Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

The night market is still bustling with people, and the sky is filled with excitement.

"Is it this one?" Wendi asked with his head tilted, and after getting an affirmative answer, he said seriously to the stall owner, "Please help me get a bunch of hawthorns with the largest sugar coating and the sweetest ones, my brother has a very tricky mouth."

Amidst the teasing smile of the stall owner, Liu Shiqi blushed silently, and stepped on Wendi's boot in a tricky way.But Wendi stood still, looking very happy, and bent the corners of his eyes at him very tiredly, but looked at Shiqi with embarrassment, quietly moved his foot away from him, pretending to be innocent, and carefully studied the content under the candlelight. candied haws.

Wendi held him too tightly, and it seemed unusual for two young men to hold hands in the crowded street.But Liu Shiqi looked around quietly, and felt that no one cared whether they were holding hands or holding hands, so he changed his mind immediately, thinking that it was no big deal.

What's more, they have been separated for so long, and Wen Di was just as excited as he was, and has not recovered yet.

His mind was spinning fast. When the candied haws were lifted to his mouth, Liu Shiqi instinctively licked his mouth. After realizing the abnormality, he shook again. Jianwendi was staring at him with piercing eyes, and said seriously, "Is it sweet?"

His expression was as serious as when he asked him if he had eaten... Liu Shiqi felt ashamed for a moment for his absurd idea, nodded quickly, and took the candied haws from Wendi.

Wen Di is no longer a child, how could it be possible to treat this little sesame and garlic skin as a big and important matter?

"Where have you been all these years?" Wendi finally asked the question that he had been holding back from the very beginning, "It has been seven years since I was able to leave Xixiu Mountain, and I have been secretly searching for your whereabouts, but my contacts are limited after all, I don't know You are dead or alive. I went to Chang'an that year, only to realize that the world is so big, looking for you is like looking for a needle in a haystack..."

Liu Shiqiu was about to tell him the truth, but immediately remembered that Yi Chunqiu had said that outsiders should not mention their whereabouts, so he lied and said sincerely, "I'm in the East China Sea."

Wendi: "How did you get there?"

Liu Shiqi said without changing his face: "At the beginning, I was rescued by a passing caravan. I thought I would always be found in Xuanwu Town, so I followed them and planned to go to the south of the Yangtze River...the climate is better there, suitable for recuperation. Walk to In Luoyang, the two big brothers in the caravan said they wanted to stay, so I ran away by myself—"

Wen Di: "So dangerous? Do you know the way? Liu Shiqi, you've grown up. If you don't know the place where you live, you dare to run around on your own. Have you thought about what to do when you meet bad people? You—"

"No!" Liu Shiqi couldn't bear it anymore, and while wondering when Wendi could chatter so much, he continued, "When I walked to Jindi, I met a person who helped me detoxify me from cold. He was practicing in the East China Sea. They took me away. I have been with them all these years, but I am afraid that the people on the twelfth floor are still looking everywhere, so they didn’t show up in the Central Plains, so you...you can’t find me.”

He made it up like a hype, but in fact it is full of loopholes, and thanks to Wendi's concern, he becomes chaotic. People who are always meticulous lose their principles in front of him, and don't think about the many illogical things in it. The city's expert naturally also exists, so he nodded very clearly.

Wendi said: "Since that's the case, then I'm relieved. Why did you choose to come to Linzi during these few days?"

Liu Shiqi: "...uh."

Came to steal the cheats from this sect?Find traitors and send them to death?Eating and drinking with senior brother?I heard that the battle is quite big, so come to watch the fun?Many excuses went round and round in his mind, and for a long time Liu Shiqi couldn't think of one that could be justified, so he had to give up on himself, bit the hawthorn hard, and avoided answering.

Wen Di frowned: "Do you have something to hide from me?"

In a blink of an eye, Liu Shiqi found a reason: "Well, actually, I heard that there is a martial arts event here, and the heads of all schools will come in person, so the twelfth floor must also be able to come. Since the twelfth floor is full of Here, if you haven't neglected your homework, according to Master's character, he will bring you to gain some knowledge—he likes you very much anyway."

Wen Di was overjoyed, and his reason flew away again: "So you found Linzi because you thought I would come?"

Liu Shiqi rubbed the tip of his nose, feeling a little sticky there, probably with sugar on it.He blamed Xingzhou Xingzhou, and said vaguely: "It's about the same... I came here with the big brother who practiced with me, and he likes to join in the fun everywhere."

Wen Di felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

He was a little flustered, ignoring the amazing coincidence for the time being, he was coaxed happily, and turned around to buy Liu Shiqi another two taels of sugar cake.

He was overjoyed, but Liu Shiqi followed half a step behind, thinking wretchedly: "It's over, Brother Di has become stupid, this kind of non-drafted lie can deceive him... Could it be that the one in the daytime is a fake? "

Surrounded by unfamiliar accents, the moonlight is intoxicating.

Wendi didn't speak for a long time, he led Liu Shiqi around the night market, and finally realized that there was something unusual in this posture, so he let go of him, stood one step away and sighed: "It's like a dream...you are so... big."

With gentle eyes, he returned to the distant past in a trance, Liu Shiqi's heart softened, and just about to speak, a woman's voice came from behind: "—— Wendi!"

This sentence shook the world, filled with overwhelming anger, Wendi, who was full of nostalgia in front of him, suddenly changed his expression, immediately erected the thorns all over his body, put his arms around Liu Shiqi's hand and pulled him behind him, protecting him tightly.

The person who came was also dressed in white clothes Shengxue, with cinnabar eyebrows, even if his face was sullen, he did not hide his beauty.Just when she was about to have a seizure, she turned her beautiful eyes and suddenly found that there was someone behind Wendi. She suppressed her anger and restrained her questioning, and said in a deep voice, "Who is behind you? Mo Ci went back to the inn, why haven't you been there for so long?" go back?"

They happened to be in the alley where the night market and a house intersected. The lights behind them faded away, and the moonlight illuminated a group of figures under their feet, but the cries of sales were almost inaudible.

"What does it have to do with you?" Wendi said, pinching Liu Shiqi's wrist without any trace, this was their secret signal since childhood, signaling Liu Shiqi to leave first.

But Liu Shiqi didn't leave, Wen Di was a little impatient, Song Min'er couldn't help but grab his hand: "I have something to tell you."

There was a trace of disgust on Wendi's face, and he pulled it back without showing any face, and wiped it on his clothes: "Senior sister, whether men and women can kiss each other, just say what you want here."

Her suspicious eyes were always entangled with Wendi, and when she saw the young man behind Wendi, she felt that her facial features seemed familiar, but she was sure that she had never seen them before, so she immediately refused to care about it, leaned against the tree behind her, and said with her arms around her. : "Okay, let's talk about it here-did you take my knife?"

Wen Di calmly said: "What are you talking about? I can't understand."

Song Min'er: "My knife fell in Tongguan. Lingxi lived with me at that time, and suddenly disappeared after falling asleep. Lingxi was brought up by you, so it happened that Lingxi told you that my knife was lost, so it happened that you Lend me the knife with Liu Miansheng...Wen Di, listen to yourself, one coincidence is a coincidence, two or three...Does anyone believe this?"

Wendi said: "I don't know what you mean, senior sister, I never wanted to tear my skin apart. If you insist on thinking that I harmed you, then show evidence."

Song Min'er said in a low voice: "You're sure I can't produce any evidence, so I have nothing to worry about. Brother Yu now...I see you wish the Huashan faction wanted me to pay for my life. If Brother Yu and I both...who will be the winner?"

Seeming to have heard a very interesting speculation, Wendi smiled at her sincerely: "Senior Sister, I am serious. I don't care who is the successor of Xixiu Mountain, and your life is...not worth mentioning to me."

"You—" Song Min'er became furious, and slapped him back.

Wen Di didn't move at all, she slapped Liu Shiqi's waist with her left hand and pushed him away three feet away, then flashed Song Min'er's sharp palm sideways, and raised her hand to hit her in the ribs.

Song Min'er was shocked, as if she didn't expect Wendi to fight back, she quickly backed away.But she only stopped for a moment, and after a little breathing, she slapped again. Compared with the "slightly punishing" just now, this palm was full of strength. Wendi just dodged, and the palm wind shaved the sycamore tree next to her. , A few leaves rustled down.

After all, she is the elder sister of Xixiu Mountain. Even though she has a bit of a temper, she is not perfunctory at all.

It was clear that the two were of the same skill in the fight, but it could also be seen that Wendi was indeed slightly inferior to her.Liu Shiqi was so anxious that he was almost sweating, but he couldn't rush forward to help.If Song Min'er recognizes her, or simply provokes other people on the twelfth floor, will she know it right away?

Since Liu Miansheng was alive and kicking, who let him go?Wen Di fell into the water for him and lured Yu Zheng away... these things not only need a little speculation, but one can definitely guess... the culprit.

How will Wendi handle himself then?

Liu Shiqi was still thinking wildly, when a woman's scream suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Senior Sister, I've offended you!" Wendi said, turning her defense into an offensive at some point, her two fingers pointing towards Song Min'er's throat like acupuncture points.

This pose was too dangerous, even if he didn't use his strength, he would lose face as a senior sister after being caught.Song Min'er's pupils shrank slightly, and she dodged hastily, her skirt spread out in a circular arc, she slipped her foot and let out an exclamation, but Wen Di ignored it, turned her fingers into palms, and slapped Song Min'er's back heart, throwing her away a foot away.

"You shameless little bastard!" Song Min'er had never been humiliated like this before. She was furious and spat at the side of the road. .

The blade sliced ​​through the peaceful night, and when it touched the evening wind, it made a sharp sound. Liu Shiqi clenched a hidden weapon in his hand, waiting for her to seize the opportunity to disrupt it——

"Senior Sister, you are forcing me." Wen Di suddenly said with a smile when Dao Feng was close at hand.

Song Min'er was puzzled, hesitated for a moment, Wen Di raised his hand to clamp the blade with two fingers, moved his wrist slightly, and suddenly a tingling numbness passed along the metal all the way to Song Min'er's palm.She made a short "ah" sound, the hand holding the knife was weak, and she hadn't regained her grip, Wendi put her finger down, but didn't take it back, and directly pinched the sword formula and went towards her lower abdomen!

Song Min'er was terrified, and hastily withdrew the knife to protect her, but Wen Di had already guessed her tricks, and raised her other hand behind her back, a few silver lights were especially bright in the night.

Recognizing that it was the hidden weapon "Stars Like Rain" on the twelfth floor, Song Min'er barely waved her sleeve to block it, blocking her sight, and after moving away again, Wendi's fingertips barely landed on her Qihai acupoint.She didn't dare to move anymore, feeling a lingering coldness, and a few strands of hair fell on the other side's forehead, which was no longer regular and regular, as if he had changed immediately.

The smile narrowed in those phoenix eyes, and the vigor of the fingertips was immediately withdrawn, Wendi bowed to pick up the knife on the ground, but the hand covering Song Min'er's Qihai acupoint did not move.

He threw the knife in Liu Shiqi's direction, Liu Shiqi hurriedly caught it, before he could see it clearly, he heard Wen Di calmly say: "Senior Sister, since you want to return it to me, a junior would be disrespectful."

After saying this, Wendi returned to the previous posture with his hands behind his back, nodded to her, turned around and said: "Let's go, we will be late going back later, the elder brother who came with you will be worried."

Liu Shiqi's brain was not enough, and he was still reminiscing about the scene just now. Now Wendi said what he said, "Oh", and obediently let him lead him away.

"Wait a minute!" Song Min'er suddenly said, her voice changed, and there was even a trace of panic, "That was just now... returning from stepping on flowers? He taught you how to fold flower hands?!"

After listening to Wendi's steps for a moment, he said coldly, "I don't know what it is to return from stepping on flowers."

He hugged Liu Shiqi's shoulders and lowered his head and said softly, "Let's go, don't be afraid, she won't recognize you." After saying that, he ignored Song Min'er and left quickly from the alleyway with his guardian.

"Ignore her?" Liu Shiqi said.

Wendi smiled: "She doesn't like me, it's not like you don't know."

"That's the truth, how many years has it been..." He still wanted to say something, when a sycamore leaf fell on Wendi's shoulder, Liu Shiqi kept his mouth shut, and took it for him naturally, and they suddenly got closer.Heartbroken, he touched the cinnabar mark on Wendi's brow, making the other party frown slightly: "Don't mess with me."

Liu Shiqi saw that the guard just now had disappeared from his eyes, as if this little action had melted a layer of ice, and immediately returned to his most familiar expression, gentle and indulgent.

This is his Brother Di, not the decisive Xixiu Mountain disciple with frosty eyes in the afternoon.

"What did she just say?" Liu Shiqi and Wendi walked towards the inn side by side, "Master really taught you how to fold flower hands?"

Wendi yawned lazily, and glanced at him: "Do you want to hear the truth or lies?"

"I don't guess..." Liu Shiqi dismissed it, then he leaned close to Wendi's ear, as if he had heard something very happy, and said excitedly beside him, "That's teaching—really?"

Wendi nodded: "Really. Not long after you left, my master found me peeking at the diagram of the folding hand. I thought he would be angry, but he actually said that he would teach me. I have learned the 36-style flower folding hand for seven years. , I finally achieved a small success. But I have an agreement with Master, not to show it in front of others. This time I am dead, and Song Miner will talk too much when I go back."

Liu Shiqi didn't pay attention to what he said later, he almost jumped up when he heard the first two words: "Teach you how to fold flowers, then...then don't you want to..."

Wen Di covered his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense, there is no definite date on this matter, Senior Brother Yu doesn't know yet."

Liu Shiqi struggled twice, his eyes were still shining brightly, and there was infinite longing in them.He slapped Wendi on the back suddenly, without restraint, almost made him cough: "Brother Di! You are too powerful!"

Others only say that Zhehuashou is a peerless martial art that is not passed down on the twelfth floor. It combines boxing, palm and acupoints. Among them, the most famous one is "Flower Blooming and Folding", so it is named "Flower Folding Hand".Naturally they can't learn other sects, but they don't know something, even the disciples in the twelfth floor want to learn, it's not so easy.

Zhehuashou has a beautiful name and a good-looking posture, but it is not so poetic when it falls into actual combat.

Different from the Chunshui Knife Technique, which only seeks to kill with one move, each of the 36 moves is a killer move, without relying on any kind of weapon, taking someone's life with bare hands is even more bloody.Inner strength is the most important thing in practice, only if it is in harmony with the heaven and earth exercises, otherwise it will not be able to exert one-tenth of its power.

Ordinary disciples only know that this Qi Jin is only passed down from generation to generation among the masters on the twelfth floor, and the previous master will pass it on as soon as the successor is determined, but even they don't know that the way of practicing Huashou goes against the harmony of yin and yang, It can cause great damage to the body, and it is easy to go crazy.That's why they need Duxindan to assist in their practice, so as not to be insane and exhausted.

Wen Di looked at Liu Shiqi who was full of joy for him, swallowed the second half, and said calmly: "It's not that strong... Don't jump, such a tall person, be more stable."

Liu Shiqi shook his head and remained unmoved, as if he had become a big brother on the twelfth floor.

He was ashamed of this thought for a moment, remembering his ironic fate and obsession, and suddenly couldn't bear to tell Liu Shiqi the truth.Wen Di patted Liu Shiqi's head, and said softly, "Why are you still like a child?"

For too many years, no one used the word "child" to evaluate him, so Liu Shiqi couldn't help but laugh.

In Wangyue Island, he was quite measured in everything, but when he met Wen Di, he suddenly felt that he could not be too presumptuous.Maybe they were young when they met, Wendi took care of him and treated him like his own brother.Even though the world has been separated for many years, there is no barrier at all when they meet again.

It was as if they had never been apart, and the past seven years had simply vanished in a trance.

The two walked slowly along the street back to the inn. Before Wendi could say a few words to him, he was called away by a disciple on the twelfth floor. Liu Shiqi watched him leave in a hurry and stood in the courtyard. Sighed in great relief.He looked up at the sky, the bright moon was bright, and the Sirius star in the northwest was still shining proudly.

The phoenix trees in Qingqiu did not arrive on August [-]th, but Liu Shiqi already felt a sense of reunion.

He was still smiling when he returned to the room, Xie Xingzhou was drinking to the moon by the window, he saw someone halfway through toasting, so his peach blossom eyes rolled: "So happy, I guess you are looking for that Wendi. "

Liu Shiqi pinched his cheek: "Is it obvious?"

Xie Xingzhou said shyly: "Your little senior brother has sharp eyes, you can tell when he sees it. But that kid is really talented, I knew he was not easy to mess with just by seeing him, and he dismissed all suspicions with a few words, and he didn't forget to send Huashan to send him down the steps." ...It should have been trained by Zuo Nian."

Liu Shiqi sat on the side of the couch silently taking off his boots, endured and endured, and still defended Wen Di: "Brother Di is indeed very smart, but he is not what you said, he has paid a lot."

Xie Xingzhou became interested and asked, "What's the matter?"

"One year after I arrived in Xixiu Mountain, he went to the twelfth floor. Originally, Zuo Nian didn't plan to take him in, but he went to kneel outside the head's study every day at four o'clock, and knelt for half a year without hindrance. Zuo Nian was really impressed." Liu Shiqi said this, seeming to recall the boy kneeling in the snow, and sighed, "Later, I found out that his talent was even better than many disciples on the twelfth floor. Zuo Nian was very pleasantly surprised. He became my senior brother. Seeing that he is highly valued now... and it should be."

Xie Xingzhou smiled: "It's a pity, Huiji will be hurt."

Liu Shiqi: "What do you mean?"

"It's just emotion." Xie Xingzhou took a sip of his wine and said meaningfully, "I just think that he was less than ten years old at the time, and he was still a child, but he already had such a stubborn and exquisite mind, and now it is even more... A person with a personality will do everything step by step, and will not give up until he reaches his goal. Seventeen, you have to be vigilant against him."

Xie Xingzhou was rare and serious, but Liu Shiqi didn't take it seriously. He lay down on the couch and said indifferently: "We are brothers and sisters, Brother Di will not harm me."

So Xie Xingzhou had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, continued to drink his own wine, and admired the moon of the world.

At that time, he only knew seventeen and was ignorant of world affairs, and he hadn't experienced what it meant to be "everything is impermanent, and people's hearts are fickle."When Liu Shiqi reached the age when he really wanted to grow up, he would have to go through unforgettable pain again to understand that the world is not going to be smooth sailing.

He thought many things were exactly the same as before, but what if some people... had already changed?

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