Chapter 7: The Talks
No matter how messy yesterday was, today will be even more flustered.
The meeting has finally begun.
Early in the morning, Shaoguang was woken up by his junior brother.
Today, all the disciples of Qingxiamen are very busy, because there are few servants in Qingxiamen, and the things that the disciples need to do have increased a lot, although the villagers under the mountain will come to help during the Qingxia Meeting, but the task is still arduous.
So the senior brother, who has always been leisurely, was woken up unceremoniously by the junior brothers and sisters.
Shake the light didn't complain, rubbed his worried eyes, and slowly got up to get dressed and washed.
After that, he completely came to his senses and immediately threw himself into his busy work.
Today is the first day of the Qing Talks, and there must be an opening ceremony or something, and Qingxiamen is no exception.
The first day is the time for the various forces and sects to meet together, and the head of the organizer Qingxia Sect, Bu Qingyun, stood on the main seat and said a scene to introduce the arrangements for the next few days, and then everyone ate and drank, and the first day passed.
Today's arrangement seems quite simple, but only those who attend know that the opening ceremony is a long and boring affair.
The disciples of the entire Qingxia Gate are today's security personnel, and each hall has a responsible area and work, and the Qingzhu Hall was arranged by Uncle Duanmu to the Yuntai Trial, which is the core place where the Qingzhu Conference is held.
Shaoguang arranged for the disciples of Qingzhu Hall a few days earlier, and the junior disciples were divided into three groups, one team and the junior sisters with a relatively small number of people were responsible for today's service work, serving tea and water, and the remaining two teams took turns to be stationed inside and outside the cloud platform to maintain order or something.
Therefore, although Shaoguang has not yet arrived at the Yuntai platform, the junior brothers and sisters have already started to work in an orderly manner.
In addition, the Yuntai is the building in front of the entire Qingxia Gate, connecting the thousand-step steps, and it is a place to hold important things such as the ceremony inside the door, the ceremony of accepting disciples, and the Qing Talk, and it is also a place to punish the disciples who have made a big mistake in the door.
The platform is composed of two parts, a high pavilion, built around a large square in the middle. The highest part of the pavilion is five stories high, and the name is awakening cloud building.
Xingyun Building is located on the central axis of due north, and the ground floor is a wide hall with double doors in front and back, and this hall is where the opening ceremony was held today.
At this moment, the hall has been arranged with seats, a horizontal table and a cushion, arranged from the square platform in the middle to both sides, the northernmost built a higher long platform, on which a Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum six screens are placed, and three ebony horizontal tables are placed in front of the screen, which is the position of the three halls of Qingxiamen.
For example, today's opening ceremony is called "Jiqing", the next ten days of the sect competition is called "Trial Qing", and the end of the last four days is called "Comfort Qing".
After the conclusion of the Qing Talks, there will be a list of 100 masters in the rivers and lakes, this list is basically young masters, and those who can be on this list will basically become guests of various countries and local forces, so the young disciples of all factions who want to become famous are riveting their strength one by one, and there are also many forces who come to the Qing Symposium to explore or assassinate the enemy.
In short, shaking the light these days will be very exciting, not only to participate in the competition, but also to face all kinds of overt or covert spying and assassination.
Walking on the way to the Yuntai with a cold face, it can be said that he was full of sorrow.
The brothers and sisters of the various halls who met all the way did not dare to come forward to say hello, and they all wondered in their hearts whether Senior Brother Shaoguang was under too much pressure.
Shaking the light didn't care about them, exuding a very sad aura all the way to the cloud platform.
The peculiar thing is that as soon as he entered the Yuntai, the very mournful aura in his body was gone, and it seemed that he had changed, and he had become the sunny Qingzhu Hall disciple on weekdays.
"Uncle Shake Light." A young disciple smiled and said hello to Shaoguang, and when the little disciple was about to pass, Shaoguang grabbed the person's sleeve, "Where is your master?" ”
After saying that, he yawned.
The little disciple was not afraid of her, and respectfully told Shaoguang, "Master is in Wugu Courtyard and arranges the meals to be used." ”
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Shake Light nodded, letting go of her little nephew.
Yes, her little nephew.
Some of her juniors have already taken in apprentices.
What Shaoguang is looking for now is her dear second junior brother, Lin Zuo.
Before the retreat, she threw the preparation of the meeting to her junior brother Lin Zuo, and now she is going to ask Lin Zuo what she needs to do today.
Shaoguang is a good boy who is modest and sensible, and her second junior brother Lin Zuo is a few years older than her, and this kind of chores similar to housekeepers are definitely much better than her doing it alone.
Shaoguang didn't have the slightest burden of a senior brother, so he went to Wugu Courtyard to find Lin Zuo.
Wuguyuan is the kitchen of Qingxiamen, just behind the Yuntai platform.
When the light arrived, Lin Zuo was checking the drinks to be used for the evening.
"Senior brother!" Shake Light shouted.
Lin Zuo was a young man with upright facial features and a scholarly taste, and when he heard this, he turned his head and replied, "Senior brother, why are you here?" ”
"Of course I'm here to ask for you." Shaking the light into the room, the tip of the nose is filled with the rich aroma of wine.
"Senior brother is laughing again." Lin Zuo raised his hand to uncover a jar of wine, and the aroma of wine overflowed.
"Wow! It is the apricot blossom wine brewed by Uncle Duanmu! Shaking his eyes, he was very excited.
Seeing this, Lin Zuo nodded amusedly, reached out and took a wooden spoon, reached into the wine jar and scooped a spoonful into a wooden wine gourd, until the wine gourd was full, Lin Zuo handed the wine gourd to Shaoguang, "I know that Senior Brother is good wine, this pot of wine should be given to Senior Brother by Senior Brother, and today's things are basically done, so you don't have to worry about Senior Brother, Senior Brother just sits." ”
"It's still the best second junior brother!" Shaoguang happily took the wine, lifted the lid and sniffed it deeply, "There is a second junior brother Lao, I will invite you to eat a delicious meal at the bottom of the mountain another day." ”
Lin Zuo replied and continued to be busy with the business in hand, shook the light and looked around and found that there was really no place that he could plug in, so he slipped out of the Wugu Courtyard with a pot of wine.
I found a place where I could see the cloud platform, shook the light and climbed a tree, lay on an evergreen camphor tree, opened the lid and took a sip.
The wine is smooth and fragrant.
"Good wine!"
Shake the light and take a few sips.
Cover the lid and hang the flask on the branch, and lie comfortably on the thick branch, closing your eyes and resting your mind.
The April sun is not warm, the warm yellow sunlight falls through the tree on the face of Sha Guang with closed eyes, the dense eyelashes cast a circle of shadows under the eyes, looking down from the higher part of the tree, you will see a young and sunny face, especially Sha Guang often wears black clothes, it seems that she is particularly vibrant.
It's very peculiar, it's obviously a dull black, but it looks vigorous when you wear it with a shake.
Jiang Seventeen finally climbed the second tree......
He squatted a little higher up in the tree, looking down at the shaking light below with his eyes closed, feeling a little helpless.
Since they stepped forward to ask for directions, has their intersection been a bit dense?
Especially since we only met last night, and today we actually climbed the same tree.
Bi Ruo is actually on this tree, he is in the treetops.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qiqi couldn't help but sigh lowly.
"Who?!" The shaking light with his eyes closed suddenly let out a low sigh, and his sharp eyes looked at the top of his head without hesitation.
"Dressed in white, it's not hard to guess who you are." Shake the light and hook the corners of his lips, sit up gently, and pull away the leaves, revealing Jiang Seventeen's perfect face.
"Seventeen, what a coincidence."
Shake the light and burst into a smile, smiling so much that you can't see your eyes.
"Shake the light." Jiang Qiqi also smiled back, and he couldn't see his eyes and teeth.
"Seventeen and I are really friends, and we like to climb trees when we have nothing to do."
"Shake Light really likes wine, and every time I meet you on the tree, I have wine."
"Not necessarily, I sometimes lie on a big rock."
"Coincidentally, I sometimes lie on a big rock."
Jiang Qiqi thought for a while and added, "It's spring." ”
"Seventeen, have you ever heard a story?" With a hook of his right hand, he scooped the wine jug hanging on the branch in his hand, opened the lid, raised his head and took a sip.
There was wine sliding down the collar of the shaking light, and Jiang Seventeen's eyes also looked down.
"I'm going to ask Shake Light to tell Seventeen." Jiang Seventeen changed his comfortable posture and sat down on the thick branches, facing the side of the shaking light, a ray of sunlight sprinkled on the tip of Jiang Seventeen's nose through the layers of leaves, and the shaking light smiled when he saw this.
She hung the flask on the branch again, and sat down on the branch herself, but facing Jiang Seventeen head-on.
Bi Ruo in the treetop quietly left the calamour-stricken camphor tree as early as the two of them talked.
The early spring wind is still cool, and the warm sunshine envelops this treasure land with beautiful mountains and rivers.
The sound of shaking light, accompanied by the warm and cold wind in the mountains, drifted into Jiang Seventeen's ears leisurely.
"Once upon a time, there was a custom in the spring where a scholar dried his books on the fourth day of April, but there was a scholar lying on the stone in front of his house with his clothes open, and the neighbor asked him curiously, 'Why don't you dry books?' The scholar replied: 'The books are all in my stomach, so just dry me.' ’”
"It's an interesting story." After listening to the story, Jiang Qiqi praised casually.
Shaking Light thought of the next words, and smiled slyly, "Seventeen just said that he would also lie on the big rock, but I don't know that Seventeen is also for drying books?" ”
Jiang Seventeen was stunned, shook the light and saw the expression he wanted to see, and he was very happy.
"Actually, Seventeen is lying on a big rock purely to warm up." Jiang Seventeen came back to his senses, "Then I don't know what the shaking light is lying on the stone for?" ”
"Stupid! Naturally, I'm going to drink somewhere else. ”
Shake the light and laugh out loud, the crisp young man's voice has not changed yet, and you can feel a good mood when you listen to it.
Jiang Qiqi couldn't help but show a smile, this smile was more genuine.
"The meeting is about to start today, and Seventeen looks very laid-back."
"It's also very leisurely to shake the light."
"Hahaha, seventeen is really interesting."
Jiang Seventeen was about to say the last sentence when a distant bell rang, interrupting Jiang Seventeen's words.
Shake Light picked up the flask, straightened the corners of his crumpled clothes, and stood up from the tree.
"Seventeen, we can't talk, the Qing Talk Conference is about to start, I'm going back first, we'll see you later."
Jiang Seventeen nodded, shook his head and left the camphor tree.
Jiang Qiqi watched the back of the shaking light gradually blocked by the pavilion of the cloud platform, the smile on his face retracted, and his footsteps lightly came down from the camphor tree with a light branch and landed on the grass.
In the distance, people have already walked into the Yuntai in twos and threes.
The meeting is really about to begin.