Looking for plums under the moon

Ling Guyue quickly picked up the coat on the hanger and put it on, stepped forward and opened the window.

The moonlight poured down on his face through the faded window, like a layer of frost and snow on his fair skin.

In front of the eyes is a mountain forest, with many ancient trees and weeds, and the forest is extremely dark, only the shadows of the trees swayed by the wind, and there is nothing else to be seen.

Ling Guyue looked puzzled, secretly said: "Could it be a monkey?"

Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard another rustling sound, as if someone was wading through the grass and walking in the forest.

Immediately, he jumped out from the window sill and followed the sound to chase after him.

The sound of blades of grass rubbing against each other was neither far nor near, and Ling Guyue followed carefully.

It's just that walking through the forest at night, I can't really see it, and I don't know if it's a person or a mountain bird.

Even so, he gradually caught up with him.

Walking to a place with sparse grass and sparse forest, the voice in front stopped abruptly.

Ling Guyue also stopped, taking advantage of the leaking moonlight, and looked around.

He knew that the person must be hiding nearby, but the tree trunks here are thick and the ground is uneven, so it is really difficult to find a person hiding in it.

What's more, the man seemed to have learned to be smart, and he didn't make a sound again.

Ling Guyue moved her footsteps lightly, stepped on the aged soft leaves, and said loudly: "Why do you need to hide? Are you a human or a mountain ghost? Why did you visit in the middle of the night?"

His voice swayed in the wind, and gradually disappeared in the silent night, but there was no response.

Ling Guyue frowned, and was about to go behind the tree to have a look, when suddenly she heard several screams accompanied by bursts of fluttering sounds from above her head.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!"

He turned his head suddenly, only to see a mass of dusty things attacking him, and hurriedly dodged to the side.

Seeing him leave the spot, the thing turned around and chased after him.

Ling Guyue unhurriedly performed the technique of changing shape and changing shadows, bringing afterimages in the forest where the moon shadow was fragmented.

The thing was really confused, and it spread its wings and fluttered back and forth between the shadows.

Ling Guyue only saw that the thing was a bird-like bird, she waved her sleeves and flicked her fingers to shoot it down, but unexpectedly it was very alert in the dark, as if it had sensed the danger, it avoided the attack and hid itself in a tall tree beside it .

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" The low-pitched cry echoed endlessly under the moonlit night.

It turned out to be a bird.

Ling Guyue settled down a bit, turned around and was about to go back, when she suddenly felt a weight on her shoulders, as if something had fallen down.

Startled in his heart, he turned his head slowly, but met a pair of faint green eyes.

"Woo!" The dusty thing tilted its head and looked at him.

It is fluffy all over, with a pair of round eyes, blinking constantly, sometimes opening and closing one, which is very interesting.

"Woo!" Seeing that he ignored her, she tilted her head to the other side.

Ling Guyue blinked.

The thing on his shoulder blinked with him, and the long eyelashes trembled.

Seeing its cuteness, Ling Guyue couldn't help but want to reach out and rub it.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" The thing seemed to be very happy, and moved its feet, with two clusters of ear-like feathers sticking out on its head.The fluffy feathers touched Ling Guyue's face, causing a burst of itching.

"Was it you just now?" Ling Guyue poked its head lightly with her fingertips.

The thing narrowed its eyes in enjoyment, like a kitten.

"But...you don't look like you..." Ling Guyue thought of the shadow that fell on the window paper, those twisted arms, it couldn't be this harmless owl.

Just as he was thinking, a cry came from behind him.

"Brother!"

In the darkness, Shen Luo was dressed in snow-white obscene clothes, standing silently behind him like a ghost.

"Woo!" The owl on his shoulders screamed out of his fright, fluttered its wings, and disappeared into the dense forest.

Ling Guyue was also taken aback, and looked back at him, "Junior Brother, why are you here?"

Shen Luo walked to his side and said softly: "I heard the sound of the window opening in the senior brother's room, so I went in and looked, but found that the senior brother was no longer in the room, so I looked for it." Lin Zi looked over, "What was that just now?"

Ling Guyue said: "An owl."

Shen Luo smiled and said, "Brother came to catch owls so late?"

Ling Guyue shook her head, "It accidentally flew onto my shoulder... By the way, I seemed to see someone outside the window just now, so I caught up with it."

Shen Luo asked suspiciously: "Who is it? Brother, did you find it?"

Ling Guyue looked around for a while, "It disappeared after chasing here, maybe I was wrong."

Shen Luo took his hand, "Forget it if you can't find it," looked up at the moon, "Brother, it's cold in the night, let's go back."

Ling Guyue felt the coldness of his palm, nodded and smiled at him, "Okay."

The two walked towards the inn hand in hand.

The wind blew through the trees behind me, rustling the branches and leaves.

In the depths of the woods, a lonely figure quietly stared at the two of them, let out an inaudible sigh, and soon disappeared with the wind.

Shen Luo seemed to be aware of it, and looked in that direction, a cold light flashed in his eyes, revealing a sneer.

The next day, Ling Guyue was awakened by a knock on the door.

"Uncle, are you up? Have breakfast."

It seems to be the voice of green bamboo...

Ling Guyue turned over and stretched.

After tossing around in the middle of the night last night, it was already the fourth watch when we returned to the inn, and it was only dawn after a good night's sleep.

Just as he was about to sit up, he found an arm across his waist.

Ling Guyue suddenly opened her eyes wide, and saw Shen Luo lying beside him, staring at her openly.

"Junior brother, you...why are you in my room?" Ling Guyue's ears turned red.

Shen Luo said with an innocent face: "Senior brother, don't you remember? It was my senior brother who asked me to stay last night..."

Ling Guyue thought about it, and only remembered that the two of them went back to the inn together, and then rested separately...

Shen Luo sat up unhurriedly, and walked out wearing obscene clothes, "Brother, I'm going back to my room to change." After saying that, he opened the door and walked out.

Qing Zhu who was standing at the door waiting did not hear Ling Guyue's response, and was about to knock on the door, but saw Shen Luo open the door and walk out of the room, she hurriedly dropped her hand in fright, bowed her head and said, "Master."

Shen Luo didn't seem to see him, and walked slowly to the next room.

Qingzhu thought to himself: Why did the head master ignore me?Could it be that I did something wrong?

Suddenly, another question came to mind: No...why did the head of the sect come out of the uncle's room early in the morning...and only in obscene clothes?

After breakfast, with the innkeeper's gratitude, a group of people led the horse out of the backyard.

"There will be a period later." Ling Guyue said goodbye to the old man, and then boarded the carriage with Shen Luo.

"Heroes, let's go, have a good trip!"

The sound of hooves gradually faded away, but the old man was still waving behind them.

Passing by the town gate, the big man in black who was captured by them last night was tied to the trees around the wooden archway.Those people were all bruised and swollen, with drooping heads, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

"Eldest brother, are these people dead?" Someone asked Qingzhu.

Qingzhu absent-mindedly gave a "hmm", "It's their own fault, no need to sympathize."

When a disciple who was close to the man in black passed by them, his eyes glanced over the corpses inadvertently, and his eyes suddenly widened.

Among dozens of corpses, one is still miserable.The man held his head up, with blood and tears running across his face, but his two eyeballs disappeared, leaving behind black eye sockets, from which dried blood clots gushed out.The mouth of the corpse was opened wide, and the index finger was scratching, as if it was terrified before death.

The disciple just glanced at it and then quickly turned around and threw it. His heart was pounding, and he rode up to Qingzhu's side, "Eldest brother, I'm afraid..."

Seeing his pale face, Qing Zhu touched his head, smiled wryly and said, "I'm afraid too."

"Ah? Senior brother, is there anything else you're afraid of?"

Qingzhu glanced at the carriage behind her, and said in a low voice, "I discovered a secret...it's about the master and uncle."

"What secret?"

Qingzhu stammered: "Do you think the sect leader...is a bit strange?"

"Elder brother, what do you think is strange?"

Qing Zhu held the rein in his hand, didn't know how to say it, and finally said after a long while: "The master seems, seems to have that kind of intention towards Master Uncle!"

Unexpectedly, the disciple didn't show a look of surprise, "Brother, you only know..."

Qing Zhu was stunned, "What? Could it be that you all knew?"

"All of us can see that..."

Qingzhu suddenly felt that she was losing face, coughed, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I have doubts for a long time, but I'm just not sure."

"What do you think, big brother?"

Qingzhu pondered and said: "The head of the sect is naturally the person I admire the most, but if it is compared with the uncle... I will definitely choose to help the uncle."

The disciple was surprised and said: "Elder brother thinks..."

Qingzhu nodded, stroked his chin and said, "Uncle Shi is pure-hearted all day long, and he doesn't even blink an eye when many people show his heart to him. Besides, Uncle Shi and the sect leader grew up together since childhood. I'm afraid I've become a man long ago... So it's impossible for the uncle to take the initiative, presumably the headmaster couldn't hold back and forced the uncle... Maybe it's because of this incident that the uncle left Pingchuan last time!"

Seeing Qingzhu's grief and indignation, the disciple beside him couldn't help but said: "Eldest brother...you don't mean to separate the master and uncle, do you?"

Qing Zhu's face froze, "Who...who said that?"

The disciple whispered: "We all know that you secretly store the chess sets that your uncle gave you, and no one would let him touch it..."

Qing Zhu blushed, "I respect that, just like worshiping the head of the sect, don't think too much about it!"

The disciple glanced at him, "Oh..."

In the rickety carriage, Ling Guyue was drowsy.

Shen Luo pressed him into his arms, "Brother, please sleep a little longer."

Ling Guyue pulled herself together, sat up straight and said, "It's nothing."

Shen Luo suddenly asked: "Brother, did you give Qingzhu a chess set?"

Ling Guyue thought for a while, "It seems to have been given away, why?"

Shen Luo said: "Senior brothers don't even send me off."

Ling Guyue smiled and said: "I never knew you liked playing chess... If you want it, I'll give you mine."

Shen Luo shook his head, "Forget it."

Ling Guyue glanced at him helplessly, seeing him bowed his head in thought, she opened the curtain and looked out.

The car had reached the intersection, and outside the window were dozens of extremely thick pagoda trees.

"Eleven big trees, so they came here..."

When he passed by here last time, he was still carrying a small grudge, the world is changing, and that young man is really his junior brother from the same school as him...

Ling Guyue turned her head, just in time to meet a pair of deep and quiet black eyes.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Ling Guyue said sadly: "I thought of Xiao Qiu..."

"Little revenge?" Shen Luo chuckled lightly, resting his head on Ling Guyue's shoulder, "He lied to the senior brother, and the senior brother just drove him away to show mercy."

Ling Guyue sighed, "After all, he is still young and has been deceived by Master, so he will inevitably do wrong things."

Shen Luo said: "Then what's the matter with the senior brother? It's not the senior brother who caused him."

Ling Guyue said: "Acquaintance, he is not bad..."

"Senior brother, he is just using you," Shen Luo looked at him and said, "Maybe now he feels that he will get revenge and live soon."

Ling Guyue frowned and said nothing, suddenly said: "Junior brother, anyone in the world can lie to me, only you can't."

Shen Luo smiled, "Why did senior brother suddenly say that?"

Ling Guyue said: "Along the way, I know that the Jianghu is full of treachery and treachery, and if I don't pay attention, I will fall into the trap... I was too naive before, and I was easily deceived by the calmness you whitewashed. Now that I know The truth, if you lie to me again... I would rather not be your senior brother, leave Pingchuan, and never step into the rivers and lakes again."

Shen Luo was stunned, and said softly: "Okay, I promise senior brother that I will never lie to senior brother in the future."

Ling Guyue finally felt relieved when she heard his promise.

At noon, the crowd came to a river. On a whim, a few playful teenagers rolled up their trousers and went down to fish in the river.

"I want to catch the biggest fish!"

"What's the use of being big? There are only thorns and no flesh all over my body. I want to catch the fattest ones!"

"Then I'll catch the most delicious!"

"Put your head under the water and smell the incense, and catch it after you smell it!"

Ling Guyue looked at them from the shore, and said with a smile: "You guys, be careful, there are snakes in the water."

"Uncle, don't worry, I'm not afraid of dragons! I must catch a big, fat and fragrant fish and give it to Uncle!"

"No! I want to give it to my uncle too!"

"Uncle Master wants mine, not yours!"

"Hey! Junior brother, you are looking for a fight..."

Everyone was laughing and laughing, and Qingzhu was also watching the excitement.

At this moment, Shen Luo came over and winked at him, "Come with me."

Qingzhu followed in fear.

Shen Luo stood in the forest with his hands behind his back, and said with his back: "I heard that you have a chess set?"

Qingzhu's heart skipped a beat, and she had a bad premonition, "I have several sets of disciples, I don't know what the master is talking about..."

Shen Luo said: "The set that senior brother gave you."

"Master Uncle did give the disciple a set of chess sets..."

Shen Luo said without doubt: "Give it to me when you go back."

Qingzhu shouted reluctantly in her heart: That was given to me by my uncle!But he had to answer verbally, "Yes..."

Shen Luo turned around, with deep meaning in his eyes, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking."

"Master...I..." Qing Zhu's face turned pale.

"There are some things you shouldn't think about." Shen Luo glanced at him and walked past him.

Qing Zhu opened his mouth, as if his whole body was frozen with ice.