Chapter 2: A New World
Ah Qing stood under the plaque of the ordinary academy, looking at the peach trees all over the mountains, and felt the slightest urge to cry. Ah Qing is not a sentimental person, and the poor living environment since childhood can be said to have developed a resolute character, but as long as he is concerned with his parents, a child who is only twelve years old will become weak no matter how strong his heart is. And looking at the reaction of the porter's grandfather just now, he should know that piece of jade, and he should also know his father. After 12 years, I walked out of the village for the first time in the real sense, and on my birthday, I finally had the hope to know the news about my parents.
Yuan Huanhuan was full of emotion, he didn't expect that he would really bring this child who had been missing for twelve years back to the academy with a single effort, and the fate was really wonderful. And judging by Grandpa Lin's reaction, Ah Qing should be the descendant of those two.
The deeds of those two had already been heard on the first day Yuan Xianhuan entered the academy when he was eight years old. In the past six years, he has also stayed in the academy for six years, and in these six years, Yuan Huanhuan clearly knows how much effort the academy has spent in order to find Aqing, and has contacted the remaining four academies to search for the six dynasties without success.
In fact, the search of the academy can only rely on the jade of Kunshan, where is it so easy to find a child in the vast sea of people, but I didn't expect the jade of Kunshan to be worn on Ah Qing's body.
Ah Qing turned his back to the academy and said to himself: "I came to the Ordinary Academy, just to find my father, I only have this piece of jade, and the jade is engraved with the word ordinary, so I came here." Do you know my mom and dad?"
Yuan Huanhuan didn't answer, just silently looked at the young man's back and was slightly lonely. Where is the story of the prince and grandson who is so evil in the world, the royal family attaches great importance to the descendants of the bloodline, and in order to retain the orthodoxy of the bloodline, they often marry with the big family. If it is found that there is a bloodline that violates the clan etiquette and is born immediately, and the parents will face very cruel punishment. But Ah Qing's parents, Yuan Xianhuan sighed, he only knew part of the twists and turns, the real file secrets, only a few high-level people knew.
The three of them suddenly appeared behind Yuan Huanhuan, and Yuan Huanhuan's spiritual power perception had already entered the room but he didn't notice it. The three of them stood side by side, one of them was an old woman, with a rickety figure, and the peculiar thing was that the hair color was dark green, coiled up, and a wooden hairpin passed through it. The old woman was wearing a slightly luxurious green robe, and the rusty patterns on the robe were complicated. The old woman's eyes were slightly red, and she looked at the young voice that Lin Yanqi said with her back to her, and said: "It's this kid who is right, this back is exactly the same as his father." The spiritual power in his body fluctuated, just like he did back then. It's been twelve years, it's been twelve years, and I'm finally home. After the old woman finished speaking, she handed the white jade in her hand to Lin Yanqi at her side, and then turned her head and left, her rickety figure faltering.
Lin Yanqi took the Kunshan jade and nodded to Yuan Huanhuan who turned around, Yuan Huanhuan bowed and stood sideways, without the previous giggle. Lin Yanqi and the woman beside him walked towards Aqing. When Ah Qing heard the footsteps, he retracted his thoughts and turned around, and when he saw the two people in front of him, he was slightly stunned, and slowly bent over and saluted.
"Ah Qing, this piece of jade will be returned to you. The old man will introduce to you, this is Yunrou, the master of the academy, and the old man Lin Yanqi is just the gatekeeper of the academy. In the future, you will learn from Yunrou. As he spoke, he returned the white jade to Ah Qing, and wanted to say that Ah Qing should put away this piece of jade, but after thinking that something was wrong, he continued: "Ah Qing, this piece of Kunshan jade, you should keep it well, don't show it to outsiders at will." The gentleman is not guilty, but he is guilty. ”
Ah Qing took the white jade that had been with him for twelve years, put it on again, and bent down to salute Master Yunrou: "I've seen Master Yun." ”
The woman Yun Rou was extremely beautiful, dressed in a black robe, and looked at the young man in front of her who was not in a hurry to put on the Kunshan jade before saluting herself, and she was a little distressed. The beautiful eyes gently looked at the young man in front of him who was a head shorter, and said softly: "Xiaoqing, just call me Aunt Rou in the future, it's not in the way." ”
Ah Qing didn't answer her words, but looked at the porter Lin Yanqi: "Grandpa Lin, I just came to look for my parents, and I didn't plan to enroll in the Ordinary Academy. ”
Lin Yanqi was stunned and didn't know how to answer.
Yun Rou glared at Lin Yanqi and said randomly, "Xiaoqing, about your parents...... They used to be part of the academy, and they left a message for you to enroll in the ordinary academy. ”
"Then where is my father and mother now?" A-Qing quickly asked.
Ah Qing's longing eyes looked at Yun Rou's heart tightened, and she dodged Ah Qing's bright eyes, and a sad look flashed in her eyes and immediately recovered. "They are far away, and it will take a long time for them to come back. ”
"Will you come back?"
Yun Rou chuckled, "Yes." ”
Lin Yanqi on the side couldn't help but sigh when he saw Yun Rou's smile, if he couldn't say this. After living a lot of age and experiencing so many ups and downs, it's still easy for my eyes to get into the sand today. Then he slapped Yuan Huanhuan on his side: "You kid finally has a hairy one." ”
Yuan Huanhuan was stumbled by a sudden slap, and smiled casually: "Grandpa Xie Lin appreciates." ”
Ah Qing looked at the master in front of him quietly, he was so big, to be honest, it was the first time he had seen such a good-looking woman. Ah Qing paid more attention to the master's smile. Seeing the master's smile, Ah Qing was a little uncomfortable.
"I've seen Aunt Yun. A-Qing said softly.
Yun Rou smiled happily, she was really happy. The peach trees are all over the mountains, and the peach blossoms are about to bloom, right? It turns out that you also know that Aqing is coming back.
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Ah Qing followed behind Yun Rou, Yuan Huanhuan said that he had something to leave, and as for Lin Menfang, he also returned to his post. Ah Qing did not see the students of the academy, so he should have not arrived at the teaching area of the academy. Walking behind Yun Rou, it seems that it should be back mountain, Yun Rou said unhurriedly:
"Xiaoqing, where have you lived all these years?"
"Xintao Village, there is also a large peach forest in the north of our village. Our village has ...... Peach Blossom Fairy. When the peach blossoms bloom, our village will make peach blossom wine. ”
Xintao Village, if memory serves, should be a small village half a day's walk from Longhu City, where Yunrou once passed. I didn't expect it to be dark under the lights!
"Peach Blossom Fairy, what a Peach Blossom Fairy...... Will Xiaoqing brew it too?"
"Yes, I learned from Aunt Liu, Aunt Liu is the best brewing skill in our village, and she is good to me, but I am stupid, and the brewing is not very delicious....."
"Xiaoqing waits for the peach blossoms in the academy to brew a few jars for Aunt Rou, Aunt Rou will also give you some gifts, you will definitely like it." ”
"Well, okay, there are three altars under the peach tree in my yard in Xintao Village. I don't want a gift, this is what Aqing should do. ”
"Silly boy, if I'm not mistaken, you're twelve. ”
"Yes, Aunt Rou, I was brought to Xintao Village twelve years ago today. ”
The two of them asked and answered.
Yun Rou didn't know that today seemed to Ah Qing to be his birthday. Yun Rou took Ah Qing from the side of the main entrance of the academy to bypass the academy and go to the back mountain, she wanted to tell Ah Qing something, something he didn't know, or something different from what he knew...... New world. Maybe it's a little early, this is Ah Qing's first day in the academy, but sooner or later.
The back mountain is still a peach forest, and the branches of the trees have already hung buds, and they should bloom after a rain. Pingfan Academy says that it is at the top of Pingfan Mountain, but in fact, the back mountain is the real mountaintop, and the peach forest is not high, even when the flowers are blooming, it will not block the view from the top of the mountain. The two major scenery of Pingfan Mountain, one is the peach blossom forest, and the other is the dragon lake. As for the prosperity of Longhu City, you can actually feel it in the city.
Yun Rou took Ah Qing to a stone high in the forest, tidied up the black robe, sat down gently, patted the position next to him and motioned for Ah Qing to sit down. Yun Rou held her cheeks, staring at the turquoise Dragon Lake under the mountain, her sideburns were falling, and she was moving, and unlike the black robe, Yun Rou's hair was dark red, reflecting bright colors in the sunlight. Ah Qing slowed down for a moment and sat down next to Yun Rou, the stone was not smooth, his legs were crossed, his hands were flat on his legs, and he looked at Yun Rou's line of sight.
Yuan Huanhuan really didn't lie to himself, looking at Longhu in this way, it was really beautiful and magnificent. Longhu is full of peach trees on the side of Pingfan Mountain, and the rest are all pine trees, which are evergreen all year round. Perhaps it is because of the pine trees, reflecting the turquoise of Longhu, and at a glance, business is full of business. The mountain breeze blew slightly, gently caressing the faces of the two.
Yun Rou looked directly at the bottom of the mountain and said softly: "Ah Qing, we have been looking for you for twelve years, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to find us today." ”
Ah Qing was a little puzzled and a little relieved, and looked down at his chest. "Is it because of this piece of jade?"
"Kunshan jade is one thing, and there are only ten pieces of Kunshan jade in the whole world. The main thing is the fluctuation of spiritual power in your body. Kunshan jade covers up the spiritual power aura on your body, and you are still young, you have not been cultivated, the spiritual power fluctuations in your body are extremely weak, and the twelve years of Kunshan jade have secretly changed your physique. If it weren't for a close probe, the vice president wouldn't have been able to find out, and he would have thought you were ...... Ordinary person. ”
"Spiritual power, spiritual power fluctuations, what is this?" Ah Qing was stunned, he couldn't understand what Yun Rou said, he just remembered the chess pieces of Grandpa Lin in the concierge room, and when he thought about it, he was a little afraid.
Yun Rou turned sideways and said seriously in front of Ah Qing.
"Xiaoqing, that's what I'm going to tell you. It will be different from what you have known before, and the world will be different from what you think. In fact, there are two parts of the ordinary academy, one part is like a private school, which teaches knowledge, reads the books of sages, and studies the knowledge of hundreds of schools. On the way here, you didn't see any other students, but you should have heard the sound of reading. The other part is the real academy, called the backyard. People in the backyard...... Look" Yun Rou raised her right hand and stretched it out in front of Ah Qing, and the flames on her white palm suddenly ignited, getting bigger and bigger.
Ah Qing felt the temperature brought by the flames in front of him, and looked at the scene in front of him, stunned.
Yun Rou put away her palm, looked at Ah Qing, looked at Ah Qing's dull eyes and whispered, "Xiao Qing, this is the real world." ”
Ah Qing didn't speak, looking at Aunt Rou's gentle eyes, a little overwhelmed. Today's impact on his twelve-year-old heart is really a bit big, first I finally found the news of my parents and knew ...... Moreover, this ghost-like scene is completely unacceptable to ordinary people. When I was a child, I was so scared that I didn't fall asleep at night when I first heard that there was a peach blossom fairy in the village, and I felt sorry for the oil money when I got up the next day. Later, I learned that the Peach Blossom Fairy is not harmless, and the village has heard that only the elderly have seen it, maybe it is just a bluff, which is not true or false in the eyes of children.
Yun Rou reached out and rubbed Ah Qing's head, rubbed her orderly hair, and smiled softly:
"Xiaoqing, Aunt Rou is not a ghost, we call it spirituality. Everything in heaven and earth has its own aura, every grass and tree, every stone and sand, even wind, rain, thunder and lightning. And we are able to communicate with Reiki and transform it into our own ability, which is called Spiritual Power. You can think that we are not normal people, but we are all ordinary people. Xiaoqing, you are also a member of the spiritual community. It's just that you can't feel it now, I can clearly see the spiritual power between heaven and earth passing through your body, although it is almost insignificant, but this can prove that you are a member of the spiritual practice. Therefore, you can cultivate with the help of Reiki and slowly become stronger. People like us are in the minority after all, and the cultivation method left by our ancestors is used to improve our spiritual power, improve our own realm, and then protect ordinary people, the so-called maintenance of stability in the world. ”
Ah Qing was dumbfounded when he heard this, and opened his palm in a daze. I'm not a normal person? I'm a devotional?
Yun Rou nodded secretly when she saw Ah Qing's reaction, Ah Qing's heart should be good. When the kid learned about it for the first time, he was so frightened that he cried on the spot, saying that he was here to go to school, not to be a ghost. What Yun Rou didn't know was that Ah Qing was just frightened and at a loss, and didn't know what to do.
"The academy is an organization that cultivates spiritual power and gives spiritual life direction. The academy imparts knowledge, and more teaches the method of cultivation, and the spiritual power of each spiritual cultivation is different, and the spiritual path of each spiritual cultivation is naturally different. The road is long, up and down. True cultivation still relies on one's own perception of the aura of heaven and earth, and spiritual cultivation uses the power of heaven and earth to move forward when it is smooth, and cannot advance an inch when it is bumpy. You have a long way to go. The organization of the world is similar to that of ordinary academies, and there are four academies, which are distributed among the other five dynasties, as you will know in the future. ”
"The peach blossom fairy you mentioned in Peach Village, if it is true, it should also be spiritual. But he is not human. The place where you have lived for the past 12 years is within the jurisdiction of our human race, and the lives of ordinary people will not come into contact with this. In fact, the world is divided into three races, humans, demons, and demons. Unlike our human race, the demon race and the demon race are the darlings of the aura, and the members of both races are spiritual cultivators, and their innate advantages are too great, which makes it extremely difficult to reproduce. The peach blossom fairy in Xintao Village should be a demon clan, but it is different from the demon clan, called the spirit clan, born in response to the evolution of heaven and earth, with a kind and simple heart, and no malice towards humans. Among the six dynasties, the Great Chu Dynasty is geographically located in the central zone like the stars and the moon, and on the border of the other five dynasties Qi, Yan, Wei, Qin, and Zhao, it is the boundary between the demon and the demon race. In ancient times, the three tribes had wars similar to the division of territory, and after the war, the current pattern of the three tribes was formed. ”
Ah Qing was dumbfounded, as if the twelve years of life experience disappeared at this moment, like a blank piece of paper, Yun Rou wrote on the paper.
If you stay in one place for the rest of your life, you never know how big the world is.
"Xiaoqing, your father and mother are also spiritual. ”
Hearing about his father's mother, Ah Qing immediately came back to his senses.
"Your father and mother are very powerful spiritual cultivators, much stronger than Aunt Rou. Yun Rou's thoughts began to drift away, recalling the events of more than ten years ago. Soon continued to look at Ah Qing's bright eyes, which were exactly the same as his mother's.
Ah Qing still didn't speak, he didn't ask Aunt Rou about his father, he knew that even if he asked, Aunt Rou wouldn't tell him.
"Xiaoqing, look at Longhu, did you find anything?" Yun Rou pointed to the magnificent Longhu Lake at the bottom of the mountain.
Ah Qing sat down and watched for a long time.
"Like a long worm...... But it seems to be curling. Ah Qing said softly.
Yun Rou sneered, and the long worm ...... "That's the dragon, the dragon lake is said to be a dragon king in ancient times fell, fell into the mortal world, smashed into the earth to appear such a big pit, over the years, rain and underground springs converge to form a lake, a radius of hundreds of miles. Since its establishment, Pingfan Academy has been on the shore of Longhu Lake. The predecessors have been searching for thousands of years of secrets, but they have not come up with it. It is rumored that there is a dragon palace at the bottom of the lake, but no one has ever reached the bottom of the lake. Longhu didn't know how deep it was, but after just diving for a while, the spiritual power of his whole body would disappear. The dead lake is not dead, although there is no living thing in the lake, it does not affect the vitality, birds and beasts often go to the lake to drink, and there are even psychic spirit animals that can understand human language, but ordinary people can't see it. Speaking of Longhu, in fact, the Ordinary Academy has become a good place for cultivation by relying on the gathering of Longhu's aura. ”
Ah Qing stared at the blue lake under the mountain seriously, and couldn't help but feel a little astringent. If you recognize the dragon as a worm, it is estimated that there is only one person in the entire Longhu City. He still didn't know anything about the spiritual power, thinking of Grandpa Lin's chess pieces, thinking of Aunt Rou's palm fire, it was estimated that he would become such a person. Daddy and mother are also spiritual, and they are very powerful. Thinking of this, Ah Qing was a little proud, and the child's heart was unobstructed.
Aunt Rou said that her father and mother would come back, but Ah Qing didn't know that although she was young, she couldn't really coax her to the past with a word. It's just that he didn't want to believe that kind of result, so he looked at Aunt Rou seriously for a long time. He didn't know why he felt that Aunt Rou was so close. The attraction of spiritual power, the mutual growth and restraint of attributes, Ah Qing still doesn't know.
"Xiaoqing, from tomorrow onwards, you will follow me to cultivate, many matters, I will take you to register and choose a place to live for you, and the academy will issue a student handbook, you will know if you read it carefully. The number of students in the backyard is not large, and once students meet the graduation qualifications, they cannot stay in the college. Some of them went out on missions, and some of them were stationed on the border of the five countries to guard the Terran border. As for the quest, you'll find out later. Today is your first day at the Academy, so you should familiarize yourself with the Academy. ”
Ah Qing didn't know that from this day on, his life took a turn, he got to know a new world, subverting all previous concepts. Different from the life in Xintao Village in the previous twelve years, every year after him, he was no longer lonely, with companions, and many wonderful stories, happiness, touching, sadness, and firmer steps after every fall.
Ah Qing thought that he should live in the academy and find a time to go back to Xintao Village to pack his luggage, but he didn't actually bring any luggage this time, he didn't have hope, he only brought some copper coins, and planned to return to the village before sunset. Say goodbye to your parents and fellow villagers, and the villagers will never forget their kindness to you for the rest of your life. He wanted to tell them that he had found news about his parents, that he would become a student at the academy, and that he would start a new life at the academy...... Thinking of this, Ah Qing is a little reluctant, where he has lived for twelve years, he always feels a little sad when he says he will leave.
"Xiaoqing, do you like peach blossoms?" Yun Rou asked suddenly.
"I like it, I like it very much. Ah Qing replied immediately without thinking.
"Xiaoqing, your father and mother are like you, and they like it very much."
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Ah Qing looked at the peach grove in front of him and couldn't help but burst into tears.
Yun Rou hugged Ah Qing with one hand, rested her chin on Ah Qing's head, and said softly.
"Xiaoqing, in the future, the Ordinary Academy will be your home, no matter what happens, the Ordinary Academy will stand firmly behind you. ”
Ah Qing buried herself in Yun Rou's warm arms and let out a soft "um".