Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

The twelfth floor is located in a valley in Xixiu Mountain, where the winter is warmer than the outside world. What flows through it is not an unknown stream, but another branch of Xiushui, named "Yuexi".Yuexi is not frozen all year round, and it is an independent warm current in the winter of Xixiu Mountain.And the twelfth floor is hidden in the mountains, behind the frost, snow, fog and rain, as if it is naturally isolated from the south of the Yangtze River.

Liu Shiqi grew up here since he was a child, seeing the old scenery, he felt unspeakably restless.

He never thought that revisiting the old place would come so soon.

After entering Xixiu Mountain, you need to abandon your horse and walk, and you have to pass a waterfall to reach the [-]th floor.At this time of Lidong, the water of the waterfall is almost dry, and the white clothes standing silently by the stream are particularly eye-catching—you can’t see his eyebrows and eyes clearly from a distance, but you can still feel his coldness that rejects people thousands of miles away.

Zuo Nian and his group approached closer, Liu Shiqi didn't need them to say hello, and suddenly recognized the young man's identity.He frowned in disbelief, turned his head to look at Wendi next to him, and winked, "Yu Zheng?"

Wendi nodded as usual, and mouthed to Liu Shiqi: "I almost didn't recognize him?" Then he was pushed on the back by the guarding disciple, and turned his head again with a wry smile.

While they were "talking", the man came forward to greet him, and saluted to the left: "Master."

Zuo Nian hummed lightly as a response, and immediately passed Yu Zheng and walked in front.The man's expression didn't change at all, he turned sideways to get out of the way, so that Song Min'er and others could follow Zuo Nian forward.

He gave in together, and when he was about to step forward, he turned around and saw Wen Di and Liu Miansheng.

From his fleeting doubts, Wen Di suddenly understood something: this time they returned home too suddenly, Yu Zheng probably thought that Zuo Nian was asking him to ask him for a crime, and he didn't know that Wen Di had committed a crime.

So he smiled politely at Yu Zheng: "Elder brother, don't you come here unharmed?"

"It's okay." Yu Zheng nodded hesitantly. When he saw Mo Ci, a gentle smile appeared on his indifferent expression that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, and he waved to Mo Ci.

The boy who was at the end of the line hurried over, grabbed Yu Zheng's sleeve and followed him.

Liu Shiqi couldn't accept all of this—in his last memory, Yu Zheng was the elder brother who dragged Wendi out of the stream and then slapped him involuntarily. He frowned tightly, as if seeing no one was pleasing to his eyes, he stayed three feet away from the crowd all day long, how could he allow others to get close to him!

Is it because you stand at [-] that you are more calm and sensible?

Liu Shiqi counted with his fingers, but couldn't figure it out more and more.

He turned his head to look at Wen Di, and the other party understood his eyes, and just curled his lips helplessly, implying that this matter is a long story for a child to have no mother, and he must not be allowed to talk nonsense here under the current situation.

A little snow fell on the tip of Liu Shiqi's nose, he sneezed, and finally regained a little familiarity.

After walking for about a cup of tea, the dead branches on both sides gradually showed signs of new green, and a weeping willow was blown away, and the building on the [-]th floor, which looks like Jiangnan, came into view.

The martial arts arena has been reorganized, and there is no need to crowd in the courtyard as before when practicing martial arts.The venue moved from the foot of the back mountain to the open space just after entering the door. There were many wooden stakes and weapon racks one person tall beside them, and the silvery lancets were neatly arranged.In the martial arts arena, a group of young disciples in their early teens are practicing martial arts with their teachers.

Before Liu Shiqi could see what was going on, Zuo Nian waved his hand, and the two disciples who followed them all the way back from Linzi grabbed Wendi and Liu Shiqi one after the other, and pushed them to the punishment place. In the doorman's cage.

Fortunately, there were not many people who committed crimes on the twelfth floor. Some of the cages were in disrepair. Wendi and Liu Shiqi were reluctantly stuffed into the newest and most complete one.Three locks were added to the door in an instant, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and slipped away as quickly as they had completed their mission, not wanting to stay here for a long time.

This is the coldest place on the twelfth floor. Liu Shiqi hit a Shaoyang talisman from Zuo Nian, and he often had seizures along the way, and he gritted his teeth every time and carried it over.But as soon as Fang entered this place, he obviously felt something was wrong.

For the convenience of monitoring, their hands were still tied together, but the shackles on their feet were untied.Wendi saw that his complexion was different, and beads of sweat were constantly oozing from his forehead, so he called softly: "Seventeen, are you okay?"

"It's a bit uncomfortable." Liu Shiqi told the truth, after observing Wendi, he asked again, "Why do you seem to be fine?"

Wen Di: "It's a heaven and earth exercise. This internal energy is based on yin, and the winter in Xixiu Mountain is extremely long, so it is adapted to local conditions. If you practice this method, once you reach the sixth floor, you will be able to endure the cold more than ordinary people. You don't know a little internal energy these years." Didn't learn it? See if you can still block Xi Lanyu's sword..."

Liu Shiqi shook his head and said, "I've learned a little bit, but the Shaoyang Talisman... I was already bothered by the cold poison of the stream, and I haven't recovered from it all these years. Now I've suffered it again, and I feel cold everywhere I go."

Seeing this, Wendi thought for a while, and sat down behind Liu Shiqi, pressing against his back, and just covered Liu Shiqi's big acupoint where the two meridians intersect with his hand.He said in a low voice, "Concentrate your mind", and then tentatively injected a burst of true energy into Liu Shiqi's Du meridian, lingering around the acupoint, to see if it would make him feel better.

Take the pulse around Jiri, and the governor channel is the sea of ​​Yang channels. When the qi and blood are blocked, the whole person will feel as if he is sinking in the water, feeling uncomfortable.His vitals were suddenly stimulated, and Liu Shiqi suddenly jumped up like a fish, almost hitting his head on the wall of the prison.He panted quickly, his face turned blue: "Brother Dee, stop."

Wen Di understood: "Your internal energy and mine are not the same way...why, later on you learned the pure yang mental method?"

Liu Shiqi: "That's right. The heart method is called 'Dou Zhuan Xing Yi', which is the internal strength of Yin and Yang. As a man, I have focused on practicing the Six Yang Classics, so that now I have completely got rid of the heaven and earth skills of the past and developed— —”

"The stars are changing?" Wen Di interrupted him, "Who are you practicing with?"

The situation should not be worse now, Liu Shiqi simply told the whole story, explaining what he said that day "the master of the East Sea" one by one, but only concealed Yi Chunqiu's name and the internal disputes between the Wangyue Island faction, and simplified it. For Jane, in a few words, he explained clearly what happened in these years.

"...Later, before I had time to learn the 'Six Yang Palm', I only memorized the general outline of the palm technique, and came to the Central Plains with them." After Liu Shiqi finished speaking, Wenwendi's expression became more and more strange, and he said cautiously, "Brother Di, I didn't intend to deceive, it's just...how, have you heard of 'The Times Turn and the Stars Move'?"

Wen Di frowned and said: "You don't dare to talk nonsense, are you sure that what you are learning is the authentic one?"

Liu Shiqi: "I don't know, this method does no harm to me, I can understand it clearly."

Wendi heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "That's good. I don't know much about it, so I won't say it to disturb your mind. You might as well be lucky secretly, and follow the 'Six Yang Jing'. Ke Yin, you might feel better after turning your whole body around."

Feeling that his words made sense, Liu Shiqi responded, and sat cross-legged with his back against the wall, silently reciting the contents of the Heart Sutra.

Liu Shiqi had never thought about this level before.His method of practicing martial arts is very stupid, he knows that "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi" is different from other schools, the key lies in life and death, but he never asked why.At most, he took advantage of Wuxiang Gong to learn quickly, and he didn't take the initiative to think, let alone the logic of the five elements restraining each other.

At this time, Wen Di reminded him a little bit, and he suddenly seemed to have opened his eyes, guiding the ray of true energy to circulate through his whole body without a teacher.

The Shaoyang Talisman damages the three channels of Shaoyang, yin poison penetrates into the bones, fears the severe cold, and draws the true energy of the six yangs to dredge it with the method of self-contained and non-phase. It will get twice the result with half the effort and quickly dispel the yin and cold.

True Qi returned to the life and death orifice through a small cycle, Liu Shiqi's back was drenched and he felt much more comfortable.

And once a person is at ease, he starts to talk when he has nothing to say.

He moved towards Wendi, touched his shoulder, and asked with great interest: "I see that Yu Zheng is no longer cold-faced and cold-hearted towards you. Has he changed his nature? I heard someone say Miaoyin Pavilion before." Master Chu loves him, really?"

Even being asked two questions, Wen Di was not at all impatient:

"Brother has a heavy burden and a lot of pressure these years. I will share some of it for him. Naturally, he will not have prejudice against me. After all, everyone has grown up, and it is meaningless to look at the conflicts when we were young. Although Miss Chu's incident is true. Yes, but Yu Zheng didn't even look at the embroidered handkerchief, and asked someone to take it back."

Liu Shiqi: "Ah, doesn't that hurt Miss Chu's heart?"

Wendi glanced at him strangely, not quite understanding what this person was thinking, and then explained slowly: "You are still young, and after the word love, there is probably a willing 'wish'. Even if Miss Chu As beautiful as a celestial being, to outsiders, Senior Brother Yu and Senior Brother Yu are both talented and beautiful, but Senior Brother Yu is not willing, and no one can do anything to him."

Liu Shiqi couldn't hear others say "you're still young" to him, so he retorted mutteringly: "I won the championship this year."

"Yes, yes." Wen Di laughed dumbly, and wanted to raise his hand to stroke his hair, "Let me tell you, Brother Yu has already made a life-long commitment with others, even if the princess is interested, he would not like it." .”

Liu Shiqi: "Who?! It can't be Song Min'er, right?...Oh my God."

Wendi suppressed a smile, shook his head inexplicably in denial, and refused to name who it was, leaving only a vague sentence of "You don't know".The curious young man was completely distracted, squatting on the side thinking hard, who could make Yu Zheng, who always looks like a snow-capped mountain, change his face.

Without his interruption, Wendi raised his eyes to look at the guard outside the cage, showing a rare anxiety.

The last ray of sunset sank into the mountain peak, and the lights on the twelfth floor had not yet been lit.

A person suddenly turned in from outside the door, he walked without making any sound, stood in front of the cage, bowed his body and said "hey" twice, and after attracting Wendi's attention, he smiled brightly: "Senior brother."

Wendi's face changed slightly: "Mo Ci, why are you here? Get out soon when you are discovered!"

"No, Brother Zheng helped me call away the guards outside, I'll come over and bring you some food." Mo Ci lightly put down the bag, listened to the movement outside, and then opened it with confidence.

There were a few hot steamed buns inside, which were not delicacies from the mountains. Before Wendi could speak, he heard someone next to him let out a stomach growl.He turned his back and motioned Mo Ci to look at his hands. The knot was so complicated that he couldn't untie it for a while.

Mo Ci beckoned helplessly: "I'll hold it for you two, eat quickly, brother Zheng stays outside at the risk of being punished."

He had a steamed bun in each hand, and his posture was very ugly. Liu Shiqisan gnawed most of it in two bites, gobbled it up for a long time, and finally realized who the "brother Zheng" he was talking about was probably, and coughed all of a sudden.

Mo Ci: "Uh, Senior Brother Liu, you are..."

Liu Shiqi hurriedly swallowed what was in his mouth, and asked curiously, "Well, that person who is covering for you is Yu Zheng? Did I hear it wrong or did he take the wrong medicine?"

After he finished speaking, Mo Ci was taken aback for a moment, and looked at the person next to him as if asking for help, Wen Di immediately winked, he understood the spirit, raised the small half of steamed bun in his hand, and gagged Liu Shiqi's mouth involuntarily.

A very deliberate cough came from outside the door, obviously listening to Liu Shiqi's words, Wen Di smiled inappropriately, and Mo Ci sent them away in a hurry with a lawsuit on his forehead.

Liu Shiqi still had unswallowed steamed buns in his mouth. He looked at Wen Di silently, and the other party's eyes were still bent, and said in a low voice: "Everyone understands some things in their hearts, so you don't need to say them too clearly."

Liu Shiqi thought blankly: "I don't understand!"

But Wendi refused to say anything now. He heard the faint sound of footsteps outside, stepped back a little against the wall, pretended to be in a daze with nothing to do, and took the time to wink at Liu Shiqi.

Sure enough, not long after, a head poked out from the corner, and the strange guard glanced at it, but saw nothing.

As night fell outside, Mo Ci took two steps, then looked back, and worriedly tugged the sleeves of the people around him: "Brother Zheng, how long will Senior Brother Wen be locked up this time?"

"It's all old things, Xixiu Mountain didn't have you at that time." Yu Zheng put his arms around his shoulders, "This matter can be big or small, it depends on how the master decides. When he is in a bad mood, he will blame others. If you come over in the next few days, you must call me, don't let Song Miner's people see the clues and run into Master's bad luck."

Mo Ci said: "Are you two still fighting like this?"

Yu Zheng thought for a while, and then showed a very miserly smile: "She is proud and arrogant, and wants to learn how to fold flowers, but I am not the successor appointed by Master, so I have nothing to argue with her. Don't worry, the boat will arrive The end of the bridge is naturally straight."

Hearing the words "Flower-folding Hand" and remembering those scenes in Linzi City, Mo Ci hesitated and said, "But if the master finally gives the Flower-folding Hand to someone else...Brother Zheng, have you thought about it?"

Yu Zheng said: "The twelfth floor is not a royal family, there is no tradition of establishing a heir and an elder. In the end, whoever is taught to fold flowers only depends on the mind of the head. In my opinion, in fact, the successor that the master prefers should be... Ah Ci , you have never cared about these things, and suddenly asked, is it because of what the master said? What happened to the flute?"

When he didn't know anything, he made a good guess. Mo Ci's heart was shocked, and he categorically denied it: "No, I heard that senior brother... He is protecting Senior Brother Liu, so..."

Halfway through the "so" was broken, he frowned and said, "Your hands are so cold."

Yu Zheng pinched his ears with his fingers, and stopped talking, as if he had already expected the current situation.Du Xindan, who disappeared with Liu Miansheng that year, became the straw that broke the camel's back. Since then, the twelfth floor still maintains an upright air on the surface, but the inside has long been in chaos.

Mo Ci held down Yu Zheng and brought both of his hands into his palms, but the space was too limited, he could barely cover ten fingers.He thought for a while, and breathed out towards Yu Zheng's fingertips.

The temporary warmth is fleeting, but Yu Zheng's expression is much softer, as if he took off the ice shell and returned to the world so easily.He took two steps, and the hem of his clothes was dimly dyed yellow by the candlelight in the distance.

Yu Zheng said suddenly: "I'll go to your room after the lights are off tonight, okay?"

Mo Ci was taken aback for a moment, then realized something, and suddenly blushed.

Some people are lingering and tossing like three autumns, and some people can't sleep at night because of their worries.Canyue waited until the last lights were extinguished, then slowly climbed to the branches of the treetops, and weakly cast a gloomy light.

On a snowy night, the wind was piercingly cold. Song Min'er sat on the edge of the couch with her knees hugged. Seeing the list she had just written before her, she felt terrified from the bottom of her heart.

Before dawn the next day, the guard on duty leaned against the wall and was tortured to the point of death.He was just an ordinary student with no ambitions, and he didn't have the energy to meditate all night. At this time, his eyes were half-closed, and he muttered in his mouth why the replacement hadn't come yet.

Someone approached in the distance, the guard thought it was coming to pick up his shift, and just stood up to curse, but after seeing the appearance of the person, he quickly held back and stood upright against the wall: "Brother!"

After Yu Zheng nodded slightly, he brushed him away and wanted to go in, but the guard quickly stopped him, saying: "Well... the head of the sect ordered that no one can enter except for his warrant. Senior brother, don't embarrass me gone."

After hearing this, Yu Zheng lowered his eyelashes thoughtfully, turned around without saying anything, and turned to leave. The guard was relieved, and was about to add a few words, but suddenly the side of his neck hurt.

Before his vision was completely black, what he saw was a trace of killing intent flashing in Yu Zheng's eyes.

Putting the guard against the wall in the posture he saw when he came, Yu Zheng thought for a moment and only took out a flagon and put it in the man's hand.The stopper on the mouth of the pot was tilted to one side, revealing a strange fragrance, Yu Zheng stood up, glanced at him coldly, and stepped into the dark cage.

His memory of "Liu Miansheng" is already very vague.Even if he was in Xixiu Mountain back then, he didn't have much contact with him. He was a young master who was brought by Zuo Nian's side and was almost spoiled by heaven. He grew up carefree until he was 12 years old.

Then the talented person who never got into trouble made a huge mess for Zuo Nian.

At this time, Yu Zheng was standing by the edge of the cage, and saw Liu Miansheng slumped on Wendi's lap, turning sideways and closing his eyes, his whole body relaxed.

His mood was complicated for a moment: "It's a mess outside, but you all slept comfortably."

Wen Di opened his eyes, and greeted him with a familiar tone: "It's not even dawn yet, why are you free?"

"Du Xindan hasn't been handed over to Master, I couldn't sleep all night." Yu Zheng ignored his question, made a joke with a cold face, and said, "Ah Ci told me last night, you really have it." , Unknowingly tricked Master into learning how to fold flowers."

Wendi smiled, but the usually eloquent man fell silent at this moment, quietly waiting for Yu Zheng to speak.

"The others haven't woken up yet. When the sun comes out, the master will probably send you off. I just brought down the guard just now and gave him a little poison. He will become unconscious for a short time. If you want to leave, I will send you off right now." Let go of you and Liu Miansheng, escape from Xixiu Mountain is once familiar to him."

Wen Di was surprised and said: "You are... why did you give me such a big favor for no reason?"

Yu Zheng pondered for a moment, then said: "It's Ah Ci, you helped me a lot by taking care of him. If it wasn't for this, Ah Ci would not be alive today."

Wen Di said: "But there is no impenetrable wall in the world. When Zuo Nian finds out that you let me go, what should I do? Even for A Ci... Brother Yu, I will take care of A Ci for you. You have been pretending to be deaf and dumb for many years , we have long since owed each other."

Yu Zheng: "Don't worry about it—will you go?"

The second half of the sentence fell softly, but Yu Zheng looked at Liu Shiqi who woke up at some point and was in a daze.As soon as the other party turned over and got up, he felt that his wrists were numb after being tied for a long time, and looked back innocently, his mind was blank, as if he was still thinking about the connection between the person in front of him and the Yu Zheng in his impression.

The thing he mentioned was very tempting. Wen Di was almost about to agree to him, but he bit the tip of his tongue lightly, raised his head and said, "Take him away to ensure his safety. I haven't finished my work. To leave a personal aftermath."

Yu Zheng asked in surprise, "What else can you do?"

Liu Shiqi hurriedly said, "Brother Di, I don't!"

The voices of the two overlapped one after another, and then Yu Zheng showed a sudden expression, and was about to speak, when he keenly caught a trace of the swaying of vegetation.

He quickly raised his head and glanced around the cage. There was a skylight in the top corner. Yu Zheng threw down the sentence "Someone is coming" and stood up lightly. He stepped on a protruding wall brick and held the skylight with one hand. Before Liu Shiqi could see the edge clearly, he slipped out of the narrow skylight like a snake, and the rest of the white shadow flashed and disappeared from sight.

Liu Shiqi: "...Sneaky, it's Yu Zheng himself who is right."

Before he could express his emotion on this, the gleam of light leaking from the cage was completely blocked, Wen Di noticed something was wrong, and stood up first——

Song Min'er stood at the corner, tangled for a while, and suddenly said: "Liu Miansheng, you said earlier whether other people died, what is going on, is Master... hiding something from us?"

The author has something to say:

The elder brother and the younger brother have a difference of ten years (pushed my Tyrannosaurus glasses

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