Looking to the Thirteen Rivers

As soon as Ji Wanshu left, the hall became quiet. Yin Qiu picked up the chopsticks silently. Man Jiangxue saw her holding the rice one by one, and asked, "Can't you eat any more?"

Yin Qiu said: "... I'm full."

Man Jiangxue called his disciples to remove the bowls and chopsticks, and asked how the hot water in the soup room was boiling. After eating for a while, they took a change of clothes and went to the soup room to take a bath together.

Along the way, I met many disciples who were going back to their rooms to rest. Yin Qiu followed Man Jiangxue, pretending to be calm, but feeling a little embarrassed in his heart.After entering the soup room, Yin Qiu poked her head out of the door to look left and right, and closed the door after confirming that no one was passing by. When she turned around, she let out a long sigh of relief.

Ever since Man Jiangxue carried her back to Shen Xing Palace for his disciples to see, Yin Qiu noticed that they looked at her differently. No matter where she went, there were always a pair of bright eyes behind her, full of smiles. Smiling and curious, and when she and Man Jiangxue were alone in the bedroom, more and more people came to the window to eavesdrop.

Everyone seemed to know something, but also seemed not sure whether what they knew was true.

The room was surrounded by white mist, and the steaming soup pool was like a vast lake, Man Jiangxue put her clothes on the screen, and she could see all Yin Qiu's actions just now, she asked with a smile: "Why do you look like a thief? "

Yin Qiu was still blushing and heart beating because of Ji Wanshu's previous episode. She went to the pool to test the water temperature, and after thinking about it, she said: "Listening to what Senior Sister Ji said, it seems that Uncle Wen didn't receive much attention when he returned to the Ziwei Sect this time." Nangong Min's punishment, she also bought a house in Shangyuan City, it seems that Nangong Min let her go?"

Man Jiangxue arranged the bathing utensils such as bath beans and towels, and said, "Perhaps, Nangong Min has always treated her a little differently, so maybe this time she will let her go again."

Yin Qiu said: "Since they have settled down in the city, does it mean that Uncle Wen has left the Ziwei sect? Then if she intends to return to the palace, will the master agree?"

Man Jiangxue thought for a while, and replied: "I'm afraid I can't, let's not say whether the elders and disciples of the peaks will all agree. Once this precedent is set, the rules in the palace will be tantamount to existence in name only, even if the senior sister in charge can agree." She can ignore the previous suspicions and let go of her prejudice against Wen Chaoyu, so she can't break the rules left by her masters. Wen Chaoyu can come to the palace as a guest, but she can never become a member of Yunhua Palace again."

Yin Qiu said: "That's the reason... But it's not a big problem if she goes back to the palace or not. Now she and Senior Sister Ji can see each other often, it's better than if she stays in the Ziwei sect."

"Actually, before I went to Weicheng to ask her who the flute player was, I also thought about setting up a place for her and Wanshu in the city," Man Jiangxue said, "It's safe for her to stay in Shangyuan City. People dare not trespass, and now that she has arranged everything by herself, there is nothing I need to do."

Yin Qiu couldn't help but said with emotion: "Uncle Wen and Senior Sister Ji are really not easy. It's been so many years. Fortunately, they still came together and didn't run counter to each other because of the outside world. I'm really happy for them."

"If you have time, I'll take you down the mountain," Man Jiangxue took off her robe for Yin Qiu, and said, "Everyone has come to Shangyuan City, and she has done her part in Zhilan's affairs, so she should pay a visit."

Yin Qiu nodded and said, "Senior Sister Ji will be enthroned soon, so Uncle Wen should come too?"

Man Jiangxue said: "I don't know about that. The elders of the Ji family will also come at that time. Even if Wen Chaoyu is there, he probably won't show up in an open manner—why are you taking off my clothes?"

Yin Qiu was only focused on talking, but didn't notice that her hands had pulled Man Jiangxue's robe off her shoulders. She was taken aback for a moment, and quickly stopped her hands and said, "I... I didn't mean to."

Man Jiangxue smiled, put Yin Qiu's clothes into the tub, walked around behind the screen, and said, "Don't catch the cold, wash it quickly."

Yin Qiu said "Oh", took off her obscene clothes and entered the soup pool. She looked at the shadow reflected on the screen, thought for a moment and asked, "Master...do you want to wash with me?"

Man Jiangxue sat on a low stool, sank Yin Qiu's changed clothes into the water, and said, "Are you sure?"

She doesn't mind, but some thin-skinned people are afraid that they will be shy again.

It has been many years since I took a bath with Man Jiangxue. At that time, Yin Qiu was still a sick bean sprouts. Since she grew up, Man Jiangxue would accompany her to the soup room, but she Every time I sit behind the screen and wait for Yin Qiu to finish washing before washing.The last time Yin Qiu invited her to take a bath together in Xifengshan's house was not just for fun. Although she was very embarrassed, but such a big soup pool can be washed by two people together, why do they have to separate?Waste of time and waste of hot water is not it?

Yin Qiu heard the sound of water at the other end and knew that Man Jiangxue was washing her clothes. Over the years, she took care of Man Jiangxue's daily life at Jingyue Peak, and she hardly let Man Jiangxue do any rough work by herself. , but I don’t know since when, the two seem to have exchanged, now Man Jiangxue takes care of her daily life, she doesn’t want her to wash clothes, she doesn’t want her to make mattresses, she doesn’t even let her cook, This kind of treatment was something that Yin Qiu, who was still very young when he first entered Yunhua Palace, never had it.

Feeling a little joyful in his heart, Yin Qiu lay down by the pool, trying to keep his tone calm, and said, "The water won't be warm after I finish washing. Uncle Master, put the clothes away first, and I'll wash them later." , come here quickly."

Man Jiangxue leaned back slightly, showing a perfect side face on the edge of the screen, and asked: "Are you sure?"

Yin Qiu looked back at her as calmly as possible: "There is nothing certain about this... If you don't come here again, I will regret it."

Man Jiangxue glanced at her, then got up too: "That's fine."

Seeing Man Jiangxue start to undress inside, Yin Qiu was both happy and apprehensive, but in the blink of an eye, she really wanted to regret it!When Man Jiangxue's figure was about to meet her eyes, Yin Qiu hurriedly turned around and raised her hands to cover her eyes.Soon, he felt that the water surface was shaking a little, and Man Jiangxue seemed to have entered the soup pool. Yin Qiucai opened his fingers a little, and turned his head slightly to look at her.

Separated by a layer of lingering white mist, the two of them were in the same pool, but each occupied one side. Man Jiangxue still had a bandage around her neck, which made her look indescribably beautiful.Her exposed skin is fairer than snow, and her black hair is like ink. Although Yin Qiu has long been familiar with her unforgettable face, she still can't help sighing in her heart at this moment—the uncle is so beautiful.

How can there be such a good-looking person in the world?

Noticing that Yin Qiu was staring at her intently, Man Jiangxue combed her long hair, taking care not to let the wound get wet, she beckoned to Yin Qiu: "Do you want to come to my place?"

Yin Qiu hesitated for a moment, then sank down, keeping only his eyes on the surface of the water, holding his breath and swimming slowly to Man Jiangxue's side.

The closer the distance, the faster Yin Qiu's heart beat. She really wanted to take a full look at Man Jiangxue without any scruples, just like appreciating a beautiful scenery or a painting scroll.However, the current situation is that she can hardly breathe even if she takes one more look at Man Jiangxue.Any look that falls on Man Jiangxue, as long as it is straightforward, undisguised, or unscrupulous, in Yin Qiu's heart, it is disrespectful to Man Jiangxue, and it can even be said to be blasphemy.

Even if that gaze came from Yin Qiu himself.

The uncle should be the one being watched from a distance, Yin Qiu secretly thought, if the bright moon in the sky falls into the water, it will still be a bright moon, no one can imagine it.

Even if she got this piece of bright moon as she wished, she should cherish it, love it, respect it, and not be frivolous or playful.

Maybe one day in the future, she will make this reserved love more and more public, but the clean and dusty shadow of this person that has been left in her heart from a long time ago is indelible and cannot be replaced forever.

She wants to love someone with respect.

"Uncle Master still has injuries, so it's inconvenient to wash his hair now." Yin Qiu took a handkerchief and dipped it in water, and said with a smile, "Then I'll wipe your back for you."

Man Jiangxue smiled back at her, turned around and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

·

On the way back, I didn’t meet anyone again. The candles in the disciple’s room were extinguished, the corridor was quiet, and the lanterns were shaking. It hadn’t warmed up after the year, and the spring night was still cold.

The shadow of maple leaves was cast on the ground from a distance, like a small fan that was stretched. Yin Qiu held up her skirt and stepped on the shadow with one foot, her footsteps were as light as a dragonfly flying among the blue lotuses. .

"Uncle Master, take me back, I don't want to go." Yin Qiu stopped suddenly, the light from the corridor shrouded her, and clearly conveyed the smile on the corners of her eyes and brows to Man Jiangxue.

"Didn't you have fun?" Man Jiangxue put the coat in her hand on Yin Qiu, "Tired?"

"I'm not tired," Yin Qiu leaned into Man Jiangxue's arms, "I just want you to hug me."

Man Jiangxue responded "OK" and hugged Yin Qiu horizontally. The two walked slowly through the corridor, kissing each other back and forth in the gentle evening breeze.Yin Qiu really wanted to stay overnight in Shen Xing Palace, but considering that Young Master Fan might send someone to contact her, he could only restrain his inner attachment and go back to his small room.Man Jiangxue put her down on the bed, took off her shoes with her own hands, leaned over and kissed her for a long time, and then said softly: "Go to bed early, if you need anything, I'll be here soon."

Yin Qiu put his arms around her neck and said, "But I can't bear you."

Man Jiangxue said: "I also hate you."

"Then uncle, don't leave," Yin Qiu said, "You have never slept with me. My bed is a bit small, but I can sleep next to my uncle without being crowded."

Man Jiangxue picked him up and put him on his lap, and said, "With me here, who would dare to knock on that small window of yours?"

Yin Qiu immediately said in a breathy voice: "We are sneaking around, and we don't want anyone to know."

Man Jiangxue said: "What if someone comes to you tonight?"

Yin Qiu continued to say in a breathy voice: "The uncle is sleeping inside, I will block you, no one can see."

Seeing her clinging to herself so much, Man Jiangxue couldn't refuse no matter how hard she was, she shook her head and chuckled, "Anyone can come to your room, well, I'll stay and sleep with you for one night."

Yin Qiu was overjoyed, and immediately cheered in a low voice. Man Jiangxue raised his hand to turn off the lamp, and fell down hugging Yin Qiu. The two whispered in the dark for a while, and then fell asleep one after another. Wake up at dawn.

Hearing the sound of disciples' morning exercise coming from outside, Yin Qiu lay on the bed in a daze for a while, when suddenly a carp jumped up, crossed the river and got down on the couch, stepping on clogs straight to the window.

Her movement woke up Man Jiangxue. Yin Qiu opened the window and saw that the bamboo branches hanging outside were gone!

"It's over, it's over..." The sleepiness in Yin Qiu's mind suddenly disappeared, "Someone really came last night!"

Man Jiangxue had already sat up, but when she heard this, she lay back down again.

"Uncle!" Yin Qiu threw himself at her side, "You hit the spot!"

"Hmm..." Man Jiangxue said, "I heard it."

Yin Qiu was full of regrets, and said with a bitter face: "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't pester my uncle to sleep with me. I missed a big deal, what should I do?"

Man Jiangxue hadn't woken up yet, when she heard that she pressed Yin Qiu's head and said, "I will come again, go to sleep."

"I can't sleep anymore," Yin Qiu pushed her, "Master, get up quickly."

Man Jiangxue didn't move.

Yin Qiu urged her several times, but Man Jiangxue didn't respond, so Yin Qiu had to lift the quilt and rub her chest, shouting, "Master, get up!"

Man Jiangxue said helplessly: "Everyone is gone, what's the use of getting up at this time?"

"You have to wake up when I wake up," Yin Qiu said, "Don't sleep late."

Man Jiangxue said: "I suffer from spring sleepiness every year and cannot get up."

Yin Qiu ruthlessly exposed her: "There is no time in the year when you are not sleepy, so don't make excuses, let's go see Uncle Wen while it's still early."

Man Jiangxue laughed.

Yin Qiu said, "What are you laughing at?"

Man Jiangxue said: "Believe it or not, even if we go down the mountain at this time, Wen Zhaoyu must not have woken up yet, and you have to wake her up when you get there."

Yin Qiu was bored for a while, ignored her, ran to the yard and broke another bamboo branch and hung it outside the window.Man Jiangxue saw that she was not in the mood, so she didn't stay in bed anymore. After getting up, she washed up with Yin Qiu and had a meal, then moved a rattan chair to bask in the sun in the yard, and fell asleep again not long after.

With the lesson learned this time, Yin Qiu didn't dare to twist Man Jiangxue any more, and went back to the room obediently that night, blowing out the candle early to fall asleep.In the middle of the night, as Man Jiangxue said, there were two soft crisp sounds on the window sill, and the person came again.

Yin Qiu was afraid of missing it again, so she kept herself in a light sleep. Hearing the voice, she hurriedly put on her clothes and sat up, not forgetting to hold Zhubing in her hand.After opening the window and looking, there was a strange young man in black standing outside. There was no light in the corridor, only the faint moonlight. His whole body seemed to blend into the darkness. If his eyesight was not good enough, he would not be able to see him clearly.

"Miss Yin," the young man nodded as soon as the two looked at each other, "I am the young master of Brahma Heart Valley, and I am here to ask for an audience with the master of my family."

Yin Qiu looked around, turned sideways, and the young man took advantage of the opportunity to climb through the window and enter.Yin Qiu hurriedly asked: "How is the adoptive father? Is he okay?"

The young man sighed: "It's fine to say yes, but it's not good to say bad. To save you this time, the adoptive father exhausted his whole life's skills. He already had an old disease in his body. If he hadn't taken the Hanxiang pill in advance this time, You two are afraid that something will happen to you...do you know what Hanxiangwan is?"

Yin Qiu was stunned for a moment, then said calmly: "I know." She had heard Meng Jing mention this medicine.

"Since you know, I won't say much," the young man said, "In short, after we left Yunhua Mountain that day, my adoptive father suffered a backlash, vomited a lot of blood, and fell into a coma for a long time. They are Gu Nei's younger brother and sister. We worked together to pass on the exercises to him and protected his heart. Now the adoptive father has returned to Fanxin Valley and is recuperating in retreat. He knows that you will definitely worry about him, so let me pass on a message to reassure you. "

Yin Qiu's mood was complicated, and he said in silence for a while: "That is to say, he is not in danger of his life right now, but he has lost his skills. In the future..."

"From now on, foster father will be an ordinary person who doesn't know kungfu," said the young man, "it will take many years to recover his kung fu. Miss Yin, let me take the liberty to ask you and my Guzhu what is going on?" What's the relationship?"

Yin Qiu smiled bitterly: "That's exactly what I want to ask you. I only know that he has always loved my mother deeply, but I never thought that he would do this to save me."

The young man said solemnly: "You don't even know, and we don't even know. Maybe the adoptive father is indeed Ai Wu Ji Wu."

Yin Qiu asked: "Where is the Brahma Valley? After a while, when the condition of the adoptive father improves, I want to visit."

"In a barren mountain in Cangzhou," the young man said, "not many people in the Jianghu know about it, so I ask the girl not to spread it."

"Don't worry, I will keep it secret," Yin Qiu said, taking out the medicine bottle that he carried with him, "This is the antidote to the Gu poison, please take it back and give it to your adoptive father, if the Gu poison is incomprehensible, people will You can only live for one year at most, you have to give him the antidote as soon as possible."

The young man looked at her, then at the medicine bottle, but waved his hands: "No need, girl, keep it for now. When I left, my adoptive father told me that if you develop an antidote here, don't take it." Give it to him in a hurry."

Yin Qiu was surprised: "Why?"

The young man explained: "Because the adoptive father knew that the girl should have doubts about him, in order to maintain the hard-won trust between you, he decided not to use the antidote for the time being, and should give the girl peace of mind."

Yin Qiu was slightly stunned, and after a while lowered his hand, sighed: "Father really can predict everything, and now I...do have some doubts about his origin and motives."

"Then I don't know what the girl suspected?" The young man asked, "Since I'm here, I can answer some things."

Yin Qiu straightened his mind and said, "You guys killed Senior Sister Ye, right?"

The young man did not deny it, and said plainly: "Exactly, she was killed by her adoptive father. In fact, the last time the adoptive father met you, he originally planned to go to Weicheng, but he heard you say that Xi Zuo and the flute player Afterwards, I felt uneasy, so we ordered us to guard you secretly in Yunhua Mountain, and we happened to see Ye Zhilan kidnapping you, so we not only knew that she had chosen the Fengkou River in advance, and gave us the plank road halfway up the mountain. I stayed behind and heard everything she talked to you that night, so my adoptive father asked us to prepare corresponding countermeasures in advance. You fell from such a high cliff without any accident because we caught you with a rope net. Otherwise, even if the Duan family's cargo ship passed by at that time, falling into the river in your situation would undoubtedly kill you."

So it turned out that they really guessed it!Young Master Fan really knew Ye Zhilan's actions from the very beginning.

"Then why did the adoptive father kill her?" Yin Qiu said, "Is there an enmity between them, or is the existence of Senior Sister Ye a threat to the adoptive father?"

The young man showed a smile: "If you ask me that, I know what you are suspicious of." After he finished speaking, he raised his legs and walked to the window, slightly tilted his head and said, "There is one thing you must be clear about. The sword on Ye Zhilan's body The injury was done by her adoptive father, but the arrow she was shot by someone has nothing to do with our Brahma Heart Valley."

The author has something to say: I am fat to mess with.

Thank you for your concern, it’s much better, and there is still a little angel who came to private message me with a crooked neck and asked me how I was doing. I was so touched.I hope everyone will try their best not to catch a cold during the extraordinary period, as it will be very troublesome to go to the hospital.