Li Ye looked at her, shook his head, and said with a smile: "What delicious food can be found in this barren mountain?"
Xiaoqing curled her lips and said, "Don't you even have a barbecue?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "It's snowy and windy, go and catch some pheasants for me and I'll roast them for you."
Xiaoqing glared at him and thought to herself, you are deliberately causing trouble for me.
"I just heard outside that which one of you wanted to give me a gift, senior or Li Ye?" Xiao Qing waved her little hand and gently patted away the snowflakes on her blue and white cotton-padded jacket.
Xiao Qingcai is not stupid. He immediately changed the topic and did not get entangled with Li.
Li Ye looked at the old ape with a smile and said, "I just told my senior that if you want to drink the wine brought by my Xiaoqing again, you have to find something from the mountain to make Xiaoqing happy."
Seeing the old ape's uncomfortable look, Li Ye felt like he wanted to repay him for instigating Xiao Bai.
"Really?" Xiao Qing raised his eyebrows and looked at the old ape like a curious baby.
"I remember that senior has never given Xiaoqing a gift. Is it rare that you want to give me a surprise today?" When she said this, she was completely unaware that the old ape was gnashing his teeth and staring at Li Ye.
"That's natural." The old ape nodded helplessly, picked up the teacup Li Ye handed him, and took a sip.
"Xiao Qing, what delicious food did you bring up? I will go back to the cave to look for you later to see if there is anything you like."
"It's nothing. It's not the same as last time. It's not spring yet. How can there be anything delicious in the city?" Xiao Qing said to the old ape with a smile.
"As long as there is wine, it doesn't matter if there is anything else!" What Lao Yuan was thinking about was Fengyun City's Shao Daozi.
"Senior, don't worry, this is indispensable." Xiao Qing replied.
Looking at Xiaobai lying on the bamboo chair, Xiaoqing walked over, picked him up, and sat down opposite Li Ye.
He took out the baggage he brought and put it on the table. He picked some peanuts from it and spread them on the table to eat while feeding Xiaobai who was drooling.
Li Ye took the bag and put it on the shelf behind him, put a plate of peanuts on the table, frowned and said, "Why is there a piece of rice paper in this bag?"
Xiao Qing was feeding peanuts to Xiao Bai. When Li Ye asked, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and said with a smile: "This is what City Master Xia asked his wife to give to you. He said that you only wrote two sentences for him that year." After the poem, there was no news.”
"They are addicted to playing. Writing poems and essays is not as good as practicing cultivation. How can they be in the mood?" Li Ye looked at him and said.
Xiaoqing looked at Xiaobai's naive look, shook her head and replied.
"This year's spring banquet will be held early, so I brought this blank paper over and asked you to write a complete poem, at least as good as Sister Hongxiu's."
"It's not the beginning of spring yet, why should we hold a spring banquet?" Li Ye frowned slightly.
Xiao Qing put Xiao Bai back on the bamboo chair, looked back at Li Ye, and thought for a while before saying: "It seems that a big shot has come to the city. Even the Lord of Xia City invited her to Sister Hongxiu's restaurant, so we decided We will entertain her in the garden of the city lord’s mansion in five days.”
"A big shot, even the city lord has to entertain him personally?" Li Ye replied lightly, thinking that even so, what does it have to do with me?
"Oh, do you like to write or not? Anyway, Madam asked you to write a good poem." Thinking of Ye Zhiqiu's words, she knew that Li Ye was not a very easy person to talk to now.
"Take my mother as an example, these people are too shameless. It seems that I have been away for a long time, and they have forgotten that I am a soft-spoken person."
Xiaoqing was stunned, then opened his mouth and said with a smile: "I didn't let you eat anything hard, either?"
The old ape stood up and walked out of the door with his hands behind his back. As he walked, he said, "Xiao Qing, I will go to the cave to see if there is anything I can give you."
"Senior, no, Li Ye and Xiao Qing are joking with you." Xiao Qing stuck out her tongue and looked at Li Ye, who was frowning.
"Don't worry about it. I'll go back and look for it. If I can't find it, let's talk about it. I can't keep drinking what you brought." The old ape waved his hand and walked out of the shed.
Xiao Qing picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Suddenly she remembered something and took out a letter from her arms and handed it to Li Ye. "The guest asked Sister Hongxiu to give this to you. He said he brought it from Fenghuang Mountain. He also said he would come to visit the house in person on the next day."
Li Ye's eyelids twitched and he snatched the envelope from Xiao Qing's hand.
The letter in his hand was wrapped in brown kraft paper. He took out his knife and gently cut open the seal. Holding back his excitement, he gently took out the light yellow letter paper inside, which was written in beautiful small letters:
...
Fate arranged that we met by the small bridge of Liuhe River. From then on, I had you in my heart. At first, I felt hatred, but later I felt joy.
However, the time was too short, and before I had time to fully appreciate the joy in my heart, you and your husband went to practice on the Tianshan Mountains.
Not long after you left, I followed the master through the wasteland, through the city, and came to Phoenix Mountain. The master said that before I break through to the fifth level of the Golden Core Realm, I have to practice here.
In Fengyun City, whether it was in my husband's Zizhuyuan, or in your academy, or even later studied under your mother, I liked it very much.
Fengyun City and Phoenix Mountain are too far apart. Master and I walked back and forth for a month. If you want to come see me, I will wait for you here. If you can't come, just wait for me to come back.
No matter what, just thinking about you makes me happy.
...
Li Ye read the letter with red eyes, lowered his head and took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
After a long silence, he gently stuffed the light yellow letter back into the kraft envelope and carefully put it into the space ring in his finger.
Xiao Qing tilted her head and looked at Li Ye. She was very shocked at this moment.
I don't understand why Li Ye just read a letter and showed such strong emotions. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
Seeing Xiaoqing's dazed look, Li Ye sighed softly in his heart, paused, and said calmly: "This is a very good friend of mine in the city. She followed the master to practice on Phoenix Mountain."
Xiaoqing looked at him and said softly: "Oh!"
"It's a long story. I'll tell you again when I have the chance." Li Ye said quietly.
"No hurry, no rush, I'm not in a hurry!" Xiaoqing waved her hand. This was the first time she saw Li Ye shed tears, so how could she dare to say anything more?
"If you're not in a hurry, just stay here for one night."
Xiaoqing looked at him and nodded, then said.
"I forgot to tell you, you can write a letter for me to take back. The guest said that she can leave it at the inn in Zhongyu and have someone take it to Phoenix Mountain." Xiao Qing felt that her mind was a little confused today.
Li Ye nodded. He was confused now. If a stone was thrown into the calm lake, it would create a ripple that would not go away for a long time.
He suddenly missed the short time in Fengyun City, the arrogant and unreasonable young lady who pushed him down in the snow, and the young lady who stretched out her little hand and asked him for gold coins.
My heart was full of thoughts and I had nowhere to vent my thoughts. I looked at Xiao Qing who was staring blankly at him with her chin on her hands, thinking about the young lady thousands of miles away, and thinking about the city lord down the mountain who was urging me to ask for poems.
He suddenly stood up, pushed aside the peanut tea cup on the table, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the shelf on his body, poured some hot water into the grinder, and began to grind the ink quickly.
What spring banquet, what should be the occasion, all do not exist in his heart at this moment, he just wants to vent the depression in his heart.
He spread a piece of rice paper brought by Xiaoqing on the table and wrote:
The fragrance of red lotus root lingers in the jade mat of autumn. He undressed Luo Shang lightly and boarded the orchid boat alone.
Who in the clouds sent a brocade book? When the wild goose returned, the moon was full on the west tower.
Putting away the inkstone, he let out a long breath. He looked at Xiao Qing and laughed twice, put the pen and inkstone back on the shelf behind him, took out a stone and handed it to Xiao Qing.
"This is a stone I picked up by the river. I carved a seal on it when I was bored. When you go back, ask my mother for some cinnabar and red mud to cover it with, and then find someone to give it to City Lord Xia."
Li Ye wondered to himself whether he and the city lord were in conflict. He could only write two lines of poems for the spring banquet that year, but this year he actually wrote half a fern of Li Yian's "One Cut Plum" for him.
Thinking in my heart, I couldn't help laughing twice, with a tear in my laughter.
Xiaoqing didn't know calligraphy, but she liked the words written by Li Ye. She opened her mouth and read softly: "Who in the clouds sent brocade books? Who in the clouds sent brocade books...Does this mean The friend who wrote to you?"
Li Ye was stunned. He didn't expect Xiaoqing to think of the young lady, and secretly wondered if you were so smart.
He said calmly: "Yes and no, I'll leave it to you anyway. Don't give this piece of writing to my mother. Let Li Hongxiu lead you to the Spring Banquet. You can hand it over to City Lord Xia personally and let Li Hongxiu ask him for the bounty." When I’m done, I’ll give you two to buy something you like.”
Xiao Qing clapped her little hands, very happy. "Mu Mu has now become a money-lover. Last time she sold Cordyceps for more than 300 gold coins, but she only gave Madam 100..."
Li Ye frowned and said loudly: "Didn't you ask her to give you gold coins and ask Agui to send them to the old monk at the Great Buddhist Temple outside the city? You go back and tell her this time that if you don't handle this matter well, I will give you a copper coin in the future. I don’t care about her anymore.”
Li Ye was very angry. The old monk had been frugal all his life. He had worn the monk's robes for several years and was reluctant to throw them away. He ordered them to be replaced before he went up the mountain.
Xiaoqing was startled when she saw Li Ye getting angry, and said quickly: "Mumu said she would find time to go to the temple with me to see the old monk. Isn't it snowing these days?"
"I don't care about this. How long have I left it to you? She can't handle such a small thing? Didn't my mother teach her some worldly truths?" Li Ye gently rolled up the rice paper on the table and placed it on the table. On the shelf behind you.
Xiaoqing thought for a while and smiled: "I will remind her when I get back, don't worry."
Xiaobai jumped down from the chair, gently tugged on Xiaoqing's sleeves, and looked at the door with his eyes.
...
"You want me to play outside with you?" Xiaoqing touched its head.
Xiaobai lowered his head and whined twice.
Xiao Qing glanced at Li Ye, thought for a moment, picked up Xiao Bai, turned around and walked out of the shed, jumping down to the bottom of the cliff.
Li Ye looked at her running back and muttered: "Hurry up and play with him before he enters the realm. When he turns into a human in a few days, will you hold him? This damn dog is pretending to be dead in front of me. , actually learned to be cute in front of Xiaoqing."
He thought that the gift guest from Fengyun City actually asked the city lord to accompany him to find Li Hongxiu in person, and for her sake the spring banquet, which was held only after the beginning of spring, was held in advance.
He also thought that in Fengyun City at this time, there were Mu Mu and Xiao Qing, Mr. Li and Li Hongxiu, and I wonder if Fatty Tang, Hu Ge, and Xiao Ju had gone to the sect to practice.
Coupled with the sudden arrival of a mysterious figure, Nuo Da's Fengyun City, except that he was trapped in the Tianshan Mountains, was already turbulent at the foot of the mountain.
Thinking about the unfinished poem "Yijianmei", I couldn't help but whisper softly:
The flowers float and the water flows. One kind of lovesickness, two places of idle sorrow.
There is no way to eliminate this feeling, so I just frown, but it is in my heart.
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