned around and left.

She went to the study and found that there was no one inside, thinking that Lu Jingxing wouldn't have gotten up yet, and she didn't want to go directly to his bedroom, thinking that she would go back first and come back later.

I never thought that Ling Xiao walked to the door of the courtyard but happened to meet Lu Jingxing, he was walking out, saw Ling Xiao standing here, and asked, "Where did you go?" ”

"When I went out, I met Lu Ci, chatted a few words, and then went to the study to look for you, but I didn't see anyone." Lu Jingxing turned around, and they entered the courtyard together.

"He told me the origin of the Heart Sutra." Ling Xiao continued.

"You are also destined for this exercise, and you have learned this first layer in just two months." Lu Jingxing said.

"Can anyone learn it in less time?" With such a big river, Ling Xiao thought that there must be many people with outstanding talents, and she admired such people very much.

"Yes, a hundred years ago, there was a woman who broke through the first layer in a month, and it took a year and a half to practice to reach the fifth layer, but her ambition was too great, and she ended up dead. I'm just letting you learn this, so you can use it for self-defense, and it's not invincible. "This is Lu Jingxing's to Ling Xiao

Admonish.

"Where's her name?"

"Yao Ying." Lu Jingxing said two words.