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He just hid in the tree, thinking over and over by himself.But at this time, he was no longer the little boy who lived with a cat for a month in the corner of the yard.Ye Gui took him to recognize Qing Yunzong all over the place, and he smiled at everyone like Ye Gui, so everyone gradually became acquainted with this young man.It was quite unexpected for such a big living person to suddenly disappear, so people coming and going were looking for him everywhere, but no one thought of looking up.

After sitting for a while, Shen Lin felt a little tired, so he lay down on the tree branch and looked at the square inch of the sky through the luxuriant branches and leaves.

Lying on the branch was not as relaxing as I imagined—the branch was too narrow, and the back was all tight to prevent myself from falling. In addition, it was a little tight.Shen Lin drooped one leg crookedly from the branch, and put the other leg on it with his knee bent. This position was barely comfortable.

A doorman hurried past under the tree, and whispered to another doorman: "Did you find him?"

"I've seen all the courtyards on the east side, but not there."

"Hey... where else can I go? Did you go down the mountain?"

"The person on duty said he hadn't seen it."

"This...really! The suzerain is waiting to see him!"

Shen Lin lay on the tree, swinging his legs leisurely, feeling rebellious for no reason.He could hear what those people were saying clearly, but even though he knew that Master had something to look for him, he was unwilling to shout to the people under the tree, telling them that he was here and that he would go to find his master immediately.

The lush foliage of this tall tree became his retreat, where he could safely hide and be undisturbed.

He was too irritated, and when he thought that his senior sister who had been with him was about to leave, he felt even more irritated beyond words.

The person under the tree left, and he lay like this for a while, when he almost fell asleep, he heard a familiar footstep in a trance.

Shen Lin opened his eyes all of a sudden - this is his senior sister.

Ye Gui was originally packing his little baggage, but when he heard that Shen Lin was missing, he hurriedly went out to look for it.She first went to the courtyard where Shen Lin practiced swords—because she taught Shen Lin's swords. In order to let Shen Lin go out more, she didn't let Shen Lin practice in her own residence, but found another place where no one lived. The quiet courtyard.She thought that this kind of place might have been found by others a long time ago, so she just came to take a look just in case, but when she looked up, she saw a piece of white clothes mixed in among the lush green leaves. The man visibly froze nervously.

She secretly felt it was funny: "Come down, don't hide."

A head poked out from among the leaves: "Uh... Senior Sister!"

"Be careful!" Ye Gui pretended to blame him, "What if you fall."

Shen Lin jumped down from the tree "crazyly", jumped in front of her, and said to her without changing his face: "...it's okay."

Ye Gui led him to a small corner and asked him, "What are you hiding?"

Shen Lin answered irrelevantly: "Senior sister, what are you doing down the mountain?"

Ye Gui was taken aback: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

Shen Lin said, "Just asking."

Ye Gui thought about his words: "I have achieved a little success in swordsmanship, but I still dare not say that I am good enough in dealing with people. I want to go down the mountain, walk north and south, and meet people everywhere. Look at the scenery everywhere. Although Qing Yunzong is good, in the end it is just a corner, how can you trap yourself in this square inch?"

Shen Lin sighed.

Ye Gui smiled at him: "Everyone is like this. When you grow up to the point where the world can't let you go, you can't help but want to go out and have a look. Qing Yunzong has produced many famous seniors, and they all Did it shine after going down the mountain?"

Shen Lin hesitated for a moment: "Someone will stay where they are, right?"

"Ok?"

"Master," Shen Lin said, "Master has always been in Qing Yunzong."

Ye Gui brushed her hair back, and patiently said to her stubborn junior brother: "That's a matter of the future... Some people may have found their life's destination outside, and some people, after seeing thousands of rivers and mountains, still Back to where I started."

"Senior sister," Shen Lin asked, "will you come back after you go down the mountain?"

Ye Gui smiled: "Yes, I can't bear to part with you."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Lin suddenly felt that everything in front of him suddenly became blurred, like a gust of wind blowing over the fine reflections on the crumpled lake, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, wanting to see the mirror image in front of him more clearly, Even a glance is good, but everything is in vain.He felt a lump in his throat, and said to himself: "...Senior Sister, didn't you say that you will come back..."

He seemed to be alone in the endless darkness, and everything that happened just now was just a phantom. The boy with the cat in the corner had grown into a mature person, but the person who took him out of the unbreakable shell back then , is no longer there.

He was subconsciously escaping, and he was still stubborn after knowing the news of Ye Gui's death for many years, persistently searching for the truth, but a string in his heart was always tense, he wanted to find that person, the one who killed his dearest senior sister No matter how much he pays for it, he is willing to pay for it—but when his wish is really fulfilled, the strings in his heart suddenly loosen, and a reality that he has been unwilling to accept has surfaced: Ye Gui is dead, and his bones are buried in the He family. She promised to go back to Qingyun Mountain in the cemetery, but once she went there, she never came back.

Endless grief surged up like a tide, almost drowning him in it.However, in this tide, there is Ye Gui's gentle breath.

"Junior Brother, are you very scared?" Ye Gui's voice suddenly sounded in Shen Lin's heart, as if a thunderbolt had landed beside him. Shen Lin was startled, and after a moment of trance, he realized that these words were spoken by Ye Gui after that. Said to him.

How did he answer it?It seems to be "what are you afraid of"?

Ye Gui chuckled and said to him: "You are afraid. What you are afraid of is not that I cannot go back to Qingyun Mountain, but that you miss me too much. What you are afraid of is that after I leave, no one in Qingyunzong will protect you like me But Xiao Linzi, people always want to be independent. I am a woman, and I may not be able to take over the position of suzerain in the future. You are different. You can’t refuse to face something just because you are afraid.”

"I'm not afraid." Shen Lin said at the time.

"I believe in you." Ye Gui's slightly hoarse voice was filled with endless tenderness, "Then after I go down the mountain, you have to be strong."

When the last ray of voice dissipated, Shen Lin was still repeating Ye Gui's words back and forth.

"Can't you refuse to face something just because you are afraid of something...?"

All the memories of the past seemed to be shattered into pieces suddenly, passing before Shen Lin's eyes bit by bit.He entered the mountain gate for the first time, he met Ye Gui, he kept sharpening himself, Ye Gui left him... In the blink of an eye, he had become a person who could take care of himself according to Ye Gui's instructions, but he received a letter, thinly There were only a few lines written on the paper, but it weighed a thousand catties in his hand.

It was a letter about Ye Gui's death.