thousand cherry blossoms

I don't remember how Jin Yong described the camaraderie between Lu Xiaohou and Linghu Chong.But the scene in front of me deeply touched me.

I think Lu Xiaohou may be the person who cares most about Linghu Chong in this world.Even surpassed Yue Lingshan and Ning Zhongze.

Lu Xiaohou supported Linghu Chong who was in a coma, and knelt in front of Yue Buqun, begging for mercy, telling Linghu Chong that he must not have kept Zixia's secret book privately.He kept saying that it was all his fault, that he didn't keep Zixia's secret book well, and didn't take a good view of Linghu Chong.

So, I'm afraid it's not just Lu Xiaohou's life that I saved.There should be Linghu Chong's expectation and nostalgia for this world.

In fact, Jin Yong's Linghu Chong is quite pitiful.He had no father or mother since he was a child, Yue Buqun, who was like a father, only had jealousy and suspicion towards him, his childhood sweetheart, his junior sister, ran away with Lin Pingzhi, and his best brother was accidentally killed by him, and he was also terminally ill.

That feeling, probably makes people feel as if they have been abandoned by the whole world.

I followed behind the four of them, thinking all the way: How about I just cure Linghu Chong.He may lose those enviable opportunities, but his life will no longer be so difficult.

I don't know, if Linghu Chong had a choice, what kind of life would he want?

Following behind the four people, they had arrived in front of a temple unknowingly. The plaque read: White Horse Temple.Go in and see that all the disciples of Huashan are inside, including Lin Pingzhi.

After not seeing each other for a year, Lin Pingzhi seems to have changed a lot.He is no longer that immature and willful son of a rich family, but more calm and indifferent, gentle and elegant, rich and spiritual like jade.

Suddenly, I seemed to see the shadow of Lin Yuge.I walked up to him, brushed off the mask, and said to him with a smile: Lin Pingzhi, do you still remember me?

Lin Pingzhi was talking to Yue Lingshan, when he heard me calling him, he turned his head in doubt.But that expression froze on his face in just an instant, and gradually became extremely complex, as if mixed with shock, joy, anxiety, and many emotions that I didn't understand.

He suddenly grabbed my shoulder tightly, as if he didn't believe that I was real.He stared at me for a long time, and finally said: Are you really alive?

I took his hand off my shoulder and said to him with a smile: Why, you want me to die so much?

Lin Pingzhi lowered his head, as if he was suppressing some emotion, I could vaguely see his frowning eyebrows.He said: I knew you wouldn't die so easily, I knew... But why didn't you come back earlier, why?

I heard his voice choked up, so I bent down to look at his expression, and my eyes were really red.I said: I didn't expect that I would come back alive.However, since I am back, I will definitely not let others bully you again.

Lin Pingzhi raised his head suddenly, he didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes were still red, as if he was blaming me, or mocking himself.He said: But my parents are dead, they are dead!What's the use of you coming back?Your father imprisoned my parents as soon as he returned. You clearly know that your father covets my family's sword manual, so why do you want me to help you take care of him?

Lin Pingzhi's voice became louder and louder. In an instant, everyone's eyes were attracted to him.Yue Buqun had been explaining something to Ning Zhongze just now, and now he looked over, his eyes were full of sarcasm.

I sighed deeply, patted his shoulder, and said: Lin Pingzhi, calm down first.Let's go out and talk.

After I finished speaking, I took his wrist and walked out, thinking that he would struggle.But he was as quiet as a kitten with its claws closed.

I dragged him to a sycamore tree, looked at it, and made sure no one followed, so I took out the gift I had prepared for him.I said: This is the dried mango I brought back from Siam, would you like to try it?

Lin Pingzhi stared at the paper bag for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, but finally accepted it.But it didn't mean to eat it.

I said: don't you try it?

Lin Pingzhi turned his face away from me and said: If you have anything to say, you can say it now.

Lin Pingzhi's appearance seemed to overlap with that of Lin Yuge when he was acting coquettishly with me, so I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth and said: Okay, I'll tell you everything.Have you heard of Senbon Sakura?

Lin Pingzhi turned his face away, nodded, and looked at me strangely.

I said: Senben Sakura is me.At that time, I was fed the Three Corpse Brain Pill by Dongfang Bubai.

Lin Pingzhi's eyes widened after he finished speaking, and he said, "You joined the Devil's Cult?"

I told him the same thing and said: Of course not!you listen to me.

I roughly told Lin Pingzhi about my experience after being kidnapped by Dongfang Bubai, and he listened quietly.The familiar face gave me the illusion that I was talking to Lin Yuge.

As if like countless ordinary evenings, after dinner, Lin Yuge and I took a leisurely walk, and when we were tired from walking, we found a place to sit down and chat.

And the moment he opened his mouth, he shattered this dream that was within reach. He said: But, why did you still come to me?My Lin family has been wiped out, thanks to your Qingcheng faction.

In a flat tone without ups and downs, it was the sharpest question that hit my eardrum.

A bright red sunset hangs on the west mountain in the sky, as if it is making a final struggle against the night, the light and shadow divide the undulating mountains into warm orange and frantic black, and there is no intersection since then.

I'm sorry, Lin Pingzhi.I said.Fu Xiu put on the mask, not wanting him to see my expression again, because I was crying.

Cry for this tricky providence, cry for my dream that is close at hand but far away in the sky, cry for my heart that is still throbbing in the abyss of despair.

Lin Pingzhi said: You don't have to be sorry, you Qingcheng faction didn't owe my Lin family anything.I think you will help my Lin family sincerely, but I am too naive.You saved my life, but my parents died because of your father. I will not seek revenge from your father.But I think we will never owe each other from now on.

After Lin Pingzhi finished speaking, he turned to leave. I hurriedly grabbed his hand and said, "Lin Pingzhi, you can see clearly."Yue Lingshan is the ugly girl in the restaurant outside the Fuzhou mansion, Yue Buqun asked his daughter to pretend to be an ugly girl and appear there, you don't know-

Lin Pingzhi broke off my hand holding his wrist, his expression was so cold and distant that I couldn't see his real thoughts at all.He said: Enough is enough, so what?

At this moment, apart from being unable to breathe due to heartache, I also felt very angry, and I almost laughed out of anger.

However, for Lin Pingzhi now, even if that little girl was pretended by Yue Lingshan, so what?Since there was no such thing as "Lin Pingzhi accidentally killed Yu Renyan when he saw injustice" to trigger a chain of incidents in which my Qingcheng faction wiped out his Lin family, Yue Lingshan was just an innocuous passerby in that incident, and would not be caught Lin Pingzhi thinks that "Yue Lingshan knows martial arts but sees him act like a chivalrous man and cause great disaster", which is naturally not Yue Buqun's conspiracy.

After taking a deep breath to calm myself down, I leaned into his ear and said to him: Lin Pingzhi, listen carefully.I have found a method that allows you to practice the evil sword manual without leaving the palace.And it is better than the sword manual handed down in your family, this is the purpose of my coming to you this time.

After Lin Pingzhi heard it, his expression remained unchanged. He just looked at the last twilight of the setting sun and asked me: Even if I learn it to kill your father, is it okay?

I nodded and said: As long as you kill me first.

I thought, even if he learned the evil sword manual, he couldn't kill me.Moreover, even if I die in his hands in the end, I will have no regrets.Just treat it as if I owed him in my previous life.

Hearing what I said, Lin Pingzhi smiled and walked away.The smile was desperate and forbearing, with a hint of irony in the stubbornness.I couldn't tell if he was laughing at me or himself.

let's go.I tell myself.Why bother with Lin Pingzhi's business, he is not Lin Yuge at all, everything is your own groundless delusion.

However, I couldn't give up after all.

I am so afraid that Lin Pingzhi will fall into the bottomless abyss that will never see the sun as described by Jin Yong.

So, I still licked my face and followed the Huashan faction, even though Lin Pingzhi didn't want to pay attention to me, even though Yue Buqun had given me countless supercilious looks.

Still, that doesn't matter to me.The road is so wide, no one can control how I want to go.I just didn't expect Lu Xiaohou to talk to me against Yue Buqun's cold eyes.Of course, besides him, there was also Linghu Chong.

Actually, I have no friendship with Linghu Chong.Perhaps as Jin Yong said, Linghu Chong was born with such a wild and unrestrained character, who can be friends with anyone.

Lin Pingzhi and Yue Lingshan were chatting and laughing in front of them, chatting with each other.I looked at it as an eyesore, so I played the pipa while riding a horse, and I played it very well.I think this song fits my mood very well.

Linghu Chong was lying on the wooden board behind the carriage, his face was sallow, his voice was weak but he still didn't forget to joke with me: I said, brother Yu, what kind of tune are you playing?Why does it sound so sad?

The corner of my mouth twitched, and I said: When did I become your brother?If you keep barking like this, be careful I will kill you.

I was wearing a mask, so he couldn't see my expression, so he continued: "Everyone in the world is brothers, so it's right for me to call you Brother Yu."

While taking care of Linghu Chong, Lu Xiaohou said: That's right, what the big brother said is right.Brother Yu is a hard-spoken and soft-hearted person who can say cruel words to bluff people.

Linghu Chong said: Just, cough cough, yes.Although he had a grudge against me, he never mentioned revenge when he saw that I was injured internally.I think Brother Yu must be a real gentleman.

He coughed a few times while talking, obviously he was dying of illness.

I sighed silently in my heart, thinking: He shouldn't just die like this, right?By the way, a person like me who came out of nowhere should not know the butterfly effect, flapping his wings and killing the protagonist Linghu Chong in this way, right?

To be honest, I actually don't dislike Linghu Chong at all.He is an open-minded and kind person, he will turn danger into good fortune, right?

That being said, I'm still worried that he'll just die like this.So, I began to inject internal energy into the sound of the piano, intending to help him dredge his meridians and help him change his true energy.

To save Linghu Chong, this piano sound therapy is one of them.But the effect is quite slow, at least half a year, just for a short while, it must be Taicang Tianmi, it is useless.And the quickest way to get results is to use the method of channeling and moving meridians in the Kasyapa Sutra.But this method is too labor-intensive, and based on my friendship with him, I can't do it.

Listening to the pipa I played, Linghu Chong gradually took a long breath and fell asleep peacefully.

Lu Xiaohou said: You play the pipa really well, it makes people feel comfortable and refreshed after listening to it.

I said: Well.

Seeing that Linghu Chong was asleep, Lu Xiaohou also lay down on the cart, squinting his eyes to look at the sky, smiling and wondering what he was thinking.But after a while, he suddenly sat up again and asked me, "Brother Yu, why did you come here specifically to find Lin Pingzhi?"

I still play the pipa, but changed to FADED.I don't know why this guy asked this, so he just said lightly: "What does it have to do with you?"

Lu Xiaohou said: A little boy like Lin Pingzhi who is ostentatious, ambitious and talented, and only knows how to eat soft food, what do you have to do with him?Sigh... you are not here to pay back the slap he slapped you, are you?Well, the big man has a clear grievance and hatred, you call back quickly, I will wait and see!

I said, "Shut up, you, if you say something more, I will beat you up first."

I raised my eyes to look at Lin Pingzhi who was not far in front of me, and vaguely felt that while he was talking and laughing happily with Yue Lingshan, he always glanced at me from the corner of his eye from time to time intentionally or unintentionally.

He is no longer the spoiled young master who didn't understand anything when we first met, a year has changed him a lot.However, I don't know at all what happened to cause such a huge change in him in one year.

Maybe it's because of the destruction of the family, maybe it's because of the most realistic human feelings and worldly temptations.I don't know, and I don't want to get to the bottom of it.

Most things in this world cannot be changed by one person alone.As for me, as long as I can prevent him from falling into the madness and determination described by Jin Yong, that is enough.

This is my greatest hope. I am afraid that the rest can only be my delusion after all, right?Just because he and I are men in this world, even if I don't care about this issue, what about him, what about my father?

What's more, he definitely doesn't have those charming thoughts about me.

I played the pipa and followed the people of the Huashan School, knowing that they were probably going to Songshan Mountain.Thinking about it carefully, it is probably to discuss the matter of the Five Sacred Sects.There's nothing wrong with just watching the fun.

Linghu Chong slept very soundly and peacefully under the sound of my piano. When everyone was hungry, he just arrived at a small town, and he woke up leisurely.As soon as he woke up, he asked Lu Xiaohou, "Where are you?"This is the first time I've slept so soundly since my injury.

Lu Xiaohou also fell asleep to the sound of my pipa just now, when asked by Linghu Chong, he rubbed his eyes in a daze, and murmured: Ah?I do not know……

Lin Pingzhi in front was very attentive and went forward to help Yue Lingshan get off the horse. Thinking of Lin Yuge's love and care for me in his previous life, he felt bored and uncomfortable, and his mood seemed to be covered with dark clouds in the dog days.

I jumped off the horse and said to Linghu Chong and Lu Xiaohou angrily: Weilin Town.

They found a restaurant for dinner, the Huashan faction talked and laughed with each other, Lin Pingzhi was even more considerate to Yue Lingshan.Only I was sitting alone at a table, comforting myself to eat quietly and silently.

Surprisingly, Linghu Chong pulled Lu Xiaohou to sit opposite me, and said: "That side is full, let's sit here."Brother Yu, do you mind?

I shook my head, but felt embarrassed, so I ordered the dishes, and took out the pipa again to fiddle with it.

But Lu Xiaohou said: Stop playing, let's rest for a while.Let's chat.

I continued to play and said: What are you talking about?

The tune I played was called Depressed Ecstasy.The tune of this piece is bleak and melancholy, and there is a faint pain in it, but it reveals the freedom and indifference of seeing through the world of mortals.At some point, the noisy voices around him all fell silent.

I noticed that Lin Pingzhi was also looking at me, so I nodded and smiled at him, but he immediately looked away and talked to Yue Lingshan again.

Linghu Chong followed my gaze, but happened to see Lin Pingzhi turning his face to talk to Yue Lingshan, his brows and eyes were instantly filled with sadness.

My song just finished playing, and the restaurant immediately resumed its original hustle and bustle, and the food was served.I put down the pipa, and said to Linghu Chong while picking up vegetables: This song is so sad, how do you listen to it?

Linghu Chong turned his head, squeezed out a smile uglier than crying, and said: No, no.How can you play so freely when you are depressed?

Lu Xiaohou said: It's all Lin Pingzhi's fault!The little junior sister and the senior brother were originally childhood sweethearts and childhood sweethearts, but he appeared out of nowhere and stole people's love. I'll ask him to reason!

Lu Xiaohou was about to get up after saying that, but Linghu Chong grabbed him and said: "Liu Hou, no!"

While pushing Lu Xiaohou back on the bench, he said, "Junior brother Lin is a gentleman as dignified as jade, and my junior sister and him are the opposite.I am now seriously injured, and my life is not long. I only hope that my junior sister will forget me as cleanly as possible. After I die, she will not shed a single tear.

Lu Xiaohou said: Senior brother, you will definitely not die.

Said that Lu Xiaohou turned his head to look at me again, and continued: Brother Yu, you said you have a way to cure my senior brother, please, show mercy and cure him...Take my life for your senior brother's life ,Ok?

As Lu Xiaohou spoke, he choked up.

I was dumbfounded by his crying.Lu Xiaohou's kindness to Linghu Chong made me doubt whether he had feelings for Linghu Chong beyond brotherhood.I opened my mouth and almost blurted out the question.

The words that came to my lips were finally swallowed by me.He sighed and said: Linghu Chong can't die, he has another chance.

Seeing Lu Xiaohou like this, Linghu Chong went to comfort him and said, "Don't cry, I, Linghu Chong, have a very bad life, how can I die so easily?"I was talking nonsense just now.

Lu Xiaohou wiped his tears with his sleeve, and said: Don't lie to me.I know that I am stupid and stupid. I may not be able to learn the moves that others can learn easily, even after several months of practice.When I was young, everyone thought I was stupid and laughed at me behind my back. Except for those monkeys on the mountain, only my elder brother treated me sincerely and helped me teach those who bullied me.If my life can be exchanged for the elder brother's, I will die.

Emma, ​​why is Lu Xiaohou so cute?The appearance of stubbornly wiping away tears looks naive and silly, but it is sincere and touching.My mood improved unknowingly, so I smiled and said to him: Don't cry, who said last time that the elders are ashamed to cry in front of others?

Hearing what I said, Lu Xiaohou immediately wiped his face with his sleeve indiscriminately, then glared at me and said, "I'm different from your crying one, I, I, I——Anyway, it's different, I'm not going to be punished anyway." Slap and cry.

Linghu Chong smiled and said: Haha, when you cry, you cry, making excuses is not what a man does.Don't worry, I, Linghu Chong, have a cheap life, although it is worthless, it is not so easy to die.

We were having a good chat here, but Yue Buqun had finished eating.Everyone got up and seemed to be planning to continue on their way.Yue Lingshan ran over and said to Linghu Chong and Lu Dayou: My father said to rest in the next town.

He left after he finished speaking, and he didn't even give me a look from the beginning to the end. It seemed that he was deliberately treating me as a transparent person.I don't know her well, but she doesn't need to be so deliberate.Dumbfounded by her little girl's angry behavior, she put on her mask with a flick of her sleeves, and said to Linghu Chong and Lu Xiaohou: Let's go.

Linghu Chong thought Yue Lingshan was losing his temper with him, so he got up and wanted to go after him.I used the sound of the piano to guide him this afternoon, which temporarily restored his vitality, and it seems that he is about to start rambling again.

I supported him and said, "Yue Lingshan can't run away, so don't chase him in such a hurry."

Linghu Chong said: But——

I said: No but, Lu Xiaohou traded his life for yours, and I used the sound of the piano to heal your wounds, and it just started to work.If you have always been so impulsive, why should I bother to save you?

Hearing what I said, Lu Xiaohou stared at me with wide eyes, smiled through tears, and said: I knew that Brother Yu was a hard-spoken and soft-hearted person, and he would definitely not die without saving his life!

I said: Don't be too busy thanking me, this music therapy will take at least half a year.It will take at least one month to see the initial results, and I cannot guarantee that I will be able to follow you all the time.

Lu Xiaohou was stunned like an idiot, and after a long time he said: Why?

Ignore him and jump on the horse.If they don't catch up, Yue Buqun and the others will really go far away.

But before they had gone far, the carriage that Ning Zhong and Yue Lingshan were riding off the axle, Yue Buqun led his disciples to stop, and walked towards the deserted temple not far away.

This is in a forest, the sky is covered with dark clouds, and night seems to be coming soon.Fortunately, there is this temple, but just seeing this temple, I feel a little uneasy, as if something ominous is about to happen.It is probably related to the incident described by Jin Yong, but I can't remember it.

The temple was dilapidated, but there was still a god statue enshrined. Yue Buqun bowed to the Buddha statue, and Huashan disciples followed suit one by one.In an instant, there was thunder and sting, and the torrential rain poured down, sliding down the sloping roof like a water curtain.

Linghu Chong sat leaning against the corner of the hall, and Lu Xiaohou followed behind, asking for his health.Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi sat beside Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze, looking at each other and talking with gentle eyes and gentle smiles.

I feel redundant again.So he simply jumped over to sit on the beam of the house.Yue Buqun looked at me contemptuously, not knowing what to say in He Ningzhong.

In fact, I can roughly guess that it is nothing more than the unprovoked frame-up of Liang Shangjun.

I took out the pipa and wondered if I should go home and have a look.I miss my dad, and Jia Liang.Although Jia Liang was long-winded, he was really kind to me.When I saw Lu Xiaohou taking care of Linghu Chong meticulously, I immediately thought of Jia Liang.

What the hell did I go crazy to think that Lin Pingzhi is Lin Yuge.He wasn't, at least, not anymore.

I was lying to myself, he was never the one who went through all the ups and downs and the world with me, but still had a good heart.

TBC