Jade flute sounds far

Time is indeed a wonderful thing.Qiao Chongyu always remembered the time when he took over the villa, he often soaked in Hejiaji's teahouse and listened to books, often before finishing a pot of tea, the sunset had dyed most of the sky red.Jueqing would always drag himself back to the villa an hour before dinner to discuss matters with Uncle Yu, but that hour, which was said to be not long, was as difficult as a whole day.

Later, Jueqing passed away and Qi Yuan disappeared. In the first few days, Qiao Chongyu also felt that the days were like years. She wished she could bury her whole body in the quilt and sleep for a few days and nights before opening her eyes. No change.But in the dream, he couldn't live in peace. He dreamed again and again that Qi Yuan stabbed him with the tip of the sword, felt the blood on his body, and Yu Dongjie's gloomy laughter...

He even dreamed that Jingyi Mountain Villa would fall down after all, and there was only a huge empty village left, even the plaque on the gate was broken into several pieces and rolled into the soil.The door panels were creaked by the wind, and it was very cold, probably in the depths of winter.He kept walking in his dream, towards the gate of the villa, but he still couldn't step through the threshold.His father stood behind the door, looking at him wordlessly, and finally just shook his head and sighed, just like when he heard that he had neglected his studies again.

These dreams often wake him up in the middle of the night, and he can't sleep anymore, so he can only get up with his clothes on, and read one after another the classics piled up in the house.But I don't know when, those dreams suddenly stopped haunting him, but when Qiao Chongyu finally realized this, two full months had passed since that night.

During this period, the owner of Zhuomo Villa got married, and the post was sent to Jingyi Villa, and Qiao Chongyu sent Jing Yue there.Unexpectedly, when Jing Yue came back a few days later, he was furious: "Li Junchuan actually represented the Wanji Sect to watch the ceremony! Which of those sects didn't know that he was a disciple of our villa? He was arranged next to me, and I scolded him as a wolf-hearted dog, but I didn't expect this guy to talk about the good bird choosing a tree to live in..."

The more he spoke, the angrier he got, he couldn't help cursing a few foul words, and complained that other sects not only didn't look down on Li Junchuan, but gloated at their dispute.Gong Zhanming listened anxiously to the side for a long time, and finally couldn't help but interjected to ask: "You are not thinking about the fight between the villa and Li Junchuan, are you?"

"No." Jing Yue gritted his teeth and glanced at Qiao Chongyu, "Before I left, the owner told me to be cautious in my words and deeds. Apart from not letting others know about Yu Dongjie, I also couldn't leave anything to be said."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Jing."

Jing Yue had been at odds with Li Junchuan a few years ago, and now that they met on a narrow road, he was able to restrain himself from fighting, which really made Qiao Chongyu heave a sigh of relief, and felt a little grateful in his heart—at least, the two senior brothers still turned their hearts towards the mirror. of the villa.

After Yu Dongjie's fraudulent death was revealed, the pretense of restraining the Mirror Fist that he put up before also failed, and these days there were no big moves, but only drove the people in the Wanji Sect to provoke many times.Although many disciples in the villa didn't know that Yu Dongjie was in the Wanji Sect, those disciples who rebelled with Li Junchuan and joined the Wanji Sect often deliberately appeared in front of the former fellow sects, and would treat those who had some friendship At the same time, he did not forget to sneer at the current Jingyi Villa.

For this reason, as the new guardians of the villa, Gong Zhanming and Jing Yue had already been exhausted in order to stabilize people's hearts.Qiao Chongyu noticed the bruises on Jing Yue's eyes, and knew that he was afraid of the shortage of manpower in the village, so he hurried back, and couldn't help but said: "Ten days later, the head of the Tang Sect will celebrate his fiftieth birthday, so let me go to congratulate him personally, Senior Brother Jing and Senior Brother Gong will sit in town Zhuangzhong is fine."

"How can this work?!" Jing Yue yelled as soon as he heard it, "Zhuomao Villa is still in Jingzhou, yet Yu Dongjie can deliberately send Li Junchuan to disgust us. This time in Tang Sect, how could Wanji Sect let go of this opportunity? ? I don't agree with the landlord, you go to suffer."

"Who said I was going to be angry?"

When Qiao Chongyu heard this, she couldn't help raising her eyebrows and smiling: "Senior Brother Jing, don't underestimate me, the owner of the estate."

Since the owner insisted on this, Gong Zhanming and Jing Yue couldn't stop him, so they only helped prepare the congratulatory gift and arranged for four disciples to go with him.Qiao Chongyu looked at two of them who also went up to Mount Qingcheng with him, and opened his mouth to say something, but finally swallowed them all, and waved his hand: "Let's go."

The Tang Sect in the middle of Sichuan is the most famous in the martial arts world with hidden weapons, but the current sect master Tang Fei is polite and soft-spoken, and he doesn't like to argue with others.However, even though the patriarch is mediocre, the foundation of the Tang Sect has remained intact for a hundred years. This time, Tang Fei's birthday, even several sects far away in the northwest and along the coast sent elders or senior disciples to send congratulatory gifts.

So even though Qiao Chongyu arrived half a day earlier this time, all sects and factions who came to celebrate his birthday had already filled up half the hall.Seeing him appear, many gossips sprang up from the dark corners, hovering around like moths, scattering dust-like scales everywhere.

Qiao Chongyu walked forward without changing his face, except for the envoys from Mingyu Sect and Emei who greeted him halfway, the rest ignored him.Some people who have no brains moved to the side after he sat down, and asked with a smile: "Master Qiao, I heard that your school has encountered some troubles recently?"

"Really? How come I don't know what trouble is there?" Qiao Chongyu raised his eyes with a smile that was not a smile, and took note of this person's face, "Brother is so concerned about the affairs of my villa, why don't you come to work for me in Jingyi Villa?"

After driving away the people, seeing that it was still early, he sipped his hot tea and wanted to turn around to chat with the people, but seeing that the four disciples all had frowns and their faces were as dark as the bottom of a casserole, he couldn't help but sighed with a smile: "OK Now, what are you doing?"

"The lord—"

"Keep your expressions away. You guys will let others watch the show even more." After Qiao Chongyu finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of several people walking outside the door from the corner of his eye, and his expression also changed.In a blink of an eye, people had already arrived at the door, and the leader did not wait for the disciples of the Tang Sect to ask him, he clasped his fists in salute, and said loudly, "Disciples of the Wanji Sect Liu Chengda, Nie Bin, Zhao Changning, Qian Hongying, come here to celebrate your birthday."

Liu Chengda and Nie Bin were disciples of Jingyi Mountain Villa in the early years, and they often walked on the rivers and lakes. At this time, they suddenly appeared, and immediately aroused the already not peaceful crowd to become even more noisy.Qiao Chongyu pursed her lips and put down the teacup. Before she got up, Liu Chengda had strode up to meet her, with a loud voice that everyone could hear clearly: "Master Qiao."

"Senior Brother Liu." Qiao Chongyu smiled faintly, "I haven't seen you for a few months, Senior Brother Liu is still in good spirits."

"I'm no longer from Jingyi Mountain Villa. You don't need to call Master Qiao this senior brother." Liu Chengda said solemnly at first, and then cast him a meaningful glance, "However, if Qiaozhuang The Lord also has the idea of ​​changing to my Wanji Gate, and I will recommend it in the future."

"I have to worry about it."

Qiao Chongyu bowed in his seat, turned his head immediately, and asked the disciple behind him loudly: "Hey, Xu Han, the cat you raised earlier went to Senior Brother Gong's place a few days ago?"

"...Isn't that so?" Xu Han was more clever, and quickly said, "I was negligent for a few days, and this guy was actually cheated by a fish from the big brother. No wonder the old man always said that cats hate the poor and love the rich."

"Yes." Qiao Chongyu took another sip from the teacup, cleared her throat, and said slowly, "Although the cat is like this, it knows how to find a better place to live, but some people think that I didn’t live comfortably, and when I left, I actually found a worse place, and lived there happily—you mean, are you so stupid that you’re worse than a beast?”

"you--!"

Liu Chengda failed to humiliate Qiao Chongyu, but was ridiculed by him, his face almost turned purple.If it was in the past, Qiao Chongyu would have said a few more words, but today he opened his mouth, but just laughed, and raised his hand in a sloppy way: "Senior brother Liu, excuse me."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, greeted the disciples who came with him, and planned to go outside to kill some time.But the moment he turned sideways, there was a sharp sound of wind, and it shot straight at Qiao Chongyu!

"Ding!"

When Qiao Chongyu heard the sound of the hidden weapon breaking through the air, he quickly turned around and raised his hand, but someone in the hall was a step faster than him - only a clear and crisp impact sound was heard, a plum blossom dart nailed a sleeve arrow cut off by Lanyao to the left on the side wooden posts.

The sleeve arrow was clearly shot from the direction where Nie Bin and the others were standing. The arrow was poisoned, if it hadn't been intercepted by the plum blossom dart, even if Qiao Chongyu could have stopped it with bare hands, as long as it was slightly scratched by a hidden weapon, the consequences would be disastrous.But apart from the plum blossom dart, Qiao Chongyu clearly saw a stone coming from another direction at the same time, but it was half a step late, and finally rolled into the crowd.He looked over there subconsciously, but only saw countless strange faces, accompanied by a slightly surprised cry: "...Master Tang!"

Qiao Chongyu wanted to look for it again, but Xu Han repeatedly tugged on his cuff, motioning him to turn around.Tang Fei had already appeared at the entrance of the hall at this time. He tilted his head and told his disciples to take back the plum blossom dart. I came all the way here, thank you very much. Everyone is our Tang Sect’s guests, and I hope you can look at my face today. If there is any discomfort, let each one give three points, how about it?"

"Where is the head of Tang Sect?"

Now that Tang Fei had spoken, the people who had been waiting to watch the excitement changed their faces, and hurriedly patted their chests to reassure them.At this point, Nie Bin and Liu Chengda could no longer entangle with Qiao Chongyu, and both sides died down for the time being, until the birthday banquet was over, and everyone was led to the guest room.

Qiao Chongyu had just entered the room when someone knocked on the door. It was the disciple who had followed Tang Fei into the hall earlier: "Master Qiao, the master said that if you are free, I hope Master Qiao can come and have a talk."

"I will go there myself."

He was a little worried before that it was a trap set by others, but he was actually taken to Tang Fei's study.After a long day of hard work, Tang Fei had already looked tired, but he still ordered his disciples to bring some refreshments, and at the same time solemnly apologized: "What happened during the day was caused by the poor hospitality of the Tang Sect. I hope that Master Qiao will not mind."

"Don't dare, I am already very grateful for the help of Mengtang Sect Master earlier."

The two exchanged a few words, waited for the disciple to bring refreshments, and exited the study again, Tang Fei sighed: "It is inconvenient for the Tang Sect to intervene in the dispute between Jingyi Villa and Wanjimen, but I have a family member who also went to Jingyi Villa. You practice martial arts under the same sect as your father, after all, you have some connections, and you really don't want to see Jingyi Villa go down like this. Villa Master Qiao has to take on such a big burden at such a young age, it's hard work for you."

Qiao Chongyu came to celebrate his birthday in person this time, in fact, he took the opportunity to inquire about Tang Yizhi's whereabouts. Unexpectedly, before he opened his mouth, Tang Fei mentioned it first, and hurriedly said: "I have heard my father and Master Yu mention it many times. Martial Uncle Tang said that he is proficient in martial arts and literature, but unfortunately... I also sent people to search for him, but I didn't know the whereabouts of Martial Uncle Tang."

"Oh?" Tang Fei paused while holding the teacup, his tone was a bit surprised, "Have you looked for him?"

"Exactly." Qiao Chongyu was startled by the hidden meaning in the other party's words, "Could it be that you, the sect master..."

Tang Fei took a deep look at Qiao Chongyu, put the teacup back, and said in a low voice after a while: "That's right. Yizhi actually lost contact with the Tang family after he changed his career to Jingyi Villa, but later he often represented Jingyi Villa. Walking in the rivers and lakes, if you meet me, you will talk a little more. I heard that he was injured, and I sent someone to deliver the wound medicine, but it is a pity..."

"After that, he left Jingyi Villa, and there was no news for a while, but two years later, I suddenly received a letter from him, saying that his only son died young, and his wife also passed away due to excessive grief, but he didn't have enough money to bury them... oh , speaking of it, his child was only born six hours later than you."

"How could this be..." Qiao Chongyu thought about all that Yu Dongjie said that night, and felt more and more mixed feelings in his heart, "Then you still have contact with Master Tang?"

"That's right. I have occasional correspondence with Yi Zhi. He has nothing else to ask for now. He just wants to die in the countryside. But the last time he sent a letter was in the early spring. If you want to ask him for help now, I can also do it for you." Inquire. After all, he is still your uncle."

"Thank you, Master Tang!"

Qiao Chongyu was pleasantly surprised by such a bright future. After thanking him again and again, although he felt that he should not continue to bother him, he couldn't help but asked again: "Actually, I have something to ask... I don't know if Master Tang has ever heard of Chen Chen?" Dream Hall?"

"I've heard it a little bit." Tang Fei couldn't help but smile after finishing speaking, "Why, does Master Qiao want to use Chenmengtang's power? I don't know how to contact them."

"No, it's just...a momentary curiosity."

In fact, Qiao Chongyu himself knew that it was inappropriate to ask others rashly, but he couldn't let go of the last layer of tulle that could not be lifted for a day.What's more, in the hall today, that stone thrown by someone...

Naturally, Tang Fei would not ask the question to the end. Seeing Qiao Chongyu's prevarication, he nodded his head: "It is said that there are only three or five people in charge of each generation of Chenmengtang. Chenmengtang is looking for employers, but no one can find them—who?!"

When Tang Fei said the last sentence, he suddenly shouted angrily, and his fingertips flickered coldly, and he had already caught a copper coin dart.But there was a thud outside the door, and a panicked voice came in: "Master, forgive me! It's the wife who said that the master was tired all day, so she sent the younger one to see if the master is asleep, so I don't need to disturb you..."

False alarm, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.Qiao Chongyu harassed her for a long time, and hurriedly said goodbye. When she returned to the guest room, she found that the four disciples who came with her hadn't dared to sleep yet. They were waiting at the door, yawning, and rushed everyone back to the room. After a while, they heard One after another snoring.

Qiao Chongyu was also extremely exhausted, but couldn't sleep for a long time.I don't know how long it has passed, he was a little drowsy, when he suddenly heard the sound of tiles on the roof, he woke up with a start: "Who is it?!"

He sprinted out of the house, borrowed strength from the wall, and jumped onto the roof.The clouds are thick tonight, and the moonlight can only reflect two blurred figures, who are fighting on the other side of the eaves, and at this moment, one of them stabs out with a long sword and hits the opponent's shoulder!

The injured man flickered, turned around and fled, not wanting to fight.The man who made the sword wanted to leave too, but he only took a step when he heard a voice calling: "Qi Yuan!"

The swordsman paused and couldn't help but turn around.The wind blew away the thick clouds a little, and a small amount of moonlight leaked down, illuminating his pale face.

——It's Qi Yuan.

Not seen for two months, Qi Yuan's figure was thin and his cheeks were sunken. Under the moonlight, he looked like a dead soul who escaped from Jiuyou.Qiao Chongyu only felt that both of his feet were nailed in place, only his eyes were fixed on the other person, watching the lips slowly open and close, and uttered a sentence: "Master," Qi Yuan said, "don't check the dust again. It's about Dream Hall."

After finishing speaking, he retracted his sword and turned around, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.