Chapter III

"Master Qingxu, Si Yu ......"

It turned out that it was so difficult to just say the word 'Si Yu'! Luo Yan couldn't hide the pain on his face. In the past three years, no one dared to say Si Yu in front of him, and even he didn't dare to think of these two words...... But in the past three years, his heart has been hurting and hurting! The pain is so much that he can't bear it, and it turns out that people's hearts can still hurt so much, it turns out that ...... There were times when he couldn't bear it. I don't know if the two of them are fateful, if not, but why would God let them meet, if so...... And why are people separated forever early!

“...... Si Yu ...... When he was dying, he left this ancient jade to Ah Jin, and instructed me to hand over Ah Jin to you with this jade...... I have inquired in many ways, but I don't know how this jade came from, and I don't know how to find you with this jade. Good thing you came to find us today. ”

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"Where is Ah Jin?"

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Luo Yan saw the housekeeper leading Ah Jin, who had just turned five, over, so he beckoned, "Ah Jin, this is Master Qingxu, you will worship under his door in the future, come and salute." ”

"Ah Jin has seen Master Qingxu. "I bowed respectfully.

"Well, get up, look up and let Master take a look. A mellow voice sounded above my head. I wondered what kind of bearing this master with a nice voice had, so I raised my head and looked carefully at the person who called himself Master standing in front of me.

The master is only thirty, about the same height as his father, but he has a different temperament from his father, his father who has been in the court for a long time is like a sword out of the sheath, cold and arrogant, and this master Qingxu has a gentle and sunny demeanor, and has a quiet air of a void bamboo and orchid, and the eyes under his eyebrows are looking at me gently and gently.

Qingxu looked at Ah Jin who was worshipping at his feet, this appearance attacked the peerless elegance of the goddess Si Yu. I can't help but think of what that guy from Xiaolian once said seriously: There are many outstanding looks in these nine heavens, but if you want to talk about the goddess Si Yu, I'm afraid it's still a lot worse.

"Master Qingxu, this kid ...... I'll leave it to you......" Luo Yan had planned to raise this child carefully, and then find a good relative worthy of her for this child. It's just that Si Yu asked like this, presumably she meant. He saw that Master Qingxu's temperament was not like that of a mortal, not like an ordinary professor, so he tried to ask where and what he taught, and how to know Si Yu and so on. was only replied by Master Qingxu in a few words.

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"Master," the housekeeper looked at Ah Jin, who had already gone away with Master Qingxu, and said reluctantly, "Master, do you really feel at ease to hand over the young lady to this person? Miss is only five years old!"

"The person entrusted by Si Yu, I can rest assured. Let alone...... You also know that the current situation is turbulent and the world is unpredictable, and it is really not good for Ah Jin to follow me. ”

Just when the housekeeper accompanied Luo Yan into the study, he seemed to hear Luo Yan ask quietly, "You say...... Si Yu ...... Are you mortal?"

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After one day, the master told me that the government and the opposition under the mountain were in unprecedented chaos, Mu Jingtian in order to re-establish the new king to the throne, and my father led the army to attack for seven days, although my father had a slight upper hand, but the casualties on both sides were very terrible, at this time, Mu Jingtian's two sons led a heavy army to come, it turned out that his two sons had already moved the soldiers to the nearby capital little by little, all the soldiers were pretending to be farmers and merchants, and now they are wearing armor to besiege the palace, my father is weak, but the soldiers under him are also desperately resisting with his father. When Daddy was protecting the emperor to break through, he was unfortunately hit by a poisoned arrow, and after a few days, he still died. Just before he died, he asked his subordinates to ghostwrite, and he dictated two letters, one with me and one with my master.

When it was, I looked at the trembling daddy's name and the unclear seal on the final sign. I don't know what was written in the letter to Master, but I wrote a lot of words, probably the story of my father and mother. Before that, I never thought that my father would have such a verbose and warm side. Every time I reread this long blood-stained letter, I can't help but think about what kind of expression my father must have had when he dictated this letter.

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Once upon a time, I lost my mother physically, and my father in my heart. For although he never did not want me, he never carried his child on his shoulders and on his lap like other fathers. I don't even know if his fingers are warm or cold to the touch. Now, I don't know anymore.

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"Look, this is the grasshopper I just caught, and I tied it to a blade of grass for you. "A little boy about my age was running profusely with a sweat in his eyes, and my eyes were shining, as if the sun was soaked in them, and I hurriedly reached out in front of the table to block it. But again, there were a few more drops of ink on the near-finished painting on the table, and hey! The perpetrator didn't know it, and still excitedly shook the grasshopper back and forth in front of my eyes, which made me a little dizzy, thinking, this dizziness, I'm afraid this painting won't be completed for a while. Look at this grasshopper with a clear body that is tied to the braided grass blades, it is so cute! It is estimated that the master will only come back tomorrow, so he turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, go catch one more and tie them together, and see if the two will fight together!" Qingshan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he dragged me to the grass in the valley, pitying me for a girl's house, and it took a lot of trouble to carry my skirt.

Until the sun will go down, there will be some warm yellow afterglow will be enveloped in half of the valley, Qingshan and I have caught eight grasshoppers, and thirteen crickets, all of them are placed in the straw cage, the grasshoppers are tied to a braided grass blade rope, looking at it from a distance, like a string of meat skewers, suddenly thought that a few days ago Qingshan took advantage of the master's absence, so he secretly ran to the market under the mountain, when he came back, he held a meat skewer in his hand to eat with me, and he didn't know where he got it from when he was penniless, only knew that after eating the meat skewer, he pulled his stomach for two days, For this reason, Qingshan was also taught a hard lesson by the master. Now, looking at the meat skewers on his hand like grasshoppers, he can't help but recall the experience of having a stomach, his heart shuddered, and his interest couldn't help but decrease by half, and he saw that it was getting late, so he urged Qingshan to return to the mountain.

"Wait! These grasshoppers are all in pairs, but this cricket is single, and if this single cricket sees that the others are all in pairs, and the sky is pitiful, how sad it is! Let's catch another cricket, right?" Aoyama was still not satisfied, looking at me with a flattering face, I silently skimmed my face, "Why don't you let one go?" ”

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On the way back, I thought that Master would come back tomorrow, and that the painting would have to be completed tonight. Tilting his head to see that the green mountains were walking and teasing the crickets in the grass cage with the sharp tips of the blades of grass, suddenly a worm chirped in the valley, which was very lively.

When I returned to the mountain, Qingshan brought a dish and a soup to the house to eat with me after a while, which was very virtuous. While eating, I casually asked, "Aoyama, how are you practicing the enchantment?"

"Yes, yes, but not very skilled. If only I had a talent like you, I would be able to enter and exit the enchantment freely without hard training. Qingshan sighed while not forgetting to pull the food into his mouth, "Even if the master was born with an immortal fetus, he can't do this." ”

When I pulled the food into my mouth, I also sighed that if I could be born with a good cooking skill like Aoyama, this would be more practical. I think of the days when Qingshan took advantage of the master's absence to sneak down the mountain, I had to climb the tree to pick fruits to satisfy my hunger, and my whole face was sallow. After thinking about it, I sighed again in my heart.

After the meal, I washed the dishes and chopsticks with mountain spring water, and boiled hot tea in a small pot. Qingshan and I crouched on the stone table outside the house and counted the stars, chatting about all kinds of gossip while counting, most of them were said that I listened, and occasionally picked up a few very high-level questions in the gap between Qingshan drinking water and tea. There is a saying that it depends on the level of a person who talks about gossip, and also depends on the level of the person listening to the gossip to throw out the question. Obviously, my level is very high. Qingshan's eyebrows fluttered and chatted about the floating world that he saw secretly down the mountain by chance, and finally sighed like he thought he had seen all the red dust, "It's really a floating world, a floating world!" Then drain the cup of tea.

"Tell me, where is the place in the world below the mountain that best reflects the various states of the floating world?" Qingshan sneaked down the mountain several times with me on his back, and every time he came back, he forced me to talk about how interesting the mountain was, and every time at this time, I was so angry that my teeth itched. Although I was born to cross all kinds of barriers, my master never taught me any techniques, and he was always reluctant to take me with him every time he used the Flying Technique to sneak down the mountain to have fun. In his words, I don't know how to fly, I go down the mountain by walking, and when I get to the bottom of the mountain, it will be almost dark. Now, I am thinking in my heart that although I have never gone down the mountain once, if I can go to the place that best reflects the various forms of the ukiyo, I will be able to enjoy the many regrets.

"This ...... I think about it...... "Aoyama, who had drunk all the tea, was about to get up and go back to rest, when I was pulled back to the stone bench by my question. I carefully refilled him with tea and let him think about it. After a while, seeing Qingshan's face brighten, knowing that he had already thought of it, he listened to it with his earlobe, waited for a while and didn't hear half a word, and looked up to see Qingshan, who had always been straightforward, but swept his eyes at me a few times, and his expression was very unnatural. I couldn't help but worry, "Do you have eye cramps?"