Chapter 20: Reverse the guest to feed the host)
The Tianshan Mountains are located at the core of Zhongzhou and stretch for thousands of miles.
This place has been occupied by high-level monsters all year round and is extremely dangerous. Most ordinary monks never come back.
In the center of the mountain range, there is a black stone pillar that reaches straight into the sky. Looking up, it is impossible to see the top of the pillar clearly, only the mist and misty clouds.
Above this is the lonely city.
A city suspended on top of white clouds.
Huge and huge, like a dream or an illusion.
At this moment, in the "Jinghua Tianyu" formation located in the center of the lonely city, a woman wearing a black and white lace-trimmed dress was holding a broom and carefully cleaning a cave.
She has shoulder-length short hair, and her movements are clean and neat, but for some reason, she gives people a feeling of loneliness.
This cave is called "Guju" and has a simple interior, with only one quiet room, one bedroom and a basement.
rustle--
The sound of a broom sweeping the ground echoed in the stone chamber, and the entire cave was eerily quiet.
Outside the formation, there are all kinds of buildings in the city. There are restaurants, stages, brothels, gambling houses, private houses, city walls...
There are various groceries on the stalls on both sides of the street, the steamer at the door of the steamed bun shop is steaming hot, and a wooden boat is slowly passing under the arch bridge, but -
She was the only one in the huge city.
This is an empty city.
"call out--"
A subtle buzzing sound came from outside the sky, breaking the strange silence.
The short-haired maid stopped what she was doing and turned her head to look at the flying object.
It's a colorful paper crane.
Her heart, which was originally like a pool of stagnant water, seemed to be reborn, with some ripples appearing.
And the beauty of the world, which ordinary people would definitely be stunned into silence if they saw it, gradually regained its color.
She stood the broom aside, stretched out her palm, carefully held the paper crane in her palm, calmed down the fluctuations in her heart, took a deep breath, and then solemnly unfolded it bit by bit.
"Ling, are you okay? I have been dealing with some things in Lingyue Sect recently, and it may take some time before I can go back. Oh, yes, I encountered some little trouble here. Well, if you are free, help me deliver some
Send the spirit stone here. If you are busy, you can ask them to deliver it for you. It is best to deliver it within ten days. I live in Room No. 11, Huang, Yugui Peak. In addition, I will leave it to you for the time being.
Take care of it, I will go back to see you as soon as possible."
The words on the paper crane were engraved with colorful spiritual power. The handwriting was continuous and neat. Hualing's hands holding the letter trembled slightly, and her amber pupils were filled with extremely suppressed and twisted excitement.
She read the letter from beginning to end dozens of times, muttering to herself morbidly: "The letter... is a letter written by the master..."
She held the letter paper in front of her eyes with both hands, immersed herself in sniffing the scent of the handwriting, and imagined what Lu Lingqiu would be like when he wrote these words to herself...
A long time passed.
It wasn't until her breathing became increasingly difficult, and her cheeks even turned a faint flush of intoxication, that she put the letter into her pocket and said softly to the air:
"Um."
…
Lingyue Sect, Yugui Peak.
The day passed by in a hurry, and the curtain of the deep night was opened again.
Lu Lingqiu sat at the table in his room, playing with the proud work in his hand - the Sound Transmission White Jade with a look of satisfaction on his face.
After today's explanation of the sect rules, the afternoon became free time for the new disciples. Although Lu Lingqiu wanted to go to the Jinyue Tower in Wuyang Peak to taste Lingyue delicacies, he did not have any spiritual stones in his pocket.
I could only endure my hunger and return to my house to do research.
"Calculating the time, the letter to Ling should have been mailed by now." He thought about it briefly. Although Zhongzhou is thousands of miles away from the Qin Kingdom, the improved paper crane can fly at a speed of almost ten thousand miles a day. It stands to reason that
Generally speaking, this time should have come.
Just as he was trying to figure out what method his cold maid would use to collect money, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Brother Lingqiu, are you there?"
Upon hearing Mu Qing's voice, Lu Lingqiu smiled slightly and immediately stood up and opened the door.
"Hey, don't the new disciples have no jade tokens? You couldn't have come here because you used violent means to destroy the Jade Guifeng formation, right?"
Seeing the girl standing pretty at the door, Lu Lingqiu reached out and rubbed her smooth black hair, feeling a rare and indescribable sense of comfort in his heart. Although the two had not seen each other for only a day, somehow it felt like time had passed.
For a long time.
"No, I'll ask Senior Sister Bai to borrow the pass." Mu Qing gestured with the token in his hand proudly, and pushed Lu Lingqiu into the house: "Let me see, what will happen in Brother Lingqiu's house?"
There won’t be any dirty secrets~”
"It doesn't exist." Lu Lingqiu felt funny, but when he saw the girl closing the door with her backhand and immediately changing her expression, he felt something was wrong.
"Oh, it's surprisingly messy." The girl walked to the table, observed the various materials and bottles on the table for a while, turned her back to him, and asked seemingly unintentionally:
"Brother, did you sleep happily last night?"
"???"
Lu Lingqiu immediately became alert, coughed a few times, and replied cautiously: "It's okay...why do you ask that?"
"Well... I heard that last night, Senior Sister Xu from Yu Guifeng seemed to have called my brother to her boudoir." Mu Qing turned around and looked at him with a smile: "Is it true?
?”
Lu Lingqiu felt horrified: "...Ah, this is indeed the case...but..."
"Nothing." Mu Qing appeared in front of him in an instant, and the two of them were close to each other. She stared into his eyes, and she would be able to detect it immediately if he told a lie.
"...but I escaped." Lu Lingqiu told the truth.
"Really? Nothing happened?"
The girl looked at him, her orchid breath tickling his heart like a cat's claws. Lu Lingqiu said in her heart: "It's too close!" On the surface, she nodded unconsciously.
"Then you swear." The girl's smile disappeared immediately, and her eyes forced her "viciously".
"Well, I swear, even though I was summoned to her room by Xu Yunyao last night, I did absolutely nothing and escaped as soon as I found an opportunity. I will never make the same mistake again in the future and will not enter her room.
Go into the girl's room...if you tell a lie, you will be struck by lightning and die alone..." Lu Lingqiu cooperated and swore in accordance with the girl's instructions, thinking: That's not right, I seem to be the master, right??
"That's pretty much it, then I believe you."
After confirming the answer in person, Mu Qing suddenly felt brighter and smiled, making Lu Lingqiu briefly lose his mind.
"As expected, I can't believe those gossiping senior sisters. Let me tell you, how could Brother Lingqiu fall in love with that kind of thing..." The girl sat down at the table angrily, very satisfied with her wise judgment.
"Uh...so, who told you these things?" Lu Lingqiu came back to his senses, sat next to her, and asked.
Mu Qing briefly explained the gossip she heard at Silver Gong Peak and her whole day's experience. After listening to it, he immediately frowned and muttered: "That shouldn't be the case. Before Chen Shi, all the disciples from all the peaks were on the mountain.
Morning class. It stands to reason that if what happened last night had not been spread with clear purpose through sound transmission and other means before the morning class, it would be impossible for the disciples of the other peaks to know..."
Could it be that someone is messing with me?
Lu Lingqiu's face gradually darkened.
If this is the case, it means that someone is deliberately creating misunderstandings between him and Mu Qing. Although this method is meaningless, it is disgusting enough. Lu Lingqiu squinted his eyes and fell into deep thought.
"Hey, okay, don't be unhappy. I don't believe you." The girl had a delicate mind and naturally realized that there was something fishy in this, but she didn't care. In contrast, she was more worried that Lu Lingqiu would do it because of this.
Things get angry.
"Well, don't think about it anymore. By the way, here's this for you." Lu Lingqiu handed her a piece of white jade for sound transmission.
Mu Qing said "Huh?", took it over happily and asked, "What is this? Is it a gift?"
"It's called Chuanyin White Jade. It's my latest development. In terms of function, it's like this."
Lu Lingqiu stood up, walked to a corner of the room, turned his back to the girl, poured spiritual power into another piece of white jade in his hand, and shouted to the jade: "Mu——Qing——"
Almost at the same time, the sound-transmitting white jade in the girl's hand lit up with a faint light.
She stared at the jade in her hand with her eyes wide open in surprise, and imitated Lu Lingqiu's example, injecting spiritual power into it.
The next breath, the voice of "Mu——Qing——" with almost the same volume came from the jade stone.
"Wow!!!" The girl was so shocked that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear, "This is great!"
"Of course." Lu Lingqiu returned to the table and said with a smile: "The effective distance is only within ten miles. It is directional. The more spiritual power you input, the farther the propagation distance is. Take it away, and you can deal with me if you miss me in the future.
I yelled at it."
"Who, who would miss you!" Mu Qing's pretty face turned red, and she preciously put the sound-transmitting white jade into her spiritual ring, and in her heart, the tall and omnipotent image of brother Lingqiu was once again lifted up a lot.
The two stayed together until midnight. When Lu Lingqiu asked, "Do you want to live with me? But I only have one bed, so it might be a bit crowded." The girl gave him a slightly reluctant look.
Then turned and left.
However, she did not go back to Silver Gong Peak directly. Instead, after Lu Lingqiu closed the door, she quietly walked towards - by the starlight -
The first room in Tianzi of Jade Guifeng.
Chapter completed!