Drinking alcohol is just a pretense for borrowing, and you don't need to drink if you want to say something.

Sheng Xuan resented that he and Lu Yuhao sat down at a small wine stall in Qingfeng Town, Lu Yuhao asked for a jar of wine, but he ordered a pot of tea, waved his hand and smiled that he didn't drink it, if he really wanted to talk about something, it was still tea to refresh himself.

Sheng Xuanyan returned the wine back in the shop, ordered a bowl of water, and replied that he couldn't drink the wine, so there was no need to waste it.

Sheng Xuan resented the somewhat warm cup and asked, "Master Lu, how do you know that I have something to ask you?" ”

Lu Yuhao shook the porcelain cup and hooked his lips: "Although Little Brother Sheng didn't speak, his eyes asked." ”

Sheng Xuanren was silent for a moment and drank half a cup of soup.

"You want to ask me about my junior sister."

"Or else?"

"You like her."

"Yes." He pinched his cup and looked down to see half of the sky reflected on the water.

Lu Yuhao couldn't help but wonder: "I have long heard that the third son of Sheng is extraordinary, how can he still be sad because he can't please the girl." ”

Sheng Xuanyan glanced up at him: "Lu Gongzi don't tease me, this kind of thing ...... I'm not good at it. ”

Lu Yuhao laughed and took a sip of tea.

"Little five, she ...... She's a good girl. Lu Yuhao turned the teacup and let the tea drag down the leaves attached to the porcelain wall, hanging between them, "Compared with the titles of 'Qiong Yi' and 'Lu Xiyan', I still prefer to call her 'Little Five' junior sister, I have treated her as a sister since I was a child, and she is also ...... I feel the most guilty and can't forgive myself for the cause. ”

Sheng Xuan frowned.

Lu Yuhao closed his eyes, as if recalling: "Did she tell you that she was afraid of ghosts?" ”

"Yes."

"It's my fault." Lu Yuhao shook his head, "Xiao Wu is an abandoned baby who was adopted by Chen Xun, a miscellaneous servant from the outer gate of our clan. When I was young, I caught an evil ghost, and because of my lack of cultivation, it broke free from the seal and ran out, ran into the young little five, and pestered her for several days and nights until the evil ghost was resealed. ”

She was only six years old at the time, haunted by ghosts, with a high fever and nightmares for several days. Not only was she stained with ghosts, but she also left a knot in her heart that was difficult to heal, and after that, she couldn't see ghosts again. Lu Yuhao let out a long sigh, "Even if she cultivates now, she doesn't have to worry about ordinary ghosts and evil at all, but if she really encounters it, she can't even hold a sword." ”

Sheng Xuanyan recalled the night he first met Qiong Yi, she fell into the woods, and it turned out that it was not only the hanged ghost that wanted to devour her, but also the demons in her heart.

"Then in addition to her heart disease, will she cause ghosts to cause chaos after she is infected with ghosts?"

"Did Elder Su tell you?" Lu Yuhao said: "It's true, Xiao Wu has been more pro-ghost than ordinary people since she was a child, or rather, the ghost is willing to get close to her." But don't worry, it will only attract some small ghosts and remnants, and will not attract any evil spirits. ”

Sheng Xuan was relieved.

"Do you care so much about her?" Lu Yuhao stood up with a smile.

"......" Sheng Xuan pursed his lips resentfully.

"If you care about her, don't let her see what she fears, don't let her worry about being afraid, and don't let her suffer because of you. If you can't, stay away from her as soon as possible. As he spoke, his tone suddenly became heavier.

Lu Yuhao watched Qiong Yi grow up, and when she didn't walk towards her, but turned back to look at Sheng Xuan, he already understood that the little girl already had someone else in her heart.

Sheng Xuan complained: "I will." ”

"That's good." Lu Yuhao patted him on the shoulder heavily, and then heard him ask: "Dare to ask, when was she accepted as an apprentice by Ling Zun?" ”

Lu Yuhao thought for a while: "It seems that five or six years ago, Nahui was only ten years old, because of his good talent, he was made an exception by A-Niang, and persuaded A-Dad to accept apprentices." ”

Sheng Xuan's eyebrows raised slightly.

"Later, Daddy was willing to accept her as an apprentice, but she refused to apprentice, was pressed in the ancestral hall, knelt for several days, and finally relented and changed her name." Lu Yuhao's voice was a little low: "These things she suffered, you don't feel comfortable listening to them, but my aunt insisted on keeping her at the beginning, and she didn't look away." ”

"Her five years of cultivation is enough to withstand my ten years of hard work, and she is a good seedling who should naturally take this path."

He added: "To tell you the truth, Xiao Wu has no relatives and no reason, she only has a sister who does odd jobs at the outer door and is not related by blood, and she has always wanted to find out her life experience. You are a well-known young master of a big family, and you are not afraid of being gossiped, but she can't resist it. ”

"Brother Sheng, do you understand what I mean?"

Sheng Xuan's eyes were deep: "I understand." He said, "As for those words, if they are true, I will resist them for her." ”

Lu Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, you were also deceived by her being happy every day and having no heart, in fact, she has a lot of bitterness in her heart and refuses to say it easily." ”

"Hmm. I know that she likes to hide her thoughts, but she is very transparent. Sheng Xuan complained, thinking of what Qiong Yi had said to him in the past, the few words she had inadvertently said, the words she told him on the side of the streets of Qingfeng Town, in Xiaowa Village, in the unoccupied school.

Lu Yuhao looked at the few cups left, and said with a smile: "After talking so much, it's time to ask you, how did you fall in love with my junior sister?" ”

Sheng Xuan was stunned, "I ......" he turned his face, "One day, I went to a remote place in the south of the school to practice swords, and I heard someone singing on the mountain, and I followed the song, so I saw her. ”

She looked back in the morning light, and there was light in her eyes, like the shadows of snow crumpled in the dim light of a winter day.

Lu Yuhao smiled and bent his eyes, and then said: "My junior sister's singing voice is indeed the best in the world, so Brother Sheng is moved by her singing?" ”

“…… No. Sheng Xuanyan thought about Qiong Yi's appearance in his heart, and denied it, the pale cyan figure lingered, when did he start noticing her? From the time she smiled at herself with her messy tail? From the day she sang by the South Mountain? Or from the time she scolded her grandson in class?

After thinking about it a lot, he finally said helplessly: "She often plays tricks on people, I ...... Can't get her. ”

Lu Yuhao couldn't help laughing, "Hahahaha, Brother Sheng, you are such a restrained and thin skin, you will definitely be tricked by her." Seeing Sheng Xuan's deep sigh, he spread his hands and said, "Xiao Wu has always been very skinny, the more shy you are, the more powerful she is, the next time you fight back and make her ashamed, she won't dare to act rashly." ”

Sheng Xuan's resentment will be suspicious.

"Alright." Lu Yuhao got up, beckoned the shopkeeper to settle the bill, and complained to Sheng Xuan, "Then my junior sister, I will leave it to you to take care of." Then he turned and left, leaving him alone at the table.

*

Qiong also practiced sword training with Su Ye for a few hours, and it was not until it was completely dark that she packed up and finished the day's practice. Qiong Yi rubbed his sore arm, feeling a little tired, and Su Ye on the side was full of energy, saying where he could cooperate better next time.

This guy was refreshed as soon as he arrived to study martial arts, Qiong Yi said in his heart, shrugged his shoulders in response, and then thought of Sheng Xuanyan and Lu Yuhao going to drink behind her back, and his curiosity increased, I didn't know what they would say, and hurriedly said goodbye to Su Ye and inquired about the whereabouts of her senior brother.

If you ask Sheng Xuan, he won't necessarily tell me! She sneered to herself.

When I asked a few disciples who were passing by, they said that they seemed to have seen the person Qiong Yi described, who was at the east gate of the school, and she immediately rushed to the east gate. The north wind blew wantonly in the night, and the hanging lamps under the eaves creaked, and nothing could be illuminated. There are no people in the school for a long time, and no one will drink the wind here when it is so cold at night, Qiong Yixin said, hearing the sound of conversation brought by the wind, she followed the sound and approached, and a familiar voice came from behind the wall not far away.

It's Lu Yuhao and Lu Yanshan.

What are they talking about?

Qiong Yi barely heard the words "marriage" and "marriage contract" clearly, she took a light step and got closer, and heard Lu Yanshan say: "Anyway, she has been messing around with those people all day, and I am not familiar with Sheng Xuan, so I haven't met a few times." ”

"Yan Shan, you haven't had trouble with Xiao Wu in the past few months."

"Out of sight, out of mind, out of sight, out of mind, not out of sight, not in trouble."

Are you talking about me...... Joan also listened through the wall.

"That's not good. The marriage between the two clans of Lu Sheng is almost a sure thing in the eyes of outsiders, and I was worried that the Sheng family did not have a suitable candidate, and I was also worried that you were unwilling. But now it seems to be a good thing, both of them ......"

Joan's heart tightened and clutched her sleeves.

"She's worthy of it too?!"

"The origin of the unknown, after all, it is not our family!"

These words fell into Qiong Yi's ears like thunder, she gritted her teeth and closed her eyes.

"Yan Shan!"

"Brother! Every time you talk to me, you talk about her in just a few words, am I your own sister or is she? You never ask me! ”

The conversation on the other side of the wall became fierce for a while, but it reached Qiong Yi's ears but she couldn't hear it clearly, she took two steps back and turned around and ran, not running far away and bumping into someone head-on.

The man collided with her, and the scroll in his arms almost fell off his hand, and after seeing the comer, Joan also hurriedly made a silent gesture, pointing to the road ahead and telling him not to go there for a while. Yan Tingshen sorted out the scroll in his arms and held it up, he was coming out of the school room after reviewing his homework, but he bumped into Qiong Yi, saw her lonely expression and smiled lightly, and handed the lamp in his hand to her, as if saying that he wanted to accompany her for a while.

Qiong also held the long handle of the lamp, and walked out of the school for a long way before daring to speak: "It's so late, why is Brother Yan still studying in the school?" She smiled slightly, and her tone was reluctant.

The candle flame in the lamp flickered on and off, and it seemed that it would be extinguished by the wind in the next second.

"I'd like to ask Miss Lu what happened." Yan Tingshen recalled the sound of the dispute outside the wall and said with a smile: "Eavesdropping is not a good habit. ”

"I didn't want to eavesdrop at first!" Qiong Yi sighed firmly after speaking: "Forget it, it's nothing." ”

"If you don't talk to someone and stuff it in your heart, you will have to feel uncomfortable all night." Yan Ting looked at her deeply and hooked his lips.

Qiong also pursed her lips, her mind was full of Lu Yanshan's sentence "She is also worthy?" He replied, "It's just a matter of the marriage between the two clans of Lu Sheng." ”

Although Yan Tingshen was not interested in such rumors, he also knew a little about them, thinking about Sheng Xuan's age, he said, "You really need to wait a few more years. ”

Joan also looked up suspiciously: "Huh? ”

"Miss Lu, you don't know Brother Sheng's heart for you?" Yan Ting held the scroll in his hand and asked.

Joan also looked ahead and said lightly, "He didn't say it, but he didn't hide it either." ”

Yan Tingshen asked, "What about you?" ”

"I said, don't tell him."

"Why?"

"Because it's too cowardly to rely on others to convey emotions, I want him to tell me personally." Qiong Yi's eyes flashed with candles, "I'll tell him in person, I don't need to say it." ”

Yan Ting Shenguaner.

"Of course I'm to him, what's that." Joan also don't look over, "He's different from everyone else. ”

"But, as Lu Yanshan said, I'm not worthy." She paused: "If you think about it, what she said makes a lot of sense. ”

It turned out that I heard this. Yan Ting said deeply, and he spoke: "Why do you say this? ”

"Brother Yan hasn't heard rumors about me?" Joan also asked rhetorically, those words were loud enough a few days ago.

"You don't have to listen to these things if you want to understand a person, and the exaggeration and distortion are often quite different from what you are exposed to." He shook his head, "So I don't really care about that." ”

Joan also thought for a moment: "They said...... I'm just a widow who was adopted by a handyman, and after the death of the handyman, I was an out-and-out white-eyed wolf. 'What was bought at the price of livestock, when he saw a high status, he ......climbed up desperately.'"

Joan also chuckled, completely disdainful: "But except for the slander against me as a human being, everything about my life experience is true." ”

"Such a person is indeed not worthy of the young son of the Sheng family, right?" She smiled deeply at Yan Ting, with a bit of imperceptible loss in her eyes.

"Lu Xiyan." Yan Tingshen said lightly, "You can do it and not care about those rumors, which shows that you know from the bottom of your heart that you are not that kind of person." Now you are angry with Miss Lu's words because you no longer recognize yourself, right? ”

"yes."

The two were silent for a while, and then walked to the accommodation, and when they said goodbye at the intersection, Yan Ting asked casually: "Miss Lu, take the liberty of asking, how old were you when you were adopted outside the Lu family?" ”

Qiong also thought for a while: "I don't know my specific age, Uncle Chen said that it looks like two years old, to be exact, it is twenty-one years old." ”

Yan Tingshen's whole body was stunned, and Qiong didn't notice the change in his expression in the night, so he returned the lamp in his hand and walked to his dormitory.

Twenty-one years of heaven......

The walking lamp that Yan Tingshen was holding was extinguished in the cold wind.