The stars above the star-gazing pavilion are still so bright, making the waves on the lake look like a mirror; on the bluestone platform in the pavilion, a seven or eight-year-old girl in a pink silk skirt is holding a thin hand and practicing calligraphy with concentration.
Four red candles were lit around the bluestone platform, illuminating the entire pavilion. Liang Chong knelt on the futon, different from his previous casual appearance, but sitting upright; he shook the white feather fan lightly, and kept moving in his hand. He was playing with the tea set and filtering the water in the pot over and over again.
"Master, you are so excited! It's already this hour, and you're still making tea with a candle!" Tong Bo's hearty laughter came over before anyone arrived.
"I'm afraid Xiangyun came to the stargazing pavilion at such a late hour not to see me, an old man?" Liang Chong did not raise his head, but gently opened a bag of good tea leaves and poured it into the pot.
"The master is really good at joking. Of course Xiangyun came here to see the master!" Tong Bo raised the brown wine bottle in the stage's hand: "I also brought your favorite drink, Qiu Lubai."
"Brother Xiangyun, are you here to see Yu'er?" The little girl practicing calligraphy was Yu'er. Tong Bo felt that it was not safe to leave her in Xuanwu Courtyard, so he asked Taifu Liang to teach her how to read and practice calligraphy.
Tong Bo's figure was still a foot away, and Yu'er couldn't wait to throw away the fine hair in her hand and hugged his broad and secure body.
"Yu'er, have you been good in the Imperial Academy recently?" Tong Bo gently stroked the top of Yu'er's head: "Have you listened carefully to the Taifu's words and learned to read and write?"
"Yu'er has always been very good, and she has learned everything Uncle Liang taught her!" Yu'er smiled like a flower, with two dimples hanging at the corners of her mouth, sweet and cute.
"Yu'er, you go and have a rest first!" Tong Bo bent over and scratched Yu'er's nose: "Brother Xiangyun and Uncle Liang have something to say."
"Hmph! Brother Xiangyun, please don't shave people's noses, it will make them ugly." Yu'er ducked out and turned around to make a face at Tong Bo.
"Go!" Tong Bo waved towards Yu'er, walked directly to Liang Chong, and solemnly made a series.
"Xiang Yun doesn't have to be so formal, just be more casual." Liang Chong, who was sitting on the futon, had already placed the brewed tea cup in front of Tong Bo: "Yu'er is still a child. Seeing that we don't drink well, she might as well drink some tea. "
"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders!" Tong Bo smiled and took the small stone pestle from Liang Chong's hand, grinding tea leaves for him: "Yu'er has been taken care of by Taifu these days, Bo is grateful!"
"Xiang Yun is out again, isn't he!" Liang Chong put the white feather fan in his hand on the table, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea: "Yu'er is a smart kid, and I like her very much; when I see her, I feel like I saw Ning Shi. When that girl first came to Taixue, she was probably only as old as Yu'er."
"Miss Liu?" Tong Bo murmured in his mouth, but he was thinking about his differences with her: "Master, are Yu'er and Miss Liu very similar?"
"They are really similar! Both in terms of personality and qualifications, they are so similar!" Liang Chong gently put down his tea cup and sighed, but then changed the topic: "Xiang Yun, you are quite fond of Yu'er, right?"
"Bo realizes that he and Yu'er are very close!" Tong Bo poured the ground tea leaves into the teapot and poured boiling water into it: "So..."
"Then how do you feel about Ning Shi?" Liang Chong looked at Tong Bo with a smile, as if his wise eyes could see through his heart.
"Miss Liu?" Tong Bo was startled. He didn't understand why Liang Chong would ask like this: "What does the master mean by this? Bo doesn't quite understand!"
"This girl Ningshi has been hiding her thoughts very deeply since she was a child. Sometimes even I, an old man who has been with her for ten years, can't see through it!" Liang Chong did not directly answer Tong Bo's question, but asked. Huzi smiled and said: "However, I have rarely heard her praise others over the years, but you are an exception."
"That Bo is really flattered!" Tong Bo's thoughts changed very quickly, and how could he not hear what Liang Chong said: "Don't worry, Taifu, Bo will definitely follow your wishes and protect Miss Liu."
"Hahaha! That's good." Liang Chong and Tong Bo smiled knowingly, because they were both smart people, and they both understood the other's meaning without saying anything: "Come on, let's play a game of chess."
While Tong Bo and Liang Chong were playing chess, Liu Ningshi and An Dafang were not idle either. The two of them wore black night clothes and came to the work shed in the east of the city.
"Quack quack quack!"
In the dark night, everything was silent, with a few frogs croaking occasionally; the teahouse near the work shed had already closed its doors, and Liu Ningshi and An Dafang crouched on the roof to peek at the situation around the work shed.
"Brother Da Fang, do you believe what those two men said?" Liu Ningshi asked while checking the surrounding situation.
"I have asked Wang Hu to check, and their leader is indeed Yu Wu." An Dafang has matured a lot since being mentioned by Zhou Ling: "As for the others, it depends on what we can do under that tree. The iron box where the two men were talking about can’t be found.”
"Brother Da Fang, Ning Shi always feels like someone is following us?" Liu Ningshi's perception is extremely strong. Although she didn't find anything, she felt uneasy in her heart.
"It should be possible, right? We were very careful when we came!" The stars were shining brightly in the night, allowing An Dafang to see the places within three feet of him: "Ning Shi! You can keep watch for a while, I'll go Dig things out.”
"Well! This is the only way!" Liu Ningshi clenched the dragon-shaped dagger at her waist with her right hand: "Brother Da Fang, you go first, I will cover behind you."
"Okay!" As soon as An Dafang's voice fell, he flew out; three breaths later, he arrived in front of the wooden door of the work shed.
"Brother Da Fang, there is nothing abnormal." An Da Fang's voice came to An Da Fang's ears as thin as a mosquito.
An Dafang jumped over the five-foot wooden door and quickly came to the big tree. He took out a two-foot shovel from the package on his back and dug into the soil. stand up.
"Brother Da Fang, Ning Shi will be watching the wind for you on the tree." Liu Ningshi used her superb movement skills and jumped to the big tree where An Da Fang was digging, looking around vigilantly. With.
An Dafang dug out the soil under the tree spade after shovel, and gradually the pile became more than a foot high, and the sunken pit was also more than a foot deep.
"Brother Da Fang, have you dug it?" Liu Ningshi looked around anxiously and kept urging An Da Fang.
"Hurry up, Ning Shi! It's already more than a foot deep!" The shovel in An Dafang's hand was shoveling into the soil, and the sweat on his forehead gradually poured out.
In the star-gazing pavilion, the game of chess played for two hours before the winner was decided; Liang Chong's tight strings finally relaxed and he threw the black jade piece in his hand into the chess box with a proud look on his face.
"Master, Bo lost again!" Tong Bo threw the white jade into the chess box with a look of helplessness; he looked at the crisscrossed chessboard and saw that he only lost with a very small disadvantage, but it was better than the previous game. Much better.
"At this age, my energy is not as good as before." Taifu Liang stroked his forehead with a tired face: "If it were twenty years ago, I could have played chess with you all night."
"Master, you are also tired. Please rest early." Tong Bo stood up from the futon and said something to Liang Chong: "Bo will take his leave now."
"Go!" Liang Chong nodded slightly, then closed his eyes and rested his mind.
"Who is it? Come out." Tong Bo walked along the corridor and suddenly heard a noise behind him and asked aloud.
"It's me! Brother Xiangyun!" Yu'er timidly hid in the corner of the corridor, unwilling to leave for a long time.
"Yu'er?" Tong Bo walked over in surprise: "Didn't I tell you to go back and rest first? Why are you still here?"
"Brother Xiangyun, why didn't Sister Ningshi come to see Yu'er? Did you have a fight?" Yu'er pouted, looking pitiful.
"Yu'er, why do you think so?" Tong Bo was stunned for a moment, then bent down and smiled at Yu'er: "How could it be? Your sister Ningshi just has something to do, so she can't come!"
"Brother Xiangyun, are you lying?" Yu'er shook her head like a rattle, with tears in her bright eyes: "Just now Yu'er saw it from the side. When Uncle Liang mentioned Sister Ningshi, you The expression on his face is exactly the same as the one after the fight between Xiaodou and Yu'er."
"I didn't expect this little girl to be quite observant?" Tong Bo was speechless for a while, and could only scrape Yu'er's nose in a friendly manner: "Brother Xiangyun and Sister Ningshi didn't quarrel. Waiting for the one in her hand After the work is done, I will come to see Yu'er!"
"Really?" Yu'er wiped her tears with her sleeves: "Then you must do it! Yu'er really wants to play eagle catch with Sister Ningshi and Xiaodou.
Chicken, but Little Potato is no longer there. "
"Yu'er, brother Xiangyun will definitely bring your sister Ningshi over to see you." Tong Bo felt a pang in his heart when he thought of Xiaodou's children passing away and Liu Ningshi demonstrating the phantom footwork over and over again in front of their graves. It hurt; he calmed down, took out a blue handkerchief from his arms, and wiped away the tears that had not yet been wiped from the corners of Yu'er's eyes: "Yu'er, Brother Xiangyun wants to teach you the technique of using hidden weapons, but you can't. Are you willing to learn?"
"That's great, Brother Xiangyun!" Yu'er suddenly became excited when she heard that Tong Bo was going to teach her the hidden weapon skills: "When should we start?"
"A child after all?" Tong Bo smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Now I will tell you the essentials of hidden weapon kung fu, be sure to listen carefully!"
In the dark work shed, An Dafang had dug a pit more than two feet deep, but he still didn't see the iron box the two men in brown clothes were talking about, and he couldn't help but become anxious.
"Brother Da Fang, could it be that these two people lied to us?" Liu Ningshi, who was watching the situation in the tree, had already begun to doubt the authenticity of what these two people said.
"Dang!" Just as Liu Ningshi was asking, An Dafang seemed to hit something hard with his shovel. He suddenly regained his energy, threw the shovel aside, and used his hands to peel away the surface soil, revealing a dark The iron box face was revealed.
"Ning Shi, we found something." An Dafang excitedly gestured towards Liu Ningshi on the tree: "Come and take a look."
"That should be it." Liu Ningshi jumped down from the tree and worked with An Dafang to take out the dark iron box from the soil: "Would you like to open it and take a look?"
"Ning Shi, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time!" An Dafang looked at the dark surroundings warily: "We'd better go back and take a look!"
