Chapter 8: Thorn Bush I

When the full moon is in the sky, the light is poured on the earth like water. The peach blossom forest is hidden in a patch of silver, and each petal has a faint silver white.

The pink stamen looks like a girl in a flower dress, shyly accepting the invitation of a boy in a silver dress. The pink and silver colors are perfectly blended in one place, and the entire peach forest is like a grand dance party has begun.

In the hermitage, Duan Cheng stood silently in front of the window, and the moonlight happened to shine on his body. He looked at the unreachable moon from afar and drank the liquor from his glass.

The hot sensation traveled all over his body, but he had an urge to dance. Tomorrow I will leave this peach forest where I have lived for thirty years, take away my weak body, and leave the memories of the whole forest.

He wanted to do a dance, a dance with the whole forest. Remembering his long-buried ambitions, and cutting off the thoughts that he had left for years.

It should be very sad for a flower farmer to leave everything behind and leave the country, right?"

He also drank the spirits in his glass in one gulp, and the spicy feeling was like a peach blossom resisting the cold of winter before it bloomed. It was like a sharp dagger cutting the throat, but after entering the body, it spread out like a spring breeze, and the whole body was indescribably warm.

"It's really good wine!" Ling Yun exclaimed loudly: "An alchemist who puts all his energy into raising flowers and making tea and wine can be regarded as an alternative development." ”

Duan Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, on this night when he was about to part with the past, he did not have a touching tune and was accompanied by his relatives, but he was entangled by Ling Yun's neurosis.

He thought that after he said those decisive words, Ling Yun and Long Yunzhou would definitely feel bored and leave. Who knew that these two people were cheeky and lived in his hermitage.

In particular, Ling Yun regarded this hermitage as his own home, and used everything in this hermitage with the appearance of a master. If it weren't for Duan Cheng's recuperation, he couldn't help but ask him, isn't it your fault that you are doing his current appearance?

However, in the past 30 years of planting flowers, his heart has long been much calmer, and he has been much gentler towards things. Since Ling Yun and Long Yunzhou want to stay, let's stay.

By tomorrow, everything here will have nothing to do with him. Maybe if he walked on his front foot, this peach forest would be razed to the ground, and he believed that with his second brother's character, it was entirely possible to do so.

Since everything will no longer exist, then what is the purpose of keeping a memory? It is better to spend tonight in a chic and freehand manner, so he really wants to be presumptuous, so he pours himself and Ling Yun a full wine, and wants to have a good drink on this last night.

"What are your plans for the future? Ling Yun's eyes looked to the other side, Long Yunzhou was chatting with Duan Xing, although he had experienced such a tragic incident as being expelled from the house, it seemed that those two boys didn't seem to care at all.

"No, I decided to be a Langzhong, cure the sick and save people, and renew my life!" Duan Cheng smiled and drank it all again, showing his heroic appearance in his gestures, and the elegant scholarly atmosphere was thrown aside tonight.

"Good idea, a toast to you being able to make a great Langzhong. Ling Yun refilled the wine for Duan Cheng, and the two of them laughed and drank it all again.

After a few glasses of spirits, Duan Cheng was already a little dizzy. He was not strong enough to drink, but tonight he was weak and melancholy, so he drank a few more glasses.

Ling Yun was different, no matter how strong the wine was, to him, a master of the Illusory Saint Realm, it was no different from water. The alcohol was dissolved by the true qi in his body almost instantly, and it was no problem to describe him as not drunk with a thousand cups at this moment.

Duan Cheng looked at Ling Yun quietly, and said with a smile: "Although I am not a master of reading people, I can also see that you and that son are absolutely extraordinary. Although this Dragon Soul Continent is vast, it is definitely not easy to find people like you. ”

Ling Yun's eyes were scorching, and he looked at Duan Cheng deeply: "It's a pity, if you are still an alchemist, I must take you all over the world, it is a pity for people like you to return to the mountains and forests to be a Langzhong." ”

Duan Cheng laughed, raised his glass and said, "Then I won't ask you who you are tonight, and you don't care where I go tomorrow." After the wine is over, let's go our separate ways. ”

Ling Yun was aroused, he couldn't imagine that Duan Cheng, who seemed to be elegant, was also a person of great wisdom and wisdom, and he could see at a glance that he and Long Yunzhou were extraordinary. This glass of wine must be drunk, even if tomorrow day is different, for the sake of a rare encounter, he will drink this glass of wine.

The door was suddenly pushed open slightly, and a gust of wind swayed into the room from the outside, pushing the candle flame to sway from side to side, flickering and dimming.

An old man walked in slowly from outside the door, his hands were tied with thick bandages, and there were wooden planks in the bandages, it was the patriarch who saved Duan Cheng's father and son with a broken arm during the day.

"Patriarch............." Duan Cheng shouted, he didn't expect that it would be his father who came at the last moment, but this was also expected. It seems that this person has been waiting for him, who else will come?

"Call Father, you haven't called me Father in a long time. The patriarch smiled calmly, but there was a soft gaze in his cloudy eyes.

Duan Cheng wanted to speak and stopped, but he still didn't shout out those two words.

He gently closed the door for his father, helped him to sit down, and then stood aside, with his head bowed, like a child who had made a mistake. Duan Xing was clinging to his father's back, and he didn't know whether to be afraid or respectful of the old man in front of him, who was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The patriarch looked at his son and grandson and sighed heavily: "Cheng'er, are you still blaming me?"

"Don't dare, I know that everything the patriarch did was for the future of Xuanwu Hall. Although the child has some talents, he is very dull about family affairs, if he had listened to the patriarch's words, then Xuanwutang would not be where it is today. Duan Cheng said very calmly, he had already figured out everything, and he had long stopped worrying about the past.

The patriarch looked at his son with some sadness, if he was allowed to choose, he really wanted to see the son who was high-spirited and willing to give everything for the sake of refining medicine.

The genius he cultivated with his own hands was eventually snuffed out by himself. When facing Duan Cheng, he didn't know what attitude to use to express his apologies. Breaking off a pair of hands during the day, what is it for his son's life?

The scene was a little awkward, Ling Yun and Long Yunzhou were standing by the window, they were like spectators, and they had neither the right to express their opinions nor interrupt all this.

After a long time, the patriarch sighed and said, "Get out of here, go and find another woman! ”

He turned his head to look at Duan Xing, who was hiding behind Duan Cheng timidly, and a relieved smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. If there's anything that can make up for the wound in his heart, it's this kid.

When the entire family gave up refining medicine, only this child was still persevering.

He was a smart kid, perhaps more gifted than his father. The patriarch seems to have seen the hope of the future, and this child's body is blooming with the brightest light.

He put a burden on the table, slowly stood up, and walked towards the door by himself: "The road may be far, maybe we will never see each other in our lives." Take these things with you, it's a father's last gift to his son. ”

He was faltering, senile, and his swaying body looked like it might collapse at any moment. But every step he took was strong and powerful, with a smile like a spring breeze on the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly, he stopped in front of the door of the hermitage and turned his head sharply to look at Ling Yun.

Ling Yun was inexplicable, thinking to himself that this old man still wanted to get back the gem during the day, but this family was poor enough, and it should be normal for this old man to be a little greedy. During the day, the faces of his children and grandchildren, Ling Yun still remembered them.

The patriarch looked at him for a long time, and only then said slowly before Ling Yun had goosebumps all over his body: "This gentleman's cultivation is profound, and he must be an extraordinary person. But the old man wants to tell you that even if you cultivate to the sky, you will have a lot of money. I won't sell my son's future for anything!"

After speaking, the old man raised his feet and walked away, and his figure slowly merged into the peach forest, like a phantom in a trance. But a hearty laugh gradually came from the peach forest, as if he had freed all his heart knots.

Duan Cheng watched his father disappear into the peach forest blankly, and he didn't shout those two words from beginning to end. As my father said, they may never see each other from now on, but at the last moment, he could not satisfy his father.

"Your dad took the wrong medicine, right? He actually said that I want to buy you, am I saving you!" Ling Yun looked at the direction of Taolin with some dissatisfaction, it was really uncomfortable to be misunderstood. He finally wanted to save people from suffering, but he was regarded as the willfulness of a rich man.

Duan Cheng shook his head slowly: "He won't take the wrong medicine, because he is another alchemist in this family." He was the greatest alchemist in the family. ”

Ling Yun was surprised and wanted to find the old man's back, but the old man had long since disappeared. He really couldn't imagine that this guy who looked like he was about to die turned out to be a powerful alchemist.

Duan Cheng wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a smile: "I don't have any regrets now, I can go to be a Langzhong with peace of mind." ”

"I don't think you're going to be that easy to go, it might take some work. Ling Yun smiled strangely.

Duan Cheng frowned, just about to ask why. Suddenly, he saw that the sky had turned a dull fiery red, and the silver moon seemed to be covered with a faint layer of red, hazy and blurry.

Countless footsteps resounded in the sky, and the sound of iron armor colliding was like a trumpet sounding in unison, Duan Cheng finally knew that the red that lit up the sky was countless torches, and those torches had already surrounded the Xuanwu Hall.

"It seems that I won't be able to leave for a while. Ling Yun sat calmly in the hermitage, holding a wine glass and said to Duan Cheng: "It's better to have a drink and wait for the wind and rain to come by yourself." ”