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Chapter 120 The Girl in the Forest
###120 Girl in the Forest
In the third month of summer, heaven and earth begin to meet, and all things appear in harmony.

The sun should be shining brightly in summer, and although Linyou City was further north, the sun was still shining brightly outside the forest just now.Walking along the bamboo forest path, the two of them felt more and more plagued and smokey as they walked.

Xiaoyu held Ye Xiaolou's hand, pulling it tighter and tighter now, her fingers working harder, still feeling uneasy in her heart.

"Xiaoyu." Ye Xiaolou called softly.

"Master." Xiaoyu came back to her senses and realized that she had been uneasy just now, and her mind was filled with the scenes since she met Ye Xiaolou.

After Ye Xiaolou's soft call, he recovered a little bit of sanity, and quickly let go of his hand.

"Master, I'm sorry, I just..." He was tongue-tied and looked shy.

"Xiaoyu, let me ask you, what is the wind in the forest at this moment?"

Xiaoyu was puzzled, turned around in a circle, and said: "Master, the wind seems to be coming from the west."

He pointed behind him and then to the left.Seeing Xiaolou looking at him with a cold and helpless expression, he thought that he must have gone in the wrong direction.

However, there is no sunlight in this forest.Xiaoyu really couldn't tell the direction, so she could only make a random guess.

"Master, did I say something wrong?"

"I saw you were restless just now. What were you thinking about?"

When asked by Ye Xiaolou, Xiaoyu quickly waved her hand, "No, no, my disciple didn't think about anything. I didn't think about anything."

"How do you know the direction there?"

Ye Xiaolou suddenly asked seriously. The pink glow on Xiaoyu's face did not fade, so she covered her face and turned around.

"I'm asking you, what are you doing when you turn around?"

Xiaoyu was extremely shy, and hearing that Ye Xiaolou didn't seem to notice that her face was getting hot at all, she felt a little more relaxed.

"Let me ask you again, how did you tell the direction since you were a child?"

"Suzaku in the front, Xuanwu in the back, Canglong on the left, white tiger on the right." Xiaoyu quickly said the 28-night four-symbol that Master Jing usually taught.

After hearing this, Ye Xiaolou raised the corner of his mouth slightly. This expression was really unpredictable, and Xiaoyu didn't even know what it meant.

"Master, that's all I know."

"Well, I see it."

"Master, you teach me and I can learn." He was humble and eager to learn, with a sincere look on his face.

Ye Xiaolou nodded and said: "In summer, there is an east wind and rain. It should be an east wind today, but the wind in this forest does not come from the east. You are weak, so be careful, lest your inner fire rises and becomes chaotic. ."

"I'm not. Master, don't worry. I'm very fine and sober."

Before she finished speaking, Xiaoyu felt an itch on her back, as if a small furry animal was rubbing her clothes.I turned my hand away and touched it, but it was empty again. There was nothing.

Ye Xiaolou had walked a few steps away, and Xiaoyu quickly followed. Seeing Ye Xiaolou's hand under the white sleeves, she wanted to quietly hide her hand in his palm.

After hesitating for a moment, he suddenly felt the urge to hold that hand. In just a few steps, he seemed to have thought of dozens of ways to hold that hand.

Returning from picking incense, the shore is full of pears and butterflies are flying.
Deep in the Qiong Tower, the monthly committee is wearing a plain skirt and light clothes.
Xiaoyu didn't realize that she was caught up in a lot of thoughts, but her heart felt warm and slowly floating. It was really the east wind and rain, the red leaves were dancing in the waves, and the drizzle was fragrant with apricot flowers.
Apricot blossom, apricot blossom.

Master, master.

On the road in the forest, the bamboo leaves dance lightly and the smoke is red,
In the mountains, the silk rain on the evening pond moistened the swing, and the corners of the eyes were filled with meaning. "Master." Unknowingly, he was confused.

A cold hand gently placed on her forehead, "Xiaoyu, stay calm and don't be disturbed by the smoke."

"master."

Xiaoyu didn't feel upset at this time, but since the master asked her to stay calm, she obeyed obediently.

After trying it calmly for a few times, his body became softer and weaker, and unconsciously he was leaning entirely on Ye Xiaolou.

"Xiaoyu, how long have we been walking?" Ye Xiaolou did not push her away, but just asked questions to Xiaoyu, trying to make her wake up.

"What?" Xiaoyu said in a daze.

There was another itchy and hot feeling on the back, and at this moment the feeling went from the back to the feet.

"Master, do you think there are any furry animals in this forest?"

"Xiaoyu, don't think about those things." Ye Xiaolou whispered softly, and Xiaoyu was fascinated by it.

"What? Master, were you talking to me just now?"

Ye Xiaolou suddenly turned around and pressed Xiaoyu's shoulders. The two of them immediately sat on the ground. Ye Xiaolou pushed Xiaoyu's breath from top to bottom several times, and then he fell on Xiaoyu's body, sweating profusely.

After Ye Xiaolou's push, Xiaoyu finally came to his senses, turned around and supported Ye Xiaolou and said: "Master, master, what's wrong with you?"

"I didn't expect that it would take so much energy to help you adjust your breath."

Xiaoyu's eyes were full of self-blame, "Master, I will never be absent-minded again. I will take you out of this bamboo forest right now."

"Xiaoyu." Ye Xiaolou suddenly smiled lightly and said, "I'm fine, but Xiuguang doesn't seem to have any effect here, and my Qingying Sword doesn't seem to be able to detect anything strange here.

But have you seen something strange or thought of something strange? "

After being told by Ye Xiaolou, Xiaoyu lowered her face, not knowing how to answer, and not daring to raise her head to look at Ye Xiaolou again.

"If you are an ordinary person, I am afraid this forest will make you uncomfortable. I asked you to identify the direction of the wind because I want you to remember your direction. If we can't go out for a while, I'm afraid it will be harder for us to go out after nightfall. Now Can you still remember the way in?"

Xiaoyu looked up and shook her head.

"Don't worry, it's just some formations, and there's more than one. One of the formations was set up to trap the entire bamboo forest, while the other formations were changing all the time, sometimes organized, sometimes chaotic, without any strategy. .

If this guess is good, we don't need to think about how to get out for the time being. Instead, we need to find what this formation wants to trap. When we find it, maybe everything can be figured out. "

"But master, I really don't feel any discomfort. I just keep thinking about you, master. I always think about the situation since I met the master, the way the master talks on weekdays, and the evening pool with the master. "Bian, in the Arctic Pavilion"

"Did you ever think of anyone else?"

"Who else?" Xiaoyu shook her head, "Maybe I don't know anyone in the first place, and after thinking about it, it's just the master. There is another person, I can't remember his appearance, so it doesn't count as seeing him."

"One more person?"

The bamboo forest was silent, surrounded by a vast fog, Ye Xiaolou's clear eyes reflected a falling bamboo leaf for no reason.

Ye Xiaoyu just wanted to explain that it was just the back figure he had seen in his dream, but his body was tightly held in Ye Xiaolou's arms, unable to move.

(End of this chapter)