[Ye Lan] Cup of Joy

Ye Xiu held the bong and curled his fingertips slightly: "Aren't you leaving?"

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Lan He repeated: "I won't leave."

Ye Xiu squeezed out a chuckle from his nasal cavity, turned to look into the distance and said, "You don't have to worry about being punished if you fail to complete the task, I will give you a handwritten letter for you to take back. Your master can't be so unreasonable." As he spoke, he wanted to take another puff of cigarette, but Lan He suddenly laughed, and snatched his pipe, forcing Ye Xiu to turn to look at him: "Aren't you Lord Grim? Your martial arts are so good, you There are so many ways to control monsters, do you want to stay in the inn for the rest of your life as a second child? Monsters are rampant and the people are suffering, don’t you see it? The matter of Jiayin Mountain has not been resolved, you If you can protect Xingxin Inn for a while, can you protect it for a lifetime?"

Ye Xiu was stunned, staring into Lan He's eyes for a long time without saying a word.

"I believe you must have planned it long ago. But you must have a lot of things to worry about starting from scratch. Let me stay, I want to see the day when you become famous in the martial arts and save the world." Blue River unconsciously shook hands. Holding Ye Xiu's hand, he didn't even notice the look of expectation and enthusiasm in his eyes.

Jun Moxiao who can deal with monsters.

Jun Moxiao, who can give secrets that even famous sects can't research.

Ye Xiu who would save him several times.

Ye Xiu who will steal away the bee crystals of the bear demon.

Ye Xiu, who is afraid of being blamed by the proprietress for smoking secretly.

Ye Xiu who hangs red pants on the roof of the attic.

Ye Xiu, who understands the proprietress's petty thoughts.

Ye Xiu who was able to lure a group of strange people including the old pavilion master.

Ye Xiu who will drink bitter medicine soup with him.

Ability is a gift from God and a gift from destiny.

Yes, but it was the only choice made by the person in front of him.

All these impressions merged in Lan He's mind into a human figure made of bright stars, named Lord Grim, also named Ye Xiu.

"—Forget it, you've helped me a lot by being willing to stay." Ye Xiu took a breath and paused before speaking.He didn't notice either, but the tails of his drooping eyebrows flew up again.

The two returned to Xiaoshan City, and Ye Xiu told everyone in private that he counted Lan He as one of his own.Chen Guo asked a few questions, but Ye Xiu vaguely explained it, and only said that it was from his "family", so Chen Guo didn't ask any more questions.

Lan He took back the lapis lazuli, re-inserted it on the hilt of his sword, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.He put the long sword away in the room, and just two steps down the stairs, he was forced to stay in place by a gust of wind—a sharp medicine pick was nailed to the wall three inches away from the tip of his nose.Lan He turned around in surprise, but An Wenyi was standing behind him.

"I advise you to put it away if you have any thoughts. Anyone who falls down will cause trouble for me." While speaking, An Wenyi kept on stepping, pulled out the medicine pick as he passed by him, and went downstairs to the second floor without looking back. , and before entering the room, he dropped a sentence: "If you are sick, don't hold on."

Lan He's hanging heart gradually relaxed, and he even couldn't help laughing - An Wenyi looked indifferent, but he was hot in his bones, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to be a doctor.

But An Wenyi reminded him that the Joy Gu hasn't been released yet.However, now that Lord Grim's identity has been roughly figured out, why don't we hold back?

Thinking in this way, Lan He calmly became the "big manager" of the inn.

When the dragon boat race came on the fifth day of May, Chen Guo locked up the inn and sent everyone to watch the dragon boat race.An Wenyi Xijing didn't go.Baozi was too noisy, so he dragged Luo Ji to the food stalls on the shore, not paying attention to the dragon boat race at all.The two girls ran to the tallest pavilion to watch the excitement.In the end, only Ye Xiu and Lan He were on the river bank downstream.

"Xiao Lan, it's clearer here!" Ye Xiu's eyes were sharp, he found a tree with a crooked neck, and stretched out his hand to pull Lan He up.

Lan He glanced at the narrow branches and shook his head in embarrassment: "Isn't it too crowded?"

"Sit on my lap." Ye Xiu said indifferently, "Stop dawdling, it's about to start."

"But……"

"I've already hugged you, why are you so shy?"

Lan He choked on Ye Xiu's words, so he could only silently stretch out his hand and let him pull him up.In the end, Lan He sat hugging the tree trunk, with half of his hips hanging in the air.Ye Xiu sat a little outside, the tree branches shaking unsteadily under the weight.Fortunately, the bursts of shouts from the dragon boat race quickly attracted Lan He's attention, saving him from such embarrassment.

Ah, the third team is the fastest!Why did the fifth team catch up?It became the seventh team to lead again!

The more Lan He looked at it, the more excited he was, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that he had moved into Ye Xiu's arms at some point.Ye Xiu was afraid that he would fall off the tree, so he thoughtfully put an arm around his waist.

"That..." Lan He just opened his mouth to say something, when he saw Ye Xiu nodded, hugged him and jumped off the tree, "You stay here, I'll check the situation. Also, you can lend me the cloth Use it."

As he spoke, he let go of his hand, tore off the cloth from Lan He's face, and ran away without delay. On the bank of the river, he jumped down.

Lan He was taken aback, then looked into the river, and found that there were some strange waves in the water, and even small eddies appeared.There are two dragon boats that have been bumped so that they can't stabilize their hulls.

"It's a monster! Get back, everyone!" Lan He hurriedly yelled, seeing that the people were all stunned, he ran along the bank of the river and shouted.At this time, a ten-foot-long centipede suddenly jumped out of the water, and immediately lifted a dragon boat from the bottom.Only then did the people on the shore come to their senses and fled away from the river.

Suddenly someone shouted: "Look! It's the dragon looking up!"

The common people turned their heads to look, and saw a group of ascetics wielding weapons in the river to fight against the centipede monsters that kept emerging. It turned out that they were the outer disciples of the Excellent Era Sect in Hangzhou to maintain order and participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

When a centipede was about to bite a boatman to death, a figure stepped on the stern of the dragon boat and flew up, holding a spear in his hand in an arc of flowers. The water mist, and the tip of the spear swirled, piercing the scattered water mist, and pierced the centipede's waist and abdomen. When its true energy condensed, it exploded into blood, but the figure did not With a muddy twist, he landed on the dragon boat's dragon head, stepped on the dragon's nose and jumped into the water.

This is clearly the iconic technique of "One Autumn Leaf" - the dragon raises its head!

Lan He's heart trembled, and a terrible answer came to his mind.

The other ascetics were also shocked, but the man's face was half covered with a cloth, so he couldn't see his face clearly in the water.

"Don't be dazed! Hurry up and do it!" One of the teenagers scolded with fixed eyes, and the rest of them hurriedly drew up their weapons again and rushed towards the centipede.

After a while, the centipede was almost killed, so they helped stabilize the dragon boat, and each found a nearby one and boarded it.

The boy was about to swim to a dragon boat when he heard his companion shout, "Qiu Fei, be careful!"

The boy named Qiu Fei didn't have time to look back, so he had to send the spear in his hand behind him, but it missed nothing. When he looked back, he saw a centipede with a length of thirty feet standing up and looking down at him. The shell glowed with a rust-like cold light, and the saliva from his mouth dripped onto his head.

Without hesitation, Qiu Fei yelled, "Hurry up, leave me alone!" As he said that, he poked the big centipede with the spear again, and the centipede took pain and immediately bit him.Qiu Fei turned his head and fled downstream.

The others didn't hesitate, and hurriedly urged the boat to sail, and it sailed far away in a blink of an eye.Just when someone bent his bow and set an arrow to help Qiu Fei, the mysterious man suddenly appeared on the surface of the water, and the spear in his hand hit the back of the big centipede's head with a bang, causing it to shake three times .

"You are—" Qiu Fei just said a few words, and then he was splashed by a wave, choking several mouthfuls of river water.

"Look carefully, to fight this kind of water centipede, you have to hit these places to be effective." The mysterious man gave him a lesson calmly.

Qiu Fei couldn't even hold the spear anymore.He just felt trembling with anger, not knowing what words to use to express his inner anger.

As a disciple of Excellent Era who was about to be promoted to the inner sect, he was trained as the next successor of "One Autumn Leaf", and Ye Qiu treated him like a master and apprentice.He doesn't care if he can become "One Autumn Leaf", but he can't deny that he aspires to be a master of martial arts like Ye Qiu.

However, how much he once respected Ye Qiu, now he hates Ye Qiu.Just because of the failure of several martial arts competitions, can't help but want to use demons and heretics to win?Does he know how much disaster the three seals of Jiayin Mountain he opened have brought to the people of the world?It's a good thing now, to teach him like a normal person!

"See? No matter how the centipede demon changes, it has a weakness here." The mysterious man waved the fancy spear calmly, and there were still a few clusters of iron carvings on it, but it was only stained with blood.

Qiu Fei was furious in his heart, and unexpectedly raised his spear and stabbed at the mysterious man.The mysterious man picked up the spear in his hand, but what Qiu Fei finally hit was the giant centipede's lower back.He made several shots, but was dodged by the mysterious man.

"Why are you leaving!" Qiu Fei shouted again.Seeing the help of experts, the others sailed upstream with confidence.Only these two people and a demon were left on the nearby river.

The mysterious man didn't answer, but just replied, "If you still want to save the common people in the world, please remember what I said now."

Gritting his teeth, Qiu Fei had no choice but to prick up his ears to listen to his teachings, and fiercely hit the spear at the big centipede, venting his hatred.Unexpectedly, only half an hour later, this big centipede was killed by him.Although it was very difficult, it still greatly exceeded his expectations.

Qiu Fei turned his head and wanted to ask the mysterious man a few more questions, but found that the river was calm and there were no people.

And near the shore, the people panicked because of the sudden commotion, and several children fell into the river.Seeing this, Lan He rushed over and jumped into the river, picked up the children and returned them to their parents.

Lan He was soaking in the water and was about to climb ashore when he suddenly felt something approaching, so he turned his head to look, and could vaguely see fluctuations under the water surface, so he dived down.He lives in the southern border, and his water quality is still very good.

Lan He thought it was a smaller monster, so he tried to kill it, but he dived down to see if it was Ye Xiu, who was it?

He was about to drag Ye Xiu ashore, but Ye Xiu dragged him downstream.Lan He had no choice but to hold him on his arm, and swam downstream for several miles, only to see that there was no one around, he came up to the surface of the water.Lan He was in a state of confusion, thinking about what to do, but Ye Xiu raised the corners of his mouth, stretched out his hand and brushed away the messy wet hair on his face, revealing his restored face, and looked at him carefully.

"Do you...do you still have a name?"

Lan He was struck by lightning, a hundred excuses for how to lie flashed through his mind, but in the end he just froze in place, unable to move.

The smile on Ye Xiu's face was even wider, and he added: "——it's called stunning beauty."

At that moment, Blue River's expression was very exciting.He didn't expect Ye Xiu to say such - such frivolous words!It really doesn't have the temperament of a martial arts master!Ruined the image of a great god in his mind!How irresponsible!

Seeing Lan He's expression of being stunned by lightning, Ye Xiu laughed again, grabbed his arm and jumped ashore: "Are you still thinking about what happened just now?"

Lan He was dumb for a moment, then replied in a low voice: "Are you really Ye Qiu? That One Autumn Leaf?"

Ye Xiu nodded: "Do you still believe me?"

Lan He suddenly opened his eyes wide, and hesitated for a moment: "If Jun Mo Xiao is also you, I will believe it."

Ye Xiu suddenly pushed him to the ground, and put a sharp blade on Lan He's neck - it was actually Ye Xiu who took it off from the spear just now.

"Now, do you still believe it?"

"If Jun Moxiao is also you, I will believe it." Lan He repeated and closed his eyes.

"Why?"

"There are a lot of rumors in the world, and you can't believe them all. I know Jun Moxiao, and I believe it. But I don't know One Autumn Leaf, so I can't make false promises." Lan He paused word by word. explain.

Lanqiao Chunxue, your undercover work has failed too much.You can't even make up a lie, even if you lie to him, maybe the matter will be solved perfectly.You see, your little life is going to be confessed here today, right?Ye Qiu was offered a reward of one million taels of gold, how could you let an insider like you go?

As Lan He thought about it, he felt that the sharp blade on his neck was removed.Ye Xiuxiu looked at him with a smile in his eyes: "I didn't realize that Xiaolan is such a courageous person."

Lan He blinked his eyes, and looked at Ye Xiu innocently, but saw Ye Xiu suddenly pull him up and run away: "Oops! If you don't go back, you will be scolded to death by the proprietress!"

As a result, that night, the two were fined to wash dishes in the backyard—even though Chen Guo could be heard bragging to the regular customers about how beautiful Lan He's current appearance was in the backyard.Looking at the two large bowls and dishes, Ye Xiu sighed for a long time.Lan He couldn't bear it: "If you have something important to do, do it first, I will take care of it here."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll finish brushing in a while." Ye Xiu shook his head, but squatted down, "Besides, the proprietress is not really angry at us for absenteeism. She is angry that we didn't tell her when we went into the water, which made her worry for three hours. .”

Lan He watched as Ye Xiu quietly picked up a bowl, smeared it with soap, and then immersed it in the water. His slender fingers dazzled the eyes, and even thought of something else—like playing with it—ah no, it’s thin. Take a closer look.

This is One Autumn Leaf in the past, and Lord Grim today.In the past, he was called Ye Qiu, and he was a high-ranking martial arts god of war; now he is called Ye Xiu, and he is an approachable waiter in an inn.

What kind of state of mind is this?It's as if the moon in the sky has become the person in front of you.

Lan He was in a daze, when Chen Guo came out suddenly, almost twisting Ye Xiu's ears to teach him a lesson: "Did you learn from Old Wei? Washing dishes is like paddling water? That's fine." That's enough, stop wasting water here, go do your business, it's not for you to waste the hard work of fetching water!"

Chen Guo chased away Ye Xiu, and stayed behind to accompany Lan He to do the dishes.

Lan He was silent for a while, and couldn't help but ask, "Sister Chen, how did you and Brother Ye know each other?"

"Speaking of it, it was just a snowy day. He had no clothes to keep out the cold that day, and hid in the kitchen of our shop empty-handed. Later, I let him live in the utility room—the one under the stairs now. Afterwards, he went out to hunt, found people to join the gang, and even helped me build the inn." Chen Guo explained while brushing the bowl neatly.Seeing that Lan He was in a daze, she added a few words, "Actually, it's only been half a year. Although you came late, you don't have to worry about it. If you stay in this inn, you will be a family."

Lan He nodded, feeling a little heavy in his heart.He glanced at the corner of the yard, where his altar of joy Gu was buried, wondering what would happen if Chen Guo and others found out.It made him sleepless at night.

Ye Xiu was very happy.He took Tang Rou and Baozi to hunt the captured monsters outside the forest, and he always went to swindle things in the thatched cottage.Over time, he noticed that among the inner disciples of Zhongcaotang, there was a young boy who was very timid. Although he was practicing very seriously, he still had no effect.

"Do you want to change the path of cultivation?" Ye Xiu saw that the young man was alone, so he went to talk to him after the day's practice.

Seeing what Lord Grim said, the boy said with a little disappointment: "Probably, the sect will not give me such a chance. And... I have not passed this round of assessment, and I will probably be demoted."

"Do you want to come to our Happy Inn?" Ye Xiu said with a smile.

"Aren't you joking with me?" The boy froze.

"You can try night hunting with us first. I'll teach you a new way of cultivation." Ye Xiu greeted earnestly and enthusiastically.

"Thank you senior, I'll think about it." The young man smiled shyly and agreed.

When he secretly left the sect's residence at night many times to join Ye Xiu, someone reported this to Wang Jiexi, but Wang Jiexi said he should ignore it.

Plantago asked strangely: "My lord, Qiao Yifan, are you planning to..."

Wang Jiexi shook his fly whisk: "This child has a destiny of immortality, but it's a pity that he is not in my thatched cottage. I might as well let him have a way to reach the sky, and it can be regarded as an extra good fruit for myself."

Plantago Seed was surprised and speechless.

When Qiao Yifan arrived at the meeting point, he not only saw Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, and Baozi, but also a masked woman.He dared to say that there is no other woman in the martial arts world who can make the thick-barreled firecracker so superbly, except for Su Mucheng from the Excellent Era Sect.So the identity of Lord Grim is...

Qiao Yifan was shocked, but he still treated each other politely and with the courtesy of seniors.

One month later, at the beginning of June, one month before the martial arts conference in July, Wang Jiexi announced that Qiao Yifan would be expelled from the sect, but the reason was that "the Chinese Herbal Academy was ashamed of not being able to develop his talents, so he asked him to find another way to go to heaven." .Qiao Yifan thanked him with tears in his eyes, and transferred to Xingxin Inn with his luggage on his back.

Just when Lan He was still struggling to get rid of the Gu, another uninvited guest broke into Xingxin Inn.

It was the second night after Qiao Yifan came, and everyone had a drink in celebration.Baozi poured wine into the wrong glass, and Ye Xiu fell asleep quietly after drinking a glass.That night the moon was dark and the wind was high, everyone in Xingxin went to bed early, only Lan He tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, and felt extremely hot inside even wearing only unlined clothes.He even tried ripping the petals as a decision-making method—only he used a bunch of greens in the kitchen.Every time he tore off a leaf, he would utter a sentence of "Down with Gu" or "Don't play Gu". For some reason, it became "like" or "dislike" while talking.

"Ah——can you give me a happy word..." After tearing up a bundle of vegetables, Lan He actually came to the conclusion that "I like it" instead of "I can't play Gu", so angry that he shrank into a ball under the quilt.

He thought a lot about it, such as how to ask Ye Xiu's plan in a roundabout way, how to obtain information about Ye Xiu's weapons, and how to collect copies of all Ye Xiu's secret books - obviously this is what an undercover agent should do. , what are you doing here?

He turned over and sat up, shook off the quilt, and was about to cheer himself up when he suddenly heard an extremely small sound coming from the roof.He was a little puzzled, so he opened the door and went to the corridor. He heard voices heading towards Ye Xiu's room. Lan He was hesitating whether to go in, when suddenly he felt a cold light flashing above his head, as if some iron object had slipped by, and he hurriedly kicked it away. Ye Xiu's room door, rushed in.

A black shadow just happened to fall on the beam, and the cold light in his hand shook towards Ye Xiu. In an instant, iron chains, barbed wire, daggers, silver needles and other things surrounded his whole body.Lan He grabbed the corner of the quilt, turned around and stood in front of Ye Xiu, only feeling a chill on his neck.

The uninvited guest picked up his pile of things, and decisively walked through the window without disturbing anyone.Lan He had no choice but to check, and found that Ye Xiu was still drowsy from sleep, so he threw the tattered quilt aside and dragged Ye Xiu back to his room.

When Ye Xiu woke up the next morning, the first thing he saw was a field of vegetable leaves and Lan He sleeping beside him, he squeezed his face with some amusement, "Xiao Lan, when is your birthday?"

Lan He was still awake, so he asked casually, "Baozi asked again?"

Ye Xiu smiled and picked up a vegetable leaf and put it in front of his eyes: "I suspect you are a rabbit."

Lan He jumped up in shock, and after seeing it clearly, his face flushed with shame: "You! You are the one who belongs to the rabbit! I... I'm just trying to tell a fortune teller!"

"Xiaolan is good at fortune telling? Help me figure out when I'll be lucky?" Ye Xiu propped his chin and asked slyly.

Lan He grabbed his robe and ran out of the room.After he washed his face with a handful of clean water, he realized that his neck was chilly, and suddenly he was horrified—oh no, that kit!A kit with Huang Shaotian's handwriting on it!He remembered that he didn't notice it when he cleaned Ye Xiu's room yesterday. Could it be that he was picked up by the night raider?

During breakfast, everyone heard about Ye Xiu's attack, and they couldn't help becoming vigilant. Only Baozi said carelessly, "I remember boss, you seem to be offering a reward of a million taels, right? Yes, a million taels of gold! Boss, you It's really worth the money!"

Ye Xiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Then I have to be on guard against the day when you drag me out and sell me in the middle of the night."

Everyone laughed again.

Blue River's heart was in a mess.If that's the case, that night raider will definitely come again, and the secret that he can't guarantee will be revealed. After coming undercover, will he still be so kind?

Ye Xiu is the one who can talk the most, Ye Xiu is also the one who has the most decision-making power, and only Ye Xiu can protect himself.

It seems that it's time to dig out the Joy Gu.

Just as he was thinking, Lan He was suddenly slapped on the elbow by Ye Xiu.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank Xiaolan for saving my life." Ye Xiu picked up the bowl of porridge and respected Lan He in a serious manner, "I decided to cook for Xiaolan myself tonight. Food. Let me tell you, no one is allowed to snatch it!"

"Come on, who cares." Chen Guo glanced at him, "Let's ask Baozi to cook for us tonight."

Lan He's heart twitched, and he said smoothly, "Then I'll also cook for Brother Ye as a side dish."

"All right, all right, I'll do whatever you want. I've borrowed the small kitchen in the backyard for you. Don't come to the big kitchen to steal food!" Chen Guo waved her hands disapprovingly.

Lan He took a deep breath, and slowly loosened the clenched fist in his sleeve.