Chapter 3: The Bright Moon
Li Shuang walked to the temple, picked up a pile of dry wood, and lit a fire in the house. Sitting next to the fire, the bright flames were beating in the eyes of a man and a beast, Li Shuang's expression was soft among the warmth, and the bubble form crawled lazily on the top of Li Shuang's head, two long whiskers hung down and wrapped around Li Shuang's chin, and the tail dangled behind very happy.
They rarely communicate along the way, Li Shuang is a person who talks very little, and although Bubble is very lively, it can't speak. One person and one beast seem to have an indescribable tacit understanding, as long as the other party is around, the heart will be very steady, very warm, and very happy.
Maybe it's the lonely souls who have wandered for too long, and the dependence on each other after meeting each other makes the autumn wind no longer bleak, the journey no longer far, and the flame warmer.
Li Shuang took out a few fruits from the back basket and handed one to Bubbles. After thinking about it, he got up and walked to the statue and placed a persimmon next to the poured incense burner.
Back by the fire, Li Shuang had just sat down. The idol emitted a soft glow, and the light flowed like mercury. In the blink of an eye, the room seemed to return to its former glory, hundreds of candles illuminated the room exceptionally brightly, the floor was smooth and clean, the smoke of the incense burner on the offering table, and a yellow persimmon was placed there.
Among the statues of the gods walked a woman, who was holding a simple bun, with a calm and gentle face and simple clothes. Holding two bowls of scallion oil noodles in her hands, she walked in front of Li Shuang, a long desk appeared in front of her, the woman put the scallion oil noodles in front of Li Shuang's eyes, and two pairs of chopsticks were placed on the side of the bowl.
Li Shuang and Bubbles both rubbed their eyes, suspecting that they were hallucinating, and Li Shuang wondered if she had eaten mushrooms in the past few days.
The woman sat on the opposite side of the table and looked at them quietly, Li Shuang looked at the scallion oil noodles and then at the woman, and asked carefully, "This is for me to eat?" ”
The woman nodded.
"Are you the deity of this temple?" Li Shuang then asked.
The woman didn't speak, just looked at him. Li Shuang asked a few more questions, but the woman did not answer.
Li Shuang thought for a while, she was an orphan with nothing, there was no need for this woman who was very powerful at first glance to harm herself, and besides, people could drag herself into an existence similar to an illusion at once, and if she wanted to kill herself, she still had to eat poisoned noodles for herself!
Thinking of this, Li Shuang picked up the chopsticks and ate them, and put the bubbles on the table by the way, and the bubbles followed Li Shuang's example, and stuffed the noodles in her mouth with chopsticks rolled with her long beard, which looked very funny and cute.
When the woman saw the bubbles eating noodles, the corners of her mouth were upturned, and her eyes were like two curved crescents.
Li Shuang ate scallion oil mixed noodles, the noodles were delicious, it can be said that Li Shuang had never eaten such delicious food in her memory. There are a lot of noodles, and Li Shuang eats very much.
The woman took two more bowls of hot soup and put them on the table, Li Shuang picked up the bowl and drank it, the hot soup entered her stomach, and her whole body was warm.
When they finished eating and put down the bowl, the woman returned to the statue, and the surrounding scenery disappeared little by little, returning to the same as before.
Li Shuang touched her stomach, her stomach was very full, and she was sure that she had really eaten a bowl of noodles and drank a bowl of soup. He got up and came to the statue to salute, Li Shuang did not have incense and candles on his body to pay tribute to this god, it was a pity!
On the wall of the moon, Li Shuang hugged the bubble chair wall and fell asleep. I don't know what time it was, someone entered the house, Li Shuang opened her eyes, and saw a woman in purple walking in.
She glanced at Li Shuang, did not speak, but went to another corner and sat with a sword. The woman's expression was flickering and often wandered, and after a long time she returned to normal, as if she had made some decision.
Just as Li Shuang was looking at the woman, another man came in, dressed in luxurious jade and jade pendants. He glanced at the woman, then turned his head and squinted his eyes and said to Li Shuang with a smile: "Please go out!" ”
The woman frowned, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't speak.
Li Shuang hugged the bubbles and walked out, and when she walked into the yard, the man's voice came from the house: "Yu Qingyue, have you thought about it?" ”
Li Shuang didn't hear the conversation clearly, and he didn't want to listen to it. Walking a long way to find a small leeward dirt slope, Li Shuang lay on it, trying to put the bubbles under his head and refused, so he desperately got into Li Shuang's arms, revealing a small head.
Is Li Shuang angry? He was angry! Why can that man be so unreasonable to drive people away! But so what, what can Li Shuang do! Aggrieved? Maybe you're getting used to it!
Li Shuang felt that the world should not be like this, and the world should not be like this! Older children bully younger children, rich people bully those who have no money, learned people bully uneducated people, and powerful people bully weak people......
They wantonly trample on their subordinates, satisfy their twisted pleasures, and make them self-righteous and powerful. Then weave all sorts of truths to make it difficult for those who have been ravaged to speak.
Li Shuang lay on her back on the ground and looked at the starry sky, remembering that she was beaten by the children in the village in the alley, remembering the tossing and turning in bed due to injury, and remembering fainting on the road with hunger.
I always hear the old beggar say that the sword fairy is very powerful, and a sword can smash mountains and rivers, they kill demons and gods, and I don't know how many times they have saved the world.
At that time, Li Shuang asked, "Since the Sword Immortal is so powerful, why didn't they come to save me when I was about to starve to death?" ”
The old beggar said with a look of disdain: "Stupid baby, what do you want to do!" The Sword Immortal Master is the star in the sky, and he can see you, a little beggar. ”
Li Shuang thought of the bearded man who saved him, and thought of Qingxiang Academy, so he muttered casually: "If one day I am powerful, don't be a star in the sky, I want to be the moon in the world, and light a way for people in the dark, a way to live." ”
After saying that, Li Shuang fell asleep, and suddenly the moonlight brightened a little, and a full moon fell into Li Shuang's dilapidated heart, and a terrifying huge dark abyss lay across the heart, and the bright moon hung above.
The goddess woman came from afar, and the night wind blew his long hair and stirred the hem of his skirt. He sat beside Li Shuang, waved his hand and put a golden blanket on Li Shuang's body, and Li Shuang's tightly knit brow gradually relaxed.
The goddess woman sat quietly all night with her hands on her knees, during which she seemed to say a few words into the air, and no one could hear what was said, and finally shook her head, as if she had rejected something.
When the morning star appeared in the sky, the sky gradually brightened, and the goddess woman took out a book and put it on Li Shuang's body, and the book gradually sank into Li Shuang's body.
He stood up and smiled at Li Shuang, and finally looked at the rivers and mountains in the world, and his body drifted away like smoke.
The red sun rose from the sky, Li Shuang opened her sleepy eyes, washed her face with water, and started another day's journey.
Li Shuang didn't know that at this moment, the world was shaking!
In a secret territory of Qingxiang Academy, the old dean broke through the barrier, his expression was solemn, he was dressed to give a long salute to the distance, and said loudly: "Sword Immortal Lu Huaifeng, thank you to the ancient gods for scattering the Great Xia Dynasty, I pray to the Heavenly Dao, may your soul be complete and return to the world." ”
Flying Snow Sword Sect, the old Taoist ordered someone to ring the law bell, and the bell was melodious. The old Taoist was dressed and said loudly: "Flying Snow Sword Sect Elder Yao Yuchun, thank the ancient gods for the Great Xia Dynasty, I pray to the Heavenly Dao, may your soul be complete and return to the world." ”
In the imperial capital of the Great Xia Dynasty, the old emperor sat on the dragon chair with a very angry expression, and said loudly: "Let the Zhongshu Pavilion draw up a decree and reprimand the Feixue Sword Sect." ”
The old emperor was bitter in his heart, and the contradiction between the dynasty and the Flying Snow Sword Sect was very acute because of an old matter.
More than 800 years ago, the emperor was mediocre, and the family chaebol was in chaos. In that eventful autumn, the Ice Valley Abyss rioted, and the Imperial Dynasty was slow to send reinforcements, which led to the Flying Snow Sword Sect that suppressed the Ice Valley Abyss almost destroying the sect, and after this incident, the disciples of the Flying Snow Sword Sect regarded the Imperial Dynasty as an enemy.
At this time, in the history books of the Great Xia Dynasty, the most legendary crown prince killed the king, gave up the emperor's position to his son, promoted to the realm of saints, and exterminated the chaotic family chaebol with the power of thunder.
Then the legendary prince, as the regent, carried Jing Deng to the Flying Snow Sword Sect behind his back, cut his wrists and bleed, and paid tribute to the disciples of the Flying Snow Sword Sect who died in the abyss of the Ice Valley. After that, after several generations of emperors made up for their sincerity, the relationship between the dynasty and the Flying Snow Sword Sect was much better.
But three days ago, an inspection envoy was verbally teasing a disciple of the Flying Snow Sword Sect on the street. As a result, the inspector's mouth was refreshed, but his head flew away.
This is the official of the imperial court, and more importantly, he has the imperial order to inspect the affairs of various state capitals on behalf of the Son of Heaven. If you don't condemn the Flying Snow Sword Sect, the face of the imperial court will really be unbearable.
But if the head of the sword cultivator was cut off, the corner of the old emperor's mouth twitched and scolded a three-character scripture.
This is a small eunuch outside the palace gate probing his brain, and the eunuch Liu Rui walked over quietly, and the little eunuch whispered a few words in Liu Rui's ear, and Liu Rui was happy.
Hurriedly walked to the old emperor's ear to report, the old emperor was overjoyed when he heard it, stood up and said loudly: "Deqin Tianjian reported that there are ancient gods scattered in the imperial dynasty, all Aiqing follow me to the outside of the main hall, thank the ancient gods!" ”
After hearing this, all the ministers were overjoyed, the so-called scattered Dao, is to scatter their own luck in one place, and then thousands of years here will be a number of saints, even a few more immortals.
The ministers followed the old emperor to the square, the old emperor was dressed, and Lang Sheng said: "Jiang Jing, the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, I am grateful to the ancient gods for scattering the Great Xia Dynasty, and the hundreds of millions of people of the Great Xia Kingdom of the Great Xia Dynasty pray to the Heavenly Dao, and may the soul of the Great Xia Kingdom be complete and return to the world." ”
Behind him, all the ministers knelt down and bowed one after another, and said in unison: "May your soul be complete and return to the world." ”
The old emperor said in high spirits: "Someone has come to make an order, proclaim it to the world, and let my hundreds of millions of people pray for the ancient gods." ”
The old emperor's expression suddenly moved slightly, and he said: "One more will, I want to amnesty the world, so that the kindness of the ancient gods will bless the four seas!" ”
What a double blessing! I didn't know how to save the head of that disciple of the Flying Snow Sword Sect, so there was a justified reason.
On this day, all the saints of the world went out.
On this day, all the people of the Great Xia Dynasty set up an offering table in the courtyard to pray to the gods, as for the content of the prayer...
There are those who seek wealth!
There are those who ask for children!
There is also a wife who begs to elope with someone else, and go home early......
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The autumn of the lonely mountains and grasses is over, and the cold wind sends the snow to the bone.
Light snow.
Li Shuang stopped, it was already winter, his feet were frozen like a cat bite, he found some soft grass and grass into his shoes, and the shoes were sewn and mended and could not see the original appearance.
After walking for almost a month, I finally came to Qingxiang Academy, where only two large pillars stood there, and the light and shadow behind the pillars were intertwined, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
On the pillars are two lines of large letters.
The red flowers paint the blood of the world by the rain, and the flying snow writes a lifetime with the wind.
There was a stone house not far from the pillar, and there was an old Taoist standing beside the stone house, who seemed to have been standing there for a long, long time.
Li Shuang stepped forward and asked, "Dao Chief, is this Qingxiang Academy?" ”
"Yes!" The old Taoist nodded.
"How can I become a disciple of the academy?" Li Shuang then asked.
The old Taoist looked at the thin Li Shuang, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, but he still said: "Child, your body is too weak, and you will need at least two years of serious conditioning before you can cultivate the Dao."
The college stipulates that new students only have a one-year adaptation period, and they will have grades in the second year, even if you enter the college, you will be expelled in the second year, and the college will only admit students when it is stunned every year. ”
Li Shuang thanked the old Taoist and turned to leave, walking on the road when he came, he suddenly felt a little excited, he found a stone to sit down, bubbles came out of the small back basket, two long whiskers wrapped around Li Shuang's neck, and climbed onto his shoulders.
Bubbles rubbed Li Shuang with her little face, as if to comfort him, Li Shuang touched Bubbles' head and signaled that she was fine.
Disappointed? Have a little bit of it! Just a little...
Just like once when I was a child, I couldn't stand it when I was hungry, so I went to my mother's house to borrow some food, and my mother shut him out of the door. Same snow, same mood.
A little disappointed, but not much......
"Huh... Gua baby! A familiar voice came.
Li Shuang looked up and suddenly became happy.
"Big Brother Fox."
The bearded man's face turned dark, what a fox stinky big brother, the bearded man stepped forward and rubbed Li Shuang's head vigorously, I wanted to ask why you were here, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, turned his head and said: "I was in a hurry to go back last time, I didn't introduce you to my teammates, now I will introduce you to you!" ”
When the bearded man turned his head, his eyes were red, and tears almost burst out. One year and eight months! The little baby came from such a distance, and I don't know how much suffering I have suffered along the way, and the bearded man doesn't dare to think about it.
The chapped lips, the swollen fingers like turnips, and the big shoes that didn't coordinate with the body at all.
The bearded man endured the sourness in his nose, pointed at the woman in red and said, "This is my senior sister, Li Qinggu." ”
Li Qinggu stepped forward and rubbed Li Shuang's red little face with both hands, and said with a smile: "It's been almost two years, why haven't you grown taller at all!" ”
Li Shuang smirked.
The bearded man pointed to the white-clothed young man and said, "His name is Zhao Qingchuan, he is my teammate, he is a slut, don't learn from him when you grow up." ”
Zhao Qingchuan's reserved smile just now immediately darkened. He stepped forward, patted Li Shuang on the shoulder and said, "You are now a real little man. ”
Before the bearded man could introduce him, the young man in Tsing Yi had already come over and said, "My name is Zheng Huan, and I am a swordsman." ”
The bearded man continued: "We also have two teammates, one is named Mo Fansheng and the other is Feng Yu. You won't be able to see the two of them for a while, Mo Fansheng's leg is broken, and Feng Yu is taking care of him. ”
Li Shuang said happily: "Hello everyone, my name is Li Shuang, Muzi Li, and Yuxiangshuang." Then Li Shuang pointed to the bubble again, "It's called bubble!" Bubbles of bubbles! ”
The bearded man suddenly patted his head and said, "I suddenly remembered that something was left in the academy, and you are waiting for me here for a while!" After speaking, the bearded man turned his head and walked towards the academy.
Li Qinggu touched Li Shuang's head and said, "Little Li Shuang, wait for my sister here for a while, my sister will go back to the academy to do some business, and come over in a while!" ”
Li Shuang nodded.
Li Qinggu glanced at Zheng Huan, Zheng Huan stepped forward and hugged Li Shuang's shoulders and asked him to sit on the stone with him, "Li Shuang, the captain forgot to introduce himself in a hurry just now, his name is Wang Zhihe." Also, that fox stinks... Hahahaha! ”
Zheng Huan said this, smiling back and forth.
"It's not that the captain really smells of foxes, but that he went to tease a beautiful fox demon and made the fox demon fart and collapse...... Hahaha! He has always been reluctant to spend money to clean up, and your sentence that the gods also have fox odor made him grit his teeth and buy a bottle of very expensive potion to clean up the fox odor! Zheng Huan was happy while talking.
Li Shuang's expression was a little embarrassed, when he saw the bearded man, he didn't think about anything in his head, so he called "Big Brother Fox", this is his life-saving benefactor, and it is indeed a bit rude.
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In the academy, in a room, there was an angry roar: "You want to audit students again, how many do you want this year?" There are more than 300 of them! Is it that in a few decades, you Wang Zhihe will be "peach and plum" all over the world! ”
Wang Zhihe said with a shy face: "Vice Dean, for the last time!" I swear! ”
"You swear? I believe in your wickedness! ”
Then there was a noise in the room, and there was a loud bang, and Wang Zhihe was thrown out of the house.
Wang Zhihe sat on the stone steps a little melancholy, he was a rough man on the outside, but his heart was very delicate, and he was warm-hearted, he had helped many, many people.
Each regular student of the academy has five audit students a year, and the qualified ones are brought to study in the academy, but Wang Zhihe brings too many people.
The reason why he didn't bring Li Shuang to the academy before was because Li Shuang's health was too poor, and he was afraid that he would disappoint his children in a year.
But now... Alas! Wang Zhihe sighed deeply, rubbed his blue eyes that were beaten, and had to reason with Old Man Wang in a while!
At this time, Li Qinggu walked over, holding a small sign, and shook it in front of Wang Zhihe's eyes.
Wang Zhihe grabbed the sign, looked at the sign that was sure to be the number of auditors, and was immediately moved: "Senior sister..."
"Alright, don't disgust me! Let's go, let's pick up Xiao Li Shuang to go to the academy. Li Qinggu put his hands behind his back and walked briskly.