Guanqingzhai

Willow silk is like smoke on the bank of the river.Chu Jue walked along the river alone, holding two pieces of paper in his hand, one black and one white.There is something written on it.

There was a trace of hesitation between Chu Jue's steady brows, and his hands tightened a little more when pinching the paper.Another gust of wind passed by, and a piece of paper flew past Chu Jue's hand. The paper flew out of Chu Jue's hand and immediately dissipated in the wind.

He parted his lips slightly and gave a wry smile.Then continue to move forward.

At this moment, the owner of Guanqingzhai has returned, and the sound of pouring wine can be heard before entering the house.Chu Jue's footsteps became a little lighter when he came here.He pushed the door open, and Hu Yue sat in his old seat reading a book, leaving an empty seat for Chu Jue.

Hu Yue couldn't take her eyes off the book, but her hands were already pouring wine for the visitor.He put one hand on his head.

Chu Jue took a sip and said, "It's really early to be back."

Hu Yue raised her head and smiled, "It's just a letter, and it doesn't take half a day to go back and forth."

Chu Jue nodded, drank his wine, moved closer to the chessboard and began to watch the chess game.At this time Hu Yue said: "You came from Qiao'er, what does she want from me?"

Chu Jue was taken aback for a moment, then sniffed his cuffs and said, "Your brother has a really good nose. You can guess where I come from from this little bit of fragrance."

Hu Yue put down the book and said, "You won't go alone if you have nothing to do, and the jug at the door is full, so I guessed that it was Xiaoying who came to look for me, but unexpectedly I ran into you. What's the matter with Qiaoer?"

Chu Jue took away a few chess pieces and said, "She originally wanted you to meet a piano seller."

"peddler"

Chu Jue said, "Do you have any impression of Liu Yin?"

Hu Yue was shaken for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This name is quite interesting."

Chu Jue said: "Then can you tell me why you listened to Liu Yin?"

Hu Yue Wanran smiled and said, "Qiaoer told you. She must still be blaming me for letting her stand for so long in vain."

Hu Yue put down the book in his hand, he hooked his fingers towards Chu Jue, and Chu Jue approached him knowingly.Hu Yue whispered: "There is a reason for this, do you want to listen?"

Chu Jue glanced at Hu Yue, who was pretending to be mysterious, out of the corner of his eyes, and said, "Why?"

Hu Yue said: "The voice of Liu Yin is naturally not the voice of this world, and the living people cannot hear this voice."

Chu Jue said, "So what you are listening to is the voice of the dead?"

Hu Yue smiled and nodded, "Maybe, maybe not."

Chu Jue continued to ask: "There must be a deal, otherwise the living will not be able to listen, what can be exchanged?"

Hu Yue smiled wryly and said, "Brother Chu has already guessed it, right?"

Chu Jue looked at Hu Yue. Although Hu Yue was still smiling, his smile was a bit ugly.Chu Jue said, "Then when are you going to get your voice back?"

Hu Yue said, "Is it necessary?"

Chu Jue's hands in the tea bowl trembled, and almost spilled the tea leaves. His voice was a little annoyed, and he said in a low voice, "I don't want to see a stranger exporting your voice, and I don't think it's a good thing. not simple."

Hu Yue laughed dryly and turned her head. Chu Jue took a sip of tea and said, "I said, since my brother already has a plan in mind, why didn't he say it?"

Hu Yue then turned her head, turned her phoenix eyes and said with a smile: "Brother didn't say anything about his plan."

The two looked at each other for a moment and laughed.Then Chu Jue put down the tea bowl and said, "Okay, okay, if that's the case, then this time it's the old rules."

Hu Yue clicked on the table and looked at him and said, "Eight Immortals cross the sea and each show their abilities. The loser will spend 30 years carving a red pot."

Chu Jue nodded and said, "Okay, it's a deal."

So there was another moment of pause, and the two had their own thoughts.The usual conversation before was no longer relaxed.There was a trace of uneasiness between the two.

For the first time, Chu Jue did not force him to stay, but sat for a while and then got up and left. Hu Yue sent him to the door, walked back and forth in the room a few times, and finally seemed to make up his mind to go out.

It seems that it started to rain lightly at night.Holding an oil-paper umbrella in her hand, Hu Yue strolled out of the alley.

I don’t know how long this road has been walked. He stopped and stopped, sometimes he would laugh, and sometimes he would sigh, but finally he stopped. In front of him was a private house with a doorway There are two big lanterns hanging.He sighed and said, "Hey, I really don't want to come..."

But after hesitating for a moment, he still pushed open the door, and behind it was a yard.But no one took care of it, weeds were overgrown, a crooked and dead willow tree was hung with a lot of wood, there were more or less holes in the wood, and some had dark brown blood stains.Each block appears to be unoccupied.

Hu Yue pushed aside the weeds and walked towards a low house, which was also very dilapidated.The weirdest thing is that there are two paper figurines placed at the gate of the house, a man and a woman, each holding a whisk and a lantern in their hands.The grotesque expression seems to be looking at the visitor, half smiling, half crying, half crying.

Ordinary people might be scared away just by seeing these two paper figurines. Hu Yue shook his head, pushed the door open, and there was a strange fragrance coming from the door, which made people smell very uncomfortable. It reminds people of the pain of parting sorrow.Emotions are also greatly weighed down.

Hu Yue wrinkled her nose and waved her hand.There was a row of candles in the house, and Hu Yue picked up one of them at random. Although the room was not big, it was empty. There were no utensils that normal people should have here, only an altar, a row of candles, and a futon.Nothing else.

Dust was all over the futon, but it was strange that in such a house that no one seemed to live in, the candles had never been extinguished. Looking at the thick wax oil of the candles, they burned for a long time.

In such a weird room, a woman's weak voice suddenly came faintly: "This smell of alcohol, hey, but Hu Sheng came?"

Hu Yue leaned slightly and said, "It's Xiaosheng, please come and meet me."

"Hehe, you broke the contract back then, what face do you have to come to see me now?"

After saying this, a slender hand stretched out from behind Hu Yue, with extremely long nails, pinching into Hu Yue's flesh.Hu Yue snorted, and said: "It's better not to see each other than to meet each other, but as the saying goes, don't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do, and ask the girl to raise your hand, if you pinch me, I won't be able to talk to you."

"Hehe, it really is Hu Sheng who is eloquent and eloquent." The voice disappeared, and the hand no longer appeared. Hu Yue touched his neck, and there was a red mark on his neck.

Hu Yue said, "I came here this time to ask one thing."

"Hey, Hu Sheng, Hu Sheng, do you know that you are the only one who came to me and lived in the sun world? Underneath, the wind, the flowers, the snow and the moon, why don't you cherish it?"

Hu Yue said: "For a 30-year-old flower carving, I can only fight."

"Still the old temper, don't you feel less human without the smell of wine?"

Hu Yue curled her lips and said, "It's an old friend, why bother?"

"Hey, it's not the first time you've seen me, and you still treat you as a friend, otherwise, based on your deception to me that day, you would have died before you entered the door, so why talk about it now? Tell me, what's the matter here? "

Hu Yue said: "I want to know if anyone has come here recently to exchange things."

"Why do you ask this?"

"Get some things straight."

"Yes, there has always been, you need to know the details, you know the rules."

"Girl, we are old friends."

"Don't get too far."

"Tell me about the conditions?"

"It's still the same sentence, I want that person."

"It's too difficult, change to another one."

"You killed him for me."

"I'm just a scholar, I don't have the strength to restrain a chicken...I'll change to another one."

"Hu Sheng!"

"girl……"

"Choose one of the two, and tell me the answer. Otherwise...you're left with an empty shell."

"girl……"

"Try shouting again, believe it or not, I'm going to kill you now?"

Hu Yue closed his mouth, and then the candle in his hand went out instantly, and there was no more woman's voice. He stood alone in the middle of the dilapidated house with an umbrella in his hand, shaking his head in embarrassment.In the dark room, a huge cat suddenly jumped out, and the cat stared at Hu Yue with its eyes and teeth bared.

Hu Yue smiled at it and said: "Little friend, it's been a long time." Then he backed out.

Hu Yue returned in vain. When he walked out of the dilapidated house, the rain outside the house became heavier, and the heavy rain fell. Hu Yue didn't have a lantern in his hand, but just held an oiled paper umbrella and headed back towards Guanqingzhai.Walking and thinking all the way, most of my body was soaked by the rain.His mind kept recalling some strange fragments, which were fragmented like dreams.It seems to be a fragmented piece of piano music, which cannot be played completely, and has not been tuned.

He didn't intend not to disclose this matter, but if he said it, would it involve more, and would it make things worse?It can be seen that love is the most difficult to understand in the world, and the more difficult to understand than love is the hatred born of love.

A strange picture was drawn in Hu Yue's mind. A person held a person's head in his hand. He kissed the head, and then stretched out a hand from his body, which strangled the person's neck. .Such a grotesque scene flashed in Hu Yue's mind for a moment, and soon he saw a strange face, and then blood flowed from the pores of that face, but he was still smiling.

Hu Yue only felt distressed for a while, he clutched his chest, his body swayed a little, he recited the calming spell silently in his heart, and then came back to his senses, only to find that there were already two women standing in front of him, none of them, but Yin Yang Yu's Those two ghost girls.

They didn't have umbrellas, but they didn't get wet from the rain.The lantern in his hand glowed under the refraction of the rain.

Among them, Miss Liu said: "Young master, I have seen you for a long time."

Hu Yue was still feeling uncomfortable, and her body was weak.But he still clasped his fists and said with a smile: "You two have something to do with me?"

The two girls smiled like peaches and plums, but there was a green luster in their eyes, they were not like people in the world, their faces were blurred in the rain, and Hu Yue also felt a strange uneasiness in his heart.Although he also smiled at each other, but clenched his fists tightly.

Liu said: "I came here today to ask you to return one thing to me."

Hu Yue smiled and said, "I seem to remember that I don't owe the two girls anything, right?"

Bian Shangyan smiled and said, "Of course there is, but you don't remember."

Liu'er interrupted her, and said with a smile: "This time, my master specially sent us two to discuss. I hope you will not embarrass my two sisters."

Hu Yue groaned, but the center had moved to the heel, and he said with a smile: "Then please come to remind me, I am old, and this memory is indeed not very good."

Liu'er giggled and said, "Young master still likes to joke like before, but the master wants me to remind you that time is running out for young master."

When Hu Yue heard the last sentence, there seemed to be an echo. He had said such a sentence before. He only felt that his temple seemed to be pierced hard by a needle. The pain made him grit his teeth for a moment, and his forehead was swollen. A cold sweat broke out.The umbrella that was originally in his hand also fell to the ground, and the rain fell on Hu Yue like a heavy weight.He covered his head, although he still forced a smile, but his face was pale with cold sweat.The second daughter didn't appear to be leaving, Hu Yue secretly complained, but she was not sure about escaping immediately, so she could only stand in a stalemate like this.

He gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "Why does everyone say this to me? Are they really looking forward to Hu being reincarnated? It's a pity that Hu won't die."

Yan at the side squinted at Hu Yue who was still holding on, she stretched out her hand, holding a stone in her hand, Hu Yue didn't see what it was, but felt that his head was sucked away by this stone pain.Just when Yan'er was about to touch Hu Yue.

Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and Yan's movements froze.At that moment, Hu Yue only felt that there was a hand behind her holding her, and then she turned around and Chu Jue was standing behind her.

Chu Jue looked at the two women, and the expressions of the two women also changed. Then the rain increased in an instant, and Hu Yue only felt that his eyes were blurred, and then lost consciousness.Only the last sentence was heard: "You will pay for this..."

Hu Yue felt as if he had fallen into the clouds, and a thought flashed in his mind, no matter what, he couldn't hand over such things, but he couldn't remember what it was.

When Hu Yue lost his mind, he muttered: "Yun... can't..."

While Chu Jue was catching Hu Yue, the two ghost girls had disappeared into the heavy rain.He looked down at the person in his arms, and sighed: "It seems that there is still no way to stop it..."

Chu Jue fed a pill, and Hu Yue finally recovered from this distraught feeling.He looked at Chu Jue and frowned and said, "You followed me? Did you go to that place too?"

Chu Jue said, "I didn't enter because you are not in danger."

Hu Yue said, "Then do you want to know the story about that place?"

Chu Jue said, "Are you willing to tell the truth?"

Hu Yue said: "Hey, there is no way, she made a condition that I should have thought of earlier, but I couldn't meet it. I lost this round."

Chu Jue said: "I didn't win either. I finally made a choice because I couldn't bear it. I don't know what the ending of this choice will be. But..."

Chu Jue showed a very gentle smile towards Hu Yue, as if he visited Guanqing Zhai to find Hu Yue to drink on weekdays. He smiled and said, "I don't regret it."

Hu Yue squeezed Chu Jue's arm harder, and there was confusion and impatience in his eyes, but it seemed that there was an unspeakable emotion.This was something that was not there before, even after countless times of tenderness, Hu Yue, who was still cold and indifferent, suddenly felt like a warm current flowed into his heart because of this smile.In a state of no ups and downs, it is like the thunder of the Waking of Insects.

But then that feeling still melted in my heart, perhaps hidden in a certain corner.

Hu Yue just smiled lightly and didn't speak.He stood up, picked up the paper umbrella that fell on the ground, and said, "Let's go, see if there are still restaurants open? Heat a pot of wine, and let me tell you the story about Liu Yin."

Chu Jue shook his head and said, "Go back, you're all wet like this, you won't feel comfortable drinking like this."

Hu Yue laughed, Chu Jue lowered his head and took his hand, Hu Yue trembled, he looked at Chu Jue awkwardly, Chu Jue pulled him back to the road.Although both of them were drenched, Hu Yue was still attached to the warmth from Chu Jue.He lowered his head and closed his eyes, a drop of water dripped from the tip of his nose, but he couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain.

The two returned to Guanqingzhai and changed into clean clothes.Hu Yue was only wearing an unlined garment, with loose hair.He was holding a jug of wine in his hand, and Chu Jue was also unlined, with his hair tied up simply.The two sat on the bed back to back.Chu Jue looked at Hu Yue who was holding the jug and said nothing, just waiting for him to speak.

Hu Yue took a sip of wine, he glanced at Chu Jue, then lowered his head, his long eyelashes covered his gaze, but the corners of his mouth slightly turned up were bitter.He said: "It may be a little trouble this time, because I made a contract with a person, but I can't do it, and she may have lost patience."

Hu Yue handed the wine to Chu Jue, and each took a sip.Hu Yue closed her eyes, covered her forehead with her hand and said, "This matter... where do we start? Let me think about it, oh, Liu Yin, right..."

Hu Yue opened his eyes and continued: "It's also a year of cold food...the green willows are like smoke, and I met that cat demon kid at that time."