Autumn

The moment Luo Honglian stepped out of the corridor with her right foot, everything seemed to be rapidly returning to its place, and even the boundless Ze Country was fading away at an unimaginable speed.

"what happened?"

Lu Li noticed that everyone stood still, could something have happened?

"Young master, the flood has receded, and the rain has also stopped."

Meng Yue whispered in Lu Li's ear, his voice was a little surprised and even stammered.Lu Li could roughly imagine what kind of astonishing scene it must be.

is it you?It should be you, otherwise how could the rain stop and the clouds go away.

Lu Li subconsciously thought in his heart, he really wanted to turn around, walk down the corridor again, and feel the emotion released from that chrysalis again.But he knew that this was impossible, he could not go back, and he would never go back.Suddenly, he recalled his childhood memories. At that time, he was so annoyed by the sound of dripping rain outside, because his sensitive ears could always catch these annoying sounds, which made him unable to meditate.It was also from that time that the master taught him to play the piano, and the sound of the rain no longer became his distress.

With lowered eyelids, he silently listened to the sound of the water receding, heard the wind blowing past his ears, and the thick clouds dispersed, revealing the clear sky.

Before setting off, Meng Yue looked back at Sifang Mountain curiously. He saw that the soil at the foot of Sifang Mountain was still soft, but there were no caves, as if nothing had happened before.And that long snake had already merged into the swamp without a trace.

"go home."

Lu Li subconsciously clenched Jinse's hand, feeling a little painful, but Jinse didn't speak, nor pulled away.She just silently looked at Lu Li's downcast profile. She knew that Lu Li had something on his mind, but she couldn't figure it out. She just unconsciously glanced in the direction of the tunnel.

"Young Master, Mr. Lang has already set off for Yunzhang."

Following Lu Li's instructions, Meng Yue sent Lang's family outside Qingfeng City.Although he shirked it many times, he still couldn't help the old man and accepted the snacks and some silver taels from the Lang family.As a gift in return, Lu Li asked Meng Yue to send some seeds suitable for planting in the swamp, as well as some grain.

The rain in Yunmao stopped, and the continuous drizzle that lasted for two months in the entire Kyushu also stopped.In Wuweiju's courtyard, there was still a smell of rain, and some drops of water were still dripping from the eaves.Lu Li had gotten used to those voices for so many years, but now he was a little impatient.

"Meng Yue, accompany me to the rockery."

Meng Yue froze for a moment, he naturally knew where the rockery Lu Li was talking about.There is only one rockery in Wuweiju, but he doesn't understand why he wants to go there at this time.

"What's the matter? If you don't want to go, I will go by myself."

Sensing Meng Yue's hesitation, an unknown fire ignited in Lu Li's heart for no reason.He stood up abruptly, groping all the way to the door.However, Lu Li, who had already lost control of his emotions, lost control of his limbs and almost fell out of the door.

"What's going on here?"

When Jinse approached the door, she heard Lu Li's voice.The voice was a little strange, he had never reprimanded Meng Yue so loudly.Feeling a little uneasy, Jinse quickened her pace and saw Meng Yue grabbing Lu Li from behind who was about to fall.

"Meng Yue, what's going on?"

Jinse quickly supported Lu Li, raised her head and asked about Meng Yue.

"The young master is going to the rockery, and before I can reply, he suddenly lost his temper."

Meng Yue didn't know how to explain it, so he had to tell the truth.Jinse frowned, she could probably guess why Lu Li went to the rockery.

"Meng Yue, Yue Ying said that she wanted to make fish soup tonight, but she seems to have forgotten to buy fish. Why don't you make a trip."

"Outside the kitchen door..." Suddenly seeing Jinse's eyes, Meng Yue swallowed the words that came to his lips, "Okay, I'll go right away."

"Why did you send Meng Yue away?"

Jinse was taken aback for a moment, then smiled again.

"Otherwise? Seeing him being taught a lesson again?" Jinse helped Lu Li sit down and said, "You have never lost your temper, not with others, not with Meng Yue. What happened today?"

"It's nothing, it's just..."

Lu Li turned his face away and wanted to explain, but he couldn't say anything.

"Is it because of something in the swamp?" Jinse's tone was very flat, as if that matter was no longer worth mentioning, "You want to find something useful from the rockery, and you want to unlock the secrets in the swamp."

"The rockery is the place where master meditates and practices. I know there is a secret room there, but master never lets me go near it." Lu Li unconsciously clenched his hands on his knees, "I can't see, but I still have ears. , I can hear. Even the tiniest sound."

"I'll go with you."

The tightly clenched fist relaxed due to the warmth, and Lu Li held it carefully.

Wuweiju's rockery has a very special shape. If you just stand in the yard and look at it, it is no different from ordinary rockery, except that when you walk in, you will feel lost.But if you look at it from a high place, you will find that the rockery looks like a high-spirited dragon head.

According to Lu Li's instruction, Jinse groped all the way, but she came to the hidden copper door smoothly.The animal face carved on the bronze door was still ferocious, and Jinse couldn't help thinking of the barrier in front of the corridor.

"Give."

Jinse looked down at a small jade whistle that Lu Li handed over, she recognized it.It has been hanging on Lu Li's chest, but he has never heard its voice.

"This is the key. Do you see the big mouth of the beast? There is a dark hole there."

Seeing that Jinse didn't take the whistle, Lu Li anxiously explained.Jinse raised her eyebrows, took the whistle and thrust it into the dark hole.

The world behind the bronze gate is a bit different from Jinse's imagination. There is only a huge stone platform in the empty stone room, surrounded by stone walls.

"Lu Li, there's nothing here."

"Master is only used to meditate, so it's very empty." Lu Li touched the stone wall and walked forward, "It should be here."

Jin Se watched Lu Li's hand touch the decoration on the stone wall, and upon closer inspection, he could find that this decoration appeared in many places in the stone chamber.For example, the lampstand on the stone wall, the surroundings of the stone platform, and the center of each stone wall.This pattern is similar to lotus, maybe it is lotus.

"This is Qinglian, Master said, because he likes Qinglian very much, so he chiseled a lot in the stone chamber."

Lu Li is too sensitive, he can always detect subtle changes in others, maybe it's just like what he said, he is blind but not blind.Jinse couldn't help thinking this way, and turned her eyes to the ornament that Lu Li touched, the green lotus was chiseled on a lampstand.At this time, Jinse discovered that these patterns are very special, they all have a strong three-dimensional effect, just like real lotus flowers.It is precisely because of this that the mechanism on the lampstand does not appear so obtrusive.

"I remember that every time Master went to the secret room, there would always be extremely small noises."

Lu Li fumbled and pushed the lotus, and the back of the stone platform suddenly opened.

"Here...is there only one platform?"

Jin Se was not mistaken, the entrance to the secret room was only a ten-square-meter platform, and it was pitch black under the platform.

"Every time Master goes in, I don't hear any footsteps."

"But you can't see your fingers here, even if you fly, you don't know which direction to go."

Lu Li pulled Jinse to stand on the platform, his ears could hear the slightest sound, but in this strange secret room, there was only a strange wind whirling around his ears.

"Lu Li, I think it's better to call Yin Danlu and the others. It's just the two of us. I'm afraid it won't work."

Jinse held back Lu Li who was still going forward, and said worriedly.Lu Li hesitated for a moment. He didn't think there would be any terrible traps or man-eating monsters hidden in the master's secret room, but the darkness made this secret room unfathomable, and Jinse's suggestion was not unacceptable.

"Ok."

"This is the master's secret room?"

Meng Yue stood at the door of the secret room, looking at the dark world in front of him.He suddenly felt a little scared, and finally swallowed his saliva, but felt like a stick in his throat.

"I have always wanted to know what is hidden in Master's secret room. So many things have happened recently, and this secret room makes me more and more uneasy."

"Could this secret room also have a special barrier?"

Luo Honglian frowned and looked at the deep darkness under her feet.

"Is...is this also water?"

Yueying asked cautiously.

"Water?" Lu Li's eyebrows twitched, "Master really likes to use water as a barrier."

Jinse watched Lu Li's long hair fall down, and the slender emerald jade hairpin was caught between his two fingers.With the movement of his wrist, the emerald jade hairpin threw a perfect arc in the darkness, and finally landed straight in front of the platform ten meters away.The moment the hairpin fell, a very thin moon-white light flashed in the darkness, like ripples slowly rippling from the tip of the hairpin.The emerald jade hairpin had a whitish color, which seemed particularly abrupt in the dark. They looked at the hairpin standing firmly in front of them.

"It looks like it should be an enchantment, but the hairpin was not swallowed."

Yin Danlu looked curiously at the jade hairpin that hadn't fallen down, and thought of the enchantment in the swamp that would swallow everything.

"It means that it is an enchantment that can be walked, but it should not be so easy to walk. You can see that the hairpins are all upright."

"Could it be affected by something?" Luo Honglian folded her hands on her chest, "The fact that the hairpin can stand there means that the gravity is still there. If it can't stand upright now, it means that there is some kind of gravitational force on it."

"But the value of gravity and gravity has cleverly obtained a balance point, so the hairpin can stand upright."

Yin Danlu added what Luo Honglian didn't say, and this inference is reasonable.But what worries Lu Li is that just because the hairpin can stand upright like this doesn't mean they can move forward as smoothly as the hairpin. What's more, there are no coordinates here, and they can't even figure out the basic direction.

"It's not an option for us to hesitate here now. If we want to find out, we have to go in."

After a long silence, Yin Danlu suddenly said.His gaze scanned everyone's face, some worried and some indifferent.But he knew everyone wanted to be in.So he simply took Yueying's hand.

"Since everyone agrees, let's go in and have a look."

A group of people held hands with each other and walked out of the small platform.The darkness under their feet was like water, every time they took a step, there would be ripples of different sizes.These ripples overlap each other and stagger each other.When they looked back, the platform had disappeared, but the hairpin was still there, feeling neither far nor near.Although he was puzzled, he couldn't turn back.The group had to keep going.

No one could tell how long she had been away, but when Jinse woke up, she found herself lying on a bed.The red gauze shrouded the surroundings, and she smelled the smell of sandalwood, which was white sandalwood, quiet and quiet.Jinse sat up slowly and looked around carefully.She saw the silver mattress and pillow, and a purple bamboo flute lying beside the pillow.

Jinse grabbed the purple bamboo flute. She remembered that it was a gift from her father when she was an adult.She suddenly remembered something, and looked up at the red gauze curtain and all the furnishings in the room again.That's right, this is her room.She actually returned to Qingqiu!

Luo Honglian only felt a little dizzy, she had been walking in the dark for a long time, and she was not used to the sun's light.When his sight gradually became clear and he finally saw the scene in front of him clearly, he couldn't look away suddenly.He looked at the red lotus in disbelief, it was a red lotus, a red lotus that only blooms in oases in the wilderness!

Yin Danlu stood on the hillside of Zhang'e Mountain, looking at the flock of birds flying from afar, he was a little dazed.Although this is the place where he was born, after all, he has been away for too long, and he suddenly felt a little strange.Opening his eyes, the first thing he saw was the gate of the Yin family and the family emblem at the gate.He vaguely remembered that he was holding Yueying's hand and walking in the dark, but why when he woke up, he was leaning against the big tree in front of Yin's house.

Just thinking about it, the door was opened.A young man in green clothes came out of the door and shouted something loudly towards Yin Danlu.Yin Danlu couldn't hear what he was shouting clearly, but she couldn't help but got off the tree and ran into the gate quickly.

The closest place between Bahuang and Four Seas is a mountain named Qingfeng. The mountain is not high, but it is evergreen all the year round.There is a rather large courtyard in Qingfeng Mountain, named Qingyuan.The owner here is surnamed Yue, who is the head of the Qingque clan.The Yue family has always been headed by women, and the patriarch of this generation is called Yue Ming.

Yueying still felt that her head was a little dizzy, and she saw her grandmother's thin face in a daze.After seeing it clearly, Yueying felt a little confused, she remembered being pulled by Yin Danlu and kept walking forward.Why are you lying in your grandmother's room at this moment?

Suddenly, Meng Yue heard someone calling his name, even shaking his shoulders.He slowly opened his eyes and turned to the source of the sound.Li Ruotang?Meng Yue looked at the young man in front of him suspiciously, why is this guy here?Why did I fall asleep?A series of questions popped up, following a force, Meng Yue sat up straight.Only then did he see everything around him clearly.Meng Yue blinked. If he remembered correctly, this was his room...Suddenly he remembered a place—Meng's house in Lingnan.

Living without doing nothing is used to being quiet, even to the point of being ignored.Pedestrians pass by the gate of Wuweiju, if there is no scent of osmanthus, no one will notice this courtyard.Occasionally, the sound of the piano came from the courtyard, and the neighbors remembered that there was another family here.The pleasant fragrance was faintly visible in the air, Lu Li groped his way to the courtyard, because he could smell the fragrance of narcissus in the courtyard.

Narcissus?Lu Li frowned and thought, this is a flower that blooms in the greenhouse in winter, why is there now, and it is still in the yard.He couldn't even figure out why he was in the courtyard of Wuwei, shouldn't he be in the secret room?Where did Jinse go?What about Meng Yue?Why can't he hear their voices?Lu Li panicked, staggered and almost fell.

"You child, you are so old, but you are still so frizzy."

Lu Li's body was a little stiff, and he widened his eyes to carefully identify the voice.

"Master?"

"Otherwise, who do you think?"

"Master...why are you here?"

"You kid, you are only 16 years old and want to drive Master away?"

16 years old?Lu Li thought in astonishment, he clearly remembered that his master left him in the second year.

"No, it's just that I didn't hear Master's voice just now, so I thought you had gone out."

"I would like to, but that boy Meng Yue has gone out to do errands, and I'm afraid it will take three or two days to come back. If I go out again, what will you do?"

Sang Yu helped Lu Li sit down in the Liushui Pavilion, and put a plate of glutinous rice cakes made with wine in front of him.Lu Li smiled unconsciously when he smelled the aroma of fermented wine.

"You kid still likes to eat this so much, I really don't know what's so delicious about this glutinous glutinous rice cake."

Sang Yu shook her head, she really didn't understand how a young man could love this sweet so much.

"Master doesn't like it? Then why do you do it?"

Sang Yu's Danfeng eyes blinked, and he bent his index finger and flicked Lu Li's forehead gently.

"It's not because you like to eat."

Lu Li rubbed his aching forehead, but he still couldn't put the glutinous rice cake in his mouth.

"Obviously the first dessert I ate was glutinous rice cake."

Lu Li said reluctantly.He could not remember wrongly, the first dim sum he ate was the glutinous rice cake. At that time, he was just a babbling child, and his master coaxed him to eat the glutinous rice cake for the first time.

Sang Yu naturally remembered it too, but he didn't want to mention it, because the glutinous rice cake reminded him of an old friend.I thought I could forget about it completely, but I never thought that my apprentice would also like to eat this glutinous rice cake.In this way, after so many years, I still haven't been able to forget it.

The master suddenly became quiet, and Lu Li had time to think about the whole story.What is the enchantment in the secret room, and why did it bring him back to the past.If I say that I went back to four years ago, did other people go back to the past?What about Meng Yue?Did he return to the same time period as himself?Or even earlier...