My heart skipped a beat and I didn't stop on my feet, but there were already a dozen possible conjectures generated in my mind. When I set my foot in the front room, I'm ready for anything.
But in just three days, Yan Wu seemed to have lost a lot of weight, or was just haggard, and his complexion was not very good. He didn't express anything when he saw me, but just nodded without even smiling. Standing beside him, who just called him senior brother, is a girl in plain clothes, who looks about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a melon-seeded face, almond eyes, and the appearance of a little white rabbit, delicate and lovely. It is said that women should be pretty and filial, look at her—wait a minute, filial piety? My heart skipped a beat, and I thought, this is a big deal...
Yan Wu didn't pay attention to me, and I didn't ask him, I just peeked out of the corner of my eye, walked towards Tao Er, and said with a smile: "You guys are back, how are things going?"
Tao Er nodded, embraced me and said, "Yanli's sect suffered misfortune. This is his junior sister Bai Shengsheng, who will live in our house for a while." Tao Er gently brought up the matter of Yan's fifth sect, Obviously I don't want to talk about it in public, but it's not difficult to guess from this few words, this vague "misfortune" is probably a massacre of extermination-only one person was left alive.
Bai Shengsheng glanced at me timidly, as if hesitating on how to address me, our understanding Yan Wu opened his mouth and said softly: "She is Li Yingyu, the head of the Li family, who is two years older than you. Just call her sister."
I took a look at Yan Wu, and felt rather uncomfortable. In fact, I don't like to hear this "sister", but I can't let her call me master. Besides, it seems that a family member just died, so I'd better relax and bear with it for a while.
She knelt down to me, and softly called out, "Sister Yingyu."
I endured the discomfort and smiled back at her. "You don't need to be so polite, since you are Yan Wu's junior sister, you are also one of your own." I turned my head and told Lian Er, "Hurry up and get someone to tidy up Yi Garden, and send two dexterous servant girls to serve you."
Yan Wu seemed to want to refuse, but after I gave him a glare, he finally closed his mouth with a complicated expression.
Tao Er said to Yan Wu: "You haven't closed your eyes for three days, go back and have a rest."
Yan Wu nodded wearily, Lian'er smiled and led Bai Shengsheng to the other side, Bai Shengsheng looked back at Yan Wu with reluctance and fear, seeing Yan Wu return her soothing smile, I yelled in my heart that something was wrong...
After those two left, the master came, closed the door, and I had a family meeting with the four men in our family.
"Yanli received an emergency from the master before, and hurried back to the Yellow Flower Valley, but it was a step too late. The Yellow Flower Valley has been breached, and all the disciples are dead. The ghost doctor Bai Gu faked his death by taking the Guixi Pill to deceive the other party, but he has no way to recover. In the end, only Bai Shengsheng, who was hiding at the bottom of the well, escaped." Tao Er squeezed the space between his brows, obviously very troubled, "According to Bai Shengsheng, the martial arts methods of the visitors are different from those of the Central Plains martial arts people, and their accents sound like They are from the Minyue country. If so, this matter is not simple. What's more, their purpose is not to kill people, but to extract confessions. It seems that they are looking for something important... "
I took a deep breath and asked, "Does Yan Wu want to take revenge?" Even if it wasn't for Bai Shengsheng, he still wanted to take revenge on this master.
Tao Er nodded and said: "It's natural. When the ghost doctor Bai Gu entrusted Bai Shengsheng to him when he was dying, it was not just for revenge. Yan Wu was responsible for Bai Gu's unique knowledge, and he needed to pass on all these to Bai Shengsheng."
I squeezed my fingers and said oh. Leaving aside the matter of Bai Shengsheng, if the matter of killing the family in Huanghua Valley was done by the people of Fujian and Yue, then it should have nothing to do with Liu Che. But as to whether he knew it or not, that's up to him.
Tang San reported to Tao Er the details of what happened in the mansion in the past three days, Tao Er glanced at the master, and said: "He is the same as Fang Xiaohou, since he has found this place, it will be difficult to stop him. For him, unlike others who are in the dark and I am in the light, it is better to simply open it up, whether it is life or death, a game will win or lose."
Tang San was still a little angry, but since Tao Er let go, he would not refute anymore, he could only retreat sullenly.
I originally planned to retreat too, so that Tao Er could have a good rest, he didn't look much better than Yan Wu. But he opened his mouth and let me stay.
"Me?" I pointed to the tip of my nose and looked left and right, Lian'er always retreated at this time with great interest and closed the door by the way. Tao Er stretched out his hand to beckon, like a puppy, and I posted it like a puppy... The weak to be enjoyed...
He grabbed my wrist and pulled it into his arms. I sat on his lap and helped him squeeze his shoulders and beat his back.
"Second brother, you have worked hard!" I accompanied the smiling face, half to please and half to comfort.
He squinted at me, and said with a half-smile, "What did you do wrong?"
I was stunned: "No!"
"Then you..." He held my fist, squeezed it lightly, and said with a smile, "Why are you so courteous?"
I want to cry but have no tears. I think it’s because I’ve failed too much in life. I don’t want to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. I don’t show courtesy for nothing. Generally, there are only two things to please him: I have made a mistake and I am about to make a mistake...
I got it wrong, our second brother looks powerful, but actually has a sensitive and slender heart like a girl!
Not to feel chilled by this thought, I hastily clarified: "You misunderstood me, I am actually a very conscientious person, I know what you have done for this family, second brother, you worked hard Yes! On behalf of the whole family, I thank you!" He kissed him hard on the cheek—boo~
He raised his hand to wipe his face, smiled helplessly, shook his head and said, "You don't have any questions to ask me?"
"Yes!" I hurriedly replied. "Do you miss me..."
A smile flashed across Tao Er's eyes, "I'll only answer one question for you, do you really only want to ask this?"
"No, no, I take it back! There is no need to ask this question, you must want to kill me, right?" I secretly wiped off my sweat, this strategy of "step by step, please first, then interrogate a sweet date" Failed.
"Well, your question was 'I miss you, don't I?' Then I answered..."
Depend on! There are also such!
At the very moment, I pounced on him, gagged his mouth, and met his smiling eyes—I knew you were playing with me! Sir, am I very funny
He put one hand on the back of my head and deepened the kiss—an old hand, definitely an old hand, one kiss made my heart beat straight to one hundred and eighty (hypoxia), and my legs were so soft that I changed from a little oily chicken to a drunken shrimp...
"Hoo hoo..." I put my hands on his chest and took a big breath to replenish the lost air, "Tao Er, you, you, you... you are not allowed to play with me!"
Satisfied, he ran along my long hair leisurely, squinting his eyes like a satiated lion to inspect his food stock...
Woo... In front of him, I will always be the weak to be enjoyed...
He said mercifully, "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore."
"Then I'll ask!" I adjusted my breath, there are many questions I want to ask, which one should I ask...
After thinking for a while, I asked, "The six of us in our family can live in happiness and stability for a long time, and no one can destroy our peaceful life. Don't you think so?"
He paused, looked at me with deep eyes, but then returned to his original lazy look, and said slowly: "Are you asking me a question, or do you want me to promise?"
I have a lot of questions in my mind, but even if I ask them, I may not get the answers I want. In fact, it doesn’t matter if I know it. I just want a guarantee that evil spirits will not invade and the house is safe. I don’t care about other things——Mo Wei It is often said that my mentality is very in line with the needs of imperial politics.
"I know there are a lot of things recently, I can't ask a single question, and there are some things that I can't do anything about. Instead of trying to find out, it's better to trust you—" I blinked and looked at Tao Er with a smile, "As long as you can promise, I will do it wholeheartedly." Believe in you!"
Tao Er smiled lightly and sighed, then stretched out his hand to rub my face, "You are always easy to push the responsibility away."
I don't agree with this, the man I should be responsible for, which one should I push away? I was forced to stare at him with pouted lips, and he bowed his head with a smile and pecked lightly on my lips.
"Okay." He nodded, "I promise, as long as you don't make trouble for me, I will give you a stable home."
oh! Second brother, you are such a pure man! (I subconsciously ignored the middle eight characters of his last sentence)
His confident smile and the fluttering corners of his lips are all burning my rippling little heart. I have decided—to make him the general of the town house!
"I still have a question about Yan Wu, I don't know if I should ask it or not..." I hung it around his neck, and continued my efforts in a flattering manner.
"You ask." I was overjoyed when I heard the words, and he said again: "I don't have to answer." My face darkened when I heard this—he is really addicted to playing with me...
"I've never heard of Yan Wu's sect before. What is his relationship with the sect? What happened to this massacre?" I asked seriously.
"This matter is still under further investigation. I can't tell you much now. I only know that he was adopted by the ghost doctor and his wife since he was a child. When I was fifteen years old, my father was seriously ill. The ghost doctor and his wife came to the villa with Yan Li Later, my father passed away, and the ghost doctor and his wife left, leaving Yanli behind in the villa. The ghost doctor and his wife had a long history with Baihong Villa, and Yanli and I are as close as brothers. No matter who did the Huanghuagu tragedy, , I will definitely make him pay ten times the price!"
Speaking of the last word, a palm print was hollowed out on the mahogany table under the palm...
I swallowed, and asked again: "Didn't the ghost doctor say anything when he was dying?"
Tao Er said dejectedly: "When we arrived, the Yellow Flower Valley had already been bloodbathed. The senior ghost doctor was still alive with the Guixi Pill. He grabbed Yan Li's lapel and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything. At that time, he was hiding Bai Shengsheng, who had escaped from the well, appeared in the well. The senior ghost doctor raised his breath, pointed at her, and finally swallowed. Bai Shengsheng is his biological daughter, and Yan Li will obey the master's will and take good care of the only family member on his behalf. When he said this, he lowered his head and glanced at me, "So don't take it too seriously, the little girl has just suffered an accident, so she is inevitably a bit more fragile, and she relies too much on Yanli, if you see something, don't be angry."
I choked - it was warning me in advance, so I was prepared...
I laughed dryly and said, "That's natural, how can I be a narrow-minded person?"
"Okay." Tao Er patted my head, "I will transfer Lian Er away for a while, you follow Tang San or Qiao Si, I don't worry if you have their personal protection. I will send you off when things here are suspended Go north."
"We?" I wondered, "What us? Who are we? You're not with us?"
"Since this matter is related to the Minyue Kingdom, we have to stay and check it out. If war breaks out, you will be in danger if you stay here. I'd rather let Tang San and Qiao Si escort you and Dongli to the north."
I bit my lips and said nothing, thinking that he was too far-fetched, but it was not wise to argue with him at this time, so I closed my mouth and chose silence, stood up and said: "You have a good rest, let's talk about those things when the time comes. "
Seeing that it was time to light the lanterns, I put my hands in my sleeves and lowered my head and walked slowly towards Tang Yuan. Halfway through, I stopped, turned and turned towards Yan Yuan.
I always feel that Yan Wu has something to hide from me, but in fact it is not just him. In the Li mansion, except for Qiao Si, everyone has a lot of secrets. Don't look at Qiao Si who doesn't talk much, he doesn't hide much. Let me rely on, but it is Qiao Si who makes me completely relieved.
Guessing is really tiring, and as we all know, I am really not a diligent person.
The lights in Yanyuan were all turned off, and I thought that Yan Wu must have fallen asleep. I heard from Tao Er that the two of them rushed to Huanghua Valley overnight, settled the affairs in the valley, and returned to Luocheng without closing their eyes. Received my letter, it may also be because of Tang San, or even the master's letter.
I hesitated for a moment between going in or leaving, and finally I couldn't help but pushed open the small door of the yard, and stood outside his house to eavesdrop for a while, but there was no sound in the room, so I must have fallen asleep—I don't really want to make noise I woke him up, but I haven't seen him for three days, and he encountered such a thing again, I always miss him in my heart, and I ignored his attitude towards me when we met in the evening.
His door was not latched, I pushed it open, turned around and closed it, tiptoeing towards the bed, there was no light in the room, only the moonlight shone in through the crack of the window, in the silence I heard Yan Wu's shallow voice Breathing.
Lying on the head of the bed, by the faint moonlight, I saw his eyebrows that were still slightly furrowed in his sleep, and stretched out my hand to trace his eyebrows out of thin air. Different from Tang San's slightly sharper sword eyebrows, his eyebrows are lighter in color and slightly raised at the tip. According to the photo book, those with thick eyebrows are affectionate, so I don't know if he is a little fickle. I only know that he is very cunning on weekdays, loves to pinch my nose, loves to see me unlucky, seems to be happy when he sees me frowning—he really doesn’t like me at all, if he really has that kind of affection for me , but it can be regarded as a response to the phrase "hitting is love and scolding is love".
Yan Li, Yan Li, how much do you really love me? Are you blaming me for something
"Have you seen enough?"
He made a sudden noise, which made my hands tremble in fright. Just as I was about to retract, he grabbed my wrist.
"The black light is blind, can you see clearly?" He still closed his eyes, because he was half awake, his voice sounded low and hoarse.
"I, I, I..." I stammered and looked at him, "I didn't want to wake you up! I thought you were in a deep sleep..."
"Even though I'm asleep, my alertness is still there. You came to see me at this time, what's the matter?"
Hearing this, I felt a lump in my chest—can't I come to see him if I have nothing to do
"I miss you." Let me say something nice first.
Although he couldn't see his expression clearly, there was a hint of a smile in his voice. "It's rare for you to be honest." As he spoke, he pulled me onto the bed, his right hand unambiguously took my pulse, and he had committed an occupational disease again.
He himself looked sick, but he still cared about my body. Suddenly, I felt ashamed of my heartless indulgence in the past few days.
"Your body is fine, keep it up." He commented lightly and patted my head, "But drinking and sex will hurt your health, you should stop in moderation."
I choked, and had no way to refute. I just let out a muffled sound, and stretched out my arms to hug his waist, "Remember the teachings of the miracle doctor, sir, the little one will serve you to bed, so you can rest in peace."
He opened his eyes to look at me, pinched my nose again, and said with a broken smile: "You can always kill people when you talk."
I smirked and said, "I'm an uneducated hooligan, don't take it to heart when you say the wrong thing!"
He sighed, lowered his head, and rubbed against the tip of my nose, his voice was extremely low, but it made my heart ache.
"Do I look like I need comfort from others?"
When no one whispers in the middle of the night...
There was a deep tiredness in that voice.
"No need." I groped and held his face with both hands, "I am not someone else, but my wife."
Well, it's a wife.
I repeated it again.
His eyelashes are extremely long, and it feels like they are about to touch my face in the blink of an eye. Although it is so close that there is almost no distance, I can't see his face clearly, and I can only feel his burning breath.
"My wife..." He also repeated my words, tasted these two words on the tip of his tongue, and said with a smile: "These two words sound pleasing."
I also imitated his appearance and touched his head, "Well, it's cute, Yan Wu, Yan Xiaowu, I'm not here to disturb your rest, go to sleep, I'll see if you sleep well?"
"You, you..." He smiled slightly, "This is not like the usual you, I wanted to tease you a few words, so forget it." He said and slightly tightened the hands around my waist, "You Since I was willing to recommend myself as a pillow, I am too embarrassed to refuse."
I smelled the medicinal fragrance from his body, and my heartbeat gradually calmed down. Normally, I always fight him to the death, and sometimes it feels good to snuggle and hug him quietly like this.
He rubbed his chin lightly on my head a few times, reached out and pulled my hairpin and threw it on the bedside. I understood this signal—he hoped that I would stay tonight and not leave.
He doesn't need me to say anything to comfort him. Sometimes talking too much is a cruel reminder. If he is willing to talk, I will naturally listen quietly. If he doesn't say anything, I will be a quiet pillow. When I am lonely and helpless, I always hope to hug something, just like a drowning person hugging driftwood. When I was alone in those years, the only thing I could hug was myself, and that would only make the loneliness go deeper into the bone marrow.
I half-opened my eyes in the dark, feeling the temperature and heartbeat transmitted through the clothes, as well as the rise and fall of my chest during breathing—it seemed that it would be difficult for him to fall asleep for a while after being woken up by me.
"Li Yingyu."
"Yeah." He called me by my first name again.
"We're actually quite alike, aren't we?"
"Yes." They were all adopted, and they had to face the death of their relatives. My adoptive father died of illness, but his adoptive father and master died unexpectedly.
"At that time, you were only five years old, how did you think? How did you survive alone?" He stroked my back lightly, and asked me about the past in a slow and soft voice.
"I..." I thought about it, and replied, "I wanted to take revenge on society!"
He made a move.
I said by saying: "That unscrupulous doctor refused to treat the adoptive father because we had no money. After the adoptive father passed away, my first thought was to kill him!"
"Then what?"
"There's no more... If the adoptive father knew what I did, he would definitely deny me. I just picked two buckets of dung and threw it at their door."
Yan Wu sneered, "You have been so hurt since you were a child." He sighed again, "No wonder you have always disliked the doctor and have prejudice against me."
This... It is undeniable that there is an old factor. I don't have a good opinion of people in the profession of doctors.
"You're different." I comforted him, "Ordinary doctors are not as hateful as you. They always want me to look good, punish me, scold me, and frame me. You say I have to offend you for several lifetimes to make you complain like this." I."
"Hmph..." Yan Wu sneered twice, "Don't you reflect on yourself, is it because you are too itchy? Have I ever treated others like this?"
"Okay, okay, you genius doctor Yan is right, it's all my fault..." My lord has a lot, so I don't care about it like him.
He reluctantly agreed, and continued to ask: "What happened next? Continue."
"Later, I just wandered alone for two years, and then I met my master. There is no heroic deed worthy of praise." Those past stories of digging up vegetables and snatching food from wild dogs, and chasing after the master with a lot of snot and tears are really true. Nothing to mention.
But he seemed to know something, sighed and said: "You are as tenacious as a weed, and can grow even in the poorest soil. Compared with you, I seem weak."
I asked weakly, "Are you praising me?"
"Let's take it for granted." He smiled, "I'm different from you. You have been dependent on your adoptive father since you were a child, but I haven't seen the master for many years. I go back to the valley every three years to accept the test of the master. There is no other contact. I always thought that the master and wife didn't like me, so she left me in Baihong Villa back then. Although she passed on all the medical books and poisons to me, she never came to see me for many years. There are more than ten disciples in the valley. , except for Shengsheng, no one knows my name, presumably they never even mentioned me to their disciples."
"Is this... is there some misunderstanding? How could they not like you? If they didn't like you, how could they pass on your medical skills?"
"I didn't get the answer to what the master was thinking in the end, but at that time his skinny five fingers were tightly clutching my wrist, almost trying to see through me. I looked into his eyes and thought, maybe I have misunderstood all the time before." What, the master treated me very well. Even the three secret arts of Huanghua Valley have never been learned before, and the master only passed them on to me. After the master and his wife were cremated, I remembered many things that I had neglected in the past The details, then gradually became clear."
"The master is strict and treats his disciples very harshly, but the master is very gentle and loving. When I was a child, I recited medical books, and if I made a mistake, I would get a cane. The master couldn't bear it, but she didn't dare to intercede, because if she begged, the master would definitely punish her." It got worse, and I only came to give me the medicine at night. At that time, I was extremely dependent on my wife, and I was very afraid of the master, but later I realized that those elixir medicines were secretly given to my wife by the master, and I asked my wife not to tell me. , It was only later when they left Baihong Villa that my wife told them with tears in my eyes, that I found out about these things."
"I was able to practice medicine independently when I was thirteen years old. At that time, I only thought that I was extremely talented and was full of resentment towards my master. But now that I think about it, if he didn't force me to work hard like that, I wouldn't be where I am today. It's ridiculous that I always treat him like that. I was dissatisfied, and if it wasn’t for meeting my teacher, I wouldn’t even bother to step into the Yellow Flower Valley. Until that day when I packed up his belongings, I saw many toys from my childhood, such as kites, bamboo dragonflies, bows and arrows... At that time, he blamed me for being ignorant, The plaything was depressing, confiscated it and fined me to copy the book. I thought it had been discarded long ago, but unexpectedly he still kept it... Now I know that he has worked hard and put on a bad face. I don’t blame me for being ungrateful. Gu Zhong must always hope that I will go back, but he never tells me, how do I know, now I want to thank my teacher again, but it is too late... "
Yan Wu's voice gradually sank, and finally only the sound of heavy breathing remained.