Baishou loses Shaohua

Chapter 12

The valley is covered with a layer of rich red gold, and it is almost dusk.Ji Yinghan stood under a viburnum tree, looking at a clear spring gurgling down from among the rocks.

"You make it easy for me to find." Xuan Lie stepped forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Ji Yinghan.

"The scenery here is very good." Ji Yinghan said.

"I'm always in a hurry these days, and I don't have the heart to watch the beautiful scenery, so I might as well see enough this time." Xuan Lie laughed.

"The scenery is beautiful, but such a beautiful scenery also hides murderous intentions."

"Yun Xin is fine now." Xuan Lie comforted.

"I know." Ji Yinghan replied flatly.

There was a moment of silence between the two.

"If... I mean if, if Yun Xin really can't wake up, will you really kill Nan Qing?" Xuan Lie asked.

"Yes." Ji Yinghan hardly hesitated.

"But it's not Nan Qing's fault." Xuan Lie couldn't help explaining.

"But it was because of him." Ji Yinghan's brows suddenly gathered hostility.

"He is innocent." Xuan Lie couldn't understand Ji Yinghan's anger.

Ji Yinghan raised his head and glanced at Xuan Lie, with bottomless coldness in his eyes: "No one is innocent."

Xuan Lie was startled for a moment, noncommittal.

After dinner, Qu Ziyang asked Xuan Lie to play a game of chess with him, but Xuan Lie couldn't shirk and had to obey.

"Old man, I haven't touched the chessboard for a long time."

"Since you have accepted an apprentice, how can senior not have anyone who can play chess?"

"Lu Ying is only willing to work hard on herbal medicine on weekdays, how can she spend time with me, a bad old man."

"Mr. Lu has worked so hard, and he will definitely do something in the future."

"I'm afraid this kid will be the best in the future." Qu Ziyang stroked his gray beard, squinted his eyes and praised his apprentice.

"I don't know if the seniors have clues about the Ye family's affairs?" Xuan Lie asked.

"It should be Mengxian."

"Meng Xian?" Xuan Lie frowned, he had never heard of this.

"Dream is different from other drugs. It doesn't harm the body itself, but it can invade and manipulate the mind. Many people wake up and think that they have just dreamed. Like the servant of the Ye family you said The behavior is nothing more than sleepwalking, but it is rare to kill yourself in a dream."

"Rare?" Xuan Lie thought for a while, "That means it still happened."

"It did happen." Qu Ziyang's face turned serious, "A few years ago, someone was hit by Mengxian and jumped off the cliff to his death."

"Who is it?"

"It's a wealthy businessman. It is said that he has always believed that there is a female ghost demanding his life."

"Female ghost?" Xuan Lie felt that this seemed unbelievable.

"One month before his death, he wanted to take a young and beautiful girl as his concubine, but the girl refused, so she jumped off the cliff and died. The female ghost he saw was exactly like that girl."

"There is such a thing." Xuan Lie frowned.

"There is such a thing." Qu Ziyang nodded, "It is said that the girl had long been attached to her, and the merchant's death was her lover's revenge."

"But just relying on 'Meng Xian' is not enough to find the person who gave the medicine, and we still can't figure out the relationship between Weimen and Ye family." Xuanlie shook his head.

"Boy, you should worry about the rest. You should accompany the old man to finish this game of chess first." Qu Ziyang interrupted Xuan Lie's thinking.

"Of order." Xuan Lie smiled.

As soon as the chess piece here made its first move, Xuan Lie heard the melodious sound of the piano coming from outside the window, and his mind was unknowingly attracted to it.After the song ended, Xuan Lie came back to his senses and realized that the black pieces he was holding had been surrounded by white pieces, and he had suffered an irreversible defeat.

"I haven't seen you in three years. Senior's chess skills have become more and more exquisite. Xuanlie is willing to bow down."

"Xuan boy, you know how to make the old man happy, do you really think the old man didn't see it?" Qu Ziyang raised his eyebrows, "Your thoughts were never on the chessboard from the beginning."

Xuan Lie also admitted it generously: "I made seniors laugh."

As soon as Xuanlie's words fell, the sound of the piano came again. Qu Ziyang followed Xuanlie's gaze and looked out of the window. On a bluestone not far away, Ji Yinghan was playing the piano with his back to them. He was dressed in white and had black hair with infinite brilliance. .Xuan Lie felt that this scene was very familiar, like sitting in the stone pavilion after he hid in the rockery in Qianyu Tower on the night of Shangyuan Festival.

"How long have you known him?"

"There are more than three months."

"Do you know his origin?"

"I don't know."

"You never asked him?"

"If he wants to say it, I don't need to ask."

Qu Ziyang looked at Xuan Lie for a long time, and finally sighed: "Boy Xuan, you are a smart person, how clear do you know?"

"Naturally."

"That's good." Qu Ziyang nodded, and looked at the chessboard again, "I'm afraid you won't be able to finish this game of chess with me in peace, let's wait another day."

The full moon hangs in the sky like a silver plate, and the clear moonlight shines on the strings of the zither, and Ji Yinghan's fingers sway in spots of light and shadow.The sound of the piano is mild and cold, penetrating into the heart and lungs.A flute sound came in, clear and melodious, entwined with the clang of the piano, softening the cold air, adding a bit of warmth to the night.

At the end of the song, the four eyes met.

Xuanlie took the black bamboo flute from his lips, walked up to Ji Yinghan, and reached out to caress the icy strings.

"Do you always play such sad tunes?"

"You always manage so much?" Ji Yinghan asked back.

Xuan Lie joked: "I only care about you so much."

Ji Yinghan was choked and speechless for a moment, hesitated for a long time before asking in a low voice: "Why?"

Xuanlie said firmly: "You know."

Ji Yinghan lost his mind for a moment.

Xuan Lie walked to Ji Yinghan and sat down: "The moonlight is beautiful tonight."

"En." Ji Yinghan replied, absent-minded.He found that every time Xuan Lie approached, he was always at a loss.

"What are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing."

"Who is chasing you?"

Ji Yinghan's eyelids twitched: "What are you asking for?"

"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." Xuan Lie said it as a matter of course.

"This……"

"Don't say that this has nothing to do with me, I won't listen." Xuan Lie was quite rogue.

Ji Yinghan looked at Xuan Lie, and the desire to blurt out in his heart was about to move.This person made him want to talk, made him want to lay everything out in front of him.It felt so foreign, so strange that it frightened him a little.

Should he believe him?Can he trust him?

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me, I will always know." Xuan Lie leaned his head on Ji Yinghan's shoulder, pulled Ji Yinghan's hand and interlocked his fingers.

I'm not in a hurry, I can wait, wait for you to believe me.Xuan Lie said to himself silently in his heart.

In the bedroom, Qu Ziyang was holding a white ball in his hand. He stared at the half-inch figure by the window, stroked his beard, and smiled.

"After standing for so long, why don't you come in and accompany me to finish this game of broken chess."

The man pushed the door and entered, his clothes sweeping across the threshold.

"Respect is worse than obedience."