Chapter Seventy-Six: The New Guests of Bailiang Mountain
Gu Yueyue looked along the place Xu Songtu pointed to, it was a small house connected to the river, that is, where the disciples of Bailiang Mountain lived.
At this time, it was already very close to the time of the opening ceremony of Bailiang Mountain, so almost all the disciples who had been selected to prepare to enter the sect had already moved into it.
The weather was bitterly cold, and most of these disciples also lit fires. Looking from the outside, you can see the faint flickering of fire in these rooms, and a thick layer of mist on the windows.
Gu March raised her hands, gave a sip of heating to her palms, rubbed her hands, and walked into the houses.
Xu Songtu had already investigated the building where the two children lived in advance, then walked to one of them and knocked on the door.
Not long after, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who was about the same height as Gu Sanyue opened the door. When the kid saw that it was a tall man in black outside, he was startled at first, and then when he saw that it was Xu Songtu, he was stunned at first, and then began to panic a little.
In the end, he was young and had never seen much of the world, although he knew that this was the descendant of their sect master, not a bad person, but he was also trembling and scared.
This feeling is about the same as sitting at home, but meeting Mr. Private School to visit his home in person, for fear that he will be scolded by Mr. Private School for fear that he will be scolded by Mr. Private School if he is careless in his words and deeds on weekdays.
Xu Songtu lowered his head and asked him, "Does Cao Hou live in this room?" Seeing that Xu Songtu was not looking for him, the child immediately breathed a sigh of relief, relieved his heart, and quickly nodded his head several times.
So Xu Songtu took a step forward and walked into the house, Gu March patted the snow falling on his hair at the door, wiped the mud on the soles of his feet a little, and walked in.
As soon as they entered the room, the two of them immediately felt a warm breath on their faces. In the center of the room was a fire, and beside it was a stool and a small table, on which was an open book, page down, apparently recently read.
After the kid welcomed Gu Yueyue and Xu Songtu into the house, he stood at the table and looked at the two, but he didn't dare to sit down.
Gu March stepped forward and took a look, it was a Taoist classic called "Cheng Yuzi Outer Chapter". Curious, she asked, "What's your name?" The boy replied respectfully, "My name is Cheng Yiqing, I am fifteen years old this year, and I am from Anling. "Anling is the capital of the Kingdom of Jingyu, no wonder this kid's name is very good, it looks like he has read a lot of books, and there are Taoist classics like "Cheng Yuzi Outer Chapter", and the family background should be good.
Gu March asked a few more words, only to know that this child turned out to be the son of a family of poets and scholars in the capital, who was smart and clever since he was a child, and was later found by the royal family of Jingyu Kingdom to have the qualifications to cultivate immortals, so he sent it to Bailiang Mountain as a gift.
Of course, this child also came to the mountain to practice voluntarily. This room was supposed to be lived by two people, but only he was seen in the living room, but there was no other child named Cao Hou.
Xu Songtu asked him: "Why do you only see you in this house, where is Cao Hou?" Cheng Yiqing frowned, pointed to a closed door, and said worriedly: "He's inside, he hasn't come out for several days." I was afraid that he would be hungry and that he would be cold, so I called him many times, but no one answered me, and I couldn't get in. Xu Songtu glanced at the door, stepped forward and knocked a few times, but no one answered.
Gu Yueyue also went up and knocked a few times, and shouted the child's name again, but there was still no movement.
Gu March was a little worried, frowned and said, "How old is he, such an older child, he doesn't come out to eat for a few days, and the weather is cold, how can he stand it." Reading the book, Xu Songtu also began to be a little worried, and increased the intensity of the knock on the door, but still no one answered him.
In desperation, he gave Gu Yueyue a look, asked her to step back, and kicked the door open with a single kick.
Gu Yue was still worried that she would scare the child, but unlike what she imagined, there was still a strange silence in the room.
If someone is inside, kicking in the door will have to have some reaction, right? She and Xu Songtu walked in at the same time, looked around, and found that the room was empty.
If you look closely, you can see that the quilt on the bed is neatly folded, the candle flame on the table has long been burned out, and there is a small layer of ash on the stool on one side.
The house looked like it hadn't been inhabited for a while. Gu March was confused and asked, "What about this person?" Where did it go? Xu Songtu thought for a moment, frowned and said, "It should have run away." Gu March said anxiously: "Okay, why did people run away?" What the hell is going on? Xu Songtu slowly told what had happened.
It turned out that the child named Cao Hou was the child in the teppanyaki shop. When he was in the shop, he didn't want the two of them to test his qualifications for him.
Later, he was forced by his father to come up the mountain, and several monks tested it, but they didn't expect him to really have such a little talent for cultivation.
But the boy did not want to stay on the mountain, and his father was furious, beating and scolding.
The cruelty of that method made everyone frightened. Originally, Bai Liangshan also had a headache about this matter, and felt that since this kid didn't want to, forget it.
But his father was very stubborn and insisted on keeping him. It's a pity that people can't keep their hearts, no, I found an opportunity, but I still ran away, as for where I ran, the ghost knows.
Gu March lowered his head and sighed several times in a row. In such a cold weather, if you run home, if you wander in the mountains, you will freeze to death, right?
I'm afraid that he won't dare to go home for fear of being beaten by his father, God knows where such a young child can find a place to stay?
Xu Songtu said in a heavy tone: "I persuaded his father at that time, telling him to play less children and talk more with him, but he just didn't listen." Alas, there is no way to do this, and we in Bailiangshan also can't shirk our responsibility. If he hadn't been left behind, or had made up a lie that he was not qualified for, this would not have happened. The child named Cheng Yiqing listened quietly on the side, and at this time he also looked straight at the fire and was stunned.
The two rested in the room for a while, and then had no choice but to leave. Of course, Xu Songtu will go back to Suchang and explain the matter to the owner of the teppanyaki shop.
The next thing is to find the girl named Yi Weilan. For her, Gu March is still quite relieved.
After all, looking at the little girl's performance at that time, it was obvious that she wanted to stay in Bailiangshan. It's just that she came up the mountain, what should her father Yi Shen's Qingyue Zhai do?
An old winery that has been inherited for hundreds of years is just closed? It's a shame. Gu Yueyue followed Xu Songtu for a while, and suddenly a strange house appeared in front of her.
Why is it strange? It's not that the house is strange, but it's so conspicuous that you can see it's unusual from afar.
Its chimney was smoking incessantly. The smoke that floated out of the chimney was thick and thick, and it was like thick smoke.
It's said that someone is cooking, but who can cook so much smoke? In the winter, it can't be a wizard who smokes bacon in the house, right?
Gu March walked closer with suspicion, and when she looked in from the window, she could still only see smoke all over the house.
Just thinking about staying here, Gu March felt like she was going to be smoked into tears. The two of them fanned away the smoke with their hands in front of their noses as they approached the room.
But before they could knock, the door was slammed open from within. Rushing out of the open door, in addition to the billowing smoke, there was a little girl in red clothes.
She covered her mouth and coughed violently as she rushed out of the distance before she stopped to hold her chest and gasp for air.
When Gu Yueyue saw her, in a hurry, she subconsciously shouted: "Yi Weilan!" Only then did the girl in red straighten up, tried to open her smoky red eyes, looked at Gu Yue, and shouted intermittently, "Leave me alone!" Ahem...... Inside, there's someone inside, go save her! cough cough ......" Xu Songtu heard this, and his heart was anxious.
Before he could question her, he rushed into the still smoking room. In a short time, he rushed out of the smoke with another little girl.
Gu Yueyue looked at Yi Weilan, but saw that she was gray-headed, her face was blackened by smoke in several places, and her hair was also burned a lot, and she was coughing vigorously holding her chest at this moment.
That look, how embarrassed and embarrassed. After Xu Songtu rescued the other girl in the room, his face turned pale, and he scolded Yi Weilan: "What kind of fame are you doing!" Can you still set the house on fire with a fire? Yi Weilan coughed for a long time, and finally eased up a little and was able to catch his breath.
was scolded by Xu Songtu like this, she also became angry, and retorted: "Then how can you blame me? I was, ahem...... I thought it was too cold, and I wanted to burn the fire more vigorously, but the fire suddenly jumped so high that the roof was lit all of a sudden. I'm ...... Ahem, I didn't mean to! Xu Songtu looked at her hatefully, and although he was very angry, he still patiently went into the house to put out the fire.
Yi Weilan also felt a little guilty in her heart, ran to the other girl, and said with concern: "Xia'er, are you okay?" Did the fire hurt you? The girl was exactly like her, her face blackened.
She bumped into such an unwarranted disaster for no reason, and she was very upset in her heart, so she said a few cruel words, and Yi Weilan felt even more guilty in her heart, and tried to persuade her and apologize to her.
Gu Yueyue watched this farce from the side, and she was also angry and funny in her heart. Fortunately, the two of them arrived in time and didn't cause a big accident.
At this time, Xu Songtu came out of the house after putting out the fire, and was about to attack Yi Weilan with a sullen stomach, but was interrupted by Gu Yue: "Xu Songtu, it's not too early, if you don't hurry up the mountain, you have to walk the mountain road in the dark!" Gu Yueyue deliberately interrupted him, just because she was worried that Yi Weilan would be scolded again, in her eyes, although this little girl was at fault first, she would not be scolded too badly.
Xu Songtu gave Gu March a face, glared at Yi Weilan fiercely, didn't say anything, and strode away angrily.
Gu March was different from Xu Songtu, she didn't think it was a big deal, so she walked briskly and naturally and kept up with him.
On the way up the mountain, Gu Yueyue kept thinking that this group of newly recruited disciples of Bailiang Mountain was really not worry-free.
But the boy and girl have not lost that innocence and liveliness, and they don't know what kind of chaos will cause in the future.
Thinking about it, Gu Yueyue's eyes narrowed into crescent moons and smiled happily.