Chapter 5: Willow Branches Fight Ghosts
That was Xu Tinglan's best years, with both parents who raised their eyebrows and respected each other, as well as friends who were friends and playmates who got along day and night.
Xu Tinglan, who requires physical strength, doesn't know anything, but she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her chess skills are better than the princess of the emperor's family.
One day, Master Xu Yan asked Xu Tinglan to teach them to play chess, Lin You is not good at this, he always likes to play in a daze every time he goes to class, but he likes to come up and watch when he is a brother and sister, although she is not good at chess, but she likes to pretend to be profound.
She stood there and gestured and said, "Junli, what's the matter with you, that place is not right." ”
The young man in Tsing Yi has a face like a crown of jade, peerless elegance, and his movements are impeccable. Chu Heng, who was incarnated as a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, was stunned, this turned out to be Jun Li.
Lin You glared at Jun Li fiercely, and inadvertently saw the movements of the young man in blue, and stretched out his hand to stop it: "Zhaozhou, you can't go down there." Chu Zhaozhou's movements were stiffened by her shouting, and he looked at her suspiciously, with a look of distrust of his senior sister.
Lin You was angry.
Xu Tinglan, who was watching from the sidelines, pulled her over, "Where did you lose the truth of watching chess and saying nothing, the true gentleman?" The tone is full of intimacy and familiarity that others cannot participate in.
So Lin You began to think in pieces, "Tinglan, why are you like this, I didn't speak, I'll take a look at ......" as if it wasn't her own who spoke just now.
Suddenly, she looked at Xu Tinglan with burning eyes, remembered the things that Chen Xin brought to him when she went down the mountain a few days ago, and immediately pulled Xu Tinglan out secretly, Xu Tinglan was pulled by her, and asked while running: "What's wrong?" ”
In the dream, Lin You returned to the room, pressed Xu Tinglan's shoulder with his hand and asked her to sit down, and sneakily took out a book from under the mattress, "Look, I asked Chen Xin to bring it to me." ”
Xu Tinglan glanced at the title of the book, "Alien Aspirations", "Didn't my father let you read these books?" "Lin You has a gentle temperament, but he has a rare attachment to these things.
She spread her hands, looking indifferent, "If you don't say it, no one will know, besides, you won't die if you look at it." ”
She introduced with great interest: "This is written by Master Xi Tan himself, an exclusive collection, and a condensed essence version." Regardless of Xu Tinglan's thoughts, he said confidently: "This time it is definitely true." ”
Qingdan Daoist Hall is full of incense, how can Master Xi Tan have time to write this Laoshzi thing, Xu Tinglan hit her without hesitation: "Didn't you say that last time." ”
She exalted and emphasized, "This time it's really real, it's well written." Her eyes were full of yearning, the corners of her mouth were gentle, and she looked at Xu Tinglan and patted her shoulder generously, and said: "When I can call the wind and rain and ride the clouds, I will definitely give you one, and there is a way to become a half-demon." ”
A few days later, Lin You came to her and sadly said that her dream was about to run aground again, and the book was fake.
Xu Tinglan couldn't help laughing on the spot, in exchange for a good fight from Lin You.
Happy times are always short-lived.
In 1970, Jun Li and Chu Zhaozhou were seventeen years old, Xu Tinglan was sixteen years old, and Lin You was eighteen years old.
Junli is talented, highly perceptive, and quiet-minded, and is very loved by Xu Yan and his wife, and he loves to take Junli as an example every time. The students who come to study in the mountains ask to do morning classes before dawn every day, only go to school for one hour, and do nothing, so you sit still with your eyes open. If the heart is calm, time is like an arrow; If you are irritable, your days will be like years. Xu Yan used this method to let them cultivate their self-cultivation.
How can a half-grown child be mature and stable in front of adults, and he also shows his original form in front of people like himself. More than a dozen tables were neatly placed in the center of the courtyard, the front one was facing them, and Master Xu Yan only came to supervise and supervise a few times.
Before dawn, one by one they were sleepy, and some people's heads on their necks nodded a little from time to time, and when they encountered this situation, they would be knocked on the head by Xu Yan if they were unlucky.
On this day, they were doing morning class, and in a daze, they heard the upstairs window "squeak" open, and the eyes of the inattentive people immediately drifted up, and when they saw that it was the little junior sister, they couldn't move, and smiled with a stiff expression as a greeting. If it was the same as usual, Xu Tinglan would have closed the window immediately, but today was different, she didn't move her feet, standing in front of the window to look at them.
Those people withdrew their gaze and continued to wander away, and began to guess who the little junior sister was looking at, sometimes looking at Jun Li, sometimes looking at Chu Zhaozhou, and in the end there was no result, so they had to look at each other and guess how many people the master would knock on today.
Then, Xu Yan took the whip "Knock, knock, knock, knock......" and knocked it over, and the distracted people covered their heads, cried and mourned, and immediately sat upright.
In the past, Xu Yan liked to use Junli as an analogy, and today is the same, "Look at Junli when you are distracted, how he does it." ”
They nodded hurriedly and pretended to glance at Jun Li, but found that the young man in his prime tilted his head slightly, and also looked upstairs, they secretly worshipped, and the senior brother (brother) was so distracted that even the master couldn't find it.
In 1972, the war of resistance against aggression entered a stalemate stage, the Casarte Democratic Republic and the aggressor country were equal in strength, at that time the country was divided into two factions, the Ming democrats and the republicans, one side supported the preservation of strength, fought guerrilla warfare, dragged the enemy to consume the enemy's strategic materials, and the other side felt that it should take the initiative to attack, hit the enemy by surprise and attack its unpreparedness, quickly achieve victory, reduce the consumption of army materials, and build the country as soon as possible.
Both sides had their own reasons, and the republicans emerged victorious when there was a fierce clash of power at the top.
However, when the strategy was implemented, the expected victory was not achieved, the army collapsed, the republicans became the target of public criticism, the previous victories in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression also disappeared, and the national crisis intensified unprecedentedly. The democrats have an unprecedented sense of distress about the peril of the Casarte nation.
Zhushan took a vacation every two months, and the students were free to arrange the time for those days, most of whom went home to visit their parents, and a few stayed because of the war in their hometowns.
Junli's father was an officer and was fighting on the frontal battlefield of the War of Resistance against Aggression, so he didn't go back to add to the chaos.
Lin You has no father or mother, there is nowhere to go when he is on vacation, and he does not let Xu Tinglan be idle and run around, Xu Tinglan is afraid that she will have an accident alone, so she can only follow. The twenty-year-old girl was the mother of several children in ancient times, and Xu Yan and his wife felt that Chen Xin was lofty, down-to-earth, and worthy of trust, but Lin You just didn't agree, and said that he had a sweetheart, and he didn't say who it was.
On this day, they went down the mountain, wearing the clothes that people under the mountain should wear, which was very novel, and Junli stood next to Xu Tinglan to accompany them.
The people under the mountain are strange, but the things under the mountain are delicious.
The three of them walked together, and some people looked at their faces from time to time, Xu Tinglan felt weird, and couldn't tell what was weird, and said, "Junli, someone is peeking at us." ”
Jun Li's expression was calm, and he only said, "They may have never seen us like this." ”
She lives in Zhushan all the year round, and she doesn't know the sophistication of people, the noble and the low, the beautiful and the ugly, the power and financial interests, and asks in confusion, "Why haven't they seen it?" ”
"Xu is their short-sighted...... Compared with her shallow experience, he is omniscient, but people's hearts are the most difficult to understand, perceiving the trust in her eyes, he said.
She nodded, not delving into it.
Lin You, who was buying marshmallows in front of the stall, saw them muttering, walked over with marshmallows, and handed them to them, "Tinglan, your rabbit, Junli, your lamb." ”
Jun Li didn't answer, and motioned for her to give it to Xu Tinglan.
Lin You said "hey", "You're good, now you will borrow flowers to offer Buddha." Yi Yan handed the lamb-shaped marshmallow to Xu Tinglan.
Jun Li didn't speak, the lines on his face were soft, and he was a peerless appearance.
A few days later, Chen Xin came back, and in the afternoon Lin You went to him to ask for a book, and he said in an apologetic tone that he forgot to bring it, from sixteen years old to twenty years old, and the situation of forgetting to bring it was the first time that the eldest girl got on the sedan chair, Lin You was angry on the spot, saying that he must have no friends because he had a new love.
The next day, Xu Tinglan learned that Chen Xin's family was a member of the republican faction, because of the defeat in the War of Resistance against Aggression, the strength of the family was weakened, and his parents were on the wrong team, and they were blamed by the two sides The military court has not yet been tried.
What an eventful time.
Chu Heng wanted to look any further, but was woken up by the sound of rustling in the room.
The person in the room was wearing a white dress, his cloak was like a ghost, his steps were vague, and he was holding a few wicker sticks in his hand, waving them wildly in the air.
Chu Heng glanced at her, "How did you get in?" "Not much of a surprise.
Xu Tinglan looked at him sitting on the bed, "I'm not human, the door lock can't stop me," frowned, and his tone was a little nervous: "Where did you dream?" ”
He felt the air freeze a little, glanced at the willow branch in her hand, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”
Xu Tinglan shook the wicker, and her tone became familiar, "Chen Xin, do you know?" ”
It was Xu Yan's disciple, he nodded.
She didn't miss any opportunity to hack his grandfather, "Chen Xin has become a ghost, they were killed by your grandfather, and I am driving away their unjust spirits." ”
The yin qi in the room was a little heavier, like Ying and Xu Tinglan's words, Xu Tinglan waved it casually with a willow branch, and the yin qi retreated and shrank.