Two hours ago.

In the courtyard of the east of the Lu Mansion, a huge plane tree flickered with white soft light, the sunset sloped westward, and the sunset afterglow of wandering the mountains and ravines finally stagnated on the lush forest canopy, and there were countless fireflies flying in the east of the sycamore, and the west side of the sunset contained the gentle and graceful jade of the world.

Under the shade of the tree, there was a man sitting on the podium, his eyes closed.

The retreat was sweating profusely and trembling slightly.

A gust of wind blew, the robe hunted, and the man in white suddenly opened his eyes, and a cold light hit him in his field of vision.

"Insect carving skills. The man in white snorted coldly, slapped his palms towards the podium, his legs were still coiled without parting, but his figure rose from the ground.

"Oh, is it?" the man with the gun, who strode to the north and south, slammed the tip of the gun out and pierced it, and the figure of the young man was long gone.

"Your gun isn't fast enough. The man in white rose to a height that touched the end of the sycamore branch, and he glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and put his backhand on the smooth branch, the sole of which looked like a rough jade tree trunk.

"Then I'm not keeping my hands?" The man holding the gun was wearing an ordinary military robe, and his appearance was not eye-catching, but his momentum turned sharply after holding the gun.

"Your Excellency, please. The man in white pounced on him with a fearless face, and his palm was like an axe.

"Bang. The man in white lifted the tip of the tiger's head spear about a foot long with one palm, and when he landed, he turned around again and kicked at the person who attacked him.

"There is still the strength to fight back, which is indeed not to be underestimated. The split tiger head spear was pulled back by the martial robed man with brute force, and the spear and wooden pestle were pressed obliquely to block the flying back.

"Recently, I have made a big breakthrough in the tiger head gun, so I will use you to practice my hands!" The man holding the tiger head gun looked disrespectful, squeaked on the masonry with one foot, and stepped out with one foot to approach the tall and thin man with a rich face in an instant.

"It just so happens that I will take advantage of the situation to break through the realm of martial arts and let you become a stepping stone for my martial arts practice!"

The man in the martial robe swept the spear, although there was no air, but it was extremely powerful, the man in white originally wanted to shake it with his palm, but he immediately realized that it was wrong, turned his palm into a fist and hit it directly, sparks splashed, the tiger head gun seemed to be not shaken at all, and the sharp edge slashed straight at his throat, and the boy who was draped in white on his shoulders urgently stepped back and leaned back, and the wide robe was cut and the rope was trampled on the ground.

"How cowardly, that's not good, I haven't practiced enough!" The man holding the gun didn't wait for the man in white to react, he rushed to the air in one fell swoop, holding the tail end of the gun in both hands, his muscles bulging into pieces, the tiger head gun was thrown into a half-moon shape by the huge force, and the head of the black tiger's roaring gun smashed on the stone slab in an instant, if the man in white stayed for a moment, he would inevitably crumble like a hard rock.

"That's it, that's it, I'm really no match for you brute, I've lost, I've lost. The boy in white stumbled a few steps and almost fell, gasping for breath, his hair was messy, and it was obvious that the momentum that burst out from the earth-shattering tiger head had affected him.

"Hey, I thought you kid was very good at fighting now, but after a long time, it's still a show. The man holding the gun was very satisfied when he heard that the rich and noble boy spoke his praise, and he put the tiger head gun on his shoulder and showed a smile.

"Are you out of the customs?Marksmanship has become a master?Martial Arts Seven Realms?" The man in white tightened his embarrassed expression and regained his expression.

"It's even higher than the Seven Realms, and the Seven Realms are complete!"

"No wonder, I can't even get close to you, people are more popular than people, you are really a monster, a martial arts monster that is rare in a hundred years. ”

"I'm talking about me as a monster, I'm going to poke you with a gun! Poke countless holes in you!" The man with the gun has a round face with a fleshy mound, looking at his immature facial features, it can be seen that his age is not even a problem, and the person who carries the gun is obviously a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, but he is too anxious to be more burly than ordinary people, which gives people a great illusion.

"Okay, let's not say that we are not monsters, we are geniuses, prodigies, and geniuses!

"That's pretty much it!" the young man with the gun sat down on the steps outside the room, raised his sleeve and patted the place next to him.

"Not long after you came back, you're going to leave again?" The man in white sat down with the young man, regardless of whether there were mud crumbs on the ground.

"I'm leaving! I'm going to leave soon! This time I'm looking for you just to see Young Master Lu for the last time, I don't know if I can go back to Yangzhou in the future, I haven't had enough fun, and many beautiful sisters haven't touched it yet!"

"This book was given to you by my master, you have to remember to take a good look at it! Otherwise, in the future, my martial arts cultivation will be too low, and I will be easily beaten to death by someone who is inferior in my skills, what should I do, who should I find for revenge at that time!" The young man made a fuss in his arms, pulled out an old yellow book with few chapters and pages, and stuffed it into the hand of the man in white.

There was a coughing sound in the sky, and the young man looked embarrassed and reluctantly stood up.

"I'm leaving, and I'll definitely come back to you if I become a general!" the boy strode to the door and quickly shook his hand at him, disappearing from his vision.

"You ......" The man in white just raised his hand, but he couldn't put it down, and his eyes were a little reluctant.

"The sun is going down. After sitting on the steps for a long time, the man in white sighed and walked slowly towards the sycamore tree.

"This jade sycamore has also followed me for 20 years, in the blink of an eye I am already a weak crown, only to say that the world is full of mirrors and flowers, play and play, tired and tired, the world has also seen most of it, the master said that the world is big, unimaginable, this is really true. Lu Jingyuan stood under the tree and raised his hand to touch the spotted fireflies.

"The way of heaven and earth can be said in one word, and if it is a thing, its creatures are unpredictable. The way of heaven and earth: Bo also, thick also, high also, Ming also, leisurely also, long also. ”

"The way of a gentleman is dark and the day is open, and the way of the villain is the day of death. The way of a gentleman, light but not tired, simple and literate, gentle and reasonable, know the distance and near, know the wind from the self, know the subtlety, can be with the virtue. ”

"Mr. Sima, what you said before is still remembered by the students, and they dare not forget it, and they take it as a guideline. There were fireflies that landed on his fingers, but Lu Jingyuan didn't move, letting them follow one after another, and the last half of his arm exuded light, blending into the gloomy night.

"It's almost night, what are you doing here alone?Blowing a cool breeze?Or admiring the moon?" A gentle and crisp voice came from the back of his head, and Lu Jingyuan didn't look back but knew who it was.

"When the deceased left, he saw me before leaving, and I was touched a lot, and I made some painless complaints. ”

"Is it Li Yan?" the woman in the purple skirt put her hands behind her back, wearing a flowing water skirt, and her steps were very light.

"I can't hide anything from you, why don't you go out to visit the night market, what are you looking for me? Is it possible to wait for the sky to get dark and then accompany me to chant poems and admire the moon?" Lu Jingyuan sat back on the steps that had been wiped clean by his buttocks, and looked up at her.

"What you said is a good idea, and it is not impossible to accompany you to enjoy the moon. The woman in the purple dress walked up to him, stretched out her hand and pushed the long skirt behind her knee and sat beside him, and suddenly conjured a delicate round-lidded apricot box in her palm, and shook it in front of the man in white.

"For me?" Lu Jingyuan was a little surprised.

"Hmm. Lift the lid and take a look. ”

"Ghee locust cake ......" The man in white was stunned, staring at the round box sluggishly, and didn't say a word.

"Happy birthday. The woman in the purple dress smiled calmly.

"How are you...... Do you know?" Lu Jingyuan's eyes were as uncomfortable as rubbing into grains of sand, he closed his eyes tightly, and his heart stirred up turbulent waves, but his appearance was indifferent.

"A few days ago, I overheard an elderly family member mention it, so I wrote it down. The girl in the purple dress rested her hands on her knees and pursed her lips.

"You know why for more than ten years I have not had a big feast to celebrate my birthday, there is no small gathering of my family in the mansion, and even the servants of the house dare not mention it, all of them are secretive, and the color of the talk changes, my mother died of an accident when I was seven years old, and that day was the first day after my birthday, and this matter hit me very hard, and since then I have never been on my birthday, and I have ordered that if anyone talks about it, he will have forty rods from house to house, so thirteen years have passed, and I have never eaten this butter locust cake again. ”

"Today is the first time. ”

Lu Jingyuan sandwiched the jade plate-shaped pastry with ghee on the skin between his fingers, gently opened his mouth, took a bite, and had mixed feelings when chewing, a stream of sweetness flowed to his throat first, and the fragrance of acacia flowers was rich in the moment, and the greasy and slippery oil at the end of the meal was the same as back then, and it had not changed at all.

"It was exceptionally tasty. Lu Jingyuan stretched his brows at the end of the meal, unconsciously leaving a line of tears, and he quietly tilted his head.

He had never cried in front of her, and today was the first time.

Like a warm breeze, it swept away the yellow and rotten leaves.

"I'll buy it for you every year in the future. The woman in the purple dress smiled like a flower and did not notice his abnormality.

Maybe it's too dark.

"Good. Lu Jingyuan replied softly.

"Childe, no matter what happens in the future, Ziling will always be with you. ”

"Really?"

"Really. Ziling smiled.

"But I don't think you're right. Lu Jingyuan suddenly became serious.

"Huh?"

"It should be me, Lu Jingyuan, will never abandon you. ”