Chapter 7: The Hedgehog
In the blink of an eye, it was the first day of April.
Spring is gradually withering, and the summer heat is coming.
At this time, it should be the most lively time in the Void Cloud Gate, but at this time, in the Qingying Peak, it was unusually quiet and lonely.
In the warm pavilion, two teenagers, one green and one gray, appeared.
The young man in blue was carrying a bag, and the young man in gray was standing at the door, silently looking at the sky. The two teenagers had heavy faces, their eyes overflowing with sadness, and they did not say a word.
"Xingchen, this farewell, I don't know when we will see you again. Lin Wen looked out the window, reluctantly looking at this Qingying Peak that carried his memories for two years, and even his voice became low.
Xu Xingchen looked at him, nodded, his eyes were slightly red, and he walked over and held Lin Wen's hand tightly and said, "Lin Wen, you are now a disciple in the room, your identity is different from ours, and you must cultivate hard after you arrive at Tianling Peak." Since the head of the family has ordered that you are not allowed to go down the mountain, write to us if you miss us!"
"Hmm!"
The hands of the two teenagers were clasped tightly together, and a few sparkles flashed in their eyes.
Lin Wen, as the leader of the three advanced sects, was favored by the head of Xuyun at a glance, and was admitted to the Tianling Peak sect, and got more opportunities to cultivate the truth.
This was a thing that he had to be happy about, but the people and things of Qingying Peak, after all, were all he had in the past two years since he entered the Void Cloud Gate, and at this time, he had to leave these people who had accompanied him for many years, cut off all kinds of memories of the past, and his heart was full of sentimentality and nostalgia.
Especially Xu Xingchen, a close friend, has been in the business for two years, the two of them have similar interests, and their brains are very flexible, and the relationship is the best. But now I can't say goodbye, at least five years later, I can't see you again, and it's even more sad.
The two teenagers held each other's hands tightly, and the things of the past invariably came to their minds, and their hearts couldn't help but be sour.
"Lin Wen, let's go, Qingyuan Shangxian has already arrived at the Qingdie Palace. At this moment, a young girl in Tsing Yi walked in, her tone was a little low, and she said.
"Okay, then I'm leaving!"
Lin Wen turned his head to look at Hua Xiang, nodded, and finally glanced at Xu Xingchen again, and walked out of the warm pavilion.
The morning sun is full, and when you look at it again, you will see the green mountains, cliffs, and platform slopes, which reflect each other.
The turquoise hall stands on a slope, and the trees of the same color behind it are hidden from each other, looking from afar, majestic and magnificent, but also elegant and simple. Next to the main hall, there is also a blue flat lake that is circled. Around Pinghu, the green grass is flourishing, but it has lost its vitality in spring.
Lin Wen looked at Qingming Peak, and a sense of sorrow welled up in his heart.
"Xingchen, don't leave it at that, you are in Qingming Peak, take good care of yourself!" Lin Wen still had a teardrop hanging from the corner of his eye, and he didn't dare to look at Xu Xingchen and Qingyingfeng anymore, so he walked towards the Green Butterfly Hall with his backpack.
When I say goodbye today, I don't know when I come back.
Looking at that familiar back, Xu Xingchen's heart was overflowing with endless sadness.
"Xingchen, accompany me to the back mountain to relax, okay?"
After seeing Lin Wen enter the Green Butterfly Hall to thank the teacher, Hua Xiang, who had been a little uneasy, asked.
Xu Xingchen nodded and said, "Okay, Sister Huaxiang!"
The two of them turned around and walked towards the mountain behind the Green Immortal Peak.
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The sun is just right, and the leaves are greener. In the woods of ten thousand trees, as far as the eye can see, the pale green ochre color is overlapped, accompanied by the fragrance of the soil after the rain, but it has a light and leisurely taste.
Hua Xiang and Xu Xingchen walked side by side on a gravel path, but they had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery and were silent for a long time. Especially Hua Xiang, a girl with a cheerful personality on weekdays, for some reason, her face is much heavier.
After walking for more than half an hour unconsciously, the two of them were a little tired, so they sat on a boulder.
"Sister Hua Xiang, do you have something on your mind?" Xu Xingchen felt that something was wrong with Hua Xiang, so he asked.
Hua Xiang smiled weakly, turned her head, and said, "Why do you ask that?"
"You're restless today, and you don't usually do that. Is something wrong?"
Hua Xiang sighed and said, "Not really, I just remembered some things from the past and felt sad." ”
Although the young man was still puzzled, since it was a sad matter, he didn't ask any more, just sat with Hua Xiang all the time, and didn't say anything.
After a long while, Hua Xiang suddenly opened her mouth and said, "You must want to know these things in your heart, right?"
Xu Xingchen was stunned, nodded, and said, "I want to know." But if Sister Huaxiang doesn't want to say it, I won't force you. ”
Hua Xiang looked at her sadly in the distance and said, "It's not a confidential thing, I told you, and my heart should be more comfortable." ”
Then, she talked about the dusty old things of the year:
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It was the last night of March thirteen years ago, on the top of Huaqing Mountain, the moon was full of stars.
"Sister!"
Hua Xiang, who was not yet eight years old, was holding a ninety-month-old baby in her arms, and when she heard this extremely non-standard "sister" in tone, a satisfied smile suddenly welled up on her cheeks.
"Mother, Jin'er will call me!"
Hua Xiang turned her head and shouted to the inner room in ecstasy, even her tone was full of pride, as if it was not her brother who could speak, but herself.
"Don't be crazy, Jin'er has only been more than nine months, how can he speak?"
An extremely nice female voice came from inside the room, as if she didn't believe Hua Xiang's words, and smiled.
"Hmph, don't you believe me?" Hua Xiang pouted and snorted.
The girl looked at the little baby with a doting face, and said, "Jin'er, hurry up and shout sister again, shout louder, let my mother listen!"
"Sister, sister, sister-"
The little baby seemed to be a conditioned reflex, laughing, and shouting Huaxiang over and over again.
Hua Xiang looked at the baby in her arms, and the smile on her face became even brighter.
The woman in the inner room continued to smile and said: "Okay, the first thing other children shout is their father and mother, just Jin'er, because you are tired of being with him every day, and you are calling sister!"
Hearing this, Hua Xiang also "giggled" and laughed.
"Mother, aren't we going out to Beiling Valley tomorrow to teach? Let's take Jin'er with us, he has been nesting in Huaqing Mountain since he was born, and we also want him to see the world!"
Hua Xiang suggested.
"Okay, I'll listen to you!"
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Hua Xiang said, tears bursting out of her eyes.
"Jin'er is my younger brother who picked up when I was seven years old when I went to the bottom of the mountain with my mother to collect medicine. The first time we met him, he had just been born, and he was accompanied by the unfrozen corpse of his own mother, a demon woman. ”
"His mother died in childbirth, and he slept in a pool of blood, crying all the time. As soon as my mother and I softened our hearts, we picked him up and took him home, and my father, a decent head, did not object, and named him Huajin, the word 'Jin' means the grace of heaven. ”
"Although Jin'er is not born to my father and my mother, and has demon blood in her body, she is extremely smart and cute. My father and mother regard him as their own, and I was a sister for the first time, and I doted on this younger brother even more, and I just wanted to stick with him every day. ”
She glanced at the young man beside her, with a tear still hanging from the corner of her eye, and continued:
"But on the day we went down the mountain, we handed over our younger brother Huajin to the disciples in the Beiling Valley, and they promised to take good care of Jin'er, so my father and mother went to teach, and I followed them. But when I came back, there were only the corpses and corpses of those Beiling Valley disciples left, and they were hit by the tricks of the Demon Sect and died tragically in a pool of blood, even Jin'er and Jin'er were gone......
At this point, her body twitched violently, and her bright eyes suddenly dimmed, with the deepest pain and resentment in her eyes.
"Later, my father and I went crazy looking for Jin'er, but ...... But we couldn't find him...... I can't find Jin'er......" Hua Xiang kept crying, her voice full of self-reproach.
"It's me...... It's me...... I hurt Jin'er...... If I hadn't come out ...... The idea...... He won't be missing at all...... No, not at all...... It's all me, this idea...... I hurt him......"
Hua Xiang seemed to have completely fallen into painful memories at this moment, her eyes looked straight ahead, she covered her cheeks and sobbed, and even her speech became incoherent, and her face became pale.
"Senior sister......" Xu Xingchen listened, and his heart trembled, not knowing what to say to comfort Hua Xiang, but he was sad in his heart. "I can't blame you for this, if you want to complain, you have to blame those bad people in the Demon Sect. ”
"But...... Seeing my loved ones disappear, I couldn't do anything about it...... I'm really, really not a thing......" Hua Xiang fell on Xu Xingchen's shoulder, pulling the young man's clothes, crying loudly, his whole body was soaked in cold sweat.
The pain of thirteen years ago today will only hurt more when I think about it again......
Xu Xingchen was at a loss, so he had to let Hua Xiang cry in his arms, but he felt an unprecedented sense of closeness in his heart. At this moment, he felt that he was already dripping with cold sweat, and his heart was still overflowing with infinite sadness and pain.
"Senior sister...... Don't be sad, at least, at least Jin'er may still be alive, you will definitely find him......" Xu Xingchen looked at the girl in front of him who was already crying with concern, and comforted him with all the words in his mind.
"Yes, don't you lie to me?" Hua Xiang heard this, and immediately raised his head and looked at Xu Xingchen, a glimmer of light seemed to flash in his originally empty eyes.
Although Hua Xiang knew that Xu Xingchen was just comforting herself, she still didn't hold back in her heart, and couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope.
"You're going to find Jin'er, trust me!"
Xu Xingchen was unusually sure in his heart for some reason, nodded and said firmly.
A bright smile suddenly appeared on Hua Xiang's face, looked at the young man, and nodded.
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It was already midday, Hua Xiang's mood gradually calmed down, and it was time for her to return to Tianling Peak.
Looking at Hua Xiang's figure that gradually disappeared at the end of the woods, Xu Xingchen remembered what Hua Xiang said just now, and couldn't help but think of his mother Wenshuang, and his heart felt as if it was torn.
Just as he was thinking about it, a thorn ball suddenly rolled over, and in the blink of an eye, it rolled behind Xu Xingchen.
Xu Xingchen only felt a pain in his calf, as if he had been pricked by a needle, bared his teeth and grinned, and the thoughts in his heart were suddenly disturbed.
When I looked down, I found that a little blood had been stabbed on my leg.
"You little thing, stop me!"
At this moment, a young man in Tsing Yi suddenly appeared in the distance......