Ye Zhiqiu's chopsticks still had osmanthus sugar lotus on them, hearing me ask this, his expression suddenly gloomy, the chopsticks slowly put down, pursed his mouth and was silent, Ling Ran also hesitated, and the hand holding the flower carving hovered for a long time, as if I touched on the thing he was most reluctant to mention.

There was a silence in the Yinxiang Drunken Moon Building for a while, and the gobbling chicken probably saw that we didn't move, and the atmosphere gradually became solemn, he swallowed the jujube and swallowed the full mouthful of vegetables, and reluctantly put down the chopsticks.

Ling Ran took a deep breath and slowly opened the flower carving, the fragrant and sweet and mellow aroma of wine filled the air, but it still couldn't hide the silence in the room.

"Ye Jiuqing was also sitting in your current position back then." Ling Ran slowly poured himself wine, the orange and clear color of the wine was like amber. "It's been more than 30 years......"

"Uncle, you ......"

"It's out of the way, this matter has been holding my heart for decades, and I haven't found anyone to talk about it." Ye Zhiqiu didn't seem to want Ling Ran to mention the past, probably because he didn't want him to be sad, Ling Ran waved his hand to interrupt Ye Zhiqiu to signal that it didn't matter, and glanced at me. "I vaguely saw your father's appearance back then on this kid, where he sat involuntarily reminded me of the past, people are old, there are many words, not to mention that you don't know what happened back then, I haven't told you all these years, it's time for you to know."

Ling Ran's expression was full of sadness and helplessness, he drank all the wine in the cup without a sound, sighed heavily, and looked out through the carved window of the Yinxiang Drunken Moon Tower, as if he was reminiscing about the past.

"That year, I went to Hanshan Temple to enjoy the snow, that was the first time I saw Ye Jiuqing, at that time he was not yet twenty years old, I saw him alone Fengqiao, holding a compass in his hand to look at the landscape, thinking that he was a fellow Taoist, so he stepped forward to talk." Ling Ran smiled faintly when he said this, with a lot of longing in his heart, and then looked at me. "When Ye Jiuqing was young, he was not as gangsteric as you, I guess you didn't believe it, he was polite and gentle at that time."

"Is he still polite?" I frowned, and it was difficult to connect Ye Jiuqing, whom I knew well, with the person Ling Ran depicted.

"And the conversation is elegant and insightful, the most important thing is that he is chic and uninhibited, vertical and horizontal, I can be said to be familiar with him at first sight, that night in Hanshan Temple, I talked with him at night with a lot of hatred of seeing each other." Ling Ran nodded and smiled lightly. "He originally planned to stay in Gusu for a few days, but I fell in love with him, and Qianjinyi learned that it was difficult to find him, so I invited him to go back to Ling's house with me."

Ye Jiuqing also admired Ling Ran when he mentioned it, Ling Ran now talked about Ye Jiuqing in front of us and also sympathized with each other, in fact, I also felt that Ling Ran had more or less Ye Jiuqing's character shadow, and it was no wonder that the two would fall in love.

"Thinking about it later, if I hadn't taken him home, maybe now I am still friends with him, I have been worthy of Ling Ran all my life, if I am wrong, the only thing is that I shouldn't lead the wolf into the house!" Ling Ran's voice gradually deepened, and the little smile on his face slowly solidified.

"The shopkeeper has a bright and upright life, although what he does may not be on the table in your eyes, but the shopkeeper has always been loyal, and every time he talks about you in front of me, he is full of praise, and he will never exhaust the wolf's ambitions." I put away my previous provocation and said to Ling Ran calmly.

"The hero doesn't ask where he comes from, I don't care what he does, I have a heart-to-heart relationship with him because I appreciate his personality, in fact, Ye Jiuqing is not a hero, but he can indeed be called a hero, do you think I don't know what he does?" Ling Ran glanced at me and said meaningfully. "It seems that you don't know Ye Jiuqing too well, in Hanshan Temple, he took a compass to check feng shui, my Ling family is a feng shui family, and has passed on feng shui mystics from generation to generation, how can he hide from my eyes, you are expected to rob the tomb and ask about the four-character trick, among which the hope is to look at the qi to check the form, although it is difficult to enter the elegant hall in the feng shui mystic, but it is also quite useful, Ye Jiuqing was young and could master the feng shui art to the fullest, but it made me impressed, but at that time I knew his identity."

"That'...... Then you still take him back to Ling's house?! The palace lord was dumbfounded. Didn't the ancestor of the Ling family say that you can't rob the tomb, you are really not wrong, you know that the shopkeeper is a tomb robber, and you brought it back, so it's no wonder that others, it was you who lured the wolf into the room. ”

"Friends are honest with each other, I put my heart into him, because I believe that he is a friend, and he will definitely treat each other with all sincerity, not to mention that the ancestor of the Ling family is not allowed to rob the tomb of the Ling family, but he did not say that he is not allowed to make friends with the tomb robbers." Whenever Ling Ran talked about Ye Jiuqing, he was still impressed even now. "I took Ye Jiuqing to the Ling family, and he guessed my identity at the door of the house, do you know what Ye Jiuqing said to me?"

"What?" I asked.

"Ye Jiuqing bluntly told me that he was a tomb robber, and he was afraid that entering the mansion would ruin the reputation of the Ling family, I thought he would hide it, but I never expected him to be so upright, and I was even more impressed by him."

"The shopkeeper told you he was a tomb robber? That...... Then you can't talk about it, you obviously know the identity of the person, and in the end you have to drive him away alive, and you want the shopkeeper to have a pair of eyes, don't you slap yourself in the face. Tian Ji said with a frown.

"Ye Jiuqing is smart and witty, and he is quick-witted, I discuss feng shui mysteries with him, he can always draw inferences from one case and quickly integrate them, my Ling family has inherited feng shui secrets from generation to generation, but I have never seen such an extraordinary person as Ye Jiuqing, if he devotes himself to the study of feng shui, he must be far above me now, but unfortunately he chose to rob the tomb." Ling Ran was heartbroken and took a deep breath. "I drove him out of Ling's house and never allowed him to set foot in Gusu, not because he used the feng shui I taught to rob the tomb, I wanted him Ye Jiuqing to have a pair of eyes, because he saw things that shouldn't be seen."

"Shopkeeper...... What did the shopkeeper see? I asked curiously.

"When Ye Jiuqing arrived at Ling's house, my little sister Ling Xi was twenty-eight years old, Ye Jiuqing and I discussed feng shui every day, Ling Xi saw me taking people home, so I came to visit, my little sister's simple love was just beginning, and I saw Ye Jiuqing, who was a suave and talented person, and fell in love at first sight, but unfortunately I didn't know that Ye Jiuqing stayed in Ling's house for half a year, and the two of them were deeply rooted like glue, and it was too late for me to notice."

"That's it...... Just like the shopkeeper, also, also a talent? Tian Ji scratched his head and didn't believe it.

"When Ye Jiuqing was young, Yushu was in the wind, and he talked extraordinarily and gracefully, no wonder Ling Xi would fall in love with him, I knew that Mu Chengzhou didn't want to beat the mandarin ducks, so I persuaded Ye Jiuqing to let him turn around and stop his hands from being involved in tomb robbing, he flatly refused, in fact, until now, I haven't figured out why Ye Jiuqing is so obsessed with robbing tombs." The more Ling Ran spoke, the more angry he became, and the green tendons of his hand holding the wine glass were exposed. "It's okay if he is willing to fall alone, but it's a pity that Ling Xi suffered."

"What happened next, why did my mom keep refusing to be here?" The corners of Ye Zhiqiu's eyes were shining, and he asked in a low voice.

"Me and your mother, brother and sister, in terms of qualifications and talents, Ling Xi is far above me, she should have inherited the Ling family's feng shui secret technique, but for Ye Jiuqing, she did not hesitate to violate the ancestral teachings, Ye Jiuqing didn't lie to her, and bluntly told him what he did, but Ling Xi was not even more obsessed, and he was bent on following Ye Jiuqing, so I had no choice but to lock your mother in the house and drive Ye Jiuqing away." Ling Ran shook his head and sighed heavily. "Who knew that Ye Jiuqing sneaked back to the Ling family to rescue Ling Xi, and I noticed that I led someone to catch up, at that time I had the heart to kill him, your mother stopped in front of me and begged to let him go, and was even willing to be expelled from the ancestral hall by the Ling family, and he was never allowed to step into the Ling family for half a step."

"It turns out that you want to destroy the shopkeeper's eyes, not because he concealed his identity, but because he fell in love with the most precious thing of the Ling family......" I suddenly realized that I suddenly didn't know how to help Ye Jiuqing argue, a woman who could give up everything for him, but in the end she died because of him.

I stood up and took the flower carving from in front of Ling Ran, poured it for him respectfully, and then poured it full for myself, and picked up the wine glass with regret: "The younger generation doesn't know about this past, there were many offenses before, the shopkeeper has been regretting it all these years, and every time his wife dies, he doesn't think about tea and dinner, he has never put down his affection, I will compensate you for this cup of wine on behalf of the shopkeeper." ”

"Everyone is dead, it's useless to pay compensation, pity my little sister who is blind and looks at the wrong person, Ye Jiuqing is a turtle with a shrunken head, I was in Ling Xi back then, I had a deep love for her, I didn't want to hurt her heart, so I let Ye Jiuqing go, he swore in front of me that if he was sorry for Ling Xi, he would pay it back." Ling Ran didn't bring the wine in front of her, looked at Ye Zhiqiu beside her, and touched her head lovingly. "Your mother died in vain, I should have let Ye Jiuqing fill in his life, but you were still young at the time, and your uncle didn't want to see your parents die, and now that you have grown up, Ye Jiuqing claimed to be a man of his word, and he didn't dare to come to see me until now."

"The shopkeeper is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, he has lived a very hard life over the years, he told me, if there is still something to do, he would have wanted to go down to accompany her, the shopkeeper is more affectionate to her than Jinjian, if it is not for the deep love between the two, she will not sacrifice her life to save her." I say.

"Something important......" Ling Ran smiled coldly. What else is important about him Ye Jiuqing, in the final analysis, it is still tomb robbing, in his heart, Ling Xi is far less important than tomb robbery, but my sister is still obsessed with it for the time being, and she doesn't see the ...... surnamed Ye clearly."

"Enough! Don't you just want the shopkeeper to live. I threw away the wine glass in my hand, pulled open the collar, and my chest was exposed in front of Ling Ran. I can't control the right or wrong of the shopkeeper, but I am the shopkeeper's person, you say to me that he can't do it, you have to think that a life can relieve your anger, I will help the shopkeeper return it to you. ”

Tian Ji and Gong Jue also stood up, Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly walked to my side, blocked the front and said, "Uncle, he has a strong temperament, don't worry about him." ”

Ling Ran's gaze became strange, but I believe that it was definitely not because I gave him an arc, he slowly picked up the wine glass and shook it in his hand, his lips squirmed and he smiled bitterly: "Unjustly, more than thirty years ago, Ling Xi was standing here begging me, and now her daughter is begging me again, all for a tomb robber ......"

Ling Ran raised his head and drank all the wine, slowly stood up and walked towards me, Tian Ji and Gong Jue stood in front, I asked them to get out of the way, Ye Zhiqiu didn't move, he was pushed away by me, and looked straight at Ling Ran opposite: "From now on, either you take my life to relieve your anger, or you don't say half a word in front of me, if I hear it again, your Ling family's thirteen lintels and the eight-and-a-half-step master have smashed it with his own hands."

"Gu Chaoge, you kick your nose in the face." Ye Zhiqiu pulled me hard behind him. "You still think this is a small Guan Temple that can do nonsense."

"Ye Jiuqing's blessings in this life, I envy him tightly, find my sister and let him rise to the top, and there is a master who is not afraid of death to protect him when he gets old." Ling Ran's hand slowly stretched out, his voice was calm and calm, his hand stopped on the corner of my clothes, but his gaze fell on my chest. "This chain is yours?"

"......" I was stunned, but I didn't expect Ling Ran to pass by, and the words turned to the necklace, and when I looked down, I saw the necklace on the chest that I pulled open was exposed. Yes. ”

"Quite a chic necklace." Ling Ran glanced at it and closed the corner of my clothes. "I'm old, I don't do anything about fighting and killing for a long time, and I will still be the ancestral house of the Bo Ling family in my lifetime."

Ling Ran actually compromised, which surprised me a little, he sat back in his chair, pointed to a table of dishes and raised his hand calmly.

"Please!"