Chapter 34: Lily of the Valley
“…… Lu Xiyan, are you okay? ”
After Qiong Yi came out of the school, she had already stopped crying, but the corners of her eyes were always red, Su Ye walked with her in the verandahs of autumn shade on both sides, and asked with some concern.
"It's fine." Qiong Yi rubbed the corners of her eyes again: "I pretended." ”
"Even if it's pretended, the grievances in my heart must be true." Su Ye was going to pat her on the shoulder to comfort her, but when he saw her walking a little distance away from his side, he simply hugged his hands behind his head, and said with emotion: "Su Changming, he is used to using rumors to destroy people, and he has tried it repeatedly, if you still feel sad, let's beat him up!" ”
Qiong also thought of the rumors about Su Ye's spending time drinking in the past, and suddenly understood something: "Su Ye, could it be that you were also ...... by him"
"Hey!" Su Ye quickened his pace, ran two steps forward, and looked back: "Many times, the word spreads too much, and it is really a fact that everyone believes, so the first time I saw him today, I wanted to kill him." ”
"As soon as I heard those rumors a few days ago, I knew that he had them spread."
"I'm sure you know what kind of person you are!"
Qiong Yi looked at him in a daze, and said unconsciously: "Su Ye, chatting with you is much more comfortable than chatting with Sheng Hao......
"Huh? Sheng Xuan resented that this person could still chat with people? Su Ye smacked his tongue, his face was surprised, and he seemed to have captured something: "Lu Xiyan, why did you mention him?" Isn't he going these days and missing him? ”
"What! Don't talk nonsense! Joan also vetoed, but her voice suddenly lost her momentum: "I...... I didn't think about him. ”
Su Ye raised his eyebrows: "Oh? ”
He squeezed his eyes, hooked his lips and asked with a smile, "Then what do you think...... Sheng Xuan resents this person, how is it? ”
"Him?" Qiong also frowned: "Why do you ask me?" ”
"You know that! He's a man of few words, and he's full of friends like me! You're one of his few friends! Su Ye didn't lie at all: "Of course I want to ask you what you think of him!" ”
Qiong Yi had Sheng Xuan's resentful face in her mind, and she thought to herself for a long time before she replied: "He, facial paralysis, few words, good appearance, very generous, often bring me good food." ”
"Nothing else?"
Joan was also puzzled: "What else can there be?" After a pause, she flipped through the words she had been thinking about for a long time from the chatterbox, and replied, "Sheng Hao...... It's weird. ”
"What's weird?"
"It's weird anywhere!" Qiong also pouted: "When he practiced sword every day, the expression on his face was bitter, as if someone forced him to practice with a knife, but he was obviously the earliest and most diligent one who came every day!" Also, I have heard the names of many genius disciples in the five clans, such as Yue Huan, the first sword in Beishan, Xie Yangyu, who is a must-have poisonous sword, and you who are known as the new legend of the foil...... Sheng Hao's two elder brothers, one is more famous than the other, but he only has the reputation of being strict and hardworking, and cultivating to not fall behind. But in my opinion for so many days, his cultivation of swordsmanship is not an ordinary level. ”
"He learns everything well in class, and his cultivation is good, but he is not publicized, but if you want to say that he is humble, he looks at people with his nostrils on weekdays, and writes all the words of pride on his face!"
Su Ye laughed when he heard her say this.
Qiong also pinched the corner of her skirt: "...... Anyway, he's just weird, he's different from everyone I've ever known. ”
Hearing this, Su Ye raised his eyebrows: Oh! Sheng Xuan, you kid seems to be really playful!
He smiled and said, "Okay, he's different from others!" ”
Joan was also puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”
"Don't you know?"
"Know what?"
"Tut-tut, it turns out that you are also a wooden."
"Wood?" Qiong Yiyi's pair of floating purple eyes were full of doubts, and in a twinkle of the wind, he suddenly understood something.
What Su Ye meant by saying this, did he ......
"Lu Xiyan, I'm leaving!" Su Ye waved his hand at her: "If Su Changming calculates you again, you will come to me." "Then he walked along the verandah and strode away.
Qiong Yi stayed in place for a long time, and after the thought appeared in her mind, she subconsciously denied it, and subconsciously didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Fear yes, fear not.
Rather than dwelling on it, it's better to think that it will be wrong.
Joan also came back to her senses, shook her head and continued to walk forward, only to feel a gaze cast behind her, a sticky and dark gaze, cast from a corner of the wall not far away.
She reacted quickly, directly raised the sword and chased the corner behind her, the man seemed to be aware of being discovered by her, and hurriedly ran over the wall towards the deep garden, he just climbed over the eight-foot-high wall, and when he landed to stabilize his body, he only felt a cold neck, Qiong also put the unsheathed string song sword against the man's neck, and coldly scolded: "Run again, I will kill you." ”
The man was shocked: so fast! It's just three breaths of effort! She was able to chase her straight from the verandah!
Qiong was also shocked, the person she pressed against the wall with a sword nail turned out to be a woman!
"Who are you? Su Changming sent you?! She asked, and when she saw that the man had raised his hand, she immediately grabbed her sword, grabbed her arm, and kicked her in the back of her calf, knocking her to the ground, "Speak!" ”
There was a soothing applause coming from not far away, Su Changming walked through the arch and said with a smile: "Miss Lu remembers me now?" ”
"Childe!" The woman who was also pressed by Qiong Yi and knelt on the ground called.
Qiong Yi glanced at him and sneered: "Su Gongzi gave me such a big gift a few days ago, I don't know where to let you remember it, today is just a gift." ”
"Miss Xiyan, I don't understand what you're talking about." Su Changming put away the fan and walked over: "Let her go, I came to you today because I have investigated and dealt with the matter of the Wei family, and I have come to inform her." ”
"Tell me more about it." Joan didn't let her go, but locked her tighter.
"You girl's family doesn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, lightly, I just said it." Su Changming took a few steps forward: "The man of the Wei family was killed by the young master of the Zhang family in Wanfeng City next door, I went to the door, and the Zhang family also recognized it, for my sake, I lost one hundred and fifty taels of silver." ”
He continued: "The little girl of the Wei family, I have entrusted someone to take care of it, and I have also redeemed the girl who sold herself to Yunliang Pavilion, and everything has been done properly, and there is no mistake. Xiyan, what do you think of this? ”
"Really?" Joan also asked with an eyebrow.
"Naturally it's true, if you don't believe it, you can go and ask the Wei family girl in person, she has already gone back with the deed today, and said that she wants to thank you, please go to the small village in Wa Village tomorrow night to have a meal." Su Changming supported his maid's body, and forced Qiong to let go of his hand, "I'm here to tell you the matter and to pass on the word for Miss Wei Ying." ”
"I've helped do so much, Yan'er, don't you say thank you to me?"
Qiong also listened to him shouting from Miss Lu to Xiyan, and then from Xiyan to Yan'er, and her whole scalp was numb: "Don't go any further!" ”
She turned her head and left: "I thank you!" Okay, this is over, and you won't be in front of me again! Thank you! ”
*
Under the pond mountain, above the green water, the path is winding, the forest is deep and difficult to find, and the sky is half a few smokes.
The jade craftsman scooped the well water in front of the courtyard, listened to the steady footsteps behind him, and turned around: "Coming?" ”
Sheng Xuan gave up his hand: "Yes, the younger generation has come to fetch the jade." ”
"Okay." He said, "Come and help." After Sheng Xuanyan approached, he threw away the wooden bucket in his hand and pointed to a large vat in the center of the courtyard: "Fill the water and water the flowers in front of the court." ”
Sheng Xuan complained for unknown reasons, but he still did it, and the jade craftsman moved his muscles and bones on the side, watching him fetch water clumsily, but skillfully watering the flowers and plants.
Strange to say, it is already late autumn, the trees on the mountain are still luxuriant, and the flowers are blooming freely and vividly, full of vitality.
"Why didn't Su Ye's kid come this time?" The jade craftsman asked suddenly.
Sheng Xuanyan was a little surprised that he would know Su Ye's name: "It's my business, I don't want to trouble him anymore." ”
The jade craftsman laughed when he heard this: "This style is like your old man." ”
He was stunned and asked, "Do my seniors know my father?" ”
"Sheng Shangpei? Right? The jade craftsman recalled: "How many years have it been. ”
"Now I'm afraid I'm staying in that big family's mansion, and I don't dare to come to the rivers and lakes to have a look."
From the moment he saw Sheng Xuan's resentful sword dance, he vaguely glimpsed the shadow of the old man, and also guessed his identity: it was estimated that it was his youngest son. "If it is really the same as the rumors, it is the most like him."
Sheng Xuan resented that this jade craftsman was a friend of his father when he was young, and he was silent for a long time, he had never heard his father talk about his youth, let alone that he had traveled through the rivers and lakes and had such a friend.
"I don't know him well, not even friends, to be exact." The jade craftsman said lightly: "He is straight and cold to the outside, and only Su Min knows that he is lively in private." ”
Su Min is Su Ye's father, Sheng Xuan knows that in the past, his father had a very good relationship with Su Min, and the two of them fought together in the sword world, but even this, he heard from others.
He has carved jade for him, drank wine together, and appreciated swords.
"It's just that some people can't even be friends in the end." The jade craftsman said, exhaling a breath and exhaling some relief.
When he was a teenager, he also had a passion for cultivating swords, but he didn't have any talent, and in the end, what he could afford to hold in his hand and hold it well was just a knife.
The jade craftsman went into the house to get the jade, and brought out two pots of wine and put them on the small table in the courtyard: "Come." ”
"Senpai, I don't drink." He said.
The jade craftsman only set the bowl and poured the wine, and held it up in front of him: "Why?" ”
He replied, "If you don't get drunk, you don't have to worry about it." ”
Sheng Xuan's resentment did not need to be extinguished by wine, and he had never been drunk, only spicy.
"Then drink with me." The jade craftsman put the bowl on the table in front of him, sat down and raised the bowl in his hand, drank it all, Sheng Xuan complained that it was not easy to excuse himself, picked up the bowl and raised his head to drink, and the bowl bottomed out. Seeing that he was drunk arrogantly, the jade craftsman smiled and put the mahogany box in his arms on the table: "The lily of the valley has been carved, are you going to send it to the girl's house?" ”
"Yes." He answered, raising his hand to take it.
The bottom of the mahogany box is cushioned with satin, and there is a white jade lily of the valley lying flat in the middle, the jade color is crystal clear, and the carved pattern is delicate and lifelike.
"Why do you want to give the girl's family a jade lily of the valley?"
Sheng Xuan looked at it for a long time, very satisfied, Jueqiong should also like it: "She is lively, I don't know what she will like, I just think this kind of jade jewelry is suitable for her." ”
The jade craftsman tasted the wine in the bowl and said slowly: "This jade, collected from Dongshan Yuanyi, is rumored to be able to drive away ghosts and avoid evil, and can also warm up the spirit, it is jade, it is an accessory, and it is also a magic weapon, I hope that girl will not disappoint you." ”
Sheng Xuan sealed the box and put it in his arms: "...... I just know it. ”
The jade craftsman saw through his thoughts, and poured another bowl of wine: "Lively girl, if you don't tell her, she won't understand." Then he filled him with a bowl and said with a smile: "Young man, be bolder!" ”
Sheng Xuan held the bowl and took a big sip, tasting the taste of wine for the first time.