[Hua Yang] Water and Moon

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Immediately, the aroma was overflowing, and it attracted people's appetite. Not only the little beggar in the corner beside the table swallowed his saliva, but even the noodle shop guy came to take a look.

"What is this?" Qin Yuezhi smelled the fresh fragrance and stared at the brown oily flowers floating on the noodle soup, but couldn't figure it out.

"I picked it during the rainy days in Chang'an." Hua Wujianzhi drank tea one by one on the wooden table, met his inquisitive eyes, "Edible fungi rarely show up, and they can't use iron tools. Use a bamboo stick to dig out one by one, and put it on after boiling the oil."

Hearing what he said, Qin Yuezhi suddenly remembered those few days, and felt a little depressed.

At that time, Hua Wujian happened to be out of the house, so Ye Lan didn't meet Wanhua when he came to visit. After putting down the letters and tokens, he asked the housekeeper Taoist to compete with swords.Qin Yuezhi thanked him for the gift of the sword, but it was inconvenient to refuse, she drew the sword and planned to stop it.Unexpectedly, Ye Lan's sword moves were both ruthless, flexible and full of experience. Others would be exhausted after a dozen or so moves. Thanks to Qin Yue's superb sword skills and countless challenges, the two of them survived hundreds of moves.

Hua Wujian came back with a basket of mushrooms in her arms, but she didn't see Ye Lan, but saw Qin Yuezhi, who had slightly bruised her inner strength and was recuperating in meditation. She was shocked and asked why, and immediately slapped the table and fell Porcelain mug at hand.

Qin Yuezhi has never seen him get angry, at least he has never been fierce to himself. Seeing Hua Wujian heal himself in a panic, and finally write a letter to Li Yuan in a hurry to send to Hangzhou to Li Yuan, his body and spirit are all angry, so Guessing that he was angry with himself for playing tricks with others, not only did he not dare to talk to him during the day, but he also slept properly at night.

Hua Wujian was really angry, not to mention that Li Yuan had been gloomy for more than ten days before he came, Li Yuan sat down at the door, and looked curiously at Qin Yue beside him, Hua Wujian raised his hand and threw the letter across his face.

Qin Yuezhi and Li Yuan had only met each other from a distance in Kunlun, the former vaguely remembered what they looked like, while the latter only exchanged a few polite words in the process, and even forgot the impression.Thanks to Li Yuan's good temper, he came to Chang'an under the scorching sun from thousands of miles away without a single complaint. He threatened Hua Wujian with Ye Lan and was too choked up to talk to Qin Yuezhi. He took the letter and ran back to West Lake with 1 thanks. went.

Hua Wujian asked someone to vent his anger, so he gave up. Seeing that Qin Yuezhi was still silent and didn't dare to make him angry, he said that he was not angry with him and reassured him.

Qin Yuezhi always wrote to him, and when he heard him say this, he didn't ask why, not to mention Hua Wujian's soft words came back to his lips, and a light smile was more dazzling than the sun, so he couldn't care less.

Going all the way to the southeast, Hua Wujian was in a daze from time to time, or suddenly stopped talking. He saw it in his eyes, but he still couldn't figure out his mind.

"Leave if you don't like it? Let's go find a soup and cake shop." Hua Wujian looked at him in a daze, and pulled him to stand up.

Qin Yuezhi came back to her senses and quickly shook her head: "I don't like it... But I see you don't move."

Hua Wujian sat back and frowned helplessly at him: "It's so hot, I don't want to eat it."

Qin Yuezhi coughed lightly, and sighed with a smile. Before he even moved his chopsticks, a group of big men came to the noodle restaurant.

I saw a few big and three rough people kicking over the water tank of the arbor, pushing down the little beggars eating cakes at the door, and yelling at the clerks to collect rent.The guests in the noodle shop saw that things were not going well, and scattered and fled, but they were all stopped and escorted back to sit.

"Don't move." Seeing that Qin Yuezhi had put on the hilt of his sword, Hua Wujian quickly pulled his sleeve and whispered to him, "If you want to move, I will do it."

Qin Yuezhi listened to his dissuasion, and changed to holding chopsticks again. Hearing the rough voices of a few hooligans, the voices of the staff begging for mercy, and the panicked whispers of the guests, they sat together with Hua Wujian, who had nothing to do with him, and slowly moved his hands. I ate noodles.

"That's all? If you were a Hu, would you dare to give it to me?" The rent collector was still not satisfied with the money bag, and threatened to smash the noodle shop, "If it weren't for the fact that the masters drove the Hu people away during the war." People, is it your turn to open a noodle restaurant?"

Hua Wujian took a sip of coarse tea, put down the cup lightly, approached Qin Yuezhi with a smile that was not a smile, and said in a low voice, "Why don't I remember that there are such people in the ranks of Tiance Mansion? Could it be those generals?" Who is blind? Even if there were, the rebels never crossed the south of the Yangtze River, and it doesn't make sense for soldiers to run rampant here."

He spoke very lightly, but Qin Yuezhi, who had excellent hearing, understood it, and turned to glance at the bandits vigilantly.

"What are you muttering about?!" I knew they were not easy to mess with from the looks of their attire, but seeing the cold and guarded gaze of the Taoist priest, the big hooligan in the lead couldn't stand still, walked over to ruthlessly He slapped the table in front of him hard, shaking the bowls and cups to make a loud noise, spit at Hua Wujian's gentle appearance who didn't know how to fight, "Say it again for me!"

Qin Yuezhi took off the sword calmly, her still calm and peaceful face was slightly gloomy, but with a push of her thumb, the edge of the sword was exposed by an inch, and a cold light like frost and snow suddenly appeared, making people afraid to move.

The hooligan was taken aback, swallowed, and shrank in an instant: "Fortunately, you guys have to rush to run errands, let's go!"

With a wave of his hand, several people pushed and shoved each other to retreat, but whoever made the move took advantage of the chaos, only heard a skinny howl, and received a solid punch on the face, followed by many more punches , flew out of the noodle shop, and threw a handful of ashes face down. Before he got up, several hooligans around him also fell down, howling one after another.

"Give me back the money!" The shopkeeper saw that there was someone to help him, so he took the guy and grabbed the guy, and scuffled with the gang of big guys who took advantage of the fire.Most of the onlookers ran away, and some who had suffered a loss and hated it in their hearts rushed up to join the dusty scene where fists and feet were facing each other.

After a while, a few hooligans dropped their purses and crawled away.

Qin Yuezhi withdrew his sword, Hua Wujian didn't want to sit down anymore, the two got up before the noodle shop settled down again, when they passed by the door, the little beggar in bloomers was still wiping his face and blowing on the cake.

Hua Wujian glanced at her, then stopped suddenly, turned around and called the shopkeeper, and threw a few copper coins into his hand: "Give her another bowl of noodles." As he spoke, he took out the pot just now, and threw it into the little beggar's hand. Sai, pull Qin Yuezhi up and leave.

Qin Yuezhi didn't know why, so he walked a long way before asking: "Do you know that child?"

"I don't know." Hua Wujian replied bluntly, "But those punches and kicks just now were made by her. Judging from her skills, she should be a disciple of the Beggars' Sect. I didn't expect that Jianghuai, which has always been peaceful, would have such rampant bandits who provoked the disciples of the Beggars' Sect. , they also suffer.”

"Just take action for us." Qin Yuezhi understood, and tightened his hand, "As members of the sect, it is also necessary to take care of each other."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Hua Wujian showed melancholy: "Everyone has their own destiny, but if I have a daughter like this, I don't want her to go to Junshan to learn boxing and kick in the market."

"Female...is she a girl?" Qin Yuezhi suddenly heard the question, remembering the little beggar's thin, short hair with bandages, she couldn't believe it, "How did you know that?"

"Bones are girls." Hua Wujian replied solemnly, "Face bones and body bones are both. Although they are young and haven't grown up yet, there are differences between men and women, and it is easy to distinguish them."

When he became serious, he changed to a serious look like a human being. Even if Qin Yuezhi didn't understand, his eyes were shining brightly, holding his hand, he felt extremely at ease, and didn't ask any more questions.

Hua Wujian led him back to the post station to pick up the horse. After making such a fuss, he was really in no mood to continue wandering in the countryside.

When the two settled down in the town, it was already dark, but at night, the town was full of lights and banquets, and it was as lively as daylight.After asking about it, I found out that the rich family worshiped their ancestors to reward the gods, and even set up a water and land dojo. Now that the night ceremony is over, the Kabuki invited from the nearby Jiangning prefecture city is performing on the stage, and you can see the flowers in the center through the row of musicians below. The blooming Tuozhi dance.

The town is not small, and the layout is also luxurious, but Hua Wujian and Qin Yuezhi went around and couldn't find any vacant inn, not even an empty chair, but walked around among the dimly lit bustling crowd, attracting a lot of attention. People looked back.

Qin Yuezhi felt a little uncomfortable, Hua Wujian was very generous, seeing that there was still room at the end of the table behind the musician, so he happily took his hand, and wore or wore a high crown or veil Those who are either rich or noble, sit down generously.

"But it's all right?" Qin Yuezhi looked around the crowd and asked anxiously.

Hua Wujian smiled at him, comfortingly said: "There are no cups, bowls and chopsticks, but it's okay to sit."

Qin Yuezhi's expression suddenly froze when he saw his gaze passing over her shoulder and sweeping into the crowd, and she wanted to speak, but someone blocked her view.

A young and well-dressed young girl approached their table, set up tableware and wine vessels, then half-kneeled on the cushion beside them, filled his glass with wine, and spoke softly to him: "You two distinguished guests You have an extraordinary bearing, I don't know who the young master is looking for today?"

Smelling the strong scent of makeup, Qin Yuezhi instinctively resisted and was inconvenient to reveal it, so she turned her face slightly.

"The girl is very beautiful and has a pleasing throat. Can you elaborate more?" Hua Wujian covered her lips with her sleeves, pointed to the cushion on the other side, and submerged herself in the shadow of dancing and singing.

The girl readily agreed, and went to the other side with the flagon in her hand.

Only then did Qin Yuezhi dare to change his breath, and then he felt like sitting on pins and needles because he was curious about their conversation in a lowered voice. The singing sounded like a muffled sound from the sky, and he sat upright in the cool and comfortable night breeze, sweating from his temples nervously, wanting to concentrate on listening, The fist on the knee was grasped by Hua Wujian's extended hand.

The latter stretched his knuckles and loosened his fingers, clasped his fingers together, and kneaded him a few times as if inviting him to respond, rubbing his fingertips against his palm, causing some itchiness.Fortunately, the white Taoist robe was