flagship summer song

Chapter 6 Tao Xun

One of the things that Chen Yao hated most in his life was waiting, but Xu Xiaoxian made him wait twice in one day, and each time was longer than the first time.

Standing under the pavilion, he watched the blue oil-paper umbrella in the rain float slowly like a small boat from the haze of mist and rain in the distance, but he had no intention of appreciating it at all. He looked up and saw that the rain was getting smaller and the clouds were gradually opening. The sun was setting quietly, and he didn't wait any longer, he used his feet lightly to chase under the umbrella.

Xu Xiaoxian stood still, and seeing that the rain had stopped, he slowly held the umbrella horizontally in his hand, turned it around to shake off the water, closed the umbrella, took a strap from his sleeve, tied it on the umbrella, and carried it behind his back.

Seeing that Xu Xiaoxian's sleeves were stained with rain, Chen Yao had some resentment at first, but now he couldn't express it, so he just said: "The rain stopped, let's go into the mountain quickly, it's not easy to go into the mountain when the sun goes down."

Xu Xiaoxian nodded, and the two walked side by side into the mountain. As soon as they reached the mountain pass, Chen Yao heard a horse cry, turned his head and saw the black horse galloping, with a masked girl sitting on its back.

Chen Yao couldn't help frowning, the horse chased them and didn't mean to stop, but the little goddess jumped off the horse at some point, ran to Xu Xiaoxian and took him a step aside, Chen Yao also rushed to the horse Before coming over, he jumped away, grabbed the rope on the horse's back with his backhand, and got on the horse's back lightly.

The little goddess pulled Xu Xiaoxian's sleeve, and asked a little unhappy: "Banxian, you have already brought an umbrella, why are you still wet?"

"The umbrella covered the rain, but it couldn't block the wind. It's fine. It will dry in a while." Xu Xiaoxian pulled back his sleeves, looked at the horse brought back by Chen Yao, and asked the little goddess, "Who won?"

"Of course it's me. This bastard is so stupid, he keeps running in the wrong direction... Eh? Where's your donkey?"

"I went to hide from the rain." Xu Xiaoxian touched the little goddess's sleeves, and they didn't get wet. Then she looked up at the misty and rainy mountain in front of her, and said after concentrating for a while, "After entering the mountain, you are not allowed to run far, the mountain god is already angry. I don't know what's going to happen."

The little goddess nodded obediently, then turned to Chen Yao and said, "Did you hear that, don't stay too far away from us."

Chen Yao smiled, neither agreed nor refuted, led the horse and followed them, and asked as they walked, "Little Goddess, your lightness kung fu is so powerful, who taught you?"

"Taught by a half-immortal."

"Oh? Then I asked you before, how can you say that half immortals can't?"

The little goddess scratched her head and asked, "Can't you teach if you don't?"

Chen Yao frowned and looked at Xu Xiaoxian, but the little fairy just smiled and didn't intend to explain anything. Chen Yao continued to ask the little goddess about learning lightness kung fu, but the little goddess couldn't tell how she learned it, as if she was just crawling. Climbing trees and climbing over walls has taught others what took years to learn.

Chen Yao thought for a while, then asked, "Why are you covering your face?"

This question made Xu Xiaoxian pause for a moment, but the little goddess replied naturally: "Because I am a goddess, mortals cannot see me."

Naturally, Chen Yao didn't overlook Xu Xiaoxian's reaction, and then asked: "What's your name? It can't be called Little Goddess, right?"

The little goddess lowered her head and thought for a while, and said, "I don't have a name, I've always been called the little goddess, right?" She tugged at Xu Xiaoxian's sleeve uncertainly.

Xu Xiaoxian lost his mind for a while, and was asked by the little goddess before he came back to his senses, looked up at Chen Yao, then looked down at the little goddess, and said slowly, "You have a name."

"What's your name?" Little Goddess and Chen Yao asked at the same time, they looked at each other in surprise, and looked at Xu Xiaoxian at the same time.

Xu Xiaoxian glanced at them, and only said two words: "Yuehua."

When Chen Yao heard the name, his body was slightly startled, and he couldn't help but look at the little goddess, but the little goddess just whispered these two words a few times, and didn't seem to have any special feelings. It's too strange and too far away.

She said: "I still think Little Goddess sounds better."

Xu Xiaoxian smiled, and said in a doting tone: "You can call it whatever you like, it doesn't matter."

After that, Chen Yao stopped asking questions, and Xu Xiaoxian even had the mentality of not telling others if he didn't ask him. On the way up the mountain, the little goddess always asked everyone. Answered a few sentences, but didn't pay much attention to it. In the end, the little goddess didn't want to talk to them anymore, and jumped to the tree to pick leaves to play. Xu Xiaoxian knew that she would not go far, so she followed her, and waited for the three of them to come. When we arrived at the mountain temple on the top of the mountain, the sun also went down.

Chen Yao led the horse to a tree in front of the temple and tied it up. He stood under the tree and watched the sunset for a while, when he suddenly heard a humming sound from the temple, like some kind of musical instrument. Only a single whine of different pitches, not a melody.

The sycamore tree beside him was blown by the wind and dropped a big green leaf. Seeing the beauty of the leaf, he picked it up in his hand, pinched the petiole with his thumb and forefinger, turned the leaf, and walked back to the temple.

The little goddess was sitting alone on the stone steps in front of the temple, holding a pottery red object the size of a goose egg in her hand. Bounce, that's where the monotonous whine comes from.

Chen Yao looked around, but there was no sign of the half-immortal, only the oil-paper umbrella leaning against the pillar. He approached the little goddess, took a closer look at the instrument, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

The little goddess looked up and saw him looking at the musical instrument in her hand, so she held the "goose egg" in front of him and asked, "You know this one?"

Chen Yao reached out to take it, nodded, pressed his fingers on the six holes, bowed his head and began to play softly.

It was a very simple ballad, and the little goddess hummed after listening to it. When Chen Yao finished playing, she repeatedly held Chen Yao's hand and asked him to teach him. Chen Yao sat down next to the little goddess, singing a song Teach her one by one.

It's a pity that the little goddess probably has no talent in this area. Chen Yao taught her several times, but she still couldn't play the tune coherently. When her temper came up, she simply stopped learning and asked Chen Yao to play whatever tune she wanted.

Chen Yao smiled, but he didn't feel disgusted at all. He played whatever song the little goddess ordered, but the sound of this instrument was heavy. No matter how cheerful the tone was played, it felt a little sad. It adds more fatigue to people's hearts.

The little goddess listened to the song and hummed, and fell asleep leaning on Chen Yao's shoulder without knowing it. Chen Yao felt his shoulders sink, so he stopped playing and sat quietly in front of the steps. There was a breeze blowing, and the shadows of the trees swayed softly, which was very pleasant.

Xu Xiaoxian walked behind them quietly, Chen Yao didn't pay attention for a while, and was almost frightened by him when he turned around, Xu Xiaoxian stuck out his tongue at him embarrassingly, leaned over and carefully picked up the little goddess, turned and walked into the hall behind him , Chen Yao got up and followed, a huge statue of a mountain god stood in the center, he raised his head just in time to meet those big lantern-like eyes, he couldn't help feeling awed, and stopped in his tracks.

Xu Xiaoxian piled up some thatch beside the hall, and gently put the little goddess on it. Chen Yao took off his cloak and covered her carefully.

Xu Xiaoxian thanked him softly, brought some dry firewood from the back of the main hall, borrowed the candlelight from the hall, lit a pile of fire, and when he returned, he did not forget to kowtow to the mountain god grandfather a few times, and babbled a lot If you are grateful for the repayment, you bowed several times to the four directions of the main hall, and finally said: "Excuse me, all the fairy grandpas, Xiaoxian and friends passed by here, and I hope you can move a nest. Xiaoxian hereby thanks all the grandpas."

Chen Yao felt strange, so he asked, "What are you begging for?"

Hearing this, Xu Xiaoxian hurriedly bowed a few more times, pulled Chen Yao, hurried out of the hall, and explained in a low voice: "We live in the mountain god's temple, and we have to apologize to him for disturbing the mountain god's grandpa. Li, what nonsense, if you offend Grandpa Immortal, you will be entangled by the kid, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand... Grandpa Immortal can be stingy, you will be in bad luck.”

Xu Xiaoxian said the following words very quietly, and looked back quietly, as if afraid that someone might hear, and warned Chen Yao not to speak with his eyes and gestures.

Seeing that he was nervous and putting on airs, Chen Yao really didn't know what to say, he just thought it was ridiculous.

Xu Xiaoxian saw him playing with the "goose egg" with his head down.

"Do you recognize this Tao Xun?" Xu Xiaoxian asked softly.

"Ah."

Chen Yao turned over the Tao Xun in his hand, and lightly brushed the rough bottom with his thumb. There were two characters crookedly engraved on it, which were his mother's boudoir name.

Xu Xiaoxian walked to the position beside him, looked up at the several stars in the night sky, and asked softly: "Mr. Chen, can she grow into what you want?"

Chen Yao smiled, put the Tao Xun to his mouth, and the melody slipped out from the vacated holes, and the shadows of the trees danced with the summer night wind.

That song was played by Xu Xiaoxian outside the Chen Mansion that night for the little goddess to pretend to be a ghost to scare the big housekeeper. At this time, Chen Yao played it again with Tao Xun, but it felt different.

Xu Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Okay, you'll remember it after listening to it once, the little goddess doesn't have this talent."

"Why didn't you teach her this?" Chen Yao handed Tao Xun back to Xu Xiaoxian.

"I won't do that either."

"You know the kung fu of the little goddess?"

"Knowledgeable, the level is on paper, but the little goddess has loved jumping up and down since she was a child, she can do it by herself with just a few pointers." Xu Xiaoxian bowed his head and played the Tao Xun, one sound at a time, and jumped into the quiet night, although Compared with the little goddess, the level is much higher, but to Chen Yao's ears, there is always a weird feeling of howling ghosts and howling wolves, and inexplicably feel a coolness slipping from the base of the neck to the back of the head.

Chen Yao thought, maybe Xu Xiaoxian had been immersed in that weird world for so long that he couldn't even find a normal pitch.

"Banxian, did you deliberately let me see the little goddess that night?"

Xu Xiaoxian wiped the Tao Xun lightly with his sleeve, and said: "Fate and destiny have their own number, and no one meets anyone for no reason. If you think Xiaoxian arranged it on purpose, then let it be."

"Does Banxian know my mother?"

"What do you think, son?"

Looking at Xu Xiaoxian's appearance, Chen Yao thought that Xu Xiaoxian would not be much older than himself. It has been ten years since his mother passed away. Ten years ago, Xu Xiaoxian was probably a half-grown child, so it is unlikely that he knew his mother.

Xu Xiaoxian: "It's late at night, young master, let's go to bed early."

Chen Yao glanced at him, still having doubts in his heart, but knew that the other party had no intention of answering, so he went back to the main hall helplessly, sat by the fire, took some dry food, warmed it up on the fire and ate it.

Xu Xiaoxian walked up to the steps, looked up at the faint starlight in the night sky, there is no moon tonight, but the seven connected stars are not very dazzling.

A sycamore leaf fell in the courtyard at some point, spinning alone in the wind. He leaned over and picked up the palm-sized leaf. The leaf was a little curled, probably because it had been separated from the mother tree for a long time, and it seemed a little faded.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Yao woke up from his sleep and heard a faint sound of wind in his ears. He opened his eyes and looked at the little goddess beside him. She was sleeping peacefully, as if she was still having a good dream, with a faint smile on her lips.

The fire in front of me added firewood again, and Beep Bobo was burning vigorously.

He looked left and right, but he didn't see the figure of the half-immortal, so he got up and walked out of the hall. As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he saw the pottery xun standing on the stone steps in front of him, pressing down the sycamore leaf , The leaf corners are curled up by the wind.

He felt strange, looked up to the yard, the sky was getting brighter, the mountains were foggy, and he could not see the distance clearly, he walked down the stone steps, walked outside, suddenly heard the neighing of his horse, looked back , but saw a figure lightly falling from the branch of the sycamore tree.