Lu Xu stood there in a daze for a long time.

"I think she has a point." Lu Yanshan yawned, "Unless she is a madman, she will fall in love with someone who fights against her all day long." ”

"Shut up!" Lu Xu reprimanded.

Lu Yanshan raised her eyebrows and smiled: "You blame me? Lu Xi's words are so clear. Declare in advance that I don't have a good eye on her because I annoy her, but it's not like someone, who likes it in my heart, but what I do is push people away little by little. ”

“…… Why? Lu Xu muttered to himself, "Why...... Will she be weary of me? She clearly ...... all the time It's all laughing......"

Since she was a child, no matter how she ridiculed her and laughed at her, she would only pout her mouth in annoyance, obviously angry, and laughing after a while; No matter how much I bullied her, I only saw her with red eyes but never saw her crying, and after a while, I saw her smiling again, like she had no heart and no lungs.

"Because you are an 'outsider' to her, she will not show her cowardly side to outsiders." Lu Yuhao said lightly: "Except for ...... Certain special circumstances. ”

"Brother, you understand her again." Lu Yanshan rolled her eyes.

Lu Yuhao stood up and patted Lu Xu on the shoulder: "It's over, Ah Xu, don't pester her in the future." ”

Lu Xu lowered her head, and recalled in a trance that when she was a child, she snatched the jade pendant from her waist and laughed and threw it to play, she came to grab it while shouting, and finally the jade pendant fell into the lake, she lay on the shore and looked at it with red eyes for a long time, those big eyes were full of tears, and even the eyelashes were soaked into a row, but she never wanted to fall down.

In an instant, he had inexplicable emotions, liked to see her frown in embarrassment, and wanted the tears in her eyes to roll down because of him.

Only now, it's all over.

Lu Xu raised his head, the cold wind was blowing, he had never felt that the winter had been so cold in any year.

*

Qiong also did not stay in the Yinlu Garden to eat, but went out of the garden to find Zhu Yunluo. Zhu Yunluo saw that Qiong also really came to find her for the night, and immediately got up to warm up a meal for her and put it on the small wooden table.

"Ah Luo is the best in the world!" Qiong Yi hugged Zhu Yunluo, sat at the small wooden table and lifted the chopsticks and began to eat.

"You." Zhu Yunluo saw her eating as usual, and chuckled: "Don't hurry, eat slowly, no one will rob you." Qiong Yi picked up the food in her mouth, suddenly thought of something, and took out a candlestick from the package behind her: "Ah Luo, give it to you." I heard that this candle will never be extinguished, and you sometimes have to make up for it at night, and it happens to be useful. ”

Zhu Yunluo was skeptical: "Really? ”

"Try it." Joan continued to eat, and soon after that, she cleaned up the dishes: "Aroco has to stay with me tonight." I'm going to wash the dishes. Hearing her say this, Zhu Yunluo got up and went to make the bed, and when Qiong also returned, the two of them washed up and lay down in the mattress together.

Qiong also lay down on her side: "It's been a long time since I've spent the night with Ah Luo." She took Zhu Yunluo's hand, "Ah Luo, a lot of things happened today...... On the way here, I also met Lu Xu and quarreled with him. ”

Zhu Yunluo moved her body: "What's the noise?" ”

"It doesn't matter what I quarreled about, but I remembered what I was unhappy about before when I was talking and talking......" Qiong Yi felt a faint pain in her heart, "I began to feel sad......"

"It's all gone." Zhu Yunluo held her hand tightly, "It's all over." ”

"Hmm."

After being quiet for a while, Qiong Yi called her again: "Ah Luo, I still have five or six taels of silver in my package, which I earned by working as a leisure worker in the school, you can use it to pay off the debt." ”

"What will I do with your money." Hearing Zhu Yunluo say this, Qiong also twisted her body and leaned on her side, "Take it, I don't have any daily expenses, if you don't accept it, I'll throw it away." ”

"When I was studying, there were a lot of things that happened that I didn't write into the letter, so I picked something interesting to tell you." Qiong also told her about the interesting things that happened in Qingfeng Town, and in the end, she said lightly: "I also found a little clue about my background, Ah Luo, I may be from the Western Desert." ”

Zhu Yunluo looked at her purple eyes and nodded: "If you can find your parents, you ...... Will it be with them? ”

"They cruelly abandoned me, and I will definitely come back to live with Arlo." She closed her eyes and swore as if she were angry.

Zhu Yunluo smiled: "Not with the young master Sheng anymore?" Do you want to take me with you? ”

"This ......" Joan also opened her eyes and suddenly asked her, "Ah Luo, where will you go if you pay off your debts?" ”

"I plan to wait for you to leave the school, let's go back to the house where Ah Gong was alive, I inquired about the news of my uncle and grandfather, and the house is indeed still reserved for me, and it is not nowhere to go. Now that you have found a beloved, I will go back alone. But I will wait for you to marry into the Sheng family and settle down, and then resign from this fortification, and when I return to my grandfather's homeland, I will regain my livelihood and don't worry about me. ”

Qiong Yi was sad to hear this, and lowered her eyes, "Ah Luo, what you said is like I am going to leave you because I have Sheng Jun's liking." ”

"That's how it should be." She replied: "Qiong Yi, if Sheng Xuan really has you in his heart, he will think about the future path for you, the two of you are in love, if he doesn't marry and doesn't shirk, then ...... And thou shalt him. ”

"Huh?" Qiong also thought for a while: "Well, you're right, but the relationship has to come step by step, I really didn't think that I wanted to get married, I always thought that Ah Luo would be able to find a good family, but now I don't want you to go far." ”

"Qiong Yi, when you enter the world, you don't have to care about the rules of the world, and you don't have to marry someone." Zhu Yunluo said lightly, she stroked Qiong Yi's cheek, "But when people grow up, they always have to think about everything, I don't want you to be like me, working day and night for your livelihood." ”

"I don't want Ah Luo to be like this!"

Zhu Yunluo smiled, "People, most of them are like this. Make more preparations, but your heart is steady, go to sleep. With that, he turned off the lamp at the head of the bed.

Qiong Yi closed her eyes lightly, thinking about the future, and fell asleep after a while, Zhu Yunluo only heard her even and steady breathing, "Qiong Yi...... Sometimes, I really envy you. Zhu Yunluo touched her cheek, the slightly cold index finger touched down from the corner of her eye, the powder was soft, she rubbed her thumb for a while and then withdrew her hand, turned over and fell asleep.

Qiong Yi opened her eyes, Zhu Yunluo's back looked so slender and thin, she wanted to touch her, but she couldn't reach out.

*

Sheng Xuan's resentment returned to Luo Yao a few days later.

The Sheng clan has guarded the water and soil of Luoyao since ancient times, and its house is located on the Baiyu Mountain, according to legend, this peak is the ancient pacification of the yin and yang ghosts, and the ghosts under it are suppressed to protect the peace of the Middle Earth. Baiyu Mountain is the most steep peak in this continuous mountain range, hidden in the depths of the clouds and mist, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find it. The mountain road is steep, there are fierce beasts on the way, looking up at the white high mountains from the bottom of the ridge, only to feel majestic and deserted.

According to legend, when the sky is high and clear, and the clouds and mist are gone, you can still see the jade platform on the peak at the bottom of the mountain - Jiuzhitai. But these are just the chats of the people of Luoyao under the mountain after dinner.

Sheng Xuan returned to the mansion, and heard the sound of drills coming from the school yard from a distance, and before he entered his residence, a house called "Jingxuan", it was convenient to see his mother outside the courtyard, the wife of the Sheng family's sect master, Shen Wei.

Under Shen Weiqing's cold crescent moon eyebrows is a pair of phoenix eyes, showing a bit of fierce momentum, there is no powder on the cheeks, the lips are light, and the figure is cultivated in a neat and simple robe, but I can't see the grace and solemnity of half of the main mother.

He lowered his head and called her lightly: "Mother." ”

"Why is it so late? The disciples in the clan have been practicing for nearly seven or eight days, and you rushed back? I don't have to worry about missing my practice. Shen Wei said coldly, "Go back to Jingxuan Pavilion to purify your body, drive away the dust on the way, and start cultivating at the time." ”

"Yes." Sheng Xuan replied with grievances, and after saying that, he went straight to the back of the courtyard, Shen Wei looked at him a few times, and drank him, "Sheng Xuan." ”

"What's the matter?" Sheng Xuanyan only stopped and did not turn around.

"Why are you so spiritually crippled?" Shen Wei walked to his side, wanting to come to find out his spiritual breath, Sheng Xuan walked straight forward without saying a word, Shen Wei had long been accustomed to his temper, and turned around and walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

Sheng Xuan returned to the Jingxuan Pavilion and pushed open the wooden door that had not returned for a long time, the interior of the house was laid out as usual, and there was no trace of dust on the ground, shelves, and bookcases, thinking that there were servants cleaning it every day.

He walked over to the sword table where the sword was placed, lowered the longbow and quiver on his back, and placed the Shadow Sword firmly on the hollow shelf in the center. After putting away his weapon, he untied his robe, only a single middle coat, as if he had thought of something, raised his hand to untie the indigo knot of his hair, and the strand of hair fell over his shoulders, and he played with the knot in his hand and walked to the windowsill. Outside the window was a sea of clouds and mountains that could not be seen clearly, and Sheng Xuan's resentful gaze did not look into the distance, but fell on the edge of the windowsill - there were some strings nailed crookedly, which had been worn to rust, no more, no less, exactly seven, not the seven strings on the piano. He raised his hand and plucked the rusty strings, the strings made a clanging sound, not crisp and not good, just a very ordinary vibration, Sheng Xuanyan withdrew his hand, folded the knots in alignment, and found a pine box in the cabinet and carefully put it in. He held the wooden box and looked at it for a long time before placing it in the cabinet.

Pushing the door out, the oncoming cold wind blew his hands and feet cold, and he let the wind blow to let his body gradually get used to this temperature. The pavilion was empty and deserted, not even a single figure, no human voice at all, this silence was a little far away from him, which made Sheng Xuan resentful of a strange feeling for no reason, but he could quickly get used to it.

Stepping on the clogs under his feet, he walked towards the bath room with a rattle step by step, only to see an old attendant guarding the door and saluting him: "Young master, you are back." ”

Sheng Xuan waved his hand and did not speak.

"Back to the little boy, the second young master is taking a bath, if you need to cleanse yourself, the old slave will immediately arrange for someone to boil water."

"No need." Sheng Xuan's voice was indifferent: "I don't want to wash." If the lady asks, she will say that I have been clean. ”

How could he have the heart to take a bath, and he didn't see his tail when he circled around the house, didn't those juniors raise it by themselves?

The old waiter arched his hand: "Yes." ”

When Sheng Xuanren was about to leave, the door of the bathroom room was opened, and the people inside were wearing a thin coat inside, a thick robe outside, and there were water droplets on their black hair, and their voices were low and cold: "You came back today?" ”

Sheng Xuan looked back and saw that it was his brother's expressionless face as always.

His second brother, the second son of the direct line, Sheng Zijing.