Looking to the Thirteen Rivers

Yin Qiu stood in the alley.

On a gloomy day, in turbulent rain, the weeping willows in the spring are so green that they are eye-catching. Yin Qiu was shivering in the cold wind wearing a tattered shirt. Someone handed her a white-faced steamed bun. She held the steamed bun in her hand and squatted down. Under the willow tree, she gnawed heavily, and the steamed buns were quickly soiled by her hands.

"Did you see that house across the way?" said the girl standing beside her.

Yin Qiu gobbled it up. Hearing this, he raised his timid eyes and looked at the girl, then turned his head and said, "I see..."

"That's the famous Su family in Jinhuai City."

The girl was wearing a plain long gown and a large black cloak over her head. The brim of the hat covered the upper half of her face, making it impossible to see her features clearly.

"I know," Yin Qiu said while swallowing, "The Su family is very rich. When I was doing odd jobs in the Xunchunyuan, many girls said that they wanted to be maids in the Su family, because Master Su and Mrs. Su did not lay down servants. Everybody knows."

The girl said, "Do you want to go?"

Yin Qiu looked at her carefully, and was a little surprised to hear this.

A few days ago, she was still in the Xunchunyuan in Yanghua City. One night, an official came and sealed the Xunchunyuan. She and the girls who were also handymen wandered to the streets, and was taken in by this girl, and then she was taken in again. She was brought to Jinhuai City.

"Are you going to sell me in?" Yin Qiu asked.

"It's not you, it's you, you go in with those girls," the girl said, "How old are you?"

"Ten years old...?" Yin Qiu snapped his fingers.

"No, you are nine years old this year," said the girl, "you will be ten years old after this winter, and next year you will be back where you should be."

Yin Qiu said blankly: "So I'm only nine years old...?" She was still too young, and only noticed the first half of the girl's sentence, but not the second half.

"The Su family really don't know how to beat and scold servants. You will live a good life for a year or so when you go to the Su family," the girl said, "When next year, you will go to other places."

"where to?"

The girl didn't answer, just said: "Remember, your name is Yin Qiu."

Yin Qiu was stunned: "Oh..."

"Go in," said the girl, "we will see you later."

Yin Qiu ate the last mouthful of steamed buns, stood up and said, "You are a good man, I will repay you in the future, what's your name?"

The girl was silent for a while, as if she smiled lightly: "You are wrong, I am not a good person." She paused, and then said, "Although you can live to this day, I am indeed the one who saved you, but I am not a good person .”

Yin Qiu looked at her inexplicably.

"Anyway, you don't need to know my name, and you won't recognize me when I see you later anyway," the girl said, turning around, "Wait a little longer, when you grow up a bit, someone will come looking for you. "

After she finished speaking, she walked into the depths of the alley under the suspicious eyes of Yin Qiu.

Looking at her back, Yin Qiu felt an urge to chase after her for some reason. She seemed to have a lot of questions to ask, but she didn't know what to ask when she was young, so she could only subconsciously move towards the The fading figure started to run, but she fell to the ground before taking two steps. Her skinny palms were scratched and blood oozes out.

"Why are you so careless?"

Soon, a pair of hands reached out to support her from behind, and a brisk voice said: "If the uncle sees it, you will have to scold us for not taking good care of you."

Yin Qiu was startled, raised his head, turned his face sideways, and saw a handsome smiling face.

The cold alleys turned into small bridges and flowing water in an instant, and Jinhuai City in the early spring also turned into Jingyue Peak in the deep winter.

Yin Qiu stood still a little unresponsively. She lowered her head and looked at her palm. There was no wound or blood there, only a little mud.

"You're still wrestling at such an adult," the black-clothed youth stood by the bridge, with a dog's tail grass in his mouth, "What a disgrace, Xiaoqiu."

The urge to chase in her heart turned into an unspeakable grief in an instant, Yin Qiu wanted to ask him "Why are you here", but she couldn't help laughing and said: "It's time to practice sword It's time, don't run, hurry up, if you are late, the head will sue the uncle again, I don't believe that the brother didn't fall when he was young."

The young man looked at her and laughed loudly.It is rare for the Jingyue Peak to come out of the sun in winter, but at this moment, the young man is bathed in the warm sunlight, he smiled very heartily, but he smiled and suddenly stopped smiling, he sighed inexplicably After taking a breath, he asked Yin Qiu, "What will you do if the brothers are gone in the future?"

Yin Qiu wanted to say, "Aren't you already gone?" But she couldn't say what was in her heart. She said insincerely again: "Where are you going? You agreed to stay at Jingyue Peak, are you leaving?" ?”

The young man looked at her and nodded: "Those who want to leave will have to leave one day."

When she heard this in her ears, she felt uncontrollable sadness in her heart. Yin Qiu wanted to shed tears, but she still couldn't express her true feelings. She seemed to be possessed, and said with a smirk: "Then you remember Take me with you, don't forget me," he added after finishing speaking, "and Uncle Shi, let's go together."

The sun suddenly dimmed, and the big raindrops came through the rapidly gathering dark clouds, and the two of them were soaked in the rain, their hair and clothes were soaked.

"I won't take you," the young man smiled cheerfully, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, "You have to live well and don't come with us."

Yin Qiu said: "It's raining, senior brother, let's hide quickly."

The young man replied "OK", but when Yin Qiu ran under the eaves, he was still standing there.

Yin Qiu yelled, "You'll catch a cold if you get wet in the rain, come here quickly!"

"No, I'm leaving," the young man shook his head against the rain, "I have to leave soon."

Yin Qiu hurriedly said: "Then you wait a moment, I'll go get an umbrella and give it to you!"

She carried her skirt and ran into Shen Xing Hall in a hurry. The room was deserted and there was no one there. Yin Qiu looked around blankly. After a while, she took an oiled paper umbrella and ran out of the hall, but there was no sign of the young man on the bridge.

"Senior brother?" Yin Qiu ran back to the bridge stepping on the rain, "Senior brother!"

The heavy rain was falling more and more urgently, as if it wanted to penetrate the world. Yin Qiu suddenly felt a deep loneliness in the rain. Holding an umbrella, she took a few steps in a vain way, when suddenly a burst of swords came from behind her. The sound of collision and fighting.

Looking back, Shen Xingdian and Jingyue Peak no longer exist, but the red maple is still there, and the maple leaves all over the mountains and plains are like a big fire, which cannot be extinguished by the rain.

Her vision became blurred, and the dense rain curtain blocked her, blurring the figure not far away into an invisible halo.

Those shadows fled in the sea of ​​fire, and fell down in the heavy rain. The water flowing at the feet gradually changed color, becoming a diluted red.

The oil-paper umbrella fell from her hand. Yin Qiu raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, but she couldn't see clearly. She was so anxious that she was about to cry. Those people obviously existed, but they were so far away from her. With a clear thought, Yin Qiu was stunned for a long time and finally got up, ran towards the sea of ​​fire, and shouted out of breath, "Mom...mother!"

She was crying and running, but no one paid attention to her, one after another figure passed her by, and no one was willing to stay behind.

"mother!"

"Where are you?"

"Are you still alive……?"

Yin Qiu called out with all her strength, and gradually lost her strength. She didn't know why she was so tired, and she obviously didn't do anything.

Panting heavily, she stopped amidst the psychedelic figures and the rain of fire, but soon, someone held an umbrella above her head.

At the same time, that strange and gentle voice rang in her ears: "It's raining too much, you need to cover it up."

Yin Qiu was drenched, her beating heart hit her chest, and there seemed to be a figure in blue clothes fluttering in her eyes, but she didn't dare to turn her head.

She didn't even dare to ask who this person was.

"The time has come," said the man, "here's your umbrella, I'm leaving."

Yin Qiu's limbs were stiff, and he held the umbrella bone with trembling hands, and finally mustered up the courage to say, "Where are you going?"

"To a place far away," said the man.

"Can I go?"

"you can not."

"why?"

"Because you don't belong here."

Yin Qiu's knuckles turned white while pinching the umbrella bone, pinching herself so painfully, she asked, "Then where do I belong?"

"You have to ask yourself," said the man, "if you stay here, you won't be able to meet the person you want to see. Where is the person you want to see?"

Tears rolled down in an instant and wet the skirt of his clothes. Yin Qiu said in a daze, "The person I want to see...isn't it you..."

"Then you have seen it, you can go."

go?

"Can't I be with you?" Yin Qiu wanted to turn around, but couldn't, "Why don't you want me?"

"No one wants you," said the man, stepping back slightly, "and the person you want to see the most is not me."

The blue shadow suddenly disappeared from the corner of the eye, Yin Qiu finally turned her head suddenly at this moment, but she saw nothing, no one.

My heart was completely overwhelmed by pain, Yin Qiu held an umbrella and cried like a child: "No...don't go..."

The rain was still falling, and the fire was still burning, but those figures suddenly disappeared.

She was alone again.

"Don't go...don't go!"

Yin Qiu wept bitterly, threw away the umbrella in his hand again, and rushed into the sea of ​​flames recklessly.

However, invisibly, it seemed that someone hugged her again, hugged her very tightly, and refused to let her get closer to the sea of ​​flames.

"Let me go..." Yin Qiu struggled violently, tears streaming down his face, "Let me go... let me go!"

"Don't go," said an unknown voice again, "Xiaoqiu, come back quickly."

Suddenly, hands came around her waist, hugging her even more tightly.

Yin Qiu lowered her head with tears in her eyes, and saw two white sleeves. She smelled a faint fragrance, which seemed to come from a very far away place, or seemed to float on the tip of her nose, seemingly close but not close. It seems far away.

"Xiaoqiu, did you hear that? Come back quickly."

The voice was very soft and very familiar, as if the owner of the voice was whispering in her ear: "Where are you going? Are you going to leave uncle?"

Uncle...

Uncle?

Yin Qiu raised his eyelashes slightly, and stopped struggling in the warm embrace that suddenly approached.

"Uncle Master..."

"I'm here." The hand on the waist left one, and quickly moved to Yin Qiu's cheek. The hand gently stroked her, revealing a warm temperature.

"Are you leaving Master Uncle?"

leave?

no no……

"Don't..." Yin Qiu's whole body went limp, and he put all of himself into those hands, "I don't want to leave my uncle..."

"Then why don't you come back?"

"……return?"

"Don't you want to come back to me?"

The fire seemed to be extinguished a little bit, and the rain also slowed down. Yin Qiu stood there feeling lost. She was clearly the only one in this place, but she felt that the feeling of being hugged was so real.

She said wearily: "Where am I...?"

"You are in my arms."

Whose arms?

Is it uncle?

But here...how can there be a master?

"I've been here," the voice guided her, saying softly, "open your eyes and look at me."

The fire light gradually went out, the heavy rain also gradually stopped, all the light dissipated like the ebb tide of the sea, the world suddenly became dark, and there was nothing, only the warm embrace and the touch on the face were still there, nothing Disappear.

Yin Qiu was groping in the dark, but she couldn't move an inch. She couldn't even see herself, she could only feel the existence of that person, and feel that she was holding her firmly.

The pain and helplessness in my heart were miraculously dispelled, and all the noisy noise was also lost from my ears. Yin Qiu seemed to have fallen into a puddle of water, and the surface of the water carried her and turned her into a A fluffy bird feather.

Water waves rippled around her body, gently protecting her, and the heavy darkness lit up in circles of ripples, like the dawn of the dawn on the horizon, trying to light up the dark world and reappear the light.

But just once, the light disappeared again.

She couldn't open it.

Then, the voice rang again: "Xiao Qiu, open your eyes."

Suddenly something warm and soft was pasted on her forehead, as if someone was kissing her delicately, and the voice was still saying, "Look at me."

The warm and soft touch fell on her forehead like raindrops, and then fell on her eyebrows. The pleasant fragrance always surrounded her and wrapped her up.

Finally, the light slowly appeared in the sky again.

Yin Qiu gasped for breath, and her intuition told her that the light was very important, and she couldn't let it disappear from her eyes, so she stared at the light as hard as she could, trying to open her eyes wide in the darkness.

Fortunately, she didn't fail this time, and she didn't give up either. The beam of light gradually became clear at the end of her field of vision, getting bigger and bigger until it swallowed up the darkness.

Then she raised her eyelids with great effort, and in her narrow and hazy vision, she saw a red lip kissing her.

The lips were slightly pursed, rosy and soft, and fell gently on her cheek.

But soon, intense tiredness and sleepiness swarmed over her. Looking at those lips, she uncontrollably closed her half-opened eyes, and once again fell into the vast darkness.

Watching those trembling eyes open and close briefly and then close again, Man Jiangxue sighed heavily, feeling relieved.

It was still raining outside, and lamps were lit everywhere in the room, crowding the night into the courtyard, and the room was as bright as day.

"It's dangerous, it's dangerous..." The doctor sat on the wooden bench beside the couch, raised his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat from his head, "If you don't call her back, she will really be gone, and Immortal Da Luo will also die." It's hard to save..."

The hand holding Yin Qiu unconsciously tightened a little, Man Jiangxue frowned and looked at the sleeping person in her arms, her deep voice was somewhat tired: "Is there any danger of life?"

The doctor let out a long breath, and said with lingering fear: "Although we have survived the most dangerous test, the wounds all over the body must be recuperated inside and outside, and we must not take it lightly. Someone must be watching at all times, and we can't drink medicine right now. It is also a problem, you have to think of a way, if there is a vacant room in your house, I can live here temporarily, and when the little girl improves, I will go back to the medicine hall, what do you think?"

"Then there is Mr. Lao," Man Jiangxue nodded in thanks, and then shouted out the door, "Wanshu."

Ji Wanshu and a group of disciples waited outside for a day and a night. Hearing this, he hurriedly opened the door and walked in. Man Jiangxue didn't want them to quarrel with Yin Qiu, so no one came to care for him, so Ji Wanshu ordered someone to arrange for the doctor. After leaving the guest room, everyone stood at the door and looked at Yin Qiu from a distance for a while, then they all huddled in the corridor and waited again.

Not long after, the boiled medicinal soup was delivered, and Ji Wanshu brought the things into the house. Man Jiangxue motioned her to put them on the table first, and asked, "Meng Jing hasn't found it yet?"

Ji Wanshu shook his head: "I've searched everywhere, and posted missing person notices, but there is no news."

Man Jiangxue kept holding Yin Qiu and didn't let go. Hearing this, she said, "It must be found."

Ji Wanshu responded, and said again: "Then Fu Xiang is still waiting in the hall, do you want to call her over?"

"Tell her to go back," Man Jiangxue said, "Until Xiaoqiu recovers completely, no one will see her."

Ji Wanshu nodded, looked at Yin Qiu with a complicated expression, and said silently for a moment, "If I could come here sooner..."

She didn't say all the rest, and Man Jiangxue didn't answer.

Isn't that what she wanted to say?

If only she could have come earlier...

But it was late, and she was still late.

"It's good that people are still alive." After a long time, Man Jiangxue said, "Everything is put on hold, the most important thing is to heal Xiaoqiu's body first, as for you..." She looked at Ji Wanshu, "When did you leave the customs? "

Ji Wan paused and replied, "A few days ago."

The originally scheduled five-year period will actually not arrive until the beginning of spring next year, but her practice has been very difficult these days, and her heart is still not very stable. She always feels that something is going to happen, so she left the test without saying a word. Didn't tell anyone.

She walked so quietly that she didn't even know about the disciples guarding outside the retreat room. She left Yunhua Palace overnight. The Crape Myrtle Sect moved the main altar to Cang County, and now that place has become the site of the Crape Myrtle Sect. Later, I heard that the Nine Immortals Church will hold a general meeting in Weicheng. For such a big event, the Crape Myrtle Sect will definitely not be absent. Ji Wanshu came directly to Weicheng with the mentality of giving it a try. She was lucky, but she met Wen Chaoyu as she wished, but it was not a good time.

I only regret that she didn't travel faster, if she could arrive in time, Yin Qiu wouldn't be hurt like this.

"Where's Wen Chaoyu?" Man Jiangxue picked up the soup on the table, brought it to his lips and took a sip.

"It's locked in the East Wing. I tied her up and sent someone..." Ji Wanshu was talking, when Man Jiangxue lowered his head and approached the unconscious Yin Qiu.

Seeing what Man Jiangxue was doing, Ji Wanshu was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly looked away, and then said: "I even sent someone to guard the door. She has injuries, so she should..." He caught a glimpse of Man Jiangxue from the corner of his eye. Repeating the action just now, Ji Wanshu was taken aback for a second, and simply turned around, and continued, "I shouldn't be able to escape, and no one dares to come to rescue..."

Man Jiangxue swallowed the remaining medicinal juice in her mouth, fed Yin Qiu one mouthful at a time, and said, "You did a good job, first detain her and put her in jail."

Ji Wanshu turned his back to her and said, "Hmm..."

Man Jiangxue didn't seem to notice her restraint at all, half of the medicine in the bowl had been fed, but in this half, she drank most of it by herself, or slipped it from Yin Qiu's lips.Man Jiangxue frowned, raised her head and said, "Come and help me...why are you standing so far away?"

Ji Wanshu didn't look back, and said calmly, "...it's cool here."

Man Jiangxue glanced at several charcoal braziers around the bed, and said, "Come here and help me support her, this medicine is not good."

Ji Wanshu hesitated for a moment: "Oh..."

She lowered her eyes, looked at the ground as if nothing had happened, took Yin Qiu from Man Jiangxue's arms out of the corner of her eye, and then Man Jiangxue took a mouthful of medicine, and moved closer to Yin Qiu in front of her.

"How about..." Ji Wanshu looked at Fang Liang and said, "How about I let Bai Ling in..."

Man Jiangxue looked up at her with inquiring eyes.

Ji Wanshu hesitated to speak, but finally said bluntly: "Master, do not despise evil..."

When Man Jiangxue heard what she said, she was stunned for a rare moment, and finally showed a look of surprise.

The mouthful of medicine in her mouth has not yet been fed, and she is speechless right now, Man Jiangxue paused for a moment, stretched out her hand to wrap Yin Qiu in her arms again, tucked her in the quilt, and finally evened Ji Wanshu eyes.

Ji Wanshuli got up, and when he pushed the door, he raised his legs and kicked back the disciples who were looking at Yin Qiu one by one, and stood in front of the door like a gatekeeper.

Man Jiangxue looked at Yin Qiu, then at the half bowl of medicine left, and sighed helplessly.