Chapter 227: After dusk
Gu Shicai didn't know when she appeared, and the people around her didn't see when she came, she was like this piece that suddenly appeared on the chessboard, falling suddenly, but dazzling, no one could ignore it.
Gu Shicai didn't know her, but this Buddhist robe reminded him of the legends that were boiling in the rivers and lakes before.
"Are you a holy bodhisattva?" Gu Shicai asked in surprise.
There are geniuses in the country, but there are too many geniuses in the rivers and lakes, and the holy Bodhisattva is famous in the poor mountains and remote places.
Today is the first time most people have seen her.
Xiao He changed her appearance with colorful phantom feathers, in the eyes of people, she was just a delicate girl with slender black hair, she looked petite and thin, like a budding pujia, and she would fall when the wind blew.
But it was such a girl, but her eyes were undoubtedly domineering, Gu Shicai glanced at her and involuntarily gave up her position.
Xiao He sat opposite Lin Shouxi, the chess pieces in his hand were as smooth as jade, and there was a chessboard between them, not just a chessboard.
"It's time for the end."
Lin Shouxi smiled, he lifted his sleeves, picked up a jade-colored chess piece, put it on the chessboard, and straightened it with his fingers, as if taking root.
The chess game continued, the chess game was copied and handed out, the noise was louder than before, and the clouds on Wudang Mountain should be scattered from time to time, and the light sprinkled on them endlessly.
Gu Shicai stood aside, staring at the chessboard, no longer lost his soul, his eyes once again shone with a kind of scorching heat, like seeing the heat of a god, although he could not reach the realm he had worked hard for all his life, but he still felt satisfied, like looking at the beautiful flowers on the other side of the shore.
Xiao He originally only had a superficial understanding of chess, but after inheriting it into his soul, a wonderful and clear mind like glass was poured into his consciousness, making many originally closed thoughts become enlightened.
She can figure out a lot of things that she couldn't understand in the past, except for her own emotional dilemmas.
In the past, Go had a mysterious, cultural charm in her eyes, but now, it has dissolved, and what is in front of her is only a game of arithmetic, and she can still rely on deduction to become the top master of this way, and this game will even be regarded as a turning point or even destruction of the way in the coming years, but she doesn't care, she is now just sitting opposite Lin Shouxi and becoming his opponent.
Thousands of people are empty, the voices are boiling, and although the onlookers have deliberately suppressed their voices in etiquette, the subtle conversations of the sea of people still converge into a wave of chatter, but they did not say superfluous communication at both ends of the chessboard, and the sound of falling children is their only speech, black and white.
As Lin Shouxi said, Gu Shicai still had a chance, and Xiao He accurately hit that vital point, like a tower that would help the general to fall.
Even in the closing stage, the changes are still extremely complex, and ordinary people can't figure it out, and most of the time they still rely on experience and intuition.
But they rely on accurate calculations.
The chess pieces were laid out on the chessboard one after another, and there was an inexplicable order in the chaos.
The chessboard is getting denser and denser, and the shapes are getting more and more crowded, which means that the changes will be exhausted, and the chess game will be exhausted, but it is precisely at this time that the speed of the two players tacitly slows down.
"Live to death, live in a desperate place, this official harvest is not leaky, and the holy bodhisattva really lives up to its name." Lin Shouxi spoke calmly.
The girl was indifferent, her cold gaze slowly swept over the chessboard, as if looking for a place to fall, she gently straightened a sunspot, and said, "After all, it's just a drop of water on the chess board...... What about the eyes like torches, even the deception, betrayal, and reluctance hidden in the present can't see through, just fools. ”
"The darkness under the lamp is not the fault of the torch." Lin Shouxi slowly put a chess piece on the plate, and he said, "You are bright." ”
If it was in the past, Xiao He would take the opportunity to ask, 'Whose fault is that', but today, she didn't say anything, just looked down at the chessboard and asked lightly: "Have you had any dreams recently?" ”
"Do you interpret dreams?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"I've learned a little recently, so I can try it." Xiao He said.
"It's been a nightmare lately." Lin Shouxi said.
"For example?"
"Like a house on fire, a thunder pool full of evil spirits, and a drowning man." Lin Shouxi told the images that often appeared in his dreams.
"This shows that you have done a lot of evil and have a guilty conscience." Xiao He replied.
"Where are the crumbling skies, the collapsing earth, the bones everywhere?" Lin Shouxi said again.
"It shows that you are full of evil and guilty." Xiao He replied.
"I've dreamed of endless snowfields and endless nights." Lin Shouxi said.
"This shows that you have done all kinds of evil and have a troubled conscience." Xiao He replied.
"This is Zhou Gong's interpretation of dreams?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"No, here's my solution." Xiao He said.
"Thank you, Bodhisattva, for clearing your doubts." Lin Shouxi smiled.
"Haven't you ever had a good dream?" Xiao He asked.
"Yes."
"For example?" Xiao He asked casually, and dropped the chess pieces after pondering.
"I've dreamed of you." Lin Shouxi raised his head and looked at her.
Xiao He also raised his head lightly and looked at him, his clear eyes were filled with fog, and the fog was very thin, as thin as early autumn rain.
"You're in the picture." Xiao He said with a smile.
Lin Shouxi also laughed.
He lowered his head, took a white piece from the basket, and landed.
White clouds occasionally drift across the sky, casting shadows.
Light and darkness change in the chess game, enveloping teenagers and girls inside.
Xiao He took out a sunspot and hung it in the air, the back of her hand was so slender that she could see the delicate texture and the pale cyan veins under the skin, the picture seemed to be still, this chess piece did not fall for a long time, and finally, she gathered the chess piece in the palm of her hand, twisted it gently, and the sunspot was crushed into powder by her slender hand, and was blown away by the wind as she let go, and disappeared.
"I lost." Xiao He said.
"This endgame is unfair to you, you have done your best, and you can't be blamed for losing." Lin Shouxi said: "This is not our chess game. ”
"Where is our chess game?" Xiao He asked.
"We are chess players and chessboards, and where we are, it is a chess game." Lin Shouxi said.
Xiao He quietly stared at the chess game in front of her, the mist in her eyes gradually dissipated, and after a while, she smiled and said, "Okay." ”
"See you in Wudang Mountain." Xiao He got up and floated away.
Lin Shouxi didn't stop it, he whispered to himself: "See you in Wudang Mountain." ”
Seeing the Buddhist girl leaving, everyone realized that the chess game was over, and hurriedly began to tap the mesh, and finally white won half a piece.
"Why, why are you so strong?" Gu Shicai finally came back to his senses from the chess game and asked blankly.
"Because our realm is higher." Lin Shouxi replied.
"It's just that simple?" Gu Shicai couldn't believe it.
"Yes." Lin Shouxi looked at Gu Shicai and said, "You don't like chess, your choice to play chess is just a hopeless escape from the realm, re-cultivate, I believe you can go further this time." ”
After Lin Shouxi finished speaking, he no longer looked at this game, which would be included in the famous game of immortal chess in the future, and walked towards the magnificent and solemn Wudang Mountain.
Henggu unparalleled scenery, the world's first immortal mountain.
Walking up along the mountain road, the wind blows away the clouds and mist, the bronze gilt golden temple stands majestically on the top of the Tianzhu peak, refracting ten thousand golden lights in the afternoon, and the Xuanwu god statue entangled by turtles and snakes stands proudly under it, overlooking the mountains and mountains, and also puts a shining divine light.
Gong Yu has already reached the peak.
The sky is clear, and the fairy skirt is plain white, and the holiness is unparalleled.
She looked down on the earth, which seemed to her like a dragon winding to the north.
……
This martial arts conference was held suddenly, but in the next three days, the heads of Emei, Huashan, Qingcheng, Shaolin, Tangmen and other famous schools of the rivers and lakes all came to Wudang Mountain as scheduled to participate in the grand event.
There is a habit of holding a martial arts conference in the martial arts, once every few years, the role is to elect the leader of the martial arts alliance, but since the rise of the Daomen, after the decline of the demon gate, the leader of the martial arts alliance has never changed, and the martial arts conference has also become a grand ceremony for various sects and factions to exchange martial arts methods.
In the era when true qi did not appear, these so-called martial arts masters were no different from thieves in the eyes of the imperial court, and they never really put them in their eyes, even if they really had clever martial arts, they could be easily crushed by the iron horse.
Now that the true qi has recovered, and the high mountains occupied by various sects and sects have become real holy places for cultivation, the pattern of the world has changed.
Countless sects have risen in the past few years and become a force that can compete with the imperial court, and many monks who have opened the spiritual vein are no longer willing to work for the imperial court, and instead devote themselves to the major sects, even if it is the cloud peak list compiled by the Daomen, they also deliberately avoid talking about several masters in the imperial court.
This martial arts conference was originally for the heads to discuss major matters, but they didn't expect that the master of the Daomen would really come, so many words that could have been put on the table were inconvenient to say, and this martial arts conference was surprisingly pure.
Wudang Mountain has built a lot of new wing houses, Lin Shouxi and Gong Yu still live together, this wing house is built next to the cliff, the location is excellent, you can see the sunrise when you open the window in the early morning.
"The Tao of Daomen is not the same as the Tao of Wudang Mountain, Taoist health painting talismans, seeking immortal refining medicine, hoping for immortality, seemingly free from the world, nominally inheriting the way of Lao Zhuang, but in fact it makes it vulgar." Gong Yu stood in the hall, looked at the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, and said calmly.
There were many Taoist disciples in the hall, and they could clearly hear the words of this Taoist master, but none of them refuted it out loud.
"What is Lao Zhuang's Daoben?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"The metaphysical is the way." Gong Yu replied.
She walked out of the main hall with the dust in her arms, and when she left, she made the seal of the lotus flower in her hand and recited the sentence 'quiet and inaction'.
The martial arts conference will really start in two days, these two days, Gong Yu borrowed a shell of an old man, closed the door, as if he was measuring something, Lin Shouxi spent most of his time on Wudang Mountain eating and drinking, breathing, forging and refining his body, and occasionally a famous disciple visited, but he was turned away.
In addition to practicing, Lin Shouxi spent almost the rest of his time doing two things - trysts and on the way to trysts.
Xiao He also lives in Wudang Mountain, very close to Lin Shouxi.
In the past two days, they will always meet 'accidentally', either in the lonely courtyard of the fallen trees, or in the sleepless night of the third watch in the middle of the night, or on the steep roof of the Zhenwu Palace......
When being alone, Xiao He will remove the disguise and reveal her true face, her long snow-white hair is gentle like light, the more she looks at it, the more she can feel the unreal beauty, this beauty is imprisoned by the Buddha's clothes, beautiful and graceful, elegant and introverted, like the Holy Spirit who really walks in the world.
"I've heard a lot of gossip about you and your ancestors...... The fairy ancestor who is unique in the world and the genius of the young apprentice, the world is imaginative. ”
On the Zixiao Palace, Xiao He sat side by side with her spine, she looked up at the bright moon, her silhouette was straight, her face was still cold, but her words were unexpectedly gossipy.
"They dare to think about it, too." Lin Shouxi said helplessly.
"It's a good thing to dare to think, but many times, I'm afraid that I will notice it, and I still deceive myself and others, and I don't dare to think in that direction." Xiao He said.
“……”
Lin Shouxi knew that she was talking about herself and Chu Yingchan, and in this matter, he would always be at fault, and there was no room for argument.
"You really have nothing to do with Shizun?" Xiao He's eyes turned slightly, and he asked with a smile.
"Of course." Lin Shouxi is righteous and strict.
"Since you have deceived the teacher, why don't you destroy the ancestors by the way?" Xiao He asked: "The ancestor is so beautiful, if you say that you are not impressed, I don't believe it." ”
"My master and I are just a master-apprentice relationship." Lin Shouxi said: "After you leave, I only miss you in my heart, how can I tolerate others?" ”
Xiao He's eyes trembled slightly, her thin lips were half pursed, and the thin corners of her lips seemed to be provoked, and she returned to calm in an instant.
"You relied on such rhetoric to capture Chu Yingchan's heart in the first place?" Xiao He asked coldly.
"Of course not." Lin Shouxi said.
"So what's that?" Xiao He asked.
Lin Shouxi's heart moved, he knew that Xiao He wanted to hear the story between him and Chu Yingchan, on the top of the lonely mountains, Lin Shouxi looked at the bright moon in the sky, and his thoughts drifted back to the old netherworld in the depths of the Black Emperor's statue, telling the complete story of the immortal country.
Xiao He sat aside, her slender legs lightly resting on the dark cyan tiles, her snow-white hair wrapped around her fingers, she played with it lightly, quietly listening to Lin Shouxi's story, imagining the picture he described in her mind, but her face became more and more cold, as if she didn't care.
The river of time flowed past them.
In the poignant sound of autumn worms, Lin Shouxi told about his first meeting with Luo Chu'e, the seal of Slaanesh, the story of them being trapped in the giant prison of the waterwheel and practicing the method of acacia together to break the spell of Slaanesh, and also told the story of Luo Chu'e going back on his word and modifying the original stone tablet.
He and Chu Yingchan were trapped in a small cell, sharing the same bed, skin to skin, this scene was heavy and depressing under the pressure of life and death and the torture of curses, and the charm and ambiguity that should have been hidden deep in the depths of their hearts, it was difficult to peep for a while, and they were probably unaware of it at that time.
If they couldn't defeat Luo Chu'e at the beginning, they might all become Luo Chu'e's slaves in the long days ahead, and they would have lived through the difficult years after each other, which was something they had already realized.
When he said this, Lin Shouxi also stopped, he recalled his thoughts about Chu Chu when he was in the giant prison, but he couldn't recall it for a while, until Xiao He spoke softly and urged: "Go on." ”
Lin Shouxi continued.
Every time he paused, Xiao He would open his mouth and say 'continue'.
In Luo Chu'e's final battle, Chu Yingchan broke open the door of the palace, stabbed with a sword, the iron sword pierced through her chest and back, she knelt on the ground, and hugged Lin Shouxi, who was covered in blood and dying, this is something that Xiao He has known for a long time, but now it sounds like it has a completely different meaning.
She remembered the collapse of the Divine Domain again.
At that time, she didn't want to leave, she wanted to hug the young man in front of her tightly, but she didn't do it, but Chu Yingchan did. She was not jealous, but rather a sense of joy and relief, as if she was really just listening to a story and looking forward to a happy ending to the story.
Gradually, the moon goes down.
"She didn't know that I had fallen under Luo Chu'e's spell, and she didn't know that I was looking at her, but that night, I had been secretly watching her, watching her write and draw on paper, watching her copy and recite recipes, watching her comb in the mirror, and choosing clothes, so the night passed, and in the early morning, Chu Chu pushed the door out, and before going out, she deliberately scratched her hair......"
When Lin Shouxi said this, his words slowed down again.
"And then?" Xiao He asked, she didn't expect Chu Yingchan to have this side, and she was looking forward to what would happen later.
"If you want to know what will happen next, I will decompose it for Xiao He tomorrow." Lin Shouxi smiled, but he still left suspense.
"Huh." Xiao He smiled coldly, she glanced at Lin Shouxi, and said lightly: "If you don't say it, you won't say it, and I'm not interested in hearing it." ”
"Really?" Lin Shouxi asked.
Xiao He hesitated slightly, and his words changed from swaying to affirming: "Of course." ”
It's dark at night.
At the time of parting, Xiao He grabbed Lin Shouxi's sleeve and reminded coldly: "This time I met you in Wudang Mountain, it was just a chance encounter, even if I was a little dissatisfied, I would still leave...... In short, don't get carried away. ”
"I'm not going to let you go again." Lin Shouxi made a promise.
"It's up to you." Xiao He responded lightly.
She stood up, jumped down from the ridge, and disappeared into the night like a bird.
After going back, Xiao He couldn't sleep, she was always thinking about Chu Chu's story...... What happens the next day? She was watched all night but didn't know it, and the next day she had to put up her master's stinky shelf, and Lin Shouxi saw it in her eyes, I'm afraid she would be embarrassed and die.
Lin Shouxi was actually broken here, it's really hateful, don't let people rest well?
Xiao He was thinking hatefully, and suddenly she was frightened, she sat up from the couch, her little hand lightly covered her heart, and she groped carefully, trying to touch a stinging pain from it, but she got nothing.
This is...... Relieved?
Xiao He doesn't like this feeling of relief, she should always be resentful and indifferent, how can she easily turn back when she left that day?
Yes, when you leave, do you decide?
Xiao He recalled the past, from the first bloom of peach blossoms to the blooming of lotus flowers, she said countless times, except for the time when she really left.
She suppressed a lot of emotions.
The next day, the three-day martial arts conference was officially held.
In the early morning, when the population was still scarce, Xiao He and Lin Shouxi met separately again.
"Xiao He didn't sleep well last night?" Lin Shouxi asked with concern.
"I slept well."
Xiao He rubbed her eyes and replied contemptuously, she glanced at Lin Shouxi, and said without eagerness: "What happened after that, continue to tell me." ”
Lin Shouxi did not answer immediately.
"What's wrong?" Xiao He saw him with a hesitant look on his face and asked, "Should you still charge money for tea?" ”
"Not really." Lin Shouxi rubbed his temples and said embarrassedly: "I'm not in good spirits today, I want to take a day off, or ...... I'll tell Xiao He tomorrow. ”
Xiao He narrowed his eyes, and only coldly spit out two words: "Look for death!" ”
The awe-inspiring killing intent swept away the yellow leaves at the girl's feet, Xiao He has always been a person who does what she says, and before she could say it, she handed out a punch and hammered it at this bold young man who dared to take leave.
Lin Shouxi stretched out his arm to block, Xiao He's punch was very powerful, and he still beat him back a few steps, Lin Shouxi squatted down, knelt on one knee, held his arm, pretended to be injured, gritted his teeth and shouted pain.
Xiao He walked up to him suspiciously, and sneered: "Why can't you fight so much, who did Shizun feed you with his fists for so long?" ”
Having said that, Xiao He could also guess that he should have accumulated internal injuries after practicing boxing for a month, and was moved by her punch, and while her words were stern, she also stretched out her hand, intending to pull him.
Lin Shouxi also stretched out his hand.
But instead of holding the girl's hand, he shoved a letter into her hand.
Xiao He looked at the way he handed over the letter and smiled like a successful plan, she was stunned, she opened the letter suspiciously, only glanced at it, immediately closed it, and scolded softly: "Tian is shameless." ”
Lin Shouxi had already stood up, and he said: "There is a good shop in the town under Wudang Mountain, and the address is also written on it, after today's martial arts conference, I will wait for you there." ”
"You're dating me?" Xiao He pursed his lips and asked.
"Yes." Lin Shouxi replied crisply.
Sunrise in the East.
The Golden Temple scatters golden glow.
The doors of the wing rooms opened one after another, and the heads and disciples of various sects walked out in the morning bell.
There were more and more people, and Xiao He couldn't say anything, so he only held the letter tightly in his palm.
All eyes were on them, as if they were curious about what they were doing when they met early in the morning.
"Okay, I'll take this letter."
Xiao He suddenly raised her voice, her delicate neck was slightly tilted, she raised the letter in her hand, tucked it up her sleeve, and responded lightly in a provocative tone: "You wait for me." ”
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