"...Lu Xiyan, are you okay?"
After Qiong Yi came out of the school, she had already stopped crying, but the corners of her eyes were still red. Su Ye walked side by side with her in the veranda with lush autumn shade on both sides, and asked with some worry.
"It's okay." Qiong Yi rubbed the corners of his eyes again: "I'm just pretending."
"Even if it's just pretending, the grievance in my heart must be real." Su Ye originally planned to pat her shoulder to comfort her, but when he saw her walking a little further away from him, he simply clasped his hands behind his head and said with emotion: " Su Changming is used to using rumors to destroy people, and it works every time. If you still feel sad, let's beat him up!"
Qiong also thought of the past rumors about Su Ye's debauchery, and suddenly understood something: "Su Ye, could it be that you were also attracted by him..."
"Hey!" Su Ye quickened his pace, ran two steps forward, and looked back: "A lot of times, when words are spread too much, it becomes a fact that everyone believes in. So today, when I saw him for the first time, Just want to kill him."
"As soon as I heard the rumors from the past few days, I knew they were spread by him."
"I definitely know what kind of person you are!"
Qiong Yi stared at him blankly and said unconsciously: "Su Ye, chatting with you is much more comfortable than chatting with Sheng Hao..."
"Huh? Can Sheng Xuanyuan still chat with people?" Su Ye clicked his tongue, with surprise on his face, as if he had caught something: "Lu Xiyan, why did you mention him? Is it because he has been away these days and wants to Him?"
"What! Don't talk nonsense!" Qiong Yi objected, but her voice suddenly lost its momentum: "I... didn't think about him."
Su Ye raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"
He winked, raised his lips and asked with a smile: "Then what do you think... of this person Sheng Xuanyuan?"
"Him?" Qiong Yi frowned: "Why do you ask me?"
"You know! He doesn't talk much, so he doesn't have friends everywhere like me! You are also one of his few friends!" Su Ye didn't feel guilty at all when telling lies: "Of course I want to ask What do you think of him?"
Sheng Xuanyuan's face appeared in Qiong Yi's mind. She thought about it secretly for a long time before replying: "He has a paralyzed face, talks little, has a good appearance, is very generous, and often brings me delicious food."
"Nothing else?"
Qiong was also puzzled: "What else can there be?" After a pause, she rummaged through the chat box to find out what she had been secretly thinking about for a long time, and replied: "Sheng Hao... is weird."
"What's weird?"
"Everything is strange!" Qiong Yi curled his lips: "When he practices sword practice every day, the expression on his face is painful, as if someone forced him to practice with a knife, but he is obviously the one who practices every day. The one who came first and was the most diligent! Also, I have heard the names of many talented disciples among the five tribes, such as Yue Huan, who is the best swordsman in Beishan, Xie Yangyu, who is the master of seduction and poisonous swords, etc. You who are called the new foil swordsman... Sheng Hao's two brothers, one is more famous than the other, but he only has the reputation of being cautious and hard-working, and his cultivation is not lagging behind others. But I am so It seems over the past few days that his swordsmanship is not of an ordinary level."
"He learns everything well in class, and his cultivation is good, but he is not arrogant. But to say he is humble, he looks at people through his nostrils and has the word arrogance written on his face!"
Su Ye laughed loudly when he heard what she said.
Qiong Yi pinched the hem of her skirt: "... Anyway, he is very strange. He is different from everyone I usually know."
Hearing this, Su Ye raised his eyebrows: Oh! Sheng Xuanyuan, you seem to be really capable!
He smiled and said: "Okay, okay, he is different from others!"
Qiong was also puzzled: "What do you mean?"
"do not you know?"
"what do you know?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it turns out you are stupid too."
"Mu?" Qiong Yi's round purple eyes were full of doubts. He suddenly understood something as the wind blew by.
What Su Ye meant by saying this was Sheng Hao...
"Lu Xiyan, I'm leaving!" Su Ye waved to her: "If Su Changming plots against you again, come find me." After that, he walked along the veranda and strode away.
Qiong Yi stayed in place for a long time. After the thought appeared in her mind, she subconsciously denied it and did not dare to think about it again.
Afraid of yes and afraid of no.
Rather than getting hung up on it, it’s better to treat it as a mistake.
Qiong Yi came back to his senses, shook his head and continued walking forward, only to feel a look from behind him, a sticky and dark look, cast from the corner of the wall not far away.
She reacted quickly, raised her sword and chased towards the corner behind her. The man seemed to have noticed that she had discovered him, and quickly climbed over the wall and ran into the deep garden. He had just climbed over the eight-foot-high wall with ease and landed on the ground to stabilize his body. At that moment, she felt a chill on her neck. Qiong Yi put the unsheathed Xinge sword in front of the man's neck and scolded him coldly: "If you run away again, I'll kill you."
The man was shocked: so fast! It only takes three breaths! She could actually chase her from across the verandah!
Qiong was also shocked. The person she pinned against the wall with her sword turned out to be a woman!
"Who are you? Did Su Changming send you here?!" She asked. When she saw the man raising his hand, she immediately sheathed her sword and grabbed her. After twisting her arm, she kicked her calf behind the knee and put her down. Falling to the ground, "Speak!"
Applause came from not far away. Su Changming walked through the arch and said with a smile, "Miss Lu, do you remember me now?"
"Young Master!" The woman who fell to the ground with her hand suppressed by Qiong Yi called out.
Qiong Yi glanced at him and mocked coldly: "Master Su gave me such a big gift a few days ago. I don't know where you wrote it down. Today is just a return gift."
"Miss Xiyan, I don't understand what you are talking about." Su Changming put away his fan and walked over: "Let her go. I came to you today because I have completed the investigation and handling of the Wei family matter. I came here to inform you."
"Tell me more details." Qiong Yi didn't let her go, but locked her tighter.
"You're a girl who doesn't know how to show mercy to women. Just be gentle, I just said that." Su Changming took a few steps forward: "The man from the Wei family was killed by the young master of the Zhang family from Wanfeng City next door. I'm looking for you." When I came to the door, the Zhang family recognized me, and for my sake, they paid me a full one hundred and fifty taels of silver."
He continued: "I have entrusted someone to take care of the little girl from the Wei family. I also redeemed the girl who sold her body to Yunliang Pavilion. Everything was done properly without any mistakes. .Xi Yan, what do you think of this?"
"Really?" Qiong Yi raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Of course it's true. If you don't believe it, you can ask the girl from the Wei family in person. She has gone back today with her body deed. She also said that she wants to thank you and invites you to have a meal at the small village in Wa Village tomorrow night. ." Su Changming supported his maid's body, forcing Qiong Yi to let go of her hand, "I'm here to tell you what happened, and also to pass the message on behalf of Miss Wei Ying."
"I've helped you with so many things, Yan'er, why don't you say thank you to me?"
Qiong Yi listened to him calling her from Miss Lu to Xi Yan, and then from Xi Yan to Yan'er. Her whole scalp went numb: "Don't go any further!"
She turned around and left: "Thank you! Okay, this matter is over. Don't show up in front of me again in the future! Thank you!"
*
Under the pond and the mountain, above the green water, the paths are winding and winding, the forest is deep and hard to find, and you can drink cigarettes in the middle of the day.
The jade carpenter was scooping water from the well in front of the courtyard. Hearing the steady footsteps behind him, he turned around and said, "Here you come?"
Sheng Xuanyuan raised his hand and said, "Yes, this junior is here to get the jade."
"Okay." He said, "Come here and help." After Sheng Xuanyuan approached, he threw away the wooden bucket in his hand and pointed at a large vat in the center of the courtyard: "Fill the water up and water the flowers in front of the courtyard. .”
Sheng Xuanyuan didn't know the reason, but he still followed the instructions. The jade craftsman flexed his muscles and watched him clumsily fetching water, but he watered the flowers and plants skillfully.
Strange to say, even though it is already late autumn, the trees on the mountain are still lush and the flowers are blooming freely and vividly, full of life.
"Why didn't that boy Su Ye come this time?" the jade carpenter suddenly asked.
Sheng Xuanyuan was a little surprised that he knew Su Ye's name: "This is my business, I don't want to trouble him anymore."
The jade craftsman laughed when he heard this: "This style is exactly like that of your old man."
He asked in confusion: "Senior, do you know my father?"
"Sheng Shangpei? Really?" the jade craftsman recalled, "How many years has it been?"
"Now I'm afraid that I won't dare to come to Jianghu to see the big family."
From the moment he saw Sheng Xuanyuan dancing with his sword, he vaguely caught a glimpse of his old friend and guessed his identity: he was probably his youngest son. "It's exactly what the rumors said. She is the most like him."
Sheng Xuanyuan guessed that the jade craftsman was his father's friend when he was young. He was silent for a long time. He had never heard his father talk about his youth, let alone that he had ever had such a friend in the world.
"I'm not familiar with him. To be precise, we can't even be considered friends." The jade carpenter said lightly: "He is straightforward and cold to the outside world. Only Su Min knows that he is lively in private."
Su Min is Su Ye's father. Sheng Xuanyuan knew that in the past, his father had a very good relationship with Su Min, and the two of them fought together at the end of the world, but even this he heard from others.
I once carved jade for him, drank wine with him, and also showed him swords.
"It's just that some people can't even be friends in the end." The jade craftsman said, exhaling a breath and exhaling some relief.
When he was young, he also had a passion for practicing swordsmanship, but he didn't have the talent. In the end, all he could hold in his hand, and hold it well, was just a katana.
The jade craftsman went into the house to get the jade, and also brought out two jugs of wine and placed them on the small table in the courtyard: "Here."
"Senior, I don't drink." He said.
The jade craftsman just put the bowl and poured the wine in front of him: "Why?"
He replied: "If you don't get drunk, you won't be relieved."
Sheng Xuanyuan did not need to drink to drown his worries, and he had never been drunk before. He only felt spicy.
"Then drink with me." The jade craftsman put the bowl on the table in front of him, sat down, raised the bowl in his hand, and drank it all in one gulp. Sheng Xuanyuan couldn't refuse, so he raised his head and drank. end. Seeing that he was drinking so boldly, the jade craftsman smiled and put the mahogany box in his arms on the table: "The lily of the valley has been carved, are you planning to give it to the girl's house?"
"Yes." He responded and raised his hand to pick it up.
The bottom of the mahogany box is padded with satin, and a white jade lily of the valley lies in the middle. The jade color is crystal clear, and the carved flower patterns are exquisite and lifelike.
"Why do you want to give jade bell lily to the girl's family?"
Sheng Xuanyuan looked at it for a long time and was very satisfied. Jue Qiong should also like it: "She is lively and lively. I don't know what she will like. I just think that this kind of jade jewelry is suitable for her."
The jade craftsman sipped the wine in the bowl and said slowly: "This jade is collected from Dongshan Yuanyi. It is rumored that it can drive away ghosts and avoid evil, and can also warm and nourish spirits. It is a jade article, an accessory, and a magic weapon. I hope that it will Girl, don’t let down your whole heart.”
Sheng Xuanyuan sealed the box and kept it in his arms: "...I just know."
The jade craftsman saw through his thoughts and poured another bowl of wine: "You lively girl, she won't understand if you don't tell her." Then he filled a bowl for him and said with a smile: "Young man, be brave. !”
Sheng Xuanyuan held the bowl and took a big sip, tasting the wine for the first time.
