This night in Qianjiangshan was as quiet as death. There was a heavy fog in the mountains tonight, rising from halfway up the mountain and wrapping the entire mountain tightly.
The gray moonlight cast down, like covering the mountain with a thick layer of dust. Not to mention five steps, two steps away and nothing can be seen.
In the Mingjian Hall, the fires on the first floor have been extinguished, leaving only burned ashes. No disciples were chatting and laughing here anymore, only the cold wind poured in wantonly through the open doors and windows.
In a small room on the second floor, a small fire was still burning, indicating that there were still people living in this attic.
There was a bed in the small room, and an unconscious woman in white lay on the bed. That was Gu Sanyue.
Beside the stove, there was a man and a woman sitting opposite each other. The man lowered his head and said nothing, while the woman's eyes were dull and her heart was as gray as a manuscript.
The two people sitting next to the stove are naturally Xu Huaigu and Wu Susu. Since Xin Linyuan's death, the two found a Feng Shui treasure to bury him, and then returned to Mingjian Hall together, sitting in this room, warming themselves by the fire while waiting for Gu Sanyue to wake up.
Xu Huaigu also tried to persuade Wu Susu, but she was too sad and didn't say a word. Xu Huaigu didn't know if she listened.
But since he promised Xin Linyuan to take good care of her, Xu Huaigu could only stay with her and wait for her to figure it out.
Xu Huaigu added more firewood to make the fire burn brighter. Wu Susu now has no cultivation, and her body is no different from that of ordinary people. Xu Huaigu is worried that she will catch cold.
Xu Huaigu took out a pot of wine, handed it to Wu Susu, and asked: "Are you going to drink?" Wu Susu shook her head and said softly: "Thank you, I won't drink." Xu Huaigu nodded, took a small sip himself, and said : "This is your specialty Wuye wine. A friend recommended it to me before. Now it seems that this friend has a really good taste in wine." Wu Susu looked at the fire dreamily and did not answer.
Xu Huaigu took another sip and said to himself: "I once heard a saying from an old gentleman. Come and listen to it and see if it makes sense."
"He said that the greatest success of a person is that he can spend his life the way he likes. Either as plain as water, or struggling all his life, or living a long life, or dying in the middle, as long as he is willing, then No matter how puzzled others are, they just can't understand him." Xu Huaigu looked at Wu Susu, sighed, and said, "I believe that when Xin Linyuan died, he must have been happy and satisfied." Wu Susu's nose twitched. , the tears in her eyes could no longer be held back, and two lines of clear tears slowly flowed down her cheeks.
She quickly lowered her head, wiped it away with her sleeves, then sniffed and continued to look at the flames with dull eyes.
Xu Huaigu drank slowly, thinking about other things. The night must have been very deep, Xu Huaigu added firewood to the stove a few more times.
He didn't deliberately count the time, and he didn't know how late it was. Wu Susu suddenly asked him: "You haven't told me yet, who are you and why did you come up the mountain?" Xu Huaigu said absently: "Who are you asking me? I am Xu Huaigu. I came up the mountain to find someone. An old friend, her name is Zuo Qiuxun." Wu Susu thought Xu Huaigu was lying to her, and said in a hasty tone: "But now everyone in the Xinyu Sect, except me, is dead and gone, you This old friend named Zuo Qiuxun has not been found yet. You can't say that this person is me, right?" Xu Huaigu said: "Of course it's not you." Wu Susu quickly asked: "Then who is Zuo Qiuxun? "Xu Huaigu paused, put down the wine bottle, and looked at the flames with disappointment, and said: "This friend of mine is not a living person, she is already dead."
"Zuo Qiuxun is her pseudonym. Her name in the New Rain Sect is Su Wei." When Wu Susu heard the word Su Wei, she jumped up as if she had been struck by lightning. She jumped up in disbelief. Said: "What did you say? Are you here to see Su...Su Wei?" Xu Huaigu nodded and said, "That's right. Sit down first and I will tell you the whole story." In the Mingjian Hall, A small stove was burning, Xu Huaigu told his story about Zuo Qiuxun, and Wu Susu listened quietly.
The two of them stayed up all night. When Xu Huaigu started talking, he kept drinking one drink after another. As he continued to talk, he slowly began to speak incoherently.
Later, Xu Huaigu couldn't hold it back and shed two tears. Wu Susu was moved by the scene and cried beside her. The pear blossoms were raining, and she looked pitiful.
The storyteller choked up and couldn't continue, and the listener couldn't listen anymore. Therefore, Xu Huaigu's story was not finished, and Wu Susu was not in the mood to ask.
There is probably nothing that can comfort each other more than two people who are suffering from the same disease and cry happily and unbridledly for a long time.
... Several days passed in a row, and it was New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve. Wu Susu's mood has improved a lot since she cried with Xu Huaigu that night, and so did Xu Huaigu.
The two of them had a tacit understanding not to mention that terrible night again, just pretend it never happened. Gu Sanyue's injury was very serious. Thanks to the white robe and the healing elixir that Xu Huaigu fed her in time, her life was not in danger at this time, and her breathing was much more stable than before.
Although he hasn't woken up yet, it's only a matter of time. It's a pity that today is New Year's Eve, but I can't spend it with Gu Sanyue.
Wu Susu has no awareness of celebrating the New Year. After all, she is from the mountains and has not celebrated much since she was a child. So she went to find some wild vegetables early in the morning, as she had done the past few days, and then simmered porridge for Gu Sanyue to drink.
After the wild vegetable porridge was ready, she took a bowl and spoon, sat beside Gu Sanyue's bed, gently scooped up a spoonful, blew it to her mouth to cool it, and then put it into Gu Sanyue's mouth.
After all, Xu Huaigu had promised to take good care of Gu Sanyue, and she couldn't break her promise. Xu Huaigu sat aside and asked her: "Can you give me a bowl?" Wu Susu replied: "With your level, you still need to eat wild vegetable porridge? I don't cook much, can you leave more for your apprentice?" Okay?" Xu Huaigu said with a smile: "Isn't this greedy? I want to have a taste of your craftsmanship." Wu Susu glanced at him and said: "The porridge is in the pot in the kitchen, go find the bowl and chopsticks yourself." Xu Huaigu agreed. After leaving for a while, he came back with a bowl of porridge. He handed it to Wu Susu and said, "Thank you for your hard work. You can drink it too." Wu Susu asked him, "Didn't you say you wanted to drink it? Why don't you drink it?" Xu Huaigu was sitting on the stove. While sitting down, he smiled and said, "It tastes so good. I finished it on the way." Wu Susu rolled her eyes at him and said, "Greedy." Xu Huaigu smiled, noncommittal.
After a while, Xu Huaigu said again: "I'm going up the mountain tonight to go to Xi Ming's tomb. Will you go?" Wu Susu asked him doubtfully: "What are you doing there?" Xu Huaigu said: "Zuoqiu Xun’s last wish at that time was that I should bury her and Xi Ming together. I thought, I have to choose a special day to do this, so today is the day. On New Year’s Eve, we will also go to accompany her, it’s fun Some." Wu Susu lowered her head, agreed, and said: "Okay, Su Wei and I were also good friends back then, and I really should go. But... what if we all go and Gu Sanyue has no one to take care of her? ?" Xu Huaigu advised: "We will be back soon, there should be nothing wrong." Wu Susu nodded and agreed.
"Also, the old man sweeping the floor in the Patriarch Hall is actually Su Wei's grandfather. Let me call him too." Wu Susu was a little surprised and said: "He actually has such an identity? Why have I never known him before? I don’t know, but you know?” Xu Huaigu replied: “I went to visit him specifically before, and he told me.” Wu Susu nodded, this explanation was quite reasonable.
Xu Huaigu asked her again: "What about you, where are you going in the future? Do you have any plans?" Wu Susu shook her head while feeding Gu Sanyue porridge and said, "I haven't decided yet." Xu Huaigu said: "You If you want to continue practicing, I can introduce you to the sect. If you want to be closer, there is a newly built Bailiang Mountain about half a month's walk from here. The sect master there and I are good friends. If you want to be far away, you You can go to East Fuyao Island, and I can also introduce you to a good sect." Wu Susu's eyes were lonely and she refused: "Thank you for your kindness, but I am so old now, and I have long passed the best age for cultivation. Instead of finding another sect to start over, I want to live a different life." Xu Huaigu asked: "Do you want to be an ordinary person and live like this?" Wu Susu nodded and said, "But I haven't yet. Think about where to go." Xu Huaigu said: "That's fine. It's good to live an ordinary life. But you have to be mentally prepared in advance. Ordinary people are not like monks who have no worries about food and clothing." Wu Susu picked She raised an eyebrow and said, "Are you afraid that I won't be able to bear the hardship?" She put down the empty bowl, wiped the corners of Gu Sanyue's mouth, stood up, tidied up, straightened her clothes, and said, "I'm not afraid of hardship. What I'm afraid of is that I don't know what I will live for for the rest of my life." Xu Huaigu nodded in agreement: "It is indeed a problem. However, as long as it is not revenge, it is all good." Wu Susu smiled helplessly, Said: "Revenge? I do want to, but what can I use to get revenge? My talent is mediocre, and I have never dared to expect to be on an equal footing with Cui Huai. The gap between us is really too big, how can I take revenge?" Xu Huaigu nodded. : "If you think so, that's the best thing."
"There is some hatred. It is too difficult to seek justice. Even a born swordsman like Zuo Qiuxun cannot do it. She must have figured it out before she died. She told me that let I don’t want to avenge her. This chain of mutual revenge must be broken by one party, otherwise, the links will be connected one after another, causing no peace in the world." Wu Susu smiled slightly and said: "You are such a person. , how old are you? How can you tell the truth, one thing after another?" Xu Huaigu replied: "I just turned twenty this year." Wu Susu didn't believe it at all, and said: "Twenty years old, seventh realm? I am not Idiot. I know that there is a kind of magic that can preserve your appearance. I estimate that no matter how talented you are, you must be forty or fifty years old." Xu Huaigu smiled, noncommittal.
He stood up and said, "I'll go to the Patriarch Hall and talk to that old man." Wu Susu nodded in agreement.
Xu Huaigu walked out of the door and walked to the Patriarch Hall. On the way, he kept thinking that Zuo Qiuxun once said that when she was in the Sixth Realm, she could rival the Seventh Realm.
If you are divided into life and death, you can stand with the eight realms. Xu Huaigu looked at the small lotus-seed sword in his heart lake that had not been used for a long time, and thought, if life and death were divided, could he fight against the Nine Realms?
