Hu Lu held the sword and stood by the second pond, looking up at the sky quietly.
Before he finished practicing the sword move just now, he felt something fall on the sword.
Maybe it's water, maybe it's snow.
So Hu Lu stopped and looked towards the sky.
In the distant and gloomy sky, there is a lot of fine snow falling towards the world.
Hu Lu looked at it for a long time, then suddenly put the sword back into its sheath and walked towards the outside of Erchi.
After searching for a long time, I saw Chen Huaifeng beside the three ponds, holding a cup of hot tea and watching other senior brothers play cards.
"Brother, it's snowing."
Hu Lu stood by the pool and shouted toward the pavilion.
When Chen Huaifeng heard the sound, he stood by the pavilion and stretched out his head to look outside. Then he walked out of the pavilion and walked to Hu Lu who was standing on the path by the pool and asked, "What's wrong with the snow?"
Hu Lu thought for a while and said: "It's snowing, which means winter is really coming, and it also means winter is about to leave."
Chen Huaifeng seemed to understand something and looked at the fifteen-year-old boy in front of him.
Hu Lu said seriously: "So, is Senior Brother Xiaoyu coming back?"
Chen Huaifeng held the cup and walked forward in the sparse snow. Hu Lu followed behind holding the sword, looking at Chen Huaifeng expectantly.
Chen Huaifeng walked for a long time before saying softly: "I don't know, maybe he will come back tomorrow."
Chen Huaifeng did not say the second half of the sentence.
But Hu Lu knew what it meant, so she just whispered, then lowered her head, holding her sword and walking slowly on the inclined bridge in the snowy garden.
Chen Huaifeng smiled and said, "Actually, if he doesn't come back, you can go find him."
Hu Lu looked up at Chen Huaifeng who was walking in front and said, "Then why don't senior brother go find him?"
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "Because people like us, as we get older, always have other meanings in the world. If I suddenly go to find you, Brother Xiaoyu, people in the world will think randomly, thinking that the Sword Sect in the world may want to do something. What's going on? But you are different. You are a young man. He can naturally meet whoever he wants to see. When the world sees it, they will only say that these two brothers have such a good relationship."
Hu Lu walked silently on the road, and then whispered: "Senior Brother is indeed right, but I don't mean to say that I must see Senior Brother Xiaoyu. I just hope that he can come back and stay in Jianzong. Here, don’t..."
Don't walk in the wind and snow of the world with that kind of pain in your arms.
Of course Chen Huaifeng knew what Hulu meant.
But this thirty-two-year-old Taoist sword cultivator just calmly held the wolfberry tea cup in his hand, took a few sips to dispel some of the chill, and then said slowly: "People in the world will always go away, Hu Lu, even if It’s your senior brother Xiaoyu, even if it’s you and me, living in this world, we should do our own thing and go our own way.”
Hu Lu was silent for a while and said, "So I am greedy for too much?"
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "You are still a teenager. Teenagers don't have so many worries. It's easy to not understand why people in the world have to be separated eventually - coming together doesn't necessarily mean going together, living together doesn't necessarily mean dying together, it's the same in life and death, not to mention What about others?”
Hu Lu thought of the monument, and then heard Chen Huaifeng continue.
"It is precisely because of pain that hope is meaningful, and it is precisely because of separation that reunion is meaningful. Just like you are doing now, waiting with warm wine and sparse shadows and windows, it is not a comfortable and beautiful thing."
Hu Lu quietly followed Chen Huaifeng forward, and then said, "Then what should I do?"
Chen Huaifeng smiled and said, "You can do whatever you want."
Hu Lu sighed softly.
The two of them walked all the way to the edge of a pond.
Cong Xin was sitting on the swing under the tree outside the pond, but he had already fallen asleep.
Every year when it snows, the senior brothers from the Sword Sect come here to wake up Xiao Congxin who is sleeping on the swing.
Hu Lu quietly looked at Cong Xin, who was sleeping peacefully with his head tilted against the swing vine, while light snow slowly fell on his thin and curved eyebrows.
Chen Huaifeng walked over and gently woke up Xiao Congxin.
"It's snowing, Cong Xin."
Xiao Congxin sat there in a daze, stretched out her hand, and Chen Huaifeng picked her up and walked towards the wooden house in the tree.
"Has the laughter in the bush returned?"
Cong Xin said drowsily.
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "It's almost here."
Cong Xin said no more and fell asleep on Chen Huaifeng's shoulder, like a small peach blossom that accidentally fell on his shoulder.
Hu Lu looked at it very silently.
Cong Zhongxiao left the Human Sword Sect one winter many years ago and went to Mojian Cliff.
And never came back.
Cong Xin is actually older than any senior brother in the Sword Sect.
Chen Huaifeng carried Cong Xin back to the wooden house, and then walked down the wooden house path again.
Hu Lu still stood there, holding the sword and looking at Xue.
Chen Huaifeng looked at Hu Lu and asked with a chuckle: "Are you going to find him?"
Hu Lu thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait until the snow ends."
The two Jianzong brothers stepped on the thin snow on the ground and left slowly.
...
It was snowing in Lingnan. Le Chaotian, who was warming himself by the fire in the small building, immediately ran downstairs. Nan Dao, who was concentrating on his sword intent on the corridor, was startled. He opened his eyes and looked at the sparse flying trees all over the mountain. Xue looked at Le Chaotian downstairs and asked in confusion: "What are you going to do?"
"Look at the little cabbage." Le Chaotian said without looking back.
As the main dish of the cabbage and vermicelli hotpot that Le Chaotian cherishes, baby cabbage is very dear to Le Chaotian.
On weekdays, I would go and have a look if I had nothing to do, for fear that the temperature would be too low and they would all freeze to death.
Nan Dao sat upstairs for a while, thought about it, and then walked down the canyon. When he came to Wu Dalong's cabbage patch with an umbrella, Le Chaotian was wrapping the cabbage leaves tightly in the snow with vines.
Nan Dao looked at it for a while and said, "Is this useful?"
Le Chaotian tied up the leaves of the cabbage and said: "This is what Senior Brother Wu said. He said that if it snows and you don't want to dig them out, just tie the leaves up, which can help prevent freezing."
Nan Dao was silent for a while and said: "It's better to just use the sword to isolate this snowstorm."
Le Chaotian chuckled and said, "What you eat like that won't be human cabbage."
Nan Dao was silent and walked over holding an umbrella. He picked up the rattan ropes that Le Chaotian had prepared at some point and helped him hold the umbrella. Because Nan Dao couldn't let go of the umbrella in his hand, he naturally couldn't help Le Chaotian tie it up.
Not long after, Wu Dalong also came up and bundled the cabbages with Le Chaotian.
I have been busy for a long time, and before the fine snow turned into heavy snow, I tied up all the cabbages. From a distance, they looked like green and white radishes on the ground.
The three of them stood at the edge of the cabbage field. Nan Dao looked at Le Chaotian, who was sweating from the work, and said, "It's snowing now, why don't you have hot pot?"
Le Chaotian smiled softly and said, "Of course not, we have to wait a little longer."
"When?"
Le Chaotian thought for a while and said: "When we go out and the snow has reached our calves, we will light up the stove, then step on the snow, run here to pick a few cabbage, and use the snow directly. Just scrub it and it’s ready for hot pot.”
Nan Dao thought for a long time and asked puzzledly: "Would it taste better this way?"
Le Chaotian said seriously: "This way the atmosphere will be better."
"..."
Wu Dalong said from the side: "Then today, while the snow is not heavy yet, I will go down the mountain to buy some vermicelli, pork or something, otherwise it will be difficult to go out of the mountain by then."
Le Chaotian nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, senior brother."
Wu Dalong smiled and turned around and left the vegetable field. Not long after, the two Nandao people saw Wu Dalong wearing a thick winter coat and holding a stick. He came out of the Sword Sect and walked down the mountain.
Le Chaotian said softly: "Senior brother is a real person living in the world."
Nan Dao wanted to Lu Xiaoqi, so Wu Dalong went to Nanyi City to find him. In the end, because of playing a few cards, he was forced to work in the city to redeem the sword. He also smiled and said: "Yes."
Lingnan is indeed the closest place to the human world.
The two of them watched in the vegetable field for a while, and then walked towards the canyon through the increasingly heavy snow.
Le Chaotian is indeed right.
When it snows heavily, it is indeed a wonderful thing to sit in a small building and warm yourself by the fire, listening to the sound of snow falling outside.
Nan Dao did not practice sword practice today, so he sat happily on the roadside and looked at the flying snow outside.
The world soon became mottled, and the distant peaks gradually changed from yellow-green to white and black - because the snow was too white, making other colors look like black.
Dry mountain baldness only takes one afternoon.
When Lu Xiaosan jumped back from the cliff, the world was already completely white.
Because he had not seen snow often, the young boy made a sound in wonder, then carried his sword on his back and ran through the canyon to the Xiaohong Building. He said in amazement: "It's snowing, Uncle Master!"
It was a pity that his two junior uncles had known that it was snowing for a long time, and they had even made a fire to watch the snow all afternoon.
Therefore, Lu Xiaosan was not able to call out the two Nandao people, but he woke up Qingjiao in the wooden house next to him from his cultivation state.
The thin red coat was naturally quite out of place compared to the bloated young man Lu Xiaosan.
Maybe it's very aesthetic.
But Lu Xiaosan couldn't appreciate it. He just tilted his head and looked at the woman in red and said, "Aren't you cold in such heavy snow?"
Qingjiao stood on the corridor of the wooden house, looking at the vast world, and said calmly: "It's not cold."
Lu Xiaosan said "oh" and didn't care about her. He ran towards the small building with his sword on his back.
Nan Dao and Le Chaotian looked very cold.
In the large stove specially built by Wu Dalong, the coals were emitting a warm light.
Lu Xiaosan, who originally wanted to play outside in the snow, suddenly lay down in front of the stove and rolled around.
"It's comfortable, it's comfortable. I won't go back tonight. I want to sleep here. The stove in Jianzong is too small and can't even heat my back."
Le Chaotian smiled slightly and said, "You can also ask your master to make a big stove like this."
Lu Xiaosan sat up and sighed: "Master said this is too wasteful. A small stove will do. How about you give me this stove, uncle?"
Le Chaotian sat in front of the stove and hugged his knees. He shook his head firmly and said, "No, I can't sleep well without a stove."
"Hmph, stingy!"
Lu Xiaosan was very dissatisfied and stood up again, lying on the guardrail outside and looking at the snow outside with his head tilted.
Not long after, a small figure climbed up from the bottom of the cliff holding a sword.
"Junior brother!"
It was Lu Xiaoer, walking along the way, waving to Lu Xiaosan.
"What's wrong, senior brother?" Lu Xiaosan asked loudly.
"Master asked you to go back to eat!"
Lu Xiaosan chuckled and said, "Tell Master, don't call me, I'm afraid Master will misunderstand."
Lu Xiaoer was confused, so he ran up the small building with his sword on his back.
hiss.
Lu Xiaoer probably knew why, so he kept silent about eating and sat in the corridor with Lu Xiaosan.
Although there is a lot of snow outside, there is not much wind. What's more, there is a big stove behind you, which is steaming so hot that you won't feel cold even if you sit outside.
Not long after that, senior sister Lu Xiaoyi's voice came from the bottom of the cliff again.
"Second Junior Brother and Third Junior Brother, Master has asked you to go back for dinner!"
"Tell Master~ Don't contact us, we are afraid that Master will misunderstand!"
Nan Dao sat in the building, looking at the two young boys outside, speechless.
Le Chaotian couldn't help but smile.
So Lu Xiaoyi also stayed.
In the end, all five little ones huddled in the little red building and lay in a circle in front of the stove.
Lu Xiaoxiao waited in the courtyard of Xiaobai Jianzong for a long time, but no one came back. He thought that they would not encounter wild wolves in the mountains.
So he hurriedly went back to get his sword, and walked on the snow all the way towards Tianya Sword Sect. Wu Dalong still didn't come back. Lu Xiaoyu followed the footprints and headed up the mountain road. The mountain road was steep, plus the descent The snow was very slippery, so I even fell down in a hurry.
When I walked up, I saw that the gorge was completely silent. Only Qingjiao was sitting on the corridor of the cabin, looking at the snow quietly.
"Have you seen Xiaoyi and the others?"
Lu Xiaoxiao asked while sweeping the snow off his head.
Qingjiao looked strange. Naturally, she heard all the previous conversations without missing a word. Even Xiaosi and Xiaowu, who came last, looked at her flatteringly and said not to tell their master that they went inside to warm up by the fire.
So Qingjiao was silent for a while. She wanted to say that she didn't see it, but when she saw the bruise marks on Lu Xiaoxiao's hands, she sighed softly and said, "Warm up in there."
Lu Xiaoxiao turned to look at the small building, and sure enough he found that the door on the second floor was opened a little, and a little head stuck out to look around, then quickly retracted.
He breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt annoyed. He broke a branch from the side and walked towards the small building aggressively.
Qingjiao looked at him with a strange expression from behind, thinking that you wouldn't come out once you left. Is it really that comfortable in there?
I don't know if it was comfortable inside, but after Lu Xiaoxiao went in, he really didn't come out again.
Qingjiao sat outside the cabin for a while, hesitated a little, and then walked towards the building with her sword in hand.
As soon as he went upstairs, he saw a little boy lying scattered on the ground and looked up - it looked like he had not been beaten.
Qingjiao was silent for a while, coughed, and said, "It seems they are all here, pretty good."
Then he also sat down beside him.
Lu Xiaosan asked curiously: "Aren't you not afraid..."
But before he finished speaking, Lu Xiaoxiao covered his mouth.
"Get out of here."
"okay!"
Lu Xiaosan started rolling around the stove again.
No matter what, at least others are here, and it will always be embarrassing to say something like this.
Qingjiao sat there quietly, and there was some silence in the room.
After a while, the woman in red stood up again and said, "It's indeed warm. I'll go back first."
Le Chaotian smiled softly and said, "Please sit for a while if it's warm."
Qingjiao walked downstairs holding the sword and said calmly: "I'm not cold."
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Xiaosan who had rolled to his side, and gave him a gentle blow on his butt.
"Tell you to talk too much!"
Lu Xiaosan held his butt in aggrieved manner and rolled to the side.
They had been warming themselves up for a long time, but Lu Xiaoxiao finally remembered that Wu Dalong was here, looked at Nan Dao and asked, "Where is your senior brother Wu?"
"He went down the mountain to buy ingredients."
Only then did Lu Xiaoxiao remember Le Chaotian's hot pot incident.
Then she remembered that before, they actually grilled the fish and ate it after she left the canyon.
As soon as Le Chaotian saw Lu Xiaoxiao's expression, he quietly moved to the side.
Fortunately, Lu Xiaoxiao just gave him a meaningful look and didn't threaten him.
It was probably because the door had been closed for a long time - Wu Xiaoxiao was afraid that Lu Xiaoxiao would find out that he had locked it, so he never opened it again. The small building felt a little stuffy.
So Nan Dao opened the door with an umbrella, walked out, and sat down on the corridor.
Lu Xiaoxiao glanced at the sleepy Wu Xiaozhi and Le Chaotian, then walked out and sat outside the door with Nan Dao, watching the snow.
The sound of sleeping snores gradually came from behind - it is most likely to make you sleepy when you are warming yourself up by the fire when it is snowing.
Lu Xiaoxiao turned to look at Nandao, who was calmly looking at the heavy snow that had covered the entire Lingnan, and said softly: "It seems like you don't hate snow very much."
Nan Dao looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and said, "Why do I hate snow?"
Lu Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "Nanyi City..."
Nan Dao said calmly: "The matter of a snowstorm only lies in that snowstorm."
Lu Xiaoxiao smiled softly and said: "That's good - I'm always worried that you will be affected by this, for example, you won't dare to see the wind and snow from now on..."
The cold wind outside the building blew snow into the building, falling on the back of Nan Dao's hand resting on his lap.
Then it turned into a bloodstain.
It just disappeared quickly.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Nan Dao's hand in silence. She might know something, or she might not.
Then he looked up at the umbrella on the south island.
Nan Dao just calmly retracted his hand, sat quietly under the umbrella, and said softly: "I don't dare to see Feng Xue."
Both in the past and now.
Not only if you leave this umbrella, there will be wind and snow in the world.
The rain and snow in the world are always looking for him.
It's just that the South Island now has a certain degree of resistance to some of the damage caused by the wind and snow.
So sometimes getting caught in some rain and seeing some snow is not a very painful thing.
On the contrary, it can make Nan Dao remember why he embarked on certain paths.
Lu Xiaoxiao didn't ask anything, just sat quietly aside.
Nan Dao laughed softly and looked at Lu Xiaoxiao and Le Chaotian, who was sleeping with a pillow in front of the stove in the building.
"Senior sister, there is no need to think too much. I have learned a lot from my junior brother these days."
Lu Xiaoxiao tilted his head and looked at Nandao, and then laughed easily. Facing the heavy snow that swept across Lingnan, he said: "In that case, for junior brother, this heavy snow is indeed rare. The scenery is amazing."
Nan Dao smiled and said, "Yes."
