old grace

After walking halfway up the mountain road, Xie Qinghe realized that the little junior brother, who was always talkative, was silently following behind him, not holding his arm or sleeve like before, so he couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? What's wrong with your children?" Are you having fun?"

"No. They are all very good, and they brought me gifts. I gave the Xuyang Sword to Yan Shaoying. He was very happy, and said that he came back in a hurry. Next time, he will bring me their stones, saying that they are very precious. This kind of stone is especially good for engraving and printing, and the best kind of stone in the whole world is in their house, which is their ancestral business..." Fu Chuan was obviously absent-minded and not in a good mood.

"It's a good thing to reciprocate gifts between friends. However, gifts should not be too much compared. For example, if someone gives you a good thing, you should give a better one. You also know that there is no school or school in the world with more background than ours. It’s rich, and sending it back and forth has become a habit, and your little friend can’t come up with better things, which hurts both self-esteem and feelings. This matter will stop with you.”

Xie Qinghe pulled the child who had been bored behind him to his side, and said: "The most important thing in communicating with people is sincerity. Spend more time playing with them, listening to their mood, worrying and happy. At your age, you are innocent and innocent. When Xie is the most precious, if you make friends, you will never forget them for the rest of your life."

Fu Chuan couldn't help but asked, "Are Senior Brother and Senior Sister Bai childhood friends?"

Xie Qinghe was naturally young too.

Shangguan Shiyi was worried that Mu Xiuyu Lin would be harmed by the wind, and kept covering him to prevent him from showing his head. When he was walking in the rivers and lakes, he paid great attention to propriety and tried not to cause major incidents.Even so, I still made many like-minded friends, and there were also many funny things that happened when I was young and frivolous.

Bai Ruyi and him were acquaintances when they were teenagers and lifelong friends. Even if they haven't seen each other for more than ten years, they can still sit and chat when they meet again, and they are no strangers.

"Yes, I also met her in the rivers and lakes, and we became friends once we came and went." Xie Qinghe thought of the past, in his memory, he did not know that hundreds of thousands of years had passed, and he was a little vaguely forgotten, only remembering the frivolity and recklessness at that time.

He didn't intend to talk more about Bai Ruyi, and the current focus is on making friends with the younger brother: "However, making friends can't be done by force. If we don't get along with each other, we just don't want to play with them. We still have many choices."

Fu Chuan didn't want to talk about those children at all, he was full of the word "marriage".

However, the master can ask about the senior brother's marriage, how dare he speak up as a junior brother?It was not his turn to ask.

"Why are you still unhappy? Did you quarrel with the children?" Xie Qinghe asked.

"There was no quarrel. We had a good time." Fu Chuan hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't dare to ask further questions, "I was just thinking about tomorrow."

Tomorrow is Shu Hanyun's first seven.According to the folk saying, this day is the day of Huisha. Not only are outsiders not allowed to worship, family members have to leave the mourning hall of the old residence on time, so that the souls of the deceased can return to the old residence, look at their bodies and the mourning hall, and realize that they are completely dead. the truth.

There are monks in the Hanjiang Sword Sect, so their understanding of the soul is naturally different from that of ordinary people, and they will not be afraid of the evil spirit of returning.

The first seven festivals, which are extremely tabooed by the world, become the last chance to get along with the deceased in the Hanjiang Sword Sect. When returning to the evil spirit, relatives and friends will come to sit around and reunite, which is a very important day.

Except for the disciples who are on patrol, all the members of the Hanjiang Sword Sect will gather at the Jianshan Pavilion tomorrow, and all the guests who live in the Guest House will also be present.Counting it is a large occasion with hundreds or thousands of people, just arranging the seats will be annoying to death, and there is also eating, drinking and going to the toilet...

"Chen Yiwei has made all the arrangements. Master and I will be here tomorrow, so just bow your head and bow by your side." Xie Qinghe comforted him.

Fu Chuan nodded.

That wasn't what troubled him in the first place.

Jianshan Pavilion is at the top of Dongfeng Peak, and the Observatory is only halfway up the mountain. The two walked to the small slope in front of the Observatory to say goodbye.

Seeing that Fu Chuan was not in a good mood, Xie Qinghe didn't care why he was upset, anyway, this kid is not good at guarding his heart, maybe he can't sleep in the middle of the night, and he will go to see people with swollen eyes tomorrow.After thinking about it for a while, Xie Qinghe asked: "It's getting late, and your house has been tidied up, why don't you stay overnight at the Star Observatory?"

Fu Chuan's eyes lit up, but soon faded away: "Brother Yiwei Yinzheng will come to see me tomorrow, I'd better go back to Jianshan Pavilion."

"If you can't sleep, sitting quietly for two hours is better than tossing and turning." Xie Qinghe said.

Fu Chuan was said a little embarrassingly: "I..."

"Everyone has something on their minds, so don't talk to them. If you want to talk to someone, come to the Star Observation Tower. If you don't want to tell others, you have to explain yourself, don't just go into a dead end. Put some things aside and let them go." Come back in a few days, it won't be so difficult to accept." Xie Qinghe has always respected Fu Chuan, and would never say something like "what's the troubles and sorrows of children".

Fu Chuan was obviously moved.

Xie Qinghe smiled and said: "Have you thought about it? Do you want to go to the star observatory? Talk to senior brother?"

Fu Chuan was strongly moved and wanted to go very much!

However, if he followed Xie Qinghe, the problem that would be solved by the elder brother was his shady selfishness.

He didn't understand what was going on, how could he "talk" to Xie Qinghe?Said that I don't want Senior Sister Bai to sleep in the senior brother's bed, I don't want Senior Sister Bai to come and go in the senior brother's room, and I don't want Senior Sister Bai to stand beside the senior brother?Why not?Why not?

Thinking of this, Fu Chuan felt that he was very unreasonable.He shook his head and said, "I'll think about it myself, so I won't bother senior brother."

Xie Qinghe didn't feel that Fu Chuan felt alienated from him. When the two talked, Fu Chuan's expression and posture were the same as before, they were still very close and dependent.But the kid refused to tell what happened.

Xie Qinghe thought for a while, stretched out his hand to comfort Fu Chuan's vest several times, and said in relief: "You can come to the observatory at any time, even in the middle of the night."

Fu Chuan hummed, and Shi Li took his leave: "Then I'll go back first. Good night, big brother."

"Go."

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When Fu Chuan returned to Jianshan Pavilion, the mourning hall was still brightly lit.

Right now there are still many outer disciples outside, working hard to fold ingots, tomorrow will be a big event, and many ingots will be burned.There are already three large rooms in the corridor at the back of the house, but Chen Yiwei still said that it is not enough, so he had to skip the night to rush to work.

Fu Chuan greeted the executive disciple in charge, washed his hands and burned incense as usual, and burned a few knives of yellow paper in front of the spirit.

He was one of the few insiders who knew that Shu Hanyun was not really dead. Kneeling in front of the coffin, looking at Shu Hanyun's coffin, he didn't feel so sad in his heart.In the past, it was just a formality to be the mourner before the funeral, but today he was stimulated by the "marriage" and he thought of Shu Hanyun.

If the second senior brother was still there, wouldn't the senior senior brother marry Senior Sister Bai?

——If the second senior brother is still there, the second senior brother sleeps in the senior brother's bed, lives in the senior senior brother's room, and eats the senior senior brother's meal.

Fu Chuan felt a little difficult.

Whether it's Bai Ruyi or Shu Hanyun, Fu Chuan has a very strange mentality when he thinks that they want to possess the elder brother in all aspects and share everything the elder brother has.He didn't know how to describe it, and he couldn't even make a clear distinction. He just felt that... he wanted to hide the elder brother.

Similar to the mood of "I don't ask you to be nice to me, but you can't be nicer to others than to me".

Fu Chuan felt that he was a little unreasonable.

He knelt in front of Shu Hanyun's spirit for a long time, until he felt a little pain in his knees, then changed his position and sat on the futon.

If the second senior brother is a completely unchanged person, he will always be the way the senior senior brother likes.Then he sleeps in the senior brother's bed, lives in the senior senior brother's house, eats the senior senior brother's cooking... the senior senior brother will also be very happy, right?

If the elder brother is very happy.

Thinking of this, it became difficult again.Fu Chuan thought of Bai Ruyi again.

If Senior Sister Bai can make Elder Brother very happy.

...then I'm a little unhappy, and it's okay.Just bear it and pass.

As long as the big brother is happy.

■

If you figure out what is more important between you and your elder brother, the problem will be solved.

Fu added some oil to the ever-burning lamp that Fu passed to Shu Hanyun, and he still remembered to ask the disciples from the outer sect to bring him a basin of water for washing his feet.

I haven't had a dream for a long time, and I don't know what the dream came from.

Bright red silk was hung up and down the cold mountain. Yan Shaoying was dressed in brocade clothes, and said arrogantly: "Your senior brother wants to marry my senior sister, so you should pick up a sedan chair! My senior sister is a chivalrous lady, a generation of arrogance, People in the Jianghu are called fairies, do you understand fairies? If you want to ask a fairy to go down to earth, what dowry gift do you have?"

Fu Chuan panicked, and said, "My elder brother is still the leader of the Bai Dao! What do you want as a betrothal gift? We have it in Zhibao Cave!"

Yan Shaoying immediately asked: "Really? I want your Muhe Spear."

There is no logic at all in the dream.Fu Chuan didn't think there was anything wrong with marrying Bai Ruyi and handing over the dowry to Yan Shaoying, so he ran back to the observatory with his head depressed, held his Muhe spear in his hand and looked at it for a long time, feeling very reluctant.

However, the senior brother wants to marry Senior Sister Bai, if he doesn't give Yan Shaoying the gun, the senior brother will not be able to marry a wife.

He was so distressed that he still went out with a gun.

The elder brother stood at the door, his smile was still so gentle and kind: "Little brother, where are you going?"

Fu Chuan couldn't hold back when he was questioned, tears fell down, and he cried like a complaint: "Yan Shaoying wants my gun. He said, if I don't give him the gun as a betrothal gift, I won't let Senior Sister Bai marry me." Big Brother."

The elder brother frowned slightly.It seems that this problem is also very serious.

Holding his own gun, Fu Chuan lay in the arms of the elder brother, and couldn't help crying after all, "Does the elder brother have to marry Senior Sister Bai?"

Before Eldest Brother could speak, he held back his shame and cried, "I can do what Senior Sister Bai can do for Elder Brother. I just didn't meet Elder Brother when I was young, and I didn't become friends with Elder Brother when I was young. We can go back to the past, big brother, take me back to your memory, and I can be friends with the young big brother..."

In the dream, Fu Chuan was tightly entangled with the elder brother, and the elder brother gradually became restless.

He immediately remembered everything he had experienced in Weiyang Palace, and posted it with a desperate attitude: "I can do that too. Senior brother, I lied to you last time, I actually really want to sleep with you... Really, really, I lied to you! If you believe me, I can do it too!"

Eldest brother wrapped his hands around his slender waist, his stature was not long, and his waist seemed to be broken by his powerful arm.

Fu Chuan just pursed his lips and tightly grabbed the hem of the senior brother's clothes.

"Really?" Big Brother asked.

Fu Chuan kept nodding: "Really! Elder Brother, if you don't believe me, you can try me."

Immediately afterwards there was chaos, and Fu Chuan's dream skipped a section he didn't understand, leaving only a pair of bloody pants, and the pain he imagined - just like he was cut by an armored knight in Muma City the same pain.The only difference is that the location of the injury is special.

Fu Chuan bluntly wiped off the blood, and assured the elder brother: "I'm not afraid, and I'm young and recover quickly, and I'll be fine in a few days."

The elder brother also seemed quite satisfied, and even gave him some medicine.The two even discussed how to make the wound heal as much as possible.Fu Chuan asked tremblingly: "Then... senior brother, you don't want to marry Senior Sister Bai, okay?"

Before the elder brother could speak, Yan Shaoying suddenly broke in and said, "Of course not. Can you sleep with the elder brother and give birth to the elder brother?! Give me your gun quickly, my elder sister's sedan chair is already We have arrived at Qingquanxi."

Fu Chuan said angrily: "Who said I can't give birth to senior brother? Our child can already make soy sauce!"

The elder brother looked at him in surprise.

Fu Chuan released Donkey Dan and Wei Qin who were hidden in the space, and said, "These two are the children I gave birth to the eldest brother!"

Yan Shaoying was dumbfounded, and looked at Donkey Dan and Wei Qin for a long time, and finally retreated resignedly, and fled with Bai Ruyi's sedan chair.

The elder brother fondly touched the faces of Donkey Dan and Wei Qin, and said pleasantly, "So they are the children you gave birth to me."

Fu Chuan felt guilty, and insisted on lying: "Yes. Wei Qin is the boss, and the donkey is the youngest. Although Wei Qin is a villain, he is very smart. The donkey is not in good health, let's raise it Already. Senior brother, don’t dislike them.”

"You bastard!" Shangguan Shiyi suddenly came in angrily, "Why did you ruin your elder brother's marriage?"

Fu Chuan shivered in fright.

The elder brother stepped forward and said, "Master, look, these are the two children my younger brother gave me..."

Shangguan Shi Yi said angrily: "You have been cheated by him. Those are two bastards he picked up from the road! He is a man, what kind of children will he have?"

Saying that, Shangguan Shiyi stretched out his hand to catch Fu Chuan, but Fu Chuan didn't dare to resist, full of grief, only felt that he was going to be beaten to death today...

Just... woke up.

After waking up, Fu Chuan's face was covered with tears and his cheeks were cold.

He hesitated for a long time but couldn't settle down, until he saw the cold moonlight shining through the window, and then slowly sat up with his knees bent.

Such an absurd dream.

What on earth am I thinking?

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The next day.

Fu Chuan was pulled by Chen Yiwei to sort out the regulations very early on, Shi Qin also arrived at Jianshan Pavilion one step earlier, and followed Fu Chuan.

Xie Qinghe didn't come to Jianshan Pavilion to sit in town until Chenshi.Everyone in Hanshan knew his temper, and he ignored things easily, and no one bothered him with trivial matters. He just stayed here and was responsible for receiving important guests who came to express their condolences.

Fu Chuan also specially sent an outer disciple to guard Xie Qinghe's side, serving tea and snacks.

Near Si Shi, Shangguan Shiyi also came.There is another giant Buddha who sits in the Jianshan Pavilion and does nothing.

Xie Qinghe wanted to pay more attention to Fu Chuan's emotional state, but he was not very busy, Fu Chuan was really busy.

The first seven rituals should be arranged before the time of returning to the evil spirit. It is said that Shu Hanyun did not really die. It is inaccurate to calculate the time of returning to the evil according to his birthday and death date, but this matter has to be done according to the regulations. I calculated the time myself, and said that I would return to the evil spirit in three quarters, and the evil spirit was three feet high.Therefore, all sacrifices must be completed before the third quarter of the hour.

Naturally, the guests should arrange to go up the mountain at the most comfortable time, and prepare to eat after the incense burns.

There are still so many disciples of the Hanjiang Sword Sect who want to pay homage together?Then you have to be one step ahead and get things done before the guests.

As Fu Chuan became the mourner, he had to preside over the funeral. The disciples from the outer sect came in to offer incense in batches. One wave after another, Fu Chuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, so there are so many people in our sect!

When it was close to noon, the guests also went up the mountain one after another under the arrangement of Zhike, and Shangguan Shiyi and Xie Qinghe also got busy.

This kind of occasion does not talk about happy events. After the guests burn incense, most of the juniors will kowtow in front of the coffin. After finishing the etiquette, after a few words of greetings and condolences, some well-known guests will take them to the arranged place and prepare for dinner.Even if it is a sect with excellent personal relationships, such as Zizhu Mountain Villa, etc., it means to say a few more words, and will not babble for a long time.

After finally completing the rituals for the memorial service, Shangguan Shiyi and Xie Qinghe went to entertain him for dinner, and Fu Chuan had to stay in the mourning hall to burn paper.

When the meal over there is over, it is almost three quarters before the hour, and it is time to return to evil spirits.Well, the guest of honor has to sit around the coffin together, waiting for the ghost to come back to look at the corpse, and say a final farewell to relatives and friends who have been separated from each other.

After completing a whole set of procedures, Han Shan was tossed up and down, and after sending the guests back to the guest hall one by one, it was already midnight.

"Tired?" Xie Qinghe couldn't help laughing at Fu Chuan lying on the couch like a little turtle.

Fu Chuan has always been obedient in front of Xie Qinghe, sleeps well and never moves around.However, this is a rule he developed with great restraint.

That day in Fu Wei's memory world, Xie Qinghe went to Weiyang Palace, Fu Chuan was angry with the waiter in the inn, lying on the bed like a tortoise - only when he was indulged, Fu Chuan would sleep like this.

Fu heard the sound quickly got up, and said embarrassedly: "No. I'll just rest for a while."

"Go to bed earlier when you're tired." Xie Qinghe was originally worried about his mental state, since he was exhausted, it's best to sleep.

When Fu Chuan saw him, he remembered his absurd and shameless dream.

He believed in Xie Qinghe deeply. Xie Qinghe said that if he didn't want to do that, it was not the relationship between a man and a woman. He felt that the elder brother would not lie to him.

In the dream, he didn't want to do that at all, he just used it as a price and a sacrifice to please the elder brother, in exchange for the elder brother not to marry Bai Ruyi.He decided it was his own shameless possessiveness.I just don't want the elder brother to be nice to others!This is wrong!

but.

If you can monopolize the senior brother forever in this way, it's really... very tempting.