Chapter 18: Ten Years Later

Lu Yu's mind kept echoing, echoing a lot, he remembered his mother and said to him when he was a child: Men are born in heaven and earth, and they can't cry and cry. In the past nearly a month, in the dead of night, he recalled that on that stormy night, watching his mother leave, and he could not do anything. I think back to the Master who was still in retreat in the incense pagoda. He actually wanted to cry, but he knew that crying would not solve any problems, and would only make him more and more failures. He wants to fight for a breath, he doesn't want people in the world to become as helpless as he is. There was a lot of pain and gratitude in my mind. Lu Yu let out a long sigh, his eyes looked firmly at the gradually setting sun, the emotions in his heart gradually calmed down, and a long-lost smile appeared on his face again. Yun Yao looked at Lu Yu, who was reinvigorated, and also took a slow breath, and grimaced at him. The riverside is exceptionally quiet after the sunset, but no matter how long the silence is, there is an end, and after the end is a different world.

The sky is high and the clouds are talking, and the clouds are rolling up. On a desolate mountain hundreds of meters away from Qixia Peak, looking at the lively Qixia Peak. I saw a child, he went out early and returned late, was questioned by everyone, and could only walk alone to the lonely and boring back mountain, this very weak child, carrying a large bamboo basket on his back, the basket was full of some herbs that could not speak. The scorching sun shone on his head, and drops of sweat sprinkled from his forehead on those delicate grasses, and he could only wipe away the sweat silently. Sometimes, for the sake of a column of strange-looking herbs, it is necessary to climb the steep mountain wall alone. The cold rocks cut through his skin, and he could only grit his teeth, grind some mediocre-looking grass and apply it to his skin, and then bite off a piece of cloth on his body to firmly tie the wound. It's a little too tired, sometimes you can fall asleep against the tree, and even if you fall asleep, you are holding the strange-smelling bamboo basket with both hands. Although his face was full of bitterness, when he woke up and looked at the basket full of herbs, a small smile and satisfaction appeared on his bitter face. When I'm lonely, I can only talk to those wild cats and wild dogs. Whenever the basket is full, it goes to a thatched hut in the back mountain. Before he reached the door of the thatched hut, he could hear a call, and saw an old man with blank eyes who had been waiting there for a long time. Next to the old man stood a female doll about the same age as a child, and a smile finally appeared on her originally bitter face. After a simple meal, the children will pack up the leftovers and bring them to the wild cats and dogs. Looking at those little animals, he will also feel some relief, feeling that he can help many weak lives. After a slight turn of sight, I saw that the child and the girl were in a very secluded place, high on the mountain, leaving an endless spring of water, and the water flowed into the shallow rocky beach. Perhaps it is the passage of time, and the original rocky beach has been erased by the spring water to form a small river. In front of the river, I saw two children watering the rising peach blossoms. Although this small peach forest is not as magnificent as the poplar trees on Qixia Peak, it is also beautiful and moving. In the peach forest, the female doll was wielding a very delicate wooden sword, and the boy could only break a branch and follow the back to study, and not far away an old man was lying drunk with a wine jug. The mood that had been suppressed all morning seemed to be released at this time, and the child's face also showed a smile that he had not seen for a long time. The sun shines on the woods in the back mountain, adding a ray of vitality to the lonely back mountain. When the last rays of light fall, the bustling mountain fades away from the maple fire. The stars are twinkling in the sky, and the people on the earth are gradually falling asleep, and everything is waiting for the next day's morning sun to shine again......

Heaven and earth and stars, mountains and rivers, the sun and the moon change, and the stars change. The rotation of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter seems to be in a flick of a finger, time passes in a hurry like a white horse, and inadvertently, ten years have passed. In the Tianshan faction, on the peak of Qixia, the flowers bloom and fall, the clouds roll up, time flies, and the sun and the moon are like shuttles. The maple leaves in the mountains quietly fall and grow again. Ten years have passed, and the mountain is still as lively as ever, as if the years have not taken away anything, even if it has been decades later, it is still so noisy.

"Bang~Bang~" The sound of a waterfall broke the original silence. The mountain behind Qixia Peak, in the sea of flowers next to the waterfall. I saw a woman in the age of flowers, holding a sword in one hand, dancing among the flowers, although each sword has internal force, but it does not hurt the petals in the slightest. A long hair fluttering in the wind, wearing a pink gown, the hand holding the sword is slender, a pair of small hands are as smooth as snow, turning around in the dance, two long hairs hang down slightly from the shoulders, and a pair of eyes are faintly seen in the sea of flowers, those eyes are as bright as the moon, and even the flowers beside him are faintly withered with a shallow smile. The moving peach petals on the tree fell, and the falling peach petals were like pink butterflies, fluttering with the sword dance. The dancing sword is surrounded by pale blue glow, and in the reflection of the sun, it is as beautiful and moving as the gods in the sky dancing under the moon, which makes people yearn for it. Another sword qi hit the river behind him, and the water in the river was swept up by this internal force and splashed down on a man beside the stream.

The man was hit in the face by a stream of cold river water, screamed, and woke up from his sleep. I saw that the man was in his youth, dressed in a dirty blue robe, and his clothes were covered with dust and dirt. The man's appearance was mediocre, the skin around him was slightly yellow, a pair of big eyes, and the immaturity between the eyebrows had faded, replaced by a hint of desolation. His hands were covered with cuts from sharp vegetation. The man looked at the woman in the peach blossom forest and shouted angrily, "Senior Sister Yun Yao!"

The woman smiled in the sea of flowers, danced again, rolled up bursts of peach petals, and the peach petals tightly surrounded the woman's sleeves. In an instant, the peach petals scattered on the ground gathered together again and rolled up a small whirlpool. The woman stepped lightly, and the petals around her body also rose into the air with the figure. I saw the woman in the air spinning around, and the petals also rotated, which was extremely beautiful. When he arrived at the peach blossom branch, the embroidered version of the small shoe was lightly clicked, and the whole person jumped backwards. She turned around in the air and stopped by the stream, the woman's movements were loud, but she was very quiet, her toes touched the ground gently, and then the ribbon fluttering on her body slowly fell. Every move is very elegant, like a fairy dancing in the sky. The man's eyes on the side kept looking at the woman, and his face was already red at some point, as if he had been hooked, and he couldn't move away for a long time. The woman put away the light blue long sword, ran to the man's side and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Lu, how is it, my swordsmanship is good." This is what Senior Sister Mei just taught me. Isn't it beautiful?"

Lu Yu looked at the senior sister with an expectant expression on her face and scratched her head a little shyly, her eyes didn't dare to look at each other, so she could only stutter and say, "Okay, good-looking." It's beautiful, like a fairy in the sky!"

Yun Yao immediately teased: "Hmph~ You haven't seen a fairy again, how do you know what a fairy looks like!"

Lu Yu didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to lower his head. Yun Yao looked at Lu Yu, who was soaked and embarrassed, and couldn't help laughing for a while.

Lu Yu was ridiculed like this, and his delicate face rose with a layer of redness, and he didn't know what to do for a while. Hurriedly looked a little away, and found a bamboo basket on the stone in the distance. Hurriedly changed the subject: "Ah, my herbs!"

Yun Yao looked at the sun above her head and said, "Alas, senior brother. I think it's only noon, so why don't we sneak down the mountain and have fun!"

When Lu Yu heard this, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "Senior sister, don't go down the mountain secretly, if you are discovered, you will be locked up." ”

Yun Yao glanced at Lu Yu, who looked nervous, and burst out laughing. said: "Look at you, why are you so nervous." Didn't Master go down the mountain to deal with affairs recently, and no one would know about us secretly going down the mountain. ”

Lu Yu hurriedly said: "But recently, the demon sect demons seem to have taken action, I heard that many senior brothers with advanced cultivation have been sent down the mountain to find out the news, I'm afraid that I will encounter danger!"

After hearing this, Yun Yao waved the light blue long sword in her hand, and said with some complacency: "Hmph, now that my cultivation is an ordinary demon dao, it can't hurt me." If I really meet it, it would be better, I will see one and kill the other. ”

Lu Yu looked at the light blue sword with some envy, and said with emotion in his heart: In the past ten years, I have not learned any martial arts, and I can only treat some cats and dogs all day long, and I can't learn anything. As for Senior Sister Yun Yao, she is only sixteen years old now, she has already cultivated to a high level, and she has become the most talented disciple in the Tianshan Sect, and she is becoming more and more beautiful and moving, even the real person in charge of the sect has good expectations for her, and many male disciples in the sect are also haunted by her. As early as three years ago, Master Xue Qing passed on the Snow Moon Sword and Snow Moon Divine Skills to her. It seems that she has acquiesced to Senior Sister Yun Yao as the next Qi Xia Peak Leader. But he didn't achieve anything, and every time he walked with his junior sister, he was looked at with strange eyes. Even he looked down on himself a little and felt very embarrassed to the master.

After a moment of cranky thought in his mind, he sighed softly. It has been ten years since I went up the mountain, and I have been in this Qixia Peak every day, and I have not seen what the situation is like under the mountain for ten years. Looking back, I can't help but feel a little sadness in my heart. For a while, I even wanted to go down the mountain to have a look.

Yun Yao saw his thoughts, turned his head, and said, "It's the Mid-Autumn Festival recently, and Lingzhou City under the mountain is lively. Why don't we go there and have a look?"

Lu Yu heard the silent muttering in his mouth: "Mid-Autumn Festival!" suddenly remembered that there was less than a month left, and it was Senior Sister Yun Yao's birthday, and Senior Sister treated her best and closest to her on weekdays, and she should also go down the mountain to buy a gift for her. Although he was a little reluctant, he nodded a little uncompromisingly.

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