I cross the cold pond

Ordinary people can't go up Wuwang Mountain. From the foot of the mountain, the mountainside is surrounded by smoke and clouds, and the peak can't be seen anymore.Because there was a legend that an immortal from the upper realm entered Wuwang Mountain, ordinary people called Wuwang Mountain Fairy Mountain.

Wuwang Mountain is a long way from Heshan Village, if only relying on people's feet, or horses and carts, it is estimated that they can walk for a year.Yan Qinghe walked with Xu Ziru and his sword, and the two of them had already reached the foot of the mountain when the sun first rose in the morning of the second day.

Xu Ziru ate half a piece of cake all day and one night, poured a few pots of water, and was so hungry.As soon as my feet hit the ground, I turned around and ran towards a simple tea house at the foot of the mountain.

Yan Qinghe frowned, his face sank inexplicably, and asked under his throat: "Where are you going?"

After half a sentence, Xu Ziru had already rushed to the front of the teahouse. Although the Yanqinghe man was not moving, his voice was clearly heard in his ears.Xu Ziru thought in his heart that Yan Qinghe was crazy, he would care about wherever he went, whether he wanted to tie his trouser belt up or not, but he replied without looking back: "I'm hungry, senior brother."

He rushed to the teahouse like a rabbit, and stood in front of other people's stalls, watching eagerly.

The vendors who set up stalls in this teahouse come early every day to support their stalls at the foot of Wuwang Mountain.The current world is not good, and there will always be several ordinary people looking for opportunities to join the sect at the foot of Hopeless Mountain every day.He can earn two meals a day from the stall at the foot of the mountain, not to mention that Wuwang Mountain is a fairy mountain, and he also hopes that one day a fairy will see him and find that he is very talented. go up the mountain.Or at least be a sect disciple who can prolong life.

"What's the matter?" the vendor asked freely.He runs a stall at the foot of the mountain, no matter who is the first to smile when he sees people, after all, if he can come here, he may be selected as a sect disciple in the future, even if he looks like a child who can't speak well face.

Xu Ziru asked, "What do you have to eat?"

The peddler immediately offered to serve him a bowl of plain noodles, and after he finished speaking cheerfully, he stretched out three fingers and said, "Sanwen."

Xu Ziru gasped, thinking of a profiteer, and a bowl of plain noodles cost three pennies.While taking out the jasper jade pendant he just cheated from He Zhen from his arms, he tiptoed to hand it over, and began to make up things: "Uncle, I don't have any money with me now. I will leave this to my parents before they passed away. My family heirloom is here with you, can I come back to redeem it when I have money?" He said that he had a miserable life experience.

The peddler looked at him holding the jade pendant in a child's hand, and was a little suspicious of the authenticity, so he pretended that Yu Xin couldn't bear to lament that he lost his parents at a young age.

Xu Ziru was amused in his heart, and the expression on his face became even more pitiful: "Uncle, I will go up this mountain in a while, and when I make money, I will return the jade pendant with you immediately, okay?"

The peddler was excited when he heard the words, thinking that he had met a very destined child and was invited into the mountain. He wanted to trick him into saying that it was alright to invite him to eat, so that he could remember his goodness, and he would be able to achieve a positive result in the future. Don't forget to reward yourself.After thinking about it, this kid looked like he was only three or four years old, and he would definitely forget himself when he turned his head. If he kept the jade pendant left to him by his parents before they died, he must miss him for a long time.

He immediately reached out to take the jade pendant, and said: "I don't want this jade pendant from you. But you have to keep your promise in life. I will store it for you for a while, and you can come and get it after a while, okay?"

Xu Ziru smirked fiercely and nodded several times.

When Xu Ziru was sitting in front of the stall eating noodles, Yan Qinghe was sitting under a tree not far away, he lowered his eyes and concentrated his mind, not knowing what he was thinking.Seeing him sitting alone under the tree, the hospitable vendor couldn't help shouting hospitablely: "Brother, do you want to eat?"

Xu Ziru said vaguely while devouring the noodles, "He is my senior brother, he doesn't need to eat."

The peddler became even more excited, and almost walked over to greet this "senior brother".After hesitating for a while, he was about to muster up the courage to introduce himself. The extremely indifferent man under the tree opened his eyes and glanced at him.The peddler felt a chill down his spine and could no longer move his feet an inch.

After Yan Qinghe looked away, he raised his sleeve to wipe his forehead, only to realize that he was sweating profusely.He returned to the stall and muttered to Xu Ziru who was still eating noodles: "Little friend, your senior brother is really scary."

Hearing this, Xu Ziru glanced at Yan Qinghe who was sitting under the tree. He sat quietly under the shade of the tree with downcast eyes, silently like a sculpture in front of a Buddha.Xu Ziru frowned, thinking that after entering the Tianji Gate, he must find Uncle Liu as soon as possible, and ask about the way to dream.

As he thought about it, the movement of eating noodles quickened.After eating a bowl of noodles in two or three strokes, he put down his chopsticks, pushed the bowl away, and got up to leave.The peddler said "hey" to keep him, and then he stuffed a bag of maltose into his hand in a fawning manner, and said, "I will definitely put away your jade pendant for you."

Xu Ziru also hurriedly warned: "I want to redeem my jade pendant, so don't lose it."

The peddler nodded repeatedly, and said secretly in his heart, "The 'senior brother' you are sitting under the tree doesn't look like you can't afford the money before, why don't you ask him for it."But thinking of the terrifying gaze of that senior brother, I couldn't ask this question any more, I only promised that I would keep it and wait for him to come back to pick it up.

The jade pendant is not very important to Xu Ziru, but he doesn't know how long he will have to stay in this dream. The jade pendant is worth a lot of money, and he can't change his true nature of being a money fan.

The road up the mountain was led by Yan Qinghe and Xu Ziru.Wuwang Mountain has set up barriers, even if Yujian flies, he will get lost in the mountains and forests, and he will not see the top of the mountain.There are many organs on the road, and you will get lost if you are not careful.But it was used to guard against ordinary people. Xu Ziru had stayed at Tianji Gate for many years, and these institutional obstacles were as simple as eating and drinking to him.

Yan Qinghe didn't know this, he led Xu Ziru to walk up the mountain step by step, his steps were slow, and he seemed to be able to go as far as the end of the world.

Xu Ziru became impatient and pulled Layan Qinghe's arm: "Aren't you here yet, brother?"

Yan Qinghe glanced at him, pondered for a moment, and said abruptly: "I can accompany you on the way up and down the mountain from now on."

Xu Ziru's face froze when he was suddenly uttered, and he couldn't hold back his expression, and he didn't look good. He muttered in his heart that Yan Qinghe couldn't open any pot, and thought about Yan Qinghe absurdly. You really should get rid of your demons.

He didn't answer, so Yan Qinghe didn't speak.He led Xu Ziru and walked for a while, Xu Ziru was frowning and refused to leave, so he hugged Xu Ziru.

Hopeless Mountain is full of aura, and the trees in the mountains are taller than those at the bottom of the mountain. The early morning sunlight cannot penetrate the leaves that block the sky.Plants that cannot get sunlight are clustered together in clumps, absorbing sunlight from the gaps between leaves.

Yan Qinghe walked very lightly, stepped on the undergrowth, and turned around to see that the undergrowth had collapsed an inch.Xu Ziru lay on Yanqinghe's shoulders, looking around the scenery boredly, when he heard the rustling grass leaves, he saw a shadow passing by him very quickly, when he looked up, he could only see a black tail , and it disappears in the blink of an eye.

"Oh, a black cat." Bored in his heart, Xu Ziru counted the small animals he saw along the way.

By the time they took the Tianji Gate to the main entrance, the sun was already rising.

The closer you get to the Tianji Gate, the narrower the road in front of you. After passing through a narrow road that can only be passed by one person, your eyes suddenly open up.

The trees covering the sky and the sun disappeared, and the sun hanging above seemed to be able to shine on all living beings.Under the dazzling sunlight is a white jade stone gate, the stone gate stands so high that one can hardly see the top when looking up.After passing the stone gate, there are hundreds of steps. The steps are spotless and there is no trace of anything left.

Yan Qinghe held Xu Zizi in his arms, and went up from the bottom of the steps to the top in a few moments.

After climbing the steps, Xu Ziru finally saw someone other than Yan Qinghe.

The two disciples guarding the gate didn't look too big, but when they saw Yan Qinghe coming back, they immediately stepped forward to say hello: "Elder brother, are you back?"

The two had no memories of Xu Ziru, just about to jump off Yan Qinghe's arms to stretch his muscles and bones, one of the doorkeeper disciples pointed at him: "Brother, is this little baby a newly recruited brother?"

After asking, the person next to him said strangely: "But didn't the second senior brother and the senior sister say that they will go down to recruit new students in half a month?"

Yan Qinghe nodded at the two of them, and entered the door without saying a word.

"..." Sitting in his arms, Xu Ziru felt embarrassed for the two disciples guarding the gate.

After entering the Tianji Gate, the number of disciples gradually increased.Xu Ziru walked behind Yan Qinghe, poking his head as if he was very curious about his surroundings, and his eyes were inspecting the acquaintances very seriously.He thought it would be best to bump into Uncle Liu head-on, and then pretend to hit it off, and then eat and live with Uncle Liu, earnestly extracting information about the Nuwa stone and the dream of the Three Treasures.

Walking all the way, Uncle Liu did not meet him.Several seemingly young disciples gathered around and whispered, and when they saw Yan Qinghe approaching, they immediately silenced, and the mouse immediately greeted them like a cat: "Hello, senior brother."

Yan Qinghe nodded and walked past them.

Xu Ziru followed Yan Qinghe, and seeing Yan Qinghe passed by, these people were relieved, so he couldn't help laughing.He smiled and inspected the circle. These young disciples saw the youngest female disciple standing behind them with two hairbags tied on her head. She just breathed a sigh of relief, her expression was very cute, and she paused freely.

When Yan Qinghe brought Xu Ziru back to his courtyard and asked the guards to look after him, and he had to go to the main hall to leave due to business, Xu Ziru ran out as if he was visiting his back garden.

Xu Ziru wandered around in several large courtyards, and ran into a little girl whom she had just seen. She was squatting by the pond and staring at the fish swimming in the water.

When Xu Ziru saw her, the expression on his face softened uncontrollably.He walked over and asked coaxingly, "What are you looking at?"

His physical age looked several years younger than Linglong's at the moment, but his eyes were gentle like an old man's.

Linglong was still a child, and said crisply when he heard the words: "I'm feeding the fish!"

Xu Ziru squatted beside her, and also looked into the water: "What do you use to feed the fish?"

Linglong rolled her eyes and said nothing.

Xu Ziru smiled: "Did you steal all the food the fish eat?"

Linglong immediately retorted: "No! It's so bad, I won't eat it!"

Xu Ziru laughed loudly when he heard the words, touched his arms, and touched the maltose that was just given by the vendor at the foot of the mountain. He opened the paper bag and handed it to Linglong: "This is better than fish food, try it."

Linglong looked distressed: "But they won't let me eat, saying I have to hold back, so I can't ruin my practice."

Xu Ziru pursed his lips, he rewrapped the malt candy, stuffed it back into his arms, and said with pretended regret: "Ah, that's really a pity. It's really sweet."

Linglong wrinkled her face and looked at him very distressed.

Xu Ziru looked back with a regretful expression.

Linglong carefully stretched out her little hand, and said secretly, "Just a lick, is it okay?"

Xu Ziru smiled and stuffed all the candies into Linglong's arms, and said with a smile: "They are talking nonsense, children just need to eat more, otherwise they will grow taller, right?"

Linglong immediately hugged Tang in her arms, and looked around vigilantly.

Xu Ziru said: "Don't worry, I will go down the mountain often in the future, and I will bring you a lot of delicious food when I come back."

Linglong peeled off the package of malt candy, carefully licked the candy, and narrowed her eyes happily because of the sweetness, and then she remembered to ask, "Who are you?"

Xu Ziru crouched beside her, and said with a smile, "I'm your junior brother, little senior sister."

After Xu Ziru coaxed the little senior sister Linglong to smile for a while, she got up and was about to go to the Zangshu Pavilion to find Uncle Liu, but she wandered around outside the Zangshu Pavilion and couldn't go in.

Disappointed, he returned to the courtyard where Yan Qinghe lived. Yan Qinghe had already returned and was sitting at the tea table drinking tea.

His fingers were long and slender, and there was a thin layer of calluses on the tiger's mouth. Hearing the sound of Xu Ziru running back, he turned his head slightly and glanced: "Where did you go?"

Xu Ziru almost rolled his eyes, he pondered for a moment, and in the spirit of making me unhappy and I can't make you happy, he ran to Yan Qinghe and smiled: "Brother, why are you controlling me like my father?"

Yan Qinghe remained silent.

Xu Ziru said: "Then why don't you stop being my senior brother, and be my father." He thought that recognizing a "father" is also recognizing a "father", and knowing a few "fathers" is not a recognition, and children don't think there are too many fathers.

Yan Qinghe's dreams are full of wood, and he never accepts other people's teasing. He put down his teacup, and suddenly caught a few-month-old black cat out of nowhere.

"..." Xu Ziru was stunned.

Yan Qinghe pinched the back of the cat's neck with one hand, waved to him, and asked him, "Do you have a cat?"

"..." Xu Ziru.

Yan Qinghe bent down and put the cat in his arms, Xu Ziru hurriedly picked it up with a bewildered expression on his face.

Then Yan Qinghe took a duck egg green jade pendant in his hand, placed it on the tea table beside him, and said indifferently: "Since it is something you like, don't give it to others at will."

It was the jade pendant he got when he was eating noodles at the foot of the mountain.

"How did you get it back?" Xu Ziru asked.

"I gave some money to redeem it." Yan Qinghe said.

Yan Qinghe spoke casually, and after finishing speaking, he lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea.Xu Ziru hugged the cat in one hand, picked up the jade pendant in the other, frowned and rolled over to the imperial concubine beside her.

Yan Qinghe tapped the teacup wall leisurely and carelessly with his fingers holding the teacup, as if feeling comfortable.There were a few weird laughs in his ears, and he didn't mind, his expression was relaxed, almost contented.

Half an hour ago, he finished solving the trivial matters of the teacher's school and went down the mountain again.He went down the mountain much faster than he went up the mountain, and he reached the foot of the mountain in just a few cups of tea. The peddler who set up the stall hadn't left yet, sitting in front of his stall and dozing off, and the peddler hadn't woken up when he walked in front of him.

Yan Qinghe reached out and tapped on the table in front of him.

The peddler woke up from his dream, wiped his mouth with his hand, and yelled before seeing the person coming, "What do you want, why don't you have a pot of tea and sit down for a while. Let me tell you, today I met The disciple of the sect on this mountain, he..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw who was coming, stopped his mouth immediately, smiled awkwardly and asked twice: "What's the matter with you, elder fairy?"

Yan Qinghe raised his eyes to look at him, and said unhurriedly: "That jade pendant."

The peddler said twice: "Are you here to exchange that little friend's jade pendant? Has that little friend gone up the mountain yet?" He heyed twice, ready to make love, "I don't know the sect on this mountain..."

Without saying a word, the figure in front of him, who looked like a banished fairy, suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his neck.

The peddler was terrified, his hands and feet were flying in shock, his face was flushed, and he gasped out a few strange tones from his tense voice, but he didn't utter a clear sound again.

The expression on Yan Qinghe's face showed the silence of indifference to any life, but the strength in his hand became heavier, his eyes rolled, and his face was full of indifference: "I asked you to give it to me, don't you understand?"

The peddler couldn't say a word, clasped his hands on Yan Qinghe's, kicked his feet on the ground in pain, and couldn't say a word.

After a long while, the man lost his movement.

Yan Qinghe let go of his hand, and the peddler who was already silent fell to the ground.

Yan Qinghe stared at the peddler's body indifferently, took out a plain white handkerchief from his bosom, wiped his hands lightly, then raised his hand in front of the corpse, and the jade pendant that had been in the peddler's bosom quickly disappeared. Float to his palm.

He put the jade pendant and the handkerchief into his arms, and turned back to Tianji Gate.

The moment he turned around, the corpse on the ground disappeared instantly.

There was a voice next to Yan Qinghe's ear, laughing, "You killed someone, Yan Qinghe." The voice couldn't stop laughing, "A completely innocent person."

Yan Qinghe walked without changing his pace, and casually replied: "So what?"