When Wan Xiu saw that he was leaving, he unconsciously helped the bed and shouted, "Lin Gongzi, are you leaving?"

Mrs. Wan turned her head to look, and saw Wan Xiu's anxious expression, with a little worry between her eyebrows, just looking at Lin Jianlan, her reluctance was overflowing, and she was shocked, and said secretly: "Could it be ......" But she didn't have time to think about it, she walked quickly to the door and said: "I was anxious just now, I blamed Lin Gongzi, you took Ah Xiu to heal, how could you let you say that you can go, so sit for a while, I'll prepare some food, this time, but please Lin Gongzi rest assured to taste my craftsmanship." After speaking, he hurriedly walked out and stepped out of the corridor, only to feel that his heart was like numbness, Wan Xiu's expression was still in front of him, and Mrs. Wan secretly said in her heart: "Silly girl, why are you moved by him? The master behind Doctor Cheng is of unknown origin, and he is planning to harm Lin Jianlan, if I leave it alone, won't I miss you?"

However, Mrs. Wan thought that she could not accompany her daughter for the rest of her life after all, could it be that because of her daughter's illness, she would not marry for the rest of her life? In all fairness, Lin Jianlan is not only Lin Longqing's righteous son, but also handsome and smart, and it is even more rare that he seems to be quite concerned about Ah Xiu's affairs, but in her heart, she thinks that Ah Xiu's illness is not easy to drag to this day, and now there is no cure, maybe she has to go one step ahead of herself, and his thoughts are always entangled, and in the end he can only turn into a long sigh and walk slowly towards the kitchen.

Lin Jianlan didn't have the heart to eat her meal, she wanted to leave immediately, so as not to make her sad and uncomfortable when she was separated from Wan Xiu, but she couldn't go out at the moment, turned around and smiled bitterly: "Ah Xiu, I wanted to avoid this goodbye with you, but I couldn't avoid it no matter what." ”

Wan Xiu saw Lin Jianlan standing by the door, the afterglow on the side of the door sprinkled in, reflected on him, dragging out a very long faint shadow on the ground, warm and lonely, raised his eyes, and saw that his face also showed a little reluctance, only a moment to change his smile again, closed the door and walked to his side and said: "Your mother is so anxious to go out, she forgot to close the door, but I don't dare to eat her meal." ”

Wan Xiu blushed and said, "With me, she doesn't dare to do anything." He lowered his head lightly and said, "I, I didn't mean to stop you just now, since Lin Gongzi is leaving, I just want to say goodbye to you." But the voice was getting lower and lower.

Lin Jianlan said: "Ah Xiu, how can it be like this breakup has become a farewell? If you have something, just ask someone to find me at any time." Wan Xiu frowned and recited it several times, and finally said, "I wrote it down, I won't tell my mother about this place." ”

Lin Jianlan smiled and said, "That's not a big deal, don't think your mother is so bad." Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he said, "You wait for me first." He jumped out of the window.

After a while, Wan Xiu only heard a crisp bell outside the window, and after a while, it was quiet again, and the window "creaked" open, Lin Jianlan poked his head in and beckoned: "Ah Xiu, you bring something to shade and sit by the window." ”

Wan Xiu didn't know what he meant, according to his words, he slowly leaned against the wall to the window and sat down, but saw a green bamboo forest outside the window crisscrossed by red ropes, and many bells were densely hung on it, but the weather was hot and windless, and the branches never moved, so these bells hung quietly on the red rope without sound. She was wondering in her heart, but she felt that something was stuffed in her hand, and when she looked down, it was actually a copper coin, and when she looked up, she saw Lin Jianlan and said with a smile: "I have recently practiced a fun move, which is inspired by those hanging bell elders of the beggar gang, and I will only give you one person to see, you just throw money at me, and see that I will catch all your money without a word." ”

Wan Xiu tilted his head and smiled: "Okay, you can continue to reward me." With that, he clutched a coin in his hand and hit the bamboo forest with a "bang".

Lin Jianlan didn't think that she would do it, so she said "bad girl" lightly and stepped back, turned over and crossed a red rope as if she had eyes behind her, bent over her back, and when she got up again, she smiled proudly at Wan Xiu with a copper coin in her mouth.

Wan Xiu also got playful, pinched another one and threw it out, but immediately threw another one to the red rope bell, Lin Jianlan had already drawn out the long sword, leaped and moved in the forest, and pinched the copper coin in his hand, and immediately stretched a short long sword backwards, and the copper coin was about to touch the bell, but it was just rebounded by the long sword, and flew upwards with a "ding" sound, and fell again, falling in Lin Jianlan's hand, and there were already a few sparse copper coins flying next to it.

Wan Xiu didn't know what kind of footwork and swordsmanship Lin Jianlan used, I saw his figure dangling like a piece of soft silk in the bamboo forest, graceful, as if he was about to touch the bamboo pole or red rope but extremely silky bypass, his body was like a flying crane, his sleeves were gently rolled slowly, the long sword opened and closed vertically and horizontally, and sometimes he flew like a shuttlecock to kick the copper coin, and as the copper coins in his hand were thrown one after another, the sound of jingling was endless, which made her dazzled.

At this time, a sudden breeze lifted up, as if it was about to rise into a strong wind, Wan Xiu saw that there were still a number of copper coins in her hand, so she smiled lightly, and threw them all, her strength was weak, she couldn't throw them too high and too far, those copper coins had fallen to the height of Lin Jianlan's shoulders in the bamboo forest, seeing that his body was several times faster, like a gale, the bamboo branches that shook also trembled slightly, at this time the sound of copper coins bouncing on the sword was more intensive, dozens of them or first or then bounced to a very high place, Lin Jianlan Fang let out a long roar, jumped up, and wrapped those copper coins in his sleeve one by one。

Wan Xiu saw that a copper coin was about to fall outside the forest, and it seemed that he couldn't catch it in a hurry, so he couldn't help but let out an "ah", Lin Jianlan only didn't hurry and sharpened the long sword, flew down, and threw the bamboo branch in his hand to the copper coin, but it was the last to come first, nailed in the mud, and the copper coin fell impartially on the bamboo branch and penetrated it, but it was blocked by the bamboo leaf, and it shook gently on the small branch.

Wan Xiu was about to clap his hands and admire, but saw that Lin Jianlan had turned over and stood on the wall, smiled at her from afar, waved his hand, and disappeared, knowing in his heart that this goodbye would come sooner or later, but it made him think so much, at this time the wind finally got stronger, the bamboo forest shook, making a rustling sound, and the bells on the red rope trembled for a while, and the sound of ding dong gradually staggered in, which was very pleasant, Wan Xiu's mouth couldn't help but smile lightly, but his heart was full of melancholy.

Lin Jianlan returned to the long-lost courtyard, seeing that he had not lived in the house these days, and there was already a thin layer of ash in the house, and it was already evening after cleaning up, facing a candlelight, the mood was also difficult to calm down, the most difficult thing in life was parting, but because I didn't know when to see each other again after parting, especially in the rivers and lakes, how could I not be in such a state of mind when I was separated from my grandmother, Lin Longqing, Yue Lingfeng and others? Thinking of this, Lin Jianlan only felt that the room was a little stuffy, so he propped up the window, slightly cooler, still sitting upright on the bed, closed his eyes and recalled today's body in the bamboo forest, and said in his heart: "After all, I can only use it for tricks when I combine the Liuyun Sword Technique and the East Liuyun Step, Ah Xiu is not happy, so there is still a chance to turn, and the bell on the red rope is also dead, if it is like those hidden weapon masters in the Kuangyi Gang, how to save it?" If today's bell is the bell on the staff of the beggar gang disciples or even the elders, then what should it be?" All kinds of figures swirled in his mind, as if there were several figures against the enemy, if he figured out a move, the corners of his mouth revealed a little smile, if he couldn't make any moves, he frowned, and his expression was distressed.

He indulged in it, did not feel the passage of time, but was suddenly awakened by a rapid knock on the door, opened his eyes and saw that it was already late at night outside, the wooden ruler of the window had not known when it was blown off by the wind, hurriedly walked a few steps to open the door but it was a cool breeze with a drizzle, the ground was watery, it seemed that it had just rained, and it was getting smaller at the moment, and he wondered who found here, so he opened the courtyard door but a person fell into his arms, and a pale one under the cloak was looking up at him, shivering slightly, it was Wan Xiu who had just been separated for half a day, and he exhaled softly, and mixed Wan Xiu into the room and sat down。

Lin Jianlan only glanced at it by the candlelight, then hurriedly rekindled the fire, sat the teapot on the stove, took a chair from the side of the bed and put it by the stove, and helped Wan Xiu over, seeing that her forehead was still dripping, her slender fingers were tightly grasping the branch, the strings on it were wet and black, and she had lost her true color, and the background color of the cloak should be light green, but it was stained with countless mud marks, and she barely found it after falling down on the road.

Seeing Wan Xiu's appearance, Lin Jianlan couldn't help but be annoyed that she didn't take good care of her body, but she couldn't blame her, so she just sat next to her and looked at the teapot and said, "Ah Xiu, you, alas, what should I say about you?"

Wan Xiu was about to speak, but his teeth collided, and he couldn't speak, so he only looked anxious at Lin Jianlan. Lin Jianlan sighed in his heart, seeing that the water in the teapot was also a little warm, he poured a cup and handed it to her, Wan Xiu held the teacup, gently pressed the pointed jaw against the rim of the cup, and suddenly felt a burst of warmth, the mist in the teacup rose, and finally eased up after a while, and said: "Lin Gongzi, I'm afraid something happened to your father-in-law!"

Lin Jianlan suddenly "chuckled" in his heart, the teapot in his hand was almost unstable for a moment, and he hurriedly put it on the stove, and said in a trembling voice: "Qin Protector, did he really do it?"

Wan Xiu glanced at him in astonishment, for some reason Lin Jianlan was able to say the word "Qin Protector" in one sentence, seeing that he looked anxious, knowing that the sudden visit and the words just now shook Lin Jianlan's heart greatly, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and said calmly: "My father was originally in the Jinzhou branch to take care of things, but he came here at dinnertime, he used to go out for a few days and would come to my room as soon as he came home to inquire about his condition, but today he only asked me to rest in a deep voice. ”

Lin Jianlan said secretly: "Wan Jianhong must have gotten the news from the main hall and rushed to Chang'an from Jinzhou to calculate the time, but it was when Uncle Qing sent Fang and Yue here. ”

"My heart says that my father is so heavy-faced, unusual, something must have happened, maybe I can hear something about Lin Gongzi from it......" Speaking of this, Wan Xiu took a sip of water lightly and continued: "I didn't dare to eavesdrop at the door of the conference hall, so I was only outside the window, they thought that I had already rested, and there was heavy rain outside, but fortunately they didn't notice it, and there were not only my father and mother in the council room, but Doctor Cheng was also among them, and when he saw my father, he smiled and said: 'The master of the hall is very well-informed, and he really heard the wind. ’”

"My father snorted coldly and said, 'This is not the Jinju Branch, and you are no longer the elder of the Kuangyi Gang.

"Doctor Cheng was not angry, and said: 'The hall master is not allowed to leave the branch hall without permission, how can the master of the hall think of himself as a member of the Kuangyi Gang? If he knew that something had happened to the main hall, he should rush back to Hangzhou, why did he come here? I think the Kuangyi Gang building is about to collapse, so we should quickly find another backer to find another way out, right?'Alas, I vaguely remember that when I was a child, my father was very friendly with the Lin gang leader, but I didn't expect him to act like this when the Kuangyi Gang had an accident, and I felt really guilty in my heart. ”

Lin Jianlan saw Wan Xiu blaming himself, but smiled with relief: "Ah Xiu doesn't have to take all the things of his parents on himself, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, the Kuangyi Gang has changed in recent years, and it is inevitable that each branch master has his own thoughts." ”

Wan Xiu said: "My father's tone is a little hateful: 'The first gang in the world in the past has become what it is today, and the credit of Doctor Cheng is not small!', Doctor Cheng said: 'Isn't it too naïve for Master Wan to say this? Kuang Yi helped Lin Longqing and Cao Shujian, everyone said that they were young and promising, but I, the old man, wanted to say that they were short-sighted! There are so many branches across the country, and the main hall is like a strict barrier, to such a point, it has long been unknown to be targeted by several families, and there are huge forces, there are those who want to use it, and there are those who want to disintegrate! Is it my own doing?'

Lin Jianlan said secretly: "Buddhists say that everything is impermanent, and the winner will decline. The Kuangyi Gang is at its peak, and naturally there is such a day, and Yin Yin's father's incident is just the beginning. Thinking of this, he added two more pieces of charcoal to the furnace and said, "If what I think is right, my father probably wants to start a new stove, right?"

Wan Xiu shrank back uneasily, and said: "Until this time, I didn't know what was going on, my father had to sigh: 'The dignified Kuangyi Gang actually fell into the hands of a yellow-haired girl, Qin Tianxiong, I can't spare him when I see it!'" As soon as the words fell, he saw that the fork holding the charcoal in Lin Jianlan's hand fell to the ground, and he immediately bent down and picked it up in his hand and threw it into the charcoal basket.

Lin Jianlan only looked at the firelight, from the courtyard when he first saw the ice and snow face, the way he secretly cried on the blue waves of the Yangtze River, the reddish face behind the enemy on the nine-zigzag bridge, and the cold gaze that looked around when he finally left Kuang Yi Hall, even if it was fixed on himself for a moment, it was unforgettable. It's just that it turns out that—

It's that you want to forget, but you can't forget it.