Chapter 82: Carving the Qin
The day after the wine fight, Xi Bojifu did not come. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Su Jikong waited for two whole days, but never saw his father's figure appear again.
It wasn't until two days later in the morning that it snowed heavily.
Su Ji pushed open the window, and goose-feathered snowflakes fluttered one after another, merging heaven and earth into one.
The snow was half a foot thick, and a long line of footprints fell on the snow, looking extremely sad.
The footprints stretched from the begonia forest in the distance. A man in a mink coat walked silently through the snow, carrying a dark green wooden box under his arm. He walked slowly, his heavy cotton boots tapping on the snow.
Even if Su Ji was standing upstairs, he seemed to be able to hear the heavy footsteps, which were creaking.
The man in the snow had a yellow and white face, a worrying thinness, his hair hanging over his shoulders, and a thick beard on his cheeks and chin, which he had obviously not taken care of for a long time. In the midst of the gloom, those bright eyes gave people a contradictory impression.
It wasn't until this person walked into the building that Su Ji recognized this person as his father, Xi Bojifu.
Su Ji suddenly had an ominous premonition, he used to come in the evening, but today he came in the morning. And after two days of not seeing him, he seemed to suddenly age ten years old.
What has he been through in those two years?
Su Ji stepped forward to pat off the snow on him, invited him to the table, and pushed a cup of hot wine in front of him, never wanting to be gently pushed back by his hand.
"I haven't had alcohol in two years. Xi Bojifu's tone was a little less gentle, and more vicissitudes.
"Why quit drinking?"
"Drinking reminds me of what happened here, of her......"
Of course, Su Ji knew who "she" was, and then asked tentatively: "Presumably, a lot of things must have happened between you and her in the past two years. ”
Xi Bojifu shook his head and was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "I haven't seen her since the last time I separated from her here. I thought she would come to me and ask for the Jade, but I waited for a year, but she never showed up. In order to see her, I traveled thousands of miles to Kunlun Mountain to find her, only to know that the exposition of the sect had counted the sin that caused Taijia Zhenren to be in a coma for thirty years on her. The master ordered her to be grounded as a punishment, and let her retreat and cultivate in a dark cave until she cultivated to break through the Xuanqing Nine Realms, otherwise she would never be allowed to leave the pass. ”
Su Ji lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "The fact that no one who has expounded in the past two years has come to trouble you means that she has not told others about the creation of the jade in you. ”
"She said today last year that she would personally retrieve the Creation Jade, of course she would not be untrustworthy. ”
"But you are not a man of your word, so you will never give it to her, but you think you have hurt her. ”
Xi Bojifu did not answer, and his lonely expression had already helped him answer the question.
"No...... You didn't do anything wrong, and even if you did, it was my fault. ”
"Brother Xian, instead of being wrong, I should thank you. That day, the barefoot Taoist priest secretly cheated, if you hadn't helped me out of the siege, I was afraid that the person who was sleeping here now would be me. ”
After saying that, Xi Bojifu let out a long sigh.
Su Ji sat beside him, and the heavy breath could be felt on his cheeks. In order not to let his father continue to blame himself, Su Jiwaner smiled and said:
"Alas, women are the most troublesome thing in the world. A woman is like a fire, she can burn you to the fire, and she can burn you to ashes at any time! Why should you jump into the fire pit at a young age?"
Xi Bojifu could hear that Su Jizheng used a sentence he said to ridicule himself in turn, and couldn't help sighing:
"If you don't help me figure out a way, forget it, and say cool things, and I will return you as a brother. ”
As he said this, a long-lost smile appeared on his cheeks.
Su Ji thought to herself, we are not brothers in the first place. Looking at his father's stiff smile, Su Ji knew that he hadn't smiled in a long time.
At this time, while the two of them were talking, they felt that the room was getting hotter and hotter.
Su Ji pushed open the window and saw that spring flowers were already blooming outside the window.
Obviously, it was snowing just now, but now the ground is covered with green grass, and there is not even a trace of the melting of the ice and snow.
Su Ji saw that Bojifu didn't drink, so he simply went to the lake with him for a stroll outside.
The scenery of Lotus Lake in spring is particularly pleasant.
It is not yet the season when the lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the lake is covered with green lotus leaves, covering the lake flat.
There was a small wooden boat moored in the middle of the lake, and on board sat a young girl. She looked forward to the flowing waves, and was looking down to pick water lotus leaves. A quiet face, revealing the softness of the small jasper.
Su Ji felt that the girl's appearance seemed to have been seen somewhere, and finally remembered it for a while, and just wanted to say hello, but swallowed back when the words came to his mouth. He saw that Si Bojifu was looking at the girl in the lake with great interest.
The girl reminded Xi Bojifu of the lush red branch that he could only see in his dreams. He looked at the swaying water lotus leaves, as if he saw the fate of the two people who were about to separate, and couldn't help but feel it, and recited aloud:
"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island. My Fair Lady, Gentleman. Jagged wattles, left and right flowing. My Fair Lady, I covet it. I can't ask for it, but I can't think about it. Leisurely, tossing and turning......"
Halfway through the recitation of this poem, Su Ji was already stunned. He heard that what Xi Bojifu was reciting was the "Guan Ju Song" that his mother often hummed when he was a child, and this is also the song that Fox Xi played and sang in the small slippery building.
"This poem is very familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere......"
Xi Bojifu smiled indifferently and said, "Brother Xian is laughing again." I just came up with this, so how could you have heard of it?"
Su Ji fell silent, with a smile on his face, obviously making some kind of major consideration.
After a while, he suddenly turned around and ran up to the fourth floor of Gonggu Building, found the guqin that Xi Bojifu had played, and found that this qin was exactly the same as Fox Xi's qin, the only difference was that there was a line of knife-engraved text missing from it. He remembered that it was because he read that line of text that he mistakenly thought that Fox was his own sister. He recalled the contents of the text and carved it out on the harp with a knife.
Xi Bojifu stood in place and waited for a long time, only to see Su Ji running over with a guqin, and a line of words was engraved on the qin: On the first day of the sixth month of the twelfth year of King Xuan, the bank of the Weishui River gave Yu's red branches.
Su Ji never expected that he would engrave this text with his own hands. He didn't dare to say that he was fully aware of the meaning of this line, but the time and place on it seemed to be a hint of the future. He knew that now was not the time to use the begonia flower, so he couldn't change what happened here, but he still wanted to be a link between the past and the future, and see it happen with his own hands. It's like a game full of unknowns, and he's now putting the next hint in the hands of his father.
Su Ji looked at Xi Bojifu with a blank face and explained, "Yu Hongzhi will appear on the bank of the Weishui River at this time. You give it to her, along with the poem you just recited, and the piece you played earlier. ”
Xi Bojifu looked at the line of words on the piano, and did not follow for a long time. He didn't know why Su Ji let himself do this, he didn't know why he concluded that Yu Hongzhi would appear in that place at that time, and he didn't know what a poem and a song would change. He only knew that what the man in front of him said would never be groundless.
He didn't ask much, just thanked him and took the piano.
"You don't ask me why I let you do this?"
"What Brother Xian asked me to do, there must be a reason for you. You don't want to say, and I don't bother to ask. ”
"You believe me so much?"
"If I hadn't believed you, I wouldn't have come today. Xi Bojifu handed the dark green box in his hand to Su Ji and said, "The Creation Jade is in this box, if something happens to me, I want you to keep it on my behalf." That's what I'm here for today. ”
When he saw him take the box, he decided to leave.
After the two said goodbye gloomily, Su Ji watched his father's back disappear into the distance, and the worry in his eyes was even more than a little better.
At this time, Su Ji's time was only three days left.
I don't know when, the girl picking water lotus leaves in the lake has rowed the boat to the shore. She looked at the dark green wooden box in Su Ji's hand and asked:
"You're so beautiful in this box, I don't know what's in it?"
The girl looked at Su Ji with a smile, and there was an indescribable temptation in her tone.
Most men listened to her words and saw her expression, and they would definitely think that the girl was seducing them.
However, Su Ji frowned and said with ignorance:
"It's just a green box, nothing to look at. ”
"Actually, I'm not interested in what's in the box, I just like green things. ”
As she spoke, the girl raised the green lotus leaf she picked in her hand and smiled. Her eyes were not big, and they narrowed when she smiled, like a crooked crescent moon.
Su Ji has seen many women who can laugh, but he can't help but admit that the girl in front of him smiles better than the women he has ever seen.
The girl frowned, a look of confusion. She obviously just learned the art of transfiguration today, and she was also very confident in her transformed appearance, but Su Ji always had a cold attitude, and seemed to have recognized her true identity.
The girl sighed lightly in frustration, and turned into a white-haired young man, who was Hu Jiu.
Su Ji had already seen what Fox Jiu looked like after his transformation, so he was not surprised.
"I really don't understand, do you want to be a man or a woman?"
"Whether I'm a man or a woman, I'm always myself, but Brother Qi, you seem to have changed as a person!"
Su Ji hesitated for a moment and asked, "Where have I changed?"
"Brother Qi would never do such a thing as mixing water into wine before, let alone help a mortal calculate the future. ”
"If you believe in me like that mortal, I can do the math for you. I guess you're going to be very different from what you are now. ”
"Okay, then you do the math first, and then I'll decide whether to trust you or not. ”
Su Ji pinched his fingers and said, "If you want to live longer, it's best not to bow down to a person named Moshu, and be careful of a black-clothed Taoist priest named Jiang Xuan, who is your nemesis." ”
After Su Ji finished speaking, he didn't say much, and turned around and left.
"Mursh...... Jiang Xuan?" Hu Jiu stood in place and muttered to himself.
He was confused, and just wanted to catch up and ask, but when he took a step forward, he didn't know why, and he forgot all about what Su Ji had said to him just now.