When the autumn wind enters the night, Xu Lu can wake up.

After the rain, there was a lot of stagnant water in the small courtyard, and Xu Lu walked out of the room and stepped barefoot on the stagnant water in the courtyard. He was still wearing only a jet-black robe, as if he was unconscious, and he couldn't detect the autumn coolness of the night.

Stepping out of the water in a circle of scattered ripples, Xu Lu came to his plum blossom tree, which is full of white plum blossoms all year round, took a deep breath, the autumn wind passed, and the plum blossom petals flew like snow.

Sitting on the ground, looking up at the crescent moon peeking out of the clouds after the autumn rain, Xu Lu looked at it for a long time.

Time stops at this moment.

At this moment, it is like a constant eternity.

Until a butterfly flew into Xu Lu's courtyard.

It was a blue butterfly, like the pale blue glow of the moonlight on the sea. In the dimly lit courtyard, in the bright moonlight, dancing with countless snow-white petals, flying from one petal to another, as if bidding farewell to one world and running to another, the cycle seems to be tireless. It leaves a beautiful trail in the air that connects the world with the world.

Xu Lu's eyes were naturally attracted by this butterfly, and when he witnessed the charm it contained and revealed, he felt some pity in his heart.

He raised his hand and held out his fingers.

The butterfly landed on Xu Lu's index finger very spiritually, and it spread its wings before bringing its wings together.

Xu Lu's eyes were pityful.

Watch this butterfly spontaneously combust on its index finger and die.

The last thing that fluttered with the snow-white petals was the ashes that were blown away by the autumn wind.

An incomprehensible smile appeared on Xu Lu's face, and he got up from the ground and walked out of his small courtyard slowly.

The black tiger that had been accompanying him quietly appeared behind Xu Lu, wagging its tail and walking as slowly as Xu Lu.

Xu Lu, who was walking in front, did not look back, nor did he speak, but shook his head slightly, and the black tiger's pace stopped, and he did not speak, but made a whining sound.

The black tiger's whining was like a muffled thunder.

Xu Lu didn't stop, he walked on his own, still shaking his head.

The black tiger disappeared into the whirlpool of snow-white plum petals. Xu Lu had also walked out of the courtyard gate, and after stepping out of the courtyard gate, he also disappeared without a trace.

At the same moment, Xu Lu's figure appeared at a bridgehead in the Jiangnan Water Town.

The river flows slowly in front of you, sparkling in the moonlight.

Behind it is the bluestone street, which extends into the distant town.

Xu Lu squatted down and stroked the junction between the bluestone bricks and the wooden bridge, feeling the roughness of the wooden bridge and the smoothness of the stone bricks on his skin.

There were two more people on the wooden bridge. Xu Lu slowly raised his head.

One wears a hat on his head, and the black veil that hangs down from the hat covers his face, and with a loose white robe, it is impossible to distinguish between men and women.

The other was a pretty woman, but she had a distorted scar on the left side of her face.

Beside the woman, there were several light blue butterflies that had appeared in Xu Lu's courtyard before. These butterflies haunted the woman, as if she were a delicate flower.

Xu Lu looked at the woman, to be precise, he was looking at the light blue butterfly beside the woman.

These butterflies made Xu Lu frown, and at the moment when Xu Lu frowned, all the butterflies around the woman were on fire.

Xu Lu's eyebrows returned to their original positions.

The night breeze blows the surface of the lake, and it also blows away the ashes left behind by the burning in the air.

The woman looked excited, but was stopped by the person next to her.

Xu Lu smiled slightly and stood up. The palm of the man with the black veil covering his face reflected the moonlight and the lake light, which was very beautiful.

"Ying Tianchang has returned to the academy, can you still count the things that Mr. Xu promised?" A hoarse voice came from under the hat, as if half of the owner's feet had stepped into the coffin.

Xu Lu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this voice, he had seen countless people who changed his voice, and this method was not that difficult at all. With that good-looking hand alone, Xu Lu dared to conclude that the hat was also a woman.

Xu Lu didn't know how to evaluate their experience, neither deep nor shallow.

Maybe stupid.

Xu Lu didn't bother to respond to this woman's nonsense, he exhaled, and the man's hat and the black veil that covered his face turned into dust in an instant and scattered into the river.

In the moonlight, it is the face of a beautiful woman.

Like a flash in the pan.

Xu Lu smiled, sure enough, she was a beautiful woman.

"Mr. Xu is too rude. ”

The woman who had been stripped of her hat no longer deliberately changed her voice, returning to her own cold voice.

Although she stopped her companion, the woman's face was also not good-looking.

Xu Lu said: "Because you are women, I am already very polite. ”

"What I Xu Lu does is my Xu Lu's own business, even your master, Emperor Lao'er, don't even think about asking. He walked between the two women, "You don't know what the world says about me Xu Lu. I deliberately came to the academy to find death, and I didn't let you die, I Xu Er should be a good person. ”

The woman with the scar on her face tried to speak, but was stopped by her companion.

Xu Lu raised his head and looked at the moonlight in the sky: "Actually, you didn't look for death, did you?"

He wasn't asking the two women, and they didn't dare to speak. They didn't think that Xu Er and Xu Lu were so moody.

But Xu Lu didn't think he was moody, and his state of mind had never fluctuated at all.

"Go back and tell those people who let you come to Xinzhai to find death, I Xu Lu said those things to the emperor Lao'er in Chang'an, since I Xu Lu dare to say it, I will definitely dare to do it. Xu Lu was sure that the two little girls didn't know the inside story at all, so he didn't want to say it thoroughly.

Xu Lu grinned: "Even if I don't make an appointment, what can you do?"

The faces of the two women grew more and more embarrassed.

The beautiful woman who was wearing a hat reluctantly spoke: "The Northwest Demon Trouble, when Mr. Li made a big fuss in Chang'an, Mr. Xu promised to deal with it. ”

"Oh, oh. Xu Lu seemed to have suddenly realized, stretched out his hand and patted his head and said, "So this is the case, I said it earlier, I thought there was something else! We Confucian disciples are naturally willing to settle the injustice in the world and help the world to be peaceful." ”

But his eyes still didn't fluctuate, calm as a dead man.

The two women naturally noticed this, and knew that this was Xu Lu's deliberate doing, and they didn't dare to say more.

"Since the message has arrived, don't you leave?" Xu Lu walked back to his original position, which was the place where the bluestone slab and the wooden bridge met.

"The demon disaster in the northwest is serious, I am afraid of causing chaos in the world, I hope Mr. Xu will ......" Looking at Xu Lu's eyes, the white-robed woman did not dare to finish her words, so she could only pull her companion's clothes and prepare to leave.

Xu Lu said: "Since you have delivered their message, don't forget to tell them what we have just said." ”

The two nodded tremblingly and escaped with secret methods, and Xu Lu felt that they were like lambs escaping from the tiger's mouth.

He walked back to the bridge, leaned over and picked up the river with his hand, and there was a moon in the river. Xu Lu's eyes are as clear as the river, and there is also a moon in his eyes.

Are you really scary and scary?

Xu Lu smiled, smiling a little happily.

When he sprinkled the river water in his hand back into the river, the smile on his face disappeared, and only a trace of laziness remained.

Without using any more magical powers similar to shrinking the ground into inches, Xu Lu turned around and paced.

Walk along the bluestone street, walk to the distant town, and walk back to the academy.

The academy is actually quite a short distance away from here, but Xu Lu doesn't care at all, even if he can't go back to the academy after tomorrow, so what?

The world is big, the mountains and rivers are vast, where are you, isn't it a reverse journey?

What is the difference between being alone in a small courtyard and not hiking and walking through thousands of mountains and rivers? Where is Xu Lu, can he no longer be Xu Lu?

Be at peace with what you encounter, and be at peace with your heart, just fine.

When the bright moon was in the sky, Xu Lu stepped barefoot on the still wet bluestone bricks, and he was not in a very good mood.

His little junior brother and Gu Qingrang had a draw that was not a tie, and the people of the court came. What does this mean, Xu Lu knows very well, he knows even more than those in the palace in the imperial court think they know.

Xinzhai is said to be an impenetrable Confucian forbidden place, but except for those formations and mountain guards who are just for decoration, there is only one protection measure. Those who inserted their own chess and secret chess into the academy and secretly laughed at the academy's defense and were proud of it, in Xu Lu's opinion, it was really just a joke that was not very funny.

Xu Lu faced the night, and his heart was extremely bright. For example, the second ancestors of the Academy of Literature, who seem to be flying and domineering, but are actually golden and jade, are a few Ming chess players in the imperial court, and a certain mountain keeper of the academy, as well as a few masters and gentlemen, are hidden secrets very deeply. Of course, there are countless spies from all sides like this.

And in fact, as long as he Xu Lu is in one day, the broken academy of Xinzhai is really airtight.

The reason why Xu Lu kept them was because they were also Xu Lu's pawns, but they and their masters didn't know about it.

Old man, old man, to have an apprentice like my Xu Lu is really a blessing that you have saved for eight lifetimes.

"Northwest Demon Trouble?" Xu Lu sneered on his face.

Xu Lu knew the current situation in the northwest, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to propose to Li Nezha, the great god of the Three Altars Sea Society, and the old emperor that the academy should solve this big trouble. Li Nezha obeyed the mandate of heaven and did not talk about him, but the old emperor had much more thoughts. Stopping Li Qinglian and dealing with the Northwest Demon Tribulation were the conditions for Li Nezha to roll back to Heaven, but in the old emperor's place, this was just an add-on. There's no way, the emperor, he thinks farther than others, sees longer than others, and naturally wants more than others.

Moreover, in this addition, the old emperor named him by name after Ying Tianchang returned to the academy and showed his head, and let him be the main force in the vanguard to deal with the Northwest Demon Trouble.

This was so angry that Li Qinglian almost beheaded the old emperor with a sword at that time.

Fortunately, Xu Lu stopped on the side.

After Xu Lu agreed, if he couldn't catch up, Li Qinglian would have killed his second brother on the spot.

You must know that even Li Qinglian has heard of the Northwest Demon Sufferer, and there are at least five or six demon kings involved in the trouble in the Northwest today, and let Xiao Si take the lead, not to send him to death.

"This really doesn't mean that the fourth child is going to die. Xu Lu said helplessly at night.

The reason why the old emperor said this was mainly to disgust himself and Li Qinglian, as for the other meanings in all the words of the old emperor, Xu Lu felt that even his foolish boss and stunned third child could understand it.

If you want me to let Xu Lu out, I'm afraid it's really wishful thinking, really when I'm nested in the small courtyard, I don't know anything about the world?

Xu Lu suddenly felt tired, and he said, "Come here." ”

The black tiger appeared beside him, and Xu Lu rode on the back of the black tiger and lay down on his back.

Facing the moonlight.

"Slacker. The black tiger spoke.

Xu Lu smiled.

Just like Xu Lu said, even if he breaks the appointment, what can the world do with him Xu Lu?

However, it is not impossible to let the fourth child pass.

Since you said that Ying Tianchang should go to the northwest to get rid of the demon trouble, then let my lovely fourth brother pass.

Xu Lu thought in his heart, and slowly fell asleep on the back of the black tiger.

Ying Tianchang, who had just been freed from the hands of Moshuting, had just returned to his cabin with the bun in his arms, and shivered fiercely.

It won't be cold in the rain, the boy thought.