Xiaodong followed the elder brother step by step. Eldest brother is tall and has long legs, his stride is bigger than him. But today, walking so slowly step by step, Xiaodong didn't have any trouble following behind.
"You take a good rest first, not only is it not peaceful outside the mountain gate, I'm afraid there are still people mixed up on the mountain, the master won't let people in and out, one is afraid that the disciples will be plotted against again, and the other is afraid that people will sneak in."
Xiaodong just nodded in a daze, and didn't think about how his senior brother could see him nodding when he was walking behind his senior brother.
Brother's yard is indeed the most spacious on the mountain, but there are few things, and it looks like the owner doesn't stay in the house often. Mo Chen poured him a pill from the porcelain bottle. When Xiaodong took the medicine, he only felt a little spicy. After taking it, he felt a cloud of heat slowly disperse from his stomach, and his frozen hands and feet slowly Feel itchy.
"Don't worry, senior brother will help you find that pendant, sooner or later you will find it."
Xiaodong nodded.
He thought in his heart, does the senior brother actually think that he is ignorant in his heart? There was such a big commotion on the mountain, and people died, but he only thought about his pendant.
I probably wore it around my neck for a long time, and usually I didn’t feel anything, but now that I lost it all of a sudden, I always felt empty not only on my neck, but also in my heart.
"Go to sleep, I haven't slept all night."
"Brother, didn't you sleep too?"
Mo Chen patted his head: "Stop being stubborn, lie down quickly."
Xiaodong has lived in no fixed place since he was a child, and Xiaodong has slept in all kinds of places, such as high beds and soft pillows, and even a fire in a ruined temple in a barren mountain can make up for it.
But now he is sleeping on the big brother's bed, with his pillow and his quilt.
The big brother's bedding and pillow smelled the same as his body, very light and clean, with the fragrance of saponins.
Only then did Xiaodong remember how dirty he had been tossing around that night. Even though his blood-stained coat had been taken off, the inside was not clean. Dirty hands and feet, face and hair.
But Mo Chen stood by the bed, covered him with the quilt, and said softly, "Go to sleep."
Xiaodong looked at the elder brother, and for some reason, his voice seemed to have a kind of power, making it impossible not to obey.
Xiaodong obediently closed her eyes.
Mo Chen watched over him for a while, making sure that Xiaodong had been lying down with his eyes closed, and gradually fell into a deep sleep, before he came out of the room, and gently closed the door with his backhand.
Xiaodong felt vaguely, as if he heard someone talking.
Far away, the voice was muffled, and it was hard to hear what they were saying.
Xiaodong recognized the senior brother's voice, and suddenly became much more awake.
Sometimes he can't tell the difference between dreams and reality, and he doesn't know whether it's real or not. This secret made him feel novel and confused at first, and then he gradually became a little scared. He didn't know who to talk to about it. When his uncle was there before, he wanted to talk about it, but his uncle's injuries happened frequently, and he didn't want his uncle to worry about his affairs anymore, so he endured it and held it alone.
Later, the uncle disappeared, and his relationship with the master and senior brothers was not considered close, let alone anyone to talk about.
Xiaodong saw Master, senior brother and senior brother Jiang together, but did not see senior sister Linglong and fourth senior brother.
Eldest brother came and went in a hurry just now, only changed the blood-stained coat, but did not change the shoes and scarf, Xiaodong recognized that he was wearing the same pair of boots as last night, the same pair he wore when he was carrying him on his back, just now I also wore this pair when I sent him back to rest.
Li Fulin always had a very kind smile on his face, Xiaodong had never seen Master with a straight face.
Now he knows.
Before going back to Liushan, my uncle said that Li Zhenren is not an ordinary person. Although his reputation is not obvious, he has real skills, and his character is absolutely nothing to say. If it wasn't like this, my uncle wouldn't have chosen him to support Gu at that time.
Xiaodong had never paid attention to these things before, but since then, Master has always pitied him and was kind to him. Secondly, most of the time after he went up the mountain, he lived without distraction and didn't pay attention to anything.
Master sat there, obviously the chair was not too high, but it just made people feel that they had to raise their heads and look up, and they didn't even dare to breathe.
This time he clearly heard the master's voice: "I have taken in apprentices these years, and I have become worried. Unlike when I was young, many people probably looked at Huiliu Mountain and bullied me. This incident is by no means accidental. Those people must be here It wasn't a day or two, or even a year or two, that was planned behind the scenes. What happened last night was just the beginning, and since they plan to go back to Liushan, there must be another trick in the future."
Senior Brother motioned Senior Brother Jiang to take out a box and opened it. Inside were the badges of some disciples from the outer sect.
"What Master said is that Junior Brother Jiang and I investigated overnight, and these people have different ideas. One of them has been in the field for more than ten years."
Xiaodong was startled when he heard this.
People who have been in the field for more than ten years are actually inserted by others? Of course, it's also possible that you got started first and then got attracted by others. No matter what it is, this matter makes Master just as uncomfortable. Even if he is not a direct disciple, but he is also a member of Huiliu Mountain, he still wants to call Master, but it turned out to be such a wolf-hearted thing that eats inside and out. Isn't this stabbing Master's heart with a knife
Xiaodong also thought about it, outsiders can't enter the mountain gate without a waist card, and if they can enter, it means that there must be an insider in this matter.
Xiaodong can think of it, but can Li Fulin not think of it? His expression didn't change when he saw those waist cards.
Senior Sister Linglong called out from outside the door: "Master."
Li Fulin said, "Come in."
Senior Sister Linglong has always been reckless, but now she was even more eager when she entered the door, almost tripping over the threshold.
"Master, the fourth junior brother is not in the house, and others said they didn't see it, so I found this."
Senior Sister Linglong held a letter in her hand. She was in a hurry to talk to the master, and the letter was written by the master, so she didn't dare to open it.
It's not demolished, but it's definitely not a trivial matter. Although Linglong's journey here is not long, all kinds of messy thoughts have been running through her mind.
Linglong has never particularly liked Chen Jingzhi.
She had heard about Chen Jingzhi's life experience, and she sympathized with this junior. Although Linglong herself didn't even know who her parents were, and she was brought up by her master since she was a child, but the master treated them as his own disciples, and other people's biological parents were nothing more than that. This junior brother Chen has encountered so many ups and downs, his biological mother was forced to death, and he was almost killed by his stepmother who came in later.
But Junior Brother Chen is very thoughtful and doesn't talk much, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel gloomy. Even if Linglong wants to be a decent senior sister, she can't get close to him. Those dark eyes always hide innumerable thoughts, gradually Linglong no longer rushes to make herself uncomfortable.
Later, Junior Brother Yun came again, he was even more immature, and since his uncle died, he looked stupid, he was given whatever to eat, no one talked to him, he could sit in the room by himself for a whole day without worrying. move. Looking at him, Linglong felt distressed, otherwise she wouldn't have dragged him down the mountain to relax that time. Unexpectedly, he did something bad with good intentions and made him seriously ill. Fortunately, the senior brother came back in time, and the junior brother was able to turn the crisis into safety.
People are afraid of comparing with each other, and if they compare together, she will naturally feel closer to Junior Brother Yun.
But she never thought that Junior Brother Chen would choose to leave a letter and run away.
What can Huiliu Mountain feel sorry for him? Was he connected with those people last night? Even if he didn't, it was a troubled time on the mountain, and when the disciples should work together, he left without saying a word? The master accepted him when he was desperate, not to mention that this kindness is like recreating, and there is absolutely no way to wrong him, so he just left
When the letter was delivered to Li Fulin, Xiaodong was shocked by the fact that the fourth senior brother had left a book and left, so he didn't even think about going up to take a peek.
Li Fulin took the letter and took out the letter paper to shake it open, read it at a glance, and didn't seem to care much about what was written on the letter, so he put the letter aside: "Got it, don't worry about him."
Master's reaction made others feel uncertain.
Chen Jingzhi actually left a letter and ran away. This happened at this juncture. It is not bad to say that he betrayed his teacher. Such a serious crime, how could he be ignored? Even if you don't bring him back for accountability and punishment, you still have to find out whether he has anything to do with what happened last night, right? As a cultivator, the kindness of the teacher is beyond the sky, and the behavior of betraying the teacher is intolerable in the world, even if he is killed, it is not wronged.
The eldest brother asked: "Master, do you want to send someone to look for it?"
"Let's talk about him later." Li Fulin didn't seem to be surprised by this matter, nor was he angry, as if he had already noticed this matter: "It's meaningless to keep someone if you don't have your heart here. Deceiving the master He doesn't have the guts yet."
Li Fulin looked at the three disciples in front of him. These three children were brought up from childhood, not just for the sake of preaching and teaching. In the past, when they were young, Li Fulin could only figure out many things by himself. But it has changed in the past few years. Several apprentices can take on the responsibility, especially the senior disciples, who are prudent, determined, and determined, not to mention their natural aptitude. To put it bluntly, even if Li Fulin is gone, Mo Chen, a disciple, is enough to take on the important task of being the head of Huiliu Mountain.
"There are some things that I haven't mentioned to you as a teacher before, but even today people are still plotting in every possible way. These things should be told to you."
As soon as these words were said, not only Mo Chen and the others were moved, but even Xiaodong pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
"Huiliu Mountain is not well-known, and no one has mentioned it over the years. You grew up on the mountain, and there must be many things you don't understand. As a teacher, I remember that when Linglong was a child, she was trapped in the maze outside the mountain gate for a day. So I lost my temper and complained how this labyrinth was set up to be so confusing."
Jiang Fan and Linglong glanced at each other. In fact, several of them had this idea before. I didn't understand it when I was a child, but when I grew up, I went out and knew that my mountain protection formation probably couldn't be found anywhere else in the world. I was proud, but also a little puzzled. Which of the ancestors of Huiliu Mountain had the ability to set up such a large formation to protect the mountain? It is impossible for a person with such ability to be unknown among cultivators. Why has no one ever heard of it? Since the ancestors had such astonishing skills, how could Huiliu Mountain's talents wither away to this point
They have never been able to figure out who is buried in those unowned graves in the back mountain.
From last night to now, what happened one after another is shocking. How could those barren graves in the back mountain attract other people's schemes? Why are there still people pretending to be Lin Yan to rob and kill the junior brother? It's really confusing. (to be continued)