Chapter 36: Xiaolou's Night Talk and the Lakeside Flying Sword
"Impossible?"
"No way. ”
"Is it really impossible?"
"Senior brother, when did I lie to you?"
"If you hadn't tricked me into participating in the Green Pine Conference back then, how could the little junior sister fall into your hands?"
“......”
Xiao Wangshu turned his head to look at the old man beside him, the wrinkles on his face fluctuated a little, he looked at the other party very seriously, and finally held back a sentence after a long silence: "Senior brother, when did you become so shameless?"
The person who can be called a senior brother by Qingyun Academy's cultivation to the second highest realm is, of course, only Cang Yunhe, who was the dean at the time.
In the mouths of others, he also has another title, Mr. Yunhe.
Mr. Yunhe has been at the helm of Qingyun for 41 years, and when he was only an apprentice of the former dean, with a Cangshan long sword in his hand, his reputation has spread throughout Kyoto and even the whole world. Since the death of the previous dean and the appointment of a new dean by the imperial court, no one has ever scolded him shamelessly in front of this master of the Void Realm, and tonight is the first time.
Cang Yunhe's face sank, and he said, "Senior brother, you disrespect me so much, the dean, have you considered the face of the academy?"
Xiao Wangshu looked at him quietly, stroked his long beard with his hand, and said contemptuously: "What is face? A few taels of silver a catty? Give me two catties and take them back to feed the dogs." ”
Cangyunhe was speechless.
The two brothers stood silently on the small building, only listening to the rustle of the night wind through the trees.
After a while, the two looked at each other and smiled.
Cang Yunhe's face turned pale, looked up at the starry sky, and said leisurely: "That's really a pity." ”
It's a pity that the word is naturally used on the young man named Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Wangshu glanced at him deeply and said: "It's really a pity, that young man's heart is really rare, if it is an ordinary person, even if an adult person hears such an assertion, I am afraid that he will be so panicked that he does not know what to do, but I can't see any despair and sadness in his eyes, not even a little disappointed, such a resolute person, it is really rare." ”
"How can his life be really not good, if he can practice, even if Zimo's kid doesn't say it, I will strongly recommend that you admit him to the hospital without examination, but unfortunately this young man was born with a crippled soul, and it is a great luck to be able to live to be fifty years old, and it is obviously impossible to practice, and you don't have to be too sorry, senior brother." ”
The weather tonight is excellent, the clouds and mist over Xuanyang City are faint, it is the time when the stars are brilliant, and the students and professors of Qingyun Academy know that their dean loves stargazing, but at this time, his eyes looking at that starry sky are a little sad.
"I feel a little sorry for the boy, but that's not what I'm worried about. ”
"Cultivating and cultivating, cultivating people first, and then cultivating, it's just that young people nowadays can rarely experience this, but then again, how many of us old guys can do this? Even we teachers can't do it, so how can we force those students?"
Xiao Wangshu knew that the worry between his senior brother's words was undoubtedly revealed, but what he was worried about was the future of Qingyun Academy. As the person closest to the dean's position in the entire academy, he may also be the one who knows the dean's difficulties best.
Between the ten institutes in Kyoto, a martial arts exercise is held once a year to determine the ranking of the ten academies. Although many people have questioned the actual significance of this so-called ranking, the martial arts of the courts have been practiced for decades and have never stopped, and those opposing voices have not played a role in the slightest.
For some reason, this year, Qingyun Academy can only barely gather ten disciples who can participate in the exam, and the prospects for this martial arts conference are really not optimistic.
Of course, if the martial arts are really just martial arts, it only involves the ranking between the various academies, so there is no need to worry so much.
Xiao Wangshu has recently begun to feel a little old, although he has lived for hundreds of years, and if he can't break through the realm in three or five years, he will only have ten years to live, but he has never felt old.
In the past few years, he always felt happy when he fought with his senior brother over a little thing, but recently even the only senior brother who could talk to him has become silent.
He remembered the days when the two brothers were young and fought with swords, and his sigh for the ruthlessness of time and the passing of time like a husband deepened. In those years, they didn't have to pay attention to such mundane things at all, they didn't have to worry about it all day long, they just wanted to be happy, drank a lot of wine, ate meat, and got drunk and lay on the knees of beautiful women.
Today, even if a thousand dreams haunt the soul, such a scene can only occasionally appear in the memories of the past when dreaming back at midnight.
He remembered Master.
The begonia in front of the little sister's grave should also grow extremely tall.
"I hope that the little girl that Zimo likes is really as powerful as he said. Xiao Wangshu looked at his senior brother and said with a bitter smile.
Speaking of the apprentice he admired the most, Cang Yunhe's expression was relaxed, his eyes revealed his love for the young man who was like a breeze, and said: "Zimo's vision, I have always believed in it very much. ”
The roof of the small building fell silent, and the conversation by the lake had just begun.
Feeling the gust of night breeze blowing from the lake, mixed with a faint fishy smell and the fragrance of flowers, Ke Zimo looked at the silhouette of the young man and felt a little guilty.
No matter who it is, hearing that the Great Cultivator of the Void Transformation Realm has made such a judgment on himself, he will probably be deeply shocked. This young man seems to be calm, but in fact, he may have been ...... in his heart
Cultivators have the ability that ordinary people can't reach, and they can occupy a very high position in the world, in fact, a very important point is that even if they only cultivate to the realm of refining the body, their lifespan can also be increased by more than ten years, if they reach the realm of transcendent masters, it is rumored that they can be like the person on the white pagoda, with an extra life span of hundreds of years, which is a fatal temptation for ordinary mortals who can live to be 100 years old at most.
Life and death have never been a difficult matter to choose.
Ke Zimo was apologetic and didn't know what to say.
However, Xiao Xuan kept looking at the shaking figures and lights on the other side of the lake, and his face was as calm as the lake in front of him, not like a teenager who had just experienced the great sorrow of life.
Ke Zimo thought about it, but still said apologetically, "I'm sorry, maybe it's better for you not to know this." ”
Xiao Xuan took two steps forward, the lake flooded ashore, he felt that the grass under his feet was soaked by the lake water, a little slippery, heard the other party say sorry, smiled, and asked, "Have you ever died?"
Ke Zimo was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand what the other party was referring to, so he shook his head.
Xiao Xuan squatted down by the lake, picked up a slender aquatic plant and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and said slowly: "I have died once, and I have almost died many times, if it weren't for some inextricable reason, maybe I would have been lying in the loess at this moment, and I would have become an inconspicuous one among the thousands of graves in the mass grave in the west of the city." ”
"I'm not afraid of death, I've lived for many years, and sometimes I get bored, and I've always struggled on the edge of life and death over and over again, but fortunately, I found a reason to live. ”
Ke Zimo listened to him speak, and said in his heart, You are just a fifteen-year-old boy, where have you lived for many years? It's just that although he can't understand it, he feels the real calmness from the other party's words. Such calmness and calmness are not pretended, but from the depths of the heart.
Thinking of this, he admired this young man more and more, but the more this was the case, the more regret he felt.
If this young man can enter my Qingyun Academy, it will be a blessing for the academy.
With a thud, a flying sword swept low above the lake, scratched a few wrinkles on the mirror-like water, and flew to the other shore of the lake.
Xiao Xuan squinted his eyes and looked forward, the owner of the flying sword was a heroic young man, who was triumphantly saying something to his classmates around him at this time.
He is a student of the academy, and at such an age, he has entered the realm of distraction that can be driven away, and he should have the capital to show off.
"Life is a thing that cannot be chosen, and as long as I come to this world alive, sooner or later I will die one day, which is also a doomed thing from the moment I was born, and I have no way to choose, let alone resist. ”
Xiao Xuan spit out the aquatic plants in his mouth, his mouth was slightly bitter, but the words he said had no bitter taste.
"But fortunately, I still have a way to choose how to spend the time between life and death. Xiao Xuan stood up, walked to Ke Zimo's side, stretched out his hand and patted the other party's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Anyway, thank you for letting me know these things, to be honest, although it's not a good thing, it's really important." ”