Under the night sky, the handsome and upright young man looked at her calmly, his eyes reminded Xie Linyun of many times in the past, the two of them chatted under the moon.

She opened her mouth and found herself speechless.

And he was not surprised by this, he lowered the corners of his eyes slightly, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes.

The next moment, he held the clear and moist jade flute and continued: "You think I'm deliberately making you uncomfortable, and that's not wrong."

Although Xie Linyun had already confirmed this point, but hearing him say it, she subconsciously opened her eyes wide.

Seeing this, Huang Yaoshi pursed his lips, and said again: "But you said that I will not let you go, that I will not let you have a better life, but you are saying the opposite."

"Ayun." He called her after a long absence, "I decided to leave just because I wanted to let you go."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Linyun's breathing was already tense.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

This question made Huang Yaoshi a little unsure where to start.

It can be said that it has been said, and it is meaningless to give up halfway.

Huang Yaoshi thought about this, lowered his eyes and said: "I originally thought that although you were devoted to martial arts, you did not throw away other things at the same time. After a long time, I will always have a chance to talk to you slowly."

"Perhaps at that time, it is not impossible between you and me?"

Xie Linyun didn't know how to judge this hypothesis, so he could only remain silent.

Fortunately, he didn't need her to say anything, so he paused for half a breath before continuing.

He said but you tell me, as long as there is a chance to go back, you will definitely go back.

As soon as these words came out, Xie Linyun recalled this conversation that she had never paid attention to in the blink of an eye.

Is it because of this?She froze in place again, her expression couldn't tell whether it was more shock or more stunned.

"I..." After recovering, she instinctively wanted to explain, "I was worried about my master and me—"

"I understand." Huang Yaoshi interrupted her, "Your master must be worried about your sudden disappearance. You have said it more than once."

Xie Linyun was suddenly at a loss for words.

Seeing her in such embarrassment, Huang Yaoshi actually laughed again, the voice sounded a bit cheerful.

"I also understand that I can't keep you." He said again, "In your heart, the weight of a friend is absolutely impossible to compare with your teachers, isn't it?"

Xie Linyun wanted to say that this should not be compared together, but it was only on the verge of his mouth that he suddenly realized that for Huang Yaoshi, this comparison is inevitable.

As long as she has the chance to go back, she must make a choice.

And what her choice would be, they both knew.

As for the possibility that she might be trapped here for the rest of her life and never go back, it couldn't be used as an excuse.

What a proud person Huang Yaoshi is, how could he bet such an important relationship on an uncertain future.

What's more, even if she took ten thousand steps back, she really couldn't shatter the void, and she might not be with him.

He saw her too clearly.

Then a decisive decision was made that was good for both of them.

If she hadn't insisted on asking for a reason, they should never have seen each other again.

"The other day I heard you talk about your real background, and I thought about it for a long time." Huang Yaoshi said, "In the end, I thought, since this is the case, I might as well let you go and let me go."

The atrium fell silent.

The two were still looking at each other with a distance of ten feet.

Xie Linyun stood there in a daze, clenched his hands into fists several times, but couldn't find a word to turn him around.

She traveled thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River, seeking a reason, saying that she just wanted to know how she died, but deep down in her heart, she always thought that there might be room for redemption.

As she said before, she genuinely befriended this person and hoped they would continue to be friends.

But now that she knows the whole story, it means that it is impossible to recover.

Not only because she may not stay in this world, but also because she can't have the cheek to ask someone who likes her to stay by her side all the time.

After realizing this, Xie Linyun suddenly woke up from his daze.

For a moment, she even regretted the trip.

"I thought very well." Huang Yaoshi said again, "But I really left, and I'm not quite reconciled."

Even if Xie Linyun was beaten to death, he would never have expected that the three words "unreconciled" would come out of Huang Yaoshi's mouth one day.

But he did say it, and he repeated it.

He said: "Because of this reluctance, after returning to Jiangnan, I asked Uncle Zhu to go to Dongting; I also mentioned to Hong Qi who was going to compete for the Nine Yin Scriptures that I would never cook again. .”

Xie Linyun: "...You did it on purpose. You know he can't hide his words. When he goes to Dongting, he will definitely mention your words."

Huang Yaoshi admitted generously: "Yes."

At that time, he had already made a decision and left her, but when he dreamed back at midnight and was in a trance at leisure, he would still think of many things related to her.

Practicing the sword, learning the xiao, and even opening up a deserted island as a new home can't relieve the unwillingness to leave.

"I've never been a magnanimous person." He said, "When facing you, I can't help but care about it. It seems that if I make you unhappy and uncomfortable, I don't think I lost too badly."

In the end, his voice gradually became weaker, but his expression became much more relaxed.

Seeing him like this, Xie Linyun suddenly no longer regretted it.

After asking for thousands of miles, although she didn't get the result she wanted, she finally had a good word with this person in front of her.

For him, it was also a relief in a way.

"I understand what you mean." She said softly, "Actually, on the way down to the south of the Yangtze River, I often wonder if I'm the only one still suffering, and you don't care about what happened back then."

As a result, after meeting and talking, I realized that this was not the case.

At Nanhu at noon, she was caught in the rain, but he still warmed up wine for her. She was very happy at that time.

When Huang Yaoshi heard this, a look of loneliness appeared in his eyes again.

After a long time, he spoke again, and said in a low voice, "I didn't expect you to come to me."

What he didn't say was that when he saw her appearing on the South Lake, he almost moved to find an excuse to reconnect with her, in exchange for a day-to-day idea.

But this idea finally broke on her intuitive guess.

Xie Linyun wasn't stupid, Huang Yaoshi thought, she just really didn't care about him, so she treated him as a friend from the beginning to the end.

Whether there is a chance to go back, whether or not to miss the teacher in another world, are not the real reasons why they can't stay together for a long time.

His original decision was right.

When the two talked to the end, the moon had already set in the west.

Xie Linyun heard the cicadas singing gradually in the forest outside the house, almost trying to cover up the noisy wind before dawn.

She turned her head and listened for a moment, then suddenly remembered that this was a sign of the approaching rainstorm, the driver on the way to the south of the Yangtze River had mentioned it.

Looking up, the two of them actually spoke at the same time.

"It is going to rain."

"It's a sign of rain."

There is no need to say the rest in unison, Xie Linyun simply turned around and walked back.

After only two steps, he suddenly called her to a halt.

She looked back and found that he had put away the jade flute at some point, his wide sleeves were fluttering in the wind, his expression was far away, and he couldn't see the slightest intention to say anything else.

But if he really didn't want to say anything, why did he stop her?

When standing still and waiting for him to speak, Xie Linyun suddenly realized for some reason that the distance between them was farther than before.

It was so far away that she could hardly distinguish his flickering eyes at the moment.

Finally she heard him sigh.

"Nothing," he said, "you go and rest."

Xie Linyun hummed and continued walking towards her temporary residence.

She didn't know what she was thinking, but by the time she realized it, she had turned her head again.

Huang Yaoshi was still there without moving.

He looked at her and saw Xia Yu, who had built up momentum all night, falling down gently.

Xie Linyun moved quickly and didn't get much drenched.

At the last hour before dawn, she was lying on the bed, thinking that she would toss and turn and would not be able to sleep, but she fell into a dream accompanied by the sound of rain.

This dream was lacklustre, and it was not at all as attractive as the porridge powder outside the dream, so that she woke up before the hour came.

Opening her eyes, the old man who told her about the origin of the handkerchief last night had indeed brought in breakfast.

Compared with last night, the other party is no longer warm this morning, only polite.

No matter how slow Xie Linyun was, she could still detect the difference. She thought it must be what Huang Yaoshi had said to him.

Sure enough, after scooping up a bowl of porridge for her, the old man lowered his eyes and talked about Huang Yaoshi.

The old man said: "Miss, use more. My young master said, you have to go on the road again today. Use more, and the road will be more comfortable."

Xie Linyun understood, this meant urging her to leave.

She thought for a while, then took out the blue handkerchief again, handed it to the old man, and asked her to return it to Huang Yaoshi.

I thought the other party would be hesitant, but the old man took it without being surprised at all, obviously knowing that she would return the handkerchief.

Xie Linyun had to admit that Huang Yaoshi really knew himself very well.

She handed over the handkerchief, drank two more bowls of porridge, and thanked him solemnly after drinking.

As a show of politeness, she even praised the porridge for its excellent cooking.

The old man had lowered his eyes, but when he heard this compliment, he suddenly raised his eyes, with a hesitant expression.

Seeing this, Xie Linyun probably guessed who made the porridge in front of him.

She was a little sad in her heart, it was not as good as when the sky fell apart when she was cut off, and it was not as good as the trance when she found out his true purpose, it was just pure sadness.

When she was leaving, she changed back into her own clothes and walked all the way through the halls and yards, but she didn't see the person who confessed to her last night.

But there is nothing wrong with that, she thought, no farewell is the real farewell.

After a heavy rain, the bamboo forest was muddy and slippery, making it extremely difficult to walk.

Fortunately, she didn't know Qimen Formation at all, and she couldn't rely on walking to leave this place.

When she raised her breath and flew over the bamboo forest, she heard the sound of a flute coming from the house.

It was a tune she had never heard before, with ups and downs, and the high-pitched part aroused wild sparrows in the forest.

Xie Linyun was still thinking about where she would go after leaving here.After finally coming out, she didn't want to go back to Dongting right away.

Later, when she saw this group of wild sparrows soaring up and almost covering the sky and heading south, she made up her mind.

But her carriage was still parked by the restaurant by the South Lake, and she had to explain it before going south.

The reason why she said confession was because she decided not to take a carriage anymore, but to buy a horse and go alone.

The coachman was brought out from Dongting, usually under Wuming's jurisdiction, but he was obedient, and when he learned that she wanted to go alone, he didn't stop him at all, he just asked her: "Does that villain go back to Dongting first, or is he in Jiaxing?" Waiting for you?"

Xie Linyun thought about it and said you should go back.

"I will go back to Dongting later, so I probably won't leave from Jiangnan."

"By the way." She remembered a very important thing, "Although there is a carriage, if you drive back alone, you will need money on the way. I will give you some."

"Don't bother the owner of the lake!" The coachman bent down in fear, "Before the villain set out, he took some money from the manager for the journey."

"Really? Then it's okay if I don't give it to you?" Xie Linyun asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, of course it's okay." The coachman should be fast, and then he said: "It's the owner of the lake, you go alone, you must not be short of money."

Xie Linyun: "It's okay, I still have a lot of money. When I run out of money, I will go back."

After explaining this, she felt that she had said almost the same thing, and they could go their separate ways.As a result, the coachman stopped her again, saying that he had something to report.

Xie Linyun: "What's the matter?"

Coachman: "It's Young Master Fei. He came back from the lake yesterday and told me to wait for the owner of the lake. At dawn this morning, he entered the South Lake again. The villain guessed that he might be looking for the owner of the lake. Come back, now it's almost an hour, why don't you see Young Master Fei, tell him before leaving?"

On the way from Yueyang to Jiangnan, the coachman also witnessed Xie Linyun's care for A Fei. He felt that at the time of parting, she should be willing to talk to A Fei before leaving.

But Xie Linyun shook his head after hearing his words.

"No need." She said, "I said goodbye to him yesterday, you wait for him to come back, tell him that everything is fine, let him go about his life with peace of mind, and don't need to look for me."

"...Yes." The coachman had no choice but to answer.

In fact, when Xie Linyun turned to go to the other side of the street, A Fei also just came back from the other side of the South Lake.

The two of them were only half a stick away from meeting each other, but because Xie Linyun walked so resolutely, they didn't meet in the end.

Xie Linyun wanted to buy a horse at first, but along the way, he heard people talking about the boat going to Songjiang, so he was about to leave. He hesitated for a moment, and boarded the boat together.

It doesn't take long for a ship to go from Jiaxing to Songjiang, but after arriving in Songjiang, there are big ships going into the sea.

She picked a boat from the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and planned to float on the sea for a while, no matter where she went.

This is a caravan cargo ship, and it only carries passengers because it wants to earn a little extra money.

The guests on board were also a mixed bag, with all kinds of teachings and nine streams.

On Xie Linyun's first day on board, he was stopped by a burly man with a scarred face and made a molestation statement.

She was so annoyed that she simply smashed the big man's meteor hammer in front of the whole crew, in order to warn the others on the boat not to think about her.

I have to say that this method is very effective. At least for seven consecutive days in the East China Sea, she lived very peacefully, and the other people on the boat almost walked around her.

After another seven or eight days, the ship entered the boundary of the South China Sea.

There are many hidden reefs at the junction of the two seas, and the speed of the boat will naturally slow down. Xie Linyun took this opportunity to go to the deck to get some fresh air.

When she was about to go back to the room, she heard a burst of shouting and cursing from the other side, in Wu dialect.

She listened to a few words, and only understood the two sentences "bastard" and "don't run". Following the voice, she found a little boy about five or six years old, with delicate eyebrows and eyes, looking in her direction come running.

She has good eyesight, and she can tell at a glance that the material of the clothes on this child is very unusual, and even looks familiar.

Take a closer look, isn't that material the same as what Duan Zhixing often wears?

But the two youths who were chasing after the child were dressed in rags, and they had vicious expressions on their faces——

Could it be a trafficker?Xie Linyun thought quickly and frowned.

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