Chapter 44: Slipping Away

"Don't want to cultivate immortals?" Du Wanqiu held a porcelain bowl in his hand and dispersed the chickens.

"I don't want to." Du Xingyu shook his head and said with a smile, "I've grown up, and I can't be as childlike as before." ”

"Some time ago, the village chief of the next village came to complain and cry, and most of the laurels in Osmanthus Village were bald by you." Du Wanqiu immediately dismantled the stage, but there was no trace of anger in her words.

"I'm serious about it." Du Xingyu's face was hot, picked up a branch, and pretended to pick the rice grains hidden in the snow.

Du Wanqiu smiled and didn't ask him what he was using for picking those osmanthus flowers?

It is the greatest blessing for her that her younger brother, who has been dependent on each other since childhood, can return safely and no longer ask for those ethereal things to cultivate immortals.

"A few days ago, Xiao Han of Osmanthus Village left the village. I heard that he was taken away by one of his uncles and joined a Jianghu sect. Du Wanqiu said casually.

"It's just a Jianghu sect, where can it compare to the big things I will do next, and it can't compare to Brother Mo's great cause of cultivating immortals." Du Xingyu threw away the branch and muttered, "I don't know how Brother Mo is now?" ”

"Ji people have their own natural appearance, and Mo Gongzi is a blessed person, and he will be safe and sound."

"That's right, he hasn't finished what he promised me, and he will be fine." Du Xingyu squatted on the ground, supporting his cheeks with his hands, looking at the empty mountain in the distance, a little missing.

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The two figures turned their backs to Xinghua Village and left.

Li Hongmei said: "Don't you want to see each other?" ”

"No, their lives are fine now, so why bother with unnecessary interruptions. What's more, I also promised him one thing that was not done. Mo Hansheng stopped, turned his head to look at her, his lips squirmed for a long time, but he didn't speak.

Li Hongmei also stopped, looked at his strange appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and teased: "A man is really an awkward animal, and it is so difficult to apologize, as if he wants to kill you?" ”

"Since you've sent people back safely, why don't you say it in the first place?" Mo Hansheng coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment.

Li Hongmei pursed her lips and said, "Even if you say it at the time, will you believe it?" People only want to believe what they see with their own eyes, and since this is the case, it is better for you to see it for yourself. ”

"Are you doing this, aren't you afraid that you will be found out by Lu Chengfeng and punished?"

Li Hongmei smiled confidently and said, "If I dare to do this, I naturally have the certainty that I will not be discovered by him." ”

"I'm sorry." Mo Hansheng said this sentence without warning.

The topic turned a little stiffly, Li Hongmei was stunned for a moment, then tilted her head, her left eye narrowed slightly, and stared at him directly.

Mo Hansheng was a little overwhelmed by her, but he didn't know what he said wrong.

After staring at each other for a while, Li Hongmei finally couldn't help but ask, "That's it?" ”

"Or else?" Mo Hansheng didn't know why.

"Shouldn't an apology be a ritual of apology?"

Mo Hansheng was stunned for a moment, and the pestle was in place, not knowing how to respond.

Li Hongmei leaned up and looked at his expression with curiosity, as if she had found some rare creature: "You shouldn't have never coaxed a girl, right?" ”

Mo Hansheng's scalp was numb when she saw it, and there was a faint hint of fragrance in the air, which made him panic inexplicably.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Mo Hansheng always felt that the eyes she landed on her were very weird, like staring at a ...... Boy chickens?

He bent his knees slightly, lowered his waist on his back, took three steps to the left, and then immediately performed the Divine Movement Technique with full of True Qi, and went straight to Sunset Mountain at the fastest speed.

The snow was fluttering, but it couldn't hide Mo Hansheng's figure of running away.

On the snow, a series of presumptuous laughter sounded, and if Mo Hansheng turned around, he would find that there was no trace of disobedience on the smile on Li Hongmei's face at this time.

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Li Hongmei returned to Qingfeng Residence.

Mo Hansheng came back much earlier than her, and was standing quietly in the courtyard at this time, looking up at the bare willow tree and not knowing what he was looking at.

She was secretly surprised that Mo Hansheng had walked quickly in front of her and handed out something.

Li Hongmei was a little surprised, and when she looked at it, it was a delicate red jade hairpin, a plum blossom hairpin, which matched her very well.

Mo Hansheng returned to the bamboo building, opened the bag containing a small part of the Ning family's treasures, and took it out when she saw that this thing was the most suitable for her.

Atonement?

Li Hongmei smiled slightly, but she didn't expect that she was just talking casually, and the other party took it seriously.

She took a closer look and handed the jade hairpin back to the other party.

Mo Hansheng was slightly stunned, not understanding what this meant.

Li Hongmei smiled: "What are you doing in a daze, quickly put it on for me." ”

Mo Hansheng took the jade hairpin.

Li Hongmei bowed her head slightly to greet her.

Time seemed to stop for a moment, and Mo Hansheng's fingers also stayed between Li Hongmei's temples.

The breeze blew through and set off a silent wave on the water.

Perhaps neither of them noticed the strange touch of each other's hearts at the moment.

Time cannot stop flowing, and all stillness will eventually change due to change.

The snow fell from the treetops, and the figures of the two separated and stood still at the two ends.

Li Hongmei turned her face slightly and said, "I may not come back tonight." ”

"Huh?" Mo Hansheng was slightly stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Such a misunderstood conversation generally only appears in the mouths of couples who have been together for a long time, and it seems a little weird and ambiguous that Li Hongmei said it to Mo Hansheng at this time.

In the past few months, except for joining forces to deal with human traffickers, the two have basically no superfluous interactions, and have been going their own way.

The relationship between each other has always been in a delicate state.

If it is said that they are estranged, the two are now grasshoppers on a rope, and life and death are closely related.

If it is said that they are close, the two have only known each other for a few months, and not long ago they were faintly hostile to each other.

But Li Hongmei didn't think too much, she thought so in her heart, and said so in her mouth.

"Lu Chengfeng's chronic poison against me is very difficult to solve, and there are many medicinal materials needed in the prescription, and I haven't studied it thoroughly. It is not difficult to obtain these medicinal materials as Lu Chengfeng, but I don't dare to make a public announcement, so I can only make up for the medicinal materials through some side knocking means. So I might stay outside for two days, in the medicine hall of Qingxia Peak. ”

"Hmm." Mo Hansheng replied softly.

"Then ......" Li Hongmei's voice was softer, faint and flew, "I'm leaving." ”

"Hmm."

Li Hongmei took two steps, then suddenly turned around and said, "I want to remind you not to move around at will, so as not to cause trouble." ”

"Except for the few times I fought with you against human traffickers, I haven't been here once, and I don't need to go out."

"That'...... I'm really gone. ”

Li Hongmei turned back in two steps, like a wife who was worried that her husband would not have a good time at home alone.

Mo Hansheng quietly watched her out of Qingfeng Residence, disappeared into the valley, and then walked to the steps of the bamboo building and closed her eyes and meditated.

Half an hour later, Mo Hansheng opened his eyes and walked out of Qingfeng Residence.

He cautiously observed his surroundings, and quietly left while it was dark, like an unscrupulous husband who went out to have fun while his wife was returning to her mother's house.

Li Hongmei led the way the previous few times down the mountain, he already had experience, he was familiar with the road, and he did not encounter a trace of obstacles along the way, and he arrived in front of the mountain gate in a blink of an eye.

It was the little fat man who sat on the stone pier and meditated.

"Senior brother, didn't you just come back, why do you want to go down the mountain again?" The little fat man was very surprised to see Mo Han come and go.

"There is something temporary, and I have to go down the mountain again." Mo Hansheng casually made up a reason.

The little fat man reminded loudly: "Then you have to come back quickly, and my senior brother will be on duty with me in two days." ”

Mo Hansheng nodded, although he had Lu Chengfeng's token on his body, but after all, it was not Lu Chengfeng himself who came, so he couldn't form a sufficient deterrent.

If you meet other disciples on duty, even if you don't deliberately make things difficult, you will inevitably have to ask questions, which will only add to the trouble.

If you want to go out of the mountain gate smoothly, you can't do without the help of the little fat man.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a question: "Those people only leave you on duty, aren't you afraid that the middle and high-level people will find out?" ”

The little fat man first quietly glanced around, and then whispered: "The deacons in the gate have a fixed time to go down the mountain every month, and as for the higher level protectors, elders, and the heads of each peak, they will not go out of the mountain gate easily, and most of them only go down the mountain once in a few years or even decades. Of course, if you are really unfortunate enough to be caught by high-level bigwigs, then you can only ......"

"I can only consider myself unlucky."

Before the little fat man could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a cold voice.

In the sky, an unearthly figure suddenly fell, standing in front of the two.