In the evening, the forest is still quiet.

Cao Xiaoning paced alone in the forest, and the sunset fell on him through the shade of the trees, illuminating a trace of sorrow between the eyebrows of the young man.

Cao Xiaoning's entry into the academy can be regarded as the first step, and it is only a matter of time before he enters the Dragon Academy, because he will enter the Dragon Academy, at most he will be entangled in the first place, or in a low-key way to enter in other ranks. Therefore, he was not worried about this, but thinking about Cao Ying.

Cao Xiaoning knows Cao Ying, he has a feminine appearance, but his heart is stronger than anyone else, and he doesn't know where Lao Cao is and what he is doing now.

"Old man Cao, don't you have anything to do......"

He looked south, which was in the direction of the village of Happiness.

Walking aimlessly, Cao Xiaoning unconsciously came to the depths of the dense forest and found a hidden moon gate, he turned in, and his eyes suddenly opened up, Cao Xiaoning's eyes couldn't help but widen.

This is a flower garden, to be precise, a sea of flowers, colorful, endless, in the sunset under the light of the brightness and gorgeous, the evening breeze blows, the flowers sway, as if the waves are spread out one after another.

The fragrance of flowers is refreshing, and at this moment, a figure suddenly stood up from the waist-high sea of flowers.

It was a slender man, dressed in a cloth robe, the corners of which were tucked at his waist and his sleeves rolled up. His hair was a little messy, with a few petals stuck, and his face was stained with some mud.

He looked at Cao Xiaoning, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then said with a smile: "What a handsome boy, is it a new student?"

His smile is very kind, it makes people feel like a spring breeze, and it feels very kind. After a smile, the dry dirt on his face also fell, and it can be seen that his appearance is also very handsome, although he is not as stunning as Cao Xiaoning, but he can also be called clear eyebrows, dignified and handsome, especially between the eyebrows, exuding an indescribable temperament, intertwined with laziness and freedom.

"yes. Cao Xiaoning replied.

He glanced at the sea of flowers around him, opened his arms, and asked with a proud smile on his face, "What do you think of here?"

"Breathtaking. Cao Xiaoning told the truth.

"Visionary. ”

The man smiled, carefully dialed the flowers, walked out of the flower garden, wiped his hands with a cloth, and said, "The flowers in the small courtyard where you live are also transplanted from me. Young people are vigorous and in their prime, so I mainly use Tianlan and purple rose, and then decorate them with yellow sunflower, which is bright and not enchanting, and the fragrance also complements each other, which is the most suitable. ”

Cao Xiaoning was confused when he heard how to understand flowers, but he also nodded cooperatively and asked, "Is the senior a florist in the academy?"

"Sort of. ”

The man smiled again and asked, "You are a student of the academy, I am just a gardener, and I deserve to be called a senior?"

Cao Xiaoning smiled: "You are older than me, what do you call your seniors?"

The man smiled: "The other students of the academy are not like this, they always feel that they are superior, after stepping on the cultivation, they should be higher than ordinary mortals, but they also come from the mortal world, if it were not for the Henghuang Emperor founded the Fish Dragon Academy to provide opportunities for all sentient beings, most of them would not have embarked on the path of cultivation." ”

He sighed and said, "And Emperor Heng's original intention in founding the academy was to let mortals strive for self-improvement, and everyone has a chance to become a dragon, but they are good, as soon as they enter the academy, they can't wait to draw a line between themselves and the mortal world, which is really ridiculous." ”

Hearing the word Henghuang, Cao Xiaoning's eyes were gloomy, and he said: "Yes, an old man also told me that whether it is a person in cultivation or a mortal, it is a human being, and there is no distinction between high and low if you are a human being. ”

"Well said!"

The man then took out a wine jug, took a sip of wine, closed his eyes and sighed with satisfaction, handed the wine jug to Cao Xiaoning, and said: "This is my self-brewed grape and fruit wine, and after refining, not only the wine is pleasant, but the intensity is also higher than that of ordinary wine, which is strong enough." Take a bite?"

Cao Xiaoning took the wine jug, poured his head up, and a crystal wine poured into his mouth, he also let out a long sigh, looked at the wine jug in his hand, and nodded: "It's really good wine!"

He handed back the wine jug to the man with the flowers, and the man took another sip, looked at the sea of flowers in front of him, and said to himself: "A pot of wine among the flowers will eliminate the sorrow of the world." ”

The man looked back and threw the flask to Cao Xiaoning: "Take another sip." ”

Cao Xiaoning didn't refuse, and took another sip generously. The man said: "In addition to grape and fruit wine, I also made peach wine and green orange wine, which have a more aromatic flavor than grape fruit wine, but they are soft and lack of energy. There are only three kinds of fruits suitable for winemaking, and I have tried dozens of the rest, either too sweet or too sour. ”

Cao Xiaoning couldn't help but sigh that this person was either planting flowers or making wine all day long, and he was too leisurely, but this comfortable and leisurely life was also happy and happy.

Affected by the man's leisurely tranquility, Cao Xiaoning also rarely let go of everything, not worrying about where Cao Ying is now, what she is doing, and not thinking about how to find out the truth in the future.

The more the two chatted, the more they fell in love, the wine pot soon bottomed out, and the night gradually fell, the man looked at the night sky and sighed: "The bright moon and the stars are impermanent, and the idler is the master." How can those who only know how to practice have such beauty?"

Cao Xiaoning glanced at him, and knew without guessing that the man should have been a student of the academy back then, but he must have stayed in the academy as a gardener because of his limited qualifications.

"Okay, I have something to do, so let's go first. The man smiled, "You can stay here and enjoy it until dawn." ”

"No need seniors, it's not too early, it's time for me to leave. Cao Xiaoning arched his hand.

The man threw the wine jug to Cao Xiaoning and said with a smile: "The last sip of wine, you drink." ”

Cao Xiaoning raised his head and took a drink, took the last sip of wine, and said, "Thank you for the wine and flowers of your predecessors." ”

The man smiled and said, "In this way, if you come again tomorrow, I will bring you two other kinds of wine to drink." Not only tomorrow, but if you want to drink in the future, you can come here to find me, I am usually there in the evening. ”

Cao Xiaoning got up, threw the wine jug back to the other party, and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

......

When Cao Xiaoning was about to return to his small courtyard, he saw a figure standing in front of the door of his courtyard from afar, and when he looked at it, it was actually the student who tried to reject Fan Xiaoyong's Lingjing in the daytime.

Cao Xiaoning frowned, what does this guy want to do?