Rune

Chapter 10 A Poem in the Wind
Xisan County, this is considered to be the most desolate place in Daqin, further to the west, there is the Gobi Barren Mountain, behind the barren mountain, there is a vast wasteland.Winter here comes earlier than other places. In November, under the leadership of several winds, the snow fell naturally, and until the end of March next year, the snow was still reluctant to leave.

There can be no farming at this time of year.But building houses, repairing city walls and other matters were all put on hold, and even horse thieves hid in the den of thieves and could not come out.

The common people in Yucheng stay at home every day, their wives and children warm their kangs, wait until the snow melts, and gather energy for the whole winter, and when the spring is full, they can start farming.

In the valley, here is a place with relatively little snow, because the wind is too strong, and if you are thinner, it is basically difficult to walk, not to mention the snow, which is blown away before it condenses on the ground.

But although there is no snow, this is the coldest place, and even the most vigorous sand grass on the Gobi cannot survive here, so it has always been bare, with no vegetation, no animals, and no people.

No. Someone
A young man, in this desolate valley where all life is cut off, stands in a place where the wind is the strongest, the coldest, and there is no frost left, writing something stroke by stroke.

But he doesn't have a pen. Or he is a pen.

He didn't have paper either, but within a foot in front of him, there was paper.

Bend your knees, extend your elbows, put your fingers together, and lightly but extremely powerfully stroke the air in front of you. At the same time, your shoulders followed, your back twisted, and the other hand waved in the wind, leaving afterimages.

Xu Baiyan is writing. He has been writing these words for half a year, and he is extremely proficient.

And just half a year ago, when he was just sitting in the school and writing some extremely simple strokes, he never imagined that he could write more than ten thousand strokes in just a few hours like he is now. word long poem.Those originally simple strokes became the most complicated characters after being pieced together, and the pen-holding posture, which has been practiced for five full years, has become extremely smooth and natural after being devoted to the body joints.

It was as if the hardships of the previous five years were all for dancing wildly in this fierce wind today.

Xu Baiyan wrote for three hours, looked up at the end of the valley, the morning light had come, and the time was almost up.

Suddenly, the young man's figure speeded up again inconceivably, with a faint afterimage and heavy force, his thin muscles were like forged iron springs under the skin, urging his bones to split the air, and the humming seemed to overwhelm the sound of the wind .

The poem, which was supposed to take two hours, ended within half an hour. Xu Baiyan took a rest, letting the cold wind blow the sweat from his bare upper body into white mist, and then he took out the extremely clean school uniform from the package , worn on the body.

Facing the strong wind, a scholar walked out of the valley.

Today is a big day for Yucheng, because after decades, a student finally got admitted to Chaodu Academy!The festive energy in the whole city was stretched from the end of the year to March by this person.

This person is naturally Xie Qingwan.

Now that the Chinese New Year is over, Xie Qingwan is just 18 years old. As the saying goes, this girl has turned eighteen, and the girl of the Xie family is already a rarity. In the short six months, she has become more and more beautiful every day. , last year a downhill talisman master gave her the threshold to enter the Tao of talisman, and now she has been admitted to the school of Chaodu
Standing on the long stone-paved street, wearing a blue jacket and her hair swaying in the wind, almost all the light of March was absorbed by this girl.

"Thank you, sister, be careful along the way."

"Don't forget our Yucheng, let alone our five-year classmate"

People gathered around a carriage, and their farewell words were all very polite. After all, a person who has stepped into the talisman with one foot will have a different identity when he leaves the city, so even the city officials came to see him off in person, thank you The second elder of the family stood around the city official, with tears on his face, but an undisguised smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Miss, it's getting late." The driver at the side looked at the sun in the sky and whispered.

"Wait a little longer, just for a while." Xie Qingwan said, her eyes swept across the crowd, looking for that figure
Finally, she saw behind the crowd, a student riding a chubby pony, coming towards this side.

She felt hot.

But when she saw that person being pushed out by the crowd, she felt anxious again. After a few breaths, she thought that she had left and didn't know when she would be able to come back, so she finally gritted her teeth.

"Xu Baiyan!" She tiptoed and waved towards the back of the crowd.

Everyone was slightly startled, and following the sound, they looked back in unison, and then saw a student with short hair squeezed through the crowd.

"Sorry, I'm late." Xu Baiyan said.

Xie Qingwan nodded, not blaming her, and even ignoring the surprised eyes of the students and fellow villagers around her.

More than five years ago, she and the boy entered the school together.That day, she saw the boy throw a copper coin into the bowl in front of an old woman begging at the gate of the city.

In the following five years, Xie Qingwan became a classmate as a teenager.

She found that the other party was really a very kind person. He would straighten the store's fallen sign; Medical hall; even if he encounters a stray cat on the road, if he has something to eat in his hand, he will break off a small piece and throw it there.

The girl was young and ignorant, just looking at these insignificant things this boy did, watching him grow a little bit taller, looking at those pair of eyes that are always ordinary but extremely sincere, this look is five years,
He is the first to come to school every day and the last to leave. When writing, his posture is always so correct, and his pen is always so straight.But she went to school step by step, took the exam, and was constantly praised by her side, while the young man remained motionless in that beginner's seat. Her heart was lonely and bitter.

Girls are always precocious, this year already, Xie Qingwan naturally knows what this feeling is, but she also knows that she and the other party have become farther and farther away, and if they go to the capital today, the two must be people from two worlds .

"Brother Xu, here is some money, you can take it." She took out a small bag from the carriage behind her and handed it over.

Xu Baiyan was taken aback, but didn't take it.

The girl didn't care, so she stuffed it into the opponent's arms: "You have to hold it!" She expressed a little displeasure on her face, and said, "You haven't even eaten lunch for the past six months, I know you have had a hard time , you don’t need to be brave. If you want to continue studying, then accept the money well, and then work harder, even harder than now, and finally go to Chaodu, where you will be admitted to Chaodu Academy, and then you will spend the money give me back."

The girl's face was always full of anger, and her voice was full of displeasure, but her face became hotter and hotter as she spoke. Fortunately, the wind in March was still cold, and she seemed to be flushed from the cold.

"But." Xu Baiyan was about to say something.

"Uncle, it's getting late, we should be on our way." Xie Qingwan didn't wait for Xu Baiyan to finish, she turned around and got into the carriage. During the process, she didn't even dare to look at the people around her, let alone look at it. The closed mouths of my parents.

"Okay~"

After receiving the order, the coachman naturally sat in front of the cart and waved his whip in his hand.

"Snapped--"

In March, a carriage left Yucheng.
(End of this chapter)