[Sword Three] Baili Maple

Chunlan Qiuju, summer breeze, three stars looking at the moon hanging in the night sky.

Hua Ling practiced light kung fu when she was a child, and her senior brother once took her to the top of the Star Picking Tower. Standing there and looking up at the sky, she would find that the twinkling stars seemed to be really close at hand, within reach, and compared with the vast night sky , My own existence is as small as these stars.

Since then, if there is no rain in the night, Xiao Hualing will often sneak to the roof to watch the stars.

Later when the villain came, he would sit with her on the roof, and sometimes he would play the flute for her.

The wind in the valley made the clothes flutter.

The little girl was playing the flute, and the long sound of the flute drifted away with the wind, and she didn't know where it landed.

Amu searched for flowers and couldn't hear them, but still heard the sound of the flute and came all the way. The 16-year-old boy has grown very tall, and he is no longer the child who would compete with the little girl for height.

He stood downstairs and looked up to the top of the building. Under the night, the girl in a black robe seemed to be hidden in the night sky, only the sound of the flute was floating.

He listened quietly for a while, until the flute stopped, and then said, "A Ling, Master is looking for you."

Hua Ling lifted her breath and fell from the top of the building, and the mountain breeze blew her sleeves and robes, and Amu was a little dumbfounded.

"Go here."

The little girl landed beside Ah Mu, put away the flute and answered.

Amu looked at the flute she put away carefully, and said casually as she walked, "When did you learn to play the flute?"

"Can't I like it?"

The little girl glanced at him and hummed.

"Oh?"

Amu had a half-smile, "I couldn't recite the piano score at the beginning because I hated the rhythm, and the piano test was passed by the piano master's preference, and I don't know who it is?"

The little girl was at a loss for words, and after a while she flicked her sleeves and said angrily, "This happened so many years ago, Amu, why do you keep remembering this!"

Seeing the little girl becoming angry from embarrassment, Amu smiled lightly, took the lead to board the Lingyun Tianche, turned to look at her and said, "Ah Ling, your temperament has not changed much over the years."

Seeing Lingyun Tianche swaying towards the bottom, the little girl who was left behind was a little stunned.

"Big villain, Mu said I haven't changed much,"

She didn't look back, she just tilted her head subconsciously, and asked, "Why do I feel that Amu is still the original Amu, but I am no longer the carefree Ah Ling?"

"Little Ling'er doesn't need to think too much,"

The person who had been hiding behind said with a slight smile in his voice, "People will change slowly over time, and the changes are good and bad."

"Then Ah Ling's change, is it good or bad?"

Hua Ling whispered as if sighing, "Am I becoming more and more different from the 'Hua Ling' you know?"

"Ye Feng" looked at the little girl's back, and replied after a moment of silence, "You don't have to care about this, as you said yourself, you are you, you don't need to be like anyone, and you don't need to deliberately avoid it. change yourself."

Amidst the creaking sound of the rotating shaft, the empty crane turned back again, and the little girl stepped into it, stretching out her hand to turn the mechanism.

Lingyun Tianche took her once again wobbling downwards.

"I haven't deliberately changed. What I want to do is what I want to do, and I have never violated my will." Hua Ling closed her eyes and felt the long-lost mountain breeze, and then slowly opened her eyes. open your eyes.

"Big villain, I don't blame you anymore."

She said, "Ah Ling should be grateful to you for taking care of me and accompanying me. Even in the beginning, you took extra care of me because of my relationship with her."

"It's just that in the heart of a little girl, when someone treats each other so tenderly when the love is just beginning, it is inevitable that some charming thoughts will arise."

The little girl smiled, turned her head to look at the person beside her, her eyes were still bright black, and the haze had disappeared, "But now, Ah Ling doesn't like you anymore."

The man stared at her in silence for a long time, then nodded and gave a soft "hmm".

"Because someone is nicer to me than you,"

The little girl's eyes were full of smiles, "And she treats me wholeheartedly."

"Ah."

"I didn't change my mind because he resembled you. I thought for a long time before I was sure."

She continued, "In the past few months when he was away, I often think of him. Every time I think of him, I can't help but laugh."

Thinking of the house and courtyard he built little by little on the small island for her as the young master, thinking of the fact that he was almost roasted for going to the crater to collect medicine for her, thinking of the snake gall that he was curious about because she casually mentioned it. Just holding the sword and running to fight Yamata no Orochi one-on-one...

Thinking of him carefully tying the straps when he put on her cloak, thinking of him patiently teaching her to play the flute...

"Big villain, you know that the girl you care about already has a sweetheart, why do you still treat her so well?"

"Ah Ling is not a stone. No one would be indifferent to being so cherished."

"I really miss him."

The little girl spoke slowly and earnestly.

"Ye Feng" looked at her silently until the Lingyun Skycar stopped, and the little girl had already stepped out of the Skycar.

Looking at her brisk back, the corners of his lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to laugh, but it was extremely bitter.

……

In the ninth year of Tianbao, Hualing received a gift from Jiangnan on the eve of leaving the valley.

That is a pen.Attached to the essay is Ye Feng's letter.The letter said that he personally cast it for her, and it was named Baili Maple Flower because the brush strokes were like the color of maple leaves.

The little girl took the pen, the flute, and the simple package, and happily embarked on the road to the five poisons in southern Xinjiang.

This time, it will be another three years.

……

In the 12th year of Tianbao, on the outskirts of Chengdu, far away from the bustling southwest town of Guangdu and continue southward, there is a dense forest called Wuxia Forest.

Because it is close to the road to the southern border, there are few pedestrians here, only the tall woods cover the sky, if you pass by in the dark, and hear the shrill birds singing from the woods, you may even be a tall and thick man , I also have nightmares at night.

But at this moment, there are voices in the woods, as well as the sound of horses kicking.

"I said, I'm here to pick Ah Ling and Ah Mo back to the Central Plains, you kid has followed me all the way since Luoyang, why did you follow me here?"

Leading the horse was a young man wearing apricot yellow clothes and carrying two light and heavy swords. He was riding a white horse with strange lines on his body. His feet were like the wind, and he ran fast.

"Teacher Yang's big wedding, this is a rare happy event for my Tiance Mansion and Chunyang Palace, the commander gave everyone under us a holiday,"

The person who spoke was a young man who seemed to be about the same age as the previous one. Although he was wearing ordinary clothes, his temperament and figure revealed a tough and powerful figure that only came from the army. He carried a long gun on his back and ran ahead. The young man who looked like our young master was completely different, "I have been stationed in Luoyang all the year round, and I just want to appreciate the customs and customs of the southwest Bashu."

What he was riding was a black horse with silver patterns on its body. The horse looked strong and majestic, its coat color and luster were all first-class, and it was obvious that it had been carefully cared for and fed.

The young man in yellow curled his lips indistinctly, "Li Yun, just keep talking hard, and see if you can still be so calm when you see Ah Mo."

Li Yun, a young soldier of Tiance Mansion, didn't make a sound. He lightly pulled the rein to stop the horse, and then used his internal strength to say to the person who had run a few feet away, "That's better than running like you!" The idiot who has not noticed it too far is stronger."

"If you keep running like this, you will go to Tangjiabao."

"..."

There was a sound of horse neighing in front, dust flying, and the clatter of hoofbeats came back. Not long after, Ye Feng ran back with a depressed face, "You guys are really not loyal enough, and you don't make a sound when you get to the place."

"That's because you were too nervous to watch the road,"

Li Yun pouted towards the path hidden in the mountains ahead, "Look."

"It's been three years since I left, and I'm naturally excited to see my sweetheart again,"

Ye Feng snorted and jumped off the horse, and said without hesitation, "It's you, the last time I saw Ah Mo was with us, it's been almost eight years, it's hard for you to hold on to such a stupid face."

Li Yun, who had already fastened the horse rope, glanced at him before saying indifferently, "I'm different from you."

Naturally, it is different. The Tiance Mansion was originally different from the ordinary Jianghu sects. Their duty was to maintain the stability of the Tang Dynasty and defend the country. Known as the wolf of the Eastern Capital, he doesn't care what other people think of him, as long as he has that unyielding arrogance and loyalty.

However, the Five Immortals Sect is not an ordinary Jianghu sect. It is called the "Five Poisons Sect" by the Central Plains martial arts, and it is too mysterious to be understood by people. The similar attire and Gu poison made people who don't know why put these evil things on the Five Immortals' sect, which caused the reputation of the Five Immortals' sect to be really ruined in the Central Plains.

In the early years, he was one of the famous Seven Talents in the world, and now Qu Yun, the leader of the Five Immortals Sect, was unable to be accepted by the second owner of Hidden Sword Villa, Ye Hui, because of his background.

From Li Yun's point of view, the situation might be even worse if he was in Tiance Mansion.

It's not about right or wrong, it's just about different positions.

"Yes, you are different from me,"

Ye Feng glanced at him, leaned against the tree pole, and said, "I won't be like you. I have to wait until no one is around before taking out the silver bell. Bring light and integrity with you."

What Ye Feng was talking about was a string of sword tassels that Hua Ling sent him more than a year ago. The little girl said in a letter that she learned how to weave it from a Miao girl.That sword spike has been hanging on his sword.

Li Yun's face froze, but he didn't say anything.

Back then when the few of them met in Luoyang, it was the Lantern Festival. He came to the city to play with his rare senior brother, and when he got lost because he was dazzled by the fire trees and silver flowers all over the city, he bumped into the same guy who was walking with his companion. Scattered ink.

In the end, for some reason, he was dragged by Ah Mo to the lantern festival. At the lantern festival, he fell in love with a lantern made in the shape of a pony, and he couldn't move his feet. No one has money on him.In the end, Ah Mo directly pulled the string of silver bells off his clothes and changed the lamp with the boss.

Not long afterward, Ye Feng and Hua Ling came to find him, and so did his senior brother. After the big troops reunited, he was ridiculed by his senior brother for several years because he asked a girl to buy him a lantern.

In fact, not long after that, he went to the boss to redeem the silver bell. He always wanted to return it to Qu Mo, so he always carried it with him.

But for some reason, every time he sees the silver bell, the little girl in the strange dress seems to appear in front of his eyes again, and the sound of the jingle bell seems to be that little girl bouncing and walking in front of him.

In a trance, it seemed that the silver bell sounded in his ear again...