Chapter 41: The Whisper of the Midnight
The city of Beijing is beautiful at night, but there are no lights in the small park, only the street lamps outside the fence are lightly painted with a layer of hazy color. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After all, this is not a formal park, just a section of the earthen city wall left by which dynasty and which generation, the wind and rain beat people and trample on horses, the city wall has become a dirt slope, trees are planted all over the inside and outside, and then some flowers and plants are planted to build a few pavilions and two sections of fences, which are also used as a small park. Because of the dense woods and lack of light, it is rarely visited in the middle of the night, which is a hidden but dangerous place, and girls generally dare not go there alone in the middle of the night.
Su Yu noticed that the note used the word "she", so he was worried.
It was too late to come back tonight, it was midnight, and he didn't know if the "teacher" mentioned in the note was still waiting, and it was common sense to have left a long time ago, but it was only inferred that he could not rest assured. What if something happened while waiting? So when he saw the note, he grabbed his new guitar and left the hotel, and hurried to the little park.
At this moment, he was undoubtedly excited. Xu Qingluo is such a girl who is good at surprising people, she knows what he wants, and sends it to him in the most unexpected and acceptable way. In fact, Su Yu also understands that the so-called compensation is just an excuse, a broken guitar that breaks when you touch the strings, and a new and exquisite and beautiful guitar is not so much compensation as a gift, not only that, but also a teacher.
Su Yu couldn't help but wonder who this teacher was. Xu Qingluo's world seems to be very simple, except that she is those little pets, and among the pets, she loves cats, so it is impossible to let a few cats wave their paws to play the guitar.
With worry and speculation, he rushed into the garden like a gust of wind, and looked around in a circle, and there was no light in the dark, and then he walked inside, and his feet rustled on the half-dried fallen leaves, and the sound of cars passing on the road outside the garden was so far away that the rustling was so loud that it could make the faint of heart jump.
The rustling sound was at times dense and sometimes soothing, but soon died down.
Su Yu stopped outside the gazebo by the grove, and he saw the figure of a girl in the gazebo, tall, graceful, so familiar, although the light was dim and the vision was blurred, he still recognized the other party at a glance.
Who is that not Xu Qingluo?
I was a little surprised, but I finally breathed a sigh of relief. As he walked up to the gazebo, he asked, "Why are you Qingluo?"
The girl who had her back to him turned around, her long hair fluttering, and she didn't see how to move, and a lantern lit up on the pillar on the side of the pavilion with a "poof", although it was as yellow as a bean, but the slightly jumping candle flame still illuminated a corner of the pavilion. The girl wore a retro purple long gauze skirt, which did not hide her stunning appearance, and looked bright and elegant under the lamp, like a peerless beauty in a costume drama.
Su Yu was stunned for a moment. No matter which young person, seeing this scene, I am afraid that there is only the word amazing in his mind. This is the second time Xu Qingluo has shown her true appearance, lined with hazy and intoxicating lights, dressed in a swaying long skirt, how can she be several times more amazing than the first time? This beauty is too unreal, as ethereal as her strange and magical abilities, just like a fairy in the dust, fluttering and flying.
He was stunned, but he saw the girl smile: "I'm not Qingluo, I'm Qingluo's sister Ziluo." ”
Where would Su Yu believe it? I had never heard that Qingluo had a younger sister who looked exactly the same, could it be that if she changed into a classical-style purple dress, and her speech and demeanor were a little more soothing and quiet, Qingluo would become a purple distiller? But it didn't matter. He just came to learn guitar, and it would be good if the other party could teach him, but thinking about Qingluo's performance during the day, he still frowned and asked, "Don't you know how to play guitar?"
"Qingluo won't, but Ziluo will. The girl said with a little coquettishness, "Give me the guitar!"
Su Yu didn't argue with him about Qingluo Ziluo, and directly untied the guitar and handed it to her. The girl took the guitar, sat down on the stone bench, looked up at Su Yu who was standing quietly, a smile on the corner of her mouth, and her slender and dexterous fingers climbed the strings, like butterflies, plucking the color of the stamen. A gentle and bright melody flowed from under her fingers, like a trickle of flowing water, and like a garden full of spring, smooth and natural, graceful and graceful.
Su Yu couldn't imagine that she could not only play, but also play so well, her jade fingers were like wheels, and between the light and slow twists, she had an indescribable charm and beauty. He sat down on the stone bench in front of her and watched her play.
The girl looked up at him again, and there was a smug look in her eyes, and suddenly her lips opened lightly, and she sang a song to the melody. The song is short, but it's fun, upbeat and good:
"The Tao is not pear blossoms, the Tao is not apricot blossoms, white and red and red, don't be the taste of the East. Zeng remembered that people were slightly drunk in Wuling. ”
This is a "Dream Order" words, for the Song Dynasty female lyricist Yan Rui sang peach blossoms, the words are very plain, although Su Yu has not read it, but listen to the girl play and sing twice to understand the meaning. It's not a pear blossom, it's not an apricot blossom, the red, white and white of a tree when it opens, especially the word "Wuling" at the end of the sentence, which directly points out the peach blossom source. "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" was learned in textbooks, and the beginning was "Wuling people fishing for business", of course Su Yu would not remember it.
The girl played and sang twice, and with a flick of her fingers on the strings, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly. She looked up and smiled and asked, "Does it sound good?"
"Sounds good. ”
"Guess what kind of flower you're singing about?"
"Peach blossoms. ”
“...... I guessed it, so boring!"
Su Yu was depressed for a while: "Then I'...... Guess again?"
"Good!"
“...... Plum blossom. ”
"That's not right!"
“...... Chrysanthemum. ”
"Wrong again!"
"I can't guess that. ”
"It's a peach blossom, stupid!"
Su Yu was speechless and rubbed his temples. He didn't understand how Xu Qingluo thought of playing such a childish game, and smiled innocently like a two- or three-year-old child. It's just that the girl in front of her suddenly smiled and asked seriously, "Is it fun?"
Su Yu was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
"Isn't it fun and you want me to play with you? If you guess correctly, you have to reguess, your brain has degenerated into a three-year-old child?"
Su Yu was like an obediently trained child, with his head down, rubbing his temples and not speaking.
"Don't be stupid, time is pressing, let's start learning. Well, I'll teach you sitting first. ”
"Sitting has been learned. ”
"You have to learn after you have learned, and as a student, you have to listen to the teacher's arrangement. Come, get your guitar ......"
In fact, only Xu Qingluo is suitable to be Su Yu's teacher, because Su Yu can't continue to think in a slightly complicated way, Xu Qingluo understands this, so she talks very slowly and simply, and she will talk about stopping during the period, so that Su Yu has time to rest. Of course, learning the guitar mainly depends on practice, so she talks very little, and after she finishes talking at night, the next day is the time for Su Yu to practice all day, and after practicing, she will learn new ones at night.
The course continued like this, and Su Yu began an intense and regular study life. Every morning to practice, in the morning and afternoon, I follow Xu Qingluo, and go to the college campus with her, Xu Qingluo reads, sleeps in the mushroom pavilion, and wanders around the campus, while Su Yu is always holding the guitar to practice chords and fingering. After dinner, he went to the dojo to practice Aikido, and at 11 o'clock he came back to the small park to learn guitar from "Ziluo".
Within two days, his fingers were so painful that it was so painful that it was hard to sleep at night, and he almost couldn't practice Aikido. But he persevered, and soon a thick layer of calluses grew on his fingers. Every day when he came back from the dojo, he had a sore back and legs, and even a blue nose and swollen face, and he really wanted to throw himself directly into the bed and couldn't sleep, but he would still pick up the guitar and walk into the small park.
This is true penance. Xu Qingluo looked at it little by little, and felt very unbearable, but she couldn't stop it. Su Yu wants to be a useful person, he is doing his own life practice, and she has no power to stop it. The "cultivation" of ordinary people is like this, they do not have the potential to gain extraordinary abilities, and they have to pay ten times and a hundred times more hardship in order to practice a little skill.
She thought more than once that if Su Yu was not an ordinary person, if he could practice, he wouldn't have to work so hard, his headache would be healed by himself, and all his problems would be solved. It's a pity that if it's just if, he is an ordinary person who grew up in a world without Gu Xing, and he can't cross the threshold of cultivation, and because of this, there is no hope of curing his encephalopathy. In addition to cultivating and allowing the star power to warm the Xingfu and meridians in order to heal itself, Xu Qingluo couldn't find any other way to help Su Yu.
Then the only way to support him is to practice hard. It's just that she occasionally thinks of the future of the two, and her heart will be at a loss. She inexplicably felt that she couldn't grasp her future, and she didn't know how long she could stay by Su Yu's side. She didn't know when Su Yu would leave, after all, he learned guitar and martial arts to be self-reliant, and one day he would no longer rely on himself, or he could no longer be relied on by him. She hoped that day would come later, and she liked these days with him, which were dull but warm.
She's not alone.
It's just that ordinary life will also change suddenly. Just when she thought that Jin Luohua would accept the failure of her first love, devote herself to college life with a new look, and would not intersect with Uncle Lin again, the girl quietly left the school one night, on the eve of the lights out in the dormitory, dressed in a full costume and dressed up in a fancy way.
At that time, Xu Qingluo was waiting for Su Yu in the pavilion, and she saw this scene through the little sparrow, and had a premonition that the girl might behave unusually tonight. She was instructing the little sparrow to track down the other party, but suddenly felt a strange spiritual energy rush into her mind, this energy came from nowhere, it was unstoppable, she was startled, and hurriedly mobilized the star power of her whole body to fight against it. The two energies collided together like a tidal wave, stormy waves, covering the sun and the sky, and the other party was defeated in a battle and quickly retreated, but there were dozens of energy aftermaths like steel knives, pounced on the astral chain that stretched out in all directions!
Those dense chains are the spiritual channels between her and her pet, and once they are forcibly destroyed, there will be no communication between the two sides, and the information network she has worked so hard to build will completely collapse. But the speed of the other party and the weirdness of the attack were impossible to prevent at all, she had no time to call the star power to defend back, and dozens of star chains were cut off in an instant, including all the pet passages in Beijing City, the bean sprouts lost contact, and the little sparrow Zhou Ming also lost contact!
Xu Qingluo Huo Ran opened her eyes, and with a teleportation, the person was already in mid-air, a hundred meters above the ground, and the entire small park and the surrounding roads, stores, and schools were all taken into her field of vision. The night breeze is mighty, and the dress hunts. She raised her left hand and tapped her index finger across her eyes, and her pupils glowed with a faint blue light, which was the power of Mercury, making her vision clearer and not missing any wind and grass. But when he looked around, there was nothing abnormal in all directions, and the person who attacked him was nowhere to be found, and he didn't know where to hide.
Her brows were furrowed, and her face was pale. This is a terrible opponent, unimaginably terrifying. The spiritual chain with the pet belongs to the cultivator's own top secret, and ordinary cultivators can't find out at all, let alone cut it directly, or cut it off dozens of paths in one go, without a single mistake or omission. How could the other party know herself so well? How could she attack her body without knowing it, and she didn't even react at all to the star power of the body? She couldn't understand it.
In this world that has long been unable to cultivate, how can there be such an incredibly powerful opponent? And why should such a terrible opponent hide? This is unreasonable, unless this attack will also cost the opponent a great price, and the opponent will not be able to inflict heavy damage on himself at all.
So, what secrets do Jin Luohua and Uncle Lin have that are worth such a risk to each other?
At the end of the line of sight, Jin Luohua was nowhere to be seen, and she had already taken a taxi to leave. Su Yu was carrying a guitar on his back, dragging his tired legs and staggering towards the small park.
Xu Qingluo sighed lightly, and the next moment she sat down in the pavilion again, smiling as before.