I cross the cold pond

The matter was considered settled at this point, Xu Ziru patted his crumpled Taoist robe, got up and prepared to leave: "Since the matter has been resolved, I will take my leave first."

The housekeeper immediately stopped him: "It's getting late, everyone is very grateful for coming, if you leave now, my master wakes up, wouldn't you blame me for not being good at hospitality? Why don't you come to the mansion for a late night?" Meal, take a rest at night, and the next day when my master wakes up, he can personally thank you all."

Xu Ziru clicked his tongue, rather reluctantly, if Yan Qinghe was not here at this time, he would be willing to live in this house for ten and a half months with good food and drink, but he would not like Yan Qinghe here.

Although he has a good relationship with his little senior sister, and he really misses her after not seeing her for a few years, but it doesn't make up for his displeasure seeing Yan Qinghe's whole body.

Yan Qinghe is free and unrestrained, his future and the past can be left behind if he says he can, and he has assumed the title of a half-immortal. After all, he is just a mortal through and through. It's fine if he doesn't have Yan Qinghe's proficiency in the method, and even the little bit of free and easy picked up by the wolf doesn't seem as free and easy as the other party.

Xu Ziru was not very happy, so he still wanted to leave, and started talking nonsense: "There are a group of widows in Lincheng who are waiting for me to marry them. Staying at your house for one night will make me lose a lot of money, which is not worth it. "

Anyone present who has a little understanding of Xu Ziru Xu Banxian knows that this person likes yellow and white things the most, and he can say anything with his mouth regardless of the occasion, and there is no trick from head to toe. people's favorite place.

However, this person is accurate in fortune-telling, from major events in the world, from floods in the south to droughts in the north, to trivial things that happened at home, whether the chickens raised at the entrance of the village were taken away by wild foxes at night or stolen by neighbors, he can also figure out one or two. Come, so most people can tolerate him two or three points.

After he finished talking about the widow's marriage without any hesitation, the voice fell. The housekeeper who can read people's faces waved and asked the servant to take out a bag of broken silver and give it to the fan half-immortal who is not easy to get along with. Linglong pouted and said, "Junior Brother, don't leave, what's the point of staying with a widow, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss you so much."

Linglong said as she walked up to Xu Ziru, and pointed to her own cheek: "I've lost weight, have you seen it?"

Xu Ziru blinked, but before turning his eyes away, the little senior sister stood in front of him, glanced behind him secretly, and whispered, "Eldest brother misses you very much too."

"..." Xu Ziru didn't even move his eyes an inch to the direction she indicated.

Although Linglong spoke in a low voice, everyone present was good at cultivation, let alone Yan Qinghe, who heard this, glanced at Linglong and said nothing.

Liu Ying who was standing beside him scolded first: "Linglong! Xu Ziru is no longer a member of my sect!"

Xu Ziru rubbed the little senior sister's hair, smiled and glanced at Liu Ying, who was always scolding: "What the third senior sister said, could it be that I am not a member of Tianjimen, and I don't even have the right to talk to you guys?" ?”

Liu Ying frowned and wanted to speak, but Yan Qinghe called out lightly: "Liu Ying."

Liu Ying closed her mouth.

Xu Ziru was still laughing foolishly, the butler had already ordered the boy to take a broken silver bag, and the butler held a broken silver bag in his hand, he stepped forward to keep Xu Ziru, stood in front of Xu Ziru and put the broken silver into Xu Ziru's place with a smile Sending it off in his arms, he became a peacemaker: "Okay, okay, the mansion has prepared meals, please stay in our house for a night and wait for my master to wake up."

Xu Ziru collected the broken silver, weighed it in his hand, and suddenly smiled, and he didn't object anymore, and immediately asked the housekeeper: "Where is the wing room, let me take a shower and change into clean clothes first." Before I came here, I was stuffed with a piece of watermelon by the people at the entrance of the village, so I got watermelon juice all over my body."

Linglong was standing in front of him, watching him take a large bag of money from the housekeeper, and watching the man immediately change his mind about leaving, before he could figure out what it was like, Xu Ziru was picked up by the servant. Led him out of the room.

When she turned around and walked to Yan Qinghe's side, she was still a little dazed: "Young junior brother is not like this..."

When he was in the Tianji Gate, Linglong had the best relationship with Xu Ziru, but Xu Ziru couldn't practice well, so he liked to play around at the Tianji Gate the most.

Linglong likes to stay and play with Xu Ziru, Xu Ziru is different from the people of Tianjimen, the cultivation method of Tianjimen focuses on self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and she does not show her emotions, all she sees are stern faces and cold People, Xu Ziru is as lively as a little sun on the mountain.

Linglong is the youngest among the official disciples of Tianjimen. Although Xu Ziru has also worshiped the master of Tianjimen, but he has not read the booklet of the master, so he can be regarded as an outside disciple at most.

In fact, the examination of the outside disciples of the master's sect is considered strict, and Xu Ziru, who is so fundamental, could not even be selected as a disciple, at most he would work as a handyman in the sect.

But the mountains are full of aura, even the bones of an ordinary person can prolong their life by living and exercising in the mountains, and live longer than ordinary people, so there are countless people who want to enter the sect to be a handyman who completes books or sweeps the floor .

Compared with them, Xu Ziru is really nothing outstanding, so Liu Yingcai always looks down on him.

Although Xu Ziru's roots are not good, he grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and he has a very good personality in the mountains. Although he thinks about cats and dogs all day long, he treats people very well. Linglong still remembers Because I was young, I couldn't practice Dharma, and said I didn't meditate, so I was locked in the ancestral hall and asked to meditate.

She was young at the time, staying alone in the ancestral hall, a little sad, Xu Ziru climbed down from a beam, looked at her with crooked smiles and said, "Are you still crying?"

Linglong didn't cry at that time, although she really wanted to cry, she was teased by Xu Ziru and turned her eyes away: "No."

Xu Ziru didn't say anything at the time, rolled up a big leaf and spread it on the ground before falling asleep. He also laid a bed for Linglong. Of course Linglong didn't sleep. Xu Ziru didn't bother her, but stayed with her all the time.

She didn't understand it when she was young, but when she got older, she remembered that this younger brother, who was younger than her, was accompanying her in the dark and gloomy ancestral hall.

During the short time she spent with Xu Ziru, her impression of Xu Ziru was always that he was a warm and kind person.

At this moment, this warm and kind person took other people's money in front of him, turned around and left, Linglong felt a little lost for a while, and could only comfort herself in her heart—"Little brother must have suffered from lack of money when he went out." Wronged, of course you need money to go out.”

After comforting herself, she stared at her elder brother helplessly.

Senior brother Yan Qinghe has always been glorious, just standing there is the benchmark of their Tianji Gate, as if the norms in this world are all established according to their senior senior's behavior and habits.

She felt that if there is a ruler between heaven and earth to measure good and evil, then her elder brother is the ruler.

Although there seemed to be some problems with the ruler six years ago, everything is back on track now. She is looking forward to her senior brother, hoping that he can say a word or two to fill her loss at the moment.

Standing behind the senior brother, Liu Ying sneered coldly: "You must be thinking wrong, he Xu Ziru has never been the kind of person you always thought."

Linglong looked at her eagerly.

Yan Qinghe's voice was light: "Liu Ying, after returning to Tianjimen, you have to stay in the Zongmen Temple for a few days, and you have to read the third volume of Zongmen Regulations a few more times."

Liu Ying paused for a moment, then replied in a low voice: "Yes."

The third volume of Tianjimen's gate rules is to teach people to cultivate their character, avoid greed, hatred and ignorance, and not to destroy their inner balance due to external objects and emotions.

When Xu Ziru was young, when he was reciting the school rules in the bookstore, he laughed and joked in front of all his brothers: "Is this a monk?"

As for the non-monk, anyway, he did not succeed in cultivating his mind freely, and he couldn't remember the many rules of their Tianjimen. He took a bath in the house happily, put on the clothes specially prepared for him by the servant, and sat in the house. Eat the melons and fruits placed on the table at the round table.

The melon and fruit shells were thrown on the ground, he opened the door and glanced outside, the sky was getting dark, and a few servants passed by the door from time to time, Xu Ziru stopped him and asked, only to know that he was going to invite a dinner party, the people who came to the house today There are many, so most people are busy.

Xu Ziru nodded, and walked out from the front of the house he lived in. He was wearing a brand-new silk dress, wandering around the He family mansion, and he looked like he was walking around in the courtyard. Everyone in this courtyard is like the owner of this courtyard.

He walked under a tree, and saw a man from Fu Anmen was hanging yellow strips on the tree under the tree. Xu Ziru walked over and took a look at the yellow strips with two fingers. It must be that Mr. Anxi is going to summon the soul at night, so he invited these A young child came to tie the guide strips, he let go of his hands and dropped the cloth strips, and the voice first spread out with a smile: "People from Fu Anmen, right?"

The one who posted the note was the captain of the team led by Fu Anmen, and when he turned his head to see Xu Ziru, he frowned first. After the contact just now, he didn't really like this idle Xu Banxian much, he only kept the basics. He nodded politely.

Xu Ziru asked him, "What's your name?"

He replied: "Shen Di."

Xu Ziru nodded when he heard the words, and then said with a smile: "If you call Yan Qinghe a senior brother, then we can barely be regarded as half senior brothers. You can just call me brother."

Shen Di was taken aback by Xu Ziru's face.

Xu Ziru ignored him, and suddenly squatted down and let out a beep. Shen Di was young after all, so he couldn't help but also bowed down to look, and saw that Xu Ziru had caught a longhorn beetle in his hand, and the two antennae of the beetle were still there. Shaking in the air.

Xu Ziru pinched the tianniu's body, turned around and handed it to Shen Di: "tianniu, do you see it, it's so big."

Shen Di stared at Xu Ziru's innocent face for a long time, then he was silent for a moment, then straightened up and continued to tie the yellow cloth.

Xu Ziru squatted on the ground and took out a thin thread from his body, and while tying it to the tianniu, he asked casually: "Why did you Fuanmen send you a group of children out? Where are you senior brothers and who are in charge of the courtyard?" ?”

Shen Di said stiffly: "The great benevolent man is kind to me, it is I who insist on leading the team out, the senior brother and the head of the academy have important things to do."

Xu Ziru lowered his head and tied the longhorn, as if he didn't hear it, he said perfunctorily: "Yeah."

After saying yes, he groaned again: "In other words, the great benevolent man also has kindness to me, and he has given me a lot of kindness."

Shen Di heard the words and said: "Yes, great kind people help refugees and never ask for anything in return."

Xu Ziru sighed softly when he heard the words: "It will cost a lot, right?"

Shen Di was very shameless with his eyes full of stinky copper, and lowered his voice: "Good people never care about so much."

Xu Ziru said again: "I heard that the good man has cut off contact with his family since he left home. I came to see the good man a few years ago, and this house is still very poor."

Shen Di was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought to himself, when he was rescued by the good man, he was just a young boy, and he only vaguely remembered that there were not so many servants in the He family mansion at that time, and it was all managed by the housekeeper.

Xu Ziru tied up the longhorn, bent his eyes and curled his fingers to flick the hard shell of the longhorn, and said: "Just now when I was out, a servant said that I would prepare a dinner party and let our guests wash away the dust, what are you doing? Haven't gone to change clothes yet?" He said as he stretched out his hand to grab the new clothes on his body, "Here, the clothes look pretty good."

Shen Di stared at the clothes on Xu Ziru's body for a while, and frowned, feeling that there was indeed something strange about it.

Xu Ziru yelled again: "Have you seen the butler? I asked before entering the door. Unexpectedly, the old man is nearly fifty years old. He looks energetic and strong."

Shen Di hummed: "Is he almost at the age of knowing destiny?"

Xu Ziru let go of the beetle he was holding in his hand, the beetle spread its wings and immediately went up, flew into the air and was tied up by Xu Ziru's rope, staggering in mid-air.

Xu Ziru smiled slightly: "It's strange to say that when I entered the door, I saw the butler leaning on a cane, and I accidentally bumped into the butler. His cane fell to the ground, but he took a steady step forward with his limp."