[Seven Five + Sword Three] White jade dyed bright yellow

Ye Shulan looked at the history she didn't know, and in her memory, the gorgeous and gorgeous prosperous Tang Dynasty turned into a red land full of devastation, ruined walls and bones, she cried so much that she hugged a stack of files tightly , as if embracing a relative in memory, even if the old monk wanted to take it back for fear that the file would be destroyed, he would not let go.

Seeing Bai Yutang silently staring at him, and then looking at the girl who was crying uncontrollably, the old monk finally sighed, put his hands behind his back, and strolled out: "If there is anything wrong with this file, the boy of the Bai family You have to fix it for the old monk! You little friends, how do you know how difficult it is for these files to be handed down to the present..."

When the old monk went out, Bai Yutang sat next to Ye Shulan, gently hugged him into his arms, and patted his back to comfort him.

"Tangtang... Tell me, why do some people always disregard the lives of the people in the world for their own selfish desires..." Ye Shulan still hugged the file tightly and buried her whole body in the opponent's arms, "The people of Tang Dynasty, and The mountains, rivers, plants and trees are all so beautiful...how...how could someone be willing to destroy them? Tangtang, I don't understand, I really don't understand...it would be great if I didn't leave..."

——If she didn't leave there, she would directly split the flowers and trees in Hidden Sword Villa, and she would definitely go out of the villa, and if she didn't kill a few Spike rebels, she would not only be in vain for the Tang people, but also be a burden to the owner and others teach.

"It's all in the past..." Bai Yutang didn't know how to comfort others, all he could do was pat the other person's shoulder hard, and murmured these words in a low voice.

——Yeah, it’s all in the past, it’s all in the past...For the things that have passed, she can only look at the remnants of the old scroll and hate herself for being powerless...

I don't know how long it took until Ye Shulan's crying gradually subsided.Noticing that she hadn't moved or made a sound for a long time, Bai Yutang gently moved her away from her body - sure enough, there were still tears on her face, but she was already so tired from crying that she fell asleep, but even She fell asleep, probably not so peacefully, her delicate willow eyebrows were tightly frowned.

Bai Yutang moved his hands and feet slightly, endured the numbness, took off the two swords on Ye Shulan's body and put them aside, then carried them to the side room next door - that was the guest room that the old monk said he had prepared for them.

Putting the person on the couch, he was about to pull the quilt up for her, but seeing the awkward posture of the other party holding the file, Bai Yutang tried to take out the file, but just as he was about to pull it out, Ye Shulan reacted violently, hugging the file. Tighter tighter, tears overflowed from the tightly closed eyes again, sliding down the corners of the eyes, into the temples, the pale lips squirmed slightly, and whispered: "...No...don't--the master...Senior brother..."

Sighing, Bai Yutang had no choice but to give up, and reached out to grab the quilt, then frowned slightly—the quilt was too thin—and covered the quilt, Bai Yutang turned around and went to the next door, and soon hugged another The quilt came over and bent down to cover Ye Shulan with another layer.

It was all done with great difficulty. Bai Yutang was about to get up when he saw Ye Shulan's flushed face and touched it again. He was relieved to see that the temperature was still normal. Beside Ye Shulan - this is the time when the little girl is most anxious and afraid, if she wakes up in the middle of the night and cannot see anyone, she will be afraid.

Just like myself, when his elder brother—the only family member—passed away, he also cried in despair and pain for a day. Whenever he woke up in the middle of the night and looked at the empty room, there was no one around him, as if he was the only one in the world. people.Even though he was very scared, he could only grit his teeth, try to keep his eyes open, and survived the long night alone.Since then, he never cried or laughed.But this little girl came here from Datang for no reason, and she was already very frightened, and now she heard that her hometown was unlucky, and after thinking about it, it was even more difficult than him in the past... So, I only hope that she can get over this hurdle and continue to be able You can cry and laugh, don't be like him.

Bai Yutang was awakened in the middle of the night by a hot feeling.

Ye Shulan didn't wake up, but her cheeks were flushed, and she felt hot at first sight.Probably because his hand casually hanging beside her cheek was cooler, and he kept rubbing it up.

Feeling the heat, Bai Yutang was startled, and hurriedly blew on the torch to light the oil lamp in the room, then hurried to the yard to fetch a bucket of cold water, and after returning to the house, he tore off a piece from his sleeve at will. Soaked in the water, but after taking it out, staring at the dripping cloth strip, he didn't know what to do - when he had a fever, he seemed to use the soaked cloth strip to cover his forehead ?But the cloth was dripping with water, covered it up and wet the bed, wouldn't Ye Shulan's condition really get worse?Or... shake the water...

When Bai Yutang was about to throw away the cloth strips, the old monk who was woken up stood at the door with staring eyes: "Boy from the Bai family, what are you doing? I didn't hear that your old Bai family still has the habit of sleepwalking..." He said As soon as he turned his gaze, he saw Ye Shulan lying on the bed. The old monk's eyes immediately became clear, and he quickly jumped in to block the little girl, glaring: "I said boy, the girl is not ready yet, what are you going to do?" ?! If your elder brother knew that you were attacking the little girl at night, he would come alive and beat you up?!"

Bai Yutang was still worried about Ye Shulan's situation, he didn't understand it at first, but after hearing it, his face immediately sank, he didn't throw the wet cloth strip in his pocket after he recovered, and finally just gave him a cold look : "...Shu Lan has a fever."

"Oh." It wasn't a night attack.The old monk wiped his bald head, then looked back and was shocked: "Amitabha, this burn is too severe - give it to me quickly!"

As the old monk said, he snatched the strip of cloth from Bai Yutang, twisted it half dry, folded it in half to a suitable size, and then applied it to Ye Shulan's forehead.

As soon as the cold cloth strips were put on, Ye Shulan snorted comfortably. Seeing this, Bai Yutang silently memorized this set of movements, and then said: "The juniors can just guard here, and don't bother the master."

"You..." The old monk looked back at him, touched his chin, a smile suddenly slipped in his eyes, and waved his hand: "Forget it, I still don't want to meddle with your juniors. Besides, I think even if your eldest brother is here, he won’t interfere too much—this wet cloth will be replaced in a while, you know?”

Now I know.Bai Yutang nodded calmly.

Only then did the old monk stroke his beard, put his hands behind his back, and walked away with a smile, muttering as he walked: "...Is this Xiao Er of the Bai family's eyes not bad..."

After the old monk left, Bai Yutang sat back on the couch again, and changed the cloth every time it was not cold, I don't know how many times, and when the east gradually showed his belly, the heat on Ye Shulan's head finally subsided.

Secretly heaving a sigh of relief, he put his forehead against his forehead to test the temperature—because he twisted the cloth, his hands could not feel the real temperature—Bai Yutang was about to get up when Ye Shulan suddenly let go of the file in his hand and reached out to hug him. He gently rubbed his face, and whispered softly: "Mom—"

Bai Yutang was stunned, and he didn't have time to react. His posture of bending over was already unstable, but he was brought down by Ye Shulan all of a sudden, his lips brushed against the girl's soft cheeks that had just cooled down but were still warm, followed by her face. Pressing against Ye Shulan's face, Bai Yutang lay on Ye Shulan's body, his eyes fell on the swastika pattern on the quilt, but he was thinking in his heart: Well, has the temperature dropped? Shulan's face is so cold...

Ye Shulan slept until noon the next day.When he woke up, his eyelids were so swollen that he couldn't open them. After getting up, he quickly looked around and saw the file sitting peacefully by his side before he was relieved. At this moment, Bai Yutang's cold voice came from the door: "Are you awake? It happened that I took white porridge, you had a fever last night, you might feel bitter in your mouth if you eat anything else."

fever?Ye Shulan blinked, turned her head to look over, and saw Bai Yutang standing at the door with a food box, touching her forehead... Speaking of which, she seemed to have been dreaming about the Anshi Rebellion at the beginning of last night. In order to protect the stability of the country, she kept waving the epee. She tried hard to get through together, but she couldn't make it through, as if there was some transparent membrane blocking it, so she kept crying and crying until she fell asleep at the end, and then It seems... I dreamed about my mother?When she was very young, she often had a fever, and her mother would always be by her side very gently, giving her cold compresses, and testing her temperature with her forehead... She was in a daze, followed closely, and felt her eyes There was a cold and slightly tingling feeling, and she closed her eyes subconsciously, "...what?"

"Swelling ointment... Be good, don't move, relax - don't close it too tightly, it will hurt a little, it will be fine soon."

Ye Shulan obeyed obediently.Sure enough, it didn't take long for the tingling sensation to subside, leaving only the ice-cold feeling, which was quite comfortable.After applying the medicine, Bai Yutang lifted the food box by his feet and put it on the table beside him, then turned his head and said, "Get up, wash up, and eat something."

The noon sun was very glaring, against the light, Ye Shulan couldn't see the other person's expression clearly, but felt very gentle for no reason, and her depressed mood calmed down a little, she nodded: "Okay."

After dinner, Ye Shulan wanted to continue looking through the file, but Bai Yutang took it away: "It's all in the past. What's the use of reading it over and over again? You don't care what the current Tibetan Sword Villa is like? Other sects How about it?"

Ye Shulan was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately threw herself on him: "You know? No, actually you knew everything from the beginning, right? Knowing but not telling me, it's so annoying!"

As Ye Shulan said, she began to scratch Bai Yutang's creaking nest and waist unhappily. It was rare for the little girl to show such a lively look again, and Bai Yutang didn't resist. Rolled into a ball.

"Amitabha - please don't make noise in the Buddhist Pure Land, two benefactors."

Hearing this voice, when he turned his head, he saw the old monk standing at the door, shaking his head and sighing.Ye Shulan hurriedly got up and stood up, blushing slightly, Bai Yutang also stood up, but more slowly and calmly.

The old monk glanced at Ye Shulan first, and nodded: "Well, it looks much better. Don't think too much, even if there was no Anshi Rebellion, your relatives at that time would not be alive today. You can do your part for the stability of the country , I think, everyone is honored even if they die, and they are alive even though they die."

The smile on Ye Shulan's face gradually disappeared, and she bowed her head in silence.

After the old monk said a few words, he turned to look at Bai Yutang again: "Didn't you go back to Tokyo to get something? You're back so soon?"

Ye Shulan immediately looked over suspiciously: "Tangtang, have you been back?"

"Get something." Bai Yutang nodded.

Ye Shulan immediately thought of the ointment on her eyes and felt a little happy.

Ignored again.The old monk pursed his lips unhappily, glanced at the file in Bai Yutang's hand, flicked his long sleeves, and rolled it over: "Since the girl has finished reading, I will take it back."

After speaking, he left with his sleeves folded.

Bai Yutang stopped Ye Shulan who was about to chase after him: "If you want to read it, I'll write a copy for you when you go back."

Only then did Ye Shulan stop, and turned to look at him: "By the way, didn't you just say that you knew the current situation of Tibetan Sword? Tell me... tell me."

Bai Yutang sat down at the table, and made tea casually—this Shaolin Temple is located in Shaoshi Mountain, where the clear springs are used for daily drinking, so it is perfect for making tea—when the curling white mist evaporated, he said: "... ...do you know what is really lost in war?"

Ye Shulan sat at the table, looked at Bai Yutang's pretty face that was blurred through the white mist, and asked hesitantly, "Is it... a person?"

"It's people." Bai Yutang nodded, "It's also the various inheritances that those people carried. Those who died on the battlefield back then, there were a large number of elites from various sects, and that was the hope and future of the sect. I heard that Hidden Sword Villa was only In just over ten years, he has become famous, even surpassing the prestigious century-old Liujia Badao Mountain Villa, and everyone flocks to the Famous Sword Conference held once every ten years. It relies on his superb sword-making skills. As a When a family based on sword casting loses the inheritance of sword casting skills...how can it rise again? I heard that the Tibetan Sword Villa occupied the entire West Lake Wu Mountain when it was in its heyday? Today's Tibetan Sword Villa is just a slightly larger one along the West Lake. It's just a house."

"Impossible. Even if all the disciples of Zhuangzhong go to the front line to support, there will always be books on how to forge swords. How can this inheritance be lost?"

"According to what you say, if everyone reads the books of sages, doesn't that mean everyone is a sage?" After the tea was boiled, Bai Yutang poured tea for the two of them, and while sipping, he said slowly, "Like Ye Meng Qiu and Ye Ying are two old seniors who are so amazingly talented and brilliant, they may not be able to come out in hundreds of years. After the war, the Zangjian Ye family's vitality was severely damaged, and they were not able to recover, so why is it impossible to gradually become depressed?"

Ye Shulan lowered her head dejectedly.

Bai Yutang glanced at it, and finally comforted him: "Don't be sad. I also heard that there is a talented person in the youngest generation of the Ye family, and the rise of Tibetan Sword is probably expected."

Ye Shulan finally cheered up: "Then let's go to the Hidden Sword Villa to have a look after we go back, shall we?"

"Then what identity do you go with? Gao Gao Gao... Zu?"

Ye Shulan also remembered her embarrassing identity, and waved her hand: "We'll talk about it later. What about other sects besides hidden sword? Do you know?"

"I know part of it. Needless to say, the Tiance Mansion, besides the change of dynasties in the past few hundred years, the Tiance Plan cannot last forever; a fire in Qixiufang burned everything, and there is almost no trace of their deeds, only Gongsun The aunt's sword dance has been passed down through Du Zimei's poems; now no one can find the entrance to Wanhua Valley... The doctors in Wanhua Valley are all benevolent and compassionate, and take saving lives and healing the wounded as their mission. Declining trend; Tang Sect had only women and children left at the beginning, and after the war, they stayed in the middle of Shu, and developed from generation to generation, but there are signs of recovery, but there are still few disciples of Tang Sect going out of Shu to enter the rivers and lakes; It’s not the gang of beggars in the past; only Chunyang and the Shaolin where we are, the former relying on Taoism, the latter through Buddhism, have never been defeated, but compared with the grand occasion of the Tang Dynasty recorded in historical materials, it is indeed a lot worse. As for The Ming Cult has already retreated to Persia, and there is only a small part of the Central Plains left, and the Five Poisons have even retreated to the Miao border, so far no one has stepped into the Central Plains."

Recalling the bustling Great Tang Rivers and Lakes that Ye Fang and her senior brothers had told her about, and thinking about the withered and cold Great Song Rivers and Lakes, Ye Shulan felt very uncomfortable. Probably the only consolation was that apart from Tiance Qixiu Wanhua, other The factions at least exist.Even if you can't recover your vitality in 300 years, then wait another 300 years... One day, this world will prosper again, right?

With hope, the sorrows of the past can be truly let go.After listening to what Bai Yutang said about the status quo of the sects, although they were not very optimistic, at least the fire had not been extinguished, so there was still hope. Ye Shulan felt much better.

Ye Shulan also began to pay attention to things that she hadn't noticed before when she was in a good mood, for example—the vegetarian restaurant in Shaolin Temple is decent and so on.So in order to eat vegetarian food, the two stayed on the mountain for another two days. In the end, the old monk was almost blinded by their unconscious intimacy and reminded them gently that it was time to go down the mountain after so many days. .

Counting the time with her fingers, Ye Shulan realized that if she didn't leave, she might not be able to go to Songjiang Mansion's empty island before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the two left.

As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, a servant from the Bai Mansion came up with a carriage and greeted Miss Ding worriedly.

Thinking about how she first stayed in the palace for five days, and then stayed on the mountain for three days, and did not contact Ding Yuehua for eight whole days, Ye Shulan was also a little embarrassed, and after obtaining Bai Yutang's consent, she drove back to Tokyo and went straight to He took over the house that Ding Zhaohui bought in the capital.

Unfortunately, the servants in the mansion said that the second master and the young lady had gone to Kaifeng mansion.

So the two went to Kaifeng mansion again by car, and just got off the car when they got to the gate of the mansion, they heard the servants in the mansion discussing something in a low voice, "How about Mr. Bao San..."

Ye Shulan leaned over curiously: "What's the matter with Mr. Bao?"

"Yo, it's Miss Ye, no, it's time to call you Your Highness, Your Highness is a thousand years old." Ye Shulan greeted the little people with a smile at first, and then knelt down one after another. Ye Shulan quickly flicked her sleeves and lifted everyone up, " I'm going to be angry with so many gifts! What's the matter with Mr. Bao San?"

"Young Master Bao is also preparing to take the exam next year, and now he has just come to the house to prepare for the exam. The third son is indeed worthy of being the master's nephew, a good-looking talent, tsk tsk, even the master can't help but praise."

Ye Shulan was about to drag Bai Yutang in, when she heard this, she couldn't help but pause, looked up at Bai Yutang's delicate expression, and said, "Tangtang, it seems that we still have to go back home..."

——Bai Yutang frightened Mr. Bao San last time. If we meet, Mr. Bao will not take the opportunity to retaliate, right?And it seems that the third young master Bao is very favored by Mr. Bao, if there is an enmity with the Kaifeng mansion...then her position with Ding Yuehua will be very embarrassing.

Bai Yutang nodded with a sullen face, the two turned around and were about to leave when they heard Ding Yuehua's voice behind them: "Hey, Ye Zi, Brother Bai, you're all here, where are you going?"

"Yuehua, is Fifth Lord Bai and the princess here?" This was Zhan Zhao's voice.

"Brother Zhan, Fifth Master Bai is the well-known Chinchilla from Trapped Sky Island?" It was an unfamiliar voice.

"Young Master Bao is right, come, come, let Zhan introduce you to each other."

Hearing Zhan Zhao's voice gradually approaching, Ye Shulan thought that she just pretended not to hear what would happen if she pulled Bai Yutang away lightly, but unexpectedly, Bai Yutang turned around and looked back, just in time with The blue-clothed scholar behind Zhan Zhao met each other.Just when Ye Shulan was in a hurry, he heard him ask a question: "Huh? This person...isn't Mr. Bao San?"

Aha?Ye Shulan tilted her head in doubt.