Blossoms

4.

Then Chu Rui realized that Zixi had been a little too clingy to him recently.

It's not that he's not happy, he's been clinging to him in the past, Chu Rui just felt that Zixi's eyes looking at him from the side when he was instructing his apprentices to prepare the elixirs in Baicaojian were a little... fiery?

Seeing that he was flustered.

By the way, when did Ah Jiu and Zixi get along so well?

Chu Rui was looking at a prescription, and when he raised his eyes, Ah Jiu and Zixi were already chatting. Although they didn't know what they were talking about, they seemed to get along pretty well.

Since this is the case, he can rest assured.

In the past, I thought Ah Jiu and the group of children would not get along well with Zixi.

On the other side, Ah Jiu sat beside Zixi and asked cheerfully, "Are you really Mrs. Yazhai of our Qingfengtang?"

"What does Mrs. Yazhai mean?" Zixi shook her head: "Look, your master is clearly called the Hall Master, where is the Village Master from?"

"It means the same thing."

Ah Jiu nodded, he understood the relationship between the two, it turned out to be this kind of relationship.

Concentrated, Ah Jiu said firmly: "Don't pay attention to the eyes of the world."

Zixi didn't understand what he meant, he couldn't understand these troublesome things, he just wanted to think about how to suppress Chu Ruirui for a while, after all, he hadn't fulfilled the duty of suppressing Mrs. Zhai even if he was given food, lodging and clothing.

It seemed that Ah Jiu knew a lot more than this lunatic, so he asked.

Ah Jiu said with a serious expression: "You didn't have the same... bed?" After asking, he felt that it was treasonous to spy on his master's private affairs like this, but he was willing to go all out in order to get along well with the 'teacher'.

It doesn't matter if the brothers can't see clearly, as long as he can see clearly.

Zixi shook her head, "Very important?"

Ah Jiu looked like he hated iron for being weak: "It's very important."

That's not too difficult.After Zixi thought about it, Chu Rui came over and asked Ah Jiu to take care of Zixi and go to the mountain to collect herbs.Some special herbs are better picked wild. Ah Jiu knew this, and wanted to agree, but Zixi jumped up: "Chu Ruirui, take me out to play?"

"Going to the back mountain is not for fun." Chu Rui said with a helpless smile.

"I'm going." Zixi said stubbornly.

Seeing the firmness on his face, Chu Rui couldn't refuse. After explaining some things to Ah Jiu, Chu Rui took a basket to the mountain to collect herbs, followed by Zi Xi who was doing nothing.

After leaving the floating career, he walked south all the way up the mountain, Chu Rui dragged Zixi to the halfway up the mountain using Qinggong, and as soon as his feet landed, he found that Zixi was still holding him around his waist, so he hurried to pull him away.

Zixi hummed dissatisfiedly, and followed Chu Rui again.

As soon as Chu Rui took a step, he stuck to him. When he turned around, he realized that the two were standing very close. He almost collided with Zixi. Chu Rui was amused by his series of actions, and couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his. head.

"What's the matter?" Chu Rui smiled softly: "You just like following me so much?"

Zixi shook her head, then nodded again.

No, what he had to say to understand, it was clearly Chu Ruirui who let him do it for himself, didn't he just find time to do what Mrs. Yazhai should do?

For example...

Zixi smiled charmingly, raised her hand to press Chu Rui's shoulder and pushed.

Chu Rui was suddenly pushed by him. He was startled and fell backwards. His back directly hit the grass. When he raised his eyes, Zixi had already rushed towards him. He wanted to reach out to push, but his body was heavy The man pressed on him restlessly and smiled.

"Chu Ruirui, does this count as suppressing the village master?"

The morning light was just right, Chu Rui squinted his eyes to see Zixi's smiling expression, the soft place in his heart seemed to be filled.

Five years, but it seems like 50 years.

The flowers are blooming and fading, but the flowers are fading and blooming again. I know you must be trying to find a way to come back.

Zixi grinned, as if begging for praise, Chu Rui couldn't help but smooth the black hair that was hanging down from him, and raised his forehead: "It's really..." There's nothing I can do about you.

I really have nothing to do with you.

I don't expect you to change back to the way you were before, just stay by my side all the time.

Thinking of this, some of the original anger also disappeared, and after a while, Chu Rui quickly pushed him away: "I went to gather medicine."

Not happy?Zixi frowned, maybe he didn't press well enough...

It's okay, Ah Jiu said, don't care about the eyes of the world? ?

Chu Rui took out his fan and slapped his familiar face. When he raised his head, he happened to meet Zixi's gaze, and quickly walked aside with his head down.

The two walked one after the other on the mountain, Chu Rui looked at the list he had made before picking herbs, Zixi followed behind him, looked at the back of Chu Rui's head, and then stepped on the medicine.

Chu Rui watched as he stepped on the wild herb that he was about to bend down to pick...

"Zixi, go away!" Chu Rui couldn't help but scolded.

After speaking, he couldn't help but smile again seeing Zixi's bewildered face.

The work of going up the mountain to collect herbs was soon over, Zixi squatted and stared at Chu Rui counting the blue plants in the basket, feeling bored, a white mountain flower smiled brightly beside her when she turned her head.

See how bright your smile is?Zixi happily reached out to pick it up, and brought it to him for a closer look.

The faint fragrance of mountain flowers comes to the nostrils, like the fragrance after the rain.

Zixi stared at the mountain flower in her hand, fell silent for a while, then reached out and stuffed it behind Chu Rui's ear.

"Haha! Chu Ruirui with white flowers!"

Zixi's actions were subconscious, but Chu Rui was stunned by his actions, and was stunned for a moment, the basket in his hand fell down, and the herbs scattered all over the floor.

Hurriedly picking up the basket and herbs, Chu Rui frowned, took off the mountain flowers, stood up, and hurried down the mountain.

"Chu Ruirui!" Zixi shouted.

Does he not like flowers?

Chu Rui walked a long distance in annoyance, but when he turned around, he found that Zixi hadn't followed him. He was even more horrified, and hurried to look back, only to find that Zixi was following behind him in a grievance, but the distance was a bit far.

Like a little daughter-in-law who has been greatly wronged.

Sighing, Chu Rui wanted to comfort him, but before he could say a word, an unusual wind came towards them.

There was a whoosh, like the wind and sand blown up during a fight.

anyone?

Chu Rui hurried over to protect Zixi behind her. Zixi looked up at the place where she put the mountain flowers just now, with a thoughtful expression, ignoring the sudden silence around her.But it is impossible for Zixi to be thoughtful. What he thought was, if white flowers are not good, then try other flowers next time?

When a girl's scream came, Chu Rui was startled, and a wave of palms swept in that direction.

"Who?" The man's exclamation came, and the girl beside him hurriedly kicked him again.

There was another gust of wind, and Chu Rui hurried towards the sound, only to see a girl wearing a silver hair crown and dressed in foreign costumes standing in a place where the trees were already swaying. She looked less than fifteen or sixteen years old. Bells jingled with the wind.

She stood barefoot in the clearing with clean feet, smiling at them.

"This is the boundary of floating life." Chu Rui looked at the rickety trees all around him: "Miss, what's your business doing trespassing on the Bird Crying Mountain?"

Zixi didn't even look at the woman, he carefully studied the signs of fighting around him.

Was it intense just now?

People here are too gentle in fighting, and he hasn't taken a life for a long time.

"I didn't mean to offend!" The girl immediately laughed after hearing Chu Rui's words: "I came all the way from Ronghua Street in Shengdu at the foot of the mountain, so I didn't know I was being targeted by gangsters, so I went up the mountain out of desperation."

Seeing that her outfit was not in the style of Wan Poison Sect, Tianyin Sect or Xiaoyao Sword School, Chu Rui nodded: "In that case, the girl should go back too, it's getting late."

The girl finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what he said, and suddenly she was stunned again, pointing at the person behind Chu Rui: "You...you...are you the hero Mo Zixi?"

As soon as the words fell, Chu Rui was startled, and pushed Zixi aside vigilantly, and put on a posture of preparing for the battle: "How do you know Zixi?"

"Misunderstanding!" The girl quickly waved her hands: "I, I, I..."

Zixi raised her eyebrows, took Chu Rui's hand with one hand, and said calmly, "Chu Ruirui, I'm so hungry."

The stomach grunted very cooperatively.

The air suddenly changed from tense to embarrassing.

The girl was obviously shocked when she heard Zixi's words clearly. She felt that it was extremely inappropriate for anyone to say such words at such a time, unless it was someone who was not clear-headed.

Of course, this is the case.

Seeing that Chu Rui was silent, Zixi took his arm and shook it from side to side: "I'm so hungry."

Seeing that the girl was stunned by the scene just now, Chu Rui said, "No way, my hero..."

In her mind, the tall, mighty and mighty Hero Mo... on the verge of shattering in an instant.

Carrying the girl back to the Floating Life Hall, Chu Rui looked at his senior sister's cold expression and the girl's expression of bowing her head in thought.Nie Hongling threw the teacup back on the tea table. Although the cup was placed firmly on the table, it made a loud noise. The girl was so frightened by the sound that her whole body trembled. Then she raised her head and looked at her stupidly, and said: "My little girl... her name is Ani, and she is a disciple of Grandma Chunyu in Cuiyun Village in southern Xinjiang..."

"Grandma Chunyu." Nie Hongling nodded, snorted, and said in a threatening tone, "I heard you know Mo Zixi?"

The girl shook her head, if she had known earlier, she would not have said it.

"Oh, so you lied to my junior brother just now?" Nie Hongling raised her hand to support the edge of the table: "Or are you lying to me now?"

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" Ani hurriedly raised her hand and surrendered: "Before, Hero Mo was so brave that he got rid of the Hundred Finger Demon Lord, so our village survived. I only recognized Hero Mo when I passed by."

It's just that she didn't expect that the great god worshiped in her village would have...

Hey, she doesn't want to talk.

Chu Rui clenched his fists: "Senior Sister..."

Zixi beside him was still hungry. He glanced at Nie Hongling and then at Chu Rui. They all looked bitter and vengeful. He was puzzled. What is more important than filling his stomach?

This child seems to be taught a lesson.

However, Zixi rolled her eyes, it's none of my business, I just want to eat.

Thinking of this, Nie Hongling's voice came.

"Okay, if you admire Mo Zixi so much, then stay here for a while." Gritting her teeth, Nie Hongling turned her head and ordered: "Miss Ani has to stay here for a while, you can figure it out .”

figure it out?

Ani raised her paw: "Well, hall master, I still have things to do!"

Nie Hongling raised her eyebrows.

A Ni flinched: "I have to go to the Wan Poison Sect...to get medicine for my mother-in-law..."

"Joke!" The disciple on the side felt as if he had heard something funny: "How can there be more medicine in that ghost place of Wan Poison Sect than our Fusheng?"

She is right, the Wan Poison Sect is famous for its research on drugs, but it is also a first-class school in the Jianghu. The doctors there are all poison doctors, and they study the therapy of fighting poison with poison.

Oh oh oh, Wan Poison Sect is a ghostly place.

Is it possible to let him go?

Seeing that they were still chatting, Zixi quickly grabbed Chu Rui, and gestured desperately with her eyes. Chu Rui had no choice but to take out a piece of sugar cake from somewhere and stuff it into his mouth.

Zixi, who got the candy cake, was instantly cute.

A Ni nodded: "But my mother-in-law said that the Wan Poison Sect has bone erosion meal."

"Bone erosion powder? What do you want this thing for?" Nie Hongling asked.

Bone erosion meal, its effect follows its name, it eats away at human bones without leaving any traces.

"There is a plague in Cuiyun Village recently." Ani said without thinking: "My mother-in-law and the suzerain of the Wandu Sect passed a letter, saying that they want me to fetch them and melt the bones to prevent the spread of the plague."

The lord of the Wan Poison Sect.

Nie Hongling stared at Ani for a long time: "When did that kid get so close to Nanjiang..."

Chu Rui sighed, and ran down Zixi's hair with one hand: "Senior sister, this matter is very strange, why don't you let me mix bone erosion powder, and send it to southern Xinjiang after mixing, and Miss Ani can do it too." Stay here."

"So why should I stay here?" Ani caught his movements with the tip of her eyes and didn't understand.

"Because I can't trust you not to tell about Mo Zixi's whereabouts." Nie Hongling smiled, but the smile was extremely piercing: "Do you know how many people in Jianghu want his life?"

Annie shook her head.

"Xiaoyao, Tianyin, Wandu, the three major sects of Jianghu." Nie Hongling closed her eyes: "Do you know that my head hurts right now?"

So she was unlucky and bumped into the muzzle.

Not killing her to silence her is already the maximum limit of Fu Shengsheng's compromise.

By the way, why would Daxia Mo be hunted down?Ani really wanted to ask, but everyone looked at her unkindly, so she had no choice but to keep this question in her heart.

It's raining lightly tonight.

Chu Rui leaned on the porch, watching the raindrops falling from the eaves, his thoughts drifted back to ten years ago when Mo Zixi lived in Fusheng for quite a while covered in bruises.

Ten years ago, there was also light rain at night.

There were so many fine wounds on his body that he couldn't count them. Chu Rui was not interested in asking him how he got the wounds after cleaning them and applying medicine. His duty was to save people.

"Xiaoyao Sword Sect." Nie Hongling looked at Xiaoyu outside the window expressionlessly: "How come the Xiaoyao Sword Sect's injuries all come here?"

"He is a disciple of Wangjun Mountain of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect." Chu Rui boiled the medicine, looked up at the displeasure flashing in Nie Hongling's eyes, and said quickly, "Three months ago, he gave me the money."

"Hmph." Nie Hongling frowned, "Do you know where Wangjun Mountain of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect is?"

Chu Rui shook his head.

"Specialize in clearing out villains in the rivers and lakes, claiming to be a chivalrous man." Nie Hongling raised her eyes: "It's just who knows whether the people they kill are good people or evil people. Killing people is killing people."

Use violence to control violence.

In the name of cleaning up evil heretics in the Jianghu, who actually knows whether the Xiaoyao Sword Sect is just cleaning out those who oppose it, for example, the group of people who behave strangely from the Tianyin Sect.

"Master, the old man doesn't want to be involved." Nie Hongling looked at Chu Rui firmly: "Hurry up and send him away when he is cured."

Chu Rui nodded in response, watched Nie Hongling go away, and decided to go see Mo Zixi again.

Mo Zixi was seriously injured, and he probably wouldn't be able to get out of bed for a short time. Chu Rui had planned so, so he was a little surprised when he saw Mo Zixi leaning on the porch and smiling at him.

"Brother Mo, your injury..."

"It's okay." Mo Zixi didn't care that he was wrapped in gauze, "Brother Chu, your place is nice, don't bother me to stay here for a while."

Chu Rui remembered Nie Hongling's instructions, and said with a smile: "Fushengsheng is not an inn. If brother Mo recovers from his injury, he should leave quickly. My master doesn't like outsiders to disturb him."

Having said that, Chu Rui raised his forehead, if Mo Zixi really stayed here and refused to leave, what could he do?

Could it be that they really have to fight and blow people down the mountain?

Mo Zixi was still a patient.

You have to leave after you recover from your injury?Mo Zixi shook her head and smiled brightly: "I'm not healed yet."

Chu Rui looked at his smile, but caught a trace of loneliness in Mo Zixi's eyes. He wondered if all the people who looked at Junshan laughed like this.

Occasionally it is covered with cuts and bruises.

Although he can heal the disease, it is not the disease in the heart.

small theater:

[Ani: I heard that my position is the Emperor of Truth. 】

[Ajiu: I heard that my role is to assist. 】