"Nan Su, are you doubting Zhenxing Tower?" Bu Ting raised the glass lamp, and the light shone brightly, illuminating Nan Su's young face.
"Disciple doesn't dare." Nan Su had some impressions of the disciple of the Shenji Sect. On that day, the demon world infiltrated into Uncle Master's Integration Ceremony, and he was pulled into the protective barrier by Jiu Hui. Later, he was a disciple of the Shenji Sect. In order to hide in the barrier, Jiu Hui was given five thousand spirit stones.
Having stayed in the same small barrier, it was naturally different from being a pure stranger. Nan Su even had the thought flash through his mind. Since the four elders of Zhenxing Tower predicted the fate of the other party, why did they not find a way to save him?
"It's not that I don't dare, but it's not that I don't have any doubts." Bu Ting picked up the lamp and walked into the octagonal pavilion, and Nan Shu followed.
"Do you know why Zhenxing Tower is named after the town instead of Guan?" Putting the glazed lamp on the table, Bu Ting brushed off the snow on the jade table: "Because they once thought that as long as they changed before the prophecy came, If the prophecy is suppressed, bad luck will never happen again.”
"Isn't this wrong?" Nan Su was even more puzzled.
The wind blew the snow into the pavilion, and Bu Ting's face was as pale as snow: "When a man walked to the left, someone told him that if he walked to the left, he would fall. So he chose the road on the right, but unexpectedly a group of jackals, tigers and leopards ran out on the right. Take his life."
"Perhaps he regretted countless times before he died. If he had known that he would lose his life, it would be better to break his leg." Bu Ting walked to the fence and looked at the fish swimming in the pond: "No matter what you choose, you can make mistakes, no matter which way you go. It may bring bad luck. No one knows which choice will cost you more.”
“When the flowers bloom again, there is no turning back.”
Snowflakes fall into the pool, but there are warm beads thrown by Bu Ting in the pool. No matter how much snow there is, these lazy fish will not be frozen.
"But..." Nan Su knew that he shouldn't say the next words, but he still said: "A few days ago, the four elders predicted that the Demon Suppression Prison would collapse and that the great demon would come to the world and cause harm to the world. Why did Master change it?"
"When choosing the left will cost hundreds of thousands, millions or even tens of millions of people to die, and choosing the right only costs a few lives, I will only choose the right." Bu Ting said in a cold tone: "For me, this is not a choice; The only way."
Nan Su fell silent, understanding what his master meant. But it is precisely because of understanding that I feel uncomfortable.
"Isn't there a choice of both worlds?" He looked at the dark sky: "Why do we have to have a choice?"
Bu Ting looked at his unwilling disciple and began to recall his past. Was he ever so unwilling and angry
"Since it is a choice, there are times when you make the wrong choice." Nan Su said: "Maybe if you go to the left, you will break your leg, but if you go to the right, nothing will happen."
"You are right, but the four elders of Zhenxing Tower do not want to gamble. It should be said that they do not want to gamble for a small Shenji Sect disciple." Bu Ting closed his eyes and covered up all the emotions in his eyes: "You want to Knowing, sometimes knowing your fate in advance may not be luck, but the cruelest punishment of fate.”
"Yuan Wo didn't die as predicted. Did he make the right choice or was he a punishment from fate?" Nan Shu looked at the master's back blankly: "No one specifically changed his fate for him, and he didn't know the prophecy, but he survived. Come down."
"Perhaps," Bu Ting opened his eyes and looked back at him: "He was lucky and happened to encounter a glimmer of hope given by fate."
But he didn't believe that fate would be so generous to mortals.
"No, no, I don't want to go here!" Jiu Hui snatched the chess piece back and changed its position: "Only children make choices, I can only cheat."
As New Year's Eve approaches, everyone in Wangshu Pavilion has no intention of practicing, and everyone in the sect gathers in the main hall to play around.
"It's really a headache to play chess with you. You don't pay attention to any tactics and strategies. If you don't play, you won't be able to win." Yu Jing threw the chess pieces away, with a look of disgust on his face: "You are not playing chess. It's obviously all about where you put the chess pieces."
"Isn't it important to do things according to your heart? Besides, you are the master, what happened to Rang Rang's apprentice?" Jiu Hui smiled and put away the chess pieces. She walked to Yu Jing with her smiling face and hugged her arm: "I know you are much better than me, but I still tell you tactics. That's a fool. Master, if you can't give up in this game of chess, the one who gives up will lose, so it means I won, right?"
"Crying, making trouble, and cheating, destroying chess and letting cats and dogs help cause trouble, can be considered a strategy." The other elders were sitting nearby drinking tea and making noises. Elder Mo pointed to Zhiyou who was silent in the corner: "You I didn’t see it, but there is someone secretly helping here.”
"I see it's not just Zhiyou, but all of you are helping." Yu Jing picked up the tea cup and took a few sips. This game was really frustrating.
"Jiu Hui is only eighteen years old, how old are you?" Elder Chang took a look at himself in the mirror and said slowly: "If we don't help an eighteen-year-old girl, how can we help you, an old lady who has lived for more than six hundred years? "
"Who are you talking about being old?" Yu Jing rolled up her sleeves and stood up, "I have a beautiful face and look of the right age. I think your hair is falling out badly and you are jealous that I have more hair, so you are talking nonsense."
The two senior fellow apprentices chased Elder Chang outside the hall and fought fiercely until Elder Chang was knocked into a snowdrift. Yu Jing put down her rolled-up sleeves and kicked Elder Chang with her toes: "Don't yell again next time." , pull out your hair.”
The tenderness and consideration shown by Jiu Hui and Zhi You on the day they joined the sect turned into a mirror, like a dream.
"Little junior sister, little junior brother." Chang He peeled an orange and squeezed in between Jiu Hui and Zhi You and squatted down: "Congratulations on finally discovering the true face of the master uncle. You don't know that the day you first joined the sect, I How scared I am to see the gentle and watery smile of the head master."
"Master has always been gentle to me." Jiu Hui snatched half of the orange from Chang He, took a bite and her eyes widened: "It's so sweet, senior brother, please give me the remaining half."
"Don't even think about it." Changhe stuffed the remaining half into his mouth.
"Ugh!" He covered his mouth and spat out. How could such a sour orange be sweet
"Bah, bah, bah!" Jiu Hui pinched the uneaten orange and laughed loudly, "Senior brother, if you have the friendship of the same family, give me the remaining half of the orange, and you won't be sour."
"I was wrong. The master's uncle is indeed very gentle." Chang He gritted his teeth and wiped his mouth: "Pi Cheng, you are like this, and I haven't even beaten you. The master is too gentle!"
"You don't understand this. Although your uncle is a bit fierce towards you, he is very patient with Jiu Hui." Elder Mo saw his disciple deflated and patted his legs and laughed: "If she is too patient with Jiu Hui She's not gentle enough. She should have been beaten when she started to regret her chess game and let the cat mess up the chessboard."
"Master, whose master are you?" Changhe was so sour that all his features were squeezed together.
"Say Master in front of my disciples, you deserve to be so sour." Elder Mo said with a smile: "Don't even think about it, if this orange is really sweet, she would not specifically tell you that it is sweet, she would just reach out and snatch it away."
Zhiyou ignored Jiuhui and Changhe's laughter. He chose an orange, peeled it off slowly, and ate it silently.
Changhe's mouth was so sour that he saw Zhiyou eating two pieces of an orange and stretched out his hand to him: "Junior brother, give me half."
Zhiyou took the orange further away and said, "It's sour."
"I don't believe it. You can eat two pieces if it's sour?" Changhe snatched the orange and stuffed it into his mouth.
"vomit!"
Zhiyou took out his handkerchief and wiped his fingers slowly, with a calm and innocent expression: "I told you before, oranges are sour."
"Hee hee." Jiu Hui bumped Zhi You's shoulder with her shoulder and took out a piece of candy from her ring: "Well done, eat the candy."
"You idiot, you can do the same trick twice." Elder Mo was very happy to see his apprentice's joke, "You have lived like a dog for all these years."
"Woof woof woof." The dog lying in the corner chewing bones barked twice at Elder Mo. Don't accuse the dog unjustly. Dogs don't eat people's brains.
During the laughter, the cry of the crane came into the hall, and several elders waved to the disciples who had been members of the sect for less than a hundred years: "Go out and see if the elders in your family asked the crane to send a letter?"
Jiu Hui put down the half-peeled fruit in her hand, took two steps and looked back at Zhi You, who was still sitting there, and pulled him up: "Come on, Zhi You, come with me to take a look."
After leaving the palace gate, several cranes on the snow were eating small sweetfish fed by some senior brothers and sisters. A crane with a small bag hanging around its neck flew to Jiu Hui and touched Jiu Hui's skirt with its head. .
"Thank you, Immortal Crane." Jiu Hui took out the dried fish from the Najie, poured a large plate full of it and placed it in front of Immortal Crane: "Thank you for the hard work coming all the way here."
The crane waved its wings gracefully, handed the brocade bag hanging around its neck to Jiu Hui, and then lowered its head and began to eat the dried fish.
The kit seems to be only half the size of a fist, but it contains runes to expand its capacity and can hold a lot of things.
A letter of thanks from the village chief to her master and several elders, a dozen letters from various elders to her, new winter clothes and shoes made by Aunt Jiao, various dried fish made by Uncle Long, and amulets painted by Uncle Bu , all kinds of dried meat made by Uncle Liu...
Jiu Hui presented the letters written by the village chief's grandfather to the elders of the sect as well as the meeting gifts to the master and elders one by one.
After Yu Jing and several elders read the letter, they felt very complicated. The words of the village chief in the letter were very polite, even cautious, just like a parent who is worried about his young son going to school, and unconsciously needs to be more polite in front of the school teacher.
Although the gifts prepared are not priceless, they are very thoughtful. In the meeting gift box for Jade Mirror, an extra 10,000 spirit stones were prepared. The reason is that the New Year is approaching and I don’t know what hobbies Jiu Hui’s senior sisters and brothers have, so I let Jiu Hui’s senior brothers and sisters use the money to buy things themselves.
"Jiu Hui." Elder Xi stroked the puppet material given by the village chief and smiled kindly at Jiu Hui: "Do you have any juniors in your village who have not yet joined the sect? Your senior brothers and sisters would like to have a junior brother or junior sister. ”
"Uncle Xi, you have forgotten again. I have said before that I am the only junior in the village." Jiu Hui held the kit and smiled with crooked eyebrows. Anyone could see that she was in a good mood now: "Master , Dear uncles, I will go back to the courtyard to read the letter and take my leave first."
"Go ahead, go ahead." Yu Jing smiled and shook his head, "You can't sit still anyway."
"See you tomorrow." Jiu Hui happily picked up Zhi You and ran away, leaving the whole hall full of excitement.
"When Zhiyou first entered the sect, he didn't even like to say a word. After spending just half a year with Jiuhui, he already knew how to tease his fellow sect members." Elder Mo took a sip of tea happily: "I still remember the first chapter. When I saw him once, he stood blankly not far from me, like a statue in the crowd. "
Someone accidentally bumped into him, but he didn't react at all. He was standing in the noisiest place, but he was out of place. From sunrise to sunset, he watched Zhiyou approaching the places where several sects were recruiting disciples. In the end, he was always squeezed out by the crowd. Finally, there were people who were willing to talk to him, but they also disliked his mediocre qualifications and were unwilling to accept him into the sect.
He felt compassion for a moment, called Zhiyou to his side, and tested it with Zongmen Yujue. Although Yujue was reluctant to light up, it always lit up. Yujue either shines or doesn't shine. This is the first time he has seen Yujue shine so stingily. Until Zhiyou took out a suicide note from his ancestor, Elder Mo recalled that this ancestor died trying to save the people in the city, so he accepted it.
In those few days, Zhiyou followed Changhe and Luoyan quietly. He would not speak even if he was asked, and he would only say two or three words if asked. If it were not for his flesh and blood, he almost thought that Zhiyou was a puppet made by Junior Sister Xi, not a puppet made by Junior Sister Xi. living person.
"That's good. You can live a somewhat popular life." Elder Chang, who had been severely beaten, was sitting on the chair in a polite manner at this moment: "The road of cultivation is not easy. When you are young, walk slower and walk more steadily. ”
"But..." He changed the subject: "It's a pity that she is the only child in Jiuhui Village who needs to be nurtured."
Everyone rolled their eyes, is that a pity for you? You are covetous of the greeting gifts prepared by the elders in the village!
"This is for you!" After closing the courtyard door, Jiu Hui took out the carved wooden box that had been hidden in the brocade bag.
"Me?" Zhiyou looked at the wooden box that exuded a light sandalwood fragrance. The person who carved the wooden box was very careful, and even the carvings in the gaps were polished cleanly and glowing.
"Well, you." Jiu Hui nodded, "The elders in the village know that you are my classmate, and the master only has two of our apprentices, so they say that you are half of their juniors. These are the greeting gifts they have prepared for you, please open them quickly Look, what have they prepared?"
Zhiyou stretched out his hand, gently touched the copper buckle of the carved wooden box, and opened the wooden box under Jiuhui's curious eyes.
The wooden box may not look big, but there is something inside. I don’t know how many things are stuffed inside.
The top item was a big cloak. Jiu Hui pulled Zhi You to stand up: "Aunt Jiao must have made this big cloak. Please try it quickly."
Zhiyou is tall and tall, and the large cloak draped around him makes him look taller and taller, and his temperament is noble, as if he had stepped out of a painting.
"It's so beautiful. When we go out to play on New Year's Eve, you put this big cloak on." Jiu Hui pulled Zhi You back and sat back: "Let's see what else is there?"
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, Jiu Hui called him a good guy when he saw it.
Jade crown, jade pendant, jade belt, jade finger ring, jade bow, jade flying sword...
Did the village chief grandpa take the whole village to dig jade mines
When she opened the gift box prepared for her by her elders, which contained various jade hostas, jade rings, jade bracelets, and jade armlets, she was almost certain that the village chief and the others must have gone mining.
Fortunately, Aunt Jiao had prepared more than a dozen sets of beautiful winter dresses and capes of various colors for her. She was so happy that she couldn't see her teeth while gesturing.
"The clothes made by Aunt Jiao are very beautiful. All the clothes I have worn since childhood were made by her." Jiu Hui put on a red cloak with a white fox fur collar and stood with Zhi You: "You wear snow white A big cloak, I’m wearing a red cloak, what do we look like?”
Zhiyou touched the soft fluff on his cloak and shook his head gently.
"Like white snow reflecting red plum blossoms." Jiu Hui thought of Zhi You's skill in painting and smiled flatteringly at him: "Zhi You, can I ask you a favor?"
"What's the matter?"
Jiu Hui clasped her hands together: "Can you draw a picture of me wearing new clothes? I want to send it back to them. Seeing that I am doing well will make them feel more at ease. Please, please."
"Okay." Zhiyou carefully took off the cloak and folded it up gently: "Do you want to paint now?"
"No hurry, no rush." Jiu Hui took out two envelopes from a thick stack of envelopes and handed them to Zhi You: "This is what my parents gave you. It's the first time I've been away from them for such a long time. It's inevitable for them to escape." Don't worry, if there is anything offensive in the letter, just tell me and I will write a letter for you to go back and make trouble with them."
Zhiyou took the envelope blankly. This was the first time he received a letter written specifically for him by his elders. When he opened the envelope, the first thing he saw was the name the person in the letter addressed him.
[Zhi You is a virtuous nephew, seeing words is like meeting.]
The letter was not wordy, nor did it point fingers as an elder. It didn't even ask him to take care of Jiu Hui. It just asked about his taste and preferences and whether he would like the gifts they prepared.
[The winter wind is getting colder. I hope my nephew will not forget to add more clothes and eat more meals.]
Another letter was written by Aunt Jiao, who Jiu Hui often talks about. In the letter, she explained that she only made him a big cloak because she didn't know his height. She repeatedly asked him to tell him his measurements. Jiu Fen, she can make him new clothes that fit him well.
After reading the two letters several times, Zhiyou looked up at Jiuhui who was reading the letters. He might not have understood it before, but now he understands that all this is probably what Jiu Hui told the elders in advance.
They have never met him, so they can only act as an elder in the letter. They gave him gifts, gave him new clothes, and told him to add more clothes and not forget to eat.
He had no elders, no one wrote to him, no one prepared gifts for him, and no one sewed new clothes for him, but Jiu Hui and her elders made up for all this for him.
Laying out the drawing paper, Zhiyou did not disturb Jiu Hui, who was reading and replying to the letter, and picked up the brush to outline Jiu Hui's appearance.
Jiu Fen standing on a flying sword with hands on her hips, Jiu Fen stepping on Prime Minister Wu’s back, Jiu Fen surrounded by cats and dogs, Jiu Fen having snowball fights with her head covered in snow, and Jiu Fen wearing a red cloak. Nine fennel.
He finished the sketch and saw that Jiu Hui was still reading the letters written to her by her elders. He picked up the scroll and left Jiu Hui's yard softly. When passing by the flower tree where Jiu Hui often sat, he paused and returned to his room. Another painting was made of her lying in a tree and looking at the stars.
He painted each painting with great care, enough to let everyone who sees the painting know how happy the people in the painting are living.
Jiu Hui finished replying to her elders and slept until noon the next day. When she got up and opened the window, the snow had stopped. The eaves and under the flower trees are covered with unmelted ice, shining dazzlingly in the sun.
"Zhiyou?" She looked at Zhiyou who was standing under the flower tree: "Why are you here?"
"Paint." Zhiyou walked up to Jiu Hui and said, "I've painted the painting you want."
Jiu Hui took the painting and opened the scroll, only to realize that it was a very long painting with many different versions of herself on it.
"You didn't sleep all night?" Jiu Hui looked up at him.
"You read the letters over and over again last night. I know you must miss them, and they are also missing you." Zhiyou put a jade box into Jiuhui's arms: "Yesterday was the first time in my life that I received a jade box. I don’t know how to reciprocate the gifts from the elders. I collected these dried fish and moonflowers myself, and you can help me send them back to the elders.”
Yuehua
Jiu Hui opened the jade box, and inside there was a special glass vase, which contained a bottle full of moonlight, which shone like a dream like smoke.
Jiu Hui put the moonlight back into the jade box and closed the lid of the jade box: "The essence of the moon can be eaten by humans to prolong life, and by animals eaten by it can open up wisdom and transform into human form. If eaten by demons and immortals, it can increase their cultivation."
"Did you know that this bottle of moonlight is enough to drive countless immortals, cultivators, and monsters crazy?" Jiu Hui lowered her voice: "Take it back quickly, I really can't give this thing away."
"But this is the only thing I can give back." Zhiyou didn't understand: "Isn't it bad to be precious?"
"Of course precious things are good." Jiu Hui returned the moonlight to Zhi You and pointed to the fish in the box: "But the real elders don't need us to give back the most precious things in the world. People who need you all the time and everywhere. , neither an elder nor a friend, but a greedy plunderer."
"Do you want to know what I'm going to send back to my elders?" Jiu Hui brought Zhi You into the house, and her gifts for her elders were placed on the table.
The flower branches in Wangshu Pavilion, the peaches in Wangshu Pavilion, the first talisman paper she drew in Wangshu Pavilion, the small puppet dolls made by herself, various snacks from Taolin City, and... cut out from the plaque of Jiutian Sect's gate. gem.
Zhiyou even saw a pack of hawthorn balls among the gifts. He remembered that the hawthorn balls were a bit sour.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand." Jiu Hui smiled at him: "I will teach you slowly in the future."
The sunshine after the snow shines through the window and shines on her face.
Zhiyou looked at Jiuhui's smile and forgot to blink.
It turns out that she can shine.
"Fellow Taoist Nanshu, what do you mean by this?" Yuan Wo looked at Nanshu and the two disciples of the Jiutian Sect who were following him blankly: "I just went to the Star Gate with my sword the day before yesterday. Could it be that I Are you asking if something happened to the Star Gate?"
"Fellow Taoist, don't think too much. I just want to know, did you meet anyone else on your way to the Star Gate?" Nan Suo observed Yuan Wuo's expression carefully.
"Who did you meet?" Yuan Wu frowned and thought for a moment: "I walked all the way to the Star Gate and didn't meet anyone."
"Really?"
Yuanwu rubbed the ring on his fingertips and shook his head with a confused look on his face: "No, fellow Taoist Nanshu, what happened?"
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