The bright moon sits on the ground

On the mahogany gate, there is a strange pattern carved with the figure of a unicorn with two horns on its head and four hooves like animals.

At the four corners of the decoration, there are slender runes stretching towards the edge, vaguely outlining the diagram of Yin and Yang and the Eight Diagrams, dipped in a thin layer of gold lacquer, when viewed from a distance,? If you look at it for a long time, you can still see the word "Tian".

There is a Zhanfeng Duo hanging under the eaves on both sides. The broken jade pieces are woven into strings with red threads. When the broken jade touches, you can know the wind is coming.

This inconspicuous house stands behind the busy city. Because the alley is deep, winding, and hard to find the way, ordinary people generally don't set foot here, whether it is intentional or not, anyone who passes by , will bypass this place.So this house opened up a secluded place to isolate the noise from the outside. The so-called "big hermit hidden in the world" must be exactly what describes this place.

When Meng Qiuze knocked on the door knocker, it was the time when the sun was rising and the nearby market was gradually boiling.

He seemed to know that he was coming, but the door was ajar, so Meng Qiuze just knocked symbolically, and went in.

In the courtyard, there is curved water surrounding the stone, and a man in gray clothes sits cross-legged on the stone.There is a stone table in the water, and there is a gossip chart on the table. He holds a Langhao brush dipped in ink between his fingers, but his eyes are closed tightly. He seems to be hesitating, but also seems to be thinking. Slightly tired, and the wrinkles at the corners of his lips and eyes already showed that he was not young anymore, almost twilight.

Hearing the movement, the man didn't raise his head, he didn't even open his eyes, he just said, "You came earlier than I thought."

"Because Wu Qu's mortal body can no longer bear the weight of her soul," Meng Qiuze said, "She also knows it very well."

The man said again: "I thought she would still have nostalgia for the world, after all..."

Meng Qiuze was silent for a moment, then said, "I asked her if there was anyone else she wanted to see, and she told me there was none."

Maybe there are still some, because after Tian Wanyan said this sentence, he fell into a long thought.She looked at the dusk outside the window, the scalding red was gradually smudged in the sky, and the outline was blurred, like wet and soft moss.

Meng Qiuze told her that after returning to the heavenly realm, she would never be able to set foot in the human world again, and it was even impossible to look into the distance.

That's why she slowly felt a trace of nostalgia, and her fingers tapping on the tabletop also stopped.

After a long time, Meng Qiuze had already added the third cup of tea. The green tea leaves fluctuated in the water, sank, and floated up again, like a small boat in the wind and rain, erratic and unable to settle. He stared at the tea in the cup. Tea, with eyes downcast, couldn't help but said, "If you're thinking about him, then it's not that I can't let you see him for the last time before you leave."

Tian Wanyan finally turned her head and looked at Meng Qiuze, but there was no trace of embarrassment on her face where her thoughts could be seen.

"Is it Tan Rongchong?" She was slightly puzzled, shook her head, and said, "No, I was thinking of another person."

Meng Qiuze put down the teacup in his hand, folded his hands on his chest, and asked her, "An old friend?"

Tian Wanyan replied: "Not an old friend."

"A person you met by chance?"

"Never met, never met."

Seeing Meng Qiuze's puzzled expression, Tian Wanyan finally smiled. It was a restrained smile, and he couldn't see how relieved it was. To describe it, it should be more melancholy.She was fiddling with the blue and white porcelain vase on the wooden stand. The blue glaze outlined the blooming lotus, turning under her fingertips, changing the pattern, and in a trance, her fingertips seemed to be stained with that clear and shallow color. blue.

"I'm thinking, after so many years, I finally understand what he was feeling when he wrote that blank letter."

Meng Qiuze didn't know who the "he" she was talking about, and who the letter was addressed to. He only knew that after Tian Wanyan finished saying this, he never hesitated, and didn't intend to explain. He only said that she I want to play a song for the last time to bid farewell to myself.

That song was not like any song Meng Qiuze heard when he was in the palace. Most of the palace was full of melodious sounds, but Tian Wanyan's fingers blew out clear tones, sometimes rapid and sometimes slow, in this wing room The echo is like jade beads knocking off a porcelain plate.

After one song, Tian Wanyan broke the qin that had been with her for many years into two pieces, the strings of the qin cracked, and there was no more sound.

She wiped the blood and tears from the corners of her eyes with the corner of her sleeve, and said, okay, I'm leaving, and I also hope that the general will return to Xinggong as soon as possible.

Whenever he thinks about this, Meng Qiuze can clearly recall the somewhat desolate look on Wu Qu's face.

"Walking in the world for such a long time, whether it's you or me, or Wuqu, more or less changed." He said, "Tian Ling, when you took the initiative to find me, I was thinking about it. As far as Wan Yan is concerned, you are really not a competent uncle."

"General." Hearing this, Tian Ling opened his eyes, put down the pen in his hand, and said with a smile, "At least I am a competent subordinate."

"It's really thanks to her that I can remember what happened to Tiangong."

"Those meetings were too hasty, the general may not have heard me talk about it in detail." He continued, "I think about it, it was Wanyan's mother who fell to her death at that time, and she was still young. She was very young, and she was in a daze for several days, and her dreams were full of scenes that she didn't understand. So one night, she fumbled for me with a lamp. I was about to fall asleep at that time, and saw her panicked expression , I sat down and listened to her talk about half the night's dream... In the second half of the night, after I took the cigarette away, I couldn't fall asleep easily again."

Meng Qiuze knew what happened later, and Tian Ling tried everything possible to find out his whereabouts, so he took the initiative to come to see him.

The funniest thing is that Tian Ling was 28 years old, Tian Wanyan was 11 years old, and Meng Qiuze was [-] years old.

When Tian Ling really found Meng Qiuze, Meng Qiuze was as high as his waist.

Tian Ling had to squat down and meet Meng Qiuze at eye level to hold back his laughter and correct his expression.

Meng Qiuze closed his eyes, and closed his eyes with slightly different colors. The quiet and even gentle face of the Western Regions distorted like water lines, and the soft edges and corners gradually became cold and hard. Shuo covered it, and replaced it with bright and cold jade. The silver armor wrapped the smooth silk and satin, and the patterns of stars moved slowly on his body.

Facing this face, no one would be able to say "Lord Meng", but should call him "General".

"Lian Zhen." Po Jun called out, with a slightly worried expression, "You shouldn't have allowed her to leave Tian's house."

If Tian Ling hadn't agreed with Tian Wanyan to leave, Tian Wanyan would not have fallen into the land of fireworks, let alone meet Tan Rongchong.

"How can you know that it's not a blessing?" Tian Ling stood up, stepped across the narrow stream, and said, "What's more, General, you have been together for thousands of years. It's not that you don't know about Wuqu. Decided, who can stop her?"

Po Jun couldn't find any words to refute Tian Ling. He pondered for a long time, but in the end he just let out a long sigh.

"Before she left, I returned the astrolabe to her." He said, "By this time, Wu Qu should have returned to the heavenly realm."

"Then, the general must have thought that the time is ripe, so he came to me." Tian Ling walked up to Po Jun, stood still, saluted respectfully, and said, "I originally thought that when the dust settled Before, I was able to see Nie Qiu again."

It's a pity that after getting the bamboo knot from Tian Wanyan, Nie Qiu never smashed it in the new moon.

After hearing this, Po Jun's eyes became strange, he coughed twice, and said: "Actually, not long ago, Immortal Sanqing mentioned in a message to me that there are several mortals They broke into the Xuanpu Hall, and Nie Qiu was among them."

Tian Ling was startled, rarely surprised, "It's weird. According to the plan, shouldn't he be completely kept in the dark?"

"You're a mortal now, so it's normal not to know." Po Jun took a deep breath, "What Bai Xuan left behind, Xu Lang called it 'Three Pot Moon', we didn't know about it. Next, it was used again, only going back a few minutes."

"That is to say, Nie Qiu touched the truth, followed the vines to find where the Kunlun in the world is, and then through some method, successfully entered the Xuanpu Hall?" Tian Ling smiled, "Interesting, I haven't met it for a long time. Something unexpected happened."

Not to mention Lianzhen Xingjun, Pojun Xingjun, Sanqing Xianjun, Kunlun Xianjun, and Xu Lang, none of them expected it.

"It's really a waste." When Po Jun talked about this, he always had a feeling of hating iron but not steel, "If I use the astrolabe, I can..."

Tian Ling interrupted Po Jun's words politely, and said, "You can't expect a person who doesn't know anything to understand this. Speaking of which, has he already pried something out of Xu Lang's mouth now? He knows that I Is it Lord Lian Zhen Xing?"

"I think that no matter how much Xu Lang favors Nie Qiu, there is no need to tell him your identity." Po Jun caught a glimpse of Tian Ling's expression and asked, "You are not the one who pushed Nie Qiu to the forefront because of you back then." Do you feel regretful about this?"

Tian Ling said: "Not really. However, the hexagram I calculated when I went to Nie's house did add a lot of things. I deliberately publicized the hexagram I calculated for Nie Qiu to make a sensation in the imperial city , in order to lure Nie Chi, so that Nie Qiu could be brought under the Tian family's family, but I didn't expect that Nie Chi would not let him in, but no matter what I said, he would not hand over Nie Qiu, so I had no choice but to give up."

Therefore, Tian Ling deliberately said before leaving, "But according to my calculations, Nie Qiuhui has close contacts with Taoist priests and celestial masters, and there are only a few celestial master families left in this world. The decline of the Bu family, the destruction of the Bu family, if not my Tian family, which family would it be?" He deliberately said it to Nie Qiu, in order to let Nie Qiu have such a vague impression in his heart.

In the past ten years, Tian Ling has never broken contact with Meng Qiuze. During several exchanges, he has confirmed all the plans. Naturally, he knows that Xu Lang will lead Nie Qiu to the Fengxue Mountain Range to free the sealed Bu family souls. , Nie Qiu became attached to the Bu family.

The relationship between Nie Qiu and Tian Wanyan was purely accidental and not in their plan.

Po Jun nodded, glanced briefly, but didn't see what he wanted to see, so he asked, "Where is the map of Vientiane?"

"I lent it to Bu Chenrong." Tian Ling said, "Since we want to make fate turn, it's better to let her see the truth with her own eyes."

Po Jun's face darkened, his voice became much colder, and he scolded him word by word: "Lian Zhen! Because you lent the map of Vientiane to Bu Chenrong without authorization, so she saw me and Kunlun Xianjun, three It's the night when Lord Qingxian talked with Xu Lang."

"And," when he said this, he almost squeezed out between his teeth, "Nie Qiu saw it too."

"Calm down." Tian Ling patted Po Jun's shoulder reassuringly, not afraid of the cold air on his body, slowed down his voice, and said, "General, I originally wanted to tell you this, but you also know , Qi Qianyuan's guarding of you is really airtight, I can't find a chance to meet you—after all, everything is still developing as we planned, isn't it?"

The soul of Yi Bu's family was freed, Xie Mu's long-cherished wish was fulfilled, and Bu Chenrong was led to Kunlun to return Wu Qu to his place.

He was right, everything really went according to the original plan, and Po Jun gradually calmed down, thinking, if Lian Zhen hadn't written down his strategy in the scroll before his fall, maybe every step after that It's hard to go on smoothly.

However, Po Jun finally choked up a breath in his heart, unable to spit it out, nor could he swallow it back.

His brows were tightly furrowed, and he couldn't help but gouged out Tian Ling's eyes, and said, "After that, you can make up for it later."

"Naturally." Tian Ling said, smiling as if remembering something, "After returning to the Star Palace, the seven of us will have a drink together."