His rhetorical question made her choke.
She was about to say something, but he had already stood up. Outside the window, the clouds were rolling and relaxing, the mist and rain were misting with spring colors, and the wind was blowing in the willows.
"It's raining. Qianshu Palace is an hour away from Shanju. Pack up and set off."
He turned around and walked out without any entanglement with her this time, leaving a room full of fragrant fragrance.
Zheng Quchi, on the other hand, stared blankly at his leaving figure, blinked his eyes, and then widened his eyes in slight surprise.
"He went to my room specially to lie down on the soft couch, Su Han revealed, just to explain this?"
Now it seems that even my temperament has become "immortal", I have realized the great truth, I am not stained by the mortal world, there is nothing... and no one.
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Zheng Quchi felt that Yu Wensheng today seemed different from before.
In fact, she couldn't say that. She didn't know the real Yu Wensheng very well. She just felt that he didn't want to see her today.
He was holding a Moshan Lake Pavilion umbrella, with a tall and straight posture, and his clothes were swaying in the breeze and water. He was walking two meters away from her. He walked slowly and slowly, but even his eyes fell on her, as if he was It's unnecessary.
She followed him silently, occasionally raising her eyes, staring at his back for a moment, and then looking away as if nothing had happened.
Walking up the mountain with him, this time of solitude is different from the time of "Liu Fengmian", and different from the time before when Yu Wensheng deliberately turned himself into "Liu Fengmian", but the real Yu Wensheng.
He won't deliberately talk to her, he won't slow down to wait for her, and he won't care about her emotions...
She knew that he must still be angry about what happened yesterday, but she was not interested at all at the moment and didn't want to be hot-faced but cold-blooded.
One person with an umbrella, one behind the other, if they didn't always keep the same pace and maintain a balanced distance, others might think that these two people are just strangers who happened to be traveling on the same road.
"Yu Wensheng..."
When they walked to Sanqing Mountain, clusters of mountain flowers filled the mountain stream, mist shrouded in Zhangzhou, and the wind mixed with drizzle lifted the white gauze. She stood below and called him.
He paused, turned his face, and looked at her: "This name is considered a cancer that needs to be eradicated quickly in the Julu Kingdom. You shouted it out without any scruples because you thought that only us people can resist it." Can you survive the giant deer army?"
Zheng Quchi was speechless, holding the umbrella handle tightly with her hands. She pursed her lips and said, "It was my fault. I won't shout like that again. I just want to ask if you have any plans that I need to cooperate with." ?"
She boldly imagined: "I heard from Fu Rong that you are going to find something very important. Do you need me to help you find out the news? Or, in other words, I can collect some information for you and explore the way. I used to..."
Yu Wensheng stared at her quietly for a moment, then turned away.
“You just have to do what you have to do well, and there’s no need to do anything else.”
She was stunned: "But Fu Rong and the others said..."
"You just need to protect yourself." Yu Wensheng interrupted her.
Their conversation ended here, and he set off again, and Zheng Quchi had no choice but to follow.
Thousand Tree Hall is not in Wujue Temple, it is on the top of Sanqing Mountain. There is a section of the way up the mountain that is particularly difficult. It leads to the cliff and is difficult and dangerous. They have to walk through a narrow plank road carved into the mountain wall.
When people walk on the plank road, they feel like they are standing on a cliff, overlooking the mountains, and suddenly feel the insignificance of everything.
Especially when it is wet and slippery due to falling rain, every step needs to be done with extra force and firmness and cannot be neglected.
When Zheng Quchi saw this plank road built with thousands of hammers, he couldn't take his eyes away and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The wisdom of the ancients has not deceived me. Even in such poor conditions, I can achieve the ability to reach the sky.
If it were her place, could it be done, and could it be achieved in a more convenient, scientific, safer and more permanent way?
There was a deep valley beneath her feet. She walked carefully and explored wildly. She held an umbrella with one hand and climbed on the rock wall with the other hand, fearing that flocks of birds would fly over and knock her down. She really experienced the most thrilling journey. .
Yu Wensheng walked forward as usual, but Zheng Quchi was frightened, fearing that he would fall into the abyss if he took a single step.
There is a section of the road ahead that is no longer paved with wooden planks. It is just a stone road cut and carved. The widest part is as long as an arm, and the narrowest part is only two palms wide. It is really getting more and more dangerous as the road goes.
Her heart was pounding, she put away the umbrella and put it in her waistband, not daring to hold her arms up with one hand anymore.
She licked her lips and moved nervously at a turtle's pace. Yu Wensheng refused to wait for her. She was also afraid of being alone behind and losing him, so she had to bite the bullet and speed up.
ah--
I don't know if it was a sharp scream from behind or below that made Zheng Quchi tremble all over.
What? !
She suddenly turned around and saw nothing strange. At this moment, a black shadow quickly hit her ears, and the sound of wind suddenly rose, causing her hair to fly.
She widened her eyes and turned her head to look down, only to see a black shadow falling from above, scratching the hem of her clothes. She was pulled down by a force, and she was caught off guard. Her feet slipped, and the person was also hit by this. A gust of wind blew him backwards.
Her pupils suddenly suffocated and her face turned pale. She looked at the bottomless depths below, and her mind went blank.
Faced with the danger of being unable to recover, people are so helpless and insignificant.
Her hand was swaying, eager to grab something, but suddenly a big hand grasped her wrist tightly, and pulled her back from the cliff wall.
She turned around and bumped into his strong chest, facing inward. She could not tell what the familiar scent of morning dew was in the past, but at this moment, her mind seemed to suddenly open up. , allowing her to smell the cool breath of blue wind chimes.
Her eyes widened, and her heartbeat felt like it was running straight for 180 miles, only to be pulled back suddenly, trapped in her chest and bumping around.
It’s Yu Wensheng.
But didn’t he already go far away before?
How could he save her in such time?
"Thanks……"
She calmed down for a while, then breathed out these two words.
Yu Wensheng allowed her to lean against him so weakly. His eyes seemed to be filled with a tight layer of mist, which made people breathless: "Watching the fun is more important than taking care of your own life?"
Zheng Quchi was frightened by his terrifying eyes. She was not watching the excitement. She clearly heard someone screaming, so she stopped. When she looked back, she was innocently implicated...
Forget it, he saved her, so she should stop arguing with him.
She was frightened just now, her palms were sweating, and now she is still unconscious.
Yu Wen Sheng saw that her lips were blue and white, and her big almond-shaped eyes were frightened. He knew that she had been frightened just now. His eyes changed several times, and finally he suppressed the blazing anger in his heart as if it was being pinched, and only uttered a warning. Said: "Don't meddle in other people's business."
He held her slender wrist. This time, he no longer looked after himself, but led her through the difficult journey.
Just now, when Zheng Quchi almost fell off the cliff, the umbrella on his waist slipped and fell into the abyss. Therefore, an umbrella was held over the heads of the two of them for the rest of the journey until they arrived in front of His Highness Qianshu's long staircase with a hundred steps.
The pattering morning rain gradually stopped, the emerald green leaves were washed and dripping with freshness, the white clouds in the sky were blown by the wind, changing in thousands of ways, and the birds in the forest were chirping, as if everything was so beautiful.
"Thank you for turning around and saving me just now."
Zheng Quchi solemnly thanked Yu Wensheng again.
Later, when she was on the road, she thought about it and understood why Yu Wensheng was able to appear by her side in such a timely manner.
Although his eyes did not fall on her, he was always "looking" at her.
Yu Wensheng put away his umbrella, and the tip of the umbrella touched the ground. The water mist gathered into a stream and fell to the ground.
He turned his face, his white clothes were whiter than the snow, and his figure was ethereal: "You don't think I went back to save you, do you?"
No, isn't it?
Zheng Quchi was suddenly confused when he asked him this question.
Seeing her blank expression, Yu Wensheng smiled happily and softly: "What are you thinking about? You are still useful to me. Of course I went back to save you."
Zheng Quchi puffed up his cheeks in anger.
He must be teasing her on purpose.
He raised his eyes and looked upward: "Let's go."
Zheng Quchi knew that he had made him angry, but he didn't expect that when he was angry, he would have such a devilish temperament of playing tricks on others. If he didn't say things carefully, he would insist on picking the thorns. The gentler his smile, the more poisonous his words would be. .
"Yu Hai, if you continue to walk like a girl, I will never care about you again!"
"...I'm sorry, my, my feet hurt. I'll try to walk faster."
Two people came from behind, one after the other. The person in front was covered in mud and ash, as if he had rolled down a slope. He was patting the ash on his body and shouting angrily.
Behind him was a man who was holding his clothes and lowering his head, looking extremely guilty.
Huh?
The man behind was not the one she stretched out her hand to hold before...what was his name?
Oh, by the way, it’s Yu Hai.
Is he also in the top ten?
I can’t tell, it’s true that a person cannot be judged by his appearance.
However, what happened to them, plus the "accident" that happened to him before, this time someone fell off the cliff on the mountain, I wonder if they will know anything?
But Zheng Quchi only thought about these things for a moment. Yu Wensheng was beside her, and she still remembered his warning just now.
"Stop meddling in other people's business."
She glanced at him quietly and stopped talking to others.
Yu Hai has a sensitive mind and is always wary of other people's eyes. He noticed that someone was looking at him and suddenly raised his head. When he saw it was Zheng Quchi, a trace of surprise suddenly flashed across his beautiful face.
"benefactor?"
He whispered softly, but when he glanced at Yu Wensheng again out of the corner of his eye, the steps he was about to take suddenly stopped, and his eyes turned, hesitating.
This shows how deeply he fears Yu Wensheng.
It was obvious that Yu Wensheng had never done anything to him.
Zheng Quchi felt strange in his heart. He couldn't help but speculate whether this person named "Yu Hai" was born with a keen eye for dangerous things, or... did he actually recognize Yu Wensheng?
When she saw him looking at her longingly, she smiled at him in greeting and without stopping, turned around and went up the steps with Yu Wensheng.
When Yuhai saw that his benefactor had just left like this, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he felt so wronged that he almost cried.
The steps leading into Qianshu Palace are roughly estimated to be over 300 steps.
When she first walked the 100th step, her calves were sore, and when she reached the 150th step, she began to sweat all over her back. When she finished walking the 333rd step, she directly found a place, sat down, and beat her head vigorously. leg.
If she hadn't practiced Jiu Ji Ji and strengthened her physique, she would have been knocked down when she climbed hundreds of steps in one go.
She looked down and saw someone crawling, and she raised her proud chin.
She is the fastest one, oh, no, the fastest one is Yu Wensheng.
She walked quickly and easily, and walked to the door of Qianshu Palace to wait for her.
After taking a short rest, she got up and went to the Thousand Trees Palace. The ground was paved with large stone squares and more than a dozen tower pillars stood in front of the palace. The plaque of "Thousand Trees Palace" was incense-colored and the words were also golden, showing a solemn and solemn look. feel.
She was originally wondering why the name was so weird. It didn't sound like the Zen names commonly used in Buddhist temples, but when she listened carefully, she found that there was something strange in it.
Before entering the palace, Zheng Quchi discussed with Yu Wensheng again: "If someone asks about you later, how should I answer?"
The people who came here today are all craftsmen who were shortlisted for the top ten. They are all streamlined. Except for one companion, they are not allowed to bring more others. Moreover, the journey to the "Thousand Trees Palace" is challenging enough. This "Jichun Craftsman" Why do you have to choose this place in the finals of "Trade Union"?
Yu Wensheng said: "Follow me."
Zheng Quchi pointed to his nose: "Am I your follower?"
When Yu Wen Sheng heard this, his smile curled up, and he asked in a funny way: "You are a follower, then who am I?"
Although he was put off by the look he looked at as an idiot, Zheng Quchi still felt that this matter simply subverted logic.
"Are you going to be my follower?"
What does she look like, what does he look like, what clothes does she wear, what clothes does he wear, she has the temperament of a commoner, and he has the temperament of a nobleman... Can she have such a famous and expensive entourage?
"Who I am does not depend on what you say, but on what they think. Don't worry too much. They will imagine the cause and effect by themselves." Yu Wensheng said casually.
Listen to this, why do you feel like "Others can think whatever they want, I don't care, and it doesn't matter." With this kind of love, are you really not afraid that others will come up with some weird plots?
In particular, there was something about his appearance that was both beautiful and powerful. He was frail and frail, yet had a strong character, and a strong character that made him enchanting and tempting to commit crimes.
"...He doesn't have any scruples about my reputation." She muttered.
"What did you say?"
Isn’t it just about face? She could not afford to throw it away, Zheng Quchi smiled at him and said: "Follower, please go in with your master."
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There will naturally be guards at the gate of Thousand Trees Palace, and they are responsible for welcoming the incoming finalists.
Zheng Quchi asked if anyone before them had arrived early. The guard said that three finalists had already arrived.
So, she and Yu Wensheng were the fourth ones to arrive, and there were still six finalists yet to arrive... She thought about it again, if the person who fell off the cliff was a finalist, or was it the fifth one?
As soon as she stepped into the Thousand Trees Hall, she was shocked by the height of the dome. There was a hole several meters in diameter at the top of the dome. With the round hole as the center point, ten boundaries were drawn downwards. In each boundary line, there were carved Exquisite Buddha statues of ten gods.
In the middle, many niches were opened, and the niches were all filled with tree-shaped copper lamps. They were everywhere as far as the eye could see, making the hall brightly lit.
Her eyes were shining brightly, and she finally understood the origin of the name of Thousand Trees Palace.
(End of chapter)
