Volume 5: The First Song Eighty-Four: A Cool Night
In the dead of night, the five of Qian Chao had already gone back to their rooms to rest.
Lu Pingchuan slept in the innermost room, at this time he was already lying on the bed on all fours and fell asleep, snoring loudly, because he had been to this Song Fenglou several times, so the guys here had the deepest impression of this Lu Pingchuan, not only the amount of food, but also the amount of alcohol was amazing, and the most jaw-dropping thing was that once this big man fell asleep, the snoring sound was comparable to summer thunder, which made the guests who lived here complain. Therefore, as long as Qian Chao and five people come to Song Fenglou, then Lu Pingchuan must be arranged to sleep in the innermost guest room. At this time, Lu Pingchuan slept soundly, and there was a small chain around his neck with a slightly glowing bead, which was the "Evil Pearl" that the five people got on the day of the tide of Cold Spring Valley, which was originally given to Yan Xuan, hoping to help her cultivate her own fire spirit, but on the day of the tide, Yan Xuan had his own fire spirit, so this bead went to Lu Pingchuan's hands again, he liked this bead very much, and he would wear it on his chest every night before going to bed, and then he could sleep deep and sweet.
Qian Chao's room was next to Lu Pingchuan, and Qian Chao was accustomed to Lu Pingchuan's earth-shattering snoring sound as early as when he was in Youming Valley, so he didn't care about sleeping next door to Lu Pingchuan. At this time, although the night was deep, but Qian Chao still did not sleep, sitting under the lamp in front of the table carefully studying the "Catalogue of Stars", there was also a pen and paper on the table, he read for a while on the paper to write and draw, sometimes into contemplation and sometimes his eyebrows stretched, it can be seen that he is completely immersed in the book.
Next to Qian Chao's room are Tang Ping and Yan Xuan's two daughters, they have always lived together in Song Fenglou, and now they have fallen asleep, but they are not asleep, the two girls don't know what to whisper on the bed, and in the darkness of the room, they can only hear them whispering and laughing from time to time.
The outermost is Li Jian's room, Li Jian is not sleeping at this time, he is sitting on the bed, quietly meditating with his eyes closed.
Beyond the floor, in the higher floor of Qian Chao and others, there are still many guest rooms with light still shining through the window lattices.
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In the dark night, there was a sudden "bang", and then there was a sound of "sparse noise", the sound was not very loud, in a beautifully decorated and luxuriously decorated guest room above Li Jian's side, a delicate painted vase had been shattered to the ground, the vase was originally placed on a carved thin waist wooden bench in the room, and there was a gorgeous woman in a crimson dress sitting next to the table next to the wooden bench, and I didn't know who she was angry with, so I saw that this woman was flushed, her chest rose and fell, and she couldn't stop breathing. The two eyes looked fixedly at the smashed vase on the ground and said nothing, the two white hands were tightly twisted at the hem of the skirt, because they were too hard, both hands looked pale and bloodless, and finally the woman squeezed out two words from between her teeth:
"Slut!"
Coincidentally, next door to her, a woman in a green dress with the same beautiful posture sat in front of the dressing mirror, looking at her face through the mirror lazily and carelessly, and then reached out and took off the hairpin ornaments on her head one by one, and then spread her hair like a cloud.
Or this floor, in another room but very lively, the door of this room is wide open, two people in the room are arguing red-faced, one is a fat man, the nose is already red, at this time because of the fierce noise, emotional reasons, the big nose on the fat face almost became bright red, and he quarreled with a young man in a green robe with scorched hair, although in front of this fat man this person's figure looks extremely thin, but in the momentum is not lost to this fat man at all, a pair of small eyes round staring, The scorched beard was furious, and he stretched out a hand to point at the fat man's big face, and he didn't know what to scold. At this moment, Song Fenglou's guy appeared at the door of the room, thinking that he was attracted by the quarrel, and when he saw the posture of the two, the young man hurriedly smiled all over his face, and said good things and saluted to persuade the two to separate and persuade them to go back.
Also in a room on this floor, the room is quiet, a man in white sits there staring at the desktop in front of him, completely unmoved by the sound of quarrels outside, in addition to a pot of wine on the table, there is also a portrait, the person in the painting is a woman carefully sketched with a fine brush, the woman in the painting is quite gentle and quiet, a pair of bright eyes seem to be looking at the man in white outside the painting affectionately, after looking at the man for a while before he touched a hosta from his body, and after playing with it in his hand, he gently placed it on the bun on the head of the woman in the painting, If you look closely, you can find that the hairpin on the woman's head in the painting is exactly the same as the style of the hosta, and it is this hairpin used in the woman's bun when you want to paint.
The man in white's eyes were lonely and empty, and after a long time, he reached out and picked up the wine glass from the table, and instead of drinking it directly, he first knocked it lightly on the edge of the table with the glass, as if clinking glasses, and then raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.
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One level higher, there is a room that is also very lively, there are three people in the room, the old, the middle and the young, among which the old man is sitting on the chair in the middle, his face is uncertain, a pair of heavy eyelids are drooping, and he hides the coldness in his eyes very well, so he sits there quietly and looks at the two people in front of him.
The young man was dressed in a bright purple robe, and so was the middle-aged man in front of him.
At this time, the young man's face was flushed, and his shoulders trembled slightly, and he could see that it was the time of anger, and his eyes were full of hatred and resentment. He and the middle-aged man in front of him are very similar in appearance, it is estimated that it should be a blood relationship, but in the face of the anger of the young man, the middle-aged man has always had a calm face.
"He's going to kill me! You were there at the time, can't you see it? ”
The young man raised his voice suddenly, and his voice was a little sharp, which made the old man who had been sitting in the chair raise his eyelids, and the coldness in his eyes was even worse.
"Kill you! What are you talking about, and how dare he? Aren't you here now? The middle-aged man's voice was extremely calm, and he said lightly.
"You ......"
The young man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect the middle-aged man to say this, he stared at the middle-aged man for a moment, and then said in a shrieked voice with a little trembling:
"Do you only believe me if you see my corpse? I said a long time ago that I don't want to go to the Five Spirits Sect, let alone worship a master there, I want to go home, I want to go back to Yingchuan! ”
After saying these few words, the old man's eyes were completely opened, and he looked at the two of them coldly, his eyes were not kind and he didn't say a word, he wanted to see what the middle-aged man would say next.
"I'm talking nonsense again, how rare this opportunity is, this is the family finally entrusted your maternal uncle to let you go to the Five Spirits Sect after a year of the test, and then if you can worship the famous teacher and get the guidance of your predecessors, you will be the ......pillar of our Ge family when you go home in the future."
The middle-aged man didn't know whether he didn't have the heart to persuade or his temperament was like this, his voice was always calm and unconvincing, so this persuasion was equivalent to nothing.
"Enough!" The young man roared and glared at the middle-aged man, "I know what you think, I got into trouble, my mother is gone, you have been bullied by my mother, and you have long looked at me unpleasantly, and now you are taking this opportunity to kick me out of the house, right!" Let me tell you, I won't go to the Five Spirits Sect, I will go back to Yingchuan tomorrow, if you don't let me go home, I will go to the Wang family, and I will never enter the door of the Ge family again......"
The middle-aged man no longer persuaded him, but turned to salute the old man who was already full of anger, and said respectfully:
"Second uncle, it's late at night, you might as well go back to the room to rest early, he has a child's temperament, and he doesn't have a deep or shallow speech, and the things decided by the elders in the family will naturally not change at all, I will stay and talk to him for a while."
The old man's eyelids drooped, and when he heard this, he nodded, and said:
"It's okay, I'm really tired from these days of traveling, well, the breakup is imminent, so you father and son should talk about it......"
With that, the old man stood up and walked out.
It is strange to say that this young man dared to be so domineering in front of this middle-aged man, but he never dared to look at the old man, and even deliberately avoided the old man's gaze.
When the old man went out, the middle-aged man sent him out respectfully, and when he came back and closed the door, he came to the young man again, and said calmly:
"Now that your second grandfather is not here, you might as well say everything in your heart."
Originally, this posture made this young man feel a little frightened, but after listening to the words of this middle-aged man, coupled with the fact that he had always been accustomed to being domineering in front of his father, he simply turned his heart sideways and said:
"My mother once said to me, no one in the Ge family is responsible, now it looks like this, I just made a little mistake, killed a few cheap maids, without my mother's protection, sure enough, you are useless, people knock on the door, you don't resist to hand me over, it's really a nest, and thanks to my uncle, he came forward to resolve the trouble of the Ge family, let me hide in the Five Spirits Sect, but the boy from the Meng family also came, you should also see it when you drink at night, he followed me unabashedly, what do you want to doDon't you know? He wanted to kill me! If I go to the Five Spirits Sect, I will die at his hands sooner or later...... I'm not going, I'm going home! ”
"If you think about it too much, how can the Five Spirits Sect let him come here, don't worry, you are very safe there." The middle-aged man's voice was still flat.
"Humph!" The young man sneered for a while, "Do you really not know or pretend to be confused, I have already inquired, those Five Spirit disciples who refine qi seem to be safe, but how many of them die outside every year because of what they do...... Hum...... I understand, obviously handed me over to others to dispose of, the face of the Ge family is really ugly, so you first threw me into the Five Spirits Sect, and then let the kid surnamed Meng find me to take revenge, right? Ge Yan, is your son's life so worthless? If my mother is still here, how can I let you come here like this! ”
After hearing this, the middle-aged man nodded, and asked calmly:
"Do you know why your mother died?"
"When I went out, I met a scattered repair and intercepted ......"
"Smack!"
As soon as the young man finished speaking, he felt a flash in front of him, and then his cheek was slapped heavily, and suddenly, his whole person spun up and then fell heavily on the floor, looking at his father in front of him in a daze of disbelief, and even forgot to cover his cheeks that were extremely hot and painful.
The middle-aged man took one of them casually, and a suction pulled the young man again, and he grabbed the placket of his son's chest, which should have been angry, but the middle-aged man's self-cultivation was really good, and his face was still calm, and he said in a flat voice:
"Remember, your mother died because of you!"
"Smack!"
Another heavy slap knocked the young man out, and then cast a spell to grab the young man.
"If she hadn't died, you would have died!"
"Smack!"
Then the young man's body was surrounded and pulled from the ground by a strong force, and he involuntarily came to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man looked at his stunned son in front of him, and said with some discouragement:
"Hmph, it turns out that teaching my son is like this, alas, if your mother had asked me to discipline you earlier, how could she have such an end?"
The young man's cheek was slapped three times, it was already swollen high, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, but what the middle-aged man said just now was what shocked him the most, and he couldn't believe it, and he looked at his father in disbelief.
"Remember, you didn't make a small mistake, you ...... The people who killed were not some, but they were all ...... Alas! You are guilty of the anger of the families of Yingchuan, even the Wang family can't suppress it, what about your mother's surname Wang, in order to protect you, she can only cut herself, your uncle also came forward for the sake of your dead mother, but the anger is difficult to commit, even if your mother is dead, whether you can live or not depends on the will of God. You said that the Five Spirits Sect was dangerous, and the kid surnamed Meng chased after him again, and you were worried about being victimized by him, you might as well tell you, even if the Five Spirits Sect is dangerous, you still have a glimmer of life, but if you insist on returning to Yingchuan, as soon as you arrive in Yingchuan, it will be your death! ”
Then the middle-aged man let go of his hand and let the young man slump to the ground.
"Okay, it's late at night, you can rest, and tomorrow we will enter the Five Spirits Sect."
After speaking, the middle-aged man was about to leave, but at the door he turned back and said:
"I don't think you escaped overnight, so you have become the hardness of the loose cultivation, from tomorrow, it will all depend on you in the Five Spirits Sect, you have good qualifications, but your mother is too arrogant to you, and as a result, she is even more harmful to you, what happens in the future, it's all up to you, whether you can survive or not, how to survive, think about it yourself."
The door shut, and only the young man who sat on the floor was left in the room, looking dazed and ignorant, the exact opposite of his previous arrogance.
"Mother......
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And one level up, that is, the highest floor of Song Fenglou, there is also a room with bright lights, and several young people are sitting around the table, talking.
"Do you see clearly? Is that really Lei Xian? A darkened young man asked.
"Don't worry, I don't recognize Lei Xian anymore, isn't it a joke, it must be Lei Xian, I was still talking to him at the time, I really didn't expect that the Lei family was destroyed, this kid can still live until now, hum, he actually became a loose cultivator!" Said a small-eyed guy with thin lips.
"Eh, the wrong move! How can you talk to him, wouldn't that be a surprise, and if he escapes, where will we go to find him? A young man who was not tall and had a somewhat thin body said urgently.
"Hmph, he found me first, he kept his head down and didn't dare to raise it, I looked at it carefully under curiosity before I recognized it, and I could only talk to him at that time, now, I gave him the courage to let him escape, he didn't dare." The small-eyed and thin-lipped guy laughed.
"Why?"
"I told him that our people were waiting for him outside Ruixuan Town, haha."
"Where do we still have envoys around, as soon as we arrive in Ruixuan Town, we will all be sent back to Bianzhou, alas, it's all because of the broken rules of the Five Spirits Sect, and even an envoy is not allowed to take it."
"You're really stupid, we know that there is no one around, but that Lei Xian doesn't know, he must have thought that we had arranged it outside, and now I hope that he can run out of Ruixuan Town and throw himself into the net, so I expect that he will stay in Ruixuan Town these days, and he won't dare to go out a step."
"That'...... So what's next? Now that I've found Lei Xian, I have to find a way to bring the news back. ”
"This ...... Only one of us can make a hard trip. ”
"So far away......"
"How...... Scared? ”
"Not really, but who among us is going back?"
"Brother Fei, you have the most experience among us, and your cultivation is also the best, so it's better to ......"
"Humph! Why did the hard work of this errand fall on me, surnamed Dai, it was the Lei family that was wiped out by all families at the beginning, but your Dai family got the most benefits, and if you want to go back to deliver the letter, you should go. ”
"Eh, Brother Fei, Xiao Dai is right, among the few of us, you are the only one who walks outside the most, and it is safest for you to go back, as long as you bring the news back, you can also be regarded as a meritorious contribution to your Fei family!"
"Hmm...... Okay, then I'll run this time, but will the copy of "Xidanlu" that I couldn't find in the Lei family really be on that Lei boy? ”
"Even if he wasn't, Lei Xian should know the whereabouts of that book, well, he's the only clue to find that book now."
"Hey, Xiao Dai, if you really find "Xidanlu" this time, your Dai family can't take advantage of it anymore."
"Alas, that's a book, I can really find it, copy a few more copies, don't we have all of them?"
"Well, that makes sense."
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On the second day, Qian Chao and a few people went to Buyan's shop.
"Senior Brother Bu, why are you the only one in this shop, I remember that there was a guy to help you last time I came here?" Tang Ping asked
"Oh, that junior brother quit, because I gave less spirit stones." Bu Yan said.
"Hmph, you must be stingy, how many spirit stones have you earned, the disciples in the sect are probably rich and wealthy, why are you still so careful."
"You don't have to do anything, just stay here, three spirit stones a month, is it less? It's the same as the offerings of the sect! Bu Yan rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, it's not much, what if you don't have a guy, when you go back to the sect, will this shop be closed?"
"Otherwise, why don't Senior Sister Tang stay and look after the shop for me?"
"Think beautifully!"
After Qian Chao and a few people left, when Bu Yanqi was sitting bored in his shop, he heard someone talk:
"Dare to ask, is your Excellency the owner of this shop?"
Bu Yanqi raised his eyelids, and after reading countless people, he could see at a glance that the young guy in front of him was a loose cultivator, and it was unlikely that he would spend spirit stones here, so he said a little unenergetically:
"Yes, this shop is mine, this friend, is there anything wrong?"
"Oh, that's the case, in the next moment, my hands are tight, and I am trapped in this Ruixuan town, thinking that I will find an errand here first and save some spirit stones......"
Hearing that he was looking for something to do, Bu Yanlu raised his eyelids and carefully looked at the young Sanxiu in front of him, well, it was different from the dilapidated and declining temperament of ordinary Sanxiu, although the person in front of him was old-dressed, but the person was good-looking, with his eyes and heart, Bu Yanqi felt that the people in front of him were different from those treacherous people who were ordinary, and there was no one to help him, even if he was not there, he would not worry about him sweeping away the things if he took those valuable things with him, so he said:
"My shop is a small profit, although there is a lack of manpower, but there are not many spirit stones that can be given every month, are you willing to do it?"
"Uh...... How much can I give each month? ”
"Hmm...... Every month, two spirit stones. ”
"Yes, I do!"
"Well, there is another point, you are not our Five Spirit disciples, let's talk about the ugly things in front, you and I meet in Pingshui, you help in my shop, I am also worried that you will take advantage of my absence to sweep away the things in my shop, so you have to take out some valuable things on your body as a pledge, understand?"
"This ......"
"Don't worry, it's not put it here with me, if you are really willing to work in my shop here, then we have to go to Chengminglou to write a contract in front of the senior brother there, and the things you pledged are not placed here, but in Chengminglou, when you want to leave, you can naturally go to Chengminglou to pick it up."
"I see, well, I'm willing."
Bu Yanlu looked at this person carefully, there are many things similar to hiring loose cultivators in Ruixuan Town, and it is indeed done according to what Bu Yanqi said, this Bu Yanqi did not deceive him, after looking at it carefully, he confirmed that this person is indeed a guy who can be trusted, Bu Yanqi got up and said:
"Then let's go, let's go to Chengming Building for some contracts, by the way, what's your name."
"Under the thunder."
"Well, good name."