After returning to her familiar mansion, the first thing Qiong Yi did was to find Zhu Yunluo, whom she had not seen for a long time. She walked around the yard outside but didn't see him. She searched all over the dormitory, utility room, and kitchen, and finally waited for her return by the well where she was washing clothes and washing vegetables.
After waiting for a stick of incense, Zhu Yunluo came back from the small side door carrying two baskets of vegetables.
Qiong Yi came forward with joy and said in a clear and clear voice: "Aluo!——"
When Zhu Yunluo saw that it was her, she clucked and hurriedly quickened her pace. Qiong Yi took the vegetable basket in her hand, her eyes turned into slits with a smile: "A Luo, do you miss me?" Before she could answer, Qiong Yi thought about herself again. Said: "A Luo must miss me very much! -" Zhu Yunluo laughed, wiped her muddy hands clean on her dress, pinched her fair face twice: "Of course I do."
"Oh, it's too plain!" Qiong Yi shook the vegetable basket and walked to the stone platform beside the well.
"All the children at home who went out to study came back yesterday. I was still wondering why you didn't come to see me when you came back. Later, when I asked about it, I found out that you didn't come back with Mr. Lu Xu's motorcade, which made me worried."
"Why are you scolding me as soon as we meet?" Qiong Yi changed his tone of aggrieved, poured out the frozen vegetables in the basket, put down the bucket and went to scoop water from the well. Zhu Yunluo smiled and replied: "I didn't criticize you..." As she spoke, she walked behind Qiong Yi, saw the knot at the end of her hair, and said in a tone of voice: "What's going on?"
"Huh?" Qiong Yi poured the water he brought up into the wooden basin on the other side. Zhu Yunluo pinched the end of her hair and handed it to her and shook it a few times. Qiong Yi shook off the water on her hand: "This is...um..." She paused and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Zhu Yunluo didn't look good. She was worried that Qiong Yi was playful and ignorant and would do something stupid, "Which one is it? Is this the end of the relationship?"
Qiong Yi thought that such an important thing must be told to Zhu Yunluo, and nodded: "Well, I originally planned to tell A Luo about it."
"who is it?"
"Sheng Xuanyuan, the youngest son of the Sheng family, A Luo must have heard about it and still remember it."
"Is it the Sheng clan from Luoyao?"
"Um."
Zhu Yunluo thought for a while, "Then he also sent you back this time?"
"Yes!" Qiong Yi squatted down and started washing vegetables, "Aluo is my relative, I have to tell you this first."
"Why do I remember that the young son of that clan seems to be marrying Lu Lanshan?"
Qiong Yi said casually: "The person who spread the rumors has now become famous and has an owner."
Zhu Yunluo felt a little disappointed for some reason. She squatted down to choose vegetables together, her hands and feet were quick: "Xiao Qiong has grown up too." Qiong also heard the uneasiness in her tone, and splashed water at her: "Huh? That's what you said. Just like what happens to me, no matter what happens in the future, Ah Luo will be my good sister."
Zhu Yunluo wiped the water on her body and was not angry: "Okay. I have heard of Sheng Xuanyuan. There are not many people in the world who look like him. Don't be attracted by his face." She said. According to the rumors I heard, the young masters of the Luoyao clan were all extremely handsome. In the storybook I used to listen to, the famous female devil met the young master Shanda and was impressed by his appearance and fell in love with her at first sight. Stalking.
Qiong Yi replied: "Not only her face, but also her figure..."
Zhu Yunluo shook her head helplessly: "I also heard that his cultivation is extraordinary. Although he is not as famous as his eldest brother, no one has ever denied that he is a talented person." After saying this, he paused for a while and changed his tone slightly, " Don’t just listen to what others say, you have to see for yourself.”
Qiong also recalled everything in the past, "I have been with him for a long time, and he was very good to me. We usually only interacted with each other as ordinary classmates, but if anything happened, I would feel at ease with him."
"Something happened?" Zhu Yunluo was confused: "Did you cause any trouble over there?"
"Oh, it's nothing! Just some trivial matters in homework." Qiong Yi quickly passed the test.
Zhu Yunluo did not doubt her: "Well, I believe that my Xiaoqiong will not make mistakes. It is a good thing that you two are in the same mind. If you are really wronged by him, I will always be behind you."
Qiong Yi looked at her brown eyes and felt warm in her heart, "Aluo is like an old lady when she orders these things. Ouch!"
"Really!" Zhu Yunluo took back the hand that flicked her forehead and sighed helplessly. After washing the vegetables, Zhu Yunluo packed them up and took them to the kitchen: "I don't need your help. Go back to the garden and rest early. I'll send grandma to cook the dishes."
Qiong also nodded, "Okay, I'll go back to the garden first to listen to Master's scolding, and then sneak out to spend the night with A Luo later."
"Stop talking so much." Zhu Yunluo said and rushed to the kitchen.
Qiong Yi climbed over the wall and slipped into Yinyi Garden, thinking: I will die sooner or later, master can't just punish me because of the dispute between me and Lu Xu, right? While thinking about this, she walked through the verandah from the side courtyard and saw several disciples chatting in front of her. She approached quietly and asked with a smile: "Junior brother and sister, what are you talking about? Have you seen Master?"
"Senior sister? When did you come back?"
Then he said, "Master is in the main room."
After hearing this, Qiong Yi went straight to the main room, poked his head out from the open door, and immediately saw the head of the Lu family, Lu Bin, who was reading books by the rosewood shelf.
"came back?"
Qiong Yi was so frightened that her steps were unsteady, and she hurriedly entered the main room and saluted: "Yes, Master."
Lu Bin looked her up and down: "My cultivation has improved a lot, why don't you come back with my disciples?"
"Lu Xu and I had a quarrel, so we didn't go back together." Qiong Yi said, "Master won't punish me for this, right? If you want to punish me, remember to punish me together with Lu Xu. One slap won't make a difference."
Lu Bin's voice was calm: "I don't want to punish you. You have to explain and reconcile with Lu Xu. I don't want to see my disciples arguing." He said, his eyes stopped on the jade ornaments around Qiong Yi's waist. , faintly feeling that there was an aura in the jade, like a soul, he frowned and asked: "What is this? I have never seen you wear it before." The look in Qiong Yi's eyes gradually became serious, thinking of her accelerated progress in cultivation. , and she wears a soul-enchanting jade, so she suspects that she has gone astray.
"This?" Qiong Yi held Jade Linglan, "It was given to me by someone else. It contains his soul, uh, part of his soul."
Lu Bin's expression suddenly became weird and complicated. Even with his cultivation level, it was impossible for his original consciousness to be unaffected after the soul was separated, let alone a monk of Qiong Yi's age.
Unless you are a person born with strong bones...
"Master, what's wrong?"
I realized that the soul was gentle and not evil. Lu Bin said lightly: "It's okay. Since I'm giving you my soul as a gift, I must be a sincere friend. When you practice in the future, remember to warm and nourish this soul. If things go on like this, you can promote its growth. For that friend of yours It’s also a good thing.”
"Yes, I will remember it, thank you Master." Qiong Yi responded happily, "Then Master, I'm leaving." After saying this, she quickly left the main room for fear that he would regret punishing her.
Lu Bin was not in the mood to read, secretly thinking about the giver of the jade ornament, "Who could it be?"
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"Yo?" Lu Lanshan glanced at the visitor.
"Ha." Lu Xu folded his hands in front of his chest and snorted coldly.
Qiong was also speechless and thought to herself: These two are just like the black and white evil spirits, scary.
"Xiao Wu? Come here quickly." Lu Yuhao and Lu Xu were playing chess when they looked up and saw Qiong Yi waving: "You're back today?"
Qiong Yi took two steps in that direction and said, "Senior Brother, I'm back today." Lu Yuhao ignored the expressions of the two people around him and said, "Come, let's play together."
"Haha, let's forget it." Qiong Yi laughed dryly: "I won't disturb you, I'll leave first."
Lu Xu didn't want to look at her anymore, but he couldn't help but take a few more glances. He saw that the long braids behind her were neatly tied up unlike before, and there was a delicate red knot tied at the end of her hair. He couldn't sit still anymore: "Lu Xiyan!"
Qiong also said: "What?"
Lu Lanshan sat up and watched the fun, and spoke softly: "Knotting knots is a pleasure, right? Cousin?" After saying that, he looked at Lu Xu's uncertain face, with an expression on his face. Full of schadenfreude.
Lu Xu clenched his fists and looked at her. Qiong Yi looked at him with a calm expression, "Lu Xu, I also want to explain this matter to you. Let's talk somewhere else."
"Just say it right here." He spoke, his voice low.
Qiong Yi smiled on her face and scolded in her heart: Didn't I find a step for you to get off? Afraid of embarrassing you in front of others, why is this person so unreasonable?
Lu Lanshan burst into laughter and coughed twice to relieve the embarrassment. Lu Yuhao, who was also worried about the world being in chaos, listened with interest.
The sky was getting darker, and the trees beside the wall were swaying their branches in the north wind.
"Lu Xiyan, we have known each other for not less than ten years but nine years. How long has that boy named Sheng been with you? Has it been half a year since you went to Yichuan in autumn? Did you just go with him? Ha." Lu Xu As he spoke, he couldn't help but sneer, "What did he do to you? To make you be obedient to him? Say it, say it! Tell me, why?"
"Obviously it was me who came first!" He yelled at Qiong Yi, as if he was venting his long-standing grievances.
Qiong Yi held her forehead and listened to him, giving him time to calm down.
"A few days ago," she said, "I didn't know that you liked me. I didn't know, I really didn't know at all. To me, you were just a weird-tempered senior brother who liked to tease me and tease me. Annoying you is the same as annoying her." Qiong Yi said, turning to look at Lu Lanshan who was sitting aside. Lu Lanshan was startled, "Hey, what are you talking about, why are you talking about me?"
"Don't you always bully me together?" Qiong Yi smiled. "When I was ten years old, I became a disciple of Master. From now on, did you treat me as a fellow student and get along well with me?" She spread her hands. "No, right? Everyone looks down on me, thinking why I was given the title of disciple by the sect master, and treats me coldly. Except..." She paused, looked at Lu Yuhao and said, "Except for senior brother."
"Later, I relied on my own efforts to catch up with you who have practiced swordsmanship since childhood, and I barely gained everyone's recognition. But even so, you! Lu Xu! If you don't always bully me and scold me for nothing, I Aren't you a human being? Do you like me? What do you think you like me for?" Qiong Yi became angrier as he spoke, and his voice kept rising: "You still get angry at me and ask me why I didn't choose you? Why should I choose someone to make me hate? People?!"
Everything was quiet except for the howling wind, lengthening her voice.
"I'm not blind. Sheng Kyung treats me well, respects me and loves me. I can see clearly. What's more, my heart is so empty. There is no one in the world who treats me better than him." I don’t like her either.” Qiong Yi patted her chest and said bluntly: “Instead of learning how to love others, you should learn how to get along with others, Lu Xu.”
"I've finished saying goodbye." Qiong Yi turned around and walked away with heavy steps.
Lu Xu looked at her figure disappearing into the night through the arch, his nails hurting his palms.
