Chapter 10 Separation is always heart-wrenching
The candlelight flickered, flickering back and forth on Fang Xingdan's face, and the eyes that were shining with tears were even more crystal clear.
"You are so stupid, you know that I am on the mountain, in order to say 'I will not set foot on the Seven Star Cliff again half a step in this life' when you were angry, you ruthlessly left me alone to guard the dry lamp, how can you be so ruthless." Fang Xingdan exhaled angrily, with a little tenderness in his reproach.
Lu Chuan buried his head, raised his head again, and said: "I admit that I am cowardly, I have hesitated and wandered, and I have never been able to make up my mind to go up the mountain to find you." At the beginning, you and I could have left smoothly, but because your master pretended to kill himself, and you went back for treatment, I couldn't bear to leave you, but I was trapped by the Seven Star Sword Formation, and in the end, I broke their legs and threw them down from the top of the mountain, and they survived by luck. I couldn't hold back my urge to go up the mountain several times, and I was afraid that I would kill those old witches in a fit of anger, after all, it was your master and uncle, and that would make you even more sad. ”
Fang Xingdan said guiltily: "I hurt you, most of the masters and uncles passed away back then, and now only the masters, Tianji Peak and Kaiyang Peak are Yang characters, and the rest of the masters are all our star generations." After my master passed away, I also took over as Master Tianxuan Peak, and the first thing I did was to send my disciple to take the jade pendant you gave me to the Valley of the Four Kings to inquire about your whereabouts. Who would have thought that she didn't find you but lost the jade pendant, which made my heart ache. ”
"But is this one?" Lu Chuan smiled and took out the jade pendant.
Fang Xingdan was surprised, grabbed the jade pendant and looked at it carefully: "Impossible?" How will it come back to you? ”
Lu Chuan rejoiced: "You and I are not fated, God is also helping, and by chance, the little friend I made with was sent back." ”
"What, he's really not your apprentice?" Fang Xingdan was puzzled.
Lu Chuan nodded, "You also know the rules of the Valley of the Four Kings, in order to make less trouble in the future, I will not accept disciples." ”
"Tonight you sent someone up the mountain, I thought it was a flower thief, and then I saw that he would make 'Nine Heavens Blue Palm', and I knew that I couldn't get rid of you, I was so angry that I almost fainted, so I let him go and followed him here." Fang Xingdan explained, she was full of emotion: "Providence, this is all providence!" She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and continued: "I actually came to this place, thinking that it was a farmer's newly opened vegetable garden, and I was afraid of disturbing them, so I quietly left." If I knew it was you, I would have waited to die. ”
Lu Chuan put on a jade pendant for Fang Xingdan, stroked her face, and the two couldn't help but hug each other. After a long time, Lu Chuan remembered that there were still two people waiting outside, and he opened the door just in time to see Gu Shengchao and Ding Ying standing under the tree.
Gu Shengchao trotted over: "What do the seniors command?" ”
"It's getting late, you go and rest first." He glanced at Fang Xingdan, who was a little shy behind him, and said to Ding Ying: "I haven't seen your master for many years, let's catch up tonight, you don't have to take care of us, let's rest separately, and talk about it tomorrow." ”
Gu Shengchao and Ding Ying nodded in agreement.
"There are three grass huts here, one is for seniors, one is for me, and the other is a firewood house, which is used for cooking on weekdays." Gu Shengchao saw that Lu Chuan had closed the door, so he led Ding Ying to his house, lit the candlestick and said, "You will be here tonight first, and I have wronged you." ”
"Where do you sleep?" Ding Ying said with concern.
Gu Shengchao smiled, "The firewood and grass in the firewood room are thick, and I have no problem dealing with it for one night." No matter how bad the conditions are, it is better than being in the cave of Raven Bay. ”
Ding Ying didn't want to go, and gave the mattress on the bed to Gu Shengchao: "It's enough for me to have a thin quilt, the firewood and grass are too hard, you can cushion this under you!" ”
"Okay!" Gu Shengchao happily hugged the mattress, but he was reluctant to leave, the two chatted for a while, and Ding Ying introduced the situation of the peaks of the Seven Star Cliff by the way.
It wasn't until late at night that Gu Shengchao went back to sleep in the firewood room.
When he woke up the next morning, he came outside the house, and saw that the door of Lu Chuan and Ding Ying's room was closed, so it was inconvenient to disturb their rest, so he went to the bottom of the valley to take care of the rice fields, and by the way, he picked some vegetables and came back to cook porridge. The porridge had been cooked, but the door was still closed and no one came out. Gu Shengchao is strange, on weekdays, Lu Chuan has long been exercising in the morning at this time, and he is not in the habit of sleeping lazy.
He came to the door of Ding Ying's room first and knocked lightly: "Miss Ding, get up and eat porridge." He called three times in a row, but there was no answer, and he gently pushed the door, and the door opened. He walked in carefully, it was empty, and there was a piece of paper left on the table, with only the word "cherished" written on it. The font is beautiful, and it is clearly a girl's pen style.
Gu Shengchao suddenly felt bad, he hurriedly pushed open the door of Lu Chuan's room, the people inside had long since disappeared, and a note was left on the table: Shengchao Xiaoyou, we will say goodbye to the rivers and lakes, you are definitely not a thing in the pool, if time will be able to soar into the sky, there will be a reunion of fate, and there will be a period in the future.
It is Lu Chuan's pen style.
Holding the note left by Lu Chuan, Gu Shengchao was at a loss in a trance.
His parents were displaced when he was a child, and he had only one belief in his heart, and that was "revenge". No matter what kind of hardships and tribulations he encountered, he gritted his teeth and survived, just for that perseverance. After the revenge was avenged, fortunately he met Ding Ying, and in the process of helping each other, the yearning for a better life in his heart made him regain his desire for the future. Lu Chuan saved him, although he insisted on not accepting him as an apprentice, but his fatherly care and care were like being reborn.
But now, that father's love and beautiful desire have left him, and the expectation of a new life that has just been ignited seems to be instantly extinguished by cold water and reduced to the freezing point.
Gu Shengchao was depressed, sitting under the tree in front of the hut and thinking nonsense, looking into the distance in a stupid daze without drinking or eating. Even if it was a sudden storm in the valley in the afternoon, he was indifferent, and he still ignored the soup chicken, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.
The rain comes and goes quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the sky is clear after the rain, and the scorching sun is in the sky. He brushed the rain from his hair and wiped his face with his damp sleeve, remembering a similar experience when he was a child.
At that time, he was lonely and helpless, and under such cold rain, he was already hungry and cold without food. Later, he curled up in a corner of the street with a high fever, and if someone hadn't seen him pitifully and lost a few vegetable dumplings, he might have died a long time ago. It's such a hard day, he also insisted on not giving up, and now he has no worries about food and clothing, and has recovered his internal strength, how can he be so decadent?
Gu Shengchao slapped himself twice, and blamed himself: "Cheer up, if you don't want to make progress like this, you will make others laugh, and when you see Senior Lu again, you will definitely be laughed at by him, and his old man's good intentions will be wasted." You are not something in the pool, and in time you will soar to the sky. The message on Lu Chuan's note also gave him courage and strength.
He sat cross-legged, using the "Five Soul Array" instead of the dantian to assist in qi training, and the true qi walked in the meridians in his body for a week, and he suddenly felt refreshed, and the wet clothes on his body were also dried unconsciously. It was getting late, and the sun was beginning to set in the west.
Gu Shengchao didn't eat for a day, so he went to the firewood room and ate some cold porridge that hadn't been touched in the morning. He made up his mind to leave here tomorrow morning and wander the rivers and lakes in search of a new life. Although it was his last meal here, he cleaned the pots and pans, tidied up the firewood house, and then went to the bottom of the valley to take care of the rice fields and vegetable garden. It may become deserted in the future, but he feels very fulfilled in the process of clearing and loosening the soil and applying fertilizer.
During the time he and Lu Chuan have been together, they have already regarded this place as their home, and the feeling of leaving home is reluctant to change to anyone, so he naturally cherishes every grass and tree here.
The mountains in the canyon are towering, the sun is blocked early, and before the hour, it is already dark.
Gu Shengchao returned to the hut and carefully carried the note left by Lu Chuan and Ding Ying in his arms. found that there was also a package on Lu Chuan's bed, and he lost his soul in the early morning and ignored it, the package was a few clean clothes, and some broken silver, which was given to him by Ding Ying when he carried Ding Ying up the mountain. Gu Shengchao couldn't help but be grateful, and silently wished Lu Chuan and the three of them a smooth journey.
After packing up, he went back to the house to rest. I don't know when I slept, Gu Shengchao faintly heard the sound of firewood and grass burning and bursting, he thought it was an illusion, opened his eyes to see, in the dark night, the roof actually flashed firelight, the blazing fire actually burned a hole in the thatch of the roof, and the unburned ashes fell and jumped on the ground.
"There's a fire!" Gu Shengchao was shocked at this time, grabbed the clothes beside the bed and ran out.
He had just run out of the door and had tripped over a rope at his feet, and he had fallen and fallen, and he was about to get up when he was wrapped in a large net. Gu Shengchao struggled to get out, and several swords stabbed him with a cold light, making him unable to move.
"Be honest and don't move!" In front of her, a woman shouted loudly, Gu Shengchao recognized it by the light of the torch, this person was Sister Miao who forced herself to fall off the cliff in the first place.
Several female disciples stepped forward to tie up Gu Shengchao, and Sister Miao forced him to ask, "Say, who else is in the house?" Where is Ding Ying's little slut? ”
Gu Shengchao glared at her and spat on the ground without making a sound. Sister Miao stretched out her hand and slapped Gu Shengchao a few times, and scolded angrily: "You will still have a hard mouth when you die, and you will feel good for a while." ”
The three huts were in flames at the moment, and an elderly woman lifted her sword to check in turn, but found no trace of anyone else, so she returned to Gu Shengchao and asked, "Did Fang Xingdan spend the night here last night, where are they now?" ”
Gu Shengchao still didn't say anything, and a disciple searched out the note left by Lu Chuan and Ding Ying from his clothes, and handed it to the woman: "The head of the house." ”
Ding Ying said that the head of the Seven Star Cliff is Jin Yangyi, and he is also Fang Xingdan's uncle.
Jin Yang scolded after seeing it: "This pair of dog men and women really broke the connection, and they eloped after all." Then he tore the note to shreds and swept it out into the wind. She glanced at Gu Shengchao and ordered: "Put him on the mountain first and take strict care of him, and then try him tomorrow." ”
Gu Shengchao was pushed up the mountain, and in the center of the Tianquan Peak martial arts training ground, Sister Miao ripped off the ropes tied to Gu Shengchao's body, tied him to his two wrists and hung him up, and several female disciples held swords and guarded below. Gu Shengchao secretly complained to himself, he was not sure if he could shake the rope with internal force, even if he happened to break free, the tip of the sword of the female disciple below would also tie him into a hedgehog.
After tossing for a night, Gu Shengchao was physically and mentally exhausted, and the female disciples below also changed classes, and the head Jin Yangyi led many disciples under his door to surround him, and a group of female disciples pointed at Gu Shengchao, with a very contemptuous expression.