Tianying

The rivers and mountains in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Xiaoran can only read and miss those days when he was a young man who was full of ambition and indulgence in his dreams at midnight.

Ye Ying also...is no longer what he remembered, what he imagined.

But it happened to meet him here.

The night is Xiao Su.Countless sparse leaves whirled, and the mottled night shadows fell deeply.That tall and thin man, standing under the tree, with long black hair tied up, a layer of smudged light red on his snow-white face was gradually blown away by the cool night breeze, holding a sword in one hand, and touching him with the other. On the right arm armor.His sleeve corners, hem of his clothes, outer robe, drapes... all the shades of gold were blown up by the night wind and set off behind him. His expression was indifferent, not like a real person.

Li Chengen looked into his eyes.The expression there is still a boy, never changed, as silent and indifferent as a distant mountain, as inaccessible as a lone moon.However, just looking at it makes people's heart calm down moment by moment, comforted and calmed down layer by layer... and then they stay silent with him.

like what.Like a falling flower in front of Tianze Tower, like a cold moon on the 24th bridge, like a tree peony blooming quietly everywhere on Beimeng Mountain.Like the thousand pines standing on the Five Sacred Mountains, like the endlessly flowing river pool full of no tide, like Ye Ying,—it is Ye Ying.Only Ye Ying.

There was silence all around, except for the chirping of cicadas.

Li Chengen finally spoke: "—Ye Ying." His voice was a little dry.It sounded like stagnant water had broken the gate: "Ye Ying." He called again, and this time it was much smoother. He grinned and smiled.

Ye Ying didn't say anything.But Li Chengen knew that at least he didn't hate it.

The thin and lonely shadow of the young man gradually overlapped with the man in front of him—he didn't seem to have changed much.Except for the more solemn and gorgeous clothes, except for the more handsome facial features, except for the tall stature...he is still Ye Ying.His heart has never changed much.

Li Chengen looked into his eyes, looked at his clear and empty eyes, and felt in a trance that he was back to a boy.He can also raise his gun and talk nonsense, he can climb over the wall for a candied haws, he can joke freely, he can ride a horse and a dragon, and he is a young man.

The court seems to have sharpened his edges and corners step by step, and the years seem to have left an indelible mark on his face. He has become calm, he has learned how to speak carefully, and he knows how to deal with the emperor and his own strategies. time, to seek the greatest benefit for Tiance.

But he just lost the young Li Chengen.

The man in front of him didn't seem to have been bruised in the slightest by the years.Still young, still the original heart, it seems that in another ten years, a hundred years, tens of thousands of years... nothing will change, nothing will make him change.

He was looking at Ye Ying, and Ye Ying was also looking at him.

It's Li Chengen.

Among his few vivid memories are his father, Ye Hui, Ye Wei who left the village not long ago...the whole Ye family.In fact, there are not many people who left an impression on him.

Li Chengen is one.

It is also the only one besides the Ye family.

The teenager who recklessly broke into his yard and fell on top of him.The young man who is not annoying in his speech is frivolous, and his handsome outline can be vaguely discerned from his unopened face.With the gun on his back, that's one or two points higher than him.

That was the first person who dared to hold his hand and take him out to play.

Now he has grown taller, still wearing heavy armor, his outline is like a knife, halberd, ax and axe, his eyebrows are like a sword, and his slender eyes are full of hidden determination; but occasionally there is a glimmer of light , flashed by, and the nineteen states were all cold in an instant.

Compared with the undisguised flamboyance when he was young, Li Chengen ten years later has less frivolity and more forbearance and perseverance, as if walking with a weight on his shoulders all the time, taking every step cautiously.If he accidentally touches his reverse scale, it will explode—everyone who sees it will die.

Later, the battle of Tiance Da Guangming Temple shook the court and the people, and its reputation spread all over the territory of Kyushu. The world was shocked by the outbreak of the Tiance Mansion's fighting power, and talked about the forbearance of the Tiance Mansion before.

But Ye Ying was not surprised.

Long before the third famous sword meeting, he met the young leader of Tiance Mansion, and he predicted this ending long ago.

The two looked at each other for a while in the dark, and it was Li Chengen who started the conversation first: "What happened to the chaos just now?"

Ye Ying is a person who doesn't like to talk, so she just spit out two words: "Mingjiao."

Li Chengen immediately made a good guess, and said in surprise: "Mingjiao is here?" Seeing Ye Ying nodding, he asked: "Is there any missing 'Broken Star'?"

Ye Ying's empty eyes couldn't help showing a bit of regret: "It's lost."

He continued:

"Sacred artifacts are transformed into Yangwen and Yinman;

Liu Qixing is connected, and the floating mining is widespread;

Flying light and broken stars, all the reasons are exhausted. "

One word at a time, calmly and slowly.That bit of regret and unspeakable love is like a cold spring under the ice, with a faint gurgling sound, buried deep and deep. The word "broken star" is pronounced with extra emphasis, but it is almost inaudible.

In the end, he shook his head and added the word "it's a pity", which is enough to show the depth of regret for a person who has always been calm.

Li Chengen also felt regretful, but he was not a person who practiced swordsmanship after all, although he liked famous swords, he was not so obsessed with them.He regretted that the Famous Sword Conference would definitely not be able to be held, and he would not be able to win the sword, and Yixue would be ashamed of being defeated by Shen Ce.So after regretting for a while, he suddenly remembered the agreement he made with Ye Ying when they were young, and half-jokingly said: "It's a pity that Li has no blessing to fulfill the agreement when he was young. I don't know if the owner still remembers it?"

Ye Ying actually nodded.Li Chengen smiled and said: "The owner of the village remembers to invite again in the future, and I will definitely fulfill the contract." His eyes were burning, revealing a bit of arrogance that vaguely belonged to his youth.

Ye Ying looked at him and didn't speak.His every move has his own style, but his words seem to be an innocuous defect, and all the empty words and politeness are not in touch with him.Li Chengen had no choice but to speak brazenly: "Master Ye, won't someone come in and sit down?"

He finished speaking bravely by himself, even though he had practiced in the past few years, he also felt his face was hot.He himself didn't understand why he was so presumptuous in front of Ye Ying.

He can speak impeccably in the courtroom, and he can also hide his wit in the verbal battle.However, he didn't want to use that trick on Ye Ying, he thought it was an insult.For Ye Ying, a person as clear as ice and snow.

So I went straight to what I thought in my heart, and after I finished speaking, I felt a little too blunt, and my heart became uneasy, waiting for Ye Ying's reply.

Ye Ying still didn't speak, but he had already taken a step forward.

Chapter five

Ye Ying was silent all the way, and brought him to her residence.Li Chengen followed him in and sat at the table with him, the two of them sat silently.

Yes, there is nothing to say.But Li Chengen didn't really want to leave, and Ye Ying didn't intend to see off the guests either.

The willow tip on the new moon.

Ye Ying remained silent, reached out to take the porcelain pot on the table, and poured a cup for herself and Li Chengen.Li Chengen was a little thirsty at the moment, and wanted to drink it as soon as he picked it up, so he couldn't help but find out a word or two of praise for this good tea.But the tea got into his throat—he tried his best to make a gesture, but he just took a sip, and his face suddenly became strange.

He couldn't even taste a trace of tea.

In the past few years in the court, he has drank a lot of tea from rewards from the emperor to banquets of seven grades, and he has gradually changed from being ignorant to being able to say a few words "clear in color, bright in taste, and soft in mouth." Unceasingly sweet, long and soft, such as..." and other compliments.

But the tea soup in his cup clearly didn't have a trace of tea flavor.Not only did it not taste like tea, but it was also extremely cold, as if it had been left in the middle of the night.

He thought it was something wrong with his sense of taste, so he took another sip and sipped it carefully for a long time—it was still tasteless, even the worst coarse tea he had drunk five or six times in the most ordinary inn, it was more tea-like than this many.He lowered his head and looked over and over again at the "tea soup" contained in the jade cup under the moonlight - and finally confirmed that what was slightly rippling in the cup under the moonlight was a cup of white water.

A glass of plain water with nothing added.

Li Chengen was astonished.Not to mention the royal family of the Son of Heaven, even the common people in the countryside, it is inevitable to serve guests with tea, but now he is sitting in the room of the master of the Cangjian Villa, and what is handed to him is only a glass of water.A cup of cold white water without even a single tea leaf.

Li Chengen put down his cup and looked at Ye Ying again.The surprise at the beginning gradually settled, and in the indifferent expression of the man in front of him, Li Chengen actually had a feeling of "it should be so".

This is Ye Ying.

This should be Ye Ying!

Li Chengen felt refreshed—in fact, he had never seriously liked drinking tea!It's hot and troublesome, and I have to wash the cup and pour the tea... After the set, my throat is already smoking with thirst, and I have to wait slowly until the tea smoke clears before I can drink it.Drinking tea is just a troublesome but indispensable link when dealing with civil servants and military officials of the court, or when pursuing friendship.

This glass of cold water was pouring into his heart.

Li Chengen's eyes were directly on Ye Ying's, and he couldn't help saying: "Master Ye is really a good-natured person, Li admires him!" After finishing his sentence, he picked up his cup, raised his neck, and drank it all.

Ye Ying seems to be drifting away from the secular world forever.He was used to jumping away from the other person's words and turning to something that had nothing to do with the matter in front of him but caught his attention.For example, right now, he has absolutely no intention of answering Li Chengen's words.