refuse to be a teacher

It is a long-term residence in the southeast, with blue lights surrounding the banks of the Huoshui River on the outside, and white walls and light gauze on the inside, and the forest is as blue as washing.

Xue Lan followed Yi Shangxian all the way because of anxiety, but saw that the place where he lived was deserted and deserted, and there were many single courtyards, most of which were used to store books and swords. The two ponds also have a different scene.

Yi Shangxian walked steadily, with his clothes fluttering, while Xue Lan was stumbling on his heels, turning his head every three steps, and sneaking a peek in the direction of Yan Jue from time to time.

After a while, Yi Shangxian suddenly stopped, turned to Xue Lanyin and said, "Do you want to leave or not?"

Xue Lan hesitated because of his expression, "I..."

Yi Shangxian didn't wait for him to finish, and then said: "I lead you to see the master, but you are here hesitating, what do you look like?"

Xue Lanyin paused for a moment, stopped in her tracks, and said slowly: "Master still trapped you in the barrier, so I just came out, he..."

"What are you panicking about?" Yi Shang said contemptuously, "That trash can't go anywhere."

"Tsk, that's not what I meant." Xue Lan frowned and said, "You never thought of taking his life, so why don't you let him go free?"

"Huh?" Yi Shangxian said in surprise, "That's not the case. You stay alone, and I let him go. You can go anywhere you want."

He originally used it to ridicule and joke, but Xue Lanyin readily agreed: "Okay."

Yi Shangxian looked back at him.

A large flood of beams of light shrouded the young man's handsome eyebrows and eyes into fragments, hastily split and rejoined, like a broken dream.

In the end, Yi Shangxian just sneered, waved his hands and said: "Forget it, if you are willing to stay, he may not be willing to leave."

——His heart is firmly tied to you, even if the road ahead is full of thorns and thorns, as long as it is for you alone, he can walk straight on.

Xue Lan wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yi Shangxian shaking his head.

"Your name is Xue Lanyin?" Yi Shang said leisurely.

Xue Lan thought for a while, but was not sure: "...Yes."

"Do you know why I want to ask knowingly?"

"I don't know."

Yi Shangxian squinted his eyes, looked up at the specks of thin sunlight among the clouds, and suddenly, not knowing why, he uttered a line of poetry:

"The sky is full of smoke and stars, and the setting sun is green and suddenly turns into haze."

Because Xue Lan didn't know what it meant, she wondered, "...what?"

"Master went on a trip to the north and brought back an extremely precious piece of top-grade porcelain. He once praised it as 'like jade but not jade, and it is completely natural'. To describe the porcelain itself." Yi Shang said idlely, "It's a pity that there was an accident on the way of transportation, and most of it was broken by that bastard horse driver. From then on, it has become a fly in the ointment, and there are still shortcomings."

Xue Lan was puzzled and said, "What does that have to do with my name?"

Yi Shang was halfway through the gossip, but no longer gave any answers.After being silent for a while, he only said: "16 years ago, there was a great chaos at the bottom of Xixin Valley. You were implicated in this and lost your life. Later, you were lucky enough to recover half of your soul, but there is not much memory left of the past. The moment Yan Jue took you out of the valley, it was exactly the same time as listening to you. Not long after the first battle of the Taiyi Sword Sect, he was covered in scars and was chased and killed by people from all walks of life. He dragged a half-dead you by his side—afterwards, it was the master who went to help him escape and saved the lives of both of you. I just made an oath with him, asking him not to set foot in the outside world again."

16 years ago...

Everyone said so, because Xue Lan was in a trance, she really felt that she had lived for more than 16 years.

In other words, the memory of the past is like a net, what is important, it tends to miss.Xue Lan lowered her head to stare at her hands, and then kept going down all the way, staring at a pair of toes on the ground.

The young man's face was delicate and unmarked, whether it was sixteen or twenty-six, he didn't remember the number he said casually anyway, but it passed so vaguely that he didn't bother to delve into it.

"All of you say 16 years. In the final analysis, what happened the day Master slaughtered the Lingtai Yijian School? How did I die without a whole body?"

Xue Lanyin thought that Yi Shangxian was a sober and sensible person, but he laughed sarcastically, and instead squinted at Xue Lanyin and said: "What happened, how do I know? Ask your master."

"You..." Xue Lanyin said angrily, "I thought you knew everything."

Yi Shang mocked: "What can I know? I just cleaned up the mess for that trash——Master, the old man has managed to accumulate so much virtue in his life, and let that trash be corrupted in a few moments, you have the face Ask me what he did?"

Because Xue Lan sniffed, she felt that Yan Jue was degraded to nothing by him.After a while, he suddenly remembered something, looked directly at Yi Shang and said: "You don't know about my master, but those related to the master...you should know a little bit, right?"

Yi Shangxian raised his eyebrows and said, "Why, did Yan Jue really take you as his apprentice? Didn't he ever tell you anything?"

"..." Xue Lan was speechless.

But seeing Yi Shangxian closed his eyes, his voice was immediately tinged with obvious reverence and solemnity, and said:

"Twenty years ago, the Jielong Seal appeared secretly in the area of ​​the Baiwu tribe in the Northern Territory. However, due to the covetousness of various forces, the Baiwu tribe's final choice was to fully disclose the Jielong Seal to everyone, and let those with the ability Those who break the seal come to compete fairly one by one. However, the so-called "fairness" itself is not fair. Everyone wants to take the dragon seal as their own. Excessive confession and strife have caused a bloody storm in the arena. .”

At that time, Xia Guang was faint and bleak, each tearing and splashing between the pillars with high heads inside and outside the Changxing Residence, like the bloody light left by the blade after sprinting away.

"The first one who broke the rules and tried to win with magic was him from the Northwest Zhufeng Sect. A group of people with ulterior motives headed by his left protector, Wen Pianhong, used the forbidden technique to arrest two living creatures who lived in seclusion. The people of the Sword Clan tried to use blood to awaken the Jielong Yin, which was closely related to it. But the plan was revealed in the middle, and Wen Pianhong made one of them escape because of a personal mistake, and his whereabouts have not been found so far. The crowd chased him to death—and the other living sword clansman was rescued by Mo Fuqiu and my master, and placed at the bottom of Xixin Valley."

Xue Lan woke up suddenly from his long and boring narration. Only then did he realize that the other living sword clansman he was talking about was himself.

He blinked his eyes, and wanted to listen to Yi Shangxian to explain the next thing together.But this half-breathing old man always stopped in the middle of his speech, and this time, there was still a bit of complex and contradictory arrogance and sadness on his face:

"Once Jielongyin was born, the world will be in chaos for a long time and it will be difficult to calm down. Master is compassionate and chivalrous, and can't bear to see the world fight like this, so he uses all his cultivation to introduce the toxin of Jielongyin into his body, and suffers its backlash with his own power After suffering, he poured all his soul into the sword of Feng Aisu, drew the sword and killed himself-the Jielong Seal was released, and it was also destroyed by Feng Aisu's sword at the same time, and there is no trace to be found. This method of breaking the seal is cruel To the extreme, very few people could bear it, so for a hundred years, he was the only one who successfully detoxified and quelled disputes, but now...he has also lost his body because of this, only surviving a wisp of remnant soul in the Sword Suppressing Terrace, which can take shape once every half a year... ..."

"Slow, slow." Xue Lan's expression was stiff, and after a long time, that long-stopped head vaguely recalled some long-term and faint messages, "You just said that Jielong, who was born last time, The seal, was it master... who took his life to undo it?"

Yi Shang said casually: "What?"

Xue Lan said: "Dare to ask the master... your name?"

Yi Shang laughed casually, seemingly bitterly, yet proudly said: "The successor of the Feng'ai Sword of the Qin family, the single name is returned."

"Qin... still?"

Xue Lan seemed to be very surprised because her pupils shrank.

As early as the first meeting with those two Baiwu people a few months ago, they mentioned the name Qin Huan many times.At that time, I only knew that this person had a very close relationship with Yan Jue, and Yan Jue kept emphasizing that Qin was still a "deceased person", so Xue Lanyin never thought of that point at all.

Looking at it now, these people really have mysteries everywhere in their words, and if they are not careful, they can be fooled casually, whether it is intentional or unintentional.

While they were talking, the two had already walked outside Zhenjiantai. Yi Shangxian immediately stopped laughing and bowed his head in a respectful gesture. Because Xue Lan couldn't keep chatting with him, she turned her lips together and stood quietly in front of the crowd. under the foot steps.

At this time, just after noon, the sky was shining like thorns, directly illuminating a lotus pond outside the house with green and tender green waves, boundless blue waves.Seeing the smog around the water, there is a person sitting upright, with silver-white hair winding down to the ground, his back is light and almost invisible, holding a ten-foot bamboo fishing rod in his hand, squinting his eyes, I don't know whether to stay by the pond and fish, or wait for the fish to catch him.

Yi Shangxian took a step forward, cupped his hands and said, "Master."

After all, the old man is an old man, so it's just that he can't remember things, and his ears are hard of hearing.Yi Shangxian yelled several times behind him, his throat was almost dry. After some time, the old man tremblingly put down the fishing rod, turned to Yi Shangxian and said, "...Yu'er is here?"

Yi Shangxian's eyes dimmed, and he said, "He's not here, Master."

Xue Lan was puzzled because she was listening, so she asked in her heart, who is Yu'er?After thinking for a long time, he remembered that in the sword suppressing platform the day before yesterday, it was his "or jade" that called the old man "Qin Huan" out of the pile of wooden swords.

Yuer?What a name!

Xue Lanyin couldn't hold back a chuckle, and suddenly heard Yi Shangxian continue: "Maybe he didn't come, but... the apprentice brought Xue Lanyin here." The voice stopped for a moment, Fang continued He added, "Lan Yin, do you still remember? Your old man always missed it some time ago, remember?"

Qin Huan was obviously taken aback, then closed his eyes and began to meditate.Fortunately, although he is old, he has not forgotten all the things he should not forget. After a long time, he slowly stretched out his hand from his sleeve and said to Xue Lanyin: "...Lan Yin? Lan Yin is good Ah...Lan Yin, very good, good..."

He said "Okay" three times in a row, but in the end, Xue Lanyin didn't see what was so good about it.He stretched out his hand and grabbed Qin Huan's back.Qin Huan's hands were very cold. Xue Lan tried many times but failed to touch the smoky soul shape, so she could only grasp and clasp in vain, while nodding to Qin Huan and saying, "Master."

Qin Huan raised his head lightly, and glanced at Yi Shangxian as if intentionally or unintentionally, Yi Shangxian immediately understood, bowed slightly to salute, then retreated a little farther away, and then stood silently outside the sword-suppressing platform, not getting close Go ahead and bother.

Xue Lan glanced at Yi Shangxian from a distance, and then squatted back quietly, next to Qin Huan, and called out again honestly: "Master, Shizu."

Unexpectedly, the old man closed his eyes twice, and began to get confused again.He was stunned for a while, seeing that Xue Lan was here, he muttered deliriously: "Is Yu'er here?"

——I didn't realize that Yan bullied him, a rebellious apprentice who had gone astray, and Qin still cared about him?

Xue Lan gave a wry smile and didn't know how to answer for a while.However, after contemplating it for a while, he suddenly had an idea, and posted it, and said shamelessly as usual: "Master, disciple, I dare to ask a question...Yu'er, who is it?"

Qin also looked sideways at him.The gray hair fell down from the forehead, dripped in the water, and a slender strand hung on the half-folded leaf stem in the lotus pond. I didn't know it, but I thought it was the remnants of the broken lotus root.

"Yu'er, he is my good apprentice."

he said softly.

"...or jade." Xue Lan's lips curled up, but her gentle brows gradually twisted into a ball, "Paintings will be destroyed for a long time, and heavy weapons will never be destroyed... Master, is that so?"

Upright and bright, he is like jade, kind and everything is spring.

——It's like Yan bullying this person, surprised by his talent and elegance, and his deep-seated tenderness.

Qin hasn't spoken yet.I don't know if I was stunned again, or I forgot the words, for a long time, a series of laughter came from my throat, long and bitter.

Instead of laughing, it seemed to be whimpering.

"A person who looks like jade but is not jade, or who is jade, can be deceived, but can't be deceived." Qin Huan said quietly, "That's why when he came to worship at the beginning of my school, I gave him the name of cheating. I wanted to hope for him In the future, the heart knot will be cleared, and there will be no more pain and torment——now, it seems that he doesn't want to see me, but he has involved himself again, bullying himself, and it will be a pity in the end..."