Chapter 55: Small Bridges, Flowing Water, and People

The back of the leader no longer knew where he had gone, and he had already reached the dome by this time. Contrary to what you might expect, the top of the mountain is not a sharp point that no one can stand on.

As far as the eye can see, everything is so quiet! The stream falls from the depths of the sky, falls into the spring at the top of the mountain, and gushes out to form a small meandering river at the top of the mountain, and the water flows very slowly. Along the banks of the creek there are weeds and a few stout sycamores on the bank, and the yellow fallen leaves cannot withstand the wind and rain, and they break away and drift away with the wind.

The dead leaves swayed in the wind, going around and around, as if they had a will of their own to drift away, and finally with the help of the 'wind', they fell back to the trees to become nutrients, or fell on the surface of the water.

The fallen leaves on the water surface slowly float with the current, and when the wind blows, some ripples spread all the way to the bridge in the distance.

Just an ordinary stone bridge, nothing particularly outstanding. The stone of the stone bridge has been built for some years, and it is covered with moss, and the reflection of the bridge on the water is undulating under the ripples.

"Senior !!"

There was no one else here, and the leader was gone, so he must be the one he wanted to see.

It was not only the phantom of the bridge that rose and fell with the ripples, but also the figure standing motionless on the bridge. From the back, it should be an old man, a little rickety, but the powerful power emanating from his body made Qin Lin dare not look at it directly.

"How many years have you been here?" the old man did not turn around, his voice was different from the deafening effect just now, "Come slowly, come closer, I can take a look at you!"

The voice doesn't have that airy feel. However, Qin Lin felt that this kind of voice was even more profound, and there seemed to be some kind of power fused into it.

"It's been almost five years since the junior came to Xiliang Academy!" Qin Lin replied truthfully, this person was too powerful, he had only heard him in other people's legends before, and it was the first time he had observed him so closely.

He walked slowly, along the river, along the path on both sides of the winding river, and the overgrown weeds did not seem to be irregular, and the distribution of these weeds seemed to be to form a path, and at the end of the road was the bridge.

"It's been five years!" the old man sighed a little, "Why don't you want to call me Dean?"

The old man is the most mysterious dean of Xiliang Academy. Regarding the dean of Xiliang Academy, he has always been a legendary-level existence in the outside world, and it is easy for idlers to see it.

More than a year has passed since the last Cold Mountain incident, and the 'visitors' from the north have long since left, leaving only a chaotic endgame.

"Dean, what happened in the past two years?"

There are not many opportunities to ask a powerhouse of this level face-to-face, so Qin Lin naturally has to seize every opportunity to speak. I believe that this question is also something that the entire Jiangnan and even the entire Divine Domain want to know.

What happened in the past two years?

If you have the ability to look at the overall situation, you can see not only the chaos in Qingshan County, but also the chaos in Yinshan County, Angun, etc., which one is not chaotic? It seems that since two years ago, the entire Divine Domain has entered an era of chaos.

"Before you talk about this, let's talk about yourself!"

The closer I go, the more real the back becomes, and the more and more rickety. The closer it is, the more real it is. The dean was not standing, he was sitting cross-legged on the bridge, and there was a futon where it was placed. He was holding a bamboo in his hand, rather than saying that it was a fishing rod, Qin Lin preferred to believe that it was bamboo, after all, this bamboo was so fresh that even the branches and leaves on it were not trimmed.

Strange people, strange things, strange things! This was Qin Lin's first thought, but he quickly hid these things, and any emotional leakage in front of such a master could be seen through.

"Me?" Qin Lin kept smiling, "The seniors are too prestigious, what do I have to talk about!"

"It's just stop-and-go, bumps!"

"Really?" the dean turned his head for the first time, and the statement of stopping and bumping was a bit interesting, "Tell me about your experience in the past year or two and your last mission!"

"Everyone will always feel something about what they go through differently, talk about your opinion!"

This question is too broad to know where to start. Or I don't know what the dean wants to know about it.

"Seniors mean the situation in Jiangnan?" he asked tentatively, and this matter is worth talking about in the past two years.

"Yes and no!" the dean smiled mysteriously, "I'm more interested in what you think about this!"

This sentence sounds like nonsense at first glance, after all, I have already said whether it is a view on the situation or not, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that there is a different charm in it.

What Qin Lin refers to is nothing more than a personal opinion that can speak freely under the general situation, and it is everyone's different views on the incident, Qin Lin can say his own or hear it. But the dean went straight to the point and asked Qin Lin what he thought about it.

The focus of the two of them was suddenly put on the surface, and the dean's opinion of Qin Lin seemed to be quite important.

"Does my opinion matter?" As an insignificant speck of dust in Jiangnan, his opinion really does not matter, could it be that the situation in Jiangnan as a whole will change its direction because of his opinion? He has not even thought about this possibility.

"Whether it's important or not, it doesn't matter the overall situation, I just want to hear what you think!"

At the end, the dean accentuated his tone, repeating the same topic many times as emphasis, and the accentuation of the tone was also emphasis, which was a sign that the dean attached great importance to this matter.

"The current situation in Jiangnan is very chaotic!" Qin Lin knew that he couldn't hide, so he could only say truthfully, "There is a saying in ancient times, and this sentence shows the current embarrassment of Jiangnan. ”

"Well, that's good!" the dean nodded, and the fact that he could say that he was on the point, "Go on!"

He motioned for Qin Lin to continue, and the bamboo in his hand moved, as if a fish had taken the bait. It was hard for Qin Lin to imagine that such a fishing tackle would actually have a fish on the bait. It won't be blind!

"Jiangnan has always been ostracized by the authorities, which can be seen from the official situation of Xiliang College and Qingshan County. Qin Lin continued, "Originally, two extreme forces got together, almost to the point of incompatibility with each other, but they had to consider the embarrassing situation under the same roof. They hate each other, but they want to control themselves!"

"Coupled with that colorful cloud, the unknown forces that are suddenly mixed in now have turned the already turbid Jiangnan into a place of chaos in the real sense. ”

"Jiangnan, it's hard to go back to Jiangnan!"

This is Qin Lin's judgment on the current situation, although it is very chaotic on the surface at this stage, but most of this chaotic phenomenon is a wave made by some forces that cannot be put on the stage, and it will soon be drowned in the tide of history.

What really determines what Jiangnan's tomorrow will be depends on the attitude of those big forces, such as Xiliang Academy, Caiyun Family, and Su Family.

Who is the person standing behind the Su family, this is something that many people want to figure out, but no one has ever approached the truth.

However, a very interesting thing has happened in the past two days, which has made many forces in Jiangnan eat melons again.

"Jiangnan, it's hard to go back to Jiangnan!" the dean repeated this sentence and chewed it several times, "I can't imagine that you can have such vision at your age!"

"It's a pity that I still can't see the overall situation, otherwise I think you can think differently. ”

The bamboo pole in the dean's hand trembled, judging from the amplitude, it should be a big cargo, but he saw that his old man's hand shook slightly, the bamboo pole returned to calm, and the fish in the water were frightened and ran away.

The dean was not annoyed, smiled and picked up the pole and put another bait, so that the pole returned to its original position, and the water surface returned to calm again, and then nodded contentedly.