Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

The layout in the wing room was exactly the same as when Xie Xingzhou left for the meeting in the morning. Liu Shiqi's bundle was crooked at the end of the bed, stuffed aggrievedly, revealing a corner of his clothes.

The two people who had been kidnapped from the outskirts were put on the sleeping point, and they were lying aside at this time.In order to prevent them from opening their acupoints halfway and soberly eavesdropping on the conversation, Xie Xingzhou used some ecstasy in an extremely wicked way.

"No one came to look over it." Feng Tingyun sat at the table in the middle, kicked Xuanhuang by the way, turned his head and poured a cup of tea, "Even if Xixiushan took him away, it should be because of other things, Instead of discovering that he has something to do with us."

Xie Xingzhou continued: "Either he left in a hurry, and there was no time to find out who Xiao Shiqi came with, let alone find out his baggage... Or, the person who took him thought everything would be fine if he was captured. Zuo Nian did it, so what does he care most about has something to do with Xiao Shiqi?"

"Du Xindan! He wants it even in his dreams!" Feng Tingyun's eyes flashed, and he didn't care about half a sip of the tea, so he got up and went to dig through Liu Shiqi's baggage.

Several winter clothes were stacked neatly, and the texture was still brand new.After a little searching, Feng Tingyun found two almost identical white porcelain bottles from the thick cotton coat.

He opened the stopper and sniffed carefully. One of the bottles had a very familiar medicinal fragrance, which he personally formulated for Liu Shiqi to heal cold poison. As for the other bottle... Feng Tingyun looked at it through the narrow mouth of the bottle. After a glance, the middle pill was bright red, half of which hadn't faded due to the long time, and the smell was a bit strange, but it didn't match the appearance, and it wasn't pungent at all.

Feng Tingyun frowned, and couldn't smell the weirdness in it for a long while, only felt familiar, so he stretched out his hand to greet Xie Xingzhou: "Come on, what does it smell like, I always feel..."

"Musky smell, covered with a smell of blood." Xie Xingzhou took a breath, and after solving the puzzle, he heartlessly laughed at his senior brother, "Brother, what's the matter with you, you don't even feel like this?" Can't get out?"

Feng Tingyun's face was ugly, he didn't even refute Xie Xingzhou, and he never let go of his frown.

Ever since Liu Shiqiu handed over the Crossing Heart Pill to Yi Chunqiu, he never saw the rest.Liu Shiqi actually carried it with him all the time, was he afraid, or was he trying to prevent something...?

The two of them closed their mouths tacitly, each pondering whether Liu Shiqi brought Zuo Nianxiang's crazy things to the Central Plains in a bag, but never brought them with him, whether it was out of trust or for other reasons.

A crisp knock on the door broke the silence.

Feng Tingyun's eyelids lifted, and at the same time, Xie Xingzhou took out a short knife from his waist, carried it in his hand and walked towards the door, saying in a deep voice, "Who?"

The people outside the door did not speak, and the rhythm of knocking on the wood became more and more rapid.

Feng Tingyun made a gesture towards Xie Xingzhou. They have cooperated for many years. Xie Xingzhou nodded slightly, hid the blade inside his arm, and opened the door as if nothing had happened——

The girl in white has a cinnabar mark between her eyebrows that can be called a certain kind of mark.

"My name is Lingxi." The girl cut to the chase and sat down beside Feng Tingyun.

Her voice is thin and soft, she has the clarity of a girl, she has almond eyes and a cherry mouth, she is ordinary beautiful, but also ordinary plain, except for that bit of cinnabar, she hardly has any impressive features.But because of this, she became a special existence, and no one would remember when she disappeared quietly.

Feng Tingyun poured tea for her politely: "Are you a disciple on the twelfth floor?"

Lingxi nodded, covered the small teacup in his palm, sucked his nose lightly, and said: "My brother is Wendi, and he informed me before the talk meeting. If you see Liu Shiqi, you should keep an eye on him." Those who came together."

Xie Xingzhou was taken aback when he heard the words, and said with a wry smile: "I said earlier that this kid has a bit of artifice..."

Lingxi ignored his sarcasm and continued: "Senior brother Wen treats me with great kindness, so I naturally obey him. This move is not for surveillance, but for a help—this time senior brother Liu appeared for no reason, if the head of the sect Recognition can be very dangerous, so make sure you get in touch with someone who knew him."

"It sounds reasonable," Feng Tingyun said, "but your Senior Brother Liu had an accident seven years ago... Excuse me, but you were just a little girl at that time, right?"

Lingxi smiled slightly: "Brother, in Xixiu Mountain, ten years old is no longer an age to be self-willed. You need to serve tea and water for older brothers and sisters, and you have to practice basic skills against time, otherwise you will be beaten and scolded at every turn... There are too many precocious people on the twelfth floor, and I'm not one of them."

Thinking of Liu Shiqi, who was so amazing to see, and Wen Di, who was almost the same age as him but could almost dominate the overall situation, Xie Xingzhou felt a little ashamed for a rare moment in a century, and admitted the words of consonance against his conscience.

Lingxi: "In our place, if you fall behind a little bit, you will be abandoned, so everyone is exhausted and moving forward... To draw a long way, Brother Wen and Brother Liu were taken away by the head. The head knows everything about that year gone."

Then, without giving Feng Tingyun and Xie Xingzhou time to breathe, she quickly told everything that happened from Liu Shiqi's escape to when he met Wendi and what happened on the ring, spelling out the truth for them.

After the missing information was exchanged between the two parties, Xie Xingzhou slapped the table and startled Lingxi: "I just said, senior brother, do you still remember that time..."

"Then it seems that her child should be Wendi." Feng Tingyun pondered for a while, "But now is not the time to pursue that matter, we are very busy, the two here have not dealt with it, and there is another mess. Well, we can save Shiqi and Wendi first before they go far away—girl, do you have a solution?”

Lingxi blushed instantly, not knowing whether it was from shame or fright.She took a sip of tea to ease her emotions, and then slowly said: "Brother Wen said, if he has an accident, I will come to you... There is no need to rescue him, I will follow you."

Throwing away a big burden...

Xie Xingzhou didn't understand why he said "hmm", Feng Tingyun was calmer than him, showing no panic on the surface: "Why? Didn't you come to tip off the news?"

"No," Lingxi said firmly, "Brother Wen has lost power, then what I did is not far from the truth. If I continue to stay in Xixiu Mountain, I will only have a dead end. If I leave alone, and they want to investigate, I will not survive. ..."

Feng Tingyun: "Understood, Wendi wanted to leave a way out for you. When he saw someone beside Shiqi, he immediately thought of this. They were arrested and you stayed quietly—tsk, he It’s a good calculation.”

Probably hearing that the young man in front of him didn't want to help, Lingxi lowered his eyelashes and remained silent.

"Senior brother," Xie Xingzhou reminded, fearing that his senior brother would be soft-hearted towards the girl's family, "the teacher has training... You know, it's internal affairs. It's not good to bring a woman who you don't know to you on the road."

Feng Tingyun: "It's not just bad, it's simply against the rules."

Lingxi understood what he meant, and understood in his heart that the road that Wen Di had thought of at the moment was too risky, completely handing over the initiative to others, saying everything by himself, without leaving any bargaining chips.

So she stood up, not as stable as a 17-year-old girl, and bowed to the two of them in a polite manner: "I have no relatives and no reason at all. If you don't force the two elder brothers, I will leave now."

"Where can you go?" Feng Tingyun asked suddenly.

Lingxi had already opened half the door, turned her head and smiled softly: "The two are the escape routes left for me by the senior brother, but I also left one for myself."

"The little bitch Lingxi is missing!"

Song Min'er suddenly pushed open the closed door, her face was full of anger, and at the table in the room, Wen Di's ankle was locked to the pillar, standing calmly making tea .

She suppressed her gaffe and kept a trace of face: "Consonance is gone, did you let her run away?"

"Senior Sister, have you lost your senses?" Wen Di calmly covered the lid of the tea and put it back on the table, "If she wanted to run, she must have left halfway, since I was tied into the carriage by you, The panting was heard clearly, so there is no time to explain to her. Even if she listened to me, she would still be mine—we are very innocent."

Song Min'er's heart sank, and she said calmly: "Stop playing tricks on me, Wendi, you are calling the sky and the earth is not working. At this juncture, why did Lingxi betray you?"

There was a glimmer of light in Wen Di's eyes, and then he smiled indifferently: "Who knows. She stole your knife, and now there is nothing to eat, so why not run away in the chaos. Sister, you think of people just as emotionally as yourself. "

He focused on the latter sentence, but the other party was keenly aware of the message that Wen Di inadvertently brought out.

"She stole my knife?" Song Min'er asked suspiciously, "Didn't you two discuss it?"

Wendi seemed to have heard some joke, and her expression was very complicated: "Senior sister, Lingxi is a big girl, and she doesn't have to report to me about everything. Back then, you were a partner in bullying others, and she was not allowed to take revenge? She took advantage of you not paying attention, and took the knife Take it away and throw it into the wilderness, I want you to be punished, but I didn't expect that I would protect it..."

Song Min'er: "Are you protecting me?"

"It's not good for you to annoy Master, otherwise who will block the knife for me in the future?" Wendi bent the corners of his eyes meaningfully.He is actually no worse than anyone else in appearance, as long as he is not deliberately indifferent, he can't help but show a little affection. Song Miner couldn't bear this look the most, so she gave him a hard look, turned around and closed the door with a "bang" .

Naturally, she never saw it, and the moment she turned around, Wendi's gaze returned to its usual calmness.

After the pot of tea was brewed, Wen Di poured it into a small teacup, sniffed the aroma, and took a sip quite complacently, not caring that he was still wearing a sinful body.

He wondered how Song Min'er got to her current position. She was like a painting of beauties, which could be admired on the wall, but she didn't have any brains, so she just made up some random words and dismissed her.But that's fine too, so he won't have to try his best to get those shit back - the benefits of being stupid, such as being particularly easy to deal with.

Those words also deceived Song Min'er, he should be glad that it wasn't Yu Zheng who came back this time.

Wen Di took a few sips of the hot tea and put it aside in disgust.The nearest stool was also out of his reach, Wendi rolled his eyes, leaned against the pillar, and closed his eyes slightly.

Lingxi should have successfully escaped from their control. Zuo Nian was blindly confident in this regard, thinking that he had killed Liu Shiqi to make an example to others, and no one would dare to run away.

What's more, Lingxi didn't smuggle Xindan, who would care about a little girl who is usually inconspicuous?

According to his thinking, it would be better for the group with Liu Shiqi to take Lingxi in. Naturally, everyone will be happy. They still have the heart to rescue them, and they should be able to escape by themselves before returning to Xixiu Mountain.worse...

It is reasonable for Lingxi to betray her, but what if she dies?

Wendi shuddered, and suddenly opened his eyes.He wandered around the narrow room, traveling day and night for a few days, they probably have already passed Taiyuan.

From entering this inn, Liu Shiqi was taken away by two disciples of Xixiu Mountain.They didn't have enough manpower, and they didn't leave any guards outside. It was not a difficult task for Wendi to pick the lock and escape, but Zuo Nian is now focusing on Liu Shiqi. Once he leaves, Liu Shiqi will be really isolated. There is no help.

Reminiscing about the past in detail, Wendi suddenly remembered a name Lingxi had mentioned—to be exact, it was a faction, people in the world called "two pavilions and one floor", one was Miaoyin Pavilion where Chu Henshui was in power, and the other was Miaoyin Pavilion. then...

After thinking for a while, he raised his hand and drew a mark like a knife on the pillar.

Song Min'er originally wanted to trouble Wendi, but in the end she was so angry that she was almost out of breath, her heart was terribly aggrieved, and when she went downstairs, she was bumped again, and her anger poured out immediately.

She almost snarled at the man: "Do you have eyes when you walk?! Why don't you hurry up and apologize for bumping into someone!"

Being used to being domineering, Song Min'er forgot that this was not the base camp of Xixiu Mountain where she could be domineering. Seeing that the girl who bumped into her was an indifferent girl, she immediately raised her hand and pushed her hard.

But he didn't want the girl to resist instinctively when her fingers were about to touch her, and then used her inertia to push against Song Min'er, staggering a few steps down again out of balance.

Song Min'er was furious. She clasped the knife at her waist with one hand, and was about to compete with others. The door of the wing room in the corner of the second floor suddenly opened, and Zuo Nian came out cursing. Not pleasing to the eye, he abandoned all demeanor, and said angrily to Song Min'er: "Are you still educated? Go and bring me Liu Miansheng!"

She had never seen such a moment of gaffe in Zuo Nian, she quickly put away the knife, turned around and left without saying a word.

The girl who was angered by Song Min'er for no reason pursed her lips and didn't take it to heart. She smiled gratefully at Zuo Nian, then walked into her room in a flash.

Zuo Nian sighed, normally, he would have apologized to the girl instead of his disciple.But right now, he is completely filled with Liu Shiqi and Du Xindan. When he thinks of the unfinished "Heaven and Earth live together", he can't control his temper, and he can't correct himself in time when he notices something wrong, and he can't care about anything else. .

Although Song Min'er was aggressive, she was still very reliable in her work. Not long after, she dragged Liu Shiqi up the stairs with one hand, and pushed him into the left wing, while she guarded the outside.

At this time, when the inn was the busiest time of the day, fish and dragons came and went everywhere, and the angry shouts from the corner rooms were drowned in the roaring noise.

"Du Xindan isn't on you?! Liu Miansheng, are you kidding me?" Zuo Nian almost laughed angrily, "Then where did you put it?"

And the young man opposite him was neither humble nor overbearing, straightened his back, looked at his expression as if he was a joke: "Throw it away."

The two words were so light that they could hardly be heard, but Zuo Nian was shocked and stood up in disbelief.His voice was very low, which was completely a precursor to boiling: "Say it again."

Liu Shiqi lowered his eyelashes, and his attitude was indifferent, as if what he was talking about was something dispensable: "I'm running for my life, and that thing will kill me, so I might as well throw it away."

"But it still protects your life!" Zuo Nian said roughly, "Without Du Xin Dan, do you think I dare not kill you?"

Liu Shiqi seemed to be amused by his outburst, and smiled, pursing his lips: "So you and I are betting, aren't you? You bet that I didn't throw away Du Xindan, and I'm testing whether you still have the heart."

Zuo Nian suddenly became speechless.

Liu Shiqi: "Master—I haven't called you that in seven years, this is the last time—you and I know why I left Xixiu Mountain back then. Although I owe you a lot, I can't do anything against my conscience. Didn't see either."

Zuo Nian narrowed his eyes: "Are you complaining about Ding You? Ah Mian, she doesn't deserve this. If you obediently tell me where Du Xindan is today, I can forget the past few years."

"Really?" Liu Shiqi said expressionlessly, "Before Song Min'er lit the sand, Senior Sister Ding was a senior senior sister who was respected and trusted by everyone in the school. What mistake could she make to make you so angry? To drink its blood—"

Every time he said a word, Zuo Nian's face became more and more serious. As soon as he finished speaking, the man slapped the table with his big palm, which instantly shattered a corner: "Liu Miansheng! You don't need to teach me!"

Liu Shiqi took a deep breath, and a trace of blood appeared in his eyes.

Zuo Nian: "Both your parents died when you were four years old. I was the one who fished you out of the dry well in Chang'an, gave you a name, took you all the way back to Ningzhou, put you under my knees, and raised you as my own son... ...you ran away indiscriminately because of Ding You? Now even I don't believe it...Okay, Liu Miansheng, you are fine."

As soon as he said it, Liu Shiqi suspected for a moment that he was really unrighteous, but he clenched his hands tightly and looked directly at Zuo Nian's increasingly sinister eyes:

"The master I respect is not like this now. The person who was able to hold my hand and teach how to write in those days was determined not to carelessly disregard people's lives without a result for his own selfish desires, let alone fight against others after many years See you, lock me up just to torture Du Xindan's whereabouts—if you really have a clear conscience, you don't need that poison|drug at all!"

His tone of voice in the second half of the sentence couldn't help but rise, Zuo Nian was taken aback, stepped forward and grabbed Liu Shiqi's collar fiercely: "How did you know, who told you? Hearing the flute?!"

Liu Shiqi taunted: "Left sect master, the horse's feet are finally exposed."

Zuo Nian tightened his fingers, and finally suppressed the murderous thoughts surging up by him.He let go of Liu Shiqi, and said in a cold voice: "It seems that I haven't seen you for a few years, and I really should look at you with admiration... Min'er, take him down and take care of him. He is not allowed to have any contact with Wendi until he returns to Xixiu Mountain."

He opened the door as he spoke, and Song Min'er entered in response, holding Liu Shiqi's arm without saying a word.

Going down the stairs to the wing where Liu Shiqi was imprisoned, Liu Shiqi saw Song Min'er's serious face, and said softly, "Senior Sister...you heard it just now, right? You also know Senior Sister Ding You, I remember how she treated you back then." very good--"

Song Min'er scolded: "It has nothing to do with you, shut up, shut up!"

Liu Shiqi withdrew her gaze in silence, turned her head, but slightly raised the corners of her lips where she couldn't see.

Naturally, he doesn't know these strategies and trade-offs, it's just what Wendi taught him before.Zuo Nian was most afraid of losing people's hearts and losing face. Now that he has come to his senses, he is afraid that on the one hand, he will desperately try to find a place with Xi Lanyu, and on the other hand, he needs the support of his disciples.They left inexplicably, and many people didn't understand what it meant, let alone what Liu Shiqi had done.

The same was true for Song Min'er, she might eavesdrop when Zuo Nian was alone with Liu Shiqi, at this time it was time to reveal some of the suspicious things back then, let her listen to it first, regardless of whether it was the truth or not.

"In this way," Wen Di's hands were tied, but his expression was calm, quite complacent, "not only does she have much less time to find trouble with us, she might even check Zuo Nian herself."

"Brother Dee is really good at predicting things." Liu Shiqi thought to himself, feeling that the hand that was clamping his arm was gradually relaxing, and he was surprised to feel a little bit confused from it.

He was pushed into the room, and seeing Song Min'er hesitantly about to close the door, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said abruptly, "Senior Sister! While I'm not here, are there any disciples who died inexplicably on the twelfth floor?"

Song Min'er's movement was delayed for a moment, but she didn't answer, and just slammed the door shut.

Not long after Song Min'er left Liu Shiqi's room and went downstairs, a figure flashed from the end of the corridor.If she was still there, she should be the first to recognize the girl who bumped into her just now.

The girl was born like a lady, but at this moment she tiptoed through the corridor and walked to the backyard of the inn.

She reached into a pigeon cage hidden behind the stable, took out a carrier pigeon, and untied a small bamboo tube from her waist, and tied it to the carrier pigeon's leg in twos and outs.

Then, she patted the pigeon's wings and said in a low voice, "Go to the Green Mountain Pavilion and deliver the letter to Mrs. Li."

The carrier pigeon made a cooing sound as if it understood human speech, and fluttered away.

The next day, the group on the [-]th floor set off again, Zuo Nian was very anxious, wishing he could go faster and faster, he couldn't say what to do with arresting Liu Shiqi, but he persisted in thinking that it seemed that he could control the overall situation, and Liu Shiqi would stop being stubborn.Traveling day and night, they returned to Xixiu Mountain in just over a month.

In Lidong, the first heavy snow fell in Ningzhou, and Xixiu Mountain stood in the yellow clouds and white snow, like a beautiful nightmare.