Buddha

After Lu Chi rescued Xie Lannan, he was not in a hurry to leave Shang'an. He took Xie Lannan to play in Shang'an leisurely.After Xie Lannan woke up from his injury, he didn't cry or make noise, and he didn't argue for his mother. He just followed him quietly, as silent as a child.

Lu Chi gave Xie Lannan the three bunches of candied haws he bought back, and held the remaining two bunches in his hand. After thinking about it, he felt that it was not kind to do so, so he handed another bunch to the child.The candied gourds were all big and round, and the syrup on the outside of the hawthorn was spread evenly. He bit off a hawthorn and asked vaguely, "Don't you have anything to ask me? Who am I? Why did your mother entrust you to me?" Give me these or something."

After swallowing, he licked the sugar residue on his mouth, suddenly remembered something, reached out and patted Xie Lannan's clean and tender face: "Hey, I found that you are too easy to deceive, I said It was entrusted by your mother, you just obediently left with me without even thinking about it, what if I lied to you?"

Xie Lannan held up the two bunches of candied haws and didn't eat a single bite, but just watched without speaking.

Lu Chi didn't urge him to answer, he was always very patient with Xie Lannan.

I don't know how long it took before Xie Lannan replied in a low voice: "You won't lie to me."

Lu Chi smiled: "How do you know I won't lie to you."

"You have the same butterflies as my mother."

Lu Chi remembered that when he rescued Xie Lannan, he hadn't taken Xunxiangdie back.He reached out and rubbed Xie Lannan's head twice, and said with a smile, "You kid."

At this time, the rain that had been raining in Shang'an for several days had stopped, and the sunlight fell from the clouds and fell on the corners of Lu Chi's smiling eyes, as if portraying these peach blossom eyes more affectionately.

Pretty damn good.

Take those eyes off, he thought.

Xie Lannan still hadn't finished eating the two bunches of candied haws in the end, Lu Chi shook his head regretfully and said why you kid has such a small appetite, and at the same time finished nearly one and a half bunches of candied haws for Xie Lannan without shame.Their temporary foothold was an inn not far from the city gate. That night, Lu Chi came back very late. When he entered the room lightly, he found that Xie Lannan, who had already fallen asleep by this time, was curled up on the bed with his arms around his knees side corners.

Lu Chi sat on the bed and asked him softly, "Why haven't you slept yet?" When he said the words, he found his voice was unreasonably hoarse.

Xie Lannan still maintained this posture, but his body relaxed a lot unconsciously.

"I... I had a nightmare."

"That's it." Lu Chi patted him on the shoulder, thinking of a lot of nonsense to comfort him.After a while, on a whim, he lowered his head and asked Xie Lannan, "Do you want to go to the roof to watch the stars?"

Xie Lannan leaned in his arms. Hearing this, he raised his head. Under the dim candlelight in the room, he saw Lu Chi's eye circles were very red and swollen.He has cried, Xie Lanna thought so, then he nodded and said hello.

Lu Chi took Xie Lannan and jumped onto the roof of the inn. His lightness kung fu was very good. Even with a half-grown child, he still didn't make a sound when he landed, like a fallen leaf drifting by.He carefully placed Xie Lannan on the roof beam, and then sat down beside him.

They said they were looking at the stars, but God obviously didn't show face. There was only a half-shown moon hanging in the night, and they didn't even see half of the stars.

There was a rustling sound from behind, and after a soft "bang", there was a faint smell of wine in the air.Xie Lannan moved his gaze from the night sky to the person behind him.

"Are you drinking?"

"Ah."

"Is the wine good?"

"taste not good."

"You are very sad." Xie Lannan definitely came to a conclusion.

Lu Chi muttered a few words, but the voice was too soft, Xie Lannan couldn't hear clearly, but he also knew that he must be talking about him.However, after only getting along for a few days, Xie Lannan has already figured out Lu Chi's character. He is so easy to understand, like undyed white paper, with all emotions on his face, which can be seen clearly at a glance.

Apart from the occasional cicadas singing around, it was the sound of Lu Chi raising his head to drink. After an unknown amount of time, when Xie Lannan thought Lu Chi should be drunk, someone behind him put his shoulders on his shoulders.

"Do you want to learn martial arts?" The smell of alcohol wafted around him, but Xie Lannan didn't find it unpleasant.

He raised his eyes, and his dark pupils actually shone a little under the moonlight. In the depths, there was something agitating unwillingly.It is an ambition born of desire and unwillingness to struggle.

"Are you my master?"

"Yes." Lu Chi said softly, the blush around his eyes and cheeks was obvious.He drank a lot of wine.

Xie Lannan put his hand in his palm, and gave a shallow smile, which was the first smile he showed these days.His voice was rarely filled with joy, and he called softly: "Master!"

Lu Chi didn't feel that he drank too much. It wasn't until the jug of wine could no longer pour out half a drop of wine that he realized in a daze that he had finished drinking the jug of wine.Xie Lannan beside him lowered his head little by little. He picked up Xie Lannan and hugged him in his arms. With a little tiptoe, he flew down from the roof.

The child was weightless, not much heavier than his saber in his arms.

Lu Chi put him on the couch and went back to find the quilt. In the darkness, Xie Lannan suddenly made a sound.

He said, "Master, is my mother dead?"

Lu Chi's hand stopped, and he covered the brocade quilt on Xie Lannan's body, "What did you say?" His voice suddenly became hoarse.

"It's been rumored outside today that the lord of the Liyu Palace was assassinated, and his life and death are unknown. I think the person who assassinated him was my mother—" Xie Lannan laughed silently, with a bit of pleasure in his voice, "My mother , wanted to kill him for a long time..."

That appearance is not like an eight-year-old child at all, but like some kind of evil spirit who chooses and devours people.

Unfortunately, in the dark, Lu Chi couldn't see Xie Lannan like this.

When Lu Chi took Xie Lannan away, he had already anticipated what the senior sister would do next, but he still couldn't accept this result.The senior sister left when he was ten years old. He can't remember clearly what happened at that time. He only vaguely remembers that the senior sister went down the mountain to travel and brought a seriously injured man when she came back.After the man recovered from his injuries, the always gentle and submissive senior sister even took the initiative to tell the master that she wanted to marry that man.

They Tai Nianzong belonged to the sect of the rivers and lakes, there were very few restrictions on women, and marriage was always free.But for some reason, the master strongly opposed this marriage, and the senior sister was also unexpectedly stubborn, and swore that he would not marry.Under the stalemate between the two sides, the senior sister took advantage of the master's unpreparedness and escaped from Tainianzong with that man overnight.At that time, when the master knew about it, he was so angry that he practiced sword in the back mountain for a day, and he said that there was no apprentice like a senior sister.

Later, Lu Chi finally understood why his master opposed this marriage.Because that man is the lord of the Liyu Palace, which is known as the Demon Palace.For the next eight years, there was no news of my senior sister at all.Not long ago, Lu Chi received a secret letter from his senior sister at the junction of Beiwu and Nishizawa.

After the assassination incident, the palace was heavily guarded, and Lu Chi tried his best to get in, but he couldn't find the body of his senior sister.He then went to the courtyard where his senior sister lived, looking for her belongings.But he found that even that courtyard was completely burned down by a fire.From now on, there will be no trace of that gentle and gentle woman in the world.

Lu Chi waited for Xie Lannan to fall asleep before lying down on another bed. When he was drowsy, he remembered what his master said.

"Love has always been harmful."