Xianmen does not ask about the mundane

Qi Zuo was kneeling upright in front of the tea table, and Master Zhu Hongyan was sitting opposite, cleaning the tea set calmly.His two hands are used to holding heavy sword hilts, but now he is holding a light tea clip to operate smoothly.

The charcoal fire of the small stove was extinguished just now, Zhu Hongyan reached out to test the temperature of the water, and the temperature was just right, so he took out some silver needles from the exquisitely carved bamboo tea pot beside him.

This tea pot was given by a carpenter who Qi Zong had rescued before.At that time, the master carpenter was rescued by Qi Zhe, and he was grateful to him, and he had to thank him well no matter what. I ordered a bamboo teapot.Four years have passed, and Zhu Hongyan is still using it, and the surface of the tea pot has been polished to a shiny finish.

As soon as the hot soup is poured into the teapot, a fresh and elegant fragrance of flowers comes to the nostrils along with a strong fragrance like dried reeds.

"You haven't come to my place for tea for a long time, right? This is the white silver needle that your uncle Qiao entrusted someone to deliver a few days ago. He said that he must invite you to taste it."

As Zhu Hongyan spoke, he poured out the first cup of tea, refilled half a pot of tea, and when the aroma of the tea was completely immersed in the hot water, he poured it into a teacup and handed it over.

Qi Zuo took it with both hands respectfully, lowered his head and sniffed it, and took a sip to savor it carefully.

"how?"

"It's full-bodied and full-bodied, with a faint fragrance. It's more than seven years old white tea. Uncle Qiao really cares about Master."

Zhu Hongyan smiled without saying a word, poured himself a cup and savored it slowly.

"You've been running a lot these days, have you heard any rumors?"

"I don't know which aspect Master is referring to?"

"The disciples of the Xuanqing Mountain School bully the weak and attack innocent people."

Qi Zuo was taken aback for a moment, then frowned, and said hesitantly: "I haven't heard of it, could it be that the senior brother..."

Zhu Hongyan nodded, took a sip of tea, and said calmly: "A few days ago, Elder Xu of the Cangjun Sect sent someone to spread the word that some of his disciples saw Yue Hua using the pretext of eliminating evil spirits to do violence to the common people."

Qi Zuo said: "It should be another rich man from Beiyan who is domineering and oppressing the people. Senior brother will be so angry if he can't stand it. He must have lost his sense of proportion."

Zhu Hongyan put down the teacup and said, "I thought so too, but this time it's different. I heard that this time it was just a pawnbroker who made a mistake. When reprimanding the guy, the boss said, 'Idiot left over from South Vietnam. ’, Yue Hua was severely beaten when he heard it. This is only known to me when the disciples of the Cangjun Sect who passed by happened to see it. I don’t know how many such things Yue Hua did when he couldn’t see it.”

Qi Zuo was surprised and said: "How could this happen? The court's appeasement policy towards the old South Vietnamese people is obvious to all. Many South Vietnamese from poor families have now become high-ranking officials, and they are working together with the North Yan people to seek the development of Dayan. Why, senior brother?" I have been unable to let go of the hatred for the old people of Beiyan, but now it is getting deeper?"

Zhu Hongyan paused, sighed and recalled: "Because his parents both died under the oppression and slavery of the landlords of Beiyan."

Qi Zuo was surprised when he heard that: "No wonder senior brother..."

Zhu Hongyan nodded: "That's why I kept him in the mountain and didn't let him go out. I didn't let him go down the mountain until the relationship between the old people of the two countries eased in recent years. I didn't expect that it was because of some people that his hatred was aroused. .”

Qi Zuo was silent for a moment, and asked, "I don't know how the master dealt with the brother?"

Zhu Hongyan said in a deep voice: "This is not the first time he has done something to ordinary people. Before, it was because those people were greedy for profit and their morals were corrupt. They should be punished slightly, so I have never pursued it too much. I only punished him for confinement. Yes. But this time it was obvious that he acted too aggressively. Not only did he beat innocent people, but he was also seen by disciples of other sects. If Elder Xu of the Cangjun Sect hadn’t suppressed the news, it would have ruined the reputation of my entire Xuanqing Mountain Sect. .I have already sent him to the training room to confine him for fifteen days, and he needs to receive twenty lashes every day, and the pass token is also confiscated. He is not allowed to go down the mountain in recent days."

Qi Zuo said: "It's no wonder I haven't seen senior brother in the past few days since I came back. It's just that the resentment in senior brother's heart will only accumulate and deepen."

Zhu Hongyan said: "I also wanted to deal with it as gently as possible, but several elders were present when the news came. As the head of a faction, I must not be biased. Finally, please comfort him, and pay more attention to his condition for me on weekdays."

Qi Zuo said: "Yes, it is a disciple's duty to take care of his brothers and sisters."

Zhu Hongyan sighed: "Among my disciples, you are the most sensible. If the other three can be half as sensible as you, I can save a lot of worry."

Qi Zuo said: "Master is over-reputed, the third junior brother is now able to stand alone, and will definitely become the pillar of the Xuanqing Mountain Sect in the future. The fourth junior brother has just entered the right track, and with his aptitude, his ability in the future will not be bad. If senior brother can let go of the hatred in his heart, he will naturally be the most capable of my four senior brothers, so why should Master be worried."

Zhu Hongyan breathed a sigh of relief, and drank the remaining tea in the cup in one gulp.

"If that's the case, then that would be great. In five days' time, the gate will open to recruit new disciples. In the past, your elder brother was responsible for arranging new disciples to go up the mountain in Tanyi Town. Now he is being punished in retreat. , I will leave this matter to you. This is the first time I don’t ask you to do well, just remember that the criteria for recruiting new disciples must be morality first and qualification second.”

Qi Zuo took the order and said, "Yes."

"Well," Zhu Hongyan nodded, lifted the teapot to refill the teacups of the two, and said calmly, "Drink tea."

As soon as Du Yuehua came out of the training room, he saw Qi Yu already waiting outside the door holding some clothes.

"It's quite early, when did you come back?" Du Yuehua asked as he walked towards Qi Zuo.

"Almost ten days."

"Come to pick me up?"

"Ah."

"Then this is?" Du Yuehua looked at the clothes in Qi Zuo's hands and asked in doubt.

"The weather is hot, I want to invite my brother to go to the back mountain with me for a soak before going back."

Du Yuehua smiled, and said: "It's just right, it's very boring to be bored inside for more than ten days, and I'm just going to take a break, let's go."

As he said that, he stretched out his arms to wrap Qi Zuo's shoulders to help him turn around, and the two walked side by side along the avenue to the back mountain.

Most of the disciples usually come to the waterfall to wash before sunset, so when they arrived at the waterfall in the back mountain, there was no one around. It was stained with a lot of blood.

As soon as he entered the water, a few wisps of bloody water floated around him, and soon gradually diluted and dissipated with the water flow, only the scars on his body were still bright red, which was shocking.

Qi Zuo looked at the clothes he had taken off on the shore and was lost in thought.

"Well, why don't you come down?" Du Yuehua had just dived into the bottom of the water and swam happily, and now he was lying on the edge of the pool and enjoying with his eyes closed, before he asked lazily after a while.

"...It's nothing, don't rush to get dressed after soaking, I'll treat your wound by the way."

"Okay, then I'll trouble you."

After Du Yuehua finished speaking, he stopped speaking.

Qi Zuo originally wanted Du Yuehua to wash the wound before applying medicine, but worried that soaking it for too long would be bad for the wound, so he urged him to come out of the water after a while.He took care of all the old and new injuries on his body, and handed him the clean clothes prepared in advance, and the two left the back mountain together.

It was lunch time at the moment, and as the two of them walked all the way, they saw many new and old faces who had just finished their morning practice and were heading to the dining room.

Du Yuehua looked at a disciple who just passed by, and said strangely: "It seems that there are a lot of new faces."

Qi Zuo replied: "They are all new disciples just accepted a few days ago."

Du Yuehua gave a meaningful "Oh" and said, "I almost forgot, it's really time to recruit new disciples this year. I'm not here these days, I guess you did it?"

Qi Zuo was inexplicably uneasy, he paused and said: "Oh, yes. It's the first time I do many things that I don't understand well, and it doesn't go very smoothly. If there is a brother around, I think there won't be so many troubles."

Du Yuehua smiled and said nothing.

Seeing that he seemed to be in a good mood, Qi Zuo breathed a sigh of relief.

The two of them didn't walk for long before they saw two new disciples walking towards them.The two were arranged by Qi Zuo before they entered, and they received a lot of help from him after they entered, so they came to greet him very kindly when they saw him from a distance.

"Hello Senior Brother Qi." The two said in unison.

Seeing that the two were very angry, Qi Zuo smiled easily and said, "Good afternoon. How do you feel these two days? Have you gotten used to life here?"

One of them said: "With Senior Brother Qi taking care of me, everything will be fine."

"That's good, you can come to me at any time if you don't understand anything," Qi Zuo nodded, and then introduced to the two, "By the way, this is my senior brother, Du Yuehua."

Upon hearing this, the two hurriedly looked at Du Yuehua respectfully and called "Hello Senior Brother Du" in unison.Du Yuehua didn't care about the two at first, but after hearing the greeting, he began to look up and down the two of them, making them inexplicably nervous. They originally came here to talk to Qi Zuo, but now they felt like they were being attacked by a beast. Keeping an eye on the prey, like a light on the back, just want to escape quickly.

Qi Zuo saw the embarrassment of the two of them, and hurriedly called Du Yuehua, and then he glanced at Qi Zuo, and gave a faint "um", which was regarded as a response.

The two of them glanced at Qi Zuo gratefully after being rescued, and hurriedly slipped away as if they were going to have lunch to escape.It took a while before he stopped, and when he turned his head and saw Du Yuehua's back was at least ten meters away, he let out a long sigh of relief.

One of them said with lingering fear: "This elder brother is too scary. I always feel that his eyes are staring at me as if he wants to eat people."

Another person said: "Isn't it? I heard that this elder brother should have been responsible for arranging us to join the Entrance Sect, but when we started, this elder brother was in confinement for committing a crime. It just fell into Senior Brother Qi's hands, maybe he just came out today."

"It turned out to be like this. Thankfully, Senior Brother Qi arranged for me, otherwise I would have run away on the first day. But what did Senior Brother Du do, that he was locked up for so long?"

"It is said that he beat a mortal with his hands, and he will be imprisoned if he refuses to mend his ways after repeated admonition."

"Huh? Didn't we just say that the first day we started teaching the master, the door rules expressly forbid to do anything to mortals?"

"Isn't that right. Come closer, I'll tell you. I heard from a senior brother that our school is natural, and we don't have too many requirements or taboos on our disciples, but the only thing is, don't say Nanyue people in front of the senior brother. No."

"why?"

"because--"

He only said two words in this sentence and couldn't continue, because Du Yuehua suddenly flashed in front of him from a distance he thought was safe, grabbed his collar and looked at him. His expression was sinking like water, but his eyes seemed to be breathing fire.

All this happened so fast that the man didn't even realize that he was about to struggle. Seeing Du Yuehua raised his other hand high, he shrank his neck and closed his eyes subconsciously.

However, the expected fist did not fall, he opened his eyes cautiously, and saw Du Yuehua's fist was firmly stopped in midair by Qi Zuo.

"Let go." Du Yuehua stared fiercely at the disciple's face and said.

"Brother, don't be impulsive." Qi Zuo held his arm firmly, and the arm muscles of the two were trembling slightly due to the wrestling.

"I'll say it again, let go! Hand!"

"Senior brother, he just said something unintentionally and without malice, so why bother with him."

"No malice? Do you think I'm a fool to be fooled? Or do you think that you can ride on my head and tell me what to do if you take over my job?"

As Du Yuehua spoke, his tone gradually became agitated, and he pointed the finger at Qi Zuo.

This small movement may not be worth mentioning in normal times, but at this time, it was time for the disciples in the sect to have lunch, and the disciples came and went frequently on the road, so it quickly attracted the attention of many people, and the surroundings began to panic. People stopped to watch one after another, but no one dared to step forward to intervene.It just so happened that Zhu Lingyuan had just brought his new disciples out of the school grounds at this time, and saw a group of people gathered there from a distance, so he walked over curiously.

"I didn't mean that, brother." Qi Zuo said calmly.

"Then what do you mean?" Du Yuehua was unwilling to let go, as if he was going to settle accounts after autumn.

"Brother, there are more and more people at the moment, it would not be good to lure Master and the others over if the disturbance continues. You are still injured, come back with me."

Although Qi Zuo's tone was relaxed and he was always persuading him with kind words, the hand holding Du Yuehua never relaxed a bit.

Du Yuehua's expression sank upon hearing this: "Are you using Master to suppress me?"

"Don't dare, it's just that senior brother just came out of the confinement room, so don't be confused for a while."

"good very good."

Du Yuehua stared at Qi Zuo's face and said coldly, then released both hands at the same time.The disciple lost his support and immediately his legs gave way and he fell to the ground. Another disciple who was traveling with him quickly stepped forward and dragged him away without daring to breathe.

Seeing this, everyone thought the matter was over, so they gradually dispersed. Zhu Lingyun squeezed into the crowd at this time, and when he saw the crowd dispersed, he didn't know what to do, so he grabbed a disciple and asked what happened.

That disciple also just came in a few days ago, and he didn't know Zhu Lingyu yet, so he said casually: "Oh, it seems that two people are about to fight, Senior Brother Qi is trying to persuade them, but it's all right now."

When Zhu Lingyu heard that the matter had been resolved, she didn't care too much, thinking that it was just time for Qi Yu to accompany him to have a meal with his juniors, so she continued to walk against the flow of people, but as soon as she got to the front of the crowd, she saw Du Yuehua The hand that raised the fist just now suddenly turned around, grabbed Qi Zuo's front collar, and then slapped it on the chest.

"Brother!—"

The author says:

This is the end of the memoir