After returning, Xiaodong still couldn't fall asleep after lying down, so Mo Chen sat cross-legged on the opposite couch. With his cultivation level at his level, it doesn't matter if he sleeps or not. Afraid that Xiaodong would panic if he changed places, he kept a lamp in the room.
Xiaodong lay there and turned over once, and then again, Mo Chen listened to the rustling sound, like a little mouse looking for food, sneaking around, looking forward and backward.
But it's not annoying at all.
"Still sleeping?"
Xiaodong stopped his movements and whispered, "I can't sleep."
Once you close your eyes, you can still see the scene just now, the sky full of stars-like lights, intertwined and intertwined to form a formation map, overturning towards the earth. I will never forget that situation.
"Actually, when I saw the formation for the first time, I was similar to you. I didn't fall asleep all night after I came back. Later, when the master was away, whenever the formation changed, I went to investigate it myself. I feel that this formation is infinitely mysterious, and it is more like a heaven and earth creation, rather than a human effort."
"That's right, that's right. I don't know which senior has such ability to lay out such a formation. It takes a lot of thought and effort to do it."
Xiaodong also thought so, but he couldn't say it out, the words that the senior brother said were exactly the same as if they were pulled out of his heart.
"Senior brother, is this the big formation that was set up to kill demons back then?"
"No." After a pause, Mo Chen said: "This formation has existed earlier."
Strange, since it wasn't for killing demons, who set up an array on this mountain
After turning over twice, Xiaodong still didn't feel sleepy.
"Eldest senior brother, what do you say... Fourth senior brother, why did he leave? Where will he go?"
He said this in a low voice, as if talking to himself. The room was quiet, and Mo Chen's cultivation was profound, so of course he couldn't fail to hear it.
"Have you been thinking about this all day? I haven't asked you yet, who told you that Chen Jingzhi left?"
Xiaodong became nervous, and stammered: "No, no one."
The guilty conscience in these words is so obvious that there is no silver three hundred taels here.
Mo Chen didn't ask him at this time: "Are you feeling bad?"
"Well, I'm not feeling well." Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief quietly. If the elder brother continued to ask, he would probably tell the whole truth.
As a result, the elder brother didn't ask any more questions, and Xiaodong couldn't tell if he was relieved or a little disappointed.
He has kept this secret alone for a long time. He has expectations, fears, and more confusion about this secret.
If it's a senior brother, it seems that there is no danger in saying it. Eldest brother is well-informed, it seems that there is nothing difficult for him, maybe he will know where this strange dream of his came from, and why it happened.
Is there anyone else in this world like him
In the past, when he felt uneasy and couldn't sleep, he would habitually rub the pendant on his neck. Now I raised my hand but only touched an empty space, and I felt more and more sad.
"I didn't want to talk to you now, but since you still can't let go of this matter, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep at night." Mo Chen got up and went to Xiaodong and sat down next to Xiaodong: "Do you think your four Brother, did you do the right thing?"
Xiaodong can't lie down and talk to senior brother, that would be too disrespectful. He hugged the quilt and sat up, and replied, "Of course not."
"What's wrong?"
What's wrong? Nothing is right here.
How well did Master treat them? It can be called a mountain of kindness. Although this sentence has been overused and vulgar, Xiaodong still feels that this sentence is not enough to describe the depth of the teacher's kindness. But fourth senior brother, he left behind his master and left, betraying his master's kindness. And he left too unrestrainedly, left a letter and left quietly, was he afraid that others would stop him? Or do you never take these people who get along day and night in your heart at all
What's even more uncomfortable is that he still chose such a time to leave, Huiliu Mountain encountered an accident, shouldn't he work together to tide over the difficulties? It was too heartless for him to leave at this moment.
Xiaodong's words were a bit intermittent, and some of what he said didn't make sense, but Mo Chen could understand everything.
"Do you know that Master is not angry at all, not even surprised?"
Yes, Master was indeed not very angry.
"Junior brother Chen's mother was murdered, and he hated everyone surnamed Chen. All he could think about was revenge. The anger had to be washed away with blood. From the first day Master left him, he wanted him to go away. To come to a more stable road is not to let him forget this hatred, but to prevent him from being manipulated by hatred for his whole life. The dead are dead, but the living have to live. If he lives only for hatred, Sooner or later, the fire of hatred will burn himself..."
"However, due to Master's good intentions, Junior Brother Chen only understood one thing in the end, that is, Master would not help him take revenge, and neither would Huiliu Mountain help him take revenge. Probably since then, he has been thinking of leaving here to find A path that will allow him to get his wish."
"Maybe I was adopted by Master since I was a child. I have no parents and relatives, so I can't understand how deep the resentment is in his heart. I only know that Master's arrangement for him is a more secure and righteous path. When he leaves Huiliu Mountain, he must take the The evil way, this point, the master is more aware of it."
After a while Xiaodong asked in a low voice: "Then... will Master bring him back?"
"I'm looking for it, but he probably won't look back."
What Mo Chen didn't tell his junior brother was that Chen Jingzhi wanted to leave for not a day or two, since he made up his mind to leave now, he must have already made up his mind.
I have already taken this step, I am afraid that if I want to go back, I will not be able to turn back.
Xiaodong was wrapped in a warm and soft quilt, and for some reason, she felt chills intermittently, as if sitting in a world of ice and snow, unable to feel warmth at all.
Mo Chen held his hand: "Don't be afraid."
"No, I'm not afraid."
Really not afraid.
He couldn't explain clearly, but he just felt very stuffy in his heart, so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.
After a while, Xiaodong asked sullenly, "How old was senior brother when he was brought up by Master?"
"According to Master, it should have been born less than a hundred days old. It was wrapped in a silk swaddle and placed on the side of the wooden rope bridge. It was already late autumn, and I don't know how long the swaddle had been thrown there. It was covered with frost. Master said that he thought he might have been frozen and would not be able to survive, but he didn't expect that he could still breathe, so he brought me back."
Brother was abandoned? Throwing a child who is less than a hundred days old in such a place, and in such a weather, who is so cruel? If Master hadn't found out, wouldn't he have died of freezing and starving
After his uncle died of illness, Xiaodong suddenly lost his support, but now compared with senior brother and senior brother Chen, Xiaodong is much stronger than them.
He held Mo Chen's hand backwards, and wanted to say something, but Mo Chen said to him first: "Okay, stop thinking about it, if you can't sleep, recite the sword formula again and I will listen."
Xiaodong quickly pulled himself together and recalled the first chapter of the Sword Art, and recited it smoothly. (to be continued)