ask willow

It was the end of spring and early summer, and although there were no cicadas yet, there were already bursts of insects singing at night.

The wind blows through the corridor, carrying the subtle warmth of the day that has not disappeared.

This place is one of the strongholds of the ghost building. Liu Zhongqing has been here before, but now she knows that Qi Su, the owner of the ghost building, is the Zuo protector of the Mingsha sect, so the meaning of the existence of this place is naturally different.Presumably, the existence of the Ghost Tower is actually to secretly convey the news of Zhongzhou to the Mingsha Sect, but he never knew about this level before.

This stronghold of the ghost building seems to outsiders to be just a wealthy family's mansion, so the pavilions, terraces and pavilions are all exquisite and beautiful. Although Liu Zhongqing doesn't have the heart to enjoy it, she also feels that everything she looks at is a scenery.

Because Xie Mu tried his martial arts, he only thought that he still lost all his martial arts, so he didn't do anything to control him, so he can feel a little comfortable in this mansion.

Liu Zhongqing walked through the corridor, just in time to see Qi Su walking towards this side.The man was still dressed in Tsing Yi as usual, and he didn't have any marks of the Mingsha Sect on his body, he looked exactly the same as usual.

Liu Zhongqing raised her eyebrows slightly, and stopped where she was, waiting for him to come over.

Qi Su walked up to him, knew that he must have something to say, so he nodded slightly, and said: "Zhongqing, I just saw that Fei Cui was looking for you, I think the leader ordered it."

Liu Zhongqing snorted softly, and said coldly: "I think after he finished giving you instructions, he thought of torturing me."

Qi Su sighed, but did not answer.

Liu Zhongqing said: "Why, he has probably given an order to attack the Yinshan faction?"

Qi Su said indifferently: "It is inconvenient to say more about the affairs of the teaching."

Liu Zhongqing sneered: "Guard Zuo is really loyal."

"If you want to ask anything, I will answer you," Qi Su shook his head slightly, "as long as it has nothing to do with church affairs."

"Very good." Liu Zhongqing seemed to have got the answer she wanted, raised her eyebrows, looked at him intently and said, "I want to know, was it the Zuo protector who told Xie Miao about my whereabouts? I think I didn't leave when I left." What clues are left behind, but he can still find me..."

Qi Su replied: "It can't be regarded as telling, although you have never seen it, but now you already know that a part of the ghost building is actually attached to the Mingsha Sect, so naturally you should also know that the intelligence department is very concerned about the Mingsha sect." As far as teaching is concerned, it is completely open. When the leader asked me to help him find you, I was naturally very surprised. If you let him know that you are in the ghost building, not to mention you, I will also be implicated. I wanted to hide it. But the roster in the ghost building will be presented to the leader every year, and it still cannot be hidden after all."

"So that's how it is," Liu Zhongqing didn't seem to care much, and just said a simple sentence, and then said: "After I left, why did Xiaoyi become the killer of the ghost building?"

"In the past, when you entered the ghost building, you made a death contract, and you can't leave it in this life. Although I wanted to keep you by my side at that time, so as not to have any accidents, it was written in black and white. Zhong Yi was thinking about this matter, and that day When Master Wen signed the marriage contract, he asked me to let you leave the ghost building. At that time, I didn't know about you and the leader, and I didn't want to force you to keep you, so I agreed." Qi Su recalled the past, and frowned slightly: "I just didn't expect you to leave suddenly, but he swore that he still entered the ghost building. I don't want him to get involved in this matter again in my heart. If he is in the ghost building, I will I can watch it, so I don't stop it, but I didn't expect it to be..."

Liu Zhongqing was silent for a while, then said: "I understand."

Qi Su paused for a moment before Fang asked, "Do you hate me?"

Liu Zhongqing glanced at him, with a half-smile on his face: "If there is really only simple love or hate, and clear kindness and hatred in this world, then that would be great."

Qi Su seemed to understand what he meant, nodded his head slightly, but stopped talking.

In fact, this is not the case for him. He acts from the heart all his life, but the results are often unsatisfactory. Up to now, in fact, he has no sorrows and joys. Everyone has their own choice. You can only go on, no matter whether there are swamps and thorns in front of you, or cliffs.

The two of them were silent for a moment, at this moment, a woman in green came over from the other end of the corridor, gave a slight salute to Qi Su, then turned to Liu Zhongqing, and said, "Young Master Liu, the leader ordered me to come and find you."

Liu Zhongqing said: "The room is too stuffy, if he wants to find me, he will go to Qingmo Pavilion."

The woman in green gave another salute, and said respectfully, "Fei Cui will take the words with me."

Liu Zhongqing seemed to think of something, and added: "By the way, prepare some wine. I remember that the bayberry wine made here is very good."

"Yes."

After Fei Cui left, Qi Su looked at him for a while, and said, "Zhongqing..."

Liu Zhongqing didn't give him a chance to ask, and said, "Excuse me, Guardian Zuo."

After saying that, he lowered his eyes slightly, staggered his gaze, and passed him by.

Walking through this promenade and walking through the path among the flowers, you can see a large lake. The Qingmo Pavilion is built on this lake, and you only need to walk on the trestle bridge to get there.

It was night now, and the lanterns hanging on the four corners of the exquisite and exquisite pavilion had already been lit, and the light yellow lights reflected on the water, making the water sparkle like a layer of broken gold.

Liu Zhongqing crossed the trestle bridge and walked to the pavilion, and saw two boxes of chess pieces on the stone table in the center of the pavilion, almost unchanged from that time.

It's a pity, but things are really different.

There is a chessboard engraved on the stone table in the pavilion, and the two boxes of chess pieces, one made of black jade and the other made of white jade, can be regarded as elegant objects.

Liu Zhongqing opened a box and picked up a white jade piece. The chess piece looked a bit translucent, but it felt delicate and cool in the hand.

After not staying for long, he heard the sound of the wind blowing on his clothes, and someone came to the pavilion and called out: "Zhongqing."

"You came sooner."

Liu Zhongqing looked up at him, Xie Mu was wearing black clothes, the collar and cuffs were embroidered with the special pattern of Mingsha Sect with gold thread, because the embroidery was so fine and detailed, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to tell what it was for a while.And that person's eyebrows and eyes were flying, reflecting the lights here, adding a bit of evil and unruly meaning.

Xie Miao smiled slightly and said: "Since you invited me here, of course I will not neglect."

Liu Zhongqing looked at him with no expression on his face, but his eyes could not be distinguished clearly in the warm yellow light.

After a while, he put the white jade back into the box casually, and turned his eyes away: "Are you going to attack the Yinshan faction?"

Xie Mu held the hand that he wanted to take back, that hand was so cold and hard that it lacked the warmth and softness it deserved, just like this person's heart, he couldn't touch any trace of tenderness.

Xie Miao lightly stroked the back of his hand, and sighed with a smile: "Isn't it a shame to say these things at this time?"

Liu Zhongqing raised her eyebrows slightly, "Oh? Then what do you want to say."

"I remember when I first met you, it was also at night." Xie Miao lowered her voice slightly, and her tone became softer: "It was also a bright moon and clear wind at that time, and your sudden appearance really surprised me."

Liu Zhongqing didn't expect him to talk about this, she didn't answer for a while, but she never interrupted.

Xie Min then continued: "At that time you were wearing night clothes and covering your face. At first I thought it was someone sent by some hostile force from the Mingsha sect."

Liu Zhongqing was just silent, but he still remembered that time.

It was just a coincidence, but it changed the whole trajectory of his life.

That night he was going to carry out an assassination mission, which was rather tricky. Although he succeeded, he was hit in the arm with a hidden weapon.The hidden weapon was obviously poisonous, and after he got it, he was hunted down by that person's cronies. The poison broke out, and his strength seemed to be drained, so he had to escape into the backyard of a mansion.

It was already midnight at that time, and ordinary people should have fallen asleep long ago, but in the backyard he broke into, there was a person drinking wine under the moonlight, and he was not surprised to see him barging in, but just looked at him with a half-smile, as if he was sorry Interested in general.

Instinctively felt the danger, but he had no way out.

"If I didn't realize that someone was chasing and killing you later, I'm afraid I would really do it." Xie Miao looked at him with some sighs.

Liu Zhongqing snorted lightly, "But I don't know why a person like Xie Jiaozhu suddenly wants to save me?"

Xie Miao smiled lightly: "But any man will like a hero to save the beauty."

"What did you say?"

Liu Zhongqing's voice suddenly became cold, but Xie Miao was not afraid, and still smiled, looking back at those eyes that were as cold as ice, as cold as a sword's edge, and said in a low voice: "Even if I only see these eyes, I know what is going on in front of me." She must be a beauty."

Liu Zhongqing frowned and closed her eyes, as if she was too lazy to answer.

At this moment, Fei Cui walked into the pavilion with a glazed plate, Liu Zhongqing heard the sound, she broke away from Xie Miao's hand, and raised her eyes to look at the things on the plate.

There is a wine jug, two clear glass cups, and a bowl of crushed ice in the glass tray.

Fei Cui placed the wine glass while saying: "I heard that people here would put some crushed ice in this bayberry wine. It tasted better, so I brought some."

"Well," Xie Miao responded, "You go down first."

"Yes, Fei Cui is leaving." The woman in green poured two glasses of wine, put away the glass plate, gave a slight salute, then turned and left.

Liu Zhongqing sat down on the stone bench, looked at the brightly colored liquid in the glass cup, then raised her eyes to Xie Miao, and said, "I came here today to play a game of chess, the leader would like to reward me?"

As he spoke, he took out a white jade from the box on the side, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Naturally...if you want to." Xie Miao sat down on the stone bench opposite him, and opened another box of chess pieces.

Liu Zhongqing didn't answer, and the two just started playing chess.

In fact, it has been a long time since we stayed together so peacefully and peacefully, although it was only on the surface, nothing more.

Xie Mancai's words just now also brought back some memories in him. When they didn't know their identities, why didn't they have a tender and lingering time with each other?

At that time, they were really beautiful couples like flowers, and the time of seeing each other was always too short. Whether it was playing chess or fighting swords, or traveling in mountains and rivers, drinking and chatting happily, they were all wanton and chic.

From friend to lover, at that step, he found that the world is really unpredictable. The life experience he thought he would never know, turned out to be like this...

There are thousands of fetters in this world, and it is far from being able to cover everything with the word love.

It's just that the world of mortals is too beautiful, and when it is exposed, it is too cruel.

Liu Zhongqing naturally slowed down after playing a little bit of chess, and Liu Zhongqing saw Xie Laon's pensive look holding on to a Moyuzi, so he picked up a small spoon on the side and scooped some crushed ice into the bayberry wine in the glass.The crystal clear ice particles floated in the rose-red wine, slightly refracting the light yellow warm light, making the whole glass look delicate and beautiful.

Hearing the sound of the crushed ice stirring, Xie Miao slightly raised his eyes and said, "It's not like you don't know that you are not in good health, so don't drink something so cold."

Liu Zhongqing touched the rim of the ice-cold cup, and raised her eyebrows: "I don't care, what do you care about, not to mention, who is all this because of, don't you know very well?"

Xie Miao frowned, raised his hand and moved the glass cup in front of him to his front, and then put his own cup over, without saying anything, his eyes returned to the chess board, after a moment of thought, he made a move.

Liu Zhongqing raised her eyes to look at him, although she was speechless, there seemed to be a lot of deep meaning hidden in those eyes.

Xie Mu picked up the cup, the corners of his lips slightly raised, as if he was very happy to be watched by him like this, "What are you looking at me for?"

Liu Zhongqing lowered her eyes to look at the chess game, but said in her mouth, "What do you want to tell me?"

Xie Miao looked at him, this person looked at him with such an expressionless face, he looked like a delicate statue made of ice and snow, very beautiful, but also very cold.Although he had thousands of words in his heart, he couldn't say them, so he was silent for a while, sighed, and said, "It's nothing."

"Okay." Liu Zhongqing nodded slightly, actually smiled, looked down at the chessboard, raised her hand and dropped a piece.

Xie Miao was suffocated by his expression, but just lowered his head and drank the cold wine in the glass.

This kind of brightly colored wine is brewed with bayberry rock sugar, it's not very strong, its characteristic is sweetness, but when he drank it, he felt it was cold and bitter.

Xie Miao put down his wine glass, suppressed the turbulent emotions in his chest, and focused all his attention on the chess game.

For a while, no one spoke, only the crisp sound of rattles, and the faint chirping of insects brought by the breeze.

Gradually the moon passed, Liu Zhongqing put the son back into the box, and said flatly: "I lost."

"Assignment."

At this time, the bowl of crushed ice on the side had already melted into clear water, Xie Miao raised his hand and poured all the little wine left in the jug into the glasses of the two of them, then raised his glass and touched the rim of his glass lightly.

Liu Zhongqing said nothing, just picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

Xie Min smiled and drank the wine, his eyes were filled with warm yellow lights, and he looked at him without blinking.

Liu Zhongqing stood up, looked away, and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left, but before he walked out of the pavilion, he was hugged from behind, warm breath was close to his ears, he frowned, but he didn't break free immediately.

Xie Yan tightened his arms and called out in a low voice: "Zhongqing..."

Liu Zhongqing said coldly: "What are you crazy about?"

But Xie Miao seemed to chuckle, kissed his side of the neck with his lips, and murmured: "Probably... just crazy."

Liu Zhongqing put an elbow between his chest and abdomen, and said coldly: "If you want to go crazy, don't point at me."

He didn't hold back much strength, but because he doesn't have martial arts right now, the hit hurts but doesn't hurt too much, Xie Mu didn't dodge or dodge, after being hit by him, he still refused to let go.

Liu Zhongqing saw that he didn't move any further and couldn't break free, so she just tensed her body and remained motionless.

After a while, Xie Mang whispered, "Zhong Qing, have you ever regretted it?"

Liu Zhongqing said lightly: "What do you regret?"

"..."

"Everything is a foregone conclusion, so what's the point of regretting it?" Liu Zhongqing looked up at the lake lit with lights, and said in a deep voice, "Everything in the world is like a chess game, and you should have no regrets when you make a move."

Xie Miao sighed softly: "...that's fine."

After a while, he let go, and said, "Let's go back."

Liu Zhongqing didn't stop, and walked to the trestle bridge.

The wind is clear and the moon is bright, but it is a pity that the spring is dead, and the fallen flowers have turned into dust, so it is difficult to keep it.

When the two returned to the room, Liu Zhongqing was about to light the lamp when he was grabbed by the wrist.

In the dark and deserted room, only the sound of breathing was exceptionally clear, soft but heavy, knocking on the heart.

Liu Zhongqing closed her eyes slightly, let go of the fire bag in her hand, and heard it fall on the table, then rolled to the ground.

The lamp was never lit.

The belts were scattered, and the thin spring shirt couldn't withstand being pulled, and soon slipped off the shoulders, and the hot kiss fell on the lips, with a rare tenderness in the overbearing.

Liu Zhongqing frowned and panted in a low voice. Not long after, his body was turned around. He held onto the corner of the table and was about to say something when he felt the man's kiss on his back shoulder.

The place on the back shoulder is where the Yun family's logo is located.

Liu Zhongqing couldn't help tensing her body.

Every time Xie Miao sees the cloud pattern mark, he will be very irritable, and he can't forget the pain that he still remembers in his body.

However, the man didn't move this time, he just raised his hand and gently stroked the mark, kissing continuously.

"You..." Liu Zhongqing clenched her fists, and was interrupted by him as soon as she opened her mouth.

He lowered his voice and said very softly: "Why are you the descendant of the Yun family... You know, I saw this mark at that time..."

Speaking of this, his voice was already indistinguishable, Liu Zhongqing didn't speak again, but just sighed slightly.

With this sigh, the person behind bit the mark on his back shoulder.

Pain and numbness surged together, and he let himself temporarily forget how to wake up.

Anyway, there has never been a tomorrow between them.