that night.
"Come on, I'll give you a toast!" Xie An held a small welcome party for himself, and called his family over. The lady also came forward in person and poured wine for the younger generation with a smile.
"Thank you for a cup!" Feng Qianjun toasted.
Xiao Shan and Xiang Shu made up their minds, while Chen Xing was expressionless and said, "Senior Brother Xie, you really don't give up."
Chen Xing thought that Xie An was just a hobby, but he did not expect that his desire to become an exorcist was so strong that in the end, even if he pushed the emperor horizontally and vertically, he would have to stuff himself into the exorcism. siri.
"This is the best wine that the master has kept in his cellar. It is a strong wine. Everyone, drink it slowly." Xie An's wife is the sister of the famous scholar Liu Yin, who is also from a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River. How can you help Master Chen?"
"When the dragon is slaughtered in the future," Xie An said again, "but you have to take me with you."
Chen Xing put his hand on his forehead, Xiang Shu replied, "Just take care of your own life."
Xie An said: "That's for sure, little junior brother. In these days, I have practiced many exercises. As long as the ten thousand methods are revived, it will definitely come in handy... Well, madam, you can rest first, and we will talk for a while. Work."
Liu Shi smiled and went back. Chen Xing looked at Xie An, and suddenly felt amused. He was already at this age, and the official residence was the best, but he still didn't forget the original intention of his youth. If you think about it carefully, you can't see it.
"Okay," Chen Xing raised his glass and said, "Welcome to Senior Brother Xie, and I will rely on Senior Brother Xie to take care of him in the future."
"That's right." Xie An slapped the table and said, drinking with everyone, and couldn't help chatting about Shihai, Shenzhou, Xindeng, and immovable mountains, and about the big case three hundred years ago. Xie An finally became an exorcist. Now these legendary anecdotes are no longer irrelevant, they have become close at hand, and when they talk, they are more enthusiastic, as if in a few months, everything will be solved. Resurrection, everyone walked on the road together.
Is this a reconstruction of the Exorcist Division? Chen Xing thought that he would give up in two years. Among the people at the banquet, after he died, Xiang Shu might not stay in the Exorcism Division anymore. The exorcism department is set in the south, and it may be the best choice to hand it over to Xie An.
Xie An was obviously very curious about the so-called "phantom world", so he asked a lot of questions, and then said, "Then what is in the Yin-Yang Mirror, is it a fantasy world?"
Chen Xing explained: "Seriously, the 'phantom world' is not an independent world, not as you understand it. The so-called 'phantom world' refers to the 'present world', the world of Shenzhou seen by mortals Appearance is the present world. But what the exorcist sees, under the present world, there are heaven and earth veins, spiritual energy, demons and demons, so it is called 'illusory world'. , that's what it means."
Xie An said: "So I finally got a glimpse of the fantasy world."
Chen Xing laughed and laughed: "Also... you can say it like this. But exorcists can't be as immortal, immortal, and omnipotent as you think. Exorcists also have their own rules, I'm afraid you will in the future. Disappointed."
Xie An said: "I understand, I understand! Immortality is immortal, my brother has never had this idea. As for magic, just like the martial arts family, when teaching their children, the first rule is not to do anything random to those who are not skilled in martial arts. This is unwritten. rule."
Chen Xing said sincerely: "That's not necessarily true. Some people always rely on their martial arts to be the best in the world, and they often threaten to kill me."
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Xiao Shan drank some wine and became more talkative. He said displeasedly, "Who wants to kill you?!"
Chen Xing waved his hand, indicating that he was joking, and said to Xie An: "Xiao Shan I usually can't take care of me, and I'm also bothering senior brother."
"Xiao Shan is a good boy," Xie An said cheerfully. "When I go out to collect the demon, he will take care of me more or less."
When Xiang Shu heard this, he frowned slightly, and Feng Qianjun also heard the vague ominous meaning and smiled: "Why do you say that?"
Chen Xing realized it, and quickly stopped talking. Xiao Shan asked again, "Did you know each other before?"
"Yes." Xie An had fulfilled his long-cherished wish today, and he really had nothing to talk about, so he talked about going to Huashan to visit Bai Lilun and Chen Xing when he was a child, and said, "The first time I met my junior brother. , he also happens to be your age."
Chen Xing remembered that the time in the mountains was really like a lifetime. From the age of seven to sixteen, it seemed like a blink of an eye, but the two years from sixteen to eighteen seemed to have experienced a magnificent life.
Speaking of Huashan, Xie An knows very little, but Chen Xing has a lot of interesting things, but the so-called interesting things in his impression are nothing more than following the master to study medicine and read the legacy of the Exorcism Division, give a needle to a bear, and cut a bird. Bored and trivial things such as lost bones and fishing in the back of the mountain, Bai Lilun is less reticent. As a child, Chen Xing had to find fun by himself.
It is said that he escaped from the world in the mountains, but for a half-year-old child, the essence reveals a bit of loneliness, so Chen Xing understands Xiao Shan very well, and thinks that Xiao Shan's childhood is similar to his. However, after all that, Chen Xing suddenly felt that these things seemed boring and uninteresting to them, only Xiang Shu listened carefully.
So Chen Xing stopped talking and said, "I can't drink enough, and it's a bit long-winded. Don't take it offense."
Xie An then waved his hands, and everyone drank again. Xiang Shu asked Chen Xing, "When is your birthday?"
"Ah?" Chen Xing smiled, "Why did you ask this all of a sudden? August 17th."
Everyone was a little surprised for a while, and Xiang Shu said displeased, "Yesterday? Why didn't you tell me?"
Chen Xing laughed at himself: "It didn't work at all, but I forgot about it. What about you?"
Xiang Shu was silent for a moment, avoiding Chen Xing's curious eyes, and said casually, "February."
"Yo," Feng Qianjun said, "Isn't that when we first met?"
Xiang Shu: "On the first day of the second month, I don't know you yet."
"The first day of the second lunar month." Chen Xing suddenly remembered, wasn't it the day Xiang Shu was found in the Xiangyang prison? !
This topic did not continue. Now that Chen Xing started, Xie An talked about his childhood. However, everyone had heard of that before, but he had read it in books and folklore when he was a teenager. The matter of Xianshan knights. After talking about Xiao Shan, Chen Xing asked again, "Do you still remember when you were born?"
Xiao Shan didn't know his birthday either, and he was too young when he was taken to Karosha by the wolf, so he had to spread his hands. Feng Qianjun asked again: "When I was a child in Karakasha, it must be very boring."
Xiao Shan said, "It's not boring, Lu Ying will take me to play on the mountain for a whole day."
Xiang Shu glanced at Chen Xing again, and Chen Xing smiled and said, "Then you are much better than me. Master is not in good health, but he stays at home every day."
Xiao Shan said something about Kaluosha, and then said: "There is also a leyline in Kaluosha, glowing, and in a cave, a cave."
Chen Xing thought for a while and said, "Shit shouldn't hide in Kaluosha, right?"
"Ha La and Lin also have them?" Xiang Shu suddenly asked, "Do you know?"
Xiao Shan shook his head blankly, and after a while, everyone passed the topic. It was Feng Qianjun's turn again. Feng Qianjun talked about his childhood, including the days he spent with his elder brother, and the past of practicing swordsmanship with a ronin as his teacher. At the end, when everyone thought of Feng Qianyi, they couldn't help but sigh.
Xie An and Feng Qianyi were also old acquaintances, and couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect Qianyi to end up in such a situation."
"So," Feng Qianjun sighed and said, "I have to avenge my eldest brother. Only after I have avenged this matter can I settle this matter and marry Qing'er well."
"Things in the world," Xie An couldn't help but said, "I don't wait for anyone, Qian Jun, I watched your brothers grow up. Let go of the things that should be done, just focus on the present, not the future."
When Chen Xing heard this, he couldn't help but move in his heart, thinking of himself, and Xiang Shu, when he looked at him, his eyes suddenly became a little lonely.
Xiang Shu avoided Chen Xing's gaze and drank, but when it was his turn, he got up and said, "I'll go first."
Xiang Shu drank the remaining wine, stood up without saying a word, everyone booed a few times, Chen Xing shook his head helplessly, knowing that Xiang Shu didn't want to talk too much about his past, his past has now been followed by his departure. Chuan, as if forgotten, only the only party involved, Chen Xing himself, still remembers.
Xie An motioned Chen Xing to take a look. Chen Xing ate some more, then got up and said, "I fell asleep too, you guys continue to drink."
The wine banquet was about to disperse, and Chen Xing faced the autumn night's bright breeze and starlight filled the courtyard. He wanted to go back to his room, but involuntarily walked outside the courtyard where Xiang Shu lived.
"Father, are you asleep?" Chen Xing said.
Not listening to Xiang Shu's answer in the room, Chen Xing gently pushed open the half-closed courtyard door and entered, only to see the door open in the room. Xiang Shu was only wearing knee-high panties, leather sandals, and a naked upper body, standing under the light of the case. In front of him, there is a white and thin muscle, and the contours of the shoulders and back are extremely perfect. It is really thin to dress, undress to have meat.
Xiang Shu: "You went to the wrong room."
Chen Xing said, "I didn't go wrong, come and see you."
There is a map of Shenzhou landscape on the table, and three pieces of paper hand-painted by Xiang Shu on the side. On the paper are the shell bracelets bought at the market during the Autumn Society Festival. Xiang Shu took the bracelet away, but Chen Xing had seen it, but he didn't say it.
"You're not yet," Chen Xing laughed. "Tell me? Put on your clothes, don't catch a cold."
After drinking half of the wine, I came back to look at the map, presumably to find Ding Haizhu.
Xiang Shu frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, I just drank a drink, and the fever was dissipated. I was thinking about the ley lines, and the so-called 'Wanling Array'. Are you sure you heard it?"
There was no third person present in the conversation between Sima Wei and Chen Xing, but Chen Xing remembered almost every sentence, so he said, "I'm sure it's correct."
"Come and have a look." Xiang Shu raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Xing and said.
Chen Xing walked up to him, Xiang Shu was shirtless, his skin was extremely hot after drinking strong alcohol, and his neck was even more reddish. When he got a little closer, the male's breath was full of aggression, as if Chen Xing was included in it. In his aura, he couldn't help but blush and suffocate his breath.
"Starting from Kalusha," Xiang Shu's slender index finger dipped a little cinnabar and smeared the northernmost position on the map, and said, "This is what I thought from Xiao Shan's words."
"The node of the ley lines?" Chen Xing also discovered it, but the half-naked handsome man standing by his side always distracted him, especially recently, for some unknown reason, he found more and more the charm of Xiang Shu. The more I like it, the more my heart beats faster. He couldn't help but glanced at him sideways, Xiang Shu just turned his head to look at him, they were so close to each other that they could even feel each other's breaths intertwined. Star's heart beat wildly again.
Xiang Shu also turned his head unnaturally, but did not distance himself from Chen Xing, he just kept his original action, and said, "Yes. Look at Hala and Lin, if there are leylines... I decided to write a letter to let Xie An sent it to Shi Mokun and asked him to help us investigate the underground of Hala and Lin."
"So what?" Chen Xing saw Xiang Shu's fingers stained with cinnabar and pointed two places.
"The Jiankang and Kuaiji area," Xiang Shu marked the third location, "Jiangnan."
"Well..." Chen Xing looked sideways and said, "Three. You have read a lot of ancient books, and you know the leylines so well."
"This is my mother's homeschooling during her lifetime," Xiang Shu said again, "nothing strange. Let's look at a few places where Jin appeared, and the next one is Chi Lechuan."
There are already three points in the Northland outside the Great Wall.
"Next is Chang'an," Xiang Shu marked the Guanzhong area with cinnabar, "and Xiangyang in the south, and Longzhong Mountain is connected to the Xiangyang area."
"It's also where we first met Ji." Chen Xing was very impressed.
"Like what?" Xiang said, "Do you see it?"
Chen Xing looked at the six points on the map and remembered what Sima Wei said, the seven Myriad Spirit Arrays in the Divine Land... there is one less, and said, "Do you think these points are on the ley lines? What about the seventh one?"
Xiang Shu finally pointed out the seventh point in Luoyang and asked, "What about now?"
Chen Xing watched for a while, and Xiang Shu connected these points from north to south, turning into a turning line of Kalusha, Hara and Lin, Yinshan and Chilechuan. After connecting to Luoyang, the Central Plains appeared. a square.
The four Central Plains cities of Chang'an, Xiangyang, Jiankang and Luoyang became the body of the spoon.
Three locations in the north became the handle of the spoon.
"The Big Dipper!" Chen Xing exclaimed in surprise.
Xiang Shu said: "The star of Tianquan is located in Luoyang. According to my guess, these seven places need a lot of resentment to launch the Myriad Spirit Formation together. The plan of Chi Lechuan and Chang'an had already been successful, but it was only because of our obstruction that the magic weapon was taken away. And Wen Zhe and his dragon..."
Chen Xing murmured: "It is to collect grievances for Jiankang."
Xiang Shu nodded and said: "Next, it's Luoyang, but the magic weapon is in our hands, the corpse lacks magic tools, and for a while, the magic art that uses the land of Shenzhou as a formation method should be impossible to perform. Yes."
At the beginning, Chen Xing always thought that the so-called "Wanling Formation" should be seven formations, but he never found the actual formation, but in this way, maybe there is no formation, or this one on the land of Shenzhou that goes along the leylines. The arrangement of the Big Dipper is the formation itself.
That is to say, Shi Hai was going to use the kings to disperse to these locations, and when Fu Jian marched south, he would resurrect the demon god Chi You in one fell swoop in the last large-scale sacrifice.
"Tomorrow I'm going to Nanping Mountain." Xiang Shu said, "It's late at night, go back and rest."
Chen Xing said "um", only to see Xiang Shu snapped his fingers, and the lights went out in the strong wind.
Originally, Chen Xing wanted to talk to Xiang Shu by drinking alcohol, but he did not expect that Xiang Shu would have nothing to say to him except for the exorcism department. Is there anything else?" Seeing that Xiang Shu obviously didn't want to keep him, he just walked out of the door, only to see him come out with a Qiang flute, sit on a low couch in the courtyard, lift his feet on the edge of the well, and try sound.
"Are you going to play the Qiang flute?" Chen Xing asked.
Xiang Shu raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Xing casually, frowned, "Aren't you going back yet?"
Chen Xing had no choice but to turn around and leave. Just after taking a few steps, he heard the familiar "Floating Life Song" playing behind him. Compared with the one played by Hara and Lin, it was much softer and less heroic.
Chen Xing turned his back to Xiang Shu, listened to the melody coming from the autumn wind, stopped and glanced back, only to see Xiang Shu half naked, his skin covered with the silver light of the moon, and his white trousers like snow. The temples are drooping with blue sashes, eyes are closed, his expression is focused, and he will wake up or not, as if it were jade carvings.
With the sound of the song, the gurgling water, the majestic stone mountains, and the magnificent autumn bamboos in the Xie Mansion seemed to have life in an instant. In this night with the bright moon shining brightly on the earth, for some reason, Chen Xing seemed to hear the meaning of the song that he had not understood when he was in Hala and Lin.
When the sound started, the lonely part made Chen Xing seem to have seen Xiangyang. On the day the two first met, did Xiang Shu put any memories in the Floating Life Song? Immediately after that, the sound of the song carried a thousand bells of all countries, the style of Chang'an in a prosperous age, and then, in the tune, there was a faint sound of the solitary sound of Chilechuan going down the grassland.
Is it because he is over-hearted, or is Xiang Shu really using the Qiang flute to remember
Chen Xing returned to the front of the room, took down the guqin in the room, fiddled with the strings a few times, and played the Qiang Flute Floating Life Song described by Xiang.
Although the bedrooms of the two were far apart, the music was clearly audible, and they were in harmony with each other. Chen Xing played the piano on his side, while Xiang Shu was obviously stunned by the sudden sound of the piano.
But within a few breaths, Xiang Shu adjusted back, Chen Xing played the guqin lightly, Xiang Shu's Qiang flute was picked up, and when the sound of the qin and the Qiang flute turned at the same time, as if he had a good heart, he turned to the soft tune of Jiangnan. . Chen Xing heard it, not guessing randomly, Xiang Shu was really telling something with the Qiang flute.
And before he could hear the deeper meaning of Fusheng Song, Xiang Shuqiang had already collected the flute, and Xie's house returned to silence.
Chen Xing sat in a daze, constantly recalling the past in the sound of the flute. It was like a dream in a floating life. The light and shadow were scattered, only vaguely, throwing a little light, but the scene was not real. After waiting for a long time and not hearing the flute again, Chen Xing stroked the strings and plucked it.
"Boom" sounded softly.
Xiang Shu was about to get up after receiving the Qiang flute, and when he heard the sound of the violin, he sat down again and looked up at the clear autumn sky, the moon halo with a faint glow.
Chen Xing plucked it again, making a few vibrato, then looked down at the qin, and played it smoothly. That piece is part of the "Guangling San" composed by Ji Kang of Jin Dynasty. According to legend, Ji Kang was given to death by the Sima family.
Xiang Shu listened for a while, then got up and opened the door, walked to the east wing, stood under the moonlight, and saw Chen Xing looking leisurely through the corridor, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if everyone was asleep, only he was entertaining himself. Generally happy, that Guangling Sanzhong has a little youthful vitality, swept away Ji Kang's original intention.
Chen Xing learned the piano art at home when he was a child, but he seldom played the piano. His father even said that "the rhythm can betray a person's heart". Now that I think about it, I finally understand the meaning of the words.
Finally, Xiang Shu opened the courtyard door and the room door, sighed, went back to the room and lay down, hanging the string of red rope on his two fingers, holding it up in front of him and watching it for a while, until the sound of the qin faded away. There was a sound of the door closing in the distance, Xiang Shu threw it away, and the bracelet fell on the case, making a soft sound.