—Xuanyun Continent·Yingli Hall—
"This time, that old guy in Beitang has trouble sorting out his own affairs. I guess he has no intention of running into our palace to stir up trouble at this time, just hoping that the snipe and the clam will fight."
After hearing the news, Yan Lei felt gloating for a while, but he was also embarrassed by his somewhat heroic appearance and a bit of meanness in his smile.
"I heard that the old man from Beitang was choked to death by the words of Elder Li from Shuiyue Palace. In the end, not only did the disciples and the young people who wanted to join Shuiyue Palace all read the joke, but they even called the queen The author has taken on a very special apprentice,"
It has to be said that Yan Lei is really quite good at listening to gossip. Even before Yan Xue's intelligence network has reported the whole process, the former can vividly describe the expressions of everyone present. .
"Where did you hear it?" In Yan Xue's eyes, Yan Lei was like a carefree child at times. He would take everything he heard from hearsay to heart and then speak it out loud.
"If you don't believe me, go check it out." She raised her head and rolled her eyes at Yan Xue. Somehow, she looked like a villain who had succeeded. Although it was not the right time, Yueying still coughed a few times to cover herself up. The corner of the mouth that is about to be shoulder to shoulder with the top of the temple.
"I heard that the name of the disciple that Elder Li accepted was An Lan. She should be arranged according to their generation. She was originally a silly girl in the woodshed... If you ask me, maybe it was because of the Beitang family that she was called that girl. I have no choice but to keep pretending to be stupid until Elder Li comes out of seclusion."
Regarding Yan Lei's behavior of not talking about serious matters but focusing on other things, Yan Xue just looked at him quietly, feeling discouraged. After saying these hearsays, he was about to leave the hall, but he didn't expect to be caught by Yue Ying. stop.
"Wait, you just said that girl..."
"Why, do you know His Highness?" It was good now. Yan Lei felt that this story had won the favor of the Palace Master. He raised his eyebrows at Yan Xue, and the villain's triumphant look became more obvious, "If the Palace Master knows that girl, From now on, it will give that old guy Beitang an even bigger headache!"
"Nothing, it's just that this girl is a bit strange. If we meet in the future, it may be a good thing for both our sects." Yueying knew that before she had enough cultivation, she couldn't act rashly, otherwise she might be afraid It will cause insurmountable trouble for both parties.
What's more, even if Elder Wei and Elder Beitang of Shuiyue Palace are not at odds with each other, they have common interests when it comes to dealing with themselves.
If Yueying really went to look for them, it would have set a precedent for communication between the two sects. Then the two elders would definitely target Yueying and Li Lan blatantly. Before her strength allowed, Yueying would not be stupid enough to take a risk just to know if the silly girl in Shuiyue Palace was an old friend.
Before Yan Xue could signal with his eyes, Yan Lei turned his head and left Yingli Hall very consciously. After a while, the former also bowed and said goodbye, and walked out of the gate of Yingli Hall...
—Xuanyun Continent·Shuiyue Palace—
But here Li Lan said goodbye to his senior brother He Xingchen and sat down on the couch beside him, feeling a little disappointed.
The sigh that Li Lan made just now was not because he was dissatisfied with the furnishings in the house, but simply because the table and chairs were different from the furnishings in his house in the 21st century.
Li Lan understood that he was indeed somewhat wishful thinking on this matter. After all, this master now was not the same person as his master in the 21st century...
Recalling He Xingchen's words, Li Lan felt that she should finally let go. Meeting each other was fate. While cherishing the old times, she must not stand still.
If we don’t cherish everything at the moment, will we turn the present into another past that needs to be remembered?
The green smoke of agarwood penetrated into the room along the hollow carved by the incense burner, rolled up and spread out. Even Li Lan's clothes were dyed with light fragrance, and his movements were more like a natural connection with heaven and earth. Spiritual energy.
The fence of the yard is made of golden green bamboos that have not grown strong enough. A rockery was made on one corner, and a cluster of tall and thin purple bamboos were planted. As expected, it matches the name of Elder Li very well. It is elegant and noble, but no one can compare it. Even with Qifenqiu.
"I heard that you were a famous silly girl in the palace before?"
When he heard this, Li Lan didn't notice anyone approaching, so he couldn't help but froze for a long time, and then turned around.
The owner of this voice was none other than Elder Li's only daughter Li Chengzhi. She entered Li Lan's yard at some point and almost startled the latter.
Before Li Lan could respond, Li Chengzhi asked, "Did Senior Brother pretend to be that before? Because Elder Beitang was not good to the grandmother in the woodshed, Senior Brother was also afraid of being bullied by Elder Beitang?"
"I..." Facing Li Chengzhi's series of probing questions, Li Lan hesitated. The master's daughter and he are considered relatives, so we should naturally treat each other with sincerity. But how should we explain the fact that he came from mainland China in the 21st century?
After a moment of silence, Li Chengzhi smiled and walked closer to Li Lan, reaching out to tease the bamboo leaf, which at least was not yet a spirit and would not respond.
Seeing that Li Lan had no intention of responding, Li Chengzhi stopped smiling and flattened his lips: "Senior Brother, if you have something to hide and don't want to talk about, just forget it."
Hearing this, Li Lan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Li Chengzhi did not continue to ask questions, otherwise the former would really have no idea how to respond...
It's a pity that Li Lan didn't recover yet, and Li Chengzhi asked again: "Senior brother, you just made a big noise, and you can see it even from this side of the mountain."
"Senior brother, can you tell Chengzhi that there are any strange things happening at the ceremony?" Finally leaving the clump of purple bamboo, Li Chengzhi went directly to Li Lan, pulled the latter's sleeve, and shook it gently, quite It is delicate and cute.
The clothes in Shuiyue Palace were uniformly black. Li Lan looked at the girl in front of him who was almost the same age as him. Without the sweet pink clothes, she still looked innocent and romantic. She couldn't help but curse in her heart: It really is fake! The saying that a man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle is also false!
Seeing Li Lan staring at him for a long time without saying anything, it was Li Chengzhi's turn to be confused: "Senior brother, what are you looking at? Is Chengzhi asking too many questions?"
"No, no, it's just..."
"I knew I was here to make trouble with your senior brother." When He Xingchen saw the courtyard door open, he knew it was Li Chengzhi who had come to find Li Lan. He just stepped into the courtyard door and spoke.
He must have been used to this method of communication. Li Chengzhi lowered his head and pursed his lips. When He Xingchen approached, he raised his head and shrugged his nose: "I'm not making trouble, I'm just curious about Senior Brother An Lan's experience!"
He Xingchen smiled and stopped teasing Li Chengzhi. Instead, he turned to Li Lan and said, "Master has finished talking to the old woman in the woodshed and is now looking for you."
"I was able to have a few words with my senior brother, but my mother actually wanted to call him away again!"
Li Chengzhi is actually very talkative, and the other two people present don't even need to say anything. The former will retreat in the face of difficulties. After so many years of growing up alone, even though he now knows how to act coquettishly, he still doesn't dare to be ignorant, for fear of calling others out. Don't want to deal with it.
"That's all, we still have time anyway, can my mother still occupy my senior brother?"
With an apologetic smile, He Xingchen turned around and motioned for Li Lan to follow him to find the master.
"I know she is actually very well-behaved." He Xingchen said after leaving the courtyard.
"It's just that sometimes I worry about gains and losses..." Li Lan listened quietly, but He Xingchen paused every word he said. Perhaps he felt that he could not live up to his status as senior brother and failed to take responsibility for himself. He Xingchen's words were full of self-blame.
"To be honest, it's also a problem between Master and me."
"Master retreated, Chengzhi came out of the mountain, and I was the only one left." Thinking of those years, He Xingchen felt more and more guilty, "I think she is a fairy child, and she can practice it by herself with the exercises. I never thought that since we are all children, we naturally need companionship.”
"If I had been willing to devote more attention to accompany Chengzhi back then, I think she wouldn't be able to cultivate like this now, and she wouldn't have to learn to live by looking at other people's faces."
He Xingchen didn't tell Li Lan in detail what Chengzhi had experienced over the years, so Li Lan didn't ask, otherwise it would definitely arouse the former's sadness again.
"So now Master and I are indulging her temperament. As long as she doesn't do anything too outrageous, we will let her be happy." As he spoke, He Xingchen suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Lan, "She didn't do anything just now. I entered your yard with your permission, I'm afraid I scared you, I will tell her in the future."
"Or you can tell her yourself. You are also her senior brother. As long as you tell her these things, she will remember them."
"It's nothing. I didn't pay attention. I don't blame Chengzhi." Li Lan responded to his senior brother with a smile, but he was thinking about other things in his heart.
Li Chengzhi was a little strange, but Li Lan couldn't explain why the former was strange. Whether it was his sudden appearance in the courtyard where Elder Li had set up protection or those questions, Li Lan only felt that there must be something going on with Li Chengzhi that he didn't understand.
"Why, if there is anything else you want to know, just ask. As long as my senior brother knows, he will definitely tell you." In the 21st century, He Xingchen is already a doctoral student and has to turn around. How could he not see that Li Lan is now Worried?
Just as Li Lan was about to shake his head, he felt the gaze from his senior brother. He bit his lip slightly, turned to look at He Xingchen and said, "Chengzhi is she very curious about my past?"
"Oh, you're talking about this." Seeing his junior brother hesitating, He Xingchen thought it was something big. But it turned out that it was just because of such a trivial matter that I was embarrassed to speak, and I really didn't regard them as relatives.
"Hmm... Chengzhi probably wants to know what you like and how to please you."
The reason why He Xingchen said this was precisely because when Chengzhi was still young, whenever he saw the former coming out of seclusion, he would come up to him and ask what he had experienced during the seclusion.
What special insights could He Xingchen gain from practicing in seclusion? In the end, he took Chengzhi down the mountain to buy some snacks to eat...
"Okay, we're at Master's courtyard." The not-so-far journey saved He Xingchen, and he just arrived at Master's courtyard. The former no longer had to be immersed in the helplessness of being unable to change the past.
Knocking on the door of the courtyard, He Xingchen and Li Lan told him, "Master, I rarely mention Chengzhi. I blame myself more for missing Chengzhi's growth over the past ten years than I do."
3K, not 4K, sorry.
In the morning, I said there was a yang in the building, but I didn’t say it was yin until 10:30 in the evening. I thought about this all day long...
(End of chapter)
