"Haven't slept yet?"
"Brother, are you tired? Then let's rest, and I'll fetch water."
Mo Chen watched his younger brother happily fetching water, but he didn't stop him.
Mo Chen got up and stood in front of the window, and pushed the window open.
The evening wind was blowing on my face, and there was a unique fragrance of bamboo leaves in the wind.
Although there are no practitioners in this Taoist temple, there are bamboo forests in front of the mountain and behind the mountain. The green bamboos are straight and straight, piercing straight to the sky.
The bamboo forest is so dense that it makes people feel gloomy when viewed during the day, but it is dark when viewed from a distance at night, with the rustling of the bamboo leaves blown by the wind, as if many people were walking around, or whispering, saying no. well-known words.
Xiaodong came in with the water, and saw Mo Chen standing motionless in front of the window, the long robe draped over his shoulders was blown back by the wind, and it was about to slip to the ground.
"Brother, what are you looking at?"
"Look at the sky."
There is only a bud-like moon in the sky, and the stars are dim. It seems that the weather will probably not be very good tomorrow.
"Brother, wash your face."
Mo Chen took off the robe on his shoulders and put it aside, and said when he walked over, "It will probably rain heavily tomorrow."
Senior Sister Linglong really hates rainy days.
When Master picked her up, it was said that it was a rainy day with thunder and lightning. But Linglong felt that this had nothing to do with that incident, she simply hated the stuffy and inconvenient rainy weather.
Master said that this has something to do with her constitution. Her root constitution is more fire-oriented, so it is normal not to like rainy days.
It was the first time Xiaodong heard this statement, and he couldn't help asking: "Then senior brother, which one of the five elements is your root bone more inclined to?"
"Master said when I was young that I'm probably partial to metal."
Xiaodong said with a look of admiration: "So senior brother's swordsmanship is so good?"
Mo Chen smiled and did not correct his statement.
But when it comes to physique, he has some vague guesses recently.
Does a person's constitution change? Yes, but the chances of that are very small.
Mo Chen vaguely felt that his bones seemed to have changed.
This change only happened after he came back from the Burial Sword Valley.
He could feel the thick water vapor blowing in the wind, and the clouds gathered in this direction from all directions.
Mo Chen put his hand into the wooden basin filled with water.
With his hands submerged in water, Xiaodong must have fetched hot water first, and then poured cold water into it. The water in the basin was neither too hot nor too cold, and the temperature was just right.
Mo Chen washed up, and Xiaodong washed it with water and grass. There is only one couch in this room, but fortunately it can sleep two people.
"Brother, shall we go all the way north?"
"Yes, we will pass Tianji Mountain. Master and Master Hu have a good relationship and will definitely go up the mountain. Then you will be able to meet Master Hu and Ning Yu again."
"By the way, I borrowed his book and just returned it to him..."
It was also out of kindness that Ning Yu lent him the book.
But when Xiaodong thought of him, he felt a little awkward. Ning Yu and his strange compass always make Xiaodong a little afraid. This time it was Ning Yu's master who was going to meet, Xiaodong felt even more uncertain.
Very tired, Xiaodong fell asleep not long after. On the way during the day, Master has already taken care of the two of them, and the speed is not fast. Mo Chen has not fully recovered yet, while Xiaodong's cultivation base is even shallower. With the two of them holding back, it's not easy to travel fast.
I got up early the next morning and went on my way. The sky was overcast, and it didn't take long for it to really rain.
There was thunder and lightning, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. The Huiliu Mountain group is not afraid of rain, but it is always inconvenient.
Xiaodong followed the elder brother, wearing a round and big green bamboo hat with a pointed top on his head.
What the elder brother said was really accurate. Last night he said it would rain, and it really did rain.
When he stopped to rest, Xiaodong couldn't help asking: "Brother, when will the rain stop?"
Mo Chen glanced at the sky, then shook his head towards Xiaodong.
What does it mean to shake your head? Don't you know
But Xiaodong quickly understood what Mo Chen meant by shaking his head.
What he meant was that the rain would not stop in a short time.
It rained continuously for several days, and the day they arrived at Tianji Mountain, it was still raining nonstop.
Tianji Mountain is not a small sect like Huiliu Mountain. Just looking at the mountain gate, it has a different style. There is also a town at the foot of Tianji Mountain. Although it has been raining for several days, the town is still full of people coming and going, which is completely different from the deserted and desolate scene in Huiliu Mountain.
Li Fulin had sent a letter in advance, Hu Zhenren sent his disciples down the mountain early, and welcomed them up the mountain very politely and enthusiastically.
Xiaodong finally met the long-known real Hu.
Xiaodong heard a lot about Hu Zhenren from his master and brothers. Although he had never met him before, he already had a general impression and guess of Hu Zhenren in his heart. Coupled with the impression Ning Yu left on him, Xiaodong thought, Master Hu should be a kind of Taoist and immortal, the appearance of an outsider.
The result was beyond his expectation, Hu Zhenren was completely different from what he had imagined.
Ning Yu was as thin as a bamboo pole, but Hu Zhenren was potbellied, with a round face, thinning hair, protruding forehead, small eyes, and a short, crooked beard. The four words "expert outside the world" have nothing to do with it.
"Even if you are coming today." Hu Zhenren smiled and took Li Fulin's hand and walked up the steps: "But I haven't seen you for a while, this time you must stay on the mountain for a while longer. I said, why do you All of a sudden, I'm going to take my disciples to the north..."
When Hu Zhenren and Li Fulin sat down, Mo Chen led his brothers and sisters to salute Hu Zhenren, and Hu Zhenren smiled and raised his hand to help: "Okay, get up, get up. I am tired from this journey Right?" Looking at Xiaodong again, he asked, "This is the child Ning Yu came back to talk about, right? I didn't expect you to take in another apprentice so quietly. Come, come forward and let me see."
Xiaodong took a look at Master, took two steps forward and stood in front of Master Hu, and saluted again.
"Well, it looks very kind." Hu Zhenren touched his waist, and took out a small gourd carved from sapphire for him: "Come on, this is a gift for the meeting."
When Xiaodong accepted the gourd, Master Hu asked in the next sentence: "What year is your birthday? Tell me and I will make a divination for you."
Xiaodong: ...
It turned out that the senior brothers and the others were really not exaggerating, Master Hu did have the problem of trying to tell fortunes when he sees people.
Others have long been familiar with it.
Li Fulin rescued his apprentice: "Xiaodong himself doesn't know the date of his birthday, you are embarrassing him by asking this."
Hu Zhenren was not disappointed at all: "No? That doesn't matter. Let's look at palmistry, touch bones, and measure characters. Don't worry, everything will be accurate." While talking, he thought of Mo Chen: "You are not allowed to go, wait a minute I'll do the math again for you, and I don't believe it's not accurate." (To be continued)