Xu Huaigu was in a bad mood, so he walked very fast. Gu Sanyue was carrying a lot of things, so she struggled to catch up with him for a while.
Gu Sanyue panted, walking side by side with Xu Huaigu, and asked carefully: "Master, where are you going? I see you don't look good, what happened?" Xu Huaigu just looked gloomy, Not a word was said.
Gu Sanyue had never seen Xu Huaigu so angry. Generally speaking, he would hide his emotions very well.
She felt that something big must have happened, so she didn't dare to ask any more questions, so she followed Xu Huaigu step by step.
"Master, guess what I bought in the town? I bought sugar paintings!" Gu Sanyue raised the big and small bags he was carrying and said to Xu Huaigu as if he was taking credit: "I remember, Master, you are a Snake. Right? The old man selling candy paintings could only draw the twelve zodiac signs, so I bought a snake painting. But the old man’s skills were not very good. He said it was a snake, but the painting looked like a worm, which was not good-looking. But Master You should also be more considerate. After all, this small town is a small town, and things are definitely not as good as those in big cities like Xicheng." Xu Huaigu stopped and said to her, "Show me." Gu Sanyue After listening, I guessed that Xu Huaigu might have calmed down a little, so he took out a package from the pile in his right hand and handed him the sugar painting inside.
Xu Huaigu opened it and found that it was really a candy painting of a snake. It's just that this snake's body is not long, but its head is ridiculously big, and it's straight when drawn. It doesn't look like a snake crawling around. As Gu Sanyue said, it looks more like a worm. .
Xu Huaigu said expressionlessly: "You bought this for me to eat, do you think your master is an insect?" Gu Sanyue knew that Xu Huaigu was not really angry with him, so he quickly defended with a smile: "How could it be? This is obviously me. It's just my heart. If you want to blame it, it's the smelly old man who painted the sugar paintings. His hands are shaking as if he has dysentery. When we go down the mountain, I have to go and talk to him." After she defended herself, she did With a look of joy, he looked at Xu Huaigu with hope and said, "Master, take a bite. Although this doesn't look good, it tastes good." Xu Huaigu asked, "How do you know it tastes good? Did you secretly do it?" Have you tasted it?" Gu Sanyule quickly shook his head and said, "No, I saw a lot of children gathered around his stall. They all said it was delicious, otherwise I wouldn't buy it." In fact, she said Tell a little lie.
When the old man drew a snake for her for the first time, the snake he drew was even more ugly, so that snake was eaten by Gu Sanyue. The one given to Xu Huaigu was the second snake.
So Xu Huaigu took a bite. It was freezing and snowy, and the candy painting was as hard as stone. When the sugar painting melted in Xu Huaigu's mouth, a sweet taste melted in his mouth.
Xu Huaigu curled his lips and thought to himself that the old man selling sugar paintings was really good at business. He knew that his paintings were not good, so he made up for it elsewhere.
This sweet taste is indeed quite good. It's not just simple rock sugar, but some honey should also be added.
Gu Sanyue asked expectantly: "How is it, not bad?" Xu Huaigu nodded, took two more bites, and then put the rest into the storage space of his robe.
Gu Sanyue smiled and said, "Master, if you like it, you can buy more on the way down the mountain." Xu Huaigu nodded, said nothing, and continued walking forward, but his steps were much lighter than before.
Gu Sanyue followed him, secretly thinking that the master was so easy to coax, just like a child, he just gave away a piece of candy.
Not far away, Xu Huaigu asked her, "In March, did you buy all the good wine and food I asked you to buy?" Gu Sanyue nodded and said, "I bought them all in the best restaurant in town. Yes. Master, don’t you say that the more styles the better, so I asked the chef to make all his specialties. Stir-fried mutton with green onions, sweet and sour crucian carp, beef with five-spice sauce, pig blood and duck soup... I cooked them all. They are placed inside the robe, they should still be hot now! In short, the taste will satisfy you, Master!" Xu Huaigu nodded and said, "Okay, you come with me to visit someone now, and we will entertain him with these wines and dishes. "Gu Sanyue asked curiously: "Are you looking for the old friend you mentioned, master?" Xu Huaigu shook his head and said, "No, let's go to the ancestor hall of the New Rain Sect first." Gu Sanyue was confused. He asked: "Are you going to see their sect leader?" Xu Huaigu only replied: "You will know after you go." One mile west of Mingjian Hall is the ancestor hall of Xinyu Sect. Xu Huaigu asked a disciple about it.
When the two of them approached the ancestral hall, the expression on Gu Sanyue's face began to become strange. Because the Ancestral Hall in front of them is the most shabby one they have ever seen.
It was a thin one-story wooden building with broken wood and broken tiles scattered everywhere around it. There was also a window that should have had two leaves, but one was missing, allowing the cold wind to blow in. Blow inside.
Gu Sanyue looked at this dilapidated small wooden building, but he really couldn't connect it with the ancestor hall of the Xian family sect.
She said blankly: "Master, this is different from what I thought. When I looked at the Ancestral Hall in Bailiang Mountain, it didn't look like this." Xu Huaigu replied: "It has been in disrepair for a long time and lacks people to take care of it. No matter what How grand and majestic it once was, it will become like this under the baptism of time. Come on, let's go in." Gu Sanyue nodded in agreement.
So Xu Huaigu walked in first, followed closely by Gu Sanyue. Fortunately, the Ancestral Hall looks dilapidated from the outside, but it is still quite neat inside.
The ground was swept clean, and there were no spider webs in the surrounding corners. The spiritual tablets enshrined in the lobby have also been wiped spotless.
Xu Huaigu walked towards the spiritual tablet enshrined in the lobby. He took a cursory glance, and among the many brands, he immediately saw the name he was most familiar with.
It was an ordinary sign, placed on the side, with the words
"The spiritual place of Su Wei, a disciple of the New Rain Sect". Xu Huaigu, who was reading a book, was already in a state of turmoil, but his face remained calm.
He walked forward and slowly picked up the spiritual tablet. He stared at the word Su Wei for a long time.
Gu Sanyue also stepped forward and took a curious look, but she didn't recognize the name Su Wei. Looking at Xu Huaigu's behavior, he definitely didn't intend to tell her, so she wisely didn't ask.
Xu Huaigu put the spirit tablet back, took out three sticks of incense from the incense box in the corner, lit it with a fire stick, and inserted it in front of her spirit tablet.
Although Gu Sanyue didn't know who this person was, and Xu Huaigu didn't tell her, she also followed Xu Huaigu's example and offered her three sticks of incense.
After doing this, Xu Huaigu continued to walk into the Patriarch Hall. After passing through a long corridor, the two of them met head-on with an old man with white hair and beard.
The two sides stopped when they saw each other two or three feet away. The gray-haired old man looked at the two of them with cloudy eyes, and asked warily: "You are not from the New Rain Sect, what are you doing here?" Xu Huaigu bowed to the old man solemnly, He replied: "I came here to talk to the old gentleman." The old man looked very surprised and said: "Talk to me? I am an old man who has half of his body buried in the ground. I have neither cultivation nor new knowledge." There is nothing to say in the Yuzong, so why are you talking to me?" Xu Huaigu said sincerely: "But the old gentleman has the highest seniority in the New Yuzong. I came to the old gentleman because I wanted to get to know someone, her name is Zuo Qiu Xun." The old man shook his head, picked up a broom placed by the wall, and said to him: "I don't know this person, you have the wrong person." After that, the old man bowed down and started Sweep the floor slowly.
The broom passed by, raising dust and making a sound on the ground.
The sound of "rustling". Xu Huaigu said loudly: "Zuo Qiuxun is her pseudonym when she travels around the world. When she was still in the New Rain Sect, her name was Su Wei."
The sound of sweeping the floor suddenly stopped. The old man's expression froze, his hands and feet trembled, and even the broom was gone.
It fell to the ground with a "clack". The old man raised his head, his beard trembling. He looked at Xu Huaigu in disbelief, and Xu Huaigu also looked directly at him.
In the long corridor, they looked at each other and were speechless. The atmosphere at this moment was very solemn. Although Gu Sanyue was curious about who Zuo Qiuxun and Su Wei were, she did not dare to ask for fear of disturbing them.
The old man asked in a trembling voice: "How do you know her pseudonym?" Xu Huaigu replied softly: "I am from Dongfuyaozhou, and I met her when I was walking in the rivers and lakes. At that time, her name was Zuo Qiuxun." The old man kept saying He said anxiously: "Tell me about what she experienced outside!" Xu Huaigu advised: "Old sir, don't worry, we can sit down and chat slowly." After hearing this, the old man hurriedly took the two of them to the ancestral hall. Take it inside.
The three of them walked around and entered a small room with a fire burning in the center, and then sat down opposite each other.
The old man reading the book was very excited at this time. As soon as he sat down, he wanted to ask him, but suddenly he seemed to think of something. He quickly stood up, rummaged through the box and found some tea, and hurriedly brewed a cup for Xu Huaigu. Tea, he said eagerly: "Tell me about her quickly!" Xu Huaigu picked up the old man's tea, took a thin sip, and said: "Old sir, don't be anxious. What I know about her is not You can finish the conversation in a few words, we brought food, we can talk while eating." After that, he gave Gu Sanyule a look.
Gu Sanyue understood, and took out the dishes bought in the restaurant from the storage space of the robe.
Xinyu Zongshang was short of food, and the old man was also hungry, so he did not refuse this meal. So the two of them talked about Zuo Qiuxun's past while eating.
Xu Huaigu learned from the old man that his name was Su Xinnan and he was Su Wei's grandfather. This was why he was so worried about Su Wei.
From Xu Huaigu's words, Su Xinnan also learned more or less about Su Wei's experiences in the arena, including, of course, the reason for Su Wei's death in the end.
In fact, in the past four years, Xu Huaigu walked from the middle of Dongfuyao Continent to Xinyu Sect. He has always been worried about Zuo Qiuxun's death.
It wasn't until he began to gradually find the shadow of Zuo Qiuxun's life in the New Rain Sect that his heart began to slowly let go.
That piece of polished bluestone was the tombstone he wanted to make for Zuo Qiuxun. He grinded it very finely and slowly, but he was actually very afraid of not grinding it well.
Xu Huaigu would feel guilty if he couldn't give her the best even with a monument. There was one more thing that he hadn't figured out yet.
The last name carved on the stone tablet should be Su Wei or Zuo Qiuxun. A high-spirited young man and an old man with a wrinkled face finished the meal without moving their chopsticks a few times, but both of them shed tears.
Gu Sanyue's bowls and chopsticks were neatly placed in front of her, and she didn't move a word. She just sat quietly, listening to the two people telling each other about the third person.
It's a pity that the third person they talked about was already separated from yin and yang at this time. No wonder Master never mentioned his old friend in front of him. It turned out that he had such a past.
The result of this meal was a sudden realization for one person, heart-breaking pain for two people, and tears for three people.
