CHAPTER XXIII
Senior Brother Xu crossed his legs, sandwiched the vegetables, and then took a sip of wine, hummed a few little songs, and occasionally raised his eyebrows at us, just like an old Jianghu. In fact, he is only in his early twenties, but it is difficult to imagine his real age with his eyes.
I don't know what he's been through all these years, but I can vaguely feel that he has actually been very uncomfortable all these years. After all, the vicissitudes of life in the eyes are not so simple to explain.
I suddenly remembered my brother. Senior brother is probably the same. They all live on earth for revenge.
Senior Brother Xu knew that I was his junior sister, so he kept asking me in a roundabout way, "Then why are you looking for your senior brother?" You won't like him, will you? "Otherwise, what are you looking for him?" I'll have to wait for him to come back. "Hey, you young people." "How is your master? Isn't it amazing? ”
The more he spoke, the more energetic he became. But I'm not the one I first met him, and I know he's tempting. Whether it's news from Senior Brother or Master, he just wants to know their news. Now that I understand everything, I feel sad in my heart.
Sad, really.
I said, "Master, you're fine." However, I have a senior brother who has been away from the sect for a long time, and the master has been looking for him again, and the master feels that he has not taught him well, and he has always been sad. Senior brother misses him too. As for the sect I entered later, I actually didn't have a deep feeling for this senior brother. ”
Senior Brother Xu looked up at me and asked, "Then your master, they don't blame him?" betrayed the sect like this, if it were those masters and uncles of my sect, I am afraid that the traitor would be beaten to death. ”
The small details that I didn't care about at the time are now noticed. Although Senior Brother Xu was smiling, his eyes were actually staring at me, very focused, even to the point that it made me very uncomfortable. Obviously, that answer was important, important to him.
"But why should Master blame him?" I was surprised, "Our sect has always not restricted personal freedom, and we can come and go whenever we want." Master is looking for him, not because he blames him, but because he is worried about his brother's safety. ”
Even if the senior brother left, or even joined the Heavenly Poison Sect, the master didn't blame him. The master was just blaming himself, blaming himself for not being able to take a good look at his disciples, blaming himself for not being able to help his disciples so that he chose to take a risk to join the Heavenly Poison Sect, so he chose to close his eyes.
Master's punishment was always for himself, not for his brother.
When Senior Brother Xu heard me say this, he breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, and then laughed out loud, muttering, "Then your master is really a very open-minded person." Looking up and laughing, it was only then that I noticed that there were some tears in Senior Brother Xu's eyes, even if the tears did not fall.
This is the answer that Senior Brother Xu has been waiting for for so long, and this is the reason why Senior Brother Xu has been wandering here. He was afraid that the master who regarded him as his own son would blame him, and this feeling was probably more difficult for him to accept than if he left the master.
"It's not just Master, it's Senior Brother as well. They were all worried about the senior brother. I said this, holding back the sadness in my heart, "I don't know what kind of person that senior brother is, I haven't seen it." ”
Ying'er frowned and said, "I remember that when Senior Brother Xu left the sect, I was only a few years old, and I met a few times. Ying'er's expression softened, and she said softly, "I have always said that I can't understand his behavior of leaving the master's sect, because Uncle Xue has always regarded him as his own son." Later, when I grew up, I figured out that there are many ways to go in this life. ”
My eyes drifted to Senior Brother Xu, Senior Brother Xu paused, with a little gentle color in his eyes, "Yes, people have their own way." ”
This was the first time I met Senior Brother Xu. Senior Brother Xu was already a relatively powerful disciple of the Heavenly Poison Sect at that time. I don't know what he's been through, but I can only guess from his pale face and sunken eyes that he's actually had a hard time all these years.
Perhaps this is the easiest time for him in years.
Then Ying'er talked about the interesting things about the rivers and lakes with Senior Brother Xu, and I was also energetic, and Aunt Ruan also listened while eating.
Huo, if Senior Brother Xu weren't a Jianghu person, I don't think he would starve to death if he was a storyteller. One moment the voice is lowered, and the next the voice is suddenly raised. Tell us about those anecdotes circulating in the rivers and lakes: "There is a cook who eats human flesh!" was overturned by a hero in the butcher shop, and the hero was beaten to death by the cook instead. "That beautiful woman turned out to be a eunuch!" "Someone pretended to be a disciple of the Tang Sect, and the people of the Tang Sect discovered that he was very talented, and he really became a disciple of the Tang Sect."
What Senior Brother Xu said was tasteful, and I thought it was very interesting at that time. Now I figured out that he was a big liar, and most of it was made up by him. Obviously, he has been trying to enter the Heavenly Poison Sect since he was very early, and he tried his best to find his sister's traces inside, how could he know so many interesting stories about the rivers and lakes.
Much later, that was when I found my brother, and I asked him, "You know what?" I met a person, and that person told me......" The senior brother was finally stunned and said, "I haven't heard of it, but maybe I didn't pay attention." ”
Senior Brother Xu was the first person I met when I went in and out of the rivers and lakes.
But I didn't expect that the encounter with him would end up causing the biggest tragedy of my life.
Now that I know that Senior Brother Xu is also going to Kaifeng, Ying'er and I are also going to Kaifeng. Aunt Ruan offered to let him go with us. Aunt Ruan said, "Although these two little girls are a little troublesome, their hearts are not bad. ”
Fortunately, Ying'er and I left the sect to meet Aunt Ruan and Senior Brother Xu, otherwise if we meet someone else, I'm afraid we will have to help someone else if we are sold. Senior Brother Xu also agreed, and replied, "Anyway, I'm very bored by myself, and it's not bad to have two little girls with me." Then he stared at us maliciously, "Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person?" ”
Ying'er took the lead and said, "I'm not afraid!" Then he waved his fist at Senior Brother Xu. Then he whispered, "Actually, I can feel that you are not a bad person, I always feel that you are very familiar." ”
Senior Brother Xu read in pieces: "You're not the first time to talk to me like this, little girl." I understand, I understand, after all, I'm a handsome man like me, and it's easy to make people feel good......" Then he looked up with a spring face, and was greeted by Ying'er's stunned face.
Aunt Ruan has also known Senior Brother Xu for a long time, and she is also at ease with us.
Speaking of which, we are also big-hearted, and we really dared to follow Senior Brother Xu on our journey not long after we met. It's no wonder that several elders of the sect are not worried about me and Ying'er going out. But fortunately, what we met Senior Brother Xu.