In early spring, the weather warmed up quickly, apparently because of the previous winter's winter and the earliest snowfall.

Many people think that this year's early spring may come later than in previous years, and in the end, it is not as good as the peeping man, guessing God.

This year's spring day was warmer than usual, and the stream turned into snow flowed into Kisui through the waterways of Yeongan Castle, and finally entered the moat that does not freeze all year round.

The water level of Qishui has risen a lot, and the water level that could only be touched by reaching out in the past has now reached the feet. Throughout the year, many people near the water are washing clothes.

In the warm season of early spring, for a while, the waterside of Qishui was already full of laundry women, a good scene.

The shore of the lake connected to Kisui in Seifu-in Temple, where many students stopped and watched. The stone bridge full of the pen and ink of the former sages now looks more and more holy, and the poems of the former sages seem to be new titles.

The years and words are full of beauty.

Bai Jiu walked quietly on the stone bridge, looking at those poems and texts, and his thoughts were ethereal.

From time to time, someone walked by him, greeted him softly, and Bai Jiu responded politely one by one.

Maybe it's because there are a lot of couples on the bridge, which makes Bai Jiu rise up a lot of emotions and think of that person? Maybe it's because Bai Jiu was thinking about what happened last night, and this is also a trouble. And then there's something that the man in the flower coat brought him.

When things happen, there will be results, and the results of the first night were indeed somewhat unexpected. Bai Jiu didn't know how many nights the banquet would continue, and he didn't know what challenges it would have, but it didn't seem important now, because he wasn't going to participate in it.

As for the opportunity to make a name for himself, he did it last night, and there is no point in doing it again. And what he cares about most is the hidden dragon test in the second half of the year, which is the most critical. During this time, instead of consuming energy, it is better to stabilize your realm.

Last year, when the winter was very strong, Bai Jiu successfully entered the spirit. The small world inside him, the clear lake, gradually became wider, and on the bluestone in the middle of the lake, his spirit sat quietly crossed.

Based on bluestone, Bai Jiu thought that it would take him a long time to enter the spirit, at least before the Qianlong test. What he didn't expect was that when his divine consciousness fell into that black sea again, there was no wind and a big wave. The sea rose with the wind and landed on the lake, and the spirit froze.

It's so simple, it's like a miracle.

But what's going on? Since that day, after the winter, Bai Jiu went to the library to consult a lot of ancient books, but there was no clear explanation about the Black Sea in his body.

I don't understand, Bai Jiu feels that he should not think about it at all, there is nothing bad about that black sea so far, maybe in the future, everything can be understood.

There is a gentle breeze in the Qingfeng Temple, and there are naturally people gazing on the stone bridge.

What Bai Jiu was thinking about was a painting.

Towering mountains, babbling water.

The man in the flower dress gave him a painting, the so-called painting is very monotonous, like a few strokes of ink, its own landscape.

What is the landscape painting scroll to express? There was an inscription on the stone bridge, and Bai Jiu looked at it seriously, faintly trying to understand something from it.

…………

Ouyang Luo didn't know when he came to the stone bridge.

Bai Jiuzheng looked at the inscription on the stone bridge a little blankly, not knowing that Ouyang Luo had walked to his side.

So she tugged at the corners of his clothes.

"As expected, you're here!" Ouyang Luo said anxiously.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jiu came back to his senses from his trance and asked suspiciously.

"Come with me." After speaking, Ouyang Luo pulled Bai Jiu down the stone bridge and walked towards the gate.

The gate of Seifuin was open, but they didn't go out. Ouyang Luo pulled Bai Jiu to the side and pointed in a direction to show him.

On the remote side of the Qishui Stone Bridge, a black carriage was parked quietly.

Bai Jiu looked at Ouyang Luo with some confusion and asked, "From the Criminal Department?" ”

Ouyang Luo nodded.

"Why?"

"I saw it when I went out this morning, and it seems that Cao Mi has changed his mind."

Last night, because of the pressure of Zhushan, Cao Mi put forward a condition, but today, the carriage of the Criminal Department still arrived.

"Maybe there's another reason." Bai Jiu thought for a while and said, "Cao Zhe's hand is really useless. ”

Bai Jiu cut off Cao Zhe's hand with a sword, shattering his tendons. And Cao Mi's condition is that Cao Zhen's hand must be recovered.

"Did you use all your strength with that sword?" Ouyang Luo asked.

Bai Jiu shook his head and said, "It's just one hand." ”

Ouyang Luo said a little unnaturally: "Why are you talking, it sounds cold." ”

There was a gust of spring breeze blowing in front of the door.

Bai Jiu felt a little hungry.

Ouyang Luo asked seriously, "Then what are you going to do next?" ”

The carriage of the criminal department stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and it was obvious that it was here to arrest people. However, Bai Jiu is a student of Seifu-in, and this is Seifu-in. Even the Criminal Department did not dare to make a mistake here. However, who dares to guarantee that Bai Jiu will never walk out of this courtyard gate for the rest of his life, and he will not come out alone for the rest of his life?

Who can guarantee that nothing will happen? Who cares that there will be an extra nameless corpse under Qi's water.

Bai Jiu stretched his head out, looked at the stores on both sides of the Qi River, and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Ouyang Luo didn't speak, still looking at him.

Bai Jiu didn't look at her, but said: "There will always be a solution to things, and now my problem is hunger." When I was just admitted to the hospital last year, you took me to eat bean curd fish once, and now half a year has passed, and I haven't been there again, I don't know how it is now. ”

After speaking, he looked at Ouyang Luo seriously and said, "You lead the way." ”

.......

Without returning to the courtyard and then going through the back door, Bai Jiu pulled Ouyang Luo and walked on the same road they had walked.

Walking away from the crowd, in the direction of the rising sun, it will not be long before you can walk to that alley.

The alleys, affectionately called backstreets by Seifuin students, are as lively as ever.

At the beginning of the ice and snow, the water level of the Qi River rose, and in a winter time, the grass carp in the Qi River became a little more fat and vibrant.

It's still the same restaurant that overflows with a mellow aroma and a faint white hot mist.

Bai Jiu pulled Ouyang Luo and walked in.

Maybe it's because there aren't many people in the room in the early morning, and the table in the corner is still empty.

The neat boss beckoned them to the table.

The table is very clean, there is no trace of grease, and there is no bad smell accumulated over the years, which shows that the boss always cleans very carefully. It's simple, but it's not easy to stick to.

One thing, love over time, is the signboard.

Maybe Ouyang Luo likes it here, it's clean.

Maybe Bai Jiu likes it here, it's the memory.

The mind is different, but the mind may be the same.

It's still that very innocent bean curd fish, a few side dishes with the taste.

Before the meal is served, it is natural to say something. Young men and women, no matter what they are prepared to face, their feelings are the purest.

There's a lot of talk, you listen to me, I say you listen, or communicate.

Today's situation looks a little tense.

"Did you see that?" Ouyang Luo asked.

After listening, Bai Jiu nodded.

When they came, the two of them tacitly looked at the carriage parked in the corner.

The black carriage was covered by a curtain, which was very dark and somewhat black. Even so, the two saw the man sitting in the carriage because the man was white.

The Criminal Department has two executioners, one white and one black, who are called two-faced people.

Just like the name, two-faced people are called because of the color of their skin.

No one knows why? White noodles may be because of the cultivation of the exercises, or because of the lack of sunlight for many years, or because of illness. This person's skin is like a book and paper that has been wrapped in the cellar for many years without seeing the sun, white and bleak, white and cautious, and even more white and terrible.

For Yong'an City's understanding, Bai Jiu is far inferior to Ouyang Luo.

The reason why the criminal department is terrible is because of the appalling rumors, because of the terrible methods of Cao Man's torture, and because of the two-faced people who are called impermanent.

Black and white impermanence, hell's life, you can imagine their terrible.

"Cao Mi ignored Zhushan's meaning, and actually used a white-faced man." Ouyang Luo wanted to suppress his nervousness, but his voice was still a little trembling.

Bai Jiu didn't speak, he looked at the clean desktop, thinking about a question. Was the man in the flower dress last night really from Zhushan? If so, then what does it mean that he gave his own paintings?

Without asking anything else, Bai Jiu told Ouyang Luo this question.

Ouyang Luo nodded very firmly, and said, "That person mentioned my brother, I remember that my brother once told me that one of his friends went to the mountain. Now it seems that it should be that person, and it is Zhushan. can block the strong wind of Wu Qishen, how many such young people can be placed in the entire Dayu? He arrived with Dean Heavenly, and he mentioned what his teacher meant, so that Cao Mi could hold back his anger and leave. There can be no mistake. ”

After Bai Jiu heard this, he thought for a while and said, "Last night, he gave me something, which was a painting. ”

Ouyang Luo was a little curious and asked, "Can I take a look?" ”

Bai Jiu nodded, took out the painting from his arms, and handed it to Ouyang Luo.

The painting is rolled, and the paper is very ordinary paper.

Ouyang Luo opened the painting, only black and white.

It's a very simple brush-and-ink drawing, so simple that it's made up of just a few curved, or straight, lines. But these alone have made the painting perfect.

The straight lines are connected in pairs, intertwined upwards with each other, towering like a mountain.

The curved lines twist and whirl, and the mountain peaks meet and go, like flowing water.

Leave countless blanks, outline a few strokes, and a pair of mountains and flowing water, so natural.

Ouyang Luo found that the painting was very sloppy, and it looked like a casual stroke. But even if it is sloppy, this is a good painting, and it will not lose any grace if it is placed on the Wenhe Tower in Yong'an City.

"Lord Wensheng's disciple is really extraordinary, and he has such a bearing with simple pen and ink paintings." Ouyang Luo vaguely has a surging feeling, and the atmosphere of the mountains and flowing water is also!

Bai was speechless for a long time, and when Ouyang Luo looked at the painting again, he was looking at Ouyang Luo.

Ice and snow are skin, Dai eyebrows are slightly frowned, obviously very young, but always very indifferent, others seem so cold and pure, but he looks a little cute.

I don't know when I started to have such a state of mind.

"Good drawing." Ouyang Luo shook his head and handed the painting to Bai Jiu. "But one thing I think is necessary, and that is that you have to keep this painting in mind."

Bai Jiu took the painting, re-rolled it into his arms, and said, "You are the same, maybe it will really help." ”

Between the two talking, the dish had already come up.

The side dishes are placed casually, and the bean curd fish exudes a mellow aroma.

Bai Jiu picked up the spoon and served Ouyang Luo a bowl of very mellow fish soup and a few pieces of tender meat.

Ouyang Luo stretched out his hand to take it and said thank you.

"Half a year ago, you and I ate here for the first time. That day, I just thought that the taste of the bean curd fish was very delicious, and you were very beautiful. Bai Jiu said softly.

"And now?" Ouyang Luo asked.

"The bean curd fish is not as delicious as it used to be." Bai Jiu replied.

"What about the man?"

"It's still pretty."

Saying this, Ouyang Luo didn't want to take his words.

"I came here from Xifeng City, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and the first person I met was you."

"You're from the poor mountains and bad waters!"

"I've read some books and seen the scenery of mountains and rivers. I think I already know a lot of things in the world, but now I still seem to be a lot naïve. And I'm still a. Bai Jiu said softly.

"Why do you think so?" Ouyang Luo replied with a smile.

"In the past six months, I have found that you know more and more practical things than I do. Like people, you know a lot of people, and I don't know anything. ”

"But you're amazing!"

"Where did you see that?"

Ouyang Luo bit down the delicate piece of fish meat in his mouth and said, "I have never been able to practice for half a year, but now I am in the spirit. After three realms in a row, even my brother couldn't do such a thing back then! ”

"But have you ever wondered why?" Bai Jiu remembered the black ocean in his small world.

"There is no reason in this world, only the result. After it happens, everything is taken for granted. Ouyang Luo said very seriously. And you're amazing to be here for me to eat with you. ”

After Bai Jiu heard this, he smiled a little jokingly, looked at Ouyang Luo and said, "I feel that you are very good." ”

Ouyang Luo took a bite of the side dish and said as a matter of course: "I know! ”