Zi Yang insisted on believing in Hua Yao, so Jia Juesheng had no choice but to obey his wishes, handed him the brocade clothes and jade belt, and stood alone under the door frame watching him go away.
After Zi Yang walked away, in order to prevent an accident, Jia Juesheng followed him quietly until he watched him enter Hua Yao's room carrying hot porridge.
Jia Juesheng squatted under the window sill of the eaves and said to himself, Ziyang, it's not that I intentionally eavesdropped on your conversation, but I'm really worried about you coming here alone.
"Why are you dressed like this today? Did you dress it specially for me to see?" Hua Yao rubbed her dazed eyes and looked at him carefully.
Ziyang sat on the bedside with the porridge and explained: "This is what Jia Juesheng gave me. After today, I will put it away as a souvenir and let you take a last look."
Hua Yao raised her face, revealing her slender jade neck, and asked curiously: "Am I the first person to appreciate such beautiful clothes?"
"No. Before I came, Jia Juesheng personally helped me put it on, so you are the second one." Zi Yang replied with a smile, and then handed her the porridge in his hand.
Hua Yao didn't answer, narrowed her eyes, stared at him and asked, "Did you do this yourself?"
Zi Yang nodded and said, "I just learned it from Pei Yuan, you try it first."
Hua Yao hesitated for a long time without saying anything or taking the porridge bowl from his hand.
"You have an injured arm and it's inconvenient. Just let me feed you, just like you took care of me when we were in Wu Zheng Town." Ziyang scooped a spoonful of porridge, followed the bowl below, and spooned it to you one by one. She eats.
"Is it tasty?"
"It's okay, let's just eat it."
"Then I will ask Pei Yuan carefully next time and let him teach me."
For some unknown reason, Hua Yao coughed and spit all the glutinous rice in her mouth onto Zi Yang's sleeves. The sticky rice grains mixed with saliva filled his sleeves.
Instead of standing up to accuse her, he still maintained the posture of feeding porridge just now and smiled at her, with no trace of anger in his calm eyes.
Hua Yao turned her face sideways, not daring to look at him, and blamed herself: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I made your new clothes dirty...I can clean them for you."
"It's okay." Ziyang put down the porridge bowl, wiped off the rice grains on his sleeves one by one, looked at the sticky substance on the cuffs, and said, "Whenever I miss you, just look at the rice grains on this sleeve. Oil."
Before he finished speaking, Xuan Yi's voice came to mind outside the door.
"You two wait here, I'll go in and talk to Zi Yang and hear what he means."
As soon as Xuan Yi stepped across the threshold, he saw Jia Juesheng squatting under the window sill in panic, waving to him repeatedly to signal him not to speak.
Suddenly, Zi Yang opened the door. After feeling his gaze, Jia Juesheng immediately said: "Zi Yang, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation. I did this all for you."
Zi Yang said seriously: "I understand. However, I don't want to see this happen again. I believe in you, and you must believe in me. This is the most basic trust between friends."
Jia Juesheng nodded slowly.
The three of them came to the room, and Xuan Yi was the first to say: "Zi Yang, Fei Yingming, the master of the Ghost Sect, wants to see you. He sent brothers Qiliang and Qilong to invite you to the Ghost Sect as a guest. What do you think? "
Zi Yang immediately replied: "Okay. I will go to the Ghost Gate with them, and Huayao will be taken care of by you."
As soon as he said this, Hua Yao and Jia Juesheng's expressions changed slightly, but neither spoke.
Seeing that he agreed without hesitation, Xuan said, "Since you trust me so much, why not take them with you? Such good things don't happen often. Don't miss this opportunity."
Zi Yang smiled awkwardly and said, "I can take Jia Juesheng, Pei Yuan, and Hua Yao. As for Xiao Hai, Zhu Feng and the others, I can't make the decision."
Xuan Yi smiled and said: "Easy to say, easy to say. We will set off in three days. What do you think?"
Ziyang nodded and said nothing.
"Great! I'm going to tell the people from the Ghost Sect and let them go back and prepare for the banquet." After saying that, Xuan Yi went out with a happy face.
After Xuan Yi left, Zi Yang looked at Jia Juesheng and asked intentionally: "Don't you want to say something?"
Jia Juesheng said carefully: "Didn't you just say that you have to choose to believe you? If I couldn't trust you, I would have left alone in Wu Zheng Town."
Zi Yang stared into his eyes and asked, "Isn't this what you mean?"
Jia Juesheng said helplessly: "You saw it. In fact, before Wu Zhengzhen, I did not trust you. After experiencing ruined temples, mines, and the Zhuliu Mountains, I am convinced that my initial choice to follow you was the right one. .”
outside the door
"Qi Liang, do you think this Xuan Yi will work?" Qi Long was pacing back and forth anxiously. Fei Yingming's order to the two of them was to invite Zi Yang to the Ghost Gate no matter what.
Seeing that Xuan Yi had been in for a long time and no one came out for a long time, this made Qi Long worried.
Qi Liang slowly waved the folding fan in his palm, and Feng Qingyun said calmly: "Qi Long, don't worry. Since Xuan Yi has promised us, he will definitely not break his promise."
"If you can't even invite him, who can you and I go to?"
Qi Long sighed softly and said: "That's right. If even Xuan Yi can't invite him, we will be even less able. Fortunately, you have the foresight to let him out of the dungeon, otherwise the sect master wouldn't have sent us. Come."
Qiliang closed his folding fan, waved it a few times, shook his head and said with a smile: "Ashamed, ashamed. I was just impressed by Jia Juesheng's attainments in array patterns, and he was Jia Juesheng's good friend, so I decided to let him go. Yes, who would have thought that he has such a big background."
Before Xuan Yi could step out of the threshold, he shouted to the two of them: "What are you talking about? Go back and tell your sect master that I will go to the ghost sect in three days and let him have a banquet."
Qi Long pointed in the direction of the room and asked in a low voice: "He promised to go to the Ghost Gate?"
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough." Xuan Yi put his hands on his knees, face down, and coughed violently.
When the two brothers saw this, they immediately stepped forward, one of them held his arm, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xuan Yi waved his hand and said slightly confused: "Forget it, I spent a lot of effort to stabilize him. If I want him to go to the ghost gate, I have to spend more time."
Qi Long said: "It doesn't matter if you waste some words. If you can persuade him to go to the underworld, the worst I can do is treat you to a few more bottles of good wine. What do you think?"
"I can't, I can't. My heart hurts so much, I'm afraid I'm going to let down your trust." Xuan Yi slowly sat on the ground, covering his chest with his palms, wailing from time to time.
Seeing him like this, Qi Long looked at Qi Liang who was waving the folding fan lightly, and said at a loss: "Look, what should we do? You should think of a way quickly. It's not easy to persuade him. Don't let all your efforts go to waste."
Qiliang squatted beside Xuan Yi and asked with a calm smile: "I wonder if Shizhe Bamboo Wine can cure your disease?"
After hearing this, Xuan Yi stood up immediately, with no trace of pain on his face, and said seriously: "In three days, I will take him to the ghost gate."
Qi Liang said: "Let's go, Qi Long, you and I will take good care of Xuan Yi today."
Chiron paused and reminded: "Aren't you a teetotaler?"
"Xuan Yi saved thousands of creatures from my ghost gate. I will make an exception for him." Qi Liang placed his left hand on his lower back, waved the folding fan lightly with his right hand, and walked slowly towards the Fighting God Tower.
"Please." Qilong bent down and made a gesture of invitation towards him.
Xuan Yi laughed: "Then I won't be polite."
Late at night, Ziyang summoned Pei Yuan, Zhufeng and others in the small courtyard where Huayao lived, wanting to hear their plans for going to the ghost gate.
Pei Yuan rested his head on his arms, sat on the steps under the door, and said, "It's up to you to decide this kind of thing. I can go anywhere."
Xiaohai didn't say anything. He held Ziyang's arm tightly with his two small hands. It was obvious that he would follow Ziyang wherever he went.
Gui Ji and Gui San looked at Jia Juesheng, who was standing beside Zi Yang, and said, "You two, don't look at me. Of course I will follow Zi Yang to the Ghost Gate."
"Sister...you see?" Gui San looked at her, and the latter nodded slightly.
"Zhufeng, are you coming with us to the Ghost Gate?" Ziyang asked, and everyone looked at Zhufeng who was sitting on the millstone with his hands on his cheeks and his head tilted to admire the moonlight.
Seeing his stubborn and arrogant look, Jia Juesheng said to Zi Yang, "Forget it, Zi Yang. I think he doesn't have the guts to go, so just let him stay here."
It was good that he didn't speak. As soon as he said this, Zhufeng immediately jumped off the millstone, pointed at Jia Juesheng, and cursed angrily: "Jia Juesheng, you are really not a human being. You wish I didn't go, right?!"
Jia Juesheng spread his hands and said, "Whether you go or not is your problem. What does it have to do with me?"
Zhufeng curled his lips and said, "Why doesn't it matter?! Let me tell you, you just have a crush on his sister, otherwise why would you go against me everywhere?"
Gui Ji frowned slightly, but she didn't say anything. Gui San gave Zhu Feng a fierce look.
Jia Juesheng explained calmly: "I am a formation master, and Miss Gui Ji is also a formation master. I study the secrets of formations with her and make progress together. According to you, I am coveting Miss Gui Ji's beauty. Already?"
"You put it nicely! Don't use studying formations as a shield. How can I not know what you are thinking?" Zhufeng snorted coldly and glanced at Jia Juesheng.
"Tell me what I have in mind!"
"What you're thinking is that you're a drunkard and don't care about drinking. You don't want me to go, but I insist on going."
"If you have something to say, just say it, don't beat around the bush."
"Are you angry? Did I speak to your heart?"
Jia Jue's face flushed with anger and he glared at him.
"Okay, you two, stop arguing. Since everyone agrees to go to the Ghost Gate, we will set off in three days." After Zi Yang said that, he pulled Xiao Hai into Hua Yao's room.
"Gone, gone." Pei Yuan said and left alone.
Guisan whispered: "Sister, let's go too."
Gui Ji smiled slightly at Jia Juesheng, who nodded to her, and then she left with her brother Gui San.
As everyone left, only Jia Juesheng and Zhufeng were left in the originally bustling courtyard. They rushed out of the courtyard for fear of being slower than the other.
