Zhang Dingyun led them all the way to the top floor and sat down in a room overlooking the lake and willow forest.

Qi Zhaohua glanced at the window twice, turned around and smiled: "Zhang Gongzi has broken the bill." ”

Zhang Dingyun waved his hand proudly: "A table of dishes at the same time with seven talents, there is no more profitable business than this." ”

When Zhang Junxue arrived with the two elders, everyone sat down for a banquet and had a good drink. After they had eaten and drunk, it was already dusk, and everyone scattered to rest.

The so-called view of the willow building, is named after the large lakeside willow forest below, at this time the order of autumn, this forest is already a warm orange, full of gold, just like the color dipped from the last ray of the sunset.

Everyone has something to do for the time being, and Pei Ye is walking in the forest alone with a book in his hand. It wasn't until the handwriting was so dark that he looked up and put the book away.

Visitors were scarce, twilight and cold winds shrouded in, the surrounding gold had faded, and only a distant spot of light remained in the field of vision. On the other side of the dark lake, there is a pagoda-shaped lamp, which is the highest place in Bowang, the nine-story moon catching tower.

Pei Ye looked at it for a while, and was about to continue moving, but he heard the woman in front of him smile and said, "You have to be the first to board it." ”

It was Qi Zhaohua, who came down earlier, sitting under the pavilion with a cup of tea at this time, and the cool night breeze danced in her hair.

Pei Ye walked over with a smile: "Go deeper?" ”

"It's not shallow here."

"I heard Miao Qing say that there is a strange scene in the depths of the forest to see the moonlight."

"Oh, 'Frost Land' isn't it, most people really don't know it." Qi Zhaohua smiled and stood up, "Then let's go." ”

"Is it still far away?"

"It's not close."

The two walked quietly for a while, and gradually the pedestrians were completely invisible, the afterglow of the setting sun was completely annihilated, the bright moon rose, and a few sparse stars hung in the cold sky.

It is indeed extremely deep, and when I look back, there is only a faint glimmer of the lights in the willow tower.

"How do you feel today?" Qi Zhaohua said with a smile, "In the center of 30,000 people, we will divide the victory and defeat with others. ”

Pei Li thought for a while: "Feeling. Slippery. It seems that he can bring something with him. ”

"Gaze has weight." Qi Zhaohua Wan'er, "Have you ever fought martial arts before?" ”

Pei Ye was stunned: "It's been a long time ago." ”

"From the county?"

"Yes, we will hold the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, and I have been there twice."

"How's the result?" Qi Zhaohua asked with a smile.

Pei Li's head tilted slightly, and he smiled and gestured to the woman with the sword on his waist.

Qi Zhaohua looked at him suspiciously.

"The prize of the first in the martial arts." Pei Ye said lightly.

“.” Qi Zhaohua smiled, "That young man should be no stranger to today's gaze and cheers. ”

Pei Ye smiled: "Yes, there are many people in our martial arts association who watched it, at that time-"

Memories collided with the warm gaze, the excited cheers, and the excited ruddy face in his mind for a moment.

He opened his mouth, but didn't make another sound. And the back Rong drooped, and the corners of his mouth pursed into an expressionless arc.

After a moment of suffocation, the young man exhaled softly and said in a low voice, "I'm no stranger to me." ”

“.” Qi Zhaohua looked at him, the deep forest was quiet, and there was only the sound of the wind caressing the willow branches.

After a while, looking at the young man's silent and cold face, Qi Zhaohua continued to smile and said, "Then do you feel it, your eyes are not cheering 'heavy'." ”

"Huh?"

Qi Zhaohua took a sip of tea, "Today you fought very gently, and people still don't have any feelings for you, so you haven't experienced it - every time you take out your sword is accompanied by a monstrous sound, you will feel that you hold the emotions of 30,000 people in your hands and hold them together on the same sword." At that time, what I want to do most is to sweep away all those who dare to compete with you, and enjoy this huge cheer to myself. ”

Sounds exciting." Pei Ye took a deep breath and pulled out of his memories.

"Yes, because—" Qi Zhaohua smiled, and then abruptly stopped.

Both were quiet at the same time.

A patch of silver frost lay on the ground.

With a radius of three or five feet, it was like a falling moonlight being captured here, and a silver plate was born on the earth.

However, there was really nothing on it, it was a color that burst out of the soil, and in the dark forest, the grass and trees were covered with a thin glow.

This is the land of frost. This sentence was in Qi Zhaohua's throat, but he didn't say it.

For in the center of this silver frost, there was a black figure sitting cross-legged, and the moonlight also sprinkled a thin layer of frost on him, and the crimson sheath was placed on one side, and the man held the hilt of the sword, and the long sword was plunged deep into the ground in front of him.

He looked up at the two of them, and the smile on his deep face slowly retracted.

It was the immersion of obsession, the joy of intoxication, and at this time it was also gone, and with a light sigh, the man drew his long sword, and the bright sword was not stained with a single piece of dirt, and he returned the sword to its sheath, and without saying a word, he passed the two of them and went back.

Pei Ye tentatively shook the hilt of the sword, and sure enough, a heavy and dangerous gaze in the forest immediately locked on him, and Pei Ye let go of his hand as if nothing happened.

Luo Defeng really won't leave Shang Huaitong for half a step.

Pei Li is not worried about the safety of the two of them, Qijiao is bent on sending Shang Huaitong to study in the Sword Academy, and he will not do such a thing as killing his opponent outside the court.

The two parties were about to be so silent and staggered, and the woman next to her suddenly smiled: "Huaitong also came here to watch the scenery?" ”

"Sort of."

"I don't want you to like such a silvery and pure thing."

Shang Huaitong sneered lightly: "Yanque, what you know is what you see." ”

The footsteps do not stop, and they have already gone far.

"I've seen him look so happy before." Qi Zhaohua said suddenly.

"What?"

"When he was catching the moon tower, he liked to raise grass."

"Grass?"

"Yes, it's just ordinary grass." Qi Zhaohua recalled in a low voice, "One day all these grasses he raised died, and he showed this smile. ”

"That "Pulling Weeds"?"

"Perhaps, I don't know anything about swords."

"It's normal for gifted people to be obsessed with swords."

"One more thing." The woman said suddenly.

"What?"

"In the afternoon, did the two Zhang family come out of Liulin?"

At that time, there were not many tourists, and it was not necessarily to see Qijiao."

Pei Ye looked at the silver frost in front of him, and still felt quite magical. He crouched down and picked up a little "silver frost" in front of his eyes, which made him discover the mystery. It is not the soil that is glowing, but the things that reflect the moonlight are massively and densely mixed in the soil—some incomparably thin filaments and grains.

"Look at this." Pei Ye gently rubbed his fingers, and these filaments were easily crushed.

The woman did not answer, and remained silent.

"That's what Shang Huaitong did." She said suddenly.

"What?"

"It is to sweep away all those who dare to compete with him, and to enjoy the great cheer alone."

“.”

"Aren't you surprised that he shot too violently today?"

Pei Ye turned around after remembering his victory, and saw the man looking at him expressionlessly, and the white bamboo disciples under the ring stained their foreheads with blood.

"I'm not surprised. Isn't that what he is? ”

It was true of him, but he didn't do it to everyone. Qi Zhaohua said slowly, "You haven't gotten along with him." His disgusting means. It is only used on the grass that blocks the way. ”

“.”

"This kind of thing is really not an obstacle to this kind of thing, especially the first opponent of this kind of game, which is still under the watchful eye. As far as I know, he should start putting on his demeanor. ”

The woman looked at the sky and said slowly, "Unless. He did see this as an obstacle. ”

“.”

"I saw his self-sacrificing temperament today, and he came to power with a purpose."

"What do you mean?" Pei Ye glanced at her, "We know that he wants to take the leader." ”

"Yes, that's the purpose, but not exactly, or rather, not really." The woman pondered, "He wants to win the championship, but it doesn't seem like it is for the championship itself, but it is intended to be a reference behind the championship. It seems to be a symbol, a corroboration. Or realize. ”

Pei Ye was stunned.

After a while, he said, "You just mean that he has other purposes." ”

"It's a deeper purpose." The woman corrected.

"Just because I saw him make a move?"

"The poet's intuition."

Qi Zhaohua looked at the young man's rather speechless face and smiled: "Or a woman's intuition, whichever you believe." ”

Pei Ye didn't smile, he looked at the woman, and said seriously and gently: "Qi Jushi, it's okay." ”

“.”

Qi Zhaohua lowered his head, and saw that the fingers he was holding the teacup were slightly white.

"Okay." The woman smiled helplessly and sighed softly, "Pei Shaoxia, since I knew you in that state, I have lost the ability to pretend to be indifferent in front of you. ”

Yes, despite the efforts to cover it up with jokes, these over-thinking thoughts are everything.

From the moment she saw Shang Huaitong, the woman's body had been tense and stiff, and she was engrossed in staring at Shang Huaitong's every move, worriedly analyzing those that might actually come from worry, uneasiness, and even fear.

The man's calm and confident attitude, and the signs of resolute advancing for what they had no knowledge of, made her more and more uneasy.

It was an enemy she hated deeply, but since the only knife she had stabbed out, she had nothing but powerlessness.

"Shang Huaitong and Qijiao Cave, I'm afraid that they will turn defeat into victory again." The woman whispered.

"Don't worry." Pei Ye was relieved again.

"Hmm."

The already cold lake vapor came up with the wind and poured in from Pei Li's collar, the young man shivered, and his true qi poured into the hundred remains, forcing away the cold.

couldn't help but glance at the woman: "Miss Qi, your clothes are thin, let's blow less wind." ”

"It's okay, I've been cold since I was a child." The woman clasped her arms and smiled, "I am happy when I see the rain and snow, and I am also happy when I grow up, the colder it is to the bone marrow, the more I like it." ”

"Your preference is too hurtful."

"So I'm just blowing for a while." Qi Zhaohua took a deep breath and chuckled, "The young master will come in a while, and I'll go back." ”

When they came down, Li Yiqing was sitting and talking with Zhang Junxue's parents.

"Huh?"

"Ahh

"I feel that Miss Qi is like a fortune teller today."

"Don't you believe that Miss Li is coming over in a while?"

She may or may not come." Pei Li was inexplicable, "It's nothing—unless you call her." ”

"Nope. I didn't call her, just because it was okay, Miss Li would come over. Qi Zhaohua looked at the young man quietly and said with a smile, "What do you say?" ”

“.” Pei Ye was stunned.

Having said that, she became the confident side, and the young man was a little at a loss.

Fortunately, without his chaotic brain, the facts had already helped him answer—two light footsteps and a clear voice sounded behind him: "What are you talking about?" ”

Pei Ye turned his head and looked at the girl in front of him who was smiling and staring, stunned.

"Hello?" Li Yiqing looked at the two who didn't speak strangely.

"What was the young master talking to the two elders just now?" Qi Zhaohua answered with a smile.

"I asked about the movements of the Zhang family, asked my uncle and aunt if they could pass on some news about the Zhang family, and some cooperation with the Zhang family. Etcetera. ”

"How's the talk?"

"It's all rejected."

"Oh?" Qi Zhaohua was surprised, "Why?" ”

"Zhijun's heart is like the sun and the moon, and the husband swears to live and die together." Li Yiqing smiled helplessly.

"What a sincere man."

Pei liquid probe.

"That is to say, my uncle is very grateful to us for taking care of Jun Xue, and he has always sincerely admired Cui Yu, if he is the head of the family, he will definitely promote the Zhang family and Cui Yu to cooperate." Li Yiqing smiled at the young man and explained, "But now that he is only a member of the Zhang family, he only follows what the head of the family points to and has no second thoughts. ”

"Oh." Pei Ye nodded slowly, "Then, in fact, it also shows that their family head doesn't want to be close to Cui Yu too much. ”

"Yes. But it doesn't matter, it's just that friends are friends. Li Yiqing said.

Then he was still thinking about what he had just done: "Haven't you said what you're talking about?" ”

"Shang Huaitong." Pei Li said, "Didn't you meet them when you came?" ”

"Nope."

"We just met. Miss Qi felt that he had some purpose that we did not grasp. ”

Then he told the girl what he had just said.

"Oh, actually, this is something that Cui Yu has been bothering about for a year, trying to find out Shang Huaitong's reliance." Li Yiqing said slowly, "He has always been like this since he appeared in our field of vision. ”

"Which look?"

"Pride, self-confidence - the look that the senior brother is not used to." The girl said, "We want to know where this mentality comes from, everyone grew up with Bowang, but he seems to have looked down on this place from the beginning, and put himself on another level - arrogant, regarded people as grass, and wanted to study in the Sword Academy." ”

"He has a high talent for kendo."

"Yes, we know that he can create his own swordsmanship. It's an explanation, but I don't think it's really reliable. Li Yiqing looked at the sky and said, "It seems that he doesn't just know that he has the possibility of ascending to the sky, but he has found the ladder to ascend to the sky—holding his heart and not encroaching, isn't he?" ”

Qi Zhaohua nodded slowly: "Only when you have climbed the ladder can you remain calm when you are obscured by buildings and hillocks. ”

“.” Pei Ye looked at the two of them and applauded, "Good analysis, so do we have any countermeasures?" ”

Qi Zhaohua: "."

Li Yiqing thought for a while, and stretched out his hand to point: "Put Pei liquid!" ”

——

On the other side of the lake, in a water pavilion, Shang Huaitong walked into the house and lit candles to dispel the moonlight and darkness.

Under the candlelight, a box of grass plants was revealed, and seven small grasses were planted on the soft and dark loess.

He walked over, plucked the first plant, and threw it on the ground.

(End of chapter)