Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

Just two or three days after August [-]th, the full moon has already revealed some flaws, and the outline given by time has passed much faster than expected.

A few old locust trees dutifully stand by the side of the path outside Linzi City, the leaves are still dense, and together with the overwhelming night, they create a vastness that can't be seen.

A deep yellow shadow wearing the stars and wearing the moon, hurried past under the locust tree, and behind him, something broke the silence maintained by the darkness, the faint moonlight and the shadow of the whirling tree——

"Ah!" The shadow in front let out a quick scream, and the next moment he fell heavily on the ground. It didn't hurt very much when he fell on the mud covered with weeds. He tried to get up with his arms, but Suddenly his hand was stepped on.

The black boots crushed mercilessly, and the man's screams turned into screams, and the sound almost tore through the night.

The bamboo hat was pulled back, revealing a pair of warm peach blossom eyes, Xie Xingzhou looked down at him, and raised the corner of his lips for a while: "What are you shouting, I haven't used my strength yet. I forgot that I was beaten all over the floor by Brother Yun When? Leaving Wangyue Island, what is the difference between you and a waste—Xuan Huang."

The person lying on the ground was trampled on one hand by him, unable to struggle, but still stubbornly raised his head and looked directly at Xie Xingzhou, showing a ferocious smile: "You don't need to worry about it!"

Xie Xingzhou bent his eyes: "I don't have time to worry about you. I finally caught your fox's tail. If I have something to say, I'll ask it directly. Where are the people from Sheng Tianya? Are you the ones who spread the news about the change of stars in Lanling?"

Xuan Huang felt that the bones in his hand might be broken, his lips were drawn into a line, his eyes were like knives looking at Xie Xingzhou, and he made up his mind not to say a word.

"You are eager to protect the Lord. I didn't expect to find out anything." Xie Xingzhou slowly took out a small bottle from his waist, wiped off the dust that didn't exist, and said carefully, "It's just that everyone is in the same family anyway. , whether you like to hear some words or not, I still have to say—”

Xuanhuang turned his head indifferently, feeling that Xie Xingzhou's next words would not be too pleasant.

Xie Xingzhou said: "Sheng Tianya sneaked away with the cheat book, and even took you and Gong Qianying away, which is already a mistake. Spreading the word 'Watching the Moon' in Lanling City is another taboo in our sect. This is bone erosion San, even if I clean up the house now, that's what I should do. Since we all practice martial arts together since childhood, I will let you go, as long as you tell me..."

He couldn't continue, because he saw Xuanhuang's eyes move slightly, Xie Xingzhou frowned slightly, and cut off the conversation by himself: "...What are you laughing at?"

The corners of Xuanhuang's lips that had just been pursed into a line rose up very happily, as if he suddenly discovered something interesting, he tilted his head towards Xie Xingzhou.Although he was still lying on the ground, his expression was not so flustered, his eyes were fixed on the ground, as if he could cut Xie Xingzhou into pieces: "Brother, you are careless."

Xie Xingzhou suddenly let go of the foot that was stepping on him, and looked around in disbelief. The darkness of the night did not change, but in the next second, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind him!

Xie Xingzhou managed to dodge the moment when the short dagger stabbed, and at the same time he heard Xuanhuang Yexiao's laughter: "Haha... Xie Xingzhou, do you really think that I came here alone and let you slaughter me without bargaining chips?"

He hid aside while clutching his broken wrist, and used the night as a cover to hide his figure in an instant.

"Bastard!" Xie Xingzhou cursed, and just about to chase after him, a sharp knife sticks out from the slanting stab, coming towards his eyes.

After tossing and turning to avoid the short dagger, Xie Xingzhou had no choice but to pull out the judge pen, and struck the two weapons in mid-air, as if the sound of iron scraping across the rusty bottom of the pot pierced the ears of the three present in an instant.Xie Xingzhou took advantage of the cold moonlight to see the person who was looking at him only through a weapon——

Thin lips hooked slightly, eyes full of spring, a short dagger was held in his left hand, and a long whip was pinned to his waist.

He almost bit the tip of his tongue bleeding: "Gong Qianying."

"Xing Zhou, are you safe?"

The handsome young man scribbled a greeting, smiled at him with a bit of evil spirit, then withdrew his weapon, and with the strength of being pushed out by Xie Xingzhou, he took a few steps back lightly, standing next to the old locust tree. Hold on to the tree trunk.

The leaf was rustled by his movements, but those who didn't know it would think it was just the north wind crying.

Xie Xingzhou felt that his reason seemed to be swallowed up by hatred, he insisted on chasing after him, but Gong Qianying took the initiative to rush towards him.Seeing the tricks, he was red-eyed for a moment, just wanted to hold the person in front of him under his feet, and for a moment suddenly forgot about Xuanhuang who was injured and wanted to slip away.

Two people with similar ages and similar personalities worshiped different masters by mistake.It was supposed to be a pair of close friends, but later because he "accidentally" broke through Gong Qianying's Qi Nian, they fell apart——

Xie Xingzhou closed his eyes forcefully, buckled down the grip with his index finger, stretched out the poisoned fangs on the judge's pen, and struck Gong Qianying mercilessly.

With a "stab" sound, Gong Qianying's originally neat sleeve was cut off in half by him, and she easily dodged Xie Xingzhou's increasingly fierce attack, and even took the air conditioner to laugh: "Broken sleeve, it's so cruel, and it's because of Brother Yun's matter." Remember my revenge?"

"You deserve to mention him too!"

Xie Xingzhou was furious, and he raised his left hand, and the fine silver light scattered flowers like a goddess. Gong Qianying raised his brows high, and went to catch them with empty palms—it seemed that his hands immediately surged with true energy, and his wide sleeves bulged He got up, waved and retracted, not even half of that hidden weapon came close to his body!

It turns out that we have been separated for a long time, and we are not standing still.Xie Xingzhou's heart sank immediately.

He didn't dare to act recklessly, but Gong Qianying suddenly laughed out loud: "I also said that you only talked about it, so you really cared about him? Xie Xingzhou, I asked myself, I really admired him from the beginning to the end... But what about you?" , how old were you then, fourteen or fifteen? Do you know what love is?"

Xie Xingzhou frowned suspiciously, and thought to himself: "Although this Guisun talks a lot on weekdays, he uses it wisely. Why can't he keep his mouth shut today? Old things can certainly shake the mind, but..."

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and glanced behind Gong Qianying, and understood the other party's intentions.

Fighting with himself is inseparable, they are equal, they can't tell the difference in a short time, and it is difficult to take the other's life.So Gong Qianying led him all the way to the side of the locust tree, and behind him...gave a space for Xuanhuang!

"You fart!"

Xie Xingzhou interrupted Gong Qianying's tirade neatly, without even the slightest intention of entangled with this person, after a feint, he chased after Xuanhuang with a strong purpose.

Two against one, even if Xuanhuang was injured, Xie Xingzhou was still weak, now Xuanhuang would definitely run to their hiding place, he chased them all the way, risked his life, at least he had to know whether that person was in Linzi or not.Otherwise, when I came to the Central Plains this time, I clearly met someone but returned without success. How can there be such a reason?

It's been too long, Yi Chunqiu is still waiting for news from them.

They don't even know if the stolen "Book of Biluotian" is still alive.

Xie Xingzhou lifted his breath, and when he heard Gong Qianying catching up behind him, he still stared at Xuanhuang without hesitation, thinking that he would win one no matter what.

After being chased by him for a long time, he was pressed to the ground and crushed the bones of his hand. Xuanhuang's martial arts had already been learned very poorly, but now he was in a mess, stumbled and almost couldn't run anymore.Fortunately, Xie Xingzhou had to parry Gong Qianying who was behind him from time to time. He looked back and shouted: "Brother, stop him!"

"You go first!" Gong Qianying said, put away all the ridicule and nonsense, and drew out the long whip neatly.

The soft whip wrapped around him like a snake, Xie Xingzhou was caught off guard, his ankle was pulled, he forcibly stopped on the spot, turned around and slapped Gong Qianying with his palm——

The ankle suddenly seemed to be torn, and a piece of flesh was hooked off by the barbs on the whip.Xie Xingzhou let out a cry of pain, and when he looked over again, there was only the man's mocking smile in his eyes.

"Don't forget it?" The thought flashed, and his throat felt as if it was burning.

As long as he doesn't touch himself, Xie Xingzhou doesn't have to care about hatred and grievances, but only... only the scene he saw when he was 15 years old, no matter how many years have passed, he can't let it go.

Among the few brothers of the same sect, Xuanhuang has the worst mouth, and he always likes to spread rumors about the master and the west. Unfortunately, Wangyue Island is too small and the population is limited, which is not enough for him to use his expertise, so he has to intensify his efforts to spy everywhere.

That evening the sun had just set into the skyline, and he ran over in a dark manner, and told him a shocking secret:

"Xing Zhou, do you know? Brother Gong just drank a glass of wine for Feng Tingyun, and then hugged him to his room... Xing Zhou, I heard from my master that Brother Gong has always fallen in love with him. If they are good Come on, after that..."

Xie Xingzhou didn't finish listening to the second half of the sentence, and his intuition was not as simple as "it's good", he dropped Xuanhuang, walked through the twists and turns of the woods, and ran to Gong Qianying's room - his eyelids kept twitching, always feeling that something was going to happen.

As soon as he approached the room, he saw Gong Qianying escaped in a panic, as if he was frightened, the neat clothes were only half worn, and there were a few long sword scratches on them.After meeting Xie Xingzhou face to face, he walked away angrily without saying a word.

With apprehension and the joy of piercing a secret, he pushed open the door——

Brother Gong, who had been carefully maintained by them for a long time, suddenly collapsed.

There was only Feng Tingyun in the room, leaning on the side of the couch with his eyes closed.The normally upright hypocrite's skin seemed to be peeling off along with his outer shirt. Feng Tingyun propped his elbows on the ground, his exposed arm was covered with bruises, and his lips were cracked with dried blood.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, he woke up suddenly, raised his hand and grabbed Xie Xingzhou passing by him, with wet eyes, he faintly called his name.

Even if Xie Xingzhou is indifferent, he can piece together a frightening truth from these bits and pieces: Gong Qianying's love is true, and her coercion is also true, but he never expected that Feng Tingyun could get himself into trouble after being drugged. hurt!

That medicine was what Gong Qianying said from her... almost hurt her most respected senior brother.

Not long afterward, Sheng Tianya fled and took Gong Qianying away.

When Xuanhuang turned around, seeing Gong Qianying dragging Xie Xingzhou to the spot again, he immediately relaxed a lot.He was followed by Xie Xingzhou when he just came out of the meeting place, and he chased him out of the city fast and slowly. The man was like a beast that never gets tired, but he was really about to lose his strength. If Gong Qianying hadn't arrived suddenly, he would have been caught Xie Xingzhou...

There seemed to be something wrong with it, Xuanhuang exhausted his limited energy to think, and his steps slowed down for a while.

Xie Xingzhou came with that junior brother they didn't know, he came out to chase him, and the other person didn't show up from the beginning to the end, very unlike Wangyue Island's style.

Besides, they already got the conclusive news that the "Bi Luo Tian Shu" needed this time is at Sheng Tianya's place, and Sheng Tianya might appear in Linzi, why would Yi Chunqiu not let her most important disciple come out?

Xuanhuang didn't think that Yi Chunqiu wanted to "avoid suspicion", fearing that Feng Tingyun would be embarrassed if he saw Gong Qianying.

He suddenly thought of the person he had been leaving behind, and the goosebumps on his back were blown alive by the night wind.And at this moment, the sound of close combat not far behind him stopped for a moment——

The hem of the clothes embroidered with landscape brushed over the top of the locust tree, and then the figure came straight towards Xuanhuang.

He stood there unable to move.

The sharp long sword brushed against his sideburns and pulled off his crown of hair. Xuanhuang was covered with troubles, and regained his senses in panic.The cold blade rests on the side of the neck, and the person holding the sword is dressed in plain clothes and has a distant expression.

"Brother Yun." Xuanhuang murmured.

"Master!"

The voice of Xie Xingzhou in the distance was full of surprises, Gong Qianying in front of him seemed to be disturbed by Feng Tingyun who did not know when to follow, and staggered, Xie Xingzhou immediately seized the opportunity.The iron painted silver hook suddenly picked up the man's short dagger, and then he took Gong Qianying's long whip and put it in his waist.

The situation was suddenly reversed, Xie Xingzhou let out a sigh of relief, and found that his ankle injury was painfully blown by the wind.

Feng Tingyun tapped Xuanhuang's acupoints, in order to prevent this person from biting his tongue and committing suicide—even though he felt that Xuanhuang should not have such integrity—he loosened his tendons, then lifted Xuanhuang's back of the neck, and dragged him to Gong Qianying. before.

An accident before the hasty parting had cast an indissoluble shadow between them. Feng Tingyun was not a 19-year-old boy who could be fooled around with a glass of wine at this time.

He only gave Gong Qianying a stingy look, then raised his free hand, caressed Xie Xingzhou's broken forehead, frowned and said: "The teacher is from the same school, winning is so ugly, thanks to you, you still come to me every day to learn from each other!"

Xie Xingzhou accepted the curse willingly, and complained: "I was venting my anger on you. This person bullied you at the time, and now he has his revenge. Brother, you can use it for fun."

He thought that bringing up old things would annoy him, but Gong Qianying looked at him eagerly for a while, Feng Tingyun just said "hmm" expressionlessly, and then threw Xuanhuang to Xie Xingzhou, as if he was about to leave - as if he would not let him go In his heart, he never cared about the bastard thing he attempted that year, which could be called humiliation.

"Listen to the cloud!" Gong Qianying shouted angrily.

Hearing this, Feng Tingyun stopped in his tracks, turned his head in doubt, with a little water in his eyes, and said softly, "You are?"

Xie Xingzhou came forward like a wolf with a big tail, and tidied up the mess without hesitation. From nowhere, he conjured up a rope to tie the two of them together. He held the end of the rope in his hand, like leading a dog.With one hand on his hip, he instantly had a backer, and he spoke confidently:

"What my senior brother means is that the past is over, and he can't remember any of you little heartless people who betrayed the master. As for personal grievances, you think too much, and he doesn't take it to heart at all."

Gong Qianying remained silent, staring at Feng Tingyun persistently, trying in vain to see some emotional fluctuations from his plain profile.

After a long time, Feng Tingyun fluctuated as he wished, but couldn't help laughing: "You are the only one who is poor. Take him back to the place where he lives and see if Xiao Shiqi is back."

Xie Xingzhou said "Hey", followed by hopping on one foot, coquettishly: "Brother, my ankle hurts..."

Feng Tingyun half-truthfully slapped him on the back of the head, and his words were as soft as Xi Chuang whispered: "Don't make trouble, you're so grown up, please bear with me, I bought you a pack of sweet-scented osmanthus candies when I came here."

It made Gong Qianying very uncomfortable to hear it.

He met Feng Tingyun on Wangyue Island, and the two of them, together with Xie Xingzhou, were just carrots.

The young man who has just escaped from the life of eating the last meal but not the next meal, is full of curiosity about everything in front of him, especially his elder brother who is like a snow dumpling and is one or two years older than himself.Feng Tingyun is very good at taking care of others, he was taught by Yi Chunqiu to be gentle and gentle, and when he turned his back and was full of bad taste, he urged the careless Xie Xingzhou to make trouble.

One time, they made trouble on the head of the senior who lived in seclusion. In his rage, the two of them could not help but beat them up. They walked away wisely, but met Gong Qianying on the way.

Compared to Xie Xingzhou, whose brain was not yet fully developed and whose emotions were written all over his face, Feng Tingyun didn't see any abnormalities even if he was punished. He even gave him half a bag of cakes made of sweet-scented osmanthus honey, so that he would come to him often Play.

Sheng Tianya was cold-hearted, and the teaching disciple also showed a bitter face. Those sweet cakes, together with Feng Tingyun's occasional care, became Gong Qianying's greatest comfort in her lonely years.

They kept clogging his chest, fermenting and swelling, until one midnight dream, he woke up from the darkness, and suddenly realized why he was obsessed with Feng Tingyun.

He had nothing to say, and he didn't know what the consequences of this matter would be. When he couldn't take it anymore, he told Sheng Tianya directly.

The man who didn't have a smiling face all the year round showed a teasing expression, and told him in a low voice: "As long as you drink a glass of wine and turn him into your person, then what's the trouble?"

At the age of seventeen, Gong Qianying's blood was surging, and together with his youthful love that was desperate to vent, it exploded with earth-shattering vigor.There was no time to think about other things, he persisted in thinking that this was the "teaching" given to him by his master, and there was nothing abnormal. He got some "medicine" from Xie Xingzhou who was never on guard, and then asked Feng Tingyun to drink...

Recalling that the cable was disconnected here, Gong Qianying closed her eyes forcefully, only to realize that she had a splitting headache.

Night Breeze already had the chill from the north, and the cheerful voice of Xie Xingzhou in front of him brought him back to reality:

"The inn is just ahead, and we'll be there soon—brother, didn't you go to Ziyang Temple? Why did you come so fast? What did Taoist Master Shishan say?"

"On the way there, I heard about the extermination case of the Huashan School." Feng Tingyun whispered softly, tilting his head and glanced at Xuanhuang intentionally or unintentionally, "I always feel that there are too many strange things in it, and it involves twelve Lou, worried that Xiao Shiqi would be impulsive, so he changed horses and ran over."

Xie Xingzhou smiled, his tone was still cheerful, but his words were not very easy: "So, I thought it was because you had a telepathy with someone, and you want to play 'Unforgettable Old Love'."

Gong Qianying withdrew her gaze and looked directly at Xie Xingzhou's back, suppressing his voice and said, "Xie Xingzhou, what do you mean?"

But Xie Xingzhou didn't turn his head back at all, he pulled the rope between his hands forward, Xuanhuang immediately staggered along with that force, like a fish in a pond caught on fire at the city gate, really wronged.

Conscience of heaven and earth, he has never been involved in the mess of the senior brothers from the beginning to the end!

Feng Tingyun didn't seem to see the past very well, everyone came from the same school, and even if they haven't seen each other for several years, they have to save some face.He expected that what he wanted was not on these two people, so he raised his hand to stop Zhi Xingzhou's unfinished anger: "That's enough, let's go to the inn in a while and get some wound medicine for Xuanhuang...don't be so ugly."

"That's right," Gong Qianying answered appropriately, "From the beginning to the end, it was a misunderstanding between Master and Uncle Yi. Don't we disciples have to be ordered around?"

Xie Xingzhou snorted immediately: "It wasn't you who killed me just now?"

Feng Tingyun rubbed his forehead, he always felt that this "reunion after a long absence" was not quite what he expected - not awkward, but not very gentle, both sides had a knife hidden, and they would go to each other whenever they seized the space. The important greetings on the other side are similar to those in the past, showing a very ironic familiarity.

It is common to say that things are right and people are wrong...

But now people can still catch the shadows of the past, but the "things" don't know where they went.

Feng Tingyun casually grabbed the small wine jug on his waist and took a sip. The spicy wine slid down his throat and burned all the way to his stomach. It could refresh him briefly and pull him out of the romantic memories.

Before the night market left on the street, before the flags died down, Feng Tingyun buckled the rope behind Gong Qianying's back with one hand. It looked as if they were just young masters who had a good relationship, but the other party couldn't break free.

"Let's be honest," Feng Tingyun lowered his eyelids, and there was still a faint smell of alcohol in his breath, "He hasn't understood the "Book of the Blue Sky", right?"

Gong Qianying's throat moved, and the smile on her face seemed to grow in her bones: "He won't tell me these things, but Brother Yun, I'll go through fire and water to find out for you, as long as you..."

Feng Tingyun interrupted him expressionlessly, his darker-colored pupils were darker than ordinary people's eyes, and said, "I eat lightly, and I can't bear such a fancy person as Junior Brother Gong, so you should save your tongue."

After a moment of silence, Gong Qianying lowered her voice and said without beginning or end: "If I apologize, will you forgive me?"

Feng Tingyun said without any hesitation: "Impossible."

Xuanhuang, who studied the mud under his feet carefully, listened to these conversations completely, his toothache was terribly painful, and he secretly slandered Gong Qianying for losing such a big face, so don't think about killing himself later when he thinks about it——

In the process of dispatching them in a mess, Xie Xingzhou, who was going to the inn to inquire about the situation in the distance, ran to them a few steps with a burden on his back, his face scratching his head in despair, his handsome features twisted into a ball.

Feng Tingyun: "What's wrong?"

"Little Seventeen didn't come back!" Xie Xingzhou's anxiety was about to overflow the nine heavens, and he said like a cannonball, "I turned over his baggage, the naughty little second in the inn said that he seemed to be taken away by Xixiushan !"

The author has something to say:

This cannon fodder emotional scene is over, the elder brother is sacred and inviolable (pushed my Tyrannosaurus glasses