In the middle of the night, I heard the ticking sound of night dew sliding down from the treetops and falling on the tent.
Lin Qiao opened her eyes and saw Li Bochen sleeping soundly. She stared at his side face for a while through the dim light in the tent, then stretched out her bare arm from the quilt, followed the sharp outline of his face with her fingers, and touched it vaguely and slowly. .
Then she slowly turned over, got out of the quilt, took off her clothes and put them on. Then he found Li Bochen's clothes at his feet and pulled Yaohou out.
After staring at him for a while, he quietly walked out of the tent.
Two quarters of an hour later, Li Boxen opened his eyes. He touched around him, was slightly startled, and sat up. With this dim light and his good eyesight, he knew that no one was in the tent, so he immediately grabbed his clothes and threw them around, picked up the magic knife next to him, and rushed out of the tent.
The two horses were still tied to the tree and seemed to be sleeping next to each other. There was only the sound of pine waves in the surroundings.
He frowned and listened with bated breath for a while, then said in a deep voice, "Xiaoman?"
No one answered. Then he took a deep breath and touched Yaohou on his waist, but found nothing. Li Bochen was shocked and raised his voice again: "Xiao Man!"
The two horses listened and snorted uneasily. Li Boxen thought about it again, sat cross-legged on the ground, and felt his spirit coming out of his body. He was now at the pinnacle of Qi-nurturing realm, and the Yin Shen could move nearly a thousand steps away from his body, but even so, he circled around and couldn't find her.
He returned to his physical body and felt like he was breaking out in a cold sweat - where had she gone! ?
Being kidnapped? Absolutely impossible...unless the person taking her is in the middle third level. But if he is such an expert, he must be here to deal with him. Why is he okay?
Then...she left on her own?
I'm not riding a horse, where are I going? ?
He stood up, froze for a moment, and took a few deep breaths. calm. He thought to himself that he must not panic now. The most reasonable explanation is that she left on her own. But why?
A thought crossed his mind, but he dismissed it immediately. That thought was so frightening and so chilling that I never wanted to care about it until the end.
He closed his eyes and stood for a while, then opened them again and slowly looked around. This time, he used his spiritual power. When he met Bi Hai in the Sui Dynasty, he also looked at the surrounding earth atmosphere in this way, and found the sarcophagus according to the earth atmosphere. There was nothing he could think about at the moment, so he could only place his hope on this. If this is the case, there is no other way but to go to that world, try to wait for the hundred and twenty to show up, and then ask him if he can find him.
But looking at it this way, I found that the atmosphere here is different from that of the Sui Dynasty. At first, outside the village, you could see the strands of Qi gathering in one place, but here they were scattered, in one place in the east and in the west.
Is it possible that in such a large forest, there is no such thing as an Earth Master or a Tiger? Or is it that because of the changes that occurred more than ten years ago, the living spirits that should have been there are no longer there?
He sighed lowly and planned to recite the mantra silently and go over there to find a solution.
But just when my heart was about to move, I suddenly heard a slight sound.
It was a sound mixed in the pine waves. It was like a flute, but it was more hoarse. Suspecting that it was an illusion, he hurriedly listened for a while to confirm that it was correct.
His heart suddenly fell back into his stomach, and after careful analysis, he felt that it was coming from the north. When the Yin Shen left her body just now, she could vaguely see the light of water in the north, maybe it was a big lake...did she run there? ?
Li Bochen immediately ran out.
The closer you get to the lake, the more clearly you can hear the music. He didn't know much about silk and bamboo, so he couldn't tell what kind of musical instrument it was. But the music was so sad and sad that it almost made people cry. While Li Bochen was listening, he felt irritated in his heart - was she the one who blew it?
But why travel so far and play such a tune? Could it be that she was unhappy in her heart? Have you ever had to promise yourself before?
After another dozen steps, his pace became slower and slower. When the trees gradually thinned out and a large lake surrounded by dense forests could be seen in the distance, they stopped.
He saw Lin Qiao sitting by the lake bathing in the moonlight, only ten steps away from him. She had her back turned and her hands in front of her face, probably holding the instrument. But there was a pile of small embers beside him, glowing dark red. At first I thought she was lighting a fire to keep warm, but when I looked closer, I found a small wooden sign beside the fire.
This wooden sign must have been newly split. There is still bark on one side and there is a line of words engraved on it. Although Li Bochen had good eyesight, he really couldn't read the words on the wooden sign clearly under the moonlight. But looking at the outline of this thing, it looks like a spiritual tablet or something. He squinted his eyes and looked hard for a while, and could only vaguely distinguish the first two words, which seemed to be the word "loving mother", and the last two words, which seemed to be the word "position". As for the two in the middle, it’s hard to guess.
He froze for a moment and sighed.
Was it because of this? Yes...she is different from myself.
Chang Tingwei is his "mother", but his feelings for her only stem from the memory of the former one. There is some, but it's not very deep. But Lin Qiao's mother was her real biological person... She had mentioned her several times, and she sounded very nostalgic.
Now that she is married, she should really comfort her mother's spirit in heaven.
Then I really shouldn't bother him. Li Boxen slowly took two steps back in the shadow of the trees, thinking to himself, don't step on any dead branches or anything like that, which will scare her.
But as soon as the idea came to him, he actually stepped on a branch and made a snapping sound. In fact, when Lin Qiao was still playing the music, the sound could not be heard. At this moment, she put down the instrument, and the crisp sound made her listen.
She was immediately startled and turned to look over. Li Bochen had no choice but to step out of the shadows and whispered: "Xiao Man."
Lin Qiao seemed a little panicked and stood up immediately. The clothes he was wearing were swept away, and the standing spiritual tablet was swept away into the embers. She was startled and turned around to take it out. But he thought about it again, straightened up and said: "Achen, I..."
She looked timid, as if she felt she had done something wrong. Li Bochen couldn't bear it and smiled: "It's my fault. I woke up and found you missing, so I thought something had happened."
Lin Qiao bit her lip and whispered, "I'm sorry, Ah Chen."
Li Bochen walked up to her, tightened the clothes she was wearing, and said, "It's my fault that I forgot about this."
He said, look at the pile of embers - not incense candles, paper money or the like, but burned dead leaves. Alas, if I had remembered this earlier, I should have bought some in the market town earlier.
Lin Qiao leaned into his arms, handed him the instrument in her hand, and said: "Use your knife to cut a wooden leaf. My mother-in-law taught me to play the wooden leaf before. I was afraid of disturbing you. If She must be very happy to know about you."
Li Bochen took this thing over, looked at it, and remembered it.
She had seen this instrument when she was in her room in Jinghui Building. At that time she said one was gold leaf and the other was silver leaf. She probably took Yaohou just to engrave this thing. In fact, the structure of this thing is quite simple, two leaf-shaped thin pieces of wood with a thin layer in the middle. He tried to put it to his lips and blew on it, but he could only make a hissing sound.
But when Lin Qiao played the music just now, it was melodious and full of changes. I really don't know how she did it.
Lin Qiao smiled: "That's not the case."
She took Konoha over, blocked the lower part with her eight fingers, and blocked the upper part with her two thumbs, leaving a blowhole in the middle. The lower eight fingers moved slightly, and sure enough, a sound was made.
After blowing for a while, he looked at Li Bochen again: "Achen, can I teach you in the future?"
This thing looks simple, but there are so many changes when you blow it. Li Boxen found it quite interesting for a while. But after looking at Lin Qiao's fingers, she smiled and said, "I'm afraid it won't work... My warrior fingers are too thick."
Lin Qiao said: "This is the best. You don't have to worry about thick fingers, just worry about inflexible fingers. It's best if you practice swordsmanship and boxing."
Li Boxen didn't know if she really wanted to teach him, or if she didn't want to make him sad to see her. But seeing a smile gradually appear on her face, she said: "Haha, okay, let's give it a try."
He was half asleep when he discovered that Lin Qiao was missing, and he was so shocked that he lost all sleep. When he finally found her, his energy slackened and he gradually became sleepy. However, after trying a few times to follow Lin Qiao's guidance, I really became more energetic.
This Konoha actually looks a lot like blowing leaves. But because it has two layers and can be tuned with your fingers, there are more variations. He had also blown leaves when he was a child, so he was not completely clueless, so he blew it a few times and really made a sound.
Lin Qiao taught him Gong Shangjiao Zhengyu, saying that he should first master the five tones. It was quite difficult for Li Bochen to memorize the fifth tones, but it was not so difficult to find the seventh tones where he came from.
The two of them sat side by side by the lake. He fiddled with it for a while and finally managed to play a piece of music. After familiarizing myself with it a few more times, I can already play it very coherently.
Lin Qiao listened to him playing for a while, then blinked and said, "This tune of yours is really weird, but it's also really nice. What kind of tune is this?"
Li Bochen said with a smile: "It's called Canghai's laughter."
Lin Qiao read the name once, tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "This piece of music... is heroic and vicissitudes of life. It should be played with iron leaves."
Li Bochen pulled up the Yao Hou that was stuck on the ground and threw it in his hand: "My knife can cut iron like clay. It can really cut out iron."
Lin Qiao smiled and hit him lightly: "I'm not that strong. And if you want to use iron leaves, they should be cast or forged. Then you can add a few more grids in the middle to make it easier to blow. .”
Looking like this, she should be really happy.
Li Bochen smiled and said, "Okay. When we get to the place where we're staying, I'll find a blacksmith shop and ask someone to do it - Xiaoman, go back to sleep first, okay?"
Lin Qiao nodded. Then he said softly: "Achen, you are so kind to me."
Li Bochen liked hearing her say such things, but he also sighed in his heart and thought, maybe it's not that I am "really nice" to her, but that she had a very bad life in the past. In fact, I myself am not like this.
