Atractylodes

"left……"

Zuo Yi raised his small face, frowning slightly, the brows were full of hostility.

Ban Lu rubbed Zuo Yi's hair, stopped asking any more questions, and just said, "Let's go again at night."

As night fell, Ban Lu and Zuo Yi changed clothes and entered Qianxuefang.Zuo Yi dressed up as a follower, obediently following Banlu.

Banlu chose an elegant seat and sat down.That day happened to be the day when Qianxuelou's top player came out to play the piano, and several popular girls each played musical instruments to accompany them.The sound of the piano curled up, Banlu was a little surprised, even though he didn't know much about the piano, he could hear it played very well.

""Dongting Autumn Thoughts"."

Banlu supported his head, "Yo, show off in front of me?"

Zuo Yi's eyes remained motionless, "Famous songs, everyone knows."

Ban Lu followed Zuo Yi's eyes, and there was a man with clear eyebrows standing in the corner with a jade flute on his waist. He hesitated and asked, "Can you play the flute?"

Zuo Yi turned his head to look at Banlu, and said with evasive eyes, "No. Daddy won't let me learn."

"If you like it, learn it. Many heroes in the Jianghu play the flute!" Ban Lu took a sip of tea, "You can still play the flute for me when I'm bored in the future."

Zuo Yi rolled his eyes.

"I'm serious." Banlu leaned over and said, "I can see that you really like it. I'll find someone to teach you when I go back to the Ming Tower."

Zuo Yi bit his lip, and slowly let go of Ban Lu's hold on his hand, "I don't want to go back to the Underworld with you. I...I don't want to kill someone."

Banlu seemed to suddenly remember what he was doing, and was stunned for a while, "If you don't return, you won't return. You are my apprentice of Banlu, and have nothing to do with Minglou."

Zuo Yi's eyes lit up, "Really?"

Ban Lu nodded, "Of course it is true. But then you won't be able to learn lightness exercises. I can only teach you how to make a slingshot."

"Slingshot?" Zuo Yi looked puzzled.

"You can't learn martial arts now, you can only learn mechanism skills from me." Banlu raised his chin at Zuo Yi triumphantly, "My mechanism skills are very good! But you are too stupid and too impetuous, but being a carpenter It's still easy to mix rice and eat..."

"You..." Who will be a carpenter!

Back at the inn at night, Banlu prepared hot water for Zuo Yi to take a bath, but Zuo Yi didn't want to take a bath, so Banlu simply stuffed him in a wooden barrel and threatened, "Look how many days you haven't washed, you If you don't wash it again, the teacher will wash it for you himself!"

Zuo Yi immediately stepped back.

"Wash it obediently, and I'll give you a present."

"Do not care!"

Banlu waved his hand, "I don't care about you, I'll wait for you outside, if you dare to run this time, I'll..."

"So what?"

"I'll just break your leg!" Ban Lu left behind these words and walked out.

Zuo Yi naturally didn't believe that Banlu would break his leg, but he didn't want to run away either. Although he was still a little reluctant to follow Banlu from the bottom of his heart, he really had nowhere to go.After silently taking a shower, he opened the door and walked in just after putting on his shirt.

"What are you doing! Who let you in!" Zuo Yi was shocked, and quickly covered the key parts of his body.

Ban Luxin said that I had never seen anything before, and seeing Zuo Yi's reaction was a little funny, he wanted to tease him, "Come on, put it on quickly, even with your size, you dare to hang it out..."

"You... What nonsense are you talking about!" Zuo Yi almost gnashed his teeth and said this sentence.

"Hurry up and get dressed, I'm so tired of waiting." Banlu took off his clothes, yawned and lay down on the bed, but he didn't know anything about it.

Zuo Yi watched Ban Lu's back, put on his clothes silently, and then went to bed and lay down beside him.

The spring breeze blows the water, and three thousand flowers bloom overnight.

The corners of the eyes are drooping, like peach blossoms smiling.

The sound of the flute spread from the white wall of Daiwa to the blue sky and every corner of the city.

A person in the courtyard asked, "How?"

"good."

"What's the name of this song?"

"Don't tell you."

Leaning against the wall was a young man in blue, drunk with drunken eyes, "What a song "Peach Blossom Falling"."

Zuo Yi followed Banlu to Chang'an, and Banlu didn't have nothing to do like before, and he just teased Zuo Yi when he had nothing to do.The huge yard is full of strange parts, Panlu doesn't talk to Zuo Yi, and Zuo Yi doesn't speak easily.He just stood aside and watched Banlu busy, sometimes he would play the flute when he was tired, and Banlu seemed to have never heard of it.

Perhaps Ban Lu never realized that Zuo Yi would keep looking at him so quietly.If he could look up at that time, maybe he would feel the old age, and feel all the tenderness of a person to him.

That year, under the protection of the Tower of the Underworld, Banlu made an unprecedented and unprecedented killer——Pluto. People only heard that it sounded like thunder and had the power of divine punishment, but no one had ever seen it.

The disaster also began from then on.Because of the birth of Pluto, the imperial court began to arrest Banlu. Even under the protection of Minglou, Banlu began to feel besieged from all sides, and Zuo Yi's life began to be not so smooth.The two frequently changed places to live, but it was not a long-term solution after all.

"What do you think I should do?" Banlu frowned, as if he had aged ten years overnight.Pluto has been his painstaking effort for many years. He didn't think too much about it when he did it. He didn't know that the "work of art" he thought was a huge threat in the eyes of the court.

"The landlord said that if I destroy the Pluto, he can still deal with it. But...impossible." Ban Lu felt a little shaken in his heart and was immediately denied by himself, "If the Pluto is destroyed, I risk being kicked out by the Ban family." What's the point of studying it for so many years?"

"But if you destroy Hades, you may die..." Zuo Yi whispered.

Banlu smiled and took a sip of his wine, proudly said, "I don't die that easily. Go back to the Tower of the Underworld tomorrow, I don't believe that the people from the imperial court can chase there."

"Then what if they really go after it?"

"I don't give Pluto to others, I just play by myself. I care about people from Ban's family. They shouldn't be so serious, right?" Ban Lu yawned, and tapped his white knuckles on the table. .

Zuo Yi let out an "oh".

"Remember the gift I said?"

"Huh?" Zuo Yi actually remembered.

"I'm still researching, but it's not too difficult. I'll give it to you in a few days." Banlu said triumphantly, "You will never think of this gift from me."

Zuo Yi narrowed his eyes, "You don't think about giving me a flute, do you?"

Ban Lu's eyes widened in surprise, "How do you know!"

Zuo Yi said again, "You still want to do it yourself..."

Banlu hesitated and said, "I'm giving someone a gift...how can there be...there is no reason to buy it..."

Zuo Yi lowered his eyebrows and sighed, "You should study it."

Ban Lu expressed his disappointment with Zuo Yi's distrust of him, after all, he was known as a genius in Ban's family since he was a child.What is so difficult about a flute? What is more important is that he has to make a flute that does not affect its use but can also be used for self-defense.

Tsk tsk... just thinking about it makes me excited.

Ban Lu was excited for a long time, but Zuo Yi didn't have any hope for Ban Lu.So when Banlu gave him the flute, he was very surprised.

It was an extremely delicate flute, with intricate and beautiful patterns, exquisite and exquisite, with two characters engraved in small seal script - "Neon Clothes".

Ban Lu introduced the mechanism implied in it with relish, but Zuo Yi didn't listen to a word.He is so happy!At that time, he felt that Nishang was the best flute in the world, and he was the happiest person in the world.

No one would tell him that the neon clothes later became a frightening ghost flute, and his figure was erratic like a ghost, fixed as a night charm that everyone avoided.

Most of the endings of the stories are cruel, but at the beginning, there is always a pretended warmth like trying to hide it.

Like a story, but also like life.

……

It rained suddenly in the sky that day, and the rain was pouring heavily, which is unimaginable in the late spring.Banlu came back wearing a wind and rain all the way, but he didn't see Zuo Yi's shadow.

He is from the rivers and lakes, life and death may be nothing more than that.

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Outside the city, at the post station Fengbo Pavilion, the rain hits the new leaves, and the wind is lingering.It's not that the people in the court are mean, it's that he is not careful enough.

He stepped on the bluestone steps with an umbrella, and his feet were like flying pearls and jade.The person under the umbrella raised his head slightly, his eyes were burning like peach blossoms.

"Balu!"

Banlu respectfully replied, "Lord Li." He paused, "I have sent over the address of Hades, has Master Li received it?"

Li Qinghe placed wine in the booth, the drizzle slanted and dyed his blue clothes into black, "Got it."

"Then can you let me go?"

Li Qinghe shook his head very lightly, "When my people come back and tell me that Hades is destroyed, I will release your apprentice. If you can't wait, you can have a few drinks with me."

Banlu was not in the mood to drink, "Where is my apprentice? Where is he?"

Li Qinghe was slightly regretful as he turned the wine glass in his hand, and made a gesture. Immediately, someone escorted a child from not far away, and Ban Lu hurried over to untie the rope on Zuo Yi's body. He said, "Antagonizing the imperial court will not end well."

Ban Lu touched Zuo Yi's face, the child's cheeks were cold, "Is it cold? Don't be afraid, I will take you back right away."

Zuo Yi's eyes were red, as if the blood from the mole at the corners of his eyes had soaked into his pupils, "Pluto might be gone."

Ban Lu tugged at Zuo Yi's face, "It's okay, but now you owe me more, when I get old, you have to take good care of me..."

In the rain, a dark horse came galloping and stopped outside the pavilion. The man whispered something in Li Qinghe's ear.Li Qinghe smiled slightly after hearing this, and asked Banlu again, "Master Ban, really don't you want to drink two cups?"

Banlu's heart sank suddenly, and there was naturally only one reason why Li Qinghe treated him like this - Pluto was ruined.His years of hard work were finally ruined.That's fine, at least it's clean...

Banlu bid farewell to Li Qinghe, "Since your lord's goal has been achieved, Banlu will bid farewell."

With a smile on the corner of Li Qinghe's mouth, he nodded slightly.

Banlu held up his umbrella and led Zuo Yi out of the pavilion step by step.Zuo Yi clenched Banlu's hand, every step seemed to be extraordinarily long...

Ban Lu suddenly turned around and raised his hand and swung his sword to cut off the arrows flying towards him. A dozen black shadows quickly jumped out of the surrounding woods to fight Li Qinghe's people.

The people in Minglou and the imperial court knew each other's existence, and they were secretly afraid of each other, but they didn't expect that the imperial court would still attack Banlu after destroying Hades.

Li Qinghe looked at the exquisitely crafted crossbow in his hand, "I liked this crossbow very much when I saw it in Jiuchonglou. I heard that Mr. Ban improved it with his own hands. It is indeed very convenient to use it now."

Banlu fell silently, he cut off the arrow but the arrow still sank into his chest precisely.This was an achievement he was once proud of, but now it is killing him in turn.

Zuo Yi opened his mouth wide and couldn't say a word, his mind was roaring.The umbrella fell from the sky, covered in mud, and the rain could no longer cover it and poured down from the sky.

"run……"

Zuo Yi hugged Banlu tightly, tears falling silently in the rain.

"Don't think about... avenging me, Jianghu people... it should be like this. The arrow is poisonous, I can't hold it anymore. You run..."

Zuo Yi shook his head desperately, but the people in Minglou grabbed his clothes and took him away quickly.

"Master!" Zuo Yi shouted.

A smile appeared on Banlu's face... The rain hit Banlu's face, and those peach blossom eyes were also stained with water vapor.It is passionate and brilliant, but finally it gradually disappears in the weird rain in late spring...

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First update.There is another update in the afternoon.