"Think about it, if they want to attack me, they can do it when I am seriously injured and unconscious, so why bother..." Gu Xiao laughed at himself and thought to himself, scolding himself for being a villain and judging the heart of a gentleman. Behind him, Chen Qingze’s doubtful voice reached his ears.
"Brother Mu, what's wrong? Has the injury recurred?" Chen Qingze walked into the house and closed the door with a puzzled look on his face.
Hearing Brother Chen's concerned tone, Gu Xiao felt even more guilty. He turned around and said, "Thank you, Brother Chen. My little brother is fine. I'm just a little worried about Brother Meng. I saw that he was very drunk at noon..."
"No problem, no problem..." Chen Qingze waved his hand and looked at the young man. Seeing that the vigilance in his eyes had disappeared, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and then smiled.
"Since Brother Mu is here, Third Brother...Brother Mu will leave it to you!"
Ye Linghan still looked like a scholar. Even though the "night" was already dark, after hearing his elder brother's words, he stood up and bowed his hands to Gu Xiao, then said in a polite voice: "It's already late at night and I can't sleep. Brother Mu is here for a visit, so Ling Han is polite! "
At this moment, Gu Xiao knew why Brother Chen was almost running away and wanted to drag him to the rescue. If he was not polite when talking to Ye Linghan, it would show that he was not respectful enough. At this time, he was still thinking in his heart who was secretly peeping tonight. , how can I have the time to chat with Ye Linghan.
"Please forgive Mu Yi for disturbing me late at night." Despite this, Gu Xiao still cupped his fists and handed over his hands.
When Chen Qingze saw the young man's condition, he secretly called for the savior to come, and immediately said: "Okay, third brother, I can't match your match. You might as well tell Brother Mu about your match and see if he can I can understand your meaning."
After saying that, he picked up Gu Xiao who was about to refuse and pushed him in front of his third brother. He took the opportunity to pick up the wine jar on the table and walked aside to drink at leisure.
Seeing the situation in front of him, Gu Xiao knew that this was the only way he could go on, so he had to bite the bullet and clasped his fists and said, "Mu Yi has little talent and little knowledge, but since Brother Ye is so interested, I can only accompany him for a while."
"I'm not trying to get my eldest brother to do something wrong. It's just that when I was reading at night, I just felt something and was troubled by it. So I couldn't sleep at night, so I wanted to discuss something with my eldest brother. But my eldest brother is free and easy by nature and doesn't want to stick to it... Seeing that the young man was being led astray by his elder brother's words, Ye Linghan hurriedly explained.
"Oh? Brother Ye speaks well. He is a talented man. Even Brother Ye is trapped, so I am a little curious." Gu Xiao saw the sad look on Ye Linghan's face, as if he was really disturbed. Out of curiosity, he asked .
Seeing that the young man was interested, Ye Linghan didn't say much. He just looked out the window, seeming to mutter to himself, and even more like confiding in the young man: "The ancients said, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and get rid of the dust in your chest. Naturally, the camp in the hills and valleys...I call myself a scholar. I can naturally read these thousands of books, but I have never traveled thousands of miles. In this case, why should I continue to read the books of the sages?"
Hearing this, Gu Xiao was startled for a moment. Chen Qingze, who was drinking from a wine jar behind him, seemed to have been disturbed by the melancholy of these literati. Hearing this again, he scratched his head and hurriedly put this wasteful matter into the wine jar in his hand and drank it. He put it into his stomach, shook his head, and murmured: "My head has wine on the left and noodles on the right. In a flash, it turned into a ball of paste. Don't ask me...don't ask me."
Seeing that there was no hope for Brother Chen, Gu Xiao had to find a way to deal with Brother Ye's "literary melancholy" behavior. After thinking for a moment, he raised his eyes to look at the back of the figure standing by the window, and said softly: "What troubles Brother Ye is nothing more than this journey of thousands of miles, but Brother Ye must know that one's energy is indeed limited, how can one do this? There are many journeys, when the footsteps cannot measure the path underfoot, the words in the book can... I think the sages in the book are just to inspire those who come after me. It is not necessary to do this, Brother Ye said, yes or no?"
As soon as he said this, Ye Linghan, who was standing by the window, suddenly looked back, staring at the young man with burning eyes. Although he did not speak, his heaving chest showed his surprise. Even Chen Qingze, who was drinking alone beside him, closed his eyes slightly. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the young man's back, seemingly lost in thought.
"Wonderful, some people spend their whole lives unable to travel thousands of miles, so how can they do what the ancients said...'Walking thousands of miles." Ye Linghan muttered suddenly, his eyes brightened, and he walked quickly He walked out from the table, walked to the young man's side, raised his arms, and continued to speak.
"After hearing what you said, I suddenly had an idea. It's a rare night today. I still have many things that I don't understand. Let's discuss them one by one!"
Hearing this, Gu Xiao secretly complained in his heart, and he made some random nonsense. He wanted to get over it as soon as possible so that he could go back to the room to find out who was spying secretly today, but he never thought that he would accidentally solve the doubts in Ye Linghan's heart. On the contrary, it made him interested.
An idea came to him. The moment Ye Linghan pulled himself up, he pretended that his internal injuries recurred and coughed repeatedly, attracting both Ye and Chen's attention.
Chen Qingze was a little worried about the young man's injury, but when he saw the young man coughing and bending over, his face looked sick, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, he felt relieved and secretly praised Brother Mu's method of escaping. He must have been quick and resourceful, but since The confusion in the third brother's heart has been solved, and he thought he could have a good sleep. He immediately pretended to be angry: "Third brother! Brother Mu is not the eldest brother or the second brother. He only discusses with us on weekdays. Now Brother Mu is seriously injured. Wake up, let Brother Mu go back to the house to rest and recuperate."
Ye Linghan did not see through the young man's thoughts like his elder brother. He only said that he had to forcefully pull and force the young man to waste his energy, which caused the injury to recur. He hurriedly said: "It's all my fault... Brother Mu's injury recurred... That's right. !」
As he spoke, he turned to Chen Qingze and said, "Brother, I still need your help in this matter!"
The three of them have been sworn brothers for many years. With just one look, Chen Qingze knew what his brother was going to do. He said with a worried look on his face: "Every time you play that piece of music, it takes a lot of effort... You have to think about it!"
"Brother Mu can play a song to understand the confusion in my mind. It doesn't matter, but I still need help from my eldest brother!" Ye Linghan, a scholar whose stubborn temper was already showing, spoke with determination.
The conversation between the two left Gu Xiao confused. He interrupted curiously and asked: "Two...two eldest brothers..."
Unexpectedly, just as he spoke, Ye Linghan, who was standing next to him, suddenly took action. With his fingers like lightning, he quickly tapped three large acupuncture points on the boy's chest, making him immobilized and unable to move.
Even Gu Xiao didn't expect that the other party would suddenly attack. If he still had internal strength, he might still have a chance to dodge, but now his dantian was empty. Even if he saw the opponent's move, he couldn't dodge it and could only scream in surprise. .
"Brother Ye, what...are you doing?"
Before the third brother could speak, Chen Qingze, who was behind him, had already moved to the boy's side and comforted him: "Brother Mu, don't worry, my third brother is doing this for your own good. You just need to listen carefully later. Leave the rest to me..." Two brothers!"
After saying that, before the young man could continue to ask questions, he flicked one palm slightly, causing the wooden door to open. Then he picked up the young man who had been immobilized by acupoints with one hand, and used Qinggong to jump out of the wooden house...
Seeing this, Ye Linghan didn't waste any time. He placed the guqin on the table in the room with a move of one hand, and it seemed to be sensing something. He immediately flew away from the table... He held the guqin in his arms with one arm, and then with a flash of his gown, he jumped out of the wooden house and left. On this occasion, I didn't forget to look back, flick my sleeves, and close the door to the house.
Gu Xiao had never returned from the mountain, and he had never been carried by someone's collar before. He only felt the scenery of the sky changing under his feet. After a few breaths, the two of them had already crossed the gurgling creek at the bottom of the slope and headed straight to the plains. , although he couldn't move, he still felt it. When he heard the sound of the clothes behind him, he knew that Ye Linghan had used Qinggong to catch up, and he couldn't help but secretly think in his heart.
"When I listened to the music during the day, I knew that these two people were extraordinary in martial arts, but I didn't expect that the light kung fu was so high. If I were at my peak, I wonder if I could be slightly better than the two of them with Qixun on the Snow... "
Thinking of this matter, my mind turned around again. The tone and demeanor of the two people in the wooden house from the west should not be detrimental to me, but I didn't know what Chen Qingze meant by "playing music" and "sadness". Could it be that the music could still be played? It's so hurtful...
As he was thinking to himself, he suddenly felt that Chen Qingze's figure had settled down and stopped moving forward. He hurriedly stared carefully and saw that he was leading him to a dense forest. The "moonlight" was rising in the sky and shining into the forest. The "Dense Forest" is a bamboo forest. Before I could take a closer look, I heard the sound of Ye Linghan's tattered clothes coming behind me.
"Big brother and Brother Mu can get me a step faster, Ling Han admires me!" When Ye Linghan settled down, he did not forget to bow to Chen Qingze politely.
"Come on, if you are a good person, you still need to hold on to me. After tonight, remember to find an opportunity to return a jar of good wine to me." Chen Qingze waved his hand, reproaching, but actually trying to reassure his brother.
As expected, after Chen Qingze finished speaking, Ye Linghan did not
Instead of showing any guilt, he showed relief. He cupped his fists and said with a smile, "Brother, you must obey your orders."
"It's getting late, and this place is far enough away from the wooden house that it won't disturb them." Chen Qingze raised his hand to look at the sky, then retracted his gaze and said.
At this moment, Gu Xiao was still puzzled as to what the two men wanted to do by bringing him here. Just as he was thinking secretly in his heart, he was picked up by Chen Qingze next to him again and jumped into the bamboo forest.
Although the bamboo is not sharp, its leaves are sharp. Chen Qingze held the boy in his hand and moved around without brushing off any leaves. After a few breaths, he dropped it in one place and relaxed the boy.
"Gulu gulu..." The sound of spring water came to his ears. Gu Xiao couldn't turn his head, so he could only look out of the corner of his eye. He saw that this place should be surrounded by bamboo forests, and he was standing next to a spring... He hadn't had time yet. After seeing the whole place clearly, he felt Chen Qingze wave his hand and he sat down instantly.
Ye Linghan also came to his side, placed the guqin in his hand on the protruding rock next to the spring, then jumped to his side, fiddled with his hands to get himself into a cross-legged meditation posture, then jumped back to the protruding rock, Lifting up the hem of his gown, he sat cross-legged.
"Brother Mu, although your injury has improved, the fire poison in your body may remain in trouble if it is not eliminated in time. Today, you helped me to clear up the confusion in my heart. I have no repayment, so Ling Han will give me a song as a gift. .." Ye Linghan sat upright, with his spine straight, his palms caressing the strings.
At this point, Gu Xiao remembered that in the wooden house, Brother Chen once said about "playing music to the sad god", and finally understood that Brother Ye wanted to help him heal. Then he thought that he was just returning to the wooden house to find out the clues of the spy at night. , just pretending that the old injury relapsed, how could he have expected that Brother Ye would spend all his energy to help himself just for a few words. He was filled with guilt and was about to speak out.
"Brother Ye, I didn't..." As soon as he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Qingze beside him.
"Third brother has already made good fortune. Talking nonsense at this time will only disturb his mind. If you don't want my third brother to go crazy and die, he will lose his energy in his Dantian and just listen to the music quietly..." Chen Qingze has already seen through everything, but his heart has already He wanted to help, so he didn't criticize the young man. When he finished speaking, he waved his sleeves lightly, and a stream of true energy penetrated into the young man's body, unlocking his immobilization point.
When Gu Xiao heard this, he was filled with guilt, but Brother Chen had already said this and did not dare to disturb Ye Linghan any more, so he had to sit cross-legged and close his eyes, listening quietly.
The sound of the guqin sounded again, and its sound seemed faint,
It’s not like the mountain stream flowing through my heart during the day, my mind is pure and clear.
It's more like the sobbing clear spring secretly pouring into the throat at night, drinking it is sweet.
Just hearing it for the first time made Gu Xiao forget everything in an instant. It was like drinking flying snow into his throat, which suddenly relieved his sorrow. The eyebrows on his eyes immediately relaxed. The spring water on the side seemed to be intoxicated by Ye Linghan's soft voice, and the water suddenly slowed down.
Chen Qingze beside the young man seemed not to be immersed in the sound of the piano. He only frowned and glanced at the two people playing the piano and listening to the music. He caught a glimpse of the spring water showing strange phenomena. He immediately stepped on the stone under his feet and jumped behind the young man. He flipped his palms and hesitated. Putting his hands behind his back, he swept quickly with one palm, and the wind from his palm blew directly at the back of the young man's heart...
