As Xin Lingyuan walked forward, he said calmly: "Our sect is at the critical moment of life and death. We have no time to entertain guests like you. We can only feel wronged that fellow Taoists live with our disciples." Gu Sanyue replied. : "It doesn't matter, we don't need any good hospitality, as long as we have a place to live." Xin Linyuan said again: "By the way, our Xinyu Sect is in short supply of food now and has no food. Fellow Taoist, please forgive me." Gu Sanyue said: "It doesn't matter, we can prepare the food ourselves. Besides, didn't we meet in the restaurant that day? I know your difficulties." Wu Susu glanced at Gu Sanyue again out of the corner of her eye.
Xin Linyuan nodded, so Gu Sanyue asked again: "How do you call them two?" Before Xin Linyuan could answer, Wu Susu said first: "My name is Wu Susu, and this is my senior brother, Xin Linyuan . We have known each other since we were young and have a good relationship." Gu Sanyule greeted them with a smile: "It turns out they are Brother Xin and Sister Wu. You are polite." Wu Susu asked her: "What about you two? What should I call you? ?" Gu Sanyue replied: "My name is Gu Sanyue, and this is my master, Xu Huaigu. My master has a bit of a weird temper. He always has a straight face all day long. Don't be surprised." Wu Susu frowned. Jian'er, secretly thinking, how could any disciple speak like this in front of his master?
It's a bit weird indeed. Xu Huaigu quickly
"Ahem!" He coughed twice, which made Gu Sanyue calm down a little. Gu Sanyue quickly asked with concern: "Master, why are you coughing? Are you old and weak? Do you want me to boil some tonics for you?" Xu Huaigu's cough became more serious and he whispered: " We came to the mountain to do business, be serious." Gu Sanyue nodded seriously and agreed. Wu Susu and Xin Linyuan looked at them a few more times before giving up.
The four of them stepped on the snow and walked towards Mingjian Hall. In Mingjian Hall, almost all the disciples of the New Rain Sect gathered here, curious to know what the two people who came up this morning were doing.
At this time, when they saw Xin Linyuan leading two strangers into the Mingjian Hall, they all looked over together. Gu Sanyue immediately bowed to all the disciples and said familiarly: "Dear Taoist friends, we came up the mountain to visit relatives. We have no ill intentions. We are just staying for a few days. Please eat and drink as you should. Drink, just pretend we don't exist." When the disciples saw Gu Sanyule speaking like this, and neither Xin Linyuan nor Wu Susu refuted, most of their doubts were immediately gone, and they bowed their hands to her politely, and continued busy. Go about your own affairs.
Xin Linyuan led the two of them to sit down by a pot of fire in the corner, glanced at Xu Huaigu, and said in a threatening tone: "It's best not to let me know that you are related to the Genshan Sect, otherwise, I I won't let you go." Xu Huaigu replied calmly: "To be honest, you may not like to hear it. With the current strength of your New Rain Sect, the Genshan Sect doesn't need to spend this extra thought at all." It was indeed unpleasant, so when it fell into Xin Linyuan's ears, a fire suddenly arose in his heart. Fortunately, Wu Susu quickly pulled him away, preventing the two sides from conflicting.
Xu Huaigu pretended that nothing happened, sat down cross-legged, threw a few sticks of firewood in, and yawned.
Gu Sanyue sat opposite him and looked at him. Xu Huaigu lowered his head and pondered, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a while, he suddenly asked Gu Sanyue: "March, how long until the New Year?" Gu Sanyue counted on his fingers and said, "Come to think of it, the New Year is really coming soon. Today is the second day of the twelfth lunar month. Fifteen, the Chinese New Year is coming in five days. Master, why are you asking this?" Xu Huaigu said, "Nothing, just asking. By the way, do you have any particularly memorable New Year's Eve?" Gu San Yue thought for a while and said, "Impressed? Being homeless and so hungry that your chest is touching your back, does that count as impressive?" Xu Huaigu nodded and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it." Gu Sanyue He lowered his head unhappily and said, "I don't want to talk about it, it happened so long ago that I can barely remember it. But the happiest New Year I spent was when I was a kid, celebrating the New Year at home with my family and parents." At that time, couplets and red lanterns were hung up at home, and my brothers and sisters would buy firecrackers and play with me. Once, a group of dragon lantern dancers entered my house, and everyone was having fun together, and it was so happy. "She remembers these happy old things clearly.
Xu Huaigu asked: "I have never heard you talk about your family before. When you ran away from home to find Jiang Yanglin, how could you let them go?" Gu Sanyue was not very interested and said: "How could you not let go of them?" Are you willing? After my family married me, they never cared about me anymore, as if I were no longer their daughter. I wanted to leave my hometown, but they never asked me." Xu Huaigu nodded and did not continue. Instead, he changed the topic and said seriously: "Yueyue, I want to ask you to do me a favor." Gu Sanyue replied: "Master, I will do whatever I can do for you, Master."
"Help me go down the mountain and buy some New Year's goods." Gu Sanyue was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud and said: "Master, what are you doing! You are a monk of the Immortal family now, and you still have to celebrate the New Year. Huh?" Xu Huaigu didn't smile, but nodded solemnly and said, "Well, I want to have a good New Year. When all the New Year's goods are purchased, I will take you to find that old friend, and then have a fun time together. Good years." He looked into Gu Sanyue's eyes and said, "It will make you remember the good years happily for the rest of your life." Gu Sanyue couldn't laugh all of a sudden, and she suddenly felt sour in her heart.
After countless hard days over the years, only Master was willing to be kind to her. She felt her eyes were a little moist, so she quickly buried her head, added more firewood to the fire, and looked straight at the fire.
Gu Sanyue lowered his head and asked in a low voice: "Then shall I go now?" Xu Huaigu shook his head and said: "It's still early, you can go in the afternoon. In this case, you can catch up in the evening Go to the town, then stay overnight, buy all the things you need to buy tomorrow, and then go up the mountain." Gu Sanyue nodded and asked: "What about the people from the Genshan Sect? If they stop me, don't let me What should I do if I go up and down the mountain?" Xu Huaigu said: "Just say that I asked you to go down the mountain. If you don't let you go down, I will go and clean them all now, and then go down the mountain. They won't dare to stop them. You." Gu Sanyule said with a smile: "As expected of the master, he is domineering." Xu Huaigu looked at her and said: "So you have to work harder to practice. Only when your realm is high, others will be afraid of you. I don't dare to stop you." Gu Sanyue agreed seriously and asked: "Master, what new year's goods do you want me to buy?" Xu Huaigu thought for a while and said, "That's a problem. Lanterns and couplets are not necessary. , there is no place to hang it here. You must buy good wine and food, and buy more styles, the more the better. You also need to buy some melon seeds and peanuts. If you see someone selling candied haws and shortbread, buy some too. The most important thing is that you must buy Wuye wine for me." Gu Sanyue asked curiously: "Wuye wine? What kind of wine is that? Is it delicious? Master, do you care about it so much?" Xu Huaigu replied : "I don't know, I've never drank it, but that old friend of mine loved it the most. So remember, there must be no shortage of Wuye wine." Gu Sanyue kept this matter in mind very seriously.
She had to be the first to buy the Wuye wine so as not to forget it. Xu Huaigu paused and then said: "Also, help me buy some paper money that can withstand burning." Now Gu Sanyue was even more confused and asked doubtfully: "Paper money? Master, what do you want paper money for?" "Xu Huaigu shook his head and didn't answer her, and Gu Sanyue didn't ask again.
The master and apprentice had not sat by the fire for long before Xu Huaigu said that he still had things to do, left Mingjian Hall first, and walked towards the mountains outside.
Gu Sanyue was bored by being alone, so he simply went down the mountain. After Xu Huaigu walked out of Mingjian Hall, he looked at the mountain and then walked towards the top of the mountain.
The higher you go up Qianjiang Mountain, the more steep the mountain becomes. There was a mountain corner with thickets of strange cypresses and jagged rocks. Xu Huaigu had seen it from a distance early and was preparing to go there.
When Xu Huaigu walked into it, he saw a deep blue pool between these strange rocks. It was already covered with a thick layer of ice, and there was another layer of snow on the ice.
There is a stone tablet next to this frozen deep pool, with many small regular characters engraved on it. It should be a biography written by someone about this deep pool.
There is a tall cypress tree beside the pool. The branches are twisted and twisted like a horned dragon. It takes two or three people to hug the trunk. It looks like an ancient tree that is hundreds of years old.
And under the ancient tree, there were actually two people standing side by side. Xu Huaigu raised his eyebrows slightly, and upon closer inspection, these two people turned out to be Xin Linyuan and Wu Susu who had brought them into Mingjian Hall before.
In the ice and snow, there is still leisurely and elegant outings. The relationship between these two people is not ordinary. Xu Huaigu saw the two of them, and naturally the two of them also noticed Xu Huaigu.
Wu Susu's face immediately turned red, while Xin Linyuan looked a little sullen, trying hard not to have an attack.
Xu Huaigu turned a blind eye and walked slowly down between the rocks to the edge of the pool. Then he looked around carefully, as if he was looking for something, as if he regarded the two as nothing.
Xin Linyuan was annoyed by his behavior and said coldly: "Why are you following me?" Xu Huaigu replied: "Fellow Daoist Xin misunderstood, I did not follow you two. I looked at the mountains and saw The spiritual energy is stronger here, so I came here to look for Zan Xin. Linyuan asked him angrily: "Then tell me, what are you looking for? Xu Huaigu said: "I want to find a good stone." "Xin Linyuan looked uncertain and said, "I think you are lying! What kind of rocks, what kind of mountains, it’s all a mess. Xu Huaigu looked at him and said, "I didn't lie to you." Xin Linyuan naturally didn't believe it and asked, "Then why are you looking for stones?" Xu Huaigu replied calmly: "No comment." "
