Chapter 19: Anxiety
I don't know if the red glow on He Lingfeng's face is really a sunset shadow, or if he owns it, or both.
I only knew that on this day, He Lingfeng stood in the octagonal viewing pavilion until the moon rose, the stars were shining, and there was a cold night at the top of the mountain, and then he turned back.
Back in the courtyard where he lived, He Lingfeng summoned the disciples of the Tianyi Sect who were serving him and asked him to bring him an evening meal.
He Lingfeng ate very slowly, and while eating, he was still thinking about the little girl he met in the back mountain that afternoon.
The delicate and lovely shadow, the inky green silk, the flying fairy bun that adds a bit of agility, the bright starry eyes, the curved willow dai, the shallow pear vortex when pursing the lips and chuckling...
The good things that should be in front of his eyes appear one by one.
The hazy feelings peculiar to a young man enveloped him, and he sank into it, joy, shyness, anticipation... All emotions were mixed together, and in his innocent heart, which had not been trained by much red dust, the tide was turbulent and churning, filling his heart to the brim.
His heart could no longer hold anything else, and his taste buds seemed to be unable to touch, which made him feel that tonight's tea and dinner were bland and tasteless.
After the meal, he sat at the table with his chin propped up with one hand.
The matter of studying the "Commentary on the Tianhua Taoist Sutra" given by Tianyi Zhenren was naturally forgotten by him.
At night, he tossed and turned, but he couldn't sleep. It wasn't until a long time after the third watch that he fell asleep.
In the early morning of the second day, He Lingfeng woke up leisurely, washed up a little after getting up, washed his face with cool water, and calmed his heart a little.
He remembered that he had forgotten to read the ancient book last night, and he patted his head, and his heart was secretly annoyed. Then he had a hasty breakfast, sat down and took out the "Commentary on the Tianhua Taoist Sutra" from his arms, and began to read it.
However, due to his state of mind, he was not as engrossed as before, and he had read only three pages in one morning. As for how much he understood, even he couldn't figure it out.
In this way, when it was noon, he put away the books and asked the attendant disciples to bring lunch, which he also hastily ate.
Then, he trotted all the way to the viewing pavilion yesterday, looking forward to meeting the cute and agile little girl again.
When he arrived, he found that there was no one around, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.
But then I thought about it, maybe the little girl was having lunch, maybe she was on her way, maybe there was something else delayed... In short, they are all reasons that they think are reasonable, so as to comfort themselves, and then sit down and enjoy the scenery while looking back from time to time to see where they came.
He forgot that when Feng Ling'er separated from him yesterday, he didn't make an appointment with him to come here to play again today.
The time spent alone is long and short. The long one is difficult, and the people who have to wait are delayed, and the short is that the large amount of time passes in a blink of an eye, and the people who have to wait are still nowhere to be seen.
An afternoon passed quietly in waiting, evening came, and evening passed. Then, the sun sank to the western mountains, and the sky grew dark, until the stars and moon descended and shone on the earth.
He Lingfeng's heart began to become increasingly anxious and lost since the time of Shen You's alternation. I haven't seen anyone waiting for a long time, and I'm even more depressed at this time.
She's not going to be here today, maybe there's something she can't do. Maybe she'll be here again tomorrow... He Lingfeng thought so, turned around and walked back slowly.
In such a mood, even the seemingly delicious dinner was naturally tasteless by him.
When he couldn't sleep at night, he took out the book of "Commentary on the Tianhua Taoist Sutra" to kill time, until he was drowsy, he didn't forget to put it away, and then he turned over and fell asleep.
On the third day, he woke up early, but after eating, he went straight to the Octagonal Viewing Pavilion, he was afraid that Feng Ling'er might come in the morning, and he would come again at noon, but he would miss it.
I waited for a day, but I still didn't see her coming. He Lingfeng returned to his residence in a huff, and he didn't know how he spent the night.
When He Lingfeng woke up on the fourth day, he found that he had slept on the table all night. He went to the pavilion again and waited for a day, but he was still gone.
After three days of torture, his heart was not as anxious as it was at the beginning.
He Lingfeng, who calmed down, thought to himself, Feng Ling'er is the place where he can come to this back mountain, and he must also be the relatives and family members of the Tianyi Sect who have a head and a face.
The mountain behind is so big, in this case, there will always be a day when we will see her again, so I no longer want to see her immediately.
Now that his mood was calm, he concentrated on reading the commentary on the Taoist scriptures that night, and did not turn off the lights and go to sleep until about half an hour after the third watch.
On the fifth day, he got up early to continue studying the "Commentary on the Tianhua Taoist Sutra", and only went to the Octagonal Pavilion for an hour to rest before the halfway point.
Of course, He Lingfeng also wanted to try his luck with this, but he still hadn't seen that Feng Ling'er girl. He was not annoyed, and continued to study diligently after he returned.
There was no word for a night, and on the sixth day and the next two days, He Lingfeng still spent the same day as before.
But on the evening of the eighth day after Tianyi Zhenren left, he began to become a little anxious again.
Just because Tianyi Zhenren had said on the evening of the day when he left, that the short would be five days, and the long would be ten days, and he would return. And now that eight full days had passed, he was naturally starting to worry.
On the ninth day, He Lingfeng flipped through the commentaries of the Taoist scriptures as usual, but the worry about Tianyi Zhenren in his heart couldn't help but increase.
On the tenth day, which is also the last day of the deadline mentioned by Tianyi Zhenren, He Lingfeng has been waiting for Tianyi Zhenren to arrive all the time since he got up in the morning.
But until noon, Tianyi Zhenren still did not return, and He Lingfeng's heart became more and more anxious and worried as time went by.
Then, before the time, Shen Shi also spent time in panic and waiting.
After the unitary time, it is still not seen.
He Lingfeng didn't have the heart to take care of dinner, he hurried out of the house, went straight to Tianyizhen's residence, and sat down on the cylindrical stone bench next to the stone table in the courtyard and waited.
Seeing that it was coming to an end, He Lingfeng couldn't sit still anymore, he stood up and paced back and forth anxiously in the courtyard.
The disciples of the Tianyi Sect who were guarding the courtyard didn't understand why He Lingfeng was so anxious, they didn't know what Tianyi Zhenren was doing when he went out this time.
But Tianyi Zhenren likes to travel all over the world and often goes out, and it is common for them to disappear in a month and months, so they are not worried.
He Lingfeng couldn't explain it clearly, so he could only be anxious alone.
After the time, He Lingfeng couldn't wait, and wanted to find someone to help find Tianyi Zhenren, but only then did he remember that when the real person went out to find something to open for him, he didn't say where he was going.
Moreover, in the huge Tianyi Sect, he has never been in contact with a few people, except for Tianyi Zhenren, only Feng Wuchen is familiar with him.
But since Feng Wuchen came back with him last time, he has gone to retreat to impact Yuanying, and He Lingfeng has not heard from him for more than ten days.
But he decided that if he still didn't see Tianyi return the next morning, he would try his luck in a dusty place to see how the latter's retreat was going, and if there was any way to inform him of his retreat without disturbing his retreat.
With his mind already decided, He Lingfeng waited for a while, and only after half of the hour did he return to his residence with an anxious mood. Tossing and turning for a while before I could fall asleep.
On the eleventh day, He Lingfeng got up early in the morning, and he didn't bother to wash and eat, so he rushed to Tianyizhen's residence in a hurry and asked the disciples who guarded the door, but he still hadn't returned.
He Lingfeng ran all the way to Feng Wuchen's residence, he had been temporarily living in Feng Wuchen's place when he first came to Tianyi Sect, so the road was quite familiar.
It didn't take long for him to find a place.
A courtyard with white walls and blue tiles, the gate is open, and a main house and two side rooms in the courtyard are located along the gate, and there are miscellaneous houses on both sides.
He Lingfeng didn't say hello in a hurry, so he rushed in. He didn't look at it, but went straight to the main house.
He Lingfeng had just stepped into the threshold with his left foot, but his right foot had not yet landed, and his body had not yet stood firm. However, when I saw the situation inside the house, I couldn't help but be stunned.
I saw that his two eyes widened, and his feet suddenly stopped, but he almost tripped and fell to the ground.