Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 82
The day after Gonggulou's wine fight, Xibo Jifu didn't come.

Su Jikong waited for two full days, but he never saw his father appear again.

Until two days later in the morning, it snowed heavily outside.

Su Ji pushed open the window, and snowflakes like goose feathers fluttered one after another, blending the heaven and the earth together.

The snow was half a foot thick, and a row of long footprints landed on the snow, looking very melancholy.

The footprints extend from the crabapple forest in the distance.A man in sable fur walked silently in the snow, holding a dark green wooden box under his arm.He walked very slowly, stepping on the snow with his heavy cotton boots.

Even if Su Ji was standing upstairs, he could hear the heavy footsteps creaking.

The man in the snow had a yellowish-white face and was worryingly thin. His hair was loose on his shoulders, and his cheeks and chin were covered with thick beards, which had obviously not been taken care of for a long time.Amidst the depression, those piercing eyes gave people a contradictory impression.

It wasn't until this person walked into the building that Su Ji recognized that this person was his father—Xibo Jifu.

Su Ji suddenly had an ominous premonition, he used to come in the evening, but today he came in the morning.Moreover, after seeing each other for two days, he seems to have suddenly aged ten years.

What has he experienced in the past two years?
Su Ji stepped forward to pat off the floating snow on his body, invited him to the table, and pushed a glass of hot wine in front of him, never wanting to be gently pushed back by his hand.

"I haven't had a drink for two years." Xibo Jifu's tone was a little less gentle and more vicissitudes.

"Why quit drinking?"

"Drinking reminds me of what happened here, of her..."

Of course Su Ji knew who "she" was, and then asked tentatively, "I think there must have been a lot of things between you and her in the past two years."

Xibo Jifu shook his head, and after a long silence, he slowly said: "I haven't seen her since I parted with her here last time. I thought she would come to me to ask for the jade certificate of good fortune, but I waited for a year, but she never showed up. In order to meet her, I traveled thousands of miles to Kunlun Mountains to find her, only to find out that Chanjiao blamed her for the 30-year coma of Taijia Daoist. She issued a foot restraint order as a punishment, and asked her to retreat and practice in a dark cave until her cultivation reached the ninth level of Xuanqing, otherwise she would never be allowed to leave the gate."

Su Ji bowed his head and pondered for a while, then said: "In the past two years, no one who has taught you has come to trouble you, which means that she didn't tell others about the jade document of good fortune with you."

"She said last year today that she would take back the Creation Jade Document in person, of course she would not break her word."

"But you are not a person who breaks your promise, so you will never hand it over to her, but you feel that you have harmed her."

Xibo Jifu didn't answer, his lonely expression had already answered this question for him.

"No...you didn't do anything wrong, even if you did, it's my fault."

"Brother Xian, not only are you not wrong, but I should thank you. The barefoot Taoist cheated secretly that day. If you hadn't helped me out, I'm afraid I would be the one sleeping here."

After finishing speaking, Xibo Jifu let out a long sigh.

Sitting beside him, Su Ji could feel the heavy breathing on his cheek.In order not to let his father continue to blame himself, Su Ji smiled and said:

"Oh, women are the most troublesome things in the world. Women are like a fire. She can set you on fire and burn you to ashes at any time! Why do you jump into the fire pit at a young age?"

Xibo Jifu could hear that Su Ji was making fun of himself with a sentence he had said, and couldn't help sighing:

"It's fine if you don't help me find a way, and you still talk sarcasticly, but I still treat you as a brother."

As he said this, a long-lost smile appeared on his cheeks.

Su Ji thought to himself, we are not brothers in the first place.Looking at his father's stiff smile, Su Ji knew that he hadn't smiled for a long time.

At this moment, when the two of them were talking, they felt that the room was getting hotter and hotter.

Su Ji pushed open the window, only to see that spring flowers were already blooming outside the window.

It was clear that it was snowing heavily just now, but now the ground is covered with green grass, and there is not even a trace of melting ice and snow.

Seeing that Bo Jifu didn't drink, Su Ji went for a walk by the lake with him.

The scenery of Lianhu Lake in spring is particularly pleasant.

It's not yet the season when lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the lake is covered with emerald green lotus leaves, covering the lake evenly.

There is a small wooden boat moored in the lake, and a young girl is sitting on the boat.She looked forward to the waves, and was picking water lotus leaves with her head down.A peaceful face reveals the softness of Xiaojiabiyu.

Su Ji felt that the girl looked like he had seen it somewhere before, and finally remembered after a long while. He just wanted to say hello, but swallowed the words.He saw Xibo Jifu looking at the girl in the lake in a daze.

That girl reminded Xibo Jifu of Yu Hongzhi, whom he could only meet in his dreams.Looking at the swaying water lotus leaves, he seemed to see the fate of the two people who were inseparable. He couldn't help feeling it, and recited aloud:
"Guanguan Jujiu, on the continent of the river. My fair lady, gentlemen are fond of swans. There are different kinds of plants, and they flow left and right. My fair lady, I want it. I can't ask for it, and I want to be convinced. You are leisurely, tossing and turning..."

Halfway through the poem, Su Ji was already stunned.He could hear that what Xibo Jifu was chanting was the "Guanju Qu" that his mother often hummed when he was a child, and it was also the song that Husi played and sang in Xiaohualou.

"This poem is very familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere..."

Xibo Jifu smiled lightly and said: "Brother Xian is joking again. I just thought of this, how could you have heard of it?"

Su Ji fell silent, with a half-smile on his face, obviously thinking about some kind of major consideration.

After a while, he suddenly turned around and ran up to the fourth floor of Gonggulou, where he found the Guqin that Xibo Jifu had played, and found that it was exactly the same as Husi's, the only difference was that there was a line of inscribed words missing from it. .He remembered that it was because he read that line of text that he mistakenly thought that Hu Si was his own sister.He recalled the content of the text and carved it on the piano with a knife.

Xibo Jifu stood there waiting for a long while, only to see Su Ji running over with a guqin in his arms, on which was engraved a line of words: On the first day of June in the 12th year of King Xuan, Yu's red branch was presented by the Weishui River.

Su Ji never expected that he would personally engrave this text.He didn't dare to say that he fully understood the meaning of this line of text, but the time and place above seemed to be a hint for the future.He knew that now was not the time to use that crabapple flower, so he couldn't change what happened here, but he still hoped that he could become a link connecting the past and the future, and witness everything happening with his own hands.It was like a game full of unknowns, and he was now handing over the next hint of the game to his father.

Su Ji looked at the bewildered Xibo Jifu, and explained: "Yu Hongzhi will appear by the Weishui River at this time. You give her the piano, and by the way, bring the poem you recited just now, and the poem you played earlier. the song that was played."

Xibo Jifu looked at a line of writing on the piano, but didn't say anything for a long time.He didn't know why Su Ji asked him to do this, and he didn't know why he concluded that Yu Hongzhi would appear in that place at that time, and he didn't know what a poem or a piece of music would change.He only knew that what the man in front of him said was definitely not groundless.

He didn't ask any more questions, just thanked him, and took the Qin over.

"You don't ask me why I let you do this?"

"Brother Xian asked me to do something, there must be your reason. If you don't want to talk about it, it's inconvenient for me to ask."

"You trust me that much?"

"If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't be here today." Xibo Jifu handed the dark green box to Su Ji, and said, "The Good Fortune Jade Book is in this box. If something happens to me, I want to Please keep it for me. That's why I'm here today."

When Xibo Jifu saw him take the box, he decided to leave.

After the two sadly said goodbye, Su Ji watched his father's back disappear into the distance, and the worry in his eyes became stronger.

At this time, Su Ji had only three days left.

At some point, the girl picking lotus leaves in the lake rowed her boat to the shore.She looked at the dark green wooden box in Su Ji's hand and asked:
"Your box is so beautiful, what's in it?"

The girl looked at Su Ji with a smile, with an indescribable temptation in her tone.

After hearing her words, most men would definitely think that this girl is seducing them when they see her expression.

However, Su Ji frowned, and said indifferently:

"It's just a green box, nothing fancy."

"Actually, I'm not interested in the things in the box, I just like green things very much."

As she spoke, the girl raised the green water lotus leaf she picked in her hand and smiled sweetly.Her eyes are small, and when she smiles, she narrows them like crescent moons.

Su Ji had seen many women who could smile, but he had to admit that the girl in front of him had a prettier smile than any woman he had ever seen.

The girl frowned, showing a hint of confusion.She obviously just learned the art of changing shape and transforming shadows today, and she is very confident in her transformed appearance, but Su Ji has always remained indifferent, as if she has seen through her true identity.

The girl sighed in disappointment, transformed into a white-haired young man, it was Hu Jiu.

Su Ji had already seen the appearance of Fox Nine after transforming, so he was not surprised.

"I really don't understand, do you want to be a man or a woman?"

"Whether I am a man or a woman, I will always be myself, but Seventh Brother, you seem to be a different person!"

Su Ji hesitated for a moment and asked, "Where have I changed?"

"Seventh brother would never do something like adding water to wine before, let alone help a mortal calculate the future."

"If you are willing to believe in me like that mortal, I can do the math for you. I guess you will be very different in the future."

"Okay! Then you do the math first, and I'll decide whether to believe you or not."

Su Ji counted and said, "If you want to live longer, you'd better not be sworn sworn brothers with a man named Mo Shu, and be careful of a Taoist priest in black named Jiang Xuan, he is your nemesis." .”

After Su Ji finished speaking, he didn't say much, and turned and left on his own.

"Moshu...Jiang Xuan?" Hu Jiu muttered to herself while standing there.

He was confused, and just wanted to catch up and ask, but when he took a step forward, for some reason, he completely forgot what Su Ji said to him just now.

(End of this chapter)