Thousands of miles away in the Phoenix Sect, on the terrace of the small building where Xu Jingyun was, the nine-year-old young lady was sitting in front of the stage, caressing the strings, and the song was the song "Water Tune Song Head" sung by Li Ye.

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Turn Zhu Pavilion, low Qihu, shine sleeplessly. There should be no hatred, what is the long time to say goodbye? People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete. I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles.

Xu Jingyun sat on the side holding a cup of tea, half-closed eyes listening to the sound of the young lady's piano.

The sound of the piano floated from the terrace across the lake and into the woods on the lake.

With a bright moon in the sky, there is a kind of empty valley sounding, and the artistic conception of mourning is endless.

Xu Jingyun nodded with satisfaction, looked at the young lady and said, "It's okay, you continue to practice like this for a few more months, and when it snows, you can try to practice swords in the snow." ”

The young lady stopped the sound of the piano, and her hands were still caressing the strings, as if she had not returned to her senses from the artistic conception of the poem.

Since the end of summer, Xu Jingyun has asked her to stop practicing swordsmanship, and she only plays the piano on the first day, and she has to play it for at least two hours.

In the words of the master, Shangguan Wushuang's state of mind has always been unstable, and if it is not improved, it will be a great obstacle to her swordsmanship.

Practicing the piano is like refining the heart, and only when the heart is as calm as water can the piano sound like water.

Otherwise, the spring breeze blows, a pool of wrinkled water.

Xu Jingyun looked at the silent young lady and said softly: "Only when the sound of the piano is like water can you make a sword like water, do not leak a drop of water, and do not give your opponent any opportunity to take advantage of." ”

"If you can't do it, don't practice swords. The swordsmanship practiced like that was a mess. Not to mention that five snowflakes can be cut off with one sword, even one can't be chopped down. ”

The young lady nodded after hearing this, it has been a whole year since she left the General's Mansion, and in this year, she has changed from a wild girl to a quiet little girl today.

Xu Jingyun put a lot of effort into it, more because after she left Li Ye, that faint sadness has always been with her.

Although Qingfeng Mingyue's two senior brothers came to play with her from time to time, and some senior sisters from the same sect took her to the mountains to pick fruits and dig herbs, but that trace of sadness has never been eliminated.

Seeing that the master was a little disgusted, the young lady took the little hand that was open on the strings.

He walked over and hugged Xu Jingyun and said, "Master, you just let me be lazy occasionally, I have practiced the foundation building sixfold since I have practiced it, and Sister Yu'er is probably not as fast as me, let alone the guy on the Tianshan Mountain." ”

Xu Jingyun picked up a piece of autumn pear cake from the table and stuffed it into the young lady's mouth.

He smiled and said, "I know that you are willing to endure hardships, and your cultivation speed is not bad. But you don't forget that Li Ye has a good master, Tianshan is very mysterious, and he is willing to endure hardships, and the improvement of the realm is a matter of time. ”

The young lady hugged Xu Jingyun and leaned on her body, leaned on her chest and said, "I can write on the leaves now, and the flying swords made by the leaves of the senior sisters can't hurt me, and when it snows, you may be able to cut off a few snowflakes." ”

Xu Jinggo gently scratched the young lady's nose and said with a smile: "You are a daydream, how can you be able to cut snow without hard practice." ”

On the Phoenix Mountain in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the night breeze is getting cooler, and the slightly cold mountain breeze blows across the lake, blowing on the master and apprentice.

Xu Jingyun hugged some young ladies tightly, and said softly in her ear: "I didn't expect that the little girl who only gathered her qi last year, the lowest cultivator in the Phoenix Sect, could also break through to the sixth level of foundation building. ”

The young lady hugged the master, and she missed her father and mother in the distance.

But when I thought that in just one year, my cultivation had broken through so much, and I was secretly happy in my heart.

"Master, the senior sisters asked me if I had taken the elixir, or I would have laughed to death if I hadn't practiced so fast. The young lady said with some pride.

"This cultivation is still far from enough, this time next year, you must strive to break through to the Jindan realm, only when you reach the Jindan realm, is the beginning of the great cultivators. Xu Jingyun looked at the sky and took a sip of tea quietly.

The young lady nodded, raised her head and looked at the master and said, "Master, is it possible that if I break through to the Jindan realm, I can go home to see my father?"

Xu Jingyun, who was looking up at the moon, heard the young lady's question, gently lowered her head to look at her, and said with a smile: "As long as you break through the Jindan Realm, I will go to Fengyun City with you to spend the winter next year, the winter on this mountain is too cold." ”

"Well, it's still fun in the city, there are a lot of things to eat, and you can also go to the building of Sister Red Sleeves to play. You can also go to see the master of my academy......"

You can also go to Li Ye to play, but the young lady is embarrassed to say it.

Xu Jingyun nodded, put the young lady down, stood up, and walked into the house. "Go to bed early, you have to practice when you wake up tomorrow. ”

The young lady followed the master, turned her head to look at the bright moon in the sky, wanted to say something, swallowed it back, and followed back to her room.

This night, the young lady was a little disappointed.

I don't know if it's because of the Mid-Autumn Festival night without her father, or because she misses Li Ye who practices on the Tianshan Mountain.

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In the early morning on Phoenix Mountain, the mountain breeze shines through the two open wooden windows, carrying a strong coolness.

The young lady slowly opened her eyes and woke up from her not yet fully awake state, she was still a little tired, and she didn't want to get up in bed.

I didn't sleep well last night, and there was a hint of black circles in my eyes.

Holding the quilt, I sat on the bed in a daze, thinking about whether to sleep again, or get up and wash and go to practice.

The door of the room "creaked" and was pushed open by the master.

Xu Jingyun walked in and stood by the window, looking at the somewhat gloomy sky outside.

Said softly: "Get up, your senior brother Mingyue came over just now to spread the word, an old friend of mine came from Qingcheng in the Central Domain, and he will come to me in a while." ”

When the young lady heard this, she quickly lifted the quilt, walked over and took the white dress and put it on, and carefully put on her shoes.

Xu Jing went out of the room, came to the table on the terrace, added charcoal and lit the fire, set up the kettle and began to boil water, and the four teacups were resting on one side with purple sand.

The young lady picked up a bowl and drank porridge at the table in the hall after washing, she was a little curious, she had never heard that Cong's own master and an old friend in the middle of the region were still in Qingcheng.

Looking at the young lady's curious baby, Xu Jingyun said softly: "She is my senior sister, I haven't seen her for a long time." When she comes here, you just have to be polite and don't say anything else. ”

The young lady paused for a moment, and continued to drink porridge with a bowl. The heart is not good, it seems that you have to be careful everywhere.

Xu Jingyun looked at the mist coming out of the pot from the front of the tea table, stretched out his hand and picked it up, poured the boiling hot water on the pot and cup that had been arranged, and added some water to continue boiling.

After drinking the porridge, the young lady put away the dishes and chopsticks on the table and took them downstairs to the kitchen to clean.

There was the voice of Senior Brother Qingfeng in the corridor, and then there were two footsteps, and he went straight to the second floor.

While washing the dishes, I was thinking about whether to go up at this time, and the young lady was pondering.

Looking at the lake from afar, looking at the geese frolicking in the lake in the distance, and watching the sparring of the senior sisters under the tree, I felt that I should also practice swords.

She didn't know what kind of relationship the visitor upstairs had with the master after all, and she wasn't interested in anything other than her cultivation, she just wanted time to pass quickly, her realm would improve a little faster, and she would return to Fengyun City in the middle of the day.

Being in Phoenix Mountain, smelling the wisps of moisture coming from the mountain wind, and the smell of those faint leaves withering and rotting, she felt that the small city was trembling gently, and it was difficult to restrain the desire to carry the long sword and go to the woods to cut around.

It's just that she has to deal with the uninvited guests upstairs with the master.

The sound of greeting from the upstairs terrace reached downstairs, and the young lady thought about it and went again later, wiped her little hands, walked out quietly, walked under the eaves, moved a stool and sat down quietly.

Looking at the lake quietly, he raised his arm and made a sword swing movement, and then swung it gently, as if swinging down the fallen leaves flying all over the sky.

In winter, when you are practicing swords in Xunli, can you go further?

Even if you can cut off a snowflake.

The young lady thought to herself.

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and the young lady turned her head to see that Senior Brother Qingfeng had already walked to her side.

Looking at the young lady sitting quietly under the eaves, Qingfeng smiled and came up to greet him: "Senior sister, why are you sitting here alone?" Elder Xu said that if you have already washed the dishes, go up to meet the guests. ”

The young lady saw that she couldn't hide, so she just stood up, bowed back to her senior brother, and said, "Senior Brother Qingfeng is rare to come here, don't you have a cup of tea upstairs before leaving?"

Qingfeng returned the salute to the young lady and said, "How can I be qualified to ask for tea here with Elder Xu, if my junior sister wants to drink tea, you can come to me, and my brother and I will accompany my junior sister to drink enough." ”

The young lady bowed to him and said with a smile: "Okay!"

"Well, I flashed first. Qingfeng pointed upstairs.

After saying that, he walked out of the gate, for fear that if he stayed a little longer, the elders upstairs would come down to give a lecture.

Looking at the back impact of the breeze walking away, the young lady moved the stool into the house and put it away, and walked gently to the upstairs terrace with her little hands behind her back.

One step, two steps, gently ......

In the laughter on the terrace, the young lady slowly walked to Xu Jingyun's side.

looked at the woman sitting opposite who was as beautiful as her master, wearing a red Luo skirt as beautiful as Li Hong's sleeves, the skirt was still embroidered with a phoenix, and her long hair was casually draped over her shoulders, and she was only tied with a white silk scarf.

Beside her sat a little girl of her own age, dressed in a goose-yellow skirt, embroidered with two little peacocks on the skirt, combed two pigtails like herself, and a pair of big eyes looking at her.

Xu Jingyun beckoned the young lady to sit down beside her, pointed to the woman opposite and said, "This is your Uncle Tang, and this is her disciple Xia Wutong." Give a salute to the teacher. ”

The young lady stood up, bowed slightly, blessed the beautiful woman in the red dress opposite, and said, "The junior Shangguan Wushuang, I have seen the uncle." ”

The beautiful woman in the red dress opposite looked at the young lady in a white dress, smiled and said, "No need to be polite, Wutong is one year older than you, you can call her senior sister." ”

The young lady nodded with the little girl opposite and shouted, "Hello, senior sister." ”

Xia Wutong looked at the young lady who was about the same age as herself, without the shyness of the first sight, stood in and walked to the young lady's side.

Holding her hand: "I didn't expect Uncle Shi to accept such a beautiful little sister, this time someone will play with me." This way, but it suffocated me. ”

The young lady blushed a little, pulled a stool over, and asked the senior sister to sit down next to her.

"So, along the way, do you think your master is ugly and makes you stuffy?" said the beautiful woman in the red dress opposite.

Xu Jingyun picked up the pot and poured tea for the four cups, quietly handed the cup of tea to the woman, and said softly: "Senior sister, why should you be angry with your disciple, please drink tea." ”

The young lady secretly said in her heart: How did the master, who is usually good at speaking, become so concise.

Xia Wutong looked at his master and said, "It's just boring, master, you don't tell jokes, you're in a hurry all day long." ”

The beauty in the red dress picked up the teacup in front of her, blew softly, and tasted it shallowly. "The tea on Phoenix Mountain is still delicious, sweeter than the tea in Qingcheng. ”

Xu Jingyun looked at her quietly, smiling, and did not make a sound.