4 Chapter 1 The Beginning of Everything Section 4 The Hanging Willows
Uncle Ming nodded and said, "That's right, his detention place is exactly where I am." Xun Chen raised his eyebrows slightly.
As he spoke, Uncle Ming walked to the stone door in the middle, his rough and thick palm slowly attached to the stone door, and an orange-yellow halo rippled from his palm like the ripples of water, and with the ripples, the stone door slowly opened in the sound of squeaking friction.
With the opening of the stone door, Xun Chen also saw the scene inside, the bright candle flame was lit in the room, illuminating the inside was transparent, in the middle of this stone room, there was a man sitting cross-legged in it, his scattered hair covered most of his face, and his chin had a thick and short beard because he had not shaved for many years, and when he heard the sound of the stone door opening, the man slowly raised his head, and the pupils hidden in his hair were like sharp blades lying quietly in the weeds, with a quiet and pure killing intent.
However, although the man sat cross-legged, his limbs were bound by a kind of bright silver chain, the root of which penetrated into the stone wall, and the bright silver chain shimmered in the light of the candle flame with a terrifying white light.
After seeing Uncle Ming, the man smiled and said, "Brother Ming, it's not dinner time yet, why did you come to visit my little brother?" Or do you have any good works to share with your little brother?"
Uncle Ming also smiled and said, "Don't be poor, this time I came to give you hope of getting out." β
Hearing this, the man looked at Xun Chen, who was following Uncle Ming, although he couldn't see it, Xun Chen felt this person's brows furrowed, and then asked, "Just him?"
Uncle Ming nodded and said, "It's up to him." Uncle Ming paused, looked at the man solemnly, the flames around him shook for a while, causing the shadows on the ground to shake, and the man also felt the unusual atmosphere, and looked at Uncle Ming quietly.
Uncle Ming's deep and hoarse voice quietly echoed in the stone room: "Speaking of which, the time is almost up, those people...... It's time to come back, too. Originally, I didn't understand much, but when I think about it, this kid has been locked up in Liucheng by Liu Fuxing, and when I saw your chain, I understood what Liu Fuqian's guy meant. β
Song Zhu asked, "Liu Fuqian?"
Uncle Ming nodded and said, "This guy is Liu Fuxing's son, but he has basically been locked up in Liucheng by Liu Fuxing, so he wants to escape from Liucheng, so Liu Fuqian asked him to come to see you, hoping that you will help him." β
Xun Chen watched the two of them talk about themselves, but found that he couldn't insert half a sentence, and there were some things he didn't understand well, and there was another reason why he had been locked up in Liucheng?
Song Zhu lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head to look at Xun Chen, Xun Chen looked at his eyes, and actually felt a feeling of being stared at by a poisonous snake and a jackal, just looking at these eyes, a chill slowly appeared in his heart, and he couldn't help but take a step back...... It's so strong.
Song Zhu said slowly: "In the past, my lover's life hung by a thread, and I urgently needed the Bing Xin Jade of the Liu family to hang her life, but how could this kind of family treasure be given away casually? Feeling hopeless, I sneaked into the Liu Mansion and stole the Ice Heart Jade, but only when I had just handed over this Ice Heart Jade to my lover's friend in this Liu City, Liu Fuxing chased it out. β
Saying that, Song Zhu's face revealed a trace of reminiscence, and said slowly: "Although I was already injured by the authorities in Liufu at that time, and I only wanted to stop Liu Fuxing and let my lover's friend escape first, but these can't be reasons. β
He smiled and said: "I failed miserably, this is indisputable, even if my strength has not been weakened, go all out, it should be a fiasco, this is the first time I have lost so completely under the hands of a peer, so although I lost to him, I still admire him." After I lost, Liu Fuxing detained me. β
At this moment, the lights in the room flickered, and the shadows of the four people were reflected in a trance.
"After he realized that I was doing this for my lover, he decided to lock me up with Brother Ming and put this chain on him, and he bluntly said that if one day this chain could be broken, he would give me my freedom. β
Speaking of this, Song Zhu swallowed his saliva and continued: "Over the years, Brother Ming has also thought of many ways to break this chain, but he has not been able to. After discussing with the two of us, we came up with two methods, one is to wait for my strength to reach a certain level and break the chain from within, and the other is to find a legendary weapon and cut the chain. β
Speaking of this, Song Zhu's expression darkened a little, and said, "If I want to break this chain with my own strength, it will take me ten years." Then his eyes looked at Xun Chen, and he continued: "So, if I want to come out, I can only rely on you. β
Xun Chen was stunned for a moment, he naturally understood that what Song Zhu said was the second method, "But...... I don't have any magic weapons. β
Uncle Ming put his broad palm on Xunchen's shoulder from behind, "You'll have it, if... You are the words of that person. β
Xun Chen turned his head, that person, Uncle Ming didn't intend to answer this question for him, but he continued: "In a place in this Liucheng, there is a weapon that is destined to belong waiting for you. β
"Really...... That place, you know what?"
"Yes. β
"The weapon...... What's your name?"
"Frost is cold and forgetful. β
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Xun Chen walked on the street, and the bright sun sprinkled like gold, shining on people's hearts, warm. In the distance, in front of the gate of Liufu, I saw those two figures.
The moon-white clothes were blown by the breeze and rippled, refracting the sunlight and scattering golden ripples. The green clothes are fluttering, the catkins are flying, and the breeze is blowing, with bursts of warmth. Xun Chen greeted him and said, "Wait a long time, what are you going to do today?"
Lu Yi smiled lightly and said, "Let's go shopping around, there will always be something interesting." Xun Chen turned his head to look at the fish, who nodded slightly.
The group of three people set off from Liufu and wandered around the street, but Xun Chen was walking alone in front, and the two people in the back were watching without talking. There was silence between the three of them, so quiet that you could feel the water of time slowly flowing between each other, the sunlight quietly spreading between the three of them, and the catkins passing by the three of them, but there was no silence between the three of them.
Xun Chen seemed to feel a frizzy little monkey jumping around there, scratching his ears and cheeks, unwilling as if he wanted to break through something, but he was suppressed by the silence around him and couldn't jump out, so he could only walk around frizzily in his heart. "Do you want to say something to break this silence?" Xun Chen felt that if this silence lasted for a long time, it would produce something called embarrassing.
Xun Chen secretly glanced back at the back, and saw Lu Yi walking there very casually behind his hands, his eyes skimming to the left, and the catkins danced with them, and the eyebrows and eyes were all casual. And on the right, the moon-white clothes are swinging quietly over there, and the eyes of the fish look at the right for a moment, the eyes are very clear, very light, and they are looking at everything around them very naturally and seriously, feeling the gaze of Xunchen, turning his head, looking at him with eyes like the ink of the landscape, and the eyes seem to be lightly splashed by the painter, and the original shallow eyes gradually become freehand, and he smiled lightly and said: "I like the scenery here very much." β
Instantly, Xunchen felt that the quiet atmosphere here was blown away by the spring breeze, and the sunlight still drilled into this small square inch of land, and the water flow like light flowed gently, showing freehand. Xun Chen also smiled lightly and said: " When I was a child, my favorite thing to do was to be in a daze with this willow city, to see the sunlight refracted between the white walls on a sunny day, when it rained, you can see a trace of rain lines on the eaves of the eaves converge, condense, and then condense a fall, at that time the sound of raindrops falling on the Uwa and the sound of the water column falling on the ground is my favorite sound when I was a child, listening to those sounds, the mood is always unconsciously calmed down, at that time close your eyes, you can outline in your mind the whole willow city shrouded in the rain line, a stream of water columns alternately falling sceneγ β
At this time, Lu Yi also turned his head and looked at Xun Chen, his willow leaf-like eyebrows were slightly raised, and Xun Chen continued: " The land south of the Yangtze River is generally warm, and it rarely snows, but if it snows here, it is also very beautiful, and the snow is covered with white snow, black and white, and the snow will not fall like rain at that time, but will be covered on the black tiles, and by the eaves, there are ice edges, which have a clear light under the refraction of the sun, and some children in Liucheng will fold these down and play with each other like swords, and some children will take these ice edges in their mouths and drink them as water. Speaking of this, Xun Chen smiled lightly, and then said: "But generally speaking, if these children are discovered by their parents, they will inevitably teach a lesson. At that time, the whole Liucheng was covered with a layer of snow, which refracted the golden light under the light of the warm winter sun, like a delicate girl wearing a layer of gold veil, which was very beautiful and serene. β
Lu Yi looked at the wistful look in Xunchen's eyes, as if he saw the winter scene in Liucheng, smiled, and said, "This may be one of the reasons why your father has always been guarding here." When Xun Chen heard this, he was stunned, hid the divine light in his eyes, nodded slightly, smiled lonely, and said, "Maybe." β
Ask the fish to say softly: "So...... If you like the scenery of Liucheng so much, why do you insist on going out? Maybe there is a more beautiful scenery outside than Liucheng, but maybe the scenery outside is far less beautiful than Liucheng?"
Xun Chen shook his head lightly and said softly: "Maybe there is a more beautiful scenery outside than Liucheng, but none of the scenery can make me feel familiar and feel at ease than Liucheng." It's just that I must go out, and I feel that there is something in this world that I must do. At the same time, after I have experienced all things in the world, I will definitely return to Liucheng to protect it. β
Lu Yi smiled and said, "It's too early to talk about this, Xunchen, why don't you tell us what you plan to take us to do today?"
Xun Chen was driven by her gentle smile like a spring breeze, smiled lightly, and said, "Today is Saturday, Liu'er will perform in Cuiyun Tower, I will take you to enjoy it." β
"Miss Liu'er is...?" said Xunchen as he led the way in front, "Geisha." β
At this time, Wen Yu's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, Xun Chen noticed it, and said with a smile: "Some brothels in the world are indeed doing some things like male thieves and female prostitutes, but in my Liucheng, Cuiyunlou does not do this kind of business. Xun Chen paused and said, "You will know when the time comes." β
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The three-foot stage deduces how many joys and sorrows in life, and how many ups and downs in the world?
But on the stage, a woman wearing layers of green veils walked out, with a faint sadness in her eyes, and her lowered eyes gently swept over everyone in the theater, but it didn't seem like she was looking at these people, but through the endless time barrier, she saw the things of hundreds of years ago......
The woman's eyes darkened, the corners of her mouth lightly outlined a trace of contempt and mockery, she lowered her head, did not look at the people present, and just said to herself: "Since you ...... If you want to know what I've just done, then I'll ask the world to be a witness!"
Xunchen felt that the two girls should be at a loss at this time, turned their heads and said: "Actually, this is not Liu'er's words, no, it is her words, but the person who should say this is not her, uh......" Xunchen said and walked around himself, paused, and said: "Liu'er is going to dance a dance, and the sentence just now was said by the person who danced this dance at that time." Saying that, Xun Chen smiled, "This dance...... Fame moves the world. β
But Xun Chen found that the expressions of these two people were not quite right, and asked Yu to frown, her eyes were blank, and Xun Chen observed that her teeth were biting, as if she was struggling with something, while Lu Yi had endless gloom in her eyes, lowered her head, and didn't know what she thought of, ignoring everything around her. But Lu Yi noticed Xun Chen's turn of his head and smiled softly, with helplessness and ...... in his laughter Sad, he replied softly: "It's "Konghou Hanging Willow", right?"
Xun Chen saw that she had something on her mind, so he also hummed softly and didn't bother.
Liu Er began to dance, her eyes still maintaining the gloom and silence, but her fingers were changing, tangled, and stretching as if they were alive, like a tender green willow that was waiting to grow up floating in the wind. There was a woman's voice singing and sighing in the stage behind her:
"The color sleeves diligently held the jade bell, but it was drunk and red.
Dance low willow building heart moon, song peach blossom fan bottom wind.
After parting, I remembered to meet, and I dreamed of you a few times.
There is a silver light left tonight, and I am afraid that the meeting is in a dream. β
Liu Er continued to evolve with the jade fingers, gently, driving the twisting of the arm, the arm is like a branch, although the swing is not as large as the wicker, but it is also fluttering with the wind, the dance of the arm drives the fluttering of layers of green yarn, sweeping, fluttering, lingering, layers of green yarn are danced by her layered, it feels like a dense and different leaves.
Halfway through the dance, Liu Er paused slightly, the green yarn on the two arms slowly fell, layer by layer on Liu Er's arms, like ten thousand leaves falling, Liu Er bent her body slightly, the two arms stretched out flat, motionless, her fingers drooped gently, like ordinary willow branches hanging at will, her eyes were closed peacefully, and her whole body was motionless like a statue, only the green yarn between the two arms fell, forming a static and moving contrast.
When the green yarn finally fell and hung on Liu Er's arm, her eyes gently opened a slit, the light red lips gently outlined an arc, the left leg was bent, the right leg was erect, with the right as the axis, it rotated like a cloud, and the tips of her fingers appeared blue-green points of light. Ten circular tracks are floating over there, and Liu Er also dances all over her body, with the rapid sound of Gong Hou, her dancing posture is getting faster and faster, only the eyes are leisurely, want to talk and rest, the dance is floating, if fairy, if the spirit is like a willow, until the green yarn of the man dance covers her eyes, everything finally comes to an end, and Liu Er also slowly retreats in the applause of everyone. But his eyes drifted to Xunchen and smiled softly.