Seven years old.

The Master took her back to the mountains from hunger and cold, took her to bathe in the warm soup pool in the back mountain, personally helped her change into clean new clothes, gave her a name, and took her as an apprentice. For the first time, she had her own name and her own home.

So far, their master and apprentice have relied on each other.

Ten years old.

She has another little junior brother who is three years younger than herself, who is carved and chiseled, which is extremely cute. It was also then that she learned that the single master had a woman in her heart since a long, long time ago.

"Master, what is that woman like?"

The master put his hands behind his back and looked at the foggy sky in the distance, his eyes seemed to be nostalgic, and seemed to contain some pain.

The mountains are high and the clouds are deep, and the fog is erratic. Towering peaks, can only occasionally see the green point of the spire, and then drowned in the sea of clouds for a while, like a cup of tea leaves, she thinks of her own master, incomprehensible thoughts, even with him for three years, but she still does not know what he thinks in his heart, often seems to catch a little of the master's thoughts, but immediately confused.

Thinking wildly in her heart, just when she thought that she couldn't get an answer from the master, and looked at the scene in front of her in a trance, the master slowly spoke.

“...... She is ruthless and lonely; Scheming, ruthless and heartless. Even a thousand cuts were not enough to undo the sins she had committed. ”

The master said lightly, but she was shocked when she heard it, is this the unforgettable woman that the master puts in her heart?

Why is it so virtuous in Master's mouth?

It's just that even though Master said such words without praise, she could still see strong feelings in Master's eyes that she had never seen before.

The next day, outside Master's study, she saw Master standing quietly at the table, placing his hand on a picture scroll and caressing it gently.

There is love and hate, pain and sorrow in the eyes.

The fingers were as bright as jade moved gently, and the eyes were firmly fixed on a certain point on the scroll, and finally slowly lowered his head, and his forehead touched the scroll lightly.

The long hair that hung down covered Master's face, and she couldn't see Master's expression and movements clearly, but she knew that this was another side of Master that she had never seen before.

......

I think it was because the master was in a mood that he hadn't recovered, and before leaving, he didn't collect the scroll. She slipped into the study and looked at the scroll. The picture scroll depicts a woman, leaning quietly under a tree, looking at the distant mountains, wearing a gorgeous costume and fluttering in a group. As for the appearance, there are only a few brushstrokes on the side, and the whole picture is not seen, but from its outline, you can roughly guess the natural beauty of this woman's charm.

Looking down and looking closely, the ink color has faded a little, and the corners of the scroll are also a little yellow, which shows that this painting has been some years old, and it is often taken out for observation.

In the mountains, she helped the master clean the study, but she never saw this painting.

"Master, is she dead?"

"Dead?" Master chuckled lightly and said with a hint of hatred, "She's not dead. She will not die, she is destined to wander in this world, life after life, and she will not forget. Even if she wanted to, she couldn't. ”

She carefully looked at Master's face, and then asked in a low voice, "What about her?" Since she is not dead, why didn't Master go to her? ”

Why do you want to think about the painting with a face that you can't see clearly?

"Naturally, I'm going to go and come back to her. It's just that now, she doesn't want to see me. One day, I will find her and tie her to me, and see what she can do to hide and run away again. Even if I hate, I want her to hate by my side. ”

Thirteen years old.

For the first time, she learned the difference between men and women.

The master's face was not red, and he handed her a book without blinking, and when she opened it, it was a medical book that explained the woman's physiology.

Look at the lines in the medical book: "The woman is seven years old, her kidneys are vigorous, and her teeth are longer; Twenty-seven and the sky is to, Ren pulse is connected, Taichong pulse is prosperous, and the moon is in the present, so there is a child...... "Her face is slightly hot.

Originally......

While she was stunned, the Master returned, holding in his hands a few silk bags sewn with cotton sewn with them. Listening to the master, who was still white jade, mention to her the use of these silk cotton bags, her cheeks were red as if she could drip blood, and for the first time she had the urge to flee in front of the master.

......

Her birthday was also the day when Master picked her up and returned her to the mountains. When the rain fell at dusk, Master stood in front of the window and listened to the sound of rain outside the window.

The drizzle is bleak, with a bit of a lonely and desolate taste.

She looked at Master's back and asked, "Master, if one day someone likes you very much, will you be willing to accept her?" ”

The master didn't look back, but replied lightly, "No." ”

She paused, and then asked, "If the woman in Master's heart doesn't want to come back, would Master rather be single than accept others?" ”

Master finally turned around, his eyes as black as ink, and he was silent for a moment. She was nervous, and her hands behind her back were clenched.

Master closed his eyes, "What does it mean to accept?" Even if you are happy with thousands of beauties, this heart is still empty, how to accept it? The light, calm and undulating tone made the listener's heart chill.

On the night of Yuanxiao, the master went down the mountain and did not tell her where she went, and she had doubts in her heart, so she also followed.

The market is bustling and bustling, but she has no intention of watching. Standing on the shore of Jinghu Lake, she looked directly at the cruise ship decorated with the building decoration in front of her, under the moonlit night, the smoke and waves were curling, and the cruise ship was hazy and quiet. At the bow of the boat, a woman sat in front of the kite, looking at the master with bright eyes, her lips were not open, and the friendship in her eyes had arrived.

She looked at the woman carefully, and it was indeed so beautiful that it was heartwarming, glamorous, peerless, rich, and the soft moonlight made her bare skin like a clean silk.

The woman's ten fingers pressed the strings of the zither, gently and slowly, and the sound of the zither flowed like a warbler's voice on the silent Jinghu Lake.

The master leaned on the bow of the boat, looked at the woman playing the kite with a calm expression, held a cup in one hand, and drank slowly.

The soft sound of strings and the quiet moonlight are intertwined, making it seem that the two people on board are so compatible.

After a while, the master put down the jasper glass, walked to the woman's side, pulled up the woman who was playing the kite, took the woman's slender waist, lifted the thin curtain, and entered the cabin.

Yue'er took a night on the boat, and she waited all night in the cold wind. She only hoped that Master would come out of the cabin soon.

It was getting late, and everything was quiet, and she only heard the occasional whisper and soft laugh coming from the cabin, which made people feel cold. As a result, until dawn, she left, and the master still did not come out all night.

Later, the master often met with this woman, and she knew that this woman's name was Su Xin, a person from the capital, who had been in her twenties for ten years and was still unmarried. She later learned that this plain heart was actually the master's old acquaintance, and she was afraid that she was unmarried because of the master.

It's just that when she asked Master if this woman was the woman in Master's heart, she found that Master was staring at her, and there was a coldness in her eyes.

Later, she knew that Su Xin was indeed not.

If so, how could Master go to find other women?

Not long after, there was another woman beside the master, Cinnabar, who was the same age as her, but only thirteen, but her body exuded a charm and charm that she had never had. Cinnabar's eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to that Suxin, but her temperament is much bolder, even if she is present, Cinnabar seems to have not seen it, snuggling up to the master's chest freely, laughing with the master's father. The slender hand took out an eyebrow pencil from the front box of the mirror, handed it to the master, and asked the master to give it a thrush with a coquettish attitude.

The master took the pen with a smile on his lips, the hand that was good at danqing and had never only hooked mountains and rivers in front of her, but he raised eyebrows for cinnabar.

I don't think it's the first time, looking at the cinnabar in the mirror, the thin eyebrows are curved, like the distant mountains and green daisies, adding a bit of charm.

From the mirror, she seemed to see the cold gaze that Master cast at her.

She grinned.

In ancient times, there was an open thrush, and the husband and wife were in love; Today, there is a master who paints eyebrows for the beauty, and the affection is deep. She wouldn't be a nuisance here.

Turn around and walk away.

Touching the corners of her mouth, fortunately, her skills have improved greatly, even if she sees such a scene, the smile on her lips is still there.

......

Seventeen years old.

At the shaded forest path down the mountain, the master didn't look at her directly, and said lightly, "You leave, don't look back." If you turn back once, you and I will also break off the relationship between master and apprentice. ”

She gasped, and after a moment of pause, she smiled and turned back towards the way down the mountain.

She knew that what Master said would never be taken back.

The package on her shoulder was made by the master for her, it turned out that the master had already planned to let her go?

Don't look back......

Behind him, the little junior brother still had some immature voices calling with a crying voice, which was also mixed with constant pleading for the master.

Resisting the urge to twist her neck to take another look, she hummed a song, pulled a dog's tail and held it in her mouth, and walked leisurely forward.

Master is too ruthless.

After ten years of master and apprenticeship, it seems that they never want to see each other again. The happy past of the past, the laughter and sorrow in this mountain, will also come to naught in the blink of an eye.

Raised his hand and wiped his cheek.

Fortunately, she has now cultivated to the point of perfection, her cheeks are dry, and her expression is also pleasant.

The question I asked to Master in my childhood came to mind, "Master, why did you take me as an apprentice?" ”

Master just said lightly, "You will know in the future." ”

Now that she already knows, she has seen so many women around Master, and she already knows. Because, her appearance is the same as theirs, Xiao looks like the woman in Master's heart.

She had never seen it, but she knew that she was the only woman in the world who could move her master.

It's just that there are some things that she can't figure out anyway.

I don't understand......

Six years have passed, and now she is over twenty-three, and she has long passed the prime of her teenage years.

I think less and less about Master.

Alas, it seems that she is also a ruthless person.

After only a little more than six years, she has forgotten the appearance of her master, and now the master, in her mind, is just a vague face, no facial features, no emotions.

Even when she thought of Master, there was a pain in her heart, and she couldn't remember it.

Forget it, don't want to.

It's heart-wrenching to think about it, it's better not to think about it, not to think about it......