no one knows better than me

In the blink of an eye, Gu Mengchao.

The thunderbolt suddenly fell, blowing a big hole in the good herb garden.Zhuang Qingliu jumped forward nimbly, and rolled back smoothly.Zhuheng was standing by the gate, standing upright, but it was a bit cold when his eyes fell on the garden that had been struck by lightning.

She probably didn't know about Duan Bin's nanny, so why did she suddenly have clues inexplicably.

Zhuang Qingliu quickly came forward and said in a low voice: "Hey, I'll talk about the garden repairs later. Let me tell you what you found first?"

Zhuheng slowly retracted his gaze, glanced at her, and then stretched out his hand to point at the top of his head.

Zhuang Qingliu: "?"

Zhu Heng's finger suddenly moved in the air, and then turned straight to the direction of the center of the island, and said to Zhuang Qingliu Shi in shock: "The old Taoist who burned the lamp in Changgeng Immortal Mansion just came over, haven't you been scratching your head and wanting to know what happened to the three of them?" What's the matter?"

"???" Zhuang Qingliu was shocked, "Is this the case? That old man has come?? Now???"

"Then what's the matter?" Zhuheng raised his eyes, as if thinking of the trouble she couldn't stop for a day, her tone immediately dropped three octaves, "What are you doing?!"

"..." I didn't.Zhuang Qingliu turned his head to the center of the island, and said with certainty, "The old man really came here? How do you know?"

Zhu Heng was impatient: "Because I repaired the enchantment on the west of the island a few days ago. Do you want to see it? Don't tear it down."

Zhuang Qingliu suddenly turned her head to look at her, snorted lightly, and walked away seductively: "I don't know you yet, you must be scratching your head and wanting to see it!"

……

The two people tugged at each other's heads, and the lace figure flitted up, and quickly both landed skillfully on the top of a huge spruce tree, and their feet kept moving to stand on the only sharp point.The small wooden house in Zhuang Huang in the center of the island is illuminated with a soft and wonderful orange halo, and there is a kind of delicate beauty in the open grass.Standing at the top of this spruce, you can just see into the house through a small delicate window.

At this time, there were two people sitting opposite to each other on the square table in the room, one of them was wearing a Taoist crown and holding a dust whisk in his arm, but he was not wearing the dusty or sloppy Taoist robes of traditional Taoist priests.Instead, she was dressed in a Chinese dress reflecting the dark patterns of the water waves, with a circle of curled auspicious clouds around the edge, and glittering golden threads.

This is indeed the old Taoist who has seen the lamp several times in Changgeng Immortal Mansion, but the person opposite him is not Zhuang Huang, but Gui Yao.

After Zhuang Qingliu and Zhuheng shrank back and forth, they squeezed their shoulders back and forth and sighed softly at the cabin in the distance: "I just can't get too close, so I can't hear what the two of them are talking about?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a terrifying dark purple pill was brought to her face.

Zhuang Qingliu bowed his head, although he quickly understood, he still refused in his heart: "Are you sure—?"

Zhu Heng glanced at her, chewed one and ate it first: "Of course it works, I tried it."

Zhuang Qingliu took it devoutly and said, "I mean, are you sure you won't die after eating it?"

"..." Candle Heng threw a ball of fire on her feet and urged in a low voice, "Hurry up!"

After Nao Nao Nao, Zhuang Qingliu quickly swallowed this big ball like poison. The moment he swallowed it whole, he felt his whole body from the skull to the fingernails were icy cold, and he was so happy that he could spiral into the sky.There is such a price to be paid for the trivial matter of exploring Master... After thinking about it for a while, she simply flew up and walked around Zhuang Huang's cabin, tossing and turning among the shadows of the trees, and quickly selected a A blooming pomegranate tree quietly bloomed on the top of the tree.

Candle Heng had nowhere to open, so it had to become two small leaves beside her.

"Is this really the case..." The voice of the old man in the room came out quickly, and he sighed at Guiyao, "I'm not someone who entangles me, so why don't I even see each other."

This roughly means that this old man came to look for Zhuang Huang, but Zhuang Huang didn't want to see him, he didn't even show his face, but asked Gui Yao to come forward to do it for him... Both Zhuang Qingliu and Zhu Heng heard half of their faces very embarrassed Quickly sour.

The old Taoist picked up the clear tea soup on the table and took a sip, then briefly chatted with Gui Yao.

His tone is always calm, no matter what he is saying, when he speaks, it always makes people feel that he sees everything calmly, but when the words fall, people will feel inexplicably hidden in them. The thickness of mountains and rivers.

The relationship between the three people sounds very inexplicable, and it makes people unable to figure out what it is, as if it is very confusing.Although Zhuang Qingliu's head was full of disillusionment, she was usually good at pretending to be godlike, so she listened calmly and hung on the tree without any disturbance.

Zhuheng was different, and almost fell tremblingly from the treetop several times.

Without chatting a few words, the old Taoist's words changed from Zhuang Huang's retreat in the past few years to the covetousness that Gu Mengchao is now facing, and said earnestly: "Didn't your Zhu'er and Heng'er grow up, let her really grow up?" You don't have to worry about it anymore. The actions of Yu Shi and Lan Shi are not a big deal these days, but she has to go out and twist them secretly with all her energy, both inside and outside, and keeps going back and forth by herself. , Ten years of injuries won’t heal.”

Zhu Heng quickly retracted his gaze and raised his eyes very strangely, and stared silently at Zhuang Qingliu: "What do you mean, has Master already left the customs these days?"

Zhuang Qingliu's eyes fell inside without moving, as if he was thinking very seriously.And after she thought for a short moment, she suddenly moved slightly, swished unexpectedly, and stuffed a stinky fish-flavored candy ball into Zhuheng's mouth

Zhu Heng almost turned into a bird in an instant, and his expression looked particularly shocked, as if he was about to yell at him in the next second.After taking a quick look inside the house, her figure flickered rapidly, and she dared to "vomit, vomit" after leaving the cabin a long way away.

And Zhuang Qingliu was hanging on the tree, the voice of the old man in his ear remained the same, but his tone became unusually dignified, and he said: "Since she doesn't see me, I won't say much, just pass a word to her—"

"If she still abides by our century-old agreement, then I will definitely help the Yu family's Zhenshan monk. But if she insists on going her own way and insists on going to the point of killing her, then I will not care about the past friendship. "After the old Taoist finished speaking, he threw out an ice-blue talisman, and his figure disappeared from the spot.

Zhuang Qingliu then turned his gaze around the top of his head, and after seeing a flash of light, he flew away from the tree and stopped Zhu Heng who had just vomited and was about to come back: "There's no need to listen anymore, I'm leaving."

Seeing that Zhu Heng was about to explode on the spot, Zhuang Qingliu immediately seized the time to give her a bright smile.At the same time, after a blazing flash of light in the palm of his hand, he offered ten brilliant arrows pinched with condensed spiritual power, and while dodging and running, he shouted at Zhuheng: "Don't, don't, don't! I, Lan Lan, look quickly! , your apology has been settled!"

Zhu Heng's eyes suddenly focused, and the eight-foot-long flame in the palm of his hand was extinguished in an instant, pulling her back, looking at the ten spiritual arrows forged with cultivation base, and whispering: "What are you doing?"

Using one's own spiritual power to forge weapons is a taboo in cultivation, because the power is huge and the consumption is huge, so it should only be used to save one's life when absolutely necessary.And most importantly, since this kind of arrow was forged by Zhuang Qingliu with spiritual power, it could be used to kill her easily.Even if you think about this kind of thing with your feet, you will know that no one will give it away casually on weekdays—what kind of crazy is she?

"Like it? Are you happy?" Zhuang Qingliu quickly stuffed all the spirit arrows into her hands, and muttered in a very casual manner, "Who made you a stinky bird with no mood for a day, and you don't like anything, I What else can I give?"

After Zhu Heng's eyelids moved a little, he scolded her mercilessly for having nowhere to use his spiritual power, but he quickly raised his hand, and shot one casually, straight out of the barrier and disappeared.

"??" Zhuang Qingliu raised his head in shock for a moment, making a gesture of holding his heart together, "My spiritual power is worthless. My thoughts are worthless."

"Go away. It happened again." Zhu Heng glanced at her angrily, put away the remaining nine arrows, and asked what the old Taoist said just now.

"Do you really want to know? Or not." Zhuang Qingliu's face was very artificial, he stretched out his hand to scratch his eyebrows, and said with obvious embarrassment in his eyes, "It's just a shameful thing."

Zhu Heng: "..."

"???"

The night was quiet and soft, but the topic was cold and embarrassing.After Zhu Heng turned his head away without a word, he really stopped asking.The two were just about to leave, but when they turned around, they saw Zhuang Huang appearing in front of him with his hands behind his back.

……

Immediately, Zhuheng's two legs couldn't move anymore, and he stood there without even raising the corners of his eyes.Zhuang Qingliu's footsteps also paused slightly, and after looking at Zhuang Huang's face for a moment, he took the initiative to call out to Master, and asked, "Are you healed?"

Zhuang Huang probably hasn't fully recovered yet, so he coughed a few times and just asked, "Did you two hear it just now?"

Zhu Heng's throat moved, but he still didn't make a sound.Zhuang Qingliu nodded and admitted: "Yes. I heard it."

Zhuang Huang seemed to look at her a little deeper, and said: "So what. I told you and deduced what my teacher said to you that day, are they happening one by one now. What you want can't be done no matter what. , these years just pushed back the time a little bit.”

Zhuang Qingliu was a little silent, but still admitted: "Yes." Her gaze fell into Zhuang Huang's eyes, "So these years, have you been guarding behind your back?"

Zhuang Huang put his hands behind his back and smiled lightly: "If I don't watch out, who will send the news for you on the day you got the beauty bone."

Both Zhuang Qingliu and Zhu Heng raised their eyes suddenly - it turned out that the reason why Zhu Heng arrived in time that day was because the message she received was actually passed on by Zhuang Huang secretly for Zhuang Qing?

Zhuang Huang didn't pay much attention to the surprise on their faces, but turned to Zhuang Qingliu and asked, "Are you still the same as a few years ago, do you feel that you can control those people?"

Although Zhuang Qingliu often couldn't fully understand what she said, her prediction on this matter did not change, she nodded truthfully and said: "Yes."

Zhuang Huang's eyes flickered for a moment and seemed to have profound meaning: "Are you really—are you sure?"

It seems that the stars in the sky are fluctuating brilliantly, but this sentence is not a question.So Zhuang Huang didn't intend to listen more after speaking, but coughed twice, and then calmly left in front of them.

She has always been like this, except when she was very young, Zhuang Qingliu remembered being taken by her side for a while.In the following hundreds of years, in fact, there was not much time to meet, talk, and stay together.

It's not quite the same as the master-student mother and child in the world outside.

So after turning his head to look, Zhuang Qingliu didn't say anything, and quickly looked away, as if he was about to leave again.At this moment, a force struck and grabbed her by the sleeve: "Are you going to get bored with the little brat from the Mei family again?"

Zhuang Qingliu was dragged backward by her, and Lianhua's waist turned halfway in time to rescue him, then turned his head and said inexplicably, "What else? I'm tired of being together with you?"

Zhu Heng was unmoved, but just scanned Zhuang Qingliu's face back and forth, and asked, "What's wrong with your mouth?"

Zhuang Qingliu's eyes flickered suddenly, and he didn't speak for a moment.

Zhu Heng narrowed his eyes slowly, staring at her in disbelief: "What's going on with you? What are you thinking?"

Zhuang Qingliu raised her hand and touched her eyebrows because of her tone of "falling into a woman who fell into the fence", and couldn't listen anymore: "I don't think it's okay, just..." She casually ran her fingers along the corner of her mouth, " Go with the flow? Go with the heart? Go with the likes and willingness?" She even restrained herself.

"Let it be? Your heart?" Zhu Heng asked incomprehensibly, "Don't you think it's outrageous? Don't you think it's absurd? The most important thing is that you think carefully about what you are, what she is, and what is now The situation—is it appropriate?"

Zhuang Qingliu closed her eyelashes and said in a casual tone without much rebuttal, "What's inappropriate, as long as it doesn't scare her, I can do whatever I want. The big deal is that I will take her to choose one quietly." Where to live, as long as I don't want to, who can find me?"

Zhu Heng didn't make a sound for a long time, she seemed to be laughed angrily by her: "Then you are really thoughtful."

After she finished speaking, she didn't seem to be bothered to say anything more. She glanced at Zhuang Qingliu with heavy eyes, and walked away from her.

Zhuang Qingliu picked back a little from the corner of his eye, and left Gu Mengchao without standing still.It was dark outside, the cold wind was blowing back and forth, and there was plenty of water vapor brewing in the air.

After she landed in the Mei Family Immortal Mansion, she chose a spiritual peak, sat casually on a big rock with her legs crossed, and slowly turned her head to look at the plum blossoms all over the mountain and the strings of lights between the peaks and ridges.The barrier changes and flickers, shining brightly.Candles flickered in the small courtyards, and there were warm laughter.

She kind of sees it as another home.

Zhuang Qingliu flew up, as if he was looking for something, passing by the plum groves all over the mountains, the peaks surging with spiritual energy, and familiar or unfamiliar faces.She passed through the turbulent clouds, swept the hazy moon shadow behind her, spread her sleeves, swooped down like a bird, rushed to the jumping candle, and rushed to the way home that her heart wanted.

However, the Plum Blossom Ring is not there.

Zhuang Qingliu was not too speechless, but just blinked, and felt relieved for no reason.Thinking about what happened to Zhuang Huang tonight in my mind, thinking about what I said to Zhuheng, maybe... there is nothing wrong with it, maybe it is really possible.

She picked under a piece of orchid branches dripping with dew, and when she found her snack, her eyes were bent, she picked it up and drank it, and then flew out.

The thunder rolled, and the pattering rain fell down.When Zhuang Qingliu found someone, Mei Hualan was working in the rain, and an island in the middle of the Qiandao Lake in Meijia's front mountain had collapsed, and even the ghosts and ghosts suppressed in the lake rushed to escape.

Mei Hualan's clear-cut face was bathed in the wind and rain. She had just made a huge seal with her hands, when suddenly, from the corner of her eyes, she found an umbrella whirling and flying towards her from the air.He seemed to like her very much, and stopped in front of her and flashed lively.

After she stretched out her hands to support it, overlapping lotus petals appeared on the handle and surface of the umbrella and began to roll and flow. From time to time, they went back and forth between the flowers and flower buds, showing vigorous vitality.

After a while, the heavy rain poured down, and countless raindrops hit the umbrella surface intermittently.Tick-tick, ethereal and crisp, as if knocked into her heart.

Zhuang Qingliu didn't appear directly this time, nor did he fly over like a big moth. Instead, he swirled and fluttered in the rain, grabbing a peach blossom branch.

Mei Hualan stood in the rain holding an umbrella, and the green grass that had just been bent by the raindrops at her feet slowly emerged again.

Zhuang Qingliu quickly flew close, played with the peach blossom branch for a while, then scratched her chin with the tip of the leaf: "Send you the peach blossom, do you want it?"

Mei Hualan's heart suddenly jumped up for no reason, her breath became very light, and she looked at Zhuang Qingliu's face in the rain.

Clarity, sincerity, and innocence.

She drooped her eyelashes slightly, stretched out her hand to grab the peach blossom branch, and seriously agreed: "I'll take it."

Zhuang Qingliu laughed, turned her head and helped her suppress the evil spirits in the lake, and took them back to the small courtyard where she was temporarily staying.

After a few steps up the steps, Mei Hualan put away her umbrella and asked under the porch, "Why are you here again?"

According to past habits, if it was getting late, this person would not come back soon after he left.And recently, she seems to have stayed in Gumengchao for a very short time.

As if on purpose.

Zhuang Qingliu fiddled with the rotating small lantern for a moment of silence before replying: "Because Zhuheng is too talkative, he is a bad mouther, and he always likes to control me, I don't like it."

Although he never cared about it, no matter how he looked at Zhu Heng, he didn't look like a broken mouth.Mei Hualan took a dry towel and turned back, and asked without a trace: "Has your master recently left the seclusion?"

Zhuang Qingliu turned his eyes suddenly: "Why did you ask her?"

Mei Hualan stretched out her hand to wipe away the wet raindrops on her body, and said naturally: "It's not why, I just thought that she seems to have been in seclusion for a long time."

Zhuang Qingliu fiddled with the wind lamp's fingers back and forth, and waited for Mei Hualan to finish wiping her, then turned around and grabbed the towel, lowered her head and began to wipe her: "Little devil, don't ask her."

Mei Hualan's eyelashes flickered for a moment, and then looked down at Zhuang Qingliu's water-stained clothes, and suddenly smiled lightly, and said nothing.

In the middle of the night, a thunderstorm suddenly resounded through the sky.

Zhuang Qingliu, who had already gone to bed for a long time, woke up suddenly. After gathering her eyes, she found that Mei Hualan, who was supposed to be reading at the desk... was lying on the bedside looking at her again.

Zhuang Qingliu blinked, then quickly laughed and turned around: "What's the matter? Looking at me secretly again?"

"It's fair and square."

After being discovered, Mei Hualan only moved her eyes, lying on the side of the bed without getting up, and even calmly corrected a sentence.

Zhuang Qingliu looked at her curiously, lay on the pillow and said with a smile: "Okay. Then what are you looking at?"

There seemed to be a slight smile on Mei Panpan's brows and eyes tonight. After listening to Zhuang Qingliu's words, her gaze fell into her eyes quietly, and she replied: "I'm thinking about what you like and what kind of life you want to live. .”

At such a young age, why do you think about such a young old man all day long?

Zhuang Qingliu changed his posture, put his hands together as a pillow under his head and asked, "Did you see that? What do I like?"

Mei Hualan nodded at this moment, and actually changed hands and took out a Shanshui Zhi from the side, opened it, and there were many small circles drawn up, down, left, and right.Zhuang Qingliu roughly took it and looked at it. They were all place names, mostly places with beautiful mountains and rivers or bustling places.

Mei Hualan leaned on his arm and said, "You like these places. You like the colorful landscapes and bustling markets. Of course, the most important thing is to like delicious food. You will also like interesting things-lacquerware, paper-cut, Jade carvings, clay sculptures..."

Zhuang Qingliu felt a tenderness in his heart, cast his eyes and asked, "What else do you like?"

"Xiaoquer, revolving lantern, storytelling, acrobatics..." Mei Hualan said, "There is a high probability that you will like what you see. But after a while, you will continue to like what you can learn, and put aside what you can't learn. Ignore it."

Zhuang Qingliu hugged the booklets of mountains and rivers from many places in her arms, bowed her head and smiled for a long time, and said to her ignorant Meipan, "Okay, go wash up and sleep."

Mei Hualan also laughed, still lying on the bed, took back the brochure Zhuang Qingliu was holding, and said amidst the pattering rain outside: "Wait for me to prepare for a while, and I will take you to these places in the future. I’ve seen them all, and I like all the interesting things.”

It's a bit novel, just listening to such words, my heart seems to have walked through hot spring water once.

Zhuang Qingliu turned her head into the soft pillow with a smile or not, then stretched out her hand, touched Mei Hualan's forehead with the back of her finger, and said to her wrapped in a thin quilt, "It's the middle of the night now. Why do you think about those? You should think about what delicious food to eat when the sun rises, and where to go to play tomorrow if you have nothing to do. And how about the new sword manual you want to compile recently? It won’t be two days It will start to be practiced by those junior disciples, let me have a look first?"

Mei Hualan didn't move, and said, "Don't worry, they're going to..."

Zhuang Qingliu: "Huh?"

"It's just another class."

There was probably nothing to say, so Mei Hualan didn't say much, she got up quickly, helped Zhuang Qingliu straighten the corners of the quilt that had been tossed and wrapped up in a mess, and moved the small porcelain jar to prevent her from sleepwalking out to sleep in the lake, I packed up and went to sleep.

Seeing her walking to the round table, Zhuang Qingliu turned her head and said, "Let's eat lotus root tomorrow morning."

"?" Zhuang Qingliu laughed long and loudly, "Let's combine eggplants. Where are lotus root growing at this time? Do you want to eat me?"

Mei Hualan seemed to have received a satisfactory answer, turned her face halfway, gave Zhuang Qingliu a "huh" with crooked eyebrows, and then turned away from the screen.

Zhuang Qingliu stretched out his arms, lying on the bed and reacting for a while, before he realized the feeling of being tricked—hmm.

Is this um "mothering" or um "eating her"?

After thinking about it, Zhuang Qingliu silently rolled back and forth by the bed a few times, then smiled and touched the nine-petal plum blossom embroidered with dark thread on the pillow, closed her eyes again, and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, the sky was still gray and foggy, and when the rain that had rained all night had not yet completely dried up, the outside courtyard door was suddenly knocked softly and urgently. People seem anxious and hesitant.

——Papa, papa.

Just as Zhuang Qingliu opened his eyes amidst the series of voices in a daze, Mei Hualan, who had already tied her hair up, put on her coat and got out of bed, and quickly opened and closed the door and walked out.

It seemed to be the voice of a young male disciple outside. When talking to Mei Hualan, he lowered his voice a little, and said uncertainly: "No, no, it's not that I have something to do. I intercepted it at the barrier tonight during my usual night patrol. This thing, this thing... seems to have been passed on to Young Master Zhuang."

Zhuang Qingliu reacted on the bed for a while, and didn't hear Mei Hualan's reply for a while, but a flash in his mind suddenly recognized that the male voice seemed to be that of Mei Jiaxu.

After thinking about it, she also got up and got out of bed, casually put on a coat and walked out: "What's the matter, what summons?"

Mei Hualan seemed to be looking down, turned around when she heard this, and held up a fiery red object in her hand to show her.Zhuang Qingliu's gaze followed the trend, and suddenly froze.

It was a fiery red gorgeous crane feather.