Volume 1 The Traveler Chapter 8 The Man in the Picture Scroll The years are quiet
Entering the Yuan'an Palace, Yao Lingchen ignored the delicate and false red and willow green, and went straight to the study.
Yao Lingqing was extremely nostalgic in his early years, from the Yunting Palace when he was young to the later War King's Mansion, and then to the Yuan'an Palace, which is now carved and painted, there is almost no difference in the layout of the palace, this is still before the rebellion of the imperial capital, Yao Lingchen and Yao Lingqi The childish agreement between the two brothers, but the two have been strangers over the years, but it has provided a lot of convenience for the heroes of the rivers and lakes who came to find the King of Yuan'an to seek revenge.
The layout of the study is also as luxurious as the rest of the house, which can be seen only on the decoration on the large red sandalwood carving table near the window.
"Life is better than death. Yao Lingchen glanced at the layout in the study, sneered, and casually threw a scroll on several cases, "Open it and take a look." ”
"Fourth brother. Yao Lingqi shouted again.
"Don't call me. Yao Lingchen didn't look at him, "I have no right to ask you about your loyalty and filial piety, but this is not a reason for you to turn your back on some bottom lines." ”
Yao Lingqi's face froze, and he grabbed the scroll and unfolded it to take a look, "Jun know?"
"Take a closer look. Yao Lingchen said expressionlessly.
Yao Lingqing's face suddenly became ugly, and he threw the scroll out at once, "Who is he?"
"What, the sixteen guards of the imperial capital have gone, you don't know who he is?" Yao Lingchen said indifferently, "I can go to Qinglian Mountain in seven days, and I will say it all here." ”
"Where is he?" Yao Lingqi was silent for a moment and looked up to ask.
Yao Lingchen looked at Yao Lingqing's eyes for a long time, and suddenly laughed, "The best thing in the world is to be white?
He no longer looked at Yao Lingqing, and went out laughing, "There is no one in the world, most of them are thin lovers." It's boring in this world, it's too boring......"
Yao Lingqing stood in the study, silently listening to the laughter getting farther and farther away, gradually disappearing, and after a while, he picked up the painting again, opened it and looked at it for a long time, "Jingyuan." ”
"Master Hou. "Dressed in black, he appeared in the study.
Yao Lingqian completely spread out the scroll with a shake, and said word by word, "There is a shadow in the house, find the person in the scroll, and there will be no mercy!"
On the picture scroll is a teenager, smiling calmly but innocently, with white hair like snow, and a pair of clear eyes that attract the most attention.
The black cloth reached out to catch it, and bowed back, "Yes." ”
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After a thousand zhang of lakes and a few detours, there is a dense bamboo forest.
Ning Junxi stopped, turned around and squatted down to look at the snow-white beast at his feet, "I'll let you stand for a while, don't move when you go in, do you hear?"
The little beast babbled twice, not knowing what it was talking about.
"Come up. Ning Jun bared his teeth and patted his shoulder.
The little beast immediately swooped up and rubbed Ning Junxi's cheek twice.
"Don't move!" Ning Junxi immediately shouted, and when the little beast was honest, he went to a bamboo, closed his eyes and pinched his fingers, and said something in his mouth.
I saw a faint blue light beside him, and suddenly the green bamboo swayed, and a bamboo shadow appeared under his feet, gently holding him up, just a few breaths to send him to a place dozens of feet high.
The bamboo forest is as vast as the sea, the breeze is together, the blue waves are rippling, and the thousand layers of green ripples are magnificent.
Ning Jun took it for granted, pinched another trick in his hand, raised his hand and pointed at the sky, "Open!"
In an instant, a golden light came to the world, and in an instant, a man and a beast disappeared.
Ning Junxi opened his eyes again, and what he saw was chaos, starless, moonless, boundless.
The little beast on his shoulder babbled, crawling into his face with all his might, so angry that Ning Junxi almost vomited blood.
"Be honest!" Ning Jun said with a dark face as he grabbed the little beast off his shoulder.
The little beast tilted its head, blinked in confusion, and babbled.
"Ahhh
After walking for nearly a quarter of an hour, a darkness appeared in the sight, an indescribable blackness, which was unusually conspicuous even in the chaos, but there was a white spot in it, small and weak.
Ning Junxi's face was happy, and his steps unconsciously sped up.
In the dark space, a huge grinding disc floated in it, and a woman in white clothes and white hair, unkempt, was pushing the millstone little by little like an ant, I don't know how many days and nights it had been.
"Blame mother-in-law!" Ning Junxi stopped in front of the darkness, reached over and touched something like a wall, and shouted.
The woman did not react.
"Dead old man!" Ning Jun muttered, carefully biting his finger and dripping blood onto the wall.
There was a soft pop, as if something had changed, and as if nothing had changed.
"Blame mother-in-law!" Ning Junxi shouted again.
The woman was shocked, raised her head and glanced in the direction of Ning Junxi, and stayed there.
"Come here, I've got something good for you, hurry, hurry. Ning Junxi grinned and began to take things from the baggage, "This is Uncle Yue's monkey wine, I only stole it yesterday, this is Aunt Rou's dried carrots, she is probably going to jump in anger, this is Aunt Mei's roast chicken, I don't know if it's cooked or not, but it's very hot, it should be able to eat, this is ...... Hey, why don't you come?"
Ning Junxi grabbed a palm-sized grilled carp, looked innocent, pursed his mouth again, lowered his head and said bitterly, "Don't be angry, I know I shouldn't have forgotten to say hello to you, but as soon as I came back, I hurried to prepare a gift for you, I know it's wrong, don't be angry." I'm already very unlucky, if you ignore me, no one will listen to me. ”
As soon as he looked up, the woman was already standing in front of him.
Ning Junxi instinctively jumped back, and when she saw that the woman was stunned, she reacted suddenly, scratching her head, a little embarrassed.
When Ning Junxi came here for the first time, he felt curious, at that time, he tossed for a long time, but he couldn't get in, so when a strange person suddenly appeared inside, he thought that he couldn't get in, and this strange person couldn't get out, so he lay on the ban without any scruples and opened his teeth and claws, but the woman came out as soon as she stretched out her hand, and dragged him inside, he was not stupid, so he naturally didn't want to go in, so he was so scared that he yelled, or the old man came to relieve the siege.
Neither of them spoke, and after a while, Ning Junxi grinned in embarrassment, "I'm not...... I'm not afraid of you, I'm ...... When I went out some time ago, the people outside were all bad people, and I didn't recover for a while. ”
The woman still didn't speak, but sat down slowly.
Ning Junxi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled again, "This is Aunt Li's fish, this is Uncle Lin's snake, and this is ......"
"Oh, no, the old man said he couldn't give you water, otherwise you'd be very old, very old, and you would be a real monster. Ning Junxi shook off his burden, formed a ball, and sat on the ground, "It's not enough to tell me again, I can still get a lot." ”
He smiled extremely happily, "Let me tell you, I have reached the stage of solitude, and I will be able to rise in a few days, as long as I reach the Vajra realm, I will be able to go to my mother." ”
"I've been out for the past three years, opened a wine shop, and met a lot of people, my good buddy Yuan Xihong, the most righteous, if something comes to mind, I don't know if he will be angry if I leave without a sound. ”
"There is also Brother Xiaohua, who takes special care of my business, and I only give him Uncle Yue's monkey wine to drink. ”
"Sister Zhang is also very good, although she has a cold face every time she sees me, she knows that Brother Xiaohua will not stop me from drinking my wine, and often asks Brother Xiaohua to bring me a piece of roasted sweet potato or something. ”
"There is a little Taoist priest who rides a donkey, and he likes to read those gaudy picture books the most, and every time he asks me to help buy them, he still says that the four monks are empty. ”
"There is a man wearing a hat, saying that the rivers and lakes are boring, but wine is okay. Who knows that I paid five taels of wine on credit and never came back. ”
"There was a sister who ran away from marriage, and she said that she went to find her sweetheart, and when she found it, she asked me to drink her wedding wine, and I don't know if I could drink at that time. ”
"There is a down-and-out scholar who has been holding a book, he looks elegant, but he can also roll up his sleeves and scold others, and he also likes to eat meat and drink wine in a big bowl, I like him the most. ”
"There was a little brother who wore a wooden knife, I invited him to drink a bowl of wine, and he said that when he learned the knife, he would invite me to a good meal, and he would ask for five catties of beef. ”
"There was a sister with a sword, she thought I was an ordinary person, she said she was going to kill someone, and after killing her, she came back and taught me all her swordsmanship, but unfortunately she liked my white hair, but I didn't like it at all. ”
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The young man chattered and told the woman about what he had seen and heard in the past three years, like pouring beans, and these old men and the spirits who grew up with him would not listen.
The woman listened quietly, without speaking or interrupting as before, after eight years of acquaintance, the woman had never said a word in front of the boy.
Two people, one speaks, the other listens, and occasionally the little beast will babble twice, which is also harmless.
The surroundings are quiet, the time is quiet, and the years are also quiet.