Mei Changsu was sitting under a lush banyan tree in his garden, playing with Fei Liu a game of guessing the left and right hands, while listening to Tong Lu reporting to him what happened when he saw the princess off today. Except that Mei Changsu listened carefully when Yu Wenxuan appeared unexpectedly, he didn't seem to pay much attention to other things. As for the competition between Xiao Jingrui and Yi Yun's successor, he only said "um". , not even one eyebrow was moved.
In fact, thinking about it carefully, his attitude is not surprising. Whether it is Xiao Jingrui or Yue Xiuze's apprentice, it is nothing in terms of martial arts status. For Jiang Zuomeilang, who is in charge of the world's largest gang and is used to seeing the top duels in the arena, this level of competition It really didn't interest him at all. If it weren't for Xiao Jingrui being a friend, I'm afraid he wouldn't even want to know the result.
"Left!" Fei Liu yelled, letting go of his blindfolded hand. Mei Changsu spread out his left palm with a smile, it was empty and nothing, the boy's face immediately wrinkled into a ball, and even Tong Lu, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but laugh.
"Okay, you have lost three times and you will be punished. Go help Aunt Ji cut the melon. Brother Su wants to eat a piece now."
"Melon!" Fei Liu is a big lover of fruits. The best season for citrus is over, so he starts eating melons every day. Mei Changsu often laughs that he can eat one-third of an acre of land in one day. Quantity has to be limited.
The boy's figure jumped away, and Mei Changsu immediately withdrew the smile on his lips, and his tone brought out the slightest gloom: "Notify Mr. Thirteen, you can start taking action on the red sleeve trick. Take the first step, you must stop clean."
"Yes." Tong Lu hurriedly bowed in response, "Does the Sect Master have any other orders?"
Mei Changsu was half-lying, leaning his head on the pillow, closed his eyes, "You don't have to come over tomorrow..."
Tong Lu was shocked and fell to his knees, tremblingly said, "What's the matter with Tong Lu... Is what he did against the Sect Master's wishes?"
Mei Changsu was startled by his fierce reaction, turned his head and glanced at him and said, "I just gave you a day's rest, where did you go?"
"Ah?..." Tong Lu breathed a sigh of relief, scratched his head and said, "I thought the Sect Master wanted me not to come here in the future... It's so easy to have the opportunity to serve the Sect Master directly, and Tong Lu is reluctant to..."
"Silly boy," Mei Changsu patted his head with a laugh, "Actually, I want to take a day off completely, without thinking about anything, and don't care about anything... Living a peaceful day without distractions can be regarded as the day after tomorrow. Build up your spirits…”
Tong Lu didn't quite understand how important the day after tomorrow was, but he was not someone who was overly curious and talkative. He didn't know and didn't ask. He just looked at his Sect Master with respect and waited quietly for his orders.
"Tell Gong Yu to let her have a good rest tomorrow..."
"Yes."
"It's nothing else, let's go."
Tong Lu gave a deep salute and stepped back. Li Gang came in immediately, holding a large plate covered with a red cloth in his hand.
"Sect Master, the things have been delivered, please take a look."
Mei Changsu sat up and lifted the red cloth. There is a small bottle carved from pure jasper jade on the plate, which seems inconspicuous at first glance, but if you look closely, you can see that there is a whole relief of galloping horse around the surface of the jade bottle. The lifelike mood, its rigorous composition and exquisite knife work, but it is as natural as it is without a sense of axe, which is breathtaking.
But although this jade bottle itself is a treasure that can be chased wildly, the most valuable part of it is still inside.
"How many?"
"Back to Sect Master, there are ten in total."
Mei Changsu reached out and took the jade bottle, unplugged the sandalwood cork, put it under his nose and sniffed lightly, then closed it again, and played with the jade bottle in his hand for a while.
Li Gang's eyes flickered, and he seemed to hesitate.
"Brother Li, if you have anything to say, just say it." Mei Changsu never raised his head at all, and he didn't know how he noticed the change in Li Gang's expression.
"Sect Master, will this ceremony be too heavy?" Li Gang said in a low voice, "The jade bottle that Master Huo personally carved, and the heart-protecting pill that can save life and death, any of them is shocking enough to be taken out, let alone putting them together. together?"
Mei Changsu was silent for a while, and a hint of pity slowly appeared in his eyes: "After this birthday, I'm afraid that no matter how precious a gift is, it will no longer mean much to Jing Rui..."
Li Gang lowered his head and pursed his lips.
"But you're right, it's really too eye-catching to send it out like this. I didn't think about it carefully." Mei Changsu brushed the surface of the bottle with his fingertips and sighed, "Take an ordinary bottle and replace it with a new one. Right."
"Yes."
The jade bottle was put back into the tray, and Mei Changsu's eyes slowly passed over the relief of the galloping horse, and finally moved to the side to hide in his closed eyes. In fact, this jade bottle was originally selected because of this picture of a galloping horse, thinking that Jing Rui loved horses since he was a child, and he must have liked it when he saw this picture, so he has been neglecting its amazing value.
It seems that the state of mind that I thought was as peaceful as water, in the end, as that day approached, there were some uncontrollable waves.
"Brother Li, get my qin..."
"Yes."
Li Gang, who had been staring at Mei Changsu's every expression with concern, hurriedly responded, and withdrew with a tray, and soon brought a Jiaotong Guqin and placed it on the long table under the window.
The tables are low and there are no chairs in front of them, only one futon is set. Mei Changsu sits cross-legged, raises his hands to adjust the silk strings, and gently plucks with his fingertips, the music flows out like water, which is a soothing tone of "Qingping Le." ".
The sound of the piano is quiet, and it can also be quiet. In the music, the flowing waters and wild forests, the empty valleys and idle flowers, a faint mood that has nothing to do with the wind and the moon, washes away the gloom in the chest, and breaks the sadness between the eyebrows. After a single stroke, his complexion was so calm that there was no trace of fluctuation, and the eyes under the feather eyebrows were even calmer like the surface of a windless lake, clear and peaceful.
It has already been decided, so why not shake it. Since the sympathy and pity for Xiao Jingrui are not enough to change any of the established plans, then the useless emotion is cheap and hypocritical, whether it is for himself or the young man, it has no practical significance.
Mei Changsu raised his face and took a deep breath. Haruhi and Hee's sunshine shone on his face, but it didn't show a trace of warmth, instead there was a sense of calm and indifference.
Raise your hand and take a closer look at the sun. Some pale, some transparent, weak, and powerless.
It was the hand that used to prancing the horse and the sword, the hand that used to bend the bow and shoot the eagle. Now, abandoning the reins of the horse and the good bow, but in this sinister hell, the situation is stirred up.
"Brother Li," Mei Changsu turned his head and looked at Li Gang, who was standing quietly by the door, "I'm sorry, I made you worry..."
Li Gang felt a burst of hot flashes in his heart, his nose was sore, and he could hardly control his trembling voice: "Sect Master..."
"Go and ask Fei Liu to come over, it took so long to cut a melon..." Mei Changsu seemed to have not noticed his excitement, tilted his head and smiled lightly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Fei Liu's slender and flexible figure rushed into the hospital at this moment, and flashed in, holding a thin white porcelain plate in his hand, and said loudly: "Flower!"
Mei Changsu turned around and looked at the clear sky. There were five lotus flowers carved from melons with hearts on them. Although they were of different sizes and clumsy, they were all similar and not ugly.
"Is this from Feiliu?"
"Yeah!" Fei Liu's eyebrows were raised high, very proud, "The best!"
"You brought all the five best flowers?" Mei Changsu smiled dotingly, rubbing the boy's ears, "Aunt Ji taught you?"
"Yeah!" Fei Liu nodded heavily.
"Can I eat it?"
"Eat!" Fei Liu grabbed the largest one and held it to Mei Changsu's mouth.
Li Gang couldn't help laughing and said: "Fei Liu, anyway, you want to eat, why do you have to be so troublesome to carve a flower?"
"Brother Su eat!" Fei Liu glared at him and emphasized.
"We Feiliu are the best, because it's for Brother Su, so we have to make it pretty, right?" Mei Changsu bit off a petal and wiped the corner of the boy's mouth with a cloth, "You eat it. How much? The chin is full of melon juice…”
"Broken!" Fei Liu defended.
"You only eat the badly carved ones? That's fine. But you still have to remember not to eat too much in one go, you'll get a stomachache."
"Um!"
After Mei Changsu finished eating the first one, Chao Feiliu shook his head. The teenager remembered that eating too much would cause a stomachache, so he didn't feed him the second one. He stared at the plate for a while, and finally made up his mind to push the remaining four melon lotus flowers in front of Li Gang.
"Give me something to eat?" Li Gang laughed, "I'm really flattered, flattered!"
Fei Liu didn't understand the second half of his sentence, but he understood the previous question, so he immediately nodded in affirmation. But when Li Gang really started to eat, there was a look of reluctance in his only eyes that showed emotion.
"You can eat too, we are half of each other." The innocent child knew at a glance, so Lina held back a smile and divided two more flowers back.
Fei Liu turned his head and glanced at Mei Changsu.
"How many melons did you carve in the kitchen just now?"
"Three!"
"You eat it all?!"
"Aunt Ji together!"
Mei Changsu looked at Fei Liu with a reproachful look in his eyes, "Didn't you promise Brother Su that you can only eat one a day?"
"Broken carving!" Fei Liu was greatly aggrieved, and the corners of his mouth turned downward.
"Well..." Mei Changsu thought for a while, "then it's not our fault, it's Brother Su who didn't make it clear. From now on, whether it's a badly carved or uncut, as long as it's a melon , Fei Liu can't eat more than one every day. Do you understand?"
Fei Liu Junxiu's face still didn't have a fierce expression, but from his tone, he could already hear the extreme reluctance in his heart: "What a little!"
"Brother Su is also afraid of Fei Liu's illness," Mei Changsu looked into his eyes and smiled a little maliciously, "How about we call Brother Linchen here?"
Fei Liu was startled, plunged into Mei Changsu's arms, hugged his waist tightly, and refused to let go. Li Gang had already held back his laughter like a sieve, but this time he couldn't bear it any longer, and he hid outside the door with his cramped stomach.
"You haven't answered yet," Mei Changsu held on extremely steady, pulled the boy's head out of his arms, and still asked solemnly, "One?"
Fei Liu had a hard time choosing between brother Lin Chen and Melon, and finally nodded obediently: "One..."
Mei Changsu stroked the top of Fei Liu's head approvingly, his eyes and smile were very gentle.
There was no sign of Li Gang outside the hospital. This steady and loyal assistant has probably gone to find the right bottle for the elixir that will be the gift. Those gloomy emotions were dispelled by the cute boy, but there seemed to be some residual aftermath left in the chest. When I thought about it, there was still a touch of stuffiness and faint pain. It feels like the past is firmly ignored.
In another day, it will be Xiao Jingrui's twenty-fifth birthday.
Mei Changsu knew very well that this day would be the most unforgettable day in his life for this noble son of a famous family in Wuyi...
(Volume 4 is about to come to an end)