Chapter 9: Changing Faces
Looking at the two little girls who were shocked on the spot and fled in the wilderness, Shen Xiu's heart was also broken. Getting up from Hua Rong, Shen Xiu glanced at Hua Rong with disgust, and secretly decided to abandon Hua Rong here.
A little farther away from Huarong, he grabbed a pedestrian and asked for directions, and learned that there was a happy forest in front of him, so Shen Xiu walked quickly towards the depths of the mountain.
After a cup of tea, I finally saw a lively crowd in front of me.
After a while, the little guy holding the token came over to entertain Shen Xiu, who was dressed in the same way and had an extraordinary bearing.
Shen Xiu glanced at the little guy and took a step back quietly.
Seeing this, the little girl smiled and talked carefully about the rules of the happy forest.
Those who get the token in the happy forest can go to the forest horse race, you can pick your own beauty to go with, time to return, and when you return, you can hire a literati to write a poem, engrave it on the wall, and leave it for future generations to see.
The rule in the happy forest is that you must return the token and get a pot of wine.
After hearing this, Shen Xiu frowned, secretly thinking about what kind of rule this was, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Qingjun's little servant waiting respectfully, so he changed his mind again, hesitated for a moment and spent the silver to take the token.
As he took the token, Shen Xiu heard cheers coming from in front of him. Raising his eyes and looking out, he saw a person in green clothes and black hair, standing on the high platform with his hands raised and talking eloquently, and easily received countless applause from the audience.
Shen Xiu squinted his eyes, wiped his hands on his waist without leaving a trace, and couldn't see the person's face clearly, so he strode forward with a little curiosity.
Getting closer, looking at the stage, Shen Xiu's eyes suddenly widened, and there was some regret and regret in his heart, which was probably the weakness of every Zhan Wuscum's heart when he saw his master after the exam.
Standing on that stage was the legendary Chinese martial arts Shuangquan, the well-dressed Gu Nianheng, and he was also a true gentleman and could not be squared.
Just looking at him unscrupulously, Shen Xiu's inexplicable heart surged with a trace of imperceptible joy.
I didn't see it, tossing and turning, I missed it very much, and when I saw it, the secret joy that welled up in my heart was mixed with bitterness.
Gu Nianheng stepped off the stage, his green clothes fluttered, his eyebrows and eyes were blooming, and the teachings spit out from his mouth in this elegant place also came to an end.
Even if there was a noise behind him, Shen Xiu, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, still vaguely caught Gu Nianheng's words, his ears moved, he thought about it again and again, and felt that he was so casual that he still met him, this is also a fate, if he doesn't go up to say hello, he can't say anything.
So Shen Xiu comforted himself, and at the same time forcibly inserted himself into the topic that a group of literati had just provoked, Shen Xiu echoed half-understandingly, shuttled among the literati, and said for a while, his buttocks moved quietly little by little, and when his mouth was a little dry, he got closer to Gu Nianheng.
When Shen Xiu licked his lips and sat down not far from Gu Nianheng, he saw Gu Nianheng with his head down, holding a teacup, and about to drink tea.
Shen Xiuzheng stared at Gu Nianheng with a coveted face, and gently touched the lips of the teacup, and before he could finish sighing in his heart, he bumped into a pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling.
Gu Nianheng quietly put down the teacup and beckoned to Shen Xiu.
Shen Xiu looked left and right, turned around and looked around for a while, then raised his head again, met Gu Nianheng's gaze, and saw that his gaze still fell on him impartially, so he stood up with a little hesitation and walked towards him.
"Sit down." Gu Nianheng looked Shen Xiu up and down for a while, and said coldly.
So Shen Xiu was a little stunned and sat down next to Gu Nianheng.
The man in autumn-colored clothes next to Gu Nianheng glanced at Shen Xiu curiously, hooked the corners of his mouth, and asked impatiently. "Who is this brother?"
Shen Xiu glanced at Gu Nianheng, and when he saw that he didn't react, he curled the corners of his mouth, looked at the man in autumn clothes with a smile, and was not afraid of life, so he immediately arched his hand and introduced himself. "Shen family, Shen Xiu."
As soon as the man heard this prefix, his hand holding the tea trembled, and he immediately shut up, not daring to inquire about anything more.
On the contrary, Gu Nianheng on the side squinted his eyes, glanced at Shen Xiu, who had not changed his expression, and hooked the corners of his mouth meaningfully.
Shen Xiu was a little unpredictable about Gu Nianheng's meaning, and when he saw that Gu Nianheng didn't speak for a while, and there were no people around him to talk to, he was a little restless.
Shen Xiu stared at Gu Nianheng several times without stopping, a little impatient, and when it was time to get up and say goodbye, Gu Nianheng suddenly seemed to remember something, put down the tea in his hand, looked at Shen Xiu with a smile and asked. "You're coming alone?"
"Nope." Shen Xiu said sullenly.
"Where are you going?" Gu Nianheng asked with a smile again.
"Horseback riding." Shen Xiu raised the sign in his hand as he spoke.
Gu Nianheng glanced at Shen Xiu with a strange expression, he didn't break it, he still had a smile on his face, and waved his hand compassionately. "Then you go."
Shen Xiu listened to Gu Nianheng finish speaking, glanced sideways at Gu Nianheng, who was looking at nothing in front of him, and didn't know when he felt a little aggrieved in his heart, so he patted his sleeves angrily and walked out without looking back.
As soon as he recruited the little guy, Shen Xiu stepped forward quickly, urged the little guy to lead the way, turned a few corners to a somewhat quiet horse farm, and led a horse with a sullen head. Under the cautious gaze of the little servant, Shen Xiu held the reins of the horse very imposingly, jumped on the horse with a neat posture, patted the horse's buttocks, and prepared to start in a chic manner.
However, the horse did not move......
Shen Xiu drew three black lines on his forehead, tried to pretend to be a little calm on his face, and set off a monstrous embarrassment in his heart, sat quietly on the horse, patted the horse's buttocks again, and felt the horse that was still not moving under the buttocks, Shen Xiu silently glanced at the little guy.
The little guy took a few steps back with a very eye-catching look, but his steps were a little unsteady, and his shoulders seemed to move.
At a critical juncture, he couldn't lose his momentum, Shen Xiu had an idea, so he pulled out the dagger pinned to his waist and inserted it into the horse's butt without hesitation.
When the dagger saw the blood, the horse instantly raised its hooves and galloped, turning Shen Xiu on the horse upside down, and then quickly turned into a black spot in the frightened gaze of the little guy.
Shen Xiu held the horse rope tightly, trying to straighten his body swaying from side to side, and rammed forward without knowing the direction.
Not long after the horse ran, a small hill appeared in front of him, Shen Xiu closed his eyes deadly, seeing that he was about to fall into the hillside with a man and a horse, and at the last moment, Shen Xiu decisively threw his body off the horse, gnawed a few mouthfuls of grass in his mouth, and watched the horse fall down the hill in a daze.
Shen Xiu wiped his face, looked down and saw the mud on his waist, and roared to the sky in despair.
After the dry howl was over, Shen Xiu resigned himself to his fate, and walked back with his instincts one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Fortunately, he didn't go very far, and soon, Shen Xiu saw the lively crowd in front of him, so he hurriedly stepped up his steps, and his heart was full of joy, and the corners of his mouth had not had time to crack, and he met the face that changed when he said that March Day.
But in an instant, it was pouring rain on the ink-stained sky, and the crowd hurriedly ran to the shelter from the rain, and the messy footsteps made a clicking sound against the rain. Shen Xiu, who had walked a little farther, didn't have time to go back, and the raindrops smashed on his body like beads with broken threads, and the slightly cool moisture lingered in mid-air for a long time, and the wind blew through the wet body, and a cold air rose from all directions, shivering with cold.
The rain became heavier and heavier, and the sky and the earth were vast, and those people and things slowly faded in their vision. Shen Xiu looked at the blurred search, blinked his eyes, retreated under the tree to hide from the rain, and put his hand on his head to block the rain that slipped from the leaves or was unobstructed from the big drops that leaked from the cracks in the branches.