Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

Luzhou.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is warm and moist, and a thin layer of white is spread on the blue tiles. From a distance, it is hard to tell whether it is frost or snow.

In the small city with blue tiles and white walls, the bustle seems to have disappeared with the north wind. From time to time, only a few people pass by, and even the birds fly to the warmer south.

The young man in thin clothes pushed open the door of a small courtyard: "Senior Brother, I got Master's reply."

His voice was very soft, and a corner of letter paper was exposed to another person in his hand, which was Xie Xingzhou.After Feng Tingyun heard his words, he put the teapot aside and walked over, and took the letter from his hand.

They didn't have the habit of huddling together to see things, and when Feng Tingyun finished looking at ten lines at a glance, Xie Xingzhou asked: "We have been here for almost a month, and Sheng Tianya hasn't shown up for a long time, are those two bastards playing tricks?" Us? What did Master say in the letter, do you want to bring it back to the island?"

Feng Tingyun folded the letter and put it in his arms: "No, she asked us to release him."

Xie Xingzhou's voice changed immediately: "What?!"

From when he was arrested in Linzi until now, he tried his best to extract the news from Xuanhuang that Sheng Tianya was on the front line of the Yangtze River. During the days when he landed in Luzhou, he and Feng Tingyun searched everywhere every day, but Sheng Tianya just disappeared from the world. Same, no news.He forced Gong Qianying to send a letter to the other party, but the letter was also sent, but the reply was delayed.

The life and death of the junior brother is uncertain, and there has been no progress in the business that needs to be done.Under such circumstances, Feng Tingyun tentatively wrote a letter to Yi Chunqiu, asking for advice on what to do next.

It turned out they were waiting for this!

Feng Tingyun was calmer than Xie Xingzhou. He paced back and forth in the courtyard, and after thinking about it, he said: "I guess the master wants to let him go, and then Gong Qianying will definitely go back to find his master. In this way, we can catch him soon." Fox Tail. Even if he failed to regain the "Bi Luo Tian Shu", he should know what he is doing now—"

Have you already learned all the martial arts in Tianxia Wushuang, or are you still in a dilemma.It is better to prescribe the right medicine if you know what is in your heart, than to catch blindly with black eyes now.

Xie Xingzhou frowned and said, "That's reasonable, but what about Little Seventeen? Even if Zuo Nian took him back to Xixiu Mountain, it should be here by now. Du Xindan is not on him, will Zuo Nian attack him?" ?”

Feng Tingyun: "Luzhou is two months away from Ningzhou, and the location of Xixiu Mountain is a mystery, even the locals may not be able to point it out... How about this, after we pretended to release Gong Qianying, I followed him Go to Xixiu Mountain with Xuanhuang to find out where Sheng Tianya is hiding, and try to get in touch with Xiao Shiqi."

Xie Xingzhou: "Huh?"

Feng Tingyun flicked him on the forehead: "With Xiao Shiqi's cultivation, now Xixiushan probably has nothing to do with him except Zuo Nian. But he is single-handed and will inevitably be at a loss. You go and rescue him. "

Xie Xingzhou understood what he meant this time, but reflexively said: "I can't do it, you go to Xixiu Mountain, and I will follow Xuanhuang and Gong Qianying."

"Itchy skin, don't you listen to Senior Brother's words?" Feng Tingyun cast a glance at him.

Xie Xingzhou staggered his eyes, pursed his lips and remained silent, he rarely had this hesitant expression, Feng Tingyun patted him on the head: "Are you dumb? Is it okay or not? Tell me, don't talk to me like this." As if I owe you."

"You don't owe me anything." Xie Xingzhou lowered his eyes and whispered, "I just don't want you to be with Gong Qianying, and I can't follow him."

At first Feng Tingyun didn't understand, staring at him for a long time before he realized, he couldn't help laughing.He went back to the table and sat down, poured two cups of tea, waved to Xie Xingzhou, and said, "Xingzhou, stop making trouble, come here."

The tone was like calling a puppy, Xie Xingzhou stayed where he was, "Besides, Sheng Tianya himself dislikes you, if you are accidentally exposed, how could you be able to retreat unscathed with one enemy and three. He is kind to me, senior brother, let me go, you go to Xixiu Mountain to save Xiao Qiqi—you saved him once anyway.”

Feng Tingyun: "Come here."

Xie Xingzhou pursed his lips reluctantly, moved over slowly, and stood beside him.In the past few years, he seemed to have drank the essence of heaven and earth, and he had grown a lot for no reason. When he jumped to the highest altitude on Wangyue Island, and stayed beside Feng Tingyun, he had to lower his head to talk to him. The point always landed on his lips in embarrassment.

At the moment the angle was subtle, Xie Xingzhou could only see Feng Tingyun's pointed chin slightly retracted, his full lips tightly pursed, and he looked up at him with a little smile in his eyes: "Are you still angry?"

Xie Xingzhou retorted: "No."

Feng Tingyun laughed more heartily: "I watched you grow up, and your mood is written all over your face. You are obviously unhappy, and you still have to reason with me."

"I told you the reason, but you didn't take it seriously!" Xie Xingzhou was in a hurry, "He has something wrong with you, and you still follow him to find Sheng Tianya, how can I see it? You forgot that he—"

"Shut up." Feng Tingyun interrupted him abruptly, the smile in his eyes suddenly disappeared.

Xie Xingzhou realized that he said the wrong thing, and shut up immediately after being scolded, but the expression on his face was still angry.

The two were silent for a long time, and he said unwillingly: "Senior brother, you know that I never care about these things, I think it's boring to remember the enmity for so long. But you are not someone else, I care about your affairs-I...I am not a palace Qianying, you know."

He thought he spoke very clearly, and hoped that Feng Tingyun would give him a reaction, but he was secretly afraid that this reaction would make the relationship they have maintained so far fall short.

No one knew Feng Tingyun better than him.

He is gentle, he doesn't even reprimand loudly, he is never in a hurry when things happen, and he lives extremely wantonly.He is also like a dude, with a good upbringing from somewhere, a smile that seems to grow on his face, impatient and only complains to his own people.But after he went through that incident, he seemed to lock himself behind solid ice and refused to reveal his sincerity, no one could do it.

At that time he said nothing to Yi Chunqiu, but how could it be all right?

Feng Tingyun stood up and stroked a strand of hair from his temples behind his ears for him: "Xingzhou, some things can only be verbal. I don't ask you when you started or why, I just want to say, you are smart." Man, don't make things difficult for me, okay?"

His support collapsed like a girder, causing pain all over his body.

Xie Xingzhou picked up an unused teacup next to him, poured hot water and drank it all in one gulp, a blister formed at the corner of his mouth, he sniffed as if he hadn't noticed it, and after a while, holding on to a little despair, put the Unscrupulously spilling out some bitterness: "Senior brother, you have taught me so many times, it is not as hurtful as a word today."

Feng Tingyun lowered his eyes and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have the strength or interest to think about the love between my children."

Xie Xingzhou didn't want to continue this topic, but instead insisted: "But let me follow Gong Qianying, please."

A certain word in the words made Feng Tingyun secretly startled, his face remained calm, and the corner of his mouth curled up weakly: "Okay, I'll go to the Green Mountain Pavilion to check the situation first, and then go to Ningzhou."

His tone was still gentle, Xie Xingzhou nodded after listening, turned indifferently and prepared to leave.

"One more thing." Feng Tingyun suddenly said, "Before I left Wangyue Island, my master said that if I come to the Central Plains this time, if I find Sheng Tianya's whereabouts, I can close the net."

Xie Xingzhou raised his eyebrows: "It seems that she doesn't trust Xiao Shiqi all the time, so she has to avoid telling us about such a big matter."

"It's not all because of this, Seventeen...he's too young to understand Master's persistence." Feng Tingyun pursed his lips in silence for a moment, and then said, "Anyway, this is not urgent, I will investigate slowly. We will go our separate ways starting tomorrow. Things, don’t make up your own minds when you encounter major events, pay attention to safety.”

The exhortations were not much different, but he always sounded harsh, and went straight away without even responding.

Liu Feng Tingyun himself was still sitting at the stone table, he looked at the lead gray sky, the clouds were thick and the speed of flow was almost negligible.There were no flowers and plants in this temporarily rented small courtyard, and it was more affectionate than Wangyue Island. It was just two simple wing rooms, but Feng Tingyun was inexplicably nostalgic.

There was a loud noise in the wing room, and Xie Xingzhou's movements of tidying up his things were like tearing down a house, all venting his dissatisfaction with Feng Tingyun, he almost killed someone directly.

After Feng Tingyun watched for a while, his expression finally fluctuated a little.He frowned, then sighed, drowned in the wind.

He knows how to hurt people, pretending to be ignorant while pretending to understand, if he continues like this, he will delay sailing.

When they first met, Yi Chunqiu came to him with a child who could only look down at the ground.She touched the child's head with a smile and said softly: "From now on, it will be your junior brother. He was frightened and has not recovered yet. Take care of him. Master will come to see him in a few days."

When Sheng Tianya talked with Yi Chunqiu, he said that this child almost died, and he didn't know how the mother would be willing to sell him to the rich and powerful for sex before he grew up.When Xie Xingzhou was cut off by Sheng Tianya on the spot, he was almost stamped on his back with a branding iron that the government gave to slaves.

From Yuhang to Wangyue Island, Xie Xingzhou changed his name, and he didn't say a word for three months after he settled down. Yi Chunqiu said it was because he was too frightened and temporarily lost his voice.

Then he was finally able to speak, and the first thing he yelled was "Brother Yun".

Even if he clamored all day to get rid of the senior brother, both of them were killer moves during the sparring, Xie Xingzhou never really wanted to hurt him.He has already practiced Liuyang Palm very well, but when he competes with himself, he always holds back a third of his strength.

He really didn't know when Xie Xingzhou had other thoughts like Gong Qianying, but he was not surprised.One is domineering, and the other is silently watching over things. Xie Xingzhou is undoubtedly willing to treat him well.

But thinking clearly and being able to figure it out are two different things.

Feng Tingyun frowned, his temples began to tingle for no reason, he rubbed his forehead, thinking that it was time for the two of them to separate.

The next day they split up, Xie Xingzhou didn't say goodbye to him, and when Feng Tingyun woke up, Gong Qianying and Xuan Huang who were locked in the backyard were gone, and Xie Xingzhou's things were not where they were.

There was no time for him to deal with his personal affairs, so Feng Tingyun led his own horse and headed north with the burden on his back.

The sunshine in winter is stingy, and the first stop after leaving Luzhou City is Luoyang.The Eastern Capital is still prosperous, Feng Tingyun led his horse into the city, and after walking two steps, he was suddenly attracted by a shop selling jade.

This trip back probably will be the Spring Festival, Feng Tingyun thought about whether to bring a piece of jewelry for the inactive master, so that she would not wear the same hairpin for several years, so he tied the horse aside and went straight Went to the store.

The shopkeeper is a barbarian, like an iron tower, and there is a Han accountant sitting next to him.As soon as he entered, a clever waiter immediately came to serve him and asked him what he wanted to buy.

"Hairpins for women." Feng Tingyun smiled politely at him, "Jade should be of the best quality, don't be fancy as a gift for the elders, the style can be casual, but it must be distinctive, it would be great if it is ingenious but."

After hearing such a long list of requests from him, the accountant next to him got up and came over to receive him personally, and wanted to show him the latest styles made by craftsmen.Feng Tingyun knew how to do it, and immediately nodded with a smile, and asked the accountant to take him to the inner room.There is an unwritten unspoken rule in these stores that good things are never placed outside.

The accountant was gentle, stroking his mustache, and mysteriously led him to a wooden shelf, on which were placed two objects, one was a hairpin, and the other was a pair of jade wrenches.

He wanted to buy a hairpin, and the accountant almost boasted to the sky. He waved his fan and said gracefully: "This hairpin is made of jade made in Shanshan. The jade is warm and moist, as if it contains a puddle of water. I invited the best hand from Luoyang City." Mr. Pinghu's ingenious sculpture, taking that bay water as the theme, made the scenery of lakes and mountains on the fortress..."

Feng Tingyun heard half of it, and his attention was completely attracted by the jade finger.

Since they are a pair, they should be made more intimate. When the big and the small are next to each other, the patterns carved on them just spell out a shy peach blossom, and when they are separated, they are as lifelike as birds singing in spring.Feng Tingyun looked at it for a while, reached out and took down the box, looked at it carefully and said to the accountant: "Why don't we go together."

The accountant was stunned: "Young master, you..."

Feng Tingyun: "I want the hairpin and this pair of jade ring fingers, please ask for a price."

He likes things that fall in love at first sight, that kind of feeling is very joyful, as if he is looking forward to meeting in secret, and when he really sees, no wonder he will feel like reunion after a long absence.

Going out with the things he bought, Feng Tingyun never led a horse. He glanced at the surrounding streets, and then turned into an inconspicuous alley next to him in a flash.Buying hairpins is only secondary, this is the purpose of his coming to Luoyang.

The alley is much quieter than the avenue.Feng Tingyun stopped in front of one of the small courtyards familiarly. The place looked like a shop that bought silk and satin. He looked up to confirm the surrounding environment, and went in directly.

There were no other people watching the store, and it was not lively, only the charming proprietress sat in the back and seriously studied her newly painted Kodan.Hearing the sound of footsteps, she glanced perfunctorily at first, and when she realized that it was a slender young man who came in, she immediately stood up, with a flattering smile on her face.

"Is this young man here to buy silk?"

Feng Tingyun glanced left and right at the decoration inside, and said inadvertently: "Sandalwood guides green tiles, and golden bells caress fly."

As soon as this remark came out, the boss lady's expression changed immediately.She put away the frivolousness just now, leaned against the table, and answered the second half of the sentence: "Where is the restaurant? Nan Chu asked Dongfeng—Is the young master here to see someone?" (*Note)

Feng Tingyun saluted and said: "I beg to see Mrs. Li."

The proprietress came out from behind the counter, and slowly led a way for him: "By the garden behind, there is a pavilion, you just need to go there."

"Thank you." Feng Tingyun smiled at her, and lifted his foot over the threshold.

As early as when he was in Luzhou, he reconciled with Xie Xingzhou and thought of another way.

It's not that Sheng Tianya hasn't shown his flaws in the past eight years. He just took advantage of them being in the East China Sea. He was far away from the Central Plains and couldn't arrive in time. Every time something happened, he got out in time, so he never found anyone.If you still want to catch him right now, besides Xingzhou who followed him all the way, you have to ask others for help.

In Jianghu, there is a strange sect called Green Mountain Pavilion, which neither participates in disputes nor engages in any gimmicks.

But 30 years ago, almost everyone knew the name of Green Mountain Pavilion.

As a villa controlled by an aristocratic family, the reason why the Helian family is famous all over the world is not because of their swordsmanship or internal strength, but because of their pervasive sources of news.There used to be rumors in the world, such as a serial murder case, or as small as a disciple of a school or faction married a wife, there is nothing that the Green Mountain Pavilion does not know.

The villa's eyeliner is all over the world, reselling all kinds of black and white secrets, both good and evil.

The old head of the sect passed away a few years ago, leaving all the connections and resources in the sect to his only son, Helian Mingzhao.And Helian Mingzhao married a little-known woman as his wife, and gradually separated the bright and dark sides of the Green Mountain Pavilion business, hiding his reputation.

To contact Green Mountain Pavilion, they can only rely on the different forms of dark villas they have arranged in five cities in the world, and they must also know the secret language.Green Mountain Pavilion is not short of money, if you want to exchange something you want, you have to exchange it with what the other party needs, such as rare objects, internal strength cheats, sword manuals, even hidden weapons and secret medicines, this really makes many people hate it.

Feng Tingyun couldn't think of any other way, he was lucky enough to know that Mrs. Helian was staying here, so he came to try his luck and wrote a letter, unexpectedly the other party really replied to let him come.

When he got the reply, Feng Tingyun thought to himself: "Business is the business of the world. In this regard, they can be said to be broad-minded."

The backyard of the silk and satin village is spacious, as if it were a big family in the old days, with three entrances and two exits carefully built, it is only used as a decoration, but it is like another garden in the courtyard.Feng Tingyun walked along the corridor of the east wing, and after a while, he saw the back garden full of white plums.

It is not yet the middle of winter, only a few snows have just fallen, and when the white plums are in bud, people can't help but imagine what the garden will look like when it is at its fullest.

The pavilion that the proprietress said was not built on the water, there is no pond here, Feng Tingyun saw a woman sitting in the pavilion from a long distance away.She had her long hair combed in the style of a new wife, and the table was surrounded by incense. She was reclining on the couch with a book half-opened in her hand, as if she was studying it.

Feng Tingyun didn't go there, stopped in the corridor and saluted her: "This must be Mrs. Li, next time, Feng Tingyun wrote you a letter a few days ago."

Mrs. Li put down the book without raising her eyelids.She spoke in a lazy and delicate voice, but she was not at all offensive: "I have received it, but do you know that I, Green Mountain Pavilion, never trade at a loss. If you want to know the news you want, you have to take valuables." Come change."

"I understand, I won't make it difficult for Madam." Feng Tingyun politely took out a roll of silk full of words from his sleeve, and presented it with both hands, "This is the recipe for 'Xiaoyao San', and now I offer it to you." Give it to Madam."

Mrs. Li suddenly sat up straight, and finally turned her eyes to Feng Tingyun: "Xiaoyao San?! What sect are you from?"

Feng Tingyun said in a leisurely manner: "Madam has already made a conclusion in her heart, so why bother to ask? I don't have any good things in my sect, and it's really hard to show off others. Only this Xiaoyaosan, or Mrs. Kebo, can smile."

She hesitated a little and said: "It is indeed enough..."

Feng Tingyun: "Since it's enough, can Madam give me what I want?"

Mrs. Li pondered for a moment, then smiled again: "Xiaoyao San has not appeared in the world for 50 years, and I was not born when I appeared for the last time. You gave me this thing, and I don't know its effectiveness. If you fool me What should I do?"

Long expected that she would say this, Feng Tingyun took out a small paper bag again: "This is a finished product, Madam can find a servant to try it out first. But I only promised to give Madam Xiaoyaosan, and never said that I would give it to Madam Xiaoyaosan." The antidote. Madam weighs it herself, and if she thinks it’s feasible, then it’s fine. If not, the deal between you and me will be ruined.”

Mrs. Li has long since become smart, understands that there is no free lunch in the world, and is not annoyed by the young man's sudden backlash, so she stands up and walks slowly towards him.

"I believe you." Mrs. Li took the silk from Feng Tingyun, read it from beginning to end, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Your faction is ruthless and wants to make a comeback?"

Feng Tingyun said: "Ma'am, the orthodox martial arts are now pitch-black, and you know a lot, do you still have hope for them? Back then, Senior Ye Tang said 'never step into the Central Plains for life', he certainly kept it Promise, but we younger generations are not bound by this oath, the time is ripe to stir up trouble."

"Haha, Mochizuki... Xiaoyao San has come out of the arena again. It seems that all sects and sects are not far away from learning Liuyang Palm again."

Feng Tingyun smiled and didn't answer, Madam Li raised a pair of graceful phoenix eyes and swept him sideways, took out a delicate kit from her bosom and handed it over: "Everything you want is inside."

"Ma'am, I'm sorry."

A wisp of white plum fragrance slowly disperses with the north wind, and when the guests go, the clothes disappear in the corner in a flash.Mrs. Li held the fox fur on her body, stared at the direction he was leaving, and suddenly a person appeared behind her.

Mrs. Li didn't turn her head, she seemed to be talking to herself: "Lingxi, is he the one you mentioned?"

The girl in the light green dress was clean between her eyebrows, without the bright red cinnabar marks.She nodded and said: "Yes, the news came back from Taiyuan a few days ago that Zuo Nian seems to be going crazy. Your sister already knows about his indiscriminate killing of disciples. There must be something wrong with Xixiu Mountain soon."

Mrs. Li played with her fingertips with a strand of black hair hanging down from her: "Xi Lanyu, Zuo Nian, Sheng Tianya...any one of these three people has already turned the world upside down, and now with Wangyue Island...the world has been silent for so many years... , and the situation should be changed. I will edit a book later, and you will send it back to Nanchu in person. Remember, it must be handed over to Mingzhao.”

Lingxi Lianchang said: "Understood."

She backed away quietly, and Mrs. Li sat leaning against the porch, holding the silk with her hands outstretched, and looked at it again carefully with a blank face, showing a very light, very light smile.

Someone in the Taiyuan inn carved a trace. When the mountain rain is about to come, the Green Mountain Pavilion may not be able to survive alone.

When Mrs. Li let go of her hand lightly, the first flower bloomed in the plum grove in the courtyard.

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*Note: I compiled it, and the source will be marked for citations and uses. If there is no mark, it is basically written by myself.

Uncle Baqi and Uncle Fangling cameo, I don’t think you guys remember eh (.