Relief

"Old Wei! Old Wei!"

The gatehouse was smashed.The bones of the old wooden plank used as a bed creaked loosely, and Wei Lao got up in the dark and put on his boots.

"Call, call! Call the soul!"

The door swung open, and Old Wei's sleepy face collided with the disciple's terrified expression.

"Something happened!" The disciple moved away, revealing the tall mountain gate archway behind him.In the dim morning light, only a silhouette remains, blurry.

Elder Wei narrowed his eyes—something was hanging on the archway.

The disciples who got up in the morning and the patrolling guards surrounded the thing, all looking inconceivably horrified.

The thing hung in the air and circled, screaming "woo woo".

"You are looking at the mountain gate. How could someone hang on the archway? Didn't you know last night?!" the disciple asked.

Elder Wei was also surprised: "Is that a person?"

Some of the disciples under the archway saw the man's face clearly:

"Isn't this Xiang Heng!"

Xie Zhixu walked out of the room with the empty porridge bowl.Tang Yu was kicked out, Xie Zhixu didn't allow him to enter the house to join in the fun, so he had to wait in the yard all night to prevent his master from having any problems.

They were also having breakfast in the courtyard, Yue Guanshan was squatting on the stone bench, fighting with Wu Li for the last piece of vinegared shredded chicken.

"Your Huangrenling food is really good." Yue Guanshan finally withdrew his claws under Wu Li's threat, and said sourly as Wu Li sucked chicken shreds.

"It's Huangrenling," Wu Li corrected, and finally seeing Xie Zhixu, he asked, "Is this morning better? Have you finished your meal?"

Xie Zhixu nodded, and sat down at the stone table, and quickly finished his breakfast. He didn't sleep all night last night, and now he seems to be in good spirits.

Lu Hui glanced at him, but said nothing.Instead, the chattering Xiaoyunwei surrounded him, Yanmen said: "Brother Xie, what did you do last night?"

Xie Zhixu swallowed half a bowl of gruel in one gulp, and said strangely: "Escort, what else can I do."

The Yanmen thief Xixi came over: "Do you know that there was someone hanging on the archway of the mountain gate last night? It was Xiang Heng. His leg was broken and he hung on the gate of the mountain to blow the cold wind all night. He just put it down this morning. Freezing stupid!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the courtyard looked at Xie Zhixu either blatantly or unintentionally.And Xie Zhixu didn't hesitate at all, calmly said: "I know."

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, but Yanmen had already guessed it, and gave Xie Zhixu a thumbs up: "Brother Xie, I admire you!"

A tooth for a tooth.

Under Tang Haifeng's instigation, Xiang Heng harmed Fengzhichang into such a state that even the poisonous old monster couldn't stand it, so he made false remarks and thanked Zhixu.

This time Lu Hui didn't put on airs of being a senior brother, pretending that he didn't know anything.That is to say, Feng Jing is in power and the Discipline Hall is negligent. Otherwise, Xiang Heng knows the location of the head's imprisonment but does not report it. It is not as simple as breaking his leg and freezing overnight.

"What nonsense?" Yue Guanshan pressed Yanmen's thumb down with his big hand, and taught, "You know again."

Yanmen stuck out his tongue.

Shi Renyu recklessly broke into the yard at this moment.

He was still carrying a long sword, and the scabbard rattled when he kicked it with his heels. He reacted a beat slower than everyone else: "Something happened!"

Huang Renling, a big brother, doesn't have the demeanor of a senior brother. He takes the responsibility of taking care of his juniors and sisters dutifully, but he doesn't dare to make up his own mind when encountering major issues, so he often comes to Lu Hui for advice.

Before Shi Renyu opened his mouth, Lu Hui said, "We already knew that someone hanged himself on the memorial arch of the mountain gate."

Shi Renyu was stunned for a moment: "Ah? What do you mean by hanging someone? ——I mean, Master is back!"

A disciple was hung on the archway for a whole night, and the whole Huangren Ridge heard about it early in the morning, especially Xiang Heng and Li Liang, who were used to being domineering and domineering.However, Shi Renyu was directly taken away from the bed by the guards and brought to the meeting hall, and he didn't know it at all.

"What happened to Xiang Heng?!" The elder brother treats every younger brother equally, and is the most gentle elder brother.

Lu Hui was frantic: "Please, leave that boy Xiang Heng alone! What did you just say? What do you mean Master is back?"

Master Zhu is indeed back.

Feng Jing fully cooperated with the disciples in the sect to find the master, and finally searched the mountains and forests last night to find Zhu Dexiang who had been lost for more than a month and almost starved to death.In order to appease the frightened and suspicious disciples, he specially sent someone to call Shi Renyu to meet with the master in the morning.

"Are you sure it's Master?" Shu Yinzhi, who came after hearing the news, almost grabbed the senior brother's collar.

"Yes," Shi Renyu was also very confused, "I also specifically confirmed that it was me who was right."

Lu Hui: "No injuries?"

Shi Renyu: "No!"

Wu Li: "Not coerced?"

Shi Renyu: "Probably not!"

Now everyone has nothing to say.The person who couldn't be found after all the hard work, so easily returned to everyone's sight, or was Feng Jing found him?

Even Xiao Yunwei, who was always alive and kicking, also fell silent, matching the doubtful and stagnant atmosphere.Only Xie Zhixu put down the bowl and chopsticks, filled a bowl of distiller's lees balls, and went into the house to serve the wounded.

The injured patient was forbidden to eat food with heavy oil and salt because of his fever. Xie Zhixu didn't realize until then that Feng Zhichang was a bit talkative, but when he thought about his three meals in Suzhou, the entire table was filled It's no surprise to taste a little of each dish.

"Would you like some distiller's grains? Chill it in well water to relieve the fever." Xie Zhixu closed the door.

Feng Zhichang put a pillow on his lower back, leaned lazily on the couch, and was injured behind the bed like a cat whose minions had been removed, revealing its soft belly, waiting for someone to smooth its fur.

Xie Zhixu sat next to him amidst such plausible temptations, but he didn't hand over the iced wine lees, but asked again: "Would you like to try it?"

Feng Zhichang understood exactly what he meant.But he also remembered the look in Xie Zhixu's eyes when he found him in the tomb, the unambiguous possessiveness in his eyes, wise people should choose to obey when they are weak.

"Ah."

The voice overflowing from the nasal cavity was thin and soft.

The sweet porcelain spoon filled with chilled distiller's grains was brought to his lips.The cold and creamy touch made Feng Zhi's often burnt-out mind a little clearer.

"Feng Jing brought Master Zhu back." Xie Zhixu said.

The glutinous rice balls rolled a few times in the spoon, and it was said that they were often held between the teeth. Sipping the sweet juice, they thought for a while before asking:

——You didn’t rescue the old man together?

"By chance," Xie Zhixu said, "I was the only one who went in at that time, and I won't let you stay in the tomb room alone."

His tone was flat, as if he was stating a fact that both of them should know well, and there was no need to emphasize it.

Feng Zhichang didn't say a word, but squinted at Xie Zhixu, with an aura at the end of his eyes that he hadn't even noticed.

After a while, Feng Zhichang took a sip of the ice wine lees in Xie Zhixu's hand, lowered his eyebrows and said:

——You missed the opportunity, Zhu Dexiang has already fallen into Feng Jing's hands.

"He has been in Feng Jing's hands for a long time." Xie Zhixu replied.

Flying pigeons landed on the crossbar under the eaves.

Today's wind is very strong, and the thick clouds are surging like waves. The small double eaves of the head's residence penetrated into the clouds and mist, and flew upwards obliquely, but they were quickly hidden in the mist and lost their direction.

Feng Jing stood under the crossbar, with several balls of letter paper in his hand, turned his head to the room with his beard twisted and smiled slightly: "It seems that Huangrenling doesn't need you anymore."

The branches of red maple are spreading across the room, the sliding door is open to both sides, the house is transparent and bright, an old man is sitting cross-legged on the floor beside the coffee table, he has already put on clean clothes, his hair is neatly combed, tied into a crown, his wide sleeves are open on both sides Above the knee, stable and dignified.

He didn't give Feng Jing a look, because he couldn't hide the tiredness in his expression due to aging, but he sat still.

Feng Jing didn't get a response, and he didn't care. He said, "But don't worry, I still need you. Help me with a few things, Master Zhu."

The boiling water was scalded into the tea bowl, and the heat rose in an instant.

Zhu Dexiang sighed: "I'm already very old."

Feng Jing said: "Of course, of course, I understand."

Zhu Dexiang said: "I want to see my disciple first."

When he was about to fall asleep that night, Shi Renyu was picked up from the bed by Feng Jing's guards again, and brought into the meeting hall.This was the second time he saw Zhu Dexiang.

"What did you say?" Lu Hui was completely confused, staring at Shi Renyu, "Why did Master call you?"

From the time Zhu Dexiang was found until the next day, only the eldest disciple Shi Renyu in the sect had seen him.Everyone else was stopped outside the meeting hall by Feng Jing's guards.

"Play chess with me." Shi Renyu said.

Lu Hui was dumbfounded.

Even Shu Yinzhi couldn't figure it out: "Brother, can you still play chess?"

Shi Renyu was no less confused than them: "No way."

Lu Hui and Shu Yinzhi: "..."

God knows how many times Lu Hui begged to see Zhu Dexiang, and the master didn't even bring him a message.If the head of the sect was coerced by Feng Jing and unable to pass on the news, it would be Lu Hui who had a lot of tricks to summon his disciples. What's the use of calling Shi Renyu?Is it a relatively silly face with him?

After lying on the bed for a day and a night, Feng Zhichang was finally allowed to go out, and Xie Zhixu pushed him to let the wind in the yard.The two of them watched the disciples of Huangren Ridge burnt out, feeling a little out of the loop.

——Because I'm stupid.

Feng Zhichang stretched out his hand, but was held by Xie Zhixu.

Feng Zhichang: "..."

— Nervous, I want apricots.

Xie Zhi made a false smile and said nothing, picked up an apricot from the fruit on the stone table, broke open the pit, and handed it to Feng Zhichang.

"...", Wu Li observed the two of them, and suddenly realized, "Is there something wrong with you two?"

Both of them tacitly ignored Wu Li.

Yue Guanshan also had the same understanding as Feng Zhichang, and said: "Not everyone can meet Master Zhu, I'm afraid Feng Jing will have to screen the people he wants to meet."

Shi Renyu was confused: "What do you mean?"

It means that you are stupid and there is no threat, so I approved to see you, not Senior Lu Er.Everyone slandered in their hearts.

With a sullen face, Lu Hui thought for a moment, and asked Shi Renyu: "What kind of chess did you play, can you replay it?"

"God," said Shu Yinzhi, who had no hope for Shi Renyu, "my second senior brother has been cornered."

Shi Renyu also expressed embarrassment.

Lu Hui sighed, ten long-fingered spiders crawled on his chin for a while, as if he had no other choice, and finally said: "Then you repeat the situation when you saw Master, what happened before going to sleep, it can't be so fast. Just forget, this is the head office, right?"