Ouyang Rong didn't know how he walked out of the hall, crossed the square in front of the hall, and ran all the way out.
He's quick on his feet.
faster and faster.
I don’t know why, it’s just so fast for no reason.
Ouyang Rong didn't notice this the whole time.
My mind seemed to be occupied by other things, so I could only move forward quickly, covering my head as I passed through the crowds of pilgrims and the ancient temples and incense cauldrons.
Only then can the unspeakable emotion in the chest be relieved a little.
He walked until he saw the familiar Beitian Nursing Home hidden in the bamboo forest, with a few eaves peeking out from behind the white wall.
Ouyang Rong gradually stopped.
The Beitian Almshouse is actually not far from the main hall.
He did not immediately go to the hospital for inspection.
Although not long ago, when I hurriedly said goodbye to my junior sister and ran away, it seemed that this was the wording of my departure.
Ouyang Rong stood under the shade of an inconspicuous tree.
He put his right hand on his forehead and wiped his face hard from top to bottom.
Take a long breath.
Turn around and look in the direction you came from.
The act of wiping your face is like a switch.
The eyes that had remained calm a second ago began to worry about gains and losses.
This is a face that used to be resolute, courageous, and emotionally stable in front of everyone.
At this moment, a series of expressions appeared like a fleeting glance, mixed together, with complex expressions:
Shocked, doubtful, hesitant, entangled... and faintly moved.
In the end, all of this converged into a look of confusion and despair.
Ouyang Rong stood quietly and silently looked at the main hall in the distance behind him for a while.
Silent for a long time.
He slowly raised his hand and rubbed his stiff face, breaking away the complicated expression.
Ouyang Rong was not a saint. Occasionally he would stand still, hesitate, feel confused and melancholy.
But, they are all short-lived.
Having established his original intention, he will go all the way to the end and never look back until he hits the wall.
Near noon, under the shade of the trees, Ouyang Rong turned his head.
He glanced at the Beitian Almshouse in front of him among the bamboo trees.
For some reason, Ouyang Rong suddenly wanted to go back to Dry Well and Pure Land Palace to take a look.
Suddenly I really want to think about it very much.
Ouyang Rong stepped into the sunshine-covered bluestone floor outside the shade of the trees.
"forward."
He murmured.
With his back to the main hall, he strode toward Beitian Almshouse.
We went to inspect the patients first, and then took a look at the Dry Well Underground Palace behind the nursing home.
Finally, wait until the junior sister has settled her mood and clothes before looking for him.
"Master County Master, you are here. Why are you alone? Where is Miss Xie?"
At the entrance of the Beitian Almshouse, a "little bald head" swayed back and forth with the near-noon sun on his head, waiting for him to come forward.
He glanced at the empty corridor behind Ouyang Rong.
Ouyang Rong glanced at Xiufao, who had a curious expression on his face.
After a moment of silence, he calmly narrated: "She will come later."
"good."
Xiufa nodded without caring, and then asked a little worriedly:
"But Miss Xie, do you know the way? The location here is a bit remote. There are many bamboo forests in the corridors. It's easy to take the wrong way when you first come here."
"You should know, you always ask for directions..."
At this point, Ouyang Rong paused.
"Master County, what's wrong?"
"fine."
Ouyang Rong thought for a moment, then turned around and said:
"How about this? You wait for my junior sister outside. She might be a little lost... Wait for her and bring her in to find me."
He recalled that when he first met his junior sister, the latter mistook him for a thief who broke into the house and stole his senior brother's orb... It can only be said that the woman who grew up in the children's cafeteria in the future was indeed a little confused and reckless occasionally.
But when she is brave, she is really brave.
Ouyang Rong seemed to be thinking of what happened not long ago, and Ouyang Rong sighed silently in his heart.
"That's okay."
Xiufa didn't know what Ouyang Rong was thinking, so she didn't ask any more questions. She turned around and opened the door of the nursing home and welcomed Ouyang Rong in:
"Then you go inside first, County Grand Master. The one who manages the Beitian Alms Home is Xiaoseng's Senior Brother Xiu Du. He has always been serious and responsible, diligent and dedicated. He has arranged everything inside. Please come in, County Grand Master..."
"good."
Ouyang Rong nodded and subconsciously walked into the courtyard holding the handle of the knife.
Suddenly, he silently lowered his hand from the white jade hilt, turned his steps, and returned to Xiufa.
"County Master, what are you..."
Ouyang Rong lowered his head, carefully took off the jade target and white sandalwood skirt knife from his waist, and silently handed it to Xiufao with both hands:
"Junior sister will come over later and hand this dagger to her for me. This is something very important to her..."
Xiufa opened her mouth.
I wanted to ask the county magistrate why he didn't return the knife to Miss Xie himself and asked a middleman to do so.
But when the young novice saw the serious expression on the young magistrate's face, he swallowed his words and nodded as if knocking a wooden fish.
"I want it."
However, Xiufa didn't reach out to take the knife immediately. She shouted "Wait a minute" and turned around to find a storage tray.
Amitabha, the master said, monks should not easily touch the sword and fight.
Xiufao held the tray in his hand and caught the jade target white sandalwood skirt knife.
After handling the skirt knife, Ouyang Rong took a long breath.
Just now in the main hall, he ran too fast. Although he pretended to be stupid and didn't take the red rope, the skirt knife was subconsciously brought out by his hips.
Ouyang Rong didn't know until his younger junior sister hinted at it that the jade target and white sandalwood knife on his hip was not only expensive.
The symbolism is very strong.
Ouyang Rong did not dare to wear this sword.
He is not qualified to wear this sword.
He is not a good man, but a passerby.
At that time, I should have returned my junior sister's favor in the main hall, but I forgot about it.
If he returns it to her later with his own hands, it will be tantamount to hurting her a second time and re-opening the scars.
So Ouyang Rong chose someone to hand it over, and he chose Xiufa, an outsider monk who didn't understand the love affairs between men and women, hoping that he could maintain the little junior sister's face a little bit.
Seeing that the girl with beautiful hair and small face carefully kept the tray skirt and knife in a safe place, she then walked to a Hou Ke Kong Pavilion in the corner not far away to wait.
Ouyang Rong withdrew his gaze.
He glanced at the sky and the time.
He patted his sleeves and walked into the Beitian Alms Home empty-handed and relaxed.
What Ouyang Rong and Kongting were waiting for when they were admitted to the hospital did not see that under the dense shade of a leafy tree in the distance, there were two sneaky following figures gathering together and whispering.
"Liu Qi, do you see clearly?"
"See clearly, where is Brother Six?"
"Of course I can see it clearly."
The skinny monkey slave of the Liu family, who was called "Liu Liu" by people he knew well, nodded solemnly.
Even though he saw his prey falling into the trap with his own eyes, the mission was accomplished.
But there was not much joy in his face. Instead, he became calmer and said:
"See clearly, then, keep watching here, and go in to collect the body in half a quarter of an hour. If I don't come back, you can go and deal with the scene first."
The sturdy Liu family slave who was called "Liu Qi" nodded naively, but was stunned for a moment before reacting:
"Where are you going, Brother Six?"
"I'm going to the female fairy's place to have a look and report the situation to her.
"The female fairy finally found the opportunity to take away the female master, but we can't let Ouyang Lianghan come back and ruin the plan, so you should keep a close eye on me here and don't let out a fly. Do you understand? Don't be afraid of anything. One is afraid of ten thousand,"
"I understand, brother, but Ouyang Lianghan will definitely not be able to get out if he goes in. There is an old swordsman sitting inside, and every earthworm he passes by has to be chopped vertically..."
Speaking of this, Liu Qi shook his head indifferently. He looked at Kongting again and asked hesitantly:
"What about that little bald donkey over there?"
"If it's in the way, just deal with it. The master said, it's a good day and it's an auspicious day. It doesn't matter if you kill someone! But no matter how many people die, the most important thing is that the person who deserves to die must die."
Liu Liu turned around and left, leaving behind a cold word.
Liu Qi was stunned for a moment and nodded vigorously.
…
Donglin Temple, inside the main hall.
"Ouyang Rong", Xie Lingjiang, and Master Shandao are among three people.
The atmosphere was somewhat silent for a while.
Xie Lingjiang stared blankly at the red rope tied on her hand and the right hand that the senior brother in front of her stretched out calmly.
He stood still for a while.
It seems that happiness comes too suddenly.
The moment before it was "mourning in silence is better than death of heart", this moment is already "when happiness knocks on the door".
The switch between hell and heaven takes place in an instant.
This made Xie Lingjiang's eyes unable to change the mood for a while.
No matter what kind of woman encounters this kind of thing, her head will be a little dizzy.
The reason why a sweetheart is a sweetheart.
Because he is the person above the heart, he steps on your heart and makes your mind sway at will.
Master Shandao seemed to notice some awkwardness in the scene. He coughed and the Buddha sang:
"Amitabha, I said that the female Bodhisattva's fortune is very good. You see, it is just like the fortune telling. As long as you chase it boldly... ahem."
He paused in his words, and his face did not look too proud. He just smiled lightly and said something incomprehensible:
"If you cross the wall of your master's house and hug his virginity, you will get a wife. If you don't hug her, you won't get a wife... It's a good sign, a good sign."
Consciously completing the daily red line KPI, Master Shandao showed satisfaction in his eyes and glanced at the talented and beautiful couple in front of him.
"Hey, there seems to be a female benefactor over there lingering in the darkness. It seems that she needs some evangelism to resolve her doubts...
"County Master, female Bodhisattva, please take your time and chat for a while, then go away!"
Master Shandao did not continue to talk nonsense, nor did he stand in front of the two senior brothers and sisters who had escaped from danger and reunited.
He left quickly as if the floor was hot.
Only "Ouyang Rong" and Xie Lingjiang were left to face each other silently.
Why are you so lazy? A woman trapped in the quagmire of worldly love is really troublesome.
The Jade Fairy saw that Xie Lingjiang seemed to be immobilized. It had been a long time since she came to tie a red string on the right wrist of Ouyang Rong, who was disguised as her.
She couldn't help but curse silently in her heart.
But it eventually turned into a sigh.
The Jade Fairy lowered her right hand and took another red rope from the dazed Xie Lingjiang.
Playing Ouyang Rong, she began to tie it on herself.
At the same time, although the Jade Fairy's face remained calm, she was laughing angrily in her heart.
If you didn't know, if Ouyang Lianghan had entered Beitian Nursing Home as scheduled, he would have been dead. Otherwise, what was she doing now?
Coax women to pick up girls on behalf of the enemy?
When the Jade Fairy was busy tying the red rope like a dog, Xie Lingjiang suddenly moved.
As if she had just come out of her daze and reacted, she immediately grabbed "Ouyang Rong's" right wrist, took the red rope, lowered her head and helped him tie it carefully.
This decisive and quick movement, biting the lip and focusing on the side of the face.
It seemed that no one could snatch him away from her.
The Jade Fairy secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, when she was just complaining and swearing, she kept paying attention to Xie Lingjiang's face from the corner of her eye. She was deeply afraid that the disguise of Mirage Mask would be seen through by this woman, so she was ready to run away at any time.
After all, he is a Confucian qi practitioner with a profound background. Who knows if Xie Lingjiang has learned any special qi-gazing techniques that can see through illusions at a glance.
Although the Jade Demon Fairy is quite confident in the effect of the Mirage Mask, because it is made by collecting some residual spirituality from the original body, and the exposed aura is almost exactly the same.
However, small details such as language habits and behaviors may still be exposed, especially in front of familiar people.
The Jade Fairy did not let down her guard at all.
In this undisturbed corner of the hall, the talented and beautiful two people tied the red rope to each other and put down their hands.
The atmosphere fell into some silence again.
Xie Lingjiang lowered her head and lowered her eyes without looking at him. She raised her hand and wiped the area under her eyes with the back of her hand, although she actually wanted to rub her eyes more:
"You also knew you were coming back..."
The sadness in the girl's hoarse voice was almost overflowing.
The Jade Fairy looked at Xie Lingjiang, who was a little excited, calmly. Following the principle of saying less, making fewer mistakes and being as concise as possible, she tried to speak:
"Still...still can't let go of...you."
"real?"
"real!"
Xie Lingjiang bit his lower lip and quickly raised his eyes to look at the familiar face of the man in front of him. He didn't speak for a while, but his head was lowered.
Hey... the female fairy Yuxi found that the coaxing effect was good. This Xie girl was very easy to coax. She opened her mouth to speak, ready to pursue the victory.
But at this moment, Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned away and asked:
"Where is my skirt knife? Also, why did you change into...this official uniform?"
The air on the field suddenly became silent.
The Jade Fairy's breath stopped.
Seeing Xie Lingjiang's slightly frowning eyebrows, she suddenly panicked and thought to herself, that's terrible.
The Jade Fairy just had a sudden inspiration and decided to pretend to hide Ouyang Lianghan and lure Xie Lingjiang away.
When the idea of inspiration first came to me, the more I thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to me. However, in the rush, she forgot that a mirage mask could only transform into one fixed form.
Therefore, of course, the clothes can only be a fixed set, which is the official uniform that Ouyang Lianghan wore when he took office that day.
Isn't it said that women become stupid when they fall in love? Why is this Xie girl so careful?
Seeing Xie Lingjiang's beautiful, slightly flushed eyebrows becoming more and more wrinkled.
She fired her bow without an arrow to turn back, so the Jade Lady Fairy had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain blindly:
"Just now...didn't I just go to Xia Beitian Alms Home, so I changed into an official uniform...I just happened to be going down the mountain to pick up Mr. Shen and the others.
"As for the skirt knife... As for the skirt knife, I left it there when I was changing clothes and forgot to take it."
Xie Lingjiang looked at him and asked, "Is the Beitian Nursing Home so close... You just went there for a while and came back?"
The Jade Lady Fairy tried her best to keep a smile on her face, and at the same time carefully looked at the subtle expression on Xie Lingjiang's face with her eyes. She tried to ask:
"It's quite close. It's not far away. Junior sister, haven't you been there...?"
Xie Lingjiang raised his head, his eyes were red, and he stared at the senior brother in front of him, but did not speak immediately.
The Jade Fairy's body suddenly became tense.
There are some things in reality that are a bit emo, and the brothers’ book reviews said that I approve of the occasional aggression... Xiaorong is bored in the room every day, and is upside down day and night, and his state is a little uncomfortable. Of course, I am not saying this to make everyone sympathize. , we are all adults, everyone has troubles, there is no need to be accommodating to others, I just want to say that Xiaorong does not perfunctory book friends and does not care about book friends... but I admit that I am short and slow! I am also working hard to change it, but it is still not fast enough, so the good brothers scold me casually, but Xiaorong deserves to be scolded.
(End of chapter)
