Chapter 323 Mind Awareness
Yang Yan was silent for a while: "Pei Ye. I don't want to go to Tianshan anymore."
Pei Ye was stunned: "Why?"
"I don't think I can stay any longer."
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Pei Ye's irritability suddenly rose again, and his heart was heavy. He frowned and took a deep breath, trying to persuade him.
But suddenly I felt an inexplicable tiredness.
Under the night rain, the girl's hands like orchids and green leaves flashed in his heart again, and Pei Ye looked at the young man in front of him in silence.
"I know I'm a bit stupid." Yang Yan whispered, "It's easy to be deceived. But going to Tianshan, isn't it always the same? I think... I'm not ready to take revenge. I can only do what I want most now." Things to do."
"Are you sure it was your senior brother who killed your master?"
Yang Yan raised her head blankly.
"Anyway, if you go on your own, think about many things." Pei Ye whispered, "But, anyway, if you don't go to Tianshan, it doesn't mean you won't learn the sword. I will teach you this sword."
".good."
Pei Ye took two steps back and opened his sword stance: "I haven't learned all about this sword, and there's no way to master it in just one lesson. I'll teach you the sword moves. It doesn't matter if you can't learn them in a hurry. Remember the day. Just practice it day by day. After you have penetrated the sword, you should be standing in the spiritual realm. The road ahead can only rely on understanding. When the heart and the sword are in harmony, it will truly be in your hands."
"Once you learn this sword, other swords will become easier to learn." Pei Ye finally explained, slowly dismantling the first move piece by piece to the young man in front of him.
After a difficult walk, Pei Ye temporarily put away his sword: "I'll go to the Immortal Platform first, you-"
His voice suddenly stopped.
In front of the courtyard gate, a man in green clothes was standing there quietly. The girl's silky hair was neatly rolled up, and her blue robe was cleaner than the rain-washed green trees. She was standing gracefully, her sleeves and robes swaying in the morning breeze.
She looked over here blankly, and their eyes met.
Pei Ye couldn't help but look at her left sleeve, only to see light emptiness.
Li Mingqing subconsciously hid back, and then gently curved the corners of her mouth towards him.
"I heard you're awake," she said softly, looking at the boy walking over, "Are you okay?"
"It's nothing serious." Pei Ye lowered his eyes, "What about you?"
"I don't have anything to do." Li Mingqing frowned slightly, then lowered her eyebrows, "Should we go for a walk by the lake?"
".good."
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On the bank of Zhuoyue Lake, young girls stood quietly under the willow tree. Under the morning light, the lake surface was covered with a thin layer of sparkling light.
"How is the leader?" Pei Ye asked in a low voice.
"We are out of danger this time." Li Mingqing looked at the lake, "It's just that there may not be many days left."
".how long?"
"Maybe ten days, maybe three months." Li Mingqing lowered his head, "Actually, the first time I saw his look, I knew there was no way to recover."
"." Pei Ye lowered his eyebrows and looked at the girl, speechless for a moment.
He still remembered that when they first met, she was burdened with the blood feud of her senior brother being killed. She was chatting and laughing as usual in such a depressing situation, and could not see the heavy pressure in her heart at all. It had only been more than ten days since she had escaped from the abyss, and Pei Ye had just seen her truly hopeful and happy, and everything was suddenly thrown back hard.
The only relative left again, and Cuiyu lost her only master. The seventeen-year-old girl had to bear everything alone again.
This time she was no longer facing the Seven Dragon Cave, but the Huansi Tower.
"Then what are you going to do next?" Pei Ye's voice was dry.
"What should I do if there is nothing?" Li Mingqing smiled and looked quietly ahead, her dress swaying like a willow tree.
“There’s never really a ‘what to do’.”
Pei Ye turned his head and looked at her. The girl's side face was still so clear. Pei Ye has looked at this face many times, near or far, hastily or carefully. "Looking back is green, shaking is pale green." She has always had a very unique good looks, and her every frown and smile carry the beauty of the mountains. The aura brought by the autumn mist in the clear stream.
This face is very suitable for being flexible. Except when biting your lip and crying, it almost doesn't look ugly.
But now for the first time, Pei Ye saw a strange vastness from above, like the gently rolling Zhuoyue Lake in front of him, like the thousand-year-old Lushui River outside the city, and like the silent and profound Xincang Mountains in the distance.
After a long while, she said softly: "I have been thinking about my childhood days these past two days."
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"I was really carefree at that time. I loved to go barefoot and explore the creek every day. I played wildly from morning to night. I would go back to the mountain gate and give a few bean-sized fish and shrimps I caught to Aunt Lingfei and let her make soup at night. I call my uncle to tell stories, and it’s another day like this after I wake up.” The girl looked ahead with a soft smile, “Sunny days, foggy days, rainy days, spring, autumn, winter. Every day is so fresh and happy.”
"As I got older, I started to have schoolwork." Li Mingqing lowered her eyebrows and smiled softly, "I had to study and practice swordsmanship, which was tiring and I didn't like it, so I thought every day that as long as I completed the schoolwork, Then I could run out and play like crazy again. At that time, those books and swords were simply my biggest enemies."
"Later on, treading water to catch fish seemed childish. I thought practicing swordsmanship and studying were quite interesting. I became more and more interested in practicing swordsmanship every day, and I kept looking forward to the next competition. At that time, I practiced swordsmanship hard every day. I thought at that time, after learning "Bi Guang", I will learn "Jade Shadow", and then "Yellow Jade". I'm done, and I will become Cui Yu's most powerful disciple."
"Later I found out that Shanmen was in such a situation. Even if he learned the entire "Emerald Chapter", he might not be able to save Cuiyu."
"But it still doesn't matter. Cuiyu's sword is really powerful, and my senior brother is also really powerful. At that time, I worked harder to practice swordsmanship and told the master that in five or ten years, the two of us will definitely master Cuiyu. When ZTE comes, everyone will no longer have to worry about being destroyed by the Seven Floods."
"Then senior brother was killed, and Cuiyu fell into a desperate situation."
The girl looked at the cold gray sky in the early morning and was silent for a while.
"But things are still not hopeless." Li Mingqing said, "I think it's time to take responsibility and do what my senior brother failed to do. Defeat Qijiao Cave, revive Cuiyu, and lead everyone out of the darkness. I must accomplish them brightly.”
"Those were the darkest days. I kept telling myself that I could get through it, and there would be a bright future ahead." The girl said softly, "I did it."
Quiet.
Pei Ye stared at her blankly, suddenly feeling the same.
"But you saw that the master was seriously injured and dying, and Huansi Tower destroyed everything." Li Mingqing had no expression on his face.
"So I think, the so-called defeating an enemy, surviving a certain period of darkness, working hard for a certain period of time and then everything becomes bright, actually never existed." The girl looked at it quietly, "There is no such thing at all. What is meant by 'returning to normal life' is just a story in a storybook. The creek where I was a child has dried up. Aunt Ling remarried and went to Xiangzhou a few years ago. The appearance of my senior brother and uncle was fixed there, and the master soon followed. I will leave forever, and the grave grass will linger.”
"Life is such a road from which there is no turning back. It will only push deeper and heavier obstacles in front of you. If you try to get over the past, you will not return to the undisturbed days before, but become more and more separated from them. Thousands of weights.”
"Then face the next one."
The autumn morning in Bowang is quiet and cold, the girl's voice is also very soft, and her soft hair dances lightly in the morning light.
Yes.
Pei Ye thought blankly, suddenly feeling a vast cruelty.
"But I will never be defeated by it." The girl beside her said softly.
At the end of the lake, outside Gaocheng, behind the vast mountain shadows, an orange-red sun was jumping up from the cold gray sky. The girl looked at this scene with indifference: "I will spend my whole life facing this fate. The never-ending ups and downs, every head-breaking experience. I will go through them one by one until the end of my life."
"." Pei Ye looked at her blankly, and suddenly felt that this expression was familiar again. On this morning, the girl seemed to have found her lifelong enemy.
"Do you still remember Jian Xingzhao, Pei Ye?"
"Remember." Pei Ye said softly.
"I remember it too. You are the [Ming Shen], Pei Ye. You are invulnerable and have a state of mind like a god. You will eventually be able to overwhelm all the darkness that comes towards you." The girl tilted her head and looked at him in a daze. For the first time today, he showed his usual beautiful smile, "I'm not as powerful as you, but do you believe that [Mitsuo]'s life will be equally radiant?"
"..." Pei Ye's lips trembled slightly and her voice became hoarse, "But... your hands..."
The girl smiled again, and touched his tense face with her cold palm: "It doesn't matter, this is just the first one."
Pei Ye lowered his head, his lips moved and his throat rolled.
"Okay," the girl whispered to comfort him again, "It's nothing-"
He suddenly stretched out his arms and hugged her deeply.
The girl's body trembled, and then softened after being slightly tense and stiff. She lowered her head and lay on his chest, half a sentence stuck in her throat.
The boy and girl hugged each other for a long time, surrounded by only the cool lake breeze and the quiet climbing morning light.
"Pei Ye." Two words came out of Li Mingqing's throat.
".Um."
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After being quiet for a while, the girl in her arms said the second half of the sentence very lowly and softly: "We don't want to be together anymore."
Pei Ye looked motionless at the foggy and silent mountain shadows in the distance.
"I can't go to Shenjing. In fact, I don't really want to go." The girl's voice was like being muffled in a hot and humid box, "I'm sorry, Pei Ye, I shouldn't have disturbed you."
Pei Ye trembled slightly and opened and closed his mouth, trying to say something, but nothing came out. In fact, he knew how some things would happen, but he was still in a daze at this moment.
After a long while, he blurted out a few words dryly: "Then let's wait -"
Two cool fingers quickly covered his lips, and the girl whispered: "Don't say stupid things."
"." Pei Ye pursed her lips and lowered her eyes to stare at the lake.
After a long time, the girl whispered: "Okay. I brought you a gift."
She gently held his hand.
Pei Ye lowered his head, and the girl untied the waist bag with one hand. The elbow under the other sleeve moved first, then paused, and still used the hand to untie the bag to take out a finger-long delicate sword.
Pei Ye looked straight at this scene and clutched the hilt of the sword tightly.
A pointed sword, which the girl on the boat had promised him that day, was indeed very beautiful. Made of lapis lazuli, decorated with feather patterns, finely carved and inlaid with two tiny jade stones on the handle.
"I asked the master of Shanmen to make this before the martial arts competition. Because it took a long time, it was just carved recently." Li Mingqing whispered and gently put the small sword into his hand.
Pei Ye looked down and still didn't speak.
The young man's dazed look made Li Mingqing's face tremble a little. She lowered her head and said, "That's it."
".Um."
Pei Ye stood quietly for a while, turned around and walked back.
"Pei Ye!"
The girl behind him suddenly grabbed his forearm.
Pei Ye turned around and saw two lines of tears sliding down the girl's cheeks. She suddenly took a step forward, kissed him around her neck.
Moist and soft lips pressed hard against her, and she kissed her deeply. Pei Ye was stunned by this unfamiliar feeling.
After calming down for a while, he slowly raised his hand to hold the girl's thin shoulders and gently pushed her away.
"." Li Mingqing was a little at a loss, but the boy didn't say a word.
He stood with his head lowered for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "You must pay attention to your own safety in the future."
After saying that, he didn't look at the girl's standing figure anymore, just lowered his head and slowly left here.
Pei Ye looked down at the familiar lines on Qingshi Street, her brain a little dazed.
Next, I have to go to Xianrentai to see Wuhejian's arrangements for this case, so that I can confirm my subsequent itinerary and give a reply to Miss Ming.
Xiangzhou also needs to make it clear to Xianrentai about Xinpo and Zhushijiao.
Then it's time to say goodbye to everyone. Huansilou will not return to Bowang again. If everything goes well, he may be ready to leave tomorrow.
Black Cat said that you have to get something like that in your hands, which is what you have to worry about next.
Of course, there are also those who find them without any purpose and simply burning in his heart.
Pei Ye pursed her lips and looked straight ahead. She paused in her steps and saw the familiar courtyard of Xianren Terrace in front of her.
He raised his hand and pushed the door open, and something hard hit his palm.
He lowered his head, and then he remembered to put the small sword in front of his eyes. The shape of this one is indeed different from the small wooden sword of the Cuiyu style. The green-edged carved feather looks like it has lost its jade.
There are two poems engraved on the sword body, and the clear handwriting is clearly written by the girl herself.
[Fortunately, I got rid of the evil trap and got to marry the gentleman's court]