The sun was in full swing at noon.

The sun shines through the gaps in the trees and in every corner of the backyard, refracting light and shadow on the ground.

When the temperature rises to 26 degrees, let them change into light clothes and prepare for lunch in the kitchen with the ingredients.

On the way, I met Mingzhang's big apprentice.

His eldest apprentice's name is Yun Qi, and he should be fourteen or fifteen years old in appearance and body shape, but his temperament and conversation are extremely stable.

Yun Qi, like Xun Song, addressed them as "good people", and raised his hand to signal: "The master invites you to eat in the main hall." ”

Knowing that the two apprentices had prepared their share of the meal, they turned on their tiptoes and followed Yun Qi to the main hall.

There is a round table in the main hall, on which there are six dishes and one soup, there are meat and vegetarian dishes, and the fragrance wafting out is tempting.

Ming Chang on the throne beckoned them to sit down.

He had a faint smell of wine on his body, obviously he had just drunk wine, and his face was also a little red: "I killed a chicken in order to entertain you, and you have to eat it all." ”

Yan Shuo: "You're too wasteful. ”

"It's a small thing." Ming Zhang picked up the wine glass and couldn't hide the joy in his eyebrows: "I am happy to have friends from afar." ”

"......" Yun Qi glanced at him, isn't it happy that there is wine coming from afar?

He saved some face for Ming Zhang, didn't demolish him in front of them, picked up the chopsticks, and gave them them in turn.

They were no longer polite.

"Master Ming." Xie Changxiao saw that the master and apprentice did not have the habit of eating and not speaking, and asked, "Have you always lived in the Taoist temple?" ”

"Hmm."

"Did anyone go up to the mountain to borrow it before?"

"It's very hot." Ming Zhang sandwiched a piece of spicy rabbit and chewed slowly: "There are fewer people going up the mountain this year." ”

Their master and apprentice rarely went down the mountain, and they hadn't seen outsiders for a long time, so Yun Qi asked curiously, "What's the situation outside?" ”

Xie Changxiao talked about the plague virus.

He took two mouthfuls of rice into his mouth: "The people we met in Source City are all wearing masks, and it is estimated that they have been passed on." ”

Xun Song: "What is the plague?" ”

"A contagious disease." Yunqi explained to the ignorant Xunsong in an easy-to-understand way.

"Will there be dead people?"

"Serious words are possible."

They never shy away from the question of life and death, and in order to make them adapt to the troubled times, Ming Zhang also showed them the corpses.

Therefore, Xun Song is not afraid.

He picked up the grains of rice that were on his cheeks, stuffed them into his mouth, and sat there obediently with the bowl in his arms, sometimes pricking up his ears to listen carefully for a while, and then asking questions on the spot if he had any doubts.

After lunch, he stepped on the stool and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks with Yun Qi, and his sensible appearance made people inevitably soft-hearted.

Wen Yaxian: "I'll do it." ”

She snatched the dishes and chopsticks, and Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou took the remaining empty plates on the table and went into the kitchen to clean them one after another.

Cleaning up, Xie Changxiao proposed to hunt.

The three of them took the homemade bows and arrows needed for hunting and left through the small door in the backyard, while Chi Yue found a bag of seeds and took Wen Yaxian's arm to the vegetable field.

They sprinkled the seeds, returned to the courtyard to make a pot of tea, sat on the recliner and read the books, and looked very pleasantly.

The breeze rattles the trees.

Occasionally, they come with fallen leaves, fall in a quiet courtyard, and are swept away at night, and so on.

Day and night change, they live a peaceful and leisurely life in the Taoist temple full of sandalwood, allowing time to pass imperceptibly, gradually entering late autumn.

"Master!" Xun Song grabbed a broom as high as him, and ran to the backyard like a gust of wind: "There are two injured good people who want to come in, do you want to invite them in?" ”

Since the three masters and apprentices learned that the plague virus appeared at the foot of the mountain, Yunqi locked the door of the temple, and it was the first time that someone knocked on the door of the Taoist temple for more than a month.

Xun Song knew the seriousness of the situation, and did not dare to let them in without authorization, so he ran to the backyard to inform Ming Zhang as soon as possible.

"Qizhou, you go out and have a look." Ming Zhangzheng was persisting in playing with Yan Shuo, and called Wen Qizhou without raising his head.

Chi Yue accompanied him to the gate.

They put on medical masks and goggles, pushed the latch of the door open, removed the chains, and half-opened the wooden door to peek out.

A young man was holding a woman who had fallen into a coma, sitting on the steps with his back to the door, his hand on the woman's back, a knife cut a bloody mark, blood dripping from his fingertips along the back of his hand, emitting an innegligible smell of blood.

Hearing the door open, the young man turned back.

Just as he was about to retell their situation, he asked to come in and stay for a short time, and a pair of familiar eyes suddenly broke into his sight.

He shouted: "Sister......"

Chi Yue was stunned for two seconds.

She glanced at Ji Yunyan, who was also wearing a mask, and really didn't expect to meet him at Yuanyun Taoist Temple.

Before she could speak, Chi Yunyan suddenly got up and walked up two steps to hug her tightly.

"Sister......" His mood fluctuated greatly, calling Chi Yue over and over again, and he couldn't help crying for a while.

Chi Yue's mood was extremely complicated.

From the day Chi Hongmin remarried, she regarded Chi Yunyan's sisters and brothers as "intruders" and rarely gave them a good look.

But Ji Yunyan likes her very much.

When he was young, Chi Yunyan always liked to play with her behind her ass, even if she ignored him with a cold face, he would still share her favorite food and toys.

When he grew up, he understood the pain brought to her by reorganizing the family, and no longer bothered her frequently, but only called her sister with a smile in a cautious tone every time they met.

She knew he meant it.

She has also been soft on Chi Yunyan many times.

But Chi Hongmin's negligence, Feng Lan's existence has always been a thorn in her heart, she doesn't want to get along with them, so she can only indifferently keep the well water with them and not the river water.

Later, I accidentally learned that Ji Yunyan was the child born by Ji Hongmin's cheating, and I hated him so much that I wanted to kill him.

But as soon as I saw the same pair of apricot eyes as him, and heard him call my sister, I couldn't bear to deprive him of his vitality.

At the end of the day, he's not wrong.

Chi Yue sighed: "Don't cry. ”

She pushed Chi Yunyan away uncomfortably, and her eyes turned to the figure lying on the steps: "Is that Chi Anying?" ”

"Hmm." Ji Yunyan sobbed.

He turned his head and picked up Chi Anying, and said in a dumb voice about the robbery gang he encountered on the road: "She was knocked by someone else. ”

They had planned to go to the next city, but they suffered at the hands of the robbers, and fearing that they would chase after them, so he drove into the mountains halfway through, thinking of hiding for a while.

Chi Yue took them to the backyard.

There were still rooms left in the west wing, so she asked Chi Yunyan to put people on the bed, and then called Yunqi, who knew medical skills, to show them.

While Yunqi treated their wounds, Chi Yunyan, who calmed down his emotions, glanced at Chi Yue with hesitant eyes.

finally said: "Dad died." ”

Chi Yue paused slightly: "What's the matter?" She pretended to be surprised, and there was no grief in her eyes.