Jiaohua

Chapter 631 Master and Apprentice Kneeling Together (Part [-])
The Liling Mountains are vast and stretching with peaks and ridges. Dozens of villages are located at the foot of the mountains. The more people go to the mountains, the more uninhabited they are. The inner mountains are rugged and the streams are crisscrossed. Qiu Ningpo.

Sleeping at the foot of the mountain overnight, the real journey up the mountain began the next day. After another dusk and dawn, on the third day, they stepped up to Liling Lanxing Peak.

Beautiful rocks, beautiful pools, beautiful streams, passing through fertile fields and rice fields, an elegant courtyard stands in the bright sun.

There are several thousand-year-old trees outside the courtyard, clustered with hundreds of flowers, flocks of chickens and ducks running around, bypassing a large open space, which is full of books to dry.

Zhili spread out the books one by one, looking at them a few times while turning them over. Feeling something at this moment, he raised his head and looked behind him, and saw the young girl and the big man standing under the sun at a glance, Zhili was overjoyed: "Ah!!!"

The chickens and ducks were scared away.

"Senior Sister!" Zhi rushed over heartily, "Senior Sister, you are back!!"

Old Tong rushed out after hearing the sound, overjoyed: "A Li!!"

In the house, the old man was writing, and the tip of the pen paused for a while, his solemn expression became a little gentle, and he came back.

Zhi Changle was so tired that he just wanted to sleep, but Lao Tong forced him to kill chickens and ducks.

Zhi Li excitedly accompanied Xia Zhaoyi to meet the old man, the old man had already put down his pen, and was holding the coarse cloth to lift the teapot on the small stove, slowly brewing two cups of fine Dingtao Baiya.

The fragrance of tea was overflowing, and it was quiet and ethereal. Xia Zhaoyi sat down on the soft mat and said with a smile, "Master misses me."

The old man came and put the teacup in front of her, and said softly: "You missed the appointment."

"Although it's half a month late, it's still too late."

The old man sat back to his original place, picked up the teacup and blew the hot air on it: "Go to rescue Shen Zhiyan?"

"Ah."

"I haven't seen him for several years, is it strange?"

"On the contrary, we are closer," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "I don't have many friends, so I am very happy to see Mr. Shen."

The old man nodded, and looked at the little apprentice with shining eyes.

"Zhili, what do you have to say?" the old man said.

"Yes, yes," Zhi Li moved closer to Xia Zhaoyi, "Little Senior Sister, Mr. Shen has grown taller, more handsome, or disabled. Did he mention me? Did he read my letter?" ? Did you say anything after reading it? Did you say why you didn’t come to us all these years?”

The old man was silent for a while, and said, "Zhili, you go out."

Zhili looked at Master wrongedly, got up, and whispered next to Xia Zhaoyi: "Senior Sister, I will wait for you outside!"

Xia Zhaoyi looked at the closed study door, turned to look at the old man, and said with a smile: "There are not many friends who are far away, Master, don't blame him for this."

The old man took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Seven years ago, you traveled thousands of miles for your second brother, went to the north, and never came back, but now."

The old man didn't finish talking.

Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head slightly, and picked up the teacup on the table.

"What have you gained in the past few years?" The old man changed the subject.

Xia Zhaoyi didn't answer, she drank the tea in the cup very slowly, the heat was dense, and suddenly felt that time and time were half truth and half false.

After putting down the teacup, she calmly looked at the old man: "Master, it's all in vain."

"Why?"

"Master's intention is to let me cultivate my morality and dispel the hostility in my chest. I know that I was very murderous and full of hatred. Now that these years have passed, I thought I was calm and peaceful, but I saw Jiang on the way back. Floating corpses rotting in the air, Master... Li Shi, damn it."

The old man's face was calm, and he said lightly: "If there are no corpses everywhere, how can you be called a messy corpse? You should get used to it."

"Life is difficult," Xia Zhaoyi took out the three words handed by the old man before he left, and looked down, "In all dynasties, I have never seen such an absurd emperor. In the end of the dynasty, all the princes from all walks of life raised their troops and fought hard. To protect the emperor, even if you have two hearts in your chest, you need to learn from the teacher. Why do you want to make the princes, because you have to do superficial work, even if the princes don’t take the so-called emperor to be the emperor, you still have to seek the people’s hearts and fame. But according to Li , The soldiers retreated with strength, abandoning the world and the country, but they saved the princes and warlords from pretending to be disguised. They didn't even use excuses, and wantonly gathered people to invade the world. The common people are meat, and the wolves share it. The common people are difficult."

"So, where are you going," said the old man, "Go north, go east, or go south?"

Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows, his eyes were still looking at the common people.

He went north to find his second brother, but Xia Zhaoyi understood that the old man was asking her if she wanted to deal with Tao Lan.

Going to the east is to find evidence of Li. Hejing is in the east, and the east occupies one-third of the entire Dagan territory. The surname is still Li.

Going south is to compete in the Central Plains, where the warlords of the four directions are divided, and the ovens are full of wolf smoke.

She never had the intention of competing in the world, but the master regarded going south as an option.

"I'm a disciple." The old man suddenly said again.

Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes: "Master."

"Actually, you understand in your heart that life is difficult for the common people, is it really difficult in troubled times?"

Xia Zhaoyi shook his head: "Whether there is chaos or not, life is difficult for the common people, but it will be even more difficult in a chaotic world."

"The so-called common people are all fuel for the powerful and wealthy," the old man said indifferently, "whether they are chaotic or not, their whole life will be burned to ashes."

Xia Zhaoyi put down the three words of depreciation, and said seriously: "Master asked me to think, and every time I felt that I had the answer, the confusion in my heart became deeper and deeper, but it also became bolder."

"tell me the story."

"It's just what I said, I can't finish it. I have written it down, and I should have brought it back."

The old man nodded: "Then later, go get it and let me have a look."

"Ah."

"So, go north, go east, go south, do you have a choice?"

"Yes," Xia Zhaoyi smiled slightly, "but if you were to choose for me, which one would you choose?"

"Don't choose," the old man held the tea with lowered eyes, and said calmly after taking a sip, "Stay on the mountain and talk with me, play the piano, and make tea. Wouldn't it be a good time?"

"Huh?" Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows slightly, "Master has such childish words?"

The old man put down the teacup, and suddenly, the corners of his lips curved into a smile.

He seldom smiled, even forgot how, and now he did not know why.

"Tell me," said the old man, "where are you going?"

"Dong." Xia Zhaoyi said.

The old man nodded, remained quiet for a while, and said: "Actually, I don't want you to enter the world, but the hatred in your heart lies in the world outside the mountain, and the demons in your heart must be eliminated eventually."

As he spoke, the old man took out the map on the side and spread it out on the desk.

The map is extremely detailed, the proportions of the background composition are pleasing to the eye, the mountains and rivers are majestic, and the characters of the place names of the state capitals are elegant and gentle.

There are all kinds of colors, and the color palette is very comfortable. According to the old and new, Xia Zhaoyi can tell at a glance that it is a recent work.

"Master's painting?" She raised her head and said.

The old man didn't answer whether or not, and said indifferently: "It's not easy to kill Li Ju directly, it's not easy, destroying the entire Li family's foundation, just like he destroyed Xia's family, it's called revenge."

Xia Zhaoyi took a deep look at the old man, wondering if he had been dropped.

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