"The Xie family? The Xie family has always valued martial arts over literature. Most of all, they don't agree with the Su family. Maybe they are too lazy to brave the long journey across China and not come to this study gathering." Qiong Yi curled his lips. , "But I don't have time to worry about that. Lu Lanshan alone is enough to give me a headache."
"What's wrong? Doesn't the eldest lady let you in?"
"Yes!" Qiong Yi was extremely depressed: "The door is tightly closed. You don't need to guess how far she wants me to roll."
"Hahahaha, senior sister, I sympathize with you." Lu Li said cheerfully: "Why don't you come to our room to make a floor bunk tonight."
"Come to your room? Forget it, don't ruin this girl's reputation." Qiong Yi gave Lu Li a slap in the face, pretending to be angry, "Your senior sister, I've already grown up, can I still be like I was when I was a child?"
Lu Li took a few steps back, cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Be taught, be taught."
The two of them walked along the street. After wandering for a while, Lu Li seemed to think of something: "Senior sister, when I was arranging the dormitory, I heard someone say that the house where we were studying was temporarily converted into a school. It seemed that something had happened before. It's a little weird. They said..."
"Stop it, stop it!" Qiong Yi immediately stopped Lu Li's words as if facing a formidable enemy: "Weird? What's weird? You know your senior sister and I'm afraid of ghosts, so don't scare me!"
"Ouch! I forgot!" Lu Li covered his mouth and changed his words: "Senior sister, this school is very normal! I didn't hear what others said!"
Lu Li, his junior brother, has always been very discerning. Qiong also understood, smiled, and patted his arm, pretending that he had not heard anything just now.
The two stopped in front of a rice wine shop. Qiong Yi ordered two bowls of rice wine dumplings and sat with Lu Li at a small table on the street. She was half leaning on her body, tapping her fingers on the table: "Xiao Qi, what do you think, should I find an inn to stay at?"
"Senior sister, do you have enough money?" Lu Li asked as he scooped up the glutinous rice balls in the bowl.
When they set off, the Lu family gave them a certain amount of silver as a small amount of money, but after all, the money was not much and the study day was still long, so it was impractical to stay in an inn for a long time.
Qiong Yi sighed, "When I left, A'luo gave me all the money she had saved for most of the year. It's not a problem to live outside for a few days. When I start teaching in a few days, I I’ll go to the Master and ask if I can change my accommodation.”
Lu Li said enviously: "Sister Zhu treats you so well."
"Yes, A'luo is the person who treats me the best in the world."
Qiong Yi said as she stirred the rice wine that had just been served. She, who likes sweetness by nature, ate it with gusto, "Yichuan's glutinous rice wine is really well-deserved." She sighed, "Come on, come with me to find an inn and then visit Two laps."
"Don't be late for morning class tomorrow, senior sister."
*
Remembering Lu Li's instructions, Qiong Yi got up early and returned to the academy. However, she didn't want to go to the wrong lecture hall. She didn't return to her classroom until most of the morning class, and bumped into the Master holding a scripture. .
"Sir!...I..." Qiong Yi stood at the door of the classroom. Just when she was about to defend herself, more than a dozen pairs of eyes in the room looked at her.
"Yo! I thought I would be the first to skip class, but I didn't expect to be beaten first." A young man in gorgeous clothes whistled and smiled jokingly.
"Su Ye, shut up!" The master said in a serious tone.
The young master known as Su Ye smiled and nodded, folded his hands across his chest, and looked at the book on the table as if nothing had happened.
Su Ye? Qiong had also heard that this man was the only son of the Su clan leader, whose name was Ye and whose courtesy name was Yiyang. She thought to herself that she had heard that this person acted relatively casually, so it seemed that the rumors were true.
"Which family are you a disciple of?" Master frowned and looked at Qiong Yi. Qiong Yi looked away from Su Ye and replied: "Sir, I'm from the Lu family. My name is Qiong Yi...ah no! My name is Lu Xiyan. I'm late because I went to the wrong class. I hope you'll forgive me, sir." "
The master moved his lips and his tone softened a lot: "Okay, come in quickly and listen to the class."
"Thank you, sir." Qiong Yi bowed and quickly walked into the house to find his seat. She sighed softly, a little annoyed that nothing good happened recently, but bad things happened one after another. When she raised her chin and prepared to listen carefully, her eyes accidentally fell on the table in front of her. The man's back was upright. He was the only boy who didn't look back at her just now, but kept his head down reading a book.
Qiong Yi stared at his neatly tied hair. When he was gradually lost in thought while the master was reading, something suddenly seemed to hit him behind him. Qiong Yi turned around and saw Su Ye holding a ball of paper in one hand. She turned around and chuckled in a suppressed voice: "If you don't read a book, why are you watching him? Otherwise, you are watching me."
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Qiong also turned around and secretly cursed in her heart: Damn it.
When school was over and the master slowly walked out of the classroom, the room began to come alive. Su Ye walked to Qiong Yi's desk in two or two steps, put his hand on the shoulder of the man at the front desk, and said: "I have read scriptures all morning, and it's over! Brother Sheng, there are no classes in the afternoon, how about I take you out? Turn around?"
"No need." The man said calmly, turning his head and seeing Qiong Yi sitting at the back table.
Qiong Yi looked into those dark eyes and recognized him at a glance as the extraordinary-looking Sheng family disciple from yesterday, Sheng Xuanyuan.
Their eyes only touched for a moment, and he glanced away. In Qiong Yi's opinion, he was given a solid roll of his eyes.
"Ah?" Qiong Yi thought to herself, "Why are you rolling your eyes at me?" She frowned inexplicably, thinking: Maybe she thinks I'm late for class on the first day, and I'm not a peaceful person?
who cares.
Qiong Yi stood up and left while thinking.
Su Ye looked at Qiong Yi's leaving figure, stretched out, and asked Sheng Xuanyuan: "Is this person from the Lu family? Do you know him?"
"I don't know." Sheng Xuanyuan said in a very calm tone, "Let's go."
*
Qiong Yi left the classroom and went directly to her dormitory. She had some luggage left in the room she shared with Lu Lanshan and had to take it.
When she got outside the house, she found that the door was locked and she didn't see anyone inside through the window. Qiong Yi was no longer surprised. She thought it was Lu Lanshan's deliberate trap, but she asked a female disciple who lived nearby Later, I learned that Lu Lanshan would not come back until school ended in the evening.
"The sword is such an important thing. If I had known about it, I would have carried it with me." Qiong Yi puffed up his cheeks and thought to himself.
She didn't want to sit at the door and wait, so she wandered around the college and roughly sorted out the location of the houses. When Ri Zang returned to her dormitory, Lu Lanshan still hadn't come back. Qiong Yiqiong went back and forth many times out of boredom. When Lu Lanshan finally came back, she had already entered the room but still locked the door.
Not only that, but there were also luggage scattered on the ground at the door of the room, which belonged to Qiong Yi.
Someone probably told Lu Lanshan that Qiong Yi was waiting for her and kindly threw her out.
Among the scattered luggage on the ground were her newly added thick shirt, her old ancient books and history collections, and the clean clothes that Zhu Yunluo had worked so hard to mend, starch and wash for her. They were originally wrapped neatly and firmly, but now It was thrown carelessly on the dusty ground like rags.
Seeing that the luggage that Zhu Yunluo had carefully prepared for her had been ruined like this, Qiong Yi's anger rose sharply, and her heart was filled with fire. She kicked the door and shouted: "Lu Lanshan, come out!"
The noise was astonishing, and many onlookers gradually gathered around, not knowing what was happening here. Seeing more and more people, Qiong Yi felt vaguely that the situation was about to get out of control. She heard Lu Lanshan's voice coming from inside the house: "Lu Xiyan, aren't you very capable? You've already gone out to find a place to live, why are you coming back?! "
Qiong Yi picked up the sword on the ground and was about to draw it out, when Lu Li came out of nowhere and stood in front of her to stop her: "Senior sister! Don't be impulsive!"
Qiong was also aggrieved and angry, and said angrily: "Lu Li, you saw it too, she insulted me first!"
Lu Li sweated. If he hadn't happened to pass by, the two people might have started to fight. He shouted into the room: "Miss, please stop making trouble! Didn't the mistress tell you not to show off your temper before she left?" ?”
"Hmph! Stop using my mother-in-law to oppress me!" Lu Lanshan said in the room, "I don't think it's a big deal anyway!"
Seeing that Lu Lanshan showed no sign of restraining himself, Lu Li could only persuade Qiong Yi: "Senior sister... don't be angry... I..."
Qiong Yi laughed angrily and interrupted him: "Okay!..." Then he took the sword, picked up the luggage on the ground and walked quickly out of the crowd of onlookers. The young people gathered in front of the door. Give way and whisper something.
Lu Li wanted to hold Qiong Yi back: "Senior sister!"
Qiong Yi walked faster and walked out of the dormitory, angrily yelling: "Leave me alone!"
Outside, it was getting dark.
*
Qiong Yi was filled with anger, and she ran out of the dormitory in a fit of rage, across the school, and across the school field behind the school. She didn't stop panting until she ran into a small forest on the side of the mountain.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the woods were so gloomy that she couldn't help but shudder. However, she was still so angry that she couldn't control herself. She kicked the tree several times, dropped her sword, and said angrily to herself. :
"Forget it if you make trouble at home! If you come out, you'll still be so domineering!"
She knelt down and spread the package in her arms on the ground, and began to sort out her clothes and luggage one by one. The grievances in her heart surged up as her anger subsided.
It was obviously Lu Lanshan who didn't let me enter the house to get anything yesterday, but she still had the nerve to make such a fuss today!
The dormitory was assigned to me by the school, so why did she throw my things away and drive me away? !
Qiong also bit her lower lip and picked up faster and faster.
After a period of silence in the woods, sparse insect chirping sounded from nowhere, and then one or two harsh bird calls passed by, as if someone was walking in the forest. Qiong Yi stiffened, feeling a chill coming from behind. Spreading, she quickly looked back and saw that there was no one in the forest, just trees surrounding her.
Qiong also trembled unconsciously and thought to herself: How could there be someone? I must have felt wrong.
She rewrapped the cloth bag and tied it a few times. At this time, there was a rustling sound behind her, like the footsteps of people walking on fallen leaves.
Qiong Yi looked back again, and the forest seemed empty, with nothing in it.
Fortunately, at this moment, Qiong Yi suddenly remembered what Lu Li had said to her yesterday.
There is something strange near the school house...
Qiong Yi patted his face twice and quickly changed his mind: Why are you thinking of this at this time! I didn’t mean to scare myself or cause trouble!
But the more times this happens, the more weird and terrifying things come to mind.
The night is getting darker and darker, and although it is still not blind, it is already difficult to identify the road. Qiong Yi picked up the package and held the sword tightly in his hand. After looking for a long time to make sure there was nothing in the dark woods around him, he walked in the direction he came from, walking lightly and slowly, turning back three times at a time.
She is not very courageous, but she is extremely afraid of ghosts and evil spirits.
The "click" sound of dead leaves underfoot was particularly harsh in the forest. Mixed with the soft sound of "rustling——", Qiong Yi's hair stood on end. She stopped and looked around to make sure that there was really no one behind her, and then trembled. Keep walking.
She kept walking forward, never stopping, and walked for almost as long as a stick of incense. However, the forest in front of her had always been like this, unchanged at all, as if there was no end.
"No..." Qiong Yi was flustered and stood on the spot, "No...even if I go in the opposite direction, it's time to go out now..." The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became: "It's not like I'm hitting a wall with a ghost. Well...there won't really be anything here..."
The forest was surprisingly quiet at this moment, not even a faint chirping of insects could be heard.
A strange feeling suddenly surged into Qiong Yi's heart. The wind blew behind her. She couldn't help but feel the hair on her hair stand on end. The shadows of trees, whether nearby or far away, looked more and more like ghosts in her eyes. When she moved, a sharp bird call suddenly sounded in the air, which scared her so much that she staggered to the ground and let out a scream that was almost heartbreaking:
"ah----"
Qiong Yi squatted on the ground without strength, and heard the sound of the wind bringing a woman's cry, "Woo... Wu Wu..." The voice was hoarse and wailing, sharp and miserable, coming from the dark woods, and as the wind approached, it seemed to surround Normal around her. Qiong was also frightened so much that her hands and feet were cold and she couldn't exert any strength. Cold sweat flowed from her forehead one by one, and her mind went blank.
The woman's miserable cries became more and more shrill, cutting into her ears like a knife. The sound of the wind mixed with the howling of ghosts was very similar to that night many years ago.
what to do?
what to do……
Fear occupied Qiong Yi's entire consciousness. She didn't dare to make a sound or make any movement.
Maybe it was longer, maybe just for a moment, there were footsteps behind her, "Sha-sha--" She turned back in horror, and saw a night watch light shining softly, reflecting the young man's face:
"What’s wrong with you?"
