Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

It was already midnight after returning to his hut. Liu Shiqi looked around, but he didn't expect the overwhelming dust as he imagined. The bed had new mattresses and probably had been cleaned.There was a lot of noise about his return, the person who ordered to do this may be Yi Chunqiu, or it may be someone else.

Yi Chunqiu's attitude was clear, he didn't want to recruit more disciples, and thinking about what Wendi had heard about the Moon Worship Sect before, Liu Shiqiu guessed that she might not necessarily want revenge.It's just that Sheng Tianya has achieved this level, Yi Chunqiu must be riding a tiger, and the few teenagers on the island have learned some martial arts, maybe it's just in case.

Liu Shiqi didn't close his eyes that night, and before dawn the next day, he knocked on the door of Feng Tingyun's room.

Feng Tingyun didn't expect him to come so soon, although he was neatly dressed, his expression was very stunned.He was still being grounded, holding his breath, and was speechless for a long time when he first saw Liu Shiqilai.

After pouring a pot of tea, the sun outside the window is gradually dispelling the sea fog, and everything is a familiar scene.

Liu Shiqi hesitated for a moment, clutched his teacup and asked hesitantly, "I haven't seen you since I came back yesterday. Master told you to calm down. Ask her...she didn't say, that day...the person who pushed me down, senior brother, did you see?" Is it?"

Feng Tingyun pursed his lips, as if he really didn't want to mention that person, and said softly, "It's Xingzhou."

Liu Shiqi had made a conclusion, and he was still uncontrollably shocked when he heard the truth. Instead of asking, Feng Tingyun started talking on his own, as if to persuade him to think about it: "He... Master said, there may be difficulties. Yesterday The two boys who brought you back brought me his letter, but I haven't had time to open it—"

"Look first." Liu Shiqi said, "You also said that he may not be innocent."

Normally, Feng Tingyun would definitely refute him immediately.The three brothers and sisters had a good relationship, but he was closer than Liu Shiqi and Xie Xingzhou after all. He got up and picked up the letter from the desk by the window, his eyes twitched violently.

"He's not innocent?" Feng Tingyun had a very bad premonition, he held up the envelope, and asked Liu Shiqi tentatively, "Did you see him again after falling into the water, and what did he tell you?"

Liu Shiqi: "I haven't seen him, but I just thought... what can Sheng Tianya do to him? Don't tell me that just because Brother Xie was saved by him when he was a child, I can go through fire and water for him."

Even if he could go through fire and water, he would never wait until today, otherwise Xie Xingzhou would be too scheming.

Feng Tingyun listened to the words and didn't respond. He cut open the envelope and pulled out a thin piece of letterhead from inside. The ink stains penetrated the back of the paper, and it was so short that he could read it at a glance.

"I owe you".

It's his style to say a sentence without beginning or end, not even bothering to write a signature.Feng Tingyun looked at it several times, but he couldn't see the cause and effect, and the unknown fire suddenly rushed up, burning his heart a little.

He slapped the piece of paper on the table, his breathing became heavy, his breathing seemed uncontrollable, and he tossed vigorously along the meridians as if the evil energy was running around.Feng Tingyun's eyes were a little sore, his eyelids felt heavy uncontrollably, his throat was so dry that it was even difficult to speak, he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth.

He barely stood still while holding on to the table, when suddenly someone pressed his shoulder.

As soon as Feng Tingyun raised his head, Liu Shiqi took the piece of paper. The usually indifferent little junior looked at the four words solemnly, and calmly said to him, "Is he voluntary?"

The rising sound at the end seemed to be a question, but they all knew that Liu Shiqi's words were determined.

Feng Tingyun finally regained some backbone, he closed his eyes, and said: "I don't know why he suddenly... If you say that you have been pretending for so many years, I don't believe it. He is...not Gong Qianying, He said that he is not... If you follow Sheng Tianya now, you must—"

He wanted to lie to himself, but Liu Shiqi obediently took his words: "Brother, he is certainly not innocent. But I believe he has his own reasons for doing this. Maybe he discovered something else when you were separated, and he did not hesitate to Use yourself as bait."

He robbed Feng Tingyun of all his words, so he had no choice but to remain silent.After his blood gradually cooled down and he returned to his usual rationality, Feng Tingyun found that his junior brother seemed to be a little abnormally calm today.

He asked, "Seventeen, is there something wrong with you today?"

When Liu Shiqi looked at him with his carefree black eyes, the complexity in them made Feng Tingyun speechless for a moment.He sniffed, and said: "Brother lied to me, master lied to me, senior brother hurt me—what else should I do, be as happy as before, come here like a fool and ask you 'what are we doing tomorrow'?" ?”

Originally, he had almost figured it out, and when he returned to Wangyue Island, he thought that there was an accident and became a teacher and apprentice, but unexpectedly, Yi Chunqiu told him his life experience, which directly crushed the already unhappy young man.

What's there to hide, why does everyone think I'm such a piece of crap?

Thinking of this, Liu Shiqi suddenly felt panicked. After he finished saying that, seeing Feng Tingyun's surprised expression, he sat down in his room without any further explanation.And Feng Tingyun stood there for a long time without moving, sneered, turned to him and said, "You feel wronged, never thought why we lied to you?"

Liu Shiqi: "..."

Feng Tingyun picked up his hands in a leisurely manner, and let the letter paper fall lightly on the ground: "You can steal the master's secret medicine on the spur of the moment when you see your senior sister being killed. You are not a person who is easy to calm down if you can do such a thing. Seventeen, you overestimate yourself, and the suffering you have suffered from childhood to adulthood seems unbearable, but you are lucky enough."

Liu Shiqi wanted to refute something, but couldn't speak.

Feng Tingyun continued: "In Xixiu Mountain, there is Wendi protecting you. On the way to the Central Plains, you also walked with two businessmen. I secretly protected Taiyuan and his party. Later, when we arrived at Wangyue Island, Master was worried that you would be the same as Xingzhou. I was too stimulated, and deliberately kept you from knowing my life experience. It has been seven years, and you never asked, and now you blame us for not telling you?"

Liu Shiqi was speechless, and he looked at Feng Tingyun stubbornly: "...Yes, I am nothing without you!"

Feng Tingyun laughed angrily: "Interesting! Seventeen, who do you owe your kung fu to? The bloody experience in Xixiu Mountain, if it wasn't for Wendi, would you have survived the second Liuyang Palm? I thought you were looking for I questioned because of the Yueyue Sect, but I don't want you to be entangled with these trivial matters!"

Before he could answer, Feng Tingyun added angrily: "If you really think so, it will make my heart feel very cold."

The phrase "It's not my turn to worry about those things" stuck in his throat, Feng Tingyun treated him well but would never compromise blindly, it would only make him appear more childish.Liu Shiqi woke up to this truth and bowed his head in silence.

He is throwing a tantrum.

Ever since the long talk with Yi Chunqiu the night before, there has been some feeling of grievance nestled in his heart to add to his troubles, which urgently needs to be vented.And on and off Mochiyue Island, he couldn't find anyone who could make a fuss at any time, so he had to throw the flute out, and groped for half a night in the night to pick it up again.

Liu Shiqi was suddenly a little confused, as if in this vast world, no one could tolerate him unconditionally except Wendi.

He couldn't hate Wendi at all, no matter what he lied to or how selfish he was... Liu Shiqi suddenly realized that he didn't have to be good or bad, as long as he made it clear, he would understand.

But Yi Chunqiu and Feng Tingyun talked about him from left to right, secretly telling half of him and keeping the other half—why?

Just because the first person to leave Mochizuki Island was his mother?

Under the confusion of his thoughts, Liu Shiqi shuddered suddenly, as if he was grabbing a thread and pulling out many traces along it.He didn't have time to reflect on other things, and asked Feng Tingyun a strange question: "Does Master hate my mother?"

"Uncle Yu?" Feng Tingyun quickly adjusted his emotions in surprise, "Xing Zhou and I only spent a short period of time with Uncle Yu, and the two of them talked about everything, like sisters..."

But isn't the deeper the relationship, the more you will blame each other after separation?Just like Wen Di has always felt that if Liu Shiqi knew the truth, he would definitely hate him to the bone.

The piccolo in his sleeve rolled around among the rocks on the hillside, and when it touched his palm, it hurt sharply.

The wind was calm last night, and Yi Chunqiu's tone may have been resentful after thinking about it: "Xiaomei doesn't like being trapped in a corner. She heard that she can leave, and she is more willing to accept the price than anyone else. She sees through the situation better than Master. Knowing that revival of the sect is almost hopeless, the master asked her if she would like to, and she agreed, took the secret book and left, cutting off everyone's thoughts."

When a stone falls into water, everything is like ripples.

After the tiger fell into Pingyang, Ye Tang took Wang Qian'an to Wangyue Island.Counting the time, Ye Tang died young, and since then Wang Qian'an has never stopped thinking about returning to the Central Plains.

Yu Lan was entrusted by Wang Qian'an to leave Wangyue Island with the other half of "The Book of Blue Falling Heaven", met Liu Laigui, and settled in Chang'an, thinking that from now on she would be safe and secure for the rest of her life, and would never be disturbed by the old grievances of her teacher.

Sheng Tianya left the island many times to find Yu Lan but failed. It wasn't until he heard about her death that he became interested and left by stealing the book.

When Sheng Tianya left, Wang Qian'an was seriously injured, and Yi Chunqiu had a knot in his heart ever since.She sent someone to find Yu Lan's son, and received careful teaching from her side, but she still refused to tell him the truth.

……why?

Liu Shiqi thought: "I'm afraid she's afraid that I'm too mother-like, and if I tell the whole story, I'll make the same mistakes again."

He sorted out everything, and suddenly realized that behind all the mess these days, there was a point that he had neglected for a long time.After pondering the truth again, looking at Feng Tingyun who was waiting for him to speak, Liu Shiqi didn't get entangled in trivial matters any more, as if he had figured it out.

Liu Shiqi said: "Brother, do you still remember the letter that Green Mountain Pavilion gave you in Yuhang?"

——The misfortune caused Xiao Qiang, if you don’t advance, you will retreat.

Although Feng Tingyun didn't know why he became normal again, he said casually: "Remember, you reminded me that it might be talking about Xie Xingzhou, but now it seems that it is indeed talking about Xie Xingzhou..."

"Not necessarily." Liu Shiqi said seriously, "My parents died 13 years ago and were killed by Zuo Nian. He himself admitted that there is no falsehood. But what did he say about 'someone deceived me'?" Innocent people’s death’, I suspect someone else was behind the death of my father and mother. Otherwise, according to the anonymity of the two of them, they only look like an ordinary couple in Chang’an, how can they have enemies?”

Liu Laigui was born in Ziyang Temple, and his master Mu Zhenzhen has high morals, and he will not make enemies with others.Although Yu Lan is a disciple of Wangyue Island, he and Liu Lai will be able to be married, so he won't be some wicked and weird person.

How could such two people provoke Zuo Nian and be regarded as a wife murderer by him?

"That's right!" Feng Tingyun slapped the table and said excitedly, "You said you were only four years old at that time, that was 16 years ago——I just started learning the Beiming Sword Art, and Tai Shifu was in seclusion. Taking care of general affairs. At that time, Gong Qianying and Xuanhuang hadn't started yet, and Xingzhou had just arrived at Wangyue Island. Uncle... Sheng Tianya went to the Central Plains very frequently. But after more than a year, he seemed to have nothing to do with the Central Plains Interested."

Liu Shiqi interjected, "What if he has something to do with my parents' death? Could it be that he still has a connection with Zuo Nian?"

The two of them suddenly fell silent, as if they had been wandering around for many years, and it was only now that they realized that their understanding of that uncle was better than nothing.As for others, I don't know what to do.

After a long time, Feng Tingyun said resolutely: "I have to go to Master, otherwise she thought she could stay out of it."

Liu Shiqi reminded him: "You are still being grounded."

Feng Tingyun looked at him helplessly: "Junior Brother, please, I'll sneak out, so just pretend you didn't see it, okay?"

Those disputes became nothing worth mentioning. Liu Shiqi nodded, turned his back and stopped looking at him, and looked at the ornaments on Feng Tingyun's bookshelf.He heard the subtle sound of Feng Tingyun changing clothes behind him, and after looking around for a while, he was suddenly attracted by a pair of jade ring fingers placed on the top floor.

Liu Shiqi raised his hand to touch it, but in the end he didn't put it down, and said, "Senior brother, this pair of finger ring jade is very beautiful, and the shape is also quite unique, like Wangyou on Wangyue Island, and they can be combined into one. "

Feng Tingyun stopped for a while, and Liu Shiqi heard his voice faintly: "I bought it in Luoyang, you can take it if you like."

"Huh?" Liu Shiqi didn't expect him to say that, and hurriedly said, "I'm not trying to win people's love, but I just want to boast a little more after seeing it. Besides, this thing is very meaningful at first glance. I think you have your own. Consider."

"It used to be, but now it's gone." Feng Tingyun crossed Liu Shiqi and took down the wooden box containing the wrench, then put the two jade wrench fingers into it, and brought them under Liu Shiqi's nose, "It's useless for me to hold them. , I am very impressed with you today, and I will give you something to please you. After accepting my gift, I will not play your young master's temper easily in the future."

After all, it was still referring to the dispute between the two of them just now.Liu Shiqi couldn't help laughing, and had no choice but to take it: "It's my fault, I'm too anxious... Senior brother has a lot, please forgive me!"

This glib sentence is very unlike Liu Shiqi's style. Feng Tingyun gave him the wooden box, and when he withdrew his hand, his fingertips trembled slightly. Without saying anything else, he hurriedly said "I'm going to find Master" Go out the door.

The smell of benzoin that Feng Tingyun lighted before going to bed still lingered in the house, but it gradually dissipated after the sun was bright.

Holding the wooden box, Liu Shiqi looked at the letterhead that had fallen to the sealed Tingyun accidentally, walked over and picked it up.

He naturally recognized Xie Xingzhou's handwriting.For a moment, Feng Tingyun's panic seemed to have some connection with Yu Razhi. Liu Shiqi stood by the window, frowning, thoughtful.

There was a light rain outside the city of Yangzhou, and a few people came on horseback and stopped by the small bridge in the town.The leader saw the young man sitting in the gazebo, and got off his horse directly outside the pavilion.

"Brother." The young man stood up and bowed to him, but he heard the flute.

Yu Zheng didn't greet him, walked into the pavilion and sat on the stone bench opposite him, looked around, waved his hand to make the disciples of Wangyue Island around him retreat, and then said slowly: "Is it safe here? "

Wendi said: "There are their eyes and ears everywhere, let's do it more honestly, so as not to fall into the trap."

Yu Zheng nodded and said, "That makes sense. During your stay here, besides finding Liu Miansheng, do you have any other clues? The day before yesterday, Lingxi sent a letter back, saying that Baihutang had found something."

"Yanglou has repeatedly asked us to come here. There are people from Yangzhou city, and it is estimated that his name card will be sent to the inn before tomorrow. Brother, I only found a few details, except for Baihutang and Beichuan. Xuemen, there are a few people, I don’t know the depth, and no one has seen it before in Jianghu... I suspect it has something to do with the 'turning stars' before the talk."

He spoke in an obscure way, but Yu Zheng didn't give a shit about Wen Di: "It's the same as I guessed. But the Yang family is nothing but a group of people who see profit and forget righteousness, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Shang Zihuai and Xi Lanyu are sold in gourds What kind of medicine is the key."

Wen Di nodded: "Yes, I will continue to investigate."

Yu Zheng thought for a while, and pointed out: "You try to ask Miaoyin Pavilion. Before coming to Yangzhou, Chu Henshui asked someone to send a letter to me. They may also have doubts about this."

"Pavilion Master Chu." Wen Di smiled pointedly, "How dare you provoke her?"

Yu Zheng scolded him with a cold face pretending to be serious: "Shut up."

Wendi's pair of phoenix eyes are especially beautiful when he smiles. He turned his eyes, stood up and took the lancet on the table: "Since this is the case, I must go to the place where the girls of Miaoyin Pavilion are staying. Brother, You are the head of the sect now, and many things cannot be avoided, so what are you going to do?"

"Master never taught me to hide and hide." Yu Zheng said simply.

"I understand." Wendi said, and took off the bamboo hat and coir raincoat from the side, "It's rainy in spring in the south of the Yangtze River. If you take care of A Ci's body, he might not get used to it—brother, even if you don't care about yourself, you still think about him to some extent." .”

Yu Zheng's expression was calm, but his voice softened: "Thank you."

He watched Wendi's figure disappear into the green willows in the south of the Yangtze River like smoke, as if he was very lonely.The fog at dusk filled the air, and it was a bit chilly in spring.

Yu Zheng sat in the gazebo for a long time before getting up and leaving. When he returned to the inn, a junior sister asked: "Brother Wen still refuses to come back? How could he be like this? Everyone knows that the senior brother in charge doesn't mind—"

"Chen Huan, there's no need to say more." Yu Zheng poured a cup of hot tea calmly, "It's not like you haven't heard what others say about him. How did such a thing happen before on the twelfth floor? Even though Master made a lot of mistakes, It is also expected that they will not forgive Wendi, don't force him. He is still my junior, I will protect him."

Chen Huan wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Yu Zheng: "Go and rest, people from Yanglou will probably come tomorrow."

There was no one else in the box, Yu Zheng drank the hot tea quietly, the door was knocked three times, two long and one short, trying to get a secret signal for the appointment.He stood up and opened the door, his originally indifferent expression suddenly became vivid.

A plain white figure flashed in from outside the door, closed the door with his backhand and hooked Yu Zheng's neck: "Brother Zheng, have you seen Senior Brother Wen?"

"Yeah." Yu Zheng put his arms around Mo Ci's waist, took him to the table and put him down, "You can eat some snacks, you won't be able to eat until later——Wendi went to investigate the Beichuan school."

He said these words to Mo Ci before, and the other party didn't have any doubts, just took a piece of chestnut cake and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Just now when I came, I heard them gossip about Senior Brother Wen, saying that he is a traitor , Leaving Xixiu Mountain can be regarded as self-knowledge, so what do they know..."

Yu Zheng said: "Don't dare to talk nonsense, don't argue with them, that's what Wendi also means."

Mo Ci took a sip of tea and said, "I understand, but I still feel uncomfortable. Brother Zheng, what do you think Brother Wen is up to? The head is gone, and he is the only disciple in Xixiu Mountain who can fold flowers. "

He said this unintentionally, but hearing it in Yu Zheng's ears, he couldn't help but make his mind "click", and immediately thought about a lot of long conversations with Wen Di, and the book of folded flowers that Wen Di put in his room Holding the martial arts map in his hand, he pressed his eyebrows and said: "My school's martial arts has always been the highest "Heaven and Earth Kungfu". Folding flower hands is just a gimmick, so don't learn from them."

"Hey..." Mo Ci said awkwardly, he looked around Yu Zheng's room, and then he showed his true face that he didn't want to drink, and pulled Yu Zheng's sleeve, "My room is with Senior Brother Xu. Yes, he snores loudly at night..."

Yu Zheng couldn't help laughing, and raised his hand to wipe away the crumbs of the chestnut cake on the corner of his mouth: "Got it, come and sleep with me."

After he said this, Mo Ci leaned closer obediently, biting Yu Zheng's lips, a sweet taste came from the tip of his tongue, a little greasy.Yu Zheng's fingertips went around his black hair, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing by the window.

A heart sank down.

The night finally came, and Wendi walked in the alley, no longer wearing the ordinary clothes of the disciples on the twelfth floor, but changed into night clothes. The black bunt and bamboo hat almost made him blend into the deep night.

Walking forward quickly for a while, a small stone suddenly popped up at his feet. Hearing the flute, he stopped and looked in the direction of the stone.

One leaned against the wall and whistled frivolously at him.

Wen Di walked over, the alley was adjacent to the street, not far away, the watchman and night guards walked by with lanterns, a harmonious mass of light.The man's face was covered with a stiff disguise, but his voice was clear: "Wen Shaoxia, is the feeling of a lost dog better?"

"You are Xuanhuang's senior brother? Are you more timid than him if you don't show your true colors?"

The man said with a smile: "It's not that you are afraid that you will never forget Wen Shaoxia, and you will temporarily betray someone just like last time in Linzi."

Wen Di snorted coldly: "I thought the deal with you was over."

"I'm afraid you regret it. If you have anything to do with him, how will you explain it in the future?" The man suddenly thought of something, leaned closer to hear the flute, and the two noses were almost touching. He said in a deep voice, "Our old debt has not yet been settled It's settled, Zuo Nian is dead, but you didn't give us "Heaven and Earth Same Life", Wen Shaoxia should have some consideration in his heart."

Wen Di: "What are you threatening me with?"

The man's eyes were extremely bright behind the clumsy mask, shining shrewdly, and said: "I'm afraid it's not good for Liu Miansheng to know that you and Sheng Tianya have been in contact with Sheng Tianya intermittently for more than a year?"

Wendi frowned, and pressed his fingers on the scabbard slightly, but was blocked by the man.

"What kind of enmity between Sheng Tianya and Liu Miansheng, you have checked it yourself, so you don't need to go into details. So I would like to advise you, the sooner the "Heaven and Earth Live Together" is handed over to us, the better, don't delay."

As soon as he finished speaking, he had already leaped a few feet with his strength, Wen Di tightly grasped the two stars in his sleeve like rain, but when he punched out, he only heard the sound of falling, and hurt his own palm instead.

After Wendi spread his hand, a little blood oozes out from where the palm lines were cut.