Chapter 67: The Crescent Tower
"Blue clouds, yellow leaves, autumn colors, cold smoke and green on the waves. The mountain reflects the slanting sun and receives the water...... Good dreams keep people sleeping.
"Mingyue Lou is high and leans alone, and the wine enters the bowels and turns into lovesick tears. ”
The small building is not tall and not magnificent. is a pavilion that has been elevated.
The wind and sun have blown away, and the vermilion lacquer has peeled off.
The pavilion is about a foot above the ground, and the handrails and ladders look old.
A small stone table was placed in the pavilion with three glasses of wine on the table and three small stone benches around the table.
The spring breeze crossed the lake, brushed the small pavilion, and brushed the bleak white hair next to the man's ear.
Although it is spring, this small building is full of late autumn sadness and depression. It is as if the wind that crosses the lake has also turned into an autumn wind.
This person is on the pillar of the small building, looking at the lake, reflecting the moon, and reciting "Wine enters the bowels and turns into ......".
The three glasses of wine on the table were already cold, but no one cared, and he wouldn't care.
"It's been cool for thirty years. ”
Thirty years ago, this building was still gorgeous, and the three people in front of the stone table were also the heroes of the world.
The man reached out and touched his face, muttering, "Again." "Wrinkles are written all over this man's face, full of years, full of sorrow.
Now that no one will drink these three glasses of wine, this small building is really going to be abolished.
The man sighed and turned his back to the lake, to the bright moon in the sky.
"May I ask if this is Wanying Building?" a man was slowly walking up the stairs.
The eyes of the man in the pavilion suddenly brightened, and by the time he saw the man, he was already choked up and unable to speak.
Two tears overflowed from his bright eyes, streaking across his wrinkled face. He ate and said, "You ......"
The man who came, dressed in white, was about forty-five years old, with a scarlet sword pinned to his waist, his lips and his white hands trembling, and a woman behind him. But at the moment, this woman didn't seem to exist, and no one noticed her at all.
Ling Quanfei looked at the man in front of him, and he was also stunned, surprised, surprised, sad, and sad.
No matter what he felt, he couldn't describe what he was like now, but the tears in his eyes were more real than any description.
This man who is more than half a hundred years old took a step slowly and said slowly: "You... Are you Third Brother Ling?"
Ling Quanfei's face showed a hint of a smile, a strong but inconspicuous smile, his emotions were like the magma of an active volcano, but his body was far from allowing him to burst out his feelings at once, he said slowly: "It's me, Brother Yi." ”
The half-hundred-year-old man's eyes were brighter and his emotions were firmer, because he didn't recognize the wrong person, and it was precisely because he didn't recognize the wrong person that all the sorrow that had been suppressed in his heart for thirty years was released.
The two men hugged each other, crying more sadly on a moonlit night, and crying made Xiaolou even more depressed. Lian Xiangyu, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but shed tears, she had never seen Ling Quanfei crying, and she had never seen such a shocking scene.
She didn't know who that man was, but she knew Ling Quanfei's personality, and the person who could be called his eldest brother would be a man who stood up to the sky, even if he was not a hero.
Tears between men are naturally only understood by men, how can she understand why she is crying?
For a long time, the man held Ling Quanfei's hand tightly, as if he was afraid that this was just a dream, afraid that he would suddenly disappear, and then he would still be a building, and no one would be there.
The two sat on the stone bench, their tears no longer flowing, but their faces were smiling warmer than spring.
Sure enough, Ling Quanfei spoke first, although he had too much to say, he still chose this sentence: "Brother Yi, I'm back." ”
The older man smiled even more warmly, and although the sentence was short, it was enough, and when he returned, it was enough.
The older man said, "I've been waiting for you to come back." ”
Ling Quanfei suddenly felt uncomfortable when he heard this, he naturally understood who he meant by "you", and it was precisely because he understood that he was so sad, and he was the only one who came back this time.
The older people seemed to see it, but their faces did not change, and they smiled so that the wrinkles of the years seemed to have disappeared. Only then did he notice Lian Xiangyu, who came upstairs with Ling Quanfei, and he bowed and said, "This girl, when she saw Brother Ren, she ignored the girl, and the old man first apologized to the girl. ”
Sure enough, he is a good man, and he is a considerate man. Although he is old, his demeanor is admirable. Of course, Lian Xiangyu would not blame him, because she had a lot of questions in her heart, but she couldn't ask, she could only listen to the two of them themselves.
Ling Quanfei also stood up and turned around, there seemed to be some guilt in his eyes, not only did he not blame Xiangyu when he saw it, but he was a little happy, maybe he was a little proud or happy for Ling Quanfei.
Lian Xiangyu smiled slightly: "Both of them are men with true temperament, how can the little woman blame?"
Ling Quanfei had never seen such a gentle appearance of Lian Xiangyu, and he seemed to be a little crazy.
Ling Quanfei's eldest brother smiled: "The girl is so understanding, my brother is really blessed to meet the girl." ”
This sentence actually made Ling Quanfei and Lian Xiangyu both say with red clouds, if someone else said this on weekdays, Ling Quanfei would never be like this, but how could the man in front of him be someone else?
The three of them sat at the stone table, the wine glasses were facing the three of them, Ling Quanfei looked at it and asked a little unbearably, "Is this wine already cold?"
But the man laughed, a little bitterly, and said, "It's been cold for thirty years." ”
Ling Quanfei was stunned, he didn't speak for a long time, and a breeze blew through the wine before he slowly asked, "It's always the same glass of wine back then?"
The man nodded.
At first, Lian Xiangyu thought that they were borrowing things to lyrical, but when she looked closely at the rim of the three glasses of wine in front of her, the rim was a little yellow, and then looked at the wine inside, it seemed to be a little turbid, and it was by no means as clear as the wine in the altar, did this really stand for thirty years?
She had seen many men over half a hundred years old, but she had never seen such a haggard one, and it was heartbreaking to look at.
She had believed that the three glasses had been sitting for thirty years, and she knew that he must have kept them for thirty years.
The man suddenly turned his head and said to Lian Xiangyu: "Old decay is rude, I forgot to introduce myself. Lao Yu is my brother's sworn brother, and his surname has been changed to Wan Xuan. Excuse me, girl?"
Lian Xiangyu said: "The name of the little woman has long been forgotten, and everyone who knows me calls me Lian Xiangyu." ”
Yi Wanxuan saw it, and knew that this woman had also been in the dust and dust all her life, so he just smiled and didn't say more, he never said much, never said more, and never asked more if he shouldn't ask.
Ling Quanfei looked at the three glasses of wine, as if he was stuck in a memory, and couldn't help muttering: "Thirty years ago, we worshipped here, when we were only teenagers..."
Yi Wanxuan smiled and said, "No, the old man was twenty-three years old back then. ”
Ling Quanfei looked at him and smiled himself: "A brother like ours is unique in the world. Back then, we parted ways after drinking, and there was no contact with each other, and we went our separate ways, and agreed to meet again when we were successful in the coming day, and now it has been 30 years.
Lian Xiangyu was stunned when she heard this, there is really no one in the world to say that such a sworn brother is really unique. Where is the separation of a sworn prayer?
Yi Wanxuan smiled again: "But how many people like us are in the world? It is rare for people like us to marry together as brothers, and it is never impossible in the eyes of others." ”
She wondered what kind of people they were, but she would never interrupt them.
Ling Quanfei sighed, actually picked up the glass of wine in front of him, and drank it all.
The action was so fast, only for a moment, Pian Xiangyu was already stunned, but Yi Wanxuan smiled and said, "Okay!" Then he drank the glass of wine in front of him without spilling a drop.
Two of the three glasses of wine on the stone table were empty.
Ling Quanfei didn't expect Yi Wanxuan to do this, because Yi Wanxuan was a person who never drank alcohol, and he had already fallen to the ground drunk after just one drink that day.
But now Yi Wanxuan is still sitting firmly on the stone bench, Yi Wanxuan sighed: "Thirty years, no matter who will become." You've become prominent, and I've become able to drink. ”
Ling Quanfei's eyes seemed to be shining with tears again, and there was silence again, Ling Quanfei said slowly: "The second brother has also changed..."
Yi Wanxuan suddenly said angrily: "He is no longer your second brother, nor is he my second brother, he is just an ordinary person now, and he has nothing to do with me at all!"
Lian Xiangyu looked at Yi Wanxuan's angry face, but she didn't expect that the polite and personable Yi Wanxuan would be angry like this.
Ling Quanfei said: "Big brother, I will let the second brother come back sooner or later." ”
Yi Wanxuan shook his head bitterly and said, "It's better not to come back." The words were far more bitter than his countenance.
Lian Xiangyu finally couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"
The eyes of the two wandered, Yi Wanxuan slowly stood up, and said, "Do you know that this building has been renamed?"
Ling Quanfei asked, "What's your name?"
Yi Wanxuan smiled bitterly: "Crescent Moon Building." ”
Ling Quanfei asked again: "How could Wan Ying Building, which was famous in the past, change its name to this one?
Yi Wanxuan said: "I changed it." ”
Ling Quanfei looked at Yi Wanxuan's back, he was no longer as heroic as he was back then, his whole body was full of years, he was no longer a general who commanded all armies, and now he really looked like an old man who was over half a hundred years old.
Ling Quanfei asked, "Why?"
Yi Wanxuan smiled bitterly again: "Why? Because from this building, the moon you see is never perfect." ”
Ling Quanfei asked, "Fifteen, isn't sixteen the night of the full moon?"
Yi Wanxuan didn't answer, because tonight was fifteen.
But is the moon full today? Everyone knows that today is the night of the full moon, but only the three people in this pavilion can understand why the moon is not full. Originally, she didn't understand it, but when she saw the glass full of wine in front of her, she understood why the moon would never be full.
She suddenly had the idea that she was going to drink the glass of wine in front of her. Lian Xiangyu is a person who dares to think and do, she picked up the wine glass and drank it all, simply and neatly, not losing to men at all.
Lian Xiangyu chuckled: "Thirty-year-old wine, the taste is really extraordinary. ”
Yi Wanxuan and Ling Quanfei were not only angry when they saw it, but they each had different feelings, why should a big man be so sentimental?
Yi Wanxuan and Ling Quanfei seemed to be sober, and Yi Wanxuan said, "Poor girl, thank you." ”
Lian Xiangyu smiled and said, "Why should Brother Yi thank me, since I drank this glass of wine, it's not too much for me to call you Big Brother, right?"
Yi Wanxuan didn't expect that Lian Xiangyu's aura was much stronger than some men he had seen, so he nodded and said, "Of course it's not too much." ”
Lian Xiangyu said again: "Since I drank this cup of wine, have we become brothers?"
Ling Quanfei was stunned, and Yi Wanxuan didn't know how to answer. In the eyes of others, this is simply a big joke, simply ridiculous.
But the two of them trembled in their hearts, and said to Xiangyu: "You two drank the wine in front of you, and I drank the wine in front of me, you two are sworn brothers, can't I be your sworn brothers?"
It is simply unheard of, although there were three female heroes in Liangshan, including Sun Erniang, Hu Sanniang, and Gu Dajiao, the Liangshan brothers also regarded them as brothers' wives, sisters-in-law, and younger sisters.
Ling Quanfei knew Lian Xiangyu, but at this moment, he also felt that it was impossible to understand a woman, especially a woman like Lian Xiangyu.
Lian Xiangyu said: "Is it because I am a woman, I can't call you brothers? Am I a woman, can't I enjoy the friendship of brothers? Is it because I am a woman, I have to wander alone in this world? Am I ......a woman?"
She was speechless, her voice getting weaker and weaker, shaking, and finally turning into tears.
It's really not easy for women, especially in times like this, especially for women like Lian Xiangyu.
Lian Xiangyu hid her face and cried, but Yi Wanxuan suddenly smiled and said, "Okay! From now on, you are my brother!"
Lian Xiangyu slowly straightened up, looking at Yi Wanxuan with a pair of teary eyes, Yi Wanxuan smiled so boldly, as if he had changed again.
He has indeed changed, it took him thirty years to learn to drink, but because of the pity of Xiangyu, it was all for naught.
Ling Quanfei also smiled, he didn't understand what kind of smile this was, he only felt that the moon was round today.
Yi Wanxuan said: "In the future, you and my brothers will go to the rivers and lakes together! I have been in this building for thirty years, which is enough!"
Ling Quanfei said with a smile: "Our brother is really unprecedented!
Yi Wanxuan said: "Don't say it, maybe there will be people in the future who will follow the example of the three of us!"
The building doesn't seem to be so depressed anymore. People don't seem to be old.
Lian Xiangyu also chuckled: "If there are two elder brothers, I am afraid that they will all go to heaven in the future." ”
Yi Wanxuan smiled: "Even if you want to go to the sky, I have a way to build a ladder for you!"
Lian Xiangyu said: "Really?"
Ling Quanfei smiled: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, you will fall down again if you are afraid of heights!"
Lian Xiangyu's heart suddenly warmed, she had never seen Ling Quanfei talk to herself like this, smile at herself like this, and finally realized what a relative is. Maybe you also understand what it means to be a lover.
Suddenly, I heard someone ask, "Excuse me, is this the 'Crescent Tower'?"
Yi Wanxuan replied briskly: "No, no, this is 'Wanying Building'!"
I only heard the person downstairs say: "That's disturbing, it seems that I have found the wrong one again, do you know where the crescent moon tower is?"
Lian Xiangyu chuckled: "Why is Brother Yi teasing him?" and then shouted downstairs: "This is the Crescent Moon Tower, Your Excellency, please come up." ”
As soon as the man downstairs heard this, he went upstairs with a "squeak", and the stairs seemed to be squeaky before they even creaked, and he had already come upstairs.
Seeing that this person is also very golden brocade, his face is like purple sauce, and he is a little majestic just by standing. But the strange thing is that his eyes don't seem to match his expression at all, like a child's eyes when he sees a candy ball.
I only listened to the man: "In Xia Jiang Chuanhai! ”
Jiang Chuanhai!
Ling Quanfei frowned when he heard this name, and he asked, "Your Excellency is Jiang Chuanhai, the hall master of the Ten Thousand Armies Gang?"
The Wanjun Gang? Lian Xiangyu also tightened her heart, could it be that the Wanjun Gang really came to the door. At that time, Yi Wanxuan felt a little strange when he saw that the two of them suddenly became nervous.
Jiang Chuanhai smiled when he heard this: "It's here, I didn't expect Your Excellency to know Youxia, and you haven't asked Your Excellency yet?"
Ling Quanfei said, "Is Your Excellency here to find someone?"
Jiang Chuanhai nodded slightly and said, "Exactly, how did Your Excellency know? Could it be that Your Excellency is the person you are looking for?"
Ling Quanfei said, "Don't you know who you're looking for?"
Jiang Chuanhai said: "Don't hide it from Your Excellency, I really don't know who the person I am looking for is, but there was once a person who told me with a piece of paper that he wanted to find someone in the 'Crescent Moon Tower' on the night of the full moon." If you ask me who the man I am here is, I will not be able to tell you, because I don't know who he is. ”
Jiang Chuanhai suddenly shut up, he suddenly felt that he had said too much.
Ling Quanfei also became more and more strange, it seems that this person really doesn't know who he is looking for, but how can there be such a coincidence, I don't know if the coincidence is still weird.
Something strange was naturally deliberately done, he reached out and took out a piece of paper from his arms, and said, "But such a paper?"
Although it was very dark, Jiang Chuanhai could also see that this piece of paper was exactly the same as his own, but this was by no means his own piece of paper, and that paper was in his arms. Is he the person I'm looking for?
Jiang Chuanhai asked again: "May I ask Your Excellency's name." ”
Ling Quanfei said: "Under Ling Quanfei!"
Jiang Chuanhai asked, "But Ling Quanfei, who is known as the 'Floating Son'?"
Ling Quanfei smiled: "It's exactly below." ”
Jiang Chuanhai said: "Could it be that Your Excellency is the person I am looking for?"
Ling Quanfei said: "You don't know who the person who wants you to come, but I know who the person who wants me to come." ”
Ling Quanfei laughed and continued, "Come out, I know you're here!"
Sure enough, a person came down from the roof of the building with a head hanging, and Lian Xiangyu was taken aback.
Jiang Chuanhai was also shocked, because he knew this person, it was the little monk who loved to eat noodles in the morning!
The little monk jumped down and said, "Amitabha." ”